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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was a guest writer this month for The InkWell on Substack! Go check out my words about middle grade readers. This was a lot of fun to write! theinkwell.substack.com/p/who-are-we...

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Who Are We Writing For?

Guest Spotlight: September, Rachel Blaine

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’m trying something new over at Substack. Come join the party! open.substack.com/pub/raeblain...

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The Lonely Writers Social Club

OFFICIAL INVITATION

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hello everyone! Been a while since I’ve posted. Needed a break. Just started writing again and want to get back to the #writingcommunity here! How’s everyone doing? How’s your writing going? ✍️📚💙

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Just finished reading this book. My daughter read it too. It’s so very special and I so wish I’d had it on my shelf as a kid.

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Mylee J. Miller | SFF Author | ✨Updates Only✨ @myleejmiller.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'm thrilled to announce that applications for the Street Team for my debut adult dark romantasy, HEART OF BONE, are now open! I'd love to have your support - fill out the form if you're interested in taking part! 🩵 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

For #CRPCabinRaids I just had to sneak over to #CRPNightcrawlers since I’m missing my horror peeps. The monster in my current WIP is a succubus feeding on the hormones of pubescent girls. Super fun for my MC. #CRPsugargliders #camprevpit

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

“I’ve told you a million times, the whole myth about the sun is just a story. My mom practically lived at the pool all summer.” #camprevpit #dialoguedrop #CRPsugargliders

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hello #CRPsugargliders ! I’m so happy to be here! I usually write YA but am working on an MG horror about a girl who becomes a vampire when she hits puberty. I’ve been reading more MG lately (just finished A Wrinkle in Time) and my 9yo daughter is my inspiration! #camprevpit #campkickoff

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Alexia Barrail | Author @ambarrail.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE INVISIBLE STRING THEORY 🧇 for readers looking for a chuckle and a feel good ending. 🏖️ your beach bag is begging for this book 🐝 upmarket women’s fiction, now querying #PosterPit #upmarketfiction #UF #womensfiction #WF #bookclub #A A little bit of rom. A lot of com.

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 18/04/2026

🩸 WELCOME TO SANCTUARY 🩸 Chased by a jealous superior who wants her dead, Seer Éliane finds refuge in Lady of Clairemont's mysterious house, Sanctuary, among 6 women living as sisters. When the sisters begin to disappear, Éliane must find the truth before she disappears too. #PosterPit #P #A #F #H

A poster with an illustration of Eliane, the protagonist of The Seventh Sister, looking up while kneeling. She has light brown skin, long brown hair tied in a braid, and golden eyes. She wears a green dress. The yellow and orange background represents the sun.

Text on the poster reads as follows, top to bottom:
Fairytale retelling, horror fantasy
The Seventh Sister
A novella by Millie Abecassis
“The Seventh Sister gripped me from the first sentence and didn’t let go.” — Koji A. Dae, author of Casual
Now available everywhere books are sold

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EB Thorn @ebthornwriter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🌿HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS🌿 84k queer omegaverse romantasy feat. 🐺alphas, betas, and omegas 👑royal drama 🔥heats & ruts 💚found family #PosterPit #Q #R #F #RF #A #amquerying

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megan witt ✨ is querying YA romance ✨ @bymeganwitt.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Leah’s class trip to London is all castles and stage kisses– till she’s deferred by her dream college again. Stuck between the boy she’s fake dating & a chance at the future she’s meticulously planned, she has to embrace her waitlist curse to break it. #posterpit #q #r #ya

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #PosterPit #W #A #F #H

A vertical poster for "MARK OF THE JESTER" features a split-color design: white on the left with black elements and black on the right with white elements. A thin border frame at the top contains the phrase "A DARK FANTASY."
The central image consists of a large, stylized jester’s mask split down the middle to match the background. The mask features one hollow eye hole and a wide, grinning mouth colored deep red. Four mirrored rose silhouettes surround the mask.
The title is rendered in a distressed, hand-drawn font. On the left, a black laurel wreath contains the text, "A most unreliable narrator!" On the right, a white laurel wreath contains the text, "Horror! Madness! Laughs!"
The bottom left includes an "R" rating box with warnings for violence, sexual content, language, and disturbing images. The bottom right lists "WRITTEN and DIRECTED by B. VAN BODEGOM" above a synopsis regarding a jester and a king.

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

DONNIE DARKO X THE EXORCIST Chris has been plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful shadow, known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control. #PosterPit #Q #A #H #WritingCommunity

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

If it wasn't enough that aliens arrive at the same time as her crew on an otherwise uninhabited planet, Gloria now has to facilitate first contact, resolve their territory dispute, and not get distracted by her new feelings for the ostentatious leader of said aliens. #PosterPit #Q #SF #R #A

Now Querying
A Sci-Fi Romance Novel by Florrie Auclair
Meeting of Honesty
"Oh brave new world, that has such paperwork in it!"
First contact on a Monet inspired planet with corporate satire and rivals to lovers. May cause attraction to moth antennae.
Art by Croverfield

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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

They call her SCARella. She’s the only one who gives a damn about post-Collapse Manhattan’s disappearing girls. JESSICA JONES × ARCANE Some things don’t just break you. They remake you. 🔥 #PosterPit #A #DF #S #MYTHTECH

Dark feminist noir fantasy poster featuring a scarred armored vigilante standing in a flooded, post-apocalyptic tunnel, gripping a flaming machete. A glowing sigil burns on her chest and along her arm, suggesting myth-tech power. Title reads SCARELLA: THE MACHETE MARAUDERESS with the tagline: “Some things don’t just break you. They remake you.”

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Christine Witcher | Author @authorcwitcher.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

EX HEX x MAGICAL INNKEEPING x Charmed. ✨ Found family ✨ Witchy romcom ✨ Enchanted house ✨ Diverse cast CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL #PosterPit #Q #A #PN #R

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #PosterPit

A film poster for Feed Me Your Heart, a YA fantasy/romance/horror novel about a girl addicted to magical hearts who has to hunt a water spirit

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Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com · 18/04/2026

PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT X SORRY TO BOTHER YOU When a down-on-his-luck archivist takes a job from a shady tech company to save his robot friend, he uncovers a darker plot involving stolen memories while falling for a handsome anarchist with a grudge against his employer. #PosterPit #Q #SF #SPF #A

Movie poster style image featuring an illustration of the main character (a skinny Asian nerd with glasses) and his fox spirit-shaped robot friend on a red background; Title: Snaggleteeth, A Novel; Tagline: Clear Eyes. Sharp teeth. Can't lose.; Other text: 96k words/adult SFF; queer/bipoc characters; Asian/ND rep; Restricted Rating symbol box: disaster bisexuals, questionable life choices, robots gone rogue; NOW QUERYING; small text: nerdy agender archivist embarks on a quest to save his fox spirit-shaped robot friend, unravels a mystery involving stolen memories and falls in love with a grumpy bookseller in the process.

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

ARE YOU THERE GOD IT’S ME MARGARET X TEEN WOLF Her friends get Bat Mitzvahs, Amara gets an uncontrollable hunger for blood. #posterpit #MG #W #H #F

PUBERTY sucks
A BOOK BY RACHEL BLAINE
COMING TO THE QUERY TRENCHES SOON
AMARA HAS BEEN OBSESSED WITH PERIODS SINCE SHE FIRST LEARNED ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF MENSTRUATION. SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS PREPARED FOR EVERY POSSIBILITY. SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS READY. SHE THOUGHT ALL HER DREAMS WERE ABOUT TO COME TRUE. TURNS OUT... PUBERTY CAN REALLY

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Who wants to swap for #posterpit tomorrow?!? My poster is still being made and hopefully it will be something to get excited about!

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PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Question 4 for 10 Days of Q&As: What is your favorite poster made for a movie/show, based on a book? #PosterPit

#POSTERPIT Q&A
DAY 4
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE/SHOW POSTER MADE FOR A MOVIE, BASED ON A BOOK?

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PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Question 3 for 10 Days of Q&As: What would be the song in the trailer for a movie based on your book? #PosterPit

#POSTERPIT Q&A
DAY 3
WHAT WOULD BE THE SONG IN THE TRAILER FOR A MOVIE BASED ON YOUR BOOK?

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PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Question 2 for 10 Days of Q&As: If your book was put on as a play at a local theater, who would you invite to watch it with you? #PosterPit

#POSTERPIT Q&A
DAY 2
IF YOUR BOOK WAS PUT ON AS A PLAY AT A LOCAL THEATER, WHO WOULD YOU INVITE TO WATCH IT WITH
YOU?

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PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Question 1 for 10 Days of Q&As: Would your book ever work as a musical? If so, what scenes would be expressed through song? #PosterPit

#POSTERPIT Q&A
DAY 1
WOULD YOUR BOOK EVER WORK AS A MUSICAL? IF SO, WHAT SCENES WOULD BE EXPRESSED THROUGH SONG?

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PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Our website is once again live! If you'd like to get a sneak peek about what's to come in this year's #PosterPit, be sure to peruse our website 🍿👀

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PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Hello #PosterPit participants! We're thrilled to announce that our event will, from here on out, include Th(r)eads! That makes our event a four-platform literary pitching extravaganza! Follow us in other places (@)PosterPitEvent!

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I feel like I’m never on social media anymore. Life is so busy! How’s everyone in the #writingcommunity doing? What’s everyone working on? I’ve been having a tough time with writing but I’ve been reading a ton!

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

𝗛𝗶𝗺⚓The only fight I have left in me is for my son. I've no time for the houseguest the language institute sent me by mistake. Until we talk. We click. Suddenly, I'm wishing for things again. But she's not a choice I can make. Come fall, I'll have to let her go too. #Questpit #Q #A #R

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Jenn Lee Frances @jennleefrances.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The Bent Neck Lady x Don't Let The Forest In MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith 🖤Big 5 Editor Requests 🖤Best Submission Award SCBWI MayFest 2025 🖤Write Hive 2025 Mentorship Winner A Good For Her Feminist Horror With Rage, Revenge, Romance & Reclaiming Power. #QuestPit #YA #NA #H #Q

Image of forbidden loves Simone & Jadriel & The East River Wraith: from my book: THE TRUTH OF FEAR. A Young Adult Feminist Horror, by Jenn Lee Frances.
With Romance & Rage & Revenge
*Commissioned art by @demonyong_nini

Image of creepy ghost girl, Nina, The East River Wraith. A vengeful ghost who drowns deserving boys. But she's taking out her rage on the wrong boy. / With the tagline: A new urban legend.

Image of Simone with her hand on fire. Tagline: touch him & burn.
SImone is haunted and hexed. She's risking Jadriel's life & Nina's afterlife.

Tagline: Kiss her and die. Bi boy next door, Jadriel Estrella, is Simone's cursed first love. And one of the only boys she trusts. But Nina doesn't.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 31/01/2026

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #Q #SF #A #R #LGBT

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
loveable pet/terrifying monster

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #S #Q #Questpit #booksky

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

$BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”$

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

ARE YOU THERE GOD IT’S ME MARGARET X TEEN WOLF Amara has been dreaming of getting her period for years. Turns out, puberty sucks. #questpit #MG #H #W

Blood bags; period pads; demon; menstrual cup; vampire; menstrual cup; blood; period pad; blood

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This book will stick with my forever.

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

To all the middle grade writers out there, what is your opinion on first person present for middle grade? Is it still considered wrong for the genre? #writingcommunity

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Just finished a book and ready to start the next one. Which one should I read first?

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Living the dream. One tattoo at a time.

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Best day in LA! Chilly with rain. Matzo ball soup and salmon cakes from the brand new and already famous diner in my neighborhood. New books bought with a birthday gift card. Life is good.

Book covers. Princess Bride; Immortal Dark; Mindworks; Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I got enough money for my birthday to get another tattoo!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited!

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My new MG supernatural horror is coming along! I think this is the first book I’ve written where I can see the full plot in my head. Can’t wait to share it with the world someday! #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Ugh i totally forgot about #mockpit! So bummed! But these pitches are SO good!

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

My mom’s spirit possessed me. She’s nonstop judging me and I’m having a really hard time getting through school with her shenanigans. I literally haven’t spoken to my rabbi since my Bat Mitzvah, but I’m thinking of asking him to preform an exorcism. AITA? #FiFRevPit #writingcommunity

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Mylee J. Miller | SFF Author | ✨Updates Only✨ @myleejmiller.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

My review with SFF insiders is officially UP on their website (🔗 in the comments). That means it's giveaway time!!! If you'd like to win a free paperback OR ebook copy of SAWKILL GIRLS by Claire LeGrand, follow the instructions below:

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

All Amara wants is to get her period and walk with The Sharks, but her menstrual cycle is not what she imagined. When people start dying, she wonders, is she the one draining the blood of her neighbors? Or are The Sharks holding an even bigger secret? #questpit #MG #W #H #F

Blood; blood; blood oranges; crime scene; vampire; investigation; menstrual cup; tampons; pads

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