If you like vampires, the southern gothic, or have a taste for folklore and history then this is the perfect place to send in your #poetry, #prose, & #art!!! #writingcommunity #submissionsopen #literarymagazine #vampires #blackinkocean

🖤REMINDER: Submissions are OPEN for a chance to be published in Issue 0!!! We want your mesmerizingly mundane stories that hint at something sinister lying beneath the surface & your messy, misshapen characters trying desperately to hide the cracks that peer into their soul. #southerngothic

What books (other than the ones we’ve listed) give you major southern gothic, vampy vibes?👀 #submissionsopen #writingcommunity #literarymagazine

Pretty great group of folks if you ask me🤧

#submissionsopen to be featured in the first edition of Black Ink Ocean Press & Magazine are now open. Click the link in our bio to submit and visit our website. #literarymagazine #litmag #writingcommunity

A SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERARY MAGAZINE?😳🤧

New story idea I’m working on about #blackvampires. I used to love supernatural stories as a kid with vampires and werewolves and such, but as I grew up I convinced myself I couldn’t write in that sphere because I rarely saw people who looked like me in them. That changes now. #writingcommunity

The grim reaper falls in love with the moon. Novel manuscript complete. Currently looking for beta readers. Let me know if you’d be interested!👀 #writingcommunity #betareaders

LA LA LAND🎭 x BOOK LOVERS 📚 Inspired by a scandalous bucket list, ex-best friends revive a long-forgotten dream of writing a musical together, bringing their second chance at love center stage. #questpit #Q #A #R #agentsguide

ChatGPT removes us from community. Writing can be a very collaborative experience even if the typing is done solo. I don't know where I'd be if I didn't have writing center fellows or grad students to help me extract what I wanted to say. That community strengthened my confidence and skill.

The Shadows Within 🪨Nerdy rock collector 🌎A society deep in the earth ✨️Dream fueled magic 💀Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in 🙊All tangled around a terrible secret #ya #fantasy

In Cardonia destiny is dealt w/the pull of a card from the Deck of Fates. When Elara draws the Joker—a card that shouldn't exist—she must unlock her powers or lose her head but her only hope lies w/the Prince whose charm hides a rebellion to shatter the kingdom #Questpit #Q #A #F

Whilst honouring his estranged uncle's dying wish to reunite an iconic group of 1980's drag activists, a young gay man learns the dark truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #questpit #Con #NA #AG

When sheltered Catalina Wesley falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear, and his greatest desire—death #W #FR #PR #YA #Questpit

All depressed Helena wants is fool her therapist long enough to graduate. When she meets a beautiful woman who claims to be a gargoyle, she is drawn to the magic of another world. Seeking answers to painful questions, she must face a technicolor hellscape or lose everything. #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

SHARP OBJECTS + A STUDY IN DROWNING + COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA 🌨️ grief & sisterhood ✨ forgotten magic 🪻 "memory is a punishment" 🔪 an academy w/ rotten sins 🌊 toxic friendships #questpit #W #YA #F #OWN

🪨Nerdy rock collector 🏰A society deep in the earth 🔮Dream fueled magic ☠️Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in 🤐All tangled around a terrible secret #ya #fantasy #questpit

For #QuestPit I'm sharing part of the Agent's Guide for PAINTED FLOWERS NEVER DIE, plus an excerpt from @theblcklst.bsky.social's professional manuscript evaluation, which described the novel as having "strong commercial appeal." I #AmQuerying this book club-ready spec fic w/ romance. #Q #A #S #R

Phantom Thread x The Last Witch of Scotland “ In the highlands and in the glens, where the volcanic streams tick with waters yet prime, and the corncrake cries and the air is a Gaelic hymn, where blood was ploughed from a crop of people now peregrine. ” #questpit #LF #H #Q #OS

FER SOROLL is an #A #HF #HR novel set in 15th c. Catalonia, with the added challenge of werewolves. To keep the farm animals in town safe, there’s only one man willing and able to spend the night defending them—of course, our love interest :) #questpit #W #LGBTQ #QueerMF

When Leah, the pastor's daughter, goes missing, Brooke doesn't just have to prove foul play was involved — she has to prove to her cult-like church that Leah existed in the first place. #questpit #ya #querying #LGBT #writingcommunity

They came for 1 last trip—a nice hotel, some laughs, a chance to bond. When a storm traps them at Hotel Adair bodies pile up. They don’t feel like accidents. Secrets slip. Reality warps. They realize the hotel isn’t just keeping them safe. 🩸It’s keeping them.🩸 #A #H #QuestPit

WOLF AMONG US x ONE DARK WINDOW A college student by day, investigator by night haunted by her brother's ghost. A former high priestess harboring both a relic and the soul trapped within it. With something stirring beyond the veil, can they save the soul of the city? [ #questpit ; #W ; #A ; #F]

A #QuestPit peek at one of my WIPs… I've been deep in research on my historical romance, but currently #AmWriting a novelization of this pilot inspired by my own career shift from Hollywood to the zoo! ANIMAL INSTINCTS: this rom-com is much simpler and more grounded than my previous novel! #W #A #R

The Lamb × To Be Devoured With her sanity declining, acolyte Haidee must rely on her sapphic lover, High Priestess Nysa, to bring her back. But what once was love, grows into obsession and what once was thirst for sacrificial blood grows into a hunger for flesh. #questpit #W

BLOOD ON OUR NAMES: a fey courtly murder plot where a trio of strangers with secrets that could betray one another flee fate, only to end up in the arms of destiny. Magic. Meddling. Monstrosity. Three implausible allies. Only one second chance. #questpit #W #F #A

Grim Portents HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of 📖 #Q #A #DF #PR #Hu #H #QuestPit

#questpit #Q #A #RF #agentsguide Love isn't blind, it sees you for who you truly are Brienne of Tarth x Dardevil x Tristan & Isolde with HEA 👸Bi-racial, facially disfigured princess 👨‍🦯Blind, disabled romantic interest 💞Against the odds romance 💰Bachelor auction (brothel) 😍He falls first 🌶️ Spicy HEA

THE SPELLSHOP x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company. #QuestPit #A #RF #F #agentsguide #disabilityrep #chronicillnessrep #cozyromanticfantasy

Plagued by the choice between duty to her people and following her heart, a competition for the princess’s hand in marriage holds the key to her Kingdom’s survival. 🏹Marriage Competition ✨Secret Romance 🔮Meddling Mind Magic 📚Secrets of the Past 💕Second Chance Romance #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA When a soul-devouring woman cursed with a sinister fox spirit falls in love with her final victim, she decides to end her killing spree; but the fox has plans of its own and it refuses to let one man stand in its way. #QuestPit #A #H #R #PR #W

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

#questpit #a #s #t THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY X THE MAIDENS RIVERGUARD Yesterday, Corinne was a kick-ass defense attorney in Chicago. Today, she's a waitress in small town purgatory. Corinne now must relive past wrongs if she is to save her best friend's life and save both their eternal souls.

TRUE DETECTIVE x SAINT MAUD x INCANTATION x Chinese myth YELLOW PERILS Family. Fate. Freedom. How far would you go for enlightenment? #W #H #A #QuestPit 💙📚 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #horror #agentsguide #asian #writing #OwnVoices #BookSky

JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late. 🌊 Pacific Islander Rep 🌊 Elemental Magic 🌊 Endless Banter #QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide

My laptop has shut down on me 10 times in the past hour🥲

As far as we are aware, these are the pitch events happening in May on BlueSky! May 7th - #QuestPit (@questpit.bsky.social) May 23rd - #WIPPit (@wippit.bsky.social) May 31st - #SEAsianPit (@seasianpit.bsky.social) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Children can be scary😕 Added this scene recently while editing my grim reaper story. Not even the snails are safe😔 #WIPSnips #over #writingcommunity

How does one go about finding beta readers?🥲

This is from my Alice in wonderland-inspired story. Care to guess which beloved character is the cook’s equivalent?🤧 I’ll give you a hint #smoke 🤣 #WIPSnips #amwriting

#WIPSnips #introduce From my short novella about the Grim Reaper falling in love with the moon.

Power corrupts. Fed magic drop by drop, those who provide it make the call on what those lucky fey will do with it. As the chess masters tug the threads of fate, it will be all the more difficult to stop them with the tools they themselves have provided. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #F #A

Once Gwen was called Wendy. She was promised love. All she lost was her humanity. Once Hook was called Rosie. She was promised adventure. All it cost was her family. Together, maybe a cranky immortal & a smug pirate can find a thing they didn’t know was missing. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #F #H #LGBT

“Lady in Blue” ALICE IN WONDERLAND X MORRISON’S JAZZ When Icela runs away from the debutante ball she expects her mother to come looking for her, but instead she finds herself alone in a town where she has to depend on unusual strangers to help her home. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #YA #NA #HF #R

Meet “Charon’s Rebirth”☺️ DRACULA X JANE EYRE Keiron was four the first time he looked Death in the eyes and saw himself peering back—a thin, black thread heavy with the weight of silence hanging between them. #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #F #R #NA

Starting off #PosterPit with a poster for #Sirensong, where Iron Widow meets Steelheart as a traumatized young woman takes her accidental powers on a quest for vengeance, entering a world full of crime and corruption as she hunts for the puppeteer that possessed her mother. #NA #SF #R #PosterPitQ

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME ⚔️Enemies to Lovers 🏳️‍🌈Butch/Femme Pairing 🏳️‍⚧️Non-binary & Trans Rep 👨‍👩‍👧Found Family 😡Vengeance Era Women 💀Flirting Thru Decapitation 🏴‍☠️So Many Gay Pirates 🩸Blood Drinking As Eating Your Feelings 💔Broken (Stabbed) Heart 🧜‍♀️Merfolk Will Eat You 🫂Hurt & Comfort #WSPitW #A #F #H #LGBT

SE7EN x THE WAILING x GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO x INCANTATION A Hongkonger Taoist demon and a British Christian exorcist hunt a ghostly killer inspired by Buddhism’s five poisons. #PosterPitW #PosterPit #H #A 💙📚 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #horror #agentsguide #asian #writing #OwnVoices