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c.n. belmarie
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we're cristal & nicole, 🇩🇴 romantic fantasy writing duo. currently working on a slow-burn epic fated lovers novel.
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Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide!

SINNERS x IWAV

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.

#QuestPit #W #A #F
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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AMARI X JUJUTSU KAISEN
After stealing her first mission, 13yo Maeve opens a portal to the realm of the 7 Deadly Sins—where she must strengthen the barrier keeping them imprisoned. If only ex-friends, talking urns, and magical mazes weren’t a part of the deal too… #Questpit #MG #F #Q
Left to right: (Left) A 13-year-old Native American/Māori boy with long curly hair tied in a ponytail. He wears tiny gold hoops in his ears. His uniform is lilac and gold. A lilac jacket with the initials MA stitched into it, a gold vest with purple lining, a gold tie, and plaid, purple pants. The tallest of the group. (Middle) A 13-year-old Black girl with light blue hair styled into cornrows. She has multiple piercings on each ear, including two dangling crescent moons. She has a mole under her eye. She wears the same uniform as the previous boy, but her jacket is buttoned up and she wears a skirt. She has a slight gap between her two front teeth. Much shorter than the boy on the left, slightly taller than the boy on the right. (Right) A 13-year-old Black/Filipino boy who's wearing the same uniform as the previous two. He's added a dark purple hoodie to his uniform. His dark hair is sectioned into twists. He's wearing circular, golden-rimmed sunglasses. A small, red fox is perched on his shoulders.
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Japanese-American teen Misa navigates abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family's clean image in their culturally insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up

🎌Immigrant story
🌸Coming of age
🫂Family tension
❤️First love

#QuestPit #YA #OWN #Q #agentguide
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A nerdy agender experimental art gremlin and an ex-wunderkind roboticist in exile team up to find out why the local tech co is bricking robots and stealing memories, and who's sending weird dispatches from the wasteland that's supposedly empty. Then mutually pine a little.

#QuestPit #W #A #SF #S
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Finally put together an #agentsguide for Snaggleteeth, the adult speculative novel I'm currently polishing in hopes of querying in the new year! 🦷
(all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 1st slide: An Agent's Guide to Snaggleteeth / adult science fiction / near-future cyberpunk / retro tech & robots / 80k words (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 2nd slide: Premise / When a lonely audiovisual archivist's assistive robot BFF gets bricked, he enlists the help of an illegal repair shop owner to resurrect her, while also using his anachronistic media know-how to investigate a tech conspiracy involving stolen memories. / (there is a little graphic of a lotus flower created by Dutchken @ Noun Project) (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 3rd slide: It's Got Everything / 🏳️‍🌈 Scrappy queer/neurodivergent MC ❣️ Dorks aged 35+ in love / 🌲 Mutual pining 🗓️ Multiple timelines / 👽 Art gremlins / 🔥 Anti-capitalism 🤖 Prickly robot familiar / 🇻🇳 Southeast Asian folklore 📼 Cassette futurism vibes / (there is a little graphic of a nine-tailed fox created by Mariana Vinagre @ Noun Project) (all slides are in the style of a vintage 80s/90s VHS box cover) / 4th slide: Comps / Klara and the Sun: robot POV, subtle dystopia / Luminous: sibling drama, murder mystery / Both Klara and Luminous: companion robots as family, intergenerational conflict, explorations of grief, childhood illness / Light From Uncommon Stars: queer joy!, romance w/ older characters, so much food, music bringing people together / Severance: speculative workplace intrigue, weird memory stuff
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME X ARCANE

Druids go through the Inflection, where an element will bless them with power 🍃💨💧

Industrialists are subjected to the Test of Attunement, where crystals can enhance their speed, strength, or senses 🔮💪🏼😈

But what if you aren't chosen?

#roundtablementor #A #F
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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AMARI X JUJUTSU KAISEN
13yo Maeve must strengthen the magical barrier protecting Earth from the Seven Deadly Sins’ imminent uprising:
Add in
🃏 A deadly trivia game
🕳️ Magical sinkholes
🪄 Illusion-filled forests
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Rocky ex-friendships
⚱️ & a talking urn w/ generational secrets
#roundtablementor #MG #UN
A 13-year-old Black girl with light blue hair styled into cornrows. She has multiple piercings on each ear, including two dangling crescent moons. She has a mole under her eye. Her uniform is lilac and gold. A buttoned up lilac jacket, a gold vest with purple lining, a gold tie, and a plaid, purple skirt. She has a slight gap between her two front teeth. She holds a large gold sword that's around the same size as her. She wears white tights, with black shoes.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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LET THEM *BE* CAKE 🍰
Under a fascist empire led by a queen whose touch can turn bodies into sugar, a grieving royal translator finds solace in outlawed books. But when caught, she must escape and lead the revolution inspired by her defiance, or face being turned into royal dessert.
#roundtablementor
October 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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KLARA & THE SUN X SEVERANCE

Nerdy ex-punk teams up with a taciturn anarchist to save his robot BFF, uncovers a tech conspiracy re: stolen memories instead.

🌟 Scrappy queer/ND MC
❣️ Dorks age 35+ in love
🤖 Prickly robot familiar
🇻🇳 SE Asian folklore
📼 Cassette futurism vibes

#A #WIP #CB #SFF #SFPit
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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FLEABAG x INDEPENDENCE DAY

💃🏽 Queer Tamil-American FMC
✨ Accidental superpowers
👧🏻 Raising her crush’s kid = new fam
💕 “Por que no los dos” poly sitch
🇮🇳🇺🇸 Tamil + Hollywood pop culture chaos
👽 Aliens eating humanity
💪 Saving Earth with no training + endless side-eye

#SFPit #A #Q #Ain #AP
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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happy monday everyone and don't forget to 👏 back 👏 up 👏 your 👏 work 👏
October 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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struggling with rewrites this morning and seriously considering making myself another coffee just to power through 😩
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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watching The Gilded Age season 2 and torn between bursting into tears or having terrible anxiety about the opera war
October 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Thank you everyone for your kind support during #DVPit! Happy to have been part of such a talented group of writers & artists and can’t wait to keep supporting each other in the future 💚
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Caribbean-inspired THE BRIDGE KINGDOM x ONE DARK WINDOW

A cursed fae queen must outsmart & seduce a fallen god whose heart is the key to save her land from a deadly all-devouring mist. However, he yearns for another, and he'll destroy worlds to find her.

#DVpit #A #DF #R #F #Latine #WOC #POC
October 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Caribbean FAEBOUND X The BRIDGE KINGDOM

To preserve the life of the last bastion of the fae, Summer Queen Cornelia has sacrificed herself 170 painful times. Now a calamitous god has landed, and his heart, harvested, could save her world. If only he wasn’t so lovely.

#DVpit #A #DF #R #F #Latine
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Caribbean-inspired THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS x ONE DARK WINDOW

A cursed fae queen must outsmart & ensnare a calamitous fallen god to save her dying land, but he's not what he seems, and their deadly dance of seduction may bring them, and the world, to ruin.

#DVpit #A #DF #R #F #Latine #POC
October 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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THE WITCHER x HALF A SOUL

A fae queen must steal a fallen god's heart to save her dying land. Falling for him wasn't part of the plan.

For readers who enjoy:
🌴 a lush Caribbean-inspired kingdom
👑 a cunning but charming FMC
🖤 a stoic but sensitive MMC
🔥 true slow-burn

#DVPit #A #DF #R #F #Latine
October 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Caribbean ONE DARK WINDOW x FAEBOUND

A cursed fae queen must bring a destructive fallen god to his knees and steal his heart to save her dying land. But, he is not what he seems and if she falls for him, it could doom her world to ruin.

#DVPit #A #DF #R #F #Latine #WOC #POC
October 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Day 5 #DVParty - Playlist

This is a snippet of a much longer playlist, but one that captures both MCs in this dark romantic fantasy 🥀
A green shaded square with Emberforged Playlist on the top. The tracks have a play button and the length of the song. They're in the following order: 1. Phoenix by Cailin Russo & Chrissy Costanza (03:18) 2. Wicked Game by Ursine Vulpine & Annaca (04:45) 3. Royalty by Edzod, Maestro Chives, and Neoni (03:44) 4. Gold Rush by Taylor Swift (03:05) 5. Breath of Life by Florence and the Machine (03:11)
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Day 3 #DVParty - First Line
A deep green square with quote: "Cornelia could always tell when a date was going to be a waste of wine." On the bottom right corner it says "ellipsus" which is the name of a collaborative writing app.
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Day 2 #DVParty - Meet the MCs

☀️ Cornelia, a fae summer queen seeks to save her realm & herself from a terrible curse.
🥀 Myras, a ruthless fallen god with the power to save or destroy searches for a lost love.

To be free from the curse she must harvest him, even if love only comes once. #Latine
In the background, dark palm trees. Over them are four images. 1. A brown woman with coral lipstick is in the background while white flowers are in the front. 2. A small waterfall with a natural pool surrounded by vegetation has the words over them in white font: Cornelia. Charming. Cunning. Cursed. 3. Palm trees under the night starry sky. The words are in white font over them: Myras. Stoic. Sensitive. Vindictive. 4. Side profile of a man with white hair and black armor.
October 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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A little late to day 1 of #DVParty but hey, better late than never!

Moodboard for EMBERFORGED

A dark epic romantic fantasy featuring a cunning but cursed Afro-Latina Fae queen, a fallen God searching for his lost love, a Caribbean-inspired kingdom, and the slowest of burns ❤️‍🔥
A collage of 9 photos: 1. A golden crown with emeralds with a faded background. 2. Black and white hands on opposing sides, their fingers nearly touching. 3. Lovers covered in fog, the woman nearly pressing a kiss against her lover's nose. 4. Afro-latina woman covered in vines. 5. A marble statue almost kissing. 6. White and grey feathers. 7. A creek surrounded by moss and forest with hundreds of golden little motes of light. 8. A quote of poem by Alfonsina Storni "You, who opened suns in my heart," 9. A copse of palm trees covered in fog.
October 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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the fairies are rooting for you~
the quote "we are rooting for you" in handwritten script and little fairy animals prancing around in circle with sparkles and flowers: there is a puppy fairy, a cat, a frog, a bunny and a little mouse
June 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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So excited with everyone’s feedback and contributions! Thank you for taking the time to read! 💜 Spotted a few gems along the way too ✨💫
September 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM