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Gus Ryer
@gusryer.bsky.social
Reader, writer, tinkerer. Querying CASCADE- far-future SF w/ nanotech, ancient gods, & hidden history. Also LIFT, space elevator derring-do. gusryer.com

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ASHES OF THE SUN ➕ HORIZON ZERO DAWN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge.

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success will be deadly.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F
Wrapped up a marathon evening of edits: only two chapters, but they were doozies at over 8,600 words total.

Just two chapters left, and one’s the epilogue. I might finish this month after all!

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Is there a better setting to knock out some edits? Only four chapters left on this book!

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Wood splitting break! If only my wordcount cut so easily…

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Things are going very poorly for my characters right now, but I’m a different story: another wicked good editing session. Three chapters this time, 5,500 words.

Almost ready to bring this tub in for a landing!

#WritingCommunity #AnWriting
a plane is flying through a cloudy sky over mountains
Alt: A bulbous, chrome spaceship glides in for a landing through a duststorm
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November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Frying a turkey? Check your equipment! This could’ve gone up in a nice little fireball

#Cooking
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Awesome day of editing: 4 chapters, 8,400 words.

Rocketing toward the end of this first round of revisions - getting close to beta-reader time!

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
a light shines brightly in the dark
Alt: A blocky spaceship hurtles through streaky hyperspace with glowing blue engines.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Had way too much fun in Canva when I should have been editing. Gonna have a blast when this things ready for prime time

#WritingCommunity #SciFi #Writing
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Gotta say, I’m absolutely stoked to introduce the querying world to Dez and her crew. The heist’s a hoot, and every character’s a disaster, but they’ve got so much heart

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Been a minute since I gave a progress update, but Space Heist WIP’s writing is coming along! Just wrapped Part III edits, and I have only a dozen chapters left. The end is in sight!*

*but then it goes to beta readers**

**then more editing***

***then more readers****

****then yet m
a cartoon scene from spongebob squarepants with the words " almost there " on the bottom
Alt: An orange fish from SpongeBob SquarePants crawls, exhausted, into a building. The text ‘almost…there’ is overlaid atop the gif.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Lots of new faces around here after the last couple weeks & pitch events- hey friends!

To introduce myself, I’m Gus, and I write mostly sci-fi mashed up with fantasy along with some horror. I also like to share a cocktail recipe every now and then.

Good to meet ya!
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It’s been fun, but I’m winding down on #QuestPit. Sincere thanks all who supported me, and I’m simply in awe of all these amazing stories.

And so, cheers to the writers!

The Red Hook:
1.66 oz rye
0.5 oz Punt e Mes
0.33 oz maraschino

Stir over ice, add a cherry, and enjoy!
#WritingCommunity
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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SINNERS X HANNIBAL X I FEED HER TO THE BEAST When Virginia Bulle kills her ex-boyfriend, she decides to open a restaurant to serve his remains. This leads her to Calypso Raines' doorstep, which opens up a new recipe of the prices we pay to protect family.

#Questpit #Q #A #H
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Robin Hood robs the Prez in ‘25

#QuestPit 82K

He needs his dad, a retired thief w Alzheimer’s, for the score or his foster home will be foreclosed.

#Q #A #T satire/crime/upmarket

*How best to stand up to a bully than to mock them? Help me ridicule the orange menace. Support my manuscript.*
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN

A crew of mountaineers attempts to summit the last 8,000 m peak. Sherpa Takato, needing money, goes against his better judgment. It's not the sheer cliffs and unstable icefalls that leave this mountain unconquered; it's something else.
#QuestPit #W #A #H
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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🏆 Cheshire Novel Prize HC

💍 1950s NY High Society
💀Murdered Husband
👗Couture Gowns
🫦Noir Romance
🍸Sexy Bartender
💰Handsome Rich Widower
📖Family Secrets
🔫Mob Boss w/a Promise

#questpit #A #S #T #HF #Q
a group of women in evening dresses are standing around a woman in a black dress .
ALT: a group of women in evening dresses are standing around a woman in a black dress .
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November 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Under the Whispering Door X Ghosts

👻Haunter, the best Ghost-for-Hire around, can't scare Alice Espinoza from her crummy apartment. Alice, stubborn, heartbroken, and broke, instead hires him to haunt her cheating ex. What ensues is madness... and dangerous.

#questpit #A #Q #PR
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
SPACE SWEEPERS ❌ LOGAN LUCKY

When an AI-piloted freighter threatens her home station, aging & indebted traffic controller Dez decides to rob the hell out of it

Shes got a plan, mobsters on her tail & a crew w/ baggage. But when things aboard aren’t as expected, all bets are off
#QuestPit #W #A #SF
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
What do you mean, you don’t take a bacon break during pitch events?
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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SIX OF CROWS x HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

A drunk wizard, a shadowy assassin, a disgraced elf warrior, a scheming cowboy, and a hapless farm boy decide to steal and then sell the king's beloved pet dragon.

But how do you deal with the creature once you've stolen it?

#questpit #Q #SFF #F
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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MUSE = A queer speculative #LF Dark Academia in Mexico City

Art destroys.

Dámaso's as obsessed with his art as with his muse. When their art kills their law school's president, they hide in plain sight on opposite sides of the case, drowning & drowning & drowning in joint insanity

#QuestPit #W #S
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
ASHES OF THE SUN ➕ THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success may be deadly.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F #SFF
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Celestial Feast ☄️
A team of offworld scientists investigate alien "whale falls" to save their planet from a great flood. By me & @imagine2create.bsky.social & @ryanresolute92.bsky.social

Full of:
👾 #Jellarks
🧑‍🚀 Divers
🦠 Virus
🌀 Storms
🕸️ Food Webs
☄️Celestial Events
🧊 Jelly

#Questpit #W #Sci-fi #H
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
ARCHIVE UNDYING ➕ ASHES OF THE SUN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge.

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success could be deadly.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F #SFF
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
ASHES OF THE SUN ➕ HORIZON ZERO DAWN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge.

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success will be deadly.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Stoked for #QuestPit tomorrow! Have my posts scheduled everywhere and ready to rock!

Wish I could do a support list, but I don't know how much I can be online tomorrow. Still, I can't wait to check in when I can, see your stories, and boost!

#WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #AmWriting
a man in a suit and tie says i just want to tell you all good luck
Alt: Leslie Nielsen enters an airplane cockpit and says, "Good luck, we're all counting on you."
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November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM