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A.B. Bookster
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Fantasy writer, keeper of random facts, 3x Queer Champion
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A.B. Bookster @abbookster.bsky.social · Aug 15
Captain Hanza must keep his crew safe from monstrous waves and fabled sea creatures, but will he keep his wits when the Goddess of Love and Trickery gets involved?

So This is Ever After x Song of the Abyss

#QueerPit #YA #F Demi/Pan Rep, Found Family, Slow-Burn Romance, Anxiety
A mood board for the book Stolen Respite, with images of a pedicycle, pink crystals, a ship's helm, someone running, the jaw of a dunkleosteus, an island. Text reads 'I need a favor, no questions asked. Can you do that for me?'
abbookster.bsky.social
A movie you've seen more than seven times in a gif.
November 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
abbookster.bsky.social
This #YA #Fantasy had great characters and world building. I especially loved the dynamic between Ren and Sunho their dedication grew from trust and compassion, which is starting to feel rare in YA books. I will certainly read more by her. Set up as a duology. #Booksky 💙📚🪐
Book 'The Floating World' by Axie Oh, cover depicts two young figures standing back to back with a floating world behind them.
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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hopepit.bsky.social
Let's spin visions of hope & resilience!

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We hope you can JOIN US Nov 9 for #Hopepit, uplifting all types of media under the big #hopepunk & #clifi ⛱️ umbrellas.
Here on 🦋.

#solarpunk #permaculture #hopecore #hope
#WritingCommunity #GameDev #IndieDev #TTRPG #Comic
#WriteSky #Writers #MusicSky
Flier for #Hopepit Sunday, Nov 9 community connect Nov 5 - 8 🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞 An inclusive community-building hype event for voices of light & vision in the darkness. Open to creators of all media telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation #Hopepit 🌞Use the #Hopepit hashtag to share your pitches, books, videos, articles, and art 🌱We encourage the use of additional tags, like: #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc 🌳Not sure which genre? JOIN US anyway! 🌱We 💛 resource sharing & discussion threads! @hopepit.bsky.social climate fiction hopecore hopepunk clifi #Climatefiction nomadpunk solarpunk #solarpunk #hopecore indigenous futurism pitch hype permaculture
October 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
Today is the last day to apply for a 2026 WNDB Mentorship!

💻 bit.ly/2026Mentorships
weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · Sep 2
🔔 Now accepting 2026 Mentorship applications!

Want to participate in our annual Mentorship Program, where we pair emerging writers & illustrators from diverse backgrounds with experienced professionals in the field? Visit the link below (🔗 also in bio) to apply today!

💻 bit.ly/2026Mentorships
Light yellow graphic titled “2026 Mentorship Applications Now Open!” Beneath the title text is an illustration of a light-skinned person with shoulder-length brown hair sitting at a desk with a notebook open in their lap and their desktop computer showing screens full of emails and word documents. At the bottom is a search bar graphic containing the shortened URL “bit.ly/2026Mentorship”, which will redirect folks to the 2026 Mentorship application. Light yellow graphic titled “About the Mentorship Program.” Beneath the title text is a mock-up internet browser window, with the search bar at the top containing the shortened URL “bit.ly/2026Mentorship”, which will redirect folks to the 2026 Mentorship application. The program description in the browser says, “The WNDB Mentorship Program aims to support writers and illustrators by pairing them with an experienced professional in the field. Our mentors work one-on-one with a mentee and their completed draft of a manuscript over the course of a calendar year, offering advice to improve craft and to better understand the publishing industry. For 2026, WNDB is offering fifteen mentorships split amongst the following categories: Picture Book Text (PB), Middle Grade (MG), Young Adult (YA); and Illustration (IL).”
September 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
abbookster.bsky.social
Today was a falconry class featuring owls, and I got to meet this gem of a bird.
Picture of a spectaculed owl on a handlers glove.
August 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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beemorris.bsky.social
#QueerPit #Q
Alice can see ghosts... she'd really rather not 👻

🏳️‍🌈 Queer & trans rep
🧠 Autistic lead
🧽 Cleaning haunted houses
🔪 Serial killer mystery
🌊 Ghosts by the sea
🎭 Dark humour
a close up of a cartoon character wearing glasses and a scarf .
ALT: a close up of a cartoon character wearing glasses and a scarf .
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August 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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catherinewinters.com
WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, ship's cook Tai is stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QueerPit #A #Q #R #SF
Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human) PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let themcome here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?” COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family lovable pet/terrifying monster
August 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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sophiemlpink.bsky.social
UMBRELLA ACADEMY x DON’T LET THE FOREST IN
Notorious rockstar/bisexual disaster, Aster makes a habit of dying… a lot.The demon he sold his soul to for fame & fortune might have his answers as to why, but crashing her artists retreat to find them will shatter his every belief. #QueerPit #A #H #DF
August 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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danielghurst.bsky.social
ONLY MOSTLY DEVASTATED x HALLMARK
You can take the boy out of New York...but while he’s stuck in rural PA, 16 y/o Colby will do anything to keep his Broadway dreams alive. That is, if he’s not too distracted by the cute boy from the Christmas tree farm.
#queerpit #YA #RC
Photo grid: theatre seats, Christmas tree, fir trees in fog, boy dancing in silhouette, pinkie fingers interlocked, boy standing among trees in silhouette, New York City skyline, Christmas cookies, red barn
August 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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brclothwrites.bsky.social
“The Midnight Library” + “The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window…”

Zombie Bubbe’s back from the dead causing chaos to his Jewish-guilt-ridden mother.

This was just ONE of Evan’s bday wishes which randomly came true. Sadly his last wish was most deadly…

#QueerPit #OWN #AC #FR #SPF #A
August 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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danielghurst.bsky.social
IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU tells the story of shy high schooler, Theo, as he navigates the demands of the sassy ghost who's haunting him while pursuing his crush and his dream of singing on his own terms.
#queerpit #YA #RC
August 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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sampeil.bsky.social
WALKING DEAD x LAST OF US🏳️‍🌈

Vivvi: locked alone in the library perfecting her headshots 🩸🔪

Stetson: running from far-right preppers turned zombies 🇺🇸

Dove: waking up after a medicated nap 🦷

The Dentist: roaming around town 🧟‍♀️

🏳️‍🌈 They all want each other—but not in the same way.
#queerpit #h #a
August 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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ajtorresauthor.bsky.social
Visiting her abuelo, 10 year old Irene finds a portal to a new world & awakens an unspeakable evil. Aided by Taíno gods, newfound magic, & her little bro, Irene must walk the path of prophecy to undo her mistake & find her way home, or risk losing her parents forever.
#QueerPit #MG #F #Q #OV #LGBT
Aesthetic board for my middle grade Taíno inspired portal fantasy. The Amulet of Kakata is Percy Jackson and the Olympians meets The Chronicles of Narnia. Aesthetic board for The Amulet of Kakata, my middle grade portal fantasy set in Puerto Rico and a fictional land inspired by Taíno culture and mythology.
August 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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melanielocke.bsky.social
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR

When seer Cass learns there’s no Chosen One to save the world from a Fear magic based apocalypse, he tells firefighter Esti she’s the Chosen One. If she ever learns he lied, the world will end.

#queerpit #F #A #EF #UF
Title page to agent's guide. Artdeco frame, black with golden brown striped patterns. Text: an agent's guide to: You are not the Chosen One, an adult queer fantasy by Melanie Locke
August 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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alizagame.bsky.social
When Leah (the pastor's daughter), goes missing, Brooke (her secret girlfriend), has to navigate their cult-like church to find her. One problem: no one remembers who Leah is.

#QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying
August 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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lliuwrite.bsky.social
THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a shapeshifting fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

#QueerPit #A #FR #F
Book cover with title "The Heart Devourer's Song" and author name "L. Liu" over illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.
August 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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kanirthi.bsky.social
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
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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dhstrange.bsky.social
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
9 images total. Top row: image of planet Jupiter, image of alleyway with neon lighting, image of a person running at night against the back drop of a large white wall. Second row: image of a couple lying on the ground, their heads are touching and they’re both curled in the fetal position in purple lighting, image of two hands clasped against a background of blinds, image of a busy dance club with neon purple lighting. Bottom row: image of a couple walking down a wet alley with hanging lights at night, image of a M/F couple kissing, image of the Milky Way against a mountainous terrain.
August 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
abbookster.bsky.social
Captain Hanza must keep his crew safe from monstrous waves and fabled sea creatures, but will he keep his wits when the Goddess of Love and Trickery gets involved?

So This is Ever After x Song of the Abyss

#QueerPit #YA #F Demi/Pan Rep, Found Family, Slow-Burn Romance, Anxiety
A mood board for the book Stolen Respite, with images of a pedicycle, pink crystals, a ship's helm, someone running, the jaw of a dunkleosteus, an island. Text reads 'I need a favor, no questions asked. Can you do that for me?'
August 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
abbookster.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity Just a reminder that #QueerPit starts tomorrow! Get your posts ready, and remember to share the ones you like!
August 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
abbookster.bsky.social
First he came for immigrants, now he comes for the homeless. It's not going to end there.
August 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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samriegel.bsky.social
This remains hilarious to me: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
How a Dungeons & Dragons Joke Led to a Best-Selling Romance Novel
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
abbookster.bsky.social
I'm so happy for my friend! Congratulations!
gideonpsmith.bsky.social Gideon Smith @gideonpsmith.bsky.social · Jul 29
Still reeling, but thrilled to share—I’ve won the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award!

This story is personal, and having it find a home at @baenbooks.bsky.social means the world to me. Eternal thanks to the judges and everyone who believed in it. 🐉⚔️✨

www.baen.com/pr-2025-fant...
Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
www.baen.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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gideonpsmith.bsky.social
Still reeling, but thrilled to share—I’ve won the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award!

This story is personal, and having it find a home at @baenbooks.bsky.social means the world to me. Eternal thanks to the judges and everyone who believed in it. 🐉⚔️✨

www.baen.com/pr-2025-fant...
Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
www.baen.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM