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🕵️‍♂️ journalist • 📱 social media strategist • ✍️ writing dark books • 👋 seeking representation • 📚 big reader • 🏳️‍🌈 proudly queer
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Brian is querying a YA thriller @brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social · May 7
BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US

When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever.

GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror.

#QuestPit #W #YA #T #H
A composite graphic featuring a grid of nine oversaturated images (three rows of three) that evoke the mood of YA thriller novel GENERATION ZOMBIE. From top left: a pile of newspapers with the word “classified” visible on one; a disembodied hand on a pane of glass; a young woman holding a phone; a young man staring at a phone with one hand on his cheek; an aerial shot of the Empire State Building with a red sky; a crowd of people; a phone screen showing a grid of social media app icons; a dark silhouette with an arm raised; and a large stack of newspapers.
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I got my first agent response for my YA thriller GENERATION ZOMBIE and it’s a partial request! 😻🫣
brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social Brian is querying a YA thriller @brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social · May 21
I’m ecstatic to announce that GENERATION ZOMBIE is finally hitting the query trenches!
May 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social
I’m ecstatic to announce that GENERATION ZOMBIE is finally hitting the query trenches!
May 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS

A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for.

#QuestPit #A #F #W #LGBT
Moodboard 3 by 3 grid of images: A hand proffering a red apple with a snake coiling around both A couple in the dark lit only by a match lighting a cigarette between them A man in a business suit offering his hand A long chain pulled taught seeming chained to the viewer A crude pentagram drawn on asphalt with pink Disney Princess chalk and one dollar tea lights lit at each point A businessman staring at his shadow which has horns and a tail A man crouched in a cave weeping hiding from the light outside A man in a white suit and a man in a black suit stand back to back and clasp hands An hourglass rapidly running out of sand with a skull resting atop it
May 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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charyoung.bsky.social
🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS in order they are: a neon rock n roll sign, london (notably big ben), a man playing the guitar, a man punching a mirror, a man staring forward into the camera with only his eye showing, someone walking down a hallway, stars falling from the sky, photos hanging from the ceiling and finally, an audience at a gig. all nine images have a red hue.
May 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social
What to expect from GENERATION ZOMBIE, my 86K YA thriller/horror:

😬 Chronically anxious main character
🤬 Toxic father-daughter relationship
🕵️‍♀️ Journalist enemies to lovers
💀 Armageddon-causing cult
📲 Social commentary like BLACK MIRROR

#QuestPit #W #YA #T #H
A composite image featuring two side-by-side graphics: a TikTok “For You” page on the left and an Instagram profile page on the right. Both graphics feature imagery designed to evoke the mood of YA thriller novel GENERATION ZOMBIE: shadowy figures trying to break down a door; a pile of newspapers; a disembodied hand on a pane of glass; and a phone showing a grid of various social media app icons.
May 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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solarhoang.bsky.social
Brian’s MS got me staying up at night reading. it’s SO SO SO good. @ agents watch this space !!
brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social Brian is querying a YA thriller @brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social · May 7
BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US

When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever.

GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror.

#QuestPit #W #YA #T #H
A composite graphic featuring a grid of nine oversaturated images (three rows of three) that evoke the mood of YA thriller novel GENERATION ZOMBIE. From top left: a pile of newspapers with the word “classified” visible on one; a disembodied hand on a pane of glass; a young woman holding a phone; a young man staring at a phone with one hand on his cheek; an aerial shot of the Empire State Building with a red sky; a crowd of people; a phone screen showing a grid of social media app icons; a dark silhouette with an arm raised; and a large stack of newspapers.
May 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social
BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US

When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever.

GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror.

#QuestPit #W #YA #T #H
A composite graphic featuring a grid of nine oversaturated images (three rows of three) that evoke the mood of YA thriller novel GENERATION ZOMBIE. From top left: a pile of newspapers with the word “classified” visible on one; a disembodied hand on a pane of glass; a young woman holding a phone; a young man staring at a phone with one hand on his cheek; an aerial shot of the Empire State Building with a red sky; a crowd of people; a phone screen showing a grid of social media app icons; a dark silhouette with an arm raised; and a large stack of newspapers.
May 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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solarhoang.bsky.social
BEYOND thrilled to announce @helenzdong.bsky.social and i will be mentoring @brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social & his absolute feast of a YA horror manuscript for @roundtablementor.bsky.social

Brian’s MS got us screaming in our DMs since the logline. Many congratulations to all applicants this year! 🎉
roundtablementor.bsky.social Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · Feb 1
Here are our mentees from the Young Adult category:
Young Adult mentees: Birdie Schae is mentoring Ornella and Sonja J. Kaye. Bita Behzadi is mentoring Ethan Rubin. Camille Chong is mentoring Natalia Wikana. Cass Biehn is mentoring Cindy Chen. CL Montblanc is mentoring Rachael Allysa. Eunice Kim is mentoring L. Amariti. Helen Z. Dong & Solar Hoàng are mentoring Brian Patrick Byrne. Jill Tew is mentoring Jada-Kai Meosa John. Karis Rogerson is mentoring Melonie. Laura Galán-Wells is mentoring Shylin (Shaye). Noelle Monét is mentoring Ashley B. Olivia Sun & Vishaka Sriram are mentoring FT Zahra. Raven Traylor is mentoring Kimani Key. Samantha Chong is mentoring Briana O'Neal. Sofia Aves is mentoring Emily Bennett and Megan McCuen Witt.
February 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social
✨ My 66 reads of 2024! ✨

I had the privilege of reading SO many incredible books this past year. I also read more in a single year than ever before. I consider myself a slower reader, so I’m especially proud of the volume I got through in 2024.

Here’s to many more fantastic reads in 2025! 📚
December 31, 2024 at 6:43 PM