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Husband, father, writer, traveler, software engineer, reluctant household IT technician. #amquerying literary #scifi #WritingCommunity. Come visit Portland, OR
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Scott Writes @scottbigger.bsky.social · 4d
HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK  x THE END OF MEN
After a women’s plague, a farmer contemplates the end, when a woman who shouldn’t exist kills a thief on his farm. They flee reprisals across a frozen prairie & battle into the wilds where survivors plan to save humanity. At all costs.
#BluePit📖 #A #SF #Q
3x3 mood-board grid of images made up of a micrograph of a virus, a field of corn, a woman with a crossbow, a mason jar of whiskey, the northern lights silhouetting a pine forest, a pair of riders on horseback traversing a snow-covered plain, a closeup of a shortwave radio, children dancing under the sun, and a high-tension power-line tower, all against a backdrop of the Milkyway in the night sky.
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Farmed Octopus was going to be the name of my grunge band. This is censorship.
January 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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My crafty wife once "made" her own paper by putting otherwise perfectly-good paper in a blender with water and then rolling out and drying the pulp into new (admittedly interestingly) textured paper.

Generative AI does the same thing with the words of writers but without the interesting texture.
a red machine has the number 10 on the side of it
Alt: Postal carrier putting an envelope into a wood chipper.
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January 14, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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EASTWARD SINGS THE WIND

In a land of song-based magic, a musician forges a friendship with an enigmatic foreigner and causes him to question his secret allegiance to the tyrannical god-king who plans to invade her land.

#Bluepit 📖 #YA #F #Q #DIS
January 13, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Thread with all my #bluepit📖 posts 🤍
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A reality dating show gives Cera hope to escape soulmateless extermination in 2 yrs until another contestant is killed by the robot host, forcing her to work alongside the irritatingly attractive Ryde for her happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

#bluepit #A #SF #R #H #W #Revising #WriteHive
Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: LIGHTS, CAMBOT, BLOODBATH LAST CHANCE MATCH ARE YOU READY TO FIND THE ONE WHO'S TO DIE FOR? NOW REVISING WITH WRITEHIVE Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Pitch Welcome to the inaugural season of Last Chance Match, a government-funded dating show for the soulmateless to find their other half. Set in a tropical location, eighteen hopeful singles will compete for the chance to have a soulmate and all the benefits that come with it such as: free healthcare and education, better job opportunities and exemption from soulmateless extermination at thirty. Due to limited resources and population control, only three couples can win. Are you ready to find the one who’s to die for? 28-year-old soulmateless Cera thinks the opportunity could represent a second chance until the show takes a dark turn and a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host. The infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde swears he’ll get Cera home safely so long as they remain coupled to protect one another from elimination. But the fatal games they play for the nation’s entertainment pick the contestants off one by one, leaving Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Comps: Media: SQUID GAME, BLACK MIRROR, LOVE ISLAND: The deadly gameplay of SQUID GAME and the futuristic horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND Books: Hide - Kiersten White, The Compound - Aisling Rawle, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells The eerie prose and romance arcs of Kiersten White, the dystopian dating show of THE COMPOUND and the frightening use of bots in THE MURDERBOT DIARIES Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: Themes & Tropes - Touch her and die MMC - Soulhates to Soulmates - What if divorce was eliminated and the government told you who your soulmate was? - head rolling twists - forced proximity - found family (then break it apart) - slow burn romance - genre blend sci fi dystopian horromance - survival of the fittest government mentality
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Kavi gets BFF Ryhan to be her Practice Boyfriend so she can become the perfect girlfriend to her actual bf Aaron Mirza. It’s her last shot at love & relationships—due to a Qasam—& has to be perfect

if her family finds out, she’ll lose everything—inc dreams of studying Medicine in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#BluePit 📖 #YA #Q
Moodboard for ALL YOUR QASAMS with a quote from the novel reading ‘You are madness incarnate’ and five images: picture of a hot chocolate drink and heart-shaped cookies, a couple embracing during a boat ride, a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery smiling down at her maroon outfit, a close-up of a young man kissing the forehead of a young woman, a close-up the joined hands of a south Asian bride and groom, a young man in an aesthetic library reading a hardcover text book. The Moodboard is surrounded by arrows pointing to text that allude to the themes and tropes in the novel: “Meddling grandpa”, “perfect firsts”, “friends-to-lovers with a difference”, “only one bed”, “a decades’ old Qasam and some new ones”, “Bengali teens in STEM”.
January 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME X THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Exiled to Lucerne by a scandal, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she cannot love, and risks repeating the tragedy that once broke him.

#BluePit📖 #W #A #NA #R
January 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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The derelict enemy warship holds valuable intel, but Revera's extraction team have their own secrets, which they’d kill to protect. And fulfilling her duty may come at the cost of reigniting a cold war, and losing both her honor and humanity's future. #BluePit📖 #A #SF #Q #BluePit #amquerying #FMC
A tiny spacesuited figure drifts near an enormous structure with ominous purple light coming out of an opening. (Image by Alex Shuper via Unsplash.com)
January 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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DIE HARD x RED MARS

Sol followed a girl to Mars. But when he finds out there is a conspiracy to dethrone her father, the old billionare head of MegnaCore driving the Martian colonisation, he must solve the mystery and save the new space elevator before they touch down

#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #SF #A #W
A concept for a space elevator in close up. It looks like a large pod with large windows on a thick cable above a world far below. The whole image is red as it is a Martian space eleveator. The title: "Love in a space elevator" is in yellow with a purple shadow. The tagline: "When you're in love, it's a long way down" is along the bottom also in yellow. Image credit: VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY. Link: https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/1350056/view
January 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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A pair of interplanetary librarians become entangled in the disappearance of a powerful government official on a world ruled by oppression and censorship.

#BluePit 📖 #A #SF #Q
January 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood cowrote a novel, it would be CHEMPORTAL.

In this sci-fi romcom with real chemistry, two awkward scientists living in an alternate Toronto must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world from starvation.

#Q #A #SF #R #BluePit #BluePit📖
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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EVENT HORIZON X STAR TREK

A relationship broken. A ship in distress.
Horrors that shatters minds. A song that changes reality.

Jett Valla and Eddie Stone stand between life and death for a million souls. But can they save each other?

03 March Release!

#BluePit 📖 #A #H #SF #ND
Background is a field of stars. White text at top says: METROPOLIS DOWN. On the left is a green and red book cover showing two men and swirling black and white circles. The man on the left has dark brown hair, green eyes, and freckles, and is wearing a blue jacket over black. The man on the right has black hair, delicate features, and is wearing all black. To the side of the cover are six green rectangles that say: Space Horror M/M romance Cosmic song Autism X PTSD Ghost Ship Gore White text below says: PRE-ORDER NOW
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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DONKEY SKIN x DUNE

Sianna is set to free her city from the grip of the greedy emperor, even if she must strike a deal with Elias, the king of a rival country.

That was before she fell in love with Cyrelle, the runaway princess who fled a marriage with Elias. #BluePit 📖 #P #A #F #SF #LGBT
A moodboard with various pictures such as a snake, pictures from space, a woman wearing a spacesuit, a clock; "the color of time" is written in the moodboard.
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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PlanetSide Consulting: The Possession Of Ares

Murderbot x Firefly
#Bluepit
When terraforming stalls, you call in the consultants. The men and women of PlanetSide are guaranteed to get your planetary engineering moving again.

A snarky, swashbuckling, gunslinging western-in-space 🚀
#SF #W #A #scifi
Planetside consulting the possession of ares
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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An underground lab. A dead chemist. A strange machine he tried to destroy.

🕴️ A mobster family
🔪 Everyone hates each other
⌛ A mysterious time machine
🦠 A deadly pathogen killing everyone
🚫 A claustrophobic huis-clos setting

An unhinged short story free on Kobo Plus 🖤 #BluePit 📖 #P #A #T #SF
A moodboard featuring 7 different images: a male & a female mobsters, an hourglass, a gun, a table with various instruments on it, an underground facility, and blood.
January 13, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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A reality dating show gives Cera hope to escape soulmateless extermination in 2 yrs until another contestant is killed by the robot host, forcing her to work alongside the irritatingly attractive Ryde for her happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

#bluepit #A #SF #R #H #W #Revising #WriteHive
Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: LIGHTS, CAMBOT, BLOODBATH LAST CHANCE MATCH ARE YOU READY TO FIND THE ONE WHO'S TO DIE FOR? NOW REVISING WITH WRITEHIVE Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Pitch Welcome to the inaugural season of Last Chance Match, a government-funded dating show for the soulmateless to find their other half. Set in a tropical location, eighteen hopeful singles will compete for the chance to have a soulmate and all the benefits that come with it such as: free healthcare and education, better job opportunities and exemption from soulmateless extermination at thirty. Due to limited resources and population control, only three couples can win. Are you ready to find the one who’s to die for? 28-year-old soulmateless Cera thinks the opportunity could represent a second chance until the show takes a dark turn and a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host. The infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde swears he’ll get Cera home safely so long as they remain coupled to protect one another from elimination. But the fatal games they play for the nation’s entertainment pick the contestants off one by one, leaving Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Comps: Media: SQUID GAME, BLACK MIRROR, LOVE ISLAND: The deadly gameplay of SQUID GAME and the futuristic horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND Books: Hide - Kiersten White, The Compound - Aisling Rawle, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells The eerie prose and romance arcs of Kiersten White, the dystopian dating show of THE COMPOUND and the frightening use of bots in THE MURDERBOT DIARIES Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: Themes & Tropes - Touch her and die MMC - Soulhates to Soulmates - What if divorce was eliminated and the government told you who your soulmate was? - head rolling twists - forced proximity - found family (then break it apart) - slow burn romance - genre blend sci fi dystopian horromance - survival of the fittest government mentality
January 13, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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Dear Cera,

You've been selected for LAST CHANCE MATCH, a gov't funded dating show where SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR meets LOVE ISLAND. Find a match + you will not be exterminated as soulmateless in 2 yrs

Are you ready to find the one who's to die for?

#bluepit📖 #bluepit #A #R #SF #H #W #Revising
Picture of villa with a pool with a camera lens transparent overtop with recording indicator LIGHTS, CAMBOT, BLOODBATH ARE YOU READY TO FIND THE ONE WHO'S TO DIE FOR? LAST CHANCE MATCH ADULT SCI-FI DYSTOPIAN HORROR ROMANCE NOW REVISING WITH WRITEHIVE
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Bayle, the butler, needs to help turn his employer's antique orbital into an academy. Nora is determined to protect her cottage from a corporate land-grab. If they put their heads together, they could solve each other's problems.🥰
Unfortunately, it may also tear them apart.💔
#BluePit 📖
#A #R #SF #W
A baroque sitting room, a butler' uniform, an apple tree, a couple of space stations over a planet, a grand imperial staircase, a cozy thatched room cottage, a well-dressed prim and proper secretary
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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A reality dating show gives Cera hope to escape soulmateless extermination in 2 yrs until another contestant is killed by the robot host, forcing her to work alongside the irritatingly attractive Ryde for her happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

#bluepit📖 #bluepit #A #R #SF #H #W #Revising
January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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#Bluepit

Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space

6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy?

#Q #SF #SFF
January 13, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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G'morning #Bluepit!

For your consideration, I present to you an #Agentsguide to

CAVERN CLIPPER
(TREASURE PLANET x JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH x THE LAST EXILE)

#Bluepit 📖 #A #SF #F #W
Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds. presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper. Status: first draft being edited Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart. Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light. The Pitch: A RECENTLY DECEASED HUMAN (SAM) AND A FORMERLY CAPTIVE CERUNAN (NYXEL) NEED TO DELIVER A MESSAGE CRITICAL TO HUMANITY’S SURVIVAL, ARE THROWN TOGETHER ON A PIRATE HUNTER SHIP AND ARE BEING PURSUED BY A RELENTLESS PIRATE FLEET - BUT THE LIVING MAZE OF CAVERNS THEY MUST TRAVERSE TO GET THERE MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE PIRATES. Background, massive square cavern in background with small forest and deer in foreground. Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH X THE LAST EXILE Tropes and themes: • TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI) • AIRSHIPS • PIRATES • CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES • A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED! Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman. Excerpt: “CAPTAIN!” SAM SHOUTED AND POINTED TO THE SIGHT. HE SAW HER REACT, BUT DIDN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HER RESPONSE WOULD BE. INSTEAD HE SPUN AROUND TO TRY AND FIND NYXEL. HE SPOTTED HER ON THE MAINMAST, SCANNING THE DECK AND LOOKING FOR TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY. “NYXEL! THE CABLE!” SAM SHOUTED. HE SAW HER HEAD SNAP TOWARDS HIM AND HE POINTED TOWARDS WHERE THE LAST CABLE WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE DECK, THEN SWUNG HIS HAND AROUND TO THE SLOOP. SHE FOLLOWED HIS HAND, THEN NODDED AT HIM AND LAUNCHED BACK INTO THE AIR, GRACEFULLY CURVING TOWARDS THE SLOOP ONE FINAL TIME.
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Hard Scifi Thriller ft. Cold War-esque espionage, humanity on the brink of extinction, and a poet-turned-sniper who just wants his lovers back.

🪼Poetry meets Particle Physics
🪼Biopunk Cosmic Horror
🪼Earth as a Myth
🪼Interstellar Life

#bluepit📖 #bluepit #W #A #LGBT #ND #SF #T #ND #LGBT
ID: The Pitch, After a terrorist attack kills his lovers, the sole survivor must hunt the culprit among a crew of spies before he's pinned for reality's unbecoming. A small white hole glows at the bottom of the image. ID: Echo Judgment trope map; Black Hole Cosmology, cultporate gov., FTL Tech gone wrong, cosmic horror, LGBTQIA+ Characters, Suspects-to-lovers, post-post-post apocalypse, crew as found family, fates worse than death, biopunk, spy-fi, poly characters, "hear me out" hard scifi. Warnings include body horror, gaslighting, arachnophobia, dissociation, war crimes, implied starvation, drug-use, implied alcoholism. Artificial Intelligence Free badge. A spider web wrapped glowing orb sits on the right of the image amid a purple asteroid field. ID: Chapter I: Irukandji Syndrome Sam hadn’t killed anyone. Well. He had. Four-hundred and ninety-six, his traitorous brain reminded him. He’d looked into people’s eyes, out of sight in some roost, and snuffed out lives he’d never meet. When he could, though his victims would never know, he’d spend their final breaths with them. Watched their lips turn blue, bodies becoming one with the refuse littering Lafayette’s ruined streets. But he hadn’t killed them. Right? ID: Alien, but the Weyland-Yutani Corp is the gov. Atomic Blonde but mission failure means human extinction. Annihilation but the Shimmer is the entire sky.
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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✨CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE X INDIANA JONES✨

This New Adult Fantasy features:
💀Multiple POVs
💀African Mythology
💀Dark Magic
💀A Deadly Quest
💀Complicated Relationships

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #NA #F #OV #POC #W
Left to right. Top row: Two statues nearly kissing. Golden gates opening. Face with golden Africa painted on it. Middle row: Gold chain links. "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED." Golden skull with sun rays behind it. Bottom row: Silhouette of a girl at sunrise. Hands dusted with gold. Silhouette of a man at sundown.
January 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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#BluePit📖 #Q #A #F #R

A pitch card for QUILL 🫐🪶 #litagents, if you love cozy fantasy, tender romance, explorations of grief and loss, and unique magic systems, this is the manuscript for you!
A background of an impressionist painting, purple feathers, blackberries, and a fringed curtain. On top is a text box: QUILL Word Count | Genre | Comps Onward x The Teller of Small Fortunes 96K Adult Cozy Romantasy Pitch After Poppy the Quilldresser suffers the loss of her elderly friend, his hunky Blacksmith son moves in next door and awakens a cascade of repressed memories. In order to escape her painful flashbacks and befriend her new neighbor, Poppy must learn to accept her grief. Features Bi rep Cozy Crafts HEA Unique magic system Grief Birdwatching
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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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