Megaphone and the words "4th Annual Liminal Essay Contest Now Open!"
Calling all high school and college students! The 4th Annual Liminal Essay Contest is underway. $700 in prizes! Deadline is March 1st. Please help us spread the word! www.skkruse.com/liminalessay...
#liminal #liminality #writingcontest #essay #liminalspaces
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Megaphone and the words "4th Annual Liminal Essay Contest Now Open!"
Calling all high school and college students! The 4th Annual Liminal Essay Contest is underway. $700 in prizes! Deadline is March 1st. Please help us spread the word! www.skkruse.com/liminalessay...
#liminal #liminality #writingcontest #essay #liminalspaces
empty old theater with the words "The Art of the Liminal" by S. K. Kruse
Check out my new Substack post, "The Art of the Liminal," wherein I make the case that if you want to create Art of any kind, you must submerge yourself in the borderlands of your psyche. substack.com/home/post/p-...
#liminal #liminality #creative #creatives #artistic #writinglife #nietzsche
Dystopian Giveaway on Goodreads from fellow author Gianaclis Caldwell! Get one while still available! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Oh and I just saw wicked pit was canceled! (Didn't have my glasses on when I read your comment 🙂) Bummer but thanks for the heads up!
Oh wow! So many! Thanks and have a lovely day. 🌼
Awesome!
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from a plane window! But it's up close #moss from the U.P.
Not sure what you write, but this is coming up July 31st!
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Thanks for your work! It was fun seeing everyone's pitches!
Since time immemorial, little ones have had this existential question: “Where does the sun go at night?” Join little Ro in the US as he uncovers the answer to this mystery with his grandma in India over a geography experiment during their weekly video call. #PB #OWN #STEM #BluePit #Q #POC
a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
a Priestess Tarot card with a figure meditating on a large stone in the woods
a Fool tarot card with a hand drawn figure blithely stepping off a gorge cliff in VT
Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?
🌱an informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse
An empath leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US to bring home a 🗝️ to peace, using psychic powers and earth-based survival skills
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #bluepit📖 #clifi #SP
Moodboard for the short story with the working title "A Teasing Fate So Cruel" by Elisa Winther. A speculative horror which includes the ocean, death, and rebirth. The imagines include a face of someone drowning, a glowing mermaid, underwater kelp, and the sea.
THE RIVER HAS ROOTS x MOON-BRIGHT TIDES
In her darkest hour, Nilah’s dalliance with Death sinks her deep into an ocean of grief. Destruction looms as the only way left is down, but what if that’s exactly what she needs? Will her needs align with her wants?
#Bluepit📖 #A #F #H #W #BluePit
A collage of nine pictures with turning of 20th century aesthetics, dark alleys, one of man carrying a woman and one pf woman screaming. In the middle is yellow text on black background that reads „through death to freedom”
Pitch. In a world inspired by Ukrainian folklore and the turn of the 20th century, Zoriana Spys discovers the secret student society of Kharakternys - people with various uncanny talents whom she'd always thought to be mere mythical creatures, and even though the discovery fractures Zoriana's perception of her people and herself, she must join forces with the society to investigate the Witches' disappearances before they lead to half of the country's extermination.
✨Adult historical fantasy with Ukrainian folklore.
Comps: BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, THE POPPY WAR
🩸secret society
🗝️found family
🤎slow-burn romance
🐺mythical beings as main characters
🕯️high-stakes political mystery
🗡️anti-imperial struggle
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #A #F #HS #OV
Even in a city filled with telepaths and telekinetics Sylin was born to be a killer. She is nearing her initiation to the Char-Tesh Guild and is preparing to set off into the desert to defend against the reptilian Stalkers who threaten her home. While this should be a time of pride and passage the Guild is plagued by visions of the ‘Strangers’ who come to bring them ruin. She must rely on her found family and Guildmates to survive a battle they have long odds of winning. At the same time the Guild Masters play a shadowy game of power and politics where the ends always justify the means. Even if it means taking her fellow Guildmate and turning him into a monster.
Dune X The Library at Mt. Char
In a city of psychics Sylin was born to be a killer.
She prepares to join the Guild who will do anything to protect her home.
Even turn her Guildmate into a monster.
All while visions of 'strangers' threaten to bring ruin upon them all.
#BluePit #A #F #Q
Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title Card Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now!
Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees | Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, red arrow fletching, a red forest. Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least. "Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"
Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title: Comps Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps. Text: From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS) From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)
Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title: Pitch Text: Niozene has never been good enough. As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule. When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter. Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.
GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER
A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.
🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family
#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #AmQuerying
Canton gothic, editors interest, shortlisted PNWA finalist, love or pheromone, violent yearning, Chinese lesbians, Chinese women, Chinese moon moths, dagger, clandestine rendezvous, Chinese fan, Chinese building
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
Above view of paradise dock on a beach with words overtop. Find the one who's to die for An agent's guide to LAST CHANCE MATCH New adult dystopian romance thriller with horror elements
Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Pitch: Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Down-trotted waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.
Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Comps: THE VILLA by Ruth Kelly - dating show setting, twisted games, desperation to win HEART OF THE SUN by Mia Sheridan - 'enemies' to lovers, second chances, dystopian love story THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver - winning = freedom, life or death consequences, strong female protagonist LOVE ISLAND - Love Island-inspired dating show SQUID GAME - games created for a killer time BLACK MIRROR - dystopian future with sci-fi twists
Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Snippet: The silhouette of a woman approaches us, but her flawless skin is a dead giveaway that it’s a humanoid. The older you get, the easier it is to spot them; their skin is free of blemish, not even a tiny scar indented into their bodies. Their eyes are shiny—too shiny—and their smiles lack depth, character, and warmth. Though the government will never admit it, they’ve started to release more and more of these bots into Calasca to act as companions for the matchless. They’re chameleons, taking on whatever persona they need to hook into you. The most unsettling part about them is how predatory they can be, entering the neighborhoods of the low-end and matchless. They even have a slot on their abdomens for payment. I shiver when the humanoid’s too-perfect eyes land on me, its bone-chilling grin never faltering. “Contestants,” it says so matter-of-fact, yet there’s a sweetness to it. An eerie kindness I can’t ignore. God, I hate humanoids.
Dear Citizen of Calasca,
Pack your bags! I am happy to extend an invitation for you to join us on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new reality holovision program where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. We can promise you’ll find the one who’s to die for.
#bluepit📖 #bluepit #NA #R #H #SF #SP #W
Poster-style image with a couple embracing
Jane Eyre Retelling
Luna's rearview mirror reflects a shattered life, but Thornfield Hotel offers a fresh start. As concierge, she's swept into a world of secrets, seduction & murder w/ the enigmatic E Rochester at its center & her heart & survival in the crosshairs.
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #H #R #Q
girl leaning against a bare mattress. a pink and blue jelly fish. blurry red and gold fish. .a blond-haired man cooking with a cat on his back A tall, purple-tinted tower. A hand with blue fire. Two people almost kissing. A distorted silhouette. A dandelion on fire. A city with a red haze.
METAL BONES, PLASTIC HEART
👩💻Lonely teenage hacker
🤖Mysterious android boy
❤️🔥Slow-burn romance
🩸Powerful mega-corporations
🌃A sprawling city
🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold answers about more than just a murder...
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #SF #M #Q
Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life…
"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow. But now the monster had been given a name, an identity. It was real." BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK. NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS. FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.
Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.
Grim Portents
HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE
A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of.
📖 #Q #A #P #F #M #D #Hu #BluePit
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette
🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️
the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you
#BluePit #Q #A #LF #M #BluePit📖
The image shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × KNIVES OUT
When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign.
#BluePit 📖 #A #H #M #Q
Based on the haunted mansion where MCR created THE BLACK PARADE
After witnessing her fave musician’s death, Finn starts a band to cope.When they’re invited to a summer retreat, she takes it as an opportunity to create the album of the century.But demonic forces have other plans. #BluePit📖 #A #H #PN
Cover of BLACKBLOOD surrounded by trope arrows: found family; enemies-to-???; queer af; heists!; semi-trucks and the lesbians who drive them; dystopian bc fuck the government; gender is cool but have you ever tried stabbing someone?; magic is illegal but we're doing it anyway
Blackblood is a queer, young adult dystopian/fantasy set in a harsh desert country where magic has been outlawed. It follows Armina, captain of a semi-truck that smuggler illegal magical goods. One night, Armina finds a criminal mage stowing away aboard her truck, dripping their black blood onto the floor. The mage asks for Armina's help rescuing their mother from the corrupt government that has her held hostage. If that sounds like your jam, check out Blackblood, available online wherever books are sold! (Image has 2 QR codes, one linking to my website at www.kreesullivan.com, and the other linking to Blackblood's goodreads profile)
MAD MAX meets FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST in a diesl-fueled dystopian/fantasy about grief, revenge, and redemption #bluepit 📖 #ya #p #f #LGBT #ov
