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@chloemarcus.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 1:52 PM

Cinderella vs. Hannibal Lecter.

A poverty stricken hot-head is given the chance for a life of luxury, but she’ll need to figure out who she’s willing to kiss, marry, or kill in order to keep it.

#YA #Fantasy #DarkFantasy #Horror #querying

@jadynnmarshall.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 12:58 PM

#DVparty Day 4: #YourStoryAsAGIF

Some worlds are meant to be shattered.

#YA Futuristic #F #LGBT #SFF #Querying SHADOWSCAPE

@iaminprint.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 10:42 AM

November #Agent121 sessions are now live at iaminprint.co.uk

Run your letter, synopsis and opening pages past a real life literary agent or editor! #litagent #authorcommunity #indieauthors #writinglife #querying

@owenleftchat.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 9:12 AM

Had the realisation that I need to delete one of my main characters. Scary, but I this could also make the next edit a lot more fun!

#BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #UKWriters #Novelists #Fiction #Querying

@scarletdblackwell.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 10:03 PM

Sometimes I get stuck in a bad routine and it really kills productivity. It really takes a lot of self-discipline to create new routines that can overwrite the old ones but it's not impossible!!

#WritingCommunity #Author #Querying #booksky

@blythewrytes.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 4:01 PM

Opening lines for BEAST OF EDEN, my 99k “Beauty & The Beast” retelling with an archaeology twist on a doomed Earth, but make it hopecore 🥀🤖🏺

#DVparty #querying

A purple, pink, and green image of a nebula from the James Webb telescope, with text that reads “Roan’s watch buzzed with a notification, which she ignored. Whatever it was wouldn’t save her career.”

@kllempereur.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 3:33 PM

THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY is a dual-POV adult space fantasy for fans of THE LOCKED TOMB series, THE STARS ARE LEGION, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, and anything with toxic sapphics.

#DVParty #SFF #A #Querying #FirstLines

FIRST LINES. Asteria: "The sooner Asteria accomplished what she'd come to the middle of fucking nowhere at the ass-end of the galaxy for, the sooner she could do something more interesting than overseeing her peons as they prepared for the live-streamed celebration. Like taunting her soon-to-be-prisoners."

Calypso: "Running from a vengeful god in a duct-taped spaceship came with a view; its one redeeming feature."

@jadynnmarshall.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 1:27 PM

The blazer Hester had washed & ironed yesternight had vanished.

Hester cursed herself, and her flatbrain of a shadow, but mostly herself.

(And just for fun, you can find the opening from Hester's brother’s first POV chapter below!)

#OpeningLines #DVparty #YA Dystopian #F #LGBT #SFF #Querying

@tracyshawn.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 5:43 PM

Currently #querying #literaryagents for a character-driven women’s fiction story, which includes themes of mother-daughter conflict, unconditional love, and ultimate self-acceptance. #amquerying

@jamesfrancis2112.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 9:18 PM

#booksky #writersky #writersofbsky #AuthorsOfBluesky #amwriting #amquerying #querying #horror #shortstories #writers #authorsky #books #booksky #fiction #shortstorycollection

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@thinkingtooloud.org Sep 25, 2026, 6:17 PM

#CPTSD Awareness Month.
Trust me. I am aware.
I'm sharing a few essays I have written for the CPTSD Foundation.

This essay crosses the #writingCommunity and #mentalHealth streams.

cptsdfoundation.org/2023/07/11/p...

"It’s like a game of Russian roulette, but every barrel is loaded."
#querying

@betancourtliterary.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 4:57 PM

MORE OF MY #MSWL

• I-Support-Women's-Wrongs female MCs making questionable decisions
• Book club fiction w/ layered secrets & complex relationships
• Southern Gothic & atmospheric settings that become characters themselves
• Campus dramas w/ something unexpected to say

#Querying #LiteraryAgent

@wendytokunaga.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 4:30 PM

Querying is Not a Verdict on Your Book writersinthestormblog.com/2026/09/quer...
#writing #querying #publishing #writingcommunity #literaryagents

@beverlyjohnson87.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 2:59 PM

"Her flatter half" and a place called Shadowscape that's a premise with real pull. #Querying is a tough road, though. How's it treating you so far, and what's the hardest part of the process right now?

@jadynnmarshall.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 1:17 PM

Hester spends her whole life in the dark…until her flatter half pays her a visit in SHADOWSCAPE. I'm excited to share more about her for day 2 of #DVparty tomorrow!

All photos mine, featuring a cameo from my own shadow in the bottom center! 👤

#YA Futuristic #F #LGBT #SFF #Querying

$All photos in black and white. Top panorama: Millennium Bridge in London at dusk, with the city and sky half light and half dark Middle left: a girl in silhouette reading on a bench in front of a fountain, with people standing nearby Center: a radial mosaic of a sundial with fractions for numbers Middle right: view of a city from an airplane at night Bottom left: fortress of Valetta viewed across the water at night Bottom middle: the shadow of a hand reaching across a corner Bottom right: exterior of the Reichstag dome lit up at night$

@sfjeblee.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:45 AM

Struggling to get an agent? This month we discuss what to do when your book query isn't working: sfjeblee.substack.com/p/i-keep-get...
#amquerying #writingadvice #writingtips #querying #writinglife #writing

@kathausler.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 8:49 AM

It's been a few years since I was in the market for an agent. #Querying has probably gotten way better in the meantime, right?
...Right?!

#writingcommunity #amsubmitting

@amandapanwriter.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 1:08 AM

When you ask your kid to read your poem.🫠#kidlit #amwriting #querying #parenting #parenting

@thinkingtooloud.org Sep 24, 2026, 3:19 PM

#CPTSD awareness month.
Let me tell you #CPTSD and #querying.
They DO NOT go together well.
Hearing 'no' is not the probelm.
Hearing NOTHING is the problem, the perpetual anxiety of waiting.
Thinking "I'm invisible."
"I'm doing this wrong."
"I'm wrong."
"What is wrong with me?"