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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

NEW! Secrets. Frenemies. Betrayal. An accusation from the past threatens to ruin a reclusive author’s career unless private investigator Olivia Lively can uncover the truth. Ebook and paperback on KDP. #mysterybooks #reading #Maine

A postcard type graphic with a Maine lighthouse and a book cover for Strawberry Moon Mystery, an Olivia Lively Novella by Shelley Burbank.

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Hanging out in Portland, Maine with my hubby, Craig. We love our home state, and fall is the best season to be here! I’m getting ready to publish a novella in my Olivia Lively series. These are female sleuth mystery novels set in Portland and nearby towns. #mysterybooks #portlandmaine

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Greg Fields @gregfieldsauthor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

John Steinbeck's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉 was published on this date in 1939. Steinbeck said of it, ""I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression]. I've done my damnedest to rip a reader's nerves to rags." #booksky #writerscommunity #authors

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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky please join me in the fight to save our libraries. EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Sometimes nature makes pretty embellishments. Coral like white lace cuff. #guam #nature #bluebracelet

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Wherever you go, there you are is a very true statement. Make sure you are good company for yourself. #begood #bekind

Three tall pine trees in front of the ocean. Puffy clouds in the sky as well.

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

When you are living in a hotel, this is how you make soup. I’m going to test out a bunch of them. This kimchi ramen was hot, spicy, and delish. Just right. #souplover #ramen

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Crime/mystery writers: stories needed to help firefighters! Check this out. #BookSky

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Kevin St. Jarre @kstjarre.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

If you know someone who likes to laugh and cry, enjoys a little bit of creepy and some history, imagines France and farm life, and is fascinated by a weird kid, have this novel delivered right to their Kindle. It also comes in paperback and hardcover. #books

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🆂🅷🅴🆁🆈🅻 🆂🆃🅴🅸🅽 she/her @sherylstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

DAISY JONES ELEANOR OLIPHANT LADY PARTS Director Skye (autism) prefers remaining behind the camera but when she reunites a squabbling '80s all-women band for a documentary to save her career, she must decide how to manage when her personal story ends up before the lens. #Bluepit #A #WF #Dis #Q 📖

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Tini Wider @tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Practical Magic x Go Hex yourself HEARTS & HEXES 📖 Witchy Cozy RomCom #bluepit #Q #A #F #R #P ❤️ Mentor/Mentee 🧹 Witches are real 🥰 Overcoming grief/building trust 🌟heart wrenching secrets 🧙‍♀️ Granny knows 😍 slow burn 🤣 rom-com 🌶️ low heat 🏠 Sentient house ❤️ HE

A collage of witchy images, a grimoire, a house, a door to a cottage, a granny, candles, a vintage cup of tea

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Neelu Sarkar is Querying @neelusarkar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

DOWNTON ABBEY X FRIENDS In 1855, the crème of British nobility attend a 2-week house party. Once the party begins, so does the madness! The days are riddled with impossible love, scandalous secrets AND an abduction..What could possibly go right?! #BluePit #A #Q #R #Hs 📖

A total of 4 Victorian England-inspired images in a collage. Top left: 3 couples dancing at a Victorian ball + top right: 3 ladies having a tea party in a garden, gossiping + bottom left: an aristocratic couple embracing in a dim-lit majestic hallway+ bottom right: an image of a grand country estate in England, UK + middle: a text box with prompts: - first in a series of books - multiple love stories: childhood friends to lovers + enemies to lovers - mistaken identity - Long lost family secrets.
At the top of the collage is an invitation with the text: you are cordially invited to Lavender Hall. May your journey be swift and pleasant. Yours sincerely, Duke and Duchess of Sands

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Chelsea Scott @chelseascottbks.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

THE COUNSELORS X SILENT SISTER 18 y/o Paige plans to spend her summer attending writing workshops and paddle-boating on the sparkly lake at camp. But when her boyfriend turns up dead and his BFF is arrested, she smells something fishy—and it isn't coming from the lake. 📖 #BluePit #Q #YA #M

A camping mood board with an orange tent and the writing "let's go killing" beside an etching of mountain caps. Polaroid pictures line the bottom. From left: a pile of question mark cutouts that are in darkness, with one glowing question mark in the middle; a person whose face is obscured in darkness, wearing a yellow raincoat; a hand of a presumably dead body on the floor, sticking out from a sheet.

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

#BluePit is trending! We're seeing so many amazing pitches! Remember to repost pitches you like to get them seen by the most people! And feel free to like the post too! (That goes double if you're a #LiteraryAgent too!) #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #WriteSky

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #Bluepit 📖 #Q #R #P #A Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender

Several photos are shown in this Mood Board by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river.

I Am Chosen
By Dawn Berkoski
77,000 words
M/M Paranormal Romance
Dark and a little spicy meets silly-sweet

Tropes
*Forbidden Love
*Fish Out of Water
*Forced Proximity
*Dark Secrets
*Unequal Power Structure
*High Action/Tension/ Chase Scenes
*Enemies Closing in on all Sides

Quotes:

"He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger."
~Jason Allard (Protagonist)

"Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!"
~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover)

"Alexander and I have unfinished business.”
~Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival)

MAIN CHARACTERS:
Alexander Grant
CEO of M-Corp
Control Issues
Likes: Money + Stocks
Disklikes: Wasting Time

Jason Allard
Bartender
Anxiety/Clingy
Likes: Video Games + Pizza
Dislikes: Vampires

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I stumbled upon #BluePit just in time as I moved to Guam yesterday and it’s already the next day here and has been for 13 hours! Here’s my almost-late entry. First draft done. Revising in progress. Trad small-press pubbed author seeks #editor #agent #moviedeal #tradpublisher.

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Sarah Burr @sarahburr.com · 13/01/2025

🧛‍♀️ What We Do in the Shadows x It's Kind of a Funny Story 🧑‍⚕️ Homeless and unemployed, when Ezra gets a job at a mental hospital he thinks things are looking up. Then he realizes that the patients are vampires. #A #F #Q #bluepit 📖

Mood board for Sunrise Psychiatric: a man sits on a couch with his head in his hand, a grave stone, a child’s mobile of stuffed toys, a man sits on the floor in a hallway as a doctor rushes toward him, a girl lays on a cot crying tears of
blood, a syringe with powdered drugs on a spoon, a wine glass containing water and blood

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Caitlin @awritingcaitlin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

FOUNDRYSIDExARCANE 🎶Lelia doesn't want to be an enginemage, she wants to perform 🎻Em's life is performance, but when her violin breaks, she's out of luck 🔥They must work together to steal a prized violin before midsummer's end or they'll go to prison to rot #BluePit 📖 #A #F #Q #DIS #LGBT #ND

Photo collage with pictures taped to a background.
Top Left: Top portion (neck) of a guitar.
Bottom Left: Brunette woman wearing a tan cardigan playing violin.
Center: Sheet music on wooden table.
Bottom middle: Marble columns in two story building.
Top Right: Blonde woman wearing black shirt holding a violin.
Bottom Right: Violin and bow.
In the top middle are the words: "Find your Path"

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

MONICA’S STORY x AS YOU LIKE IT. When a naive English teacher falls in love with an ambitious U.S. Congressman, a political sex scandal erupts. Disgraced, dumped, and desperate, Rosalie changes her identity and flees to Progress Harbor, ME to overcome her 15 minutes of shame. #W #WF #A #BluePit 📖

A young woman carrying a straw bag and looking at her mobile phone walks past a white picket fence. Text reads: ROSALIE IN PROGRESS; Is there life after your 15 minutes of shame? Shelleyburbank.com

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

What I’m reading today. LOVE LITERARY STYLE by Karin Gillespie. #womensfiction #booksky

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hi! I’m Shelley. I’m a writer of women’s fiction and mystery. I’ve had two chick lit/mystery novels published by a small traditional press. I love everything books & reading & journals & coffee. I like classical music & jazz. I’m into cozy interiors and knitting and charcuterie boards and soup.

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I make collages for my journal covers (spiral, college-ruled notebooks.) This new one highlights adventure, travel, butterflies (and caftans & sunglasses and sending postcards & letters). There’s a nod to my writing life, too. Happy New Year 2025!

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 17/20 (funniest literary)

Book cover “Straight Man. Richard Russo. Author of Nobody’s Fool.” With a duck’s head and neck poking up from the bottom.
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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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McKenzie Kooima @kenziekooima.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Have I read all the books I own? No. Will I continue to buy more while also re-reading my favs? Absolutely. I live in a lawless land. #booksky #books #reading

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Joy! Finished decorating the gingerbread cookies. Making handmade things and experimenting with home cooking, among other things, feels like being HUMAN, i.e. not hooked into the machine. #beinghuman #joy #handmade

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

IMAGINE: What if instead of planned obsolescence, we built things to last? This is a vintage lamp that belonged to my grandmother. It must be 1950s, maybe earlier? It still works. Original wiring. Only lightbulb changes. Think of how much less trash we’d put into the environment! #vintage

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The OVERSTORY by Richard Powers cover with large tree trunks.

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

IMAGINE: If I could designate a major task for AI, I’d tell it to figure out how to make everything we humans produce sustainable and non-toxic to the natural world—even the computer components for AI. #AI #sustainable #imagine

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

IMAGINE: Imagine a world where art and awe, not war and fear, inspire our greatest emotion and creativity. Imagine competing with canvas, not missiles; words, not warheads. Imagine collaborations and everyone working together for humanity and all of nature. #peace #art #natureandart #creativity

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Dark Victorian house with a lighted window in the basement and on second floor. Holly by Stephen King

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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Feeling accomplished! Just submitted a short story to a magazine. I haven’t done that in awhile. #booksky #butterflies #shortfiction

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💐Lisa~Joy is in my DNA 💐 @drlls.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

There are a million #adventures within the walls and web of a #library!

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