Amy Van Duyn
@amygdala451.bsky.social
Children's book author, specializing in MG and PB, from spooky to funny. She/her
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Amy Van Duyn
@amygdala451.bsky.social
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"A Human Burden" is a short story anthology that delves into a multitude of different types of burdens. From the burden of time to the burden of a promise, each story brings a new complexity, a new weight to bear, and a distinct struggle to overcome.
#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #A #W
#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #A #W
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Amy Van Duyn
A human/AI crew to Alpha Centauri—🧐—🤖—🚀—🪐
A search into the origins of consciousness—🧬
A First Contact with inscrutable aliens—👽
Combine into:
THE THREE REFLECTORS OF CONSENSUAL REALITY
Your mind will be blown.
First chapter starts here: jetse.substack.com/p/the-three-...
#BluePit📖 #Q #A #SF
A search into the origins of consciousness—🧬
A First Contact with inscrutable aliens—👽
Combine into:
THE THREE REFLECTORS OF CONSENSUAL REALITY
Your mind will be blown.
First chapter starts here: jetse.substack.com/p/the-three-...
#BluePit📖 #Q #A #SF
January 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
A human/AI crew to Alpha Centauri—🧐—🤖—🚀—🪐
A search into the origins of consciousness—🧬
A First Contact with inscrutable aliens—👽
Combine into:
THE THREE REFLECTORS OF CONSENSUAL REALITY
Your mind will be blown.
First chapter starts here: jetse.substack.com/p/the-three-...
#BluePit📖 #Q #A #SF
A search into the origins of consciousness—🧬
A First Contact with inscrutable aliens—👽
Combine into:
THE THREE REFLECTORS OF CONSENSUAL REALITY
Your mind will be blown.
First chapter starts here: jetse.substack.com/p/the-three-...
#BluePit📖 #Q #A #SF
Reposted by Amy Van Duyn
ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY
When her newly awakened magick explodes out of control, Naomi escapes with a pirate captain’s help. Gods & mortals threaten her tentative future peace.
⚔️ Adult high fantasy
🎭 Pantheon of ancient gods
🏴☠️ Female pirates
👩🏻❤️💋👩🏽 Slow burn lesbians
🫂 Found family
#BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT
When her newly awakened magick explodes out of control, Naomi escapes with a pirate captain’s help. Gods & mortals threaten her tentative future peace.
⚔️ Adult high fantasy
🎭 Pantheon of ancient gods
🏴☠️ Female pirates
👩🏻❤️💋👩🏽 Slow burn lesbians
🫂 Found family
#BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT
January 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY
When her newly awakened magick explodes out of control, Naomi escapes with a pirate captain’s help. Gods & mortals threaten her tentative future peace.
⚔️ Adult high fantasy
🎭 Pantheon of ancient gods
🏴☠️ Female pirates
👩🏻❤️💋👩🏽 Slow burn lesbians
🫂 Found family
#BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT
When her newly awakened magick explodes out of control, Naomi escapes with a pirate captain’s help. Gods & mortals threaten her tentative future peace.
⚔️ Adult high fantasy
🎭 Pantheon of ancient gods
🏴☠️ Female pirates
👩🏻❤️💋👩🏽 Slow burn lesbians
🫂 Found family
#BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT
Reposted by Amy Van Duyn
Reposted by Amy Van Duyn
Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE
AMARI x LOKI
After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide
AMARI x LOKI
After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE
AMARI x LOKI
After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide
AMARI x LOKI
After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide
Reposted by Amy Van Duyn
During her time in the Azantium Empire, Mæve discovers a world of star-born trees and a fragile peace on the brink of collapse. Guided by Armaiti, a Lumani bound to ancient magic, she awakens a forgotten power—and a destiny tied to the land itself
🌿The Chrysillium Tree 🌿
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #F #P
🌿The Chrysillium Tree 🌿
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #F #P
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Reposted by Amy Van Duyn
THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY
When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.
#BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS
When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.
#BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
#WritingCommunity Don't you love that feeling when your WIP really starts to take shape and the basic plot points start to connect? That free flowing time when it really begins to pour out? It's my happy place.
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
#WritingCommunity Don't you love that feeling when your WIP really starts to take shape and the basic plot points start to connect? That free flowing time when it really begins to pour out? It's my happy place.
Hello #WritingCommunity! I've been on a long querying hiatus, but I'm ready to get back into it. Does anyone know of any pitch events here?
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Hello #WritingCommunity! I've been on a long querying hiatus, but I'm ready to get back into it. Does anyone know of any pitch events here?
Ok I think I was able to follow back anyone who has followed me while I was on hiatus. Sorry I haven't been around in a while! Hope everyone is well!
August 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Ok I think I was able to follow back anyone who has followed me while I was on hiatus. Sorry I haven't been around in a while! Hope everyone is well!
I'm reading Little Women for the first time. Don't know why I'm just now getting around to it. But I just read the sad part and my heart is shattered. I knew what happened, but wow that hit hard. I'm going to go put this book in the freezer now.
a man wearing a red and black striped shirt is looking down
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April 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I'm reading Little Women for the first time. Don't know why I'm just now getting around to it. But I just read the sad part and my heart is shattered. I knew what happened, but wow that hit hard. I'm going to go put this book in the freezer now.
Can't get much more inspirational than this! My hero, Mr. Sagan, says it well. And, as authors, we are all part of this. We make magic! #RevPit #RevPitWaiting www.facebook.com/share/v/163V...
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Can't get much more inspirational than this! My hero, Mr. Sagan, says it well. And, as authors, we are all part of this. We make magic! #RevPit #RevPitWaiting www.facebook.com/share/v/163V...
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Congrats to EVERYONE! Maybe you’re a winner/runner up/10 query inspo, or maybe not. You know what you did anyway? Wrote a BOOK! You wrote a query, a synopsis, and an entire application. You let strangers read it all, you bet on yourself, and you tried. Nothing changes that! #revpitwaiting #revpit
#RevPitWaiting T-1
TOMORROW is the day, friends. I am honored to have provided entertainment, or at the very least, distraction for this past month.
Let's not be strangers after this 🤗
TOMORROW is the day, friends. I am honored to have provided entertainment, or at the very least, distraction for this past month.
Let's not be strangers after this 🤗
April 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Congrats to EVERYONE! Maybe you’re a winner/runner up/10 query inspo, or maybe not. You know what you did anyway? Wrote a BOOK! You wrote a query, a synopsis, and an entire application. You let strangers read it all, you bet on yourself, and you tried. Nothing changes that! #revpitwaiting #revpit
Here are some encouraging words I've only JUST from Louisa May Alcott. And I hear ya, Jo. We all hear ya! Even if we don't win, we can pair up and help each other! #RevPit #RevPitWaiting
April 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Here are some encouraging words I've only JUST from Louisa May Alcott. And I hear ya, Jo. We all hear ya! Even if we don't win, we can pair up and help each other! #RevPit #RevPitWaiting
To write full time. When my brain shifts into the creative side, it's hard to shut it off and do my day job. Would be nice to allow that train to keep going. And, if I was successful, I'd leave my royalties to my son with special needs to provide for his future after I'm gone. #RevPitWaiting #RevPit
#RevPitWaiting T-3
Even after #RevPit winners are announced, our writing journeys are far from over. We'll still be walking down our paths, just with upgraded tools thanks to the editors & our community.
So what's next for you?
Even after #RevPit winners are announced, our writing journeys are far from over. We'll still be walking down our paths, just with upgraded tools thanks to the editors & our community.
So what's next for you?
April 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To write full time. When my brain shifts into the creative side, it's hard to shut it off and do my day job. Would be nice to allow that train to keep going. And, if I was successful, I'd leave my royalties to my son with special needs to provide for his future after I'm gone. #RevPitWaiting #RevPit
#RevPitWaiting I'm so glad I'm not an editor or an agent. I'd read and choose everybody! Only had time to read a few of your WIPs today, and OMG every one of them I would totally love!!
March 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
#RevPitWaiting I'm so glad I'm not an editor or an agent. I'd read and choose everybody! Only had time to read a few of your WIPs today, and OMG every one of them I would totally love!!
#RevPit #RevPitWaiting WIPs: 2 and 3 that would make my sub a trilogy. #1 is The 13-Hour Puzzle. Same kids, different mysteries. All paranormal and creepy. All puzzley and riddley. (are those words? they are now lol) #2 is The Fortune of the 7 Crows, and #3 is The Witch of Wych Elm Hollow.
March 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
#RevPit #RevPitWaiting WIPs: 2 and 3 that would make my sub a trilogy. #1 is The 13-Hour Puzzle. Same kids, different mysteries. All paranormal and creepy. All puzzley and riddley. (are those words? they are now lol) #2 is The Fortune of the 7 Crows, and #3 is The Witch of Wych Elm Hollow.
Good thing I love puzzles and mysteries bc trying to decipher #RevPitTeasers feels a little like one! 😄 "Is it mine? It could be mine. If it's mine, do they like it?" #RevPitWaiting #RevPit I'm sleuthing like my characters!
March 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Good thing I love puzzles and mysteries bc trying to decipher #RevPitTeasers feels a little like one! 😄 "Is it mine? It could be mine. If it's mine, do they like it?" #RevPitWaiting #RevPit I'm sleuthing like my characters!
#RevPit ##RevPitWaiting With all the fun exercises and participation excitement, my creative brain is fully activated! Mood boards, WIPs (like the other two to the series of my sub)... Problem is, I must focus on my day job that pays bills! Maybe someday I can write full time.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#RevPit ##RevPitWaiting With all the fun exercises and participation excitement, my creative brain is fully activated! Mood boards, WIPs (like the other two to the series of my sub)... Problem is, I must focus on my day job that pays bills! Maybe someday I can write full time.
#RevPit #RevPitWaiting
The Shining
Pride and Prejudice
Save the Cat Writes a Novel
The Color Purple
The Legend of Hell House
The Westing Game
The Haunting of Hill House
The Shining
Pride and Prejudice
Save the Cat Writes a Novel
The Color Purple
The Legend of Hell House
The Westing Game
The Haunting of Hill House
Welcome back #revpit! I hope the weekend treated you well and that you're reading for day 8 of #revpitwaiting!
Share your favorite books! maybe we can find people with similar tastes and become reading buddies 😊 I've been dying to use the StoryGraph buddy read option!
Share your favorite books! maybe we can find people with similar tastes and become reading buddies 😊 I've been dying to use the StoryGraph buddy read option!
March 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
#RevPit #RevPitWaiting
The Shining
Pride and Prejudice
Save the Cat Writes a Novel
The Color Purple
The Legend of Hell House
The Westing Game
The Haunting of Hill House
The Shining
Pride and Prejudice
Save the Cat Writes a Novel
The Color Purple
The Legend of Hell House
The Westing Game
The Haunting of Hill House
#RevPit #RevPitWaiting
The arched overhead beams looked like the skeleton of a giant whale – making her feel like she’d been swallowed. It didn’t help that the porthole windows allowed in very little sunlight. She had no choice in this move. She was trapped.
The arched overhead beams looked like the skeleton of a giant whale – making her feel like she’d been swallowed. It didn’t help that the porthole windows allowed in very little sunlight. She had no choice in this move. She was trapped.
Day 5 of #RevPitWaiting!
This is one of my fav prompts 🤗 Show off your favorite lines in your #RevPit book! But...keep your funny snippets for later 🤫
This is one of my fav prompts 🤗 Show off your favorite lines in your #RevPit book! But...keep your funny snippets for later 🤫
March 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
#RevPit #RevPitWaiting
The arched overhead beams looked like the skeleton of a giant whale – making her feel like she’d been swallowed. It didn’t help that the porthole windows allowed in very little sunlight. She had no choice in this move. She was trapped.
The arched overhead beams looked like the skeleton of a giant whale – making her feel like she’d been swallowed. It didn’t help that the porthole windows allowed in very little sunlight. She had no choice in this move. She was trapped.