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Hedda Dahl
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Fantasy and thriller writer 📚 #writingcommunity #writersky #booksky
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Hedda Dahl @heddadahl.bsky.social · Jan 13
Sweetpea X Dexter X Heretic

Neurodivergent Arden unpacks her religious trauma, purging predators in local churches she once considered sacred. But as her body counts grows, one question lingers—is she the righteous avenger and protector of the community, or the devil incarnate?

#BluePit
#A
#T
#WIP
heddadahl.bsky.social
Anyone here from the #writingcommunity joining #stockholmwritersfestival this year? If so, are you submitting your first five pages? Deadline in a month! 👀
January 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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zprospero.bsky.social
HELL IS WORK

Virgil Mora burns in Hell. It's a pretty good job. When Heaven considers selling the business he, Hell's Consultant, must turn around a vampire gas station in Ohio to restore Heaven's faith in Hell and save the angel he's fallen for.

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#BluePit 📖 #W #A #F #Hu
Strike The Name - A Music Video for "Hell Is Work"
YouTube video by Zed Prospero
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January 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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harperhugodarling.bsky.social
📖 After murdering her fiance, Selene decides to throw away her dreams of being a housewife to take care of the pack of werewolves she has inherited.

MOONLIT is an adult, genre-bending novel about found family and how collapse can change relationships for good.
#BluePit #Q #A #F #LGBT #Dis #OV
A collage of photos for the novel Moonlit by Harper-Hugo Darling. The images depict gray wolves howling at the sky and playing in the snow, a dark sky with a red moon, a woman with a blood-covered chin smiling, snow-covered forests, the Edmonton cityscape, white hands holding a green potted plant, a close-up of a lush pink blanket, glasses of wine, and mugs of coffee. In the center of the collage is a luminous moon containing the title of the novel and a snowflake.
January 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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nollthere.bsky.social
Twister x The Wicker Man x Eyes Without a Face
A transgender man returns years later to the tornado-obsessed doomsday cult he escaped to rescue his siblings and find out what really happened to the banished boy who gave him his chance at freedom.
#Q #H #A #LGBT #BluePit
Desaturated moodboard with photos of a young man looking at a wall covered in dark handprints, lab glasswear, a mannequin in a white dress, a tornado, old television screens, and a farm under stormy skies.
January 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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zivmontenegro.bsky.social
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 8:04 AM
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amberbairdpdx.bsky.social
#BluePit #A #H #T #Q

Queer feminist Dexter x Flowers in the Attic

Megan’s already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her girlfriend’s husband back in San Francisco, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up his crime—because that’s what family is for, probably.
Red and blue gradient abstract background with almond blossoms and floating themes like a word cloud, in order of size: unhinged, queer, breaking taboos, bears, remote location, meat, true crime podcast, long-lost siblings, serial killers, nature vs nurture, messed up family, Independence Day weekend, spiders, predators, prey. In the center, a mood board labeled KINSHIP (84000-word horror-thriller) featuring extreme closeups of a woman holding an iPhone; a man pulling his shirt off, a tick on skin, bars in a cell, raw hamburger meat, a pile of trash bags, a hand held out, a spider, lips being painted with lipgloss, a bear, crispy ground, two women kissing, podcast studio mic, a drain covered with blood, a stone tunnel, a woman holding a gun to a man's chest, a foot wearing Louboutins, an ugly floral orange couch, hands open a lipgloss tube, a woman walking through crispy grasses, a woman's bare back, spilled sparkly pink nail polish, a mosquito on skin, blood-covered hand rests on a woman's lip. Abstract red and blue gradient background featuring almond blossoms. Words overlaid: KINSHIP. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her girlfriend's husband back in San Francisco, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up his crime--because that's what family is for, probably. For fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leede, My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, and Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild. Red and blue gradient background with photo of Sydney Sweeney looking very serious. Says: Meet Megan. Former Orphan. Type-A Scorpio. Beauty fiend. Gets what she wants. Plays with her food. Puts the gore in gorgeous.
January 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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gabriel-yuriria.bsky.social
THE SHERIDAN TAPES X THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES

Fake paranormal investigators + real witch = real encounters they weren't ready for

🖤 missing person mystery
🖤 soft pining
🖤 eldritch gods & locations
🖤 religious trauma
🖤 gothic podcast vibes
🖤 two timelines
🖤 creepy forests

#BluePit 📖 #H #Wip #A
Upper left: abandoned house Upper right: half lit staircase Center: old recorder Lower left: darkened underground hallway Lower right: lone person standing in a field
January 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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alpaolucci.bsky.social
An editor’s guide to my NA Romantasy comped to FOURTH WING and THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE

My agent and I are prepping for sub! 😊💜

#BluePit #NA #F #R #AmAgented
An editor’s guide to THE DRAGON PRODIGY
January 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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lexiheathermoor.bsky.social
#BluePit #A #Q #R 📖
We've been at each other's throats for the last year, but I (24F) signed a sex contract with my ex's lifelong BFF (25M). My ex will ruin our lives if he finds out, but I think I'm catching feelings despite the fact his BFF still hates me and is definitely hiding something. AITA?
A red aesthetic with 10 photos: Top left: “lust has no mercy” Top middle: a man’s hand is wrapped around a woman’s throat in a seductive way Top right: neon sign “seduce and destroy” Middle left: the shadow of a couple kissing in front of a blazing fire Middle middle: a neon sign with “I licked it so it’s mine” Middle right: a shadowed couple with noses touching in an almost kiss Bottom left: neon sign with “you have been warned” Bottom middle: a neon sign of a red heart with three red lights above it. Bottom right: hands clasped together and pressed into glass Center: a neon sign that says “there is only one rule: no rules.”
January 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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rammwriter.bsky.social

MI5 Mission Brief
13/01/1972

TOP SECRET

🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar
🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies
🔫 Use a gun
❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda
📃 It’s all theoretical
😕 Apart from *that* demo
✅️ Full government endorsement
👍Nothing can go wrong
🇷🇺 💣 💥
⬛️ Redacted

#Q #A #T #SF #BluePit 📖
There is a collage of six pictures, with white frames, arranged against a dark background, roughly in the shape of a clock. Clockwise from top left they depict the following: The silhouette of a man on his knees in a dark alley, with his hands behind his head. A section of ruined castle – we can see two tall arches and a window. A semi-automatic pistol laying on its side with seven rounds of ammunition beside it. A head shot of a man, in profile, wearing a trilby hat with the collar of his coat turned up. An old-fashioned, twin bell alarm clock. The lens of an old-fashioned compact camera. Three text boxes superimposed over the collage of images read as follows, in white courier font on a dark background: Out of Time Where espionage meets time travel In a thrilling high-stakes ride
January 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
heddadahl.bsky.social
Sweetpea X Dexter X Heretic

Neurodivergent Arden unpacks her religious trauma, purging predators in local churches she once considered sacred. But as her body counts grows, one question lingers—is she the righteous avenger and protector of the community, or the devil incarnate?

#BluePit
#A
#T
#WIP
January 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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librarianofthunder.bsky.social
📖 CELTIC MYTH X GREEK MYTH X NORSE MYTH

Jaimie’s father is convinced his son is a fae changeling. To save his own life, and the lives of the fae his father thinks kidnapped him, Jaimie must escape his home and travel with some not quite human companions to warn the fae.

#BluePit #Q #YA #F #LGBT
A mockup cover of THE STOLEN IDOL I drew by hand and then colored using a painting app on a tablet. The image shows a broken crescent shaped disk in front of the golden eye of one of the main characters, the Cat Si from Celtic mythology and folklore.
January 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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caitduffy.bsky.social
COME CLOSER x MAUVE FLY x BLACK SWAN

Bea Collins is desperate to become a respected actress. Unfortunately, she isn't very talented.

When she performs a ritual to Dionysus as an acting exercise, something answers.

Sometimes, it's far too easy to lose yourself to a role.

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #H
A moodboard collage for Caitlin Duffy's unpublished novel, THE THEATRE OF CRUELTY. Pictures include stage lights, a black and white photo of a man glaring at the camera, an oil painting of Dionysus depicted as a man with a beard holding a clump of green grapes, a female statue wearing a crown of ivy, a white woman staring sadly at her reflection, a stage lit up in black and white, a lit candle near a small pumpkin and bowl filled with spices, a person wearing a neutral white mask and cape, a painting of the shadow of a deer with tall antlers standing in a forest, and a lush forest landscape. There is also a small brick red box near the bottom left containing text in a white, handwriting-looking font that states: "I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames."
January 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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cotexican.bsky.social
Galveston Island, 1900: A young Latina dreams of love and independence, but haunting secrets and history's deadliest hurricane threaten everything she holds dear.

MEXICAN GOTHIC x CRIMSON PEAK

🌊 Seaside brooding
🥀 Gothic romance
👻 Ghosts
🌹 Kissing

#bluepit #q #a #h
January 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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havetsavain.bsky.social
When complacency with magical traditions, Witch traditions, that serve only a few is challenged, harmful backlash is weaponized. Two girls, from opposite worlds, will find out the extremes while attending the new mysterious school.

Welcome to Havetsavain Academy of Arcane!

#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #F
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.
January 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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guendalina.bsky.social
CLYTEMNESTRA X HOWL MOVING CASTLE
Longing for a lost home, Andromache's world shifts when her husband dies and she finds herself in a deathly battle of wills with her ex-captor's wife, but she's determined to rebuild a life with her children and won't be a slave - not again.
#BluePit 📖 #Q #F #H #A
NESTLESS SWALLOWS Adult Myth Retelling 100,000 words “It is a lovely place you have here. A lovely life.” Hermione’s breath puffed in my face. “Lovely like a child’s sandcastle. One gust of wind, one wave and it is gone.” “What do you want?” I gagged at the smell of her make-up. “I want what is rightfully mine and justice for what you did to my family.” “I never did anything to your family.” “You took my mother away. You humiliated my father.” A flame burnt in her eyes. [...] Loathing was strange. It crossed some people as fast as lighting. It fell, burned and destroyed, and then it was gone. In others, it planted a seed in the heart, unnoticed, even brushed away, and yet taking roots. “Mark my words. You belong to me and I will have you again, one day or another. I wish you a good night.” I collapsed against the jamb. My ears rang. Unforgotten memories flooded my mind. Molossos, only five, silently crying as men three times his size manhandled him; the look of sheer terror on Sestrinos’ face barely days ago. PITCH STUDIO GHIBLI X HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Longing for a lost home, Andromache won’t abandon the man she loves. But when he dies a sudden death, she finds herself in a deathly battle of wills with her ex-captor’s widow. Determined to rebuild a life with her children, Andromache won’t be a slave to her - not again Myth retelling Rebuilding Generational trauma Resilience Mother-son relationship Letting go of the past I’m afraid I don’t know what home is
January 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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abookishchai.bsky.social
FIVE SURVIVE X A LESSON IN VENGEANCE
82k YA Mystery

A teen girl obsessed with true crime attends at her father’s circus academy when her new roommate is suspected of murder, and her strong morals— and her big mouth— have her coming forward in a corrupt murder investigation.

#Bluepit #YA #Q #📖 #M
A collage of various warm-toned images: yellow caution tape, brown work boots, a plaid skirt, olive branches, a book shelf, old-fashioned hallways, a circus tent, and a black cat.
January 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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curioussnowflake.bsky.social
Thea Riordan is an eidetos, born with the ability to recall all she sees and hears perfectly. Recruited by a secret guild of spies, Thea soon finds herself faced with an impossible choice; save the life of her dearest friend, or plunge the nation into civil war.

#BluePit #W #YA #F #LGBT 📖
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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mariajhart.bsky.social
📖 #BluePit #W #A #P #R #LGBT

All Aurélien wants is to free his boyfriend from the shackles of the man who made him into a weapon. Unfortunately, as a descendent of Lancelot, his duty is supposed to come before his love — even if it means forsaking the son of King Arthur.
9 panel moodboard: Top L: one man’s hand pressing another’s into golden sheets Top Center: a spellcaster’s hands with teal symbols floating in front Top R: an ornate golden dagger handle wrapped around the emerald at the center Middle L: snow-covered pine forest Center: a falcon on a snowy branch Middle R: a snowy town on a lake with the aurora shining brightly above and reflected in the water Bottom L: a golden crown hung over a sword’s crossguard lit from behind by sunshine Bottom Center: a woman, visible from the shoulders up, emerging from a foggy lake Bottom R: fanart of of Ballister and Ambrosious from Nimona. Ballister is shrouded in his dark cloak, leaning heavily against a stone wall. Ambrosious is in bright gold armor, kissing Ballister’s inner elbow Overlaid are the lyrics: “I love you, I'm sorry You were the best but you were the worst As sick as it sounds, I loved you first I was a dick, it is what it is A habit to kick, the age-old curse” from I Love You, I’m Sorry by Gracie Abrams "My family is a thousand years of warped chivalry, toxic patriarchy, and unrealistic expectations, all wrapped in a shiny golden bow."
January 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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gabriel-yuriria.bsky.social
TRIANGLE X TIMECRIMES

Evan died and Rene doesn't know how to go on, now a deal with something in the woods gives him the chance to go back, for a price. Rene is willing to do anything so he and Evan can be happy

...But this story doesn't have a happy ending

#BluePit 📖 #YA #H #Q #ShortStory
Top left: young man walking into the woods Top right: dirty hands hovering over corpse's legs Bottom left: broken clock and sysiphus pushing boulder Upper center text: all things beautiful died with you Center center: skull in ground Lower center: hand on the ground Bottom right: figure standing in the woods
January 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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dawnberkoski.bsky.social
PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #Bluepit 📖 #Q #R #P #A

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender
Several photos are shown in this Mood Board by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. I Am Chosen By Dawn Berkoski 77,000 words M/M Paranormal Romance Dark and a little spicy meets silly-sweet Tropes *Forbidden Love *Fish Out of Water *Forced Proximity *Dark Secrets *Unequal Power Structure *High Action/Tension/ Chase Scenes *Enemies Closing in on all Sides Quotes: "He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger." ~Jason Allard (Protagonist) "Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!" ~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover) "Alexander and I have unfinished business.” ~Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival) MAIN CHARACTERS: Alexander Grant CEO of M-Corp Control Issues Likes: Money + Stocks Disklikes: Wasting Time Jason Allard Bartender Anxiety/Clingy Likes: Video Games + Pizza Dislikes: Vampires
January 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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mariajhart.bsky.social
Born Anew in Blood is an adult paranormal romance about a hot-headed librarian who is attacked by a werewolf and tossed into a magical alternate dimension where she ends up finding love, a family, and the truth about herself. Three Bisexual MCs and a diverse cast.

📖 #BluePit #P #R #A #I #LGBT
Born Anew in Blood mood board: 9 panels Top left: green ivy leaves Top middle: a cup of tea in a fancy mug on a saucer. An open book lies open next to it, and a ray of sunshine illuminates both Top right: a bright, unnaturally green dahlia Middle left: an ornately carved dagger Center: a rocky stream running through a wood Middle right: a bright library. The shelves are carved of trees. Green plants and colorful books fill the space. Bottom left: a full moon partially shrouded with clouds Bottom middle: backlit silhouette of a man and woman kissing. Bottom right: small wooden shack in a green forest
January 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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mslanna.bsky.social
Finna x Failure to Communicate

When Sava said she wanted to leave this world, fake-marrying a king in preparation for regicide wasn't what she had in mind. But if that's what it takes to land the job of her dreams, she is game.
Probably.

#BluePit #📖 #A #F #Q #LBGT #OV
Four images placed on a background of a forest in reddish/Orange hues. In the top left corner is a grid of 3x3 portraits of the cast. Each of of them has the word "queer" in shiny purple and pink over the bust region. Only two white men are exempt, one sporting three ? Instead and the other having ?!?. In the left top is the image of a French castle with a geometrical garden in front of it. I has many white towers and the roof is decked in dark grey tiles. In the bottom left is the log line "Go Queen Or Go Home*" on a rainbow background. In the right bottom is a drawing of a white woman sitting with the back to the viewer. We can see her face since she's sitting in front of a huge mirror, holding up the fabric of a white dress to her. She's still wearing the skirts. We can see a man whit long white hair in the mirror, but he has his back and is not looking.(He has a nice ass.) In the very bottom right corner is the asterisk followed by very small writing saying: she goes home...
January 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM