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#WIPsnips no cry, but here's tear... 🥲 I banish the tears before they fall, but the sting of the memory still catches at the corner of my eyes.

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Just the most perfect 10k pin for my other WIP 🤩🧵🪡✋ #writingcommunity #amwriting #booksky

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Hiiiiiiii 👋 it's #portfolioday and I'm a book cover/interior artist who works with pub houses and indie authors alike! Let's chat! 👉 [email protected] ✨

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Say hello to my OctoPomegranate 🐙 (Made many, many years ago, but still holds a special place in my heart.)

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So... what are the best tags to use to be part of the bluesky writing community? #writingcommunity? #booksky? Something else entirely?

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Harper Collins did not sign. So weird how being owned by Rupert Murdoch means they can't even advocate for their own survival. Libraries are a HUGE part of all publishers' bottom lines. If you can't speak out bc it's right, speak out bc otherwise this destroys your bottom line ffs

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About a year ago I had to design and print a sticker badge of honor when my toddler said his first ope (iykyk) www.babysfirstope.com 🫶

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Boosting again because I've had a chance to read the first few chapters and this one is an absolute gem! 😍

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FINAL FANTASY x BEYOND GOOD & EVIL x SHADOW OF COLOSSUS Green once blanketed Earth. Of course, that was before our planet was renamed Sin. Some have the luxury of forgetting. The rest of us have no choice but to remember. #1stLinePit #A #SF #WIP

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#Q #YA #RF #1stLinePit We run through the forest; the full moon is the only light we need. We know where we are going. A small group of warriors ready to take down the would-be usurper and all who protect him. (my 8am post that I didn't click post on 😅)

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KNIVES OUT X NANCY DREW “Another case solved,” I say aloud to no one in particular. I lean back in my desk chair, stretching my arms over my head. My back arches, and my shoulder blades crack. #1stlinepit #YA #A #crossover #M #Q #T

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No one ever left the Tenement. That was Rule Number One. 😨 Dystopian nightmare 🚪Backrooms ⬛Empty World 📜Follow the Rules 🤱Missing Parent 👥Wholesome Bro Friends ✊Rage Against the Machine 🗝️Forgotten Knowledge 🔎Buried Secrets 💊 Leaving the Matrix #1stLinePit #WIP #YA #S #M #D bsky.app/profile/prof...

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All morning Morton Sinclair had watched the tempest rage outside his window, the rain hurling itself in sheets against the glass with such savagery he feared it might break.’ #1stLinePit #C #HF #A

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FROM BLOOD AND ASH x SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME THE QUEEN IS RISING Stories are pretty, but the truth is real and full of pain. #1stLinePit #Q #A #RF

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"My fingernails bit into my skin as I gripped the hilt of my dagger." #Q #A #RF #1stLinePit

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LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER The wind has only spoken to me once in my life. #Q #YA #F #Jewish #1stLinePit

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🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ “it begins with a murmur drifting upon the wind.” seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rock star sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #1stLinePit #A #LF #M (almost) #Q

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“Again.” Sweat drips off of my brow and onto the floor, joining the puddles already forming around me. We've been at this for three hours and this is the first time I've fallen. #1stLinePit #YA #F #WIP

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🌊 WHEN THE MOON HATCHEDxNEVER KEEP 🌊 "The lifeless man at my feet gave no fight. What a shame. I prefer my hunts to have a little more thrill. More adrenaline. More zest." 👀 editor interest 👀 #1stLinePit #Q #NA #A #F #RF

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"Heat beats me down to a sweaty pulp, the sun ablaze and unforgiving like it’s trying to set the world on fire." - To Ruin the Sky ⚡️ #1stLinePit #q #RF #NA #UF #OwnVoices

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BLACK SHEEP x HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE There is a hunger that can never be sated, save by the spilling of blood. The people of Winnepa know it well. An ache dulled only by the beat of swift footsteps through the Appalachian forest. Nearer. Louder. Famished. #1stlinepit #wip #q #na #h

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✨SERPENT & DOVE X WITCHER✨ The guard died still on his feet. The witch’s blade flung a spray of blood against the stone wall as the soldier fell, and she stepped over the body, the man’s head rolling with a wet slap under a table. #1stlinepit #A #F #R #amquerying

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Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart. ⚔️Age-old clan feud 🧪Unique magic & world 🐉Scandinavian fairytale creatures ❤️‍🔥Steamy forbidden love 🛡️"Who did this?" 🗡️"Touch him & die" #1stLinePit #Romantasy #NA #AgentsGuide

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The blow strikes again and again in my mind—sharp each time as the initial hit that dropped me. 🐂 Epic of Gilgamesh 👑A crown she was never meant to wear 🔥A stranger she should never want 💀"You think I’m afraid of you?" 💘"No. That’s why I’m afraid of me" #1stLinePit #NA #romantasy #wip

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#1stLinePit After my mother died, the smell of smoke clung to me for days. It was tradition in Doverum to burn the dead. It had been for longer than anyone could remember, stretching back through generations in a never-ending cycle of life and death, flame and ash.🖤 #WIP #YA #RF

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PSA: If you like a short story, please don't record yourself reading it in full & post it on your youtube channel. You're using that story's audio rights — rights that are being sat on for a reason — and monetarily hurting the author whose work you enjoyed. STOP IT, please and thank you.

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Next #1stLinePit: 2025-04-05 (April fifth) Time: TBA, but the US West Coast will have a VERY bright and early start, while East Coasters get a slightly lazier morning. Europeans start around noon, and Australians begin late in the evening. The event will run for 24 hours. #WritingCommunity

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Anyone know of any upcoming pitch events? #booksky

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Time to start a new WIP pin sash since my project hit 10k words! (Almost 20k, even!) Excited to add new pins every 10k 🥰 #amwriting #booksky

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Partial of Gilgamesh romantasy — drafted ✓ Partial of YA Timey-Whimey Folk Horror — drafted ✓ →→→ Partial of YA Yellowjackets meets Pan's Labryinth — WIP 😍😍😍 #booksky

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Way back when, I designed this book cover for a project that never came to be. Looking back, I think it'd be so fun to reimagine classic fairytales under a social media lense. Might make an interesting anthology? Any #booksky authors interested in making this happen?

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#booksky how do you find image inspiration for your characters? Any better resources out there than Pinterest?

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