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Mig Maridotter

@migdalit.bsky.social
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only a feminist when necessary - which happens to be all the f-ing time she/they Author of THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE, #A #SF (querying) and MEMENTO, #A #speculative #feminist #espionage (editing) and LORIKEET #A #OSINT #literary #thriller (WIP) Sweden 🇸🇪🇪🇺

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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spent most of last night tinkering with the query for Memento. At this stage the notion of never having to write a query again if I get an agent is enough of a bone to get me to query this book. (Naive, I know, even if I do get representation given how much people have to change agents these days)
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Nothing inspires my writing like travel. Now that MEMENTO is with beta readers, I started writing my next book, LORIKEET in a Reykjavik 🇮🇸 café after daydreaming the story soaking in a hot spring looking out over Reykjavik bay, removed from day-to-day life and left to take a step back and reflect
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860) #Photography, Elin Wägner standing next to 351,454 signatures demanding women get the right to vote, Sweden 1914.
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
When I write about that cliche Austrian small town, in my mind it's usually Gmunden. Today I got to visit again and remind myself of how pretty it actually is. Maybe somewhere in the countryside near there is where MEMENTO's Julia gets to visit her parents #writesky #thriller #editing #wip
A view of the Dachstein mountain with residentials and a lake in front
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Travelling via Vienna, very much in the footprints of MEMENTO's Julia. Just in time to refresh my memory for editing. Need to remind myself that I need to cut, not add, words from the manuscript #writesky #thriller #wip #queryingSoon #editing
View of approach into Vienna from an airplane window
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just watched Love + War about war photojournalist and mother Lynsey Addario ( @lynseyaddario.bsky.social ) 10/10 Raw. Real. But also -- hopeful in a way. That one brave person can make a difference and that we need to keep looking and need to tell our truths films.nationalgeographic.com/love-war
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Love+War
Pulitzer Prize-winning Lynsey Addario has risked her life to capture the stark realities of war — from the Middle East and Afghanistan to Ukraine. From National Geographic Documentary Films and Academ...
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
After an insane 6k words written tonight I have just finished the first draft of my upmarked espionage thriller MEMENTO at just under 100k words. Easily the longest book I have written so far. Now revisions, beta readers and hopefully I'll be able to query the book later this year. #writesky #wip
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Memento = John LeCarré's the Constant Gardener x Stig Larsson's the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with a sprinkle of David Grossman's More Than I love my Life #unhingedpit #w #cs #a #t #sp (for speculative) #f (for feminist)
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Being here, in #Tallinn 🇪🇪 I am thinking much about TCWC's transhuman biohacker, Liv who traveled here to become. Maybe one day I will write her story about transcending the human and being courageous enough to be truly different #writesky #sf #speculative #cyberpunk #querying
A picture overlooking the old town of Tallinn in dramatic atmosphere
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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Do you ever regret destroying places in your #scifi ? Second-guess yourself if you could have described them prospering instead? #dystopic #writesky #querying 📍 #Skellefteå #Norrbotten
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's almost incomprehensible to me how much force can be found in a natural, wild swedish älv (~river). I can just imagine TCWC's Mari sitting on a rock by the river before it all went pear shaped; her daughters finally returning after the end of the book #Norrland #writesky #inspiration #power
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Since writing The Currencies We Choose I love visiting #Umeå ; driving the endless roads through the forests of #Norrland Hillevi and Thora would have driven. And today, with late spring warmth getting people out into the streets I can really feel their world around me #writesky #scifi #querying
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Amanda Hitz Thompson @ahitzthompson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
She just wanted him to be happy. This is not how she imagined that going. #questpit #Q #A #U
Old man with young woman. A Lesson in Pain Management.  Willow has never said no to anyone in her life. So when her grandfather needs help running a nursing home drug ring, she says yes. Falling for the strait-laced administrator was a mistake. The felony charges might be worse.
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Loren 🦇 FORMERLY CIRCUSLOLLIPOP @vesperanth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE x CRITICAL ROLE CAMPAIGN 4 In search of his banished uncle, a fledgling vampire journeys to a realm of eternal night, where he must solve a string of disappearances before the local vampires and monster hunters descend into all-out war. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT
3x3 moodboard of gothic and spooky imagery with a purple color scheme
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Anindo Zelle @anindozelle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
As the Stone King's reign crumbles, alliances form in unexpected places. But can they withstand the chaos that follows? 🎭 MultiPOV 👑 Court intrigue 🐉 Mythical beasts 🪄 Magic 🙏 Sinister faith 👁️ gods are real 🇰🇪 Kenyan mythology 💔 Love vs duty #QuestPit #Q #A #F
Black graphic with stylized red line art of a castle labeled “The Liitokho (The Lady Eshiala’s Seat).” White text reads “Shortlisted by 3 editors RevPit 2026.” Title: “An Agent’s Guide to Stonebound,” with “Stonebound” in large yellow letters. Subtitle: “an Adult Folkloric High Fantasy Novel by Anindo Zelle,” ~120K words. Tags: African Fantasy, Kenyan Folklore, Mythological Retelling, and “Star-Crossed Lovers Subplot.” Decorative stars, a ringed planet, and dotted footsteps accent the design.Black infographic-style graphic outlining a fantasy plot. Teal portrait of Sadaka wa Wafula labeled “Eshiala’s ‘token’ leader,” who leads her people under Winam’s occupation and keeps secrets. A note reads “Winam’s ancient Stone King dies,” beside a crowned skull labeled “Not immortal after all.” Red illustration of a fortress labeled “The Odrodh (The Stone King’s Palace).” Text states “Eshiala’s survival demands the unthinkable—marriage to the enemy,” shown with a contract icon. Yellow portrait of Sidhokano wud Mirimalit, “Winam’s youngest Stone Prince,” described as having a “grumpy inner beast.” Dotted paths connect elements with phrases like “The fragile peace shatters” and “The two have history.”Black infographic-style graphic continuing a fantasy plot. A cloaked figure labeled “Has a covert mission.” Text explains Sadaka searches the Odrodh for a key to Eshiala’s liberation. A couple icon notes “He falls first (but she’s not too far behind)” and that he’s “not the monster she expected.” A key icon marks her discovering how to destroy his kind, though her goals shift. Red text: “Meanwhile… a sinister faith hunts wielders” and “The gods are determined to tear Sadaka & Sidhokano apart,” shown with a temple illustration. Final line: she must choose between betraying him for her people or protecting him and risking both nations.Black infographic titled “COMPS” and “SNIPPET” in white chalk-style font. Four comp titles with covers and themes: Masquerade (court intrigue, myth retelling), The Final Strife (politics, African mythology), The House of Rust (Kenyan-inspired), and The Broken Earth Trilogy (geologic magic, survival). A teal box shows a Chapter 1 excerpt: “SADAKA. When it came to any body of water larger than her bathing pool at the Liitokho in Mumia, Sadaka wa Wafula tried to follow one rule. Don’t go in. Especially not when facing unknown depths.” Teal stars, a location pin, and dotted footprints decorate the layout.
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Anindo Zelle @anindozelle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
ADULT COBAB x EAST AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY A young chieftain must choose between her duty to her homeland, and a very inconvenient desire for her husband (and his fearsome inner beast), all while fighting a futile battle against fate. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #BookTrailer
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🦋💙🦋Dog mom🦋💙🦋 @bikediva.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#PosterPit #Q #C #A Eight women, each at a crossroads, whose choices collide into something none of them saw coming: an international movement led by the last person anyone would have picked. Friendships, fractures, reinvention, and the accidental power of women who finally decide to go.
Poster for Gap Year, Book One of the Gap Year Trilogy, a novel by Leslie Barber, published by Elsie Press. A woman with long dark hair and a backpack stands facing away from the camera in a busy airport terminal, looking up at a large departure board. The tagline reads: She didn't mean to start a revolution. She just needed to find herself first. Three laurel badge icons at the bottom label the book Women's Journey, Ensemble Cast, and Midlife Reinvention.
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Robin🏳️‍🌈Querying Adult Urban Fantasy Comedy @robindoth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS x SUPERBAD 😆My mom says it's funny 🤓Adorable FMC 👻Ghosts and Reverse-Exorcisms 😱Thriller 🧐Twisty mystery. A Twystery 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Found Family 🏳️‍🌈#LGBTQ+ rep The FBI's Reverse-Exorcist must stop serial killer Plaid the Impaler before he catches his next victim: HER. #Posterpit #CO #F #T #Q
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#posterpit #spf #t #a #w THE CONSTANT GARDENER X RED WIDOW 🔳 He had them warehoused, their minds broken; killed 🌠 But that did not mean they were neutralized In MEMENTO the discarded women of intelligence fight back
Movie style poster of the speculative spy thriller MEMENTO
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Quin Madden @quinmaddenwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A grief-stricken woman whose world is collapsing. A man who makes a living chasing truth but avoids his own. A love that arrives exactly when it shouldn’t, and isn’t meant to last. #posterpit #Q #A #R #UF
A promotional poster for the novel Picture Us, Falling by Quintana McConnell. Across the top are three photographs: a person writing at a desk with a typewriter and scattered papers; a Starbucks cup resting on a newspaper with a political headline; and a person sitting outdoors on a stone bench holding a coffee cup. Below the images, the title “PICTURE US, FALLING” appears in a distressed, bold font. Above the title, text describes the book as a 71,000‑word upmarket novel set in 2012 Seattle, with a cynical male main character and a guarded, grieving female main character, and notes it is for fans of The Last Love Note and The Things We Left Unfinished. A short synopsis explains that a cynical Seattle journalist meets a young woman determined to stay small and unattached, and their connection changes them both. At the bottom, a silhouette of the Seattle skyline sits above the words “COMING SOON – TO A QUERY NEAR YOU.”
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #PosterPit #A #Q #SF #T
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#posterpit #w #spf #t #a If you love the character development and grey morals of LeCarré novels but missed the women's voices and contemporary geopolitics, this book is for you 💪♀️🕵️‍♀️
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#posterpit #q #spf #a CYBERPUNK VIKINGS MEET 1984 When forced remigration tore Sweden apart a group had enough and went Viking. A generation later Hillevi must face up to her family's legacy and navigate the politics of a world,where everyone pays a heavy price for survival.
Poster of a cyberpunk viking book "the currencies we choose"
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"During long winter nights the two of us sat in the bubble tent in your grandfathers' back yard and told each other stories of the future they were going to build" ❄️🌉 #THECURRENCIESWECHOSE #writesky #arctic #midwinter #Norrbotten
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I should let #TheCurrenciesWeChoose go for now - maybe I will write more stories from its world eventually - but I just can't when I am driving through the exact winter landscapes that brought Hillevi alive; Mari's paradise lost; the only place that is true home to Thora. #writesky #Norrland
A bridge in soft light in a snowy winter landscape
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"I took one last look at the dancing aurora in the skies and held onto them like a shipwrecked sailor holds on to the faint outline of an unreachable shore as I forced my trembling feet to take one step, then another, towards the square." THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE #writesky #cyberpunk #querying
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
While THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE is in the trenches, introducing my new project: 🌻 MEMENTO, a psychological espionage thriller in the fine tradition of John Le Carré - but with a feminist perspective. MEMENTO is a novel about female friendship and resistance against a corrupted system. #writesky
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"Every year, at Winter Nights, they'd drink at the feet of the old mounds at Gamla Uppsala, where they had buried their dead in anonymous mass Graves after the uprising." THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yesterday's #UnhingedPit which was such big, big fun that I prepared one more graphic than I ended up using #TheCurrenciesWeChose #isQuerying #writer #SciFi #cyberpunk #Vikings
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We mean it 👇 THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE #UnhingedPit #SF #Q #A
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Up North they say heritage doesn't matter. Only who you choose to become. Then why do they keep looking at me as if I was *her*? And why do I keep searching for my answers in her work? #UnhingedPit #SF #Q #A THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🗨️It was supposed to be a practical joke, you know, the whole Viking revival thing. "Let's go Viking," someone suggested, "like in the old days." 💥And so they did. #UnhingedPit #SF #Q
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Unhinged Pitch Event @unhingedpit.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
You guys know what’s next: rules reminder. #UnhingedPit is open to EVERYONE in the #writingcommunity, designed for creators to let loose and express their work however the hell they want. Questions? We’re here to answer.
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rihdara klay 📖 @rihdaraklay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
title: an arrow dipped in magic tw: descriptions and depictions of death, murder, & flesh @augursociety.bsky.social #AugurMicros2025
His arrow stares at her. Her hand draws a green, glowing arrow back.

One, two. By three, the arrows will fly.

Before three, memories ripen. A boy and a girl laugh. Their grown-up versions kiss in the shadows. Years later, and a stake burns. She screams. His love soon kills him, too. The aroma of burnt flesh blooms.

The witch and witch hunter and their former souls, bound to them by reincarnated contracts. Romantics then, enemies now.

Their souls could be reunited as lovers. But in the present, they aim arrows in the dark at each other’s hearts.

Three.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Please share, this is important
'When One Person Stands Up & Says "This is Wrong" It Helps Other People Do The Same. ~Gloria Steinem

- a pic of a person standing up and alone

- then a pic of that person standing and bunch of others standing behind him now
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Imagine there was a #future waiting for us. A real one. A good one.
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This. #writer #writing #writesky
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A passage from one of David Grossman's essays in "The Thinking Heart" that has inspired me immensely to write my current book 👇🏻 #writesky #inspiration #changeTheWorld
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The one thing I, as an AI researcher, wish people understood about LLMs 👇🏻
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Writing is almost as bad as science where one question answered leads to ten new ones to be researched. One character's story brings so many other characters to life. Each with a story to be told. Too many stories go untold. And too many questions remain un-researched. #writing #research
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Mig Maridotter @migdalit.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Feeling like a writing kangaroo: A foot joey in the query trenches A book being written, growing in the pouch; peeking out sometimes, testing the waters of the world that surrounds it And the seed of a story in suspense, waiting its turn in the womb, as yet invisible
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