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When Andi, a disenchanted maker of home spells, is accused of bringing dark magic into her city, she teams up with a magicless nun and a cursed outsider to clear her name. But the dark is spreading. They'll need help. They'll need a house of old magic. And its old lady. #BluePit 📖 #A #W #F #ND #M

THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI X GODKILLER After causing a magickal outburst that engulfs her home, Naomi flees aboard a pirate ship. She’s lured in with the chance at a new life, but malevolent gods and mortals seek to drag her back and use her magick for themselves. #BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #LGBT

SHERLOCK HOLMES with BEES When a singer with ties to royalty vanishes, it's up to detective Arthur North to find her. As he digs, he uncovers a plot to place his people, the bee-like zizzun, in the crown's crosshairs. Can he uncover their connection before it's too late? #BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #F #M

An Agent’s Guide to WHAT ARE THE CHANCES- an adult historical mystery set in Chicago, 1929, where a math genius living in her crime family’s luxury hotel must ally with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, all the while secretly pursuing her own revenge. #bluepit #bluepit📖 #M #A #Q

#BluePit 📖 #HelpDesk #YA #NA #A #M #PN #W #OV #LGBT #ND #TR The Help Desk Genre: Poorly lit academia The Magic quietly pervades an unsuspecting campus. A squirrel might simply turn green. Some who witness magic simply Vanish, creating even larger holes in reality.

LIFE IS STRANGE x sapphic CEMETERY BOYS When Addie discovers the ghost of Erin, a murdered girl tethered to a local lighthouse, the two must solve a decades old mystery before time runs out and Erin disappears… forever. #W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖

Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken. A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. And chickens. The chickens are key to the plot. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #H #R

JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence. #Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #A #F

EASTWARD SINGS THE WIND In a land of song-based magic, a musician forges a friendship with an enigmatic foreigner and causes him to question his secret allegiance to the tyrannical god-king who plans to invade her land. #Bluepit 📖 #YA #F #Q #DIS

Pagans x Strike 📖 Author wars ⚫️ Black humour 🔱 Romans vs Celts 🗿 Stonehenge Rules 🌞 Winter Solstice, baby 💰 Karens & Kevins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Refined English snobbery 📵 21st Century Luddites #BluePit #W #A #M #PN #T 📖 🦋

The only place depressed goth-girl, Helena, feels at home on the cheery campus is the dark, haunted chapel. When the stones come alive to warn her of a demon invasion, she becomes entangled in a cosmic war. And falls for a gargoyle.❤️ Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #Q #LGBT

NINTH HOUSE X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN Healing magic belongs to the rich. Until now. When a healer turns up dead on their uni campus, fellow outsiders David & Zarrin must risk their lives & their friendship to protect an idea that could change magical medicine forever. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #F #LGTB

AN OWLBOUND SPARK. 🦉🔥❄️ The world is ravaged by a never-ending winter and the magic that can end it is dead, until Tyrus and Lyra embark on a fantastical journey of self-discovery to thaw the seasons with the help of an owl of legend. ✨ #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F #LGBT

Bayle, the butler, needs to help turn his employer's antique orbital into an academy. Nora is determined to protect her cottage from a corporate land-grab. If they put their heads together, they could solve each other's problems.🥰 Unfortunately, it may also tear them apart.💔 #BluePit 📖 #A #R #SF #W

Someone is killing the sorcerers of London. Kit Tyburn, ex-soldier turned play-actor, has to dive into the arcane world of Elizabethan astrology & magic, hunting a vicious pair of killers intent on harnessing a weapon that threatens the throne itself. 3 Musketeers x Harry Bosch #Q #BluePit 📖#A #HS

When a powerful enemy disrupts their lives and seeks to claim the throne, a prince and an assassin must work together to save their kingdom from dark plots and darker magic—and survive against all odds. #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #Q #ND #LGBT #amquerying

Squirrel’s bursting with excitement as he scurries to help the animals plan Porcupine’s surprise birthday party. Asked to be the lookout, Squirrel must show that his hyperactive antics are more than annoyances as he tries to be included. How To Surprise A Porcupine #BluePit #PB #ND #Q #OS 📖

Stranded on a mist-filled island with half her soul stolen by a witch, a vampire starts a new life as bodyguard to a war leader. - Can they survive betrayals, suspicion & a war? - Will they be more than friends? - Humans are the real monsters - Morally gray characters #F #H #A #Q #BluePit 📖

Loving the #BluePit📖 posts! ✨Preparing to query✨... SEA CURSER Seeking solace at a retreat on a solitary Maine island, Nan instead must save her friends from ancient forces or be lost to the sea. 🌊Maine sea mythology 🌲Closed setting 🫂Loss & Redemption #A #SP #W #amquerying #writesky #agentsguide

Telepathic teacher Calypso has spent her life running from joy. A six-month rural reset becomes a chance to make herself anew. When her new school risks closure and her magic causes chaos, she fights to claim friendship, romance, and a life that finally feels fulfilling. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #SP #WF

An agent's guide to Time's Signature. #agentguide #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #bluepit

Witcher meets Whitten: A village witch teams up with the vampire she vowed to protect her village from in order to take down the child of a god who has been terrorizing them both. #DIS/#ND protagonist ⚔️ #POC/#TR vampire 🧛‍♀️ #LGBT love 🥀 #Gothic vibes 🌘 #KillGod plot ⚰️ #BluePit #Q #F #A #OV

THE THRONE'S GUARDIAN Blakely discovers she’s heir to the protectors of a hidden world devastated by civil war, but in order to unleash the extraordinary powers she desperately needs to save it, she must conquer her greatest weakness: her paralyzing self-doubt. #agentguide #newadult #upmarket

A pair of interplanetary librarians become entangled in the disappearance of a powerful government official on a world ruled by oppression and censorship. #BluePit 📖 #A #SF #Q

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #SF #A #Q #R #LGBT

EVENT HORIZON X STARGATE When tasked with testing new wormhole tech, Ama, an amnesiac, finds that she can speak with her new mycelium starship psychically. Can she find herself in deep space? Or will she lose her head to the Synacran Empire hunting her? #BluePit 📖 #W #A #SF

Garden of the Grinning Beast A pacifist born into a warrior society gets trapped in a Ghibli-esque spirit world where she must right the balance between humans and spirits while weighing the value of one life against the many its loss might save. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #NA #F #ND #LGBT

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #BluePit 📖 #A #H #Q #DIS

✨ONE DARK WINDOW x KATABASIS✨ Lola Knight is cursed with a violent dark magic. When it kills her best friend, she must attend Le Fay academy to seek control before it kills again-or consumes her. But the monstrous mystery waiting for her could consume her entire world. #bluepit📖 #A #F #LGBT #Q #OV

Everpresence Hunger Games X Foundation Technology is power. No one knows that better than Fin Goldingay, the heir to Everpresence, the company that runs the world. He alone has the chance to fight his family’s corrosive power. All he has to do is care. #BluePit📖 #A #SF #Q

"DEFILER" is a sci-fi fantasy adventure novel about an unmoving desert planet basked in eternal day, a sleeping starship-god resting in the middle of the day, and the girl who will traverse her planet on a pilgrimage to meet Him. #BluePit📖 #W #Q #NA #SF #F #LGBT

SIX OF CROWS x DISHONORED x LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA Magical whale oil, exploitative capitalists -- and one legendary thief who decides to rob the safest oil vault in the city. But he can't do it alone. 🐳 Victorian whalepunk 🐳 Fantasy heist 🐳 Star-crossed lovers 🐳 Found family #Bluepit 📖 #A #F #Q

In a SINBAD THE SAILOR retelling, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a journey across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiance from a mysteriously moving island. He may yet live through the treacherous voyage, but will his heart survive unscathed? #BluePit 📖 #Q

In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) ཐིཋྀ #BluePit 📖 #NA #F #R #Q #ND

WINTER'S ORBITxSOME DESPERATE GLORY A ship only lives as long as its heart When a crisis leaves ex-pirate Sol without a ship, he steals and bonds with one. This puts him on a collision course with Ambrose, a reluctant soldier who discovers the theft as his home is invaded #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #SF

When Alice discovers her family founded a magical secret society of curse breakers, she is framed for a deadly curse. To clear her name and save her aunt she must follow riddles and sail treacherous seas with a rag tag crew as they battle towards a way to break the spell. #bluepit📖 #f #ya #mg #q

A nun who woved not to use magic, a highly skilled, but disillusioned maker of magica houses, and a cursed guard, team up to solve a crime and find out why waste magic is tearing their city apart. #BluePit📖 #A #W #F #ND _sisterhood/friendship _doorways _magic houses _ancient magic/disposable spells

One of my pet peeves in sci-fi is when aliens are just humans with purple skin (and my sci-fi writing clients know it, haha). Here are some tips on how to make them more alien! #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction

Welcome to the 4th day of #BluePitHype! DAY FOUR: Advice Share Share your best advice for pitching, querying, and promoting your work overall! We will also share our own below! 2 days left until #BluePit on Jan 13th! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comics #TTRPG

#BluePitHype Character interview Q1: MC is proud of how smart they are (author note: they're average smart) Q2: MC is afraid of appearing stupid (author note: a pattern emerges) Q3: MC loves efficiency, solving puzzles, and chocolate (don't we all?)

Moodboard for my work-in-progress fantasy that I'm... uh... working on. #BluePitHype

I write SF/F. English is not my first language, but it's more fun this way, I swear. I never had the writer dream as a kid, but again, I find starting later in life works to my advantage. I've been querying a SF novel so far, but this year I'll be talking about my very new fantasy WIP. #BluePitHype

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#BluePit is ready to kick off 2026! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place on Jan 13th, 2026! And #BluePitHype starts January 8th! #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Announcement! RevPit's Fall into Fiction is back and it will all take place here on Bluesky! We hope to provide support, accountability, and a welcoming, inclusive community for fiction writers who are drafting, editing, or querying a novel this fall (11/3-21) #RevPit #RevPitFiF

There's tons of helpful query advice in the @reviseresub.bsky.social feed while we wait for Friday's #10Queries event! #Writing #Querying #RevPit

Meet the editors who are giving feedback for this round of #RevPit #10Queries!