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Frances Hope
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East Coast writer, West Coast roots / thriller - horror - mystery / stories: https://linktr.ee/frances_hope
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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 15d
“Love Is Blind” x THE STEPFORD WIVES

Alyssa attends a singles retreat where, unbeknownst to her, a wealthy man pays a hefty sum to make her fall in love. When she returns home after two years abroad with him, her friends are shocked at just how much she's changed.

#QuestPit #Q #A #S #T
Mood board with: two interlocking wedding bands; a pendant with a heart that looks like a computer chip; a push-button computer chip; a gloved hand holding a flaming tube of red lipstick; a "New Messages" notification envelope symbol; a false eyelash; a broken mirror with pieces being picked up by a woman's hands; a woman's head and torso covered with billowing, sheer red fabric; a control room with a high-backed chair and several red computer screens; a woman in a long, close-fitting black dress with several dangling cords around her; a staircase with a woman in a formal black dress at the top and a man in a suit at the bottom, both people with their backs to the camera; fingers holding a broken mirror in which one eye is reflected; and a cocktail glass with cherries in and around it as well as a lipstick- and other red substance-smeared napkin, and a woman's hand (with long red nails, two silver rings, and sheer black fabric covering part of her hand/wrist) holding the glass.
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Watching verified real humans doing amazing things is the best part of the Olympics. I will never marvel at something a hunk of code can do. But pair skaters sticking the landing in perfect unison because they've trained their whole lives for this very moment? Now THAT brings a tear to my eye.
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Yep yep!
February 1, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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Just boosting the #questpit pitch for my dual-timeline, multi-POV novel about love, commitment, and outsourced coervice control ...
franceshope.bsky.social Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · 15d
“Love Is Blind” x THE STEPFORD WIVES

Alyssa attends a singles retreat where, unbeknownst to her, a wealthy man pays a hefty sum to make her fall in love. When she returns home after two years abroad with him, her friends are shocked at just how much she's changed.

#QuestPit #Q #A #S #T
Mood board with: two interlocking wedding bands; a pendant with a heart that looks like a computer chip; a push-button computer chip; a gloved hand holding a flaming tube of red lipstick; a "New Messages" notification envelope symbol; a false eyelash; a broken mirror with pieces being picked up by a woman's hands; a woman's head and torso covered with billowing, sheer red fabric; a control room with a high-backed chair and several red computer screens; a woman in a long, close-fitting black dress with several dangling cords around her; a staircase with a woman in a formal black dress at the top and a man in a suit at the bottom, both people with their backs to the camera; fingers holding a broken mirror in which one eye is reflected; and a cocktail glass with cherries in and around it as well as a lipstick- and other red substance-smeared napkin, and a woman's hand (with long red nails, two silver rings, and sheer black fabric covering part of her hand/wrist) holding the glass.
January 31, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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I love her so much.

#catherineohara
January 31, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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rammwriter.bsky.social
Posting again for the later crew.

#QuestPit #W #A #MY #PR #T
rammwriter.bsky.social Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 15d
Pagans x Strike

After a celebrity author builds a Stonehenge replica, genteel English towns descend into tribalism and paganism. As two local writers seek the cause of increasingly violent religious fervour, the city of St Albans is rocked by a bloody human sacrifice.

#QuestPit #W #A #MY #PR #T 🦋
January 31, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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seemoido.bsky.social
Seven bodies. One sealed room. When a detective investigates deaths at the abandoned Harrow Institute, nothing adds up—especially one detail she can’t explain. The partner synths tied to the victims should have decommissioned within 96 minutes. They didn’t.
#QUESTPIT #Q #A #S #SF #MY
January 31, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Coming soon to agent inboxes!

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ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit
BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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elizabethtitus.bsky.social
When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated.

Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot
🌪️ #CliFi
🌷 #Hopepunk
#S #Q
#Questpit #booksky
January 31, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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christiemadrian.bsky.social
Chess is a reaper-in-training. Her boyfriend is possessed by death itself. One impossible choice: save the world or save the boy she loves. As ghosts rise and rogue reapers hunt her, Chess must embrace her powers or lose everything. #questpit #YA #Q #F #PR #Disability
January 31, 2026 at 5:05 AM
franceshope.bsky.social
“Love Is Blind” x THE STEPFORD WIVES

Alyssa attends a singles retreat where, unbeknownst to her, a wealthy man pays a hefty sum to make her fall in love. When she returns home after two years abroad with him, her friends are shocked at just how much she's changed.

#QuestPit #Q #A #S #T
Mood board with: two interlocking wedding bands; a pendant with a heart that looks like a computer chip; a push-button computer chip; a gloved hand holding a flaming tube of red lipstick; a "New Messages" notification envelope symbol; a false eyelash; a broken mirror with pieces being picked up by a woman's hands; a woman's head and torso covered with billowing, sheer red fabric; a control room with a high-backed chair and several red computer screens; a woman in a long, close-fitting black dress with several dangling cords around her; a staircase with a woman in a formal black dress at the top and a man in a suit at the bottom, both people with their backs to the camera; fingers holding a broken mirror in which one eye is reflected; and a cocktail glass with cherries in and around it as well as a lipstick- and other red substance-smeared napkin, and a woman's hand (with long red nails, two silver rings, and sheer black fabric covering part of her hand/wrist) holding the glass.
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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#questpit this Friday will be my first pitch even in over a year! If I remember correctly, keeping a list was the only way I stayed sane the last time, so please comment with your genre and I'll check out your stuff!

#writingcommunity
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 AM
franceshope.bsky.social
Ooh! Five whole hours of time to myself! Quick, how can I squander it?
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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So pleased to share that my speculative microfiction piece "Come Home" has found *its* home at Crepuscular Magazine!
crepuscularmag.bsky.social Crepuscular Magazine @crepuscularmag.bsky.social · Oct 13
Crepuscular welcomes Frances Hope! "Come Home" is free to Patrons today. Watch for it 11/13 or join us on the Patreon for full access!
white woman with dark hair smiles at the camera. Frances Hope Crepuscular Welcomes
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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"Pan's Gaze" by Chris Clemens is free to read today!

www.patreon.com/post...
August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Today in "Why Do I Do This to Myself?": making the murder victim in my new book a "fiancée," which means I have to use the $^#&@%& accent symbol the whole time or be driven editorially insane!

#writingcommunity #formercopyeditor #why
August 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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When thoughts turn to Spring and also to writing a book that is intensely unsettling but in a good way
Frances looking off-camera to the left
April 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Being a writer and a parent is just continually being Robin Williams in the big restaurant scene from Mrs. Doubtfire.
April 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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At that phase of my "writing journey" where I want publishing podcasts on an IV drip . . .
#WritingCommunity
April 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Fine, I'll admit it! I love beta reading because it makes me feel fancy and important.

There, I said it!
April 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
franceshope.bsky.social
It looks like I've gotten lots of new followers lately, so I'll (re)introduce myself!

I'm an agented thriller/horror author who writes "science gone wrong" stories with messy relationships at their core. 🧵 (1/3?)
April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I keep meaning to post writing stuff on here because, uh, "building my brand" or something. . . . But now all I can think about is Cory Booker.
April 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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BREAKING: Sen. Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech in history.

WATCH LIVE NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...
April 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
franceshope.bsky.social
Anyone who spends time with me in person knows that 50% of my casual wardrobe is band T-shirts (Mountain Goats, Indigo Girls . . .). Conveniently, just as these tired, years-old threads are starting to fall apart in the wash, both bands are going on tour near me this summer. Thanks, merch gods!
March 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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stephenking.bsky.social
Voted for Trump, now have buyer’s remorse? The Trump philosophy seems to be his version of FAFO. Don’t buy anything on the 28th unless you absolutely have to.
#Resist
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM