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AG Finch @agfinchwriting.bsky.social · Apr 5
“Noxalia Whitlock, known as the
most beautiful lady in all of Omous, loved the taste of blood in her mouth almost as much as she loved a good fuck. Half of Ferhn had gathered to watch her tear apart the poor farm boy, Helyx, who was attempting to get back to his feet.” #1stLinePit
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Ali Hazelwood's Love Theoretically meets Bolu Babalola's Honey and Spice

A slow-burn academic spicy romance set at an elite university about two rival professors forced to co-teach a class on love—and accidentally learn more than they bargained for.

#PosterPitW #PosterPit #NA #R #CR
April 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
agfinchwriting.bsky.social
“What is the purpose of a name, but to be the bookends of a life?”

Cat’s mom is missing, her room is covered in blood, there’s a beating heart in the basement, and she has finals soon.

Oh, and she’d really, really like to go home.

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #YA #F
April 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
agfinchwriting.bsky.social
FRESH FOR THE SLAUGHTER 🩸

In a world that begs for blood, how far can faith take a lamb?

Sleeping gods, a dying world, and the violent women who are meant to save it. Religion as a weapon and its servants as the shield.

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #F #A
April 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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catclarkwrites.bsky.social
Blood Of the Coven

“Wars were won and treaties were written with the blood of the losers on gore soaked foundations. These treaties were made of weak foundations that cracked as the tensions of those that walked over them eventually broke through.” #1stLinePit #WIP #YA
April 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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amberbairdpdx.bsky.social
"Burrito Gods is the 'The Craft Beer of Pseudo-Mexican Food' (says one publication), taking the Pacific Northwest by storm, fast casual like all the others before them, but new and much hipper." #1stlinepit #a #t #spec #lf #wip
Desperate Amanda thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul. To the Burrito Gods is an anticapitalist queer story centered around the horrors of working in food service, featuring: a workplace cult, foodie & corporate satire, healing from trauma, sapphic romance, trans LI. A gloved hand holds out a burrito, transposed over gleaming white and gold marble, which a hand is shadowed on.
April 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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saraduran.bsky.social
#1stlinepit #YA #F #LGBT #WIP
The Drift was more sea than land. Its cities were a riotous array of flotsam lashed from Angloria's seized ships, and it was on these vast expanses of floating garbage that the world's most eclectic misfits found women for their beds and goats for their cook-pots, though the empire's history books would come to claim it was the other way around.
April 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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ameliagthorn.bsky.social
❝Magic untended festers. Magic forgotten rots.❞

Kaos x The Witcher x Godkiller

#1stLinePit #agentsguide #F
The title cover to an agents guide for the project. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. The words “An Agent’s guide to” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box. “The Dying Religion” - in an echo effect in black and white font surrounded by an orange glow. “Adult epic fantasy” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box. The pitch page for the project. The pitch itself is in a large black box with dashed orange borders, the word pitch intersects with the box and is in a black and white echoing font. The pitch is: No one expected orphans to survive the war meant to end magic, least of all win it. But victory’s price? The death of their God. Now war returns to a still healing continent, the enemy intent on slaughtering the five remaining Gods. and the children raised as Holy-War cannon fodder must decide if they’re worth saving. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. The comps & tropes page for the project. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Every box is black with an orange, dashed border, and the boxes for tropes and comps have the appropriate title, partially intersecting the relevant title. The quotes do not. Comps: Kaos, Witcher and Godkiller The quote “martyr, coward, traitor or fool. Your choice, really, you’ll serve our needs one way or the other.” The quote “there is only one religion in war, and believe me when it’ll you it’s a godless faith.” Tropes: Gods pay their dues Hero x villain Found family Heist into hell Friends to lovers to enemies Morally grey mc & villain Magic comes with a price A villain and hero page for the project. The hero and villain both have information about the individual characters in two separate black boxes, both with orange dashed borders. The word “hero” and “villain” intersects the relevant boxes (right and left respectively) The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Villain The gods killed all he loved Out for revenge on the gods Brainwashed veteran Waterbender Raised as cannon fodder Reborn as propaganda In love with the hero Hero: Raised to be the weapon of the gods Out to destroy the institution that forged him Guilt ridden veteran Electricity bender Raised as cannon fodder Remade as a national threat (not what graphic says but need to resave that one) In love with the villain In the centre is the quote “your first mistake was thinking that people like you and I were ever born to do anything but burn.” With arrows pointing from hero (the receiver) to the villain (the speaker.)
April 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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annlittler.bsky.social
It was so much easier to steal when l worked alone.

#1stLinePit
#YA #D #SF #T
#AgentsGuide
Agent’s Guide for AT NIGHT, WE HIDE PITCH FIRST LINE: It was so much easier to steal when I worked alone. A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SCAVENGER WITH A DANGEROUS SECRET MUST FIND THE MOLE BEFORE SHE BECOMES VICTIM THEIR NEXT VICTIM AND THE ENTIRE RESISTANCE EFFORT IS COMPROMISED. WHAT TO EXPECT • MORALLY-DODGY STEM FEMALE MC WHO CAUSES ALMOST ALL THE PROBLEMS • THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT • DYSTOPIAN MURDER MYSTERY • SLOW BURN ROMANCE •FOUND FAMILY • EVERYONE HAS SECRETS • CLOSE QUARTERS • UNEXPECTED VILLAIN • UNPUTDOWNABLE TWISTS • PLANNED TRILOGY Comps
April 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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serenavu.bsky.social
"The death of a Dynast was a rare event. Even more astonishing was the death of the head of one of the ancient Nine Houses. After all, Ophelia’s kind were like immortal beings—monsters created in the image of the Goddesses."

#1stLinePit #C #A #P #RF
April 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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juniperwoodbury.bsky.social
CIRCE x MIDSOMMAR in ancient Babylon

"Against the dusty browns of the desert, the woman looks out of place. Like a painted statue brought to life, and like life isn’t to her taste."

#1stLinePit #Q #A #F #RF #CMe
April 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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intothemarwoods.bsky.social
🗡️ FMAB x SIX OF CROWS

“Evren Layvey often wondered what it would cost to create God.”

An alchemist and a thief must work together to stop a rogue magician and his manifestations, while a foreigner has news that could bring war to the nation.

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #LGBTQ
April 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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tylerstasi.bsky.social
#1stLinePit #WIP #F #agentguide #agentsguide 👀

"The crown was woven of the finest Lejah grasses, its split-hued blades varying in length and texture as they twisted toward the emerald at its spiraled center. Caria could not wait to burn it."

👑🪲🌿💫🌋
mothwip agent guide mothwip pitch mothwip moodboard and tropes mothwip comps
April 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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austinsgrace.bsky.social
HOW TO COME HOME:
Nathan Gilliard digs his own grave as the moon sets and the first streaks of purple lighten the night sky.
🛤️ 🎼 📚 🖋️ ⛓️ 🏠
#1stLinePit
#C #Q #A #R #HR #AgentsGuide
A cover for the agent’s guide for HOW TO COME HOME. Art of Nathan and Lawrence at the center. Lawrence, sitting to the left, is a white blond man playing piano and smiling, with glasses hanging from his neck. Nathan, right, is a dark-haired white man watching him play. Upmarket queer historical romance, 107k words PITCH: Ten years ago, Nathan Gilliard turned informant on his family’s Prohibition criminal empire, damning his brothers to prison in exchange for a lesser sentence of his own. Now a free man, all he wants is a quiet, solitary life, never forgetting what he did to his family—or why. Taking a job in a small-town general store is the perfect stopgap to get back on his feet after a decade behind bars. But his new boss, single father Lawrence Freburg, is everything Nathan’s upbringing and time in prison weren’t—open, earnest, and kindhearted. As they live and work side by side, business compatibility turns to companionship and then an intimacy neither man expected—a bond that makes Nathan question his pursuit of a solitary life over one lived in partnership. But Nathan’s past isn’t that easy to abandon, and when his old life and older secrets return with a vengeance, they threaten to destroy everything he and Lawrence have begun to build. Forced to face the wreckage of his former life, Nathan and Lawrence must confront the consequences of holding their pasts too present if they have any hope of building a future together. COMPS: Peaky Blinders: - Crime family, criminal brothers, - The costs of winning vs. the costs of losing - The (in)justice of vengeance We Could Be So Good: - Queerness & homemaking - 20th-century American life - Coworkers/roommates-to-lovers + Sounds like… - Laurel Hell by Mitski - Babel by Mumford & Sons - Hozier by Hozier SNIPPET: He removes his glasses, careful not to strain the chain as he holds them in one hand and polishes the lenses with his tan shirt. The tension at the corners of his eyes relaxes as he cleans, and Nathan watches the simple calm on his face. Seeing Lawrence without his glasses is as rare as a lightning strike, and just as stunning. It must be unsettling, frightening, to give up that boon to his vision, but Nathan relishes these moments he can selfishly fancy himself a confidant of Lawrence’s utmost trust. Not just through the physical ease on his face—the implicit trust, the fact he’s comfortable enough to be in such a state with Nathan. Or perhaps he just needs to clear a smudge. Two portraits of Nathan and Lawrence below. Nathan is a white man with dark curly hair and dark eyes, is a bit gaunt, and wears a dark turtleneck. Lawrence is a white man with blond hair and fair eyes with cortical cataracts, and wears gold glasses with a long gold chain.
April 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
agfinchwriting.bsky.social
“Noxalia Whitlock, known as the
most beautiful lady in all of Omous, loved the taste of blood in her mouth almost as much as she loved a good fuck. Half of Ferhn had gathered to watch her tear apart the poor farm boy, Helyx, who was attempting to get back to his feet.” #1stLinePit
April 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
agfinchwriting.bsky.social
DARK RISE x MIDNIGHT MASS x THE FAVOURITE

🗡️ religious eroticism (sapphic)
🗡️ rejection of prophecies written in blood
🗡️ found family x dysfunctional family
🗡️ eldest daughter
🗡️ ladyknight x nun
🗡️card games made by the gods

#WIP #F #A #YouDeservePIt
January 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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pensandpoison.org
SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#UA #Q #A #YouDeservepIt
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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jesscanewrites.bsky.social
YouShouldBeSoLucky x TedLasso

Don’t ask Jude how he ended up halfway around the world reporting on a US college baseball team okay? He’s already at odds with his new corkers about it.& definitely don’t ask him what he thinks about the schools hot new assistant coach either 👀

#YouDeservePit #wip #A
A series of images depicting baseball fields, baseball players, and a reporter.
January 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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goddessvicky.bsky.social
💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫
NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES
🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory
❤️‍🔥Slow Burn
👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖
#Q #YA #A #R #UW #NA #F #RF #SPEC #LGBT #OV #YouDeservepIt
A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles A photo that reads: Crowned In Light A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query! This one has it all! - Magical Realism - Slow Burn - Found Family - Gods and Goddesses - Music Heavy - Soul Mates / Past Lives - Strong Female Friendships - Disability/BIPOC representation - DAVID BOWIE?!?! A photo that reads: The Pitch! It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions. When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world? A photo that reads: For Fans of: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Maggie Stiefvater Richelle Mead Laurell K Hamilton Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality. Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way. Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory. Playlist: Have I Found My Home by Paden What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin Breathe Me by Sia Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes Silence by Marshmello & Khalid The World We Made by Ruelle Like That by JP Saxe Safe Place by RuthAnne Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt Somebody Loved by The Weepies For You by Angus & Julia Stone Past Life by Morgan St Jean Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last
January 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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saraduran.bsky.social
A 🐚 is the perfect gift for a crush, but stealing from the sea has consequences. As it stirs, John is swept into danger—and a truth he’s always avoided: maybe he doesn’t really *want* to be a boyfriend.

Maybe he doesn’t want to be a boy at all.

#YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT
A moodboard for John, showing hands gathering flowers from the sand, glittering abalone shells, a silhouette of a young man swimming and staring at a moonlight beach, iridescent scales, a sun halo through the water, a silhouette of a mermaid swimming, lightning striking near a lighthouse, and a mermaid tail on a rocky shore. The trans pride flag is subtly depicted as a gradient across the board, with baby blue, rosy pink, and white.
January 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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austinsgrace.bsky.social
an #agentsguide to untitledwip, a queer historical romance ft:
🛤️ an ex-con with a head full of numbers
🎼 a musical-prodigy-turned-shopkeeper
💰 a buried stash of blood money
📖 navigating family, love, disability, & selfhood in the 1930s
#YouDeservepIt #A #R #HF #LGBT #amrevising (querying soon!)
PITCH & BASICS 111k words Queer historical romance Dual POV with flashbacks Ten years ago, Nathan Gilliard turned informant on his family's Prohibition empire, damning his brothers to life in prison in exchange for a ten-year sentence of his own. Now, he's released back into the world with one goal: earn enough money to get on his feet and spend the rest of his life alone and penitent, never forgetting what he did to his family—and why. Taking a job in the small town of Aurora, Kansas, Nathan gives a false name and vague backstory to his new employer, the unexpectedly kind Lawrence Freburg. But Lawrence's kindness isn't all that catches Nathan off-guard—he has his own secrets, far from being the nondescript single father he appears to be, and as the two of them live and work together they only find each other more intriguing, admirable, and irresistible. The closer they grow, the more Nathan is faced with an impossible choice: follow his long-held conviction of a life of solitude, or follow his heart and risk becoming the very sellout he was labeled so long ago. And when the real threat of Nathan's former life comes back with a vengeance, both men must face the consequences of holding their pasts too present—and decide how to seize control of their futures. CHARACTERS Art of Nathan (a man with short, dark curly hair and dark eyes, wearing a dark sweater) and Lawrence (a blond man with glasses, wearing a brown jacket and tie with a light blue shirt and navy vest) with accompanying moodboards next to them. COMPS Netflix's Godless • Trials and tribulations of small-town midwestern America • Running from the past, returning to the past • Disability =/= disabling • Unconventional family structures We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian • Twentieth-century American life • Queerness and homemaking • Taciturn homebody x hapless yapper • Roommates to lovers Peaky Blinders • Crime family. criminal brothers • Costs of winning, costs of losing • The (in)justice of vengeance • Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty Bonus! Sounds like... Hozier's self-titled album Babel by Mumford & Sons Laurel Hell by Mitski Nathan Gilliard digs his own grave as the moon sets and the first streaks of purple lighten the night sky. The half-rusted shovel works only marginally better than his hands at digging into the earth, but the repetitive motion has long since numbed his limbs. Sweat pools into pockets of ice as it collects on his scalp and back, trickling down his arms in freezing rivulets, but he doesn't pause. Half a mile away, the car he stole from his brother is cooling down, engine ticking in relief at finally being able to rest after three days of nonstop driving. Far enough from his digging that if anyone was truly tailing him-Christ, he hopes they aren't tailing him—they'd take some time finding him, but only as far as he could make it while hauling bags of money in arms trembling from lack of sleep. The money waits like obedient dogs, a haphazard group, the solemn image of the mighty Gilliard legacy. Two generations of hard-fought profit, stolen in a night. Nathan thinks of the roar his brothers will let out when they realize what he's done, and digs faster.
January 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
When Keira's sister is captured by a shape-shifting immortal, she teams up with the God of Light to rescue her; but an ancient darkness grows within Keira, and she must choose between stopping those who seek to harness it or saving those she loves.

✨️ #YouDeservepIt #Q #NA #RF #F #R 🌗
Three by three grid of pictures: a white feather, a silhouette of a woman; a silhouette of a couple, a silhouette of a person with wings before a sunset; a silhouette of a woman wrapped in lights; a silhouette of a woman at sunset; a silhouette of a woman at sunrise; a couple kissing in the sun; a hand reaching out towards a window with sunlight. Crown of Amethysts, 99,000 words. Pitch: Shadow and Bone meets A Court of Thorns and Roses. When Keira's sister is captured by a shape-shifting immortal, she teams up with the God of Light to rescue her; but an ancient darkness grows within Keira, and she must choose between stopping those who seek to harness it or saving those she loves. Tropes and themes: gods, goddesses, mortals and more; half the Gods are dead; dark secrets and hidden truths; forced proximity, Forbidden and slow-burn romance; vengeance and betrayal; found family; love vs. Duty. Comp titles: a fate inked in blood and spark of the everflame
January 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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eliwoodsgheist.com
DRESDEN FILES X BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

While meeting her dad, Edie Grayson falls in love with his seaside town. Unfortunately, there's a dark undercurrent here. Edie has to find out: what is wrong in Bludeye Beach?

🫂Found family
💕Slowburn romance
👻Monster menagerie

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #H #F
A tourism style poster showing several bright and cheerful images of sandy beaches and people playing in the water. The bottom image is a smiling girl with big red X's over her eyes. Over the collage are the words "Welcome to Bludeye Beach", and over that text a graffiti style phrase "something is wrong in bludeye beach"
January 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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delandjessica.bsky.social
Fantasy fugitives kidnap a ballerina w/ a panic disorder for their leader’s magic in her, but though they threaten her family so she'll live w/ them until it can be returned & forbid ballet school, she risks everything after she bonds w/ them & falls for 1

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #RF #FR #F #R #M #ND
Mood board with glowing magic in cupped hands, a teenage girl looking at her phone while chewing her nails, hands bound in rope, a ballerina balanced on one leg, someone spying through a window, teenage boys glaring at each other, five headshots with a teenage girl in the center of two teenage boys and two men, magic swirling around a puckered mouth, bared vampire fangs, and a silhouette of an embracing couple looking at each other. A badge reading "Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist" is in front of the pictures in the upper left quadrant.
January 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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annglimmer.bsky.social
A jarl's daughter must trick her father's murderer into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family. But the more time she spends with her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything
#YouDeservepIt #NA #Romantasy #Q
A mood board with the title TRUE HATE'S KISS with images giving viking vibes, magic weapons, feuding clans, Scandinavian folklore, Enemies to lovers
January 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM