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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Congrats to the amazing @allymalinenko.bsky.social on her Stoker Award nomination. So well deserved! #brokendolls

Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A bit late posting, but I'm super excited that my spooky, sciency middle grade novel, The Haunting of Sia Wix won the Book Pipeline 2025 Unpublished competition! @bookpipeline.bsky.social #mglit

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Everyone out there have a teetering #TBR pile like me? For writers, reading what today's readers are reading is essential. Check out this post from @janetsfox.bsky.social janetfox.substack.com/p/what-are-y...? #amwriting #amreading

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What Are You Reading?

The Staggering TBR Pile

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Returning to some Gothic faves as I draft my new #YA project! #yalit #gothiclit #haunting

Stack of Gothic themed books. Dracula, haunting of hill house, carol Goodman, Bram stoker, Henry James, Shirley Jackson, will maclean, apparition, asylum, roux, the companion, Katie Alender, Jane Eyre, Bronte, Rebecca, du maurier, poe, dragonwyck, Anya Seton,

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LisaD @lisamdahlquist.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"All women are magic. Literally all of us. It's in our nature.” Kelly Barnhill - When Women Were Dragons #booksky

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hello my spooky-writer lovelies -- submit your short death-centered fiction here!

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Beyond excited to announce that my writing is now represented by Diego Harrison of SBR Media ! His enthusiasm for “The Haunting of Sia Wix” and his belief in my career as an author made me sure he was the one – looking forward to our shared success! #kidlit #amwriting #mg #spooky #horror #amquerying

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Laura Lavoie @llavoieauthor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

*screams*

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hey friends - remember don't pitch your project with the #mswl tag! "Like, share, & RT agent and editor #MSWL’s to help boost visibility & help your friends Do not post or pitch in the feed – agents & editors have been instructed to block writers who do." www.manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

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The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 12, 2025 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Ally Ally Oxenfree @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

HERE IT IS! BROKEN DOLLS COMING SEPTEMBER 2025 That quote had me in literal tears. Share and you're in the drawing for copies of all three books.

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

GHOSTSxTWISTERxNANCYDREW Anxious & sassy 12-year-old Sia begins hearing strange voices over her weather radio. The voices of the dead. Local ghosts are being hunted by a dark spirit. Can Sia’s courage & weather smarts help overcome her anxiety & save her dead friends? #q #mg #h #m #Questpit

photo collage: haunted house in fog, rain boots splashing, spooky broken doll, graveyard at night, tornado cloud, ghost figure reaching, vintage baby blue Ford pickup - The Haunting of Sia Wix

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉 This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share! Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106 Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

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#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features

This is "#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features" by The Manuscript Academy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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HarperKids @harperkids.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And lastly, we are very proud to share that @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social received the ALSC Children's Literature Lecture Award! Congrats!

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Jenna E Caputo @jennacapbooks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Worried about the future, 2 BFFs discover a magical orchard that thrusts them into a time-bending, reality-questioning adventure where they must escape the dark Shadow, save the orchard & get back to their own timeline before fading out of existence. #P2Ppit #Q #YA #C #F #R

mood board with a flying apple; cat; golden key; hourglass; full moon; a dancing girl; apple orchard; huge, gnarled tree; paintbrushes; a man's shadow; a ring of light; a couple holding hands; a dark, shadowy path in the woods; 2 hands reaching for each other; and a quote that says "the only way to have a life is to live your life..." ~The Orchard

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

BRIDGERTON X ATLA A hero's side quest is a life-shattering experience for someone else. When a legendary hero crashes into a young lady's life, she finds herself questioning everything she ever knew as the two try to save her town from a mystical murderer. #P2Ppit #Q #A #RF

A snowy forest. A shadowy hand. A shadowy woman. A woman in a dress. Steampunk gears. A full moon.

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🖤🕯️Gothic Horror🕯️🖤 Set in the Scottish Highlands, ONLY MONSTERS LIVE HERE blends legends, folklore, and personal experience. If Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray had a baby, this would be it. #P2Ppit #W #A #H #HF

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

GHOSTSxTWISTERxNANCYDREW When anxious Sia visits America's most haunted town, strange voices begin to talk over her weather radio. Ghost voices. The ghosts are being hunted by a dark spirit. Can Sia's courage and weather smarts save her friends—living & dead? #P2Ppit #MG #H #M #Q

Broken Victorian doll, tornado cloud, graveyard, vintage blue pickup truck, ghost in the trees, foggy haunted house, rainboots in a puddle, creepy ghost girl

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Jenn Lee Frances @jennleefrances.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The literary feel & longing angst of DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X SHE IS A HAUNTING 17 yo Simone is Haunted & Hexed But she’s desperate to hold on to the bi boy she’s cursed to be the death of & won’t let go of Cousin Nina’s increasingly malevolent spirit. 🖤THE TRUTH OF FEAR🖤 #YA #H #R #Q #P2Ppit

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

When a Halloween ghost hunt goes wrong -- awakening a haunting family legacy -- 12 y/o Casey must figure out who he is beyond his recent grief, who he refuses to be, and save his sister and their small town from the grisly ghosts of their past. #P2Ppit #MG #H #AW #onsub

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Joy is ✨querying✨ @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

My agent’s guide for my newly #amquerying project, THE SECRETS OF THE FERNERY. In the life of a Victorian noble, society will rip you to shreds—but in Greer Manor—so will the flowers 🥀 🥀Botanical horror 🪦Young detectives 🥀Plant obsessed family 🪦Victorian era #P2Ppit #Q #MG #M #H

Foggy greenhouse glass in the background, with two red orchids. An Agent’s guide to: The Secrets of the Fernery. By Joy Culp

Rainy greenhouse background. Pitch:

In the life of a Victorian noble, society will rip you to shreds. But in Greer Manor, so will the flowers . . .
To prove to her boorish friends that her house isn’t full of bad luck or malicious ghosts, Adelaide Greer decides to dig up the root of the rotten rumors: Why are people disappearing in the gardens?

And who better to help her than the young gardener Maggie, who’s desperate to prove her father’s innocence after Mr. Greer blames him for planting explosive bushes near the manor.
But this isn’t like any sort of mystery Adelaide’s read about—something’s taken root in the gardens, and it’s more sinister than the specters.

With Maggie’s knowledge of plants and Adelaide’s sleuthing skills, they must join forces in order to solve this Iris-istibly deadly mystery. If the girls hope to save their families they must act quickly and destroy the very flowers they planted, before they end up as playthings for the roots writhing underneath.

Comps: Serafina and the Black Cloak, Little Shop of Horrors, The Haunting of Aveline Jones, Premeditated Myrtle, Aggie Morton Mystery Queen.

Chapter One:
The scent of flowers lingered in the air as she strode down the hall. Roses maybe . . . ?
No. This was lighter, a touch more exotic. This was the scent of vanilla cookies, and finely crystallized sugar cakes which were served during tea. Then, the slight hint of hyacinths. Such a beautiful, colorful, sweet-smelling spring flower. But it wasn’t spring. It was the end of summer, nearly fall at that! She paused as she noticed the ornate vases sitting on opposite sides of the doorframe.
Ah, orchids. She spotted the arching blooms placed artistically against large leafy fronds. Wide, white blooms hung gracefully against the brown stems alongside delicate pink flowers. They were beautiful, much like the rest of the manor. She took a deep breath, trying to fill her lungs with the smell as she stood in front of the mahogany door.
She pressed her hands across her stiff petticoat, and straightened the bow in her hair one last time.
And then, she knocked on the door.

Reach out!
@joyful_joy5 on X and @joy_iswriting on IG and bsky

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

GHOSTSxTWISTERSxNANCYDREW When anxious weather buff Sia visits the most haunted town in America, strange voices begin to talk over her weather radio. Ghost voices. The ghosts are being hunted and eaten. Can Sia's courage and smarts save them...and herself? #P2Ppit #MG #H #M #Q

vintage framed photos of lighting storm, spooky house, green-eyed cat, rainboots, and a ghost on the stairs, The Haunting of Sia Wix

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 12/01/2025

Where do you fall on the #DND alignment chart as a writer? I am the entire Chaotic column, depending on the project. Or sometimes the phase of the project. Or sometimes my mood.

A DND-style alignment chart with nine squares arranged 3x3, titled Writing Style Alignments.

First Row:
Lawful Pantser:
- Writes everything in order
- Uses the flashlight method to get to the end
- Ends up in strange places
- Knows random details nobody else cares about

Neutral Pantser:
- Writes things as they come to them
- Not afraid to bounce around
- Knowing the end makes it boring

Chaotic Pantser:
- Writes completely out of order
- What the fuck is a plot?
- Loves side fiction, and writes whatever they're excited about

Second Row:
Lawful Plantser:
- Knows the ending, writes toward it
- Loves to worldbuild
- Uses character bios / has definitely taken personality tests for their characters

True Plantser:
- Starts an outline
- Goes off script and ends up in unexpected places
- But that's okay cause this is more interesting anyway

Chaotic Plantser:
- Has an idea of the plot when they start
- Who writes things down??
- Has to assemble scenes into a frankendraft

Bottom Row:
Lawful Plotter:
- has detailed character bios
- Multi-page outline organized by scene/chapter
- Probably knows what color socks their MC wears on tuesdays

Neutral Plotter:
- Brief outline
- Likes to use beat sheets
- Modifies and updates the outline as they go
- Thinks about writing character bios, rarely does

Chaotic Plotter:
- Writes scenes on little cards and tries to organize them on a board
- Writes said scenes out of order
- Copy and paste is your friend

Made by @cheyannealepka

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 25/11/2024

Thanks to the Bluesky community for their help in compiling these #BlueSkyTips for newcomers as well as those seeking more engagement on this platform: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl... Feel free to share with anyone who needs it!

Graphic with text reading 'Tips for those Seeking more Engagement on Bluesky,' featuring a tree with blue butterflies, a QR code, and '@debbieohi.com' at the bottom.

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Where was Gondor when the marketing team responsible for CRIMSON PEAK's theatrical release placed it as a "Halloween" movie rather than an alternative Valentine's Day release as the pinnacle of a genius Gothic romance/Psychological Suspense and not a Horror Film? In this essay, Gondor, I will-

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Mermaid Writer @mermaidwriter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Started a baby Starter Pack for SCBWI Eastern Up! members. Let me know if I need to add you. #kidlit #scbwi #easternup go.bsky.app/AzqKBk7

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

BREAKING: Walmart's CFO signals that price hikes may be coming because of Donald Trump's tariffs. This is what they voted for. www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/w...

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Walmart may have to raise some prices if Trump tariffs take effect, CFO says

The discounter's comments are the latest warning from retail leaders about the potential impact of the tariffs.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

You don’t bury an ethics report that would exonerate Trump’s pick. You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide. See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.

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Leanne Pankuch @talelady.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

With the recent closure of Vinspire Publishing, Dragon's Truth is no longer available from booksellers. Third-party shops (on Amazon, etc.) may have copies, but please know, authors don't receive proceeds from such purchases. I do have plans to re-release Dragon's Truth in the future, so stay tuned!

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Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Vote in the Goodreads Choice Awards! We have 5 ABLA-sold titles and/or ABLA-repped authors on the lists: (A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS in Fantasy, FOR SHE IS WRATH & IMMORTAL DARK in YA Fantasy, & I HOPE THIS DOESN'T FIND YOU and MOST ARDENTLY* in YA Fiction) *sold prior to ABLA-rep

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