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Tien Lee (she/her)
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🌈 writer | preparing to query lit hisfic isekai | ✍🏼 lit magical realism WF | words in All My Relations, Light ‘Em Up, Reverent, etc. | tok/stagram @authort_lee
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Tien Lee (she/her) @authort-lee.bsky.social · 15d
time slip fantasy x bildungsroman

🕯️ wishes 1 will come to regret
📚 the weight of family names
⚔️ self-destructive MC
🕰️ choices not taken
☠️ lingering ghosts
👄 society vs desire
🥀 self-fulfilling prophecy
🙏🏼 mythololzation of death
🔭 fruitless search for meaning
💧 legacy of violence & neglect
#QuestPit
authort-lee.bsky.social Tien Lee (she/her) @authort-lee.bsky.social · 15d
MARTYR! x THE NAMES but isekai

Max sees no future for himself until death reshapes him into a noble in an alternate ancient East Asia. As Yoon, he has it all: status, affection, & a prediction that his love is lethal. Is life worth living if it comes at others’ suffering?
#QuestPit #Q #A #LF #HF #F
This is a flowery graphic with post-reincarnation Yoon on the left and pre-reincarnation Max on the right, but turned at an angle with their character artworks facing each other. Above fancy robe-wearing Yoon there are lines that read: In the stillness of death, he immortalized her as his ever-loving, ever-living flower. It would be an eternity of affection. Above florist-uniformed Max are the lines: It wouldn't be so bad if this were the end, he thought... In their family, inconvenient things were silently buried. Especially death.
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chezza.bsky.social
New art for my wip just dropped and I am SO IN LOVE 😍 I'm still drafting and aiming to finish first draft by end of Nov. My little wip with soul dualism, obsession, jealousy, and elemental immortals finally has some art YAY🥹🎉
Art by CianCyan on VGen !✨
Art by CianCyan featuring a woman dancing in pink flowing hanfu while holding a fan. Behind her are the silhouettes of two men, one with a topknot and the other with a ponytail. Golden light shimmers across the scene.
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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erikaswyler.bsky.social
Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!

No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks

The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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clericofthevoid.bsky.social
1 DAY LEFT 💖🔥✨🌸
clericofthevoid.bsky.social Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 19d
Name Her Holy is part of this bundle alongside an incredible list of books!

From now until Nov.15th you can get 32 books with trans MCs taking on the world for just $35 🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏻

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
authort-lee.bsky.social
My MC and his wife coded
Angry Princess Bubblegum saying, “A kiss can’t bring somebody back from the brink of death.” A smug Marceline replying,” That’s not what you told me last night.”
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
authort-lee.bsky.social
No one panic, but I can see the light!!
waves of red and green northern lights shimmer in the sky directly over my area More of them against a darker sky
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
authort-lee.bsky.social
Balloon day means extra querying luck, right? 🙏🏼 Here’s my MC’s thoughts on gifts to help celebrate 🎉
The main character, split into his past florist self on the left and his current reincarnated noble, scholarly self on the right, is popping out of a book. Behind him are confetti, gifts on the left, and lanterns and a flower outline on the right. Above him, it says: Years of Red Tears, now querying. Below him is a quote that says: She needed to have her own tale to not be a supporting character in his. Since flowers must be watered and books must be read to keep their beauty alive, he would find the perfect story to gift her.
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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percivale-anthony.bsky.social
Me knowing what part these quotes come from like OOF
Excellent stuff
authort-lee.bsky.social Tien Lee (she/her) @authort-lee.bsky.social · 15d
MARTYR! x THE NAMES but isekai

Max sees no future for himself until death reshapes him into a noble in an alternate ancient East Asia. As Yoon, he has it all: status, affection, & a prediction that his love is lethal. Is life worth living if it comes at others’ suffering?
#QuestPit #Q #A #LF #HF #F
This is a flowery graphic with post-reincarnation Yoon on the left and pre-reincarnation Max on the right, but turned at an angle with their character artworks facing each other. Above fancy robe-wearing Yoon there are lines that read: In the stillness of death, he immortalized her as his ever-loving, ever-living flower. It would be an eternity of affection. Above florist-uniformed Max are the lines: It wouldn't be so bad if this were the end, he thought... In their family, inconvenient things were silently buried. Especially death.
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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kristenrenee.bsky.social
Two sisters discover their family legacy of love magic and develop the ability to sense love.
But their own love lives become complicated when they discover that they can sense love for everyone- except themselves✨

#QuestPit #A #NA #YA #R #F #Q
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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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authorbblorik.bsky.social
#QuestPit #A #Q #RF
Assistant to the Villain X OUAT

Hope rests on thin ice when a bitter, unemployed witch teams up with a handsome yet clumsy new Overlord to save her town from a frigid queen’s harsh economic freeze

🤏🏻pinch of spice
🎃Hijacked holiday
💎Heist
🔮Mundane magic
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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joyiswriting.bsky.social
Excitedly presenting an #agentguide for HEART OF THE BAYOU, my sapphic horror-romance—now in an inbox near you!!

🫀Deep Southern cryptids
🫀sapphic pining
🫀coming of rage
🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability
🫀 ✨Big 5✨ editor interest x2

#questpit #YA #Q #H #R #LGBT
An agent’s guide to: HEART OF THE BAYOU A YA Horror-Romance The pitch: The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls— and one wants Elle's heart for her own ... When a paranormal migration brings a slew of deadly soul-eating cryptids to the quiet swamps of Louisiana, subsequently cornering the paranormal clinic 17-year-old Elle works at—she must find out why the bloodthirsty monsters are migrating before BOLT, a paranormal branch of the FBI, threatens to shut down the clinic and arrest its supernatural patients. But when she discovers her crush is hiding some monsters of her own, the kind of cryptid that might just take down the clinic and Elle's heart—she'll have to decide if she's ready to take the girl's advice and finally risk letting her own inner monsters out of the closet ... Comps: They Bloom at Night, I Feed Her to the Beast, A Feast for the Eyes, This Ravenous Fate, Hear Her Howl, The Coven Tendency Snippet from HEART OF THE BAYOU: I'd heard of the brutality of how these cryptids killed. How the survivors were lucky if you managed to escape with only an arm lost. How they enjoyed ripping people from flesh to tendons and finally bone, before they dove for the final kill and snapped their prey's neck, the tell-tale halo of blood flowering above their victims' heads I only hoped there was something I could salvage once the beast finished. The man's shrieks didn't cease until the monster's eyes glowed brighter, rubies sparkling in the center of a dangerous black mass. His body stilled, transfixed in terror. A silent scream began to pry his lips apart as if drawn by an invisible force. I winced, the sounds of bones clicking, dislocating, and popping as the man's eyes rolled to the back of his head. A fleshy lump burst through his shirt, pulsating and twisting like worms had taken ahold of his skin. Tropes & Vibes: “Only one bed” Abandoned houses & creepy dockyards Sociopolitical commentary Neurodivergent, queer & anxiety rep Lesbian MC’s Cryptids & legends from the Deep South Small town horror The monster wins in the end . . . Sassy x Stabby FMC’s Central moodboard: Swamp pictures, an orange moon, flannels, heart-shaped carabiners, a “don’t go into the woods” sign, girls kissing, a religious sign, a truck in a field
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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duaceren.bsky.social
Spirited Away x Shutter Island

Reality and fantasy blur when an anonymous invitation sends a burnt-out chocolatier spiraling to hunt down a serial killer she thought she made up as a child.

🥀Found family
🥀Secrets
🥀Ghosts

🪻Mental health rep
🪻Disability rep
🪻LGBTQIA+

#QuestPit #W #A #F #T #PR
“Life tried so hard to cling to this place that all it did was make death sink in deeper.” “You can bury your past but don’t be surprised when it comes back to haunt you.” “Everyone lived in their own world, even when they were right next to each other.” Collage of photos: girls in dresses sitting in the grass, boat in blue waters, curtains at dusk glowing orange, melted chocolate poured over stacks of chocolate chunks, field of blue flowers with sun shining, girl in dress spinning in circles on grassy hill, messy pile of old photos, woman and child holding hands, rose bush, sunlight through tree leaves, a woman submerged in dark water reaching out, a woman in a white dress running away from something while barefoot in grass, restaurant with blue chairs by the sea at sunset, graves in the middle of a dark forest, girl in dark water with a white dress and arm over her chest and white roses over her torso, a man peering through the woods with a flashlight at night, a man and a woman dancing under a starry night, field of blue flowers in a forest, hands reaching up from water through lily pads, dragonfly wing close up, shadows of two friends back-to-back making finger guns
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
authort-lee.bsky.social
time slip fantasy x bildungsroman

🕯️ wishes 1 will come to regret
📚 the weight of family names
⚔️ self-destructive MC
🕰️ choices not taken
☠️ lingering ghosts
👄 society vs desire
🥀 self-fulfilling prophecy
🙏🏼 mythololzation of death
🔭 fruitless search for meaning
💧 legacy of violence & neglect
#QuestPit
authort-lee.bsky.social Tien Lee (she/her) @authort-lee.bsky.social · 15d
MARTYR! x THE NAMES but isekai

Max sees no future for himself until death reshapes him into a noble in an alternate ancient East Asia. As Yoon, he has it all: status, affection, & a prediction that his love is lethal. Is life worth living if it comes at others’ suffering?
#QuestPit #Q #A #LF #HF #F
This is a flowery graphic with post-reincarnation Yoon on the left and pre-reincarnation Max on the right, but turned at an angle with their character artworks facing each other. Above fancy robe-wearing Yoon there are lines that read: In the stillness of death, he immortalized her as his ever-loving, ever-living flower. It would be an eternity of affection. Above florist-uniformed Max are the lines: It wouldn't be so bad if this were the end, he thought... In their family, inconvenient things were silently buried. Especially death.
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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sallybromley.bsky.social
Presenting my #agentsguide for
'Beauty is a Brittle Glass'
BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
🪞 Adult 82k
🪞 Dual POV
🪞 Speculative Elements
🪞 Beauty & Fashion
🪞 LGBTQ
🪞 Friends to Lovers
🪞 Disability Rep
#questpit #A #Q
Green background. Images of a woman's face in a gold picture frame. Splashes of gold. A woman with long dark hair turning sideways, hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint. A gold handprint. Background is the close up of a woman's face, splashed with gold paint. Three bookcovers. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, a young woman's sad face, The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Picture of Dorian Gray and a young handsome man with a partially diseased face. Green background splashed with gold paint. Images of a model on a Catwalk, a woman having injections in her face, a group of spooky trees, a photographer and an evil hand reaching out for a pale woman's hand.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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adamreisinger.com
After an injury ends her competitive career, former Olympian Chloe LaFleur joins a touring skating show. The tension between her and show star Freja Lindholm could cut the thickest of ice, but when they're assigned to be roommates on the road, sparks fly.

#questpit #A #R #Q #LGBTQ #amquerying
Mockup of The Professional Skater Magazine cover based on my novel, THE ICE BETWEEN US
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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sarahdorko.bsky.social
When Gio’s BFF Sky falls down a sinkhole into another world, Gio follows to save her, but after becoming stuck herself, Gio must rely on her wit and D&D knowledge to rescue Sky, save their friendship, and get home. #QuestPit #YA #Q portal #F #agentsguide
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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lawilding.bsky.social
EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAERIES X DIVINE RIVALS

📖 Cozy, light academia
🌿 Soft FMC studying nature-based magic
🌸 Hidden garden steeped in secrets
🏛️ Academic rivals-to-lovers
💌 Slow-burn romance
🍃 Legacy, ambition, and belonging

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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minackim.bsky.social
A hidden princess. A forbidden love. Unbreakable Fate.

When Aria Han’s lost memories resurface, so do the secrets that could destroy her—and the man willing to die to save her.

K-DRAMA x THE CROWN x MISS NEWBURY'S LIST

#Questpit #A #R #amquerying
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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carolinekwriting.bsky.social
SINNERS x INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE

🩸Vampire marriage bonds
🖤Dark secrets
❤️Femmine rage
🖕🏾Black/African rage
❤️ Ancestral Magic
🩸Narrative that spans 200 years
🖤Forgotten memories
❤️Ride or die love

#QuestPit #W #A #F #R
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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bardcorner.bsky.social
— RAVENSTONES
In a city where faith is law, a disciple of a death goddess must track down a magical killer, all while unravelling the dark secrets in his church and his past.

🩸Humorism based magic system
🗡️MLM romance
🩸Faith/Religion vs Science/Academia

#QuestPit #A #DF #H #W
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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edwardpatrickwrites.com
Please repost 😊

Are you looking for something to read?

📘 300 pages
🧨 revenge-driven fantasy
🧠 flawed, relatable characters
⚫ dark, forbidden magic
💔 trauma and rage
2️⃣ book two arrives this week

💙📚
#ku #kindle #kindleunlimited
mybook.to/therageofaboy
The Rage of a Boy: Grey & White: Book One
Amazon.com: The Rage of a Boy: Grey & White: Book One eBook : Patrick, Edward: Kindle Store
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July 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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kai-terin.bsky.social
Dowry of Blood x The Death of Jane Lawrence x Saltburn

🩸1975 small English town
🩸cursed vampiric witches
🩸queer obsession
🩸everyone's guilty

(Original artwork by yours truly)
#QuestPit #F #A #Q #LGBTQIA #WritingCommunity
Image: a white hare sleeping in a golden frame with a black snake coiled around it Title: The Dark Swan Blurb: the witches are hungry, but Eddie Sharpe is famished... Pitch: A cursed vampiric coven binds gentle, pliant Edmund Sharpe to lifelong servitude. He fights to keep his soul from the coven’s decay, but his shared obsession with their enforcer slowly erodes his morality. When his buried magic surfaces, Edmund wields the power to either destroy his captors or join their hunger to survive. Mood. Quote: “I want you to crack my ribs open and sink your teeth into my heart, wrap your fingers around it and tear it loose so you could always carry me with you. I want to see it beat in your mouth before you swallow it whole.” Comps: THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE by Caitlin Starling, THE DOWRY OF BLOOD by S.T. Gibson, THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS by Micah Nemerever, Saltburn (movie)
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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goodwords.bsky.social
Getting closer to finishing my first draft of Morel Support!

Featuring:
🍄 A sentient mushroom with chaotic advice
❤️ Chronic illness rep
🫀 Literal and figurative heartache
💰 Sexy bandits
❤️‍🔥 Sapphic romance
🔥 Let's burn down the government vibes

#WIP #writingcommunity
Image Description: Mushrooms in a grassy field with a blurred sky in the background. The mushrooms are fly agarics (a bright red cap with white spots and a white stem). Photo Text: Morel Support A Romantic Fantasy WIP (WIP stands for Work In Progress) November Goal: 85-90k Current Word Count: 75k
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM