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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 9h

I love middle-grade speculative fiction.

Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Day seven of observations as a writing recluse: Since losing my son, Lucci, I sometimes worry about characters when reading. I know it’s silly. But grief isn’t rational. So, now when triggered, I pray for those out wilding it in the world experiencing similar traumas. #amwriting

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Day Six of observations as a writing recluse: Winter is this recluse’s preferred season as it welcomes cozy clothes and cozy meals and cozy reads, all tucked safely inside a cozy home. #writing #writerslife

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Day Five of observations as a writing recluse: I suspect my future funeral will one day be described as an intimate affair. Perhaps, I will enlist actors to keep attendees and loved ones guessing. A jilted lover. A long lost twin. A theatre rival. #writing #writerslife

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Texas Freedom to Read is looking for help collecting data on book removals across Texas school districts AND you don't need to live in Texas to help! Fill out the form to get all the info!

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Sign-Up to help Texas Freedom to Read Project collect data on book removals across Texas school districts.

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Day Four of observations as a writing recluse: I respect how librarians often hoard each spoken word like prized jewels and suspect they would make excellent coven mates. #writers #WritingCommmunity #WritingLife

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The writing recluse failed to post an observation yesterday as she was busy doing writing recluse stuff. Please accept this video of deer playing on the farm this morning instead.

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Day Two of observations as a writing recluse: Apparently, when loved ones state “you should join a club” a silent book club is not what they have in mind. #Writers #WritingCommmunity #writerslife

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

In an attempt to engage with this platform more, I will offer one observation a day as a writing recluse. Observation 1: British murder mysteries have taught me that should a crime happen nearby, my cat can, in fact, not provide an acceptable alibi. #writinglife

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

An enchantress with abominable magic must defeat an ancient necromancer who uses the life energies of murdered men to animate his dead lover’s body. #BluePit 📖 #W #A #F NOSFERATU x ONE DARK WINDOW

Starry sky; a statue of a woman's face with moss on it; dying flowers; a castle on a dark, moonlit night; skulls, a graveyard; a fireplace

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) ཐིཋྀ #BluePit 📖 #NA #F #R #Q #ND

Bats in a cave; the full moon; a death's head moth; fog in a forest; a light house; cracked earth; a sword. There are line drawings of moths and mushrooms around the edges.

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A.K. Knox | Querying @akknoxwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

MY #AGENTSGUIDE TO WHERE THE VINES CLING CRIMSON Discovery of Witches x Resident Evil PITCH: A genetically mutated witch needs to find her recently abducted friends before they become victims of spine-chilling experiments. #BluePit #bluepit📖 #amquerying #A #F #R #H #Q #writingcommunity

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mtmpitner.bsky.social @mtmpitner.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

'Marilynn never should have tried something so dangerous. Not just dangerous for her, but also for the crimson sparrow the young mouse flew on. But only the best flyers could join the Royal Sky Force, defending both land and Queen from the treacherous rats of the north.' #Bluepit📖 #MG #F #Q 🐭🐦🏹🦇🐍

Commissioned by @jonathanchimney.bsky.social

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mtmpitner.bsky.social @mtmpitner.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

❤️☠️-My Zombie Girlfriend Only Eats Tofu-☠️❤️ A ton of witty fun?✔️ #LGBT themes/characters?✔️ A diorama of Highschool drama?✔️ Shady corpors doing shady corpo things?✔️ Cute zombie girls who’re more thot than rot?✔️ A love story that puts the romance back into necromancy?✔️✔️ #Bluepit📖 #YA #R #PN

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #F #BluePit📖 #SP #Q #BluePit

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?

Seven generations after collapse, oceans have reclaimed coasts and civilization’s remains are rotting back to the earth. Extreme climate and violent humans threaten a peaceful community hidden in the Green Mountains.
Niwa, a gifted yet timid young empath-scholar, is prompted by group vision to lead a perilous and mystical quest to retrieve a rumored key to peace. Using unique psychic gifts, archaic technology, and nature-based survival skills, Niwaju’s group traverses a depopulated but healing landscape to save their people from impending doom.
The travelers draw upon their survival skills, varying levels of control over their own unique psychic gifts, and residual tech artifacts, encountering diverse, unique characters on crumbling highways and swollen rivers through the mountains of Appalachia, moody swamplands of “New New Orleans”, and the Rocky Mountains.
As she finds her inner resilience, Niwa’s mission becomes about more than saving her People from destruction; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
Incorporating mindfulness, sustainability, earth based magic, and wilderness skills, this tarot-themed journey offers a vision of hope, transformation, and growth in a narrative adventure guide to thriving civilization’s aftermath, with surprising twists.

a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #YouDeservepIt 📖 💙📚 #Q #R Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender

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I Am Chosen by Dawn Berkoski

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom, or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement?

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy, Bartender

COMP TITLES
Interview With The Vampire
A Blue Bloods Novel
Yakuza

I Am Chosen
By Dawn Berkoski
77,000 M/M Paranormal Romance
Dark and a little spicy meets silly-sweet

Think:
Blue Bloods (minus the angels and school) x Interview With The Vampire (add more humor) x Japanese Yakuza (cracking skulls in London)

Tropes
* Forbidden Love
* Fish Out of Water
* Forced Proximity
* Dark Secrets
* Unequal Power Structure
* High Action Chase Scenes
* Emotional Growth Arcs + Satisfying End

Quotes

"He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger."
~Jason Allard (Protagonist)

"Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!"
~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover)

"Alexander and I have unfinished business."
-Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival)

MAIN CHARACTERS
Alexander Grant Jason Allard
CEO of M-Corp Bartender
Control Issues Anxiety/Clingy
Likes: Likes:
Power + Money. Video Games +Pizza

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

Photo by Dawn Berkoski of a car speeding past a cemetery.View is from the driver’s perspective, looking out the side window.

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Grim Portents HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of. 📖 #F #H #PN #A #P #OV #POC #BluePit

Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life…

"I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS.
IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY.
IT WAS REAL."
Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray.
Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track.
Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days.
Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life.

Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”

Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but should they help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? 📖 #Bluepit #W #YA #SF

Title of EARTHLINGS! over a view of the planet

fl group of second generation aliens sleeper cells have spent their entire lives assimilating to human culture and gathering intelligence for the home world. To them, the eventual overthrow of farth has always been a distant goal meant for future generations.
Now, when ordered to abduct and replace a human girl they have betriended, one of the alien operatives realizes that they have grown to care more for their found home and family than they do for their own people. She sabotages the abduction and goes on the run with the human girl.
Her friends are ordered to track her down; but now questioning their own mission, they find themselves wondering if the entire invasion is a mistake and if they have more in common with these Earthlings than they ever thought...

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Sara K Joiner @skjoiner.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

For fans of Footloose and Moxie, NOW SHOWING IN SERENITY follows Charley Jones, a movie-obsessed teen girl, whose homemade VHS-rental business accidentally ignites a major controversy in her tiny Texas town. #BluePit📖 #YA #HS #Q

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MindyGraz @melkleingraz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

According to this one prop autopsy report Laura Palmer's middle name is Ann. Just a fun fact. 😄 #TwinPeaks #LauraPalmer 🦉🌲🥧🍩☕🚦⛰

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

JOSEPHINE AGAINST THE SEA X THOSE KIDS FROM FAWN CREEK When 11-year-old Rue’s fugitive father dies and his house is seized by The Feds, he teams up with an elderly mermaid to help find her sisters in the Eternal Sea for enough gold to buy his home back at auction. #BluePit 📖 #MG #Q #DIS

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

When eleven-year-old Rue’s home is seized by The Feds, he agrees to help an elderly mermaid reunite with her sisters in the Eternal Sea for enough gold to buy his home back at auction and keep him and his mom safe forever. #BluePit 📖 #MG #Q #DIS

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I’m late to the party (Big surprise. I just wrapped ten days of residency!) BUT I plan to participate in #BluePit tomorrow. What better way to kick off querying my MG mermaid novel than with a pitch event? I look forward to checking out all of your glorious pitches throughout the day.

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Winter residency was filled with amazing lectures and workshop intensives. Although, I fear the plethora of book recommendations may extend my reading list into 2028.

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The tension. The conflict. Culinary Class Wars is a k-drama, and nobody can convince me otherwise.

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I like to judge each day’s mental capacity by the ease in which I complete the NYT’s Connections. It looks like today might be a rough one.

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Lucci’s story continues to gain traction, as we push for increased community awareness regarding the Nitazene public health crisis and advocate for synthetic opioid education and mental health access for our youth.

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Today, we got a mixed dozen of biddies. They are adorable. But can someone please tell me why these breeds sound like dancer names? Cinnamon Queen, Sapphire Gem, Golden Comet…

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My son, Lucci, passed in January. Today, I waded back onto X to check #pitchdis submission dates. It was jarring to see my last post dated December 2024. I was complaining about my struggles with IVIG, unaware of the heartbreaking struggle that was about to come.

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Grey McCallister @theblondeonewrites.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Hi! I’m new to Bluesky and hoping to connect with fellow whimsies in the #kidlit community. Yes, I’ve decided we’re all whimsies. After all, who better to shine wonder and affirm the whimsical in an often heavy world.

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