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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

#WritingCommunity good news!!! The snake-wrangler romance from which ive been posting my #WIPSnip ‘s was picked up by an incredible small press & will come out March ‘27! Stay up to date- subscribe to my (very infrequent) newsletter 💕✨ nataliegoodwinn.podia.com #Writesky

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Need a fun short story to start the year right? Visit nataliegoodwinn.podia.com/ead23dfa-f78... and I’ll send it to you! 🌝

My story (arrow to) your inbox. Cinderella but shes drunk on a plane. A modern (almost) fairy tale

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#WIPSnips “nice” A moment of peace after an evening spent with a friend from Catch Snakes #WritingCommunity

Baby Inez rested her head on Erica's
shoulder, sending a warm, contented feeling through her chest. Alison's back door stood open, letting in the breeze and a partial view of the starry night sky. The rhythmic sound of crickets chirping stirred sweet memories of
being outside past bedtime. It was nice. This whole new life was nice. Erica had found herself a simple job that could easily be described in two words: Teach English. She was happy now to live a life she could wrap her head around, sink her teeth into, and truly
understand.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 24/10/2025

BREAKING NEWS 1) It's my birthday 2) My book comes out today Good planning, right? Because now you want to buy my book (because it's awesome) AND you want to do a nice thing for my bday?! Right?? We've Come for Your Eggs = fantasy satire goodness mybook.to/dragoneggs 😄😄😄😄🫠

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My girl acts shallow but she’s very observant. She would probably analyze the penguins actions and subconsciously mimic them lol. Then she’d take a pic to so she could show her fav coworker when she brags about it later #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

#WIPSnips “second” Ruby’s twin confronts her about paying her portion of the rent on time 🫩 what’s a fake princess to do?!? #Writesky #WritingPrompts #Writingcommunity

Ruby blew out a heavy breath as numbers on bank statements flashed through her mind. Low numbers. “Okay, so you want me to be more timely with the rent. I’ll try, I mean, you know how it is in the princess game,” she gestured to her dress. “It’s like, feast or famine out there. I might have to get a second second job,” she said with a chuckle. Her first job being acting, which was a joke.
“Yeah,” Jade said. Ruby winced, not expecting her to agree so quickly. “Or get better about, like, budgeting.”
Ruby’s heart plummeted, but she felt her own head nodding in agreement, anyway.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Back to my chef WIP! #WIPSnips field >> yard This is the second paragraph of the book 👸 #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts

At least she was off the clock, with only a half-mile of hilly, suburban sidewalk separating her from her van. She had just spent her afternoon as an unbranded princess, the hired entertainment at a child’s backyard birthday party. It wasn’t glamorous work. It wasn’t what she’d ever envisioned herself doing. But, for the first time, princess-work was beginning to look less like a temporary source of income, and more like her entire future. And at that, Ruby felt a strange, strong sense of relief.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#WIPSnips We’re playing fast and loose with the vibes here today Dodge>> ignore Snip from a short story I’m working on, I call it: Cadaver Lab Daydreams. Rachel’s not gay…. Right?!? RIGHT?? #writingcommunity #writesky

When a more dramatic, romantic, sweeping song came on, Rachel might allow the tip of her toe to cross into fantasy territory. She imagined touching Adeline’s face, connecting all of her freckles, tracing the line of her angular jaw. She imagined Adeline cupping her face; a gentle touch from a powerful hand. She knew well enough what Adeline’s hands looked like, the unpainted square fingernails, so short she must have bitten them as a child.

When the music descended into a sweet, tinkling piano, she might imagine Adeline feeling the pounding beat of Rachel’s pulse, which would make her chuckle softly and whisper something like, “It’s okay, it’s just me.”

I wish you would, Rachel thought, over and over and over again.

She didn’t know what word came after “would.”

I want you to, she thought, having no idea what it meant.

Fantasies were nice, but no one could ever know. So Rachel tried to ignore her sixth sense, the one that was excruciatingly aware of Adeline at all times.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

#WIPSnips “might” Just admiring a man slicing tomatoes 🤤 maybe nsfw? Because of one word. nothing juicy happens lol #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts

She watched his hands move deftly, at impossible speeds, so thorough and accurate it was almost obscene. Like she was watching porn, and not a guy slicing and salting tomatoes. Short nails, wide hands marked with tiny white scars that came with years of kitchen burns and cuts. The edges of a tattoo visible at the edge of his rolled white sleeve, a traditional moth, maybe. If he hadn’t been so deeply in the zone, she might have tried to talk more, if only to watch his dimples deepen in his stubbled cheeks again, or to see if she could get him to roll those dark, handsome eyes.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#WIPSnips “care” Ruby worries her unlikely protegé, Brynn, is about to be dumped from a talent show dance number. Of course, Ruby is going to project her own anxieties onto the situation— which may just sabotage the little girl she’s grown so fond of. #WritingCommunity

"I don't know," Ruby said, looking back at Brynn just to remind herself who she was speaking to. Eight years old with no idea just how cut throat and conniving her competition could get. Ruby wished that she could guard her little heart from the shattering that was surely on the way. "Hey, but don't tell them you suspect anything. And if they do kick you out, you have to act like you don't care. And definitely don't tell them about what we're doing."

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#WIPSnips going with “finally” The sous chef at Ruby’s work helping her jump her car after a closing shift 😬😏 #writingcommunity

"I don't know, did I? You're the one
out here smokin' all night."
He looked over his shoulder to give
her an amused smile. She grinned back. "Nah,
I don't think you left anything on," he
admitted. "When was the last time you got the
battery replaced?"
"Never," she said.
"Hmm, well. Let's see if this works."
"It should, right?"
"Yeah, yeah," he said in a higher pitch
than usual. "Let's try it."
He started his car, and a few minutes
later, she tried hers. Nothing. They tried it
again. He rechecked the cable connections.
"It's dead," he finally said. "Let's give
up. It's almost two. I'll drive you home. We'll
get you a new battery tomorrow."

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Haven’t done a #WIPSnips with my new project yet! Here’s our melodramatic fmc dreaming up a sympathetic breakup story for an interview.. #WritingCommunity #Writesky #WritingPrompts

“Okay, fine,” Ruby said, searching the ceiling for her answer. “Oh. He fell out of love with me. It was devastating. There I was, thinking I had found it, the kind of love that people write songs about. We laughed at the grocery store together. Sat cuddled up to each other in restaurant booths with no one on the other side. His nieces and nephews called me ‘Aunt Ruby.’ It was perfect, until it wasn’t. I don’t even know which of my dumb jokes was the last one he laughed at. But suddenly, I wasn’t enough. On the weekends, he’d always look for an excuse to —“

“Jesus, Lord, that’s enough. Do not say all that. You sound like you’re still in love with him,” Jade snapped.

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Offering query package editing services! I just got an enormous medical bill, and as you all know, i’m unemployed due to my health. But I love editing query packages, and I’m pretty good at it too. Please DM me if you’re interested! Shares are welcome.

Editing services query package

$15–Query Letter
$20–First Five Pages
$30–QL & First Five
+$10 per additional 5 pages—up to 50 pages
$300—Whole package including agent guide, pitch posts, 50 pages, query letter, and synopsis
@victoriajayneoh on all socials

Credentials

summa cum laude B.A. in Creative Writing with a minor in political philosophy
sensitivity reader for trans, lesbian, neurodivergent, disabled storylines
26 requests across 3 projects
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@victoriajayneoh on all socials

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

While Snake Country awaits review in agent inboxes, I’m busy with a juicy new project 🤭spicy contemporary romance set in a restaurant kitchen, inspired by my time in the industry. i love this feeling when the ball starts rolling and you’re just overwhelmed with ideas 🤩✍️ #amwriting #amquerying

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Having fulls out is wild, because what do you mean i cant look over their shoulders and read along with them?! 😭😭 #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Great weekend at the New England Writer’s Workshop!! To my fellow #amquerying authors, If you ever get a chance to do the “writer’s got talent” style first page critique - do it. so enlightening. Mine didn’t get picked for critique but listening to the feedback on others was worth it in itself

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying Erica tags along with Will as he relocates a cottonmouth. She’s got other things on her mind.

He was back in the car, shutting the door. “All right, I think he’s happy. Shouldn’t be bothered by any more screamin’ girls out here.”
He cranked the engine and started down the road.
“You all right?” He said. She supposed she was oddly quiet.
“Do you wanna come inside? We can hang out,” she said. It was a pathetic thing to do.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

@srmilesauthor.bsky.social yours is one of the first accounts i followed on bluesky so of course i recognized this title at the library today. I was like “omg i know her” 🤩

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Listen, I’m serious: if you’re angry right now, please read this novel. Many thanks. Go ahead, share what you love! www.amazon.com/dp/0316584797/ bookshop.org/p/books/coyo...

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Im still early in this #amquerying business and still havent figured out how to give up my delusional belief that TODAY WILL BE THE DAY (every day)

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 17/07/2025

A short story writing pacing primer. Do we really need to know the color of the drapes? buff.ly/OgSQD8M #writing #writingcommunity #writingadvice #protip #litmag #literary #writingcommunity

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Happy world snake day, to all who sssselebrate 🐍 Reposting a pitch for Snake Country, my adult contemporary romance complete at 90k words Because havent we all wanted to fall in love with a snake wrangler? #amquerying #writingcommunity #booksky

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

For my #amquerying project, Pretty Pimpin’ by Kurt Vile “I woke up this morning Didn't recognize the man in the mirror Then I laughed and I said "Oh silly me, that's just me"” #WritingCommunity

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I got my first querytracker reply today! It was a form rejection, but after three weeks, I’m kinda glad i have proof someone looked at it 😂 and yes, I know, three weeks is not a long time in publishing 🥲 #amquerying shout out to the #litagents out there, i know ur inboxes runneth over 🙏

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

MY LADY JANE x ELLA ENCHANTED Millie is a spinster with a secret, but her lifelong curse renders her unable to lie. On her quest to lift the curse, she meets Griffin, the helpful but grumpy wizard with an ulterior motive that may just hurt Millie worse than the curse itself. #BluePit📖 #A #F #W #R

Cursed and Giftless by N. Goodwinn 90k words
Moodboard containing: a stone bridge in a lush green forest, a toadstool, a medieval tavern bar top, crystals, a woman in a red dress holding a dagger, a black horse grazing in a meadow, a box full of potion vials, a medieval leather shoe

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Jason @jason-antares.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"My whole life changed when Mom walked out the door, leaving me and my little sister forever. Well, it wasn’t her. Not anymore. It was whatever rich Insured prick now wore her body. ✨ Cyberpunk ✨Aroace MC ✨Twisted Rags-to-Riches ✨Stolen Immortality ✨Angel with a Shotgun #bluepit📖 #A #SF #Q #LGBT

Top Right: Insurance Tower, dark and dominating over the rest of Nexus, red light from the streets below illuminating it like fire.
Middle Top: A skyline shot of Nexus where you can see the towering Cyberpunk style mega structures and The Needle, left over from old Seattle. HUVs are flying through the sky with mount Rainer in the background.
Top Right: Richard in Brian Lord's office in New Life Towers staring out at Nexus, The Needle in the background
Middle Image: A wide image of The Board meeting in Insurance Tower while out the window the city of Nexus can be seen, mega towers dominating the sky
Middle Box: "Insured: Death is conquered--for a price." The text is surrounded by a computer chip, blood dripping down.
Bottom left: Sil with her eyes closed in a dive terminal ice bath
Middle Bottom: Celeste (left) and Goliath (Right) in the Undercity, standing in the circular tunnel of the Spillway
Bottom Right: The Needle in the forefront of the city of Nexus.
Made with Canva

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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Rowan and Charlie are assigned the story of a lifetime, but their growing feelings for each other could get in the way before they have a chance to publish their article and expose an airline secretly functioning as hitmen. Updated agent guide pinned on my profile! #BluePit📖 #W #A #R

Crumpled paper background

Images from left to right
top row: man hugging woman from behind, old photos, man holding camera
bottom row: woman typing on laptop, woman staring out window, man and woman's hands holding mug

Text starting in top left going clockwise:
mental health representation
only one bed
betrayal
close proximity
stubborn FMC
workplace romance
enemies to lovers

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Matis Kogan is querying CHOSEN 21✨ @matiskogan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#literaryagents if you’re looking for a high-stakes Fantasy & Sci-Fi novel, where The Maze Runner meets The 100, check out my agent’s guide for CHOSEN 21!🪐 ⚡️Harsh trials ⚡️Humanity-Saving expedition ⚡️Friends to lovers ⚡️No way out #Questpit #fantasy #SciFi #YA #writercommunity #Author

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Allison Stalberg @stalbergwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#BluePit #Q #A #LGBT #F Toad hoarders, teleporting cat colonies, and exotic reptile conventions are just a Tuesday in "Heidi's house of Rescued Familiars," but when Heidi vows to rescue a familiar from the richest wizard in Louisiana, her little nonprofit is in for a rescue unlike any other.

Moodboard that says "Heidi's House for Rescued Familiars" in the center.

Images include:
- A moonlit swamp.
- A window overlooking a barn.
- An herb book.
- A young woman holding a coyote.
- A white house in a field.
- A trailer park.
- A tree by a dirt road.
- A rearview mirror.
- A black cat on a vintage chair.
- A girl in black with a crow about to land on her.
- Tied lamb feet.
- A hand in swamp water.
- A bunch of candles under maximalist witch decor.
- Bloody hands.
- Sunlight through spanish moss.

In the decaying community of Lombar County, Louisiana, most witches and wizards (the Folk) live in trailers, RVs, or rundown motels. They party in New Orleans, worship evil gods, get addicted to love potions, and make memes about fire spells gone wrong. However, there are little places that try to do some good, like Heidi’s House.

Told from the point of view of three staff members in a nonprofit familiar rescue.

Southern Gothic themes meets Urban Fantasy: Decay, community, and classism.

Asexual and transgender representation.

FIRST LINES:

At 3 A.M. on a summer night in rural Louisiana, a witch died. When her final breaths left her lips, her farmhouse sighed as magic left its weary walls. The bedroom ceiling creaked. Her bathtub cracked. Dark damask wallpaper peeled. The familiars felt her absence like a hole in the heart, their bodies fallen in the pastures. Her summons left. Clothes in her closet fell to ash. The walls emptied of her imaginings. Portraits gone. Landscapes dust. The rabbit statues on her Elder God altar shook. Electricity, plumbing, and HVAC broke. On the gray tiled roof, her owl and raven screamed. Chimney stone hit meadow grass and floorboards splintered.
Master is gone.
Master is gone.
Master is gone.

("Master is gone" is repeated in Theban).

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER THE WITCH AND THE GROCER, 72k Fantasy Romance A disabled witch hires a butch grocer to aid her failing apothecary. The ghost that starts haunting the apothecary has opinions, though, and they all point to the grocer being bad news. #BluePit #DIS #TR #LGBT #F #R #A

Collage with flowers, snow, rituals, horns, potions, sapphic love and a magic book
The Witch and The Grocer

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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I AM NOT JESSICA CHEN X YOU’VE REACHED SAM A CROSROAD OF LILIES YA Rom-Com with a Speculative Twist 🍄A magical mushroom curse 🍄A friends-to-lovers romance 🍄A retired childhood actor 🍄A bullied scholarship student 🍄An otherworldly secret they both must keep #Bluepit📖 #R #YA #Q #SP #Bluepit

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Daniel Hardy @danielhardywrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"Stop. That's enough. He's dead. Calm down," He whispered. His hold tightened around his love and the bloody pipe he held. "Don't go down this path. You don't deserve to go down this dark path like me..." -Justified 🔪 Heartstopper x Dexter MLM CollegeRom #BluePit📖 #R #LGBT #A #WIP #W #BluePit #DR

A mood board of 9 images. A mix of two guys cuddling or kissing, playing videos games, bloody knives, and crime scene photos

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? 🌱an informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse An empath leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US to bring home a 🗝️ to peace, using psychic powers and earth-based survival skills #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #bluepit📖 #clifi #SP

a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp

climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

a Priestess Tarot card with a figure meditating on a large stone in the woods

a Fool tarot card with a hand drawn figure blithely stepping off a gorge cliff in VT

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Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers) @wisteraverse.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Nettle & Bone X AddieLaRue 👑When the chosen Empress is assassinated, 🗡️her plucky, disabled ex-GF must defeat a dysfunctional family of gods or submit to the chosen's grim fate of becoming the gods' eternal slave ❤️Forbidden Love, Hot Banter, Dark Humor #BluePit 📖 #Q #F #OV #YA #LGBT #DIS #WF #POC #ND

Pitch: When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled and gutsy ex-girlfriend must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods’ eternal slave and weapon against mortals.
90,000 words YA Crossover Fantasy
Comps: Damsel (2024 film)
Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller
T. Kingfisher’s A Sorceress Comes to Call
Margaret Owen’s Little Thieves

Themes & Tropes:
- Forbidden Love - Hot Banter
- Feminine Rage - Anti-Chosen
- Found Family - Second Chances
- Dark Humor - Identity
- Friends-to-lovers - Faustian Bargain
- Choosing vs. being chosen
- Dual-Timeline

Representation:
- LGBTQIA+ - BIPOC
- Mental Health - Disability
- Neurodivergence - Chronic Illness

Moodboard:
Dark fantasy Victorian vibes with purple color composition.
Top row, left-to-right: a Byronic handsome man in black, a palace, a dark figure burning in hell fire, a masked female assassin of dark complexion holding a dagger, a serpentine forest trail at night marked with red flowers.
At the center, next to a silver plume, is the text: “This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals.”
Bottom row, left-to-right: a dark gaslit street, a gaslit city blanketed in coal smog at night, a young woman in a Victorian gown, wrought-iron gates opened to a foreboding foggy estate in the dark, a trail of red petals leading to a dark stone temple gate.

Excerpt:
A gaunt mouse nibbled greedily at a stale bread roll left on my lunch tray. I didn’t have the heart to give her a name as I might lose her too.
The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb. I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering. The bed’s cast iron rods dug into my ribs through the thin mattress. The medications I was forced to swallow left a cotton taste in my mouth and a dull ache in my skull. The faded floral pattern of the peeling wallpaper was my only reminder of life beyond these walls.
I pulled the threadbare blanket tighter around my body, hugging my knees to my chest. It did little against the chill creeping into my bones. The raging blizzard had transformed the courtyard into a churning white sea, rattling the broken window shutters hanging askew. At least no screams echoed through the halls today.

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💕Regan Schell💕 @reganiswriting.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#BluePit📖 #Q #R #F PRINCESS MONONOKE x BLOOD MERCY 🍃working class FMC 🍃a MMC who *yearns* 🍃forbidden romance 🍃mysterious plague 🍃theological industrialism 🍃environmental destruction 🍃cyclical violence 🍃vengeful forest spirits 🍃unique hybrid creatures 🍃complex female antagonist 🍃bittersweet HEA

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Maya Rose @ohreallytheatre.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ferris Bueller. But: Post-revolution Budapest. Ferris? Still crafty. Except it’s a little harder when raised by the god of fire. Cameron? Still wishing he hated Ferris. Except he hates being a soldier. Sloane? She gets dragged along after an encounter in a furniture store. #BluePit📘 #YA #F #W

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Rissa Allen (is querying) @honeyscribbles.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

NOTHING MORE TO TELL X AGGGTM Lennie doesn’t know what happened the night her ex-bff went missing but she does know one thing: it’s always the boyfriend. #BluePit #Q #YA #M #agentguide

An agents guide to catch you in the trees yay thriller romance approximately 90k words

It’s always the boyfriend… right? Lennie Torres’s senior year captaining the XC team turns deadly when her ex bff goes missing and she ends up a suspect. Her only way out? Team up with nemesis golden boy Lysander Hayes, the boyfriend of the missing girl and the last person to see her alive. But Lysander not the only one keeping secrets and if both Lennie and Lysander want to make it through xc season, they’re going to have to figure out how to trust each other or someone’s going to end up dead.

Comp titles: nothing more to tell, no place left to hide, they’ll never catch us
Unconventional comps: the marauders era cruel summer 2022 pretty little liars 2010
Tropes/vibes: rivals to lovers, running culture, private school, chaotic academia, dual timeline, dual pov, ride or die friendships

Hayes takes my hand, wrapping his fingers firmly around mines “Deal.” His eyes glint an odd silver in the chrome and linoleum hallway and I think of people making deals with devils at crossroads. I wonder if they get the same storm of nerves I have swirling in my blood right now.
I don’t trust Hayes.
But I need him.
“Deal.”

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Previous Moons - Querying in 2026 #BluePit📖 #W #YA #F

Previous Moons; YA Portal Fantasy by Jessica Fisher Riches; 5 images: young man looking out a window; druid in dark hooded robe; spooky castle on a hill, forest, with portal opening up; potions and natural elements on a table.

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

ATLA x WICKED Calypso must steal 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies. Villain FMC Elemental Magic Destroy the world, dont save it #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F #POC

A vilain rises pitched as ATLA x Wicked
Ya fantasy, 106k words the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

The pitch: Calypso must steak 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies. Pictures of four books: Heartless Hunter, One dark window, the prison healer, poweless the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

Themes: villain fmc, elemental magic, destroy the world, dont save it
Tropes: secret identity, forbidden love, hate at first sightthe background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

First lines: Calypso Morana was five when her world burned.
Later that cruel night, with tears and ash staining her face, she vowed every person involved in the destruction of her realm would die by her hands.
Thirteen years later, that time has come.

The night is still as Calypso plunges her dagger into the bark of a Red Tree, carving deeper as the trunk squirms with each cut. Thick branches above her shake, dropping a crop of crimson leaves in protest. A low warning echoes from the depths beneath the soil as the ground shifts. Slowly a root snaps up, lifting itself to freedom, slithering toward her like an eyeless serpent.

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

❤️B4 Sunrise x🌶️Heartless x✈️Kilt Trip A sensible summer student begins a passionate, no-strings fling with her single-dad host in laid-back, leafy post-Cold War Berlin. But when love intrudes & summer ends, they face an impossible choice: give up career & duty… or each other. #BluePit📖 #Q #A #R #WF

Moodboard. Center photo: A man and woman embracing (design by Freepik, freepik.com), overlaid with the word "romance". Surrounding it are 8 squares, arranged clockwise: 1. The word "heartfelt" on a grey background; 2. A street sign reading "Pariser Platz“ in front of the Brandenburg Gate (photo by Dietmar Rabich, 2013-11-23, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed); 3. The word "spicy" on a black background; 4. Wannsee beach (photo by Asif Masimov, 2018-04-22, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en); 5. The word "destination" on a white background; 6. A DJ playing at the Tresor nightclub (photo by Angie Linder, 2015-08-20, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en); 7. The word "retro" on a black background; 8. A young boy sitting cross-legged and looking up (photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash)

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Tiff @tiff-d.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

EVERYTHING I GAVE HER Psych suspense with the intimacy of My Dark Vanessa and the creeping dread of The Push. A character-driven slow burn that detonates into a devastating end. For readers who crave morally complex women, blurred boundaries, and endings that haunt. #bluepit📖 #T #Up #A #Q

Image features a white marbled background. Bold black text reads: “When Emily pulls away from her terminally ill best friend, Lacey spirals. But the real sickness isn’t in her body—it’s in their bond. And one of them won’t survive the separation.” Below the text is a fine line drawing of two hands linked in a pinky promise. Under the illustration, cursive script reads: “Everything I Gave Her.”

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

“Just for the Summer” x Bridget Jones Erica moved to the coast in pursuit of cottagecore bliss, but instead she found 👵🏻 a nosy, dirty-mouthed 92 y/o bff 📓 out-of-pocket toxic coworkers 🌶️ a sexual awakening 🐍 7 snakes 😩 a snake man obsession SNAKE COUNTRY. 90k #A #R #Q #BluePit📖

Collage with peach background and overlying text.
Title (teal blue): Erica.
Bulleted list: snake magnet, aspiring cat lady, NO chill, done with relationships, down bad for him.
“Unfair we’re not somewhere misbehavin’ for days” - R U Mine, Arctic Monkeys
Image: spotify playlist screenshot. Solitude is Bliss by Tame Impala, Pretty Pimpin by Kurt Vile, R U Mine? by Arctic Monkeys, Lover by Devendra Banhart, Bed Chem by Sabrina Carpenter, Let the Light in (feat. father john misty) by Lana Del Rey, The Truth by Dr. Dog
Image: meme of Tina Belcher flipping hair with text “Time for the charm bomb to explode” (credit- Bob’s Burgers)
Image: orange zinnias
Image: tuxedo kitten
Image: library shelves
Image: vintage teal scrabble board with scattered letter tiles
Image: sunset reflected in ocean water

Collage with dark brown background and overlying text.
Title (cream colored text): Will. Bulleted list: Snake Whisperer, Willpower of steel, quietly freaky, secretly Simping, serial monogamist
“And I can’t help myself, from goin’ wanderin’ with her”- Dr. Dog, “Nellie”
Images in collage:
spotify playlist screenshot: Hang me up to Dry by Cold War Kids, Nellie by Dr. Dog, old friends by pinegrove, sedona by houndmouth,come a little closer by cage the elephant, nothings gonna hurt you baby by cigarettes after sex
Image: live oak tree with spanish moss
Image of snake slithering along chain link fence
Image of 1999 toyota tacoma
Image of small snake in a man’s hand

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

SHARP OBJECTS x BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x THE HUNGER GAMES When her sister goes missing, Alex learns there's nobody in their small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save what's left of her family. #BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #OV #LGBT #DIS #WF #ND

An agent’s guide to...
Dissonance
An adult psychological thriller by Lilith Murphy

Comps

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Amazing sister dynamic
Unreliable narrator
Paranoid protagonist

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Domestic thriller
Complicated family dynamics
Family secrets dragged into the open

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

FMC (Female Main Character) who isn’t believed by men
Imperfect victims

The Pitch
Three years after the death of their parents, college dropout Alex Doyle must learn to take care of herself and her teenage sister Charlie. When Charlie disappears without a trace, Alex realizes she doesn’t know as much about her sister as she thought. Now, she must completely throw away everything she thought she knew-about her sister and their hometown-if she wants to find Charlie alive.

Tropes

Unreliable narrator
Paranoid protagonist
Stalker
Kidnapping
Betrayal & Revenge

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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

My dual-perspective adult contemporary romance follows Rowan and Charlie as they tell the story of the sole survivor of a plane crash. While writing their article, they fight to ignore their growing feelings for each other and discover there's more to the story than they thought. #BluePit📖 #W #A #R

Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens
Text:
An agent's guide to Overcoming
An adult contemporary romance by Kate Cooper

Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens
Text:
Pitch
Journalist Rowan Adams refuses to let the death of her parents define her. Charlie Shaw, a brooding photojournalist, swore off women forever after being left at the altar. Together, they interview the sole survivor of a plane crash and unintentionally uncover the airline's secret purpose as hitmen and a surprising connection to Rowan's parents. Just as they give in to the attraction they've tried to ignore, a threatening email forces Charlie to betray Rowan and destroy her chance at justice for her parents.

Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens
Text:
Excerpt
Angela releases him, and I get my first look at the photojournalist every woman swoons over. His tan skin contrasts with the light blue of his button-up, the sleeves of which are rolled up to his elbows. His curly black hair and dark stubble give him a rugged look that would make me a little weak in the knees if I wasn’t already sitting.
“I’m so pleased you agreed to join us for this story! This is your partner, Rowan Adams.”
“Pleasure to meet you,” I stand and hold out my hand, forgetting it’s wet from the condensation on the iced latte I set on Angela’s desk.
“Likewise,” he gives me the shortest handshake known to man before pulling back and glaring down at his wet palm.
“Sorry! I promise it’s nothing gross. Just water,” I grab my coffee and hold it up to show that I’m not a liar, but it slips out of my hand.
Time slows as the cup tips through the air, the lid popping off. The liquid douses his bag and my favorite flats, and I clap a hand over my mouth, horrified. His expression is less than amused.

Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens
Text:
Comps and tropes
Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, workplace romance, second chance at love, fear of loving again, mental health representation
Book covers at bottom of image (from left to right):
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
The Right Move by Liz Tomforde
Marlowe Banks, Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins

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Francesca Luisa @francescaluisa.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Linnea needs to stay hidden to stay safe. When an informant hands over a potential Rosetta Stone for the Voynich Manuscript, her relative safety in the shadows is shattered and she plunges headfirst into an intercontinental race to translate the text before her enemies can. #BluePit 📖 #Q #NA #A #SF

Top image of a woman dressed in dark clothes walking down a city street. She is facing away from the camera and has a backpack slung over her shoulder. In the center of the image is the text THE DYNAMIS CODE in red. Below, in black text on a white background are the details of the manuscript: complete at 128k words, a crossover sci fi thriller, and the words "an agent's guide."

An image of a train in a dimly lit subway tunnel sits under the story pitch: "On a job for her revolutionary uncle in Northern Italy, Linnea stumbles upon a potential key to translating the Voynich manuscript. At the same time Seth causes a car crash in rural Connecticut, blowing his cover and endangering the program he has been writing to translate the same manuscript. Now, the two of them race to uncover the secrets within the text, and—unwittingly—within their own tangled history."

An image of a lake at sunset sits on the bottom of the image, while above are the first 150 words (approximate) of the manuscript: "1 — May 2014; Blevio, Italy
“How long are we waiting?”
“Be patient choupette,” Roxana turned, lowering binoculars from her round green eyes. Half-moon indentations were left on her cheekbones, a darker brown against her tawny skin. “It’s only been twenty minutes.”
Linnea slid down in her seat so that her feet were set against the dashboard, elbows resting on her knees. “He’s sending us on a wild-goose chase.”
Roxana exhaled hard, her brow flattening to a thin line. “Yes, your suspicion of Volpi has been noted, darling. I would like to think that Jack and I have a little more experience in these situations than you.”
Linnea opened her mouth to reply, but Roxana had already turned back to the windshield, peering down the steep roadside with those large binoculars again. “I see Eamon.”
Linnea sat back up, straining to look down over the treetops to the villa far below. They were near the top of a low mountain, car ensconced in the foliage as they waited for Eamon to finish his reconnaissance of the estate perched at the shores of Lake Como."

4 small images of books that comp this one: top left is THE MINISTRY OF TIME, comp'd because it's sexy, fast paced, and grounded sci fi. Upper right is THE BOURNE IDENTITY, comp'd because it's a European thriller with high stakes fight scenes. Lower right is A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, comp'd because of its dealings in secret history and untranslated texts. Bottom left is SIX OF CROWS, comp'd because of the found family and heist tropes.

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Andrew Whitesell @wordsfromandrew.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

FINAL FANTASY X Back to the Future Someone's altering the past. Jance, a 16YO goofball who discovers he's part alien, must clear Sammy, an alien with PTSD, to stop the ruin of reality before she's jailed and he's erased from reality. Too bad the suspect died 25 years ago. #Bluepit📖 #ya #q #SF

spread of cards in a royal flush. The jack features a guy holding a gun, the queen a woman with a voulge, and the king a guy with a ball of fire. the ace is a hooded figure Text says Ace Squad Chronogeist.

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