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Aleta B // Writer

@thealetab.bsky.social
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all-terrain novelist, freelance writer, very cool outdoorsmom, beauty obsessive

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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#DVPit THE DYING SEASON (78k) Slavic #A #DF —A Forest, Darkly x The Sarván x Peaky Blinders, nonbinary MC. Morra has only known peaceful souls en route to the afterlife, until one in the form of a demon chicken chooses her to avenge her murder, stop a serial killer, and destroy a god. #LGBT
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
for your #questpit consideration: THE ISLAND’S DAUGHTER. #q #a #f #sff #wf #u
Questpit guide to The Island’s Daughter / upmarket genre-bent fantasy/ 104k words / by Aleta Burchyski / now queryingPitch: THE ISLAND’S DAUGHTER is set in a late Bronze Age reimagining of Earth. Tamda, a grieving widow ostracized by her family, is summoned home to help her grandmother lead their island nation. But when a celestial wyrm crash-lands on the island’s sacred Mountain, Tamda must conquer her self-doubt and kill it before it calls its master to devour Earth.

This upmarket genre-bent fantasy is written from the tight third-person perspective of Tamda and her family. It will appeal to readers who enjoy the immersive world-building of Between Two Fires and crave a strong female perspective like in T. Kingfisher’s Nettle and Bone.Narrative elements: 
Feminist cosmic horror
An older, wiser female main character
Female friendships
Character-driven plot
Upmarket writing
Found family and rediscovered family
Dynastic drama and complex morality
Realistic magicalism
Grounded, immersive world building
Rich mythology inspired by folklore
Spice that moves the story forwardComp titles: The Fox Wife, Nettle and Bone, Between Two Fires
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Cold War who? We don’t know her @nytimes.com
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Right-Wing Media Praises U.S.-Russia Talks as ‘Breath of Fresh Air’
Many of President Trump’s media allies were quick to celebrate this week’s negotiations, a contrast to the deep unease expressed by the foreign policy establishment.
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
*screams in copy editor* @nytimes.com @apnews.com
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I can’t do Last Week Tonight anymore. I care very deeply about John Oliver’s well-being and our idiocy is torturing him. I can’t continue to watch the pain and disappointment in this sweet man’s eyes. @lastweektonight1.bsky.social
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Ten days of wondering if the new administration is going to ask us to move or if they’re going to shitcan my spouse or both, and honestly it feels like it’s been ten months.
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@nytimes.com they’re not, for the love of your copy and FC departments please fix this language. It’s not a payout if you’re expected to work the next eight months and then depart without severance. It’s literally just deferred shitcanning.
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
So are we all panic buying coffee or nah?
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
@jaymesmansfield.bsky.social what’s the best cheap wig to buy for, say, Karen-ing ~las migras~ while holding a giant Stanley cup and pointing an iPhone camera? A big dumb hat could be involved too
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
this is my family’s life right now ☹️ @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...
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Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the blizzard of new policies as workers frantically try to assess the impact on their lives.
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Whew it’s still there 🥵
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I feel like I’m going to crack in half. Anyway, here’s a picture of some ravens in the Trader Joe’s parking lot
A pair of ravens as black as my hope
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It’s, like, truly difficult to get into fantasy writing this week 🫤
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
“We’re leaving the planet and you can’t come” —every Aquarius today #chappellroan #astrology
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It’s 6 degrees in Santa Fe, NM, and I’m imagining how much George R R Martin is haaaating it
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Yo I had six more minutes to binge tiktok and it’s dead
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princess bubblegum from adventure time is standing in front of a broken chair .
ALT: princess bubblegum from adventure time is standing in front of a broken chair .
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Any other mamas doing a children’s museum morning?
An aesthetic basket of play food at the children’s museum
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Mountains are incredibly important in my fantasy wip, and this is what I’ve got in my backyard: the Sangre de Cristos, in the New Mexico Rockies
The Sangre de Cristos beyond the high desert
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hi, I’m Aleta and I’ve been writing new scenes as I claw thru my adult fantasy manuscript revise. Plot: A widow returns home to help her family set the course of their island’s future, but disaster forces her to put politics aside and confront a celestial serpent bent on devouring the world.
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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going! Or not going, that's valid too
Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters

Introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going!”
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Today we’re oscillating wildly between crippling anxiety that this manuscript revision is going to fail, and utter delight at how brilliantly it’s going 🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️
A stack of revision notebooks in varying states of madness
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I need the #makeup and #skincare and #beauty fiends to share the bedtime lip balm they’re using. I’ve got the RMS Lipnights, the chamomile scent really really hits the spot and the formula feels like it’s doing good work through the night.
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This article is fascinating for a lot of reasons but the main thing I’ve gotten from it is that I’m definitely not querying my fantasy wip manuscript as romantasy because the tropes are slim to nil www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story?
Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This is pretty legit: New FREE contest for writers of Adult Sci-Fi and Fantasy — tinyurl.com/2025wdwcon3%... — Judged by agent Kesia Lupo, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Wait so in Encanto, Mirabel asks for a miracle and things proceed to be kind of the opposite of a miracle until Casa is rebuilt…. so did the first Encanto have to end so that Mirabel could have her own Encanto? Encantos are non transferable? #disney
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What a great day to dissociate into my wip ⚔️
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If Tim Kaine has 49 million fans, then I am one
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We would both prefer to be at my writing desk right now 🫤
A grumpy kitty girl at the vet
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I’m sitting down to do the gnarliest revision of my life, let’s gooooooo
A snapshot of my manuscript outline highlighted with all the bits that need surgical removal
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ok fellow fantasy writers, how are we getting ourselves stoked and focused to do a big, gnarly chunk of manuscript revision? The kind where we’re cutting characters and untangling them from the plot momentum and we’re about to lose our minds.
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Writing some fantasy and I got a little visitor
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Please tell me I’m not the only one who’s still digging their home desk out from the holiday chaos
A very messy desk that is too small to be this messy
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Sorry to report that I’ve completed a deluxe sample of Charlotte Tilbury magic cream and my skin has never looked and felt better
An empty pot of Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream, scraped clean of ever last glop
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I cracked the code on durable orchid pots with a $4 colander and $2 cut glass plate from Savers 🔥
A ten year old oncidium who’s very happy to be in a white colander
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Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
please send thoughts and prayers: my cat has become diabetic right as I’ve begun my big manuscript revision. she is no longer allowed lunch. she knows how to open my office door.
the cat demonstrating her low energy at the vet
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