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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Storytime 79, with thanks to the Fletchers for providing a hosting space and helping decorate, Dad for sorting out the sound and Mum for my costume, and everyone who listened or has already watched for your company and patience. youtu.be/fijkza6saLs?...

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Storytime #79: A New Chapter of Everything

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

A fun farewell to retiring character elderly vampire LARPer Betty yesterday with the long awaited Storytime 78. Thanks to patrons & listeners for sticking around during my hiatus. Hope to present the next episode on Valentine's Day. 🍵🖋️🫖📖☕ #storytimeforgrownups

Sarah is dressed in a rainbow unicorn onesie with an old lady blue-rinse wig on and blood red lipstick, showing fangs over her bottom lip as she peers up at the camera through red rimmed glasses.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Hello and apologies for the long absence! Here's a post about what's happening with Storytime. www.patreon.com/posts/back-f...

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Back From The Silence... | PhDancer's Teapot

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

My very dear friend P.S.C. Willis ( @pscwillis.bsky.social ) has their debut novel coming out and there is going to be a virtual celebration. To join in, sign up to their newsletter for the Zoom details and a bingo card! (Follow the tag) ☕🫖📖 #debutauthor #newbooks #queerbooks #booklovers

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Today's the bday of my novel character Grace, loyal adorer & supporter of cat-shifter Fey. Though she's an MC in my cat-shifter book, Grace is a side character in the spin-off WIP, & this snippet comes from there, where Reece is getting to see the extent of her dedication & practical support skills.

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‘So she won’t be able to do it.’ At first Grace just looked terrified, but then she got her science face on, and determination rose to the surface, her adrenaline becoming focused. sharper somehow. ‘So we have to do something to increase her energy so she can get through the Change. So we feed her, right? Like, a lot.’ Grace’s anguish was dropping away now that she felt she could take action, replaced with a calm purposefulness. Max might not get involved very often, but all he was smart, Reece realised.

‘I’ll throw it all up!’ Fey groaned, looking green.

Grace knelt beside her, cupped her chin and held her gaze. ‘No, you won’t.’ She looked up at Reece. ‘We need a load of sweet stuff, sugary drinks, and salty, fatty stuff like crisps. Just pretend we’re having a tenth birthday party.’ She paused. ‘And also tuna, for afterwards. Just get all the cans of tuna, but don’t open any, or the smell will bother her.’

Max put a hand on her shoulder. ‘Very good.’ Grace gave a tight smile and went pink again.

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P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy #Pride month. Check out all the queer books Space Wizard is publishing soon, including mine! They released their campaign video, and guess who's the thumbnail? But during a transition shot, so I have blended into my flag. So queer, I am become the rainbow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Am...

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BackerKit Year 4 Part 1 Campaign Video!

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P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It's Thursday for me! So I can drop the full cover art! I am IN LOVE with this incredible work by Jess Montz. It's wild that they could draw what was inside my head. Cover with title will be in a promo interview with my publisher dropping soon. 🔗 ⬇️ when available #2025Debuts #WritingCommunity

Two teenage boys reaching out to each other, divided by a vivid green line. Different ruined buildings are in the background of each side.

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P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Eeeee. Definitely encourage people to do this. #SmallPitch is how I got my publishing offer.

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Thea Lyons 🌈 Updates Only. Please 👀 at my 📚. 💜 @alethearlyons.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Cover art reveal for Crying Out for Magic by P.S.C. Willis Detail 3: Someone ready to jump into anything with both feet Watch @lifelovelily22.bsky.social for the next detail & see the full cover via @pscwillis.bsky.social on Thurs 22nd #WritingCommunity #2025Debuts #Fantasy Artist: Jess Montz

A brown paper page with packing symbols for ‘this way up’ and ‘fragile.’ A contents label reads: Cinnamon rolls - 2, Magic - Lots.
Three small sections of the paper are ripped away. One reveals two different skylines, depicting ruined buildings, with a green slash between them. The second, the face of a white boy with curly hair, smiling shyly at someone. The third, the face of a boy with straight dark hair and an eager smile, looking up at the first person).

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Cover art reveal for Crying Out for Magic by P.S.C. Willis Detail 2... Someone ready to fall ever so awkwardly in love Watch @alethearlyons.bsky.social for the next detail, & see the full cover via @pscwillis.bsky.social on Thursday 22nd #WritingCommunity #2025Debuts #Fantasy Artist: Jess Montz

a brown paper page with packing symbols for ‘this way up’ and ‘fragile.’ A contents label reads: Cinnamon rolls - 2, Magic - Lots.
A small section of the paper is ripped away to reveal two different skylines, depicting ruined buildings, with a green slash between them.

Two small sections of the paper are ripped away. One reveals two different skylines, depicting ruined buildings, with a green slash between them. The second, the face of a white boy with curly hair, smiling shyly at someone.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Today is the birthday of my novel character Sam, so I decided it was time I shared a snippet of her in my current #WIP.

Closeup of hands playing guitar with the following text on a dark background:

‘So you knew when you asked me to join the band.’ His voice was flat and empty, his gaze dropping to the floor. She was ruining the memory of their amazing performance and it hurt to watch.

‘I promise we didn’t just ask you because of that,’ she told him, her voice pleading. ‘You are amazing Jake. And your song, it gets to everyone. Like somehow you’re speaking directly to every single person.’ She hesitated. Say it, say it, say it. ‘And I really like our band practices. I’ll miss them so much when I leave school. I’ll miss you. I—’

‘JAKE!’ Grace had spotted them, and came tumbling up from the table to envelop Jake in a hug, Fey close behind her.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is the book that introduced me to @pscwillis.bsky.social and led me to fall in love with their writing and I am so, so excited that it's going to be out in the world! If you like nerdy, cute, queer, magical people, I highly recommend getting a copy when you can.

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P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If 'Radio Silence' by Alice Oseman was not actually 'Radio Silence' by Alice Oseman but a book about trees by me. #UnhingedPit #YA #Q #F #LGBT

Landscape image with the cover of 'Radio Silence' by Alice Oseman in the centre. To the left, a list titled 'Keep' with green checkmarks for bullets against the points: university anxiety, friend fall out, ace/demi rep. On the right, a list titled 'Replace...with....' followed by a bulleted list: [X] - Emotional abuse [arrow] Befriending tree spirits, [x] Podcast [arrow] Arts and crafts.

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P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Using #UnhingedPit to imagine the future 1 star reviews awaiting Tree Book - my #ownvoices ace rep cosy little contemporary fantasy. #YA #Q #F #LGBT

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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret. THE BONE SHARD WAR x THE JASAD HEIR #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #F

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

PERFECT ON PAPER x THE INFINITE NOISE 16 Y/O Grace *would* be ready to confess feelings for her BFF, if Fey'd just stay human long enough 😪 🐈‍⬛Shape-shifting 🏳️‍🌈Best friends➡️lovers 🤷School drama 🧡Found fam 💙Siblings 😠Bullies 🏳️‍🌈#OWN bi, demi, NB 🫖Comfort #P2Ppit #YA #Q #RF

The spring green-toned image collage is dominated by the stare of a half-human, half-cat face, illustrated in watercolour and pencil. Both eyes in the portrait are yellow-green and both the short, pixie-cut hair of the human and the fur of the cat is black. The human half of the face has pale skin. The tagline reads: “Have you ever been told a secret that changed everything, when all you wanted was to share one of your own?” Around the portrait image are photographs relating to high school gossip and bullying, queer Pride and comfort. They include gossiping figures in school uniform, a hot beverage held between someone’s palms, rainbow reflections and badges, a black cat, a writing hand with a pen, and someone sketching.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

NOT MY PROBLEM x MISFITS Fey (16, cat-shifter) thinks she’s unlovable. BFF Grace has the feelings to prove her wrong. Jake, Grace’s little bro, thinks Fey is the perfect prom date. For love to win, Fey must accept herself, & Grace must speak up. #P2Ppit #YA #Q #RF

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Ann Littler @annlittler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

May I proudly present to you my #agentsguide to AT NIGHT, WE HIDE, a YA Dystopian Thriller. 😒 A snarky, thieving FMC 😈 A very unexpected villain 👽 Stay hidden at night or die 🫦 Slow burn ☠️ Murdery mole 🌪️ Twisty AF #Q #UW #YA #DS #T #ANWH #amquerying #litagents #P2Ppit

An agent’s guide to AT NIGHT, WE HIDE by Ann Littler

AT NIGHT, WE HIDE pitch

PITCH
FIRST LINE:
It was so much easier to steal when I worked alone.
A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SCAVENGER WITH A DANGEROUS SECRET MUST
FIND THE MOLE BEFORE SHE BECOMES
THEIR NEXT VICTIM AND THE ENTIRE RESISTANCE EFFORT IS COMPROMISED.

WHAT TE
EXPECT
• MORALLY-DODGY STEM FEMALE MC WHO CAUSES
ALMOST ALL THE PROBLEMS
• THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE, BUT WE DON'T
• DYSTOPIAN MURDER MYSTERY

• SLOW BURN ROMANCE

•FOUND FAMILY

KNOW WHAT

• EVERYONE HAS SECRETS

• CLOSE QUARTERS

• UNEXPECTED VILLAIN

• UNPUTDOWNABLE TWISTS

• PLANNED TRILOGY

Comps:

Dystopian vibes of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Thriller elements of Five Survive
Close Quarters of The Stranded

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LK Morgan @lkmorganx.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Asparagus Bunch x A Fish in a Tree Dyslexic Hazel would rather paint in her sketchbook than deal with words. Finally, in a school that accepts her, sketchbook and all, she thrives. When bulldozers come to tear it down, only her artistic eye will save the school. #P2Ppit #MG

Mix of pics representing aspects of the book. Middle girl climbing trees, surrounded by floating letters, old documents, friends playing, buried treasure, bowler hat man, paint brushes, JCB and daisy chain

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Hi! I'm a writer-illustrator with #YA & #NA #amquerying & #WIP projects feat. queer teens with superpowers coping in modern day England. I also write Storytime for Grown-ups & poetry & I make art. I have a smol who steals time & 3 bunnies. 🚫No TERFs, Tories, crypto promoters, or general meanies pls

A tea mug with a teapot on it surrounded by art materials including watercolour paints, paper and pencils, and some open notebooks.

Sarah in the snow with her baby inside her waterproof jacket sleeping against her chest.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

🤦🏻 Weeks later, the writer realises her baby brain wrote "installation" instead of "instalment" 😳 Please excuse my lapse of vocab

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

At long last, the new installation of Storytime for Grown-ups. A short memorial to much-loved Elizabeth Barber, storytime patron & writer in a number of virtual exhibition projects, who sadly left us in October, is included. Short scenes & poems follow. youtu.be/UinaCKJcwjM?...

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Storytime #77: Scenes From a Dry July Garden Party

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

The 76th Storytime, a Solstice special in which we trialled short in-character scenes as an option for the chaos of the next few months, is now available to watch at youtu.be/OBBrUORA86A?... The July session will be coming... when it can. So keep your eyes open for announcements.

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Storytime #76: Scenes from the Solstice

A series of in-character scenes from the White Cedar Flat family's annual Soltice gathering, including representations of Dina, Albie, Crackers the galah and...

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

The 75th Storytime, featuring constellations, street performers, train mayhem, & unlikely friendships, is now available to watch at youtu.be/wuErPjnVgLw?si… I'll be doing slightly different style Storytimes the next few months around the arrival of my tiny human. Watch this space.

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Storytime #75: Similar Opposites

Arjun and Annae are unlikely friends. When Arjun asks Annae to accompany him to an astronomy convention, he learns that some ways of being similar are more i...

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

My poem "The Gates" features in the anthology Not/Coming Out, launching today on Amazon. Copies will be available via bookshops longer term (patience required for Ingram Spark). A big thank you to the anthology team for accepting my poem for inclusion. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CXHMNM3...

A gradated pastel background with images of the kindle and paperback versions of the anthology 'Not/Coming Out' and the text: Not/Coming Out, a charity anthology, May 16th 2024, OUT NOW! And a small sticker-style text saying 'My work's in this!'

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

And Q2 for today's #MMCM: Do you have a cause that matters to you or something in your world that you're fighting to change? How do you go about working towards or supporting that cause?

A starry night background with the text: @TeamTeaAndBooks writers host Meet My Characters Monday #MMCM Our characters want to chat to your characters. Questions will be posted every Monday by different characters from the imaginations of @TeamTeaAndBooks. The host will be announced each Sunday on the TTAB account. Let your MC take the social media reins, unleash an antagonist, or let a side character have the spotlight. We can't wait to hear from them.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Hi there all characters joining today's #MMCM! Q1 for today: In our world, humans haven't had a very good impact on the rest of the world we live in. Do you feel that your people or species are good for the environment around you? Do you co-exist well with other species?

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

*Denzel starts to pet Fionn with long, slow, gentle strokes that definitely seem to soothe him. He occasionally sips his tea. He doesn't talk much, unless prompted by Jay*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Fey: *Meows at them all. Starts darting playfully between the others' feet*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Denzel: *hesitates* Is it okay to pet you? *He watches Fionn closely for cues, not having ever had cat lessons*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

*Fey trots straight up to the interesting new friends and goes to a sniff noses* Denzel: *gives Fionn a little sad smile.* Hi.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Fey: You totally can. Your services aren't required, Grace 😁 *pokes out her tongue at her*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Grace: Thank you! My third fan *beams* I should go with Fey while she shifts so I can let her out of the room once she's cat-ified. *Meets Fey's eyes in a that's-definitely-the-only-reason way* She can't portal out like you.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Denzel: You're always welcome in the tea corner. Cat hugs might help, thanks. I guess Reece will probably find me when he gets here. *Wanders off in search of Jay and tea*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Denzel: OK, thank you. Yeah. I'm just um... Everything feels a bit weird. It's OK. I'll go make some tea and I'll feel better. Come see us later? Do you know if Reece is gonna come?

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Fey: Ooh, new friends? Should I find somewhere to go change? Grace: Awww *melts* Fionn, that's really kind of you to say. I'm not sure everyone else would agree if they saw my art but thank you so much.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Denzel: Is Jay already inside? *Looks uncharacteristically lost, despite the very cool surroundings which he clearly appreciates*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Fey: Hi. I also turn into a cat. Hey, Fionn! *Gives him a quick hug* Grace: *coming in behind Fey & looping her arms around Fey's waist, resting her chin on her shoulder* Hello! I don't turn into any animals. I don't really do anything exciting, but I do like stories...*Looks around at the books*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Denzel: *shrugs* OK. *Walks inside, looking about with interest and a little bit of caution*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Denzel: No. I mean, I know about ordinary libraries. But I don't know anything about magic ones. This is pretty cool.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Denzel: Hi. *Has no idea what to say or do now, but gives the library a look of quiet awe*

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Reece: Thank you. *He hugs Jon again* I'll try to come back and see you later.

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Sam reaches out a hand to adjust Cass's grip. "May I? Try relaxing your wrist down a bit..." She softly repositions Cass's fingers. "Now try." "I'm..." She shakes her head. "I should be great." She reforms the chord on her own guitar & strums once. "Thank you for helping... in Camira when I was..."

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Sarah Fletchins @phdancersteapot.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Reece: *smiles* Thanks. I've been kind of constantly up and downstairs trying to look after Sam and welcome people at the same time. *He throws Jake a glare for being late* To Jon: Would you chat to Sam at some point and tell me if you think she's OK? She's just... Off. I'm not sure what to do.

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