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Letty Sharpe is Querying
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Winner of the 2024 Northern Debut Award for Young Adult Fiction. She/her. Contact: lettysharpewrites@gmail.com
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Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 13
When provided with the opportunity to steal a necklace containing immeasurable magic, hedge witch Blake Delacroix must decide whether to accept the life society has laid out for her or steal the power she has always been denied.

#bluepit #Q #YA #LGBT #F
An image of a castle surrounded by forest. VEILED ENCHANTMENTS. YA FANTASY WITH DARK ACADEMIA AND SAPPHIC RIVALS TO LOVERS. COMLPETE AT 80,000 WORDS. The blurb: Seventeen-year-old Blake has spent her life studying magic at Holtsworth Academy with the hope of joining the ranks of the Royal Corps, an elite infantry comprised of divine witches descended from the gods. There’s only one problem: Blake isn’t a divine witch at all. As niece of the headmistress, she is confined to the role of assistant and silent observer of the extraordinary lessons unfolding around her, her own negligible powers denying her full participation. A spark of hope arrives when Blake learns that the Grandwitch has brought a secret necklace containing a volatile and immeasurable magic to the academy. Just as she finds a way to obtain it for herself, the necklace disappears and Blake believes she knows exactly who to blame: Maeve Moram, a powerful student who has always had it in for her. What begins as a quest to recover the necklace results in Blake unearthing not only the hidden truth of her fellow hedge witches but also a deeper and darker power that she can’t begin to comprehend. Comp Titles: Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven (sapphic romance, rivals to lovers, generational trauma) Wisteria by Adalyn Grace (familial relationships, lost deities, gothic-lite) Snippet: “It all comes so easy to you, and you don’t even deserve it.” I scoff. “Do you think the Corps would have selected you if your mother wasn’t Lady Death? I bet Adrien only sticks around to take the attention away from him being one of the Dregs.” It can be hard to remember just how far down the gods’ bloodline he is when he’s lording it over me. But there is no forgetting just how close Maeve is to the power of Death herself. “Where I get my magic from doesn’t matter.” She steps so close that I can feel her breath on my skin. Her eyes are slits, her teeth bared. “All that matters is that I have it – and if people want to make use of it, who are you to say otherwise? Just because you hate how small you are. How weak. You must drown in it.”
lettysharpe.bsky.social
The ungodly urge to make a Killing Eve edit to The Subway
August 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
lettysharpe.bsky.social
A glimpse into the new WIP I'm hoping to start drafting later this week.

JANE EYRE x MONSTER HOUSE
July 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
lettysharpe.bsky.social
There's nothing quite like the high of letting a new story idea unravel.
July 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
lettysharpe.bsky.social
Hi everyone! I'll be participating in a bunch of pitch events over the summer, so I've made a second account to save the feeds of anyone who aren't interested. 😂

Pitch account: @lettysharpepitches.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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ry-is-writing.bsky.social
It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth.

#BluePit📖 #Q #YA #OV #LGBT #SF #R
Starboy LGBTQ+ YA Sci-Fi Complete at 83k words Blurb When Bennett Barker is forced to move to a small town for his senior year of high school, he thinks his biggest problems will be missing his friends, figuring out his back-home situationship, and coming clean to his mom that he isn’t following in her footsteps by majoring in astronomy. Then an alien named Caelum crash-lands into his life. Literally. Bennett rescues the alien when his pod slams down to Earth while Bennett is out delivering pizza. But this isn’t an E.T. situation. Caelum is tall, turquoise, and incredibly kind, which makes it hard for Bennett not to catch feelings. Now Bennett has to find a way to get Caelum back home. But as Bennett grows closer to the alien, he starts wondering if his extraterrestrial crush is hiding the truth about why he ended up on Earth. Characters Bennett Bummed he moved to a new town his senior year Likes learning (hah, nerd) Works as a pizza delivery boy Wants to become an engineer Gets fixated easily on projects and people Caelum Home planet is thousands of light-years away Likes plants and flowers Doesn’t enjoy wearing clothes Can photosynthesize, would rather drink coffee Moon-shaped eye marks glow when he’s happy Vibes It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay). IF YOU LIKE First encounters Nerdy boys flirting Having to hide a hot alien in the bedroom Traumatized intergalactic cinnamon rolls Kids on bikes saving the world Earth food taste testing Super-powered pacifists SIMILAR STUFF Starfire from Teen Titans Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
July 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
lettysharpe.bsky.social
VEILED ENCHANTMENTS ✨

When provided with the opportunity to steal a necklace containing immeasurable magic, hedge witch Blake Delacroix must decide whether to accept the life society has laid out for her or steal the power she has always been denied.

#bluepit #Q #YA #LGBT #F
July 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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lottevansande.bsky.social
Hop in loser, we’re going to South Africa

An agent’s guide to WILD HEARTS

🐆 lots of wildlife
🐆 set at a wildlife conservation in South Africa
🐆 influencer x grumpy worker
🐆 two cheeky meerkats
🐆 rewilding and releasing of cheetahs

#BluePit #q #A #R #amquerying
July 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #AmQuerying
Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title Card Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now! Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees | Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, red arrow fletching, a red forest. Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least. "Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?" Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title: Comps Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps. Text: From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS) From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others) Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title: Pitch Text: Niozene has never been good enough. As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule. When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter. Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.
July 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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ncrystalauthor.bsky.social
A booksmart mixed race FMC, caught between:

👑 a prince who would do anything for his kingdom
✨ celestial being who lingers in her mind through an unexpected bond.

Who can Ariella trust, before the power she never asked for tears her world apart 🌍

#bluepit #A #F #R
Crescent Bonds NA Romantasy Tropes god v mortals ancient creatures yearning for lovers of gild, bridge kingdom and these hollow vows
July 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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trinitywrites.bsky.social
METAL BONES, PLASTIC HEART

👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker
🤖Mysterious android boy
❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance
🩸Powerful mega-corporations
🌃A sprawling city
🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold answers about more than just a murder...

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #SF #M #Q
girl leaning against a bare mattress. a pink and blue jelly fish. blurry red and gold fish. .a blond-haired man cooking with a cat on his back A tall, purple-tinted tower. A hand with blue fire. Two people almost kissing. A distorted silhouette. A dandelion on fire. A city with a red haze.
July 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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gabriela-stluke.bsky.social
Dear Citizen of Calasca,
Pack your bags! I am happy to extend an invitation for you to join us on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new reality holovision program where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. We can promise you’ll find the one who’s to die for.

#bluepit📖 #bluepit #NA #R #H #SF #SP #W
Above view of paradise dock on a beach with words overtop. Find the one who's to die for An agent's guide to LAST CHANCE MATCH New adult dystopian romance thriller with horror elements Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Pitch: Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Down-trotted waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Comps: THE VILLA by Ruth Kelly - dating show setting, twisted games, desperation to win HEART OF THE SUN by Mia Sheridan - 'enemies' to lovers, second chances, dystopian love story THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver - winning = freedom, life or death consequences, strong female protagonist LOVE ISLAND - Love Island-inspired dating show SQUID GAME - games created for a killer time BLACK MIRROR - dystopian future with sci-fi twists Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Snippet: The silhouette of a woman approaches us, but her flawless skin is a dead giveaway that it’s a humanoid. The older you get, the easier it is to spot them; their skin is free of blemish, not even a tiny scar indented into their bodies. Their eyes are shiny—too shiny—and their smiles lack depth, character, and warmth. Though the government will never admit it, they’ve started to release more and more of these bots into Calasca to act as companions for the matchless. They’re chameleons, taking on whatever persona they need to hook into you. The most unsettling part about them is how predatory they can be, entering the neighborhoods of the low-end and matchless. They even have a slot on their abdomens for payment. I shiver when the humanoid’s too-perfect eyes land on me, its bone-chilling grin never faltering. “Contestants,” it says so matter-of-fact, yet there’s a sweetness to it. An eerie kindness I can’t ignore. God, I hate humanoids.
July 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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ncrystalauthor.bsky.social
"They say being offered to the Gods was the highest honour. However, if the whispers from the scribes were true, no mortal that crossed over to the immortal realm survived." #1stLinePit #NA #RF #C
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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cpearsonwrites.bsky.social
MEXICAN GOTHIC X HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

The letter from Malacca arrived on a Sunday, exactly four days after Gracie Chen first dreamt of the woman in red....

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #HF #H #M #P
April 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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simplyfabs.bsky.social
#bluepit 📖 #NA #A #POC #R #DR #W

TITLE: the villain's muse.
COMPS: god of fury x king of sloth x perfect addiction
GENRE: bipoc dark romance!
WORD COUNT: est. around 90k+ after dev edits!

She healed. He destructed.
- the fmc is bangladeshi, the mmc is puerto rican! - the fmc is writing/bookish content creator + freelance editor, the mmc is a dj and illegal underground boxer! these are the main tropes of the book *not* including the numerous microtropes that would've made this list TOO LONG otherwise !! the comps of the book !!! i added silly little captions for just the vibes and with the current direction of the book as it undergoes heavy developmental edits and revisions—they honestly make the most sense !!! it felt right to have ONE movie comp here because i wanted to, hehe <33 spoiler alert: i came up with the dedication on the spot and it'll be a working dedication for now *unless* i'm not changing it! enjoy being delulu and kicking your feet besties <33
July 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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morgan-writes.bsky.social
Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're extremely attracted to each other.

It's only natural that they become friends with benefits.

But all too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything.

#BluePit #R #W #A
July 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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fergwrites.bsky.social
THE ROSE BARGAIN X PERSUASION
🌷✨🌱💌
#bluepit #YA #F
July 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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books-that-go-boom.bsky.social
Available for preorder in a couple months, Neon Citadel, the sequel to Colossus, explores a world newly populated by magic. Nagash Jensen takes on a job to find a missing scientist. His first job as a vampire, and last job of his career if all goes as planned.

#BluePit 📖 #P #A #POC #cyberpunk
Title page of the hardcover edition of Colossus, by Greg Leunig. A man in a fedora stands in the rain in a neon city at night.
July 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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ariwilde.bsky.social
LEGENDBORN x RAVEN BOYS

🖤 Enemies to lovers slowburn
🤯 Society where people believe in a King Arthur come back like a Messiah
🌠 they study ley lines! At school!
💯 modern Arthurian magic
🫶🏻 super diverse cast

📖 #BluePit #YA #F #Q #OV #LGBT #ND
The title Inescapable Legacy The comps and the pitch Moodboard with vibes A little snippet
July 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social
THE CURSE WORKERS X THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR
August Lloyd can timeshift to an earlier version of himself, but can only repeat the same period once. In an LA with werewolves, selkies, and more, he feels ordinary. So why was he targeted for murder? #BluePit📖 #A #F #M #PN #LGBT #OV #BluePit
A moodboard featuring images of an hourglass with green sand inside, a warm acorn growing from green leaves, a blue ocean coming up against a rocky brown coast, a dark figure wearing a homburg hat and looking out to the ocean at night, a notebook with the words “learn from the past” in it, the headlights of a car at night, the outline of a wolf howling against the full moon, a city bench with the words “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” written above it, and a light up sign reading “Los Angeles” against a blue sky. All the images are set against a green sunlit forest background. The words “August OUT OF Time” are written over the front.
July 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
lettysharpe.bsky.social
Apologies for the #bluepit spam - normal service will resume tomorrow!
July 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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samuelclark3.bsky.social
CARNIVAL ROW x Se7eN

In a post war gothic city, a detective and his partner go on the trail of a serial killer who murders black marketeers in search of illegal garlic for his Paleblood "cure". Should they stop him before he wipes out the population of ruling Palebloods? #BluePit 📖 #HorrorNoir #Q
July 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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listentomelovelett.bsky.social
The vibes Jack and Charlotte bring to the murder investigation.

#bluepit 📖 #A #R #M #HS #Q #DIS #LGBT
Screenshot from Sister Boniface Murder Mysteries. Two very attractive people staring longingly at each other over a tray of cocktails.
July 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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tjdaviesauthor.bsky.social
THE LOTTERY
Legend meets Warm Bodies (minus the zombies)
He wants to find a cure for his dying brother. She wants to find her missing father. What they find is a lie built to harvest hope... And sell it back to the highest bidder.
#BluePit 📖 #YA #NA #SF #Q #ND
July 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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victoriajayneoh.bsky.social
#BluePit #DIS #TR #LGBT #ND #YA #F
Three gay witches---a transfemme autist, a burnt out prodigy, and a runaway music witch---and a sentient plant must hide from the peering eyes of witch society for three months. Cue magical training montages, emotional exploration, and a helping of sapphic love.
A Harmony o witches collage with flowers, magic and picnic
July 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM