I know I need to stay informed on things, but the fact that nearly every article reads like: “The Almighty Oz Did [Insert New Awful Thing]” is not-so-slowly driving me insane.

I don’t know what made me stumble back to Em Biefold, but apparently she has new #music 🎼 coming in February amazon.com/music/player...

As a New Hampshire-schooled child during a time and place (early 2000s, Exeter) that had a distinct lack of diversity, this disgusts me. These people should be ashamed!

I learned a new word the other day: manuport. The definition? “A manuport is a natural object that has been deliberately taken from its original environment and relocated without further modification.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuport They’re considered by many to be a type of artistic expression.

I have no idea which of my condo neighbors has the wifi network named “thugwaffle,” but I want to be friends.

#Happiness is finally hanging the “what’s playing” vinyl shelf and finishing a pot of 🫖 by myself.

I love it when babe draws kitties 🐱

Veggie vamp knows what's up 🍅

THE LITTLE SKI MEISTER Fresh snow? Time to ski! With a new blanket of powder on the mountain, nothing will keep the Little Ski Meister off the slopes. She makes it her mission to ski every trail she can, but will her legs make it through the day? #BluePit #BluePit📖 #PB #Q

ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY Fleeing the home she accidentally set aflame with newfound powers, Naomi wants to find somewhere she belongs. She doesn’t expect to find it amongst a band of pirates. But that peace is soon disturbed by the machinations of more dangerous magick wielders. #BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT

Quick #AskAgent #AskAnything Q to any #LiteraryAgent who’s listening out there from an #AspiringAuthor who will begin officially #Querying shortly: This #BluePit pitch includes a reference to a controversial writer. To date, that comp is still the best I have found. Would that turn you off?

Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE AMARI x LOKI After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop #BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide

Ellen, a born ballerina, dances problems away — a monster in her room, misbehaving integers, school bullies… At fourteen, a car accident lands her in a wheelchair. If Ellen is no longer a dancer, then… Who is she? TINY DANCER meets ELLIE IN FIRST POSITION. #bluepit💥 #MG #Q #SP #GN #BluePit TBC

Wow! I had so much fun doing #BluePit as my first pitch event 🤩 I was blown away across the board by the engagement. It’s the most alive @bsky.app has been since I’ve been here (at least in my experience). Thanks for sharing your cool ideas! I hope you all get agents and confidence!

Whisper of the Heart x Yumi and the Nightmare Painter x Inuyasha When druid Loargann accidentally summons Mitsuki, a shrine-maiden-turned-office-worker, their intermittent, moon-tied encounters become a journey of rediscovering purpose and spiritual belonging. #BluePit #BluePit💥#F #R #W #YA #A

#BluePit 📖 #pb When two overtired kids resist bedtime, Dad uses a secret weapon: INCREDIBLY BORING STORIES. If the reader stays awake, they’ll witness a showdown between the world‘s most tedious dad and kids who hold out hopes for dracula vs. dinosaur battles. #OS BrianKirbyStudio.com

SHE WHO HOLDS THE SEA PRINCESS MONOKE X THE POPPY WAR When a cursed empire kidnaps an island heir, it doesn’t realise she’s the vessel of two warring goddesses—or that she plans to burn and drown the throne that chained them. Inspired by pre colonial Jamaican mythology #bluepit #F #YA #A

Can an easily startled Porcupine find a way to control his quills so he can give hugs to his new friends? HOW TO HUG A PORCUPINE #BluePit #PB #Q #NotAlwaysLikingPartsOfOurselves

THE ENDLESS HALLWAY What starts as a desperate search for his kidnapped sister becomes a race through parallel dimensions and the infinite hallway that links them together on Matt Collin's quest to save his sister and maybe even the world—all of them. #BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #Q #SP #SF #F

19yo Queen Rosalind is prepared to do whatever it takes to save her people from a magical drought, even if it means marrying one of three foreign princes. But when she accidentally frees a long lost folk-hero from a curse, she must choose between her heart and her people #BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #F #Q

IT x STRANGER THINGS x THE RIVERMAN: Two identical photos taken years apart send true crime fan Max on a quest to identify the girl in the photo while tangling with a eldritch horror released by crazed cult leader accused of murdering seven little girls. #YA #H #T #Q #bluepit #bluepit📖

Kinda Charming 👑✨ 70K | Fantasy Adventure Meet Neil Charming. He's clumsy, overlooked, and somehow always in the wrong place at the right time. Help this quest find its next chapter with the right literary agent or publisher! #Q #AmQuerying #BluePit #WriteSky #Fantasy #Authors #WritingCommunity

Witchcraft in a small IA town, a closeted lesbian, a band of theatre geeks, 2 missing kids, and a returning football player recently found dead with an athame in his eye. Who's the killer? And do these murders have anything do w/ a mannequin named Betsy? #BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #Q #H #LGBT

LEGENDS & LATTES × THE KYOSHI NOVELS Ilva is an elf on the run. As she begins coming into her powers, she also develops feelings for a new friend (Vali), who is hiding from her own problems. Can they face their fears, foes, and feelings before the fall of all they know? #Bluepit #ND #F #Q #Sapphic

Bookcase wallows in the dusty basement unable to share his adventures until a young girl stumbles upon him and unlocks the magic of books. WHAT A BOOK CAN DO #BluePit #PB #anthropomorphic #LoveForReading #Q 📖

A universe where ships only live as long as their human heart An ex-pirate who steals a ship to keep his crew together, pressed into service by invaders who don't see ship's hearts as human The reluctant soldier he falls in love with, as they work together to survive #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #SF

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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

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

Wow, so in addition to it being #BluePit today, it’s also #PortfolioDay. I’m like a kid in a candy store 🍭 with all the story arcs and visuals! You’re all so talented 🥹

THE EXORCIST X THE BABADOOK Plagued by Shadow People since almost dying as a child, Chris seeks to rid himself of his curse. Now, the Shadows are increasing, the Red Eyed God in the woods speaks of change, and a new Shadow wearing a hat awakens something inside him. #W #BluePit #H #AgentsGuide

When her older brother disappears into a creepy rye field and the adults forget he existed, Jo will do anything to get him back, even team up with the most annoying boy on the planet. Together, can they overcome an ancient evil and rescue their friends? Book 3 is coming! #MG #H #F #BluePit 📖 #P

All Elaine of Astolat wanted was to love and serve Sir Lancelot forever. But when she wakes upon a funeral barge with lilies blooming from her lips, she must pose as her missing brother to find who tried to kill her. 🏰 Camelot but it's a cult 🥀 Flowers grow from flesh #BluePit 📖 #A #F #LGBT #OV #Q

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

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

When a strange bloom reveals magic she was never meant to have, a quiet bookshop clerk is forced into the magical society hidden within 1920s America. There, she must learn to defend herself against the authorities who deem her too dangerous to exist. #BluePit 📖 #W #A #WF #F #R #HS #WritingCommunity

Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do. The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late? #BluePit #W #A #F #PN #SP

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP #hopepunk #CliFi #witchsky

HAMNET x NOSFERATU The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the eternally young banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, but as the bubonic plague closes in he must choose between the living and the dead. #BluePit 📖 #A #Q #H #HS #D #Gothic

Have you ever counted the shadows lurking behind you? There's something that hides. Free to stalk, to watch. Chasing what it wants, becoming who it takes. Another face to stay hidden. Millie desperately tries to find out who will be next in Havetsavain: Chasing Shadows. #BluePit📖 #W #BluePit

#BluePit #InRevisions #F #YA An autistic, trans, plant-killing garden witch works with a rival music witch to care for an ancient flower, but when a meltdown turns the flower sentient, she must learn to regulate her emotions to control her magic and turn it back. Round Table Mentee!

FFXIV x TENSURA When luckless Mick agrees to be his best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, he expects to keep her safe, not be turned into a divine dragon. Now he and Eleanor must face his mission to lead a war against the gods—but is destiny as inevitable as it seems? #BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #F

Sapphic HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA ☁️In a floating land founded on kindness 🐦‍⬛that prays to birds 🚲an ex-con bike mechanic 👗collides with an outrageously femme amnesiac 👑running from nobles who want her divine magic ⛓️and learns their kind kingdom is a lie 📖 #BluePit #W #LGBT #A #F #R

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to save her failing apothecary, but as they fall in love, a ghost torments the shop, pinning the blame on the grocer! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her hot new gf. #bluepit #q #fr #a

Rules For Ghosting x Here We Go Again This book features: 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪶A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #OV #LGBT #ND #F #SP

When 16-year-old Nia picks the wrong pocket, she unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her friends are on the run with a living doll, pursued by gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #BluePit #YA #A #F #LGBT #W

“Every You & Me”  is for YA readers who love the darker grounded fantasy world and “Other Mother” elements of “Coraline” or enjoy going down a rabbit hole wondering what really makes a being who they are after watching “Westworld.” #BluePit 📖 #YA #SP #F #W

“Every You & Me” = an alternate grounded fantasy world similar to “Coraline” + the questions about what makes us real raised in “Westworld” + the light weapons from “Predator,” but more glowy. Also, sentient shadows and doppelgängers 😮 yep! #BluePit 📖 #YA #SP #F #W

When terminally unpopular teen Tilley Audley slips into a shadow version of her world, she discovers her friends and family are doppelgängers—and must reunite with her real loved ones to fight their way home using light weapons crafted from powerful memories. #BluePit 📖 #YA #SP #F #W

One million flecks of darkness assemble into a blanket to cover the last rays of the sun. #SenseWrds #WritingPrompt Prompt 169