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Ashlee is querying ✨Where Thieves Bleed✨
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Ashlee is querying ✨Where Thieves Bleed✨ @ashleesteps.bsky.social · Jun 23
An #agentsguide for a world simliar to Peaky Blinders and enemies to lovers like Heartless Hunters...

🪙Where Thieves Bleed 🪙

🖤Dark Academia
⚔️Enemies to Lovers
✨Unreliable Magic
💀Ancient Secrets

#litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #yafantasy #queryingwriters
ashleesteps.bsky.social
An #agentsguide for a world simliar to Peaky Blinders and enemies to lovers like Heartless Hunters...

🪙Where Thieves Bleed 🪙

🖤Dark Academia
⚔️Enemies to Lovers
✨Unreliable Magic
💀Ancient Secrets

#litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #yafantasy #queryingwriters
June 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
#CRPLunaMoths #CampRevPit
May 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
I can make the time to write, but getting into the groove is my biggest struggle.

It's me. Hi. I'm the problem it's me 😂😭

#CampRevPit #CRPLunaMoths
arumikai.bsky.social Arumi is a potato @arumikai.bsky.social · Apr 29
Happy 2nd week of #CampRevPit, #CRPLunaMoths!

Today's question: What's your biggest obstacle to getting time to write? Is it the allure of doomscrolling, your adorable kid/cat/partner, a busy job? Or your own brain? (hi, it me)
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April 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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#CampRevPit #CRPLunaMoths
April 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I've got lots of tropes, but I'll narrow it down to the most important ;)

- Enemies to Lovers
- Unreliable Magic
- Dark Academia
- Slow Burn
- Unlikely Allies
- Ancient Secrets
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · Apr 27
Happy #TropeSunday!
Today we ask: What tropes are in your story (on purpose or by accident)? Which ones are you embracing, subverting, or reimagining?
#CampRevPit
On a grassy green hill, a bright green praying mantis, a black and orange firefly, and a small green caterpillar examine the mantis’s very tall pile of story notes. The firefly is measuring the stack of paper with a tape measure while the caterpillar looks concerned. The stack of pages is waist-high to the mantis. A Campy RevPit flag flies from the top of a nearby flagpole. There is a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds in the background. The text above them reads, #TropeSunday
April 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
Want to hear a legend?

Some call her the Thief of Halvard, others just call her the girl who woke the gods.

#CRPLunaMoths #CampRevPit
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · Apr 26
𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟲: #CampMyth
What's a camp without that one local legend passed around the campfire?
Today, your manuscript is that legend! Create a campfire myth about your WIP's world. Spooky, silly, or serious—go wild!
#CampRevPit
On a grassy green hill beneath a starry night sky, the firefly clings to a branch and dangles a tied stack of story notes from a stick with the label “Darlings” written on the top page. The caterpillar reaches for the tied bundle of notes with mouth wide open, ready to chow down. Behind the tree, which still has bite marks from the caterpillar’s previous meal, the mantis holds her claws to her face in dismay. Dawn is beginning to tint the horizon red. The image has the text #CampMyth at the bottom.
April 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
I can't write and listen to music with words, it throws off my groove lol.

I listen to LOTR ambient music 🫣

#CampRevPit #CRPLunaMoths
arumikai.bsky.social Arumi is a potato @arumikai.bsky.social · Apr 25
Happy Day 5 of #CampRevPit, #CRPLunaMoths!

If you're like me, you use music a lot (either to inspire, or for vibes while writing/editing). What's one song or playlist that best represents your book or MC?

(don't forget to use our cabin hashtag in your replies so it shows up in our feed!)
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April 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
I'm struggling to put it into words, so I'll give a quote by my villian:

"I did not claw from the depths for you to ruin everything."

#CRPLunaMoths #CampRevPit
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · Apr 24
𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟰: #VillainVoices
Good morning, #CampRevPit! Today, we give your villains a moment in the spotlight.
What would 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 say your book is about?
On a grassy green hill beneath a starry night sky, the caterpillar nibbles on a tree while the mantis and the firefly work on their stories. The mantis lays in the grass writing in her journal with a fountain pen and her very tall stack of papers beside her. The firefly sits in the branches of the tree with a laptop. The firefly’s butt is glowing brightly so the mantis can see to write.
April 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
"It’s easy to forget the city’s beauty when you’re stuck in its filth."

Love this line from my MC!

#CampRevPit #CRPLunaMoths
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · Apr 23
DAY 3: #𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗠𝗖
Good morning, Campers! Today, we focus on your MC. Share a line from your manuscript that tells us all we need to know about your MC's personality.
On the same grassy green hill beneath a starry night sky, the firefly clings to a branch and dangles a tied stack of story notes from a stick with the label “Darlings” written on the top page. The caterpillar reaches for the tied bundle of notes with mouth wide open, ready to chow down. Behind the tree, which still has bite marks from the caterpillar’s previous meal, the mantis holds her claws to her face in dismay. Dawn is beginning to tint the horizon red.
April 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
#CRPLunaMoths #CampRevPit

My project is finished and I'm currently querying for it. It's a YA fantasy romance based on the enemies-to-lovers from Pride and Prejudice, and god-lore from Assassin's Creed :)
April 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
To free her sister from the brothel, Dex must steal a god-controlling artifact for assassins—but handing it over will doom the city, and if she refuses, they’ll carve their revenge into her sister’s bones.

🖤Dark academia
⚔️Enemies to lovers
🪄Unreliable magic
🔐Lock picking

#agentsguide #amquerying
April 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
Excited to be a member #CRPLunaMoths and to join the fun :) My first #CampRevPit will be focused on my YA fantasy romance, enemies-to-lovers, Broken Vows and Stolen Hearts ☠️
April 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
Excited to be apart of #CampRevPit this year!!
April 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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#PosterPit is on this Saturday, April 19th!

Remember to like and REPOST as that’s how pitches get seen by more people on BlueSky.

Remember Alt Text is important too! Not only doesn’t it make your pitch accessible, BlueSky search uses the keywords in Alt Text too!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
April 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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mizov.bsky.social
Do you dare attempt the slow-burn gothic horror escape room? Exprience the 💀 mystery in a cursed 🏚️ reading a 📖 that ruins your life while the manor is 👁️ (and judging). Ghosts👻? Curses🕯️? Plenty. Come for the💍ultimatum, stay because you're damned.

#ChaosPit #Q #A #H #AmQuerying #Writesky #Writers
You’re invited to the Toughest escape experience of your life! The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor: The Escape Experience Time Limit: 20 Chapters (96k words) Difficulty: 9/10 Challenges Include: Decipher the cursed diary without inheriting the curse! Discover how the gardener really died! Unravel the blood curse without spilling yours! Find the source of the whispering before it finds you! Uncover the family secrets before you become one! Escape the attic that nobody admits exists! tuesday 1 april 10:00AM - 8:00pm #chaospit on Bluesky rsvp with a like or repost WARNING: Sealed doors may require blood sacrifice to open. Expect unseen hands guiding (or restraining) you. No refunds if you leave as something other than yourself. The house knows your name and will use it. The house will speak to you through deceased loved ones Participants may experience: nosebleeds, ancestral guilt, Mild Time Travel If you hear someone calling from a well in the basement, no you don’t.
April 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
✨Manifesting✨ this week 🤞

#writerscommunity #querying #amquerying #writing #booklover
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March 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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mizov.bsky.social
Why not get away from it all?

#UnhingedPit #H #A #Q #Spec #Gothic #Ghosts #ParanormalRomance #GenerationalCurses #SpookyShit #TravelUK #LiteralDeath #DeadFamily #Gaslight #CrypticDiary #Slow-Burn #GothicHorror #Historical #ArrangedMarriage #ForbiddenLove #CheapTrips #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity
A travel poster advertising Bradbury Manor, the location of THE LAST HEIR OF BRADBURY MANOR. Go figure. What's in there? 🖤 Manor With a Mind 📖 Cryptic Diary 💀 Generational Blood Curse 🕯 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Ghosts 🏚 Slow-burn 🖋 Arranged? Lovers? Ghostly Trauma Bonding? 🔥 If the House Doesn’t Kill You, Love Might 🕰 1919 but Make It Haunted ⚰ Who Needs a Dowry When You Have a Death Curse?
March 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
ashleesteps.bsky.social
Is anyone else doing the #Chaospit and want to do a swap? I'm happy to support! :)
haylswrites.bsky.social Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Mar 19
We’re baaaaaaack! 🔥

Find out more: www.chaospit.org

#writesky #writercommunity
#CHAOSPIT WHAT IT IS: our second annual fun, community building pitch event in which you describe your book badly WHEN IT IS: 4/1/25 from 10a-8p Give us your AITA posts, your chaos comps, your memes! Max 3 pitches per project.
March 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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UPROOTED X SKY IN THE DEEP

Trying to find the motivation to finish writing about a Nordic girl who's trying to find out why woodland spirits are stealing villagers.

Oh, and there's dragons.

#amquerying #books #motivation #whyiswritinghard #youngadultfiction #fantasy
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March 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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BROKEN VOWS AND STOLEN HEARTS

🖤Dark academia
⚔️Enemies to lovers
🪄Unreliable magic
💀Sleeping gods
🔐Lock picking

#query #amquerying #WritingCommunity #literaryagents #amwriting #agentsguide #literaryagents #fantasybooks #darkacademia #BookLovers #writerscommunity
March 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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#amquerying Broken Vows and Stolen Hearts, a YA fantasy that's a blend of Assassin's Creed with Pride and Prejudice for #agentguides.

BROKEN VOWS AND STOLEN HEARTS

📚 YA fantasy
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
🪄 Unreliable magic
🖤Dark academia
March 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM