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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I think about this Robert McKee quote all the time, especially when drafting a new idea: “Tragedy is getting exactly what you wanted, and paying the full price for it.” #writercommunity

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Challenged myself to write a story without a single speculative element, and I did it! Granted, it’s about a woman trying to observe Yule when she’s roped into her neighbor’s hallaca building party, so the witchy elements are still present 🤭❄️

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

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Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

First batch of queries out. She’s finally out there in the world, slumbering with the other giants in slush piles, waiting to sink her teeth into the right reader. #querying

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Yeah! Mine leans more on that tenderly comedic voice common in Backman’s novels as opposed to a more dry wit like Rachel Harrison (for example) but I love all the fresh takes! Time for a werewolf renaissance 🤍

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

More timely comps are: ONCE THERE WERE WOLVES by Charlotte McConaghy and DAMNATION SPRING by Ash Davidson 🤍

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

It’s if JANE EYRE stumbled into FX’s THE BEAR. A western gothic with a post-comedy voice perfect for fans of genre bending authors Charlotte McConaghy and Fredrik Backman.

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Tonight, my manuscript will be listed among other finalists at the Pacific Northwest Writers Assocation conference awards ceremony (!!) I couldn’t attend, but the fact that my title, name, and photo will be displayed in a ballroom full of writers and industry professionals is pretty surreal. 😅

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Query letter READY. One sentence pitch READY. Elevator pitch READY. Target audience READY. Bio READY. Comp titles READY. 97k word manuscript READY. 1 page, 2 page, 5 page and 7 page versions of my synopsis…eh 😅

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a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a surprised look on his face .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a surprised look on his face .

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Reading first two pages of my query-ready manuscript at my library’s open mic today. WHO SIGNED ME UP FOR THIS?! *checks notes* Oh.

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The same manuscript that I’ll be querying in two weeks! The manuscript itself is done, but I’m prepping and polishing all the materials for submission!

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I love thinking about how everyone was someone’s first crush

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kindnessmatters @djdigitalangel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

To the Bluesky community and everyone who follows and fights.

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Portrait of a mother who takes kids to historical sites more than parks. Things I said to my kids today: “Is that a ghost? Oh, no it’s just Judy Garland singing.” “Watch out for the chamber pot.”

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

1 minute into Fox and the Hound and already crying… How on earth did I manage to finish reading The Deep by Nick Cutter this week?

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Complete this sentence: In 2025, final girls can be…

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

And it’s the best part — the doing of it. The creating, the building, the piecing together. 🖤

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

With #questpit over Bluesky is back to feeling like an empty school hall 😅

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Themes: ⚡️Inevitability ⚖️Vengeful past/justice 💀Human hubris 🤐 Alienation 🕯️“Who are the real monsters?” 🦷Regret, “We always think we’re doing the right thing.” 🫁 toxic-masculinity/hierarchy/control/repression 👣Fractured relationship the natural world 🏔️Colonization ⚰️Grief

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen—even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her. • power v obsession • what’s real v what’s not • LGBTQ & mental health rep • dark academia vibes #NA #H #Q #QuestPit

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“May the path Fate pave be just.” A SILENCE SO DIVINE 🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️ A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying. #QuestPit #Q #DF #PR #R #A #agentsguide #gothicfiction

A Silence So Divine
Avoiding damnation doesn’t always mean snuffing your Darkness, but stepping into it.

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Mars colonization is no longer a dream. 8 astronauts are its first permanent residents-and Reality TV stars. On Earth, yearning to escape their working-poor existence, anonymous revolutionaries rope Desda into their plot. If they succeed, the Ares Mission will end in disaster. #questpit #w #sf #a

A Retro television on the surface of Mars among the rocks. The static screen shows the words "8 Astronauts. 8 Months. 24 Hour Coverage." A shuttle streaks through the sky in the background.

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Amy | Fantasy Author @aekwordcrafter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Ley-line engineer Merula keeps the energy powering her continent alive. But when the most dangerous repair of her career means working alongside her old rival, falling for an imprisoned woman, and untangling a magical prison, she might instead have to watch it all burn. #questpit #F #LGBT #Q

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Comparables aren’t meant to be a carbon copy! You’re good!

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

You get it! 😭😅 when I thought of doing a werewolf tale inspired by Old Yeller, White Fang, The Call of the Wild, but making the wolf the son…well, the dread goes without saying 😅

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tokan-crown.bsky.social @tokan-crown.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

RIPLEY x SONG OF ACHILLES Wheelchair-using assassin flees Lagos to London in pursuit of a football player … responsible for his paralysis 💔 friends turned foes ❤️‍🔥crime of passion 🤎 BIPOC queer ♿️ unlikely assassin 🌶️ steamy thriller #questpit #agentguide #Q #A #T #amquerying #ownvoices

Manuscript title: Boys of those days now

Pitch: wheelchair-using assassin embarks on a cross-continent chase towards the celebrity footballer responsible for his paralysis

Comps: Bath haus, Blessings, Song of Achilles, The talented Mr Ripley

Opening: to murder from the convenience of a wheelchair is a calculable endeavour

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Juniper Woodbury @juniperwoodbury.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

CIRCE 𒉽 MIDSOMMAR 𒉽 Ancient Babylon A spoiled muse strikes a deal with an innocent butcher: if he helps her take down a mysterious human cult, she'll heal his father. But when she starts falling for him—a common mortal—it's the first sign of her own indoctrination... 🌴🏺🐐🍇🪔 #questpit #Q #A #F #RF

A collage with an ancient mythological and fantasy atmosphere, featuring a circle of women, maybe witches, dancing around a fire in a cult ritual, a picture of papyrus, a picture of figs, a picture of a donkey hauling goods for the market along a babylonian street, an image of a woman - a goddess or muse - emerging from the water in a glowing silk dress, and a close-up of desert sand.

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Paris Soto (is about to query!) @weepingoverwords.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I have not stopped thinking about this pitch since I saw it last night!

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