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I know I'm late, ah well
Cold Morning
Will died in 2017. However he was cryogenically frozen and revived 200 years later.
He's just received a stack of letters from his widower. So he's writing back
(PS I love you but scifi and queer)
#SFPit #WIP #A #SSF #Sol
Thanks to everyone who supported me during #SFPIT!
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #writesky #writingprompts #WIPSnips
You are all amazing, & have no doubt I will be reading some of the books that come from these pitches in the future!
I’ve heard rumblings of some agent likes, and an even stronger community of SF writers than yesterday.
Thank you everyone for participating in #SFPit
Humanity finally captures enough dark matter to escape a burning Earth, but the closest suitable planet already has inhabitants. BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS explores first contact with intelligent life, scientists’ dark desire to play god, and asks: who deserves protection? #A #SF #PA #LGBT #SFPit
Bitter and hardened by loss, Lyr delivers goods to the last of humanity on a failed colony planet. When her ship’s AI glitches, Lyr sets out in search of the last scientists to save her. Lies, love, and asteroids collide in this slow-burn sci-fi mystery. 👾🌊⛵️ #A #SFPit #SF #PA
A 9 square image. 1. Cauliflower 2. Fire 3. Slug 4. A shower with a periodic table shower curtain 5. Text “the teleporter mishap. MG humorous sci-fi 6. A frying pan with an egg inside 7. Astronaut 8. Satellite dish 9. Text: “Cal was looking for a place to cry. She never thought she’d end up in space.”
Text reading “comps” in large letters with cover images of Losers at the Center of the Galaxy, We’re Not From Here, and Trouble in the Stars
After being bullied for her smarts AGAIN, Cal goes home to cry in her dad's failed teleporter. But then it actually works. Kinda. She's going to need all her brain power, a little toxic dihydrogen monoxide, and a few new friends if she ever wants to get back home.
#SFpit #MG #SO #Q
Cover image for In Between by Cassie Cooper. A foggy forest path framed by tall trees and black birds in flight. Text reads: In Between, 97k | YA Paranormal Romance.
Pitch page for In Between. Tagline: ‘She never wanted to see ghosts. She definitely never meant to fall for one.’ Summary: Sixteen-year-old Annabelle Croft, a reluctant medium, must uncover the truth behind her classmate Will’s death and stop a centuries-old resurrection ritual before it destroys her town and everyone she loves.
Comps and tropes page for In Between over a misty forest background. Lists tropes such as reluctant medium, slow-burn romance, found family, ghost boyfriend, resurrection magic, consent-driven romance, and small-town secrets. Includes covers of If I Have to Be Haunted by Miranda Sun, Belladonna by Adalyn Grace, and The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater.
Excerpt from chapter one of In Between. Text appears on a parchment-style overlay against the same foggy forest. Annabelle Croft describes how ghosts always get her into trouble, isolating her from classmates and forcing her to hide her secret.
I went ahead and made an agent’s guide. They’re fun, but do they actually do anything?
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED X BELLADONNA
She never wanted to see ghosts. She definitely never meant to fall for one.
#SFpit #YA #Q #F #agentsguide
An 11-year-old girl science prodigy and a slug-like alien accidentally swap places in a teleporter mishap and will team up to stop a smuggler from stealing the only part in the universe that can repair the teleporter, or be permanently stranded in each other’s world.
#SFpit #MG #Q #SO
Poster with a dark blue background. A pink pressure cooker with a silver lid is the only image. Text: ChemPortal A romantic sci-fi Two awkward scientists just want to be left alone to build a lawnmower. Instead, they find themselves battling time, powerful corporations, and doomsday cults to save the world from starvation. Fay Irwin
CHEMPORTAL is what you'd get if Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood co-wrote a book. It has:
🧪Lots of chemistry (of both types)
👫Enemies to lovers
👨👩👧👦Complex family dynamics
👭Friendship and found family
💪Feminist takes on the history of science
🧠Neurodivergent and LGBTQ rep
🤣Awkward humour
#SFPit #A #Q
The Edited
Targeted for her genetically-engineered, superhuman abilities, a headstrong woman races to stop a vengeful organization from amassing a mind-controlled army before she's forced into hiding, or worse, forced to join them. #sfpit #a #dys #querying
BECKY CHAMBERS & TED LASSO meet over masala chai
On Noumura, emotions are illegal.
A fanfic-trained AI abducts a Singaporean therapist.
(Universe's first intergalactic bromance, anyone?)
They start a secret chai-fueled support group for aliens.
But govt wants them erased.
#SFpit #SSF #A
Character Concept sketches of Duo, the Zetch Assassin.
Concept sketches of Charlotte, the Last Royal.
Text of The Last Royal.
Final Fantasy 7 x Hellsing
The Last Royal
The city of Orias is nearly at civil war. The Usurper, Duke Ulrich, has murdered all but the last of the royal family. He sends his top assassin Duo to kill Charlotte. The consequences could prove disastrous.
#SFPit #NA #SPub #PA #SFan
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED X BELLADONNA
She never wanted to see ghosts. She definitely never meant to fall for one.
#SFpit #YA #Q #F
#SFpit - A big thanks to everyone who reposted my pitches for Moonium today. I really appreciate it very much. Unfortunately, no likes again in this pitch event but I wasn't expecting any. Again, the support from my fellow authors makes it all worth it.
9 images total. First row, left to right: picture of Jupiter, picture of an alley with neon lights, a silhouettes of a person running. Second row: two people curled up together lit in purple lights, hands clasped before blinds, disco floor with purple and pink lighting. Final row: a picture of an alley with lights hanging across the the top, a couple kissing in red light, a picture of a nebula in the night sky.
HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE)
💖 disaster bi MC
👽 hot alien LI
🔗 forced proximity
🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed
🕺 disco-dancing assassins
🚀 space shenanigans
👑 secret royalty?
🎉 saving the galaxy, probably
#SFpit #A #Q #SO
#SFPit has been a blast. Seeing so many incredible stories in one place at the same time has made me realise my novel's heart belongs in the sci-fi genre, even though I'm pitching it as a thriller with sci-fi elements. Thanks so much to the organisers for making it happen. Here's to many more.
A star is born too soon.
Her blood is silver.
Her breath, divine.
The city calls her goddess.
The Doctrine calls her prisoner.
The god of war calls her beloved.
For some, she is a heretic.
For others, a well of untapped life.
But for love, let her burn them all.
#SFPit #A #F #Q #BreathBound
Revenge, vigilante justice, or both? A shady government agency offered Lucy a chance to get out of prison, and she agreed to six months of secret experiments. They pumped her full of drugs, stole her free will, bloodied her hands, and left her for dead. They should have finished the job.
#SFPit #A
Re-quote-posting to #SFPIT
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #writesky #writingprompts #WIPSnips
WIP cover for "LONE BLIND STAR: a novella" by kiwa. It consists of 5 birds.
LONE BLIND STAR - PITCH In a realm where technology and magic blend together, a young princess finds herself inexplicably drawn tot he daring exploits of a notorious cowboy thief. Despite his roguish ways, she is captivated by the idea of a gentleman thief who never takes a life and merely seeks fortune. Their worlds collide when the thief infiltrates the royal palace on a heist only to be discovered and injured by the guards. The princess stumbles upon him and decides to nurse him back to health. Though he initially attempts to threaten her at gunpoint, his weakened state renders him powerless against her. The thief, ever wary, struggles to comprehend her motivations, but the princess' unabashed admiration for him slowly disarms his defenses. When he's later discovered, he flees. But the princess, unwilling to part and fueled by a desire for adventure, follows him. Together, they head to the thief's home: Lost Island.
MOODBOARD 1 FOR "LONE BLIND STAR" TOP ROW: Woman with white hair, a diagram of human anatomy, a bloodied hand holding a lit match. MIDDLE ROW: Slow exposure of sparks so it looks like an explosion of lines on fire, a woman with black hair wearing a black leather jacket, a landscape photo of a narrow street lit in red. BOTTOM ROW: A couple touching faces on a beach and gazing at the sunset, a small village in a green valley, a castle on a hill and nestled within a forest.
MOODBOARD 2 FOR "LONE BLIND STAR" From top to bottom: A person crushing red fruit on their shoulder so it looks like blood, a landscape photo of three sandstone buttes from Monument Valley, a woman in profile with black hair and looking at the camera, fire and sparks texture on a black backdrop.
LONE BLIND STAR
[THE PRINCESS BRIDE x RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW x THE GORGE]
👑mage princess who sets fire to her own blood
🐎cowboy thief with a heart of gold; brooding Robin Hood vibes
🚗road trip
👹body horror monsters
💍arranged marriage
💎political corruption
🦠mysterious plague
#SFpit #A #WIP #SFan #HR
Running an intergalactic show's a tough gig for a teen who's scared of the stars--the ones in space, not the celebrity kind. But Hale will have to deal with his celebrity BFF's wild plans if he wants to save the show...& face his star phobia if he wants to save his crush
#SFPit #Q #YA #SO #LGBT
A theme park worker can travel back in time to the Titanic. But can he save the heroic victim he's come to love? Titanic Voyage, free on Hoopla or $3.99 at major retailers. (Cover of Titanic Voyage: A glowing porthole on a dark sky with the ocean and a faint silhouette of a roller coaster in the background)
Great Scott! It's BACK TO THE FUTURE x TITANIC (1997)
Kind of. Except "Jack" is a time traveler, "Rose" is a heroic Third Class passenger/hologram, there's 0-1 kisses, and Jack gives Rose digital clothes.
Your heart should go on...
a TITANIC VOYAGE!
#NA #SPub #SFF #TT #SFPit #SciFiPit
Auryn is a star wrenched from the world's womb before her ascension.
Bound to Kailorien, her immortal guardian, she is imprisoned beneath the earth.
But as her silver blood awakens, Auryn must to remain a prisoner of worship—
—or burn the temple down with her light. #SFPit #A #F #Q
Murderbot + Fallout = THE AFTER WAR
Android Felic wakes up after 260 years and discovers The War is over, the human woman he falls for talks like a chat bot, his home corporation is in ruins, and an evil AI is planning to destroy the world. Again.
#SFPit #SciFiPit #A #Q #PA #CB #Romance
Overlay: DreamTime in brownish letters with blue and pink border. Image underneath: Young Asian woman in white sweater with black top beneath, hands behind her neck so her elbows are in camera. She looks a little distressed. Blurred city lights background.
INCEPTION x CANDY HOUSE
Nightmare-prone Kaiya takes a popular new drug for a peaceful sleep of lucid dreams. Instead she finds a stranger waiting in her subconscious. Kaiya must decide whether to join a search for answers to who—or what—is behind the little green pill. #SFpit #Q #A
When Emmy loses access to FDA-approved VR therapy to control her extreme OCD and writer's block, she turns to the dark web—risking her data, finances and family's well-being. A near-future speculative domestic psychological thriller about technological overreach. #SFPit #A #Q #SSF #SF #OWN #DIS
a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
a Priestess Tarot card with a figure meditating on a large stone in the woods
Hermit Tarot card with a woman holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp
Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?
🔮 a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change
🌱 informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse
#SFPit
#Cli #PA #hopepunk
