DO YOUR WORST x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE Max's to-do list: 💥Suppress his errant teleportation curse 🩺Survive 5th year of med school 🧠Go back to therapy for his OCD NOT on his list: 📰Meet a cute (& nosy) journalist 🎆Fake date her for New Year's Eve 💛Fall hopelessly in love #QuestPit #A #R #F #W

🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀A chaos bi boy with messed-up healing powers 🔥The magical curse he unleashed on her best friends ⏳A ticking clock to remove the curse before her premonitions come true 👀A few ✨unspoken feelings✨ What could go wrong? #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

Had such a fabulous night celebrating the launch of @lindzmcleod.bsky.social's The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet! Can't wait to dive into my copy 🥰

For TEOE: 🔮Cat: neutral good sorcerer 🫀Ti: chaotic neutral warlock-paladin For my #amdrafting book: 🩺Max: lawful good cleric ☀️Carrie: chaotic good rogue-bard

Hey, bluesky! Took an unexpected social media break but I am baaaack! What'd I miss? ☀️

Happy release day Lindz! 🌸🌷💖

I could not be more excited or over the moon to finally reveal the cover for my debut novel SOME ADVANCED NOTES ON PRACTICAL DREAMING, as created by the amazingly talented @miavern.bsky.social !!!

#FastDraftFeb Week 2 stats! A slower writing week thanks to lots of fun life stuff happening! ANYWAY, we're so close to the end of Act 1 I can taste it! Hoping to wrap up the final scene of Act 1 tonight, and then it'll be full speed ahead into Act 2✨fake dating fun & games✨

I DEVOURED the first two chapters of this, go over and have a read immediately, you will not regret it!

DO YOUR WORST x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE Max's to-do list: 💥Suppress his teleportation curse 🩺Survive 5th year of med school 🧠Get therapy for his OCD NOT on his list: 🗞️Meet a cute (and nosy) journalist 🎆Ask her to be his fake date for his parents' NYE ball 💕Fall hopelessly in love #QuestPit #A #R #W

LOCKWOOD & CO x THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE 🧠Anxiety rep 🍂English small-town autumnal vibes 🥺Mutual pining 💕Annoyances-to-lovers 🥰Ride-or-die girl gang 🔥Chaotic emotion-based magic 🫀Himbo love interest ⚔️Kisses at swordpoint 🫖Very British humour #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

A BRUSH WITH LOVE x DO YOUR WORST 🩺An anxious med student with a teleportation curse 🗞️The sunshiny journalist who saw him vanish 🎆Fake dating in the Highlands for NYE 💕Unspoken feelings 🤙🏻Chaotic flatmates 🧠OCD rep 🏳️‍🌈Bi disasters 🥃And quite a lot of whisky What could go wrong? #QuestPit #A #R #W

LOCKWOOD & CO x RED (Taylor's Version) 🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀The annoyingly hot boy who accidentally cursed her friends 🔥…But who's her only hope to stop her fiery visions becoming reality 👀Oh, he's also her first crush & first heartbreak What could go wrong? #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

Gonna be crossposting over here tomorrow for #QuestPit, I'm working all day then heading to a gig (Ben Barnes!!! 😍🥰) so won't be around much but I'll drop in to hype y'all up whenever I can!

#FastDraftFeb progress update: Week 1 ✨ Added almost 5k new words, fixed up the 15k I already had, and we're nearly at the end of Act 1! Gearing up for a biiigggg drafting day today with plenty of baked goods and coffee 💛

this was meant to be a sunshine x grump novel but Max seems incapable of grumping around the people he loves (Carrie, his flatmates) so it's more like sunshine x DadFriend™ #FastDraftFeb

authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book✨ "Today is not my fucking day. I shoulder the heavy door open, half-drenched, shivering and trying my damnedest not to drip all over The Unicorn’s Head’s immaculate mahogany floorboards." (very much a 1st draft placeholder!)

✨ACCOUNTABILITY THREAD FOR #FastDraftFeb✨ 💛WORKING TITLE: Sunshine on Leith 🥃GENRE: Adult speculative romcom 💛CURRENT STATUS: 15,480 words drafted 🥃GOAL: a complete first draft by the end of the month 💛VIBES: sunshine x grump, bi4bi, fake dating, chaotic magic, only one bed, mental health rep 💫

Just wrote a draft query for #FastDraftFeb to get back into the swing of the characters and ~vibes~ I must say, this is the most excited I've felt about writing in a long time. Can't wait to dive back into my favourite world and reacquaint myself with this wonderfully chaotic cast 💛

I'm gonna do it! Or see how far I can get, at the very least... #FastDraftFeb, who wants to join?

Would it be incredibly unhinged of me to attempt to fast draft an entire book in February y/n

QUEEN'S GAMBIT x SQUID GAME She just wanted to shoot up, but after killing this dude in self-defense she's inherited his job as a Player in a deadly, people-eating Hotel? And it's falling apart? #2025pit Editors, contact my agent Laura Zats! (If you enjoy this tweet, please boost with a repost!)

Milkfed meets Nightbitch 40-ish woman ditches wife for liberal arts dream job. Becomes obsessed with flirty, fellow teacher who smells of orange perfume. Is increasingly reckless & consumed with her new love interest. Possibly maybe starts turning into an orange. #2025Pit

Anxious 17yo Cat can see the future – just never when she wants to. When her friends are cursed with dangerous magic, Cat must team up with the boy who unleashed the curse & stop the magic spreading through her sleepy English town – before her bloodsoaked visions become reality. #2025Pit #YA #F

A closed room country house murder you say? May I introduce you to FUCK THIS MURDER 🐊🐊🐊 - a humorous, foul mouthed mystery, complete w/ sabotaged pre-wedding jaunts (bad food, poison oak, BEES), rekindled romance, a murder forest, & much more! #2025Pit #A #M #autism #Disabilty #LGBTQIA+ #OWN

Inara, a 40-ish professor, ditches her wife & job to take a dream job across the country. She soon falls for one alluring fellow teacher & her tangerine perfume. As Inara's obsession grows, her job performance stumbles, & her body starts to undergo bizarre changes. #2025pit

British I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS 🔮17-year-old Cat has anxiety & unwanted premonitions. The last thing she needs is to: 🚗Run a cute guy over 🔥Discover her BFF's deadly fire magic 👀Develop visions of her friends being hunted for their powers ⚔️Stab the boy she fancies And yet… #2025Pit #YA #F #MH

JURASSIC PARK x AMMONITE Shunned by Geological Society, Mary Anning stumbles on a portal to the past—live & v v toothy dinosaurs! But is human ambition the deadliest foe of all? Queer love, fun banter. #2025pit Editors, contact my agent Laura Zats! (If you enjoy this idea, boost with a repost!)

RADIO SILENCE x LOCKWOOD & CO If you like annoyances-to-lovers, chaotic magic & ride-or-die girl gangs, this one's for you. Featuring: 🧠Anxiety rep 🍂English small-town autumnal vibes 🥺Mutual pining ✨Emotion-based magic ⚔️Kisses at swordpoint 🫀Himbo love interest 🫖Very British humour #2025Pit #YA #F

Tomorrow is going to be a wet and grotty Burns Night in Edinburgh and I'm DETERMINED to get some writing on my new project done. Who's with me? 💛

Do you like soft magic systems, do you like queer found family, do you like open ended worlds and mystery and female rage? Bcos I have a book for you. (Some Advanced Notes on Practical Dreaming - Sep 2025)

Everyone go add this book if you haven't already!! Cannot WAIT to read this one 🖤

publishing, please! I need this book!

HEARTSTOPPER w/ magic ✨ Cat's autumn plans: ☕️Coffee dates 🏫Fit in at new school 🧠Hide her anxiety When her friends are cursed w/chaotic magic, her plans change: 🔮Master her useless visions 🔥Stop her BFF burning the school down 💋DON'T fall for the boy who unleashed the curse #YouDeservePit #YA #F

Anxious 17yo Cat's useless premonitions show her what she'll have for dinner tonight. What they don't show her: 🚗Running over a cute guy w/healing powers 🔥Her BFF's dangerous fire magic ✨Teaming up with her crush-turned-rival to stop a magical curse… ⚔️…And stabbing him #YouDeservePit #YA #F #Q

AGENT'S GUIDE for #YouDeservePit If you like annoyances-to-lovers, chaotic magic & ride-or-die girl gangs, this one's for you. Featuring: 🧠Anxiety rep 🍂English small-town autumnal vibes 🥺Mutual pining ✨Emotion-based magic ⚔️Kisses at swordpoint 🫀Himbo love interest 🫖Very British humour #YA #F #Q

Things in my LOCKWOOD & CO-esque #YA #F book that ✨just make sense✨ 🚗Vehicular manslaughter on page 1 (he gets better) 👀Crushing on the guy who (accidentally) cursed your best friend 🎃A Halloween costume contest with an 🔥explosive🔥 ending ⚔️Kisses at swordpoint 🫖Far too many cups of tea #P2Ppit #Q

LOCKWOOD & CO x RED (Taylor's Version) 🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀The annoyingly hot boy who cursed her friends 🔥…But who's her only hope at stopping her fiery visions becoming reality 👀Oh, and he's also her first crush & first heartbreak What could go wrong? #P2Ppit #YA #F #Q

LOCKWOOD & CO x HEARTSTOPPER 🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀A himbo boy with messed-up healing magic 💥A magical curse spreading through a sleepy English town 🍂Autumnal vibes 👯‍♀️Ride-or-die friendship 🥰Reluctant allies to found family 💜"You are loved exactly as you are" vibes #P2Ppit #YA #F #Q

"The prose skews contemporary, but McLeod still delivers all the Regency staples, including high-society gossip, unwanted suitors, and quippy dialogue... The result is an unabashedly escapist, feel-good romance." Your friendly neighbourhood queerdo just got reviewed in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY!! 🥳 🙌 🎉

Look at these EXCLUSIVE ARCs that Atom have made for early readers of The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet!! I need merch for this book, stat. If there was a hoodie, I would live and work and sleep in it, guaranteed.

Cat's greatest strength is how deeply she cares for her loved ones... But it means she often sacrifices her own mental health to put them first, and that might just her undoing 👀 Her greatest weakness? Probably her reluctance to open up and allow herself to be cared for in return 🥺 #BluePitHype

For day 2 of #BluePitHype I've got some STUNNING art to share! 💜The two main characters from my YA contemporary fantasy about misbehaving magic, beautifully brought to life by @/BMWillows ⚡The grouchy, slightly cursed main character of my YA fantasy-horror-comedy, illustrated by the fab @/rivacyte

Hello #BluePitHype! I'm Charlotte, a writer of YA and adult contemporary fantasy and speculative romance, all with a heavy dose of heart and humour 💖 I've been writing stories for as long as I can remember, and I'm passionate about realistic and sensitive mental health rep in fiction 💜✨

Remember that tomorrow is the start of the #BluePitHype Q&A! #BluePit is a pitch/hype event for storytellers of all media! The Q&A is also a great way to find & reconnect people if you’ve migrated here from the Other Place! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic

This Q&A starts tomorrow, and I'm hoping to use it as a way to get back in touch with y'all (and connect with some new faces too!) Who else is joining? 💜

蛇年大吉 2025🐍✨ May your 2025 be truly wonderful. May happiness last as long as a serpent’s graceful length. #oc #happynewyear

"Pirate Valentina Mallozzi kidnaps civilian Miss Gloria Vane for ransom at the nearest port, but Gloria isn’t the helpless girl she pretends to be. Her best chance of escape lies in seducing Mallozzi, but the Queen O'Nine Tails won't be wooed so easily..." Queer pirate horror dropping on 9th Jan!

OUR DEADLINE IS EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 31st, 2025!!!! Also, as I get excellent submissions, I reminder that of course, we do not want AI-generated submissions *cough cough* ;) Thank you for those who have and will share their work!!! We want your ECO-HORROR with an erotic twist!