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Mariann Evans
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Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 writer of YA mysteries that champion fat, queer and neurodivergent girlies. 🩷💜💙 Undiagnosed but pretty sure. Probably either baking, playing video games, or screaming into the void.

Represented by Hannah Andrade of Bradford Literary.
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Mariann Evans @mevanswrites.bsky.social · Jan 13
LIFE IS STRANGE x sapphic CEMETERY BOYS

When Addie discovers the ghost of Erin, a murdered girl tethered to a local lighthouse, the two must solve a decades old mystery before time runs out and Erin disappears… forever.

#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖
A nine-block moodboard with overall dark, gritty vibes. I wanted her to kiss me on a white background, a girl sitting and staring out an open window at night, a tape player with modern day headphones attached, a hand reaching out of a dark ocean, "this isn't fucking over" against a fiery background, a lighthouse in the middle of a dark ocean, waves at night, a ghost standing in the forest, "I thought we'd have more time" in red font against a white background
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lowkey never thought I'd reach this point on a draft again but A GHOST OF A CHANCE is complete!

Now just a few random scenes to add in, a quick edit pass, and then it's away!
August 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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It’s me and my murder mystery inspired earrings against the world 🔪
A woman with large purple glasses and a black top sits on a sofa. She is covered by a blanket. She is wearing a pair of knife-shaped earrings.
August 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Six days left until our August Competition ends--the theme is "Resistance."

The challenge is to write a short story in 1000 words or under. It's friendly--the winner gets bragging rights and chooses the next theme!

If you're up for it, come join us below!

#writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky
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Writer's Block is an on-topic writing server that focuses on fiction, including fanfiction, short stories, novels, scripts, and screenplays. | 849 members
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August 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Since Fight For Your Write begins soon #writingcommunity (check our pinned post for more information), we thought we’d finally introduce ourselves!

We are Writer’s Block: a fiction-focused community on Discord that’s been active since 2016.

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Join the Writer's Block Discord Server!
Check out the Writer's Block community on Discord - hang out with 744 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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May 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Hi #amwriting and #writingcommunity! It is almost time for FIGHT FOR YOUR WRITE (#FFYW) to begin—who’s participating? This is our first year on Bluesky and we’re so looking forward to it! This event is ideal for anyone seeking a #nanowrimo replacement.

More details below! 👇
A poster that reads: FIGHT FOR YOUR WRITE JUNE 1ST - JUNE 30TH WHAT IS #FFYW? Fight For Your Write is a month-long customizable writing challenge which takes place during June. The goal? Whatever you'd like! 25K words of your novel, thirty pages of script, five short stories, or just to write everyday—however you prefer to track your progress! HOW DO I PARTICIPATE? All you have to do is write! You can keep us updated on your progress using the #FFYW tag, follow @writersblockds for tips, questions, check-ins, and fun events, or join our Discord server at: discord.gg/writersblock. There are two small images on the poster - in the top-left corner above the heading is a spread of lined pages, and at the bottom of the poster is the Writer's Block icon; an open book with plane white pages, a dark blue hardcover, a golden-yellow built-in bookmark, and all of it is leaking blue ink.
May 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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📢 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢

my next YA mystery, THEY WANT US DEAD, releases on april 28, 2026!

if this sounds like something you'd enjoy, stay tuned, because more news is coming very soon! 💛🤍💜🖤
May 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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With the close of #nanowrimo, this is a shameless plug: Writer's Block hosts two similar events to NaNo. Fight For Your Write is a CYOG writing challenge in June and September. Hook to Book is a three month challenge in Mar, Apr, & May to write 75k. You are welcome to join us! #writingcommunity
Join the Writer's Block Discord Server!
Check out the Writer's Block community on Discord - hang out with 622 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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#amQuerying: Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder

🧣 Cozy mystery
👯‍♀️ Female main characters
🧠 Witty banter
🥲 Grief & friendship
🕵️‍♂️ Amateur sleuths
March 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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It's Valentine's Day and we love you all very much, so here, have a submission call! Submissions are open for Issue Ten: Rooted now until April 14th, and we're taking short stories, flash fiction, visual art, poetry, and cover art for middle grade and young adult readers. Where do your roots lie? 🤎
February 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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It’s Valentine’s Day 🥰

Give someone you love a book 🥰 and then leave them alone so that they can read it 🥰
February 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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✨ THE GODS MUST BURN ✨ is on your bookshelf SPRING 2026

Over the moon to announce that my Princess Mononoke-inspired, enemies to lovers eco-fantasy will be published with @solarisbooks.bsky.social next year! Dreams really do come true!
A Publisher’s Marketplace deal memo: “T.R. Moore's The Gods Must Burn, a debut fantasy about a disgraced war hero sent to conquer a foreign island, only to unwillingly gain godhood when he saves a forest spirit—divinity that comes with a mandate to protect the island’s fierce, beautiful god from his own people, before they burn the island down, to Amy Borsuk at Solaris, for publication in early 2026, by Allegra Martschenko at Ladderbird Literary Agency (world english)”
February 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I am so thrilled to release the cover of my debut YA horror novel, HOLLOW, out with Peachtree Teen on September 30, 2025!!!
A photo of trees with the cover of HOLLOW under "official cover reveal" Don't Let the Forest In meets The Whispering Dark in a queer YA cult horror following a recently diagnosed autistic teen who becomes enmeshed in a community of outcasts harboring sinister secrets. After a meltdown in her school cafeteria prompts an unwanted autism diagnosis, Cassie Davis moves back to her hometown in upstate New York, where her mom hopes the familiarity will allow Cassie to feel normal again. Cassie's never truly felt normal anywhere, but she does crave the ease she used to have with her old friends. Problem is that her friends aren't so eager to welcome her back into the fold. They extend an olive branch by inviting her on their backpacking trip to Hollow Ridge, in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks. But when a fight breaks out their first night, Cassie wakes to a barren campsite-her friends all gone. With severe weather approaching and nearing sensory overload, Cassie is saved by a boy named Kaleb, who whisks her away to a compound of artists and outcasts he calls the Roost. As Kaleb tends to her injuries, Cassie begins to feel-for the first time in her life-that she can truly be herself. But as the days pass, strange happenings around the Roost make Cassie question her instincts. Noises in the trees grow louder, begging the question: Are the dangers in the forest, on the trail, or in the Roost itself? In a world where autistic characters rarely get to be the hero of their own stories, Cassie Davis's one-step-back, two-steps-forward journey to unmasking makes Hollow as much a love letter to neurodiversity as it is a haunting tale you'll want to read with the lights on.
February 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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You know when you can just feel yourself becoming ill? 🥲 Please no, I don't have time for this... 🙃
February 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Coffee shop writing is fast becoming my favourite!
A laptop open to a Google doc on a coffee shop table. A hot chocolate in a blue and pink ombré mug sits beside it, full of cream and two toasted marshmallows
January 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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An agent's guide to THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN:
My HERE WE GO AGAIN x IT'S A SIN LGBTQ+ contemporary.

I now #amquerying so if you've liked a pitch for this project, it will be in your inbox. If you'd like to see it too, let me know!
Some full and partials are currently out there! 💃

#writingcommunity
An image of a drag queen in a dressing room looking at a ringlight forms the background. The text above reads: An agent's guide to THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN. 70,000 words. LGBTQ+ adult contemporary. James A Lyons - @jalwrites. An image of a drag queen in a dressing room looking at a ringlight forms the background. The text on the left reads Pitch and Moodboard: While honouring his estranged uncle's dying wish to track down an iconic 1980's drag collective, a young gay man learns dark secrets about his adoptive mother that could alter his future. When she demands he stops his search for The Dragnificent Seven, he must choose—honour the legacy and activism of his uncle or return to the woman who raised him. On the right is a 9 square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Top middle is an image of Soho, London at night. 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. An image of a drag queen in a dressing room looking at a ringlight forms the background. Across the centre are six comp titles. The first three are the books Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun, Boy Like Me by Simon James Green and The Boy Made the Difference by Matt Bishop. The last three are the films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, It's a Sin and Queer as folk. Under the pictures are bullet points with the themes Forced proximity, road trip comedy, found family, rivals to lovers, LGBTQ+ history and toxic family relations. An image of a drag queen in a dressing room looking at a ringlight forms the background. In the centre is a cut out of a sample from the manuscript which reads: From a doorway behind, a queen strides into view. Their tall wig reaches high. One arm is stretched against the frame, the other on their hip. The dress is mermaid green with dashes of gold like individual lightning bolts. Everything in my peripheral vision is sucked away. In their mouth, a long cigarette holder sits empty. Their dark eyeshadow making their bright green eyes pop from their skull. The queen strides elegantly across the reception in her ruby red, knee length platforms, before sitting on the desk. They click their tongue twice as they look us up and down.. “Hi boys.” Their voice is sugary sweet, but as rich as cocoa. “Princess Thigh-Ana, absolute delight for you to meet me.” “Hey,” says Jack. He beams, nudging me in the ribs with a bony elbow. “Hi, hey.” I can only stutter, my left leg shaking. This is real. The Dragnificent Seven are real and one-sixth of the remaining members are sat in front of me
January 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Imposter syndrome, pain flares, and work have all been conspiring against me lately, but progress on edits has finally resumed.
January 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Bonus day off today because there were no trains running after Storm Éowyn but the words did not happen.

How I wish my ADHD didn't run on "oh the first draft is done, the task is finished" logic because... the task is definitely not finished 🥲
January 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky. Here is a great list of #litmags to follow!

PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#writer #writingcommunity

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January 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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I just want to write my silly little stories in peace but I keep getting waylaid by stupid things like “having to work for a living” and “contributing to society” and “being a functional human being”
January 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Would you honour someone’s dying wish if it'd tear apart your family?

When Harri starts to reunite a late uncle's iconic drag troupe, he learns the truth about his adoptive mother. Now he must decide if six drag queens are worth more than the woman who first gave him a home.

#P2Ppit #A #UW #Q #C
A nine square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Central is the title The Dragnificent Seven. Top middle is an image of Soho, London at night. Middle right is a yellow VW Beetle car. Bottom middle is a young man walking away along a path with the sun illuminating him. Middle left is a coastal seafront.
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Thanks everyone for the BluePit support! I haven't had much of a chance yet to peruse everyone else's pitches since work has been mad, but it was amazing to see all the incredible stories on display!
January 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Crew Dynamics of The Expanse X deep PoV of the Luminous Dead X Stargate Vibes

Theme: What are we when we have no where left to call home?

Motifs: Loss, grief, coping

🚀 Retro Sci-fi Vibes
🌌 Galactic Empire
👑 Runaway Noble deurantagoinist 🛸 Alien Secrets
❤️ Found Family

#BluePit📖 #A #W #LGBT #SF
Nightblossom Blurb. The Ascendance has conquered the galaxy and eradicated all alien life, leaving humanity alone for the first time since history began. Maya is a xeno-archeologist on the dying planet Arthura far from civilization. The orange sky and failing biosphere, along with a life marred by tragedy has made her wish to be among the stars, somewhere she could call home and maybe have children one day. However, she can’t leave until she finds a uncensored record of history that will buy her way off the planet and maybe convince enough people that the Royals deserved to be ones forgotten. Bethari, a Royal, is looking for a weapon. A weapon to take the ship that has been chasing her for five years. The hunt takes her all over the Vela Cluster and ends with her on Arthura, where she has no alternative but to ask for help. Once they meet, Maya’s stable life crumbles in days. Freshly branded a terrorist, she is thrust into the galaxy unsure of what she should do or where she should go. Only one thing is certain, going back isn’t an option. When the ancient people of Earth looked to the stars they saw gods. When Maya looked to the stars all she saw was death. New gods born from quixotic ideals and hatred have taken up residence in the black, filling it with fusion bombs, biological weapons and nightmares born of flesh. The Royal’s war had scorched all the wonder from that vault of jewels. Still they shimmered. Still they touched some primordial part of her mind that responded to beauty. Even upon the dying world Arthura, midst the ruins of that long ago conflict, she found comfort in their vast expanse. It was dangerous. Naïve. But she couldn’t stop herself from wishing to be among them. The once Orvanan city was inhabited by nothing more than a few xeno-archeologists now, or more aptly put: battlefield scavengers. Sure the Royals dressed it up in the finery of a scientific discipline filled with insights from a thousand years of tradition and process, but it was as hollow as the bombed-out shells of homes, buildings of learning and inter-species cooperation. In the desecrated and forgotten remains of their fabled civilization, the founders of a hundred star-system alliance, Maya watched her wife take a drink of water from her backpack. She wished there was more to do than think. Thinking made her poetic.
January 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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NO REQUIEM FOR THE LIGHT
~ dark fantasy tragedy ~

#BluePit #W #A #F #D #LGBT 📖
[text] No Requiem for the Light A DARK FANTASY TRAGEDY - lesbian protagonist - uncontrolled magic - a complete loss of identity - inner violence - revenge - multiple perspectives - societal expectations - young and older protagonists [images] The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang [desc] orange background white border [text] Kaida Kaelis was destined for greatness, to one day save her village. When they are attacked my mysterious men of metal, she is ready. So, why was she the one to destroy it? Queen Eleanora of Eris was destined to bear heirs for the King and to be obedient wife. She’s content with this life. So, why is she having visions of another life? In their parallel stories, they each must discover who they truly are and what destiny has in store for them. [image] Illustration by me: In an arch is Eleanora in a green gown, red jewelry and a crown. She holds her stomach with one hand and a rose in the other. She looks stern yet sad. In front is Kaida in armor and a cloak, holding a sword with a determined expression. Under Kaida's sword is a second illustration of her in the middle of a fight with an unseen attacker. In the background is lightning. [desc] orange background white border [text] CHAPTER ONE Although created differently from the common man, Vaelorians were still mortal and what mortals could not understand they hated and what they feared they shunned, and I was both. I didn’t even have the privilege of being born before I was branded a curse. A storm had come and wiped away twelve lives and any possibility of normalcy for me. Five families left Anon that first week and four more in the following month. They would rather risk the wilderness than remain in the same village as me. I know it wasn’t right to complain when so many had lost much more than me, so I didn’t. Not to just anyone at least. [desc] orange background white border
January 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Embers of a Lost Flame. 📖

“There are no new beginnings, just new directions.”

An exiled nobleman returns home from service only to fall into the machinations of his maternal figures, conspiracy, and a labor dispute that threatens to devour the city he grew up in.

#BluePit #wip #A #F
A collection of pictures describing the main cast of Embers of a Lost Flame. From top left to bottom right: Rowan, main character and POV. Teek, childhood friend of Rowan and member of their throuple. Reyna, comrade in the Inquistion turned member of their throuple. Valla, Rowan’s biological mother and future duchess of Karro. Veona, Rowan’s aunt who raised him and semi legitimate mob boss. Makida aka “Granny”, Duchess of Karro, Rowan’s grandma, basically a chill Tywin Lannister with a sense of humor.
January 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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SQUID GAMES X MONSTERS WE MAKE📖

🖥️Tech Meets Supernatural

🦾Mismatched Team

🔥Touch Them and You Die

🌪️Meme-Worthy Chaos

🎥The Found Footage Aesthetic

😵‍💫“I’m Fine” (But They’re Not)

💤Books That Will Ruin Your Sleep
#BluePitHype #BluePit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #W #H #T #LGBT #A
Glitch! Moodboard; tech and monster images WIP art of Golden drawn by a friend
January 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM