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M.L. Baskerville ๐Ÿบ Debut Release 10.2026 ๐ŸŽƒ

@mlbaskerville.bsky.social

Repโ€™d by Watchful Wizard Publishing! ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Debut novel, THE LUSTER OF LIFE, releasing October, 2026 ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿฆ‡

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Hi guys. Itโ€™s been awhile since I updated here. Welp, earlier this year my book got picked up by @watchfulwizardp.bsky.social ! Iโ€™ll also be illustrating it! Needless to say, Iโ€™m no longer in the trenches! Wooo! #writingcommunity #author #writing

29.12.2025 03:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whoaaa idk what I did to get all these followers in two days, but thank you everyone, and hello! ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•

26.05.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Who wants a book about a monster dad adopting a traumatized lil baby? Because if you doโ€ฆBOY DO I HAVE A MANUSCRIPT. ๐Ÿฅฐ

16.04.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I havenโ€™t queried you since I write YA, however, Iโ€™m sure everyone understands. Wishing you plenty of rest and healing. โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน

31.03.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oooh, I like it!

29.03.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#writingcommunity I want to write a monster romance. What kind of monsters do we wanna see?

29.03.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My fave book. I read it the first time in high school, and have read it every year since. Iโ€™m actually wearing my Pet Sematary shirt right now ๐Ÿ˜‚

29.03.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit is holding his head and says im fine ALT: a man in a suit is holding his head and says im fine

I could land a job in a couple weeks, get my life together without losing my apartment, and easily stop texting my old work rival/best friend's brother. Watch me work this magic, people! No one needs to know!!! I'M FINE!!!! #unhingedpit #amquerying #wf #litagents

28.03.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
a stick figure meme reading "the froggo, the witch, the audacity of this b-", showing a happy frogfolk, a smiling winged elf, and a sharp-toothed menacing man in a top hat

a stick figure meme reading "the froggo, the witch, the audacity of this b-", showing a happy frogfolk, a smiling winged elf, and a sharp-toothed menacing man in a top hat

a two-panel meme. The first shows a stick figure drawing of a peacefully smiling woman reaching in her cloak, captioned, "I'm a healer". In the second, above an all-caps "BUT", the woman tilts her head, still smiling, as she holds a photoshopped gun.

a two-panel meme. The first shows a stick figure drawing of a peacefully smiling woman reaching in her cloak, captioned, "I'm a healer". In the second, above an all-caps "BUT", the woman tilts her head, still smiling, as she holds a photoshopped gun.

A three-panel meme of a dog who doesn't want to give back a ball. A hate and red coat have been photoshopped on the dog. In the first panel, the dog hold the ball and wistfully asks, "Play deathgame?" In the second, as a hand reaches for the dog, it grows angry and says, "No! No survive!" In the third panel, the camera closes on the dog's angry face as it says, "Only play."

A three-panel meme of a dog who doesn't want to give back a ball. A hate and red coat have been photoshopped on the dog. In the first panel, the dog hold the ball and wistfully asks, "Play deathgame?" In the second, as a hand reaches for the dog, it grows angry and says, "No! No survive!" In the third panel, the camera closes on the dog's angry face as it says, "Only play."

PSSST HEY KID, WANNA BUY SOME FANTASY ADVENTURE???

Only the finest memes from my story for #unhingedpit

#YA #A #F #W

28.03.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For every second I am not getting a like from a literary agent during #UnhingedPit , I will be balancing another corn chip on Pumpkinโ€™s muzzle. Come on #litagents, only you can end this madness.

28.03.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cat: *attacks my ankles*

Me: "Ow! You know what also has problem cats? And rabbits, and gorillas? Well, just one gorilla, but he speaks sign language. And punches space poachers. Ow!"

Cat: *tears through the house*

Me: "The Book's called A SWIFT KICK TO THE THORAX. Ow."

#UnhingedPit #SF #A #P

28.03.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Page with the following words
"CII transcript MAX SPEED FAN CLUB
Speedo: When will the MusAMS hiatus be over?! I'm dying here โ˜ ๏ธ
Max#1: This is the longest it's been on break since Max was 5
HaleQ: Heya...
Speedo: HALE! Where've you been?
HaleQ: Set sold me to the Alliance to pay down my debt. So, I'm on a spaceship.
<3Max: That sux!
Artemis: Wait, aren't you scared of space?
HaleQ: Yeah, I sort of fainted in the simulator [smiling w/ sweat drop emoji] The captain was ready to send me back home
<3Max: [celebration emoji]
HaleQ: I said no.  I volunteered for the engineering team. I'm pretty good at it.
Speedo: Why would you do that?  
HaleQ: ...Max is onboard
<3Max: [emojis: mindblown, melting, starry-eyed]
Speedo: OMG, I can't believe this!
Max#1: You're so lucky, Hale!
Artemis: Sign me up for the war!"

Page with the following words "CII transcript MAX SPEED FAN CLUB Speedo: When will the MusAMS hiatus be over?! I'm dying here โ˜ ๏ธ Max#1: This is the longest it's been on break since Max was 5 HaleQ: Heya... Speedo: HALE! Where've you been? HaleQ: Set sold me to the Alliance to pay down my debt. So, I'm on a spaceship. <3Max: That sux! Artemis: Wait, aren't you scared of space? HaleQ: Yeah, I sort of fainted in the simulator [smiling w/ sweat drop emoji] The captain was ready to send me back home <3Max: [celebration emoji] HaleQ: I said no. I volunteered for the engineering team. I'm pretty good at it. Speedo: Why would you do that? HaleQ: ...Max is onboard <3Max: [emojis: mindblown, melting, starry-eyed] Speedo: OMG, I can't believe this! Max#1: You're so lucky, Hale! Artemis: Sign me up for the war!"

What would a transcript of the Max Speed Fan Club chat group over cybernetic implant interface look like on the day teens were pulled into the war?
#unhingedpit #YA #SF #LGBT #Q

28.03.2025 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#litagents & #editors, itโ€™s @angie-r03.bsky.social bday today, so I feel as though a โ€œlikeโ€ on her brilliant pitch is a solid way to celebrate her magical existence!!! ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธโœจ๐Ÿ”ฎ
#UnhingedPit

28.03.2025 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Little Mermaid x Saltburn

A tree girl just wants to save her home but rich people like being young and rich too much.

#UnhingedPit #YA #F #Q

28.03.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Girl with long fair hair and a medieval white dress with long sleeves, sitting in a boat on a river. She looks melancholy. It is the Hunt painting of The Lady of Shallot

Girl with long fair hair and a medieval white dress with long sleeves, sitting in a boat on a river. She looks melancholy. It is the Hunt painting of The Lady of Shallot

BIRDSONG X SONS & LOVERS
When Thea sails down the Arun & spies William ensnared in the reeds, his body gutted like a fish, she doesn't linger. Her lover is waiting & the Tennisison.
#UnhingedPit #A #Hist #LGBTQ #Q

28.03.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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a man in a red shirt is running down a street carrying a pizza box ALT: a man in a red shirt is running down a street carrying a pizza box

โ€œI am NOT letting corporate vampires ruin my pizza night.

What? They went after Alex?

Oh, heck no. Those vamps are going down.โ€ ~Jason

๐Ÿฉธ ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿง›โ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #UnhingedPit #A #PR #writingcommunity
*Full agent guide on profile*

28.03.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 85    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tumblr meme by poundsofnothing reading "If this happened to me I think I would survive it" followed by the image of a biological textbook drawing of a mountain lion biting a person's skull

Tumblr meme by poundsofnothing reading "If this happened to me I think I would survive it" followed by the image of a biological textbook drawing of a mountain lion biting a person's skull

THE FORK IN THE ROAD:
Because who doesn't love a romance between a two-hundred-year-old mountain lion shifter and the pathetic bisexual elf lord she picked up from the ground? #Unhingedpit #F #A #SPEC #W

The vibe:

28.03.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Confidential

Alyss Veylas

Risk level: UNPRECEDENTED

Named her sword "Melancholy"โ€”how emo can you get?

Hobbies include robbing graves with her ex and his new girlfriend?

Deals with grief by flirting with THE Bastian Nightingale

Wields the power of the Memoria Moon...Could she be...?

Why is she stabbing everything?!

Confidential Alyss Veylas Risk level: UNPRECEDENTED Named her sword "Melancholy"โ€”how emo can you get? Hobbies include robbing graves with her ex and his new girlfriend? Deals with grief by flirting with THE Bastian Nightingale Wields the power of the Memoria Moon...Could she be...? Why is she stabbing everything?!

A Memory of Moonkissed Malice

Kind of like...

Harry Potter (if he listened to My Chemical Romance)

Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do"

Love Interest like Patrick from "10 Things I Hate About You"

A Memory of Moonkissed Malice Kind of like... Harry Potter (if he listened to My Chemical Romance) Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" Love Interest like Patrick from "10 Things I Hate About You"

Confidential

Bastian Nightingale

Risk level: UNPRECEDENTED

Catchphrase: "I flaunt my sins proudly"โ€”like that's a good thing...

Tongue is sharper than his fangs

Won't shut up about Alyss Veylas (literally obsessed)

Hobbies include using his magick kamera and smoking blood cigarillos

Did he steal my gold while he was here?

Confidential Bastian Nightingale Risk level: UNPRECEDENTED Catchphrase: "I flaunt my sins proudly"โ€”like that's a good thing... Tongue is sharper than his fangs Won't shut up about Alyss Veylas (literally obsessed) Hobbies include using his magick kamera and smoking blood cigarillos Did he steal my gold while he was here?

CONFIDENTIAL: The following notes for Nocturne Collegiate's Alyss Veylas & Bastian Nightingale were shared with me by their therapist, and the results are...rather unhinged.

#UnhingedPit #YA #Q #F #CrossoverAppeal

28.03.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A painter is working on a piece of art in a beautiful garden, while a little Victorian girl, Adelaide, holds two paintbrushes menacingly. A governess and young gardener, Maggie, sit in the foreground. Theyโ€™ve all come to confront the artist, who they believe is the cause of all the mysterious disappearance and deaths around Greer Manor. 
Adelaide: โ€œIโ€™ll make you pay!โ€
*She rips the painting the artist was working on with his very own brushes*
The artist: โ€œInsolent Child!โ€
Maggie: โ€œOh dear!โ€

A painter is working on a piece of art in a beautiful garden, while a little Victorian girl, Adelaide, holds two paintbrushes menacingly. A governess and young gardener, Maggie, sit in the foreground. Theyโ€™ve all come to confront the artist, who they believe is the cause of all the mysterious disappearance and deaths around Greer Manor. Adelaide: โ€œIโ€™ll make you pay!โ€ *She rips the painting the artist was working on with his very own brushes* The artist: โ€œInsolent Child!โ€ Maggie: โ€œOh dear!โ€

Now Maggie is standing next to Adelaide for moral support as the artist collapses to the ground after momentarily shouting in anger at his destroyed art. 
Artist: โ€œNOW youโ€™ve angered THEM!!โ€
Both girls: โ€œWHO?!โ€

Now Maggie is standing next to Adelaide for moral support as the artist collapses to the ground after momentarily shouting in anger at his destroyed art. Artist: โ€œNOW youโ€™ve angered THEM!!โ€ Both girls: โ€œWHO?!โ€

The artist subsequently goes hysterical. He rips up the lovely flowers and grass, then explodes his colorful paints and smears them across his face, all the while screaming, shrieking, and wriggling his noodle arms.
Both girls: โ€œHeโ€™s gone MAD!โ€

The artist subsequently goes hysterical. He rips up the lovely flowers and grass, then explodes his colorful paints and smears them across his face, all the while screaming, shrieking, and wriggling his noodle arms. Both girls: โ€œHeโ€™s gone MAD!โ€

After his insane fit, the artist collapses on the ground where his body seemingly disintegrates. Wrapped around his now empty clothes are thorny vines and shreds of lawn.
Maggie: โ€œHe tore up ALL the grass.โ€
Adelaide: โ€œMaggie, heโ€™s GONE!โ€
The governess: โ€œGirls, I donโ€™t think those flowers belong.โ€
Up behind the neat border of the flowers, looms three monstrous, toothy, beautifully deadly blooms that most certainly donโ€™t belong in the garden.
Did the artist REALLY disintegrate? Or did the flowers he was lovingly painting have a malicious part in his death? 









Thanks for partaking in the nonsense! ๐Ÿ˜‚

After his insane fit, the artist collapses on the ground where his body seemingly disintegrates. Wrapped around his now empty clothes are thorny vines and shreds of lawn. Maggie: โ€œHe tore up ALL the grass.โ€ Adelaide: โ€œMaggie, heโ€™s GONE!โ€ The governess: โ€œGirls, I donโ€™t think those flowers belong.โ€ Up behind the neat border of the flowers, looms three monstrous, toothy, beautifully deadly blooms that most certainly donโ€™t belong in the garden. Did the artist REALLY disintegrate? Or did the flowers he was lovingly painting have a malicious part in his death? Thanks for partaking in the nonsense! ๐Ÿ˜‚

THE NIGHT OF THE TRIFFIDS x ALICE IN WONDERLAND

The girls catch their main suspectโ€”except it doesnโ€™t quite go as planned when he kinda gets eaten mid-interrogation

#UnhingedPit #MG #Q #H #MY

28.03.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Aaaaaa itโ€™s here too!! I love this so much

28.03.2025 14:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Actual footage from An Ordinary Name

In which the slow burn is slow burning, the MMC is a hot carpenter with emotional maturity, and our girl Tayah must solve a deadly mystery before sheโ€™s the next victim

#UnhingedPit #a #f #r

28.03.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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HALFWAY HAVENโ€™s handwritten recipe for #UnhingedPitโœจโœจ

except two twelve year olds vandalised the paper

agents send a like if youโ€™re keen to a read (hopefully) more clearly written version of their story๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†•๏ธโš”๏ธ

#UnhingedPit #querying #MG #Q #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

28.03.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sh*t Janet needs to deal with:

- Four cult-driven murders (why are they all PTA moms?)
- Three friends (where the hell did Mags go?)
- Two love interests (Hank's gonna freakin' kill me)
- One killer playlist (summer of '86, ride or die... maybe both?)

#UnhingedPit #AG #A #H

28.03.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Too bad Iโ€™m not an agent. Iโ€™d take that bribe ๐Ÿ˜‚

28.03.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A hand crochet amigurumi golden sheep

A hand crochet amigurumi golden sheep

If querying doesn't work, maybe bribe will.

If you chose to represent my #YA cosy fantasy book about magical crochet with sapphic enemies to lovers romance, this hand-made plush of Chris, the magical golden ram, will be yours.

#UnhingedPit #F #Q

28.03.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This, but the protagonist is a loner girl with insomnia who is drawn to dark and forbidden thingsโ€”especially things that bloom.

Includes:
-plant magic system
- cinnamon role love interest
- Botany boarding school
- shadows monsters
- near-future tech

#UnhingedPit #YA #F #SF #Q

28.03.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, Sapphic Gargoyle Urban Fantasy
"What will you do with your shadow?"
Images include a painting of a colorful sunset, a goth girl in backlit silhouette descending a staircase, a stone funerary angel, the arched roof of a cathedral. pencil and charcoal sketches of a face, statue of a grotesque from the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, a gargoyle jutting off a stone wall, a goth girl looking sullen and elegant.

Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, Sapphic Gargoyle Urban Fantasy "What will you do with your shadow?" Images include a painting of a colorful sunset, a goth girl in backlit silhouette descending a staircase, a stone funerary angel, the arched roof of a cathedral. pencil and charcoal sketches of a face, statue of a grotesque from the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, a gargoyle jutting off a stone wall, a goth girl looking sullen and elegant.

What non-human creatures do we see in my YA fantasy?

Crow
Cat
Mermaid
Lionkin
Dragon
Griffin
Dogling
Boarkin
Cherub
Unicorn
Greenman
Demon
Nephilim
Angel
Jenny-Greenteeth
Imp
Fawn
Skogsra
Kelpie
Centaur
Orc
Frogling
Fairy
Spiderkin
Giant serpent
Selkie
Foxling
Lizardkin
Harpy
#UnhingedPit
#Q #YA #F

28.03.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Clearly, NTA, right?
She's just NOT READY TO MAKE NICE. ;)

SWEET HOME ALABAMA X WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING X MEET ME AT THE LAKE

#UnhingedPit #editors #WF #R #OS

28.03.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Realty ad for faux Irish cottage, "beautiful farm house nestled between a forest and lake on a private hill...just keep the shutters closed at night to keep the Banshee out..."

Realty ad for faux Irish cottage, "beautiful farm house nestled between a forest and lake on a private hill...just keep the shutters closed at night to keep the Banshee out..."

Come to the countryside they said...

It would be good for your health they said...

Help you get over your wife's death they said...

Start over...

But I hear her whispering to me on the wind...just outside the window...

#UnhingedPit #H #WIP

28.03.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Found this photo in a serial killerโ€™s house, now I need to figure out who she is and what she has to do with said serial killer. And now thereโ€™s a fire monster showing up when Iโ€™m making out with a girl! Help. Think IT but less problematic. #YA #H #T #unhingedpit #Q

28.03.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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