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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 8d
Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods town and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend.
#Questpit #YA #AG #H #R #Ownvoice
old church, girl running in cowboy boots, old bible, girl with lighter under tongue, old cassette, girl licking red off hands, fair at night, old field, old church and pews
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
🌲Spooky mountainside town
📷 missing hikers
🌲 aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide
📷 suspicious locals
🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep

#Questpit #A #AG #PR #H #W
Water dripping off leaf, old motel sign, mountainside river, girl in leather jacket, wild howling, girl on computer, hand and wild print, foggy forest, missing posters, full moon
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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chezza.bsky.social
THE JASMINE THRONE x THE HURRICANE WARS
Captured in the palace of her nemesis, a demon queen plots her revenge. If only the woman who killed her mother wasn’t so irresistibly alluring…

🪻Blood poison magic
🪻Detestable immortals
🪻Food as seduction

#questpit #AG #RF
Photo of two women, one in red robes and one in blue. There is a graphic of monkshood on the side. BLOOMS IN POISON. Quote: “I suppose that debt can only be repaid with my life,” said Jing. “I’m afraid I cannot pay it just yet, little queen.” “I shall ensure that you will.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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chezza.bsky.social
IMMORTAL x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS
A reincarnated immortal and an emotionally damaged cowherd must escape the heavenly forces intent on tearing them apart.

✨A love destined to fail
✨A jealous Celestial Empress
✨An underworld filled with both torture and hope

#questpit #AG #RF
Photo of a man and woman in hanfu holding a red string. A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT. Quote: “I meant it when I said I feel a connection between us, Shizhi. Like we’re meant to be together, but the feeling has an edge of uncertainty. I can’t explain it.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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cailinwrites.bsky.social
Guide to THE MAGIC OF NOW
The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister is reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it

Feat:
🐐women-led cult
🐐explorations of grief
🐐sister relationship
🐐neuroscience
🐐offbeat humor
🐐surrealism x light sci fi
#Questpit #AG #A #S
The Magic of Now The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it. Guide to By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures. In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones. As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat. The Pitch The Comps cult comps Teal Swan Mother God Elizabeth Holmes quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit surrealism that highlights life’s bittersweet beauty speculative exploration of insular communities themes of memory and identity Eternal Sunshine Catherine House Aimee Bender How to Age Disgracefully A Snippet The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips. The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat. Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it. “Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response. Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months. The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage. Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister. It’s Tina.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods town and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend.
#Questpit #YA #AG #H #R #Ownvoice
old church, girl running in cowboy boots, old bible, girl with lighter under tongue, old cassette, girl licking red off hands, fair at night, old field, old church and pews
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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noellemonet.bsky.social
if you like:

feral bisexual disasters
star-crossed love triangles
haunted boarding schools
Appalachian folklore
grumpy x grumpier
Black feminine rage
plus-sized MCs
celestial magic
ancient prophecies
revenge

then keep an eye on this space for a truly UNFORGETTABLE reveal!

tomorrow at 9 am ET
From left to right, Kai, Harper, and Lucas from the novel bound by fury by Noelle Monét. Pink ombré background with constellations and white text in the foreground that reads bound by fury cover reveal tomorrow with the Simon and Schuster logo beneath it
October 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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cailinwrites.bsky.social
AIMEE BENDER X ETERNAL SUNSHINE

Based on beta reader reviews, you'll come to
THE MAGIC OF NOW for cults & Goat Tension™️ but stay for the existentialism & sobbing!

#A #Spec about a 62-year-old farmer, the 🐐 her sister is reincarnated into & the new age cult that could be behind it
#UnhingedPit #AG
The Magic of Now Beta Reader Comments for By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack Rep: Alex Land, MWLA I sat down after work today intending to read another fifty pages and ended up reading the whole ding-dang book. Holy shit this is such a good twist was not ready for this what i love most about this book is how it challenges your perceptions about existentialism and what it means to be human. Who knew hearing a goat's perception could make you think so deeply? i would die for these nuns this feels like her azula moment ok yas girlboss except goat tension
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Red flags for my Sapphic bubblegum horror
Lyric's red flags:
Obsessed with her best friend
In the midst of a coming of rage
Eleanor's red flags:
Will ditch you for boys
Possibly a cult member
Is the last person said boys were seen with before they disappeared
#unhingedpit #YA #H #AG
Lyric: In love with her best friend,thinks her friend and the dead boys showing up are connected, smart and loyal a concoction for trouble. Quote "Every day I choose to have her in my life like a toxic habit I can't quite quit." images of girl running in cowgirl boots and image of girl with lighter under tongue Eleanor: may or may not be a part of a cult, has a taste for boys and an unhealthy obsession with her best friend, is a ride or die quite literally. Quote-"do I need to kick someone's add because you know I will do it. " images of girl with red on her hands, and another with a girl licking a lollipop.
September 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Can't wait for this!!!!
stephwrites.bsky.social Stephanie Binx @stephwrites.bsky.social · Aug 22
It’s official!

@alcovepress.bsky.social is bringing HELLBOUND to a bookstore near you in Fall 2026!
A publisher’s marketplace deal announces HELLBOUND has been acquired by Alcove Press for publication in Fall 2026. The background depicts a man and a woman facing away from each other.
August 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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ghostpit.bsky.social
#GhostPit will be happening October 30, 2025!
There is a black background with big circle with a smaller circle inside of it. In the big circle at the top is #GhostPit 2 Ghosts to each side of that between that and the bottom words that read The Halloween Pitch Event. In the smaller circle there are greeb and orange/gold stars. In front of them in a cute sheet ghost and in front of him is a pencil and an open green book with yellow pages.
August 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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bookbabewriting.bsky.social
🌲 Spooky mountainside town
👀suspicious locals
🌲missing hikers
👀aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide
🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep
#PosterPit #A #AG #R #H
WOLF RIVER, written by H.D. Pine represented by Alex Land @MWLA. Sapphic romance, paranormal mystery, forced proximity, annoyances to lovers. Images of foggy mountainside river, moon, claw marks on building, and wolf howling
August 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social
With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind
#PosterPit #YA #H #AG
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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katylapierre.bsky.social
UNDEAD GIRL GANG x BRING HER BACK

When Parker's family ink magic predicts her bff's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong spell cast will damn both their souls to an inky hell forever.

#posterpit #ya #h #ag
White text reading Ink Becomes Her. Background shows a girl collapsed on the ground and an inky dark hand reaching out to grab her
August 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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chezza.bsky.social
DAUGHTER OF MOON GODDESS x SONG TO DROWN RIVERS

Falling in love shouldn't be this difficult. When family and fate are trying to keep them apart, how far will Shizhi and Mingniu go to defend their love? To the stars above...or hell itself?

Art by hisurii❤️
#PosterPit #AG #F
Movie poster for A Fate Woven in Starlight by Chezza Lee. A feminist take on an epic Chinese love story about fate, sacrifice, and women reclaiming their place in their own stories.
August 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
🌲 Spooky mountainside town
👀suspicious locals
🌲missing hikers
👀aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide
🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep
#PosterPit #A #AG #R #H
WOLF RIVER, written by H.D. Pine represented by Alex Land @MWLA. Sapphic romance, paranormal mystery, forced proximity, annoyances to lovers. Images of foggy mountainside river, moon, claw marks on building, and wolf howling
August 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
✨Boys are disappearing in Lyric's backwards backwoods town
🎀 her friend/crush Eleanor was the last to see them
✨Eleanor's cultish town nearby may be to blame
🎀 gives maneater a whole new meaning
✨more than just their friendship is changing...
#YA #H #R #posterpit #ag
A string of missing people and animal attacks, two best friends, one... KILLER SUMMER. Written by H.D> Pine, represented by Alex Land @ Mad Woman Literary Agency. Pink undertones, with images of girl licking red off hands, black and white corn fields, girl with lighter before mouth.
August 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
friends to lovers
cannibalism as metaphor for love
#ownvoice Queer and Indigenous rep
cult town in Canadian Prairies
monstrous romance
Bubblegum horror
Sapphic pining
#posterpit #YA #H #R #AG
A YA Sapphic horror, sometimes friends change in more ways than one. It's going to be a KILLER SUMMER, represented by Alex Land @MWLA. torn picture of girl licking red off hand and girl in denim jacket looking away. Poster has pink undertones
August 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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joyiswriting.bsky.social
THIS RAVENOUS FATE x MEN IN BLACK

The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls—and one wants Elle’s heart for her own.

🫀Deep Southern cryptids
🫀sapphic pining
🫀coming of rage
🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability

#questpit #W #YA #H #R
Moodboard from left to right: swampy road, a person in a flannel, an orange moon, a sign that reads: don’t go into the woods, a house sinking into a river, an ac unit in a window, a blue truck in a field at night, two girls kissing, a religious sign reads: are you going to heaven?
August 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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haylswrites.bsky.social
Adding benefits with her hot, magical engineer rival seems risk averse, but when Cecilia realizes he’s no longer the man he once was, it’s too late to use their research into protective magic to ward her heart...

#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #F #R
A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: An Editor's Guide to Enchantments & Adversaries, A cozy romantasy complete at 95k combining the plus-sized lead and cozy setting of A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon with the banter and STEM-inist bent of Love on the Brain. Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US. A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: the blurb: When Cecilia’s latest prototype—an amulet to protect non-magic persons—fails, her former college rival, Caspian Wolfe, offers resources from his magical engineering firm in exchange for co-credit. Despite her reservations he’s still the man who deals in hostile jabs and animosity, she relents, putting her research first. After weeks of blazing chemistry in the lab and between the sheets, Cecilia finds herself falling for a man she’s terrified to trust—if only her research into protection charms would ward her traitorous heart. Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US. A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. A dark haired woman and blond man are center. Text reads: the vibes: - plus-sized lead finding her power - complicated, messy family dynamics - strong, female friendship - cozy, modern fantasy setting - STEM based magic - "It was always you" - book covers for 'Do Your Worst' by Rosie Danan, 'Love on the Brain' by Ali Hazelwood, 'The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches' by Sangu Mandanna, 'A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon' by Sarah Hawley. Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US. A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: chapter one - My magic rushes through the front door and finds nothing but static from the cottage’s inhabitant. It’s a glaring reminder I don’t belong here. I hesitate on the front porch, frowning at the doormat. Home, sweet home. I hadn’t considered my parents’ house my home in over a decade, after how they’d reacted when my long dormant magic stretched to life. I still remember the looks on their faces. My mother paled with unease; my father reddened with rage. For most, magic found its way to the surface before puberty. As early as seven or eight, but not past twelve. Tense breaths and watchful eyes filled my first twelve years, coupled with near constant reminders I wouldn’t have magic. As the daughter of two magicless, it was statistically improbable I’d break the mold... Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.
August 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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cailinwrites.bsky.social
If you like grounded, speculative novels featuring woman-led cults, unique depictions of grief, off-beat humor, sister relationships, and neuroscience, then BOY do I have the book for you! 🐐
#Questpit #AG #A #S
Guide to: The Magic of Now The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it. By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency The Pitch Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures. In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones. As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat. The Comps How to Age Disgracefully: quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit Aimee Bender: surrealism used to highlight life’s bittersweet beauty Catherine House: speculative exploration of insular communities Eternal Sunshine: themes of memory and identity comp cults: Teal Swan, Mother God, Elizabeth Holmes A Snippet: The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips. The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat. Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it. “Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response. Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months. The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage. Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister. It’s Tina.
August 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods town and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend.
#Questpit #YA #H #R #AG #Ownvoice
If you enjoyed these movies: Jennifer's Body, My Best Friend's Exorcism, Lisa Frankenstein, Ready or Not, Fear Street 1994, I Know What You Did Last Summer Books you would find on a TBR with Killer Summer: Together We Rot, The Unfinished, This Delicious Death, Devil in Ohio, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me
August 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
✨Boys disappearing in Lyric's backwards backwoods town
🎀 her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last to see them
✨Eleanor's cultish town nearby may be to blame
🎀 gives maneater a whole new meaning
✨more than just their friendship may be changing...
#questpit #YA #H #R #AG
girl with match between teeth, bar with flames, ferris wheel, red church, red stainglass, canopy bed, girls shadows, cowboy hat, broken bff necklace, yes I do bite neon sign, anatomical heart.
August 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
friends to lovers
cannibalism as metaphor for love
#ownvoice Queer and Indigenous rep
cult town in Canadian Prairies
monstrous romance
Bubblegum horror
black cat x golden retriever vibes
Sapphic pining
#questpit #YA #R #H #AG
An editor's guide to Killer Summer By H.D. Pine YA Sapphic Indigenous Bubblegum horror. Pitch Boys start to disappear in Lyric's backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/unrequited crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate the cultish town Eleanor calls home and if there is something monstrously wrong with her best friend. comps: Jennifer's body, together we rot, this delicious death, the river has teeth, devil in ohio Tropes Black cat x golden retriever vibes, monstrous romance, cannibalism as a metaphor for love, Ferris wheel confessions, Sapphic pining, toxic codependent friendship, cult town in Canadian prairies, #ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep, touch her and die, friends to lovers. Reach out. Opening lines: It took one year of knowing Eleanor for my life to be forever altered down to the core of my being. I haven't decided if it is for the better yet. Represented by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Canada says it's a refuge. It has dangled only false hopes to Palestinians seeking to study here after Israel bombed their universities, or who have applied to be reunited with family.

I co-wrote this piece with Deborah Cowen, Kyo Maclear and Madeleine Thien www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7a8fbe1...
Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help people in Gaza
Ottawa’s ‘special measures’ visa program for Gaza has so far proved to be little more than a cruel taunt
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM