#UnhingedPit Rom-com, at a ren-faire, bro? Now with a dash of murder... #A #R #C #M

3 main tactics are utilized: ✅ The “savage” enemy is portrayed as an irrational aggressor. ✅ Their brutality of innocent victims is graphically described. ✅ The government describes their hand as being “forced” to preserve peace. Sounding familiar yet?

This is disgusting rhetoric, but it’s nothing new. I did my master’s thesis on the Bush presidencies’ wartime rhetoric in a continuation of a 1980 essay by Robert L. Ivie called “Images of Savagery in American Justifications for War.” The original paper can be found here: tinyurl.com/savageryrhet...

On the Blog: Hybrid publishing in a nutshell. shaynagrissomwrites.com/2025/08/18/i... #IndieAuthor #indiepub #Indiepublishing #hybridpublishing #queryingauthor #queryinglitagents #horrorcommunity #GothicHorror #horrornovels

❤️ BEFORE SUNRISE x 🌶️ HEARTLESS '97 Berlin. Shaking off its Cold War slumber to the beat of techno. Clocks on street corners and lakeside beaches. And her larger-than-life yet adrift host… whose touch makes her wish this summer would last. But it can't. #PosterPit #Q #R #A

YA social horror/thriller along the lines of PARABLE OF THE SOWER on a roadtrip across racist America. 17yo Samira is on the run with her fam in neo-Jim Crow America, struggling through Sundown Towns, lynch mobs, and illegal love with another girl. #QueerPit #YA #CoA #D #H #SPF #T

#QueerPit #Q Alice can see ghosts... she'd really rather not 👻 🏳️‍🌈 Queer & trans rep 🧠 Autistic lead 🧽 Cleaning haunted houses 🔪 Serial killer mystery 🌊 Ghosts by the sea 🎭 Dark humour

Cyrano x Vibrant Years When penniless Jibran starts an epistolary affair with a spoilt heiress, little does he know he's falling for his best friend, the younger sister. 💍 Arrgd marriage 🥰 Best friends-lovers 💌 letters 🧘‍♀️anxiety rep #questpit #WF #R #editors

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay). When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth. #QueerPit #YA #SF #R

When Leah (the pastor's daughter), goes missing, Brooke (her secret girlfriend), has to navigate their cult-like church to find her. One problem: no one remembers who Leah is. #QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying

#QueerPit #Q Reluctant medium Alice moves to the coast for some peace and quiet. Instead, she accidentally lands a job cleaning houses and exorcising restless spirits. 🧠 Neurodiverse protagonist 🌈 Queer & trans rep 🔪 Serial killer mystery 👻 Ghosts, ghosts & more ghosts 📖 YA/NA

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company🌱🐈‍⬛ 💚 💜 Bisexual Romance 💙 Chronic Illness Rep Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X THE SPELLSHOP #QueerPit #A #FR #Cozy #OwnVoices

Lady Penelope's hysteria might frighten everyone else, but the only thing Dinah is afraid of is not having rent money. When vases fly off the mantles and her visions intensify, Dinah knows that Lady Penelope will die without her help. #Queerpit #H #R

Repo! The Genetic Opera but where Shilo and the Grave-Robber hook up. If you haven't seen Repo!... What California would be like if the Cosmetic Surgery industry was also the government? Spoilers: They get taken out by an angry girl with asymmetrical boobs. #QueerPit #A #Dystopian #R

On the Blog The Night Dredes (Shayna's Version) #IndiePublishing #Self-Pub #SmallPress #WritingCommunity shaynagrissomwrites.com/2025/08/02/b...

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share ALL the books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this Stoker/Locus/Goodreads finalist! No, seriously, get you some. It’s discounted and I need a new contract. Hah. www.amazon.com/House-Bone-R... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

On the Blog: Is it me? Querying into the Void Some common misconceptions about #Amquerying in the modern trenches Is it me? Querying into the void shaynagrissomwrites.com/2025/07/27/i...

Holy crap, guys. I just got a full request from Writer's House! Writer's House?!

Start building your TBR with these new horror releases coming in August! August Horror releases - Day 1 @patrickt.bsky.social @stephenrhoades.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social @moniqueasher.bsky.social @daniel-lorn.bsky.social @jimmyjuliano.bsky.social @johnchrostek.com @shaynagrissom.bsky.social

So, do you really need to hire a Dev Editor to get an an agent? Naw... #AmQuerying #AmWriting #WritingCommunity shaynagrissomwrites.com/2025/07/20/d...

Repo! The Genetic Opera but where Shilo and the Grave-Robber hook up. If you haven't seen Repo!... What California would be like if the Cosmetic Surgery industry was also the government? Spoilers: They get taken out by an angry girl with asymmetrical boobs. #BluePit #A #Dystopian #R

Repo! The Genetic Opera X Face by Joma West After a brawl in the strip-club where she works, Serenity reunites with an old flame. When he betrays her to the corporation that killed her father, Serenity wants revenge. #A #Dystopian #BluePit

Something good happened today, cue the self-doubt!

What readers didn’t say about this #Q #A #R: – No plot or stakes (+ implausible) – Can’t connect with the MCs (+ zero chemistry) – 🌶️ is mild (+ cringe & boring) – No sense of time/place (+ Berlin is dull) – Terrible writing (esp. stiff dialogue & flat descriptions) #UnhingedPit

#unhingedpit #a #lgbt A good portion of the lesbian experience in one meme.

"Grab the chicken!" Who'd a thought she have to hypnotize a cannibal to get out of this mess? LOTR x Clan of the Cave Bear, but future #UnhingedPit 🤪 🫠 #A #Q #Spec #F #CliFi #WritingCommunity #writesky #LOTR #apocalypse 🔥 🌱 🐓

WANTED: peasant girl who eats rocks instead of metal for magic powers like that one mistborn girl and likes to go barefoot like toph. If spotted, say you know where her friend is and she’ll follow you even though the friend is a toxic parasite. #Unhingedpit #YA #F

WAKE, starring: FMC: "Never Not Gonna Dance Again" by Pink Love Interest: "Dancing with Your Shadows" by Phillip Phillips Foil: "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson Mentor: "Demons" by Imagine Dragons Antagonist: "Raining Blood" by Slayer #unhingedpit #Q #YA #F #M #R #MH

Brooke being gaslit by her cult-like church into never believing that her crush (the pastor's daughter) never existed/didn't go missing like: #YA #YAThriller #querying #Q #UnhingedPit

Repo! The Genetic Opera but where Shilo and the Grave-Robber hook up. If you haven't seen Repo!... What California would be like if the Cosmetic Surgery industry was also the government? Spoilers: They get taken out by an angry girl with asymmetrical boobs. #UnhingedPit #A #Dystopian #Romance

Repo! The Genetic Opera X Face by Joma West After a brawl in the strip-club where she works, Serenity reunites with an old flame. When he betrays her to the corporation that killed her father, Serenity wants revenge. #A #Dystopian #Unhingedpit

The people who insist the Big Beautiful Bill will only cut Medicaid and not Medicare were lied to. Come January, 45 billion dollars will be cut from Medicare and will ramp up over ten years to a total of 490 billion. prospect.org/politics/202...

Had a great meeting with @ericabauman.bsky.social thanks to @mswl.bsky.social She encouraged me to query my outlandish #Dystopian #Romance so watch out guys, it's gonna be weird.

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

Second day into #Pride and we lose #JohnathanJoss. Don't say we have equal rights when we get shot for checking the mail. Also, they killed the dog. Wtf?

GOOSEBUMPS ...Pinoy Style! 🇵🇭 While visiting her parents' remote Philippine hometown, Fil-Am teen psychic Bernie must face: learning Tagalog, a creepy ancestral house, nightly blackouts, a catastrophic typhoon, hostile enkantos, and worst of all: NO WIFI!! #SEAsianPit #Q #GN #MG #H #SN #wip

Family is family & love is UNCONDITIONAL. But what happens when it's not? When her mom is kidnapped by her estranged family, Cara questions everything. In a battle both real & internal, she must blaze her own path to save the things dearest to her. Book 2 Mehk Light Series #SEAsianPit #W #MG #F

🇻🇳COCO xTURNING REDx✨COOKING✨ It's Sophia's 1st LNY w/o her Bà Ngoại. If she can just convince the Kitchen Fairy to tell her Bà Ngoại's bánh tét recipe, then she can maintain her LNY tradition 🏮viet culture&tradition 🫂dealing w/ grief 👯navigating friendship #SEAsianPit #MG #F

FRANKENSTEIN but in a Cantonese matriarchy. When an entomologist’s insect-pheromone powers evolves her into a gigantic Kaiju-like Asian monster, and when she and the cocky swordswoman sent to take her hostage fall in love, they must decide if their love is worth dying for. #SEAsianPit #A #H #F #R

Went to buy The Hacienda and found myself on a buying spree. Opps! Oh well, Victorian Psycho, Vampires of El Norte, Camp Zero, Sister Maiden Monster, and What Moves the Dead all look like amazing books too.

So should I re-query my #Dystopian #Romance or naw? I spite queried it a few years ago and found that agents actually liked it, but with all the #SilverElite hype, maybe now is the time? #Amquerying #WritingCommunity

If you love female-centric horror, folklore, and free books, join the House of Monstrous Women sweepstakes! It's free to enter, and it'd make my day! ❤️💜 sites.prh.com/house-of-mon...

Bridge Kingdom X Assistant to the Villain Sylvia will do anything to protect her family, even become a hostage for the mercenary group from the neighboring kingdom. Too bad they nabbed the difficult sister... Enemies to lovers Forced Proximity 1 Tent #AgentsGuide #A #F #R #Romantasy #QuestPit

One of my favorite #horror novels is getting a second chance. The Night Dredes are coming, Oct. 21st! Cover by @grimpoppydesign.bsky.social

Okay, but why are people threatening to break knees with walruses? What did the walruses ever do to you?

#Agentguide to Protege to the Prince #romantasy #Fantasy #Romance #AmQuerying

Notice how all the inmates look the same? Bald, tattooed heads, they all fit what Republicans think criminals look like. They wedged all the "hardened criminals" in one cell to make a point while the typical dads and grandfathers were left out of the photo op.

Thinking of pitching my current novel as... #Romantasy but with muppets! That will go over great, right?