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Author, spoonie, foodie, knitter… I have entered my granny era.
Was once a Londoner now an Orkney dweller.

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April @arappleby.bsky.social · Mar 28
Got assigned to make an alliance with the good guys but dating the son of the devil… at least he’s not obsessed with his ex AITA

#YA #WIP #F #R #unhingedPit
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morgan-writes.bsky.social
A new RomCom for fans of FUNNY STORY and NEXT TO YOU.

Featuring:
💙 Kira Larson as the newly single emotional wreck
💙 Xavier Herrera as the broody neighbor
💙 Lots of shenanigans as the lines between casual hookups, friends, or maybe a bit more start to blur

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #R #W
A couple embraces in the background, the girl crying into the shoulders of the boy. The title of the project is centered on the page, reading: How to Heal a Broken Heart. Underneath is the tagline: 'The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else... Right?' At the tops of the image is a list of tropes: idiots in love, friends with benefits, and instant attraction. The words coming soon are on the bottom of the image.
August 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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lottevansande.bsky.social
JUST ADD WATER // adult romcom with open door spice

🪼 small town
🪼 one camper / one bed
🪼 golden retriever x black cat
🪼 workplace romance
🪼 one-sided rivalry
🪼 forced proximity

Querying in October ❤️

#posterpitw #posterpitq (soon) #posterpitA #posterpitR #posterpit
Movie poster with an ocean theme - clownfish and the words JUST ADD WATER, swimming into inboxes late 2025 Cynical Sedna is far from amused when cave diver Kai joins her in the tank during mermaid shows but when the two embark across Australia to help another aquarium, she finds the animals she helps aren’t the only ones swimming their way into her heart
August 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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lottevansande.bsky.social
Sedna is far from amused when Kai joins her in the tank during mermaid shows. But when the two embark across Australia to help another aquarium, she finds the animals she helps aren’t the only ones swimming their way into her heart

#posterpitw #posterpitq (soon) #posterpitA #posterpitR #posterpit
Mermaid with the title JUST ADD WATER / dual pov, open door, workplace romance, forced proximity
August 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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lettysharpepitches.bsky.social
✨VEILED ENCHANTMENTS✨

All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic and status she has been denied. Sapphic subplot!

#QueerPit #YA #F
August 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

Currently Querying!

#Q #A #F #QuestPit
Background: A red forest Title Card Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now! Background: A red forest Foreground: Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-red arrow fletching, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, a red forest. Text: As she walked away, freshly divested of every life she'd ever known—Crown Daughter, ranger, loyal servant to the demesne—she realized that, where she expected to find fear and despair, she found only a rapidly strengthening resolve. She'd already lost everything. All she could do was win it back. Background: A red forest Title: Comps Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps. Text: From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS) From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others) Background: A red forest Title: Pitch Text: Niozene has never been good enough. As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule. When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter. Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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morgan-writes.bsky.social
Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're extremely attracted to each other.

It's only natural that they become friends with benefits.

All too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything.

#QuestPit #R #W #A
August 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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gabriela-stluke.bsky.social
Dear Citizen of Calasca,

Pack your bags! I am happy to extend an invitation for you to join us on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new reality holovision program where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. We promise you’ll find the one who’s to die for.

#W #R #SF #S #QuestPit
Dark ferns background An Agent's Guide To: LAST CHANCE MATCH New Adult Dystopian Romance "Find the one who's to die for." The Pitch: Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Downtrodden waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. The comps: THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver Both with a killer reality show setting to win freedom SILVER ELITE by Dani Francis Both with opposing factions and biased government HEART OF THE SUN Both with second chances and dislike to lovers arc The Tropes: Arrows pointing from a mock cover of LAST CHANCE MATCH book with ferns with the following tropes: Dystomance Touch her and die Dislike to locers Forced proximity Second chances Soulmates
August 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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lettysharpepitches.bsky.social
VEILED ENCHANTMENTS - 80K YA FANTASY
✨current agent interest

All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic she has been denied.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
n a school full of witches, Blake is the only one with no magic at all. She can assist but not participate. Observe but not engage. That is, until the Grandwitch arrives at the academy with a powerful necklace in tow. If Blake wants to escape her nameless fate and make her mark on the world, stealing it may be her only option. Tropes and Comps: Dark academia magical academy sapphic enemies to lobers grumpy x grumpy hidden family secrets witches lost gods As she pushes swathes of long black hair behind her ears and rolls up the sleeves of her turtleneck to the elbows, I wait for her charcoal eyes to finally latch onto me, like a crocodile spying its next meal across the surface of the water. But they never do. She ignores me entirely, fixing her gaze instead on the skull between my hands. I can’t extinguish the flame of indignation inside me. In a more forgiving world, we would be equals. Rivals. But as things stand, I’m no more to her than the pile of dust on Eram’s desk.
August 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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ncrystalauthor.bsky.social
My #agentsguide for BLOOD BOUND! an adult Romance Fantasy ft:

🩸 A Blood Bond
🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits

#questpit #W #A #F #RF
My #agentsguide for BLOOD BOUND! an adult Romance Fantasy ft: Pitch: Ayanna is a spirit walker - a person who can see and communicate with those who have passed on - just like her ancestors before her. And if she's not careful, she'll be killed like they were, too. When a creature from the dark tales of her ancestors mortally wounds her sister, Ayanna would do anything to save her. Even if that means entering in a desperate bargain with the spirits to bring them what they seek. Snippet: The foul stench always gave a jumbie away. It towered behind the man that sat in front of me, its bloated, yellowing body reminiscent of a corpse left in the sun for too long. Thick brown liquid oozed from its teeth, arranged in circular rows. The fat droplets lazily dripped onto the wooden floor. Tropes: Enemies x Lovers Ancient Creatures & Monsters Rich Caribbean Folklore Blood Bond Forced Proximity Slow Burn
August 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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lottevansande.bsky.social
Wave hello to your inner mermaid

Catching feelings is the last thing on the mind of Sedna, a marine biologist who also happens to be the town’s professional mermaid. Things change when Kai joins her on a road trip to the other side of Australia.

#QuestPit #W ( #Q in Oct) #A #R
August 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
arappleby.bsky.social
Got assigned to make an alliance with the good guys but dating the son of the devil… at least he’s not obsessed with his ex AITA

#YA #WIP #F #R #unhingedPit
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March 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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adropofmagick.bsky.social
CONFIDENTIAL: The following notes for Nocturne Collegiate's Alyss Veylas & Bastian Nightingale were shared with me by their therapist, and the results are...rather unhinged.

#UnhingedPit #YA #Q #F #CrossoverAppeal
Confidential Alyss Veylas Risk level: UNPRECEDENTED Named her sword "Melancholy"—how emo can you get? Hobbies include robbing graves with her ex and his new girlfriend? Deals with grief by flirting with THE Bastian Nightingale Wields the power of the Memoria Moon...Could she be...? Why is she stabbing everything?! A Memory of Moonkissed Malice Kind of like... Harry Potter (if he listened to My Chemical Romance) Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" Love Interest like Patrick from "10 Things I Hate About You" Confidential Bastian Nightingale Risk level: UNPRECEDENTED Catchphrase: "I flaunt my sins proudly"—like that's a good thing... Tongue is sharper than his fangs Won't shut up about Alyss Veylas (literally obsessed) Hobbies include using his magick kamera and smoking blood cigarillos Did he steal my gold while he was here?
March 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
arappleby.bsky.social
You vanquish demons hoping to build an alliance with the good side… the son of the devil has been watching you and brings you gifts for every test you pass

#unhingedpit #ya #romantasy #WIP
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March 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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annetibbets.bsky.social
HOW TO GET YOUR BOOK OFF LIBGEN:
libgen.mx/dmca-contact
March 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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orkneycom.bsky.social
Spring is here 🌱 💚
Sunrise view over Stromness, Orkney.
March 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Today is the first day of spring and it's good to have the sun on our balls again. 🌞
The balls of Orkney Library & Archive in the sunshine. The sky is blue.
March 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
arappleby.bsky.social
Well… waking up repeatedly in the night is getting old fast. It’s lovely to see the angel numbers but still… sleep would be nice too.
March 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
arappleby.bsky.social
Today is flying by. How does that happen so often?
January 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Our balls have started to thaw
Balls outside Orkney library. The ground around them is dusted with snow.
January 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
arappleby.bsky.social
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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theorkneynews.bsky.social
Orkney’s farmers excelled, yet again, with a series of Christmas Tractor Runs, raising money for two local charities.
Orkney's Farmers Delight the Crowds with Decorated Tractors theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/30/o...
Orkney’s Farmers Delight the Crowds with Decorated Tractors
Orkney’s farmers excelled, yet again, with a series of Christmas Tractor Runs, raising money for two local charities. Image credit Christie Grahame The main event took place on Friday 27th De…
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December 30, 2024 at 7:20 AM
arappleby.bsky.social
A little mini Christmas dinner practice run. Teamwork makes the dream work
December 9, 2024 at 4:17 PM