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Bruce Buchanan
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Writer of fiction. New Adult fantasy novel THE BLACKSMITH'S BOY (2025) and THE RETURN OF THE CERULEAN BLUR (2026), both from Wild Ink Publishing.
https://brucebuchananauthor.com/
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Bruce Buchanan @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social · 6d
THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD
Witchy 1980s high school adventure: A goth music-obsessed teen unearths a secret coven’s plot to summon a demon king, Charlotte risks her life to save the people she loves, even as confronts uncomfortable truths about them.
#questpit #Q #YA #F
The Goth Girl Who Saved the World - a music-fueled YA contemporary fantasy set in the 1980s Charlotte Sumner loves 1980s post-punk music - high school, not so much. But while working her after-school job, new classmate Ian Morris alt-rocks her world. Not only is Ian a good witch, but an evil coven operates at their school and plans to summon a demon king! The only thing standing between earth & apocalypse is a teenage girl in black lipstick and Doc Martens. Meet the Characters: Charlotte - The lonely goth girl finds herself in an ancient rivalry between two covens of witches: one good and one evil. Ian - The mysterious new kid in the Depeche Mode t-shirt. Ms. Moore - Charlotte's mentor and after-school boss. Mrs. Allison - Charlotte's mean trigonometry teacher and Charlotte's anxiety fuel. The Grindylow Coven - the evil witches! Charlotte must discover what they are up to. Tropes: Unlikely hero. Coming-of-age. High stakes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Pretty in Pink. Supernatural Young Adult high school adventure with a 1980s post-punk soundtrack.
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My book "Vampire Verses" was inspired by Bram Stoker.
Come read my guest post & celebrate Dracula's Daddy.🧛‍♂️

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November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
WATCHMEN is near the top of my favorite novels ever list. The fact we get this fantastic art is a bonus!
ianzpotter.bsky.social Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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It's the last day for Indieverse voting! I would appreciate your vote❤️.

I am nominated for:
🦋 Author I Want to be Besties With
🦋 Auto Buy Author

THE LOST ERWAIN is nominated for:

🦋 Meet Cute I Adored
🦋 Jaw Dropper
🦋 LGBTQIA+ Rep

www.indieverseawards.com/voting
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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ghostlyverse.bsky.social
🖤 Pleased to say my latest poetry book on DEATH ✒️ 📕 🏆 "Cancer Courts My Mother" [Prolific Pulse Press, 11-7-2025] won 2 awards 🏆
A press release went to 312 news outlets
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Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo Wins Accolades
 Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo has received two literary distinctions: the BREW Seal of Excellence from The Chrysalis BREW Projec...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
Give Diane your vote - her book is great!
dianebillas.bsky.social Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · 1d
Today is the last day to vote for the Indieverse Awards! My book SUPERFICIAL is up for:
Book Categories:
-Our Storytelling: LGBTQIA+ Representation
-I Feel Seen
-Chosen One I'm Glad Was Chosen
-What a Debacle
Social Categories:
-Newsletter I Love To Read
More info below!
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
“Unbarbing of Wire”

Shared-world collection in a solarpunk North American West

- city-roving taco trucks
- cussin’ cowboys
- airship farms and the cats that stalk their gardens
- borders? What borders?
- quite a bit of giddyup if I do say so myself

#HopePit #SF #Queryjng #CliFi #Solarpunk
Illustration of a person on a horse, towing a hovering greenhouse cart. The text says “Unbarbing of Wire”
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD
These Witches Don’t Burn X Pudge and Prejudice X The Cure’s Disintegration album
A shy, music-obsessed teen falls for the new guy at school - only to discover he's involved in an ancient feud between rival covens.
#Hopepit #Q #YA #F
Charlotte Sumner listens to Siouxsie & the Banshees while Ian Morris enters the library
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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elizabethtitus.bsky.social
Long after #Collapse, an empath leads an odyssey across the former US, using the power of meditation, wilderness survival skills, and archaic tech to save her people.

Her mission grows to offer humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
#hopepunk #hopepit #clifi #Q #ecofiction
closeup of a pastel drawing by @arachnereid.bsky.social of the lantern in the Hermit tarot card a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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goodwords.bsky.social
POTIONS UNINCORPORATED:

A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company🌱🐈‍⬛ 💚

💜 Bisexual Romance
💙 Chronic Illness Rep

Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X THE SPELLSHOP

#HopePit #A #RF #F #Cozy #OwnVoices #Q
Potions Unincorporated is written on a black journal with ivy stems and a mushroom on the cover. The tropes are listed with arrows on the right side: Grumpy x Sunshine, Found Family, Evil Pharma Potion Company, Plant Magic, Chronic Illness Rep, Cozy Vibes
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
Nomadism…in space! Eco-sci-fi collection of stories about migration, wandering, and general transience through the great unknown. With:
- space witches
- rediscovering purpose through bicycling
- screw these space colonizers
And more!

querying “True Stories of Cycling on Ceres”

#hopepit #scifi
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 3d
Saturday, Nov 8

#Hopepit community connect
share a snippet of your creations

Post a quote, image, or music you created that illustrates a light in the darkness, bringing hope

Tomorrow will be the big event to share / promote WIPs, pitches, and finished/available works!
background: photo of wind-patterned sand and coniferous trees in Columbia River Gorge by @arachnereid.bsky.social words: #Hopepit Sat Nov 8 share a snippet of your creations 🌞 all styles, formats, and media welcome!! (no AI) 🌞 post a quote, zoom in of your art, song, anything you made with a #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc theme 🌞 Use #Hopepit hashtag & engage with others to uplift hopepunk & build community
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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thestripedbananas.bsky.social
Hope hides in a lush forest on Nariah IV, a planet colonized by a technocratic regime. Cowboy & Christa flee into the perilous woods seeking meaning & love. Rescued by an Afro-futurist group, they must use creativity & science to survive a harsh winter, or die trying.
#OS #HopePit #Hopepunk #Novella
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 3d
#Hopepit pitch/ promote
post up to 3 times Sun, Nov 9 (your time zone)
🌱
Use #Hopepit tag
we highly encourage: #Hopepunk, #CliFi, #IndigenousFuturism, #Solarpunk, and other #-punks, if applicable
🌞
any media, any stage, including:
#P : Published: drop links!
#SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community
background: pic of yellow & pink roses in Portland by @arachnereid.bsky.social text: #Hopepit Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote 🌞 all styles, formats, and media welcome!! (no AI) 🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞 Share your writing, music, and/or art telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation 🌞 Use #Hopepit hashtag & engage with others to uplift hopepunk & build community 🌱≤ 3 posts per participant 🌞Please use ALT text on images 🌱NO generative AI 🌞build community & help uplift these genres background: pic of yellow & pink roses in Portland by @arachnereid.bsky.social GENRE #Hopepunk, #CliFi, #IndigenousFuturism, #Solarpunk, and other #-punks encouraged #Hopepit Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote STAGE #WIP : Work In Progress #Q : Querying #OS: On Submission/ in process of publication #P : Published / Available: drop links! #SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community AUDIENCE #C : Children #YA: Young Adult #A : Adult
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social
All Mick wanted was to keep his best friend Eleanor safe on their first adventure. But when fate binds him to a dead god and transforms him into a dragon, Mick's forced to rise from sidekick to king before a divine war wipes out the people he's been chosen to protect.
#Hopepit #hopepunk #WIP #NA #F
Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha. Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels. Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
Heroes come in all forms - even shy, goth music-obsessed teens in black lipstick & Doc Martens. THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD - Witchy 1980s high school adventure with a soundtrack you can dance to alone in your bedroom.

#Hopepit #Q #YA #F
The Goth Girl Who Saved the World - a music-fueled YA contemporary fantasy set in the 1980s Charlotte Sumner loves 1980s post-punk music - high school, not so much. But while working her after-school job, new classmate Ian Morris alt-rocks her world. Not only is Ian a good witch, but an evil coven operates at their school and plans to summon a demon king! The only thing standing between earth & apocalypse is a teenage girl in black lipstick and Doc Martens. Meet the Characters: Charlotte - The lonely goth girl finds herself in an ancient rivalry between two covens of witches: one good and one evil. Ian - The mysterious new kid in the Depeche Mode t-shirt. Ms. Moore - Charlotte's mentor and after-school boss. Mrs. Allison - Charlotte's mean trigonometry teacher and Charlotte's anxiety fuel. The Grindylow Coven - the evil witches! Charlotte must discover what they are up to. Tropes: Unlikely hero. Coming-of-age. High stakes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Pretty in Pink. Supernatural Young Adult high school adventure with a 1980s post-punk soundtrack.
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
I 😍 this art for The Goth Girl Who Saved the World! #amquerying
emilystmarie.bsky.social Emily St. Marie @emilystmarie.bsky.social · 3d
Sneak peak at Bruce's @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social #YAfiction #illustration. A high school novel set in 1989, magic, mystery, and romance... what's not to LOVE?
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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dianebillas.bsky.social
Voting is now open through November 11th for the Indieverse Awards! My YA superhero book SUPERFICIAL is up for awards in four categories and then I am up for an award. If you have a chance, I would be grateful if you could vote! The comments and my bio have more info!
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The Onion: DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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My attempts at "pity marketing" on tiktok. Did it work?
A picture of me falling down the stairs with the letter staged failure at the top of the screen and a copy of my book Maryneal 1962 next to my head.
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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twisteddreamspress.bsky.social
!COVER REVEAL! Twisted Dreams Press is excited to share the awe-inspiring cover for the upcoming release of "Vampire Verses" by the amazingly talented LindaAnn LoSchiavo! Stay tuned for details on when this incredible book of haunting poetry will be available for purchase! @ghostlyverse.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
New interview w/ @rileykilmore.bsky.social up on the @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social blog! Read about this former police officer & firefighter now making a name as a fantasy author!

wild-ink-publishing.com/2025/10/30/a...
A Conversation with Riley Kilmore
While a wide variety of hats have topped Riley Kilmore’s head across the years, the only one you’ll see these days is that of an author. Kilmore has worked as a police officer, as an EMT and firefi…
wild-ink-publishing.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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An agent’s guide to THE SLOW BURN 🚒🎄

She’s an event planner with her promotion on the line. He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they have to pull off the fire department’s holiday gala 👀

#questpit #r #q #amquerying
An agents guide to THE SLOW BURN an 82,000 word romcom by Rebeccah Sheridan The Pitch She’s an event planner with a promotion on the line. He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they’re planning the fire department’s holiday gala. When the spark between them fans into a no-strings flung, they’ll find out how complicated “casual” can be. Comps Just My Type by Falon Ballard: Workplace politics, toxic boss Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan: From fling to feelings, “no one gets hurt” Lovelight Farms by BK Borison: small-town, holiday romance, found family Tropes Small-town Slow burn Holiday romance “Keep it casual and no one gets hurt” Found family MMC in uniform (firefighter)
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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katiekrohnauthor.bsky.social
A teen outcast from a secret line of Irish plant magicians must harness newfound powers, with the help of an oak tree portal, to protect herself from a poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time. #questpit #amquerying #ya #f

🌿 Plant magic
🍄 Elixirs + poisons
🎂 Magical baking
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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dawnberkoski.bsky.social
Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. #questpit #PR #Q #A #writing
Agent guide for I Am Chosen, an M/M paranormal romance. The picture is of a fiery orange and purple sunset over a highway. Photography and story by Dawn Berkoski Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski Photo of a vibrant sunset over a graveyard as seen from the window of a fast moving vehicle. It reads: PITCH: IN A WORLD CONTROLLED BY CORPORATE VAMPIRES, TWO MEN STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY. WILL A CHANCE MEETING LEAD THEM TO FREEDOM, OR A WEB OF SUBTERFUGE, WHERE EVERY THREAD BRINGS A MONSTER OFFERING DEATH OR PERMANTENT CONFINEMENT? Photo by Dawn Berkoski Book vibes are all about the feel of the writing, setting, and story. The Blue Blood Series by Melissa de la Cruz Is used to represent the wealthy elite vampires living in New York, the fish out of water trope, dark secrets, and others. The Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice is used to represent young vampires rebelling against old rules and customs. Travel and setting also play a role. A plot point was inspired by the novel. Yakuza, Japan’s Criminal Underworld by David Kaplan and Alec Dubro, is used to represent some of the vampire rivals business practices. It plays a role in the series arch. Photography at the bottom: A dark cement staircase in NYC and a photo of the London Eye by Dawn Berkoski
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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laynejohnsonkidlit.bsky.social
Aspiring artist LUCY JEAN THE COLORING QUEEN creates magical masterpieces with her big box of crayons until she gets ONLY 3 at a restaurant! Can she still create a masterpiece with only yellow, blue, and red? A lyrical #pb about emotional regulation and creative problem-solving. #questpit #q
Turnaround of a young girl in a blue tutu, stripped yellow socks, blue ballet shoes, a brown bun of hair and a homemade yellow crown.
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
Experience a vision of transformation through the ruins of the former US.

Using the power of meditation, archaic tech, and ancient survival skills, an empath-scholar's quest to save her people is a narrative guide on how to thrive in civilization’s aftermath. 🌱

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #clifi
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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amberbairdpdx.bsky.social
TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
💋 sapphic w/ trans LI

Querying soon. #questpit #A #H #LF #WIP
First panel is a mood board in pink, gold, and blue. "To the Burrito Gods" printed in the middle. Images in the board: two hands clasping, a burrito, a rainbow, something on fire, someone praying, an eye up close, a smashed up car, a computer and sketchbook, a series of knives. On the right panel against a grungy green background, info: Desperate Amanda doesn't have a lot of options in rural Oregon, but she thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul. Movie poster for Sorry to Bother You X book cover for Pizza Girl. TO THE BURRITO GODS is a horror story about working in food service featuring a late queer coming-of-age for fans of Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM