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With the new year coming, are you looking to rediscover your spark for writing? Are you searching for accountability? Join us for a 12-week winter writing challenge to motivate yourself and meet other writers! #AmWriting #Writing #Writer #Author #BookSky #AuthorSky #amquerying #amediting #amagented #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

With the new year coming, are you looking to rediscover your spark for writing? Are you searching for accountability?
We start January 5th!
#AmWriting #Writing #Writer #Author #BookSky #AuthorSky #amquerying #amediting #amagented #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

I’d be happy to do so anytime !!

#CastPit Rules 1/2 Use hashtags specific to your project (listed below rules) for audience and genre, including #CastPit. Anyone can participate no matter the state of their WIP or finished manuscript. To give agents and publishers an idea of the story, include a pitch of quick summary of your story in the post or included in the graphics. You are allowed to like and repost posts. Only post within the given date, Nov. 13, 2025, 6am for 24 hours to Nov. 14, 2025, 6am Pacific Standard Time (World times on another slide)

#CastPit Rules 2/2 Post up to four total times within the 24-hour time window (for the same book or for different books), please space your pitches at least one hour apart. You can post the pitch with any media you’d like. (NO AI) Please use alt text if you are using images. Interact, support and swap (repost) with one another and have fun! Agent, editor, and publisher participation is welcomed and encouraged! If you are an agent or publisher, make sure in your profile description you list that you are one, if you are a writer as well, otherwise your like may be construed as just support from another writer. You can include actors, directors names and styles you list with hashtags. (Examples posted in a follow on post)

#CastPit Dates, Time & Place The date for the first ever #CastPit is Thursday, November 13, 2025, beginning at 6:00am Pacific Standard Time and ending at 6:00am PST on Friday, November 14, 2025. It will be hosted on X and Bsky: @castpit4authors X link: https://x.com/castpit4authors Bsky link: https://bsky.app/profile/castpit4authors.bsky.social 4:00am HST (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) 6:00am Pacific Standard Time (L.A/S.F, USA & Vancouver, Canada) 8:00am Central Standard Time (Chicago, USA & Mexico City, Mexico) 9:00am Eastern Standard Time (New York, USA & Toronto, Canada) 11:00am BRT (Sao Paulo Brazil) 2:00pm GMT (London, UK) 3:00pm CET (Paris, France) 4:00pm EET (Athens, Greece) ​5:00pm MSK (Moscow, Russia) 7:30pm IST (Mumbai, India) 10:00pm PHST (Manila, Philippines) 11:00pm KST (Seoul, South Korea & Tokyo, Japan) 1:00am AEDT (Sydney, Australia) Nov. 14, 2025 NOTE DATE ADVANCE FOR AUSTRALIA

#CastPit Hashtags MANDATORY HASHTAGS #CastPit (everyone must use in every post) #W (for works-in-progress, includes drafting) #Q (for querying writers) #AG (for agented writers) #OS (for on-submission writers) #PUB (for published writers) AUDIENCE HASHTAGS #A (adult) #NA (new adult) #YA (young adult) #MG (middle grade) #CL (children's literature) #PB (picture books) GENRE HASHTAGS #SF (science fiction) #F (fantasy) #SFF (science fiction fantasy) #DF (dark fantasy) #FH (fantasy historical) #SPF (speculative fiction) #M (mystery) #H (horror) #T (thriller) #R (romance) #DR (dark romance) #PR (paranormal romance) #RF (romantacy) #RC (rom-com) #HR (historical romance) #C (contemporary) #CO (comedy) #FT (fairytale retelling) #HF (historical fiction) #NF (non-fiction) #P (poetry) Feel free to add in any additional hashtags of your own or you think are missing from this list

Rules, Dates, Times, Hastags for #CastPit
REMEMBER, please use ALT for the visually impaired

#writerscommunity #querying #amquerying #onsub #drafting #published #Publisher #litagents #pitching #pitchevent #WritingCommmunity #agentedauthors #tradpub #amwriting #booktoscreen #writesky #bskywriters

pretty excited !! not sure what project to work on, but i'll figure things out haha xx

#writersky #authorsky #booksky #NA #A #POC #R #DR #WIP

"None of those things mattered if I didn’t get the woman I wanted in the end."

needed to share what i wrote here BECAUSE WHAT????? g o o d b y e

#preDV #DR #R #NA #A #BIPOC

GOD OF FURY x KING OF SLOTH x PERFECT ADDICTION

She hid behind snarky comments and heartbreak.
He hid behind obsessive fixation and bloody hands.

And are his demons catching up to him?
Only one way to find out.

#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors. Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET. Your pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use #DVArt) A like ❤️ from an agent = a query request A repost 🔁 from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent A like ❤️ from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches. Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

Less than a month until #DVpit, a pitch event for marginalized creators looking to find an agent & get traditionally published! Here's a reminder of the rules!
For more guidelines & info go to dvpit.carrd.co
See you all at DVpit on October 8th, 2025!
#writersky #booksky

Excited to announce we've expanded the #preDV hours to mimic #DVpit
It will now be Sept 29, 2025 from 8AM ET-8PM ET
We hope this will give everyone a true feel for what DVpit will be like & practice their pitches together!
Plus, amazing agented/published authors have volunteered to give feedback!

#writersky #authorsky #booksky

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patreon: patreon.com/hennashadows...

𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒

kpi: kiss per impression → www.tiktok.com/@bigbrainene...

roi: return on insanity → patreon.com/hennashadows...

#writersky #authorsky #booksky

want the real chaos?

patreon = drafts, polls, and me crying into my villain arcs.
tikTok = thirst, chaos, and unholy inspo boards.

don’t follow if you value peace. do follow if you, too, wake up feral.

⚠️ CHAOS ALERT ⚠️ | henna & shadows. Get more from henna & shadows. on Patreon

#writersky #authorsky #booksky

don’t click? he tattoos your username across his chest.

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Dark ferns background An Agent's Guide To: LAST CHANCE MATCH 91,000 word Adult crossover dystomance "Find the one who's to die for."

The Pitch: Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Bitter waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

The comps: THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver Both with a killer reality show setting to win freedom SILVER ELITE by Dani Francis Both with opposing factions and biased government HEART OF THE SUN Both with second chances and dislike to lovers arc LOVE ISLAND Love Island inspired setting SQUID GAME Games created for a killer time BLACK MIRROR Dystopian setting with robot twists

The Tropes: Arrows pointing from a mock cover of LAST CHANCE MATCH book with ferns with the following tropes: Dystomance He falls first Soulhates to Soulmates Forced proximity Second chances Only one bed

What can you expect this season of LAST CHANCE MATCH?

🩸 gut wrenching plot twists
🩸 cute robots that help style hair, makeup and clothes
🩸 she hates him, he loves her and there’s only one bed
🩸 man creates bot, bot kills man, bot inherits the earth

#writingcommunity #agentsguide

a cheeky intro poll <3 (part 2) | henna & shadows. Get more from henna & shadows. on Patreon

your toes might be the subject of chapter 7 if you don't vote.

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#writersky #authorsky #booksky

writing dark romance feels like making soup out of trauma and glitter.

characters kissing is cute but characters making eye contact like they’re planning a war together?? i’ll chew drywall.

Get more from henna & shadows. on Patreon booktok creator and bipoc dark romance author <3

if you want more of my unhinged brainrot (drafts, cut smut scenes, and polls that nobody respects me enough to vote in), it’s on Patreon. don’t click if you’re normal.

patreon.com/hennashadows...

dark romance writers don’t need therapy. we need hotter villains and worse coping mechanisms.

writing update: accidentally made the villain so hot that i would let him taxidermy me for sport. oops.

i don’t want flowers. i want a hand around my throat and a whispered confession that they’d gut god himself before letting me go. anyway my patreon poll is still at 0 votes.

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romance is cute. but have you ever written a scene where someone says ‘i’d burn the world for you’ and you actually believe them?? …oh to be desired with violence.

the love interest? morally bankrupt. the villain? hotter. me? on the floor, kicking my feet, frothing at the mouth, whispering ‘yes daddy ruin me’ to a fictional man with a knife.

#writersky #authorsky #booksky

writing dark romance is just me trying to invent increasingly stupid ways to ruin hot people’s lives while still wanting to f*ck them. anyway, welcome to my TEDtalk.

thank you <33

Get more from henna & shadows. on Patreon booktok creator and bipoc dark romance author <3

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check out my patreon if you're cool <3

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thank you so much !!!

fingers crossed I guess 🙂‍↕️🤏

a cheeky intro poll <3 | henna & shadows. Get more from henna & shadows. on Patreon

#writersky #authorsky #booksky

sharing my patreon intro poll once again !!! please consider voting as there's still 5 days left :))

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Get more from henna & shadows. on Patreon booktok creator and bipoc dark romance author <3

#writersky #authorsky #booksky

happy to be sharing my patreon page that i finished setting up !!!

please consider voting on the intro poll i have available if you get the chance to do so <33

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#DVpit 2025 Over 70 agents & editors committed to participate and counting 43 agents 31 editors October 8, 2025 follow us at @dvpit.bsky.social for more updates!

#DVpit 2025 is coming up!
🎉And we have over 70 agents & editors committed to participate in this pitch event for marginalized creators!🎉
✍️Polish up those pitches before October 8, 2025
🔗And go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

#writersky #authorsky #booksky