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Kendall Rae

@authorkendallrae.bsky.social

Romance writer and book lover. Currently in my cowboy romance reader era. Adding laughter to happily ever after <3 TikTok and Instagram: @kendallraewrites

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Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you like: 💍 New England weddings 💗 Stolen coffees 💍 Designing floral arrangements 💗 Italian greyhounds 💍 Messy women doing their best 💗 Champagne toasts 💍 Wealthy people behaving badly 💗 (Accidentally) shoving your rival in a pond… check out BROTHER OF THE BRIDE #Q #A #R #romcom #QuestPit

Mood board for New England wedding planning

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 2w ago

UPROOTED x BRIDGERTON Heidi isn’t interested in her family’s chosen suitor. She’d rather study the cursed forest to secure her tenure track. 📚 Grad School 🏳️‍🌈 Non-binary love interest 🪲 Giant sentient beetles 🎩 Regency vibes 🏛️ Natural History Museums 🐷 Truffle Pigs #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #LGBT

A drawing of a woman standing looking out against a red sky. She’s dressed in a white button up shirt, a brown vest, and a purple shawl. She’s holding up a pencil and a journal filled with scraps of paper. At her back stands a dark misty figure in a dark green cloak. Where their left eye would be there is a swirling galaxy instead.

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 2w ago

This vibe, but she’s planning his sister’s wedding and he’s determined to stop it. #Q #A #R #romcom #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amquerying #QuestPit

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 2w ago

NETTLE & BONE x STAR DAUGHTER 💰 Cheating a suitor out of his money to help her family was easy. 🌌 Falling in love with the night sky trapped in a mortal body is harder. 💔 And helping them return to the sky at the expense of her heart might just be impossible. #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #LGBT

A collage of images, going from top left clockwise: a bouquet of colorful berries, swooping white towers with spiral balconies, a shiny purple beetle, a colorful shop full of knick-knacks, a blooming crocus in a dark forest, a drawing of a woman reaching out to the night sky as if to pluck a star, a crumbling castle on a moor, and mushrooms growing on a tree. In the center is a quote by Virginia Woolf: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE STARDUST GRAIL x MOSS’D IN SPACE ☀️The Sun is dying ahead of schedule. 🏺Roan, an expert in dead coding languages, finally has a chance to go to Earth and excavate artifacts before the Sun swallows anything of value. 👀 But is she truly alone on the doomed planet? #QuestPit #A #SF #R #Q #LGBT

A collage of photos with text in the middle saying “Archaeologists will date any old thing.” The other pictures include a circuit board, archaeology tools, a record player, a museum interior, an astronaut looking at San Francisco buried in sand, a man holding a dark rose, a person reaching out to a ghostly figure, and an espresso machine.

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 2w ago

A bubbly wedding planner meets her match when her client’s stubborn older brother vows to stop the wedding. 💍 Workplace romance 💗 Type A/Type A pairing 💍 Messy characters 💗 Slow burn YEARNING 💍 New England setting 💗 Vision boards, bouquets, and color-coded checklists #Q #A #R #romcom #QuestPit

Vision board of wedding planning in New England setting

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 2w ago

SAY YES TO THE DRESS X THE HATING GAME Wedding planner Eleanor makes happily ever afters come true. But she isn’t prepared for the biggest obstacle threatening her latest job: the bride’s overprotective brother, who wants to stop the wedding. #Q #A #R #romcom #WriteSky #amquerying #QuestPit

SAY YES TO THE DRESS X THE HATING GAME

A financially desperate wedding planner organizing an ultra-luxury event meets her match when her client’s parentified older brother vows to stop his twenty-one year old sister’s wedding.

Workplace romance, Strong B plot, messy characters, heartfelt sibling story, slow burn rivals to lovers, New England Setting, bouquets and vision boards

Comp titles

The Paradise Problem
Bridesmaid for Hire
27 Dresses
Say Yes to the Dress
The Hating Game
Just for the Summer

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 3w ago

Love this one! BROTHER OF THE BRIDE has big SAY YES TO THE DRESS vibes. Take me to Kleinfeld! #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #wip #romcom

Randy Fenoli: Say Yes To The Dress Entrance

Alt: Randy Fenoli: Say Yes To The Dress Entrance

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Kayleigh Diaz 🫜@kayleighdiaz.com · 3w ago

16 | Ah, comps… the bane of every #querying writer’s existence 😆 Buuut if you had to compare the plot of your #WIP to a movie/show (game, ancient text, or um…idk, dealer's choice), what would you choose and why? #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt

#SummerOfStories

16. If you had to compare your #WIP to a movie/show, which and why?

Don't forget ALT text for images & hashtag #SummerOfStories

A #WritingPrompt game hosted by @kayleighdiaz.com

Scarlet Mitchell ⚒️ The Gerzean Blade out NOW!😍@scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 3w ago

A butler and secretary would be side characters in anyone else's story... ...until they meet and the embers of a romance begin to glow. As they navigate their cozy sci-fi world of space stations and interplanetary commerce, can they find their way to a happy ending? #BluePit #📖 #A #R #SF #W

HermitageWIP Moodboard
A baroque sitting room, a butler' uniform, an apple tree, a couple of space stations over a planet, a grand imperial staircase, a cozy thatched room cottage, a well-dressed prim and proper secretary

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 3w ago

This vibe, but she’s planning his sister’s wedding and he’s determined to sabotage it. #BluePit #📖 #A #R #Q #romcom #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amquerying

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 3w ago

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x INDIANA JONES x VOLATILE MEMORY 🏺Grumpy archaeologist 💸 Repentant trillionaire 🤖 Sassy robots 🥀 Race against time 🧠 Synthetic consciousness ❤️‍🩹 Doomed (or is it?) Romance 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Found Family ❤️‍🔥 Yearning 🚀 Stealing spaceships 👀 And they were (bunker)mates #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #SF #R #ND

A collection of nine images, starting from top lefts and moving to the right: a yellow astronomical image of a solar flare, a woman standing in a blue rain room, a close up on a record player, a hand reaching out against a white wall as a shadow reached back, a picture of a rose with the words “You Came Back” over it, a trowel on brown stones, a telescope image of Alpha Centauri, coffee beans, and a white droid

haliewrites.bsky.social @haliewrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

RULES AND PRINCIPALS ABBOTT ELEMENTARY X THE HATING GAME in this rivals-to-lovers, spicy rom-com.✏️✨💕 Two educators competing for a promotion team up, making their complicated relationship harder to navigate as undeniable attraction bubbles to the surface. #BluePit #R #Q #A #RomCom #AmQuerying #📖

RULES AND PRINCIPALS, a rivals to lovers romance with all the tropes readers love!

Mariann Evans @mevanswrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEEDY LITTLE THINGS x THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT Mara can see the last thing the dead saw. When a murdered girl’s final memory reveals Mara’s best friend, who disappeared three years ago, Mara’s gift becomes the key to solving both cases. If it doesn’t get her killed first. #BluePit #📖 #YA #M #W

A nine block moodboard with dramatic, mysterious vibes. The blocks include: mortuary tags, a girl sitting by a grave, undelivered text messages saying I miss you, come back, hands reaching for each other in the smoke, “dead girl walking” chalked into the asphalt, a girl sitting with her head on her knees, police caution tape with blood, Two girls running towards a rainbow while holding hands, a gravestone close up on the words in loving memory.

Ame ✨Comms OPEN✨@autumnchildart.bsky.social · 3w ago

#BluePit CHILDREN OF FALLEN STARS Doctor-in-training Serara saves an amnesiac boy from drowning, who might be the missing crown prince, and when an assassin breaks into her home, she finds herself in a conspiracy to topple not just the Empire, but the pantheon itself. #📖 #NA #F #W #LGBT #DIS #ND

A mood board for #Ame_NephilimWIP: On a background with a purple starry sky sits 8 pictures.
From left to right: A mortar with herbs and books in the back; blue butterflies; a raven obscured in shadows; Lightning from a stormy sky; criss-crossed ornate daggers on a cream colored cloth with green stones; fancy jewelry on a bed on gold; a campfire in the woods with a backpack; and a savanna sunset.

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 3w ago

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #BluePit #📖 #YA #R #M #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 3w ago

THE STARDUST GRAIL x MOSS’D IN SPACE The Sun is dying ahead of schedule. Roan, an expert in dead coding languages, finally has a chance to go to Earth and excavate artifacts before the Sun swallows anything of value. But is she truly alone on the doomed planet? #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #SF #ND #R

A gif of the Earth getting engulfed by a burst of plasma from the Sun

Alt: A gif of the Earth getting engulfed by a burst of plasma from the Sun

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Amelia Savage @ameliasvgauthor.bsky.social · 3w ago

PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN X BEAUTY & BEAST When her sister is promised to the ruthless king of Drommar, 17yo Annabelle takes her place. Now caught between a brewing war and an unexpected alliance with a boy who sees too much, she must decide which truth she’s willing to fight for. #W #F #YA #Bluepit

Collage of two people dancing in the dark with a stormy sea background. A raven sits atop a skull, poison vials and plague doctor.

haliewrites.bsky.social @haliewrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

✨️ RULES AND PRINCIPALS ✨️ ABBOTT ELEMENTARY X THE HATING GAME in this rivals-to-lovers, spicy romance! ✏️ Dedicated Teachers 💕 Forced Proximity ✏️ Small Michigan Lake Town 💕 Rivals-Allies-Lovers ✏️ Community 💕 Slow Burn ✏️ Spoiled First Impressions 💕 He Falls First #BluePit #R #Q #romcom #AmQuerying

RULES AND PRINCIPALS vibes:
Principal's office, dedicated teachers, Anastasia/ Dimitri dynamic, Cool girls teach, MMC glasses, love/hate dynamic, ice skating, "can't stay away from each other"

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 3w ago

SAY YES TO THE DRESS X THE HATING GAME Wedding planner Eleanor makes happily ever afters come true. Raring to plan her first high society event, she isn’t prepared for her biggest obstacle: the bride’s protective older brother, who is determined to stop the wedding. #BluePit #📖 #A #R #Q #romcom

Mood board of a woman planning a wedding.

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 3w ago

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x STAR TREK Roan, part of the last team of archaeologists sent to Earth, stumbles into an ancient bunker haunted by the synthetic mind of a trillionaire. She’s the only one who can fix his tech, but can she save him before Earth is swallowed by the Sun? #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #SF #ND

L.M. du Plessis 🇳🇦 🇺🇦📚💙 ‪✨drafting Scales of the Progenitor!✨@smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Good morning #BluePit! #📖 I present to you, for your consideration, an #AgentsGuide to SCALES OF THE PROGENITOR! (MISS PEREGRINS HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN X DRESDEN FILES) #Bluepit #W #A #F #M

Text saying "Proudly presenting an agents guide to:
SCALES OF THE PROGENITOR
An in-production Urban Fantasy WIP

Turquoise text on purple background, metallic turquoise slide outline with pictures of dragons and a copper scale in corners.

Pitch:
Milly Adams, freshly devoid of employment, takes a job offer at a mysterious manor in a small town nearby, the job involving the protection of a group of incredibly strange children in a school hosted in the manor for a month. She finds, over the course of the next thirty one days, that there is far more to these children, the school and everyone involved than meets the eye, even herself.
But there is a critical need for her services, as a malicious outside force tries to disrupt the school and/or hurt the children, and it’s Milly’s job to stop them."
Pictures of an old manor house and some temperate forest, plus more dragons in corner, same style as first slide.

Comp and Tropes page
Comp titles: Miss Peregrins House for Peculiar Children X Dresden Files

Tropes and Themes:
weird/creepy manor
inhuman school
breaking old trauma’s hold
not what they seem
fledgling abilities
escalating hidden threat

Picture of a person standing in a cave entrance in the woods. Same background as other slides.

Excerpt Text:
"Excerpt:
Then the rage hits me. This thing is in my domain, hurting my students, my friends! This cannot be allowed, will not be allowed! I pump my legs even harder, faster, driving forward with more power than I’ve ever done before. The din of my boots on the wood floor fills my ears until they’re drowned out by a roar of challenge and defiance. I wonder where it’s coming from for a moment before realizing it’s coming from my own throat and lungs, but my focus is on the armoured figure, who spins around in surprise holding Genevieve and Galilah out to the side.
Perfect."
Another picture of a forest, more dragons on bottom corners, same background.

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 3w ago

PALADIN'S GRACE x EMILY WILDE with the dynamic of maomao and jinshi from THE APOTHECARY DIARIES 💐 tortured pathetic yearner lover boy MMC 💐 meditations on the natural world 💐 exploration of the diaspora experience 💐 commentary on the medical industrial complex #bluepit #📖 #W #A #F #OV #POC

Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 3w ago

A THOUSAND THREADS is a twisted, adult retelling of “The Princess & the Pea” in which she’s not a princess but a reclusive fugitive in disguise on a probably-doomed quest to clear her name & return to her plants. Plus, there’s pirates. Querying late 2026 🤞 #BluePit #📖 #F #A #W #Fairytaleretelling

A background image of being underwater. Fancy gold swirls with flowers and leaves line the edges. Built into these swirls are the images of a boat, a very tall bed, and the profiles of a man and woman. There is text in the center featuring the title, “A Thousand Threads.” Below that it reads, “Adult Fantasy | 100k words.” Belle that is the name, “Sadie A Lindgren.”

There is a turquoise background that fades to black in the lower right corner. The title of the page reads, “The Pitch.” There are gold swirls and flowers in the upper right corner. On the left there is a picture of a fancy, overly-tall bed. There is text in the center that says, “When the reclusive groundskeeper’s daughter is framed for an assassination attempt on the Prince, she escapes and returns disguised as a princess suitor in a scheme to clear her name and reclaim her quiet life. But the only person who can help her succeed is the devious pirate who framed her in the first place.”

There is a turquoise background that fades to black in the lower right corner. The title of the page reads, “The Details.” There are gold swirls and flowers in the upper right corner. On the right there is a picture of an old-fashioned ship. There is bullet-pointed text in the center that says, “Princess and the Pea retelling
Multi-POV
Autistic Female Protagonist
Romantic Subplot
Pirates and Royalty
Swedish folklore
1790s vibe
Natural Science-based magic system.”

There is a turquoise background that fades to black in the lower right corner. The title of the page reads, “The Comps.” There are gold swirls and flowers in the upper right corner. In the center are the 4 book covers of the following books: Lady Tremaine, Nettle & Bone, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries, A River Enchanted. There are arrows pointing to the various covers with text about how these titles connect to the manuscript in question including, “Fairy take retelling, Character-driven, Doomed quest, Whimsical humor, Neurodivergent FMC, Multi-POV, and Regional Folklore.”

Scarlet Mitchell ⚒️ The Gerzean Blade out NOW!😍@scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 3w ago

Broke private-eye, Talia, has one job- find out where an ancient knife came from. But that means working with her bubbly frenemy.😤 When more mysterious artifacts emerge and her client is murdered, they must race to save the treasures before anyone else gets killed.🫣 #BluePit #📖 #A #M #P #LGBT

Moodboard- The Gerzean Blade, "An Ancient City, a modern crime, a deadly game" Adult Soft-boiled mystery.
Images of a magnifying glass over an open book, a broken window, a stream of blood trickling down the side, an archeologist measuring a hole, hieroglyphs, a long road.

Shard (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent)@mkfshard.bsky.social · 3w ago

#BluePit #Q #YA #F #LGBT #📖 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON... ...if the protagonist was the dragon. When Pathi gets his hands on stolen dragon magic, he is traumatically changed into a monstrous fire-breathing drake... and he's not the only one. Feat. 🐉 Dragons! 💫 Transformation 😈 Enemies-to-Friends

The Sigil and the Serpent, Comps: Blood Over Bright Haven, Seraphina, How to Train Your Dragon. Pitch: When a dragonslayer becomes a dragon, he must come to grips with his new body, befriend another dragon, and reject the evils of his imperial home to survive being hunted down by his human friends. YA Fantasy, 97k words. Enemies to friends, pointing at both a red and blue dragon. Asexual dragon MC, pointing at the blue dragon.

ASP @storiesbyanastasia.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wallace & Gromit meets Dr. Jane Goodall... if Jane Goodall studied cryptids. Dr. Marigold and Pippa set out to prove monsters exist only to discover the greatest mystery is why everyone got the stories wrong. #MG #M #Q #POC #BLUEPIT

A woodland-inspired collage featuring forests, mushrooms, stacked stones, a vintage camera, a child exploring nature with a notebook, a camping tent under the stars, and close-up forest details in warm green and earthy brown tones, creating a cozy atmosphere of curiosity, adventure, and discovery.

Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 3w ago

Proudly presenting for #BluePit my trailer for ⚔️ THE DUEL IN 1660 ⚔️ A storybook romp through a colorful, heightened 17th century. It's the silliest historical you'll cry over this decade! #YA / #A #LGBT #TR #OV #HS #HU #Q #📖

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 3w ago

A bubbly wedding planner meets her match when her client’s stubborn older brother vows to stop the wedding. Rivals to lovers Type A/Type A pairing Slow burn YEARNING New England setting Vision boards, bouquets, and color-coded checklists #BluePit #📖 #A #R #Q #romcom #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Mood board with vision board, oysters, Italian greyhound, champagne, New England beach, and princess diaries 2 fountain scene

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 3w ago

Every project is born from different inspiration! For my current wip, I was inspired by the energy of Princess Diaries 2! (Zero plot similarities, purely vibes) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BluePit #BluePitHype #romcom #romance #R

Anne Hathaway Stomps in Princess Diaries

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w ago

Welcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG

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#BluePitHype
Q & A
July 12th

INSPIRATION DAY

#BluePit is tomorrow! For our final day of #BluePitHype, tell us what art or stories have inspired you?

What do you love to read, or play, or watch that helps you write your stories?

1 DAY To #BLUEPIT ON JULY 13th!

@BLUEPIT.BSKY.SOCIAL

Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 3w ago

How about a scene where Eleanor doesn't beat the clock? #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #wip #romcom

My phone, which miraculously remained pinned between my ear and shoulder throughout my entire blunder, takes that opportune moment to slip.
“Dammit!” I hiss as it tumbles towards the hard tile floor.
I scramble, catching it between two hands just as Dr. Doom-and-Gloom begins to straighten. As I stand, the back of my head collides with his already-crooked nose in a resounding thump.
“F*ck!” he yells, hand flying to his face as I rub the back of my sore head.
I am so going to be late for this meeting.

Kayleigh Diaz 🫜@kayleighdiaz.com · 4w ago

12 | Stroke of midnight! Share a scene where your characters narrowly beat the clock ⏱️ (Non-spoilery, of course, and take this as you will. Could be something minor or major!) #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt