Gus Ryer

Appreciate the offer, but I’m all set!

Gotta say, I’m absolutely stoked to introduce the querying world to Dez and her crew. The heist’s a hoot, and every character’s a disaster, but they’ve got so much heart

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Been a minute since I gave a progress update, but Space Heist WIP’s writing is coming along! Just wrapped Part III edits, and I have only a dozen chapters left. The end is in sight!*

*but then it goes to beta readers**

**then more editing***

***then more readers****

****then yet m

Me, a white man in his mid-thirties with a reddish-brown beard and short brown hair. I’m standing in front of a lake with wooded hills in the background, and I’m wearing a light blue shirt and a small trekking backpack.

Lots of new faces around here after the last couple weeks & pitch events- hey friends!

To introduce myself, I’m Gus, and I write mostly sci-fi mashed up with fantasy along with some horror. I also like to share a cocktail recipe every now and then.

Good to meet ya!
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Hard to beat an old fashioned!

Love it - it’s a newer discovery for me, but it hasn’t missed yet.

A hand holds a small cocktail glass filled with a garnet liquid and a cherry in the stem. Bookshelves are in the background.

It’s been fun, but I’m winding down on #QuestPit. Sincere thanks all who supported me, and I’m simply in awe of all these amazing stories.

And so, cheers to the writers!

The Red Hook:
1.66 oz rye
0.5 oz Punt e Mes
0.33 oz maraschino

Stir over ice, add a cherry, and enjoy!
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Ooh fabulous, will do! Looks perfect.

SINNERS X HANNIBAL X I FEED HER TO THE BEAST When Virginia Bulle kills her ex-boyfriend, she decides to open a restaurant to serve his remains. This leads her to Calypso Raines' doorstep, which opens up a new recipe of the prices we pay to protect family.

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How I stole from the President while saving a foster home Agent’s Guide

Themes/tropes for the agent’s guide

Writing snip for the agent’s guide An image of a hand drawn map of mar-a-lago is shown

The pitch For the agent’s guide 4 comps shown

Robin Hood robs the Prez in ‘25

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He needs his dad, a retired thief w Alzheimer’s, for the score or his foster home will be foreclosed.

#Q #A #T satire/crime/upmarket

*How best to stand up to a bully than to mock them? Help me ridicule the orange menace. Support my manuscript.*

Oh man, you got my Costco stuff beat! Always wanted to try curing bacon. Cheers!

Very much want to see this on my shelf!

Image of concept art for my adventure thriller/horror called Kokushinsan: Shadow of the Mountain.

SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN

A crew of mountaineers attempts to summit the last 8,000 m peak. Sherpa Takato, needing money, goes against his better judgment. It's not the sheer cliffs and unstable icefalls that leave this mountain unconquered; it's something else.
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a group of women in evening dresses are standing around a woman in a black dress . ALT: a group of women in evening dresses are standing around a woman in a black dress .

🏆 Cheshire Novel Prize HC

💍 1950s NY High Society
💀Murdered Husband
👗Couture Gowns
🫦Noir Romance
🍸Sexy Bartender
💰Handsome Rich Widower
📖Family Secrets
🔫Mob Boss w/a Promise

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Moodboard for my 88K adult paranormal fantasy, Haunter: Ghost-for-Hire. A wild rom-com and horror-lite romp between the veil of life and death.

Under the Whispering Door X Ghosts

👻Haunter, the best Ghost-for-Hire around, can't scare Alice Espinoza from her crummy apartment. Alice, stubborn, heartbroken, and broke, instead hires him to haunt her cheating ex. What ensues is madness... and dangerous.

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A collage of images around a central glowing circle, within which is a sci-fi rendition of the Vitruvian Man and the words: ALWAYS ACCORD Around it is an image of a space station; a mobster with a poorly-edited VR visor; an elderly woman standing against a sci-fi cityscape squinting while she shoots a laser pistol at the space station; and an elderly man astronaut with an uncertain expression.

SPACE SWEEPERS ❌ LOGAN LUCKY

When an AI-piloted freighter threatens her home station, aging & indebted traffic controller Dez decides to rob the hell out of it

Shes got a plan, mobsters on her tail & a crew w/ baggage. But when things aboard aren’t as expected, all bets are off
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Thank you so much!!

About a dozen thick slices of bacon cook on a flat top grill.

What do you mean, you don’t take a bacon break during pitch events?

Love a SFF heist, and this one sounds like it's got it all!

Collage depicting gothic/medieval cities, Western environments, and dragons.

SIX OF CROWS x HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

A drunk wizard, a shadowy assassin, a disgraced elf warrior, a scheming cowboy, and a hapless farm boy decide to steal and then sell the king's beloved pet dragon.

But how do you deal with the creature once you've stolen it?

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Oh wow, this sounds like one hell of a good ride!

MUSE = A queer speculative #LF Dark Academia in Mexico City

Art destroys.

Dámaso's as obsessed with his art as with his muse. When their art kills their law school's president, they hide in plain sight on opposite sides of the case, drowning & drowning & drowning in joint insanity

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An enormous space ship descends on an ancient-looking walled city in the desert. In the foreground, two rural figures in robes watch it's arrival as a smaller spaceship flits about the large one. The novel's title, CASCADE, runs down the left-side of the image. In the middle are the following words: THEIR WORLD IS CRUMBLING THEIR GODS ARE FALSE BUT NOW THEY HAVE THE POWER TO FIGHT BACK

ASHES OF THE SUN ➕ THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success may be deadly.

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Nice! Horror’s so much fun to write- absolutely love it

Ooh, this is so far up my alley! Love the concept and the art

Project logo and poster of celestial feast

Jellgrove cocnept art by Christian Ochoa showing alien jellyfish with a tree inside of it.

Jellark concept art by Ryan McCowan showing alien jellyfish designs

Jellopod concept art by Christian Ochoa showing an alien jellyfish/squid design

Celestial Feast ☄️
A team of offworld scientists investigate alien "whale falls" to save their planet from a great flood. By me & @imagine2create.bsky.social & @ryanresolute92.bsky.social

Full of:
👾 #Jellarks
🧑‍🚀 Divers
🦠 Virus
🌀 Storms
🕸️ Food Webs
☄️Celestial Events
🧊 Jelly

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A giant spaceship hovers over a dusty, walled fantasy cityscape. In the foreground, two figures stand in shadow looking out over the scene. The words "An Agent's Guide to CASCADE, by Gus Ryer" is along the top. His website, gusryer.com, is below.

A slide with metadata and story elements for CASCADE: Genre: Science Fiction with Fantasy Elements Wordcount: +-130,000 It shows the book covers for the following: ASHES OF THE SUN, Django Wexler THE ARCHIVE UNDYING, Emma Mieko Candon ELDER RACE, Adrian Tchaikovsky NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE, Claire North Ps5's Horizon Zero Dawn Below that are the following phrases: Found family Failed terraforming A vast, hidden history Nanotech magic system Epic fantasy quest in a sci-fi world Ancient mechanical gods Arachnid mammals & guard drones Sword (1) vs. Railguns (lots)

A warrior woman with a winged helmet, armor, cape, and spear is along the right side of the image, fractured into triangles. Part of the following pitch is along the left: 2,000 years in the future, a galactic human empire fell, severing TRAPPIST-1e from other inhabited worlds before its terraforming could be completed. Wild nanotechnology ravaged the land, and civilization fell into a dark age. Eventually, the God Keepers—engineer priests who restored ancient nanotech—rose to power. While Lendi dreams of life outside the God Keepers, Falder is desperate to keep his best friend from abandoning their order—and him. But, when an ancient machine god crash-lands in a ball of fire and gray death, it severs Keepers from nanotech, plunging the world back into chaos. Meanwhile, Sedna and Renfrik have little patience for Keeper rules or mysticism. But, when a flood of nanites in the god’s wake consumes their home, they’re left with nothing to protect but each other...

Chapter 1 THE RUSH IS ON! This Tuesday, Planetfall, Inc. announced it would join the rash of megacorps racing to deploy terraforming infrastructure through the newly stabilized Taurine Strait. Previously dominated by New World Corporation, the franchised development of pseudoterra worlds is slated to be the hot market sector of the twenty-fifth century. -Excerpt from InvestSyder: Stellar Ed., June 15, 2398 The streets of Mahyan never fully slept. Night’s darkness, not yet broken by either the sun’s rise or the blinding, baleful Eye of Toros, wrapped Lendi more completely than her robes. Still, she couldn’t shake the feeling that eyes were on her. She wanted nothing more than to run. An eager vendor barred her way with his stringy arm. “A fine morning calls for a fine meal, miss.” He smiled and fanned out a selection of skewered mutton and whalemeat wrapped in sea grass. Pungent, spiced oil dripped onto the dusty street. Lendi glared at him, her legs practically vibrating with the..

ARCHIVE UNDYING ➕ ASHES OF THE SUN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge.

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success could be deadly.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F #SFF

A giant spaceship hovers over a dusty, walled fantasy cityscape. In the foreground, two figures stand in shadow looking out over the scene. The words "An Agent's Guide to CASCADE, by Gus Ryer" is along the top. His website, gusryer.com, is below.

A slide with metadata and story elements for CASCADE: Genre: Science Fiction with Fantasy Elements Wordcount: +-130,000 It shows the book covers for the following: ASHES OF THE SUN, Django Wexler THE ARCHIVE UNDYING, Emma Mieko Candon ELDER RACE, Adrian Tchaikovsky NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE, Claire North Ps5's Horizon Zero Dawn Below that are the following phrases: Found family Failed terraforming A vast, hidden history Nanotech magic system Epic fantasy quest in a sci-fi world Ancient mechanical gods Arachnid mammals & guard drones Sword (1) vs. Railguns (lots)

A warrior woman with a winged helmet, armor, cape, and spear is along the right side of the image, fractured into triangles. Part of the following pitch is along the left: 2,000 years in the future, a galactic human empire fell, severing TRAPPIST-1e from other inhabited worlds before its terraforming could be completed. Wild nanotechnology ravaged the land, and civilization fell into a dark age. Eventually, the God Keepers—engineer priests who restored ancient nanotech—rose to power. While Lendi dreams of life outside the God Keepers, Falder is desperate to keep his best friend from abandoning their order—and him. But, when an ancient machine god crash-lands in a ball of fire and gray death, it severs Keepers from nanotech, plunging the world back into chaos. Meanwhile, Sedna and Renfrik have little patience for Keeper rules or mysticism. But, when a flood of nanites in the god’s wake consumes their home, they’re left with nothing to protect but each other...

Chapter 1 THE RUSH IS ON! This Tuesday, Planetfall, Inc. announced it would join the rash of megacorps racing to deploy terraforming infrastructure through the newly stabilized Taurine Strait. Previously dominated by New World Corporation, the franchised development of pseudoterra worlds is slated to be the hot market sector of the twenty-fifth century. -Excerpt from InvestSyder: Stellar Ed., June 15, 2398 The streets of Mahyan never fully slept. Night’s darkness, not yet broken by either the sun’s rise or the blinding, baleful Eye of Toros, wrapped Lendi more completely than her robes. Still, she couldn’t shake the feeling that eyes were on her. She wanted nothing more than to run. An eager vendor barred her way with his stringy arm. “A fine morning calls for a fine meal, miss.” He smiled and fanned out a selection of skewered mutton and whalemeat wrapped in sea grass. Pungent, spiced oil dripped onto the dusty street. Lendi glared at him, her legs practically vibrating with the..

ASHES OF THE SUN ➕ HORIZON ZERO DAWN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge.

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success will be deadly.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F

Thanks, see you there!

And yep, experimenting with Buffer. Seems okay so far, but a little limited. Probably just means I need to spend more time learning it. Free though!

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Stoked for #QuestPit tomorrow! Have my posts scheduled everywhere and ready to rock!

Wish I could do a support list, but I don't know how much I can be online tomorrow. Still, I can't wait to check in when I can, see your stories, and boost!

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