An agent’s guide to THE SLOW BURN 🚒🎄 She’s an event planner with her promotion on the line. He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they have to pull off the fire department’s holiday gala 👀 #questpit #r #q #amquerying

As yet another writer looking for an agent, this starter pack is right up my alley.

Split Lip exists because of our all-consuming, kind-of-embarrassing love for storytelling (in all its forms). BTW: we're currently open for free submissions! ✨ buff.ly/ooRuxPx

As someone who's adopted cats as old as Flower, I concur. Senior kitties need a safe, loving, happy home too. 🐱

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SWORDCROSSED X FAEBOUND Under the Royal Guard’s Gaze - forced proximity - prince x guard - arranged marriage - tyrant king - secret rebellion - elemental magic - persuasion magic - trans MC - open door spice - elf LI - baths and royal logistics #ghostpit #NA #FR

My favourite Starship song (not counting their 70s work).

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.

What's it like inside your head?

Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Time for some CanCon. Anyone else remember these guys? I may or may not still have the cassette tape. 😄

I could use this as well!

Bookish checkpoint 💙📚 Last read: An Accidental Villain by Linden MacIntyre Current read: Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman War and Peace by Tolstoy (reading for several years now 😳) Next read: Galore by Michael Crummey Last book added to my TBR: Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

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An agent's guide to TIME'S SIGNATURE : "A Mexican standoff between Slow Horses, Life on Mars and The Ipcress File." "A perfect storm of espionage and time travel." "The best novel of 2035!" #agentguide #A #T #Q #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? 🔮 a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change 🌱 informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse #SFPit #Cli #PA #hopepunk

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #SFPit #A #Dys #WIP

CITY WE BECAME x SIX OF CROWS In an alternate New York, the labor of six baristas helps repel doomsday. After a nearby bank robbery, the coworkers’ lives take strange turns…until they discover their city’s ugly secrets. And to live to tell, they must start a life of crime. #SFpit #Q #NA #SSF #AH

ARCANE x ROMEO AND JULIET An idealistic prince and a hardened thief from opposite sides of a divided city forge a secret friendship. Until a royal betrayal sparks a riot that costs the prince his life and the thief her freedom. #SFPit #F #SFan #Dys #Q #YA #SP

KLARA & THE SUN X SEVERANCE Nerdy ex-punk teams up with a taciturn anarchist to save his robot BFF, uncovers a tech conspiracy re: stolen memories instead. 🌟 Scrappy queer/ND MC ❣️ Dorks age 35+ in love 🤖 Prickly robot familiar 🇻🇳 SE Asian folklore 📼 Cassette futurism vibes #A #WIP #CB #SFF #SFPit

WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN Tai can get through this. Things'll go back to normal. Steal the cargo, stop thinking about the human, wipe the security feed, stop thinking about the human, get out of the vault, stop thinking about the human. Easy. #SFPit #A #Q #R #SO #LGBT

INCEPTION x CANDY HOUSE Nightmare-prone Kaiya takes a popular new drug for a peaceful sleep of lucid dreams. Instead she finds a stranger waiting in her subconscious. Kaiya must decide whether to join a search for answers to who—or what—is behind the little green pill. #SFpit #Q #A

In a world of potions threatening small businesses like her mom’s, and being dangerously used to cure diseases, a uni student’s use of a love potion backfires and to win back her friendship with her crush— an anti-potion witch— she must protest the govt’s legalization of potions. #SFPit #SSF #wip

I mean he's not wrong

JASAD HEIR/ONE DARK WINDOW There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret? #SFPit #A #Q #F

First thing in the morning when I'm supposed to be working. 🤫

Stargate x Marvel x Freaky Friday We all have inner voices, but what if they are us in the multiverse. Kaylee has lost almost everyone & she knows there must be a reason, but by trying to learn, she may end up in a conspiracy that could cost her life. #WIP #NA #SFan #SFPit

What if The Hills Have Eyes were a romance? 🎃Enemies-to-lovers 🎃Creepy subterranean tunnels 🎃Near-future dystopia 🎃Science fiction + romance + horror #SFPit #A #Cli #Dys #SF #Q #agentsguide

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN A prisoner. A scientist. Two exiles condemned to a lunar hellscape that holds back the darkness between stars. In isolation, they find solace in each other— until they awaken something that should have stayed sleeping. #SFPit #H #R #LGBT #WIP

On the brink of extinction a translator holds the fate of two species in her hands, but as she learns secrets from both sides, she must decide which, if any, deserve to be saved #SFPit #A #Q #SF #Clifi #agentsguide

🪨Nerdy rock collector 🏙️A society deep in the earth ✨Dream fueled magic 👾Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in 🫢All tangled around a terrible secret #SFPit #YA #Contemp #Fantasy

They tried to save the world, but only made things worse. Now it is up to Oskar, and the words written in a diary, hidden in the library nearly 200 years ago that tell of what happened and why the world froze. The key to the future is a book from the past. #SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #spub #sfpit

The world has frozen. Oskar must take up arms to help defend the city. But perhaps fighting isn’t the only way – for Oskar has found an old diary, hidden in the city library - The key to the future is a book from the past . #SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #spub #sfpit

Slow Horses x Ministry Of Time When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #SFPit #A #Q #TT

Ipcress File x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #SFPit #A #Q #TT

#SFpit #A #Q #HR #CH #Moonium What if sentient moon rocks are brought back to Earth by world powers to fight climate change, filling an ancient, unforeseen prophecy, capable of thrusting humanity into a new age of planetary peril or promise? But first, zombies!!!

A shy store clerk. A plain Jane. A near-hermit. An unlikeable jerk. An ambitious perfectionist. Their common link? A new pill that promises lucid dreams but delivers scary side effects. The line between dream and reality blurs as they discover its origin. #SFpit #A #Q

This is every day of my life. (Take On Me has a great video!)

5 movies to get to know me: Legally Blonde Ravenous Raise the Red Lantern Hard Boiled Pan's Labyrinth

Who robbed the Louvre! Right answers only.

Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

Happy Monday! Corny joke time: Why did Mozart hate chickens? Because when he asked them for their favourite composer, they said, “Bach! Bach! Bach!” I'll show myself out.

You can feel your head pounding before you open your eyes. -Memory House, a second-person CYOA-type supernatural story stuck between novella and novel length, aka literary limbo.

We've opened submissions for a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social. The Dirty Issue will be edited and produced by my students at Temple University. Send us your fiction, poems, art. More details on what we're looking for here, on Submittable:

It's #ThrowbackThursday! I'm still stuck in the 80s, and I'm okay with it. 😄

It's free to submit your #fiction, #poetry and #nonfic about #writing to Penstricken (and always will be), but you can also request a detailed critique of your work and/or a faster response in exchange for a donation of £2 or more. Just our way of saying thank you 😊. Penstricken.com/submissions

The main reason I had to rehome most of my plants when I adopted my kitties a few weeks ago.

Share a cartoon from the past kids today probably never heard of.

Thank you so much for the shoutout, Rod! 💙 There are some great authors in this list - everyone should check them out.

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand. Veal Thelma & Louise Wrecking Ball