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“hope is not a choice or an emotion […] it’s a necessity” @_binshi_ on 🐦 | 📖 MG/YA/NA | #RevPit ‘25 winner | 🍉 | 🏳️‍🌈 | excitable | https://linktr.ee/notonlyicarus |📍gmt +1
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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · Jun 9
#RevPitClassof25 it’s!! #RevPit showcase time!!!! beyond honoured to be standing next to these INCREDIBLE stories—absolutely itching for preorder links!!!

here’s my creepy MG 🐊:
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Knowing the Twins
by Marta Pérez Fernández (@notonlyicarus.bsky.social‬‬) MG Horror
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sherlynsvault.bsky.social
an agent's guide for DON'T FORGET ME🕰️☕️🖋️

if you like:
- dark academia
- second chance
- dual POV
- dual timeline
- hispanic rep
- themes of trauma (DV)
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying #agentsguide
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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eggqueenwera.bsky.social
Bound by a soulmate bond they never wanted, a disgraced crocodile lord and a vengeful immortal princess must overcome their past to restore lost magic and expose the truth behind the king’s murder—before their people are annihilated.

💎 RevPit Winner
💎 SE Asian Rep
💎 #OwnVoices

#questpit #Q #RF #A
Moodboard featuring an upside down The Lovers tarot card, Thai building, crocodile eye, jade crystal, Thai magical girl, and demons.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
presenting the #agentsguide for my adult queer gothic horror romance wip featuring:

🥀 angel summoning cult
🥀 corruption arc(s)
🥀 extremely unreliable narrator
🥀 it’s all a metaphor for ocd

the problem with angels is, sometimes, they talk back.

✨ready for betas in December 👀
#QuestPit #W #A #H
red wallpaper background, to the right is art by @nelsnote of a man looking up holding a bloody book, the light on him is coming from an angel wing and there are eyes in the dark behind him. he has an awestruck expression. to the left is, in gothic print, adult queer gothic horror romance, underneath that says ready for betas December 31, then under that the title forbidden fruits, with a honey drip underneath. to the left a red and black-themed moodboard: around the top border and right border: someone falling through red-tinged clouds; someone in white embracing a dark shadow with a halo behind them; someone standing at the top of some stairs, surrounded by giant red bulging eyes; a faded black and white photo style picture of a dark smudge shadow and the shape of someone hooking their head over the shadow’s shoulder, crying dark tears; red-toned painting of an angel with three eyes. The left space is occupied by a text image, gothic white on red, that reads ‘the problem with angels is sometimes they talk back’ over and over again. on top of that picture, picture of a painting of an eye with a large gold star growing in it. to the right, pitch written in gothic print. the pitch: why do you need an angel? according to the codex his teacher wrote, that’s the most important question to ask when summoning them. simon knows his answer: there’s someone he worships—the teacher he built a cult around—and he won’t stop until he has him. dark red wallpaper background. top left says comps, underneath are pictures of the covers for THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE by Caitlin Starling and EVOCATION by S.T. Gibson. under that is a cream coloured drawing of a wolf. top right says elements in gothic print. elements: angel summoning as dark magic, corruption arc, epistolary dual timeline, violent longing has consequences, Victorian secret societies, he’s not dead until I say so. to the left is an angel statue. dark red wallpaper background. top left says feedback so far in gothic print. feedback is snippets from discord, saying: 1. THE KIND OF LOVE THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT might be in the apocrypha BUT STILL. and arguably, arguably, God so loving the world he gave his one and only son IS HONESTLY THE KIND OF OBSESSION WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HERE I GET YOU. 2. I feel like I was completely ignorant of what horniness even is before I met Simon and his whole deal. like, Jesus Christ, that dude. 3. I need to eat the fruits they are too tempting and beautiful. In the centre is a statue of lucifer. on the right is snippet in gothic print. the snippet: “I miss you desperately. I toy with effigies and cannot make myself reshape you in wax or clay. it’s you I want”
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
celebrating #questpit with a new #agentguide !!
Summer 1920. 8 children. 1 house. 1 games master. He’s a kid too, but this is his house, and it answers to him alone. Trapped in his games, they’ll have to get creative if they want to survive.
🐊 RevPit 25 winner
🐊 big 5 editor interest
#Q #MG #H
green tree grove in the background. At the top, Green on black, it says KNOWING THE TWINS with an agent’s guide right underneath. lower left black paint swipe with green writing says: Upper MG Horror, multiple POVs, 1920s setting. lower right black paint swipe with green writing says: #RevPit 2025 winner, big 5 editor interest. dark green background, title says THE PITCH. on the left are two green moodboards. the top one has weeping willows reaching water, a hand reaching from a tree trunk, a lake surrounded by trees, hands reaching for each other, a house surrounded by trees and a lake, someone running out of sight in a maze, a lake surrounded by trees, candlesticks on tree branches, and a pier jutting out into water. The bottom one has a hand reaching through tree bark; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; painting of crows on a branch; hands reaching through lily pads. on the left, over a white drawing of a crocodile: Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive. How do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette? light green background, title at the bottom centre says THE COMPS with tree drawings on either side. at the top centre are three pictures of three book covers. THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy has an arrow saying “internally-driven conflict & revelatory abuse”. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding has an arrow saying “adult-free environment & emergency hierarchy”. NOT QUITE A GHOST by Anne Ursu has an arrow saying “psychological stakes”. dark green background. title in the top centre is THE THEMES. underneath is a list: abandonment, sibling opposites, parentification, reclaiming girlhood, dangers of a saviour complex, wanting to be closer to the monster, how to survive abuse, the ways fear transforms you, puberty a loss of freedom. behind the list is a drawing of a weeping willow. on the right is a drawing of a Manor House. on the left are drawings of an old 1920s phone, some berries and fire.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME

Summer 1920. 8 children. 1 house. 1 games master. He’s a kid too, but this is his house, and it answers to him alone. Trapped in his games, they’ll have to get creative if they want to survive.

🌟 RevPit ‘25 winner+Big 5 editor interest
#DVPit #MG #H #ND #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
bucket list moment: being among someone’s favourite reads of the year??? 🥹 your support has meant EVERYTHING to me & my strange creepy MG story 🐊 can’t wait for your book Christie, I’m so excited to buy it for people’s birthdays all year 🫶🏼
christiecurry.bsky.social Christie Curry @christiecurry.bsky.social · Oct 8
Ooooh Lordy this book!!!! One of my favorite reads of the entire year!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
notonlyicarus.bsky.social M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · Oct 8
LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME
features:

🏚️ a child’s psychological games
🍇 scared girls who fight back
🪞 sibling opposites
🎹 what does a haunting hide?
🐊 summer is an antagonist
🧨 surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette

🌟 Big 5 editor interest
🌟 RevPit ‘25 winner
#DVPit #MG #H
October 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME
features:

🏚️ a child’s psychological games
🍇 scared girls who fight back
🪞 sibling opposites
🎹 what does a haunting hide?
🐊 summer is an antagonist
🧨 surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette

🌟 Big 5 editor interest
🌟 RevPit ‘25 winner
#DVPit #MG #H
green-themed moodboard featuring weeping willows reaching pond water, a hand reaching from a tree trunk, a lake surrounded by trees, hands reaching for each other, a house surrounded by trees and a lake, someone running out of sight in a maze, a lake surrounded by trees, candlesticks on tree branches, and a pier jutting out into lake water.
October 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive. How do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette?

#RevPit ‘25 winner + big 5 editor interest

#DVPit #MG #H #ND #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
had to join the #DVParty !! here’s a (slightly late) moodboard for my upper #MG horror ft:
🎹 haunted piano playing
☎️ cut phone cords
🐊 crocodiles that shouldn’t be there
green-themed moodboard. From left to right and up to down: a hand reaching through tree bark and foliage; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp some berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a green-lit tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse below a chandelier; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; stylised painting of many crows on a colourful branch; hands reaching through lily pads in pond water.
October 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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kjcharleswriter.com
Ooh, that's something to chew on. People are going to be actively looking for weird, gnarly, unpredictable.
emilypawley.bsky.social Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · Oct 1
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
I was lucky to get to interview her when I was 16. She was brilliant, always ready to do the work, and keen to let kids everywhere know that we can change things if we try our hardest. Thanks, Jane 💚
October 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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allymalinenko.bsky.social
Welcome to the world Broken Dolls! Thank you to every reader, teacher, librarian who took the time to check out my book and share with the kids in their life, or the kid in their heart. If you're in NYC, I'm doing an event with @claymcleod.bsky.social and you can meet the haunted dolls!
September 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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katemessner.com
It's scary-book season and there are some great new YA and MG releases out today - including @ellenoh.bsky.social's delightfully creepy THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The House Next Door
Check out The House Next Door - <p><strong>For fans of <em>Not Quite a Ghost </em>and <em>Ghost Squad,</em> acclaimed middle grade author Ellen Oh of <em>Spirit Hunters</em> and an APALA Honoree deliv...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME

🍇scared girls fight back
🪞sibling opposites
🎹what does a haunting hide?
🐊summer is an antagonist
♟️if I save him he might look at me
🧨surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette

✨RevPit ‘25 winner & big 5 editor interest✨
#preDV #MG #H
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive. How do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette?

#RevPit ‘25 winner + big 5 editor interest

#preDV #MG #H
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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applesncinnamon.bsky.social
It's almost Spooky Season! I love reading spooky books this time of year! I love everything from brutal visceral horror to cozy, Halloweentown-esque reads!
Here are a few October goals and some recs!
A graphic with an orange, textured background. In the center is a tombstone that reads: "Spooky Reads Goals" There are 8 book covers surrounding it. They are: A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock Everything She Does is Magic by Bridget Morrissey Night at the Vampire Castle by Hari Conner Hide by Kiersten White The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by EM Anderson Don't Let the Forest In by CD Drews You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White The Faeire Hounds of York by Arden Powell A graphic with an orange, textured background. In the center is a tombstone that reads: "Spooky Reads Recs" There are 8 book covers surrounding it. They are: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle Deephaven by Ethan Aldridge Silver Blood by TL Morgan Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White The Flesh Inherent by Perry Meester What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher Where Willows Weep by Luna Fiore
September 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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zillawrites.bsky.social
The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ─────
At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR pitch MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR comps and tropes MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR first page
September 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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picantepit.bsky.social
📣Atención #agents, #editors, and #smallpresses!!!!!

Would you like to participate in an event specific for Latinx/Latine Adult and NA voices on the 30th September? Let us know of your interest through the link below!

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Picante Pit Industry Pros
Thank you so much for your interest in Picante Pit! It's our hope to see Latinx/Latine voices within the adult writing community uplifted and highlighted in a day dedicated to the flavorful cultural...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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stgibson.bsky.social
if you're appalled by the presence of unsettling eroticism in your gothic media I have terrible news for your about The Definitional Gothic
September 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
welcoming my favourite season with a moodboard for my plague doctor x catholic priest horror short story that i’m expanding into a novella ✨🍁 #writingcommunity #amwriting
moodboard, from left to right and top to bottom: detail from Christ in limbo by hieronymus bosch, photo of castle-looking building in edinburgh, triumph of death with the dance of death by giacomo borlone de burchis, plague doctor from the side, a burning candle in the dark, shadow of praying hands with rosary, triumph of death in the palazzo scalfani in naples, stained glass church, detail from triumph of death by pieter bruegel the elder.
September 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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August 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
introducing my NA queer gothic horrormance wip:

🥀teaching the wrong student dark magic
🥀starting a cult to get attention from your favourite teacher
🥀angel summoning is an OCD metaphor

#PosterPit #W #NA #H #R
dark poster with art by @nelsnote of a man looking up holding a bloody book, the light on him is coming from an angel wing and there are eyes in the dark behind him. he has an awestruck expression. there is a quote at the top right “I need to eat the fruits they are too tempting and beautiful” from my favourite author. the title “forbidden fruits” is in gold cursive. underneath, NA gothic horrormance is written. alongside the drawing, on either side, the words “angel summoning as dark magic”, “corruption arc”, “violent longing has consequences”, “he’s not dead until I say so”, “Victorian secret societies”, “epistolary dual timelines”. underneath, EVOCATION x THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE. underneath the following pitch : ‪“WHY DO YOU NEED AN ANGEL? according to the codex his teacher wrote, that’s the most important question to ask when summoning them. Simon knows his answer: there’s someone he worships—the teacher he built a cult around—and he won’t stop until he has him. ‬ years later, after an accident, Peter’s teacher is graciously caring for him, but Peter wants more than their fledgling friendship. rifling through his teacher’s letters, he discovers another student’s old obsession with the man they both love, and resolves to use this knowledge to get closer to him. He won’t stop until he has him—and the angels come to call.” Underneath, “coming to beta readers this autumn”.
August 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive. How do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette?

#PosterPit #MG #H #Q
dark green background, outline of a hand from above puppeting the outline of a house on a hill surrounded by trees. on either side of the house are stars with “RevPit 2025 winner” and “Big 5 editor interest” written. under the house, “one summer eight children one puppet master” is written. underneath, in large block letters, KNOWING THE TWINS is written. under that, “Upper MG Horror”, “1920s setting” and “multiple POVs” is written. under that, LORD OF THE FLIES x THE WRONG WAY HOME x NOT QUITE A GHOST is written, against the lighter border at the bottom.
August 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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stgibson.bsky.social
Nothing but respect for Eoin Colfer writing an unapologetically environmentalist children's series in the early aughts. And the environmental themes in Artemis Fowl aren't symbolic or incidental; I was twelve being radicalized about polluted oceans and oil drilling and deforestation. King behavior.
August 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
notonlyicarus.bsky.social
LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME

🍇scared girls fight back
🪞sibling opposites
🎹what does a haunting hide?
🐊summer is an antagonist
♟️if I save him he might look at me
🧨surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette

✨RevPit ‘25 winner & big 5 editor interest✨
#QuestPit #Q #MG
green-themed moodboard. From left to right and up to down: a hand reaching through tree bark and foliage; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp some berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a green-lit tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse below a chandelier; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; stylised painting of many crows on a colourful branch; hands reaching through lily pads in pond water.
August 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM