Excited to announce that Smile for the Camera received an Honorable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary category at the @writersdigest 94th Annual Writing Competition! 🎉 Thank you to the judges for reading & recognizing my story! #writersdigest #writesky #shortstory #winner #competition #amwriting

THE DIVIDING SKY x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US A glitching world, a grieving family, and a queer 16-year-old girl fighting off the voice in her head—before she becomes the prototype for a disgraced inventor’s next evolution of control. ✨⚡️ #PosterPit #Q #YA #SPF #T

Have the guts and the imagination. ❤️ Happy Sunday, friends. #writing #writinginspiration

A glitching world, a grieving family, and a queer 16-year-old girl fighting off the voice in her head—before she becomes the prototype for a disgraced inventor’s next evolution of control. ✨✨✨ For fans of THE DIVIDING SKY and HELL FOLLOWED WITH US. #questpit #Q #YA #S #T #DYS

Greetings from the Writer’s Digest Conference in Baltimore! Today was an amazing day filled with workshops and networking. I’m so excited to return tomorrow for Day 2! 📖📚✍🏻✨ #WDC25 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying @writersdigest.bsky.social

Behind every curated post lies a darker truth—Sasha’s life as the daughter of an influencer spirals into horror when their perfect brand begins to rot from the inside out. My #YA short story Smile for the Camera has been published in #DugUpMagazine! Check it out! #WritingCommunity #publishedwriter

Good morning! Today’s going to be a great day. ☀️ I’m attending the Writer’s Digest Conference this weekend in Baltimore, Maryland! Looking forward to meeting new people, pitching my novel Glitch, & attending workshops! ✍🏻✨ Anyone else going? #WritingCommunity #WDC25 #amwriting #amquerying #writing

For Glitch: Waiting On The Sky To Change by STARSET & Breaking Benjamin Glitch has a very rock (and pop punk) influenced sound and both bands’ music were on loop while writing this story. 🎧🎶✍🏻✨ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amquerying #Glitch #writingprompt

Huge thanks to the #WritingCommunity for the love & support for Glitch & Fragments of Us during #BluePit 💙 I also had a wonderful time at the @writehive.bsky.social Annual Conference this weekend! Feeling inspired & energized! ✍🏻✨ To all the new friends/followers, welcome! 🤗 #amwriting #amquerying

Kahyla faces a DEMON’S BARGAIN where all the options are bad: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life. ⛓️‍💥Feminist within patriarchy 🦶😒 Heel-face turn 🔥❤️ Slow burn 🕴️Powers via Possession 🚶‍♀️Coming of Age 🗣️Quiet girl finds her voice #BluePit 📖 #Q #F #R #YA #A

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #R #LGBT #ND #agentsguide #bluepit For fans of Heartstopper & Felix Ever After ✅ Enemies to Lovers ✅ Found Family ✅ Slow Burn ✅ Secrets and Twists ✅ Boarding School ✅ Seaside Town ✅ Angst with a side of humor

DR HORRIBLE x STARS & SMOKE x RENEGADES 🦸🏼‍♀️ Kickass shapeshifting heroine 🧑🏻‍🎤 Celebrity villain 🗣️ Unreliable narrators 💥 Superhero action 🖤 Obsessive love ✅ Jumping through League’s hoops 👫 Supportive BFF (maybe LI?) 🎤 Voicey POVs 🚪 Scooby Doo doors 😜 Hero & villain share a body? #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #SF

#Amaryllis She's a former Broadway star on the run from a scandalous past. He's a forgotten film actor who pushes everyone away. When a media circus runs riot over their so-called "relationship", they might just find in each other the healing they never knew they needed. #bluepit💥 #YA #A #R #W

UMBRELLA ACADEMY x SAILOR MOON x RWBY + ARTHURIANA #AVALONRising 👪 Found Family is literally magic ✨ ⚔️ Sword + Sorcery + Sci-Fi 💾 💔 Grief, Loss, and Reconciliation 🩹 💢 Family difficulties but they all love each other ❤️‍🩹 (no A!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB-u... #bluepit💥 #YA #F #SF #W

LOCKWOOD & CO x THE X-FILES When one of Nat's classmates doesn't return from a routine abduction, she begins questioning everything she thought she knew about aliens. She dives into the secrets of her small desert town, which may hold the key to her own past. #BluePit #W #YA #SF #PN #LGBT

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS A witch tale with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells". ✔️Cottage Core ✔️Twist Ending ✔️Sisterhood ✔️Morally Gray FMC ✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll ✔️Atmospheric ✔️Feminism ✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻 #BluePit📖 #Q #Spec #A

An autistic freshman trades her mother's microscopic, narcissistic control, father's physical presence and emotional absence for dorm room freedom. Between found family, first love, and learning to stop apologizing for existing—Rowan creates a life she loves. #BluePit📖 #W #YA #NA #ND #LGBT #OV

FAME x NEVER ENOUGH 🎭 A ruthless arts school 👯‍♀️ Grieving Twin Sisters 🩰 A dancer chasing perfection 🎶 A singer unraveling 💔 Messy friendships & first love 🧠 Mental health, grief, addiction 🕳 How far would you fall to feel whole? Title: Fragments of Us❤️‍🩹 #BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #Contemporary #W #LGBT

WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL x THE SOUND OF STARS 18yo Hale & his celebrity BFF have 1 week to film a blockbuster episode and attract investors for their futuristic-TikTok musical. But planetary power outages and weather-system glitches thwart their ability to deliver. #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

Here’s my #agentsguide to A CROSSROAD OF LILIES, my complete YA romance with a speculative twist! 🍄A magical mushroom curse 🍄A friends-to-lovers romance 🍄A retired childhood actor 🍄A bullied scholarship student 🍄An otherworldly secret they both must keep #Bluepit📖 #R #YA #Q

FOREIGN BODIES is Euphoria X The Last of Us (if it had androids, duh), a YA Crossover spec fic. Found family, wealth disparity, unchecked oligarchs, genetic manipulation, perseverance, science, identity, connection, grief, mental illness & addiction. #BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #NA #SF #SP #OV #ND #Q

Agents/Editors guide to my YA literary sci-fi INTERSTELLAR meets NOPE with the emotional appeal and first alien contact of ARRIVAL (2016) & the suspense and alien hostility of THE FIFTH WAVE Today is 2094 & dealing with grief. What worse could possibly happen? #YoungAdult #literary #scifi #BluePit

EARLY MAGIC - in the query trenches now! #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #F On the path to coven initiation - amid mutual rivalry, poor romantic choices, and math homework - one girl chases the truth and the other clings to power. If these witches don’t work together, magic itself could be on the line.

LEGENDBORN x STRANGER THINGS x ATLANTIS A girl and her maddeningly charming childhood friend shelter a young star who falls to their sinking hometown while also trying to solve a string of disappearances surrounding a local lab. #bluepit #bluepit📖 #agentsguide #YA #F #R #SF #M #SP #Q #OV #POC #ND

All lonely and depressed Helena wants is to fool her therapist long enough to graduate. She never expected to fall in love with a gargoyle. Then the stones begin to crumble, and war bubbles out of Hell. To save her new friends, she must make an unthinkable journey. #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F #LGBT

A woman haunted by memory loss finds herself leading a top-secret program to train the next generation of government leaders, including a cohort of augmented clones, in an attempt to safeguard peace and security in a post-nation-state world. #BluePit 📖 #A #SF #Q #DIS #LGBT

THREADS THAT BIND X DELICIOUS MONSTERS Francine just wants her father back: impossible, until she finds a doll that can make her feel warm and loved whenever it is held. But it can also kill her if it is held too tight—and someone just stole it out of her purse. #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #T #Thriller #PN

THE LAST TO LET GO x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US 🤐 A quiet teen ⚡ Glitching cities 📡 Post-explosion tech takeover 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Sibling loyalty 🧬 An inventor’s twisted obsession 👁 A voice in her head, not her own 🕳️ If she breaks, she won’t just be consumed—she’ll be weaponized. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #SP #Q #LGBT

This will be my first #BluePit! 💙 I’m still figuring out BlueSky and navigating the app & event, but I’m very excited to be here & look forward to sharing my stories and seeing yours! Thanks everyone for being an awesome community! #WritingCommunity #BluePitHype #AmQuerying #AmWriting #WriteSky

Three musical moments from “Glitch,” a YA dystopian thriller about siblings, survival, and selfhood in a world that’s forgotten what it means to be human. #PlaylistPitch #YA #SF #DYS #T #Q Credits: -Radioactive by Imagine Dragons -Hushabye Mountain by the Sherman Brothers -Float On by Modest Mouse

Literally that’s #Glitch in a nutshell! When a mysterious explosion glitches entire towns & leaves survivors zombified in headsets, 16 y/o Lea Rigby escapes with her two older brothers. But let’s pretend this is before the events of the novel… ✨ #BluePitHype #WritingCommunity #BluePit #AmQuerying

I decided to try something different and have my Rigby siblings share their skills, texting style. ✨☺️ #BluePitHype #WritingCommunity #BluePit #Glitch #AmQuerying

Lea: My role models are my older brothers, Alek and Luke. I admire their strength. Alek’s is loud & clear, while Luke’s is quiet, but fierce. They’ve given up so much to take care of me, & I hope that I can be as strong as them one day. ✨ #BluePitHype #WritingCommunity #BluePit #Glitch #AmQuerying

Introducing… Glitch by Jessica Junqua (Book Cover Edition!) ✨✨ Art by my amazing partner, Julia Parks. 💗 #BluePitHype #WritingCommunity #BluePit #AmQuerying #WriteSky #ArtReveal

Hi everyone! My name is Jess (she/her) and I’m an actress & author from New Jersey. I’m currently querying Glitch (YA speculative thriller) & writing Fragments of Us (YA contemporary). I love musicals, reading, baking, & my 3 cats! Looking forward to #BluePit! ✨ #BluePitHype #WritingCommunity

THE LAST TO LET GO x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US x SHAMELESS (TV) A glitching world, a grieving family, and a queer 16yo girl battling the voice in her head—before she becomes the prototype for a disgraced inventor’s next evolution of control. #MiseryPit #YA #DT #Q

#WIPSnips You’re not used to the noise, the pace, the everything of NYC. But your crush is next to you…so maybe you’ll be okay. 💕🏙️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIP #amwriting #FragmentsOfUs #YA

Querying can be brutal. I love my book. I’ve worked on it for years. But the silence and rejections still hit hard. Some days I question everything. But I’m still here. Still writing. If you’re feeling this too—you’re not alone. #amquerying #writingcommunity #writer

3 queries submitted today for Glitch. The process is both exhilarating and nail-biting, but I’m in it for the long haul. Someone out there is the right match for this story, and I can’t wait for them to find it. ✨✍🏻 #amquerying #writingcommunity #writerslife

Writers, real talk: Can having adult side characters (22-30) in a YA book hurt its marketability, even if the teen MC (16) is the clear POV & emotional center? I’ve heard mixed takes from various sources. Any insight on here? ✍🏻 #amquerying #writingcommunity #writer #YA #writing

Day 2 Haul from the New Jersey Bookstore Crawl. This was a super fun weekend and I’m so excited to read all of my new books! 📚✨💕 #BookSky #NJBookstoreCrawl #bookcommunity #readersofbluesky #bookhaul

Day 1 of the New Jersey Bookstore Crawl complete! 📚✨ Here’s today’s haul! #bookish #njbookstorecrawl #bookhaul #amreading #readersofbluesky

Happiness is a good book and a sleepy cat on your lap. 🥰🐱📖 (The book (Beta by Rachel Cohn) didn’t make the picture, but it’s there!) #CatsofBlueSky #LazySundayAfternoons #WritingCommunity #AmReading #CozyReads

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows

#WIPSnips No one’s thrilled you’re the lead in the school musical, but during study hall, the gorgeous tenor—and your fellow lead—gives you a pep talk. 🎭 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIP #amwriting #FragmentsOfUs #contemporary #YA

Tinkered with my query letter for Glitch for what feels like the 800th time—but today’s version finally feels right. 😅 Any small (or big!) #WriterWins on your end today? Let’s celebrate the progress! ✍🏻✨ #amquerying #writingcommunity #queryletter #writer #YAauthor

#WIPSnips You just got home from your first day at a new school in a new state, and it’s time for an after school snack… 🍎 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIP #amwriting #comtemporary #YA #FragmentsOfUs

The querying process for my novel Glitch has been such a wild, eye-opening ride into the world of publishing. Always grateful for the education! But if there’s one thing I’ve learned? Coming up with comp titles is no joke. 😅 #writingcommunity #writer #comptitles #amquerying #writerstruggles

FAME x NEVER ENOUGH After their father’s death, twins Charlie & Olive are forced to live with their mother who abandoned them—and attend a ruthless NYC arts school. As Charlie holds things together, Olive unravels—drawn to a captivating dancer who might save or break her. #WIPPIT #YA #C #LGBTQ