Hola mi gente! #writingcommunity we finally decided to come to Bluesky and will be hosting on both X and on here. Keep an eye on this page for the next coming weeks!

Blue Crush 🌊 x Sirens 🧜🏼‍♀️ When wanting to drown your ex after they break your heart is a normal feeling it’s also a normal reaction in Breaker Bay 💔 And when you’re a girl gang of sirens whose love language is violence… It’s a little too normal🧜🏼‍♀️ #QueerPit #NA #A #R #F #SPF

When a vampire cult comes out of hiding to hunt down an escapee, a journalist and the mysterious late-night coffee shop owner team up to take them down for good. 🕷️horror writer with cats 🍒comedic found family 🦇slow burn sapphic romance 📓stealing faces #QueerPit #agented

HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE) 💖 disaster bi MC 👽 hot alien LI 🔗 forced proximity 🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed 🕺 disco-dancing assassins 🚀 space shenanigans 👑 secret royalty? 🎉 saving the galaxy, probably #A #SF #R #QueerPit

THE HENNA WARS X NEVER HAVE I EVER My #agentsguide for DARED TO IGNORE YOU, a YA Contemporary featuring: 💖Sapphic enemies to lovers 🥻South Asian FMC 🦋Coming-of-age in the UK 🔪Revenge from outcast 🎤 Grammar school drama #Litagent #amquerying #ownvoices #QueerPit #Q #YA #COA

Brooke isn't just searching for her missing secret girlfriend, Leah. She's searching for the pastor's daughter in a cult-like church that seems determined to deny her very existence. She's fighting for her love. And her sanity. #QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind #QueerPit #AG #YA

🦋 YA dystopian sapphic romantasy 🦋 In a city built on inequality and policed by magical robots, a master thief and a climate activist team up to take down Panergy—the volatile, pollutive magic that is secretly destroying the world—in one explosive heist. #FR #YA #D #Agented #Editors #QueerPit

A lonely student must unlock hidden powers to save her new friends... the gargoyles. 🏳️‍🌈Sapphic goth-girl MC 😓Mental health 🎨Technicolor hellscape 🖤Darkness is not evil ⛪Haunted chapel ⏳Coming of age Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones x Daughter of Smoke and Bone #QueerPit #YA #UF #F

Olena has spent her whole life hiding, but the woods call upon her true self. 🌞missing someone you barely knew 🪻luck, betrayal, longing 🕷️bone & nature magic 🪻a band of magical misfits 🌞who are you when no one is looking? here’s some reader reviews! #QueerPit #agented

me to my agent when i pitch yet another fantasy with very dark undertones

five (somewhat) prodigies enter into their final year of academy only this year is destined to be different than the last 🌊ex friends & ex lovers 🌬️island town & gossip 🌑a scholarship project goes awry 🌬️unlocking ocean magic 🌊dark coming of age #questpit #YA #F #W #AG

IMMORTAL LONGINGS x THE PRISON HEALER ⚔️mangroves, mysterious islands, & flesh eating crabs 📰becoming the thing you hate most 🥀toxicity, cannibalism, & fancy clothes 📰1890s science & politics ⚔️a deadly tournament to become the king’s highest advisor #questpit #A #F #W #AG

🦇80k words of cozy romance and vampire horror…🍒 A small town news reporter suspects a late night coffee shop owner of a series of brutal murders, but the two end up teaming together to take down the vampiric cult terrorizing their town. #questpit #A #PR #AG

Forced to live her life competing for a title she might not want at all, Olena is faced with the choice of concealing her true self forever or using her powers to save her family from a deadly plague. 🕷️bone magic, slavic folklore, lots of teenage banter🕷️ #questpit #YA #F #AG

vague ... mutiple [redacted] of [redacted] already ... 👀 ... what? Seriously though, I'm so grateful for all the [redacted] who love this book of my heart as much as I do. I thank each of you for believing in my book and my writing career! moodboard by @leonahwrites.bsky.social

my first line for my ya adventure fantasyyyyy #writingcommunity

IMPERIAL ASIA story about pheromone powers #BluePit #BluePit📖 FRANKENSTEIN but in a Cantonese matriarchy 🪭Canton gothic ⚔️cocky swordswomen & kungfu 🪭love or pheromone? ⚔️maggots & mad scientists 🪭violent yearning ⚔️generational trauma 🪭locusts #Q #A #R #H #F moodboard by @leonahwrites.bsky.social

i really am so disappointed by 28 years later i wrote a substack so long it’s an estimated 16 minute read

if you cry every time you listen to marjorie by taylor swift just like me then this is the book for you

if you ever need to get out of a writers block or come up with a plot point: go on a drive. the best medicine ever

trying to be more active on social media is like picking at my finger nails and hoping they’ll grow faster

i’ve announced this elsewhere, but wanted to say i’m so happy my literary team has expanded to include @morganchughes.bsky.social at Fineprint! i’m so excited to have her on my team! #editors watch out for my YA adventure fantasy!

constantly in the state of “what wip should i work on” to the point i’m not working

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

Anya has worked her whole life to save her family, but now she’s fighting for her life in a deadly tournament to become the king’s highest advisor. ⚔️rivals to lovers to worse 📰1890s florida x russia 🥀love, lust, & moral corruption ⚓️cannibalism maybe #questpit #AG #A #F #W

Oleksandra has seen her own death, & Ronan has unknowingly volunteered to lead her to it. ✨love, madness, & dragons 🪞slavic folklore inspired world 🕯️seeing the future, but she’s unable to change it 🪞healing scars kiss by kiss ✨rivals to lovers to … #A #F #AG #W #questpit

BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever. GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror. #QuestPit #W #YA #T #H

ERAGON X THE LAST UNICORN 🌿bone magic & speaking with spirits 🕷️slavic myths in the woods 🪻band of misfits nearly dying a lot 🌞missing someone you never knew 🪻unique magic system 🕷️dragons, dead women, & forest men 🌿coming of age in a fantastical way #questpit #AG #F #YA

anya: she lives on the beach so swimming, sunbathing, body surfing all the works olena: she wishes she could go outside and pick flowers and prance around town olek: you will not see this girl in the sun, though she loves walking in the gardens

ok so crimson wip: either a boiling summer or icy cold winter no in between seer wip: a lush spring, all kinds of greens and pinks and pale blues bone collector: a deep rich spring nearing summer with dark greens and sunflowers and a bit too hot

hey yall! i’m leona, one of the #questpit hosts, and i write twisted fantasy books about sad girls! i’ll be pitching three of them this season🙂‍↕️

yes! #questpit is a little less more than a week away! our little q&a is coming soon…

the day is quickly approaching!! stay tuned!

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🩸👑💀 CASTLEVANIA x PENNY DREADFUL When Ehren embarks on a journey to find his real family, he doesn’t expect it to lead him straight to Hell 🎩Set in 1899 London, Paris, & Rome 🦇Gothic horror & demon slaying action 💀Greek-inspired mythology 🌹 🔥Slowburn romance 🌈BIPOC & LGBT rep #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

here’s a little pitch card for my little bone collector! my younger ya adventure explores death, friendship, and complicated relationships with family! my agent @ariannasidd.bsky.social and i are currently prepping for sub, so if any editors are looking…👀 #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit #YA #F

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside– it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #F #A #R

i did in fact make a substack to rant on

✨HELLO! I have news!✨ I am so happy to announce I’m officially repped by @ariannasidd.bsky.social at Fineprint Literary! Her love for not only my little bone collector & her friends, but my future projects as well, blew me away. I’m so excited for our next steps with this novel!

🌿✨Hi everyone! I’d like to start using a new pen name for a number of reasons. Professionally*, I’ll be going by Leona H. Lach!✨🌿

"We call on the world to stop the injustice & stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people," says Oscar winner Basel Adra to applause from the audience. 'No Other Land' just won the Best Documentary Oscar. Also a fantastic speech from fellow winner Yuval Abraham on "ethnic supremacy".

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

hit 50k on my dark fantasy rewrites!! i wanted to celebrate this win with a fun little pitch may i present 𝒽𝑒𝓇 ⚔️violence, rage, & betrayal 📰internal conflict to the highest degree 🥀familiar, tempered, & platonic love 📰deadly trials & politics ⚔️becoming who you hate most #writingcommunity #write

here’s my meta dump for my bone collector!! #writingcommunity

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posting my first page here too! #writingcommunity