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Rachael Clarke / R.A. Clarke
@raclarkewrites.bsky.social
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**Querying** Author/Illustrator 🇨🇦 #kidlit #SCBWI. 💓 Writer of adult SF/F/H #shortfiction #scifi. Race to Novus (cloakedpress). Stay-at-home mom of boys. Contestant on reality TV show. 📽 #writeorflightshow
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Rachael Clarke / R.A. Clarke @raclarkewrites.bsky.social · Apr 20
I'm still pinching myself. Guys, I've been chosen to compete on a first-ever writing-related reality TV series: the Write or Flight Show! I leave for filming in Cusco, Peru on May 4th. Wish me luck! 📽😃

www.instagram.com/reel/DIUXg_e...

#writeorflightshow #writinglife #realitytv #chanceofalifetime
An image of a Canadian woman leaning against a tree, about 40 years old, who is from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
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raclarkewrites.bsky.social
💥 HANNA X THE ISLAND 💥

A hacker twin, an unpredictable clone anomaly, and an imprisoned psychologist must face a lab full of malicious corporate oppressors, their origins, their inner demons, and maybe even each other in a deadly scramble for truth and freedom. #SFPit #A #SSF #HR #Q
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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maholland.bsky.social
As the resource-hungry Sovereignty expands unchecked, two sisters find themselves at odds: one a Sovereign pilot, the other a rebel mechanic. Their paths collide over besieged Iskar, where magically engineered weapons are unleashed by both sides—at devastating cost.

#SFpit #YA #NA #WIP #SFan
A banner mood board for the novel The Engines That Divide, with various elements suggesting a militaristic dieselpunk setting.
October 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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khetie.bsky.social
#SFpit #A #Q #SFan

The CEO of the biggest magical corporation is a murderer, and Ashy is out to prove it before she's fired – or worse, framed.

⭐️ If Sanderson designed technology
📖 Corporate satire
🧬 Software devs are wizards
🩸No magic, use wit

THE MINISTRY OF TIME x DUNE x THE GOD AND THE GUMIHO
October 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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rammwriter.bsky.social
An agent's guide to TIME'S SIGNATURE :

"A Mexican standoff between Slow Horses, Life on Mars and The Ipcress File."

"A perfect storm of espionage and time travel."

"The best novel of 2035!"

#agentguide #A #T #Q #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers
October 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#SFPit #A #Dys #WIP
Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says: "A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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nattykbrown.bsky.social
What if The Hills Have Eyes were a romance?

🎃Enemies-to-lovers
🎃Creepy subterranean tunnels
🎃Near-future dystopia
🎃Science fiction + romance + horror

#SFPit #A #Cli #Dys #SF #Q #agentsguide
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
raclarkewrites.bsky.social
💥 HANNA X THE ISLAND 💥

A hacker twin, an unpredictable clone anomaly, and an imprisoned psychologist must face a lab full of malicious corporate oppressors, their origins, their inner demons, and maybe even each other in a deadly scramble for truth and freedom. #SFPit #A #SSF #HR #Q
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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alissalindemann.bsky.social
Arcane X The Darkness Outside Us X Shadow & Bone

The heir to a starless planet plots against the pyromancy regime with help from a girl with celestial magic and a lovable alchemist.

🔥 #OwnVoices Chronic Illness Caused by Magic
✨ Friends to Lovers to 🙊

#SFPit #YA #F #Dys #Q
A collage of images: someone holding a torch in front of a brick wall, a NASA image of space featuring many stars, a burst of flame, two figures cloaked in red robes, a girl with brown hair holding fire in her hands, Jayce and Viktor from the TV Show Arcane, an image of a solar eclipse outline. A quote reads: “Here they were again, always together, always touching, but at no point had either of them put name to what this was. In Calx’ mind, everything was impermanent, transmutable into something else. He waited for the day when this became something he no longer recognized. He did reverse alchemy. He tried to hold onto the gold as tightly as possible before it slipped away.”
October 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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rachel-j-writes.bsky.social
INCEPTION x KATABASIS

An anxious student’s only chance to save her friends means delving into their nightmares - literally.

🏛️ Dark academia
✨ Autistic-coded FMC
🌙 Dangerous secrets
🌑 Missing father
🖤 All the gothic vibes

#NA #Q #SFan #SFPit
Dark academia mood board with images of Cambridge, books, classical art, a weeping student and hands reaching for each other.
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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saraduran.bsky.social
ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

A prisoner. A scientist.

Two exiles condemned to a lunar hellscape that holds back the darkness between stars.

In isolation, they find solace in each other— until they awaken something that should have stayed sleeping.

#SFPit #H #R #LGBT #WIP
Two astronauts float above the surface of a moon, looking up at a massive black and red eye-shaped swirl in the stars. Text at the bottom reads: “If Jack knew the deal Elias had made with the Devil, would he still insist they play house in Hell?”
October 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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anjahudson.bsky.social
THE HUNGER GAMES x LES MISÉRABLES

In a city divided between a sky-high utopia and a poisoned slum, a prince and a thief try to build a bridge. But the king is secretly burning it all down, and he'll sacrifice his own son to light the match.

#SFPit #YA #Q #F #Dys #SFan #SP
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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beemorris.bsky.social
#SFpit #AgentsGuide #NA #Q #HR #F
✨ ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE ✨

👻 ghosts, ghosts & more ghosts
🧽 cleaning haunted houses
🌊 spooky vibes by the sea
🔪 stabby serial killer
🧠 neurodivergent rep
🏳️‍🌈 queer & trans rep
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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crystalbauthor.bsky.social
Have you ever wondered why we stopped going to the moon? This is the story of what turned man away from the bright light of what was to be our future.

#WIP #A #SFan #T #SFPit
Left side top to bottom A picture of the moon half shaded with 2 quotes: “I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any life. I am it.” - Michael Collins “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” - President Nixon. A foggy grave yard. An old picture of the Nasa communications room. Right side top to bottom: A picture of an astronaut on the moon and the title Bones of Moon Dust. A picture from hunger games of a pile of skeletons. A Dust Storm.
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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jocelynegregory.bsky.social
Murderbot + Fallout = THE AFTER WAR

Android Felic wakes up after 260 years and discovers The War is over, the human woman he falls for talks like a chat bot, his home corporation is in ruins, and an evil AI is planning to destroy the world. Again.

#SFPit #SciFiPit #A #Q #PA #CB #Romance
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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@scifipit.bsky.social

Hunted for his meteorite wand, twelve-year-old Catch must master spell-hacked spycraft to stop the Acolytes from seizing the Minerals of Power.

Secret Room
Magic-Enhanced Tech
Spycraft
Mystery
Found Family
Origin Story
Hope

#SFPit #F #MG #AmQuerying #AmWriting #SCBWI
October 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #SFPit #A #Q #R #SO #OV #LGBT
Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human) PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let themcome here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?” COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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meljrey.bsky.social
JASAD HEIR/ONE DARK WINDOW
There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret?
#SFPit #A #Q #F
A moodboard with 9 images. Top row: a blood moon; a woman head bowed in thought, silhouette framed in fire glow; someone presents a simple black mask, there are bright orange lights behind. Middle row is the same sunrise from the first image. Bottom row: Amita Suman as Inej Ghafa in Shadow and Bone, bathed in a blue green light, looking over her shoulder for danger, hair awry; middle image is of a sinister dark green forest; final image is Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark, half his face cast in shadow.
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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haleypatricia.bsky.social
After dying in a shed fire, Alexandra and her friends are sent back in time to solve their own murders and compete for resurrection. Whoever fixes the most of their past mistakes comes back to life, and the losers are erased from existence forever. #YA #SFPit #WIP 🥀🪦🔥
Red rose, shed on fire, red rose with red liquid, red solo cup, hand coming out of grave, red grave, skull with red roses, til death with red roses, red clock.
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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crystalbauthor.bsky.social
Here is my list for #SFPit

1. Bones of Moon Dust #WIP #A #SFan
2. Decimated #WIP #A #SFan #PA
3. Different Lives Different Souls: Beginnings #WIP #NA #SFan
Left side top to bottom A picture of the moon half shaded with 2 quotes: “I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any life. I am it.” - Michael Collins “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” - President Nixon. A foggy grave yard. An old picture of the Nasa communications room. Right side top to bottom: A picture of an astronaut on the moon and the title Bones of Moon Dust. A picture from hunger games of a pile of skeletons. A Dust Storm. Black background. Top left picture Is an alien ship over land with a space portal showing in the light. Top right is a picture of a jail fence. Then a quote: “This is War. You're fighting in your own backyard. You're fighting for your family. For them, this is just some place. For us, this is our home. It's up to all of us to fight for it.” - Red Dawn (2012) Middle left pic is a campfire. Top right is a tent, campers, and a campfire. Then the title in rusted font, Decimated. “Then a quote: The biggest risk, is to take no risks.” - John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began Bottom left pic is an explosion. Bottom left is a dilapidated building behind a fence. “Then a quote: We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.” - John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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trippweavpoet.bsky.social
My 4th poetry book, "Slow Now with Clear Skies," published by MoonPath Press June 2024!
Cover art and design for poetry book, "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Bright oranges, pinks & reds, golden hues, stacked city on the left margin, bottom has a small house with phone hanging down, top has a clock timed at 11. Right side has line structures near top. Art by Clare Johnson, design by Tonya Namura. Available online!
March 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
raclarkewrites.bsky.social
HANNA X SPIDERHEAD
Locked away in a clandestine lab, a daring hacker twin, a clone anomaly carrying secrets, and a desperate robotics expert must face malicious oppressors, their origins, their own inner demons & maybe even each other in an explosive bid for truth and freedom. #DVPit #Dis #A #H #SF
A mood board image showing a blad woman, clones, a moody grey green lab-like atmosphere, doctors, DNA strands, a bloody faced woman, and a man with a gun.
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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dvpit.bsky.social
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dvpit.bsky.social #DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · Oct 8
#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co
#DVPit Rules -#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors -Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET -Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project) -Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio. -Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag) -A like from an agent = a query request -A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent -A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions -Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches -Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
raclarkewrites.bsky.social
I am officially starting my novel querying journey today! I am excited, nervous, terrified...all the things. But most of all, I am so insanely pumped for folks to read my psychological sci-fi horror book "Becoming Grace!"😄🤞#amquerying #scifihorror #writingcommunity
a woman in a green jacket is smiling and says here we goooo
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October 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
raclarkewrites.bsky.social
I'm still pinching myself. Guys, I've been chosen to compete on a first-ever writing-related reality TV series: the Write or Flight Show! I leave for filming in Cusco, Peru on May 4th. Wish me luck! 📽😃

www.instagram.com/reel/DIUXg_e...

#writeorflightshow #writinglife #realitytv #chanceofalifetime
An image of a Canadian woman leaning against a tree, about 40 years old, who is from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
April 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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geoff-palmer.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM