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Crystal L. Smalls-Wright
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I'm here in 2026

#RevPit '22 Winner
Freelance Journalist
Ghostwriter
Lupus Warrior
Wife
#CatMom of Pebbles & Bam Bam
#AmQuerying MG Speculative Fiction
#AmWriting Women's Fiction & #KidLit
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www.CrystalSmallsWright.com

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Crystal L. Smalls-Wright @csmallswright.bsky.social · 1d
Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE

AMARI x LOKI

After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide
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Heads up: new X/Twitter Terms of Service update on Jan 15th asserts rights to your work. Delete old posts.

"You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, upload, download, and distribute..."
January 10, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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Sometimes you have to Pet Yourself 😊
January 14, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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elizabethtitus.bsky.social
Hi #WritingCommunity, I'm ready to dive into the world of self publishing!

What tips, leads, accounts, videos do y'all recommend?

I'd prefer not to rely on Amazon/have small budget

Thanks @sagetgreene.bsky.social for starting me off!
#Bluepit #writesky #selfpublishing #WIPsnips #publishingjourney
graphic saying Help Requested Re: Self Publishing
January 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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My agent spotlight interview is up at Literary Rambles. There's also a query critique giveaway you can enter! http://www.literaryr...
Image of the beginning of the Literary Rambles blog post with my spotlight interview
January 14, 2026 at 9:56 PM
csmallswright.bsky.social
My very 1st post for #5AmWritersClub where skies are bluer! I wrote 2,142 words, been up and at it since 4:38 am. Please clap! 🥳🎉

Off to grab more coffee, then right back to #AmWriting #KidLit I go!
a cartoon cat is laying on top of a laptop .
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January 14, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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I'm reading the chapter on Hope and Grief Can Coexist from the book, Let this Radicalize You.

It says "We know that hope is essential to social change because in order to make change, someone must first imagine that it can be so."

I need to remind myself of this.
January 14, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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zprospero.bsky.social
Okay, #BluePit stats before I can collapse properly. I have more work to do before I can share any other stats.

Approximated Numbers:
~1,800 pitches
~35,000 likes
~13,500 reposts
~500 WIPs
~200 Published ( #BluePit Published feed stays up for 1 week )
~800 Querying ( #LitAgents take note!)
January 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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taralewiswrites.bsky.social
Detective Dominic Calhoun can find anything—except the source of his blackouts. Hunting a ritualistic killer tied to a corrupt foundation, the clues become triggers, reviving the ghost of a boy named Drew and a dark pact called the Kings of the Hollow.

#bluepit 📖 #A #T #Q
January 14, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Some secrets are buried in foster files; others are carved into trees. While a journalist tracks a trail of institutional silence, Detective Dominic Calhoun drowns in a case mirroring his own missing memories. The truth is coming for them both.
BEAUTIFUL UGLY X BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN
#BluePit 📖 #A #T #Q
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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THE GOD OF THE WOODS x A PLACE FOR US
Nas lives a quiet life in Calais, until the death of a boy shatters his fragile anonymity. When a string of similar deaths follow, Nas is drawn into a reluctant partnership with Dr. Obeid, who has her own reasons for being in Calais.
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #LF
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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taralewiswrites.bsky.social
A detective with a fractured memory.

A journalist hunting a corrupt legacy.

A secret pact carved into a tree 20 years ago.

In the Hollow, the truth doesn’t just come to light-it burns.
SHARP OBJECTS x BEAUTIFUL UGLY
#BluePit 📖 #A #T #Q
January 14, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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The Architects of the Revolution: Faced with a terminal illness, Eve opts for an experimental mind transfer into "Source". The procedure awakens sapience in the system, sending her on a journey of faith and against an AI who has their own plan for humanity. #BluePit #A #W #SF
A mood board featuring rural decay alongside technology-filled cities and industry. A robot hand reaches for a human hand at the center.
January 14, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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The Woods All Black x The Unmothers

Erin’s never been the maternal type. So, how has she found herself fighting for her nephew’s life so far from home? Simple, she learns small town folklore might be more fact than fiction. It might cost her everything.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #H #Q #OV #LGBT #DIS
A nine image mood board for A.J. Pellegrino’s novel, With Teeth Bared and Bloody. The top left image is a close up of a white wolf with yellow eyes. The top middle image is a shelf of leather bound books behind a glass shelf. The top right image is a close up of a frozen over lake with cracks in the ice. The middle left image is a sculpture of one woman kissing the forehead of another woman. The middle middle image is of a cabin covered in snow. The middle right image is of a blood covered hand. The bottom left image is a close of up stacked open books. The bottom middle image is of a snow covered dirt road with trees lining it. The bottom right image is of a wolf’s paw print in snow.
January 14, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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The asexual son of serial royal-killer weds a princess in order to shepherd her to slaughter and win freedom from his abusive father, but winds up accompanying the reckless, usually drunk girl on a voyage in search of lost saintly relics

#BluePit📖 #Q 📝 #F #YA w/ #A crossover appeal #OV #LGBT #DIS
A 9-image collage with sepia, brown, gold, and green tones. From left to right: a foggy swamp; the quote "I can't stand the bitter thing I've become;" a mandolin in grayscale; a wrecked sailing ship; a pair of mournful eyes from the painting "The Last Day of Pompeii;" a boy's silhouette against a green forested backdrop as bits of magic or light float away from his hands like fireflies; the quote "I'm almost me again" over a picture of a crown being lowered onto a woman's head; a sepia map topped by a knife, feather, and other instruments; the quote "look who's digging their own grave" over a painting of Renaissance angels flying.
January 13, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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kellicoolcat.bsky.social
- A chaotic semi-divine princess with dark secrets
- Her new husband, who’s plotting her murder
- A seafaring quest for lost saintly relics
- Fae-like magic
- Ace rep
- Religious trauma
- Slowburn enemies-to-besties

What could go wrong?

#BluePit📖 #Q 📝 #F #YA w/ #A crossover appeal #OV #LGBT #DIS
A 9-image collage with sepia, brown, gold, and green tones. From left to right: a foggy swamp; the quote "I can't stand the bitter thing I've become;" a mandolin in grayscale; a wrecked sailing ship; a pair of mournful eyes from the painting "The Last Day of Pompeii;" a boy's silhouette against a green forested backdrop as bits of magic or light float away from his hands like fireflies; the quote "I'm almost me again" over a picture of a crown being lowered onto a woman's head; a sepia map topped by a knife, feather, and other instruments; the quote "look who's digging their own grave" over a painting of Renaissance angels flying.
January 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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kellicoolcat.bsky.social
A bitter, sassy boy marries a (usually drunk) princess in order to usher her to his royal-killer father, but winds up accompanying her on a dangerous quest for lost saintly relics. Enemies-to-besties, ace #OV, ancient magic, & a darkly religious world.

#BluePit📖 #Q 📝 #F #YA #A crossover #LGBT #DIS
January 14, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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THE LITTLE SKI MEISTER
Fresh snow? Time to ski! With a new blanket of powder on the mountain, nothing will keep the Little Ski Meister off the slopes. She makes it her mission to ski every trail she can, but will her legs make it through the day?

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #PB #Q
January 14, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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WEDDINGS FOR TRADE 👰🌹

#cozydystopia (yes) #sapphicromance (heck yes)

An event planner, a gardener, a seamstress, and a minister walk into a garden... and then the world ends.

That was 20 years ago, though. Today, it's just the eve of yet another wedding.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #SP #W #OV #LGBT
An image of Longwood gardens main greenhouse - big ol beautiful plants and greenery everywhere, lil pond fountain thing too its nice
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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RARE MAMMALS

In a story steeped with creeping dread, a group of trophy hunters become hunted by insidious forces—and each other—in a sentient hotel in Johannesburg.

Psychological dislocation
Atmospheric tension
Body horror
Nothing is as it seems
Momento mori

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #H #D
A male lion stands proudly, unafraid to make direct eye contact with the camera. His two-toned mane (gold and brown) is thick and billows over his shoulders. He stands on the dry yellow grass of the South African Savannah. The sun casts a shadow at the 9 o’clock position. Trees line the horizon.
January 14, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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RARE MAMMALS

Haunted House x Hunter Becomes Hunter x Nature’s Revenge

What happens when a sentient hotel hunts its own guests…for sport?

Forget a fever dream, this is
the kind of nightmare that only malaria medication-induced hallucinations can produce.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #H #D
A sign is emerging from the dry Savannah grass that reads “do not pass this point. Roaming animals.” It is surrounded by dry brush and nearby trees. No buildings or signs of civilization are visible.
January 14, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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A romantic portal fantasy about best friends trapped in a world that forced them to decide what they'd give up to save their family, and a prince destined to kill the only woman he's ever loved to save the universe from death herself.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #F #W #OV #POC #LGBT #ND
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Alice Isn't Dead x The River Has Roots

When Melody's sister Lyra is abducted, if Melody wants her back she must put her trust in two strangers: one claiming to be an angel and Lyra's girlfriend who can't tell them apart.

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #Q #A #OV #LGBT #ND #F #SP
A mood board composed of two black and white photos. The top one is of an eye, the purple iris this the only color on the board. The bottom image is a state of an angel turned away. There is gray text on ripped looking paper that reads My Sister's Stolen Soul.
January 13, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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Lacey’s excitement to deliver secret handmade valentines to her friends falters as she trips into class – her valentines everywhere. Now at least one classmate knows she’s hiding something.
A VALENTINE FOR EVERYONE #BluePit #PB #Q #Valentines 📖
January 13, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Eraserhead x Labyrinth

My name is Pie-Eye, and I don't know who I am.

#bluepit 📖 #a #h #pn #w #ov #lgbt #poc #nd #tr
A purple and blue trees collage in the background with text that reads: Pie-Eye – A surreal noir novelette (~8k words) – Told in dream-logic vignettes – Featuring collage art and experimental formatting – Focused on atmosphere over answers – Absurd Existential Dread
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) ཐིཋྀ #BluePit 📖 #NA #F #R #Q #ND
Bats in a cave; the full moon; a death's head moth; fog in a forest; a light house; cracked earth; a sword. There are line drawings of moths and mushrooms around the edges.
January 13, 2026 at 7:59 PM