C.R. Barenza

Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

#writerslife

Your contribution to this will go down in history!

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I did a project with 10th graders last year where we read Stephen King’s The Body & studied the “kids on bikes”’trope. Then my students had to pitch an idea for a TV series based on their own original concepts. This book was born from the model I used to show them what to do. #MG #SF #Unhingedpit #Q

#Wipsnips!

Az pulled herself together and slapped a band-aid on a problem. Unfortunately the problem isn't acting like himself🙃

Just Sanctuary things❄️

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Fantasy

Dogs playing poker

A thread of the main characters of The Ugliest Man in Hollywood, if they were dog breeds.

#A #F #R #LGBTQ #Q #UnhingedPit

A moodboard with a gray blue background, light yellow flecks, and a variety of images and scraps of paper taped to each. At the top, one scrap says “Meet the Party.” On the left, an image of a cloaked figure pulling up their hood, silhouetted by a window. Scrap of paper is labeled “Shy Ranger + Shadow Corgi” above is a profile of a woman with long white hair and her label says “Bubbly Cleric” Near the bottom, bare feet walk through flaming coals as sparks jump into the air. Her label says “Flammable Warlock” next to it is an image of a fencing foil’s guard. The note says “Dungeon Master + Fighter” directly above is a pale image with a white hand. The fingers are stained black. The note says “Yearning Sorcerer” to the right is a silhouette of person playing the violin. The note says “Grumpy Bard” A color search is in the upper left corner and a set of 5 crystals is a graphic in outlines in the lower right corner.

Play hype playlist - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ost 🎶

Meet the Party!
(If the cast were D&D classes)
✨ Yearning Sorcerer
🔥 Flammable Warlock
⚔️ Dungeon Master Fighter
🎻 Grumpy Bard
🖤 Shy Ranger & Shadow Corgi
❄️Bubbly Cleric
#UnhingedPit #YA #F #Q

Except the boyfriend-in-law is his brother 😔
THE SAILOR AND THE SIRENITA is Juliet Marillier’s WILDWOOD DANCING if you plopped it in the middle of Letters to Juliet (2010)
#A #R #F #Q #unhingedpit

Come to the John Adams Elementary 5th Grade dance!

Where: Here, Friday at 6:30 pm

Theme: Nothing Makes Grass Grow Like Owl Pellets

Featuring unforgettable classic oldies from last month like Blush Williams.

Snacks provided.

Even weird girls like you are invited.

#MG #SF #ND #OV #Q #UnhingedPit

A closeted gay Christian boy says, “FUDGE IT!” And embarks on a fake dating social media adventure that may just throw the 2 in hot water. 🫣

❤️Fake Dating
🧡Childhood friends to…lovers?🤔😉
💛ONE BED
💚Slow Burn
💙Cinnamon roll MC
💜Celebrity-ish love interest (he’s working on it)
#UnhingedPit #YA #LGBT #Q

Gladiator+Heated Rivalry = Love and Lust a Legionary Romance. Castra Vetera's top doc Galenus falls for Marcus, a disgraced siege-works engineer plagued with PTSD. In a May/Dec romantic thriller they find love while facing bloody barbarians, ghosts, plague & Caesar #UnhingedPit #A #R #T #LGBT #Q

Hungry for more?
Country Fried Stake's soundtrack includes shrieks, moans, exasperated sighs, southern twang, and a lot of cursing.

Unhinged Google Business edition
#unhingedpit #horror #Romcom #A #H #R #C #querying
The most unhinged part? I made all these in ppt.

Scully meme [skeptical sighing]

Mulder meme Do you think I'm spooky?

For #UnhingedPit, here's my gothic romantic horror in X-Files memes:

🖤 A Mulder-and-Scully-esque duo trying not to fall for each other while
👻Ghost-hunting and solving a murder in Ireland

SPOOKY MULDER + SKEPTICAL SCULLY

#A #H #R #Q

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Eva says villains don’t deserve second chances so these goody two shoes say. Soooo I don’t care, no fresh start hypocrites all of them. Maybe this Aurora might be different? In your inbox now.

#unhingedpit #A #F

Get Killer Quill: it's cheaper than coffee & lasts longer!
Also, I've been told it wakes you up faster & stronger than any caffeinated/energy drink!😆
#UnhingedPit #F #P #WritingCommunity #booksky
💙📚 📖🏳️‍🌈🪐⚙️🗡️🪶

Beyond the Gate--Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus divorces Marcella as only officer's can be wed. Unwilling to wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond the fortress w/the other 'barbarian wives'. When an officer disappears. Who killed Quintus & why? #UnhingedPit #A #T #OS

"Hello #UnhingedPit Writers,
Kaboodle is pleased with your pitches today and expects each and every book to be completed. Remember if Kaboot is around, so am I, even if you can't see me.
See you in November,
The Lurker"
#P #H #Humor #TheLurker

Aoife & Roman Gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder. When he commits genocide against Germania's Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the Legion's Brotherhood of Sol Invictus #UnhingedPit #A #T #F #OS

#Unhingedpit
DO NO HARM
Sorry, looks like the weird queer AuDHD STEM kids broke containment and got into your moody dark-academia murder mystery
#Q #A #F #LGBT

Survivor, slave, gladiatrix. Blood justice coming soon! Skrittchers, dream-eaters, ghosts of the untimely dead and a demon wearing the skins of men challenge Aoife, a prescient Druid priestess who defies the odds in the arena in Gladiatrix Daughter of War. #UnhingedPit #A #HS #F #P @Amazon

Think, “The Bachelor” but ✨🌈🧚‍♀️🧙‍♂️🧌🧛‍♂️

Querying “UnQueenly” now at 120,000 words of pure wild palace trial romantic chaos

#unhingedpit #f #a #na #q

Meet some of history's most infamous sword-wielding, swash-buckling women in A History of Women in Piracy Life Under the Black Flag #UnhingedPit #A #NF #P
Available now at Pen and Sword, Amazon, B&N, etc.

Gabriel Addams drawing Catspaw, the blade of her Aion Creeds avatar, Ragæol. ~ Art by Rex✸ (@_rexpo)

Sariel The Revealer emerging from divine-digital flames. ~ Art by Soy (@h34aa10)

Detective Uriel Worshington, at his service, along with his OtherSelf. ~ Art by Plague (@plagueform)

Grid of mood board images Spirituality Cybernetics Intelligence Angels Duality Daemons Afterscapes Transhumanism Transcendence

Melding Cybernetics & Spirituality, thou mayest become Gods, angels & daemons of the Hyper-Real spaces betwixt the signs + meanings. (He is real and He lives inside of your computer!)

#UnhingedPit #Cyberpunk #Novel #ComingSoon

Now querying THE REFINEMENT: MERCURY!
Best described as:

Pride & Prejudice x Jacob's Ladder x Return to Oz
but with cults
and bees
and autistic Darcy-coded hot guys
and scene-stealing morally gray antagonists
and ball pits
and bubbles.
#UnhingedPit #amquerying #YA #F #H #Q #booksky

A partially rendered drawing (by yours truly) of a small, simple headstone of black granite with a rough-hewn base and an angled face. Loving Son & Grandson — Tyler J Masterson — 1994-2025

A drawing of the protagonist—TJ—throwing a morose peace sign up in front of his own grave, modeled after that one cast photo from The Flash. What is visible of his knuckle tats says "Oy, Oy" (Short for "Boy Toy"). There isn't actually any time within the story for TJ to visit his grave, on account of Various Events, but I thought it would be funny to draw.

my #WIP #NA #LGBT #superhero #drama protagonist's headstone — I would tag it as romance, but as it stands there's no HEA/HFN because I like angst and stories about unethical human experimentation :) I mean. who said that. Quirky slice of life soap opera. #Don'tWorryAboutItKitten
#UnhingedPit

A semi-transparent sketch of an hourglass over a photo of a leaf coming out of darkness, framed by a green box. Over the images are words in green reading “I want to spend all my time with you.” Photo from @motthepaladin with additions based on Canva also by Mot.

Today’s bachelor is yesterday’s bachelor: August Lloyd. He’s a private investigator in a supernatural LA, yet extremely polite and not an alcoholic. A total catch!
(Please ignore the mysterious hit squad after him. Also his time travel ability, he’s sensitive about it.)
#UnhingedPit #MY #F #A #Q #PR

A screenshot of a discord message sent by user alienwrites containing the text: "I simply love repressed yeeting YEARNING."

A screenshot of a Discord message reading "this is so tlt coded oh my lord"

A screenshot of a Google Doc comment reading "we're two chapters in we can't be doing the six of crows glove scene this early this mens you have to find a way to go harder down the line"

A screenshot of a Discord message reading "loving silksong tier dykery"

Preliminary reader reviews are in! Read CHILD OF SILK AND SHIELD! Who could turn it down after reading these endorsements??

Not pictured:
"Tell me you're comping this to Aliette de Bodard" (I am)
"Amanda wtf is wrong with you" (so much, narrow it down)

#UnhingedPit #F #H #LGBTQ #WIP

My MC’s red flags 🚩 #unhingedpit #CS #R #F #A

The inspo for “UnQueenly”:
What if a gal competes for a Prince but she’s really bad at everything and loses early? And flirts with the other contestants? And all the contestants are fantasy creatures like mermaids and orcs and dryads and witches?

Querying now!
#unhingedpit #f #a #na #q

G'head.... You can touch it.

🌺 Tropical Cyberpunk
🌀 Hurricane Parties
⛪ Androids & Swamp Cults
🦍 Skunkape? No. Maybe. At least an honorable Mention.

#UnhingedPit #A #SF #Q

Check out Natural Neon 📌 to my profile.

Moodboard. Centre image is a pressure cooker with "CHEMPORTAL" written across it. Outer images clockwise from top left: - fancy drinks and food on a table set for 2 - typed text on a page of a book. "Chemistry" is highly visible - a white woman with brown hair working on a car engine - the Toronto skyline - a colourful stack of books - a bright light shining through a partially open door, obscuring the world beyond - a bat hanging from a branch - a stack of latkes

In 1909, Fritz Haber invented the process used to create fertilizer to this day. In the world of CHEMPORTAL, he never existed.

Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood are channelled in this tale of two awkward scientists who must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world.

#UnhingedPit #Q #R #SF