Drea Laj

$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.

Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...

You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.

All are considered acceptable so go off.

The UN says there's no justification in international law for the US military strikes in the Pacific and Caribbean

Occasional reminder that the main goal of AI use in its current form is epistemicide: the suppression of the means of acquiring and verifying knowledge so the AI’s owners can feed you whatever information will give them the most power.

That still haunts me

And for my final #GhostPit post, some light #bodyhorror

THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER
#F #R #FR #A #C #Agented

A mood board consisting of: a misty forest on a mountainside, a stained glass window with apothecary bottles in front of it, a tree bench reflected red against a dark sky, a hallway lined with gothic architecture windows, a red moon, a white rose stained with red, and a series of white candles half-melted.

A village witch teams up with the vampire she vowed to protect her village from in order to take down the child of a god who has been terrorizing them both.

#GhostPit #A #F #FR #WIP

Images: girl holding pumpkin, profile of teen girl, magical books, girl on surfboard with witch's hat, teen witch mid-ritual; text: Early Magic, ya contemporary fantasy

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 👻 🎃

Clueless x Practical Magic

Two witches. A missing portal. And a crafty daemon. Also a hot vet and some surfing.
Oh, and a perfect pair of Prada boots.

#ghostpit #Q #F #YA #Q
#WriteSky

A moodboard that contains images of: - a cavern full of stalagmites and stalactites - ice covered twigs - a sandy and rock covered shore with coniferous trees and more trees in the horizon - a mountainous landscape with coniferous trees in the foreground - a woman with black hair, dressed in black, dragging green tinged smoke around herself - a shiny brass compass on a map - two five-petaled blue flowers - an eye, the iris half-fire and half-lightning - herbs hanging to dry - a bonfire on a shoreline

Epic Grimdark meets Romantasy in The Land of Undying Summer
Forced to work together, a half-dead priestess and a wandering mage develop a reluctant camaraderie. That is, until he triggers an uprising that leaves her to choose between saving either the living or the dead
#F #R #FR #GhostPit #Agented

#ghostpit #SFF #Q #agentsguide

Aww!! Thank you!

A corkboard with photos of the forest and ocean and notes pinned to it. The notes: “Vampire???”, “Time of death: midnight”, and “Tremulous Oak Sanctuary: might not be a cult (but also might be)”.

OCTOBER DAYE X WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE

When a blood-drained body is found at the edge of Foggy Dell, a small town in Northern California, Maisie—local ghost speaker—and Stacy—biologist and supernatural skeptic—become unlikely partners, investigating the mysterious death.

#GhostPit #Q #PN #A #MM 👻

Picture of a shadow person. Text: "I am nothing more than a husk, waiting to be filled by something greater than myself. A great change is upon me. A great change is moving through the world. It is already in motion. It cannot be stopped." Coming to beta winter 26. Querying Spooky Season 26

"HatWIP"

The Babadook X The Exorcist

He has been tormented by Shadow people since almost dying at age six.
They are increasing in frequency.
The Red Eyed God in the woods speaks of a great change.
Now, a man in a hat, who speaks the language of hate, wants him too.

#GhostPit #W #Horror #A

The witch and the grocer 78k sapphic cozy fantasy romance

The romance Witch x werewolf Butch x femme Ownvokces heds rep First time Open door spice Alarra Thorne Robin Hart

The pitch Alarra thorne is a broke, disabled, single witch getting evicted from her failing apothecary. On a commiseratory night out with her half-satyr bff Trixie, Alarra meets Robin Hart, a half werewolf butch grocer wanting a second job thanks to the spreading friit blight. After seeing alarra collapse at work, Rlbin ahrees to work with her despite the low pay.

Comps The homey witch Late bloomer The very secret society of irregular witches Legends and lattes

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to work in her failing apothecary. But when she and the grocer fall in love, a ghost torments the shop! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her new hot gf.

#ghostpit #A #FR

Summer moodboard

Heartbroken summer camp staff Sage and Nico start a casual relationship to get over their recent heartbreaks. Nico realizes he wants this to be more than a summer thing, but Sage has some unfinished business back at school that she won't let go of so easily.

#ghostpit #q #na #r

21 Years Around the Sun: New Year, New Me Not like that? 4 images: top left disco balls, right is a woman holding a birthday cake, bottom left is a woman in an orange jumpsuit behind bars, right are bloody zombies

DON’T NAME THE DEAD

If three queer 20-somethings manage to not get eaten by the pandemic zombies, they’ll still have to dodge a preacher bent on building his post-apocalyptic flock.

🧟🏳️‍🌈SISTER MAIDEN MONSTER x THE LAST OF US

#H #na #a #ghostpit #lgbt

When cursed trans Prince Casper Sweetwater is caught and forced to live as his deadname, he thinks all hope is lost. He’s to be married off to a stranger, and to make sure he doesn’t run away, he’s been assigned a constant elven guard named Darrow Broadside. Desperate to return to the rebellion planning to kill the king, Casper realizes that his only chance of survival, to live as his true self will be if he breaks his curse. He enlists the assistance of a palace mage to help. She discovers that the cure to the curse is in Darrow’s homeland, which means that Casper cannot be cured unless he leaves. Casper must figure out how to escape the palace while dodging his suitor and his shadow. The only problem is, Darrow is very handsome and shockingly kind, and Casper is very gay. He must fight off distraction (or invite it in) to have any hope of freedom.

SWORDCROSSED X FAEBOUND

Under the Royal Guard’s Gaze

- forced proximity
- prince x guard
- arranged marriage
- tyrant king
- secret rebellion
- elemental magic
- persuasion magic
- trans MC
- open door spice
- elf LI
- baths and royal logistics

#ghostpit #NA #FR

The quote: “Aris waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriage way to break the window.” Above a series of images: a forest canopy, a student by the river in a historical city, a shelf of oddities including animal skulls, someone in a dress shirt and vest, a forest, a large animal skull, people holding cups and cigarettes around a table, and a notebooks with sketches of a skeleton.

NAUSICAA x WILL OF THE MANY

After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, university student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried.

👻 #GhostPit #A #F #LGBT

Bittersweet in the Hollow X Your Blood, My Bones

When Reverie braves a party to talk to her crush, the last thing she expects is to be kidnapped into a secret society deep beneath the Earth’s crust, where soul crushing secrets breed and life-sucking monsters prowl.

#PitDark

Dating swamp mood boards

FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL X BRIDGET JONES’ DIARY

In this spicy upmarket novel, Madi promises herself she'll move to London if she doesn't find love this summer. Her friends' wedding events bring her two gentlemen callers. Who will Madi choose: Felix, Jonah, London or herself?

#ghostpit #w #wf #a

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #GhostPit #A #Q #R #LGBT

Red background. Text: everything changes, except me. Next to a milkshake with a blood drop running down the side.

When vampire Corrine enters a cooking competition, the last thing on her mind is love. She has to battle stiff competition and her growing feelings, all while keeping her secret hidden from the reporter who she's falling for.

#ghostpit #wip #pn #r #cozy

Sketch of a sassy woman giving side eye

Doodle from tonight

#characterart #writer #writingcommunuty

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let themcome here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #SFPit #A #Q #R #SO #OV #LGBT

Two astronauts float above the surface of a moon, looking up at a massive black and red eye-shaped swirl in the stars. Text at the bottom reads: “If Jack knew the deal Elias had made with the Devil, would he still insist they play house in Hell?”

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

A prisoner. A scientist.

Two exiles condemned to a lunar hellscape that holds back the darkness between stars.

In isolation, they find solace in each other— until they awaken something that should have stayed sleeping.

#SFPit #H #R #LGBT #WIP

Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says: "A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#SFPit #A #Dys #WIP

Two awkward scientists on an alternate Earth must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world from mass starvation. But their growing feelings for each other prove to be as explosive as the chemicals they work with.

#SciFiPit #SFPit #A

Movie poster style. A side profile silhouette of a woman overlaid on a picture of night time Vancouver skyline. With a red full silhouette over that. Over everything is the title, Bloodless.

When a fresh murder reveals vampires stalk her city, Detective Maggie Munroe must decide between the case that could undo her past mistakes or the girl who needs her help.

#sfpit #a #uf #pn

Also #vampires

An agent's guide to TIME'S SIGNATURE :

"A Mexican standoff between Slow Horses, Life on Mars and The Ipcress File."

"A perfect storm of espionage and time travel."

"The best novel of 2035!"

#agentguide #A #T #Q #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers