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Kimberly Hays de Muga
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Writer, YA Historical Mysteries, Querying, Excessive tea drinking
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Kimberly Hays de Muga @khaysdemuga.bsky.social · Jan 13
Queer ENOLA HOLMES X TRULY DEVIOUS
It started with a simple theft...Runaway pickpocket finds refuge in a renegade women's collective in 13th Bruges, where she must use all her skills to solve a string of murders before she's the next victim of a corrupt secret society.
#Q #YA #M #Hs📖 #BluePit
A medieval drawing of an ouroboros, or serpent in a circle, eating its own tail. From a public domain source
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UPDATE -- students in Georgia who've participated in the Reading Bowl have launched a petition to get answers as to why these 8 books were banned. Please amplify their petition and message, as well as the story here.

Petition: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...
Image of a book with flowers on it. It's a flier from the Wheeler High School Reading Bowl team saying "Fight Book Banning." Under the image it says "We want open minds, not closed books," and asks people to sign their petition: https://www.change.org/p/ensure-transparency-and-change-in-georgia-high-school-hrrb-book-banning-process?recruited_by_id=1a6e97a0-a854-11f0-aa25-fd089d14a993&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
October 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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swingingstorm.bsky.social
One of my favorite poems ❤️
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
This YA fantasies looks amazing. See OP for details on how to win them.
sylvialiu.bsky.social Sylvia Liu @sylvialiu.bsky.social · Jan 28
The news is dire so I’m sharing some bookish love. I loved Lauren Blackwood’s books so much I accidentally ordered them twice, so I’m giving away a set of her YA fantasies.

L + RP to enter, ends 2/4. Leave a comment for an extra entry. #giveaway
January 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
@kerrielegend.bsky.social I've just downloaded Scrivener to help reign in the chaos of my first draft of a dual timeline YA historical. Any tips or recommendations to keep me from going down a twist rabbit hole of doom, ie. blowing way too much time trying to learn every little scrivener thing?
January 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
Hey #writingcommunity I'm still finding my way in this app, and would love some book recommendations based on the crititeria below. TIA
khaysdemuga.bsky.social Kimberly Hays de Muga @khaysdemuga.bsky.social · Jan 15
Looking for your favorite YA dual timeline mysteries that are new to me (not Truly Devious or the Agathas, but in that same vein) out in the last 2-3 years. #YA #bookrecs
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January 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
Looking for your favorite YA dual timeline mysteries that are new to me (not Truly Devious or the Agathas, but in that same vein) out in the last 2-3 years. #YA #bookrecs
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January 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
Queer ENOLA HOLMES X TRULY DEVIOUS
It started with a simple theft...Runaway pickpocket finds refuge in a renegade women's collective in 13th Bruges, where she must use all her skills to solve a string of murders before she's the next victim of a corrupt secret society.
#Q #YA #M #Hs📖 #BluePit
A medieval drawing of an ouroboros, or serpent in a circle, eating its own tail. From a public domain source
January 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
Queer ENOLA HOLMES X TRULY DEVIOUS
When the hunters are the hunted...Runaway pickpocket finds refuge in a renegade women's collective in 13th Bruges, where she must use all her skills to solve a string of murders before she's the next victim of a corrupt secret society.

#Q #YA #M #Hs📖 #BluePit
Medieval marginalia depicting a pair of rabbits that are hunting dogs
January 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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cfranciswrites.bsky.social
The Last Of Us x 1984 x Firefly

An alcoholic ex-soldier, haunted by his role in empowering a deadly regime, gets a shot at redemption by protecting a mute girl from turning into the galaxy's greatest weapon—one of the gods who killed his son.

#BluePit #Q #A #SF
Mood board for 'The Last Sky', a sci-fi novel. Grid of nine images. Top row: 1) close-up on a man's hand holding a little girl's hand; 2) shock troopers moving through smoke with rifles drawn; 3) a girl's face in profile with glowing scientific and mathematical symbols superimposed over her head. Middle row: 4) An epic shot of a spaceship flying past a solar eclipse through clouds; 5) The book's title 'The Last Sky'; 6) A planet burning and crumbling apart. Bottom row: 7) A man's silhouette hunched over, holding a bottle of alcohol; 8) A silhouette image of a man playfully holding a little boy on his shoulders at sunset; 9) a close up of a man's face in profile, tears rolling over his cheeks as he appears to stare at the image of the boy in the sunset.
January 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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DOWNTON ABBEY X FRIENDS
In 1855, the crème of British nobility attend a 2-week house party. Once the party begins, so does the madness! The days are riddled with impossible love, scandalous secrets AND an abduction..What could possibly go right?!

#BluePit #A #Q #R #Hs 📖
A total of 4 Victorian England-inspired images in a collage. Top left: 3 couples dancing at a Victorian ball + top right: 3 ladies having a tea party in a garden, gossiping + bottom left: an aristocratic couple embracing in a dim-lit majestic hallway+ bottom right: an image of a grand country estate in England, UK + middle: a text box with prompts: - first in a series of books - multiple love stories: childhood friends to lovers + enemies to lovers - mistaken identity - Long lost family secrets. At the top of the collage is an invitation with the text: you are cordially invited to Lavender Hall. May your journey be swift and pleasant. Yours sincerely, Duke and Duchess of Sands
January 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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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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jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social
WIZARD OF OZ x MIRRORMASK
For millennia, Alexandria and Tin have loyally served the sentient nexus of all human imagination. But when a lost teen drops into their lives, they'll do anything to keep her from throwing away her freedom—even defying their godlike prison.
📖 #BluePit #W #YA #F #LGBT
Moodboard of six images. Top/mid left: Close-up of an orange cat, with just half its face visible. It's staring directly at the camera. Center/top right: A man stands in a doorway, back to the viewer. The door is the only source of light in an otherwise pitch-black room. Center/mid right: A bookshop full of books, but the walls, themselves lined with bookshelves, are curved to form a tunnel around the viewer. In the center of the tunnel are rows of more book displays, leading to a closed window. Bottom left: A dark-skinned man adjusts the cuffs of his pressed, white, button-down shirt. Only his hands are visible. Bottom center: A heavyset woman stands in the middle of a forest, gazing up in apprehension/curiosity towards something to the top right. Her hands are holding down the edges of her brown, wide-brimmed hat. Bottom right: A person in loose-fitting clothes and a long, brown jacket sits next to a small table with a coffee set and a vintage camera on it. The figure holds up a red-covered book (titled Alice) in such a way that their face is completely obscured.
January 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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meljrey.bsky.social
There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret?
THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER x THE JASAD HEIR
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #F
Photo collage with a dark aesthetic and reddish and green tones. Top row: A fox stares out from the darkness, one eye visible; a door knocker fashioned like a dragon; an eclipse, the sky is swirling with green tinged clouds. Middle row: A female warrior sits, propped up using the hilt of her sword; a double exposure of a face holding its hands like the scream but it's ghostlike and hard to discern the gender; a catacomb tunnel with a man holding a torch of fire; a strange unusual formation of rocks against the night sky with stars visible. Bottom row: a murky dark forest with twisted limbs and green atmostphere; the profile of a woman, long hair loose, she's in silhouette surrounded by darkness.
January 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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FINAL DESTINATION X THE DYBBUK X FREAKY FRIDAY

For Ava, death seems so much easier than life without her mom. But when her mom shows up at her own shiva to possess her, she starts to realize there’s a lot more to life than death.

#BluePit 📖 #W #YA #H #F #D

#writingcommunity
Moodboard. Image of flowers at a funeral, grieving girls, candles, the Dybbuk, another grieving girl, a funeral.
January 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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jcondenunez.bsky.social
Get in loser, it's the year 1899 and we're taking a trip from London➡Paris➡Rome to find a way into the Underworld so that the MC’s brother doesn't unleash Hell upon earth--and along the way, we're going to slay demons & fall in love w/a bisexual vampire hunter 🌹
#BluePit 📖 #Q #Hs #F #H #R #LGBT #POC
"There are two ways a human can enter the Underworld. You can die or you can enter through Hell. I assume you don't want to die yet, so you will have to go to Hell." moodboard featuring gothic & 19th century europe imagery, including: a dark lamppost, a statue of an angel, a mausoleum, a romantic sculpture by auguste rodin, a female vampire with fangs bared, a photo of the ponte sant'angelo, candelabras, painting of skull and flowers, a woman with red lipstick wearing a veil over her eyes, the moon against a black background, a silhouette of lovers, a wraith, a wolf, a man and a woman standing side by side, one holding a gun
January 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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GIDEON THE NINTH x FINAL FANTASY XIV
When luckless, magicless Mick agrees to be his mage best friend (and crush) Eleanor's adventuring partner, the last thing either of them expects is for him to be cursed with the body of a dragon and a mission to fight the gods.
📖 #BluePit #W #A #F #R #LGBT
Moodboard of eight images. Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible. Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire. Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's. Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses. Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest. Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky. Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.
January 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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charscrawls.bsky.social
🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#BluePit #W #A #LF #M 📖
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, they are: big ben (london), a board of evidence, a street cornered off by crime scene tape, someone playing the guitar, the silhouette of a rockstar, musical notes, a crowd of music goers, evidence on the floor and someone punching a mirror.
January 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
Queer ENOLA HOLMES X TRULY DEVIOUS
Runaway pickpocket finds refuge in renegade women's collective in 13th Bruges, where she must use all her skills to solve a string of murders before she's the next victim of a corrupt secret society
#Q #YA #M #Hs 📖
#BluePit
montage of medieval photos and art including an old door, a young woman reading, a snake ring and a drawing of a two rabbits fighting
January 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#BluePit
khaysdemuga.bsky.social Kimberly Hays de Muga @khaysdemuga.bsky.social · Jan 13
Queer ENOLA HOLMES X TRULY DEVIOUS
Runaway pickpocket finds refuge in renegade women's collective in 13th Bruges, where she must use all her skills to solve a string of murders before she's the next victim of a corrupt secret society #Q #YA #M #HS 📖
frozen canal in a medieval city, ring of snake eating itself, young woman in old library
January 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
Queer ENOLA HOLMES X TRULY DEVIOUS
Runaway pickpocket finds refuge in renegade women's collective in 13th Bruges, where she must use all her skills to solve a string of murders before she's the next victim of a corrupt secret society #Q #YA #M #HS 📖
frozen canal in a medieval city, ring of snake eating itself, young woman in old library
January 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
khaysdemuga.bsky.social
Here's my mood board for The Locked Garden, a YA historical mystery set in 13th Bruges #BluePitHype #BluePit #YA
January 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM