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Meg
@megsteadman.bsky.social
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Writer, artist, ukulele enthusiast. Dev edits: entering the vortex.
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
Admitting to using gen AI for your art or books or music, etc, is like the biggest self-own imaginable. Literally out of the gate you’re telling people you can’t, you care not and won’t even try but want credit anyways. So, like, is it a participation trophy you’re after? I doughnut get it.
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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cengaldre.com
anyone wanna help me clear my shipping/order backlog by ordering something?

like i will ship your item asap too, just not having a good time financially

and physically

and emotionally

www.galdrecraft.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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milosometimes.bsky.social
Due to the continued silencing of LGTBQ+ (and specifically trans) authors by the publishing industry, I'm looking to self publishing more and more.
I know that there are good presses, and good people in trad pub, but I'm growing more uneasy.

Just in case: any tips for self publishing?
January 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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ossuary.bsky.social
Dr. William Savage was resurrected by his wife just in time to be held under suspicion of treason after cruising a sketchy foreigner. Now he's been drafted to use his talent for heresy to harness the power of a God in the fragile body of an unlocky nobleman.

#deathcleric #f #a #lgbt #q #bluepit
January 13, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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karagoldwrites.bsky.social
A universe where ships only live as long as their human heart

An ex-pirate who steals a ship to keep his crew together, pressed into service by invaders who don't see ship's hearts as human

The reluctant soldier he falls in love with, as they work together to survive

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #SF
karagoldwrites.bsky.social karagoldwrites.bsky.social @karagoldwrites.bsky.social · 4d
WINTER'S ORBIT x SOME DESPERATE GLORY x FIREFLY

-Psychic bonds with spaceships
-Space pirate and a reluctant soldier
-Close knit crew trying to stay together at any cost
-Found family
-Enemies to lovers
-Slow burn
-Space Opera
-Queer normative world
-“We can’t lose us”

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #SF
karagoldwrites.bsky.social karagoldwrites.bsky.social @karagoldwrites.bsky.social · 4d
WINTER'S ORBITxSOME DESPERATE GLORY
A ship only lives as long as its heart

When a crisis leaves ex-pirate Sol without a ship, he steals and bonds with one. This puts him on a collision course with Ambrose, a reluctant soldier who discovers the theft as his home is invaded
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #SF
January 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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stedeco.re
#BluePit 📖: Season of the Witch

ARTEMIS FOWL x THE BOURNE IDENTITY: A magic student's attempted assassination sent her into witness protection. The agent who saved her took a terrible curse. Now someone's assassinating more agents, & they need to figure out who.

#YA #W #P #M #T #DIS #POC #ND #LGBT
Moodboard for Season of the Witch. Clockwise from top: A same-y looking suburb; a fencer in full gear leaping with an epee; a pentacle drawn in chalk with a tea light in the middle; a wand resting on vials of colorful liquid with two leather-bound books behind it; a scientist in full PPE carefully using a pipette in a small vial of blue liquid; a triskele carved into a stone Center: A masked face behind broken glass, with a bloodied eye.
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
megsteadman.bsky.social
I don't have another pitch prepared, so reupping this one for the evening crowd!

#BluePit📖 #A #F #W
megsteadman.bsky.social Meg @megsteadman.bsky.social · 4d
If something big is stolen in Antolliers, that was Foxtail. Nev wants him dead, and not just because she's a warden. But if she is to save her city from the plague he says is coming, allying with him is her only hope - before he figures out who she really is.
#BluePit📖 #A #F #W
A mood board of nine images. Top row: Guestave Doré's etching of "Over London by Rail"; a photo of two hands wearing rings clutching a leather bound book; a photo of a column supporting a cathedral vault lit from below in muted orange and blue. Middle row: Garrett from "Thief" crouched in ruins, framed by a circular safe door; cropped digital painting of Billie Lurk from Dishonored by Cedric Peyravernay; burning wreckage in front of stone gates. Bottom row: "Big City Train Station," an oil painting of a train yard from abovein orange tones by Hans Baluschek; a hand in a leather glove grasping a wooden railing in the rain; black and white photo of foxtails on a wood surface.
January 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY

When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.

#BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS
Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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progemer432.bsky.social
1847: A surveyor feels a pulse in the soil. It isn't a tremor. It’s a breath.
2025: A detective enters a restaurant where the menu is a lie and the basement is a throat.
It isn’t a god. It’s an ancient hunger, and it just received #TheLastOrder.
#BluePit #BluePitA #H #CH #L #Horror
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM is what you’d get if Ali Hazelwood turned National Treasure 2 into a romance novel. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #R

⚔️Smithsonian x Library of Congress feud
📜Secret alliance
💃Rivals-to-lovers
📚Hunt for Jefferson’s lost library
🧠Mental health rep
Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books. Text: A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM: A Contemporary Romance Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books. Text: After losing out on her dream job at the Library of Congress, Kathleen “Sour Grapes” Gallagher is done chasing things. Not jobs, not boyfriends, not Beyoncé tickets. If it’s meant to be, it’ll happen, and if not, she never wanted it anyway. So when a disgraced movie mogul taps her for a vanity project tracking down missing volumes from the Library of Congress’s original collection, Kathleen only accepts the gig to appease her well-meaning mentor. Never mind his hints that this might be her chance to escape academic exile. Across the National Mall at the Library of Congress’s archival arch-rival, Smithsonian historian Dr. Grant Ordoñez vows to get revenge on the Hollywood mogul who stalled his sister’s promising acting career by finding the missing books first. As the eldest son of a mixed-status immigrant family, Grant is used to playing catch-up, so he’s confident he can outpace an entitled librarian who doesn’t even have a PhD and seems immune to the concept of actual work. But Grant finds out that Kathleen isn’t some lazy nepo baby when his interference forces Kathleen to actually do her job—and to confront what she gave up by leaving her dream behind. As they chase leads around the Beltway and back, their frigid rivalry turns into a love affair steamier than a summer in the nation’s capital. But with their feuding institutions breathing down their necks, Grant and Kathleen learn that finding what you’re looking for isn’t the same thing as getting to keep it. Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books. Text: I’m halfway across the room when Grant speaks again. “Hey Kathleen, how tall are you?” “Five foot six,” I say automatically. Then I stop and turn around. “Wait, why? How tall are you?” “Five-eleven,” he says. “If you were actually five-eleven, you’d round up to six feet,” I challenge. “That’s small-minded of you.” He lowers his laptop screen. There’s a smile playing around his mouth. “I prefer to play the long game and round down to five-ten. Make the other five-elevens sweat a little.” I laugh. “That’s surprisingly diabolical. And you still haven’t answered my question.” Grant looks pointedly at the books in my arms and thumbs something into his phone. “I just want to be sure I’m giving the U.S. Marshals an accurate description of the midnight book thief.” “Oh my god, it’s not even six o’clock in the evening.” He peers around the desk hutch at me. “‘But wearing high heels, so… five foot nine?”
January 13, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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frankiesutton.bsky.social
Victoria views Nathaniel as the way out of being an heir of society—and vice versa. However, Nathaniel’s arranged marriage would protect the town from a baron’s threat of war if Victoria doesn’t choose him.
#A #HS #W #BluePit
pale border left and right side: flowers top row: woman on floor with candles/books, a masquerade, woman in bed alone middle: hand caressing a woman's exposed back, man/woman kissing in only candlelight, man embracing/kissing woman outside bottom: close up of man putting necklace on woman, another costume party, woman writing on desk by candlelight
January 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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catherinewinters.com
When 16-year-old Nia picks the wrong pocket, she unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her friends are on the run with a living doll, pursued by gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #BluePit #YA #A #F #LGBT #W
A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing: 1. Always have an escape plan. 2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud. 3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark. 4. Never get involved with golems. The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right: A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs. B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow. C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards. D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn. E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment. F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game. G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks. H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.
January 13, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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tehartmonkee.bsky.social
THE VVITCH X DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS

Ciara and Gerrant are two sides of the same coin. Witch and Rider. Except, Ciara has no magic, and the Riders have been dissolved. Will they be enough to halt a deadly curse, a scheming Bishop, and keep the king himself from going mad?
#bluepit📖 #LGBT #A #F #W
January 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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"I paint flowers so they will not die." —Frida Kahlo

So opens PAINTED FLOWERS NEVER DIE, wherein a widow, sucked into a painting, searches for her late husband's portrait. Traveling through famous paintings, she finds new love—and herself—along the way.

#bluepit 📖 #Q #SP #WF #A
A mood board collage that includes (clockwise from top left): a photo of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Georges' Seurat's painting "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," Kylie Minogue in mourning at Michael Hutchence's funeral, a still frame from the film Ámelie, Bisa Butler's textile piece "The Safety Patrol," Frida Kahlo's painting "Self-Portrait with Monkey," and Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks."
January 13, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ALL THAT CONSUMES US in a south-american inspired world:

"A grieving sister’s scavenger hunt through her dead sibling’s journals uncovers a secret society, a vanished prodigy, and ghosts that won’t let her graduate alive."

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #OV #LGBT #F #H
January 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Gay crimes!
Trans wrongs!
Enemies to enemies!

Back again with my #OV #LGBT #HU #YA(?) #W IP for #BluePit 📖! A romp through a colorful, heightened #HS torical playground.

Can one defeat the patriarchs with the very weapons of masculinity? Well, one angry trans boy can sure try stabbing them a lot.
"L'entrée du prince de Ligne à Londres 1660", painted by François Duchatel in 1660, depicting the arrival of a great procession of ambassadors walking in fine clothes and riding in coaches, watched by a huge crowd of Londoners. Text over it reads: THE DUEL IN 1660: a queer swashbuckling farce. "The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, may 24 1660" by Lieve Verschuier, showing many ships with the Flag of Holland/States Flag. The grand ship bearing Charles II has his royal arms carven on the stern. Text over it reads: England, 1660: the restoration of the monarchy. In Charles II's triumphant wake, a Royalist family quietly returns, but not with their single daughter—instead, with their single son. 15-year-old Alexander—vain, hot-tempered, and warm of heart—expects to strut in as an aristocratic peacock. But when his ambitions are frustrated, he's sucked instead into intrigues of questionable honour and forced to reckon with what it really means to be a man. "Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu, painted around 1665. A Dutch young man, beautiful and androgynous with long blond hair, wears black doublet, breeches, and stockings and a luxurious white shirt and falling band. His expression is tranquil and far-off as he writes a letter on a table draped with an imported carpet. Text over it reads: Pray enjoy this tempest in a teapot, crafted of the purest tropes and set in the Age of the Rakehells, featuring: glamour and grime of 17th century Westminster. goofy action punctuated by primal screams of rage. problematic characters for miles. petticoat breeches parkour. queer mentorship. romantic friendship (or maybe 'tis just gay, oops). boys who cry. a lot. and somehow, everything turning out all right in the end. Detail of "View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam", painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen in 1673, showing a peaceful sky over a ship with two gulls. Text over it reads: Alexander stood at the edge of the deck, one hand clutching the railing, the other fastened tight on the brim of his hat as he leaned out over the waves. He was not much afraid of falling in, though he had never swum anything choppier than a pond. Rather, he was afraid that his Acadian fur hat, the most expensive for sale in the shop on the Kalverstraat, might fly off his small crown and flap with its feathers all the way to water—which, like the sky, could not quite decide between blue and grey. There was no one to see him aside from the sailors and now Klein, climbing up from below. Still, he had meticulously dressed that morning, down to every last ribbon. He’d had a very specific vision of himself when the suit was being ordered: the azure he’d picked was not just brighter than everything around him on the fluyt but even the true sky itself, and he sparkled with silver, when the wind tugged his doublet and loose breeches, and gold, when the little light managed to catch on his sword’s hilt. It was imperative, one must understand, that he look extremely stylish doing battle, should pirates suddenly appear to satisfy his fantasies. And indeed, at fifteen, he thought himself quite the dashing young man—not the boy he was.
January 13, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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In the afterlife of Chinese myth, a dead war general will face an eternity of torture—unless she can fool an immortal court into believing that she and her murderer are lovers.

💕Fake dating your own killer
👑Deadly court politics
🌟Pretty boy x ruthless girl

#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #R #W #OV #POC
Black and gold mood board. Pictures of Chinese calligraphy, a pagoda-style building, jewelry, and dragon statues. Center reads “This Twisted Eternity” and the quote reads “I’m nobody’s pawn, least of all his.”
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social
JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS

When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.

#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #A #F
moody, foggy mountain backdrop with a person in martial arts type clothing visible on a stone platform. text reads CONDUCT OF MAGES, adult fantasy, complete at 100K, now represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary THE PITCH on a moody green mountain backdrop: When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence. THE VIBES on a moody green mountain backdrop: energy magic heists & scheming found family research subplot sloooow burn female role models SE Asian setting THE COMPS on a moody green mountain backdrop: Blood Over Bright Haven Jade City Heartless Hunter
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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What if the oceanic adventure of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN was set on the 17th-century Indian Ocean and included the Islamic mythological monsters of Maiya Ibrahim's SPICE ROAD? #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F #POC #OV

🕌muslim mc's
⚔️pirate x princess
🔥enemies to lovers
🎇interest from 2 big 5 editors
An Agents' Guide to ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES by Ayishah Hasni Pitch: In a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of SINBAD THE SAILOR, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a journey across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiance from a mysteriously moving island. Comp titles: THE STARDUST THIEF, SPICE ROAD, FABLE and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Snippet of first page
January 13, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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dionbeary.bsky.social
On her wedding day, an entitled heiress locks her fiancé in the groom’s suite as protests erupt outside her estate over a Black employee’s suspicious death. Uncovering his secrets means awakening ghosts from her family's racist past who want their reparations in blood.

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #POC #T
January 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Let's try this #bluepit📖 thing then.

Dannyboy's spent his life harvesting the souls of the dead. He's never been haunted by one before.

His first ghost? The lover he condemned to death, determined to prove his innocence and show Dannyboy he's been trusting the wrong people.

#A #Q #LGBT #F #H
Title page mockup for a book: The Brotherhood of Vultures - JL George The Story: The Brotherhood of Vultures is Dannyboy Bevan’s whole world. When his comrade and sometime lover, CJ, is caught spilling Brotherhood secrets to the police, Dannyboy willingly helps carry out the sentence – death. The Brotherhood hides in the shadows of the everyday world and harvests the souls of the dead for profit, a precarious existence that has forged a tight-knit makeshift family. Its leader, Marcie, took Dannyboy in when he’d lost everything else and he’s been her faithful right hand ever since. His loyalty is tested when CJ’s angry ghost claws its way back from the grave. CJ claims the Brotherhood is rotten at the core and will haunt Dannyboy until he does something about it. At first, Dannyboy is reluctant to snoop, but Marcie’s behaviour grows increasingly shady. He starts to suspect that she’s harbouring dark secrets and that CJ may have been innocent after all. He has two options, neither of them good: cling to his old loyalties and fail his lover once again – or uncover the truth, even if it means burning down the only family he has. Book quote: Death is the only constant in a Vulture’s life, and they learn early on to treat it lightly; but tonight, they stand solemn in its presence, for one of their own has brought it down on his head. Adult dark fantasy 97,000 words Found family (derogatory) Misplaced loyalties Harvesting the souls of the dead for profit Ghosts (wet) Here for a bad time *nu-metal playing* Don’t worry, the cat is fine
January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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jlgeorge.bsky.social
Nurse Margaret retreated to an island isolation hospital to escape the memory of her lost love -- and the eerie stories she used to tell.

But now Margaret's patients are dying, and she's hearing an all too familiar voice in the lapping of the waves.

#A #H #LGBT #OS #BluePit📖
Mock-up title page for a book: Salt Angels The story: Wales, 1897. Life as a nurse at Flat Holm Isolation Hospital at the end of the nineteenth century is exhausting, lonely, and involves a veritable ocean of unpleasant bodily fluids. It's a job few women would choose, but Margaret Gwilym isn't most women. Margaret left her home in the Rhondda under a cloud after an entanglement with Dwynwen Pritchard, the wife of a local preacher. Amid the suffocating fervour of a religious revival, Dwynwen's secretive belief in otherworldly creatures she called ‘angels' offered Margaret a glimpse of new possibilities. They fell into a passionate romantic relationship. But strange events swirled around Dwynwen like flies around a corpse, and Margaret began to doubt her own sanity. When Dwynwen's husband discovered their affair, Margaret was heartbroken. The isolated island of Flat Holm seemed like somewhere she might finally be able to heal. For a time, she's content, if not happy. But when her patients begin seeing eerie figures, Margaret recognises the visions they describe from Dwynwen's stories. Then they begin to transform into the strange creatures themselves, vanishing into the sea and leaving Margaret alone. When a letter from the mainland informs her that Dwynwen is missing, Margaret starts to have visions of her own where the ‘angels' call to her in Dwynwen's voice. As she fights to hold onto her humanity, a new possibility takes shape before her - that of undergoing a transformation of her own and joining her lover under the waves. Isolated and helpless in the empty hospital, she starts to wonder: could giving in really be worse than this? Adult horror ~30,000 words Screwed-up sapphics Island isolation Welsh history Body horror This religious revival is not as much fun as it looked Hot girls siarad Cymraeg Book quote: Her eyes were owlishly big and solemn, and for a split second, they found Margaret’s. They seemed to look into her, to penetrate to the hidden, wormy parts of her inmost being.
January 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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amandaburghart.bsky.social
A teacher trades post-divorce shame for a trip to Ireland. Cue family reconnection, trad music sessions & a fling w a barman. When tragedy calls her back to Philly, she can maintain blood ties or break free from lifelong expectations. THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO x THE WEDDING PEOPLE #BluePit 📖 #Q #A#WF
January 13, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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saranadosfiction.com
ARGENTUM IN AQUA - saranadosfiction.com/2023/12/11/a...
🦇 queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy webserial
🗡 Culturally Significant Knives
❄️ fog-shrouded snowbound streets
🌈 foul-mouthed transmasc assassin x bisexual vampire gentleman magician
🩸 blood, swearing, and tea

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #P #LGBT #Dis #TR
Argentum in Aqua: An Introduction
ARGENTUM IN AQUA (Blood on the Snow, Silver in the Ashes, Fire in the Sky) All student magician Jonathan Fest wants is to keep his head down and finish out his first year of university without fail…
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January 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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🇲🇹 WIND WAKER x THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER

A mortal woman returns from a dangerous quest—alone. To tell her island community what happened, she must eulogize her starborn wife, whose sacrifice saved their world, and navigate the churning waters of grief.

Out this summer!

#BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT #TR #W
A trope map graphic featuring the THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STARS AND SALT cover with arrows around it. From top left and moving clockwise, the arrows read: * Non-MC chosen one * Sapphic love and tragedy * Finding your purpose * Sailing across a drowned world * People descended from the stars * Malta-inspired setting An advertisement flier featuring various sea-based images. "The Distance Between Stars and Salt | A Sapphic Maltese-Inspired Seafaring Fantasy Novel" is listed at the top, followed by two circular images. The first depicts an aurora borealis in the night sky, while the second depicts an overhead view of ocean waves. Beside this is an image of luzzu boats in a harbor. Below this is an image of rocky outcrops within an ocean. Beside this is "There was and there was not, in the oldness of time, a star-born woman and her hapless wife who ventured on an arduous quest...". Below this is an overhead view of a rocky shore. Beside this is a four-panel color palette.
January 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM