My submission is in for #smallpitch. We'll see where this goes! Of course, I'm only now realizing that I probably should have tagged it LGBT+ Fiction as well as science fiction 😂 #amquerying #writingcommunity

431 pitches are in... can we reach 500 by the 24 hour mark? 👀 #SmallPitch

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#SmallPitch starts tomorrow. It’s a form pitch contest for small pubs. Only marginalized authors this event. Up to 3 mss, 1 pitch ea, 400 characters You can see which publishers are involved (research!), find guidelines, & use a practice form on their website: smallpitch.org/event-guidel...

#editors, A STRANGER KIND OF MORTUARY SCIENCE is a 97K cozy, adult fantasy novel mixing whimsy with the macabre, soft fairytale elements, and found family. Perfect for lovers of the strange, magical, enchanting, & gothic! #bluepit📖 #F #A #OS #LGBT

Commander Revera must recover valuable intel from a wrecked enemy warship found drifting in space. But her mission is sabotaged, and the dead ship’s secrets will force her to decide if fulfilling it is worth losing her honor or restarting a horrific war. #BluePit📖 #A #SF #Q #BluepitHype #amquerying

WICKED x DwtS When dancer Gio & Aubrey—the talentless noble he's coaching to win the princess (or else)—kiss, he thinks it's his only chance at love. Now Aubrey will do anything to save him. Even if it means marrying a woman he doesn't love… who is also in love with Gio. #BluePit📖 #A #F #R #LGBT

CANTICLE (Adult Epic Fantasy) 🔥 Ideologically opposed sister bards 🎶 Artistic expression-based magic 💜 Sapphic romance subplot 👑 Female driven cast 💫Culturally diverse worldbuilding 🩸 Mortal-Divine blood feud #bluepit📖 #F #A #Q #LGBT #POC

When a space shuttle mishap leaves a disgraced scientist stranded on treasonous moonbase Aldrin, he must repair both the ties with Earth and his reputation before suspicious residents make good on their threat to open the airlock. The Martian × Red Mars #BluePit 📖 #SF #R #SP #Q #NA #LGBT

DISCOVERY OF WITCHES X RESIDENT EVIL A genetically mutated witch needs to find her recently abducted friends before they become victims of spine-chilling experiments, all while she stays hidden from the mega-corporation behind her creation. #BluePit #bluepit📖 #A #F #R #Q #writingcommunity

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

#Bluepit Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space 6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy? #Q #SF #SFF

10yo Jack’s anxiety is so bad that he can’t even make it through gym class without puking. So when the very existence of mythological creatures depends on him, he has to learn that bravery is not about being fearless; it’s about being scared and doing it anyway. #BluePit 📖 #MG #F #Q #OV #DIS #ND

GOOD OMENS x OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH Andrew is a bad demon. He has absolutely failed at the job the Devil gave him. He is instead stuck possessing a 12 year old psychic on the ghostly coasts of Cornwall and trying to stop her from being eaten by ghosts or fairies. #Bluepit📖 #A #Q #F #LGBTQ #ND

#BluePit 📖 #pb After Melody spots a COW ON A BALLOON, the Internet explodes with wild speculation. As the world loses its mind, Melody keeps hers, proving that in a frenzy of clicks, clout and chaos, creative problem solving can save the day (and keep a cow grounded). #OS BrianKirbyStudio.com

THE AUGUSTINE AFFAIR Strap in for a globetrotting, high-octane spy thriller/gay romance. Fashion mogul (and undercover MI6 agent) Felix finds himself teamed up with assassin Kai to unravel a conspiracy at the heart of the fashion world. Think Mr. & Mrs. Smith, but gay #A #r #t #LGBTQ #BluePit📖 #q

THE SECRET COURT Bridgerton x Red, White & Royal Blue Morgan, the second-born son of a prominent family, ventures to court to find a bride. He's aided by Liam, a charming rake who may not be what he seems. A Wattpad Original: www.wattpad.com/story/390156... #p #A #R #HF #LGBTQ #BluePit📖 #bluepit

Earth didn’t want Emily, but saving it was the only way to fight back against the aliens colonizing the galaxy. If she survived her transphobic family and greedy billionaires, her crew _might_ have a chance against the giant killer robot hiding in the moon 👀🌑 #BluePit 📖 #Q #SF #A #TR #OV

#BluePit📖 #YA #R #LGBT #Q #OV #DIS #ND Erin & Liv Are Not (Not) Together 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ - lesbians, therapy cat, queer care home, exes, fake dating, friendship love, yearning, ghost tour walks, doughnuts, LEGO, found family, foster rep, mental health rep, healing from toxic relationship, queer JOY and CHAOS ✨🍩🌊

ALIEN X WHAT MOVES THE DEAD An isolated space station. A mysterious scientist. A trio of government inspectors. A “false” distress signal. An omnipresent AI. A zoo of animal test subjects. What could go wrong? UNINTENDED DESIGNS is a sci-fi horror full of dark secrets. #BluePit #Q #SF #H #LGBT #OV

My third-ever pitch: One seeks stars. One summons storms. Both learn the strongest magic is what we choose to let go. Between the stars and storms, one character kneels before another and whispers, “It’ll hurt less if we kiss.” #bluepit 💥 #Q #A #OV #LGBT #F

QUEER NANCY DREW Being accused of murder was not on Emmie’s bingo card but when her archenemy dies during her mom’s book event, all eyes are turned toward Emmie. She, her sapphic crush, and her trans BFF need to solve the crime & not get killed in the process. #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #M #LGBT #OV

🐟FROM THE SEA FRET🐟 Callum Point - a queer transman - moves to a dead-end fishing town only to find it full of semi-mad townsfolk, monstrous fish, and an ever-present fog that whispers to him. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #H #OV #TR #LGBT

How do you find out who you are when your family history has been systematically erased? My memoir, WHERE THE TIGERS DIED, explores the adoption industry in South Korea, mixed race identity, Korean pop culture, and what it means to visit one's ancestral homeland as a foreigner. #BluePit📖 #W #NF

THE NAME FOR SPACE IS DEVOTION Interstellar x The Love Hypothesis about nerdy Brazilian lesbians Ask any physicist what gravity is and you will get one answer: the warping of the space-time continuum.  But for Teresa, gravity is magic. #BluePit📖 #A #Q #SP #DIS #LGBT #OV #ND #TR

Heartstopper x Only Yesterday What if someone found you remarkable when you felt invisible? Introverted Sera discovers at her reunion that track star Reese secretly liked her in high school. A gentle romcom about second (or first) chances at love and life. #BluePit #BluePit💥#R #Q #LGBT #OV #YA #A

Vesper is disabled, divorced and depressed, ready to give up on the worst Halloween of her life. Then she falls through an open grave into a dark world of magic and second chances. THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS x THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE #BluePit📖 #Q #A #F #R #H #OV #LGBT #DIS #novella

The derelict enemy warship holds valuable intel, but Revera's extraction team have their own secrets, which they’d kill to protect. And fulfilling her duty may come at the cost of reigniting a cold war, and losing both her honor and humanity's future. #BluePit📖 #A #SF #Q #BluePit #amquerying #FMC

🔎The Alchemist's Last Recipe🔎 An introverted book restorer unravels an alchemy-infused murder in a close-knit Prague courtyard community. #BluePit📖 #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #W #A #M #WF

THE SUBTLE KNIFE X THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS ⚙️ Mystery Soldiers 🚪 A Magic Hallway 🐈‍⬛ An Immortal Shapeshifter 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 A Missing Sister 🌻 A Girl With No World 🐟 A Psychic Fry Cook 🌀...and the fate multiverse at stake. THE ENDLESS HALLWAY #BluePit📖 #YA #Q #SP #SF #F

🎸SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES🎸 An MM romance about a band who makes it big—but tension and angst arises as the singer and rhythm guitarist grow closer than just best friends... — DAISY JONES x UTOPIA AVENUE [ #bluepit📖 ; #bluepit ; #P ; #W ; #R ; #HS ; #A ; #LGBT ]

M/M FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST x GIDEON THE NINTH ❤️‍🔥 Toxic exes-to-lovers 🧪 Alchemical magic system 🪽 Eldritch angelic beings ⚔️ Battle couple ✝️ Space Catholicism 🌒 The loneliness of being different #BluePit📖 #Q #SF #F #A #LGBT #ND #OV

What you’ll find in THE ICE BETWEEN US, an 88,000-word, dual POV, low spice sapphic figure skating romance: 🇨🇦🇸🇪 Non-American FMCs ⛸️ Workplace Romance ♥️ Forced Proximity 🚌 Road Trip 😡 Dislike-to-Lovers 🛌 Only One Bed 💔 Third-Act Breakup 🤲 She Carries Her 🤫 "Stop Talking" #BluePit📖 #A #R #Q #LGBT

When disgraced archeologist, Talia, lands a case tracing an ancient knife, she's determined to prove herself, even if it means working with her worst frenemy, skulking around dusty archives, and ignoring a very inconvenient murder. At least it's better than driving for Lyft. #BluePit📖 #A #M #Q #LGBT

Running an intergalactic show's a tough gig for a teen who's scared of the stars--the ones in space, not the celebrity kind. But Hale will have to deal w/ his celebrity BFF's wild plans if he wants to save the show...& face his star phobia if he wants to save his crush #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

THE ARGONAUT'S SON The Song of Achilles x The Women In Ancient Greece, when one man’s dream of family and brotherhood collides with another’s quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war? #BluePit #Q #A #LGBT #ND #HS #R #Myth

"Kade, he's something else—the sum of this city's devils dressed up in flesh and red paisley." WANDERLUST AND THE SEA 🕰️historical—1920s 🏳️‍🌈queernormative 👽one (1) renegade alien 🫀gangsters or found family? both 🩶gray morality 🌊costal storms ♠️card tricks #BluePit📖 #q #sf #lgbt

🌟 THE DIVINE RITUALS 🌟 ⚔️ A bronze age adventure to attack and dethrone god! ⚔️ ✨ Magic as science ✨ Heroes on a journey (but not a hero's journey) ✨ Ancient people doing even more ancient archaeology ✨ Melting pot city states ✨ Oh no, the god emperor is hot ✨ Horse #BluePit 📖 #A #F #W

PlanetSide Consulting: The Possession Of Ares Murderbot x Firefly #Bluepit When terraforming stalls, you call in the consultants. The men and women of PlanetSide are guaranteed to get your planetary engineering moving again. A snarky, swashbuckling, gunslinging western-in-space 🚀 #SF #W #A #scifi

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST meets GIDEON THE NINTH following a homunculus on a revenge quest across the stars, desperately seeking answers about his creation before his vengeful ex-boyfriend catches up with him. #BluePit📖 #Q #SF #F #A #LGBT #ND #OV

BBC MERLIN x MEGAMIND Ota and Alder have been destined enemies for countless reincarnations. And frankly, they’re sick of it. ⚔Enemies to divorced 🖤Unchosen Ones 🤬Fuck destiny, let’s kill god 🪢Soul bonds 🌱Genderfluid dryad 🏳‍🌈Sapphic subplot #BluePit #BluePit 📖 #Q #NA #F #LGBT

WHIP IT x PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION A wild child roller derby skater crashes into a situationship with a man whose determination to save his family business puts him on a collision course with her beloved animal shelter. Will she risk her heart to save what she loves? #BluePit 📖 #W #A #R

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

CONAN x LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS VAYAL THE HUNTER is a sword and sorcery novella about a guy who hunts a demonic shapeshifter. 🐸genderless communist frog-people 🌳trees the size of mountains ⚔️plenty of battles/monsters 🐛giant centipedes 🪦grief 👬power of friendship 👑ambitious protag #BluePit📖 #A #W #F

If you enjoy one-by-one murder mysteries in isolated locations, JITTERBUG blends And Then There Were None with competitive swing dance subculture. #BluePit📖 #A #M #Q

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but should they help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? 📖 #Bluepit #W #YA #SF

Proud of my colleagues and peers in the industry for speaking up about this with @thehill.com. Keep fighting for these stories. Don’t give up. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

REVELATOR x STARVE ACRE A writer returns to Appalachia and is slowly claimed—physically and creatively—by a force the town has normalized for generations. NOTHING GENTLE WALKS HERE is a quiet folk horror about inheritance, authorship, and the cost of belonging. Editing now! #Bluepit📖 #A #H #W

What do you do when the fling you ghosted shows up at training camp with the power to destroy your career? Heated Rivary x Ted Lasso meets rugby and messy feelings 🌈 bi & demi discovery 🥺 yearning 🎤 mm athlete x journalist 🏉 forced to work with your crush #BluePit📖 #lgbt #A #R #W