Writer, querying YA / crossover fantasy dark academia
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ALT Heart-covered white background. Image in the center is artwork of a blonde girl in a strawberry dress holding hands with a brunette in all black standing in front of a clinic called HEARTS TO MEND. Text reads: YA sapphic speculative romance. Sapphic romance, slow burn, grumpy x sunshine, equal angst&humor, found family, unique magic system, teaching the LI to be human
ALT An image of a person with an advanced tech space helmet staring at the viewer. Broken glass surrounds their helmet, protruding toward the viewer. In a purple and blue frame the top text reads "and agent's guide to" On the bottom, a purple and blue frame surrounds "A Fracture Within" by Drew McDowell
ALT Same background picture. In the center, under Tropes and Odd Ends is a series of 6 images showing space travel, mysterious portals, a cloaked fixed, and nebulas. Left side: Object of Unknown Origin, Found Family, Teleportation, Anxiety coded mc, mysticism meets science, eat the rich, reluctant hero right side: adult psace opera, 95000 words, character-driven, first-person pov
ALT Pitch and comps When a ghost ship is sent hurtling toward the galaxy-encompassing Great Mirror, Warden Denra is called on to investigate the ship and the wealthy family it belongs to. From the quiet edge of space, a plot to use the mirror’s deadly touch as a means to an end in the Milky Way, the Warden finds himself sacrificing more than he knew he had to stop the madness. His smart mouth and want for vengeance becomes our only hope. Comps on the right side show book covers for Ender's Game, Skylark in the Fog, The Scourge Between Stars, and Altered Carbon
ALT Opening Lines The Great Mirror was a force that demanded attention—I’m generously sugar-coating that. Endless interviews with folks ready to disappear with a single touch all revealed that they felt a call from their deepest desperation. A reversal seemed ideal enough of a solution for them. No judgment, I’ve had my dark moments, too. Just not enough to want to zap myself out of existence.
ALT Image 1 has a black & neon pink background with a pink graphic of a woman with sunglasses, and a pink graphic of a man with short hair, sunglasses, and a beard. The board reads: An Agent's Guide To All Aboard a 75K mystery/thriller by Chelsea Scott told by ride-or-die sibs stuck on a haunted train Between the graphics of the man and woman is a pink train graphic, and toward the top of the graphic are three sketched, pink hearts.
ALT Image 2 has a black & neon blue background that reads: This Book Has: A glitz & glam to survival-in-the-snow pipeline f/f enemies to lovers ("The Fate of Ophelia") Hamlet roots Tell-Tale Heart vibes 2 murders & a haunting adults behaving badly On the board are two neon pink skull graphics and several blue snowflakes.
ALT Image 3 has a black & neon blue background that reads: Pitch: When the heir to the Hambrook fortune is found poisoned and stabbed aboard a snowed-in train en route to a will reading, his ex, Poppy, scrambles to solve the crime before another passenger is hurt. Poppy's brother, Lars, eager, to cover up his role in the death, secretly derails his beloved sister's efforts while fending off a doozy of a personalized haunting. Opening Line: Never thought I'd willingly board a train with the ex I'd gnaw my own arm off to avoid, and yet, here I am—stepping out of my brother's dented Tacoma and frowning at the squat white "station" ahead of us.
ALT Image 4 has a black & neon pink background that's labeled Comps, with images of 4 books and their descriptions: "The Train From Platform 2" by Stephanie Steel (trapped-with-a-killer suspense amid a closed-group investigation) "Everyone on This Train is a Suspect" by Benjamin Stevenson (amateur sleuths with snark) "A Girl Like Us" by Anna Sophia McLoughlin (themes of family power and inheritance) "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (flipped on its head and narrated by Ophelia (Poppy) and Laertes (Lars)
ALT Three books describing the comparative titles SING ME TO SLEEP TO KILL A KINGDOM THE BEASTS WE BURY
ALT Background is of a small town street with glass windows and a cobblestone sidewalk. There are cars parked in the background. Text Reads: An Agent's Guide To True Apothecary A New Adult Cozy Fantasy Romance Amanda Carbonell Background photo is from Pinterest being used for creative purposes only! Art commission in the center is by the wonderful @microplaid
ALT Background is of white daisies with a black overlay. Text reads: The Pitch Mileena Vega never pictured herself back in her childhood bedroom after college, but when the familia needs you, there’s no way you can say no. With many local businesses closing and a rival copycat witch shop opening up threatening their long-standing brujeria, Mileena needs to rely on more than her marketing degree to save their shop — especially when the new shop owner harbors more sinister secrets than his tailored suit can handle. It's going to take a bit of magic, some devious family members, a touch of romance, and maybe a little death.
ALT Background is of white daisies with a black overlay. Text Reads: Comps: (Books left to right) Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala Text in the center, above In the Company of Witches, reads Add some magic and accidental deaths Bottom Movie/TV Images: Left: Practical Magic with the text above it reading: (But make it Puerto Rican) Right: Shameless with the text above it reading: Sprinkle some chaotic family hijinks Bottom text reads: Finish it all off with a touch of spicy romance
ALT Background is of white daisies with a black overlay Text Reads: Snippet “It’s wonderful to meet you, Mileena.” God, my name sounds like sex on his tongue. I raise a brow and practically stop myself from biting my lip. He’s gorgeous. Pure sin wrapped in human skin. By: Amanda Carbonell
ALT Six images in purple, blue, and gold hues. Top left going clockwise: A shrouded figure encases in a gaseous aura, lit altern on the left hip. Next: a man stands, facing a portal of deeply advanced making, it is glowing white with energy coming form the center. Next: a a silvery, bulbous spaceship is sitting in a clouded bit of space, light purple clouds. Bottom right: a forest path is rocky with cracks forming all along the walkway, embers and fire is see in the cracks, contrasting the purple and blue. Next, pixelated image that looks like technology breaking down. Bottom left, a metal, railed pathway leads through a blue and white vortex.
ALT She lives now. He lives then. RESONANCE is about a woman who can step into the past through objects — and the man she meets there who isn’t bound by time. For lovers of literary, atmospheric, slow-burn fiction where the tension is emotional, not physical.
ALT An Agent's Guide to AD INFERNUM
ALT Pitch: YA Speculative Thriller When five students at East Bridge University—Isodel, Anala, Octavius, River, and Damien—find their names written in blood at the scene of a brutal murder, they must work together to try and figure out who is responsible for the crime. But each student has a secret to hide, and the shadows of their pasts and their university haunt them at every turn—shadows that have now grown teeth. Forced to solve the crime while desperately trying to survive being hunted by demons, these five students must overcome their own secrets and shadows before East Bridge swallows them whole. For Fans Of Ninth House, Bunny, Unhallowed Halls, Katabasis, The Atlas Six, and The Secret History
ALT Multi-POV, dark academia, murder mystery, demons and deadly secrets, rivals to lovers romance, cults and secret societies.
ALT Isodel Athey was certain of one thing: she was going to die. Ironic, she thought through the foggy haze caused by oxygen deprivation, that she would die in a morgue of all places. A death experienced in a place of death. At least her family wouldn’t have to pay the transportation fees for her cold corpse. The shouts around her muddied into a dull hum. All she could focus on were Damien’s eyes—cold, black, and angry. There was such fury there, like he loathed the very matter that made her. Black spots dotted Isodel’s vision as his hands tightened around her throat. Isodel clawed at them instinctively to no avail. He didn’t let go. She couldn’t feel the ground beneath her anymore, and it took her a moment to realize that it was because Damien was standing, holding her up in the air. In the corners of her blurred vision, she could see Anala, Octavius, and River desperately trying to rip him off her. It was no use. Whatever had possessed him was intent on killing her, and it wasn’t going
