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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

MARITIME snippet just because ⚓️🩵

M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Roe wants to drown. Vanish. Plans change as she lands on a boat of ageless outcasts. They’ll face their demons soon. Today? They run. When pasts sneak up, Roe & her captain risk it all for the crew. In the end, is the answer life or love? Agent guide pinned! #questpit #Q #A #S #R

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Roe wants to drown. Vanish. Plans change when she lands on a boat of ageless outcasts. All plan to face their demons in time, but for today, they run. When pasts sneak up, Roe & her captain risk it all for the crew. In the end, is the answer life or love? #questpit #Q #A #S #R

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

MARITIME ⚓️ Magical realism w/ strong romantic elements 🖤 93k •dual POV •tattoo magic •immortality •found family (of misfits, outlaws, exiles, etc.) •anxiety/depression rep. •southern nautical setting #questpit #Q #A #S #R

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Been away from 🦋 for a hot minute, but I'm going to try and be more active over here. For starters, here's my new agent guide for MARITIME ⚓️ #amquerying #writingcommunity

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Looking for opinions, please 😊 Do you begin looking for beta readers after a solid first draft? Or do you give your manuscript a few passes first? I'm the type to edit as I go, and I'm afraid that I might spend time editing something that may not be working, anyway.

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Made a new graphic in honor of edits for 319 LIES starting next month! Can't wait ❤️🖤

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Officially on Fiverr offering bookish art services, including character art, bookmarks, author logos, and whatever else your lovely writerly heart desires. Feel free to share! Thanks in advance 💚 #WritingCommmunity #characterart #amwriting www.fiverr.com/s/ljNVyk2

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Life has been too much lately, but drawing has helped. Enter a new character art style for Kayd of my WIP. Maybe one day, my head will be clear enough to write more of his story. 🩶 #amwriting #WritingCommunity #characterart

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S.E. Reed @writingwithreed.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Eeeek!!! My Steampunk novel THE DARKNESS OF DYING IN THE LIGHT is a finalist in the 2025 Imadjinn Awards 🥳💕 @conquestpublishing.bsky.social

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Kate Hyers & J.C. Smith @hyerssmith.com · 12/03/2025

‼️👀 COVER SNEAK PEEK 👀‼️ This is all we can show you for now, but trust us—there's way more where this came from. Think magic, danger, romance, & a bit of sass. HUGE thank you to @annalisejensen.bsky.social for creating a cover that's as bold as our titular courtesan. @conquestpublishing.bsky.social

Image of a wrapped book cover with a tear that shows the top half of a woman's face and a lily in a vase.

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Abigail F Taylor @abigailtaylor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It's 12 WEEKS 🙀 until my next horror novel comes out, let's play a game! Pick a number between 1-335 and I will post the 12th sentence from that page. #HorrorCommunity #amreading #WritingCommunity

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Rebecca Minelga - Add FALSE START on Goodreads! @rebeccaminelga.com · 05/03/2025

Cover reveal for THIRD AND LONG, coming June 24, 2025 from @PublishConquest 👩‍❤️‍👨 - Friends to Love ❤️‍🔥 - Slow Burn 🍬 - Sweet/Closed Door Romance 🤕 - Hurt/Comfort 🐕‍🦺 - Therapy Dog “Love is a four-legged word.” #amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading www.instagram.com/reel/DG0p3Vo...

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

First author newsletter is up! Subscribe and share if you like 🖤 Thanks everyone! open.substack.com/pub/mlaursyn...

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Intro, ✨️BIG✨️ News, & My Writer-versary

A little about me, publishing news, & my writerly origin story.

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Finally got around to making an author logo 💚

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE X OUTER BANKS Magical Realism•Romance Projected word count: 80k • The fountain of youth is a boat ⚓️ • Crew of misfits • Nautical setting • Trauma & healing • Mental health representation • Found family • Dual POV #Cupit #W #A #R

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Shae is a student w/ a secret, & Dev, her professor. When they become more than friends, Dev uncovers the truth: Shae is being blackmailed by the dean & his son. Dev finds her in danger, intervenes, & is deemed a villain. They must expose the liars or face death. #Cupit #R

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🧡a canceled 17yo demisexual singer 🧡a rising 18yo closeted soccer player 🧡a meet cute in a cat cafe in Amsterdam 🧡photos of the two boys on a bike 🧡media digging into the singer’s past 🧡a critical song that could rebuild the singer’s career and out the boy he loves #cupit #CR #YA #LGBT #FBW

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Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

ALADDIN X GREEK MYTH Peleas is lovestruck with Thetis. Too bad she hates his family company's villa-turned-hotel plan. He must find a solution to make everyone happy, hoping the business doesn't crash in the meantime #Cupit #CR #A #W

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 14/02/2025

JANE EYRE x STARLING HOUSE Blood is life. Bones are strength. Flesh is control. Skin is death. 📖 Historical fantasy 🇫🇷 France, Belle Époque 🏠 An old manor 🌹 Sweet sapphic romance 🩸 Body-based magic system 🗡️ Family intrigue & power struggles 🗝️ Gothic vibes #Cupit #A #RoFa #HR #GR #LGBT

A collage of black and white pictures over a background of roses. Pictures include the Eiffel tower, a manor and its reflection in a lake, a white woman putting a gold necklace on, woods, and a skull. In the middle it reads "Of blood and bones"

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Tia Elle ✨ ON SUB✨ @tiafutch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What readers are saying about GIRL IN PROGRESS: 🍷 Feels like drinking wine with your bestie! 😂 Okay, I laughed so hard. 🏖️ The beach read you won’t want to put down. ✨ SO FUN! 🥵 When are you taking me to Portugal? 🫶I love them! 🫦I need Renaldo in or around... #CuPit #RomCom #A #Editor #booksky

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X WHEN THE MOON HATCHED NA Romantasy retelling of SEA folklore. ⚔️ Badass FMC ⚔️ Atmospheric World Building ⚔️ Found Family ⚔️Forbidden Love ⚔️ An Unforgettable Relic Quest ⚔️ So. Much. Yearning. #cupit #NA #RF #R #A

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H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The enemies-to-lovers of THESE VIOLET DELIGHTS meet the class divide of BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES. A fiery rebel & a shy aristocrat want freedom. But when rebellion turns to war, they must navigate murderous creatures & hidden magic to find themselves and each other. #Cupit #Q #NA #RoFa #DTR #R

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Beth Michaela...querying writer. @bmfwriter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

COVET x FAIRYTALE x ACOWAR When Reign is saved by a charming warrior fated to revere her, it serves as the catalyst to awaken her dormant powers, exposing her & the sister she protects to a depraved god hellbent on consuming their rare magic. ❤️‍🔥Slow burn 🖤Dark ♨️Steamy 💞Found family #Cupit #Q #A #RF

Mood board
Dual POV
Feminine rage
high stakes
HEA
Diverse cast
Dark
188k words
slow burn
forced proximity
grumpy x sunshine

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mebluesage.bsky.social @mebluesage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

@cupitch.bsky.social Stupid Cupid’s the new guy in HS and his arrows are matchmaking disasters. Nina's busy dodging flash mobs and cringey promposals until Cupid shoots her crush. With VDay looming, Nina must figure out if love is real or just another one of Cupid’s stupid tricks.#Cupit #YA #RC #W

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Kelly Crescenzo @kcresc12.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

FOURTH WING X TALES OF A MONSTROUS HEART THE QUEEN IS RISING #Cupit #Q #RF #A

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CSP/FallsIntoGrace@TemporaryHiatus @cspatra.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

After he's tasked to steal seven items, student/thief Ari struggles to balance out the new heists, schoolwork, and impressing his crush. When a new enemy threatens to expose him, he must find a way to keep her and his identity safe before the whole world knows who he really is. #Cupit #A #CR #Q

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M. Laursyn @mlaursyn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Y'all just kindly ignore that I put Secret Life instead of Invisible Life of Addie Larue in my comps. 🙃 Thangs be happening when you wait till the last minute and prep your post at 11:59.

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Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A dying estate. A bankrupt legacy. A suitor offering salvation or a love that could destroy her. A mother’s death shrouded in mystery. A father she can’t trust. A blood curse feeding the manor’s hunger. Lottie Bradbury must face it all. Starling House X The Hacienda #Questpit #A #Q #H #HM

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE x PETER PAN A cranky immortal & a smug pirate are forced to work together in order to save their loved ones from their common enemy: Peter Pan. ⚔️Enemies to Lovers 💀Dark Reimaginings 👩‍❤️‍👩Bi FMC × Lesbian FMC 🫂Found family 🌶️Spicy Sapphics 🩸Pan-pires #Questpit #WIP #A #DF #H #R

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME
The Pitch
When Gwen was a girl called Wendy Darling, she met someone who promised her freedom and love, and all it cost her was her humanity and everyone she ever loved. A century later, she’s trying to claw some of it back thanks to a 15yo named Mona, who’s awakened a long lost sense of family.
When Capt Hook was a girl called Rosie, she met someone who promised her adventure, and all it cost her was her family and sense of security. After twenty years of fighting monsters shaped like children, this pirate captain is running out of steam, until her long-time nemesis gives her an ultimatum she can’t refuse.
Forced to work together, the cranky immortal and smug pirate will have to put aside their animosity and work together to save a family neither knew they needed. Along the way, they might find the love of a lifetime…if they don’t kill each other first.
Artwork from Peter & Wendy (1911 ed.) by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by F.D. Bedford

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME
Excerpt
‘All children, except one, grow up.’ That is how the classic line goes.
When I was nineteen-years-old, however, I learned the tragic lesson that that wasn’t always the case.
Disease ruthlessly ravages innocent lives, while famine mercilessly snatches away their dreams. Violence lurks within the depths of strangers' hearts or, more tragically, a family member’s. And let us not forget the sheer cruelty of random happenstance, which has regularly inflicted its unspeakable horrors upon them. Throughout the annals of time, no demographic has endured more anguish and torment than those innocents who never had the chance to experience the complexities of growing up.
And amidst this unfathomable sorrow, for longer than our history can even dare to measure, there has existed the enigma of Pan, the taker of children…my tormentor…
Artwork from Peter & Wendy (1911 ed.) by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by F.D. Bedford

GWEN DALE
~Natural Ingredients~
Aged 134 Years

An all natural product guide to Gwen Dale, main character #1 of ‘Forever is a Very Long Time’ a sapphic dark fantasy/horror reimagining of Peter & Wendy.
When Gwen was a girl called Wendy Darling, she met someone who promised her freedom and love, and all it cost her was her humanity and everyone she ever loved. A century later, she’s trying to claw some of it back thanks to a 15yo named Mona, who’s awakened a long lost sense of family.
Locations: London to Neverland to London to Vancouver to Neveland to ???
How She Got Like This: 1. Was born Wendy Darling, older sister to John & Michael. At 12, met a magical being called Peter Pan.
2. Was made a blooddrinking immortal at 19 by Pan to keep her from growing up. Her first victim? Her fiancé Archie.
3. Fled Neverland and spent more than 100 years watching over the descendents of her brother John, always remaining apart.
4. Unexpectedly became the sole guardian of her great niece, Mona, reminding her of family. Then Pan returned and took her.
Ingredients: Grey Morality, Generational Trauma, Bloodlust, Neurodivergent, Patchwork Heart, Regret, Unexpected Maternal Streak, Bisexual Disaster, Does She Want to Kill or Kiss the Infuriatingly Beautiful Pirate Captain?

CAPT. HOOK
~Natural Ingredients~
Aged 33 Years

An all natural product guide to Capt Hook, main character #2 of ‘Forever is a Very Long Time’ a sapphic dark fantasy/horror reimagining of Peter & Wendy.
When Capt Hook was a girl called Rosie, she met someone who promised her adventure, and all it cost her was her family and sense of security. After twenty years of fighting monsters shaped like children, this pirate captain is running out of steam, until her long-time nemesis gives her an ultimatum she can’t refuse.
Location: Neverland. Around and around and around again...will it ever stop...?
How She Got Like This: 1. Was born the youngest of 3 in Canada to Haitian immigrants. Was known as a tomboy and troublemaker.
2. Taken to Neverland as a teen by Pan & nearly turned until she was rescued by the crew of the Jolly Roger. Became a pirate.
3. Worked her way up to Captain through guile, swagger & determination. She became Pan’s fave nemesis/playmate.
4. At 33 she’s feeling burnt out, wondering how long she can do this. Then she’s reminded of family, lost 20 years earlier...
Ingredients: Swagger & Smugness, ‘Doesn’t Do Feelings’, Different Girl Every Night, Complex PTSD, Isolated by Command, Burnout, Will Shoot a MF, Should Kill The Monster She Just Met...So Why Does She Want To Kiss Her?

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

An agent's guide to THE PALIMPSEST, a murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION🔎 –94k high-concept/spec thriller –vibes of DARK x RECURSION –multi POV –lyrical writing –metafictional hook –book-within-a-book structure –Claymore Award finalist (literary category) #questpit #q #a #t #spec

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Daniella | Writer @dse-writes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When Sarahi manifests 12 magics✨ in a world where only 2 exist, she must serve the crown against her own kind to win an end to her family's money troubles - forcing her to ally with Princess Milan, who won't hesitate to backstab for an escape from royalty.🔪 #questpit #Q #A #F #FR

A moodboard of images showing a smoking set of bottles and candles, two palms decorated with henna, a sword laying on an open book, two hanging bells, a veiled girl standing in an Indian palace, the silhouette of a girl and a boy standing close together in front of a window, a scalloped hallway in an Indian palace, the shadow of two hands with clawed nails, and a plate of white and orange flower blossoms.

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Charlotte Hayward ✨ @thatchazza.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

LOCKWOOD & CO x RED (Taylor's Version) 🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀The annoyingly hot boy who accidentally cursed her friends 🔥…But who's her only hope to stop her fiery visions becoming reality 👀Oh, he's also her first crush & first heartbreak What could go wrong? #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

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Arien Skye is querying @arienskyewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

An agent’s guide to The Marigold Bridge 💀 stolen inheritance 💀found family 💀mystery 💀magic, tradition, and essential oils #questpit #a #mr #q

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Not That Chris Brown @cfreak.dev · 12/02/2025

Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #QuestPit #A #SF

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Angelique Russell - 💫 @angie-r03.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#questpit The Seelie Court calls her a traitor. The Unseelie call her their weapon. Alethea walks a knife's edge between both. But power is never given. It’s taken. And if she wants to claim it, she’ll have to decide: if she wants to be a queen… or a monster? #YA #F #W

A woman riding a dark horse, a tunnel created by twisted trees, a crown and dagger on the ground, an enchanted library with golden lighting, the title "A curse of Blood and Darkness", glittering wings, a queen in front of a burning palace, golden tears falling from and eye, a ballroom with dancers

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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE ASH HOUSE 🍇scared girls who fight back 🪞sibling opposites ⌛️mourning girlhood 🎹what does a haunting hide? 🐊summer as a metaphor ♟️if I save him he might look at me 🦷growing teeth 🧨surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette #QuestPit #Q #MG

green-themed moodboard. From left to right and up to down: a hand reaching through tree bark and foliage; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp some berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a green-lit tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse below a chandelier; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; stylised painting of many crows on a colourful branch; hands reaching through lily pads in pond water.

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a passionate romance with a pirate captain–or needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life. #Q #NA #RF #questpit

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

HOWL Wulf discovers he's a werewolf as his girlfriend runs away screaming after sex. Apparently, "good boys don't Howl." His bi-panic inducing roommates decide to help train him to resist, but when Sky, a vampire S&M club owner with a thing for fur, comes will Wulf? #QuestPit #W #A #E #RomCom

3X3 Grid of images each row representing the bisexual flag colors
Pink row
- A shirtless barefoot man on a chaise lounge chair by a window, he's wearing an old fashioned frilly dress shirt unbuttoned showing his chest and stomach
- A rose burning with blue fire
- Bondage gear, pink hearts, and flowers
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- A dreamcatcher with fluffy feathers dangling from it
- A group of three, two men and a woman, laying on their stomachs smiling under a tent
- A woman gripping a man by the throat and whispering in his ear
Blue row
-Three pairs of bare feet, two pairs of mens and one of a woman, sticking out from under the covers
- A heart shaped lock and key
- A woman in a blue spotlight wearing elaborate dominatrix lingerie and a hat

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Resurrected by a dark power, muse Aleida wakes without her memories in a strange house lorded over by a man who sees visions of the holy and the damned. Slowly, she begins to piece her past together and in doing so, comes closer to solving her own murder. #QuestPit #WIP

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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BOOK OF WITCHING X SIRENS It's 1909 and while the suffragette movement gains ground in the south, the women on the remote Orkney island of Orphirsay remain bound to their fate—until a stranger washes up with only the shift on her back and a score to settle. #questpit #A #HF #W

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