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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fuck everything, burn it down. NONE OF PANGRAM'S CLAIMS HAVE BEEN INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED! The blind trust in Pangram's ability to meet its claims is staggering. Just because it's shiny and its owners say it works DOESN'T MEAN IT DOES WHAT IT CLAIMS TO DO. #writingcommunity #writesky

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I am genuinely terrified about this shift in the publishing industry

Pangram is ruining authors' lives, and our window to do something about it is closing.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 06/03/2026

And the hostage negotiator is Pennywise

We're all in this together
like hostages

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 21/02/2026

@rytingwithcats.bsky.social and I were looking at this writing contest that promises "Book-to-Film Consideration with [an] Acclaimed Movie Producer." The producer is real, but there are some things writers need to know about Hollywood. A 🧵 #WritingCommunity

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New episode of the podcast I’m producing with these two goofballs 🙌 “Comparison is the thief of joy” and other tips on healthy hating to keep your draft on track 😎😂 Seriously they are so much fun, give it a listen!

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

“Even when Lydia closes her eyes, the stains still creep into her nostrils." TY for this honor! 🥰🤩 PWS began while I struggled with my own demons—art imitating life more than I realized at the time. I'm proud of this first page, and can't wait to share the rest! #PageOnePrize #writingcommunity

Playing with spiders, a novel by Rylan Rafferty, won an honorable mention in the 2025 page one prize contest by gutsy great novelist

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Bad Lit Friends @badlitfriends.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

There's a reason we have our amazing producer @rytingwithcats.bsky.social to save us from podcast infamy -- Meagan's outline currently contains a reference to Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in the context of query personalization. #badlitfriends is bad, but we're not (huge) sadists.

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The English language took “kill your darlings” too literally in the earlier drafts. These are so pretty 😭 bring back 😭 #writingcommunity

Susie Dent @susie_dent
l love the old markers of time. To go with 'fortnight' (fourteen nights),
English once had the lovely
'sennight' (seven nights) for a week, too. 'Yestreen' meant 'last evening,
'ere-yesterday' was the day before yesterday, and 'overmorrow' the day after tomorrow.

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Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Desire to finish the old project is no match for the urge to start the next one 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

When you feel like your writing is bad, just remember the wisdom of the cuddly bandit creature 🙏 🦝 🌈 Keep writing! #writingcommunity #inspirationalquotes

A raccoon gazes thoughtfully at a rainbow.
“There is no trash can't
There is only trash CAN!”

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I would also like to add ✨ fashionable ✨ to this list 🥴

@TaraWineQueen writes:
I identify with Frankenstein's monster because I, too, am:
- Intellectually curious
- Held together by a thread
- Seeking love and affection
- Interested in burning down the homes of those who have betrayed me
- Scared by my own reflection
- Better in theory than real life

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Oh no 😂 Dang strandings always be stranding people! 🤦‍♀️

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 16/05/2025

My historical thriller, The Cosmonaut, has been recognized as a Top 1% project on The Black List!!! It’s on sub now, #Editors (See my bio for contact info) #writingcommunity #historicalfiction #thriller Thanks @theblcklst.bsky.social!!!

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This will be fun! 🤩 Who else is joining us in the AutoCrit Short Story Writing Challenge?? #writingcommunity @autocrit.bsky.social

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R.J. Garcia 💀🌸 @writerrjgarcia.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Can anyone else relate? 🙃 #writingcommunity #booksky

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 30/04/2025

This book is 🔥and I can't wait to read it. But @rytingwithcats.bsky.social and I were thinking that if we were the groundskeeper, we'd just sit back and watch. Let the billionaires pull themselves out of the homicidal house by their bootstraps. #writingcommunity #books #horrorbooks

Deal of the Day
Pulitzer Prize-winner Leonard Pitts Jr.'s THE ANGRY HOUSE, about a traumatized, sentient, and psychokinetic former slave cabin on the grounds of a onetime plantation being turned into a destination resort for wealthy tourists, and the young Black groundskeeper who is the one person who can somehow hear the house, which warns him that, if the Dionysian opening celebration planned by a dotcom billionaire and despicable political aspirant goes ahead …

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 12/03/2025

In case you're worried that you don't know where your story is leading you...

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Dannye Chase (@dannyechase.bsky.social) tells us how to write accurate building fires in the next installment of Specific Knowledge, in which spec fic authors correct common mistakes in an area of their expertise. frombeyondpress.com/blog/specifi...

Black and white image of a city skyline on fire, with text "Specific Knowledge: Dannye Chase on Structural Fires"

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 18/03/2025

My 10k-word short story is now a 17k-word novella. Go drunk Kirk, you're home.

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Candice’s boyfriend disappears with her life savings. She tracks him down at his new workplace: a candy factory “built on hopes and dreams.” She lands a job there to confront him, but after learning the company’s sickly sweet secret... She might never clock out. #WSPitW #SF #A #LGBT #WSPit

Title: Planet Break Room. In the distance, a woman stands in front of a drab, snowy city at night. Behind her, a pond reflects a magical wonderland. Superimposed in the sky, a man's eyes stare ominously.

Planet Break Room description. Candice's boyfriend disappears with her life savings. She tracks him down at his new workplace: a candy factory "built on hopes and dreams." She lands a job there to confront him, but after learning the company's sickly sweet secret... She might never clock out.

Tropes & Themes: Corporate greed, work/love balance, frenemies, rightsizing, incompetent Ai, and queer main characters.

Planet Break Room comparable titles: Severance on AppleTV meets Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Severance's ominous corporation hiding a secret paired with the whimsical candy land of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

THE WEDDING PEOPLE x SANDWICH x THE PAPER PALACE THIS ENDS NOW: Matrimonial escape artist Lainey is finally ready to stop running from good men. But 1st she'll have to confront the charming, ruthless ex who taught her that love equals danger—and rewrote her heart's warning system. #A #WF #Q #WSPitQ

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 26/02/2025

Tolstoy tragedy collides with Steinbeck America. A Soviet cosmonaut crashes in cold war America. A novel of survival, secrets, and impossible choices. ❤️Enemies to found family ⚔️Action/Adventure 💔Betrayal 👥️Character-driven 💀Tragedy #WSPitS #A #Hi #T #Editors On sub with @roseclifflit.bsky.social

A mood board for Kirk Rafferty's "The Cosmonaut and the Fisherman." Photos of a 1960s era cosmonaut helmet, a woman with a pistol, a man with a pistol, and the silhouette of a woman and two children, flanked by images of the American flag and the Soviet flag. In the center, a space capsule re-entering earth orbit in a feiry plume. The center image is inside a round "gun scope." The caption reads: Texas, 1961. Disavowed by her own government, a stranded cosmonaut and her two unlikely allies must escape a relentless FBI agent with his own agenda.

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I helped 😃 (these are really cool bookmarks!)

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Also cozy cabins in the woods! 😃 (or *were* cozy before my dad’s story shows up)

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 27/01/2025

A Youtuber who averaged reading two and a half books a week in 2024, and HOW do people do this?!?! Actual footage of me reading a book

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Zootopia Sloth GIF

ALT: Zootopia Sloth GIF

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I am this daughter!! 😇 So proud of my dad 🥹 Whenever I walk into a book store I know this is where his awesome book WILL be! 🤩🧑‍🚀

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

‪Is "enthusiastically" an appropriate answer when someone asks how I take my coffee?‬

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Ah yes, that classic American tale. And the sequel where he’s worked into the ground and when he burns out, all of the other reindeer call him Overly Sensitive Lazy Nose. Nobody wants to light the sleigh anymore!

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thankful for all my green flag people 🥰

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Love this and can’t wait to read the whole dang book!! 😍

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Little James Baldwin @nnemmanuels.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Help your self.

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God @thegodshow.com · 24/11/2024

Been thinking a lot lately about that episode of Parks and Rec where Leslie and Tom have to rebrand fluoride in the water as TDazzle in order to get the public to support it.

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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytinghorror.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hard agree. Even the title is Christmas-present red! 😃

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