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💫writer of strange magic | 28 | either daydreaming or annoying my cats🌷🇯🇲🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈| No one is free until we're all free
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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · Sep 27
NEWS!!!
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NEWS!!!
September 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
lydia97.bsky.social
Cobbled my final thoughts together for the excellent The River and The Star by @gromerolacruz.bsky.social !! I'm so lucky to have gotten an arc so I can yap about how much I love Gabby's debut series ❤️ You can check out my full review on my substack
July 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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lilywzy.bsky.social
As WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN begins hitting agent inboxes, here's an updated #agentsguide, ft.
🪭An eldritch craving belonging
🏹A failing chosen one
🪭A pampered heir losing it all
🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion

❤️ this post or DM if interested!
#agentguide #F #A #writingcommunity
July 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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d-and-a-authors.bsky.social
While Ashlea and I are working on our major rewrite of our story, I'd like to present our updated #AgentGuide

This is our adult/crossover romantic fantasy with a true slow burn romance, and series potential!

#WritingCommunity 📖🦋
An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantic fantasy. Pitch: Delphine’s always wished for a life as romantic and adventurous as her stories. With any brief escape punished by her employer, she’s desperate to flee, if not for Otto; her best friend, and the only family she’s known. So when he is sent with pirates after a mythical map, she refuses to be left behind. At sea, a budding romance with the Captain reveals he’s tailed by a dark past, one he’d sabotage the mission to escape. But the pirates claimed Otto’s life if anything goes wrong, and Delphine will do anything—even use the Captain’s past against him—to get the map and save Otto. Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - Love interest with a scarring secret - High stakes survival and adventure - Looming villain - Pirates - Sea myths & magical creatures Howl's Moving Castle - Impact of societal expectations - Power of romantic and self-love - Steampunk elements - Chosen family - Taking responsibility Summers spent in a bordello ought to have prepared Delphine better. Though Hunter and his girls had always ensured Delphine did not see anything vulgar or unsightly, it was difficult to be ignorant when sitting around a dinner table amongst chattering girls. They told tales of their clients, giggling or rolling their eyes at wild requests from sailors. Hunter would shush them and send a pointed look in her direction, only goading them to spin even more dramatic and rather gruesome tales. Delphine would blush, but she took the joy in their teasing gratefully; summers spent in Hunter's Bordello were only full of fond memories. But they should have prepared her better for the view she had walked in on.
July 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
lydia97.bsky.social
As promised, my review for TSATV in anticipation of it's sequel coming out in October this year!

So grateful to be on this street team and able to yap about one of my fave duologies of all time ✨@gromerolacruz.bsky.social is an incredible author and I can't wait for the sequel to storm the world <3
July 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
lydia97.bsky.social
Did you know The River and The Star is out on Oct 7th? The first book is one of my all time faves and i am so lucky to have gotten an arc for the sequel! If you're looking for a pride month read then I'd 100% recommend The Sun and The Void, and then preordering the River and The Star 🤭🤭🌟
June 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
lydia97.bsky.social
simple as: if you don't write your own words, from brain to page, you're not a writer. If you're using AI you don't understand what it means to be a writer. A hill I'll die on.
bookspotlight.bsky.social Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · May 22
So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’.

I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.

Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙
May 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
Not sure what the kid-lit community did to deserve @heykellyjensen.bsky.social but I’m glad she’s here. Just wow, what a resource. 👇🏽
May 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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zillawrites.bsky.social
Just a small snippet from the scene I'm working on.

I'm working to hit the sensory details and timing just right... Horror has to be so intentional with every line, and I'm having a blast with the challenge!

🩸📚 #Snippet #writingcommunity #amquerying (soon!)
photo of a hand holding a knife with a piece of red meat stabbed on it. white text overlaid on top.
May 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
lydia97.bsky.social
SO HYPED FOR KAY!!!!! <3
kswrites.bsky.social kay @kswrites.bsky.social · May 8
so... 🌟i'm agented!!🌟

@alexbrownwrites.bsky.social found my weird, cosy/creepy genre-blending story & saw the heart in not just this one book, but the rest of my stories as well🥹 i am so excited to work with her, and i can't wait to see what comes next! 💕
A blurry image of an urban landscape at night, with the words "KAY CHOO" written on the top, followed by a round image of the back view of a woman wearing a black jacket looking out into a lake, and the words "is now represented by ALEX BROWN, Mad Woman Literary Agency" below the picture. On the top half of the image, text on a background of an urban nightscape that reads "For The Days We Never Had", followed by text against a translucent reddish background that reads, "After Kai Le and Ai Yu encounter a mysterious entity at a bus-stand, they find themselves getting what they wanted - and more. Thrown into the world of urban legends, they have to grapple with the monsters they have unleashed, both figurative and real. Are their dreams worth losing themselves over?"; "Adult Urban Fantasy - 94k words". On the second half of the image is a 7-Eleven at dusk, with a row of pictures over it: the book cover for Velvet was the Night; the book cover for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue; and the anime poster for Durarara!
May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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melanielocke.bsky.social
#Agents I started querying my gothic Sapphic fantasy!

Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it.
April 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Looking for more Black horror for your post-Sinners reading? Boom. reactormag.com/the-rise-of-...
Urban Legends and Wicked Spells: The Rise of Black YA Horror - Reactor
There’s just something special about Black horror. Sometimes that means horror with Black people in it and sometimes it means where Blackness is as central to the story as the horror is. But we know i...
reactormag.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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theaquinnwrites.bsky.social
Here's my agent's guide to THIS FAITH YOU BLEED FOR, an adult gothic fan(g)tasy, complete at 104k. #amquerying
April 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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tomusher.bsky.social
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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tzeyikoay.bsky.social
A CURSE CARVED IN INK by Tzeyi Koay, coming 2027 with @simonschusteruk and @atriabooksaus @simonschusterau ✨️
March 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
lydia97.bsky.social
I edited around 10,000 words of my novel yesterday and then made two (2) sheperd's pie afterwards, counting that as a solid win ☺️
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
lydia97.bsky.social
run don't walk ppl!!! <3
jalwrites.bsky.social James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.social · Mar 18
So today was the official release day for my first traditionally published book.

Out in Greenwood is an LGBTQ+ teen novel with humour, mixed with the emotions of realising you are gay at 15 but having to hide those feelings.

Please retweet to help me get the word out.
srlpublishing.bsky.social SRL Publishing @srlpublishing.bsky.social · Mar 18
Happy publication day to James A Lyons!

Tim thought coming out would be easy, yet nothing has changed the horror of facing homophobia

When things seem to be on track, a mysterious graffiti artist starts to target him.

OUT IN GREENWOOD is out NOW!
#Booksky
March 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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jalwrites.bsky.social
So today was the official release day for my first traditionally published book.

Out in Greenwood is an LGBTQ+ teen novel with humour, mixed with the emotions of realising you are gay at 15 but having to hide those feelings.

Please retweet to help me get the word out.
srlpublishing.bsky.social SRL Publishing @srlpublishing.bsky.social · Mar 18
Happy publication day to James A Lyons!

Tim thought coming out would be easy, yet nothing has changed the horror of facing homophobia

When things seem to be on track, a mysterious graffiti artist starts to target him.

OUT IN GREENWOOD is out NOW!
#Booksky
March 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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kswrites.bsky.social
my pitch card for my #amquerying adult urban fantasy, FOR THE DAYS WE NEVER HAD, ft. a discontented college kid and a hopeless romantic grappling with vampires, lost gods, gangs, and shady detectives

leave a ❤️/reply if interested!

#writingcommunity
On the top half of the image, text on a background of an urban nightscape that reads "For The Days We Never Had", followed by text against a translucent reddish background that reads, "After Kai Le and Ai Yu encounter a mysterious entity at a bus-stand, they find themselves getting what they wanted - and more. Thrown into the world of urban legends, they have to grapple with the monsters they have unleashed, both figurative and real. Are their dreams worth losing themselves over?"; "Adult Urban Fantasy - 94k words". On the second half of the image is a 7-Eleven at dusk, with a row of pictures over it: the book cover for Velvet was the Night; the book cover for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue; and the anime poster for Durarara!
March 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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authorajparker.bsky.social
first draft vs. last draft:

“I paid a dollar for a vial of love off a woman on seventh street.”

“Finn paid a pound for a vial of love off a woman on Seventh Street.”
Image: journal entry Image: published print literary magazine
March 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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authorkateduarte.bsky.social
GODKILLER x THE CURSE OF SAINTS
When Merit's lover chooses her best friend as his next sacrifice, Merit vows to murder him. But to slay a god, she must first find his weakness—and defeat his bodyguard, the wielder of death.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #F #A
An agent's guide to ALL GODS MUST DIE by Kate Duarte Adult Romantic Fantasy with Horror elements comps: heartless hunter, to cage a god, the starving saints, the knight and the moth, versailles When Merit's lover chooses her best friend as his next sacrifice, ​Merit vows to murder him. But to slay a god, she must first find his ​weakness—and defeat his loyal bodyguard, the wielder of death. → Lovers to Enemies → Female Rage → Slow Burn → Magic Corrupts You → Fake Courtship → Friends to Lovers → Banter → Religious Corruption She never noticed the freckles speckling his hooked nose before. The flush is gone from his face, turning him less boyish, more lethal. “If I glue myself to the executioner’s shadow, who’ll have the guts to approach me?” “I thought the point was that you didn’t wish to dance.” “I don’t wish to dance with anyone who’d want to court me.” Merit taps his shoulder. “I believe I’m safe from that with you.” “Hm.” He turns her under the arch of his arm, hands twining again as she returns to his chest. “Either way, thank you.” “Likewise.” She smiles brightly, this time in earnest. Out of the corner of her eye, she notices Kalla close to the refreshments’ table, entangled with Talia and another woman. Good for her. Kalla’s gaze catches hers, an eyebrow quirked as if to say you witty bastard. Merit answers with a grin. Watch me, sister. I’ll go to the brim of the world to save you.
March 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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natalielouise83.bsky.social
Orkney, 1909: Twenty-five years ago, men made history. Now, one woman will change it…

🔥 Feminine rage
🪢 Twisty plot
🌊 Atmospheric setting
🧜‍♀️ Fading folklore
❤️‍🔥 Vengeance and redemption
💫 Chronic illness rep (own voices)

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #A #H
March 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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jalwrites.bsky.social
Here We Go Again x It's a Sin

Whilst honouring his uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man hears the truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit
On the left, the title THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN is written, with the text angled vertically. To the right is a 9 square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Top middle is an image of an LGBTQ+ rights protest in black and white. Bottom middle is a picture of a piece of colourful modern art. Middle left is a road map with a magnifying glass and set of car keys resting on top. Middle right is an image of a young man with medium length hair walking through a city at night. In the centre is a pile of newspaper cuttings with the words 'are the dragnificent seven back?" written over the top in a fake headline style. On the right hand side and acting as a background image, is a drag queen waiting in the wings. If you use a screen reader or rely on alt text, I always aim to make picture posts as inclusive as possible. If I can improve in any way to make my posts more accessible to you, please do reach out and I will take your feedback on board for future posts.
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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zillawrites.bsky.social
Squid Gamex1984

To find her bestie, Tate lies her way onto the Trinity Trials—televised games in which viewers decide all: magic players are 💉 with, the hunter, &each twist. She must survive not only the games+the hunter but other desperate players who play by their own rules.

#popuppita #luckypit
[photo grid] 7 pictures: woman looking into a broken mirror, only the bottom portion of her face is visible; a camera pointing at a blurred man on a red couch; a note with red handwriting: STAYING ISN’T WORTH THE PRICE <3 XO; two off-white surveillance cameras; a man adjusting a navy suit; two young kids watching a parody news channel; a liminal, dilapidated hallways with red coloring
March 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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emmacarelli.bsky.social
When exorcising ghosts, it helps to have a medium with a cool head and sympathetic heart.

Instead, we get unlikable, snarky Constance.

In a blend of horror/comedy that gets darker as it goes, traveling ghost hunters get in too deep when the dead won’t RIP.

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #a #uf #h #spec
Cute sparkly purple background with adorable cartoon ghosts. Over it, it says “testimonials for CENTRAL AVALON” and, in speech bubbles, “SCOOBY DOO ASS FOUND FAMILY VIBES HELL YEAH -reader,” “this is a bit dark for my tastes. -literary agent,” “I didn’t entirely hate the protagonist by the end. -reader,” and “a subjective industry -literary agent”
March 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM