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Laura Wilding

@laurawilding.bsky.social

Aspiring fantasy author ✍️ Writer of whimsy, devoted to the yearn 💫 Currently editing: WITCHY WIP🌘 Currently drafting: TIDES WIP🌊 https://linktr.ee/lawilding

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Stelliform Press@stelliform.press · last wk.

Much gratitude to Cynthia Gómez, author of MUÑECA, for this blurb for Caleb Sierra's THE WETWORKS MIRACLE. Get your hands on one of the strangest books you'll ever read. WETWORKS is now available from your favorite bookstore. "The tree-cattle are lowing to be milked." 😱

Graphic set against a dark, mossy forest. At right is the green illustrated cover of THE WETWORKS MIRACLE by Caleb Sierra, featuring a many-limbed creature holding a book and quill. At left, Cynthia Gómez, author of MUÑECA and THE NIGHTMARE BOX AND OTHER STORIES, calls the novella “a harrowing journey through an increasingly strange and beautiful world," praising its human-like creatures, psychedelic fungi, beautiful and grotesque body horror, “dense, gorgeous, musical prose,” and extraordinary ecosystem. Below are the Stelliform Press logo and the words “Coming this week. Everywhere.”
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.
PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words." THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch. PITCH A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home. Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement. After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun. EXCERPT STARTS BELOW “My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink. “They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.” Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing. “I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.” “Aye.” “It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.” He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.” “Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.” For once, he did just that.A page listing comp titles. Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan. Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot. Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.
Blythe Gilpin@blythewrytes.bsky.social · 2w 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? #QuestPit #A #SF #R #Q

A pair of hands, one warm and one grayscale, reach towards each other over a NASA image of the Sun. Text at the top reads “She brought me back to life…and I don’t want to die.” Text at the bottom reads “BEAST OF EDEN”An image of the Sun, with a wilting rose, a black and white robot, and an espresso in a glass mug in the corners. In front of it reads the text “LOGLINE” and more text below it reads, “In this adult 99k sci-fi “Beauty & The Beast” retelling, an archaeologist excavating long-abandoned Earth can only save one before the Sun explodes: her research or a repentant synthetic copy of the man who doomed the planet.”An image of the Sun, with old records for a record played in the top left corner. The words “OPENING LINES” are in the right corner and text above the Sun reads, “Roan’s wrist buzzed with a notification. She pointedly ignored it. She fidgeted against the wall of what would eventually be her first curated exhibit, “Captured Sound: A Pre-Culture War Celebration of Musical Ingenuity.” Her family milled around the space, taking in the sad, mostly empty podiums. Her moms insisted on a preview tour before it opened to the public, if it did at all. Roan gripped her elbows, wishing she’d done more to stall, wishing she had more here to impress them. But what could she do when they wanted a private showing, especially when they made the trip all the way out to her station?An image of the Sun. In front of it is the word “COMPS” and the covers or movie posters for “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,” “Moss’d in Space,” “Volatile Memory,” “In the Lives of Puppets,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and “Beauty & The Beast.”
Jules@julesanew.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE SHADOWS (WIP in 3rd Draft) #W #F #A #QuestPit A middle-aged shopkeeper & retired magical con artist takes one last job to save store & family. She could end the corrupt power of the Skyborn mages. She could end up losing herself, her magic & all she holds dear. Talk about a midlife crisis.

Moodboard for The Shadows WIP. Upper left: Illustration of a crowded, cramped city alley. Upper mid: Four black-clad people with face masks in a warehouse. Upper right: Shadowed cobblestone alley with someone at the mouth sweeping. Mid left. Two memes. "A niche character trope I like is the person who is nice, a good person and acts well-adjusted, then they do something where it's like oh you're secretly a little bit insane actually. Middle: A shadowed portrait of a woman with sparks coming out of her hands. Mid right: A meme: Original poster: "80% exhaustion 10% sarcasm %20 don't care" Reply poster: "that's 110 percent". OP: "20% of me doesn't care." RP: "should've seen that coming." Bottom left: Warmly lit storefront doorway on a cobblestone street. Bottom mid: Painting of fancy buildings on islands floating well above the ground. Bottom right: Cramped thrift store with shopkeeper.The Shadows: The Pitch The worst day of Ania’s life was when her beloved cousin Piren was dragged off to the floating towers of the Above to serve as a source to the Skyborn mages. The second worst day was when he was returned. Discarded. Drained of his magic and broken in spirit. Ania left behind her rebellious past to support her cousin as he once supported her. In a city where any display of magic makes you a target of the Skyborn, keeping your head down and your magic a secret, taking care of your friends, your family and your neighborhood is the only safe way to survive. But now, everything she’s built over twenty years of safe, carefully constructed life is falling apart. To recover what she’s lost, Ania takes on one last dangerous heist that strikes at the heart of the Skyborn’s power. She may end up losing herself. She may just bring the entire system crashing down.The Shadows: Comp Titles MA Carrick: Mask of Mirrors. Con artist MC out to save her family (and maybe the world). Shannon Chakraborty: Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. I'm retired. Really. Okay, fine, one last job. Robert Jackson Bennett: Foundryside. Magical technology, a corrupt ruling class and problematic heists. Fonda Lee: Last Contract of Isako. I'm too old for this shit but no one else can do it.“Except you can help me without bringing the bluejackets and their hunters down on my head!” Ania yelled, throwing her arms in the air. “All I’m asking you for is money. You’re asking me to risk my life! My family’s life!” She glared at him, grinding out her words through clenched teeth. “You want me to dust off magic I haven’t used in twenty years! How is that fair?” She spat the last word. “It’s not fair!” Verasi spat back at her. “None of this is fair!” He flung a hand out. “Our people, our friends and family, our neighbors, are ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. They’re enslaved, ridden so hard they break. Maybe it takes a year. Maybe it takes five. Maybe it only takes a couple of months.” He continued in a harsh whisper. “We live in constant fear that it’ll be one of us. If not one of us, someone we know. Someone we love. Their propaganda machine is turning our own people against us. You know they’re not even testing people to see if they have any magical talent now? They’re just rounding people up at random and carting them off Above. None of them come home, not the same way they left.”
L.K. Chopin@lkchopin.bsky.social · 2w ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 🏰YA sleeping beauty reimagining 🤟deaf MMC + ASL 👑quest to kill an evil queen 💀everyone she knows is dead 🐀ride-or-die rat companion 🎶he's immune to her song magic 🪢captor falls for his captive 🌳deadly enchanted forest now querying #questpit #rf #q #ya #f #df #r

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.
L.K. Chopin@lkchopin.bsky.social · 2w ago

A love-hating mischief sprite sets out to sabotage her infuriating rival's matchmaking scheme, but after accidentally orchestrating the perfect meet cute, she discovers (to her horror) that she's better at creating love stories than ruining them, including her own.🧚❤️🌃😈 #questpit #a #f #w #rf #pr #r

"A Manhattan Summer Night's Dream" written in white against a photo of Manhattan at nightPhillipa Crane, or Pip, as she prefers to be called, is a mischief sprite, content to spend her days playing tricks on the unsuspecting finance bros of Manhattan and her nights DMing for her girl squad, the Pixie Chicks. That is until Leo Lovehard (yes, that's his actual name), a love sprite, decides to match up Daisy, the only girl in New York Pip has deemed too-cool-to-fuck-with, with Chase, Pip's favorite corporate Zillennial to bother. Pip refuses to let Daisy trade her hip 1970s-inspired vintage clothing shop for a happily-ever-after with a man who considers a trip to Costco to be a "fun night out." She does everything in her power to thwart Leo's matchmaking, but with every attempted sabotage, she somehow brings Daisy and Chase closer. When she begins to catch feelings for her overly romantic and painfully optimistic nemesis, she must decide if admitting she was wrong about love is worth her own shot at the feeling she's spent a lifetime avoiding.