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C.W. Rose

@cwroseauthor.bsky.social

Award-Winning Fantasy & Romance #author 🖋️ 🌑🌊MIDNIGHTSONG (11.12.25) ✨💫 OCEANSONG (8.27.24, Hey Hey Books) / Healthcare 💕 Bookworm 📚 INTP 🌊 Ocean Child 🐾 Dog Mom

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C.W. Rose @cwroseauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

I loved the last virtual reading I did so much…that I signed up for another one! This Friday I’ll be doing a live reading of an excerpt from Oceansong, my debut mermaid romantasy, with Indiosyncracy and Sarah R New 😍 at 6pm CST / 7pm EST. Come join us on YouTube! It’ll be a blast 🎉

Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out the line-up of fabulous women and non-binary science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors, including @nattykbrown.bsky.social , @cwroseauthor.bsky.social and @laurencjohnson.bsky.social at this VIRTUAL live reading with @swsworlds.bsky.social and @christianek.bsky.social

A dark purple graphic with a swirling celestial cosmos in the background and a grid of six Author photos from left to right including Lyri Ahnam, Ellen Denham, Leticia Urieta, C.W. Rose, NK Brown and Lauren Johnson. Above the photos Purple text says, Strong Women Strange Worlds presents Third Thursday Quickreads of sci fi, Fantasy and horror by Lyri Ahnam, Ellen Denham, Leticia Urieta, C.W. Rose, NK Brown and Lauren Johnson. Just 16th, 7pm EDT Free on Zoom.

A dark purple graphic with a photo of Leticia, a light skinned woman with dark brown curly hair wearing a blue sweater and multicolor scarf holding a tree in the woods. Next to this photo on the right is the cover of her book, The Remedy is the Disease. Below these images in bold purple text it says, Leticia will read from her new book, The Remedy is the Disease, out now from Undertaker Books!

Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social · last mo.

I love the Strong Women, Strange Worlds reading series! Stoked to join this line-up of fabulous women and non-binary SFFH authors 🔮✨ @leticiaasu.bsky.social @cwroseauthor.bsky.social @nattykbrown.bsky.social 🗓️ 7/16 ⏰ 4pm PT/ 7pm ET 📍 Zoom www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🍹What can we get for you this evening?🍸 Today we've got a few specials for your book and hydration needs:

Our Books as Drink Orders
Covers of
STARTUP HELL by Caitlin Rozakis
DOOMFLOWER by Jendia Gammon
BEHOOVED by M. Stevenson
OCEANSONG by C.W. Rose
THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS by John Wiswell
THE QUIET LIGHT by Casey Blair

C.W. Rose @cwroseauthor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hi everyone! It’s come to my attention that my account was unfortunately hacked, and I’ve now regained control of it. If you saw any strange posts or messages from me, please ignore them. They weren’t from me. The account is now secured.

Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🎉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

Manuscript Wish List®@manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Haven Lopaz | Editing @silenthisper.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🩺 THE SURGEON OF SILENCE — #agentsguide 🧠 Institutional control 🩸 A surgeon who built it, now here to end it 🕳️ Decommissioned blacksite 💀 High stakes 🔍 Multi-POV operatives & overseers ⚖️ Obedience vs refusal Adult #SpeculativeThriller. Querying soon (currently editing)

On-screen text reads: “THE SURGEON OF SILENCE agent guide.”

This slide exists to set expectations. The visual language is restrained and institutional: clean lines, dark tones, nothing flashy because this story is about how violence often wears a professional face. The mood is controlled, deliberate, and uneasy. Nothing is screaming, and that’s the point.

This image introduces a speculative thriller concerned less with spectacle and more with systems: who builds them, who authorizes them, and who gets harmed when they’re allowed to operate without scrutiny. The title isn’t loud. It doesn’t need to be. Silence here isn’t absence, it’s policy.

On-screen text references multiple points of view, including operatives, command figures, and witnesses.

This slide is doing structural work. It signals that the story doesn’t belong to a single hero or a single moral lens. Everyone is inside the same machine—some enforcing it, some benefiting from it, some trying to survive it, some trying not to look too closely at what it’s doing.

The tone here widens the frame. The harm isn’t abstract, but it’s also not isolated. Decisions ripple outward through command chains, protocols, and people who will later insist they were only following procedure. This image emphasizes proximity: who is closest to the damage, and who gets to stay distant enough to sleep at night.

On-screen text references a surgeon who built the system and came back to end it, alongside themes of institutional control and high stakes.

This slide explains why the story exists. It centers on accountability rather than redemption. The surgeon isn’t returning to fix a mistake or reclaim a legacy—she’s confronting the consequences of her own work after it’s been repurposed into something dangerous and sanctioned.

The mood is tense but quiet, focused on refusal rather than rebellion. This image is about the moment when someone realizes that walking away wasn’t enough and that silence, even when it feels like survival, can still cause harm. The system didn’t break. It worked exactly as designed. That’s the problem.

On-screen text highlights institutional violence, bioethics, and quiet tension.

This final slide is intentionally unresolved. The visual restraint reinforces the core discomfort of the book: that some of the most devastating violence is clean, legal, and calmly justified. No chaos. No villain monologues. Just paperwork, protocols, and people doing their jobs very well.

The feeling this image aims to leave behind is unease rather than closure. It asks the reader to sit with the question of complicity—what it means to build something powerful, to benefit from it, or to look away once it’s no longer yours to control. The silence here isn’t peace. It’s what’s left when everyone decides not to speak.

Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THE UNMAKING — 95k Upmarket Speculative Fiction The Memory Police x Chain-Gang All-Stars 🧠 A memory technician that makes people forget. 📺 A glitching stranger who remembers. 🧪 A system that calls emotion error. Some things cannot be erased. #QuestPit #A #Q #LF #S

An agents guide to the unmaking an upmarket speculative novel querying now

The pitch: nova makes people forget what pains or impassions them, but her own grief unleashes a glitching witness who remembers everything she’s erased. And he won’t let her forget.

The comps: with the haunting erasure of the memory police, the escalating momentum of chain-gang all-stars and the corporate ritual menace of Severance in Apple TV+

The opening: nova once wondered in the memories she’d cut out followed her around, waiting for their moment to tear out her own.

L. Cyrus Whelchel @lcyruswhelchel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ATLANTIS: TLE x SIX OF CROWS After botching a job for a crime lord, grizzled mercenary Caston is blackmailed by the royal court to lead an expedition with 2 convicts in search of a mythical garden. Refusal means execution & leaving his ill granddaughter orphaned. #QuestPit #A #F #Q

Agent’s Guide for The Garden of Levot - Title Page

Agent’s Guide for The Garden of Levot - Pitch Page

Agent’s Guide for The Garden of Levot - Comps & Tropes Page

Agent’s Guide for The Garden of Levot - Opening Lines Page

L. Cyrus Whelchel @lcyruswhelchel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

THE GARDEN OF LEVOT ATLANTIS: TLE x SIX OF CROWS After botching a job for a crime lord, a grizzled mercenary is blackmailed by the royal court to either lead an expedition to locate a mythical garden full of potent healing herbs or be executed & leave his granddaughter orphaned. #BluePit📖 #F #A #Q

Garden of Levot mood board. Clockwise from top left: An ancient ruin doused in eerie green light. Caston, the story's hero and a mercenary of the serpentine Wasini faumen tribe. A port town with several ships docked. Two sailing ships battling on the open water. A dark cavern filled with illuminated plants. An opulent throne room cast in sunlight.

Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫@kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒙 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬 𝑺𝒌𝒚'𝒔 𝑹𝑰𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑹𝑨 When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec must decide how far to go to protect them. Esp. the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband. #Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY My cast list for who would play my MCs.👇

The FMC - Catriona Balfe as Listy
Snippet - Listy swallows against the dryness in her throat. 'You loved her very much, didn't you? Rianna.'

The MMC - David Gandy as Kris
Snippet - He looks at her. 'I fell in love with her the moment I saw her,' he says bleakly.

MMC's late wife - Ana de Armas as Rianna
Snippet - Rianna sets her glass down and rises. The moonlight traces the ineffable beauty of her face, its clever shading masking the eyes which can't always disguise their cruelty.

MMC's childhood sweetheart - Eleanor Tomlinson as Christina
Snippet - How is it she's the one at fault now? The one made to feel guilty. When it is his fault. What happened is his fault. They both know it. And they both know she will never forgive him.

Chelsea Scott @chelseascottbks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

TRAIN FROM PLATFORM 2 X WE USED TO LIVE HERE X TELL-TALE HEART Hamlet, flipped on its head Dual POV (sibs Ophelia & Laertes) A private train to a will reading 2 snowed-in murders & a haunting F/F enemies to lovers to— ❄️Querying soon❄️ #questpit #agentsguide #A #T #H #W

Moodboard for ALL ABOARD: a shadowed knife, a train with headlights on in the snow, a screaming, indistinct face, a skull in a palm, mist-capped mountains

Features: forced proximity, unreliable narration, f/f enemies to lovers, power and influence, survival, identity and paranoia.

Pitch: When Sam Hambrook, heir to the Hambrook potato chip fortune, is found poisoned and stabbed aboard his family's snowed-in train, his ex-fiancee, Poppy, scrambles to solve the crime despite interference from her brother, Lars—whose desperation to cover up that he stabbed Sam is merging with a haunting only he can see.

Snippet for ALL ABOARD:

The lamp flickers and a strange energy thrums through the train. Panic claws at my insides. I sense it before I see it: a hooded figure gliding through the closed gangway door. It leeches the forest green from the wallpaper and the gleam from the mahogany hardwoods as it drifts toward me, leaving a drab gray in its wake, and why oh why is no one else so much as flinching? Why is Poppy still asking investigative questions over Sam’s dead body?

I’m the only one who can see it.

The only one it can terrorize.

Comp books: "We Used to Live Here," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Train from Platform 2," "Hamlet"

Ruth Lane is ✨Editing✨@ruth-lane.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THE BRASS THAT BITES LEGENDBORN meets FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: At an elite academy, Xavier learns pattern-driven intelligence isn’t honed—it’s hunted, and his neurodivergent mind is prime prey. 🧠 Neurodivergent MC 🤝 Ride-or-Die friends 🧸 Missing kids depend on them #questpit #agentsguide #writing

Ruth Lane is ✨Editing✨@ruth-lane.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THE BRASS THAT BITES LEGENDBORN meets FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: An elite academy opens its doors to the lower class—education isn’t the goal. 🧠 Neurodivergent MC 🏛️ Industrial dark academia ⚙️ Magic fueled by stolen lives 🤝 Ride-or-Die friends 🧸 Missing kids depend on them #questpit #Q #YA #SFF #F

Vaughn Roe | seeking new rep | PNRxRomantasy @authorvaughnroe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

DEMON CHEVALIER | editor guide 100k standalone Demon Zarazîn steals an exorcist into Hell like a forbidden fruit from Eden—an enemy he is meant to damn, not crave. But if exposed, his treason will cost him everything...his lover's life and his very soul. #QuestPit #AG #A #RF

Alexandra Alafair @sangrescribe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When Lexi’s powerful young mentee becomes the church’s next target, the rebel succubus must choose between protecting the girl she’s sworn to save and ending the war that’s consumed her life. #questpit #DF #F #A #agentsguide

lia ☁️ is querying @brantleywrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

LUCK AND OTHER CHOICES 🌊📷 SADIE x WE WERE LIARS - a kidnapped girl & a ticking clock - young adult contemporary thriller REVISED IN 2026 a new manuscript pitch/agent guide in comments ⬇️ #questpit #R #Q #YA #T

lia ☁️ is querying @brantleywrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

LUCK AND OTHER CHOICES 🌊📷 SADIE x WE WERE LIARS REVISED 2026; a new manuscript - YA contemporary thriller - bodily autonomy - a missing girl - a ticking clock - love & its complexities - dysfunctional & found family back in the trenches spring 2026 #questpit #R #Q #YA

Jordan McCaffrie | Author @jordanmccaffrie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hey Alexa...combine retelling myths like PERCY JACKSON but w/ the daughter of Hades😵 &➕🧠health in the vibe of GIRL, INTERRUPTED Also, throw in ❤️=Noah & Allie’s in THE NOTEBOOK (but like…make Noah an Incubus😈)✌️ ✍️82K #A #F 🤬Angry girls & gods 📸Readers say…👇 #questpit #Q #DF & elements of #RF #PR #H

Conversations with Readers #1;
Reader: “I am very emotionally invested in the Ava/Cole relationship already (insert crying emoji) Ima need them to work things out or I might actually cry” insert three crying emojis.
Me: “Maybe they do, maybe they don’t?” insert girl shrugging emoji.
Reader: “I will be reading tonight until I have to go to sleep,” insert nervous emoji.

Conversations with Readers #2;
Reader: “Also sorry it’s taken me a minute, today I’ve been able to sit down and actually read read and I cannot put it down!”

Conversation with Readers #3;
Reader: “Not you booping the goddess of memories” insert laughing emoji, crying emoji, laughing emoji, “I may or may not have laughed out loud in a very quiet room when I read that part” insert three laughing emojis

Conversation with Readers #4;
Reader: “I’ve been resisting the urge to text you so many times because I didn’t want to blow up your phone,” insert laughing emoji, “I’ve been out here laughing, crying, all the things.”

Conversation with Readers #5;
Reader: “The consequences were so perfect considering the (expletive) they did to get themselves there in the first place” insert OK gesture, “And I really did love it so much for real,” insert crying emoji x3 and 3 heart emojis, “I couldn’t put it down, I had to know what was happening!”

Conversation with Readers #6;
Reader: “I love Waffles so much,” insert crying emoji x3, “I just picture Oakley with two heads, growing fifteen feet tall with spikes and scary teeth,” nervous emoji, crying emoji.
Me: “Rawr” insert laughing emoji
Reader: Also (expletive) Katarina and creepy (expletive) Jeff. And Demeter for that matter.”
Me: insert laughing emojis, “Yeah they’re awful.”
Reader: “I have so many things to talk to you about, so many emotions,” (insert crying and nervous emojis).

Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Taking of Jake Livingston X Undead Girl Gang X Breakup From Hell She didn't survive death. She became it. A reaper-in-training. A possessed boyfriend. One impossible choice: save the world or save the boy she loves. #Questpit #Q #YA #F #PR #Disability

Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Taking of Jake Livingston X Undead Girl Gang X Breakup From Hell Chess is a reaper-in-training. Her boyfriend is possessed by death itself. Chess must embrace her powers or lose everything. #questpit #YA #Q #F #PR #Disability

C.W. Rose @cwroseauthor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A 🧵 of my #questpit posts for Beyond the Mistveil!

Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫@kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#agentguide to CARELESS WHISPERS my 𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬 romantic suspense set in Greece. The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive... 💥Secrets 💥Loss 💥Slow❤️🔥 💥Obsession 💥Unrequited💘 💥Betrayal 💥Murder #Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY

An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers a 97K Romantic Suspense

Pitch & Plot
With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her. Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Rianna had not been well-liked. And everyone has something to hide. As she unravels what happened, the truth threatens everyone's future happiness and Listy must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price worth paying.

Opening Lines -
As the song fades, she hears the footsteps behind her. She doesn't rise from the lounger or look round. Just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon.
'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.'
'I have plenty to say.'
Her head whips round then. She smiles.

Snippet - 'When she died,' Olympia says in a hard voice, 'I was relieved. All I could think was, we're free of her now. Now we can begin to be happy.'
Listy's face spasms. 'But you're not,' she says. 'None of you are. It scares me, Olympia, all this hate. So much hate. Troy has it too. It's like...like it's eating him up. Rianna's dead but she might as well not be, the hold she still has on you all.'
Olympia begins rummaging in the drawer again. 'You didn't know her. You wouldn't understand.'
'I want to. Tell me what happened.'

Tropes & Themes & The Vibes
Collage of pictures with tropes and themes: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder

Lower half of page has The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera