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🔮 AMARI X HOLES 🔮

In The Battle of the Bereaved, 9 witches compete for a Black Magic wish to resurrect a loved one.

Samara is ready to fight for her twin- but when she uncovers her coven’s vile history, she joins a snarky 🐷 and 3 misfit rivals to break a generational curse.

#DVPIT #MG #F

October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Autumn is Here Against Her Will

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AMARI X HOLES

100s of witches in a predominantly Black coven have disappeared across SF in the past year.

The Battle of the Bereaved commences. Samara is desperate to bring back her twin, but the competition is staggering.

She's not the strongest, but she has moxie and a magical 🐷!
#DVPit #MG #F

October 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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Turtles All the Way Down x All the Boys I Loved B4

If Brenda, Donna & Kelly all liked Dylan-but make it Bronx diverse with 2nd Generation immigrants. Also, throw in secret struggles including OCD, anxiety, bullying, and self-esteem during sophomore year.

#DVpit #YA #POC

October 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Turtles All the Way Down x All the Boys I Loved B4

If Brenda, Donna & Kelly all liked Dylan-but make it Bronx diverse with 2nd Generation immigrants. Also, throw in secret struggles including OCD, anxiety, bullying, and self-esteem during sophomore year.

#DVpit #YA #POC

October 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers)

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Godkiller❌Damsel
👑The chosen Empress is assassinated
🗡️Her gutsy, disabled ex-GF must defeat a dysfunctional family of gods or be enslaved forever instead of her.
❤️Forbidden Love
🌶️Hot Banter & Dark Humor
🏳️‍🌈LGBT, BIPOC,♿️ female-lead
🫂Found Family
#questpit #Q #YA #F #RF #SFF
#writingcommunity

Pitch: When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled and gutsy ex-girlfriend must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods’ eternal slave and weapon against mortals.
90,000 words YA Crossover Fantasy
Comps: Damsel (2024 film)
Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller
T. Kingfisher’s A Sorceress Comes to Call
Margaret Owen’s Little Thieves

Themes & Tropes:
- Forbidden Love - Hot Banter
- Feminine Rage - Anti-Chosen
- Found Family - Second Chances
- Dark Humor - Identity
- Friends-to-lovers - Faustian Bargain
- Choosing vs. being chosen
- Dual-Timeline

Representation:
- LGBTQIA+ - BIPOC
- Mental Health - Disability
- Neurodivergence - Chronic Illness

Moodboard:
Dark fantasy Victorian vibes with purple color composition.
Top row, left-to-right: a Byronic handsome man in black, a palace, a dark figure burning in hell fire, a masked female assassin of dark complexion holding a dagger, a serpentine forest trail at night marked with red flowers.
At the center next to a silver plume is the text: “This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals.”
Bottom row, left-to-right: a dark gaslit street, a gaslit city blanketed in coal smog at night, a young woman in a Victorian gown, wrought-iron gates opened to a foreboding foggy estate in the dark, a trail of red petals leading to a dark stone temple gate.

Excerpt:
A gaunt mouse nibbled greedily at a stale bread roll left on my lunch tray. I didn’t have the heart to give her a name as I might lose her too.
The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb. I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering. The bed’s cast iron rods dug into my ribs through the thin mattress. The medications I was forced to swallow left a cotton taste in my mouth and a dull ache in my skull. The faded floral pattern of the peeling wallpaper was my only reminder of life beyond these walls.
I pulled the threadbare blanket tighter around my body, hugging my knees to my chest. It did little against the chill creeping into my bones. The raging blizzard had transformed the courtyard into a churning white sea, rattling the broken window shutters hanging askew. At least no screams echoed through the halls today.

May 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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Kanani O’Kelly

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JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES

Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late.

🌊 Pacific Islander Rep
🌊 Elemental Magic
🌊 Endless Banter

#QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide

This image is the first of four to showcase elements for my upcoming book, Whispers of the Sea.

The picture reads: “An Agents Guide to Whispers of the Sea.”

This book will be a young adult fantasy.

This is the second image in my guide, and it includes the pitch for my novel.

Such pitch reads to say:

“Whispers of the Sea follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom.

Maia must voyage across the seas to this mysterious isle where she’ll team up with a local boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.”

This is the third image in my guide, and it portrays my comp titles.

My book will be perfect for the fans of the Jasad Heir, A River Enchanted, Curious Tides, and the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

This is the last image in my guide, and it showcases the aesthetic and a few elements that can be found in the book.

A few of these elements are: found family, secret ploys, outlawed magic, and self discovery.

May 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM

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Jennifer Luce

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SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

When a soul-devouring woman cursed with a sinister fox spirit falls in love with her final victim, she decides to end her killing spree; but the fox has plans of its own and it refuses to let one man stand in its way.

#QuestPit #A #H #R #PR #W

Background of Seattle alley with the following pictures: a woman with a red umbrella, a mouth with fangs, a silhouette of a woman, a korean woman, a couple about to kiss, a bloodied womans face

May 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM

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Ziv

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Agents/Editors guide to my YA literary sci-fi

INTERSTELLAR meets NOPE with the emotional appeal and first alien contact of ARRIVAL (2016) & the suspense and alien hostility of FIFTH WAVE

Today is 2094 & dealing with grief. What worse could possibly happen?
#YoungAdult #literary #scifi #QuestPit

February 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM

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Ziv @zivmontenegro.bsky.social · Jan 17

Agents/Editors guide to my YA literary sci-fi book

INTERSTELLAR meets NOPE with the emotional appeal and first alien contact of ARRIVAL (2016) & the suspense and alien hostility of FIFTH WAVE

Today is 2094 & dealing with grief. What worse could possibly happen?

#P2Ppit #YA #literary #scifi #book

Additional comps is NOPE and FIFTH WAVE.

January 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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Ziv @zivmontenegro.bsky.social · Jan 13

5TH WAVE meets NOPE meets ARRIVAL meets INTERSTELLAR

After encountering an alien while dealing with grief, Astra, a runaway, must choose between saving humanity from an alien invasion and reconciling with her dad before it’s too late.

ALT👀
#BluePit #YA #literary #scifi #book

It’s a literary fiction that deals more with grief, father and daughter relationship, coming of age, friendship, existential crises, love, loneliness, and themes like person vs society, person vs person and person vs self.

It has the same portrayal of the father and daughter story of INTERSTELLAR, first alien contact of ARRIVAL, suspense and mystery of NOPE and the alien hostility and female high school MC of THE FIFTH WAVE.

January 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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Anna Jordan

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this Tuesday! #Playwrights #Screenwriters come to the event of the YEAR. Pls share. All levels of experience welcome. #SupportPlaywrights

November 24, 2024 at 4:37 PM

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Diamond Allen

@givethemdiamond.bsky.social

Ive noticed A LOT of creatives doing the same thing, going through the motions “talking” about what they want with no action behind it. My goals started checking off once the work was behind it. Advocate for yourself. Listening to other ppl and podcasts don’t matter if you aren’t working on yourself

Diamond Allen @givethemdiamond.bsky.social · Nov 23

I moved permanently to LA in 2017 but I didn’t lock in to my career until 2021 and what by that is I was physically here and talking the talk of my goal but didn’t ACTUALLY make steps to obtaining them until 2021. Once I made the effort doors began opening I didn’t even realize I should knock on.

November 23, 2024 at 9:44 PM

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@novelicious.bsky.social 📚💙✨

November 15, 2024 at 3:57 PM

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Cindy Begel

@cindybegel.bsky.social

Hey #scriptsky and #screenwriters! I'll follow you guys anywhere! But for me to make connections and help my #newbies, I have to have one foot back in the blacksky place. I don't know how to manage both. I know I'll figure it out because I love our screenwriting community & want to see it thrive!

November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM