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Meg

@megsteadman.bsky.social

Writer, artist, ukulele enthusiast. Revisions stage: hatchet drafting.

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Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 7d ago

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 763: Having a tough time? Good. Got a rejection? Good. Got a bad review? Good. Had to abandon a project because it wasn't working? Good. These things all teach you resilience, patience and determination; the things you need most as a writer.

Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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A.J. McCrae@ajmccrae.com · 3w ago

When Esper's named Herald to a lost god, one she can't hear, her only hope of evading death for speaking false words is finding her god in the underworld. But the death god isn't easily bargained with and, now that she's arrived, the underworld won't give up its true queen. #BluePit #📖 #W #A #F #R

A grid of nine images including: a close-up of a bearded man's nose and mouth, a table with both broken and whole pomegranates, a stone entry into a mountain temple, a closeup of a woman holding a gilded dagger, two hands raised up in a cup shape, an open book with ancient writing and drawings, a wall of human skulls, a purplish-red flower, and a dark-haired woman looking up with her shoulder toward the camera.
L.K. Chopin@lkchopin.bsky.social · 3w ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 😴👑YA sleeping beauty reimagining👑😴 After a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic. #bluepit #Q #F #YA #📖 #R

The words "The blood of zellandine, enchanted Forest, grumpy/Sunshine, Force proximity, fairy tale reimagining, deaf/HOH rep, animal companion" Are writing atop a collage of treetops, a spinning wheel, bound hands, a medieval kitchen, a medieval helmet and sword, a rat, a cottage, a dark Castle, a dark crown, old books, and an aerial view of a river.
Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 3w ago

The UK government frames intelligence agent Eddie Fletcher for its role in a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift - or a Russian spy will use it to start a war that destroys the future. #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖

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Emily Wahl@emilywahlwriting.bsky.social · 3w ago

When lonely 12-year-old Colleen Duffy finds a braided thread of gold winding through the trees of an Illinois woods on Halloween, she gets pulled into the eerie Otherworld of Irish legend and the mythical past of the Emerald Isle. Upper #MG 📚 Friendship Saga 👭 Fantasy 🎃🧙‍♀️🐮🦈⚔️💀👁️ #BluePit #📖 #Q #WF #F

Montage illustrating a 90s era jean jacket, an 80s era station wagon, a dark and eerie forest, a malignant looking nun, a young Copper Age woman, Eafah, the red evil eye of Baelore, trickster Kowen (a young red-headed cowboy) with the Gloss Gavalahn (a mystical cow), Kay Lockberry (the Cailleach), Gowen (a supernatural smith), The Chief of the Dead (the Morrigan), a Bronze age queen with a magic spear of revenge, and Colleen, the MC, and twelve-year-old girl from Illinois, standing by a dark stone tower, watching a storm come in from the sea.
Meg@megsteadman.bsky.social · 3w ago

FOUNDRYSIDE meets ROBIN HOOD in NEVARINE, a gaslamp, French-flavored fantasy where Nev, to save her city from incurable plague, forms an uneasy truce with the thief who murdered her closest friend. If she takes revenge, it will cost the lives of all she is sworn to protect. #BluePit #📖 #A #F #W

A mood board of nine images, some with torn paper edges, arranged in an uneven grid. From left to right, top to bottom: A warm brown photograph of an old mining tunnel. A broken window in the dark with bright flames licking out. The spine of an old leather-bound book with ornate metal accents. An unfocused human figure in a dark cloak and hood against a bright sky, reaching towards the viewer; their hand is in sharp focus and stained black with soot. A dark brick church shot from below with an iron statue in the foreground. A simple black and white photo of a bird carving with the lights and darks inverted. A blue-toned photo of a steam engine emerging from fog. A black and white close up photo of a leather archery quiver of arrows. A photo of a man in a navy blue, old fashioned military uniform loading a black powder pistol; his face is cropped out, showing only his hands and arms. Above the arrow quiver, the text "Nevarine" is overlaid in light, warm tan, with "a novel" beneath it in slightly darker blue-gray. Image credits (top-bottom, left-right): Pho Tomass, Dhruv Vishwakarma, Alexander Zvir, ClickerHappy, ΘSWΛLD, Erin Wallace, Marian Strinoiu, Manuela-Kohl
Meg@megsteadman.bsky.social · 3w ago

FOUNDRYSIDE x TRAITOR OF SHERWOOD FOREST As a warden, Nev will protect her city from any threat. Until the threat is a deadly plague, and the only person able stop it is the thief Foxtail, her best friend's killer. Either Nev allies with him, or the city dies for her vengeance. #BluePit #📖 #A #F #W

A mood board of nine images, some with torn paper edges, arranged in an uneven grid. From left to right, top to bottom: A warm brown photograph of an old mining tunnel. A broken window in the dark with bright flames licking out. The spine of an old leather-bound book with ornate metal accents. An unfocused human figure in a dark cloak and hood against a bright sky, reaching towards the viewer; their hand is in sharp focus and stained black with soot. A dark brick church shot from below with an iron statue in the foreground. A simple black and white photo of a bird carving with the lights and darks inverted. A blue-toned photo of a steam engine emerging from fog. A black and white close up photo of a leather archery quiver of arrows. A photo of a man in a navy blue, old fashioned military uniform loading a black powder pistol; his face is cropped out, showing only his hands and arms. Above the arrow quiver, the text "Nevarine" is overlaid in light, warm tan, with "a novel" beneath it in slightly darker blue-gray. Image credits (top-bottom, left-right): Pho Tomass, Dhruv Vishwakarma, Alexander Zvir, ClickerHappy, ΘSWΛLD, Erin Wallace, Marian Strinoiu, Manuela-Kohl