“Something big bumped me.” I floated down again, my feet settling in the sand. My father gazed out over the water, his eyes narrowing. “That was a shark.” “Ha ha, funny funny,” I said, going back to floating around. “No, I’m serious. That was a shark.” #wipsnips #amwriting #shark #truestory

@wipsnips.bsky.social I didn’t know then, in the way that I didn’t know anything related to social norms, that approaching your advisor with the faux confidence of an ingenue was odd. From Girl Dragon, An Autistic Memoir #amwriting #amquerying #memoir #writing #autism

I found a speculative non-fiction essay from years ago that, if I didn’t know myself better, I would have assumed I wrote while high on acid. It disturbs me, which I think means I should do something with it. When I get the courage to read it again.

MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER X SUCH A FUN AGE 🔪💪🏾 Who’d ever think that motherhood would awaken your homicidal tendencies? Milly is loving. Rational. A new mom doing her best. She’s also planning to murder her ex-boss in his Chelsea mansion. Nothing could go wrong, right? #QuestPit #W #A #T

THE UNMAKING — 95k Upmarket Speculative Fiction The Memory Police x Chain-Gang All-Stars 🧠 A memory technician that makes people forget. 📺 A glitching stranger who remembers. 🧪 A system that calls emotion error. Some things cannot be erased. #QuestPit #A #Q #LF #S

The Memory Police x Chain-Gang All-Stars Nova makes people forget what pains or impassions them, but her own grief unleashes a glitching stranger who remembers everything she’s erased. And he won’t let her forget. This is THE UNMAKING #QuestPit #Q #A #LF #S

On a quiet Oceania island, Briella Fan’s brother goes missing - and she’ll have to work with a dangerously alluring yaoguai assassin to find him, and stay alive with a demon hunter hellbent on executing them both.  #questpit #RF #A #Q DAUGHTER OF THE 🌙 GODDESS x KNIGHT & THE MOTH

A book for those who ask what makes the prince so great? In CHILD OF SNOW AND SPEAR Gry starts strong and ends stronger. A queer, empowered heroine born of betrayal who risks her body and soul to fulfill a broken promise, save the worthless prince, and find redemption. #questpit #Q #A #F #ND #LGBT

Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance! ✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program ✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest ✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest #A #F #H #R

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Like a good patient, the red shoes sat quietly, hardly twitching, as she began removing the bones and dried sinew from the leather. She wrinkled her nose as she pulled up a desiccated metatarsal. “Definitely a dancer,” Sin said. #wipsnips #amwriting #shortstory From “Second Chance Dance”

@wipsnips.bsky.social “I’m a biologist.” Moira Jean laughed a little, remembered that biologist was what Becky had wanted to be before she became a hospitality manager. The first tears trickled down her face. “I’m so sorry to have disturbed you,” Moira said. “My mistake.” The Selkie’s Heart ❤️

A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ALL THAT CONSUMES US in a south-american inspired world: "A grieving sister’s scavenger hunt through her dead sibling’s journals uncovers a secret society, a vanished prodigy, and ghosts that won’t let her graduate alive." #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #OV #LGBT #F #H

A romantic portal fantasy about best friends trapped in a world that forced them to decide what they'd give up to save their family, and a prince destined to kill the only woman he's ever loved to save the universe from death herself. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #F #W #OV #POC #LGBT #ND

JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence. #Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #A #F

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

#wipsnips Perhaps it is because I try so hard to be different, and generally enjoy it so much, that I don’t read the undercurrent of malice percolating amongst my peers. I should pay closer attention. Girl Dragon, A Memoir #querying #writing #booksky #amquerying #memoir

18-year-old Vreta isn’t sure where she belongs in the world. But when she sets out to restore the stolen memories of her beloved’s sister, she must learn to accept, value and trust herself—or risk losing her own identity to a ruthless duchess. #BluePit #Q #YA #F #ND

✨Magical Academia! 💜Disaster Sapphics! 🔥 Arson! 😭Misbegotten Curses struggling to do "the Right Thing™️" Lion Girl and the Ember Maiden is about being wrong, loving others, and fighting for your truth amidst the laws of a magic library! #BluePit #BluePit📖 #MG #YA #F #SP #W #OV #LGBT #POC #TR

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

SIX OF CROWS x JADE CITY When Gemna’s mentor goes missing she must uncover a larger plot to eradicate mages; one involving the emergence of a mysterious stone that mimics their powers 💥 energy magic 🀄️ Asian setting ❤️‍🔥 slow burn 🏠 found family ⚔️ heists 🧐 research subplot #bluepit #bluepit📖 #A #F

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

THE GODS OF ATALANTIS ATLA x The Selection When Mireia is chosen as the newest incarnation of the Sea Mother, her simple life is upended. Now she & her counterpart, the Sun Father, must navigate their feelings for each other amid rising religious & political turmoil. #Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #YA #F

🔥WHAT will GROW from the ASHES? A young woman's quest across ruins of former US becomes larger than saving her village from raiders. It offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change. Nature will reclaim the land🌱We create anew #CliFi #Hopepunk #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky. Corado's about to break all three. 🤠 Vampire Cowboys 🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes 🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities Querying now! #A #F #Q #BluePit 📖 #amquerying

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

Fern Brady x Neurotribes I’m a queer, autistic weirdo. I’ve survived bullying, sexual harassment, abuse, and an ED. In GIRL DRAGON, I use more than a decade of therapeutic insight to help autistic readers understand themselves and learn to thrive in a neurotypical world. #bluepit #Q #NF #ND #LGBT

I learned I’m autistic at 37. Life was a series of traumas, bullying, and abuse. I grew up and became a therapist. My diagnosis changed everything. Combining memory, poetry, and therapeutic insights, GIRL DRAGON is the story of learning to fly in a neurotypical world. #bluepit #NF #ND #LGBT

For everyone who’s ever asked, what makes the prince so great? In CHILD OF SNOW AND SPEAR, Gry starts strong and ends stronger. A queer, empowered heroine born of betrayal who risks her body and soul to fulfill a broken promise, save the useless prince, and find redemption. #bluepit #Q #F #ND #LGBT

Marillier x Damsel Gry is a Valkyrie/Viking half-breed born of betrayal. When she in turn betrays the prince she promised to save, she must travel the realms of Yggdrasil. There, she risks her body and soul to save the prince and find redemption. #bluepit #Q #A #F #ND #LGBT Child of Snow and Spear

E. Woods x S. Addison Allen Bilcraigh, Ireland is lovely, except the jet lag, broken car, and a cursed inn that’s been waiting for Moira. Turns out, she’s the one to break the inn’s spell. If only she didn’t have to break her heart, and the heart of the man she loves, in order to do it. #Q #bluepit

The inn was waiting for Moira Jean to break the curse. She’s destined to love and break the heart of the inn’s caregiver, a good man. As Moira discovers the truth of the past, she learns the greatest of loves sometimes requires the greatest of sacrifices. The Selkie’s Heart #Bluepit #Q #A #R #ND

I just filled a bookshelf that holds 300 books and I have two more bookshelves to move over and a stack of TBR books. There are clearly too many books in my one bedroom condo. Know what this means? I need to buy a bigger house. #booklover #reader #writer #bookworm #books

I’m heartsick over the last two days with federal eyes once again landing on my home city after a second straight day of shootings by ICE thugs following a weekend of international law violations and threats against a sovereign nation. I made the mistake, multiple times in fact, of reading comments.

I donate. It's what I do, what I can do, what keeps me moving forward and not giving in to the impotent rage that everything fills me with. Keep shining light on what they beg you to keep dark. Keep trusting your eyes over their lies. And keep telling your friends that you love them.

The stimulants Ritalin and Adderall have been used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for decades, but research shows they don’t act on the brain’s attention circuitry as had long been assumed.

First rejection of 2026 in the books. Know what that means? Time for more queries. Someone out there wants a romance about a selkie in a cursed Irish village town, a memoir about an autistic kiddo who sees themself as a dragon, or an epic queer fantasy. Could it be you? #amwriting #querying

@wipsnips.bsky.social Moira Jean watched in stupefaction as the banshee pulled out a chair, as calm as you please, and waited, as if she was expecting Moira to serve her something. From “The Selkie’s Heart” #querying #romance #magicalrealism #writing

Sent four queries today for three projects. I’m never optimistic about these things, but I will keep trying anyway. Here’s hoping! #querying #writing #writer #anxiety

If you have kids in your life who are ready to broaden their book horizons we have recommendations for you! Here you'll find tried-and-true picture books, chapter books, and YA, all published in 2025.

Client Quote of the Day: Me, wearing antlers to bring some festive spirit to therapy: *Greets client* Client: Wait for it…nice rack! Love my job. #therapy #clients #christmas #humor

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but given the condition of my clients this past week, here’s a gentle reminder that the world is hard and scary right now and it’s okay to not be okay. Tbh, I’d be more worried if you were okay. Just remember, you are not alone. #therapy #mentalhealth

A message written by a literary vandal, spotted on a rest stop stall on the way to the Redwoods. It says, “Actually, it was only the pretty good Gatsby.” #literature #writing

@wipsnips.bsky.social “Three pairs of eyes turned in Boy’s direction. A sense of foreboding crept up his neck. He felt his face flush with panic. He wasn’t sure where they were going to send him, but he was damn sure he didn’t want to go there. At all.” The Golden Strand #wip #writing #fantasy

When you find your Christmas present in the back of the truck, in a box, and Mama finds you. #dog #dogtoy #sorrymom

While covering for another therapist today: Client: I’m not sure what combination of skills that was, but it worked. Thank you. I haven’t felt so seen as a healer in a long time. 💕 #therapist #therapy #healing

“A murky pool of fog clung to her slippered feet, leaving a strange trail behind her. Moira Jean tried not to look at it or wonder what it was doing to the hardwood floor. She could only hope the inn had ways of cleaning ectoplasm out of oak.” #wipsnips #writing #query From “The Selkie’s Heart”

My sister adopted a calf. Vote for the cuteness of Fern for cutest calf! www.discoverdairy.com/vote/