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A Darling Planetary
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Dalia P. - Adult - He/They
Acc. is for a hobby writer who wants to enter the indie publishing scene. I'm here for fun but also want to be known for something.
Will contain adult/horror content. Tread carefully!
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A Darling Planetary @darlingplanetary.bsky.social · Dec 28
📌Hello Writing World!
Name's Dalia. I am a afro-latine hobby writer interested in getting my work independently published and further developing skills with the written word. I enjoy speculative fiction, horror, and social introspection stories. Pleasure to meet you!
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darlingplanetary.bsky.social
Long time no talk! I have a simple request. Would you like to help develop a web serial?
I'm looking for alpha readers for The Man with No Face, preferably Black readers willing to volunteer! Share if you can, especially if you know an interested party.

Form: tally.so/r/w2DyRA
March 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
darlingplanetary.bsky.social
been awhile since i updated this account so here's some good news! I've gotten the first chapter of a possible manuscript done, I just need to perfect and possibly submit it elsewhere. I'm still in love with making it a webserial though...
January 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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LOOK AT SOME OF OUR FABULOUS CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS!!!!!
I am PUMPED.
10 MORE DAYS to send your submissions, flash or short stories, PLEASE PLEASE SEND!!!!

Submission link below:
hedonebooks.bsky.social Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jan 15
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January 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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We're running a deal on Underneath the Persimmon Tree by LB Waltz! This collection of stories is lyrical, beautiful, & very macabre. If you haven't read anything by Waltz yet, now's a great time! Use WTFSquare2024 to save a 24%!

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Cover by Dory Whynot
January 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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‼️Let’s give a hand to one of the quiet backbones of the publishing process, COVER ARTISTS.

Their work is the first thing you see and we’re so lucky to have worked with these amazing, talented artists. 😍 🖤🫶🏻 THANK YOU 🫶🏻🖤😍

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January 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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PUT YOUR SUBS IN🌱✨🌱✨✨🌱
hedonebooks.bsky.social Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jan 27
🌱THERE’S STILL TIME TO PUT SUBS IN, SPREAD THE WORD PPL

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January 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A little something I've been working on...
“There was and there was not, In the fullness of time…” This is how we start—-more often than not: With a simple rhyme. On a mattress of verse We settle in to rehearse A wealth of stories Made up entirely of lies. Now the sunbird has flown From my hand to your own. -Classic Palestinian Fairy Tales by Sonia Sulaiman
January 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Hi #booksky, do you want some fun speculative fiction books while also helping a trans woman reach her surgery funding goals? There are dragons and magic for the fantasy inclined, or a struggle against a fascist, hyper-religious empire for those who prefer sci-fi.
jfrcoates.bsky.social Jaye F.R. Coates @jfrcoates.bsky.social · Sep 21
I'm looking at a $20-25k bill for surgery mid next year. I'm not asking for donations, but please consider sharing this post and purchasing a book from the links below! Every sale is that little bit closer to my goal, so please consider helping out!
January 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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This week's story is "Boy Practice" by Jenny Fried. necessaryfiction.com/stories/boy-...
January 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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soniasulaiman.bsky.social
I decided to break out the ecoline markers to push those values. I really like hire it turned out.
A still life of a statuette of Mary, spindle with wool, and a tube of paint. Made with watercolour pencils and markers in hot press arches watercolour paper.
January 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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✨ANIRA AND THE SPIRIT OF MAGIC✨
When Anira’s village is attacked & Naiya’s city faces destruction, two teens must uncover the secrets of fading magic. Can they save their world & restore balance?

🐉Magic is dying
🌊Tropical island
🌀Spirits & relics
🦊Foxdragon friend
🤝Found family

#BluePit #MG #YA #F
January 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
darlingplanetary.bsky.social
CW: eyestrain, body horror //
It's a bit of a sloppy cover, but this is going to be the project taking top priority for a few months: a Lovecraftian Neo-Noir with a black protagonist in an alternate-history U.S. where the supernatural is very, very real.
#BluePit #A #H #W #M
A rough mock-up for a book cover made of collaged art pieces and a few sketches. There are neon green pieces of text that read, "The Man with No Face: A Zach Webb Mystery." It is overlayed a red painting by Mark Rothko. Next to a text is the titular faceless man, standing in a blue suit with a rather large gaping hole in his face. Underneath him is the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper laid on its side. The blue-suited man also emits a spiraling black halo to symbolize his ties to something greater. Overlayed all of this is a black silhouette, representative of the main character in the story.
January 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
darlingplanetary.bsky.social
Ever thought about if you could make the blurred lines between folklore and reality clearer? You share something in common with Ms. Quill, the MC for OAoLA. My #A #F #W for #BluePit! Where a woman interviews those who inspired legends.
A collage header for a story titled 'On Account of Lost Adventures.' The foreground is a dark-skinned woman wearing a bird mask and a yellow dress. She holds a quill in hand and is scribbling into a red book. In the background, multiple vignettes can be seen. Beginning with the left side of the image, the upper corner contains an edited painting of a lady and knight interacting. The lady with a skull head and stained arms looks up to the knight, whose face is covered in shadow. Below them is a monotone illustration of a ship. Both sit next to a painted forest. Standing in front of the forests is a woman facing away from the viewer with a hand on her face as if she's in thought. On the right side is a painting of a man standing similarly, overlooking the ruins of an old building in winter, and a different illustration of a forest than the one in the woman's view.
January 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Some cool news amidst a stressful week in L.A. Publishers Weekly has left a positive review of my upcoming horror fiction collection FEVER DREAMS OF A PARASITE, out 03/13/25 from Raw Dog Screaming Press! Check it out!

www.publishersweekly.com/9781947879867
January 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns it all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay and which to become

🌿White Trash Witchcraft, Queer Appalachian Horror🕸️
#BluePit #YA #H
January 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND X SEVERANCE X GIDEON THE NINTH

Visions of her own vampiric murder frighten Ash Murphy into hiring a haunted paranormal detective.

🫂Found Family

🌝Unhinged Protagonists

🌚Unreliable Narrators

👻Occult Detective

💖NB, Queer, ND Characters

📖 #F #A #Q #LGBT #bluepit
Coffee, moon, bats chasing a rabbit, young woman with white hair, Toronto, shadowy figures, envelopes, creepy owl A thing I drew late last night. Girl with white hair holding an umbrella and it says Farewell Daydream on it
January 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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eggqueenwera.bsky.social
SAILOR MOON x WINX CLUB
After an attack on her family home, a teenage girl learns she's the leader of fairies who use gemstones to transform into soldiers of justice. She must choose between vengeance and acceptance, all while being hunted by an evil queen.
📖 #Q #YA #F #R #OV #BluePit
January 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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THE GREAT x LE MORT D'ARTHUR

Abandoned to the fledgling court of King Arthur, Morgan's only hope for security is the man she hates most in the world. What's worse: she's actually starting to like Merlin. But when the rot in the kingdom comes to light, what can one witch do?

#BluePit #W #A #Hs #F
Over an illustrated pattern of curling green leaves and vines, there are two figures cut out of classical paintings. One is a medieval man wearing wide, black robes and carrying a large leatherbound book. The other is a medieval lady wearing a green dress and a white cape, both trimmed in gold. The images are cropped so both figures' faces are obscured. Over the image, yellow text in a medieval style font reads: "You ruined my life, motherf**ker. Teach. Me. Magic."
January 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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eggqueenwera.bsky.social
WHITE SNAKE x ETERNAL LOVE
Two rival deities go on a journey to retrieve sacred artifacts to keep five powerful demons imprisoned. Godly duties, demonic wishes, & mortal longings threaten their lives as they traverse their forbidden love across three lifetimes.
📖 #WIP #A #R #F #BluePit
Moodboard for an adult romantasy retelling of madame white snake & suvannamaccha
January 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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WONDER X CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE

Bijou wants more than the Draft Planet and is willing to sacrifice all she knows for it. The world ended to birth an oppressive dystopia. Can love, liberation, and an ancestral majestic artifact make way for her escape to a Utopia?
📖 #bluepit #SFF #A #RO #po #OS
A series of photos from Pinterest with intergalactic and magical vibes. Photo 1 shows a dystopian ruin and someone looking at all the destruction. Next books with magic light emoting from them and a hand pointing to the sky surrounded by magical glitter with pink light speckles. There is someone looking through a circular window at earth and the moon as of from a space ship. Most of the color scheme is bright pink and futuristic with planets in some and planetariums in others giving the feeling of a utopian magical futuristic world. In the bottom a first of Black resistance and right corner an altar that is slightly cutoff.
January 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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eggqueenwera.bsky.social
SAILOR MOON x WINX CLUB
When a teenage girl uncovers the secrets of her jade necklace, she must decide whether to use her new powers for revenge or save her new family and home from an evil pixie queen.
📖 #Q #YA #F #R #OV #BluePit #BluePitHype
A moodboard for a YA magical girl fantasy inspired by Sailor Moon, Winx Club, Snow White, and Kindling.
January 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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#WritingCommunity #GameDev #TTRPG #Comics

#BluePit is still going on today! It's Midnight to Midnight EST! So, if you haven't had a chance to pitch yet, there's still time!

You have 3 pitches per work! Feel free to try things!

Also, REPOST both your friends & YOUR OWN. That works on BlueSky!
January 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social
🌿White Trash Witchcraft🪲

A southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#BluePit #YA #H #LGBT #Dis #OV
January 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Wild Hunt Books is Temporarily Open to Unagented Novel Submissions
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#AmWriting
January 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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hedonebooks.bsky.social
Want a chance to see your name in a table of contents alongside Burton’s? Then check out the submission guidelines below (or visit our website for the full details)!
January 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM