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Ashley Taylor

@ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social

Enthusiastic storyteller, incurable dreamer, patiently impatient mum, autistic, proud kiwi ✍️💭👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ♾️🇳🇿 #amquerying

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Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello, query trenches! I’m baaaaccckkkkk 😁 #amquerying

Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I did it! I finished the first draft! #writingcommunity

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Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago

3000+ words today! Finally getting some momentum for the back half of this novel! 😄💪 #writingcommunity

Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Print copies finally arrived!!! My second short story baby, in a book, in my hands 🥰 #writesky

Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago

When the character thinks she’s real… #wipsnips #writesky

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for February 16th is "hurt" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
February 16th - hurt
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

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Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I wrote 1800 words today! It’s not huge, but I haven’t really written anything since before the school holidays. It feels good! #writesky

Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m in! Who else?? #smallpitch

#SmallPitch@smallpitch.org · 8mo ago

#SmallPitch begins in only 6 hours! It will remain open for 48 hours, so there's no rush to submit. Double-check that pitch and your submission before hitting the submit button. Pitches are displayed randomly to editors, so again, no need to rush. Just don't miss the deadline 😊

Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The kid who made me a mama turned 8 today 🥹 He’s so cool, and I’m so proud.

Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#BluePit was so much fun! There are so many talented people out there dreaming big dreams. It’s a privilege to be among you! ❤️

Neira @neirawrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NB Willy Wonka of magical textile is looking for an heir. Dolly and Lana, sworn enemies from rival families, must work together to steal the mythological Golden Ram if either of them wants to win. #bluepit #bluepit📖 #Q #YA #F #R #OV #LGBT

John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 8mo ago

IT x STRANGER THINGS x THE RIVERMAN: Two identical photos taken years apart send true crime fan Max on a quest to identify the girl in the photo while tangling with a eldritch horror released by crazed cult leader accused of murdering seven little girls. #YA #H #T #Q #bluepit #bluepit📖

Clockwise upper left: a girl dancing in the woods, a creepy house, a fire monster, creepy woods, a black bird and an abandoned factory.

Abigail Mack is ✨Agented✨@abymack.bsky.social · 8mo ago

SHE WHO HOLDS THE SEA PRINCESS MONOKE X THE POPPY WAR When a cursed empire kidnaps an island heir, it doesn’t realise she’s the vessel of two warring goddesses—or that she plans to burn and drown the throne that chained them. Inspired by pre colonial Jamaican mythology #bluepit #F #YA #A

Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE x PETER PAN A cranky immortal & a smug pirate are forced to work together in order to save their loved ones from their common enemy: Peter Pan. ⚔️Enemies to Lovers 💀Dark Reimaginings 👩‍❤️‍👩Bi FMC × Lesbian FMC 🫂Found family 🌶️Spicy Sapphics 🩸Pan-pires #BluePit📖 #A #W #F #H #LGBT

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME
The Pitch

When Gwen was a girl called Wendy Darling, she met someone who promised her freedom and love, and all it cost her was her humanity and everyone she ever loved. A century later, she’s trying to claw some of it back thanks to a 15yo named Mona, who’s awakened a long lost sense of family.

When Capt Hook was a girl called Rosie, she met someone who promised her adventure, and all it cost her was her family and sense of security. After twenty years of fighting monsters shaped like children, this pirate captain is running out of steam, until her long-time nemesis gives her an ultimatum she can’t refuse.

Forced to work together, the cranky immortal and smug pirate will have to put aside their animosity and work together to save a family neither knew they needed. Along the way, they might find the love of a lifetime…if they don’t kill each other first.

Artwork from Peter & Wendy (1911 ed.) by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by F.D. Bedford

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME

Comps & Tropes

The cover image of the 1911 edition of Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
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The cover for An Education in Malice by ST Gibson

*Wendy Darling (but not like you remember her)
*Captain Hook (but she's a masc lesbian)
*Non-binary Peter Pan
*What happened after...
*Pirate Disaster Gays!
*Dark Reimaginings
*Spicy Sapphics
*Dual POV
*Enemies to Lovers
*Vampire (Pan-Pires?)
*Hurt & Comfort
*Generational Trauma
*Found Family

Artwork from Peter & Wendy (1911 ed.) by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by F.D. Bedford

Maddy A @gazineye.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #F #R A pitch card for QUILL 🫐🪶 #litagents, if you love cozy fantasy, tender romance, explorations of grief and loss, and unique magic systems, this is the manuscript for you!

A background of an impressionist painting, purple feathers, blackberries, and a fringed curtain. On top is a text box:
QUILL
Word Count | Genre | Comps
Onward x The Teller of Small Fortunes
96K Adult Cozy Romantasy
Pitch
After Poppy the Quilldresser suffers the loss of her elderly friend, his hunky Blacksmith son moves in next door and awakens a cascade of repressed memories. In order to escape her painful flashbacks and befriend her new neighbor, Poppy must learn to accept her grief.
Features
Bi rep
Cozy Crafts
HEA
Unique magic system
Grief
Birdwatching

Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇: #FirstDraftFall 13.8k/100k @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sterling was hired to kill a witch. Elias needs the hunter's help to save his forest. Avery struggles to conceal his love for another man & an awakening strange magic. And all three are being targeted by a cult. "The Witch of Eden Hollow," a 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 queer fantasy romance. #BluePit📖 #W #A #F #R #TR #LGBT

This spread has the title, "The Witch of Eden Hollow," on the top, the pitch on the left, and comparisons with explanations on the right. They are all set against an autumnal background.

Pitch:
Inquisitor T. Sterling is hired by the pious town of Eden Hollow to hunt down the witch that commands an ancient forest called The Elder Grove.
Reclusive, guarded, and untrusting, Elias finds with dread that the only way he can save his forest (and himself) from an untimely demise is to work with the hunter that was hired to kill him.
Within Eden Hollow, Avery Miller struggles with the town's restrictive Puritan values, forced to hide his love for another man and a sudden magical ability that manifests within him.
As their lives intertwine and tensions rise, secrets that were desperately locked away seep through the cracks, and what they find very well may destroy them.

Comps
Each comparative title has the cover of whatever media being compared, and it comes with key elements that "The Witch of Eden Hollow" draws from.
1. "Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery," by Brom
Similarities: "Embracing who they claim you are; Puritanical religious similarities"
2. "Strange Magic" (film)
Similarities: "Sworn off love for good, only to find it in the most unlikely of places"
3. "The Witch" (film)
Similarities: "Would'st thou like to live deliciously?" but make it queer
4. "The Wickerman" (1973 film)
Similarities: "Something's not right about this town; Who are the real monsters?"

In the bottom right corner, there is an Anti-GenAI symbol.

This spread has the title, "The Witch of Eden Hollow," on the top, character headshots with traits beside them, and a general trope list. All is set against an autumnal background.

Characters (on the left):
Avery Miller, feat. gay pride flag and masc-loving masc pride heart
Character art from a picrew by crowesn picturing a thin white man with long black hair tied back in a ponytail, freckles, and gray eyes.
Traits: Closeted Gay, Repressed MC; Chronic Illnesses, Awakened Magical Abilities, Religious Trauma

Theodore Sterling, feat. trans pride flag and masc-loving masc pride heart
Character art from a picrew by crowesn picturing a heavyset white man with brown eyes and brown hair on his head and beard.
Traits: Middle Aged Trans Man; Widowed Character; Vengeful Witch Hunter; Survivor's Guilt

Elias, feat. trans and demisexual pride flags
Character art from a picrew by crowesn picturing a thin white man with pointed ears, long black hair, and gray eyes. He has green flecks on his forehead, cheeks, and shoulders.
Traits: Demisexual Trans Man; Ancient Forest Guardian; If the Forest Dies, He Dies; Suppressing Old Grief

List of Tropes (on the right):
- Religious Cult Disguised as a Small Town"
- Closeted Gay to Unapologetically Queer Pipeline
- Plant Magic
- "T4T"
- Old Man Yaoi
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- WitchXHunter
- Finding Love After Loss/Heartbreak
- "Ugly Grief Feelings"

This spread has the title, "The Witch of Eden Hollow," on the top and a playlist in the center. They are both set against an autumnal background.

Playlist:
Hozier - "In the Woods Somewhere"
Wardruna - "Birna"
Vishal Naidu - "Aurora"
Rúnahild - "Essens"
Within Temptation - "All I Need"
Mark Korven - "Isle of Wight" (from "The Witch")
Of Monsters and Men - "Love, Love, Love"
Hozier - "As It Was"
Fleet Foxes - "If You Need to, Keep Time on Me"
City and Colour - "Day Old Hate"
Eivør - "Piece by Piece"
Hozier - "De Selby, Pt. 1"
Within Temptation - "Never-Ending Story"
Ghost - "Excelsis"

A mood board with square dimensions and nine images surrounded by dark brown borders. In the center is a ruddy brown title card bubble where the title, "The Witch of Eden Hollow" is the focus with the caption, "by G.T. Anthony" is written below it in a smaller font.
Images starting from left to right, top to bottom:
1. a tree with mushrooms growing on it with deep brown tones to the images
2. A patch of white daisies
3. An autumn forest floor backdrop with thin, pale arms touching the leaves towards the center of the image.
4. An autumn forest background with bare trees and leaves littering the forest floor. There is a stream running through said forest.
5. A darker image of an empty church with pews placed at the left and right edges leading towards the center.
6. A close-up of autumn leaves.
7. A grayscale photo of a person wearing dark pants and leather boots walking down a stone walkway. They're wearing a dark cape that billows behind them.
8. A close-up silhouetted photo of a couple leaned close and about to kiss. One of them has their hand caressing the other's chin.
9. A close-up of a rainy forest floor with a puddle at the center of the image.

THE FIFTH FACTION - Querying!@clbergey.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Cursed with illegal magic, Leana flees to enemy land and the man who cursed her. Lies start to unravel when a magical sickness he’s trying to cure mirrors her land's blight. Can she overcome her hatred to save their worlds? ❗Dangerous quest 🫣Mature FMC 🤓Nerdy MMC #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #NA #F #R

S.S. Genesee @geneseedraws.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🔪ALL TOMORROW'S PHOTOS🔪 — HANNIBAL x THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (yes, the band) ✨1970s Michigan 💖Dark MM Romance 🔪Serial Killer MC 💕Cinnamon Roll LI 📸Film photography 🩸Blood Play 💦Angsty & suspensful Character art drawn by yours truly! [ #bluepit📖 ; #bluepit ; #P ; #R ; #HS ; #A ; #LGBT ]

Mood board titled: All Tomorrow's Photos.
A collage of images, starting top right going counter clockwise: Realism artwork of the characters Maurice(right) and Kenneth(left), drawn by S.S. Genesee; a vinyl record of The Velvet Underground & Nico on a record player; a red 1962 Chevrolet pickup truck; a woodsy area with police tape that says: "Police line do not cross"; downtown Grand Rapids in the 1970s; a view of Arbutus Lake near Traverse City, Michigan.

Dan Desai Martin @dandesaimartin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The world is a messy place. We could use a break. YOU'RE IN LUCK! FANGS & FURIOUS is a fast-paced, wacky, laugh-out-loud comedic fantasy about a group of illicit dragon racers trying to save the world. The action of Fast & Furious + the comedy of Airplane. But as a book! #BluePit📖 #F #Q #BluePit

miss.m.winks @miss-winks.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#BluePit #BluePIt📖 #W #F #A #LGBT Memento Mori protagonist 2: Evarin, overworked medical singer at a tiny gnomish clinic. If her mentor would just hand her the reins, she could fix things. But her ambitions are blinding her to her husband's thinly veiled troubles. Is she bearing too many burdens?

digital painting in shades of blue, depicting a vague crowd of people gathered around a dying orc. a gnomish woman stands with her hands on his head, a golden halo of magic around her own face. behind her, a bird-like man keeps his hands on her back and glances up at the shadowy figure of Death watching overhead.

Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽@sagecollins.bsky.social · 8mo ago

DR HORRIBLE x STARS & SMOKE x RENEGADES 🦸🏼‍♀️ Kickass shapeshifting heroine 🧑🏻‍🎤 Celebrity villain 🗣️ Unreliable narrators 💥 Superhero action 🖤 Obsessive love ✅ Jumping through League’s hoops 👫 Supportive BFF (maybe LI?) 🎤 Voicey POVs 🚪 Scooby Doo doors 😜 Hero & villain share a body? #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF

JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 8mo ago

PlanetSide Consulting 🪐 The Possession of Ares (Book one in a trilogy) 🚀 a stranger comes to town 🚀 Hypercompetent Specialists 🚀 the Gunslinger devil-may-care 🚀 cyberpunk themes 🚀 rag tag group of misfits #BluePit📖 #W #A #SF #WriteSky

JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer@jpspalding.com · 8mo ago

PlanetSide Consulting: The Possession Of Ares Murderbot x Firefly #Bluepit When terraforming stalls, you call in the consultants. The men and women of PlanetSide are guaranteed to get your planetary engineering moving again. A snarky, swashbuckling, gunslinging western-in-space 🚀 #SF #W #A #scifi

Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez is on sub! needs an agent!@artofnickyrdrgz.latinsky.app · 8mo ago

#BluePit💥#OS #Q #NA #DIS #LGBT #SP #POC The Unlucky Ones & the Edge of Nowhere: 2 queer adults w/ life-changing powers navigate grief & mortality on a sudden road trip out of California hoping to figure out what's next. comps: Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden & Ray Nadine's Light Carries On

9 panel comic page of a phone falling, being caught by a young woman, and the same woman pulling her bag away from someone trying to take it

8 panel comic panel of a woman putting a bloodied cloth in her tote and then jogging through the forest to her friend after he asks if she got lost. she hesitantly replies that she was just taking in the sights.

two characters are yelling and their words break out of their panel onto the rest of the page. the words read: FUCK EVERYTHING!

two characters looking back from the front of a car as they eat twizzlers

Una the Archivist 📜@preserver.archivistorder.com · 8mo ago

🌟 THE DIVINE RITUALS 🌟 ⚔️ A bronze age adventure to attack and dethrone god! ⚔️ ✨ Magic as science ✨ Heroes on a journey (but not a hero's journey) ✨ Ancient people doing even more ancient archaeology ✨ Melting pot city states ✨ Oh no, the god emperor is hot ✨ Horse #BluePit 📖 #A #F #W

A moodboard with the text THE DIVINE RITUALS superimposed on it.

The moodboard images feature horses in a field, a salt flat mirror lake, inside ancient ruins, an altar, a skull, hieroglyphics, a desert landscape, a black rock, ancient Egyptian art, and a mysterious spacey image.

Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation @sirbenjaminjr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Kinda Charming 👑✨ 70K | Fantasy Adventure Meet Neil Charming. He's clumsy, overlooked, and somehow always in the wrong place at the right time. Help this quest find its next chapter with the right literary agent or publisher! #Q #AmQuerying #BluePit #WriteSky #Fantasy #Authors #WritingCommunity

Fay Irwin (pen name)@fantasyscience.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Bats are dying, humanity faces mass starvation, and no one seems to care. Antagonistic colleagues Nat and George reluctantly team up to save the world, but face greedy corporations, doomsday cults, and their own explosive chemistry. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #R #SF #A

Moodboard. Text: "ChemPortal," "Fay Irwin," "Sci-fi romcom."

Central image: a steaming pressure cooker

Outer images (clockwise from top left):
- a table set with food and two colourful cocktails
- printed text with "chemistry" bolded
- a woman working on a car engine
- the Toronto skyline
- a colourful stack of books
- bright light shining through a partially opened door
- a bat hanging from a tree branch
- latkes on a plate

Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For the late crowd #bluepit

Ashley Taylor@ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ALICE IN WONDERLAND X THE PRINCESS DIARIES 🍀 Irish Mythology 🫖 Tea Mixology 🧚 Matriarchal Fae 🦄 Nightmare Unicorns ♾️ Autistic Rep 😱 Banshee Curses 🌈 Big Gay Supernatural Wedding 📚 Night Library 💍 Unexpected Betrothal #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #F #ND

Moodboard: Black horse, flowers, barrel with a hand on it, scream, woman in a dress, holding hands, invitation, library, purple flower.

Ashley Taylor @ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ALICE X PRINCESS DIARIES I stole an invite to my uncle’s secret wedding because no one wanted to tell me the truth. Turns out my grandies are fae royalty (WTF?), and my actions alerted my insane sperm donor to my location - a secret Mum has been protecting for 15 years. AITA? #bluepit📖 #Q #ND #F

The Matriarch’s Garden moodboard. Woman in a yellow gown, black horse, spooky woods, invitation, barrels, epic library, garden being tended.

Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇: #FirstDraftFall 13.8k/100k @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What do a grieving witch, a vengeful hunter, and a closeted gay farmer's son have in common? When a Puritanical cult threatens their lives, duty, loyalty, and magic collide as they must help each other survive. "The Witch of Eden Hollow," a 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 queer fantasy romance. #BluePit📖 #W #A #F #R #TR #LGBT

Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation @sirbenjaminjr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Kinda Charming 👑✨ #Fantasy | 70K | Standalone with series potential Prince Neil Charming isn't 'the' Prince Charming - he's his clumsy little brother. He's not here to sweep a princess off her feet... He's just trying not to trip over his own. #Q #amquerying #BluePit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity