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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

While stuck at her aunt and uncle’s hotel, all 13yo Jo wants is to perfect her kickflip, dodge ghosts, and avoid a local tween. When the ghost of a fake doc aims to drain everyone’s life force completely, they’re all in trouble. It's up to Jo and her new crew to stop him. #DVPit #MG #H #DIS #MH #CI

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ex-ghost whisperer tween Prankster teen poltergeist Ghost cat Psychically numb tween A hotel w/ a horrid history And an evil specter puppeteering an awful plan The teens need to stop the evil specter before he possesses the hotel and everyone in it. BROKEN DOLL’S x SCRITCH SCRATCH #DVPit #MG #H

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ever since 13yo Jo made the ghost of her best friend disappear, she thought she was a monster. While stuck at America’s most haunted hotel, she met a real monster. His goal: to possess the hotel. To win, she’s got to rely on good ghosts and a local teen, otherwise it’s all over. #DVPit #MG #H #DIS

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When a 13yo ex-ghost whisperer is stuck at a Ghouliday Inn, she figures her biggest challenge is dodging annoying ghosts and a local living teen. But she’s dead wrong. There’s an evil poltergeist possessing the hotel and everyone there. It’s up to the teens banish him—fast. #DVpit #MG #H #DIS #MH

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No going back 😱 I hit send on my @writingawards.bsky.social awards entry. Good luck to all the writers entering!!! 🥳

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 16/09/2026

🚨IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR AGENTS AND EDITORS🚨 Due to continuing software and email issues, requesting will remain closed for today to allow for yesterday's backlog to go through. Because of this, the request window will remain open until Monday at 8pm EDT.

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 15/09/2026

I really need everyone's patience today. Emails won't get a reply because I literally can't reply to them due to the software issues I've just emailed registered agents and editors from my personal account. Requests will (hopefully) resume tomorrow and the window will be extended through the weekend

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 15/09/2026

🚨IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 The #PitchDis email account is not working at the moment. Please send a DM if you need anything. I'll update as soon as possible.

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's that time of year again where my friends need an extra person on their fantasy football team. Unicorn Sparkle Power's method for picking players is best smile, cool hair, and/or cool name. Sometimes I actually do okay to the bewilderment of those who care 🤣 #FantasyFootball

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have a 5th grader today 😭 so many feels.

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Go see the Coyote vs. ACME, it's awesome! Even though we saw it as a family, I'd say it's for all ages dammit, you don't need children with you to enjoy it! #CoyoteVSACME #CoyoteVSACMEMovie

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026

Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I had the fortune of taking @nkjemisin.bsky.social's Worldbuilding workshop yesterday (online, I'm too many states away to do it in person lol), I learned a lot of great tips!! Thank you so much for doing the workshop!

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

LAST LAST-DAY-OF-SUMMER x JUST A PINCH OF MAGIC When a half-deaf tween Magician-in-training discovers her town is trapped in a sleep spell, she’ll have to face an evil Magician—who she fears could be her absent mother—before she too is lost in sleep forever. #QuestPit #MG #Q #F #OWN

Images: Caucasian hand holding a tarot card with tarot cards spread out on a table in the background; image of a woman in a purple and black robe surrounded by purple mist with two purple triangles outlining her; and empty city street with fall foliage covering the trees; purple neon lights with the words “Darling, you’re Different”; smoke drifting upward in a black room; a piece of paper with the word “Dream” written on it in pen and blue and purple glitter and sequins behind it; two blue bicycles, one with a brown basket, underneath a tree with autumn leaves sprinkled on the ground.
Image credit: Pixabay; Pexels; Unsplash

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When a 13yo ex-ghost whisperer is stuck at a Ghouliday Inn, she figures her biggest challenge is dodging annoying local teens—both ghost and living—& a ghost cat, but she’s dead wrong. There’s an evil poltergeist after her. If she wants to survive, she must team up w/ the locals. #QuestPit #H #MG #W

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BROKEN DOLL’S + SPIRITED AWAY After spiteful younger sister Samara unplugs 13yo Eve’s nightlight, she unknowingly lets the monsters that’ve been hunting Eve for years finally get her. Now Eve has to survive in the world of her nightmares while Samara figures out how to save her. #QuestPit #Q #MG #F

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samira🍉🍉🍉 @goodsamiratan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

AMARI X RICK & MORTY 12yo temperamental Celi must rescue her sister Joy from an evil alien empire before she's dissected for parts Add in: 👽️The snobby, undercover alien princess from school 🛸A sentient spaceship 🐶A talking space-dog 🎤& Intergalactic, opera-loving bounty hunters #MG #SF #W #Questpit

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 13/07/2026

🌟Important #PitchDis Dates🌟 July 27-Aug. 7 - 12 Days of #PitchDis (Bluesky) Aug. 10-13 - Trial Run Aug. 17, 4-6pm EDT - #AskPitchDis (Bluesky & Twitter) Sep. 3 - Agent & Editor registration deadline Sep. 8-10 - Pitch window open Sep. 15-18 - Agent & Editor request window

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Some of my friends may have gotten me into K-Pop and now I'm obsessively listening to the music. 🤣 It could be good writing fuel because the lyrics won't pull me away, BUT I might be busy dancing in my seat. 😅

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm very saddened by this 😭😭

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Deeply upsetting news. Anthony Head was magnificent, and his Giles character in Buffy remains one of the greatest and more inspirational mentors in fiction for me. Rest well, Ripper. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

@annmrose.bsky.social Congrats on the move 🥳😉! I'm excited for your future!

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My 9yo and I are still on and off working on the Warrior Cats fan fiction (I have never read the source material, so she corrects me a lot lol). It's up to 3k words! Not bad. Every so often my partner fills in for me when I'm busy, it's a family writing event 😂. #WritersLife #KeepWriting

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I love this story so much! Editors it is amazing! I had the honor to CP it!!

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Ope it's nearing Easter, time for my yearly Midnight Mass re-watch!

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Michael B. Jordan winning the Oscar for Best Actor for Sinners can live rent free in my head forever. His performance was beyond amazing. You freaking crushed in MBJ! Sinners should've won more than it did, but I'm glad it won some of what it was nominated for.

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a man in a suit and hat is smiling with the words #sinnersmovie behind him

Alt: A man in a blue pinstripe suit and hat is smiling.

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Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🎉TODAY IS THE DAY!🎉 The #RevPit submission window opens at 12 p.m. ET today. Good luck to all who enter this year! Our editors can't wait to see what you've written! #writersofbluesky #writingcontest #writingcommunity

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Cold War x Time Travel When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK's role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #WSPit #WSPitQuerying #Q #A #T #SF #Hi #revpit

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Pagans x Strike After a celebrity author builds a Stonehenge replica, a sleepy English town becomes obsessed with Paganism and the occult. As rival cults clash violently in the streets, two writers must join forces to discover the cause. Before the killings start. #WSPit #WSPitWIPs #W #A #PN #F

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

FFXIV x TENSURA When luckless Mick agrees to be his best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, he expects to keep her safe, not for him to be turned into a divine dragon. Now he and Eleanor must face his mission to lead a war against the gods—but is destiny as inevitable as it seems? #WSPit #W #F

Moodboard of four images, all of which comes from various paintings by Alphonse Mucha:
Left: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer.
Middle top: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand.
Middle bottom: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies.
Right: Poster for the 6th Sokol Festival. A woman in red, wearing a crown, sits as she clutches flower rings in her right hand and up her right arm. A ghostly, green image of a woman glares behind her.

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A thread of #WSPit pitches! (Please click each link to interact with the actual posts, not the reposts in this thread!) Post 1: The Nameless Song, a fantasy about a guy who turns into a dragon Post 2: A Scandal in Beehemia, Sherlock Holmes but with bees

A collage consisting of various cut out images:
- An illustration of Sherlock Holmes in his classic deerstalker cap and cloak smokes his pipe in the bottom left
- A honey bee gathers nectar from a flower in the bottom middle.
- Four macarons sit stacked in the bottom right corner.
- Up the right side is a stalk of purple foxgloves.
- The background is split between a pile of old newspapers and a dark alley lit by lamps and neon signs.
- Red stage curtains frame the entire piece.
- Five bee cut-outs (from two images of honey bees, flipped and rotated to various angles) fly around the top of the image.

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

When a young magician thinks the worst thing she’ll have to do is partner up with her crush for a group project, she discovers how wrong she is when an evil magician attacks the town and puts everyone else to sleep. #WSPit #W #MG #F #Own #Dis

“Darling, you’re different” in purple neon lights; a woman wearing a dark hood, outlined in purple mist and purple upside down triangles stands with her hands out; fog rising upward; a hand holding a tarot card that says “A Roda da Fortuna” with other tarot cards spread out on a table in the background; an empty street in the fall; two blue bicycles under a tree with fall leaves scattered around on the ground, one bike as a wicker basket on it; a ripped paper with the word “Dream” written on it on a bed of blue and purple glitter.

Pictures sourced from: Unsplash, Pexels, and Pixabay

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Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

ANNOUNCING the 2026 RevPit Participating Editors! reviseresub.com/editors

2026 RevPit Participating Editors: Allison Alexander, Ash P, Ayesha Ali, Carly Hayward, Dana Draper, Demi Michelle Schwartz, Hanna R. Neier, Hannah Kate Kelley, Jeni Chappelle, Kala Godin, Laura Galan-Wells, Leah Rambadt, Madelyn Knecht, Miranda Darrow, Natasha Hanova, Nicole Frail, Raquel Brown. Find each editor's MSWL on reviseresub.com

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Madelyn Knecht ✨🌈 @madelynknecht.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Today is the day! So excited to see what I get 👀 Query me here: querytracker.net/query/Madely...

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Query Madelyn Knecht at Storm Literary Agency

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Ashlee MacCallum @ashleedani.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'm open to middle grade queries! #MSWL

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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel! The Owl House: The Long-Lived King Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Bad Bunny's halftime show was amazing. I loved every minute even though I don't speak Spanish at all. Because guess what, you don't need to speak the language to appreciate it! 1/2

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Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

As promised, I'm officially open to submissions again - for 1 week or 500 queries, whichever comes first. Because last time when I tried 2 weeks or until 750 queries, I received more than 750 in the first week and had to shut down early. No guarantees it won't happen again.

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Normally on a football day, I'm excited for the pizza we order. Today, I'm excited for Bad Bunny's half-time performance! #TheOnlyHalfTimeThatMatters

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I haven't been online much due to ongoing health issues & work deadlines - but I want to send my love and solidarity to friends & publishing colleagues in Minnesota, and their communities. Below is a useful "How to Help" list compiled by sff writer Naomi Kritzer. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota

Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hey fellow kidlit writers in the MG space, check this out! There’s *free* contest for writers that’s open until January 31st — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest4 — Judged by Agent Morgan Hughes of Fineprint Literary, via @writingdaywksp.bsky.social. Winners get an agent critique of their work! Cool, huh? :D

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First Page Contest #4: Middle Grade Fiction -- Judged by Agent Morgan Hughes of Fineprint Literary

FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to First Page Contest . Contest #4 -- for writers of Middle Grade Fiction (all types) . If you write in this age category, keep reading and submit your work!...

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Hey #WritingCommunity, any recommendations on good craft books about pacing? That's the writing area I want to focus on improving this year!

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Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Dear @teedotally.com, I can never get KitKats without thinking of you 🤣😅, here's the latest random find. Happy New Year to you! May it be filled with KitKats lol

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