I got asked to write in a college magazine about indie publishing. The people in charge have loved it so far. Hopefully, there's more to come like it.
22.02.2025 17:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@ponchobosqueauthor.bsky.social
Author of Chronicles of Heroes: Untamed Nature and writer of YA Fantasy and Romance. I'm also into video games, TTRPG's, and cooking.
I got asked to write in a college magazine about indie publishing. The people in charge have loved it so far. Hopefully, there's more to come like it.
22.02.2025 17:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you!
14.02.2025 15:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Awards!!!!
My book, "Chronicles of Heroes: Untamed Nature" is a finalist!! ๐๐
#WritingCommunity #Writing
I entered a couple of book contests last year.
Well, I got one of the results. I didn't win, but I did get a review.
It did say I was in the top 18% of a significative amount of entries in the fiction genre.
I'll take any wins I can take.
Yet again, I feel stuck on earth, wishing I could be somewhere else. Are distant stars not within reach? Are the depths of the seas far from us? Why do all these fantastical worlds tempt me, only to remind me about the dullness of ours?
16.01.2025 14:22 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A collage of photos for the novel Moonlit by Harper-Hugo Darling. The images depict gray wolves howling at the sky and playing in the snow, a dark sky with a red moon, a woman with a blood-covered chin smiling, snow-covered forests, the Edmonton cityscape, white hands holding a green potted plant, a close-up of a lush pink blanket, glasses of wine, and mugs of coffee. In the center of the collage is a luminous moon containing the title of the novel and a snowflake.
๐ After murdering her fiance, Selene decides to throw away her dreams of being a housewife to take care of the pack of werewolves she has inherited.
MOONLIT is an adult, genre-bending novel about found family and how collapse can change relationships for good.
#BluePit #Q #A #F #LGBT #Dis #OV
Mood board that features a bunch of cinnamon buns and a smocking hot coffee on the top left corner. A chirstmas tree shining in color in the rockerfeller center in New York along with lights under it. A golden Fennel fox peeking out of his hideout, and a teen blond teenager wearing a white tank top. In the last row, there is a rugby player running with a rugby ball, a chef adding spices to the meat on a hot pan and a teenager with brown long hair that looks directly at the camera.
The Golden Fox is the story of a French Teenage Werewolf Chef rediscovering love and happiness with others, especially with a young alchemist.
๐ #Bluepit #YA #R #LGBTQA+
The background is Confederate grey with gold stitching design to look like a confederate uniform. Top left photo is a Gettysburg battle reenactment, top middle is a white girl in a dress holding a chair, top right is a picture of trees at Gettysburg. Middle top left is a black girl in a dress and apron holding a chair, middle top middle is a weeping willow by water with yellow and grey words that say Tears Beneath the Weeping Willow, middle top right is a native American girl in regalia holding a doll. Middle bottom left is a painting of Grant and Lee with their men when Lee surrendered and middle bottom right Is a picture of a Gettysburg Fence and Cannons. Bottom right is a picture of a Gettysburg statue with a cannon to each side and trees in the back and bottom right is a depiction of a southern ball with ladies in their dresses and men in suits dancing.
Black background. Top left is an angel statue with her head bowed. Top right is a blonde woman in a white dress walking on a cloud. Below those are quotes to each side and a white shadow man figure falling with squiggly lines in the middle of them. The left quote read: Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed, & rearranged to relocate us to the place we're meant to be. The right reads: sometime when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place. The title under the man reads: Falling Up. Middle left picture is a woman sitting on red rocks watching the stars and milky way. Middle left is School desks in a classroom with papers and pencils on them and green seats. Bottom left is a hooded robed man by fire. Bottom right is a bunch of hands reaching up.
Black background. Top picture is the eye of a Hurricane from above in space under that is yellow words reading: Chasing the wind with teal swirls that look like wind. Middle left picture is lightning behind a big city. The quote next to it in yellow is: In the eye of a Hurricane there is quiet for just a moment. Middle right picture is a storm coming in over a turquoise ocean and white sand. Below the lightning the words read: Find power in being quiet in chaos. Below the ocean one the words read: NOAAโs Hurricane Hunters, famous for flying into the worldโs most ferocious weather, have a job which is not for the faint of heart, often being tossed in severe turbulence while flying at a mere 10,000 feet. The picture between them is an older child in a yellow raincoat standing at a chain link fence. Bottom left picture is an ocean surge onto a beach and winds blowing palm trees. Bottom right is a wing of a plane as seen out a window looking over clouds. The quote between them reads: It's in the darkest hours that the kindness of others brings the most light.
A golden yellow owl sits on a branch in front of a white/grey moon and golden yellow stars and blue background. The words read: an agent's guide to: Luna & the Golden Owl. Tropes: Found Family, Friendship, Loving Yourself, Defective Animal, Appreciating Differences.
Here is my list for #BluePit
1. Luna & the Golden Owl #Q #Juvenile #EarlyReader #F
2. Tears Beneath the Weeping Willow #W #YA #HF
3. Falling Up #W #MG #F
4. Chasing the Wind #W #MG #F
Project Sugar and Spice moodboard: Top row: Chocolate chip cookies; interior design of bakery w/ furniture and decorations; pineapple coconut cake slice Middle row: black college students studying together; "I believe in annoyed at first sight" quote; couple making a heart w/ their hands Bottom row: Spring flower wreath; silhouette of couple sharing a kiss; picnic basket with bottle of wine and pink flowers
Rival pastry chefs Lydia and Xavier disagree on everything, especially sweets. But when bitter feelings turn sweet, will their story end in tiers or will their simmering desires consume them altogether? ๐ง โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
#BluePit #W #R #Hu #NA #A
#BlackBooksky #Romancelandia #WritingCommunity
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an illustration of two figures glaring at each other: a pale man holding a sword and with horns, and a woman wearing a crown
a moodboard of various images depicting mermaids/sirens, women holding swords, and romance.
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA X NETFLIX'S THE WITCHER
When Olive's daughter goes missing, she reluctantly leaves behind everything she knows to join a grumpy half-beast mercenary in his journey through the Wilds to find her.
๐ค Elemental secondary world
๐ค Dual POV mother/daughter
#W #A #F #BluePit ๐
A mood board with a green background. At the top reads: "Hope you enjoyed your summer at Camp Butcher!" with kissy lips. From left, the first picture is of a couple kissing in a lake, captioned: not his girlfriend. Middle picture is of newspaper print of the word LIES over and over, torn away to reveal TRUTH, captioned: Who ISN'T lying in this book? Final picture on the right is of a row of summer camp cabins, captioned: murder & mayhem spots.
TRULY DEVIOUS X ONE OF US IS LYING
When the glue to their friend group is murdered, four teens at a remote summer camp for the arts must dig up dirt on each other's hookups, criminal records, and drug dealing to expose a killer who'll do anything to keep the truth buried.
๐ #BluePit #Q #YA #M
Left to right. Top row: Hands wrapped around trees. Lightning over the ocean. Hand reaching out of a grave. Middle row: Stone statue of children holding hands. "Be careful what you wish for." Inside spiral of a decrepit lighthouse. Bottom row: Hands of a drowning man. A cave. Dirty hands bound with rope.
โจIntroducing my YA Fantasy Horrorโจ
After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it.
This story features:
๐Dual POV
๐A Deadly Deal
๐Ravenous Monsters
๐Secrets With Severe Consequences
๐Exes to Allies to [redacted]
#BluePit #YA #F #H ๐
Scott Pilgrim x Crazy Ex-Girlfriend x Spirit Phone!
A demolitions expert with a history of explosive relationships teams up with her terrible exes to fight her high school sweetheart--a murderous arcade cabinet--in a life-or-death cross-country scavenger hunt.
#bluepit #W #A #D #Hu #OV #LGBT ๐
An illustration of Mia, the female lead, and Owen, the male lead, sitting together on a desk. Owen is typing on a keyboard and focused on his work. Mia is looking towards Owen and twirling her hair with her index finger. Artwork by Joy Ling.
SOMETHING MORE x TOMORROW (x3)
When 16yo Mia Pan learns her mom can't afford rent, she must win a $100k coding competition to stay in NYCโher childhood homeโwhile navigating feelings for her autistic teammate and wondering if she's autistic herself.
Art by me!
๐ #YA #R #Q #Dis #OV #BluePit
Book cover mockup: a hand drawn map of the heroine's route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an orange sky over the Earth
Niwaju, a 20-year-old scholar-empath, makes a perilous, mystical journey across the former US to find a way for peace for her people, offering a #Solarpunk vision of hope, transformation, and growth through the adaptation of people to a climate ravaged landscape.
#BluePit #Q #A #speculative #CliFi ๐
A mood board with nine images laid 3x3 depicting a Black princess with dresses and jewelry, a message in a bottle, a crown made of shells, a conch shell, and romantic scenes of the princess with her love interest, a white princess with red hair, including their faces pressed together, kissing in the reflection of a handheld mirror, and running across a grassy field arm-in-arm. The lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted across the grid, with the first row of pictures tinted light orange, the second row tinted cream/white, and the third road tinted a rosy pink.
To pay her own bride price, Princess Mira hunts for lost treasureโbut to break the curse binding her to a vengeful pirateโs ghost, she must fall in love with a fishermanโs son. Thereโs just one problem: Miraโs heart already belongs to another princess.
#BluePit ๐ #W #YA #F #R #M #LGBT
A moody aesthetic board in cream and dark tones for the novel THE SIREN'S CALL. From top row left-right moving down; a treasure map with ships sailing etched on it, a woman in a dress with a dagger, an ornate swirling sword handle, a pirate ship on the sea, a quote: "We don't take captives - we don't leave them, either. Sea's a free place for all brave enough t'join her.", sirens in the water, a necklace with tentacle detail, a man with a sword, and a letter with cursive writing.
DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART
When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a budding romance with a pirate captainโor needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life.
๐ #Q #NA #R #F #BluePit
Mood board for 'The Last Sky', a sci-fi novel. Grid of nine images. Top row: 1) close-up on a man's hand holding a little girl's hand; 2) shock troopers moving through smoke with rifles drawn; 3) a girl's face in profile with glowing scientific and mathematical symbols superimposed over her head. Middle row: 4) An epic shot of a spaceship flying past a solar eclipse through clouds; 5) The book's title 'The Last Sky'; 6) A planet burning and crumbling apart. Bottom row: 7) A man's silhouette hunched over, holding a bottle of alcohol; 8) A silhouette image of a man playfully holding a little boy on his shoulders at sunset; 9) a close up of a man's face in profile, tears rolling over his cheeks as he appears to stare at the image of the boy in the sunset.
The Last Of Us x 1984 x Firefly
An alcoholic ex-soldier, haunted by his role in empowering a deadly regime, gets a shot at redemption by protecting a mute girl from turning into the galaxy's greatest weaponโone of the gods who killed his son.
#BluePit #Q #A #SF
pencil and pen sketch of the main character Jak Sterzand, crawling, looking determined.
TREASURE ISLAND X THE EXPANSE X SKYWARD
#BluePit #YA #SF #Q
When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Erisโa prodigal engineer with a craving for techโhe couldn't have known it would tear him away from his life on a pirate-run space station to an interstellar quest for answers.
Moodboard of six images. Top/mid left: Close-up of an orange cat, with just half its face visible. It's staring directly at the camera. Center/top right: A man stands in a doorway, back to the viewer. The door is the only source of light in an otherwise pitch-black room. Center/mid right: A bookshop full of books, but the walls, themselves lined with bookshelves, are curved to form a tunnel around the viewer. In the center of the tunnel are rows of more book displays, leading to a closed window. Bottom left: A dark-skinned man adjusts the cuffs of his pressed, white, button-down shirt. Only his hands are visible. Bottom center: A heavyset woman stands in the middle of a forest, gazing up in apprehension/curiosity towards something to the top right. Her hands are holding down the edges of her brown, wide-brimmed hat. Bottom right: A person in loose-fitting clothes and a long, brown jacket sits next to a small table with a coffee set and a vintage camera on it. The figure holds up a red-covered book (titled Alice) in such a way that their face is completely obscured.
WIZARD OF OZ x MIRRORMASK
For millennia, Alexandria and Tin have loyally served the sentient nexus of all human imagination. But when a lost teen drops into their lives, they'll do anything to keep her from throwing away her freedomโeven defying their godlike prison.
๐ #BluePit #W #YA #F #LGBT
"There are two ways a human can enter the Underworld. You can die or you can enter through Hell. I assume you don't want to die yet, so you will have to go to Hell." moodboard featuring gothic & 19th century europe imagery, including: a dark lamppost, a statue of an angel, a mausoleum, a romantic sculpture by auguste rodin, a female vampire with fangs bared, a photo of the ponte sant'angelo, candelabras, painting of skull and flowers, a woman with red lipstick wearing a veil over her eyes, the moon against a black background, a silhouette of lovers, a wraith, a wolf, a man and a woman standing side by side, one holding a gun
Get in loser, it's the year 1899 and we're taking a trip from LondonโกParisโกRome to find a way into the Underworld so that the MCโs brother doesn't unleash Hell upon earth--and along the way, we're going to slay demons & fall in love w/a bisexual vampire hunter ๐น
#BluePit ๐ #Q #Hs #F #H #R #LGBT #POC
Title wrath of a wildflower surrounded by blurbs that describe the book: Morally grey, urban fantasy, cursed dark queen's, two reals, dual pov, romance, missing brother, new adult
The Pitch: decades ago, the princes of Luci's realm cursed her before they left to takeover earth. Limiting the days she can cross realms to hunt them had made killing them difficult, but not impossible. Now she is finally closing in on the key to breaking her curse, but she doesn't know one of the mortals she took on her journey to vengeance has a very loyal brother. Ryland finally had the job he needs at the exclusive nightclub where his brother was last seen. As he gets closer to discovering what happened to his brother and a trail of other missing men, he meets a beautiful partner to help him with his hunt. Together they find that their government is lying to them and minsters are real... and they are hunting one. They must decide how much danger they are willing to face for the truth.
Books it compares to: The Book of Azreal, City of God's and Monsters, and Throne of the Fallen
The playlist including Horns by Bryce Fox, Monsters by Ruelle, Control by Halsey, Whose Afraid of Little Old Me? And Look what you made me do By Taylor Swift, and Killing of the Night, HBIC and Happy Ever After by Gin Wingmore,
Worlds collide when a dark queen's journey to break her curse forces her to take a human prisoner back to her realm. His brother will do anything to find out what happened, including infiltrating an exclusive nightclub where men seem to disappear.
#bluepit #bluepithype #a #f #q #amquerying ๐
A camping mood board with an orange tent and the writing "let's go killing" beside an etching of mountain caps. Polaroid pictures line the bottom. From left: a pile of question mark cutouts that are in darkness, with one glowing question mark in the middle; a person whose face is obscured in darkness, wearing a yellow raincoat; a hand of a presumably dead body on the floor, sticking out from a sheet.
THE COUNSELORS X SILENT SISTER
18 y/o Paige plans to spend her summer attending writing workshops and paddle-boating on the sparkly lake at camp. But when her boyfriend turns up dead and his BFF is arrested, she smells something fishyโand it isn't coming from the lake.
๐ #BluePit #Q #YA #M
THE BLADE ITSELF x ATLA
Three people are cast apart in the carnage of their world. Each step they take only drives them further apart and plunges the world into chaos. Can they find each other before they perish or will evil forces use them to break the world forever?
#BluePit ๐ #WIP #A #F #D
A mood board containing a shadowy picture, starry night sky, forbidden romance, blue rose, girl wearing hoodie with blue eyes, and classroom for my YA pitch.
Ava-Amaka wakes in a hospital with no memory of her parentsโ murder. Haunted by nightmares and resurfacing fragments, she uncovers a cult, her supernatural heritage, and forbidden love with her enemyโs son. Can she navigate love, vengeance, and fate? #Bluepit #BluePit #YA #MagicalRealism #R #M
13.01.2025 05:32 โ ๐ 128 ๐ 64 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 3A total of 4 Victorian England-inspired images in a collage. Top left: 3 couples dancing at a Victorian ball + top right: 3 ladies having a tea party in a garden, gossiping + bottom left: an aristocratic couple embracing in a dim-lit majestic hallway+ bottom right: an image of a grand country estate in England, UK + middle: a text box with prompts: - first in a series of books - multiple love stories: childhood friends to lovers + enemies to lovers - mistaken identity - Long lost family secrets. At the top of the collage is an invitation with the text: you are cordially invited to Lavender Hall. May your journey be swift and pleasant. Yours sincerely, Duke and Duchess of Sands
DOWNTON ABBEY X FRIENDS
In 1855, the crรจme of British nobility attend a 2-week house party. Once the party begins, so does the madness! The days are riddled with impossible love, scandalous secrets AND an abduction..What could possibly go right?!
#BluePit #A #Q #R #Hs ๐
A collage of black and white pictures over a background of roses. Pictures include the Eiffel tower, a manor and its reflection in a lake, a white woman putting a gold necklace on, woods, and a skull. In the middle it reads "Of blood and bones"
WHIMBREL HOUSE x MARROWBONE SPELLS
Blood is life. Bones are strength. Flesh is control. Skin is death.
๐น A sapphic historical romantasy
๐ซ๐ท Set in France during the Belle รpoque
๐ฉธ A horrific magic system
๐ก๏ธ Family intrigue & power struggles
๐๏ธ Gothic vibes
#BluePit ๐ #Q #A #F #HS #LGBT
๐ฟWhite Trash Witchcraft๐ชฒ
A southern inheritance is always darkโwhether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#BluePit #YA #H #LGBT #Dis #OV
Photo collage with a dark aesthetic and reddish and green tones. Top row: A fox stares out from the darkness, one eye visible; a door knocker fashioned like a dragon; an eclipse, the sky is swirling with green tinged clouds. Middle row: A female warrior sits, propped up using the hilt of her sword; a double exposure of a face holding its hands like the scream but it's ghostlike and hard to discern the gender; a catacomb tunnel with a man holding a torch of fire; a strange unusual formation of rocks against the night sky with stars visible. Bottom row: a murky dark forest with twisted limbs and green atmostphere; the profile of a woman, long hair loose, she's in silhouette surrounded by darkness.
There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret?
THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER x THE JASAD HEIR
#BluePit ๐ #Q #A #F
ALT: Dark and moody grid of 7 pictures: ornate mirrors on a grey way with golden frames, abstract texture of muted pinks, beige, bluish grey, top-down view of a squared spiral staircase with gold handrails and black/pink stairs, a red illuminated NO VACANCY sign, a grey liminal hall with gold around the doorways, hands covered in blood, small rectangular cubbies with ornate keys and gold tassels.
On their last night abroad, Dakota& friends check into Hotel Adair, where a sinister force amplifies their deepest insecurities. As reality warps& bodies pile up, Dakota must confront the hotelโs twisted pastโ& its hunger for unresolved conflictโif she wants to ever check out.โจโจ
#W #A #H #BluePit ๐