@amandinebidgood.com
Writer of speculative fiction, dreamer, PNW dweller Lover of music, nature, books, and cocktails—preferably all at the same time 💙📚 Currently reading: The Favourites by Layne Fargo 🖊️ WTMP 2024 mentee 💪 ASD1 | bipolar 2 | part-deaf
Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2026! 🎉
This is our second ever #MSWL Day on Bluesky. We’re happy you’re here!
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Oh, I thought so too! Must be on Substack. Anyway, following you now
My current WIP stands at 10k so far, so I guess from your FAQs that it's too early for me to enrol. Will you run the course again in a few months's time?
I could very much do with a low-stress, high-encouragement environment for my new WIP if there's still space! I can't seem to really get going with it. I've never done NaNo though.
Who robbed the Louvres? Right answers only.
(oh yeah, she's wily alright)
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages!
Screenshot of my email inbox showing an email with the title “you have a #pitchdis request”
This email from @pitchdis.com came as a very pleasant surprise 🥹
#PitchDis
Just mistyped "mental health" as "metal health", and if it means my #bipolar brain is resilient and metal-hard, I'm not actually mad.
#mentalhealthmatters
Photo of hillside with bunkers. American flags on each bunker. Red splatter over the top. Text says: HE'S ONLY TEETH AND HUNGER • HORROR HEADSHOTS HOOKUPS DONT NAME THE STETSON DEAD DOVE VIVVI CURRENTLY ACCEPTING OFFERS OF REP @SAMPEIL
THE Z WORD x STATION ELEVEN
If 3 bi disasters manage to not get eaten by the pandemic zombies, including their dentist, they’ll still have to dodge a preacher bent on building his post-apocalyptic flock.
🏳️🌈🧟♂️🥼
#posterpit #h #lgbt #nd #q
Dentist with folded arms standing at an angle. Two ripped images of zombie eyes and zombie mouth over his face. Red background and dark red blood spatter across the whole thing. Text from top to bottom: HORROR HEADSHOTS HOOKUPS THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW by Sami Peil Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a bi love triangle toke on the end of the world in the Black Hills. They all want each other but not in the some way.
THE Z WORD x WALKING DEAD
Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a love triangle take on the end of the world in the Black Hills.
Bites, bisexuals, and a busted bunker!
#posterpit #q #h #lgbt #nd
Green poster wirh 4 panels: side profile of a man, dentist working on a patient, woman with dark curly hair, woman with blonde hair. Text and blood spatter over the poster: "Love this description. Impeccable delivery, so cinematic" "I'm hooked. so hooked on this book. I need it on my shelf." "I literally cackled" "Sharp, shocking, love it Seriously this is so fucking cinematic wth" "VICERAL" "OBSESSED" "I WAS NOT PREPARED" "OMINOUS" DON'T NAME THE DEAD Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a love triangle take on the end of the world. @sampeil
THE LAST OF US x THE WALKING DEAD in which three bi disasters navigate the zombie apocalypse.
#horror, headshots & hookups 🏳️🌈
#posterpit #q #h #lgbt #nd
Thank you!
Movie poster for THINGS WE CANNOT. Black and white image of a wheelchair in the foreground and a person walking in the background, but faded. Title and author in black and description of the story in white, includes: UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, RELENTLESS PAST, and UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY.
ELEANOR OLIPHANT x WHAT ALICE FORGOT
"I have to forget it.
Leave it in the moment.
I choose to let go of the perpetual feeling that everything has fatal holes in it.
Ignore what I see. Ignore what’s real."
#PosterPit #Q soon #A #DIS
A movie poster of Aaron's YA Fantasy, SoulCast, with the lead characters in the center. One is a Black warrior, the other is a Black Prince.
HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS
Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga
A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom's soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom
#PosterPit #Vague
The zombie apocalypse has never looked this sexy
yellowed background with red blood splatter and top of zombie head in lower corner. George Washington head faintly visible (Mount Rushmore) along left. Text says: AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO DON'T NAME THE DEAD By Sami Peil 90 words Adult/NA HORROR
yellow background with light red blood splatter. Torn out page from a journal, along bottom of screen you can see rocks from mount rushmore text says: Reader Comments “Obsessed” “I'm hooked. so hooked on this book. I need it on my shelf.“ “Love this description. Impeccable delivery, so cinematic” “OMINOUS” “VICERAL” “I literally cackled” “I was not prepared” “Sharp, shocking, love it” “Seriously this is so fucking cinematic wth” “I love him” “IF YOU EVER CHANGE THIS FIRST LINE I WILL FIGHT YOU” Sami Peil @sampeil FROM THE JOURNAL OF STETSON JOHN MATTHEWS April 27, 2025 Donner party @ Black Hills bunkers, current population 280ish. don’t name the dead
yellow background with red blood splatter, along top right is a zombie with open mouth teeth growling 3 images of book covers: sister maiden monster has tentacles, orange, knife; the z word has an image of a brain, two femmes kissing, teal hands reaching up, a piece of pizza, an axe; the last of us has a man and a girl turned toward the camera as they walk toward ruins; along the right, text reads: 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. Love triangle Survival shenanigans Headshots Hookups Busted bunker
close up of mount rushmore presidents with light red splatter across the image. text reads: Sami Peil @sampeil don’t name the dead Vivvi was getting wasted for her 21st until she woke up in a drunk tank, which was the only protection from the cop zombies trying to eat her brains. Stetson was painting his nails and avoiding his family's far right extremist bunker party, unaware that the virus they all ignored would mutate, and he’d have to fight his way out. Dove was home alone in a post-wisdom tooth coma, still dreaming about her hot dentist, while infected people turned and began to eat immune survivors. The Dentist was doing an after-hours call, where a patient bite transformed him into a flesh craving monster. They all want each other—but not in the same way. And they really need to stay the hell away from the Preacher.
DON'T NAME THE DEAD in which three bi disasters navigate the zombie apocalypse.
#horror, headshots & hookups 🏳️🌈🧟♂️🥼
#H #na #a #agentsguide #sf #queerpit #lgbt
And for non fiction:
Unmasking Autism (Devon Price)
Magical Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy and Borders (Vanessa Angélica Villareal
Our Moon (Rebecca Boyle)
Happy reading!
In case you haven't read these yet:
Our Wives Under the Sea (Julia Armfield)
Vampires of El Norte (Isabel Cañas)
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde (Tia Williams)
The Unmaking of June Farrow (Adrienne Young)
Love it.
Maybe if I went to the pool I'd come up with more exciting pitches for mine 😂
That pitch made me lol 👏
Hi Everyone. I'm Becky's agent and can verify that this is NOT Becky. Please do not fall for scams like this.
Wow 🤩
Quite. Talk about self-fulfilling end goal. The whole thing boggles the mind.
I already know I'm going to love it.
And calls his conclusion 'extremely strong statistical evidence' and 'damning'.
Meanwhile, he clogged up the inboxes of the very agents he criticizes for sending form replies because they're swamped with QLs.
Hats off, really 🤡
So if I understand correctly from his rambly, mostly nonsensical rant, he explains agents automatically reject when a query letter isn't 'standard', then he sent 200 of them a 2,800 words "essay" instead a of standard, 500-words-at-most query letter, and needed AI to tell him they hadn't read it?
Research for my new #WIP, courtesy of loans from my local library.
