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Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️

@lizlasswrites.bsky.social

I #AmQuerying 🥧 The Bookery, a cozy romantic fantasy about a witch, a baker, and the phoenix in their oven. Current WIPs: 🧛‍♂️ SALIVATION, a dark romantasy inspired by Hulu's Dopesick 🌩️ WHETHER THE WEATHER, an Agatha Christie-esque romantasy mystery

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Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️@lizlasswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

#TheBookery has: 🥨 Food descriptions galore like #LegendsAndLattes 🦄 Magical menagerie like #ThePhoenixKeeper 👨‍🍳 Cute shop (and shopkeeper!) like #TheSpellshop 🫂 Found family like #TheHouseInTheCeruleanSea 🔥 Sassy fireplace like #HowlsMovingCastle What's not to love?! #QuestPit #A #F #R #Q

Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️@lizlasswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's the #AgentsGuide for THE BOOKERY, a 93k-word cozy romantic fantasy that I #AmQuerying since May 2025! #litagents #cozyfantasy #romanticfantasy #fantasyromance #fantasy #romantasy

A graphic shows bread and books alongside an agent's guide to The Bookery by Liz Lassiter, a 93,000 word cozy romantic fantasy novel in which a high-society witch discovers the joy of living for personal fulfillment rather than social clout, thanks to her sweet-as-sugar pastry chef tenant and the judgemental phoenix nesting in his bakery’s oven.

Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️@lizlasswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

"Goodness can't grow where it's never planted." I try to live by this in my daily life! It's not about being the bigger person, it's about showing someone there's another way, that kindness is a viable solution 🫶 #AmQuerying #TheBookery #WIPSnips #cozyfantasy #romantasy

An excerpt from the cozy romantic fantasy novel The Bookery reads:

The limit of Nicky’s patience was apparently one week. Seven days of seeing Ishana only at mealtimes, their conversations brief and uncomfortable—or, in recent days, entirely nonexistent. Nicky had begun to suspect she was avoiding him, and that just wouldn’t do. How was he supposed to show her the joy of The Bookery, entice her to fall in love with life above the shop, if she never showed her face?
The answer, Nicky decided, was a picnic. While Florien manned the register, Nicky packed sandwiches, hand pies, and thermoses of tea and coffee into a picnic basket lined with cheery red-and-white plaid.
“You’re sure this isn’t a stupid idea?” He asked Florien for the umpteenth time. “What if she laughs at me?”
Florien shook their head, giant nose swinging from side to side like a stony pendulum, and Nicky forced a smile. It still surprised him how old wounds resurfaced at the most inopportune times; today, he was haunted by memories of playground gangs hurling slurs at the soft boy in class, the one with ragged clothes and greasy hair and a taped-together heart that never stopped beating for other people. Ishana might slam the door in the face of his friendship, just like those schoolyard bullies, but she might not—and, as Wylie had been fond of saying, goodness can’t grow where it’s never planted.
“You’re right,” Nicky said. “Who doesn’t love a picnic? And she’s got to be tired of sitting up in that apartment day after day.”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · last yr.

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Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️@lizlasswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's the #AgentsGuide for THE BOOKERY, a 93k-word cozy romantic fantasy that I #AmQuerying since May 2025! #litagents #cozyfantasy #romanticfantasy #fantasyromance #fantasy #romantasy

Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️@lizlasswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's the #AgentsGuide for THE BOOKERY, a 93k-word cozy romantic fantasy that I #AmQuerying since May 2025! #litagents #cozyfantasy #romanticfantasy #fantasyromance #fantasy #romantasy

Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️@lizlasswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

A graphic in the style of a Netflix title card describes The Bookery:

Pride and Prejudice meets Studio Ghibli in THE BOOKERY, in which a bankrupt witch, her sweet-as-sugar pastry chef tenant, and the judgemental phoenix nesting in his bakery’s oven join forces against the magical real estate developer determined to bulldoze their shop—and the unconventional family they’ve built within.

Along the bottom are comparative titles: The Phoenix Keeper, The Spellshop, The House in the Cerulean Sea, Legends and Lattes, Howl's Moving Castle, and Kiki's Delivery Service.

🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊@arachnereid.bsky.social · last yr.

Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built Long after collapse, an empath leads a quest across the former US to retrieve a key to peace. Her mission becomes about more than saving her people; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change. #BluePit 📖 #SP #Q #CliFi

a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊@arachnereid.bsky.social · last yr.

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? 🌱an informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse An empath leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US to bring home a 🗝️ to peace, using psychic powers and earth-based survival skills #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #bluepit📖 #clifi #SP

a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp

climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

a Priestess Tarot card with a figure meditating on a large stone in the woods

a Fool tarot card with a hand drawn figure blithely stepping off a gorge cliff in VT

m 🌸@maggiesbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Heartbroken summer camp staff Sage and Nico start a casual relationship to get over their recent heartbreaks. Nico realizes he wants this to be more than a summer thing, but Sage has some unfinished business back at school that she won't let go of so easily. #bluepit📖 #bluepit #w #na #r

The Pitch
Sage won’t let her unrequited crush back at university ruin her final summer at Camp Woodvale. After losing her mom as a child, Woodvale is the only place she’s ever felt at home.

When a devastating breakup derails Nico’s summer plans, he comes to Camp Woodvale. Through the unusual traditions and the drama amonsgt the staff, Nico finds comfort in Sage.

When feelings infiltrate their casual relationship, Nico can no longer hide his yearning for Sage, despite his cousin’s forbidden crush on her. Sage must decide if she can finally close the door on unfinished business. And if she doesn’t, she risks ruining her final summer, with lifelong friendships caught in the crossfire.
I shouldn’t have ruined her favorite place.

Comps
Wildfire: Summer camp
setting
Deep end: Casual-to-lovers
new adult romance
The summer I turned pretty: Family love triangle
by the beach
Love island: Romantic drama in
a closed setting

I wash my pills down with the subpar tap water.

Hugh walks into the counselor room, one shade tanner than he was three hours ago. He’s just come back from the waterski dock in his wet bathing suit. He stands shirtless in front of the cubbies we keep our clothes in. “How’s Aunt Sandy?”

“I think she was rude to the girl who works in the office. Might have scared her.”

“Sagie?” Hugh picks out a forest green johnny collar polo to wear with his white tennis shorts. He slips on his brick red Birkenstocks sandals. “Nic, nobody here is afraid of a Jewish mother. Most of us have— or had— one too. What did she even do?”

“Trauma dumped. Complained that I’ve forgotten about her since I went to uni. All because I didn’t bring my phone with me and missed her dropping off my meds.”
Excerpt

m 🌸@maggiesbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

After tragedy and family drama broke them up, Jasper and Brett moved on with their lives. Ten years later, they reunite for a wedding in the place they fell in love and fell apart. Has their dormant love story reawakened or are they just yearning for nostalgia? #bluepit📖 #a #q #r #bluepit

an agent’s guide to
None of This Was Real
upmarket romance
89,000 words

The Pitch
Jasper and her ex reunite at the lake 10 years after a painful breakup. When feelings become too hard to ignore, Jasper must decide if she'll heal her old wounds or reopen them and risk ruining not only their repaired friendship, but her sister's wedding too.

Comps
happy place: What if your happy place
stopped being happy?
every summer after: Two timelines,
lake house setting
adelaide: Upmarket story
about heartbreak

excerpt:
“You look good.” His legs brushed against mine as he sat on the ottoman across from me.

I clutched the stem of my wine glass. “What do you mean?”

“I mean you look good.” His eyes moved from my legs to my chest, back up to my eyes. He bit his lower lip, trying to suppress his bedroom eyes.

“You as well,” I said.

Jade interrupted us to talk about wedding cake flavors.

By dinner, we were out of cocktail ingredients. Wine bottles were starting to empty. We had a big Christmas ham, a turkey and vegetarian sides for Jade’s wedding diet, Auntie Jenny’s latkes included. Jade got drunk long before we sat down and ended up eating the meat.

olha writes✨@murecka.bsky.social · last yr.

✨Adult historical fantasy with Ukrainian folklore. Comps: BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, THE POPPY WAR 🩸secret society 🗝️found family 🤎slow-burn romance 🐺mythical beings as main characters 🕯️high-stakes political mystery 🗡️anti-imperial struggle #BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #A #F #HS #OV

A collage of nine pictures with turning of 20th century aesthetics, dark alleys, one of man carrying a woman and one pf woman screaming. In the middle is yellow text on black background that reads „through death to freedom”

$Pitch. In a world inspired by Ukrainian folklore and the turn of the 20th century, Zoriana Spys discovers the secret student society of Kharakternys - people with various uncanny talents whom she'd always thought to be mere mythical creatures, and even though the discovery fractures Zoriana's perception of her people and herself, she must join forces with the society to investigate the Witches' disappearances before they lead to half of the country's extermination.$

Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · last yr.

A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL x TIPPING THE VELVET MARY MARCHBANKS knows the social rules of gentry society well, but when her world opens to include a found family of working magicians, she will have to choose between respectability and love. #BluePit📖 #Q #HS #F #R #LGBT

An illustration of two young women in 1830s dress looking fondly at one another.

Trinity🪞is querying🪞@trinitywrites.bsky.social · last yr.

METAL BONES, PLASTIC HEART 👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker 🤖Mysterious android boy ❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance 🩸Powerful mega-corporations 🌃A sprawling city 🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold answers about more than just a murder... #BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #SF #M #Q

girl leaning against a bare mattress. a pink and blue jelly fish. blurry red and gold fish. .a blond-haired man cooking with a cat on his back A tall, purple-tinted tower. A hand with blue fire. Two people almost kissing. A distorted silhouette. A dandelion on fire. A city with a red haze.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · last yr.

HOUSE OF LEAVES x THE GIVER Inside, the Tenement is an endless maze of halls & doors. Outside, there is Nothing. When Noah's mother mysteriously vanishes, it sets him on a journey to uncover the secrets of his surreal world... Even if it means tearing the whole thing down. #BluePit📖 #W #YA #D #M

An image of an eerie wooden hallway with yellow lighting and a vaguely veiny, organic quality to the walls. At the center of the image, the hallway disappears into a swirl of blackness. Text reads: “FOLLOW THE RULES. PAY THE RENT. DON’T ASK QUESTIONS. AN AGENT’S GUIDE TO TENEMENT, A YA DYSTOPIAN MYSTERY.”

TENEMENT moodboard featuring:
A window onto a black void
A tattered photograph of a woman’s silhouette in a hallway, with the words “Where is Cassie Walker?” typed at the bottom
A dark creepy hallway with wooden floors
A compass
A hand holding a lantern
Cramped library shelves stuffed with books
Another dark creepy hallway with wooden floors
A creepy wooden staircase
TEXT:
(Top left) "I punched the curtain between my fingers and folded it back... And what I saw was... Nothing "
(Top right) "All we knew was we had to keep doing it month after month and not ask questions... Pay the rent or die in the dark."
(Center) "No one ever left the Tenement. That was Rule Number One."
(Bottom) "I wanted to argue. I wanted to tell him that this whole place was an evil machine designed to stifle every ounce of curiosity and joy out of our souls. I wanted to tell him I felt sorry for him, because the machine had already succeeded in stifling his own soul. And maybe my mother had the right idea-- maybe escaping out a Back Door was better than living like this."

A dimly lit frame with the first four Rules of the Tenement:
RULE ONE
Under no circumstances shall anyone leave the Tenement.
RULE TWO
The Front Door is to remain shut and locked at all times.
RULE THREE
Any windows that appear are to remain closed, with the curtains drawn, and should be avoided until they disappear again. Tenants are forbidden from looking upon the outside.
RULE FOUR
These Rules, being given to us by our Landlord and passed down unchanged from the founding of the Tenement, shall be inscribed into the heart and mind of every tenant for the wellbeing of all
A mysterious photo of a woman in a dark hall and a scrap of paper are tucked into the bottom corner. The paper reads "Where is she?"

#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · last yr.

For readers following us checking #BluePit tomorrow to buy new books, we have a new published specific feed for you tomorrow! bsky.app/profile/did:... #BookSky #Books #Romancelandia

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Nia Brown💫is querying💫@niabrown.bsky.social · last yr.

LEGENDBORN x STRANGER THINGS x ATLANTIS A girl and her maddeningly charming childhood friend shelter a young star who falls to their sinking hometown while also trying to solve a string of disappearances surrounding a local lab. #bluepit #bluepit📖 #agentsguide #YA #F #R #SF #M #SP #Q #OV #POC #ND

A purple background with light colored stars. The text reads "An Agent's Guide to Starfallen By: Nia Brown YA Low Fantasy 115K Words" At the very bottom is the tagline "The sun by day. The moon by night. Recite these words. Release the light.

This post is split into two sections. On the left side is a collage of eight square images. Image 1 is of a glowing figure with no distinct features. Image 2 is of a pair of hands, cradling a glowing purple object. Image 3 is a picture of the universe tinted purple. Image 4 is a close-up of a dark-skinned individual focusing on their eye which has a violet iris. Image 5 is two people standing in the middle of a road in the woods with backpacks. Image 6 is of an empty street lined with trees and lit by light blue otherworldly light. Image 7 is of a dark-skinned individual with short afro-textured hair, white eyes, and a serious expression. They are wearing an accessory that covers their face in a lattice pattern with miniature diamond emblems at each intersection. Image 8 is a still shot of a young animated figure running towards a star in the distance with their arms spread.

To the right is text that reads "the pitch" is in all caps. Beneath it reads Legendborn x Stranger Things in all caps. Beneath that is the pitch which reads "Three years ago, Jada Fraser fled to her hometown after having nearly burnt it to the ground, but returns to find it now subject to flood waters rather than flames. She is convinced their saving grace lies in wish-granting stars—but they haven’t come to Earth in decades...

That is until one falls from the sky—her chance at redemption.

The only problem? It’s just a kid that can hardly control its magic. She teams up with her (maddeningly) charming childhood friend, Khalil Kirkwood, to protect the star which is being hunted by forces both human and celestial. But there are other odd happenings. Strange disappearances. Constellation beasts in the woods. And North Star Labs whose scientists are all hiding something.

It's either sink or swim as a catastrophic flood threatens to take everything before summer’s end."

On a blue background are two navy boxes. On the left it has an underlined title that reads What To Expect. Beneath that, there are bulletin points that read celestial magic. Snarky, supernatural kid. Something is wrong in the woods. Slow burn+friends to lovers+mutual yearning. Literary themes w/ commercial appeal. Main cast: BIPOC, disabled, neurodivergent (diabetic, ptsd, anxiety, fat, burns MC rep)

In the box to the right, the title reads Literary Comps in all caps. Beneath it are images of three books. Tracy Deonn's Legendborn which has an illustrated cover of a black girl with her arms wreathed in glowing magic on the cover. Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning which has an illustrated cover of a girl standing with her back turned in front of an older looking desk in a room of rising water. And Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek which has an illustrated cover of a young woman wearing a dress standing in lush woods while a figure with antlers stands behind her in the shadows. Beneath each of the books is more text. Under Legendborn it reads Black FMC, Modern Magic, and Small Southern Town. Under A Study in Drowning, it reads Compelling Mystery and Real World w/ Fantasy Elements. Under, Where the Dark Stands Still, it reads Lush Atmosphere and Unsettling Forest.

On a blue background is a navy rectangle. At the top of it in blue capital letters it reads Opening Scene and is framed by stars on either side. Beneath it is a screenshot of a scene which reads:

Jada Fraser always found herself on the wrong side of the law. Today was no exception. The contents of her bag beat against her back with every pounding step. Binoculars, camera, and her trusty notepad—everything she needed to procure proper proof.
“Stop! You’re trespassing on private property!”
A glance over her shoulder revealed an officer hot on her heels. He raised his arms, leveling a taser directly at her back.
“Any further and I’ll fire!”
Jada dove behind a tree, just in time to hear a sharp whine pierce the air.
Silver wires struck a nearby trunk and electricity crackled beneath the bark.
The acrid scent spurred her back into motion.
Through the branches, she finally caught a glimpse of blue. If she could just reach the lake, she’d finally prove to everyone that something strange was going on—that she wasn’t crazy.
“This is your last chance!” the officer shouted.
He was right. This was her last chance. She couldn’t afford to stop now.

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

EARLY MAGIC - in the query trenches now! #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #F On the path to coven initiation - amid mutual rivalry, poor romantic choices, and math homework - one girl chases the truth and the other clings to power. If these witches don’t work together, magic itself could be on the line.

An image of film reel stills, including a witch, a forest, a ferris wheel, a full moon, young witches

Ziv @zivmontenegro.bsky.social · last yr.

Agents/Editors guide to my YA literary sci-fi INTERSTELLAR meets NOPE with the emotional appeal and first alien contact of ARRIVAL (2016) & the suspense and alien hostility of THE FIFTH WAVE Today is 2094 & dealing with grief. What worse could possibly happen? #YoungAdult #literary #scifi #BluePit

This book will make you cry like it did to me even though I wrote it

Pitch:

After encountering an alien while dealing with grief, Astra, a runaway, must choose between saving humanity from an alien invasion and reconciling with her dad before it’s too late.

savdoesbooks @savdoesbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

FOREIGN BODIES is Euphoria X The Last of Us (if it had androids, duh), a YA Crossover spec fic. Found family, wealth disparity, unchecked oligarchs, genetic manipulation, perseverance, science, identity, connection, grief, mental illness & addiction. #BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #NA #SF #SP #OV #ND #Q

a photo collage. top left shows a smoggy city skyline. middle left is a teary eye on a dirty face. Bottom left depicts a wildfire blazing across dry landscape. The centre is a science lab with glass tanks containing wet specimens and scattered bottles. bottom middle shows two silhouettes facing each other in a dimly lit space. Bottom right shows a group of people struggling through smoke and ash with shovels, fighting a fire. The background of the collage is a cityscape at night.

an image collage. top left shows a fist punching through glass. Top center shows two figures running, blurred in motion. Top right depicts a rioting crowd waving red flares, engulfed in smoke. Bottom left features protesters and flares held in disagreement. The background is a digital screenwith the phrase 'what if we never met?' in red text. In the middle is a close-up of an eye, with the reflection of flames, and glitter trailing down like tears.

a photo collage. top left shows two people touching foreheads. Overlaid is a closeup of hands clasping, and overlaid beneath is a scan of a hand. Top right is a screencap from anime Bubblegum Crisis, a city surrounded by high-rise buildings. Beneath, blue text reads 'a human being whose original human parts have had to be replaced'. Bottom left shows riot police in black gear. The centre bottom is a dark industrial space with green lighting. Bottom right shows a distressed woman staring into a mirror.

Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · last yr.

Here’s my #agentsguide to A CROSSROAD OF LILIES, my complete YA romance with a speculative twist! 🍄A magical mushroom curse 🍄A friends-to-lovers romance 🍄A retired childhood actor 🍄A bullied scholarship student 🍄An otherworldly secret they both must keep #Bluepit📖 #R #YA #Q

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.

Sova Erickson | Published!@fae-author.bsky.social · last yr.

Beatrice is a fae aristocrat who can enchant people with her eyes. Strangely drawn to her new handmaiden Lia, the two find intimacy in her enchanting control. A dark sapphic romance that twists the senses in more ways than one #Bluepit📖 #A #F #R #Q #LGBT #ND

Floyd Martínez (They/He) ✍️@floydisawriter.bsky.social · last yr.

Such an Old-Fashioned Word -FLEABAG x PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER -ASPEC Rep -Novella “Everybody feels so real. they're all three dimensional with doubts and motivations and people around them they support and get support back from.”- @korylikescomics.bsky.social #bluepit📖 #W #LGBT #NA #R

Such an Old-Fashioned Word (An Agent's Guide) By Floyd Martínez

VIBES:
Contemporary/Literary Fiction
FLEABAG x PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
“Anti-Romance” Novella First Person Three different POV
SETTING: Film School in the West End of London,
Third DimensionalCharac:ters/Cozy Vibe/ Mid-20s Coming of Age story
CHARACTERS:
WIP STAGE: 25% Completed (1st draft)
Charly Ravenna: 2045 Oscar Winner for Best Original Screenplay/ Proud Trans Latino Boy/Fave movies: Seven Psychopaths
Anissa Raphaëlle DioP: Storyboarder extraordinaire/Comic Geek /Fave movie: V for Vendetta
Peyton Evans: Future Compose/ Dad Friend/Fave Movie: the Wall

THE -PITCH
Three Friends, One "Love" Story
For a while, Anissa, Peyton and Charly were all each other had. Friendship is an
involuntary reflex. Eut as they keep aging out. of their twenties, doubts about their bond start to creep up.

Peyton seems to get nervous when Charly hugs him, and blushes scarlet when Anissa smiles at him. But that's stupid-right? Can you- even love-two people like-that. at the same time?

Anissa has secretly been binge-scrolling through aroace tumblr blogs for weeks now, it all seems to click, but she wants to be a mom, always has. Rahim from the marriage app is nice, but would he accept her?

Charly has no problem getting people heartbeats to pick up, but married life is not his thing. He just wants to write his scripts, marriage would just be a distraction.

Love is different for everyone, they might learn it the hard way though.

Charly’s POV: I think I just might be doomed, accidentally and through no fault of my own, to get randoms to fall in love with me…. I fucking hate that.
I roll my eyes at the text on my phone’s screen, turn it off and then gaze back at the script in front of me. Babe is a couple’s monniker. A way for someone to claim you in the name of love, romantic love. We met for drinks and came back to my apartment for some light roleplay… once. Seriously? This is a fucking nightmare.

Anissa’s POV: “Yeah, it’s pretty big.” I agree. “But I think I’m ready, my bachelor’s will be ready next year, it will be my recovery anniversary around the same time and I…” I trail off. Then sigh again.
“I really want a baby.” There I said it.
I don’t expect any judgement from my best friend, nor anybody in my broader social circle for that matter. But it still feels weird to be so open about what I want. Maybe my therapist is right and I did build some protective walls around myself over the years… or something like that.
“You’l be an amazing mum,” Peyton says. Lightly punching my shoulder with affection, my heart does a bit of a summersault. “The world could use more of those.”

Peyton’s POV: Sure, I'm the bloke who lives in a trailer on the outskirts of the city, but it's mine. The apprenticeship degree does earn me money, aside from his gig at the local cafeteria, and music producing for movies is also the only career that doesn’t make him want to bang my head against a wall... I am also the bloke who needs to prove time and time again his rich family doesn’t want anything to do with him, nor with his disabled uncle (the only person in said family who treats me like an actual human being), so the government would also take a bit of pity on us and help us out.

I'm just Peyton, who loves his best friends more than anything and isn’t quite sure how he landed such amazing people. But dammit if he's not going to fight for them…

That is my truth.

Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · last yr.

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE For readers who like: 🩸 dangerous criminal underworlds 🩸 secret occult organizations 🩸 married villain protagonists 🩸 no-nonsense women in STEM 🩸 attractive men covered in blood 🩸 terrifying body horror 🩸 the threat of an Elder God #BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #H #W

A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃@charscrawls.bsky.social · last yr.

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #BluePit #Q #A #LF #M #BluePit📖

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · last yr.

News of his brother’s murder sends Jason on a vengeance-fueled hunt for the killer, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play. The deeper they dig for the truth, the more they risk losing: their sanity, their lives, and each other. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #H #W

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THE DEVOURING
a cosmic horror revenge thriller

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PITCH
Jason and Ayana’s lives as a married couple have always run parallel—never entwined. It’s the perfect arrangement: he’s free to pursue his dangerous yet lucrative career as an elite assassin, and she can focus on conducting autopsies for the city’s forensic center.

But after Jason spares a witness to his latest murder, he becomes the prime suspect in his own brother’s homicide. While he hunts for the real killer, Ayana discovers an impossible illness in one of her cadavers. The couple quickly identify an unsettling connection between the two events—one steeped in religious fanaticism and occult conspiracy.

Jason and Ayana must learn to work together, using their wits, lies, and criminal connections to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult and exact revenge. But human enemies are the least of their concern. Beyond the boundary of their world exists a cosmic threat of apocalyptic proportions, and it is trying to break through.

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EXCERPT
On the morning of Connor’s funeral, Ayana dressed in her most conservative black outfit, a knee-length dress with long sleeves and a neckline that covered her collarbone. Opaque tights and plain heels completed the look, while simple pearl jewelry adorned her ears and throat. She chose a small clutch purse for the occasion, expecting to return straight home with her husband after the ceremony.

As she passed the open door to the master bathroom, she spied Jason’s reflection in the large mirror above the double sink. His back was turned, and he gazed at himself, his expression full of subtle sorrow: soft eyes, a down-turned mouth, slight tension in his eyebrows. Then he dropped the look, resuming blank neutrality for a second before putting it back on with the most minute variations.

After a few repetitions, he caught her staring. She nodded in approval.

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COMPS & TROPES
On the left side, three movie and book covers are displayed: JOHN WICK, THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE by H. P. Lovecraft, and SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER by Lucy A. Snyder.

On the right side is a list of tropes:
- dangerous criminal underworld
- secret occult organizations
- married main characters
- villain protagonists
- unreliable narrator
- no-nonsense women in STEM
- attractive men covered in blood
- terrifying body horror
- an incomprehensible eldritch entity from outer space

Alena Cerulean @alenacerulean.bsky.social · last yr.

It's hard to make a living as a sorceress in modern times, but when Monica takes on a gorgeous client whose mother was murdered and her mystical artifacts stolen, things get complicated & steamy (with lots of mind control kink). www.amazon.com/Sorceress-Ci... #BluePit📖 #A #P #PN Erotica #LGBT

A nude woman lit to mostly be in silhouette against a pink wavy background. Text: Sorceress in the City

Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️@lizlasswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

@santinawrites.bsky.social Fellow writer and programmer here, so had to say hi!!! Always nice to meet a kindred spirit! And your wedding pic is absolutely stunning 😍

Liz Lassiter✨️is querying✨️@lizlasswrites.bsky.social · last yr.