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Sean David Robinson

@sdrwriter.bsky.social
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Author and Playwright | Now querying PENROSE — 84K Speculative Fiction | 2023/2024 StoryStudio Novel In A Year Cohort | BLM, LGBTQIA+ Ally | Democracy Over Tyranny

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Knight Agency @knightagency.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A man returns to his strange hometown twenty years after his mother climbed a staircase in the wilderness and disappeared. THE DOOR IN PENROSE FOREST by @sdrwriter.bsky.social is out now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/820345...
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The Door in Penrose Forest by Sean David Robinson: 9798892425957 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A man returns to his strange hometown twenty years after his mother climbed a staircase in the wilderness and disappeared in this speculative mystery where We Used to Live Here meets The Midnight Libr...
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I can still hardly believe it’s real, but… 2026 is the year I officially become a published author. 🦋🦋🦋 I feel so fortunate and beyond excited to see what the future holds. And if you feel so inclined, the preorder link is here: l1nq.com/tXSO1 #booksbooksbooks #writingcommunity
The cover of “The Door in Penrose Forest” by Sean David Robinson.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
PENROSE As a child, Nico watched his mother climb a staircase in the woods and vanish. Reading her journal 30 years later, he discovers a link between her disappearance & the Gilded Age mansion which burned down in those woods 100 years ago. SEA OF TRANQUILITY x PIRANESI #2025pit #A #LF #SPF
A gilded age staircase rises in the woods of Penrose Forest.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
You don't know anyone but natural born American citizens, full stop. And if you're white and border patrol or ICE starts asking questions, you ask to see their warrant. Don't you do nazi shit.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
PENROSE As a child, Nico watched his mother climb a staircase in the woods and vanish. Thirty years later, he stumbles upon her journals & learns her disappearance has something to do with the razed Gilded Age mansion which once stood on the very spot where he lost her. #bluepit #a #q #m #sf #lf
A creepy staircase in the woods.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
We all have an emotional support dead celebrity. Who they are says a lot about you. So it goes. #writingCommunity #writersOfBlueSky
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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#WritingCommunity don't forget that agents want to find you to use #amquerying hashtag, not the mswl. Let the mswl be for agents. The best way is to either participate in pitch events or actually sit down and query your thing and get those rejections under your belt.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
POV: It’s the holidays and the dawn of American fascism and you’re an #amQuerying writer trying to keep it together and someone says “How are you?” And you say, “Oh, hanging in there…” #writersOfBlueSky #writingCommunity
A smashed telephone pole suspended mid-air.
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P.E. PRIDEAUX 🇨🇦 @peprideaux.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Another day finished. To my brothers and sisters of BlueSky, I leave you with this reminder. Let's continue to be misfits and #StayWoke.💙 #Goodnight🌝✨ #BlueCrew #BlueSky #WriterSky #QueerWriters #ReaderSky #BookSky💙📚 #WritingCommunity #HorrorSky #FilmSky #ChristianCommunity #Resisters #Everybody
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my anxious writers out there. #writingcommunity #amQuerying #writersofbluesky
My regular anxiety (squiggle ball) vs my Christmas anxiety (same squiggle ball, but wearing a Santa hat).
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
That feeling when the entirety of your next novel materializes in your brain fully formed and demanding to be written 💡💡💡 #writingCommunity #amwriting #amQuerying #writersofbluesky
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two men standing in front of a sign that says talton room
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Looking for recommendations on where to submit short stories of the literary speculative fiction genre. Anywhere that might swoon over stories with tone and subject matter similar to Story Of Your Life by Ted Chiang. #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writersofbluesky
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a man is standing in front of a large monster in the fog holding a wreath .
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The shape of my novel, Penrose, is in the name — an impossible three-sided object. Great summation by Neil deGrasse Tyson. #writingCommunity #writersofbouesky #amquerying
The Penrose Triangle, an impossible shape.
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Thomas Edmund @thomasedmund.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Every time someone asks me to do something
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Really good advice I recently heard: sometimes the best thing you can do for your novel is to tell the story in chronological order. #writingCommunity #writersofbluesky #writers #writing
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an elderly woman is sitting on a couch talking to a boy .
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Baby’s first Christmas tree.
Cat sniffs his first Christmas tree.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Two rejections and another full request in the last day and a half. Feels like agents are clearing their inboxes in preparation for the holidays. Bracing for a barrage, keeping hope alive for an offer… 🤞🤞🤞 #writersofbluesky
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a man and a woman are looking at each other with the words " there is always hope " on the bottom
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Nagarjuna's Middle Finger | VarnVlog @varnvlog.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Yes, yes, yes. Libraries are where I fell in love with the grand escape only literature can offer.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I saw where somebody wrote a letter asking Santa for an agent, and yeah … you know what? I’m in. Let me get that North Pole address. #writingCommunity #booksky #writersofbluesky
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a man in a green elf costume is standing in front of a christmas tree and saying santa 's coming .
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just got my tenth full request!!! And now I’m on Cloud 9. #writingCommunity #amQuerying #writersOfBluesky
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hi #writersofbluesky! Time for re-introductions? I’m Sean, & I write speculative literary fiction. ATM, I’m querying a book called Penrose which revolves around a spiral staircase in the woods, the missing person who climbed it, and the son she left behind. Say hi! #writingCommunity #amQuerying
Sean David Robinson, author and playwright
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Want to know a little more about Pub Crawl, our month-long publishing intensive coming in February 2025? Here's today's StoryStudio newsletter with some FAQs about the event. mailchi.mp/storystudioc... #writersofbluesky
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Do not feed the trolls. Block lists are the best. 🙂
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Joanna Roye @joannaroye.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI. Here’s how you do it. 🧵
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 18/11/2024
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
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K.C. Harper @kcharperauthor.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Alright, sharing what a first chapter should include for the #amquerying crowd. This is a bit longer & will be done 🧵style! #writingcommunity So...where do you start the story? You start in the place that offers the most dynamic scene to teach readers about the MC. - What critical... 1/24 💙📚
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
There’s keeping it real, then there’s keeping it “locally real.” Apparently, the universe does neither. What a strange world we inhabit. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a626...
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This Quantum Paradox Shows We’re Not Real.
Well, not “locally real,” at least.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
From my #amQuerying novel, Penrose: “Sleep will not come, so I find myself scribbling into this journal by the light of the dwindling fire … Even as a little girl, I never had much use for diaries. Like gossiping with a ghost.” - Journal entry of Julia Calloway, missing since ‘97 #wipSnips
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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Please enjoy this unhinged, no-context moodboard that describes the events of the final chapter of my archeology-noir mystery about a private-eye who has to work with her best frenemy. THE GERZEAN BLADE #Unhingedpit #Q #A #M
Title- Chapter 25
Images are: powdered-sugar-coated mini donuts, the St Louis arch, police lights, stone flakes, a large stone knife in someone's hand, a white cockatoo bird.
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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
When your controlling mother dies and literally possesses you and forces you to die on repeat during your senior year of high school. #unhingedpit #WIP #H #F
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Roanna "Rowan" Floyd (aka Petty Davis) @roanna.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Big Lebowski + Good Omens = Too Much Heaven #UnhingedPit #Q #A #SPEC #Upmarket #HAHA #TooMuchHeaven
John Cusack staring into space with headphones on for Unhinged pitch of Too Much Heaven, a novel by Roanna Flowers. What came first: the humans or the misery? That’s Petrichor’s initial question.
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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
POV: you’re texting Julissa, the MC of my YA rom-com #UnhingedPit #YA #R #Q
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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
#UnhingedPit thread of pitches.
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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I know authors need to have tough skin, but was it really necessary for my characters to leave these one star reviews on goodreads?! #UnhingedPit #YA #F #R #LGBT #W
A fake one star goodreads review from Princess Mira:

You guys know I’m a fan of sapphic besties to lovers, but the constant pining between the two princesses was sooooo frustrating. After the millionth stolen glance and billionth moment of OBVIOUS flirting I wanted to bang my head off the castle walls. And the way they both keep trying to deny it? Like come on! YOU’RE CLEARLY IN LOVE. JUST KISS ALREADY!!!

#the-closet-is-made-of-glass #you-arent-fooling-anyone #good-for-them-thoA fake one-star goodreads review from Princess Dorothea:

Loved the treasure hunt. Loved the thing with the mermaids. Honestly, I didn’t even mind the redhead character being the feisty one. But do you have ANY idea how expensive first class tickets to The Bahamas are right now? I thought it was safe to read this with my gf because, yanno, it’s FANTASY, but the setting is clearly influenced by some beautiful tropical island and now she wants to go. I may be a princess, but I’m not MADE of money, people! Spirit it is (and I’m NOT talking about the ghost pirate).

#spoiled-gf #love-herA fake one-star goodreads review from Captain Amir:

First things first: 100-year-old pirates CAN use goodreads, okay?

The best character is stuck inside the head of a teenage princess almost the whole time. “But what about the life lessons?” NO. What about how annoying it is that the pirate captain’s curse gets broken in the most infuriating how-did-I-miss-this way? Let’s focus on THAT. I bet my first mate that I could solve the stupid riddle before him and I will be seeking damages for the rum I lost.

#rumnearme #heysirigooglerum #whattheA fake one-star goodreads review from John:

I liked this story but my best friend Mira told me to give it one star.

#biodiversity #its-actually-really-good #sorry

There are three comments: 

Captain Amir says: Are you kidding me? Did you learn NOTHING from the fisherman's son's character arc?

Princess Mira says: shut up Amir !! love u John <3

Princess Dorothea says: lmao classic
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Crissie (C.T. Wood) @crissthecreative.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A Greek God Got Me Pregnant is PERCY JACKSON x TWILIGHT, but for adults because immortals dating teens is kinda weird if you think about it… #UnhingedPit #Q #F #R #FR #A #Own #LBGT #Acespec
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a man and a woman are hugging with the words " you better hold on tight spider monkey "
Alt: Edward with Bella on his back in a Twlight movie with the words " you better hold on tight spider monkey "
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
PENROSE is: SEA OF TRANQUILITY + Netflix’s DARK + THE PRESTIGE + THE GILDED AGE (if it were a mournful ghost story with fun puzzles) Also, partially inspired by that one Reddit thread about cursed staircases in the woods. #unhingedPit #spec #q #a
A cursed staircase in the woods.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Alright, #writingCommunity, let’s get unhinged! #unhingedPit is tomorrow, so let’s swap support! Drop a comment and I’ll add you to my list.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I think as a novelist, social media and I will always be fundamentally incompatible. It takes me two years and 80,000 words to say what I mean, to say something with meaning. What good is one toothpick to a carpenter? #writingCommunity
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
So much anger, so much grief, yet so much beauty remains in this world.
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
In the spirit of sharing this journey, here are my querying stats so far: Queries sent: 66 Rejections: 29 Pending: 28 Full Requests: 9 (2 passes, 7 pending) My oldest full is 111 days old, the youngest, 5 days. This is a game of patience and perseverance. All it takes is one yes. 🤞
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yoda from star wars is smoking a cigarette and saying patience you must learn .
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
My turn! Introduce yourself with One book 📚 One movie 🎥 One album 💿 One TV show 📺
Cloud Atlas by David MitchellThe FountainKid A by RadioheadThe Netflix original series DARK
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I hear we’re making this a thing now. Let’s be writer friends. #writingCommunity
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
“A horse whinnied, its mad cry like a banshee’s in the reverberant hall. Nico froze, his own heavy breathing sounding animalistic in the dark. He found an unattended carriage, placed a delicate hand on the latch. As he did, a hand clamped down on his shoulder. So much for stealth.” #wipsnips
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
“Every flutter flashed their brilliant orange, and stepping into their domain shuffled them into a firework of activity. The monarchs would alight from one branch, heave themselves onto another. A few floated to the ground to sip away their thirst at a muddy puddle.” #wipsnips #writingCommunity
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
“No one knew why they’d nested here, Mother told him. If they didn’t leave for Mexico soon, they’d freeze. Nico opened his hands to let his tiny friend flutter off, and asked if that meant the butterflies might die. She hugged him tight and said nothing.” #wipsnips #writingCommunity #authors
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
My #wipsnips contribution for the word “danger” from my #amQuerying novel, Penrose: “I took a large swig of wine and set out again to discover the source of the music. It was jazz I’d been hearing after all, not gunfire. How much danger could there be?” #writingCommunity
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
My mentor/editor just returned the first 100 pages of my current manuscript with minimal line notes. She called the writing “masterful.” I seriously might die from happiness right now. Is that a thing? Can one die from happiness? #WritingCommmunity
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Sean David Robinson @sdrwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
I’ve got nothing good to say that’s writerly today. So here’s a cat photo instead.
Percy, an adorable kitten.
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