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Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

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📚 Dark contemporary fantasy author
😈 HELLBOUND (Alcove Press ‘26)
🌲PNW Creature
🎮 Will not shut up about video games
She/her | Rep: Alex Land at MWLA

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Stephanie Binx @stephwrites.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s official!

@alcovepress.bsky.social is bringing HELLBOUND to a bookstore near you in Fall 2026!

A publisher’s marketplace deal announces HELLBOUND has been acquired by Alcove Press for publication in Fall 2026. The background depicts a man and a woman facing away from each other.

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

HI hello, me again. I launched a newsletter for Hellbound, my debut dark contemporary fantasy.

Get pre-order news, giveaway alerts, character art and more delivered right to your inbox. You might also learn more about this mysterious, janky webforum.

sign up -> stephaniebinx.com/#welcometohell

November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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Debby ✨ has a BOOK DEAL✨ 🌊👻🖤

@aventurinedebby.bsky.social

THE OVAL PORTRAIT x SJTR.

When young brides go missing, psychometric witch Opal Scrywell agrees to team up with the boy who broke her heart—except the trail is leading to the man Opal has agreed to marry, an obsessive artist with ghosts of his own.

#questpit #ya #f #ag

November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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Debby ✨ has a BOOK DEAL✨ 🌊👻🖤

@aventurinedebby.bsky.social

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON (Winter 2027)

When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb

#questpit #ya #p #f

November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Chezza

@chezza.bsky.social

IMMORTAL x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS
A reincarnated immortal and an emotionally damaged cowherd must escape the heavenly forces intent on tearing them apart.

✨A love destined to fail
✨A jealous Celestial Empress
✨An underworld filled with both torture and hope

#questpit #AG #RF

Photo of a man and woman in hanfu holding a red string. A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT. Quote: “I meant it when I said I feel a connection between us, Shizhi. Like we’re meant to be together, but the feeling has an edge of uncertainty. I can’t explain it.”

November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨

@katylapierre.bsky.social

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BRING HER BACK

When Parker's family ink magic predicts her best friend's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong spell will damn both their souls to an inky hell for all eternity 💀.

#questpit #ya #h #ag

Photo collage showing: bonfire on a beach, a person inking a tattoo on a forearm, dark trees in front of the moon, a couple holding hands, ink blossoming out of a book, two friends covering each other's eyes, and ink hand holding a burned bundle of sticks, a charred dandelion, Wiccan symbols in the sand, a person's hand reaching out from a dark ocean, a person with a cloud of ink coming from their mouth.

November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM

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Bookishbabeiswriting

@bookbabewriting.bsky.social

🌲Spooky mountainside town
📷 missing hikers
🌲 aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide
📷 suspicious locals
🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep

#Questpit #A #AG #PR #H #W

Water dripping off leaf, old motel sign, mountainside river, girl in leather jacket, wild howling, girl on computer, hand and wild print, foggy forest, missing posters, full moon

November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack

@cailinwrites.bsky.social

Guide to THE MAGIC OF NOW
The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister is reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it

Feat:
🐐women-led cult
🐐explorations of grief
🐐sister relationship
🐐neuroscience
🐐offbeat humor
🐐surrealism x light sci fi
#Questpit #AG #A #S

The Magic of Now

The story of a 62-year-old farmer,
the goat her sister may be reincarnated into,
and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Guide to
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.
The Pitch

The Comps
cult comps
Teal
Swan
Mother
God
Elizabeth Holmes
quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
surrealism that highlights life’s bittersweet beauty
speculative exploration of insular communities
themes of memory and identity
Eternal Sunshine
Catherine House
Aimee Bender
How to Age Disgracefully

A Snippet
The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips.

The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat.

Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it.

“Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response.

Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months.

The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage.

Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister.

It’s Tina.

November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Bookishbabeiswriting

@bookbabewriting.bsky.social

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods town and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend.
#Questpit #YA #AG #H #R #Ownvoice

old church, girl running in cowboy boots, old bible, girl with lighter under tongue, old cassette, girl licking red off hands, fair at night, old field, old church and pews

November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

SPN x NOSFERATU

A corpse mover embarks on a cross-country trek to deliver a deceased serial killer to a private collector. But as strange visions & uncanny encounters drive Rio toward madness, she finds that her cargo is neither dead nor alive—and it needs her help.

#QuestPit #AG #WIP #A #H #PNR

A photo collage depicts fanged creatures, a convenience store, and spooky things in a misty forest. A wordcount tracker is superimposed over it, showing about 12k words written, and 3 hot dogs eaten.

November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM

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Rosie is ✨MANIFESTING✨

@rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

NFL quarterback Kent is at the top of his game; artist Zoey is at the bottom of hers.

Opposites in more ways than one.

A charity auction brings them together for the first time in 15 years.

But they have a history, and it’s complicated.

✨Maggie Award Winner
✨On Sub Soon

#QuestPit #AG #R

A football player in uniform holding a football. A woman painting an easel. A background of two people kissing in the sunset.

He falls first. Opposites attract. Secret infatuation. Slow burn. NFL golden boy Kent Whitfield. Jilted artist Zoey Wylde. A Bid on Love, a novel by Rosie J. Potter. Will love bloom like Monet’s water lilies? Or will there be a flag on the play?

November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

I completely forgot about Bsky in my editing fugue. But edits are done and I have a cover-looking thing in my inbox and it’s QUESTPIT TIIIIME

November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

I’m obsessed with #PokemonZA

A pokemon trainer in black overalls hangs out with their weird bird

October 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

Pokemon is coming in a matter of hours and I still don’t know if I’m picking Chikorita or Totodile.

October 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

I’m officially an author on deadline. See you on the other side.

A hand makes a peace sign in front of two monitors and a keyboard.

October 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

So that was a fuckin lie.

Related, this game is so good.

Stephanie Binx @stephwrites.bsky.social · Oct 1

What do you mean I can’t play Silent Hill f in Windows 10? What do you MEAN???

October 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

What do you mean I can’t play Silent Hill f in Windows 10? What do you MEAN???

October 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

Yeah Portland is suuuuuch a warzone right now. Look at all this violence.

A placid morning in downtown Portland park blocks, where no violence whatsoever is occuring

September 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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Chris Rifer

@chrisrifer.bsky.social

Things Portland is currently ravaged by:

Pizza
Temperate, sunny weather
Coffee
Middling soccer
Sunsets
Farmer’s markets
Apples
Hiking trails
Thai food
Fresh hops
Harvest-ready vineyards

Things Portland is not ravaged by:

War

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

September 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack

@cailinwrites.bsky.social

AIMEE BENDER X ETERNAL SUNSHINE

Based on beta reader reviews, you'll come to
THE MAGIC OF NOW for cults & Goat Tension™️ but stay for the existentialism & sobbing!

#A #Spec about a 62-year-old farmer, the 🐐 her sister is reincarnated into & the new age cult that could be behind it
#UnhingedPit #AG

The Magic of Now
Beta Reader Comments for
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, MWLA
I sat down after work today intending to read another fifty pages and ended up reading the whole ding-dang book.
Holy shit this is such a good twist
was not ready for this
what i love most about this book is how it challenges your perceptions about existentialism and what it means to be human. Who knew hearing a goat's perception could make you think so deeply?
i would die for these nuns
this feels like her azula moment
ok yas girlboss except
goat tension

September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM

Stephanie Binx

@stephwrites.bsky.social

I’m just a girl standing in a Powell’s looking at the shelf where her debut dark fantasy is going to live.

A shelf filled with books in a bookstore

September 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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Victoria Strauss

@victoriastrauss.com

Scam alert: a scammer is soliciting authors in the name of the Crime Writers Association, offering "trend analysis" and other bogus services. I suspect this is another of the Nigerian PR scams that are so prevalent right now thecwa.co.uk/news/beware-...