My friend Inez Ray has an adult dystopian scifi coming out in September! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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My friend Inez Ray has an adult dystopian scifi coming out in September! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Sword lesbians, chivalry, and mech suit jousting (oh my)
Check out my flash fiction in Small Wonders today!
Sapphic
Mecha
Jousting
Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.
Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Ignore the haters! Bi 4 Bi is inherently different from het romance because... neither character is hetero. They're queer, and everything about their relationships, backstories, actions, approaches to romance, and in fact their entire lives are impacted by their queerness. Just like us bisexuals IRL
Sanctuary, Sofia Glass, 100k Fantasy Romance
Pitch: To protect her superstitious human town from a vicious faerie beast, a reclusive, half-fae huntress embarks on a deadly hunt that leads her to save the life of an even deadlier threat—the demon who wants her dead and can't live without her.
Excerpts: The bones were organized with care in a grotesque bouquet. This thing was toying with me, trying to instill terror before it struck again. Crimson dripped from my fingers as I made my way down the hill, leaving a sparse trail from the bloody cursive that roughly translated to ‘bite me.’ "Whoever—whatever you are, you bleed, just like me.” Skimming the top shelf, my eye caught on something glittering. Gold text on a green background said, ‘Rare Faeries and How to Survive Them’
One dark window x Skyrim Dark atmosphere, lots of banter. What if you could melt a frost troll?
Safety is a long walk on the edge of a knife. It's a balance Azeria Morgan will do anything to maintain—even if that means cooperating with the demon who knows more than he'll say.
🐲Monster hunting
🏹Strong female lead
🗡️Forced Proximity
❤️🔥Slow Burn
🗝️Dual Pov unlocked
#WSpit #NA #F #R #CS
In Reverse -Time travel with reversed time a la Tenet -Sapphic romance -Fast-paced action scenes -Deals with adjusting to and accepting disability -How To Build a Time Reverser book with sadistic instructions -Set in Toronto MC: Meg -Deafened by a gunshot -Ends up in reverse to save her life -Pan, demiromantic, grey ace -Past trauma with bigoted mother -Trying to get control over her life Love Interest: Harriet -Loves to tinker, builds gadgets that help Meg adjust -Queer black woman -Married (it'll all work out, I promise!) Status: 2-3 chapters in, a long way to go yet Check out #InReverseIntro for more info, or follow #InReverse for random tidbits!
After getting shot in the chest, Meg is on death’s door. Shortly before the end, she is saved with the help of a device which reverses the direction she travels through time, so that shooting her again heals her instead of harming her – a plan apparently orchestrated by her identical twin sister, Gem. Now, she must live the rest of her life in reverse, from the future to the past. All the while, she starts to form feelings for the married woman helping her adjust to this new life. After getting shot in the chest, Meg is on death’s door. Shortly before the end, she is saved with the help of a device which reverses the direction she travels through time, so that shooting her again heals her instead of harming her – a plan apparently orchestrated by her identical twin sister, Gem. Now, she must live the rest of her life in reverse, from the future to the past. All the while, she starts to form feelings for the married woman helping her adjust to this new life.
Gem sets a bag on the table in front of her and takes a few things out. Two of them I don’t quite recognise, but the third is a gun, which she inspects thoroughly before setting it down on the table. I did not know she had a gun. Where the hell did she get that? The man who shot me seemed to think he recognised me, even though I’d never seen him in my life. He must’ve mistaken me for my sister. What did she do to piss him off? The doctor looks at her, his eyes wide. Gem backs onto the bed where I am lying and takes a seat. She looks down and stares at something in astonishment, but I can’t tell what. With a pained expression in his eyes, the doctor picks up the gun from the table. I hear the muffled pow of a gunshot as he turns around and shoots Gem in the chest. She sits there in confusion for a moment or two, unmoving and bleeding out. My vision is very blurry now, and I feel on the brink of death. I try to think through the brain fog. If I’m going to die, then so be it, but I won’t just lie here while this psycho doctor shoots people. Adrenaline now coursing through my body, I rip out the tube attached to my arm. Gem slowly turns to lie face down on the bed right beside me. I reach for her, but my arm seems to pass right through her and I roll over onto my stomach. For a moment I wonder if she vanished, but no, she’s just on the other side of me. I painfully push myself up and reposition myself to be sitting on the side of the bed. I stare as the pool of blood from where she was shot trickles upward towards me, towards the wound in my chest. What is going on? The doctor sets something down that emits a dim glow, and points the gun at me. I hear a whap as something tugs me forward. I feel searing pain for a moment, and then nothing. The blood on my chest is gone and even my dress looks intact. How – ?
#InReverse: Woman gets shot, and the only way to save her is to use a Time Reverser on her, so now she's stuck living the rest of her life backwards through time.
⏳Time travel
👩❤️👩Sapphic romance
🏃♀️Fast-paced action
👂Deaf rep & ASL
🔒Secrets to be revealed
#WSPit #W #A #SF #R #LGBT #BIPOC #Dis
The Lunaria Jen Hall Smith NA/Adult Fantasy 110k words
THE BLURB In an ailing land where magic & Witchkind are outlawed, extroadinary powers bloom in outcast Tallitha. When her secret is betrayed, she is forced to flee to safety and is cast into a hidden world of wild magic, covert rebellion & deadly secrets, bound to her past & heralding her destiny. To take her place in the resistance working to save her people and home land, she must not only confront the dark forces seeking to destroy her, but also the darkness within, If she is ever to gain control of her magic.
Comps Blend of folklore & fantasy ~ “Now she is witch” by Kirsty Logan Lush world building and lyrical style ~ “a river enchanted” by Rebecca Ross Neurodivergent rep ~ Emily Wilde Encyclopaedia of fairies Journey to self acceptance ~ K Pop Demon Hunters Themes - Neurodivergent FMC- Internalised ableism - Yearning love - Slow burn - Prophecy - - Grumpy/grumpier - Female friendship - - Eldest daughter mentality - - Found family - Prejudice - Political propaganda
FROMTHE WRITER.... The Lunaria is a lushly woven, immersive fantasy story with a romantic sub-plot. It showcases neurodivergent characters with true depth, that delve into the complex, often contrasting emotions that can accompany finding out who you truly are. The novel is an allegory for neurodiversity and internalised ablism, exploring the pervasiveness of prejudice and the journey to self-acceptance in an unaccepting world. Shining a light on the experience of being intrinsically different through the accessible lens of fantasy, witchcraft, and magic.
This is my first ever #WSPit and I will probably get this wrong because technologically I am a grandma….
But I hope you enjoy my pitch!
#WSPitquerying #WSPit #A #NA #F #DIS #ND #OWN #querying
Hi #WSPit! Introducing ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT:
Howl's Moving Castle x Dungeon Crawler Carl x The Wizard of Oz
📍 travelogue but they're in a side-scroller
👩💻 simulation theory for the romantasy girlies
🏳️🌈 bi 4 bi
🧠 neurodivergent love
🐕 golden retriever boyfriend
🔪 god: fmk??
#W #A #F #LGBT #ND
Niran is a priest of the duality. He also has the unfortunate scholarly obsession with a certain very heretical prophecy foretelling the death of his own gods. He’s a bit conflicted—and highly aware that he’s one accusation away from being executed for blasphemy. #WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN TATTOO
Thankfully, it’s not every unkind word ever said to Gemma that turns into a painful tattoo—only those from people she loves. To avoid passing down her inherited curse to her unborn child, she must find magic of her own.
#WSPit #W #A #F
A living ship journeys across an alien galaxy. She seeks refuge from war and the answer to her existence, powered by the emotions of her crew.
Together they brave ancient dangers, pirate fleets and alien governments, growing ever closer in the heart of the ship.
#WSPit #P #A #SF #R #erotica #In
Beatrice and Benedict were born as two halves of one miracle. Bound by a shared Stigmata, their divine healing only worked in tandem. But Beatrice was never good at sharing. Driven by a hunger for absolute power, she traded holiness for occult practice, severing the bond to become whole. She returns to the Academy untethered and unmatched, blissfully unaware that while she was busy killing God in her heart, the Heavens actually died.
A guide to REPLICA
Twin souls, severed by greed. Beatrice traded the divine for the occult, oblivious that the Heavens she defied are dead.
📖 Dark Academia: Holy Edition
🎭 Cult Vibes
😈 Problematic FMC
💀 Dying Magic System
🪽 Religious Horror
#WSPit WIPs #W #NA #F #H
A book cover with a dark purple background and moon, with soft moonlight shading a violin surrounded by bats, roses, and moonflowers.
A Vampire’s Lament 🖤🕯️🦇
Benevolent vampire Ishmael never thought he would love again, until mortal tutor Edric enters his world. Forgetting the past is difficult, but for the first time in centuries, the future seems as bright as the stars. ✨
#WSpit #A #indie #LGBT #CS
Such an Old-Fashioned Word (An Agent's Guide) By Floyd Martínez
THE -PITCH Three Friends, One "Love" Story For a while, Anissa, Peyton and Charly were all each other had. Friendship is an involuntary reflex. Eut as they keep aging out. of their twenties, doubts about their bond start to creep up. Peyton seems to get nervous when Charly hugs him, and blushes scarlet when Anissa smiles at him. But that's stupid-right? Can you- even love-two people like-that. at the same time? Anissa has secretly been binge-scrolling through aroace tumblr blogs for weeks now, it all seems to click, but she wants to be a mom, always has. Rahim from the marriage app is nice, but would he accept her? Charly has no problem getting people heartbeats to pick up, but married life is not his thing. He just wants to write his scripts, marriage would just be a distraction. Love is different for everyone, they might learn it the hard way though.
VIBES: Contemporary/Literary Fiction FLEABAG x PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER “Anti-Romance” Novella First Person Three different POV SETTING: Film School in the West End of London, Third DimensionalCharac:ters/Cozy Vibe/ Mid-20s Coming of Age story CHARACTERS: WIP STAGE: 25% Completed (1st draft) Charly Ravenna: 2045 Oscar Winner for Best Original Screenplay/ Proud Trans Latino Boy/Fave movies: Seven Psychopaths Anissa Raphaëlle Diop: Storyboarder extraordinaire/Comic Geek /Fave movie: V for Vendetta Peyton Evans: Future Composer/ Dad Friend/Fave Movie: the Wall
Charly’s POV: I think I just might be doomed, Iaccidentally and through no fault of my own, to get randoms to fall in love with me…. I fucking hate that. I roll my eyes at the text on my phone’s screen, turn it off and then gaze back at the script in front of me. Babe is a couple’s monniker. A way for someone to claim you in the name of love, romantic love. We met for drinks and came back to my apartment for some light roleplay… once. Seriously? This is a fucking nightmare. Anissa’s POV: “Yeah, it’s pretty big.” I agree. “But I think I’m ready, my bachelor’s will be ready next year, it will be my recovery anniversary around the same time and I…” I trail off. Then sigh again. “I really want a baby.” There I said it. I don’t expect any judgement from my best friend, nor anybody in my broader social circle for that matter. But it still feels weird to be so open about what I want. Maybe my therapist is right and I did build some protective walls around myself over the years… or something like that. “You’l be an amazing mum,” Peyton says. Lightly punching my shoulder with affection, my heart does a bit of a summersault. “The world could use more of those.” Peyton’s POV: Sure, I'm the bloke who lives in a trailer on the outskirts of the city, but it's mine. The apprenticeship degree does earn me money, aside from his gig at the local cafeteria, and music producing for movies is also the only career that doesn’t make him want to bang my head against a wall... I am also the bloke who needs to prove time and time again his rich family doesn’t want anything to do with him, nor with his disabled uncle (the only person in said family who treats me like an actual human being), so the government would also take a bit of pity on us and help us out. I'm just Peyton, who loves his best friends more than anything and isn’t quite sure how he landed such amazing people. But dammit if he's not going to fight for them… That is my truth
Such an Old-Fashioned Word
-FLEABAG x PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
-Queer Rep
-Novella
-Diversity of Human experience
“Everybody feels so real. they're all three dimensional with doubts and motivations and people around them they support and get support back from.”- Tumblr beta
#W #L #A #WSPit
Collage: city at night; candles and books; clock; tarot cards; two women kissing; glowing hands.
THE LIBRARIAN’S SECRET
If the one you love has doomed your past, would you choose them for your future?
🕯️Demons, death, and dark academia
🕯️Time travel
🕯️Underdog rebels
🕯️LGBTQ+ lovers to enemies
#WSPit #Q #YA #R #F #Dis
Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.
THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY
When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.
#WSPit #A #F #H #W
A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing: 1. Always have an escape plan. 2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud. 3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark. 4. Never get involved with spirits. The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right: A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs. B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow. C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards. D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn. E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment. F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game. G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks. H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.
When 16-year-old Nia picks the wrong pocket, she unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her friends are on the run with a living doll, pursued by gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #WSPit #W #F #LGBT #YA
An agent's guide to THE STRAY SCALES YA Fantasy 87,000 words
Comparison titles. Shrek - If it was set in a world similar to Shrek! The Princess Bride - A spoof of fairy tale tropes like this A Forgery of Fate - A rist taking main character similar to Tru! Little Thieves - With humour similar to this!
Tired of terrorising the sea with her sticky fingers, sea folk Pearl bargains her life for a chance to roam the lands, and with only three months to avoid turning into sea foam, all she has to do is kiss the prince she’s been stalking to avoid such a fate. But when his sea-folk-hunting cousin returns, her simple task becomes a quest of survival as she evades the hunter’s suspicions, stumbling into a deadly conspiracy entangling both land and sea.
First Lines It wasn’t unusual for Pearl to wander into strangers’ homes. But today, she wasn’t interested in their tools, heirlooms or whatever she could snatch into her sack. Even her appetite for the jewels encrusted across the shimmering castles of the deep was but a memory. The truth was, she had a far more pressing matter triumphing over the sea. Themes and Tropes - self discovery - odd friendship - fish out of water - fractured fairy tale - predator x prey? - a fantastical take on the immigrant experience - love and loss - perceptions
Bargaining her life with a witch to explore the lands, a mermaid falls into the depths of a deadly conspiracy entangling both land and sea as she attempts to kiss the prince she's stalked, before sea-foam or his cousin can claim her life.
#WSPit #Q #YA #F #agentsguide
Graphic showing my drawing of a young, blond 17th century spark wearing blue doublet and petticoat breeches, silver and pink ribbons, shoes with red heels, and a huge hat with tall pheasant feathers and blue and white ostrich feathers. He's drawn his gilt cup-hilt sword and is flipping his gold-edged black cloak around his offhand. Text reads: The Duel in 1660: Draft the Second. Wherein is discovered, 82,000 words of swashbuckling farce, as concerns the coming of age of a horrible fopling. Now seeking beta readers! Apply Feb & Mar 2026 to IsaacXIsaac, on BlueSky.
Hey #WSPit! Do you yearn for OLD-fashioned action-adventure by turns lush, pulpy, goofy, and *ANGRILY SCREAMS IN GENDER*?
Well, have I got a vicious, fancy, feral little gremlin of a swashbuckler for you.
My #Hi #Hu #LGBT #YA(?) #W IP is seeking 2nd draft readers!! Message for CNs & more info!
Mission Brief
13/01/1972
TOP SECRET
🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar
🕵♂️ Take out Soviet spies
🔫 Use a gun
❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda
📃 It’s all theoretical
😕 Apart from *that* demo
✅️ Full government endorsement
👍 Nothing can go wrong
🇷🇺 💣 💥
⬛️ Redacted
#WSPit #WSPitQuerying #Q #A #T #SF #Hi
Moodboard picturing caves, desert at night, a snake, a city in a desert, sheet music and musical instruments.
THE ELEGY AT LAKE LAMENDO
Lucio is a court mage in Lamendo, a conquered Imperial territory. When his rebel sister attempts to assassinate Lamendo's puppet ruler—Lucio’s not-so-secret amor—Lucio risks everything to protect his familia.
> Mesoamerica-inspired setting
> tM/M
#WSPit #Q #A #F #LGBT #ND
ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT against a fantasy map backdrop
PITCH Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To escape this curse, she’ll have to break her vow of silence, not fall in love with (or murder) the chatterbox traveling with her, and confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world.
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL bi 4 bi golden retriever boyfriend travelogue but they’re in a sidescroller god: fmk??
FIRST LINE The monastery’s map had just gone out of date again when Remi found another crack in the world.
ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT
Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To break this curse, she’ll have to confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world.
#WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT #ND
Arkady Martine @byzantienne.bsky.social
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim
P.H. Lee @p-h-lee.bsky.social
Great question, I could go on but these are the ones that immediately came to mind
#writingtip #writingtips #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity
Wow.
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Eight original short stories published last year. All at wenwenwrites.wordpress.com/publications... but a favorite was in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social "Saltwater Mother" magazine.trollbreath.com/saltwater-mo...
as a new zealander, i’m also eligible for the sir julius vogel awards! 🥝🥹
anyone can nominate, so i’d be honoured if you’d consider “looking glass” (pubbed in saros sf #1 by
@fusionfragment.bsky.social and edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
sarossf.com/issue-1/
Hugo noms are open. I have one story eligible. Please consider it if you enjoy pirates and/or necromancy and/or indian history and/or romance
(Or even just read it. I think it's pretty good.)
