LightNews — News, ranked by scholars

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Hey #authors

Revenge of the 5th!

Tale Teller Tuesday Let’s do a #writerslift 📖📚

#ShamlessSelfpromoTuesday

Drop your #books #poetry #art #blogs and #links below

#follow to help your fellow creatives go viral!

No AI 🚫

#Writerscommunity
#readingcommunity
#TuesdayMotivation
📚 ✒️ 📖

May 5, 2026 at 12:23 PM

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Hey #authors

Happy Star Wars Day!!!

May The Fourth! Let’s do a #writerslift 📖📚

#ShamlessSelfpromoMonday

Drop your #books #poetry #art #blogs and #links below

#follow to help your fellow creatives go viral!

No AI 🚫

#Writerscommunity
#readingcommunity
#MondayMotivation
📚 ✒️ 📖

May 4, 2026 at 11:12 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Hey #authors!

Storytime Saturday! Let’s do a #writerslift 📖📚

#ShamlessSelfpromoSaturday

Drop your #books #poetry #art #blogs and #links below

#follow to help your fellow creatives go viral!

No AI 🚫

#Writerscommunity
#readingcommunity
#SaturdayMotivation
📚 ✒️ 📖

May 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Hey #authors!

Storytime Saturday! Let’s do a #writerslift 📖📚

#ShamlessSelfpromoSaturday

Drop your #books #poetry #art #blogs and #links below

#follow to help your fellow creatives go viral!

No AI 🚫

#Writerscommunity
#readingcommunity
#SaturdayMotivation
📚 ✒️ 📖

May 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Votes are earned and I'm not voting for genocide, war, corporations, investors.

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet @m4dpo3t.bsky.social · Apr 30

I can't wait to completely replace these Democrat demons with actual leftists who give af about all these rights before they're taken away.

April 30, 2026 at 12:31 PM

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

I can't wait to completely replace these Democrat demons with actual leftists who give af about all these rights before they're taken away.

April 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Hey #authors!

Writer Wednesday! Let’s do a #writerslift 📖📚

#ShamlessSelfpromoWednesday

Drop your #books #poetry #art #blogs and #links below

#follow to help your fellow creatives go viral!

No AI 🚫

#Writerscommunity
#readingcommunity
#WednesdayMotivation
📚 ✒️ 📖

April 29, 2026 at 11:44 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

🧝🏿‍♂️ Afro Fantasy Cosmic Opera
📖A 100,000 word poem disguised as a book
✍🏿 Love, Darkness, and Death herself
🤌🏿Banger bars and quotables
✒️ It stares back

#Questpit #NA #F #Q #AgentsGuide

April 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

Flossie Foster

@flossiefoster.bsky.social

~EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAIRIES meets SPIRITED AWAY~

🌿 Sarcastic botanist
🥀 Broody yokai

When Clove gives her name to a Japanese deity, she’s pulled into his deadly, mythic world.

#Q #YA #Mythology #questpit

April 29, 2026 at 6:01 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

James Keller-Am Querying

@thekellerverse.bsky.social

#Questpit

Mass effect x Treasure Planet

"People of Humanity, we have been observing your Earth..."

These are the word that came down from the stars when Humanity stood on the Brink. The words that offered them a Second Chance at life. 6 years later, our story begins.

#Q #SF #SFF

In The Service of Gods & Admirals.

A Novel by

James Keller

People of Humanity,

We have been observing your Earth and know you can not survive. The damage done to your world is too great for any species to recover from. You lack the technology to escape but there is no reason why the Galaxy should have to go on without you.

In the name of our Goddess, the Lady of Crystal, I have declared the Uplift of Humanity from your ruined world. And have bestowed onto you a new planet to call your own. Where you can rebuild yourselves and live on under the light of the stars.

We offer you passage to this new world. To welcome you into the Galactic Community as Citizens of the Jada Empire. Under the protection of my court, the Assembly, and the Admiralty of the Royal Navy.

You will be granted all the rights and privileges as any other Citizen in our domain. We will offer all the assistance you require as you heal and grow on your new Colony. To help you find your place in the Galaxy.

The wars that have ravaged your Earth are not our concern. We seek not to pass judgement, but to offer a chance at peace. To survive as a people and as a culture.

To all who accept this offer, our ships will be arriving to evacuate you. Instructions will be broadcast to lead you to the evacuation zones. To all who refuse, you will be left alone without further interference. We mean no harm but we will protect our new citizens from anyone who seeks to prevent them from traveling to their new home.

I know that you do not know of us, of anyone beyond your Earth. but we do come in peace. We come in peace. All we ask is the opportunity for our people to get to know each other.

(Proclamation of Empress Celestia of House Praven, 2nd Born of Emperor Cerian)

April 29, 2026 at 4:07 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

Megan A. Saraceno | Author

@meganasaraceno.bsky.social

Mulan x Avatar: The Last Airbender x Fourth Wing

A woman rejected by the gods steals her brother’s place in war and manifests forbidden divine power while falling for her lethal commanding officer.

SONG OF THE SICKLE
Adult romantasy, 118k words

#Questpit #Q #A #RF

An Agent's Guide to Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 118k words, First in a planned series. Background picture of wheat field. Big picture of amber ring and smaller picture of incense burning.

The Pitch, with small pictures of a military training camp and an old watchtower covered in moss. What if Mulan had magic, and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods?

Comp titles include The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem for hidden identity and forbidden magic, Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer for training ground romance, and The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig for weaponized faith system.

the opening lines of the book, beside a picture of a sickle with wheat. Tomorrow the gods would judge me. Tonight, I pretended they didn't exist. I swung the scythe, blade slicing through wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts at bay.

April 29, 2026 at 4:20 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

Tamara ⛱️🎇🕶️🌊☀️

@tamaratoday.bsky.social

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️

This New Adult Fantasy Features:
🃏 Dual POVs
🎲 Second Chance Romance
🃏 Deadly Bargains
🎲 Sinful Behavior
🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards
🎲 Black Social Commentary

#QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

Left to right.

Top Row: Playing cards that spell out LOVE. A martini glass with a clear drink, dice, and a floating candle inside. A Queen of Hearts card with its eyes scribbled out.

Middle Row: Stairs and an elevator with moody red lighting. “Life is a gamble.” An eerie red hallway with many doors and chandeliers.

Bottom Row: A joker card with a demon on it. A beverage being poured into a glass. Playing cards that are three 6s.

April 29, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

Cassie Wallin Author

@cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social

Apple TV’s
SEVERANCE meets SILO

🚫 Emotion as system error
👾 The haunting is digital
📋Corporate ritual menace
🧪 Complicit Protagonist
🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

April 29, 2026 at 4:30 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

PJ (he/him) is querying...

@pjwrites.bsky.social

THE EVERWINTER KING
Querying Soon!

Desperate to find his oldest friend, the missing sun god, a former holy king returns to the home he abandoned and the people he betrayed to reunite with his god and prevent an endless winter.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #AgentsGuide

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 95,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING.

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

April 29, 2026 at 4:03 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️

@chantaldanieli.bsky.social

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

🕯️forbidden gothic romance
🕯️slow burn
🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton
🕯️black swan-esque awakening
🕯️2000’s setting
🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual
🕯️secret lake meetings

#questpit #W #A #NA #R

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

Forbidden Romance.
High Society Match Making.
European Setting.
Slow Burn.
Love VS Duty.
Black Swan-esque Awakening.
Masquerade Ball.
2000’s Setting.
Obsessive Yearning.
Secret Lake Meetings.

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
-
And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
-
A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

April 29, 2026 at 4:01 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED

@bvbodegom.bsky.social

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI

When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

April 29, 2026 at 4:05 AM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨

@saraduran.bsky.social

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a new guide 🤍

• • •

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT #AG

April 29, 2026 at 4:01 AM

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Hey #authors!

Writer Wednesday! Let’s do a #writerslift 📖📚

#ShamlessSelfpromoWednesday

Drop your #books #poetry #art #blogs and #links below

#follow to help your fellow creatives go viral!

No AI 🚫

#Writerscommunity
#readingcommunity
#WednesdayMotivation
📚 ✒️ 📖

April 29, 2026 at 11:44 AM

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

🧝🏿‍♂️ Afro Fantasy Cosmic Opera
📖A 100,000 word poem disguised as a book
✍🏿 Love, Darkness, and Death herself
🤌🏿Banger bars and quotables
✒️ It stares back

#Questpit #NA #F #Q #AgentsGuide

April 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Hey #authors

Tale Teller Tuesday! Let’s do a #writerslift 📖📚

#ShamlessSelfpromoTuesday

Drop your #books #poetry #art #blogs and #links below

#follow to help your fellow creatives go viral!

No AI 🚫

#Writerscommunity
#readingcommunity
#TuesdayMotivation
📚 ✒️ 📖

April 28, 2026 at 12:56 PM

Reposted by E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

E.G. Seven, Author & Mad Poet

@m4dpo3t.bsky.social

Out Now!!!

⚔️The Howl in the woods beyond the kingdom
⚔️The growl at the gate in the dead of night
⚔️The feather, the fur, and the hellfire heart
⚔️Claws resting on the skulls of dead gods
⚔️Full moon over the cosmic gardens

#PosterPit #A #F #P

August 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM