The #revpit submission window opens THIS WEEK!
From March 12 at 12 p.m. EDT to March 15 at 12 p.m. EDT, you'll be able to submit your manuscripts. Visit reviseresub.com to see what you'll need so you're prepared come Friday!
#writingcontest #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersofbluesky
Morning, all! With #RevPit editor announcements coming out in a few minutes, letโs take a moment to talk about RevPit, the annual contest, and the editors.
Iโm a co-founding editor and board member, and itโs really exciting to be celebrating our TENTH annual contest. LikeโฆWHAT? How?
All the links for #RevPit, the annual contest, and our editors
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2026 RevPit Participating Editors: Allison Alexander, Ash P, Ayesha Ali, Carly Hayward, Dana Draper, Demi Michelle Schwartz, Hanna R. Neier, Hannah Kate Kelley, Jeni Chappelle, Kala Godin, Laura Galan-Wells, Leah Rambadt, Madelyn Knecht, Miranda Darrow, Natasha Hanova, Nicole Frail, Raquel Brown. Find each editor's MSWL on reviseresub.com
ANNOUNCING the 2026 RevPit Participating Editors!
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If you're querying fantasy, sci-fi, or horror and looking for comp titles, these databases are for you! www.aealexander.com/comp-finder-... #Writing #Querying
For pitching authors, a quick update about what's new:
1) You will NOT receive a copy of your pitch submission via email. Last time, the feature wasn't reliable despite being enabled, and some people never received an email, leading to stress (understandably).
Thank you everyone for comments, reposts, and โค๏ธ this #BluePit! Can't wait to read all the great stories I found ๐
Thanks! ๐ค
A collage of nine images: the back of an archer in grey clothes, two hands on a black background, inner arched courtyard with cream colored stones, medieval town street, arches of stone, tall bookcases, glowing embers, dark sunset reflection on water of a house, marbles hanging from a branch.
When Andi, a disenchanted maker of home spells, is accused of bringing dark magic into her city, she teams up with a magicless nun and a cursed outsider to clear her name.
But the dark is spreading.
They'll need help. They'll need a house of old magic. And its old lady.
#BluePit ๐ #A #W #F #ND #M
THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI X
GODKILLER
After causing a magickal outburst that engulfs her home, Naomi flees aboard a pirate ship. Sheโs lured in with the chance at a new life, but malevolent gods and mortals seek to drag her back and use her magick for themselves.
#BluePit๐ #A #F #Q #LGBT
A collage consisting of various cut out images: - An illustration of Sherlock Holmes in his classic deerstalker cap and cloak smokes his pipe in the bottom left - A honey bee gathers nectar from a flower in the bottom middle. - Four macarons sit stacked in the bottom right corner. - Up the right side is a stalk of purple foxgloves. - The background is split between a pile of old newspapers and a dark alley lit by lamps and neon signs. - Red stage curtains frame the entire piece. - Five bee cut-outs (from two images of honey bees, flipped and rotated to various angles) fly around the top of the image.
SHERLOCK HOLMES with BEES
When a singer with ties to royalty vanishes, it's up to detective Arthur North to find her. As he digs, he uncovers a plot to place his people, the bee-like zizzun, in the crown's crosshairs. Can he uncover their connection before it's too late?
#BluePit #BluePit๐ #W #F #M
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES, 96,000 words, Adult Historical Mystery
Chicago, 1929. Valโs life in her adoptive crime familyโs hotel used to be nothing but bartending and calculating guestsโ cards with her mathematical brilliance. But then her uncle Maximillian, the head of the syndicate, is killed before the hotelโs star-studded galaโand his death is identical to her secret suitorโs unsolved murder. With the chance for revenge in her grasp, Val allies with an infamous investigative duo to catch the killer.
Comps Last Call at the Nightingale Katharine Schellman Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley Huluโs Only Murders in the Building Inspirations The Great Gatsby Agatha Christie The Tower of Terror (1997) Tropes: Roaring 20โs Jazz Age Speakeasies Settings Speakeasies Casinos Settings that are characters Diverse Cast Puzzles and secret codes High speed chases Whodunnit Locked room mystery Found Family
Chicago, 1929 1:34 a.m. The man with the bowler hat was going to lose. He looked so confident, with his slightly unbuttoned white shirt and condescending smirk. He didnโt even bother putting up the mask of a poker face to hide his prediction of the outcome. In his mind, he had already won. All that was left was to play the game. Valentina had been watching the round for several minutes now. She twisted a rag inside a dirty glass, keeping a subtle eye on the match. She couldnโt see the manโs hand from behind the bar, but if she had calculated it correctly, there was a seventy-four percent chance that he was holding two kings and three different nine cardsโ a full house. With a hand like that, he was in the perfect position to win. But he was wrong. He was going to lose. Val didnโt know this because of mathematics, however. She knew this because the man sitting across from him never played fair. Why would he? He was the owner of the joint, and if there was anything that Maximillian Eulio liked more than playing a dirty game of poker, it was getting away with it.
An Agentโs Guide to WHAT ARE THE CHANCES- an adult historical mystery set in Chicago, 1929, where a math genius living in her crime familyโs luxury hotel must ally with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, all the while secretly pursuing her own revenge.
#bluepit #bluepit๐ #M #A #Q
Graphic by Sharon Hoff: on a wooden desk, a leather book bag, dip pen and ink, and a copybook. Sharon has absolutely wonderfully made the same photo with different color filters for each year of the series!
#BluePit ๐
#HelpDesk
#YA
#NA
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#PN
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#OV
#LGBT
#ND
#TR
The Help Desk
Genre: Poorly lit academia
The Magic quietly pervades an unsuspecting campus. A squirrel might simply turn green. Some who witness magic simply Vanish, creating even larger holes in reality.
A nine-block moodboard with overall dark, gritty vibes. I wanted her to kiss me on a white background, a girl sitting and staring out an open window at night, a tape player with modern day headphones attached, a hand reaching out of a dark ocean, "this isn't fucking over" against a fiery background, a lighthouse in the middle of a dark ocean, waves at night, a ghost standing in the forest, "I thought we'd have more time" in red font against a white background
LIFE IS STRANGE x sapphic CEMETERY BOYS
When Addie discovers the ghost of Erin, a murdered girl tethered to a local lighthouse, the two must solve a decades old mystery before time runs out and Erin disappearsโฆ forever.
#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit ๐
A collage of Viking and medieval themed images including a goblet, warriors, and nuns, French lavender, a castle and Nunnery a random chicken and a very cold you woman wrapped in a grey blanket.
Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken.
A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. And chickens. The chickens are key to the plot. #BluePit ๐ #Q #A #H #R
moody, foggy mountain backdrop with a person in martial arts type clothing visible on a stone platform. text reads CONDUCT OF MAGES, adult fantasy, complete at 100K, now represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary
THE PITCH on a moody green mountain backdrop: When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawedโฆbut wiped from existence.
THE VIBES on a moody green mountain backdrop: energy magic heists & scheming found family research subplot sloooow burn female role models SE Asian setting
THE COMPS on a moody green mountain backdrop: Blood Over Bright Haven Jade City Heartless Hunter
JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS
When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawedโฆbut wiped from existence.
#Bluepit #Bluepit๐ #A #F
EASTWARD SINGS THE WIND
In a land of song-based magic, a musician forges a friendship with an enigmatic foreigner and causes him to question his secret allegiance to the tyrannical god-king who plans to invade her land.
#Bluepit ๐ #YA #F #Q #DIS
Pagans x Strike
๐ Author wars
โซ๏ธ Black humour
๐ฑ Romans vs Celts
๐ฟ Stonehenge Rules
๐ Winter Solstice, baby
๐ฐ Karens & Kevins
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Refined English snobbery
๐ต 21st Century Luddites
#BluePit #W #A #M #PN #T ๐ ๐ฆ
Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, sapphic gargoyle urban fantasy. TaglineโSomewhere away from this world, indistinct, infinite, and unknowableโฆ What was beyond that veil?โ 10 very dark, moody, grayish images around the edge include the hazy spires of Notre Dame with birds lying across, the Milky Way, a crow coming in the land, a gargoyle peeking over a ledge, a shadow crouching in a corner with piercing eyes, a young woman with black hair over her eye, a crow in front of a grave, a graveyard statue of an angel, and the interior of a church with a stained glass window. In the center of all this, is a bright painting of a natual landscape done in vivid sunset colors.
The only place depressed goth-girl, Helena, feels at home on the cheery campus is the dark, haunted chapel. When the stones come alive to warn her of a demon invasion, she becomes entangled in a cosmic war.
And falls for a gargoyle.โค๏ธ
Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones
#BluePit ๐
#YA #F #Q #LGBT
NINTH HOUSE X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN
Healing magic belongs to the rich. Until now.
When a healer turns up dead on their uni campus, fellow outsiders David & Zarrin must risk their lives & their friendship to protect an idea that could change magical medicine forever.
#BluePit ๐ #Q #A #F #LGTB
Two Comp titles are displayed over a blurry blue background. The Dragon Prince (Netflix) X Celestial Monsters (by Aiden Thomas) The "witty banter character dynamic" and "found family" of The Dragon Prince, meets the "fantastical creatures" and "queer cast" of Celestial Monsters, making for a "magical adventure".
A boy with a woolly hat shrouded in the shadow of two lit full moons and an aurora borealis, with purple and blue flames hovering over his outstretched hands. It's snowing, and a magical blue owl is displayed, wings spread wide with those same flames inside its eyes. Art by @bauxxi.bsky.social
AN OWLBOUND SPARK. ๐ฆ๐ฅโ๏ธ
The world is ravaged by a never-ending winter and the magic that can end it is dead, until Tyrus and Lyra embark on a fantastical journey of self-discovery to thaw the seasons with the help of an owl of legend. โจ
#BluePit ๐ #Q #YA #F #LGBT
A baroque sitting room, a butler' uniform, an apple tree, a couple of space stations over a planet, a grand imperial staircase, a cozy thatched room cottage, a well-dressed prim and proper secretary
Bayle, the butler, needs to help turn his employer's antique orbital into an academy. Nora is determined to protect her cottage from a corporate land-grab. If they put their heads together, they could solve each other's problems.๐ฅฐ
Unfortunately, it may also tear them apart.๐
#BluePit ๐
#A #R #SF #W
Someone is killing the sorcerers of London.
Kit Tyburn, ex-soldier turned play-actor, has to dive into the arcane world of Elizabethan astrology & magic, hunting a vicious pair of killers intent on harnessing a weapon that threatens the throne itself.
3 Musketeers x Harry Bosch
#Q #BluePit ๐#A #HS
When a powerful enemy disrupts their lives and seeks to claim the throne, a prince and an assassin must work together to save their kingdom from dark plots and darker magicโand survive against all odds.
#BluePit ๐ #YA #F #Q #ND #LGBT #amquerying
Squirrelโs bursting with excitement as he scurries to help the animals plan Porcupineโs surprise birthday party. Asked to be the lookout, Squirrel must show that his hyperactive antics are more than annoyances as he tries to be included.
How To Surprise A Porcupine #BluePit #PB #ND #Q #OS ๐
A drawing of a young woman in a white dress among pink flower blossoms. Behind her is a night sky. The drawing has bloodstains painted on. Image drawn by me, Clip Studio Paint.
Stranded on a mist-filled island with half her soul stolen by a witch, a vampire starts a new life as bodyguard to a war leader.
- Can they survive betrayals, suspicion & a war?
- Will they be more than friends?
- Humans are the real monsters
- Morally gray characters
#F #H #A #Q #BluePit ๐
Photo of footsteps on a beach with the caption: What ancient evil awaits off Maine's iconic coastline.
Loving the #BluePit๐ posts!
โจPreparing to queryโจ... SEA CURSER
Seeking solace at a retreat on a solitary Maine island, Nan instead must save her friends from ancient forces or be lost to the sea.
๐Maine sea mythology
๐ฒClosed setting
๐ซLoss & Redemption
#A #SP #W #amquerying #writesky #agentsguide
pink sky background behind a block of dark text
A sunset photo background behind a visual playlist, a dark text quote and four comp novels shown
Dark texted elements and tropes of the manuscript, over a sunset photo and a woman with her back turned
A collage of photos and graphics to make a whimsy style scene of a young woman and teacher Miss Honey
Telepathic teacher Calypso has spent her life running from joy. A six-month rural reset becomes a chance to make herself anew.
When her new school risks closure and her magic causes chaos, she fights to claim friendship, romance, and a life that finally feels fulfilling.
#BluePit ๐ #Q #A #SP #WF
An agent's guide to Time's Signature.
#agentguide #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #bluepit
Witcher meets Whitten: A village witch teams up with the vampire she vowed to protect her village from in order to take down the child of a god who has been terrorizing them both.
#DIS/#ND protagonist โ๏ธ
#POC/#TR vampire ๐งโโ๏ธ
#LGBT love ๐ฅ
#Gothic vibes ๐
#KillGod plot โฐ๏ธ
#BluePit #Q #F #A #OV
