Melissa Bergum

I... the nonsensical dribble that ended with dribble. Why does each day with this administration only drip more dread into my ever filling bucket?

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Hope you feel better soon and get your energy back!

The Cold War x Time Travel

When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK's role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.

#WSPit #WSPitQuerying #Q #A #T #SF #Hi #revpit

Pagans x Strike

After a celebrity author builds a Stonehenge replica, a sleepy English town becomes obsessed with Paganism and the occult. As rival cults clash violently in the streets, two writers must join forces to discover the cause. Before the killings start.

#WSPit #WSPitWIPs #W #A #PN #F

Moodboard of four images, all of which comes from various paintings by Alphonse Mucha: Left: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. Middle top: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. Middle bottom: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Right: Poster for the 6th Sokol Festival. A woman in red, wearing a crown, sits as she clutches flower rings in her right hand and up her right arm. A ghostly, green image of a woman glares behind her.

FFXIV x TENSURA
When luckless Mick agrees to be his best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, he expects to keep her safe, not for him to be turned into a divine dragon. Now he and Eleanor must face his mission to lead a war against the gods—but is destiny as inevitable as it seems?
#WSPit #W #F

Moodboard of four images, all of which comes from various paintings by Alphonse Mucha: Left: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. Middle top: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. Middle bottom: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Right: Poster for the 6th Sokol Festival. A woman in red, wearing a crown, sits as she clutches flower rings in her right hand and up her right arm. A ghostly, green image of a woman glares behind her.

A collage consisting of various cut out images: - An illustration of Sherlock Holmes in his classic deerstalker cap and cloak smokes his pipe in the bottom left - A honey bee gathers nectar from a flower in the bottom middle. - Four macarons sit stacked in the bottom right corner. - Up the right side is a stalk of purple foxgloves. - The background is split between a pile of old newspapers and a dark alley lit by lamps and neon signs. - Red stage curtains frame the entire piece. - Five bee cut-outs (from two images of honey bees, flipped and rotated to various angles) fly around the top of the image.

A thread of #WSPit pitches! (Please click each link to interact with the actual posts, not the reposts in this thread!)

Post 1: The Nameless Song, a fantasy about a guy who turns into a dragon
Post 2: A Scandal in Beehemia, Sherlock Holmes but with bees

“Darling, you’re different” in purple neon lights; a woman wearing a dark hood, outlined in purple mist and purple upside down triangles stands with her hands out; fog rising upward; a hand holding a tarot card that says “A Roda da Fortuna” with other tarot cards spread out on a table in the background; an empty street in the fall; two blue bicycles under a tree with fall leaves scattered around on the ground, one bike as a wicker basket on it; a ripped paper with the word “Dream” written on it on a bed of blue and purple glitter. Pictures sourced from: Unsplash, Pexels, and Pixabay

When a young magician thinks the worst thing she’ll have to do is partner up with her crush for a group project, she discovers how wrong she is when an evil magician attacks the town and puts everyone else to sleep.

#WSPit #W #MG #F #Own #Dis

2026 RevPit Participating Editors: Allison Alexander, Ash P, Ayesha Ali, Carly Hayward, Dana Draper, Demi Michelle Schwartz, Hanna R. Neier, Hannah Kate Kelley, Jeni Chappelle, Kala Godin, Laura Galan-Wells, Leah Rambadt, Madelyn Knecht, Miranda Darrow, Natasha Hanova, Nicole Frail, Raquel Brown. Find each editor's MSWL on reviseresub.com

ANNOUNCING the 2026 RevPit Participating Editors!

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Today is the day! So excited to see what I get 👀

Query me here: querytracker.net/query/Madely...

Huzzah good to know!

I'm open to middle grade queries!
#MSWL

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Hello! Once upon a time I swear you shared somewhere you were interested in pirates and mermaids, was this true or did I fever dream this? (Maybe August me had some strange things going on....)

The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

Everything about it was amazing, and I especially loved the billboard at the end with fireworks, "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." 👨‍🍳💋

Also who else can say they had an actual wedding during their performance? Or had such an age range of performers? That's a real community! 2/2

Bad Bunny's halftime show was amazing. I loved every minute even though I don't speak Spanish at all. Because guess what, you don't need to speak the language to appreciate it! 1/2

As promised, I'm officially open to submissions again - for 1 week or 500 queries, whichever comes first. Because last time when I tried 2 weeks or until 750 queries, I received more than 750 in the first week and had to shut down early. No guarantees it won't happen again.

It was so amazing!! I loved it. I don't speak Spanish, and I didn't need to to love it.

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And thank you to all of the agents! @keiralekseii.bsky.social, @jolenehaley.bsky.social, @mwhatnall.bsky.social, @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social, @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social and @vickiselvaggio.bsky.social! Your time and knowledge were appreciated! :D

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The workshop was a delight! Thank you @waywordwriters.bsky.social (@heathercashman.bsky.social, @stephaniebearce.bsky.social, and @nickijacobsmeyer.bsky.social!) for putting on the workshop!! 1/2

Normally on a football day, I'm excited for the pizza we order. Today, I'm excited for Bad Bunny's half-time performance! #TheOnlyHalfTimeThatMatters

Excited for the @waywordwriters.bsky.social workshop today! 🤩

I hope things are getting sorted out! :(

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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…

I haven't been online much due to ongoing health issues & work deadlines - but I want to send my love and solidarity to friends & publishing colleagues in Minnesota, and their communities.

Below is a useful "How to Help" list compiled by sff writer Naomi Kritzer.
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

First Page Contest #4: Middle Grade Fiction -- Judged by Agent Morgan Hughes of Fineprint Literary FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to  First Page Contest . Contest #4 -- for writers of  Middle Grade Fiction (all types) . If you write in this age category, keep reading and submit your work!...

Hey fellow kidlit writers in the MG space, check this out! There’s *free* contest for writers that’s open until January 31st — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest4 — Judged by Agent Morgan Hughes of Fineprint Literary, via @writingdaywksp.bsky.social. Winners get an agent critique of their work! Cool, huh? :D

Hey #WritingCommunity, any recommendations on good craft books about pacing? That's the writing area I want to focus on improving this year!

May the next year be a blast, and a hell of a lot better for all of us!

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