#MiseryPit

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And that's a wrap for #MiseryPit!!!
Thank you everyone who pitched, liked, shared, and gave support!

There will probably two more pitch events, and like in past years (how is this the third year!?), it should happen in summer and early December.

Until then! Thank you and see you soon!🕵️

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Final stretch! Less than an hour left till the end of #MiseryPit!

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Good evening pitchers! There's roughly two hours left to pitch! Get those #MiseryPit pitches in!

Two soldiers in the legionary baths.

If U like Heated Rivalry, you'll love Love and Lust a Legionary Romance. Castra Vetera's top doc Galenus falls for Marcus, a disgraced engineer plagued with survivor's PTSD. In a May/Dec romantic thriller they find love while facing bloody barbarians, ghosts, plague & Caesar. #MiseryPit #A #HS #T #Q

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Psychics gather@Pompeii's gladiator's school, awakening the ghosts of the untimely dead - spirits tied to where they died. Homeless boys, surgeons, whores, patrician women & their gladiator lovers share their last days in Thirteen -- a polyphonic novel. #MiseryPit #A #T #HS #Q

Beyond the Gate - Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officer's can wed. Unwilling 2 wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond the fortress gate w/the other 'wives' when an officer dissappears. Who killed Quintus & why? #MiseryPit #A #T #HS #WF #Q

The moon rises over the ruins on Mt. Olympus, as Roman General Germanicus and some Praetorians chat and Aoife, the Britannic witch looks on.

#MiseryPit #A #F #T #Spec #Q Aoife & Roman Gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder, but when he commits genocide against Germania's Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the Brotherhood of Sol Invictus.

Clockwise from top left: Led Zeppelin, the kids from Bobs Burgers,the suburbs, vinyl records and Thanksgiving.

COOP KNOWS THE SCOOP X BOB’S BURGERS: #MG kids on bikes adventure in 2 timelines:

1995: Friends find out their parents were in a band together & search for their hit album.

2025: Their kids hear about said album & go on a quest to find the lost recordings. #miserypit #W #HM #CM

Clockwise from top left: a girl dancing in the woods, a creepy house, a fire monster, creepy forest, a black bird and an abandoned factory.

IT X THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD: Max finds 2 photos, taken years apart & quests to unravel the mystery of the girl in the pics & her link to 7 missing girls while tangling w/ the eldritch horror their crazed cult leader murderer unleashed on the world. #miserypit #YA #CT #Q #CM

Clockwise from top left: the cover to The Crystal Shard, a hedge maze, a mansion, the Hellfire Club, a space suit and the suburbs.

THE FORTxBOBS BURGERS: 1988. Suburbia. 13 yo Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure w/ his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a secret mansion & uncover a conspiracy that threatens more than their neighborhood. #miserypit #MG #SFFT

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Good evening #MiseryPit pitchers! We have about 5 1/2 hours left of #MiseryPit! Still time to get those pitches in!

Home was the system that broke them. Years later, the people who built it are forced back together—not to fix what went wrong, but to decide who they’re willing to become now.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit

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Hello pitchers!

We are now halfway through #MiseryPit! 12 hours left to pitch your mystery, thriller, and true crime manuscripts!!

"A Heart in Pieces" is about Jess Harper, a junior at Longview University. One night while Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play, she finds a dead body. Which of the ten-thousand students at Longview is turning members of the student body into corpses? #Miserypit #A #Q #CT #RT

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Hello #MiseryPit pitchers! We are nine hours into pitching! Keep them coming! 🕵️

Fear Street x The Secret History

While Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play she finds a dead body. When her friends begin turning up dead she wonders which of the ten-thousand students at Longview is turning members of the student body into corpses.

#Miserypit #CT #RM #RT

She built a system to stabilize trauma. It rewrote people instead. A surgeon returns to the blacksite she fled, knowing the only way to stop it is to dismantle what she made—and accept what can never be undone.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit #AmEditing

A 📝 of my #MiseryPit posts for THE SURGEON OF SILENCE 🩺, a 98k Speculative Thriller Fiction (currently editing).

She built a system meant to heal. It kept running after she left—and learned how to hurt. When a blacksite reactivates, a trauma surgeon returns to dismantle it, forcing everyone involved to reckon with what survival cost them.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit

A search for a missing girl turns into something more sinister when a journalist is caught up in a terrorist attack. Implicated and with no choice but to go on the run, Kit seeks sanctuary with the terrorists, unable to return home until proven innocent

#MiseryPit #NA #SFFT #Q

The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism & identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#miserypit #A #WIP #CT #CM

#MiseryPit #A #PSYT #WIP
Don't Hide from Me

Thirty-four-year-old, Emma Gelberbaum lives a carefully curated, isolated life in a smart home she designed herself—cameras, locks, voice assistants—all under her control. Or so she thinks...
Deep down, she fears someone might be looking for her...

Black background Top left picture is of the fence and two buildings in Auschwitz. The top right is of an Auschwitz building with fall dead trees in front of it. Then in white font with teal edging it says the title The Girl Within. The middle left picture us a tank in a field. The middle right is the front of a large boat and a smaller boat on water. Then there's a quote that says "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take side." - Elle Wiesel The bottom left picture is a blonde girl in a brown jacket and a black press vest that says press in white. She's standing in front of a tall brown building with lots of windows. The bottom right pic is a crowd of protesters in front of a building.

The Last Year of the War x Team Yankee x The Plum Tree

When World War 3 breaks out Sadie, a college journalism student, finds herself thrown into a camp on American soil. Can she survive the horrors that permeate the camp or will she succumb to the darkness?

#W #NA #CT #MiseryPit

Top left photo is people camping in an open area by hills and a waterfall with the title in orange We Were Students. Below that is 10 jets flying in a v formation in the sky. Then a quote with a white background and orange lettering “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Below are people on a trip type bus with a quote, “In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier of every world.” - Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams. Top right photo: a group of students high school age in front of a school from behind. Below that are people camping in a forest. Below that with a river running over rocks background is a quote, “War doesn't determine who's right, war determines who remains.” R.F. Kuang. Then at the bottom is 3 pans cooking food over a fire on a grate.

Red Dawn x Tomorrow When the War Began x Lord of the Flies

Caught behind enemy lines when WW3 breaks out during their school trip a group of students must face a harrowing journey that's filled with danger to make it to safety and stay alive.

#W #YA #CT #MiseryPit

Top left photo is people camping in an open area by hills and a waterfall with the title in orange We Were Students. Below that is 10 jets flying in a v formation in the sky. Then a quote with a white background and orange lettering “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Below are people on a trip type bus with a quote, “In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier of every world.” - Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams. Top right photo: a group of students high school age in front of a school from behind. Below that are people camping in a forest. Below that with a river running over rocks background is a quote, “War doesn't determine who's right, war determines who remains.” R.F. Kuang. Then at the bottom is 3 pans cooking food over a fire on a grate.

Black background Top left picture is of the fence and two buildings in Auschwitz. The top right is of an Auschwitz building with fall dead trees in front of it. Then in white font with teal edging it says the title The Girl Within. The middle left picture us a tank in a field. The middle right is the front of a large boat and a smaller boat on water. Then there's a quote that says "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take side." - Elle Wiesel The bottom left picture is a blonde girl in a brown jacket and a black press vest that says press in white. She's standing in front of a tall brown building with lots of windows. The bottom right pic is a crowd of protesters in front of a building.

Here's my list for #MiseryPit

1. We Were Students #W #YA #CT
2. The Girl Within #W #NA #CT

Feedback is welcome.

#FDT #FICE #StandUp #Writingispolitical

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Good evening/morning #MiseryPit pitchers! 🕵️
This is a reminder that the event runs for 24 hours until midnight February 1! So lots of time to refine, edit, and work on those pitches!

Happy pitching!

#booksky #WritingCommunity #authors #mystery #thriller #truecrime #pitchevent

Anyone willing to swap support for #MiseryPit? Comment and I will add you to my list!

Also, it would be my first time. Any tips?

Hello writers on Bluesky! Get those thrillers, mysteries, and true crime manuscripts ready for #MiseryPit!

The next event will be February 1st, 2026 and will run for 24 hours starting 1 am Sunday morning and ending Sunday midnight (PST).

Check the pinned tags, please share, and happy pitching!