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31 | aspiring bog witch | author of both the mammalian and the fantastic 🦡⚔️

#amquerying What Vengeance Might Bring
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#QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentguide #agentsguide

WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING

For fans of epic fantasy, elemental magic, dragons, reluctant heroines, and romantic subplots.

✨Rich world building
🗝️Found family
✨Secret History
🗝️Female rage
110k words || adult epic fantasy || Madelaine Atteberry An Agent’s Guide to WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING The background image is a yellow butterfly resting among a group of cobblestones. On the other cobblestones are faint runes. PITCH Rowen Ember would rather eat dirt than admit to her fabled ancestry, but violent attacks have revealed a mysterious gap in her people’s collective memory. Alongside a lordling, a bounty hunter, a markswoman, and a young rebel, Rowen must finally face that fairy tale that haunts her family name. Background image is a person with a torch exploring an abandoned brick building. Along the margins are faint runes. Below the pitch are three images of women superimposed with the words “anxiety” “rage” and “grit”. COMPS- three titles: The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso, The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. VIBES: action-packed quest; lost, runic language; found family; ancient ruins; dragons; reluctant chosen one; rugged, natural setting; swords, shields, & elemental magic. Background image is a forest path. Faint runes line the margins. SNIPPET: “Split knuckles. It’s always the split knuckles that last the longest. Every motion, each grasp of a mug, clench of a quill, idle drum of the fingers reawakens that nagging sting. What good are healers anyway, if they can’t fix the split knuckles after everything else? Rowen scowled down at her hands, covered in soft green bruises that had been nudged along that afternoon by a local healer. Of course, they hadn’t bothered with the angry, miniscule lacerations that crested her knuckles, but they had taken care of any lasting damage caused by that day’s spars. Conscious of the guaranteed response, she spread her fingers across the table before her, wincing as each joint protested the movement.” Background image is a crumbling ruin against a dark sky. Faint runes line the margins.
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Such a huge THANK YOU to the #revpit folks and everyone else who offered pitch critiques during #mockpit yesterday. I’ve always struggled with pitching so your advice is invaluable 🫶
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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#mockpit #FiFRevPit

Poppy the elvish Quilldresser suddenly suffers the loss of her best friend. When his hunky blacksmith son moves in next door, her grief threatens to tear her apart. Poppy must embark on an emotional journey to accept her loss, irrevocably tying herself to her new neighbor. 💜🪶🩷
A collage of pretty purple things. Eg. blackberries, feathers, a boat, impressionist painting, interlocked hands, and a blacksmith. In the middle is a long feather under the title QUILL.
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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#mockpit #FiFRevPit

Rowen Ember is the descendent of an ancient martyr, much to her chagrin. Now, a puppeteer is rewriting history by erasing her people's memories of the Great Battle. Rowen must confront the past and find the truth of her ancestor’s deeds, or suffer the same sacrificial fate.
An illustrated portrait of Rowen Ember, the FMC of WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING.
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#mockpit #FiFRevPit

Rowen Ember is the descendent of an ancient war hero, much to her chagrin. Now, a puppeteer intent on rewriting history is erasing her people's memory of that Great Battle. She must confront her lineage and find the truth of her ancestor’s deeds before history repeats itself.
An image of a woman affectionately holding a man's face in her hands. Tropes: found family, ensemble cast, imposter syndrome, reluctant heroine. Author: Madelaine Atteberry. Title: WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING. Tagline: An adult epic fantasy about the dangers of allowing those in power to rewrite history. Art by neshama_art on Instagram.
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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#mockpit #FiFRevPit

Poppy has lived comfortably as a purveyor of magical quills for 200 years. When the hunky blacksmith son of her deceased friend moves in next door, her repressed grief threatens to tear apart her sanity. Luckily, the blacksmith will be there to help Poppy accept herself. 💜🪶🩷
A moodboard of nine images. Top left- purple velvet Victorian boots. Top middle- a celestial teapot. Top right- a Lacey lavender blouse. Middle left- a periwinkle frock. Middle- a purple velvet couch. Middle right- a blue bird in flight. Bottom left- a purple bird. Bottom middle- blue books of poetry. Bottom right- a plum colored velvet women’s suit.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#mockpit #FiFRevPit

Poppy has lived comfortably as a purveyor of magical quills for more than 200 years. When a hunky blacksmith moves in next door, her stability comes crashing down around her as she is forced to contend with her ancient grief.

🪶cozy romantasy
💜bi rep
🪶unique magic system
💜HEA
A picture of many overlapping birds in flight entitled QUILL.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#mockpit #fifrevpit

Rowen Ember can no longer run from her fabled ancestry; a puppeteer intent on rewriting history is erasing her people's memory. She must face the fairy tale that haunts her family name or write a new story for herself before the last of her kind is forgotten.
A moodboard grid of nine images. Top left - a pair of hands in red light. Top middle - a dark haired woman looking exhausted. Top right - text over a John Martin painting: "I love you" as in "my liberation is impossible without yours" Middle left - a carving of a dragon in stone Middle - text over a John Martin painting: "Some walk in darkness, and some walk in light... but those who carry the flame walk in both worlds at once." Patricia Walsh Middle right - an open book Lower left - text over a John Martin painting: "We all have one foot in a fairy tale, and the other in the abyss" Paulo Coelho Lower middle - a woman shrouded in black cloth Lower right - hands on fire
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentguide #agentsguide

WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING

For fans of epic fantasy, elemental magic, dragons, reluctant heroines, and romantic subplots.

✨Rich world building
🗝️Found family
✨Secret History
🗝️Female rage
110k words || adult epic fantasy || Madelaine Atteberry An Agent’s Guide to WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING The background image is a yellow butterfly resting among a group of cobblestones. On the other cobblestones are faint runes. PITCH Rowen Ember would rather eat dirt than admit to her fabled ancestry, but violent attacks have revealed a mysterious gap in her people’s collective memory. Alongside a lordling, a bounty hunter, a markswoman, and a young rebel, Rowen must finally face that fairy tale that haunts her family name. Background image is a person with a torch exploring an abandoned brick building. Along the margins are faint runes. Below the pitch are three images of women superimposed with the words “anxiety” “rage” and “grit”. COMPS- three titles: The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso, The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. VIBES: action-packed quest; lost, runic language; found family; ancient ruins; dragons; reluctant chosen one; rugged, natural setting; swords, shields, & elemental magic. Background image is a forest path. Faint runes line the margins. SNIPPET: “Split knuckles. It’s always the split knuckles that last the longest. Every motion, each grasp of a mug, clench of a quill, idle drum of the fingers reawakens that nagging sting. What good are healers anyway, if they can’t fix the split knuckles after everything else? Rowen scowled down at her hands, covered in soft green bruises that had been nudged along that afternoon by a local healer. Of course, they hadn’t bothered with the angry, miniscule lacerations that crested her knuckles, but they had taken care of any lasting damage caused by that day’s spars. Conscious of the guaranteed response, she spread her fingers across the table before her, wincing as each joint protested the movement.” Background image is a crumbling ruin against a dark sky. Faint runes line the margins.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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#litagents #agentguide #agentsguide

WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING

For fans of epic fantasy, elemental magic, dragons, reluctant heroines, and romantic subplots.

✨Rich world building
🗝️Found family
✨Secret history
🗝️Female rage
110k words || adult epic fantasy || Madelaine Atteberry An Agent’s Guide to WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING The background image is a yellow butterfly resting among a group of cobblestones. On the other cobblestones are faint runes. PITCH Rowen Ember would rather eat dirt than admit to her fabled ancestry, but violent attacks have revealed a mysterious gap in her people’s collective memory. Alongside a lordling, a bounty hunter, a markswoman, and a young rebel, Rowen must finally face that fairy tale that haunts her family name. Background image is a person with a torch exploring an abandoned brick building. Along the margins are faint runes. Below the pitch are three images of women superimposed with the words “anxiety” “rage” and “grit”. COMPS- three titles: The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso, Air Awakens by Elise Kova, and Horizon: Zero Dawn. VIBES: action-packed quest; lost, runic language; found family; ancient ruins; dragons; reluctant chosen one; rugged, natural setting; swords, shields, & elemental magic. Background image is a forest path. Faint runes line the margins. SNIPPET: “Split knuckles. It’s always the split knuckles that last the longest. Every motion, each grasp of a mug, clench of a quill, idle drum of the fingers reawakens that nagging sting. What good are healers anyway, if they can’t fix the split knuckles after everything else? Rowen scowled down at her hands, covered in soft green bruises that had been nudged along that afternoon by a local healer. Of course, they hadn’t bothered with the angry, miniscule lacerations that crested her knuckles, but they had taken care of any lasting damage caused by that day’s spars. Conscious of the guaranteed response, she spread her fingers across the table before her, wincing as each joint protested the movement.” Background image is a crumbling ruin against a dark sky. Faint runes line the margins.
October 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Less than a month until #DVpit, a pitch event for marginalized creators looking to find an agent & get traditionally published! Here's a reminder of the rules!
For more guidelines & info go to dvpit.carrd.co
See you all at DVpit on October 8th, 2025!
#writersky #booksky
#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors. Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET. Your pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use #DVArt) A like ❤️ from an agent = a query request A repost 🔁 from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent A like ❤️ from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches. Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.
September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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"Shivering, she watched the blackness before her. She understood what needed to be done, but wavered in spite of herself. Tendrils reached out to her from the emptiness, trying to convince her to escape, to never return."

WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING
❤️‍🔥✨⚔️🌑🌀

#QuestPit #Q #A #F
May 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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An epic fantasy mystery for those who love to discover, to hope, and to understand.
🌑✨⚔️🌬️🌀

An anti-social fossil nerd is tasked with solving a 1000-year old crime, and discovers far more than she bargained for in its wake.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

Art by neshama_art on 📸
May 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#questpit #Q #A #F #agentguide #agentsguide

THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE X AIR AWAKENS

An adult fantasy centered on the dangers of history being rewritten by the victors.

❤️‍🔥Fiery companions
⚔️Childhood rivals
✨Tender romance
🌑Mental health
🌬️Found family
May 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#litagents I present my updated #agentsguide for my #amquerying NA/A epic fantasy on the importance of historical preservation — and who stands to gain from rewriting the past.

Plus who doesn’t love a fiery FMC with a scythe and a nerdy special interest. 🌀

#agentguide #writingcommunity
April 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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"Storm clouds were gathering among the peaks of the nearby mountains. The peaks were crooked and thin, appearing as gossiping judges in the coming darkness."

NA/A EPIC FANTASY MYSTERY
♥️⚔️🔥

#PosterPitQ #PosterPit #amquerying #A #F
April 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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SONG OF THE LIONESS x TOMBS OF ATUAN

❤️‍🔥Fiery companions
⚔️Childhood rivals
🌶️An unexpected slow burn
🌀A dead language
🌬️Fast paced

#posterpitQ #A #F #amquerying #PosterPit
April 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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An epic fantasy mystery for those who love to discover, to hope, and to understand.

♥️🔥⚔️🌑🌫️

A young woman is tasked with solving a 1000-year old crime, and discovers far more than she bargained for in its wake.

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #A #F #NA

Art by neshama_art on 📸
April 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Witch with mommy issues and a great rack unsuccessfully represses sexual attraction to a well dressed man with fangs. Wind spirit tries desperately to cockblock. Couple was last seen making a fae bargain. Witnesses say they bickered the whole time. More at 10.

#chaospit #wip #fantasyromance #a
Drawing of Lianna and Fyrgus, the main characters in my fantasy romance. Lianna is a plus sized woman with dark brown curly hair. She wears a white gown and a midnight coat embroidered with moons. Fyrgus is a tall man with black fox ears and tale and long black hair. He wears a billowing shirt embroidered with suns and black breeches and a crimson coat trimmed in black fur also embroidered with golden suns. He’s handing lianna her broken boot as she looks up at him with an expression of “oh no, he’s hot” art by SirSleepsALot
April 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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#chaospit #YA #F
A girl misses her dead parents and instead of going to therapy she goes in search of a magical artifact
a woman is running through a lush green field and saying `` i 'm going on an adventure '' .
Alt: a man is running through a lush green field and saying `` i 'm going on an adventure '' .
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April 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Ok, she doesn't DIE, but she is DYING. And there may also be some mild human trafficking, accidental mass murder, and being left to starve to death.

This is totally how you start a romance, right? 😅

Hearts of Bark and Scale, coming fall 2025

#ChaosPit #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #fantasy #romance
Anime butterfly meme. The butterfly (with blood splatter on its wing) is labeled "The FMC, bleeding to death on page 1." The anime person is labeled "me, the author." At the bottom, it reads "Is this a romance?"
April 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Maddy A
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Keila wasn't supposed to be Starfell’s chosen hero (seriously, she can barely cast a decent charm). But when a prophecy dumps a quest for an all-powerful amulet into her shaky hands, she’s no choice but to find it before an unhinged sorcerer & his cranky spirits do. #ChaosPit #SendHelp #MG #Agented
April 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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#ChaosPit

Rowen and her reclusive ass get conscripted but she's just trying to start a museum, yo

WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING
🌀🪨💧

#amquerying #Q #A #F #EpicFantasy
A photo of King Charles holding the royal scepters looking positively beset upon, with the caption “when I’m sent on a perilous quest to determine the fate of life itself but I literally just want to collect cool rocks”
April 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING is a lovely little tale where an extreme introvert is put in charge of her childhood rival and drags him all across the continent in search of a dead language 🌀

Oh and this is the theme song 🎶

#ChaosPit #amquerying #Q #A #F #EpicFantasy

open.spotify.com/track/6hPtnO...
Strange Terrain
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April 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Here's some of my core characters as their ✨inner beasts✨

WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING
⚔️🔥🩸

#ChaosPit #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky #EpicFantasy
A collage photo of 4 animals. The upper left is a badger, attributed to “the hero”. The upper right is a capybara, attributed to “the bestie”. The lower left is a striking snake, attributed to “the villain”. The lower right is an elk, attributed to “the lover”.
April 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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#unhingedPit

Rowen's red flags

🚩homeschooled, and it shows
🚩who, me? Unworthy
🚩interpersonal conflict? no thx
🚩punch first, ask questions later
🚩emotional support eldest daughter
🚩whole bag of Lays chips on shoulder

WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING

#amquerying #Q#A #F #EpicFantasy
A moodboard of 9 red and brown/stone-colored images with text that reads “it is not the leadership that unsettles her, it is the trust”
March 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM