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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting

@prahajess.bsky.social

Author, teacher, quilter, Prague tram rider 🇨🇿 🌁 Only writing-related DMs. https://jessicafisherriches.com/

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 12h ago

Just discovered Charisma Carpenter's YouTube podcast "The Bitch is Back," where she watches Buffy episodes (for the first time?) live. Now I'm going to be secretly watching these instead of working, for sure. #Cordy #Buffy #BTVS

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 3w ago

My second anthology story, “Conceits”, now available from #hollowpointpress #writesky #microfiction #amwriting

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Hi, and welcome to my newsletter! I'm an author and literary agent, here to talk about all things publishing: the good, the bad and the ugly. So glad you're here! Click to read Jenna's Substack - Auth...

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨@jundlife.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reveal Day! My short story "The Servant of Brass" will be featured in the new Crooked Spine Issue: Last Exit. Excited to be pubbed with brookbwrites.bsky.social Stay Spooky crookedspinepress.com/store #Horror #CrookedSpine #HorrorTree #WritingCommunity #amwriting #Writesky #AuthorSky

Cover of Crooked Spine Magazine issue 3: Last Exit. Art featured four skeletons driving a red classic car with the license plate DEDEND through the American Southwestern desert on route 666 past an old gas station.

Kiki Strand @kikistrand.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hollwpoint Press has announced winners for "The Gathering" and I cannot believe that I have been selected for first place!! It's a huge honor to be recognized in this way. Sending my many thanks 💛💛💛 #hallowpointpress #theaudacityofgnomes #1stplace #writer #independentwriter

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Flash Fiction:
1st Place: Kiki Strand - "The Audacity of Gnomes"
2nd Place: Camilla Salemi - "Weight Your Words"
3rd Place: Valeriy Skrobinsky - "Dinner"
Arus Category: 1st Place: M Void - "Vision of a Cult"

Brought to you by Hollowpoint Press
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Kiki Strand @kikistrand.bsky.social · 4w ago

Book release day! Check out my story, "The Audacity of Gnomes" in Hollowpoint Press' anthology "300: The Gathering." Available August 29, 2026. Find it at www.hollowpointpress.ca Both the image and my story were created 100% by a human. (me :] ) #hollwpointpress #thegathering #books #anthology

the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 4mo ago

thrilled to have my flash story “Aboard Empire Cruise Lines” appearing in this new anthology from Hollowpoint Press! www.hollowpointpress.ca

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thrilled to have my story "Conceits" part of this anthology, now available at amazon! "We at Hollowpoint Press are so excited to be releasing the curated works of 41 astonishing authors and 9 vivacious visual artists into the wild." #hollwpointpress #thegathering #books #anthology

Cover and back cover of The Gathering, A Monumental Literary Anthology; collage image of creepy goat man on a farm

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

RIP Dolly Parton. This is the worst.

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

So pleased to have been published in The Woodside Review! thewoodsidereview.substack.com/p/hotel-lobb... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writers

HOTEL LOBBY, 1943

A tension of unspoken grievances — Ekphrastic prose by Jessica Fisher Riches

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm obsessed. open.spotify.com/track/2d0Pxw...

Moon Man

Balu Brigada · I Should Be Home · Song · 2022

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's here! I'm thrilled to be part of the two-volume Gorgon's Gaze Press anthology: Witches Save the World. (Note: I'm in Covens, Cauldrons and Curses)! Find all the links here: eternalhauntedsummer.com/gorgons-gaze... Direct Amazon link here: www.amazon.com/Witches-Save...

Covens and Curses, Hags and Harridans; two book covers called Witches Save the World (two editions); Witches who speak, who act, who do what must be done -- because someone has to save the world

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 worldshift2026.manyworldswriting.com

Worldshift 2026: The Speculative Fiction Writers' Conference

Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My first horror micro story has been published by Flash Phantoms! Check it out: www.flashphantoms.net/august-micro...

August Micro Fiction Horror | Flash Phantoms

For the month of August 2026, these are the stories of 100 words that intrigue us most.

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Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An intelligence agent from 2023 and a Russian spy from 1997 travel to 1972 to steal Britain's time travel secrets. When they collide with a sceptical but astute MI5 officer, the result is a temporal explosion that pushes The Cold War into new, lethally uncharted territory. #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖

Raymond Currier @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Archwitch Rises Living in a tyrannical theocracy, a stealth trans nobleman, Leon, his bounty-hunting alchemist boyfriend, Taerin, and the moon fight back, hoping to topple the empire for good. A MARVELLOUS LIGHT+FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST #bluepit #q #amquerying #📖 #a #f #r #OV #lgbt #nd #tr

A photo collage mood board. At the top is a black strip showing the phases of the moon and text "the archwitch rises" in a serif font. The left side shows a lush foresr with inset photos of an antique pistol sitting near a letter and quill, and a man sitting in a field moving clouds of vapor with his hands. On the right is a drawing of an 1840s city with inset images of an 1800s black suit, long brown trench coat, and a brownish green floor length dress with puffy sleeves

L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨@smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good morning #BluePit! #📖 I present to you, for your consideration, an #AgentsGuide to: AFTER THE BITE (SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN X LAND OF THE DEAD) #Bluepit #W #A #SF #H

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Presenting an agents guide to:
AFTER THE BITE
Genre: Horror, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Romance
Status: Completed first draft at 82k words

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The pitch:
When Erika emerges from a nearly calcified cocoon in a zombie filled basement, they find themself in a world of horror and carnage, and find themself capable of shifting their shape, even making weapons from their body. What Erika is missing is their memory, which they must recover while avoiding the nightly pull of a strange light only they can see around the spire in the center of persistence, the last human city in North America.

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Comp Titles: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN X LAND OF THE DEAD
Posters of both book and movie included.

Tropes and Themes:
MONSTER’S POV
ZOMBIE POST-APOCALYPSE
SURVIVING WALLED CITY
MAD SCIENTIST
HORRIBLE EXPERIMENTS
BODY HORROR
CHANCE ENCOUNTER TO ROMANCE
ROTTEN CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD

Pictures of some of the above.

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Excerpt:
I push out against the hardness in front of me. It resists, but only for a few moments. Cracking and crunching noises fill my senses where only the beats were. I push harder. It fights me, but i cannot stop.
Cracks appear in front of me and… whatever it is i’m in is breached. Light and air flood over me and i gasp, drawing in lungfuls of air to sate the burning.
Thu-dump! Thu-dump!
My heart calms now that i have air, but it still beats rapidly. I still have to get out, i am in danger here! Get out and get up!
How do i know all this?
I push again, harder now that i’m breathing again. The cracks widen… and then i’m falling forward out of a large tear. My whole world tumbles, and then i’m half laying on a cold, rough, dirty floor, half hanging out of my vacated prison. I draw in another breath and start coughing, expelling dark liquid out of my lungs, but i am breathing fully and properly now.

L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨@smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good morning #BluePit! #📖 I present to you, for your consideration, an #AgentsGuide to: CAVERN CLIPPER (TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH X THE LAST EXILE) #Bluepit #W #SF #F

Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds.
presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper.
Status: first draft being edited
Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart.

Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light.
The Pitch:
A RECENTLY DECEASED HUMAN (SAM) AND A FORMERLY CAPTIVE CERUNAN (NYXEL) NEED TO DELIVER A MESSAGE CRITICAL TO HUMANITY’S SURVIVAL, ARE THROWN TOGETHER ON A PIRATE HUNTER SHIP AND ARE BEING PURSUED BY A RELENTLESS PIRATE FLEET - BUT THE LIVING MAZE OF CAVERNS THEY MUST TRAVERSE TO GET THERE MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE PIRATES.

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Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH X THE LAST EXILE
Tropes and themes:
• TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI)
• AIRSHIPS
• PIRATES
• CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES
• A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED!

Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman.
Excerpt:
“CAPTAIN!” SAM SHOUTED AND POINTED TO THE SIGHT. HE SAW HER REACT, BUT DIDN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HER RESPONSE WOULD BE. INSTEAD HE SPUN AROUND TO TRY AND FIND NYXEL. HE SPOTTED HER ON THE MAINMAST, SCANNING THE DECK AND LOOKING FOR TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY.
“NYXEL! THE CABLE!” SAM SHOUTED. HE SAW HER HEAD SNAP TOWARDS HIM AND HE POINTED TOWARDS WHERE THE LAST CABLE WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE DECK, THEN SWUNG HIS HAND AROUND TO THE SLOOP. SHE FOLLOWED HIS HAND, THEN NODDED AT HIM AND LAUNCHED BACK INTO THE AIR, GRACEFULLY CURVING TOWARDS THE SLOOP ONE FINAL TIME.

Sam Peil 🧟😈🤡@sampeil.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ONE NIGHT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE When a perimenopausal single mom gets a second chance at love with her high school prom date, they have to fight off her demon ancestor, who is a sassy, lovesick, pain-in-the-ass, and everyone is a bi disaster. 😈💋🏳️‍🌈🌊 #bluepit #dis #nd #h #r #lgbt #q

One Night at the Bottom of the Lake
@sampeil

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧹 EARLY MAGIC🧹 After a daemon steals her magic, a cocky teen witch reluctantly teams up with a grieving coven initiate she intends to double-cross, only to discover they're the only ones standing between a power-hungry druidess and the hidden birthplace of magic. #BluePit #📖 #YA #F #Q

A central pink circle labeled "early magic" surrounded by photos: a woman holding a glowing book, portraits of moody young women, apothecary jars, a barren shoreline and forest

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #BluePit #📖 #A #H #W #DIS #OWN #ND

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨@jundlife.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #BluePit #H #Q #📖

'Hat' - 81K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature, moon stuff, Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. Backrooms

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A celebrity author teases his novel by building a replica of Stonehenge, raising ghosts of an English town’s Roman past. As pagan cults clash, a father races to save his estranged son, a victim of the madness, before the Winter Solstice unleashes mayhem and blood sacrifice. #BluePit #W #A #H #📖

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Slow Horses x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird Science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖 #agentguide #litagents

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 Clueless meets Rachel Griffin #BluePit #📖 #YA #F #Q #WriteSky

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The night her mentor died, Gabina lost control. She reached something the world had buried...and it reached back. ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn 👹 Daemons 🧹 Covens 🇨🇿 Prague ☁️ Dark #BluePit #📖 #A #R #D #W #WriteSky #AmWriting #Writers

The Vltava Pact; images: Charles Bridge Statue, young woman, ink well, gargoyle, young man

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Vltava Pact; images: statue on Charles Bridge, ink well and pen, young man

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Four Keys First published in The Write Launch. 🇨🇿 👹 🗝️ 🌹 #shortstory #BluePit #📖 #A #R #P #Fairytale #WriteSky thewritelaunch.com/2026/06/four...

Four Keys, A Modern Fairytale; images: an old key, foggy Prague spires; a grotesque

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Four Keys A modern fairytale set in Prague. First published in The Write Launch. #shortstory #BluePit #📖 #A #R #P #Fairytale #WriteSky thewritelaunch.com/2026/06/four...

Four Keys | Short Story by Jessica Fisher Riches in the June issue of The Write Launch

“Welcome to the building. Save the boy.” Nikola heard the words distinctly, but there was no one around. She tightened her grip on her backpack strap and turned back to the message board in the dimly…

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