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stacyzappala.bsky.social @stacyzappala.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I Have published a picture book called, Cats Do Not Cheat! You can find it online on amazon, barnes and noble bam books and poetschoice.in its cheaper on poetschoice. It comes in hardover or paperback. Please buy my book and then give it a rating. I have yet to get a rating.

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stacyzappala.bsky.social @stacyzappala.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It happened! My picture book, Cats do not cheat! is available online where books are sold please buy a copy. Comment or dm for more info.

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alan anarchy @alananarchy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ladybird x Garden State an innocent catholic schoolgirl. a bottle of whiskey. on her airbuds, Lana del Rey. will she save his soul? or will he drag her down with him? how long can they sneak around behind her parents' backs? find out when you read my #ya #R #Q novel "I Speak of Dreams" #BluePit

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Loni Cameron @lonic.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

MEXICAN GOTHIC X BAD CREE A gunshot, whispers from the shadows; yet the one holding the gun might not be the real evil. #Bluepit #BluePit 📖 #A #Q #POC #gothic #SP

4 swatches of grey-blue shades. Six images, a dark basement 2 dark forests, library, bedsheets, teapot, women hugging

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Marin/Spencer Madden | Author | Querying! @marinspencermadden.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

What if Will Shakespeare got a second chance with the man he buried in an unmarked grave, Kit Marlowe? #BluePit #HF #R #LGBT #DIS #OwnVoices

OUT FOR QUERY: Of All the Stories in All the World [Adult Speculative Historical Romance, 80,000 words]

A knife splattered with ink on an unspooled scroll, sitting on a background of red stage curtain with dried daisies around the border.

BLURB: In the modern day, Kit Marlowe has woken up in his second life, with a scar on his stomach and no memory of how he died. His husband Will is nowhere to be found. The more Kit searches, the stranger and stranger things he finds—like the original version of Romeo & Juliet that he and Will burned four hundred years ago, now buried in a graveyard deep in haunted woods.

In the 16th century, Anne Hathaway lives in a world of malicious men. Constantly struggling against God and the cruelty of her circumstances, Anne strikes up a friendship with a boy named Will. As they grow closer, Anne starts to realize she may be more like the men she hates than the boy she loves.

Back in the modern day, Will Marlowe, née Shakespeare, has been hiding out from Kit. This new world is not as it seems, and Will is terrified history will repeat itself—and this time, his husband will be lost for good.

Words on an unspooled scroll, sitting on a background of red stage curtain with dried daisies around the border.

Comparable Titles:

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller — poetic queer retelling that focuses on grief and the afterlife

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio — deeply inspired by Shakespeare’s work and involves a decades-old murder mystery fuelled by love

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland — creepy yet whimsical, grey-sky vibes, ghosts

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern — the vibes and poetic language plus incidental queer representation

Words on an unspooled scroll, sitting on a background of red stage curtain with dried daisies around the border.

The Atmosphere:
- dried lilies on an old journal
- hands writing a letter with a quill
- two boys leaning into each other in a field
- a foggy deadwood
- two boys in old clothes wrestling
- a chair in a golden field
- a woman walking into a river

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Sarah Ressler @resslerwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The knight usually saves the princess, but when he falls out of the story through A RIP IN THE PAGE, the Narrator must scramble to get to The End. He makes the best of a bad situation using gelato, a Pegasus named Cupcake-McSparkletail, and a princess who doesn't need a knight #bluepit📖 #Q #PB

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana believes she is meant to save the world, Matthias wants it to end, Kalyn will cross lines to save everyone, and Prince Evan is just along for the ride. Chased by enemies who want them dead, they will either save everyone or destroy themselves. #BluePit📖 #F #A #WIP

A foggy forest. A dark bird. Night sky. A fence. A person in a foggy forest. The back of someone.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The Sky City Swindle: In a land of haves and have-nots, a 12 y/o con artist wins a scholarship to a fancy boarding school. She wants to pull a Robin Hood and con them all to help her community, but cons are hard when everyone else is magically lucky... and her own luck's about to run out. #bluepit📖

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Alena Cerulean @alenacerulean.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

When a vampire and a monster hunter fight over a lesbian bar owner, it's the secrets all three women are hiding that might kill them. An incredibly dark (seriously, you’ve been warned) lesbian, mind control kink erotica with a HEA. #BluePit📖 #A #PN #P #LGBT

Cover to SHE COMES AT NIGHT with arrows pointing from all the tropes: Vampire vs. Hunter, Erotica, Enemies to Lovers, Mind Control, Happily Ever After, Lesbian Threesome, Dark Secrets, Second Chance Romance

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Kathy Woods @kathyvwoods.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

FINAL FANTASY X DRAGON AGE In a world full of magick-eating monsters, a young woman with no memory of her childhood finds herself thrown into the apocalyptic conflict which had been brewing under the surface; carrying a millennia of power all others fear. #BluePit📖 #F #A #W

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C Chang @thepoliticsjunkie.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Healing prodigy Catalín finds herself drawn to the very enemy who holds her captive, the unusually humane Captain Elyse. A ruthless viceroy offers Catalín a choice: take Elyse's life and win her freedom or remain in eternal captivity #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #F

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aliamarielle.bsky.social @aliamarielle.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Animals use cultural knowledge to communicate, find food, survive tough environments, and just have fun. Find out more in CREATURE CULTURE #BluePit #MG #NF

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Ji 🪚 @sawduhst.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🫀With 2 weeks left to their scouting mission, people wait for word back from their astronauts, eager to flee to a new home away from Earth. Unbeknownst to them, the co-pilot just got infected with an alien parasite, exposing the planet's deadly underbelly. #Bluepit #Bluepit💥 #A #NA #SF #H #Q #LGBTQ

Cover page for the sci-fi horror pitch REDWORM, outlining specific content warnings such as: depictions of blood & body horrror.

Second page of the sci-fi horror pitch REDWORM, showing the logline, page length, demographics, comp. titles, and genres of the story. specific text on the image will be pasted below:
LOGLINE:
6 Astronauts are sent to scout a new planet for human re-location, only for one of them to get infected by an alien parasite, and must now make a dire choice: to either let people flee the rapidly decaying earth to a new treacherous planet, or to deny mankind it’s last hope of survival.

LENGTH: ~150 pages

DEMOGRAPHIC: Adult/New Adult

COMP. TITLES:
Venom ( Donny Cates, 2018),
PARASYTE (Hitoshi Iwaaki),
Dorohedoro (Q Hayashida)

GENRE: Sci-fi, Horror, Psychological

Third page of the sci-fi pitch REDWORM containing sample pages of the story. these pages depict bruce, the lead character of the story, hearing thuds in the night. he leaves the base to investigate the source of these sounds in a cave. he soon finds vein-like structures in the cave, seeming to lead to the source of the sound.

Fourth and last page of the REDWORM pitch, displaying the last two sample pages. The scenes in these pages depict bruce stumbling upon a beating heart on the cieling of the cave, suggesting that this planet is alive & its own living organism. drops of unknown liquid ooze from the heart, containing other worm-like organisms within it. the final sample page shows one of these worms poppnig out of the heart, and falling onto bruce. The worm breaks through the helmet of his space suit, now digging its way to bruce's brain.

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aliamarielle.bsky.social @aliamarielle.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

TRICKS FOR TREATS: AND MORE SNEAKY ANIMAL SURVIVAL STRATEGIES Monkey reporter Mark is determined to expose the sneaky secrets of the animal kingdom. But meanwhile, he’s hiding a secret of his own. #BluePit #PB #Infofic #STEM

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Fox Rivera (she/her) @talesofavixen.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

TREASURE PLANET X THE FOURTH WING "What God Made Shark" • #POC & #LGBT cast • Indigenous Caribbean & Irish Folklore • Sapphic Sky Pirates • Non-Binary Dragon Rider • Anti-colonizer themes • Tattoo-based magic system • #TR rep • #AgentGuide below! #Q #NA #F #HS #BluePit📖 #BluePit

a pirate ship sailing a serene bright blue sea under a starry night sky. Centered in the image is a Black Flag with the words "What God Made Shark". A crow sits on the letter G and the end of the letter K resembles a shark's tail.

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Tylor E Kunkle @tylorkunkle.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

KINSHIP OF AEITHALIS, an epic fantasy ✨ Anthro cast 🐲🐺 ⚔️ Flashy action scenes ✨ Found family (but also birth family) ⚔️ Slow burn ✨ Idiots-to-lovers ⚔️ Surviving hardship ✨ Enemy of my enemy is my begrudging ally #BluePit #📖 #W #A #F #LGBT

A digital illustration of two anthropomorphic reptiles locked in an intense battle, back-to-back. In the background are shadowy plant-like monsters with spidery limbs and long claws, the Invaders. One reptile, Kanaak, has olive-green scales and bronze armor. He's swinging a longsword at an Invader. The other reptile, Famena, has vermillion scales and bronze armor. She has her bronze shield raised, stalwart.

A digital illustration of a nighttime scene in a grassy fantasy field with mountains in the background. There are two anthropomorphic characters sitting in the grass stargazing. One is a green reptile, Dinn, wearing linen armor. The other is a brown-furred wolf wearing a green tunic.

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Veronica @littlecornerreads.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

THIS TIME IT’S REAL x A PHO LOVE STORY My love letter to ABCs/Asian Americans, chaotic found families, and Asian food, featuring: 🎬 fake dating ⚔️ rival restaurant kids to lovers 🧁cinnamon roll boys who bake 🫶🏼 immigrant parent-child relationships #BluePit📖 #YA #R #POC #DIS #W

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Steve Trower @sptroweresq.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#BluePit📖 #SF #A The Ambivalence Chronicles: A GameLit Comedy in 8 Bits 🤓 A geek dad 💾 A sentient computer 🦖 Dinosaurs 🥷 A hi-vis ninja 🚐 A surreal road trip 👾 Games come to life 🥚 And an actual Easter Egg Hunt! Bits1-4 available now - ebooks books2read.com/u/bap2KP Paperback from the author

Ebook covers for The Ambivalence Chronicles Bit#1: The Chip Whisperer; Bit#2: The Kempston Interface; and Bit#3: The Road Worrier, against a colourful background. Each cover includes the Ambivalence (an old ambulance) and a scene from the book, in the style of an early ZX Spectrum cassette cover.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"Safe Haven" Elios is a mining colony built on gravitum — a precious resource powering the galaxy but poisoning the land. Amid corruption and sabotage, two should-be rivals must unite science and love to save their planet. A queer sci-fi romance. #BluePit #SF #R #LGBT #Q #bluepit📖#AmQuerying

Collage including images of a dome, test tubes, dna, gears, molecules, stars, and an astronaut. Text overlay reads, "That's the conundrum, isn't i? Everything has a trade-off. Everything has a cost."

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Steve Trower @sptroweresq.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#BluePit📖 #ND #W Based on a true story, 'Seeing Emily' explores the struggle of a child with invisible disabilities, as her family navigates a maze of red tape, ignorance, and personal doubt to get her the education she deserves in a system that is failing children like Emily #TrueLife #FamilyDrama

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Judy L Mohr @judylmohr.com · 13/07/2025

Telepaths, poisoned atmosphere, artificial intelligence, government corruption, memory manipulation... And a woman who wants to be free. But how can that be possible when the rain can melt away the skin? Full list of retailers can be found at judylmohr.com/books/dancin... #BluePit📖 #A #SF #SP #P

Promotional image announcing the release of the book Dancing in the Purple Rain by Judy L. Mohr. The cover features a person in a purple hooded coat standing in a neon-lit, rainy cityscape. Three formats are displayed: paperback, Kindle eBook, and a smartphone version, all showing the same cover design. At the top, the tagline reads: "Being special can make you a target." At the bottom, bold text declares: "Preorder Now!" against a dark, stormy background with lightning and digital rain effects.

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

hey #Bluepit, wanna lil good vibes break?

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JJ Robinson II #amquerying #scifi @jjrobinson2.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Reposting from this morning. #BluePit 📖 #A #SF #W #WritingCommunity bsky.app/profile/jjro...

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Skip Scherer - Author @skipscherer.com · 13/07/2025

#bluepit #bluepithype #f #BluePit 📖 A little hype for my unique storytelling experiment. A fantasy serial fiction adventure, unfolding on social media. Updated Tuesdays and Fridays. The storyline spans 50+ posts and is still growing. Come experience the magic and mystery in the world of Delve.

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Rules For Ghosting x Conventionally Yours 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪶 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip #bluepit 📖 #A #F #SP #W #OV #LGBT #ND

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Tony the Invisible Writer @tkbwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Pushing a persons ♿ without asking is unintentional bullying I Am Not A Toy A PB to help kids & adults learn about this real-life issue #BluePit 📖 #PB #OV #DIS #Q #KidLit Kids at Tommy's school are pushing him 👨‍🦽 without asking He learns self-advocacy by talking to his class about life in a chair ♿

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Andrea Ferragotti @ferragottiart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🐊 The Castle Above the Moat 🏰 ✨️ a picture book about eating the rich✨️ A small crocodile climbs up the hill to sneak a peek inside the castle. It was amazing, with everything anyone could ever want! This makes the small crocodile ask, “Why don’t we live in the castle?” #bluepit📖 #pb #q

A picture book spread. A king dancing around his castle, and looking out at the moat with a telescope. Text reads "The king loved his castle. It was elegant, elevated, and everythinf anyone could ever want. That's why he built a moat and filled it with crocodiles. No thief would dare approach his castle... wait a minute!"

A picturebook illustration. A king is mad and yelling at his subjects. They run away down the stairs.

A picturebook illustration, looking at crocodiles through a telescope. The crocodiles dont look scary.

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Sam @parallaxerrorr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #SF When humanity goes extinct, three AI decide to recreate them. Unable to agree on how to improve them, each takes their own planet to make the perfect humans; Kaia is one of those humans, and she’s on the wrong planet.

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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

GREEN DOT x THE GUEST SURFACE TENSION: She came for a degree, not an affair. But as Jenny deepens her studies on literary heroines who trade freedom for security, she starts living her research, beneath the eye of a professor who prefers the only revisions to her story be his. 📖 #UP #W #A #bluepit

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Archer Grid 🏳️‍🌈 @archergrid.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

GIRL WITH NO NAME: A SAPPHIC HEIST ROMANCE linktr.ee/archergrid #BluePit 🏳️‍🌈Queer Criminals • 🇨🇱Set in South America • 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩Butch/femme • 💰Steal from the rich • 🧠Neurodivergence • 👾Latina hacker main character • 🌹Asian lesbian love interest •🕯️slow burn • 🎯forced proximity • 🌶spicy love scenes

buy on amazon, bookshop.org, and most online retailers

When her former boss is acquitted of the crime she gave up everything to expose, a reclusive hacker organizes a heist to get revenge. A reckless ex-yakuza joins the crew, putting the hacker's payback in jeopardy.

Every now and then, I get this glimpse of someone else in there. The girl that told me not to call her baby while I had a gun on her; who misses the place that burned her up; who stormed up to snatch that prick's watch when she barely knew how, just 'cause he upset me." Keiko caught my eye, and I couldn't get away. "That's the girl I can't stop thinking about."

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"Some promises don't require magic. The most important ones never do." After stealing a dragon egg, an Oath Keeper is caught between a few contradicting, binding oaths. #bluepit📖 #F #P

Oath Keeper cover:
Black velvet background. I'm the center is a golden dragon egg, surrounded by a ring of white, pink, and orange flowers, such as daisies, baby breath, mini lilies, and more. Curved above that is the yellow glowing words in an all capital handwritten font, reads "Oath Keeper: On the Other Hand."
Below the egg & flowers is a horizontal knife, wooden hand toward the left, bronze blade pointing right.
Below that in same font reads: Ellie Lieberman

Black background with a flame

Arrows around Oath Keeper cover reads
"I'd burn the world for you"
Society's responsibility to one another
Who is the monster?
Action/adventure
Non-forgiveness narrative
Dragons
Magic

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Gavin / G. B. Ralph @gbralph.com · 13/07/2025

🕵️ Cosy mysteries 🏳️‍🌈 Gay sleuth 🇳🇿 Set in NZ Investigate The Milverton Mysteries for a chaotic cast of local busybodies, delicious baked treats, a demanding and disdainful ginger cat, a very slow-burn romance with a rather appealing policeman, and of course… murder! #BluePit 📖 #P #A #M #LGBT #OV

Be gay, solve crime. Rainbow banner. Book cover images for The Milverton Mysteries by G. B. Ralph.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Sup #BluePit #TR #W #P what if I told you that you could read about a queer-normative world where the civics are on purpose, with a woman from our world sent there by the goddess Artemis? It's got divinity and alchemy! And it's a super easy introduction to portal fantasy/litRPG. Read the review!

A one star review of Quill & Still by Royal Road reader Temoffy. Its lede reads "Communist gay utopia wish fulfillment; have at it if you want it but I'm out". It has two up votes and sixty nice down votes.

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"The text flows gently, perfect for reading to a sleepy child. The illustrations are big and colorful, making me feel as if I am traveling into the world of the bees! The educational facts at the end are fun and cozy!" #bluepit📖 #pb #p Links below!!!

Busy Bee by Ellie Lieberman cover
Bee hovering above silhouette of grass with a background of a pink, orange, & yellow sunset

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Wren L. Rivers | Author @corvidarcana.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🌊 BLOOD OF THE GODS 🌊 ⚓️ Seafaring Fantasy 🧠 Amnesia 🌅 Themes of identity, finding freedom from abusive people in power 🏳️‍🌈 Queerness is inherently holy 🖤 Dislike to Love 🩸 Blood-based magic system 🌊 Grumpy love interest with a heart of gold #bluepit #LGBT #F #TR #ND

A 3x3 moodboard. The center image features a curly black-haired masculine person. The images surrounding them, going clockwise, are: clouds, a black background with the text “Remember? No”, shimmery gold texture, stained glass windows, a quote reading “be easy. Takee your time. You are coming home. To yourself.— the becoming | wing”, a mast of a ship, a statue with a golden halo around it, and a photo of a grand cathedral.

A 3x3 moodboard. The center image depicts a ginger-haired man. Clockwise surrounding him are: a book whose title reads “people ai want to punch in the face”, a library, a quote in red and black “I don’t take orders from anyone”, a photo of a person from the shoulders down carrying a sword, a map, the deck of a ship, a quote that reads “are you flirting or starting a fight?” And a wooden ship sailing on the ocean.

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Ian Salavon @salavonian.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#BluePit #sports #supervillain A judo prodigy's dreams for Olympic gold unravel when she develops dangerous and seductive powers. This ain't no feel-good story! FOXCATCHER x VICIOUS

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Jessie May @jessiemayontheweb.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Idk if I’m doing this right, but Money Hacks for Metalheads and Old Millennials covers all your personal finance basics with an eye against the system and an ear for heavy music! www.amazon.com/Money-Hacks-... #BluePit📖 #P #NF

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ClippedScape | KQ Watson Writes🇨🇦 @kqwatson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#BluePit 📖 It's hard to market AN X OF Y AND Z. I wrote it as an experiment in using as little dialogue as possible. It was inspired by that scene in THREADS with the kids watching the old educational videos about bones. Also, I wrote it during lockdown. a.co/d/9a9Whwt #A #SF #SP #P #Booksky

The cover of AN X OF Y AND Z by K.Q. Watson, on a background of pages with typing on them with the text "The children laughed as they ran from the chiffy, who yelled and hollered and called them thieves.

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Robin Hood X King Arthur Sapphic, all women fairy tale retelling combining the legends of King Arthur & Robin Hood (& some other Celtic myths sprinkled throughout). Robyn, notorious leader of the band of thieves, and Art, the new queen, become unlikely allies to heal the land. #bluepit #F #W #Dis

A Dance of Bow & Blade cover: Digital artwork illustration. Green spiral out of leaves in the background. White awen symbol in each corner. Heart Celtic knot at the top center. "Ellie Lieberman" at the bottom center. A sword, blade down, interlocked with a diagonal archery bow. "A Dance of" is arched above the hilt of the sword. "Bow" is slightly diagonal, to the left between the sword's hilt and the bow's string. "&" Is on the blade, in the center of the bow. "Blade" is to the right, same slight diagonal, below the bow and next to the blade of the sword.

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