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#writingCommunity 💙📚 #creatives #contemplatives Found poem?

#WritingCommunity 💙📚 #Blueskybooks #Creatives #poets Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka (Photo by me from Santa Fe MeowWolf)

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💙📚 #Creatives #WritingCommunity #artists I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart. – Vincent van Gogh

💙📚 💙✍️ #amreading #amwriting #writingcommunity “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” – Italo Calvino

💙📚 #Blueskybooks #WritingCommunity Depressing sight or an opportunity?

💙📚 💙✍️ #amreading #amwriting #Blueskyreaders #Blueskybooks #writingcommunity “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” – Socrates

#writingcommunity 💙📚 💙✍️ #amwriting It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. --Mark Twain

I, quite generally, avoid chain-posting, & posting things which have nothing to do with what I'm doing. That said, PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE, & I want everyone who watches or follows what I do here to know that's how I view it. You do you. I'll do me. We work together for society. #WriterSky #LGBT+Sky

#writerslife #writingcommunity 💙✍️ #amquerying What I think when that page on QueryTracker shows that I've been 'skipped'.... Maybe, baby!

#writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife 💙✍️ If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. – Edgar Rice Burroughs

When demons destroy her home, Rowena’s forced into adventure like she’d always dreamed of, only to wake up among nightmares. Until she finds a life like the one so savagely taken from her. She can stay, but will it be worth the sacrifices she’s made along the way? #QuestPit #DF #SFF #H Snowdrop #W

MIDNIGHT LIBRARY + HITCHHIKERS GUIDE All of Evan’s absurd bday wishes are randomly coming true. Sadly his 45th was to never grow a year older, and his 46th bday is approaching… A rollercoaster of Jewish humor, family dynamics, & life-altering choices. #QuestPit #Q #A #SSF #T

Death might be a god, but he’s not a god like everyone else. When a soul’s life hangs in his hands & long-lost legends come about, Death must reclaim his mortality to save Morticia’s life. The only problem? The rest of the gods have other plans for them. #questpit #W #A #F

GOOD OMENS X ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN Virgil Mora never expected "Go to Hell" to be career advice. As Hell's Consultant it's up to Virgil to restore Heaven's faith in Hell and save Lucifer, the Angel he's fallen for. Before his past comes back to haunt him. Literally. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

When Zeus + Aphrodite compete in a game of, 'Who's your worst patron deity?', Helen must follow and marry a man far from her homeland of Sparta Her single minded quest becomes to break free from their divine influence and return to her true husband, and beloved king, Menelaus. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF

An updated #agentsguide: IRON WIDOW meets STEELHEART in a 126k YA/NA sci-fi/romance where, armed with accidental powers and hunting for the puppeteer that killed her dad, Ellie wants answers- or she'll get vengeance, with the help of the dark-yet-hot vigilante killing CEOs. #Q #SF #R #A #questpit

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside– it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

inspired by OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH + THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE + MASTER AND COMMANDER #QuestPit #W #A #LGBT #RF (Art = my own)

16yo Candy has been hiding her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now she has the government hunting her for the one thing she can't hide, her skin color. 🥵 climate fiction 🏳️‍🌈 queer friends to lovers 🫂 found family 🧬 her DNA will save humanity #questpit #Q #SF #YA

For Max, who lived & loved vicariously through Asian classics, being reborn into an AU East Asia should’ve been a dream come true. But the original fairytales are grim. Living idyllically & loving freely will cost others their life according to his curse #Questpit #W #Up #A

HERE WE GO AGAIN x It’s a Sin While honouring an uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man learns the dark truth about his adoptive mother's past. When she turns on him, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #QuestPit #A #Q

Everybody knows the Big Bad Wolf didn't want to eat Carmine. Except her. 🧚‍♀️ Fairy tale retelling 💓 Quick but intense read 🌑 Dark fantasy 🐺 Talking wolves 🧙‍♀️ Witches ✨ Magical tattoos 🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual protagonist 🌹 Sapphic twist Coming 2/25 at Anuci Press! #QuestPit #P #A #F #DF #H #LGBT

CRAZY RICH ASIANS x GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER Forced to move from Australia and attend an uber-wealthy international school, Izzy finds herself in a life-or-death game of wits with Manila’s rich and famous. 🌈 #own diverse rep 🕵🏾‍♂️ #cosymystery 🫶 found family 🇵🇭 set in Manila #QuestPit #YA #MY #W

PITCH: Time’s up. The choice is either death or permanent confinement. But a chance meeting offers a ray of hope, a doorway to the freedom Alex and Jason crave. It will pit them against corporate vampires, but the alternative is set in stone. Blue Bloods x Yakuza #PR #Q #questpit 💙📚📖

Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #R #RF #agentsguide #amquerying

LEGENDBORN x AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Either she fulfills her family's legacy, or she dies with it. 🤸‍♀️ Badass female protagonist 💧🪨🔥🌪️ Elemental magic system 🌆 Urban fantasy in NYC 🫂 Found Family 🗡️ Magic competition 🌈 Diverse ensemble cast #Q #YA #F #Jewish #QuestPit

BLADE RUNNER x THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER 👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker 🤖Mysterious android boy ❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance 🩸Powerful mega-corporations 🌃A sprawling city 🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold the answer to a murder… and maybe immortality, too. #questpit #Q #YA #SF #MY

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #QuestPit #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

Rediscover history’s young, forgotten female heroes in this educational and empowering standalone with series potential. 📜 Diverse histories 📜 Forgotten figures 📜 Inspiring women #NF #Q #YA #QuestPit

A magical cat is swept into a hidden world of secret agents, underground cities, and strange allies, only to realize she must reclaim her power or watch her ruthless mentor destroy everything she loves. ✨🐈✨ #QuestPit #Q #MG #F #amquerying #writingcommunity

A centaur cheats at jousting, until the fake horse head goes KERPLOP! 🌈Mythology X SPOP 🗡️Betrayed by the man he loves 🗡️Betrayed by his father 🐈‍⬛Cat Si from Irish folklore 🐐Snarky/greedy satyr 🐎Badass centaur 🧚‍♀️Tricky pixies can't lie ☀️Gods from many pantheons #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #writing

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineering magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺ethical dilemmas 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them #questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #W

HAPPY PLACE + EVERY SUMMER AFTER = NONE OF THIS WAS REAL If you love someone, let them go and if they come back for your sister's wedding, then nothing can possibly go wrong. She broke his heart years ago. She wants him back. He doesn’t trust her. But should she even trust him? #questpit #q #r

#QuestPit #Q #YA #HF 📚 CONFIDENCE: It’s 1889. To bail her grifter father from jail 15-year-old con-artist Charisma devises schemes that backfire, propelling her from New York to Paris and back again in league with mystics, gem thieves, murderers, and traitors.

Do you really know the difference between Literary Fiction and Commercial Fiction? And what does it mean for YOUR writing? #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips thisishowtowrite.com...#writing

#Booksky #Writingcommunity “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” – Dr. Seuss (Photo I took in The Last Bookstore, LA)

#Writers #Booksky #BookskyChallenge #Readers 💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20

#Writers #Booksky #BookskyChallenge #Readers 💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20

#Writingcommunity 💙📚 #Creatives Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it. --Mark Twain

#Authors #Illustrators #Artists of #BookSky #Kidlit Please will you doodle a bookmark for the 2025 #BookmarkProject help us to build a library for the children of Katiyo Primary School in Zimbabwe. We will auction them online in May. Find more information here www.bookmarkproject.co.uk Please Share

#creatives #writingcommunity 💙📚 ✍️ “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

#Writers #Booksky #BookskyChallenge #Readers 💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20

#writingcommunity #creatives 💙📚 #poets #readers Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. E. Cummings

#Writers #Booksky #BookskyChallenge #Readers 💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20

#Creatives #BlueSkyWriters #writingcommunity The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

Erin Reed has a directory of trans and NB scouts you can order your Girl Scout cookies from this year! (Safely and securely and with relative privacy and no contact between purchasers and the scouts.) www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans... via smart bitches trashy books #cookies #LGBTQ