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@bryan-writes.bsky.social

Writer querying my YA Thriller. Probably reading a novel about monsters or scrolling through XKCD comics.

Nastaran Arfaei @n-arfaei.bsky.social · last yr.

A neuroscientist is recruited to lead a team to find and “quench” consciousness if it emerges in supercomputers. A technical challenge that quickly spirals into a deep ethical conflict. Severance X Martian X Ishiguro #Bluepit 📖 #Q #A #SF #SP #POC #writercommunity #writersky #writers #AmQuerying

Closeup of an eye behind the wings of an electronic firefly. (Image created by myself)

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · last yr.

She's telling herself she's got the Future all figured out. He's pretending he's let go of his Past. Will Magda and Dominik miss the magical Now? 🇨🇿 Expats in Prague 🇨🇿 Early-90s nostalgia 🇨🇿 Drifters, artists, seekers 🇨🇿 A crossroads in history #BluePit 📖 #W #NA #R #HS

5-images: old tram in Prague; table with polaroids and drinks; silhouette of a couple facing each other in a dark theater; turntables; an old, European stairwell with iron railing. Title: Best Kisser in Prague

Sarah Dorko @sarahdorko.bsky.social · last yr.

After 500 years, Tal will do anything to revive his lover’s soul. But when he finally creates a Wishing Stone, it ends up in the hands of a human girl lost in his world. Tall will have to help her friends on their rescue mission if he wants a chance to make his wish. #BluePit📖 #YA #Q #BluePit

The upper two thirds of this moodboard feature a warm orange and black palette while the bottom third with more black and white with a close of on a fencing sabre’s guard, light shining down into a cave, and a crystal. The top two thirds have dice falling, an orange sub at sunset, abstract images that look like silhouettes casting magic, and in the center are three silhouettes backlit by an orange sunset, looking off into the distance.

@bryan-writes.bsky.social · last yr.

CORALINE X AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN 🩸Francine's used to nightmares—but not the pain she wakes up with. Then she finds a doll full of pins with her own hair stitched into its scalp. Unless she can sever her link to it soon, the next bad dream may be her last. #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #T #Thriller #PN

On the left, New Orleans at twilight. This image fades into a black and white photograph on the right of a girl sitting in a chair as hands reach out from the darkness behind her.

Massimo Cubello @massimocubello.bsky.social · last yr.

Torched by the press. Hated by his teammate. Outclassed by the field. Sam Ferguson’s third year in F1 may be his last, unless he can outrun his past with the help of a curious ally. A petrol-scented thriller that captures what's won and lost BETWEEN THE WHITE LINES. #BluePit 📖 / #A / #HS / #Q

A collage of colour and black/white motorsport photos to help capture the tone of my upcoming racing novel, BETWEEN THE WHITE LINES.

@bryan-writes.bsky.social · last yr.

Francine steals a voodoo doll of herself. Unless she destroys it, she will never be safe—but that would mean killing the person who created it. 💕 Sweet boy, dangerous magic 👯‍♀️ Best friends… or not? 🤐 Family secrets 🎒 Skips class, fights witches 💀 A doll to die for #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #T #Thriller #PN

A girl sitting on a wall with the ghostly outline of a doll floating above her

MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · last yr.

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. 📖 #Q #A #P #F #M #D #Hu #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 always told myself it wasn't real. 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.

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.

Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · last yr.

THE COTTON CANDY OF DARK ROMANCE Wulf discovers being a werewolf means no orgasms, unless he wants his lovers to run out screaming, so his hot roommates help him train to resist. But when Sky, vampire S&M club owner comes, will Wulf? Purchase links below! #BluePit 📖 #P #A #F #Erotica #LGBT

At the top is the title text “Good Boys Don’t Howl”

On a background of a brick wall lit with the colors of the bisexual pride flag is the shadow of a howling werewolf and a rain of red feathers.

Over the shadow is a neon mouth with red lips and white vampire fangs and a blue and purple hand with a raised index finger in a shushing gesture.

Below that is a tagline: “pop goes the werewolf”

At the bottom of the image are four blocks of text: “Bisexual”, “Polyamorous”, “Sweet & Spicy”, and “Kinky as fuck”

Elisa Winther @elisawinther.bsky.social · last yr.

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS x MOON-BRIGHT TIDES In her darkest hour, Nilah’s dalliance with Death sinks her deep into an ocean of grief. Destruction looms as the only way left is down, but what if that’s exactly what she needs? Will her needs align with her wants? #Bluepit📖 #A #F #H #W #BluePit

Moodboard for the short story with the working title "A Teasing Fate So Cruel" by Elisa Winther. A speculative horror which includes the ocean, death, and rebirth. The imagines include a face of someone drowning, a glowing mermaid, underwater kelp, and the sea.

Abigail F. Boneta @abibonetawrites.bsky.social · last yr.

WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS × JACKAL When Amélia receives a painting from her presumed murdered mother, a game they used to play when she was a child, she comes back home to play without knowing if the man who kidnapped them 10 years prior is behind it. #BluePit 📖 #M #T #H #A

Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · last yr.

Blue Crush 🌊 x Sirens 🧜🏼‍♀️ When wanting to drown your ex after they break your heart is a normal feeling it’s also a normal reaction in Breaker Bay 💔 And when you’re a girl gang of sirens whose love language is violence… It’s a little too normal #BluePit #Q #A #R #Sp #F

Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · last yr.

Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #LGBT

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with golems.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · last yr.

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign. #BluePit 📖 #A #H #M #Q

The image shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · last yr.

PRINCE OF THORNS × THE FOOL × THE BUTCHER BOY When a court jester finally snaps and murders the tyrant king, he must joke and kill his way out of a kingdom in chaos—hunted by loyalists, worshipped by rebels, and slowly losing his mind. #BluePit 📖 #A #F #H #W

This is a book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. Van Bodegom, described as "A Dark Fantasy Novel." The cover features a dramatic cosmic scene with a starry black space background. The central element is a large, pink-tinted celestial body that appears to be a moon or planet with a cratered, skull-like surface - the dark craters and shadows create the impression of hollow eye sockets and other skeletal features.In the foreground, silhouetted against this ominous moon, is the dark figure of what appears to be a jester or fool character, complete with the characteristic pointed cap with bells or ornaments. The figure is positioned in the lower portion of the cover, creating a striking contrast against the pink lunar surface.The title "MARK" appears in large, bold white letters across the upper portion, with "OF THE" in smaller text in the middle, and "JESTER" in large letters at the bottom. The author's name "B. VAN BODEGOM" is positioned at the very bottom in smaller white text. The overall color scheme uses stark contrasts of white text, black space, and the haunting pink tones of the skull-like celestial body to create a dark, foreboding atmosphere appropriate for the dark fantasy genre.

Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽@sagecollins.bsky.social · last yr.

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. W/ Jack's frozen heart melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F #LGBT

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · last yr.

Slow Horses x Life on Mars 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. #Q #A #T #SF #BluePit 📖 🦋 #litagents #agentguide #writesky #writers

Dark blue background with a circular, time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a time tunnel, or vortex. Text reads:

An Agent's Guide to:
Out of Time
By Gert Ramm

Espionage/Time Travel/Thriller

Images from Pixabay

Dark blue background with a circular, time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a time tunnel, or vortex. Text reads:

1972 is a rough year for intelligence officer Eddie Fletcher, and it’s only January.

First he discovers the Cold War is really about time travel, then he’s framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster.

Sealing a lethal time rift is the only way to clear his name - much easier said than done when he’s being hunted by the British government.

Then there's a Russian spy on a mission so vital he’s travelled from 1997 to complete it.

Pitch:

Slow Horses X Time Travel

Images from Pixabay

Dark blue background with a circular, time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a time tunnel, or vortex. Text reads:

Comps:
Slough House Series (Mick Herron)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Gillian McAllister)
Four Minutes (Brian Andrews/Jeff Wilson)
Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)

TV Comps:
The Ipcress File
Day of the Jackal
Life on Mars
Callan

Images from Pixabay

Jax Devora (is writing)@jaxdevora.bsky.social · last yr.

DRAGONFALL x FFXIV When Mick agrees to be his mage bff(/crush) Eleanor's adventuring partner, all he wants is to keep her safe. But a twist of fate changes him into a divine dragon, and his priorities shift to: stop a war, protect Eleanor, and stay alive. In that order. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #F #R #W

Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha.

Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies.
Center: 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. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels.
Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer.

A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.

@bryan-writes.bsky.social · last yr.

THREADS THAT BIND X DELICIOUS MONSTERS Francine just wants her father back: impossible, until she finds a doll that can make her feel warm and loved whenever it is held. But it can also kill her if it is held too tight—and someone just stole it out of her purse. #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #T #Thriller #PN

A mood board showing 5 neon images and 4 black and white ones. The neon images show New Orleans at night, and the black and white images show unsettling photos, including a scared girl, a couple in love, and hands tied-up in yarn.

@bryan-writes.bsky.social · last yr.

🎷 Every night, her dreams begin with darkness. Then the gas lamps flicker to life, and a saxophone begins to play. 💀 When the song ends, the old woman will be waiting for her. 🩸 And if she doesn’t manage to wake up first, she may not wake up at all. #PlaylistPitch #YA #T #Thriller #amquerying

@bryan-writes.bsky.social · last yr.

SADIE X ROYAL BLOOD Francine steals a voodoo doll of herself, planning to destroy it, but whenever she touches the doll, she can feel it on her own skin. Unless she can break the doll’s spell, she will never be safe—but that would mean killing the person who created it. #YA #CT #Q #MiseryPit

Madeline Nixon🇨🇦@markedwithanm.bsky.social · last yr.

Pushing Daisies x Louise Penny When Maryl realizes she can talk to the dead, she decides to solve a decades old cold case at her university. She might solve the crime with the ghost’s own words ... or she might end up being the next school spirit #MiseryPit #A #Q #CM

@bryan-writes.bsky.social · last yr.

CORALINE X AMERICAN HORROR STORY COVEN Francine's used to nightmares—but not the pain she wakes up with. Then she finds a doll with her own hair stitched into its scalp and its body full of pins. Unless she can sever her link to it soon, the next bad dream may be her last. #YA #CT #Q #MiseryPit

Abigail F. Boneta @abibonetawrites.bsky.social · last yr.

Phi at the Long Way Down book series @longwaydownbook.bsky.social · last yr.

Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead, & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do. The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late? #MiseryPit #A #RM #FT #WIP

There is a grid of nine square photos with a dark blue background around them. All the photos are darkened and desaturated. In the top left photo Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is squatting close to the ground beside a tree trunk with his hands clasped one over the other. The top middle photo is a series of silhouettes of gravestones, the faint outline of a mountain in the background. The top right is a paved bridge that extends into fog, with metal railings on either side and branches along the top edge of the image. The centre left photo is a blurred, dark image of lines on a road and a streak of a headlamp above. The centre middle is a starry night sky surrounded by black silhouettes of tree tops. Centre right is a lighter photo of a roadway and field beyond, with a white Mini driving on it. The bottom left photo is of several leafless young trees beside a lake. The bottom middle photo is a low-angle shot of a cobblestone wall and memorial obelisk atop it. In the bottom right image, Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, moves along a hedge in a black leather jacket with a wary expression on her face.

@bryan-writes.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello Everyone! New to BlueSky, but hopping on the bandwagon to join #pitchEvents for my #YA #thriller. Looking forward to meeting some fellow writers on here too, and seeing what everyone else is working on.