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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I woke up and worked on my synopsis for an hour please someone give me a prize.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

KINSHIP, 84k, #A #H #T w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan finds her new brother is enamored with her after she cleans up a murder he commits. For fans of female rage, serial killer fiction, and V.C. Andrews. Comps: My Sister the Serial Killer, A Certain Hunger, Blood Sugar. #2025Pit

Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man.

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🖤 Labyrinth x Aladdin 🖤 Imprisoned in a fae dungeon, a girl is offered salvation by the cruel enemy king who has every reason to want her dead after her father cursed him. She has to decide if she should trust the evil fae she's falling for, or betray him and win a crown of her own #2025Pit #YA #RF

Eerie mood board in shades of grey showing dark fairies, rams heads, a girl with a sword and a rolling sea

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C. Warde Lee @librarianofthunder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A centaur cheats at jousting, until the fake horse head goes KERPLOP! 🌈Mythology X SPOP 🗡️Betrayed by the man he loves 🗡️Betrayed by his father 🐈‍⬛Cat Si from Irish folklore 🐐Snarky/greedy satyr 🐎Badass centaur 🧚‍♀️Tricky pixies can't lie ☀️Gods from many pantheons #2025pit #YA #F #writing #Q

The Title Page of the Agents Guide. The title of the book is THE STOLEN IDOL by Christopher Lee. It is a 86K word YA Fantasy. An image drawn and colored digitally by the author is in the center of the page. The image shows a broken opal colored disk in front of the Cat Si's golden eye.

The Pitch:
Winning a jousting tournament should be easy for a centaur, and it is, until the false horse head falls off Fotini’s shoddy disguise. She quickly steals the tournament prize, a golden idol, and gallops toward the forest ripping off her heavy jousting armor to outrun the tournament guards. When she arrives home to fulfill her contract, she discovers she accidentally ditched the idol with her disguise. Along with two fellow thieves, she retraces her steps praying the idol is still there. Hopefully it wasn’t cracked, or worse, found by a disgusting human.
Seventeen-year-old Jaimie Whitfield is accused of being a fae changeling, a creature who kidnaps children and assumes their form. If he does not escape, he will be executed for impersonating himself. His father will then invade the fae kingdom to rescue a son who hasn’t actually been kidnapped, all because he saw Jaimie kiss another young man and would rather believe his son has been kidnapped than accept his sexuality. As he awaits his demise, Jaimie turns to the broken idol he found by the roadside with a quiet prayer. He doesn’t expect an answer, but is shocked when a mysterious black cat slips through his high tower window.
Jaimie joins the shapeshifting cat known as the Cat Sí and the not fully human trio of thieves who dropped the idol to begin with. These outcasts race to warn the fae of the coming invasion. Along the way, Jaimie and his new friends learn long-forgotten secrets of how the Irish fae, the Cat Sí, and the Celtic gods are involved in an ancient feud with pantheons across the sea.

Tropes and Themes:

Found Family
Generational Trauma
Unrequited Love
Betrayal
Acceptance
LGBTQIA+ Representation
Celtic Mythology
Greek Mythology
Norse Mythology
Egyptian Mythology
Heroes Journey
Small Trickster Fae
Magical Girl Transformation

For Fans of:

Daughter of Sparta series by Claire M. Andrews
New take on several ancient myths
Mentions of gods from other lands
Ancient setting

Lore by Alexandra Bracken
Original story with mythical characters
Intense fight scenes

She-Ra (Netflix)
Lighthearted
LGBTQIA+ representation
Found family
Scary cat lady

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Brandon Love @blovewrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ

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Andree Koehler | Tahira Heru @hourhyder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The sun is dying and there was a living being inside the mysterious artifact from Mercury. The first android CEO of the Sol System has to save his citizens, but his enemies and love life make it nearly impossible. Novel working title: ANCESTORS OF EARTH #2025pit

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN x CHARLOTTE WALSH LIKES TO WIN Three estranged friends—a politician, an influencer, and a comedian—reunite years after a wild summer in Barcelona tore them apart. But only of them wants to take down the predatory right-wing leader who once assaulted her. #2025pit #A #WF

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Instagram is already censoring hashtag democrats on the first day so I guess the US government's commitment to free speech is really clear. All major social media is owned by fascists. We are not prepared for what is coming.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Sorry I can’t be your emotional support European we’re panicking too.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I’m totally not in social media just to stalk literary agents. Will forever deny it. #querying

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Sometimes I wonder what that voice is that, despite all the rejection and the books that will never be published, always tells me: Just one more. Write one more.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy to report Gremlins 2 makes even less sense than Gremlins 1.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I wanted to get home early today because I was certain I had left myself a treat. I was convinced it was chocolate. I got home and there was no treat to be found, and then I realized the thing I had been waiting to get back to was a book. The treat was a book.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I love all dogs but I have a special soft spot for dogs that look like old men like what are you doing out here barking at a pigeon you should be sitting down doing a sudoku

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The most believable thing about Gremlins is that the dad brings home a massive problem and then just disappears for the rest of the movie and lets the family take care of it.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

If you want to know everything that’s wrong with your book, the best way to have a clear vision is sending it to an agent. That way it will haunt you like Jacob Marley’s ghost. You’ll be surprised by how many mistakes your brain will be able to find without even going back to read it.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I really thought I would try to get some work done today, but I do also have a pile of this year’s releases I haven’t had time for yet so I might open a bottle of wine and just… do the only thing I ever want to do and read.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I don’t understand how people can skip the prologue or epilogue in a book. I read the prologue, the epilogue, the author’s note, the acknowledgments, then I go back to reading the first chapter again just to appreciate it more now I know the characters and the story, just bury me in it please.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I have just learned that US Americans use this emoji 🤌 very differently from Argentinians.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I have spent three days writing my Finnish mythology-inspired fantasy novel and am currently at 16k. I have never written this fast, I fear I may be possessed by the spirits of my ancestors.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Loved this book! The Patriarchs by Angela Saini, didn’t plan to read it in two days but things happened and by things I mean it gave me sooo many ideas for the book I’m planning to write next.

Hand holding the book The Patriarchs by Angela Saini

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My favorite thing about speaking Spanish is that my Colombian boyfriend didn’t understand me when I used the Argentinian or European Spanish words for driver’s license. I still sometimes have no idea what he says and I’ve lived in Spanish-speaking countries for 18 years.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The problem with these multiverse Marvel movies is that nothing ever matters of there’s an endless number of superheroes and everyone is replaceable in theory. If everything can be fixed in another timeline, what are the stakes? Yeah I’m watching Deadpool & Wolverine.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Read a beautiful book this week, Solo un Poco Aquí by Colombian author María Ospina Pizano. Sending all the vibes to the publishing universe that this gets translated to English and other languages so everyone can read it.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thank you internet for telling me about sleeping with dinosaur hands. I have since discovered this is why my wrists hurt in the morning I am just a tiny tiny T-Rex

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm watching the Netflix Investigation Alien show and for me, the best proof against the US government knowing about aliens is Donald Trump. Because how on earth would Trump have been able to shut up about it for 8 years now? Or is the theory that they never even told him?

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m just a girl, standing in front of Google, asking for a way to disable AI Overviews in the search results.

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The bad part about getting bitten by a dog (on top of the antibiotics and rabies and tetanus shots) is that now I’m kind of afraid of dogs I see on the street and I really don’t want to be

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi everybody! I wrote an angry novel with: 🔥friends taking down a right-wing politician 🔥predatory men getting their due 🔥a childfree woman in power 🔥millennial shame 🔥life-saving, but imperfect friendship 🔥jokes, some bad 🔥lots of talk about food ❤️love and admiration for women #amquerying

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Taru Anniina @taruanniina.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I don’t know, I just really feel like the US is entering her Argentina era.

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