Joy is ✨querying✨ 🥀🪦

Thanks!!!

Thank you!

This is such a cute opening!

This book is FULL of very tasty food!! 😂

Thanks!!

Thank you!

#DVparty Day 3: opening lines from my sapphic horrormance

I didn’t enjoy starting my Saturday morning with blood already under my nails.

The cryptid’s thin lips curled into a wicked grin, revealing rotten teeth, before its stubby lichen-covered legs scurried deeper into the flea market.
#YA #H #R

Yay!!

I am SO intrigued by this opening!! 👀

Oooh, interesting!

#DVparty Day 3: Opening lines from WLBTG

The scent of flowers lingered in the air as she strode down the hall. Roses maybe . . . ?

No. This was lighter, a touch more exotic. This was the scent of vanilla cookies, and finely crystallized sugar cakes which were served during tea.

#MG #H #Mys

Some FAQs that have come up in 2025 for the new #DVpit on Bluesky!
We Discourage the use of Agent Guides, Pitches or Excerpts as attached graphics to pitches.
It bogs down the feed & doesn't allow agents to get through as many pitches. We'd like to allow everyone a fair shot at making an impression

This is such a cool concept!!

Sometimes I find queries waiting in QT that I don’t even remember sending and I’m starting to think that maybe sleep-querying is a thing . . . 🫡 😂

YAY!!!! Congrats Lydia!! 🎉

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR pitch

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR comps and tropes

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR first page

The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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it's a beautiful day for a #fullrequestfriday... 👀

A book cover featuring the title HALF THE WORLD AWAY in handwriting on top of a globe. Underneath is a fireplace with a plant, a letter and a flamingo statue. Surrounding the picture is a yellow border, plus the release date of 11th November 2025.

My new YA novel HALF THE WORLD AWAY is out 11th November!
It's an LGBTQ+ book set during Section 28.

Pre-order now at linktree.com/jamesalyons

Published by @srlpublishing.bsky.social

#preDV September 29th, 2025 12PM - 5PM ET Join us for our practice vent, #preDV on Bluesky! Come with your best pitches and receive4 feedback from agented authors. All participants are welcome to also give feedback and make friends during the community event before Oct 8th's #DVpit. More info at dvpit.carrd.co

#DVparty October 2nd - October 7th 2025 October 2nd (Day 1): Post a moodboard/art October 3rd (Day 2): Introduce your main character October 4th (Day 3): Opening LInes October 5th (Day 4): Your Story as a meme/gif October 6th (Day 5): Your Story's theme song/playlist October 7th (Day 6): Hype your next project Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag. Open all day. Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed. Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit! More info at dvpit.carrd.co

📣Announcing #PreDV and #DVParty!📣

Excited to bring back #PreDV & #DVParty leading up to #DVPit!

Practice your pitches during #PreDV on Mon, Sept 29, 2025!

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I take long enough between writing projects that by the time I finish them I always feel like I’ve forgotten how to write a query letter 😭😂

Mark your calendars! We have a US cover reveal date for LOVE GALAXY, my debut sapphic SF romantic thriller about murder on a reality tv show in space with forbidden romance and lots of yearning!

Available to add on Goodreads now, link in the comments below 👇

Ooooh, consider me intrigued 👀

This is an EXCELLENT poster!!! 🔥

This looks so cool!!

This looks so cool!

Hi Paula, thanks for the pitch like! I’ve actually recently queried you with this project, and it’s waiting in your inbox listed as a MG Mystery.
Can’t wait to hear from you! 😊

bsky.app/profile/joyi...

From the creators that brought you "JUMANJI " and "Clue" Featuring: Adelaide Greer & Maggie Thornton Reviews: "VERY GOOD & VERY WEIRD" ~ my mother “ECO HORROR, COTTAGE GORE WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT!" "I WILL NEVER LOOK AT FLOWERS THE SAME! [WANT A SEQUEL!!" The pitch: EIGHT ghosts FOUR suspects ONE monstrous flower Can two girls unravel this Iris-istibly deadly mystery?? Title (In large decorative print): What Lurks Beneath the Glass The Greer Estate used to be revered for its rare botanicals, but now guests leave with tales of horror, missing limbs, and sometimes not at all. NOW IN AN INBOX NEAR YOU

#PosterPit with ✨Big 5+✨ editor interest & 10+ full requests 🥀

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS x THE SECRET GARDEN x WEDNESDAY

As ghosts appear and people disappear—the gardeners at Greer Manor seem to be planting more than just flowers . . .

#Q #MG #M #H

A collage image that says An Agent's Guide to Reach Out a 85,000 word YA horror/fantasy with mystery elements. The collage is made up ripped papers that are black or have words on them then in the top right corner is a polaroid of a girl in a hoodie climbing into an empty pool then in the bottom right are colorful tarot cards of death on a white horse, the fool walking off a cliff and wolves howling at the moon, in the bottom left is a cassette tape labeled "In case I disappear"

Lined paper with a polaroid of a mauseleum in the top left corner. The top says "The Pitch" and it is circled in red with the following words: Well, Denny sure messed up this time. He had one goal. One goal! And failed. Somehow, rather than finding his missing sister, he released a serial killer ghost with a penchant for drowning people. And if that wasn’t already a lot, the one person in town who can see ghosts would rather play the cello than save strangers.

Lined paper that is split into two sections the first says Tropes/Rep and is circled in red then a torn out note page is taped to the paper that says the following: Found Family Epistolary Interludes Rewind, Replay, Repeat Witchcraft Meddling Kids Missing Person Unsolved Mysteries & Urban Legends Ghostly Goals 90s Vibes Underneath is another taped ripped page featuring the following pride pins: Trans, Asexual, Lesbian, Progress Pride The other side says Comps at the top and is circled in red then there are photo booth style images hanging. The left from top to bottom: A random image of a maseleum and then Enid and Wednesday from Wednesday over the image; A building with an old sign out front with the Mystery Gang from Scooby-Doo; A cemetery photograph with the cast from IT (2017) standing there; a long white hallway of a bomb shelter and the two characters from Dead Boy Detectives. The right from top to bottom: The Underwood Tapes by Amanda Dewitt book cover wih two people facing opposite ways and tape around them from a cassette; The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson book cover which is a blue and white with a faded scene of a street; Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake book cover with a woman's back as she stands in fog looking at a building; Dead Flip by Sara Farizan book cover with several characters looming over an arcade

Lined paper that says a snippet at the top and is cirlced in red and beside it is a destroyed casette tape then the following words: Dear listener who is probably just Denny. I bet you’re chuckling now ‘cause I’m right, aren’t I? Anyway, this is my ‘in case I disappear’ tape but the rest is a real treat for you. It’s some impressive project I’ve been working on. Though if I am missing, tell mom it wasn’t the monsters, but I’m, like, studying archeology at some college where I’m on some research trip with the professor to find the amulet. Then really buckle down and be all like ‘You know, the amulet? How do you not know about the amulet? What kind of mom are you?’ until she cries or something then you can tell the truth. I want her to feel bad for always being ‘too busy.’ "

WEDNESDAY x IT (2017)

Denny super messed up.

In his quest to find his missing sister, he burned down some houses to kill some monsters, which released a serial killer ghost.

To make things worse, the only medium who can help would rather play the cello than save strangers.

#QueerPit #YA #M #H

My drawing of Fen bowing with her arms outstretched. She has grey-brown hair and gray-ish eyes. She's wearing a jester's motley of blue, red, and yellow. Lightning flashes outside the windows in the background, while orange torchlight glows from above.

My drawing of Lenore standing in the rain, holding a bunch of heather. She is pale with long wavy reddish brown hair and dark brown eyes, looking solemn. She's wearing a long white dress. The background is misty and dark in the rain, with a shaft of sunlight illuminating the ground in front of Lenore.

NETTLE & BONE x ANATHEMA
Fen hungers for Lenore’s beating heart. That’s love, right?

Lenore is haunted by Fen’s fanged grin. Clearly the cure is to murder her.

But with 2 lost siblings—1 long gone, 1 newly taken—those desires must wait. The bog plans to devour them all.
#QueerPit #NA #DF #FR #F #R

Thank you!!