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@chrisholcombe.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:18 AM

Comparing notes on the most infamous murder trial in the fall of 1926.

Looking for a queer Halloween read? tinyurl.com/3sb58f36

#WIPSnips #booksky #authorsky #writersky #mysterybooks #mysterysky #noir #1920s #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #gaybooks #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters #queernoir 💙⚡️📚 💙⏳📚 🌈✒️

Kindle screenshot of a page from The Devil Card by Chris Holcombe.Kindle screenshot of a page from The Devil Card by Chris Holcombe.Book cover for THE DEVIL CARD, the 3rd Hidden Gotham Novel by Chris Holcombe. A man in a tuxedo sits at a table holding up a tarot card. Behind him, shadowy men gamble at roulette tables. Tendrils of smoke loop over and around the book title. The cover is on an iPad that is lying on a shiny, gold tablecloth. A pack of tarot cards rests on the bottom right corner. A orange sticker declaring “Halloween Sale” is on the top left corner.
@amaralynn.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:00 AM

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 6: Does your MC wear a mask? Real or metaphorical

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#LGBTQWRITEATHON Use the tag and follow the feed on Bluesky! Tag @lgbtqwriteathon in photos on Instagram! October 6: Does your MC wear a mask? Real or metaphorical Hosts: Bluesky: @amaralynn, @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @lgbtqwriteathon, @amaralynn, @krakengoddess [Image description: fall decor including Jack o lanterns and bats on a soft orange background]
@katiemasters.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:38 AM

For any one in the UK, I hope you can go to thid and have an awesome time!

#WritingCommunity #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters

@alvara.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:44 AM

I like to think the very opening of A Knight in Captivity is the best example of the narrative voice present within it. It's one of my favorite parts as well.

#LitHodgepodge #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity

Chapter One How brave can one man be before fortune stops favoring him? Niot found out upon that battlefield. Though perhaps fortune had abandoned him the day his younger brother, bound for knighthood, fell from his horse and broke his leg quite severely. Severe enough that he would never ride again. Niot had cheered inwardly when his brother took his place at the monastery. Perhaps that had been when fortune first decide to frown upon him. Scorned him for his behavior after its first favor to him. Corpses were strewn all around Niot now. Suffering. Dying. Dead. It mattered little. The battle outside of Poitiers was over. Niot, a proud knight of the kingdom of France, stared up at the dark clouds of a dusk sky threatening to pour and mix with the red spilled upon the earth. It would make boot torn ground nothing but mud and mangled flesh. His face was cold and expressionless as he felt the first few droplets of rain hit his brow. His horse pinned his legs. Dead. Still bleeding. The cooling warmth of the liquid oozed between the metal rings of the mail he wore and stained the blue of his pourpoint the same color of the enemy. Barely any of the blood was his own. That hurt more than the weight keeping him flat on his back upon the ground. He didn't even feel the Bodkin arrow in his armored shoulder over the pain of his pinned legs. The same arrows had embedded themselves in his horse's hindquarters where there was far less barding, seeming to sprout as he rode like flowers violently blooming before it was too much for his destrier to take. One had pierced easily through his own mail, but its target wasn't his sword arm, so it mattered just as little as the remains of the men beside his horse did to him. His injury was nothing. The wound to his pride was far greater. Oozing and threatening to consume him as he laid there.
@bluwrites.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:00 AM

From LLLwip, adult sci-fi with queer romance

✨now querying✨😃😃😃 but it’s gonna be a WIP until someone pries it out of my itchy edit-y fingers lol

#wipsnips #queerwriters

The mock nature around us is off-putting. It’s too silent, I realize. There are no insects, no birds, no rustling breeze. We’re the only fauna here, our seven bodies filtering recycled air, soggy hearts pumping away. Raon stands close to me. My pulse fills my ears. It’s all much, much too still, and my body is a riot by comparison.
@melwaverly.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:50 AM

From WIP 1 - These Words Remain Unsaid

Bernoulli’s principle, but ELI5

#WIPSnips #QueerWriters #WritingPrompts #ATWRU #SapphicWriters #sapphicauthors #WriteSky #Sapphic

When seven-year-old Isabell asked how planes fly, Andrea Brewer decided she needed a better answer than “engines and wings.” So she explained the theory of flight by comparing airflow to children fleeing from a classroom to the playground. Isabell still thought it was a good comparison, though she hadn’t known at seven that communal, mostly unsupervised spaces like playgrounds could be high-pressure places too. Mel Waverly - These Words Remain Unsaid, chapter 3
@andy.northsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:36 AM

Wrote the rough drafts of the two opening scenes in The Lesbian Cheese Novella (name in progress). I think I might actually manage to write a novella this time.

It's about a couple, not a triad, so that's weird too.

#writing #QueerWriters

@feralwriter.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:47 AM

#WIPSnips I got yesterday's: "wall"

I really love a dream sequence.

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At first the dream is just fire: orange red and licking upward over old wood. Smoke coats my nostrils with soot and seizes my lungs. Wailing comes in waves, mingling with roaring flame and distant screams. Then the barn takes shape around me. Burning beams crack and pop overhead as the fire eats through them. A massive shape thunders through the haze, hooves shaking the floorboards: Daddy’s horse, it’s tail aflame. Jeremiah, my older brother, emerges from a billow of smoke, eyes wide in his soot-streaked face. He looks behind him, then back at me, but there is nothing there except a wall of roaring fire. “Micah!” he cries. “You hide, now. Stay down in the water! Okay? Now! Big breath!” He opens his mouth to take one in. I take one with him, too confused to argue. He grabs me, and then I’m flying. I hit the horse trough with a splash. Water closes over my head, blood-warm. Jer’s hand presses against my sternum, holding me down. And then it is gone. His hand, his face, everything but water. My lungs burn. Above me, fire pours across the surface of the water like liquid gold. Bubbles blur it into shifting light, and I cannot tell which way is up. I flail, my hand striking something hot and metallic beneath the water. I want to scream, but I can’t. Panic blossoms hot in my chest along with held breath. Then, the fire is gone.
@glwalkerauthor.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 11:55 PM

Loke, a high priestess, is afraid of being unable to stop people from killing off others in her religion - or her - before she can make an impressionable difference. Failing her people scares her the most

#LGBTQWriteAThon #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

@sageowenwrites.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 10:15 PM

Billy: not being good enough

Lark: her decisions causing problems for her loved ones

Matthew: being outed in general, to Billy in particular bc that’s the rejection he’d never get over. Also storms

Cory: disappointing his family

#LGBTQWriteAThon #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

@chrisholcombe.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:26 PM

Come see at the St Agnes NYPL next Saturday Oct 17 at 3 pm! We’ll be chatting all things Halloween and 20s and 30s!

#booksky #authorsky #writersky #mysterybooks #mysterysky #noir #1920s #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #gaybooks #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters #gaywriters #queernoir 💙⚡️📚 💙⏳📚 🌈✒️

Flier for the event “Mystery, Mischief, and Mayhem: Halloween in the 20s and 30s,” hosted by author Chris Holcombe and Jonny Porkpie.
@turned-the-page.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:18 PM

#LGBTQWriteAThon

What does Oren fear?

Someone else dying because of him. Except the city guard. They're assholes.

And falling in love. Again.

And heights. 🤬 heights.

@rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

@morganrose-writer.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:49 PM

Zen: *counting on fingers* mommy issues, mass murder, climate change, my cute bff who gets stabbed a lot....

#LGBTQWriteathon #queerwriters

@mcwrites27.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:39 PM

For Katie, unfortunately, A LOT but she struggles with trauma exacerbated OCD. For Bekah, the realization that her life isn't as under her control as she thought. She's also terrified of her secrets coming out even if she's not sorry for what she did #LGBTQWriteAThon #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters

@nectar-vam77.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:16 PM

#Lgbtqwriteathon #Queerwriters #WritingCommunity #Writesky #Lgbtqwriters

For my MC, Bethany Ivanoff, her greatest fears are adulthood, being perceived as abnormal in her society, being unloved & unwanted. The creepy antags further increase those fears with their Zeus-like behavior

@licoricemint.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:55 PM

#QueerPrompts #LicoriceAndMint #QueerWriters #lesfic #sapphic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Melody: she was pressured into a phys ed degree for college by her parents but as her shifter abilities took greater strain on her body she actually developed a love for (1/?)

@milosometimes.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:49 PM

For the main character of my WIP, his fears and anxieties stem from the people he's surrounded by.

Small town with closed-minded views and beliefs. Pair that with the rocky history he has with most of the residents, and you got a recipe for anxiety.

#LGBTQWriteAThon #queerwriters

@licoricemint.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:48 PM

#Octember #lesfic #sapphic #QueerWriters #LicoriceAndMint #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Vola secretly still wants to cover her bedroom ceiling in those cheap plastic glow in the dark stars.

Nat never had toys. Just books. She misses her first AP anatomy text book though.

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