“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.” (Arthur Conan Doyle “The Hound of the Baskervilles”) 🎨 Sidney Paget (1901) #bookwormsat #booksky #bookillustration

Took a machete to Chapter 8 of my book and managed to cut 753 words! I’m feeling good about this bc I identified a lot of over-explaining and clunky prose that I did while introducing a new setting— which is something I find difficult. Sooo tempting to write “the city was like x. The street was y”

This is a hot take I’m sure, but I’m at a time in my life where I’m just… not that interested in reading male authors. My last 5 reads have been by women and I don’t see the point in trying to break my streak #booksky #readersky

James Spader is so Henry Winter to me

LOVED The Starving Saints by @caitlinstarling.com esp. as a medieval lit scholar. Learning in the acknowledgements that she’s a Dragon Age fan made the puzzle click into place for why I vibed so hard ⚔️ #booksky

I feel like cannibalism is big right now the way that zombies were in the mid-2000s. There are a lot of current cannibalism books, plus Yellowjackets, etc. I’m hearing about eating people more than ever. Are we craving an unspeakable intimacy, or feeling repressed, or what? #booksky

Who’s your niche dream reader? Mine is a queer woman who loves literature, has had a goth and/or pagan phase, has hyper-focused on a dark event from history (like Franklin’s lost expedition), and has an estranged family member and at least one tattoo #booksky #amwriting #wip

How do we feel about chapter titles? I’ve named the chapters in my fantasy novel but I know it’s not the most popular choice. #booksky

Just started reading The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling! Reaaaally excited for some macabre medieval goodness, esp. as someone who wrote their dissertation on saints’ lives #booksky #amreading

Aw I hit 50 followers 🥹 I’m still trying to figure out the vibe and what I want to do with this space, so thank you for being here!

Who’s on Pagebound?? The feed is so cute, and they’re anti-AI and developed by women 💓 #booksky #books Check out my Pagebound profile! pagebound.co/users/sharon...

The biggest things from my Lit. PhD that helped my writing are 1.) reading broadly across literary traditions and 2.) learning how to take critique (even harsh critique!) about my work. Try to get these skills even if you don’t get a degree in it! #writer #phd #writercommunity

The twins from Sinners but they carry tote bags and their names are Sub and Stack. Is that anything

My goal for reading this year was 2 books a month, and I’m already behind 😭 DNFing a book didn’t help, but I find it tough to allocate time to reading when I have so much else to do #booksky #reading

THE SECRET HISTORY x FALLEN by Lauren Kate 🪽Fallen angels 🏛️ FMC w/OCD 🪽 Dark academia 🏛️Deadly secret society 🪽Murdered twin 🏛️ Reincarnation ⤷ EDITORS interact if you’re interested! #QuestPit #W #PR #RF #A #writingcommunity #AG #OS

One last send-up for #questpit ✨ grateful to all the folks I met today!

An Agent's Guide to Chestnut Hill, a NA Paranormal Horrormance. Inspired by the New England Vampire Panic of 1892. ⏳️Dual Timeline 🖤Gothic 🥀Doomed Romance 💀Feminist Horror 🔪Revenge ❤️Sisterhood A Dowry of Blood X Certain Dark Things #Questpit #W #H #PR #R

A DEADLY EDUCATION x KATABASIS but make it sapphic. 🖤A witch with ‘control or be consumed’ magic 🖤A monstrous mystery 🖤A combative love interest with too many secrets 🖤A magical academy with too many libraries 🖤And an underworld realm with an (unhelpful) ghost #QuestPit #Q #A #F

ASHES…SUN ➕ HORIZON 0 DAWN When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge. Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success will be deadly. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x SAPPHIC Rhea Ripley-esque grumpy and the sunshine priestess who kidnaps her. 💥magic & consequences 🏳️‍🌈queer found family 🌸powerful women 🏰slavic elements 💔forced proximity quest 🌌gods and cults ⚔️battling propaganda #Q #A #F #questpit #agentsguide

RED RISING x ROMEO & JULIET An ambitious, lowborn scholar pretends to be of noble birth to enter an academy for spymasters, but as she rises, her rival vies for her heart, her family ostracizes her, and both rebels & imperials want her dead. ✨Big 5 Editor Interest ✨ #questpit #Q #A #SFF

After a heist gone wrong binds a thief to the soul of a long-dead hero, she must outrun the law and bargain with a vilified goddess for her life, all while deciding whether the world would be better off with her survival or the hero's resurrection. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

Re-did my pitch to include comps, yowza 🤪 this is my first pitching event, it’s so exciting and also a little nerve-wracking!

BLOODRUNE (120k) BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR Runecrafting graduate student Alayne has discovered how to harness elemental energy into a weapon. When her school condemns it, she must flee to protect her research— but it threatens to consume her body and mind. #QuestPit #W #A #F

Sharing for #questpit today.

THE REMNANTS OF TYRANTS When a prophet’s vision of the end of the world goes unheeded, she must team up with a sailor from a rival nation to uncover the cause of the apocalypse before an ancient darkness devours the world. #W #A #F #questpit

A poor farm boy earns a place at a magical academy, discovers a long-forgotten magic his teachers cannot control, and must choose between using it to save the queen or hiding it to save his life. 📕 Middle Grade Fantasy Debut with 📚 Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #MG #F

A DEVOTION SO RUINOUS is a 90K adult fantasy following Soraya, a young woman tormented by a jinn, a dictator, and her first love, as she fights for freedom 🏳️‍🌈 LGBT characters 🧠 Mental Health Rep 🌍 Middle Eastern Setting ✨ Gods Based Magic System ❤️ Lovers To Enemies #️⃣ Own Voices #QuestPit #Q #F #A

TGUWG x Poppy War In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way. #questpit #W #A #DF

i am seeking representation for TOWARDS THE SKY I OFFER IT, my dark academia novel inspired by t.s. eliot's "the wasteland", arthurian legends and celtic mythology 🕯️academic rivals to ?? 🍂 first in a series ⚔️ multi-POV agents, please ❤️ for a query/sub! #questpit #Q #A #F

BLOODRUNE (120k) Runecrafting graduate student Alayne has discovered how to harness elemental energy into a weapon. When her school condemns it, she must flee and evade the king’s guard to protect her research— but it threatens to consume her body and mind. (on draft 2) #QuestPit #W #F

Welcome to the first #questpit event of 2026! Have fun and remember to support one another!! We’re so excited to see your pitches!

@ellaangeric.bsky.social came here from your TikTok! Excited to practice some pitchin’!

My house has power again after 112 hours without 🥹 #mississippi #winterstormfern

Recommended bookstores to buy from direct online! (not bookshop us/uk) #bookstores #booksky #blackownedbookstores

I haven’t seen a lot of people talking about this, but north Mississippi is still reeling from the ice storm. It’s Thursday morning and I’ve been without power since Saturday night. Our major highway north to Memphis is impassable. We don’t have winter infrastructure and we’re reeling from it #news

Linemen and out-of-town crews work almost around the clock to restore electricity after a winter storm slammed the South. “Ice storms are a hurricane for us.”

‼️IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT‼️ In solidarity with the general strike happening this Friday, we’re postponing this week’s event by ONE day. The event will now take place January 31st on Saturday. This strike is important to the both of us and we would appreciate you joining us.

Currently reading: Red Rabbit Ghost by Jen Julian. I’m only like 30 pages in, but I’m struck by how it’s written in present tense! It’s also hitting home as someone really familiar with North Carolina #amreading #booksky #gothic

Asking #booksky and any #authors or #writers out there— do y’all think it’s worth it to apply to pitch contests and programs etc. that have a fee?

I made a little word cloud to visualize the most frequent words in my first chapter 🥰 #fantasy #booksky #amwriting #wip

When I read for fun outside of my genre I feel like I’m being unfaithful 😭 #booksky

Posted a lil Southern gothic Christmas poem on Substack today 🦇 open.substack.com/pub/sharonwo... #poetry #booksky

Joining other #IndieAuthors during January in sharing *free* stories, chapters, and previews in the genres of fantasy, romance fantasy, sci-fi, and YA fantasy. Find your next indie read and browse the selection here: books.bookfunnel.com/fresh-pages-... #Booksky

I’m struggling with the “it’s like if X met Y” type of pitch formulation for books that I’ve seen online. I’ve never thought of my books in these terms— any tips? #booksky #debutauthor #wip

Good morning #booksky! 👋📚💙 I’m Sharon, I’ve got a PhD in Medieval Lit, and I write fantasy. I’m currently editing my first novel, hoping to query later this year. I like theory about bodies, spooky stuff, and quilting 🦇