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Rachael Gray
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Clinical psychologist and writer, living in France. Author of the Elderwick Mysteries series 📚🐓 (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Rachael Gray @rachaelgray.bsky.social · Jan 5
Ease into 2026 with the prize winning debut book in the Elderwick Mysteries series 🥂🥳

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "..clever & captivating... exceptionally masterful twist"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A must read for cosy crime fans"

🐓 geni.us/ALittleBird

#booksky #cosymystery 💙📚⚡
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My last publisher closed, but The Innocents Mysteries Series has a new home, fresh edits, and new covers. Find part one of a series of 19th century mysteries here www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBPFVDR6
Link to author page for the rest of the series
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It's exciting to be back.
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Secrets by Madalyn Morgan @Stormbooks_co
Download now. The Kindle Deal ends tonight.

#coldwar #crime #Spy #thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"A gripping historical fiction."
“A tightly woven plot where the suspense never slackens."
"A page-turning novel."

#Kindle#KindleUnlimited #Paperback
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February 1, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Welcome to Raven's Hollow!

A hidden body,
A deadly snowstorm,
A devastating secret...

geni.us/401-al-aut-am

#CozyMystery #KindleUnlimited #AudioBook
January 29, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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An agent’s guide to RIBBONS OF MIND!

A twist on Sleeping Beauty but with elemental magic, war, and far more dragons.

🐉⚔️❤️‍🔥🧠🧙🏼‍♀️

#questpit #NA #Editing #romantasy #pitch #agentsguide
January 31, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Get cosy this weekend and enjoy a trip to Elderwick, the small village with big secrets 🕵️‍♀️

Starting with the award winning 'A Little Bird Told Me' geni.us/ALittleBird 🐓

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A must for cosy crime fans"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Warm, entertaining and clever"

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The 4 books of the Elderwick Mysteries series against a blood splattered background
January 31, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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Springtime Sweetness has joined the Monster Romance and Erotica Megabundle on Itchio, hosted by @anakidd.bsky.social. I'm so excited that my panic-relase centaur smut with a cutesy cover got in with such talented writers and artists. Please support it if you can!

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January 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Updated #agentsguide following #questpit
'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪
#litagents
#amquerying
Turquoise background. Open book image in bottom left with Bookclub 82k. A beautiful young woman in a gold picture frame, spelled with age A beautiful young woman tossing long dark hair over her shoulder. Eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint on the blue grey background Four book covers. Blue Sisters, drawing of a young woman's sad face, The Push, two women facing away from each other, silhouette, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a young man's face, half of it aged, Hello Beautiful, a young woman's smiling face. A series of images: spooky trees, a dilapidated pier, a woman on a cat walk, a woman having her face injected,a pale hand reaching for a devil's hand. Turquoise background, splashes if gold, three boxes of text.
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated.

Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot
🌪️ #CliFi
🌷 #Hopepunk
#S #Q
#Questpit #booksky
January 31, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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Five more sleeps until suspense thriller If I Were You is out in the world. Preorder is at the bargain price of 99p/c so why not grab it today and it will appear on your Kindle or app on Thursday. Https://mybook.to/IfIwereyou Thanks for all your support.
January 31, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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Comic, locked-room #mystery. A juggernaut of Gen-X women—all named Jennifer—escape to NC woods to relive their youth. Someone is murdered (spoiler: it’s a Jennifer). Trapped by a flooded bridge, POV must control narrative, calm her campers, and hand police a suspect. #QuestPit #Q
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Alt: Shocked jennifer
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January 31, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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CHARMED X THE DEAD OF SUMMER

💀An Immersive Second World
💀Feminine Rage and Coming of Age
💀Ace FMC and Queer Ensemble
💀Long Lost Demigod Twins
💀The Power of Friendship ✨

#questpit #ya #f #q

Eva-core:
A mood board with a brown parchment top section bearing the text: "Reapers crept into everyone’s lore, sometimes taking the Black Plague’s macabre form and other times the shape of animals. They were male or female or neither. Death was a dog, a screaming spirit, a saint. Reapers completed a necessary task, were a necessary evil, and that’s what Eva thought this was: a necessary evil which might save both Archer and her. 'May rest come easy.'" Photographs below the excerpt include an image of black boots and the bottom of a long coat as someone walks on a rain soaked street, an old illustration of a skeleton and a fair woman to signify death and the grim reaper, a collection of human skulls, the black cat Binx from Hocus Pocus, Nancy from The Craft holding a dagger up to the sky, and a figure in a black hooded cloak silhouetted by a cathedral style window.
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Agent’s guide to THE IDUN VARIANT:
• Adult speculative medical thriller
• Single POV
• Domestic drama + ethical horror
• Near-future biotech
• 80,000 words
• Standalone with series potential
Querying now | #QuestPit
January 31, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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rammwriter.bsky.social
An agent's guide to Time's Signature.

#agentguide #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #bluepit
January 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Good evening #Writingcommunity and #Writesky! This will be my pinned post for 2026 going forward, something for me to update as the year goes by. I will update with ticks as they appear, do not worry!
It's gonna be a busy year!
May 2026 be better for all!
#NewYearsResolutions
#Amwriting
#Writersky
A 2026 Writing goals 5x5 bingo card, listing these goals other writing socials Query Cavern Clipper Submit Short Stories Read More Books Publish TLC as Periodical Write Tides Sequel(s) Edit TLC Make Writer Website Write Revenants WIP Edit Cavern Clipper Edit Tides More 50K Challenges Free Space Finish Cavern Clipper Sequel Find Agent Face Reveal figure Out Newsletter One Short Story a Month Rewrite Sundered Write Dragongirl WIP Finish Incomplete Short Stories Revisit Old Short Stories Write Worldstree WIP Somehow find and employ an artist (Impossible) Get Beta Readers.
December 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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aryazare.bsky.social
A DEVOTION SO RUINOUS is a 90K adult fantasy following Soraya, a young woman tormented by a jinn, a dictator, and her first love, as she fights for freedom

🏳️‍🌈 LGBT characters
🧠 Mental Health Rep
🌍 Middle Eastern Setting
✨ Gods Based Magic System
❤️ Lovers To Enemies
#️⃣ Own Voices

#QuestPit #Q #F #A
January 31, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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AMARI x LOKI

Kori, 12, finds herself stuck in a cryfest & painful menty b's after her mom dies

When a meteor opens a portal, doppelgängers chase her. Kori learns their fates are bound & her grief transcends the multiverse

Now, Kori must save herself — from herself!

#QuestPit #MG #S #SF #Q #POC
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F
A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. YA Gothic Fantasy 93,000 Words CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth. FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...
January 31, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY

Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife

🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

GRIEF-RAGE-POWER
Romance & Revenge
A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith
#YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q
The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
January 31, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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GODKILLER x WITCH KING

🏰 An empire built on hatred of demons
🗡️ An escaped demon assassin
🏛️ A condemned priest
❤️ And the newly born god of Love

Together, they must return compassion to the world. But Love is a dangerous force, and its god is no different.

#Questpit #A #F #DF #W #LGBT
Moodboard. Top left: piece of antler against lack background. Top middle: lit candles against black surface. Top right: bloodied white rose on white surface. Middle left: Dark picture of knight with helmet atop a horse. Middle: red moon and clouds against a dark sky. Middle right: piece of a cathedral against dark cloudy sky. Bottom left: blue glowing mushrooms against dark background. Bottom middle: pair of hands held up in prayer. Bottom right: supply of herbs and crystals in a basket for witchcraft
January 31, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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#QuestPit #W #F #R

an adult pirate x knight fantasy:

A FATE INKED IN BLOOD x A Knight's Tale

🌊immersive worldbuilding
⚔️stone cold knight FMC
🏴‍☠️bloodthirsty pirate lord MMC
⚓️deadly bargain + mineral magic
🏰high stakes political intrigue
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January 31, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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disgraced actor formerly known as America's Boyfriend VS. serial reality TV villain. three weeks, three fan conventions, and a whole lot of antics.

❤️romcom (com heavy)
📺celebrity hijinks
😈characters behaving badly
🌈mlm enemies to lovers
#questpit #W #R #LGBT
an illustration of two boys, pictured from the shoulders up. One is blonde with an annoyed expression, the other is dark haired and grinning, making a peace sign with one hand and poking the blonde's cheek with the other. below, superimposed over a smartphone, are the words THE VILLAIN EDIT (attorneytrash) At twenty-six, Max Reilly is already ex a lot of things. Ex-star of Affinity, the TV drama he led for three seasons. Ex-fiancé of Holly Aveline, his costar, who hasn’t spoken to him since the scandal that tanked his career. And ex-darling of the show’s fan base, who went from love letters to death threats faster than the speed of cable. Most of all, Max is exhausted. The last thing he wants is to be back in the public eye. But when offered a deal to get out of his contract for good, it’s hard to resist—even if the catch is a pre-season publicity tour with Affinity’s current cast. Even if that means weeks on the road with not only his former castmates, but also the show’s newest cast member: Nico Mariani, a scandal-happy reality TV transplant known for exclusively playing villains. It’s only a few weeks. A few weeks facing crowds of people who actively hate him, of being hounded by gossip columnists, of being trapped on-and-offstage with Nico, who Max can’t shake to save his life. Because as it turns out, Nico has his own deal with the producers—and soon angry fans and nosy reporters will be the least of Max’s problems. EXCERPT: Nico’s first thought on seeing Max Reilly in the flesh had been, damn, this dude’s tall. He wasn’t sure what he’d expected. Rory Harper, maybe, that archetypal boy-next-door who’d bit the dust at the end of Affinity season three. There was this one publicity still of him—white t-shirt, jeans, flannel tied around the waist, artistically placed smudges of grease—that was pinned to the vision boards of church-and-chevy girls nationwide. Oh my god, so dreamy, fuck me in a hayloft, etc. Max Reilly was a very different creature. Nico had him cataloged in one go. Indoorsy, sleepy eyes, hair unfortunately cut with the roots grown in. Skittish. Bad posture. Cargo pants (seriously). He didn’t dress like America’s Boyfriend, or anyone’s boyfriend, honestly, if we were being totally honest here, if we were being candid. He was, to put it nicely, nothing to write in your diary about. Tall, though, damn. And those freckles. But that was the devil talking.
January 31, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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An empress with disability. A Dragon hoarding romance novels. A dysfunctional family of gods. Not the start of a joke, but Sy's undoing. When her ex, the chosen one, is murdered, feisty Sy fights the gods to escape a fate worse than death: becoming their eternal slave.
#questpit #Q #F #BIPOC #LBGT
Pitch: When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled and gutsy ex-girlfriend must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods’ eternal slave and weapon against mortals. 94,000 words Crossover Fantasy Comps: T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone Damsel (2024 film) Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller Margaret Owen’s Little Thieves Moodboard: Dark fantasy Victorian vibes with purple color composition. Top row, left-to-right: a Byronic handsome man in black, a palace, a dark figure burning in hellfire, a masked female assassin of dark complexion holding a dagger, a serpentine forest trail at night marked with red flowers. At the center, next to a silver plume, is the text: “This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals.” Bottom row, left-to-right: a dark gaslit street, a gaslit city blanketed in coal smog at night, a young woman in a Victorian gown, wrought-iron gates opened to a foreboding foggy estate in the dark, a trail of red petals leading to a dark stone temple gate. Themes & Tropes: - Forbidden Love - Hot Banter - Feminine Rage - Anti-Chosen - Found Family - Second Chances - Dark Humor - Identity - Friends-to-lovers - Faustian Bargain - Choosing vs. being chosen - Dual-Timeline Representation: - LGBTQIA+ - BIPOC - Mental Health - Disability - Neurodivergence - Chronic Illness Excerpt: A gaunt mouse snatched bread crumbs from my lunch tray. I did not have the heart to give her a name, afraid I might lose her, too. The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb. The bed’s cast-iron rods dug into my ribs through the thin mattress. I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering and pulled the threadbare blanket tighter around my body, hugging my knees to my chest. It did little against the chill creeping into my bones. The raging blizzard had transformed the courtyard into a churning white sea, rattling the broken window shutters hanging askew. I was not allowed visitors or to set foot outside. The faded floral pattern of the peeling wallpaper was my only reminder of life beyond these walls. The medications I was forced to swallow left a cotton taste in my mouth and a dull ache in my skull. At least no screams echoed through the halls today.
January 31, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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🗡️Murdered in cold blood & resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes a formidable assassin. As her latest mission sparks a higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life.🪶
#questpit #P #A #SFF #F #LBGT #BIPOC
Book cover: Killer Quill by Shida Ketzer Themes & tropes: crossed out "Romance", replaced with "Found Family" Assassin FMC Color Magic Epic Fight Scenes Touch her & you'll die! Fantasy Heist Feral Feminine Rage BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ Shida Ketzer Killer Quill (Colors Eternal) 5-star rating Message on the right: "Get Killer Quill. Cheaper than coffee & lasts longer!" Book cover: A (badass-looking!) woman in a red coat holding a silver quill in one hand (black smoke swirling around it), and a bloody dagger in the other. Many daggers are strapped to her belt. The cover is black & red, with black veins. It's a gorgeous cover, trust me! Made entirely by humans. An open book symbol below which is the kindle (e-book) edition price is a bit above 3 £ Available instantly A steaming cup of coffee below which is the Paperback price 9.91 £
January 31, 2026 at 1:09 PM