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CW: Stalking; Panic Attack; Animal Death (mention), Misgendering When Dean’s first alarm went off in the morning, he felt even more like shit than usual. It wasn’t even June yet, how could it be th…

Something strange is haunting the Argent children. Are the demons from the family's past finally catching up, or something far more sinister? (And don't tell anyone, but Derrick is definitely going to fail his math class) nsowers.com/2026/08/23/b...

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I'm just adding to my collection of horrible yet lovable teen and tween characters at this point 😈

This is a Heroes and Heritors story. Art is by me, created with two photos from Unsplash and some digital painting (source in link).

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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The way my book tattoo looks so good I've had multiple people ask me if it's real 🥰 Hell yeah it is

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Submission Grinder is now featuring the entire GigaNotoSaurus back catalog. We’ll be gradually updating the cards with more metadata. If you have ever been published by GNS and want to help tagging your own stories, send us a note to get our (very short) directions.

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GigaNotoSaurus - The Submission Grinder

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Happy second birthday to my first published story which appeared in The Neurodiversiverse! The anthology contains stories, poems, and art centering aliens and neurodivergent characters.

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters by Anthony Francis, Liza Olmsted, Tobias S. Buckell, M. D. Cooper, Ada Hoffmann, Jody Lynn Nye, Cat Rambo

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 01/08/2026

Look at that! Me and a bunch of other awesome friends did a thing! 👀 #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity

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Felix Croc @felixcroc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I'm in an anthology!!!! Please check it out when it comes out!

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hey, I'm in this one! Bringing my usual wheeling and dealing with creatures if untold power, that the best we can call it is a dragon. Keep your eyes peeled for further announcements about where you can read it coming soon 🐉

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Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Dragonthology will be a charity anthology by members of the IncSpec discord, an inclusive speculative writers server. With creative stories of diverse dragons, from huge to small, cruel to kind. Out soon! The cover features my art and formatting by @innsyn-onym.bsky.social #dragons #fantasy

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When I learned to play mahjong, I heard about playing with a ghost at the table. Loved seeing that in this story!

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I feel the forest move around me, beckoning me closer into the fold. We're a part of it now, breathing as one, feeling as one, right down to the foresters leveling us miles away. #horrorwriterschat

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The closest I've come is my novel that just finished edits, Wish I Might, which features plant fae using a deadly tournament to collect a tithe of souls from the fallen competitors to help keep their ecological utopia alive - it's very background but also creates the premise of the plot

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hi all! I'm N, I write queer af horror fantasy about monsters, identity, and transformation ✨️ My favorite eco-horror is a book I beta read years ago that I still think about all the time, it had great worldbuilding, loveabke characters, and an engaging heist plot to save the world 🌎

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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Want to work with the Queer Liberation Library? They're looking for a Collections Volunteer! It's remote, 5 hrs/week, and unfortunately unpaid cash-wise (but I bet otherwise very rewarding). Apply by August 2. www.queerliberationlibrary.org/volunteer-op... 🌈📚 #QueerBooks @queerliblib.bsky.social

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Volunteer Opportunities — Queer Liberation Library

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Love me a corpse-wearing angel. This book continues to be one of my faves 💜

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The Merge x Rules For Ghosting When Melody's sister is abducted from their shared body, she'll do anything to get her back. Including subjecting herself to an uncomfortable road trip with an angel inhabiting a corpse and her sister's very confused girlfriend. [ #QuestPit #Q #A #F #S #LGBT ]

A mood board that is a collection of 12 images: breakfast at a diner, women in the front seat of a car, a gas station at night, a cabin in a snowy forest at night, women holding hands, a road at sunset, an angel statue, a car in the dark with its headlights on, a car mirror with a sunset, a snowy forest at sunset, a paper map, a blonde woman holding a paper map, a purple orb, an eye with a purple iris, hands holding a rainbow flag, and a sheet of music.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, five dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #BluePit #A #H

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

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L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 😴👑YA sleeping beauty reimagining👑😴 After a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic. #bluepit #Q #F #YA #📖 #R

The words "The blood of zellandine, enchanted Forest, grumpy/Sunshine, Force proximity, fairy tale reimagining, deaf/HOH rep, animal companion" Are writing atop a collage of treetops, a spinning wheel, bound hands, a medieval kitchen, a medieval helmet and sword, a rat, a cottage, a dark Castle, a dark crown, old books, and an aerial view of a river.

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Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ALIEN x WHAT MOVES THE DEAD An isolated space station. A mysterious scientist. A trio of government inspectors. A “false” distress signal. An omnipresent AI. A zoo of animal test subjects. What could go wrong? No one escapes UNINTENDED DESIGNS in this scifi horror. #BluePit #H #A #Q #SF #LGBT #OV

A background of dramatic blue-purple stars and constellations with a purple caduceus over it and two smaller black upside-down caduceuses to the sides. Over it all are the words:

An Agent’s Guide To
Unintended Designs
A Science Fiction Bio-Horror in Space

Also small text on the bottom reading: Guide made in Canva by Theodore Snapdragon

Another slide with the same dramatic space image on the background. It also features two stylized images of DNA with rats on it. On the slide are the words:

Pitch
Space station inspector Gen Ishii is out of his depth in the isolated research outpost of Dr. Isengrim, an eccentric and charismatic scientist with far too many secrets.

And below, separated by two white snake graphics, are more words:

Described In Five Songs
Protagonist: Tongues (Joywave)
Setting: Disturbia (Rhianna)
Plot: Come A Little Closer (Cage The Elephant)
Climax: Destroya (My Chemical Romance)
Ending: Cosmic Love (Florence and the Machine)

Another slide with the dramatic space image as background, as well as two large white graphics of needles on either side and two graphics of white running mice along the bottom. In the center of the slide are the words “FOR FANS OF” and in the corners of the slides are the words:

Creative queer horror of
INTO THE DROWNING DEEP
by Mira Grant

Suspenseful building horror of
WHAT MOVES THE DEAD
by T Kingfisher

Isolated sci-fi horror of
THE LUMINOUS DEAD
by Caitlyn Starling

Engaging nonhuman characters of
TRANSLATION STATE
by Anne Leckie

With the covers of each of the four mentioned books also featured between the words, with each cover image lined with white so it sticks out

Another slide with the dramatic space image as background, this one with small images of a purple jellyfish and orange squid. It features a detailed art of a white, large, cuttlefish-like creature move through water under lily pads. Next to the art of the aquatic art are the words “original art” over an arrow pointing at that art piece.

The slide also has text reading:

Featuring

- Queernormative setting full of representation
- Moral conflict, ambiguity, snd dilemma
- Tension and eerie, off-details with big payoff

Excerpt

Harken and Tanaka followed as Isengrim gestured them forward, but I lingered a moment. I was reluctant to leave the pleasant warmth and fragrance of this place behind for the paperwork awaiting me. I gave the beautiful hydroponics hub a lingering look, then froze.

I jerked my head to the side, studying the trees as best I could in the gentle lighting. I could have sworn I saw the shadow of someone, someone humanoid, moving through the branches. Something far too large to be a normal animal. When I looked again, though, I saw nothing.

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NOT YET CORPSES is querying now, featuring: 👿 angry trans sorcerer without a soul 🧟 the hot amnesiac corpse who won’t leave him alone 🐈‍⬛ the nonbinary kid wizard they rescue together 👹 angels and devils and monsters, oh my! 📜 the last chance to save his soul #BluePit #📖 #Q #YA #F #H #LGBT

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I'm so into this concept!

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INTO THE DROWNING DEEP X THE LUMINOUS DEAD When a small team is sent to investigate an isolated biomedical space station, UNINTENDED DESIGNS break out. 🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative scifi ☣️ Bodyhorror 🧬 Layered mysteries 🔪 Moral dilemmas 🩻 Psychological horror 🫀 Monster romance #BluePit #A #Q #H #SF #LGBT #OV

Moodboard with photos of scientific vials, holes, an x-ray of a skeleton, a wall with “Everyone Makes Mistakes” on it in capital white letters, plants growing in water, and a space theme. In the center the words “Unintended Designs” are written in rough red script. Moodboard was made in Canva.

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Merge x Alice Isn't Dead My Sister's Stolen Soul features: 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪽 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip [ #BluePit #📖 #F #PN #SP #Q #OV #LGBT ]

An Agent's Guide for My Sister's Stolen Soul Adult Contemporary Fantasy * 78k words aro/ace flag, pansexual flag, disability flag, Sapphic flag, agender flag

For fans of The River has Roots (sisterly love transcending death) When the Angels left the Old Country (it/its angel goes on an adventure) Rules for Ghosting (mortician who sees ghosts) Here We Go Again (drama filled road trip) What's Left of Me (sharing a body with a sister)

Playlist Unity - Alan Walker Take My Soul - ZHU Girlfriend - Icona Pop Anything for You - Ludo Memento Mori - Will Wood Even In Death - Evanescence Lonely Day - System of a Down Back From The Dead - Halestorm You’re Somebody Else - Flora Cash I Don’t Wanna Die - Hollywood Undead Let Me Be Your Armor - Assemblage 23 Anthem of the Angels - Breaking Benjamin

Excerpt “Who are you?” she asks. “My name is Melody, I’m Lyra’s younger sister,” I say. “You two are identical.” I wish I could ask Lyra if she’s okay with Annie knowing everything. Better yet, I wish I could make her explain it. Her girlfriend, her problem. But I’m here alone, Annie is the one who saw Lyra last, and I want any information she can give me. It’s not like I could pretend I’m Lyra and ask why she ran out last night. I kind of need to tell her. I’ve never had to explain us. I don’t know where to start. It’ll be easier since she can already sense Lyra and I are different people. Somehow. But it’s still going to sound insane to a normal person. “I’m six years younger than Lyra. She died when we were kids, and I… I don’t know what I did but I saved her soul. I kept it.” I press my hand against my chest, careful to avoid the burn. “We’ve shared this body—my body—for over twenty years.”

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the it/its guardian angel is one of my favorite characters of all time 👼💜

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When she picks the wrong pocket, Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from magehunters, mathematicians, and the governor herself. #BluePit #YA #F #LGBT #W #BluePit📖

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with golems.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF #SP #TR #OV #LGBT #ND #bluepit When a trans faith healer flees his mother's cult, he joins forces with a paranormal forum moderator who caught a meteorite as they head to a UFO festival...until the cult closes in to capture their Chosen One. #amquerying

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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Well, one of these times I'll be actually Actually on time instead of only a little late, but this was fun! You can check me out at nsowers.com, and read more about my in-progress series, some articles about writing and editing, and check out my first update post in quite a while

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Writer, Editor, and Beta Reader

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Lately it has been setting aside a certain amount of time to work on something, so I don't get stuck doing that all day. Especially when it comes to managing multiple writing projects, splitting my time between projects is easier when I set specific amounts of time.