Writing adult psychological suspense - ALL BECAUSE OF YOU | Shutter Island x The push | Unreliable narrator/International setting | Slovenian neurospicy author
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ALT There is a dark teal background of an ocean. The image looks like you’d take a birds view photo of the open ocean surface. There are a few light teal marbled lines where the sun catches the waves, no other item are in the picture. The texts says: Agent guide, Adult upmarket psychological suspense, target 75k words. The title says: All because of you in a serif font. Right below it states the author name: Kate Night. The right half of the image is the pitch on a semi-transparent teal solid cover background, matching the background image. The pitch says: An anxious mom finds the apartment empty without a clue where her baby and husband are, until she follows a woman her husband has been meeting, confirming her suspicions—her marriage is over and he is taking their daughter with him—so to keep her child with her, she must take her from them and disappear before they can or she will be forced to live as childless mother for the rest of her life.
ALT For a year, Anastasia's life revolved around her daughter. The stream of dark thoughts her mind produced chipped at her marriage until they became little more than roommates. A sun fueled vacation on the Croatian coast was supposed to fix both, instead the two people she cannot live without disappear from the luxury rental like they were never even there. She tracks the location of his dead phone expecting to find them on a stroll, instead his phone is the only thing there, and no one recognizes them. She reports them missing but without a lead they could be dead before the police acts. Leaving the station she spots a woman her husband Lukas is close with, and it hits her—he is replacing her for someone less damaged and starting over. Only two choices remain; wait hoping they don’t disappear forever, or run now and jeopardize any hope of winning the custody battle in the future.
ALT There is a dark teal background of an ocean. The image looks like you’d take a birds view photo of the open ocean surface. There are a few light teal marbled lines where the sun catches the waves, no other item are in the picture. All text is white, the title is in a serif font the rest is sans-serif. The title says: The comps. There are four overlayed images over the background in the middle of the page in equal distance from eachother. First is the book cover of Shatter Island by Dennis Lehane, bellow it says: fracture reality. To the right there is the book of The Push by Ashley Audrain, below it says: tragic anti-hero. To the right there is the book cover of Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, below it says: puzzle box structure. The last one on the right is the book cover of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides and below it says: unreliable narrator. On the bottom centre of the screen there is a white arrow pointing right.
ALT The image uses the same ocean image background as the rest. The writing sample is written on a dark teal semi-translucent background that matches the ocean image. The text says: The morning sun rays were warming my skin while the foaming waves and the cicadas serenaded me in a harmony that always relaxed my very soul. Unfortunately, the day this year’s summer vacation started was different. Shadows had spread through my thoughts months ago—rooting themselves deep enough to persevere even in the annoyingly scorching sun—to orchestrate coordinated attacks in the most inopportune moments, and to lock every muscle in my body tight as a bow. Always ready to bolt in to action, the moment the tiniest hint of danger approached my perfect little baby girl. I watched her play with stones by my feet as if I had been expecting the pebbles to gobble her up.
ALT Book cover for WAKE: Maelstrom Book 1 by Jessica DeLand. Against a swirling purple, star-speckled background, a red-haired ballerina in a black leotard and pink pointe shoes curls inside an intricate gold geometric teardrop symbol, her wrists bound behind her. A sweeping blue-and-rust feather curves along the left side. The title WAKE Maelstrom Book 1 appears in white lettering across the top with Jessica DeLand in white at the bottom.
ALT There is a dark teal background of an ocean. The image looks like you’d take a birds view photo of the open ocean surface. There are a few light teal marbled lines where the sun catches the waves, no other item are in the picture. The texts says: Agent guide, Adult upmarket psychological suspense, target 75k words. The title says: All because of you in a serif font. Right below it states the author name: Kate Night. The right half of the image is the pitch on a semi-transparent teal solid cover background, matching the background image. The pitch says: An anxious mom finds the apartment empty without a clue where her baby and husband are, until she follows a woman her husband has been meeting, confirming her suspicions—her marriage is over and he is taking their daughter with him—so to keep her child with her, she must take her from them and disappear before they can or she will be forced to live as childless mother for the rest of her life.
ALT For a year, Anastasia's life revolved around her daughter. The stream of dark thoughts her mind produced chipped at her marriage until they became little more than roommates. A sun fueled vacation on the Croatian coast was supposed to fix both, instead the two people she cannot live without disappear from the luxury rental like they were never even there. She tracks the location of his dead phone expecting to find them on a stroll, instead his phone is the only thing there, and no one recognizes them. She reports them missing but without a lead they could be dead before the police acts. Leaving the station she spots a woman her husband Lukas is close with, and it hits her—he is replacing her for someone less damaged and starting over. Only two choices remain; wait hoping they don’t disappear forever, or run now and jeopardize any hope of winning the custody battle in the future.
ALT There is a dark teal background of an ocean. The image looks like you’d take a birds view photo of the open ocean surface. There are a few light teal marbled lines where the sun catches the waves, no other item are in the picture. All text is white, the title is in a serif font the rest is sans-serif. The title says: The comps. There are four overlayed images over the background in the middle of the page in equal distance from eachother. First is the book cover of Shatter Island by Dennis Lehane, bellow it says: fracture reality. To the right there is the book of The Push by Ashley Audrain, below it says: tragic anti-hero. To the right there is the book cover of Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, below it says: puzzle box structure. The last one on the right is the book cover of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides and below it says: unreliable narrator. On the bottom centre of the screen there is a white arrow pointing right.
ALT The image uses the same ocean image background as the rest. The writing sample is written on a dark teal semi-translucent background that matches the ocean image. The text says: The morning sun rays were warming my skin while the foaming waves and the cicadas serenaded me in a harmony that always relaxed my very soul. Unfortunately, the day this year’s summer vacation started was different. Shadows had spread through my thoughts months ago—rooting themselves deep enough to persevere even in the annoyingly scorching sun—to orchestrate coordinated attacks in the most inopportune moments, and to lock every muscle in my body tight as a bow. Always ready to bolt in to action, the moment the tiniest hint of danger approached my perfect little baby girl. I watched her play with stones by my feet as if I had been expecting the pebbles to gobble her up.
ALT There is a dark teal background of an ocean. The image looks like you’d take a birds view photo of the open ocean surface. There are a few light teal marbled lines where the sun catches the waves, no other item are in the picture. The texts says: Agent guide, Adult upmarket psychological suspense, target 75k words. The title says: All because of you in a serif font. Right below it states the author name: Kate Night. The right half of the image is the pitch on a semi-transparent teal solid cover background, matching the background image. The pitch says: An anxious mom finds the apartment empty without a clue where her baby and husband are, until she follows a woman her husband has been meeting, confirming her suspicions—her marriage is over and he is taking their daughter with him—so to keep her child with her, she must take her from them and disappear before they can or she will be forced to live as childless mother for the rest of her life.
ALT For a year, Anastasia's life revolved around her daughter. The stream of dark thoughts her mind produced chipped at her marriage until they became little more than roommates. A sun fueled vacation on the Croatian coast was supposed to fix both, instead the two people she cannot live without disappear from the luxury rental like they were never even there. She tracks the location of his dead phone expecting to find them on a stroll, instead his phone is the only thing there, and no one recognizes them. She reports them missing but without a lead they could be dead before the police acts. Leaving the station she spots a woman her husband Lukas is close with, and it hits her—he is replacing her for someone less damaged and starting over. Only two choices remain; wait hoping they don’t disappear forever, or run now and jeopardize any hope of winning the custody battle in the future.
ALT There is a dark teal background of an ocean. The image looks like you’d take a birds view photo of the open ocean surface. There are a few light teal marbled lines where the sun catches the waves, no other item are in the picture. All text is white, the title is in a serif font the rest is sans-serif. The title says: The comps. There are four overlayed images over the background in the middle of the page in equal distance from eachother. First is the book cover of Shatter Island by Dennis Lehane, bellow it says: fracture reality. To the right there is the book of The Push by Ashley Audrain, below it says: tragic anti-hero. To the right there is the book cover of Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, below it says: puzzle box structure. The last one on the right is the book cover of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides and below it says: unreliable narrator. On the bottom centre of the screen there is a white arrow pointing right.
ALT The image uses the same ocean image background as the rest. The writing sample is written on a dark teal semi-translucent background that matches the ocean image. The text says: The morning sun rays were warming my skin while the foaming waves and the cicadas serenaded me in a harmony that always relaxed my very soul. Unfortunately, the day this year’s summer vacation started was different. Shadows had spread through my thoughts months ago—rooting themselves deep enough to persevere even in the annoyingly scorching sun—to orchestrate coordinated attacks in the most inopportune moments, and to lock every muscle in my body tight as a bow. Always ready to bolt in to action, the moment the tiniest hint of danger approached my perfect little baby girl. I watched her play with stones by my feet as if I had been expecting the pebbles to gobble her up.
ALT mood board with snowcapped mountains & purple sky, tarot cards, crystal ball, a cowboy on a horse, a dark starry sky, palm reading, and a girl with dark hair and light blue eyes quote: "Fate may have chosen you to play the villain, but villains are very rarely made in a single moment."
ALT The text reads, Off Book, Upmarket Fiction. Themes: Loneliness, Identity, Family. There is a gradient red/orange background and a photo of a script with a pencil.
ALT A red/orange gradient background with a small clipart of a script. The text reads: Off Book, the pitch: A thirty-one-year-old failed actress takes a job as a daughter for hire for lonely senior citizens to pay for her mother’s expensive memory care facility. When a client dies and leaves her a substantial portion of his estate she must contend with his estranged children and keep secret what happened the last time she saw him to maintain her claim on the money she desperately needs. After she grows close to the client's daughter, who she has been pretending to be, she has to choose between lying to the woman she is falling for or losing the money she needs to care for her dying mom.
ALT A red/orange gradient background with a small clipart of a script. The text reads: Off Book, Excerpt #2: Carl stopped humming and turned around. “Kris, you’re home.” His face transformed into a beam of light, radiating all the joy of a parent seeing their newborn for the first time. The energy was palpable in the room, and Mara couldn’t help but smile back. He crossed the room, a slight limp in his left leg, and took both Mara’s hands in his own. “I’ve made your favorite dinner. Just the way you like it with a pinch of sugar in the sauce.” Mara took a moment to compose herself, letting the mask of another person’s face slip over hers before responding. She closed her eyes and inhaled. “It smells great, Dad. Exactly how I like it.”
ALT The background is a gradient red/orange. The text reads Off Book, comps. A picture of the cover of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin with the text "one sided relationship". A picture of the cover of The Guest by Emma Cline with the text "Transactional relationships, playing characters for others". A picture of the cover of Audition by Katie Kitamura with the text "Family as performance, literally".
ALT There is a dark teal background of an ocean. The image looks like you’d take a birds view photo of the open ocean surface. There are a few light teal marbled lines where the sun catches the waves, no other item are in the picture. The texts says: Agent guide, Adult upmarket psychological suspense, target 75k words. The title says: All because of you in a serif font. Right below it states the author name: Kate Night. The right half of the image is the pitch on a semi-transparent teal solid cover background, matching the background image. The pitch says: An anxious mom finds the apartment empty without a clue where her baby and husband are, until she follows a woman her husband has been meeting, confirming her suspicions—her marriage is over and he is taking their daughter with him—so to keep her child with her, she must take her from them and disappear before they can or she will be forced to live as childless mother for the rest of her life.
ALT For a year, Anastasia's life revolved around her daughter. The stream of dark thoughts her mind produced chipped at her marriage until they became little more than roommates. A sun fueled vacation on the Croatian coast was supposed to fix both, instead the two people she cannot live without disappear from the luxury rental like they were never even there. She tracks the location of his dead phone expecting to find them on a stroll, instead his phone is the only thing there, and no one recognizes them. She reports them missing but without a lead they could be dead before the police acts. Leaving the station she spots a woman her husband Lukas is close with, and it hits her—he is replacing her for someone less damaged and starting over. Only two choices remain; wait hoping they don’t disappear forever, or run now and jeopardize any hope of winning the custody battle in the future.
ALT There is a dark teal background of an ocean. The image looks like you’d take a birds view photo of the open ocean surface. There are a few light teal marbled lines where the sun catches the waves, no other item are in the picture. All text is white, the title is in a serif font the rest is sans-serif. The title says: The comps. There are four overlayed images over the background in the middle of the page in equal distance from eachother. First is the book cover of Shatter Island by Dennis Lehane, bellow it says: fracture reality. To the right there is the book of The Push by Ashley Audrain, below it says: tragic anti-hero. To the right there is the book cover of Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, below it says: puzzle box structure. The last one on the right is the book cover of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides and below it says: unreliable narrator. On the bottom centre of the screen there is a white arrow pointing right.
ALT The image uses the same ocean image background as the rest. The writing sample is written on a dark teal semi-translucent background that matches the ocean image. The text says: The morning sun rays were warming my skin while the foaming waves and the cicadas serenaded me in a harmony that always relaxed my very soul. Unfortunately, the day this year’s summer vacation started was different. Shadows had spread through my thoughts months ago—rooting themselves deep enough to persevere even in the annoyingly scorching sun—to orchestrate coordinated attacks in the most inopportune moments, and to lock every muscle in my body tight as a bow. Always ready to bolt in to action, the moment the tiniest hint of danger approached my perfect little baby girl. I watched her play with stones by my feet as if I had been expecting the pebbles to gobble her up.
ALT Red starry sky with the outline of a crystal ball "The pitch: When Fate reveals dark magic that can doom the seers to a 16yo outcast divination student, she must choose either a cult that offers her belonging and revenge or saving her cowboy crush and the community that might preemptively imprison her."
ALT Red starry sky + book comps These Deadly Prophecies by Andrea Tang, The Stricken by Morgan Shamy, A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
ALT Red starry sky and outline of a scorpion Tropes: Reverse Chosen One, divination school, generational curse, fate vs free will, false dichotomy, love triangle, dark cult, smart FMC Themes: Choices matter, names matter, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
ALT red starry sky with outline of palms sample story snippet
ALT Man and woman standing in alley with magic swirling around them.
ALT Summary of novel pitch with images of similar book titles.
ALT Image of man and woman with art deco city backdrop.
ALT Excerpt from novel. Background of stained glass ceiling.
