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Proudly presenting for #BluePit my trailer for ⚔️ THE DUEL IN 1660 ⚔️ A storybook romp through a colorful, heightened 17th century. It's the silliest historical you'll cry over this decade! #YA / #A #LGBT #TR #OV #HS #HU #Q #📖

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚

@ellieyellu.bsky.social

Heists, spice, and space! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You must get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #BluePit #SF #R #A #📖 (Manuscript is #OS looking for an editor)

The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to -- Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel -- A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer. Representation Christi Cardenas.

Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for stationary objects. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.”
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. #AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV. Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.

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K.A. Hela ✨ Starting a new WIP✨

@jundlife.bsky.social

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #BluePit #H #Q #📖

'Hat' - 81K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature, moon stuff, Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. Backrooms

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻

@applesncinnamon.bsky.social

#BluePit 🏹THE BIRD AND THE BLADE🍃 🪶 MM Fantasy Romance 🪶 Bandit x Noble 🪶 Kidnapping! 🪶 Questioning Power Structures 🪶 Singing Bandits 🪶 Robin Hood Vibes 🪶 Certified Bird Guy #📖 #A #F #R #W #LGBT

Over a green background: THE BIRD AND THE BLADE: MM Fantasy Romance
Comps: Not For the Faint of Heart, The Scottish Boy, Greenwode
Tropes: 🪶 MM Fantasy Romance
🪶 Bandit x Noble
🪶 Kidnapping!
🪶 Questioning Power Structures
🪶 Singing Bandits
🪶 Robin Hood Vibes
🪶 Certified Bird Guy
A picture of an arrow, a feather, and a sword
Blurb: Callum Amberline is about to get married, but there is one small problem. He’s been kidnapped by bandits. Callum should be furious and indignant, but he’s not these bandits seem to understand him better than his family or betrothed ever have. Especially Wilder, the son of the bandit queen. But one shouldn’t be friendly with one’s kidnappers.
Wilder may have made an impulsive decision kidnapping the betrothed of his arch nemesis, but he’s having a hard time regretting it. He likes Callum, noble though he may be.
As the unfortunate circumstances of their meeting catch of with them, Callum and Wilder must ignore the simmering attraction between them. You can’t fall in love with your kidnapper.
Right?

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Millie Abecassis

@millieabecassis.com

JANE EYRE x STARLING HOUSE 🌹 Historical fantasy 🇫🇷 France, Belle Époque 🩸 Body-based magic system 🗡️ Family feuds 🗝️ Gothic vibes A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE offers a unique magic system and swooning sapphic romance. Available in ebook and audiobook 🎧 #BluePit #📖 #P #A #F #HS #LGBT

Cover of the audiobook version of A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE by Millie Abecassis, showing the silhouette of a woman over a red and gold background.

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Gert Ramm 🦋

@rammwriter.bsky.social

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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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻

@applesncinnamon.bsky.social

#BluePit 🌼Sweet & Wild🌼 💛MM Fantasy Romance ☀️A Sunshine MC 🍯A Cozy Adjacent Setting 🍃Forest Magic 🌳Spirits in the Woods 🐝Witches 🌻Healing and Growth #📖 #A #F #R #LGBT #P Books2Read: books2read.com/u/bzNng9 Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur

A picture of Terran, a tan man with brown and green hair and antlers, lifts up Micah, a light-skinned man with blonde hair and a straw hat, kissing him. To the right, a light yellow background with the text: Sweet & Wild
💛MM Fantasy Romance
☀️A Sunshine MC
🍯A Cozy Adjacent Setting
🍃Forest Magic
🌳Spirits in the Woods
🐝Witches
🌻Healing and Growth
Available now on Itch, Ko-Fi, and wherever books are sold!
The cover of Sweet & Wild

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Zed Prospero

@zprospero.bsky.social

Looking for a new job? Exciting opportunities for travel to exotic places like Cleveland, Ohio? Running away from past mistakes? Met a man in a bar with curly blonde hair who seemed like an absolute angel? Do we have plans for you. 😈 #BluePit #📖 #W #A #F #LGBT #WriteSky

A recruitment poster with an orange background with corporate geometric designs in red.

The words "Go To Hell" followed by "We're Hiring" are laid over a red pentagram.

At the bottom a winking cartoon business man has a shadow with wings and horns behind him and the bottom corners of the poster are wreathed in fire.

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Mary Elizabeth Carey

@maryelizabethcarey.bsky.social

14 days ago

Who killed the nature photographer on the bike trail and ruined the setting of Elizabeth's WIP? #QuestPit #📖 #A #Q #M #amquerying

A photo of a bike trail by a pond with the legs of an apparent dead person, a woman saying "Who's going to want to read about Forest Bathing there now?" and the title MURDER on THE BIKE TRAIL.

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J.M. Weaver🏳️‍⚧️🔥🪶

@jmweaverauthor.bsky.social

#BluePit Savage as You - a 130k Portal Fantasy extravaganza. 🏳️‍⚧️ Transfem protagonist 🪄 Magic meets our world ⌛ Race against time 👻 Horror elements 👹 Befriending monsters ❤️ Love triangle 🐍 Eels 🧭 Setting off into the unknown #📖 #P (Well, out September 1st) #NA #F #LGBT #TR

Backdrop: illustration of a lavender field with a manor on the horizon, mushrooms as tall as the manor, and a Saturn-like planet in the sky.

Text: Savage as You

(Even the most beautiful dreams can be warped into nightmares)

Comps: Spirited Away, American McGee's Alice, The Neverending Story, The Dark Tower, Weaveworld.

Pitch: Hailey yearns for nothing more than to be a normal girl. Yet something out there knows about her, sending a gateway and letter telling her the world inside might be frightening.... but she's to be its Queen.

Excerpt: I watched the water pour forth as the cracks in the sky spread, wondering how much time we really had left. What did it even mean, that the sky started to crack?

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Emilia Young | Author

@emiliayoung.bsky.social

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #BluePit #📖 #YA #R #M #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Mary Elizabeth Carey

@maryelizabethcarey.bsky.social

14 days ago

Who killed the nature photographer on the bike trail and ruined the setting of Elizabeth's WIP? #QuestPit #📖 #A #Q #M #amquerying

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JJ Robinson II #amquerying #scifi

@jjrobinson2.bsky.social

15 days ago

The Journal of Unpublishable Stories, Volume 1: Science Fiction That Doesn't Fit In An anthology of short science fiction by JJ Robinson II. On Amazon and Barnes & Noble [links in comments, details in ALT] #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #scifi #QuestPit #📖 #A #SF #P

Image:
Giants approach the crest of a dune. A woman carrying a child turns to flee.
An anthology of short science fiction by JJ Robinson II.

The Thing That Fell
Three alien friends with unique abilities confront powerful, deadly intruders on their world.

Charis Altonis, Field Biologist And
The Outsiders
A heat-blasted mining colony is invaded by a bizarre plague of mimetic giants. A company biologist must find a way to keep herself and the miners alive until rescue can reach them. But she will have to overcome the precepts of the miners' patriarchal sect as well as the alien menace.

Preview: Coming Soon:
Charis Altonis, Field Biologist And
The god Plague
Charis returns to the company offices from the mining planet with a dangerous artifact of the mimetic plague. Before she can recover fully, the provincial capital is attacked by another bizarre plague. The victims succumb to extreme delusions of godhood. Charis is apparently immune, but she will have to find a cure before everyone on the planet starts a holy war with everyone else.

The Wound
A mentally exhausted fighter pilot struggles with his addiction to a place--the scar on tiny asteroid where he shot down a "Tree" pilot--an example of the deadliest race of invading aliens ever to confront humanity.

The Lake (flash fiction)
A passenger on a colony ship tries to remember what's gone wrong as he stands at the surface of the vessel's stasis pool. A flicker of impossible light, an impoverished dream--how long have they been lost?

A New World
An artificially intelligent exploration craft and its superluminal carrier try to recover after an accident in a stellar system they are supposed to explore. Among the destroyed equipment is the explorer's AI ethical support subsystem, leaving it to "wing it" when a new species is discovered in the target system. What will be its priority--learning about the new species, or survival? What could possibly go wrong?

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Jazkier

@jazkier.bsky.social

17 days ago

Me, whenever asked to sum up my book in three words or less: Immortal Lesbians... Heist #LGBT #Writer #📖

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Dramatic Mic Drop Performance

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Club de lectura en Español

@clubdelecturaele.bsky.social

20 days ago

#📖 Studies show that using visual narratives reduces anxiety and facilitates immersion in the story. By combining authentic or graded texts with illustrations, your brain acquires Spanish without stress. 研究顯示，使用視覺敘事能減輕焦慮，並幫助你更投入故事中。透過將真實語料或分級文本與插圖結合，你的大腦能在無壓力的情況下習得西班牙語。 #anxiety #spanish #學西班牙語

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Club de lectura en Español

@clubdelecturaele.bsky.social

20 days ago

#📖 Images provide essential visual scaffolding. When reading in a foreign language, visual context helps you infer new word meanings instantly, without translating or using a dictionary. 🧠 圖像提供了重要的視覺「鷹架」。當你閱讀外語時，視覺情境能幫助你瞬間推斷新單字的含義，而無需在腦海中翻譯或使用字典。 #spanishlearning #foreignlanguage #學外語

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Club de lectura en Español

@clubdelecturaele.bsky.social

20 days ago

#📖 Think picture books are just for kids? Myth! In language learning, #picturebooks are a powerful tool for adult beginners. 🎨 你認為繪本只是給小孩看的嗎？這是個迷思！在語言學習中，繪本是成人初學者的強大工具。 En el aprendizaje de idiomas, los libros ilustrados son una herramienta poderosa para adultos principiantes. 🎨 #學語言 #languages

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Club de lectura en Español

@clubdelecturaele.bsky.social

#📖 Find your next read here: 🔗 poln4.pythonanywhere.com References: 🤓 📚 Krashen, S. (2004). The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research. Heinemann. 📚 Day, R., & Bamford, J. (1998). Extensive reading in the second language classroom. Cambridge Univ. Press.

poln4.pythonanywhere.com

Spanish Reading Club | Learn by Reading

Read what you enjoy, express yourself freely, and learn without the grammar stress.

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Club de lectura en Español

@clubdelecturaele.bsky.social

#📖 Day & Bamford (1998) established that for reading to work, materials must be easy. You should know almost every word. That’s why graded readers rock! 📚 Day 和 Bamford (1998) 指出，閱讀材料必須簡單易懂。你應該要認識幾乎所有的單字。這就是為什麼分級讀物如此有用！

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Club de lectura en Español

@clubdelecturaele.bsky.social

#📖 According to Krashen (2004), we acquire language naturally when we receive "Comprehensible Input" in a stress-free environment. Reading what you love is key. 🧠 根據 Krashen (2004) 的研究，當我們在無壓力的環境中接收「可理解的輸入」時，就能自然習得語言。

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Club de lectura en Español

@clubdelecturaele.bsky.social

#📖 Did you know reading for pleasure is backed by decades of research in Applied Linguistics? It's called "Extensive Reading." 📖✨ 你知道「為樂趣而閱讀」在應用語言學中有著龐大的科學根據嗎？這被稱為「廣泛閱讀 (Extensive Reading)」。 #extensivereading #linguistics #vocabulary #learninglanguages #learningSpanish #學西班牙文 #學西班牙語

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𝐼𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒 editing Skin Dolls: Not Today

@emmajuned.bsky.social

After her metal band breaks up, guitarist, Sana, feels like her world is falling apart. That would be the demon their music kept asleep now waking up. If this patchy simulation of Earth, circa 2010, is gonna make it, Sana is going to have to overcome her big black kaiju #📖 #NA #H #W #ND #POC #LGBT

Asian girl with a red punk style screams into a mic on stage

Portrait of Sana in red with space buns.

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Aven McVie 📚✍️

@avenmcvie.bsky.social