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Homesteadish. Animals. Politics. IDK ishly-filtered thoughts?
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Holly @mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social · Jan 13
Pitch #2!
📖 Auntie Laurel's Guide to Heartbreak Survival
#BLUEPIT #Q #YA #contemp #HU

🥋 Martial arts (judo)
🐴 Horseback riding
👯 Female friendships for healing
🧿 Metaphysical mentioned
🥔 SO MANY POTATOES
Pink background with flowers and a horse on it. Text says Agent's Guide To Auntie Laurel's Guide to Heartbreak Survival. Tropes: first everything, first love, equine therapy. Pink background with flowers and a horse on it. Text says Pitch. Your first heartbreak is devastating. Life ruining. Impossible to heal. And Zoey has just learned this first hand. In a desperate attempt to alleviate her pain, she moves in with her aunt and uncle on their homestead. She throws herself into new hobbies, like horseback riding and judo, to figure out just how to survive heartbreak. Pink background with flowers and a horse on it. Text says first lines. I had not seen my Auntie Laurel for almost three years. We texted sometimes, talked on Insta sometimes. I liked her videos, she liked mine. Sometimes. But the idea of staying home for the summer made me sick. Actually, the idea of leaving for the summer made me sick, too. Pink background with flowers and a horse on it. The comp titles have pictures of the covers on the graphic. Comps are The Secret Recipe for Moving On by Karen Bischer and Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau.
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
I haven't been on here in a month I've been too depressed to be funny. You know that place past funny because you're kinda depressed but before funny because you're super depressed? That's me.

Not super depressed. Doing well. Enjoying my life. Little gray. Not funny.
March 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
You GUYS there are PIGEON RESCUES you can ADOPT pigeons I need 10 of them
January 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
Sorry everyone that followed me for actual content I got lost in the TikTok ban
Anyway now I'm bored what's everyone up to? 😂
#tiktokban
January 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
The best part of my day is naptime.
January 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Here are some nice mushrooms
Seven orange marasmius mushrooms float like tiny jellyfish atop black threadlike stems, they grow from fallen leaves beside an old log All photos by me
January 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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cbgriffin.bsky.social

Diary of a Sidekick (25K words) maps the dynamic of Holmes & Watson onto Sheila and her skeptical bestie Janie. A quest to explain spooky bats and puzzling decorations tests their friendship and pushes Janie out of her self-doubting shadow. The first draft is done!
#BluePit 📖 #W #MG #Q
January 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
Pitch #3!
The Hounds King
📖 #W #YA #F
🐕Magical dogs
⛰️Mountains older than bones
🪵World ending stakes
🤴Prince in disguise
👨‍👦Daddy Issues with Happy Ending Resolution
Sage green background with 4 dog silhouettes under a crown silhouette. Text says Tropes. Hidden identity, The Quest, The Powerful Artifact (but the artifacts are dogs) Sage green background with 4 dog silhouettes under a crown silhouette. Text says Pitch. "If anything happens, you find the hounds. Nothing else matters except finding the hounds." Prince Kian knows that order backwards, forwards, and side to side. He doesn't think he'll ever have to follow it, though, despite the king's childish, irresponsible nature. But then the king is abducted and Kian's kingdom invaded. The hounds are scattered, their apocalyptic powers with them. Kian doesn't like the king. But the king is his father. Can Kian really follow his orders to find the hounds, and leave his father behind? Kian knows the hounds are dangerous, world-destroyingly dangerous. Kian will have to decide between his duty and his family.
January 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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dreawrites.bsky.social
THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE x THE BONE WITCH

Carys, seer and witch, reads the cards for the Prince of Vasi and sees danger coming swiftly across the sea.

SEER OF THE STRAIT features a 30 yr old FMC, intrigue, 3+ bisexual men, and a fantasy setting not based on England.
#BluePit 📖 #IN #F #A #LGBT
Mood board for Seer of the Strait, a fantasy novel by Drea Talley. The board has 8 panels. Starting top right, going clockwise: 1, a lavish interior room in a palace with gilded ceilings, chandeliers, and richly upholstered chairs. 2, a woman's eyes, the iris so pale as to be almost white, and slightly glowing. 3, a wooden throne on a beach with cliffs in the near distance. 4, the cover of Seer of the Strait. 5, a wooden table with small metal dishes of different herbs in the foreground and a book with apothecary cannisters in the background. 6, macro shot of a honey bee on a purple dahlia. 7, a full moon over a rocky hill covered in long grasses and wildflowers. 8, blue oracle cards spread over a gray wooden table along with two candles, a bottle, and a peacock feather.
January 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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chelseascottbks.bsky.social
TRULY DEVIOUS X ONE OF US IS LYING

When the glue to their friend group is murdered, four teens at a remote summer camp for the arts must dig up dirt on each other's hookups, criminal records, and drug dealing to expose a killer who'll do anything to keep the truth buried.

📖 #BluePit #Q #YA #M
A mood board with a green background. At the top reads: "Hope you enjoyed your summer at Camp Butcher!" with kissy lips. From left, the first picture is of a couple kissing in a lake, captioned: not his girlfriend. Middle picture is of newspaper print of the word LIES over and over, torn away to reveal TRUTH, captioned: Who ISN'T lying in this book? Final picture on the right is of a row of summer camp cabins, captioned: murder & mayhem spots.
January 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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motthepaladin.bsky.social
Melody and Lyra have shared a body for over 20 years, and they're doing great... until Lyra is stolen from under their skin. Melody teams up with Lyra's girlfriend Annie (who had no idea Melody exists), and an angel to go on an awkward rescue road trip.

#Bluepit #W #A #F #LGBT 📖
My Sister's Stolen Soul in black and purple text with white angel wings behind it A car mirror reflecting the sunset, an eye with a purple iris, an angel statue, a silhouette of two hands with linked pinkies, a snowy road at night
January 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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quietsnooze.bsky.social
A pinch of this, a dash of that for a witches’ brew…

Resulting tea flavours:
🐦‍⬛ Terrible father figures
🐦‍⬛ The cost paid in being gifted magic
🐦‍⬛ Found family
🐦‍⬛ Good is not nice
🐦‍⬛ Embracing one’s own capabilities
🐦‍⬛ Learning to grieve
🐦‍⬛ Finding courage
🐦‍⬛ Second chances

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #WIP #Dis
THE COVEN: A collage including illustrations of three hags (Oma, Gran, and Nonna) and Rowan An autumnal road, with a quote: Dread entangles his spine like climbing ivy, but the mystery of not knowing steels him rigidly. “Which Court is he sending me to?” “Autumn.” The leaves of dread snap him straight up with thighs tensing in a rabbit’s instinct to flee. His grandmother’s delivery isn’t callous, and that’s the worst part; she anticipates his dashing away, and so his muscles immediately tighten as the weight of her magic holds him down in place. And when her mulberry bruised mouth twists near his long pale ear, he doesn’t test whether he can still move his head to meet her soulless yellow eyes against pitch black sclera. He simply listens with obedience broken into him like the repeated snapping and healing of bones. “When does patience become tolerance? Do I squash it before it bursts out of its cocoon of negligence, petal?” The ancient hag scrutinizes him, and a hundred years of his fey life is diminished, leaving him there to feel a child’s shame. “We are not waiting any longer for you to recover your nerve.” Her disgust at the shambles of his structure gives release to him as one does a held breath. “You will leave with them on the morrow for Autumn. Whether your sensibilities will be packed away in your things is no concern of mine, only that you are riding west as the Emperor requested.” She leaves him, snatching up her cup with fingers bent with one-too-many knuckles. The door smacks its frame twice.
January 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
Pitch #2!
📖 Auntie Laurel's Guide to Heartbreak Survival
#BLUEPIT #Q #YA #contemp #HU

🥋 Martial arts (judo)
🐴 Horseback riding
👯 Female friendships for healing
🧿 Metaphysical mentioned
🥔 SO MANY POTATOES
Pink background with flowers and a horse on it. Text says Agent's Guide To Auntie Laurel's Guide to Heartbreak Survival. Tropes: first everything, first love, equine therapy. Pink background with flowers and a horse on it. Text says Pitch. Your first heartbreak is devastating. Life ruining. Impossible to heal. And Zoey has just learned this first hand. In a desperate attempt to alleviate her pain, she moves in with her aunt and uncle on their homestead. She throws herself into new hobbies, like horseback riding and judo, to figure out just how to survive heartbreak. Pink background with flowers and a horse on it. Text says first lines. I had not seen my Auntie Laurel for almost three years. We texted sometimes, talked on Insta sometimes. I liked her videos, she liked mine. Sometimes. But the idea of staying home for the summer made me sick. Actually, the idea of leaving for the summer made me sick, too. Pink background with flowers and a horse on it. The comp titles have pictures of the covers on the graphic. Comps are The Secret Recipe for Moving On by Karen Bischer and Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau.
January 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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adlinktauthor.bsky.social
Marianela’s Heroing List:
🏫Get accepted into the best super hero academy in the country
🤝Make friends with other heroes in training
🔥Practice with my pink flames more
👫Figure out if I accidentally burned my parents to d34th or if a villain did
#BluePit #YA #F #WiP 📖
January 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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zillawrites.bsky.social
YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE TONIGHT x THE SHINING

💗 Platonic soulmates w/a Squid Game friendship arc 🔪
🏨 A hungry hotel
🪞 Mind games
👻 A ghostly soldier
🩸 “I’ve never met a stain I couldn’t get out.”

#W #A #H #BluePit 📖
January 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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garwuprivacypublications.com
Camille & the Cookies
A young girl learns that sometimes free things come with hidden costs when her granny’s business partner, Mr. Wolf, starts using new business tactics & everything changes.

✨Little Red Riding Hood Retelling🧚‍♀️
🐺No real villains
🦹‍♀️Redemption arc🦸‍♀️
#BluePit #Q #PB #I #Kidlit #DIS 📖
Light Red background. Title at the top reads: "Agent's Guide to Camille & the Cookies.” The text reads: “Join Camille, clad in her little red jacket, as she learns that sometimes free things come with hidden costs, a lesson important to our personal and digital lives. In the mythical small town of Alaurea, Camille's Granny and her business partner, Warren Wolf, run a beloved cookie stand. Everything seems perfect as Camille and her friends delight in the cookies while playing at the park. However, one day when Granny is away, things take a turn. The cookies taste better than ever, but something feels off. Can Camille and Granny restore harmony to their idyllic world? With endearing characters and delicious challenges, this contemporary retelling of little red riding hood is sure to delight all readers, and also help to teach an important lesson about online cookies and cybersecurity.” Light Red background. Title reads: "Comps for Camille & the Cookies.” There is a bulleted list of 3 works. Little Red Riding Hood (My First Fairy Tales) by Tiger Tales (Author), Loretta Schauer (Illustrator) (March 3, 2015) The Little Cyber Engineer, By Amber DeVilbiss (Author, Illustrator) (July 17, 2022) Chicken Clicking By Jeanne Willis (Author), Tony Ross (Illustrator) (September 1, 2015) Underneath the list comes the cover images of each of the books. On the left, is an image of a book, Little Red Riding Hood, with a cartoon wolf and a little girl. The little girl is wearing her hair in pigtail braids covered with a red cape and hood. She’s wearing red mary jane shoes and white and blue striped long socks or hosiery. She’s holding a basket. It’s very stylized. The wolf looks more kind than sinister with yellow eyes. He’s rubbing his hands together raised under his chin. They both look like they’re in movement - dancing or running. On the center and left of the cover in the background are cartoon pine trees and forest. Granny’s cottage is in the distance. The author and illustrator’s names appear in the grass in white print. The middle image is of a book with a navy cover. Its title is The Little Cyber Engineer in yellow text. The image is of a little girl in all black looking like a ninja or hacker. She's carrying a sack full of money. The author and illustrator is listed in the bottom right hand corner in white and yellow text. On the right, is an image of a very cartoonish adorable and humanized chick sitting in front of a desktop computer with a computer screen glowing. The chick is using a mouse and keyboard and is obviously online surfing. The chick has blushing cheeks. The Title, Chicken Clicking, appears in big, yellow font. The author’s and illustrator’s names in small blue font on either side of the title. There’s a quote on the cover in a cartoon bubble that reads, “A great book…to introduce safety on the intranet. GUARDIAN” Light Red background. Title reads: "Tropes for Camille & the Cookies.” Then there is a list of 5 tropes. Sparkle emoji. Modernized fairy tales. fairy emoji, female scientist emoji. Empowering the Underrepresented. wolf emoji. No real villains supervillain emoji. Redemption arcs superhero emoji. open laptop emoji. Digital messages in (mostly) analog format. old style dial telephone emoji. At the bottom is an image of a smiling brunette girl in a red hood and cape. She looks like a traditional Little Red Riding Hood. She’s skipping. She appears to have brown shoes and bare legs. Her fists are closed and she has a very wide smile. There is a black thin arrow leading to a picture of a red drawstring hoodie and a picture of 3 chocolate chip cookies. Underneath these pictures reads the following text: “Contemporary Little Red Riding Hood & A Lesson About Online Cookies” Mood board with a light red background. In the first row of pictures, three photos described left to right. 1st - is a collage of chocolate chip cookies. 2nd- is a stack of older bound books with the book on top open and the pages arranged in an arch. 3rd - is a colorful assortment of handprints made from paint, assembled as if done for a school project. The second row has three images and a text box. From left to right- The first image is rendition of a planet in space with light hitting the top of the planet. This image is outlined by text resembling computer code in blue with images of locks to indicate data security. The next box is black text over a white background. In a cursive font, it reads “Everything is idyllic in the town of Alaurea.” In the third box is an image of a figure in a red hood carrying a basket walking along a dirt trail into a green forest. The fourth box is a closeup of an outdoor carousel. At the top right of the image is the face of one horse of the carousel. The rest of the carousel animals are seen from behind. In the third row, there are 4 boxes, 3 with images and one with text. From left to right - The first box has the image of a young Black girl (around 6-8) set to an off-white background. The girl has dark curly hair, is wearing a lab coat and blue safety goggles and is holding her chin as if she is thinking. In the second box is the image of a gray wolf lurking behind a tree. Only one of the wolf’s eyes is visible and there is a cloudy nature scape in the background. The colors of the image are wintery, with a bit of light blue hues. The third box has a white background with black text. In cursive writing, it reads “until a wolf changes everything…can Camille put it to right?” The final box has a market stand with rows of cookies. These are lots of cookies, some with marshmallows and chocolate, some double chocolate peanut butter, some white macadamia and either oatmeal raisin or Chocolate chip.
January 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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wintersleep85.bsky.social
BRIDGERTON X ATLA

A young lady's life changes forever when a legendary hero falls from the sky, survives, and saves her life. He's the greatest enemy of her people, but if they don't work together to stop a mystical murderer, she could lose everything she loves.

#Q #A #F #BluePit 📖
A snowy forest. Steampunk gears. A shadowy hand. Steampunk tech. A woman in a dress. A full moon.
January 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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mevanswrites.bsky.social
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE x queer SCOOBY DOO

When five friends find themselves locked in a mysterious manor with the body of an eccentric puzzle master, they must play their way through the manor’s riddles and puzzles to escape with their lives.

#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖
A nine block mood board showing, in order: blood stained converse shoes, bisexual pride pins, a woman wearing a “sounds gay I’m in” t shirt, a creepy Manor House, a newspaper clipping of the word murder, jigsaw pieces, a woman bending down to give a black cat a stroke, a blood stained key, and close up of several people shoes all standing in a circle
January 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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mizagium.bsky.social
MAGE HUNTER
Our protags are

Brie Clement: lost her father as a kid and had her left arm turned to crystal, leaving her disabled, now a White Mage

Joanna Roz: ran away as a trans teen and lived as an urchin until joining the Guard

V gay for each other (eventually)

#BluePit #W #A #F #LGBT 📖
January 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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chelseascottbks.bsky.social
THE COUNSELORS X SILENT SISTER

18 y/o Paige plans to spend her summer attending writing workshops and paddle-boating on the sparkly lake at camp. But when her boyfriend turns up dead and his BFF is arrested, she smells something fishy—and it isn't coming from the lake.

📖 #BluePit #Q #YA #M
A camping mood board with an orange tent and the writing "let's go killing" beside an etching of mountain caps. Polaroid pictures line the bottom. From left: a pile of question mark cutouts that are in darkness, with one glowing question mark in the middle; a person whose face is obscured in darkness, wearing a yellow raincoat; a hand of a presumably dead body on the floor, sticking out from a sheet.
January 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
STORY OF A WITCH
📖 #bluepit #Q #MG #F
Includes
👨‍👨‍👦 Family Drama and Supportive Family
🐕 Talking Animals
🐉 Dragons
👨‍👧 Mentor
A red gradient background with a dog and a duck in front of a castle silhouette and a dragon silhouette. Text says An Agent's Guide to Story of a Witch. Tropes: Family Drama, Talking Animals, The Power of Friendship, Reluctant Hero A red gradient background with a dog and duck in front of silhouettes of a castle and a dragon. Text says Pitch. Pokemon combined with witchcraft in this family-focused middle grade fantasy. Everyone in the country believes Story Riddlemaker is dead, including her father. But the heir to the tyrannical Riddlemaker dynasty is very much alive. And at 13, the hidden witch will embark on her witch's journey with her flock of animal familiars. But when her father realizes she's alive, he takes her journey as a chance to find her and make her join him. Or get rid of her. A red gradient background with a dog and duck in front of silhouettes of a castle and a dragon. Text says First Lines. The last of the dragons was massive in size. His deep, obsidian scales had a glistening sheen to them that sparkled green in the sunlight. His barrel chest, even now, was full of heat and flint and magic. A red gradient background with a dog and duck in front of silhouettes of a castle and a dragon. The comp titles are pictures of the book covers. Comps. If We Were Giants by Dave Matthews and Clete Barrett Smith, Wilderlore: The Accidental Apprentice by Amanda Foody, and The Fire Within by Chris d'Lacey
January 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
Excited for my first pitch event!

I'll be pitching 3 novels, MG fantasy (query), YA contemp (query), and YA fantasy (WIP).

I like to use elements of my interests, like animal husbandry/training, mental health, judo.

I'm excited to see everyone's pitches!
bluepit.bsky.social #BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · Jan 8
#BluePitHype It's the start of our Q&A!

Let's start by getting to know each other better! It's Introduction day!

Only 5 more days to go until #BluePit!
#BluePitHype Q & A January 8th Introductions Tell us about yourself ahead of #BluePit! What inspires you, what genres do you write in, how did you become a writer? Pitch contests are also a great way to make/reconnect with friends. We can’t wait to meet you! 5 DAYS To #BLUEPIT ON Mon, Jan 13th! @BLUEPIT.BSKY.SOCIAL
January 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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bluepit.bsky.social
#BluePitHype It's the start of our Q&A!

Let's start by getting to know each other better! It's Introduction day!

Only 5 more days to go until #BluePit!
#BluePitHype Q & A January 8th Introductions Tell us about yourself ahead of #BluePit! What inspires you, what genres do you write in, how did you become a writer? Pitch contests are also a great way to make/reconnect with friends. We can’t wait to meet you! 5 DAYS To #BLUEPIT ON Mon, Jan 13th! @BLUEPIT.BSKY.SOCIAL
January 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
mrshowlingwinds.bsky.social
Went to Marcus Cinemas for the first time in 5 years yesterday. It was terrible. 2 small bags of candy and a large soda was $20. Tickets were $30. The seats weren't comfortable. Sound was meh. Marcus used to be my happy place, circa 2010. Not going back again.
#marcuscinema #movietheaters
December 24, 2024 at 12:45 AM