Ivy T. Woods

a woman in a purple shirt says enooouugh in a crowd Alt: Fat Amy from pitch perfect is wearing a purple shirt and is screaming “enough” as she and the other Bella’s climb the seats in a lecture hall

When you log on to BlueSky and see yet another pitch event

Last two weeks have had me stressed on your behalf!

So incredibly happy for my friend and also ECSTATIC that this book is a step closer to being on my shelf!

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It's been a long time coming. Canadian independent bookstores have banded together to create an online book buying source so you can avoid the behemoth in the room. (Here are the titles published by CMU Press, which I run.)
Spread the word #booksky!

www.booksellers.ca/publisher/cmu-press-18021

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

I’ve gotta go write a murder or something now, holy fucking shit nuts

Oh boy, this hockey game hasn’t even started and it’s already bad for my blood pressure

Significantly, thank you lol

Great intro thread for all things RevPit!

Highly recommend participating for unagented authors pursuing trad pub with a manuscript ready to go! Even without winning, I learned so much, got great advice, and made so many connections, all of which definitely helped me get #agented
#revpit

I’m mad about how the pictures are lined up instead of the buttons closing in the middle

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Just a reminder that if you hate NBC’s coverage of the Olympics, that gem.cbc.ca has coverage of •every• event intelligent, researched commentary. (Plus Schitt’s Creek, North of North, etc)

If you need a postal code to register:

Santa’s: H0H0H0
A Delta warehouse: V4G1NA

(Letter/Number/L/N/L/N)

Screenshot of an interview on NPR's website with writer David Simon. SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

This is the only correct response.

a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says " guys please let me hate myself " Alt: a man is sitting on a couch, he closes his eyes and rubs them and says "guys please let me hate myself and everything that I have created.”

Me, when I’m not able to implement every single #editing note I have in one pass

My husband and I established that the only thing that makes us feel more patriotic than Crosby in a Team Canada jersey is Terry Fox

INDISTINCT

three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

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I did a great job getting the blood out of that

Age verification? I have a chicken pox scar because they hadn't come out with the vaccine yet.

Someone who churns out hundreds of AI "books" and makes money tricking people into buying them thinking they're getting a novel isn't a writer. They're a scammer.

They're no more an author than a snake oil salesman is a doctor. It's just fundamentally a different thing.

I'm going to win.

AND I DIDN’T USE AI FOR ANY OF IT BECAUSE I’M NOT A FUCKING LOSER

Today I did at least 20 minutes of research for two words in this book 😂

#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #F #RF #FR

An Agent Guide to GUMIHO 86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance By Jennifer Luce

The pitch: Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous.

For fans of... SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore MY DEMON - Redemption through connection THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero

First Lines Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.

Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!

✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest

#A #F #H #R

A Bird eating a caterpillar off a thorn: Title: The Shrike's Stone Heart, 92K YA Fantasy. Pictures: Holding hands, wrapped in thread. Woman with black eyes and blood on her face, person getting a tattoo on their arm

92K - Dual POV - YA FANTASY

🏰 HERS - FANTASY
🛝 Childhood Friends
👭 Sister Bonds
👩‍🍼 Inherited Magic
🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Leap, Then Look
💋 Kiss, Marry, or Kill?

🧌 HIS - HORROR
💑 Childhood Sweethearts
💕 Self-Sacrificing Loyalty
💀 Soul Selling
🤔 Anxious, Overthinker
🫀 Cannibal Witch

#questpit #YA #F #H #WIP

Includes: Love Triangle Prince in disguise Found Family Possessive fae Devil’s bargain Forced Proximity Forcing a would be kidnapper into the form of a bunny and making him do chores

Lenora didn’t think fae existed and now one is insisting that she belongs to him. Now that he’s on the human side of the border, he and Lenora are magically linked. Jaxis can’t go home until he’s made a bargain and he won’t settle for anything less than bringing her back as his captive. However, Lenora can force him to take the form he had when she carried him across the border: a bunny. After all, bunnies are good for digging holes and eating weeds, so why not annoy Jaxis until he gives up? When Lenora falls for a prince, she would do anything to get to the ball...even make a deal with Jaxis. Kiss the prince by midnight, or become Jaxis’s prisoner forever.

Kombucha girl meme Getting the romantic kidnapping treatment from a dark fae turning him into a bunny and forcing him to do chores

👑 Kiss the prince by midnight or become Jaxis's prisoner forever. 🐇

In this Cinderella retelling, the "fairy godmother" is a dark fae hellbent on kidnapping Lenora for himself.

(still can't think of a title)

📚💛⚔️ #Questpit #RF #W #Romanclandia 🌶️📚

Current #WIP

Just finished draft 1 and hoping to finish the outline for book 2 today before taking two weeks off to let things simmer before diving into edits

Screenshot of a reddit post reading: AITA for predicting my aunt will die? The other day I [M20] heard the banshee, meaning someone in my family will die, and obviously it's going to be my aunt. She's pretty sickly and I can't imagine any other option. But when I told my family, they called me a disgrace. Naturally I tracked down the banshee and demanded answers, but she was totally useless and couldn't tell me shit, so I stole her comb. Sweet revenge. But I didn't anticipate that she'd try to get it back... and when I tried to get her out of my bedroom (hello, personal space???) I accidentally touched her and she had this weird seiuzure. Now this creepy, undead (but lowkey hot) chick is insisting that "my touch brings her memories back" and "she craves more". I can't lie, I'm temped (just because I want to find out who'll actually die and prove my family wrong... no other reason). If my dickhead cousin finds out about this I'm totally screwed. AITA?

Gothic mood board depicting a skull, an ancient Irish chieftain with a hunting dog, hands reaching through a ghostly gauze, a yearning man kissing the hand of his lover, a thurible spewing incense, hands clasped in prayer with a rosary, a woman in white facing a vast forest, and hands ripping a hole in the center of the owner's chest. Text reads "The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 82,000 words, adult gothic horror"

AITA?

…Find out what happens next when the black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, even as the black plague closes in.

💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #Horrormance

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