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ALT black & white, gothic, medieval aesthetic Left to right: raven on branches, helm of knight sword, snowy bride, queen knighting a man, woman in regalia stone, misty castle, couple kissing
ALT a 9x9 moodboard with a grayish beige and red color scheme. The images from top to bottom, left to right are as follows: a close up of a male's eye, the moon with red shadows/smoke surrounding it, a silhouette of a hand reaching for a disappearing male body, open pomegranates, a silver cross with blood coating it and the wooden table it's on, lit red candles, silhouettes of a person pulling someone closer by their chin, a closeup of roses on a black backdrop, a painting of a woman crying enlarged tears. A quote overlays the moodboard in white and red lettering, it says: "And when you find yourself utterly alone, you'll come find me just like you did tonight."
ALT Art by nataliab_draws of three people on a plain bronze background with a triangle decorated frame. To the left, a white person with black flowing hair reaches for the person in the middle. He wears a red khlamus and khiton and he appears enraged as he reaches cruelly. The person in the middle wears Mycenaean clothing with green and silver, and she looks back over her shoulder to the person on the right. She has dark curly hair and has psoriasis plaques on her skin. On the right, a person with warm brown skin is dressed in Achaemenid traditional clothing of golds and purples and blacks, and he gently leans into the person in the middle. He wears a crown of gold and amethyst and he holds her softly.
ALT Slide 1: Agent's guide to Twists of Woe by S.V. Riesling. Adult Dark Fantasy with Romantic Subplot. Complete at 112k words. Standalone with series potential.
ALT Slide 2: The pitch: When a court witch discovers a plot to take her life, she has no choice but to work with an outcast prince to survive and fight back. Hunted by the Empire's deadly magekillers, the two must reach a wondrous, hidden mage enclave to find allies, and failing means more than their demise: it spells a new era of slaughter for anyone with magic coursing through their veins.
ALT Slide 3: Tropes and themes: magic is a burden, religious persecution, court intrigue & conspiracies, imperialism, political stakes, unfriendly dragons, slow burn, reluctant allies, no chosen ones, portals & hidden realms, High Medieval aesthetic.
ALT Slide 4: For fans of: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (omniscient narrator, character-driven, persecution); The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten (forbidden magic, court intrigue, espionage); Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang (reluctant allies, systemic discrimination, romance is not centre-stage); The Gods Below by Andrea Stewart (forced proximity, gods & cults, rebellion). Featuring: old-timey fantasy, omniscient POV, sweeping worldbuilding, slow burn romantic subplot.
ALT Gothic mood board with pictures of willow, spell book, shadow man, fingers touching, hands bound together dripping blood, blood on old weathered paper, man kissing hand, man and women hugging
ALT Entering Salem, witch trails, hand with puppet, man laying on woman’s chest, ghost in mirror, graveyard, ghosts haunting woman, old letters, Salem Halloween festival
ALT A raven marks when it begins. An unkindness sent to cleanse your sins. It’s just a bedtime story, curses aren’t real. But the whispers are.