Just been reading a few posts about agents not reading queries. The assumption for this is based on fast deletion rates on QM. I just wanted to give some context to this because it’s unlikely to be that the agent isn’t reading.
Slowly catching up, and I wanted to say thank you to the editors and the team behind #revpit, congratulations to the winners, and good luck to everyone who participated!
I've learnt so much, again!
This ms goes on the shelf, and one day I'll know why, perhaps, but for now, new things await. 🤗
Thank you all so much for making this year’s #RevPit and #RevPitWaiting so wonderful, and please come back on June 8th for the showcase!
Reminder to keep an eye on your email for #10Queries feedback and stick around here on Bluesky for more fun with #CampRevPit!
Lots of questions about this advice! OF COURSE it’s the post that missing a word lmao so it should be “your story.”
But let’s go beyond that 🧵
#RevPit
Both architect me and writer me start with a blank page, and then ta-da, a project/ ms appears.
Just had this around, as one does, these days 😋
Super busy with work, but thought I'd join in for this one
#revpitwaiting #revpit
🎉TODAY IS THE DAY!🎉
The #RevPit submission window opens at 12 p.m. ET today.
Good luck to all who enter this year! Our editors can't wait to see what you've written!
#writersofbluesky #writingcontest #writingcommunity
Thanks for answering! If you still have time:
How would you define science fantasy, though? Should magic be present?
(An agent once threw my ms back at me saying it was hard sf, so I guess that's what it looks like, on the surface.)
Thank you again!
Hi, @jenichappelle.bsky.social! Sorry to be late. Same q as @rammwriter.bsky.social, re science fantasy. My MS is sf, so far, but we're talking StarWars, not Interstellar - the science is what I say it is. The main cast have what amounts to elemental magic, by another name. Would you be interested?
The #revpit submission window opens THIS WEEK!
From March 12 at 12 p.m. EDT to March 15 at 12 p.m. EDT, you'll be able to submit your manuscripts. Visit reviseresub.com to see what you'll need so you're prepared come Friday!
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Morning, all! With #RevPit editor announcements coming out in a few minutes, let’s take a moment to talk about RevPit, the annual contest, and the editors.
I’m a co-founding editor and board member, and it’s really exciting to be celebrating our TENTH annual contest. Like…WHAT? How?
All the links for #RevPit, the annual contest, and our editors
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2026 RevPit Participating Editors: Allison Alexander, Ash P, Ayesha Ali, Carly Hayward, Dana Draper, Demi Michelle Schwartz, Hanna R. Neier, Hannah Kate Kelley, Jeni Chappelle, Kala Godin, Laura Galan-Wells, Leah Rambadt, Madelyn Knecht, Miranda Darrow, Natasha Hanova, Nicole Frail, Raquel Brown. Find each editor's MSWL on reviseresub.com
ANNOUNCING the 2026 RevPit Participating Editors!
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If you're querying fantasy, sci-fi, or horror and looking for comp titles, these databases are for you! www.aealexander.com/comp-finder-... #Writing #Querying
For pitching authors, a quick update about what's new:
1) You will NOT receive a copy of your pitch submission via email. Last time, the feature wasn't reliable despite being enabled, and some people never received an email, leading to stress (understandably).
Thank you everyone for comments, reposts, and ❤️ this #BluePit! Can't wait to read all the great stories I found 😁
Thanks! 🤗
A collage of nine images: the back of an archer in grey clothes, two hands on a black background, inner arched courtyard with cream colored stones, medieval town street, arches of stone, tall bookcases, glowing embers, dark sunset reflection on water of a house, marbles hanging from a branch.
When Andi, a disenchanted maker of home spells, is accused of bringing dark magic into her city, she teams up with a magicless nun and a cursed outsider to clear her name.
But the dark is spreading.
They'll need help. They'll need a house of old magic. And its old lady.
#BluePit 📖 #A #W #F #ND #M
THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI X
GODKILLER
After causing a magickal outburst that engulfs her home, Naomi flees aboard a pirate ship. She’s lured in with the chance at a new life, but malevolent gods and mortals seek to drag her back and use her magick for themselves.
#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #LGBT
A collage consisting of various cut out images: - An illustration of Sherlock Holmes in his classic deerstalker cap and cloak smokes his pipe in the bottom left - A honey bee gathers nectar from a flower in the bottom middle. - Four macarons sit stacked in the bottom right corner. - Up the right side is a stalk of purple foxgloves. - The background is split between a pile of old newspapers and a dark alley lit by lamps and neon signs. - Red stage curtains frame the entire piece. - Five bee cut-outs (from two images of honey bees, flipped and rotated to various angles) fly around the top of the image.
SHERLOCK HOLMES with BEES
When a singer with ties to royalty vanishes, it's up to detective Arthur North to find her. As he digs, he uncovers a plot to place his people, the bee-like zizzun, in the crown's crosshairs. Can he uncover their connection before it's too late?
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #F #M
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES, 96,000 words, Adult Historical Mystery
Chicago, 1929. Val’s life in her adoptive crime family’s hotel used to be nothing but bartending and calculating guests’ cards with her mathematical brilliance. But then her uncle Maximillian, the head of the syndicate, is killed before the hotel’s star-studded gala—and his death is identical to her secret suitor’s unsolved murder. With the chance for revenge in her grasp, Val allies with an infamous investigative duo to catch the killer.
Comps Last Call at the Nightingale Katharine Schellman Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building Inspirations The Great Gatsby Agatha Christie The Tower of Terror (1997) Tropes: Roaring 20’s Jazz Age Speakeasies Settings Speakeasies Casinos Settings that are characters Diverse Cast Puzzles and secret codes High speed chases Whodunnit Locked room mystery Found Family
Chicago, 1929 1:34 a.m. The man with the bowler hat was going to lose. He looked so confident, with his slightly unbuttoned white shirt and condescending smirk. He didn’t even bother putting up the mask of a poker face to hide his prediction of the outcome. In his mind, he had already won. All that was left was to play the game. Valentina had been watching the round for several minutes now. She twisted a rag inside a dirty glass, keeping a subtle eye on the match. She couldn’t see the man’s hand from behind the bar, but if she had calculated it correctly, there was a seventy-four percent chance that he was holding two kings and three different nine cards— a full house. With a hand like that, he was in the perfect position to win. But he was wrong. He was going to lose. Val didn’t know this because of mathematics, however. She knew this because the man sitting across from him never played fair. Why would he? He was the owner of the joint, and if there was anything that Maximillian Eulio liked more than playing a dirty game of poker, it was getting away with it.
An Agent’s Guide to WHAT ARE THE CHANCES- an adult historical mystery set in Chicago, 1929, where a math genius living in her crime family’s luxury hotel must ally with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, all the while secretly pursuing her own revenge.
#bluepit #bluepit📖 #M #A #Q
Graphic by Sharon Hoff: on a wooden desk, a leather book bag, dip pen and ink, and a copybook. Sharon has absolutely wonderfully made the same photo with different color filters for each year of the series!
#BluePit 📖
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The Help Desk
Genre: Poorly lit academia
The Magic quietly pervades an unsuspecting campus. A squirrel might simply turn green. Some who witness magic simply Vanish, creating even larger holes in reality.
A nine-block moodboard with overall dark, gritty vibes. I wanted her to kiss me on a white background, a girl sitting and staring out an open window at night, a tape player with modern day headphones attached, a hand reaching out of a dark ocean, "this isn't fucking over" against a fiery background, a lighthouse in the middle of a dark ocean, waves at night, a ghost standing in the forest, "I thought we'd have more time" in red font against a white background
LIFE IS STRANGE x sapphic CEMETERY BOYS
When Addie discovers the ghost of Erin, a murdered girl tethered to a local lighthouse, the two must solve a decades old mystery before time runs out and Erin disappears… forever.
#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖
A collage of Viking and medieval themed images including a goblet, warriors, and nuns, French lavender, a castle and Nunnery a random chicken and a very cold you woman wrapped in a grey blanket.
Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken.
A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. And chickens. The chickens are key to the plot. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #H #R
moody, foggy mountain backdrop with a person in martial arts type clothing visible on a stone platform. text reads CONDUCT OF MAGES, adult fantasy, complete at 100K, now represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary
THE PITCH on a moody green mountain backdrop: When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.
THE VIBES on a moody green mountain backdrop: energy magic heists & scheming found family research subplot sloooow burn female role models SE Asian setting
THE COMPS on a moody green mountain backdrop: Blood Over Bright Haven Jade City Heartless Hunter
JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS
When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.
#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #A #F
EASTWARD SINGS THE WIND
In a land of song-based magic, a musician forges a friendship with an enigmatic foreigner and causes him to question his secret allegiance to the tyrannical god-king who plans to invade her land.
#Bluepit 📖 #YA #F #Q #DIS
Pagans x Strike
📖 Author wars
⚫️ Black humour
🔱 Romans vs Celts
🗿 Stonehenge Rules
🌞 Winter Solstice, baby
💰 Karens & Kevins
🏴 Refined English snobbery
📵 21st Century Luddites
#BluePit #W #A #M #PN #T 📖 🦋
Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, sapphic gargoyle urban fantasy. Tagline”Somewhere away from this world, indistinct, infinite, and unknowable… What was beyond that veil?” 10 very dark, moody, grayish images around the edge include the hazy spires of Notre Dame with birds lying across, the Milky Way, a crow coming in the land, a gargoyle peeking over a ledge, a shadow crouching in a corner with piercing eyes, a young woman with black hair over her eye, a crow in front of a grave, a graveyard statue of an angel, and the interior of a church with a stained glass window. In the center of all this, is a bright painting of a natual landscape done in vivid sunset colors.
The only place depressed goth-girl, Helena, feels at home on the cheery campus is the dark, haunted chapel. When the stones come alive to warn her of a demon invasion, she becomes entangled in a cosmic war.
And falls for a gargoyle.❤️
Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones
#BluePit 📖
#YA #F #Q #LGBT
NINTH HOUSE X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN
Healing magic belongs to the rich. Until now.
When a healer turns up dead on their uni campus, fellow outsiders David & Zarrin must risk their lives & their friendship to protect an idea that could change magical medicine forever.
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #F #LGTB
Two Comp titles are displayed over a blurry blue background. The Dragon Prince (Netflix) X Celestial Monsters (by Aiden Thomas) The "witty banter character dynamic" and "found family" of The Dragon Prince, meets the "fantastical creatures" and "queer cast" of Celestial Monsters, making for a "magical adventure".
A boy with a woolly hat shrouded in the shadow of two lit full moons and an aurora borealis, with purple and blue flames hovering over his outstretched hands. It's snowing, and a magical blue owl is displayed, wings spread wide with those same flames inside its eyes. Art by @bauxxi.bsky.social
AN OWLBOUND SPARK. 🦉🔥❄️
The world is ravaged by a never-ending winter and the magic that can end it is dead, until Tyrus and Lyra embark on a fantastical journey of self-discovery to thaw the seasons with the help of an owl of legend. ✨
#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F #LGBT