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@sorayastories.bsky.social
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Writer of dark and epic fantasy. Sorayastories.com

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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I forgot to share this and then I remembered! I am not sure I’m going to keep it, actually. Kinda want to redraw a version that doesn’t cut off at the edges of the tree line. This whole passage is old too, and I’ve tweaked it since this photo. @knturner-author.bsky.social
The first page of a fantasy novel including header art and chapter name Falling Stars
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Allison Alexander @aealexander.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Looking for examples of successful query letters? Here's one for THE TELLER OF SMALL FORTUNES (adult fantasy) by Julie Leong: www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/co... #Writing #Querying
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I don’t know if anyone needs to hear this but be careful sending your MS to anyone who doesn’t have a #WritingCommunity presence and responds to your #ABCPit offering #betareading. A lot of these “services” are people who will ask for money, run your whole MS through ChatGPT, and call it “feedback.”
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Adrienne Trinity Reina @adriennereina.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Always down for more beta readers/critique partners! This will be for Those Who Carry My Bones, an adult fantasy featuring my trademark dead gods, gothic vibes, and uno-reversed gender roles. Looking to query over the summer! #ABCPit #CampRevPit #CRPDirewolves #A #F #RF #DF #ContentW
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
#ABCpit #CampRevPit Dark fantasy - 107k words When a god breaks from its cage of stars to terrorize an isolated community, a famous warrior who can sense magic must hunt it down—and the person controlling it—before they kill again. Looking for a CP or two for June. #A #F #ContentTW
A man rides a horse in a dark, misty forest landscape. A bullet list describes included elements of the book.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#CampRevPit #CRPfantasyfoxes #Scavengerhunt
A snippet of text from a book containing a secret.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#CRPfantasyfoxes A god🐴 breaks free of its cage of stars ✨ and a hunter 🏹 must find it and the person 🧍‍♂️ controlling it, before they kill ☠️ again. Hooks: Godkiller X House of the Beast ⛩️👹 Emotion: rage 😡, devastation💔, but growth 📈 Setting: spooky forest 🌲 Tension: two hunters ⚔️ 🐈 vs 🐈‍⬛
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Jacqui Culler @cullerpictures.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#CRPFantasyFoxes 🦊 We're doing a 📣 pitch outline for today's Discussion Den! BUT we're using emojis to do it! Use an emoji and short description for each: What it's about What's at stake What will hook readers Tropes Emotions Setting Tension Add more ➕ or less ➖ to your pitch and have ✨fun! 🙌
An illustrated fox wearing a green scarf sits in front of a nighttime forest with a moon, stars, and fireflies. The text above the fox reads: 
#CRPFantasyFoxes
DAY 11 PROMPT
Discussion Den
Make a pitch outline for
your WIP using emojis!
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
1: Stemming from my own fear of dogs, they were never domesticated in my fantasy world. 2: At one point of doing research, I had 6 internet tabs saved for llamas alone. 3: I had a 15 page outline critiqued by a CP before I wrote even a single word of the first draft. #CRPfantasyfoxes #Camptrivia
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I would visit Van Kestella! The southernmost city in my world, it nestles into a fjord with street levels stacked up the mountainsides so that it resembles a massive coliseum. Huge mountains, glaciers, black sand, and clear skies for the southern lights to shine. #CRPfantasyfoxes #CampRevPit
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
#CampRevPit #GIFRevisions #CRPfantasyfoxes My current revision process, avoidance.
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a woman in a pink shirt is standing next to a man in a wheelchair at a desk .
Alt: a woman in a pink shirt is standing next to a man at a desk .
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Idk if we’re still raiding but this looked too fun to pass up. #CRPdryads No bingo for me, but I may have to edit for overuse of some of these! So many eyes. And breathing. People always breathing. #CRPfantasyfoxes #CRPcabinraids
A bingo card of filler words for writers.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
My birthday is in April, so here’s an excerpt from chapter 4. I love both the landscape description and the image of Roque’s mask. #CRPfantasyfoxes #CampRevPit
An excerpt from the fantasy WIP Starhunter, taken from chapter 4. It features the main character Roque observing the landscape astride Yakutak, the horse god. The excerpt describes Roque dressed in black, wearing an equine mask.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
#Tropesunday I did not write a single trope into Starhunter, not intentionally. 🤔 I had to research lists of fiction tropes and the closest thing I’ve got is a wise old mentor, except she isn’t old, and she supports the MC right up to the end, as friends, without dying. #CRPfantasyfoxes #CampRevPit
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Raiding #CRPnessie for this prompt. I’d send Mairi to the world of GODKILLER. I’d love to see if she gets along with Kissen or if they’d drive each other crazy for being similar personalities. #CRPcabinraids #CRPfantasyfoxes
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Raiding #CRPdirewolves! A beautifully animated tv show would be great. With the star gods and aurora-magic in all colors, I can’t imagine anything else. #CRPcabinraids #CRPfantasyfoxes
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Raiding #CRPshrikes because Mairi totally needs a Spa Day. Too long under the city’s buzzing star shields builds up a headache, so she would get out of town and find a place to camp by a lake or river. Nothing but open sky and a quiet mind. #CRPcabinraids #CRPfantasyfoxes
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Mairi’s #characterflaw is being too independent. She’s not good at asking for or accepting help. Being the Starhunter comes with certain occupational hazards, and besides, other magic-bearers tend to be distracting to her senses. #CampRevPit #CRPfantasyfoxes
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
#CRPfantasyfoxes #CampRevPit I draw! Idk if it’s a hobby, but I love Legos and have slowly found the pieces for characters in one of my books! (Nevermind one of them is wearing a hoodie. The colors are right, not the style 😂) For my MC, Mairi keeps a journal, because she travels alone often.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Jacqui, my homework is ready for grading! This was a fun exercise. 😄 I expect there should be some more magenta for description. I try to weave it into action, so I highlighted the lines that were strictly description. #CRPfantasyfoxes #CampRevPit
A screenshot of seven pages of a story. There are cyan, green, and magenta highlights to mark backstory, interiority, and descriptions, illustrating the balance, or lack of, between them.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#CRPfantasyfoxes Have you ever wanted to take revenge on your enemies, but in fantastically terrifying style atop a demonic celestial horse? #CampRevPit
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#OneLineMC “Imagine it. Mairi Keir walks into the room with a reputation bigger than a wedding train, totems of gold tattoos like trophies, and a brand of magic no one understands, least of all herself.” #CRPfantasyfoxes #CampRevPit
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I love outlining, so when I go into a first draft, I’ve got a whole roadmap. I can just…write. But my favorite parts are the little epiphanies that crop up. The small details that surprise me but add so much to a story, but I have to discover them along the way. #CRPfantasyfoxes #CampRevPit
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#CampMap I’m on the right path, one I’ve carefully charted in the 1st and 2nd draft. This time, the bridge over the river is washed away. I need to cross, but my pack is 7k words overweight. Everything feels too important to shed, so I sit at the river’s edge and wait. #CRPfantasyfoxes #CampRevPit
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I would love to connect with new CPs, the kind who become long term friends and swap stories for years to come. I haven’t decided which of my two main projects I want to focus on, but either: Finish the last scene rewrites for AELITA or Figure out how to cut 7k from STARHUNTER #CRPfantasyfoxes
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I’m Soraya 👋 I write fantasy with dark twists and eldritch horror elements. My Star-Cursed series features gods trapped within constellations. Each book is about a star-cursed character, said to be descended from the gods, and condemned to a bloody sacrifice for it. #CampKickoff #CRPFantasyFoxes
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Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
For fans of Divine Rivals: The Night Circus meets Peaky Blinders in MYTH, MUSE, MAGICIAN. #1stlinepit This New Adult Fantasy Standalone Features: ✨1920s-tinted grit and glamor ✨Stage Magicians ✨Magical bootlegging ✨A dark-haired love interest with a devastatingly sharp jawline ✨Only one trunk 👀
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I did it! I signed up for #CampRevPit for the first time. I’ve been social media quiet for months but I’m excited to meet new writer friends!
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#RevPitWaiting I have a few chapters to edit on my other project. AELITA MADE OF STARS is the original book in my interconnected series, but it’s also the longest so far (130k words). I could get started on her sequel. I’d really love to write or edit something down to 100k 😅
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The best of my 2026 so far has been The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow. My most anticipated upcoming are The Poet Empress (already out but I don’t own it yet), The Tapestry of Fate, and The Knave and the Moon.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I do my own art! Someday it would be fun to commission my favorite artists to see my characters in different styles. These are from my dark fantasy, STARHUNTER. Sweet Dara climbing over a fence, Mairi, and Roque. #RevPitWaiting
Digital art of a young boy climbing over a wooden fence with a mountainous background.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#RevPitWaiting 4/3 My writing space and rituals!
A desk with a laptop and large external monitor. The book The Emotion Thesaurus beside an outline and additional notes.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"I woke up this morning to find Dara's feet in my ribs," Yatiri said. "And you nowhere to be found." "I may have put him in your bed," Mairi admitted. "Well, despite that cold exterior, that sweet baby seems to like you for some reason." #RevPitWaiting Yatiri is full of quips in STARHUNTER
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Babybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#RevPitWaiting My other star-cursed stories! I have a few chapters to finish for the latest revision for AELITA MADE OF STARS (which was too long to submit to RevPit). THE LAST SPIRIUS SON is politely waiting for my attention. I have beta reader comments from a year ago to implement 😂
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#RevPitWaiting meet my pets. My corn snake is Huckleberry, inspired by Val Kilmer’s famous Tombstone line. My cat is Finn, named after the main character in Sharknado because the movie was my son’s favorite at the time we adopted the cat.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is a hard question! City of Brass is up there in the top 5, the whole trilogy actually. A Darker Shade of Magic. The Scorpio Races. I’ve reread all of these and I rarely reread a book. #RevPitWaiting
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I’m so late for this one #RevPitWaiting, but I must introduce my MC, Mairi. I think you’ll love her. STARHUNTER is a dual-pov story, but I don’t have the other’s profile done yet. Art by me.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
STARHUNTER is a dark fantasy interconnected standalone. It’s the third story I’ve written in this world full of magic and gods trapped in the constellations. #Revpitwaiting
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Hey #revpitwaiting hopefuls! I’m Soraya. I’ve been writing fantasy for 12 years and I’ve entered my 8th manuscript into RevPit this year. I do my own art and maps. I’ll even make my own characters in the Sims, or out of Legos. I’ve been married for 16 years, with 1 kid, a cat, and a snake.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Me submitting to #Revpit: Writes a whole book, a synopsis, and a query. Can’t figure out how to answer one of the short answer questions.
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sorayastories @sorayastories.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A little bit about me! I’m Soraya, a fantasy writer and artist. ❤️
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