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Daniella is querying
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Fantasy writer. Milk before cereal apologist. Reality TV connoisseur. 🪷🪬🍉 Querying my Crossover Fantasy: ROOTED IN DUST
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Daniella is querying @dse-writes.bsky.social · Mar 17
INDIAN🪷 SHADOW & BONE X THIS WOVEN KINGDOM

Penniless, anxiety-ridden Sarahi must keep her 12 magics hidden from the golden prince💖who has her heart and his brother who wants her dead🔪to become a royal informant and save her family from ruin.✨

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #YA #F #RF
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stefannymonga.bsky.social Stefanny Monga Author @stefannymonga.bsky.social · Oct 8
POWERLESS X WEDNESDAY

Ascendants are being hunted for their mental abilities. When Riza develops an unknown chaotic elemental power capable of decimating anything in its wake, she allies with dangerous Eli to find the hidden monsters and a plan that could destroy her entire home. #SF #F #YA #DvPit
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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thehksmith.bsky.social HK Smith | Writer @thehksmith.bsky.social · Oct 8
“To survive, you must forget.”

On a brutal planet, people feed memories to an AI God.

Cursed for sacrifice, Vega cheats death with forbidden magic. But the curse doesn’t break, it hunts.

To save her vanished brother, she must uncover what the world erased.

LEGENDBORN x DUNE in #YA #SFF #F #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
dse-writes.bsky.social
trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · Oct 8
Southeast #Asian MISTBORN x SIX OF CROWS

When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.

#A #F #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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jlingaas.bsky.social
SIX OF CROWS x DISHONORED

Industry, magical whale-oil, and exploitative capitalists -- and one disillusioned thief decides to raid the most secure oil vault there is.

But he can't do it alone.

🐳 Victorian whalepunk
🐳 Fantasy heist
🐳 Class rage
🐳 Found family

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #F #A
Moodboard of a grimy, whalepunk fantasy heist novel called Wavewaker. Wavewaker Tropes & Themes: - Underdog MC - Socioeconomic disillusionment - Morally grey characters - Found family - Star-crossed lovers - Grounded magic system - Undercover heist Excerpt: A row of crimson whale-oil lanterns shepherded guests through the gated courtyard and towards the main entrance of Nocturne Hall, like buoys guiding ships through the dark. The ethereally pale structure stood silent, its roof curved and packed with servants’ windows, more patriotic red spilling out through crimson stained-glass windows and drenching white balconies wide enough to be boulevards. This red-eyed monolith belonged to Sovereign Ylva Torn, chairwoman of the Echelon, and was the subject of the yearly masquerade. A perfect place for the rich to carve up the world a little finer between themselves, with spiked iron fences to keep out undesirables. Aside from those they invited in, of course.
March 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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christianaasberg.bsky.social
Where the Tides Tremble.

🌊 A boy bound by a strange magic.
🔥 A runaway princess with blood on her hands.
❤️ A slow-burn romance.
🌩️ Tides changing, and with them, the fate of the world.

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA
#amquerying #F
March 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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katexmachina.bsky.social
PAINTED FLOWERS NEVER DIE is book club-ready speculative fiction with two scoops of romance. It's all about a widow navigating fame, art, and searching, above all, for the feeling of being alive.

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #AmQuerying #Adult #PopUpPit
Against a background of an oil painting of a bouquet, the Agent's Guide for PAINTED FLOWERS NEVER DIE, a 90K word book club-ready work of speculative fiction. By Katherine Spada, @katexmachina on Bluesky and @kat_ex_machina on Twitter. A two-paragraph pitch that should be high contrast enough for a screen reader. Images representing comp titles: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams, Akira Kurosawa's film Dreams, the Playbill for Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, a photo of Lucy Dacus performing Ankles on a late-night show. The Mood Board including a picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait with Monkey, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, Kylie Minogue at Michael Hutchence's funeral, Bisa Butler's The Safety Patrol, a still of Amélie and Nino riding a moped around Montmartre.
March 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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maggiesbooks.bsky.social
If you love someone, let them go. Avoid them for ten years until you're invited to the same wedding. Don't ruin everything again. Unless they do it first.
She broke his heart and wants him back. He doesn't trust her, but maybe she shouldn't trust him either.
#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #writesky
An Agent’s Guide to None of This Was Real Adult Contemporary Romance 82,000 words The pitch: When reunited with her ex after a fatal accident tore them apart ten years ago, Jasper must decide if she should just let go of teenage lust or let herself fall back in love with the one that got away, who maybe she shouldn't trust so easily. every summer after, seven summers, normal people, happy place, how to hide in plain sight Excerpt: “Oh, and you come to my house to just hang out?” he said. “Yeah?” I said. “Where else am I going to go? Ask my mom if I can borrow the car so I can avoid the family overstimulating me?” “I’m your only option?” “No, there’s always your mom,” I said. He rolled his eyes. “I’m busy,” he said. “Doing what?” “I have shit to do for work,” he said. “And the cat sitter keeps calling me about things that are not an emergency. And you show up and you just want to hang out. I don’t have any new trauma to dump on you today.” “So, you want me to leave?” I said. “Please, Jasper, get out of my room before I do something without thinking it through,” he said. “We’ll both get hurt.” “Oh, so you want to f*** me, don’t you?” I said. “I don’t know if I can do this again,” he said. “I gave you everything and you threw me away.”
March 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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jalwrites.bsky.social
Here We Go Again x It's a Sin

Whilst honouring his uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man hears the truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit
On the left, the title THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN is written, with the text angled vertically. To the right is a 9 square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Top middle is an image of an LGBTQ+ rights protest in black and white. Bottom middle is a picture of a piece of colourful modern art. Middle left is a road map with a magnifying glass and set of car keys resting on top. Middle right is an image of a young man with medium length hair walking through a city at night. In the centre is a pile of newspaper cuttings with the words 'are the dragnificent seven back?" written over the top in a fake headline style. On the right hand side and acting as a background image, is a drag queen waiting in the wings. If you use a screen reader or rely on alt text, I always aim to make picture posts as inclusive as possible. If I can improve in any way to make my posts more accessible to you, please do reach out and I will take your feedback on board for future posts.
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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kiddyjoy.bsky.social
NAUSICAÄ x EMILY WILDE

Heidi has a plan: scorn her suitor, keep his money, and start her research. It’s perfect - if she can survive long enough in the cursed forest to finish her thesis.

🪲 Cozy-yet-unsettling Fantasy
🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative world
📚 Academia

#PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F #LGBT
A collage of images, starting from top left and going clockwise to center: Elinor Dashwood from Sense & Sensibility, tea being poured into a teacup, a journal with a diagram of a flower, a pink with black spots truffle pig, a partially shadowed hand writing on a chalkboard, a clump of light pink blooming flowers in a forest, a brontosaurus skeleton in a museum, a desk with flowers and journals, and in the center a diagram of ancient plants.
March 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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taylorrenee.bsky.social
Would you choose immortality?
Of course you would.
But let me tell you:
It’s a lie. A cruel, promise.
Because the hunger you live with—No, the hunger that you are—is worse.

House of Valentine - 98k words a gothic fantasy w/ a b-plot romance. #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #Q #F #G #R #booksky #LuckyPit
'House of Valentine' by Taylor Renee. The background features a vintage, textured design with faded text, overlaid with watercolor illustrations of a skull roses, daisies, and pine trees. The title 'HOUSE OF VALENTINE' is prominently displayed in large, elegant white letters. Below the title, the text reads: 'TAYLOR RENEE | 98,000 | ITSTAYLORRENEE1@GMAIL.COM' and 'AGENT & EDITOR GUIDE' in smaller white font. The overall aesthetic is moody and romantic, with a gothic fantasy vibe. The background features a vintage, textured design with faded text, adorned with watercolor illustrations of roses and pine branches. The word 'EXCERPT' is displayed at the top in large, elegant white letters. Below, the text reads: 'TAYLOR RENEE | 98,000 | ITSTAYLORRENEE1@GMAIL.COM' followed by a poetic passage: 'If you could live for centuries—through famine and plague, through wars that razed cities and left ash in their wake, that not even a bomb crashing through your home could destroy you—would you choose immortality? Wouldn't you dream of such a gift? To remain as you were as the world crumbles around you, and rebuilds itself, endlessly? Of course you would. That’s the allure, isn’t it? The whispered fantasy of endless time, of infinite existence. But let me tell you: it’s a lie. A cruel promise. Because after enough centuries, you begin to wish for the plague to ravage your body, to tear through your flesh and wring you dry of life. You begin to long for the bomb to shatter you, burn away your skin until you’re nothing but bone and ash. You’d pray for the famine to hollow you out, for hunger to gnaw at your insides so violently that you might finally collapse under the weight of mortality. Because the hunger you live with—No, the hunger that you are—is worse.' The bottom is decorated with a border of watercolor roses in shades of red and purple. The background features a vintage, textured design with faded text, embellished with watercolor illustrations of roses and pine branches. The word 'BLURB' is displayed at the top in large, elegant white letters. Below, the text reads: 'TAYLOR RENEE | 98,000 | ITSTAYLORRENEE1@GMAIL.COM' followed by the blurb: 'When anthropology student Hazel Adler travels to a remote Swiss village for her thesis, she expects folklore and forgotten traditions—not a hidden world of vampires, deadly politics, and a centennial festival that’s more nightmare than celebration. She was never meant to survive it. Her only lifeline? Soren Valentine—a vampire with a past as blood-soaked as his fangs. As the lines between myth and reality blur, Hazel must fight to survive in more ways than one. Trusting Soren may be her only chance—but the monster who saved her life hides dangerous secrets of his own. Survival means risking everything. House of Valentine is a gothic fantasy filled with sharp fangs, fragile alliances, and a slow-burn b-plot romance that will leave you breathless.' The bottom is decorated with a border of watercolor roses in shades of red and purple. 'House of Valentine' by Taylor Renee, focusing on tropes, themes, and comps. The background features a vintage, textured design with faded text, adorned with watercolor illustrations of roses and pine branches. The text 'TROPES & THEMES & COMPS' is displayed at the top in large, elegant white letters. Below, the text reads: 'TAYLOR RENEE | 98,000 | ITSTAYLORRENEE1@GMAIL.COM' followed by a list of tropes and themes: 'ROMEO & JULIET, BEAUTY & THE BEAST, ALLIES TO LOVERS, MORALLY GRAY CHARACTERS, VAMPIRE SOCIETY, SLOW BURN.' The image includes three book cover comps: 'Interview with the Vampire' by Anne Rice, 'The Beautiful' by Renée Ahdieh, and 'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness, each framed with a pink border. The bottom is decorated with a border of watercolor roses in shades of red and purple.
March 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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mlbaskerville.bsky.social
In here you will find…🌼🫖

🎭Broadway Vibes
💕Adoption and Found Family
🫖A Gentle Monster who LOVES Tea
🤑A Greedy Warlock
😈A Rogue Fae
👹A Murderous Abomination
🤒 Chronic Illness
💀Death and Grief
🦷A Deadly Curse
🍱 Magic Food

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #amquerying #agentguide #agentsguide #litagents #PopUpPitA
March 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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cjvickwrites.bsky.social
SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x SUBURBAN HELL

💋feminist rage
💅1980s setting
💋the darkest of deals
💅satanic panic
💋found family
💅generational heartache to healing

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitE #H #A #PopUpPit
March 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social
A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.

#PopUpPitE #LuckyPit
March 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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kancollan.bsky.social
LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

When fighters start disappearing from an underground elemental tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament’s secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate.

#YA #F #Jewish #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit
A mood board featuring eight panels with a corresponding color palette in the center, as well as the caption, "Believe in the wind and you'll prevail." From left to right, top to bottom: fire burning down a building; ocean water; the sky above the clouds; a cracked, rocky ground; a red-haired girl in a red cloak with glowing white eyes, holding a dagger hilt with a transparent blade made of air; a skyline view of nighttime Manhattan; a NYC subway track; a boxing ring that depicts two people practicing punches beyond the ropes.
March 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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nethermagic.bsky.social
CRIMSON PEAK X THE FAMILIAR
A man cursed for life. A witch doomed to die.

FATES WROUGHT IN MIST is a NA standalone fantasy novel deeply rooted in Spanish folklore. It blends gothic elements with classic fantasy romance in a haunted mountain manor.

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit
March 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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bmfwriter.bsky.social
COVET x FAIRYTALE x ACOWAR

REIGN OF NIGHTMARES- dark romantic fantasy

A headstrong young woman and her sister must harness newly awakened magic to defeat a depraved god hunting them to consume their rare power. 🖤🫀❤️‍🔥

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit 🍀 #popuppit
March 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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jundlife.bsky.social
After the war, Shasha thought she did not have to worry about the dangerous and psychic Tenock race until she found a strange boy hiding out in the desert, a meeting that would change the fate of both their people.
He needs to find his people, he wants a friend...
#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit
Endlings - Adult Urban Fantasy To Shasha Cruz the war with the Tenocks was ancient history. She had been told stories of their fierce energy and of them doing unbelievable things like reading minds, moving objects with just thoughts, and burning skin to the bone with just a touch. She thought most of it was exaggerated until while attempting to cross the desert to start a new life, she encounters Maraha, a strange boy hiding in the wilderness.  He had been told to wait and hide, for what and who he did not know. He only knew he was desperately lonely and slowly starving. He wanted someone to talk to and find others like him. To make that happen he needed Shasha to take him to the human city, a place of death for his people. It would be a decision that would start a chain of events that would change the fate of both races.  Together the pair locate the Tenock underground, the last refuge of those ‘whose faces are known’. They confront the Ranch, a place dedicated to brutally unlocking the secrets of the Tenock's abilities for their own ends. All the while Maraha is unknowingly being followed by those who hold the mysteries of his past and Shasha is given a choice between safety and wielding the abilities of the Tenock herself. They both discover their own power and grapple with increasing yet unspoken feelings between them. They must rely on each other not only for their own survival but the survival of the entire Tenock race. Loneliness Belonging/Identity Found Family Mad Science Coming of Age Revenge Hidden World Slow Burn Friends-To-Lovers Transformation
March 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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maggiesbooks.bsky.social
EVERY SUMMER AFTER X NORMAL PEOPLE

Was he the one who got away, or was it just teenage lust? Two exes reunite for a wedding ten years after family drama and a fatal accident tore them apart.

🇨🇦 set in Quebec
🌶 3/5
📆 2 timelines
💔 family drama
⭐️ 2010s nostalgia

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA
moodboard of summer love
March 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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victorialilly.bsky.social
My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying

With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #adult #horror #gothic
March 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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zillawrites.bsky.social
72 hours.
3 trials.
1 chance to find her bff.
🌲🔪⌛🩸✨
Tate enters a reality tv show knowing viewers crave blood, but if she can’t outplay their expectations—or her ruthless handler—she’ll lose more than just her life, she’ll bring everyone down w/her.

#luckypit #popuppita #ya #sff #genreblend
[moody image grid] blond man looking up and away; a fist gripping a knife by a tree trunk; a rickety rope bride in the woods; an overgrown, ornate front porch of a house; hands and bare feet in a shallow body of water; a woman with dark hair facing away toward woods
March 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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havetsavain.bsky.social
Two sets of eyes guide you through the controversial halls of Havetsavain Academy of Arcane’s inaugural year. Millie and Ava both add their own dash of whimsy, humor and poise, witnessing the school’s mysteries and a more sinister layer to the magic world.
#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #booksky 📚💙
The Book cover: An image of a golden key with a purple compass as its bow. It is wrapped with a green and blue banner with the words: Havetsavain Academy of Arcane: The Other School on it. It is on a background of stars and lines. Around this image is text about the book.
March 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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dawnberkoski.bsky.social
I’m just a hard-working guy, living in NY, loving his pizza.

It’s tough. High rent, low pay, vampires who want me dead.

So when a hot billionaire offers me a job overseas, I jump on it. Too bad the pizza and vampires in London suck. ~Jason

Blue Bloods x Yakuza #PR
#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA 📚💙
#writing
Happy St Patrick’s Day with pizzas. 🍕 ☘️
March 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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qziontgipson.bsky.social
Tangleroot x A House of Roots and Ruin x Legendborn x near future science fantasy = THE ROOTS OF DESTINY

🦋 enchanted forest
🩵 BIPOC rep.
🍃 plant magic system
🦋 plants = fae lifeline
🩵 found family
🍃 botany boarding school

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit
#PopUpPitA #YA #F #SF #SFF #Q
March 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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austinsgrace.bsky.social
(re)introducing HOW TO COME HOME:

⛓️ PEAKY BLINDERS x CAT SEBASTIAN
🏳️‍🌈 upmarket queer historical romance
🛤️ an ex-con w/a head for numbers
🎼 a former musical prodigy dealing w/disability
📚 small-town troubles & big-city ghosts

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA
Pitch card for HOW TO COME HOME, pitched as PEAKY BLINDERS X WE COULD BE SO GOOD. Ten years ago, Nathan Gilliard stole $100,000 from his family’s safe and turned informant on his family’s Prohibition contraband empire, damning his brothers to life in prison in exchange for a ten-year sentence of his own. Stepping out as a free man in 1937, he’s set on spending his life alone and penitent, never forgetting what he did to his family—or why. Taking a job in a small-town general store is the perfect stopgap, even if Nathan uses a false name to hide his identity...and even if his new boss, handsome, bespectacled single father Lawrence Freburg, is as earnest and kindhearted as Nathan’s upbringing and time in prison weren’t. Pitch text is set against an image of a cornfield and full moon at dusk, with gold decorative borders in the top left and bottom right corners Trope/theme map for HOW TO COME HOME, with a digital painting of Nathan and Lawrence at the center. Lawrence, sitting to the left, is a white blond man playing piano and smiling, with glasses hanging from his neck. Nathan, right, is a dark-haired white man watching him play. Tropes/themes read: Upmarket historical romance 107,000 words Dual POV with flashbacks Running from the past, returning to the past Crime family/criminal brothers Unconventional family structures Queerness & homemaking Disability =/= disabling
March 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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arielfin.bsky.social
TANGLED x SPINNING SILVER
Most think Raizel’s a witch with her bushy dark hair & twisted back. But in this YA romantasy Rapunzel retelling (50k), the heroic princess *is* this Jewish girl with scoliosis escaping her tower with her blonde witch’s new hired hand, Asher. #PopUpPitA #popuppit #luckypit
For this 3 by 3 collage, tower stock photo by Антон Злобин on Pexels. Sunflowers stock photo by Yaseminmsl on Pexels. Buda Castle stock photo by Ivan Dražić on Pexels. Cropped stock photo of a young Emmy Rossum by S Pakhrin on Wikimedia Commons. Cropped stock photo of a pale woman with hair turning between blonde and dark brown, by Mhajr Invincible on Pexels.Cropped stock photo of a young Adam Brody by GabboT on Wikimedia Commons. Stock photo of Italian guitar c. 1801 by Maccari-Pugliese Duo, found on EarlyRomanticGuitar.com. Storybook illustration of Ivan Tsarevich and the Firebird, by Boris Vasilyevich Zvorykin, in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons. Stock photo of a scientific illustration of “The fruit and flower of a pomegranate”, by Cornelis Markée c. 1763, in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons.
March 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM