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Katie 🏝️🧡
@katiegwrites.bsky.social
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📚 WORTH PLAYING FOR (Dell Romance/Penguin Random House)
🏝️ rep: Aurora Fernandez @ Trident

https://www.katiegwrites.com/
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eriverowrites.bsky.social
Things ruining Rhen’s Day:
🩸 Her prophesied power never manifests
👑 Being stripped of her titles as heir
⚔️ A (hot) man prevents her from unlocking her power
👁️ An arcane force tries to kill her when she's near the sea (she lives seaside)
🌊 The truth about her brother’s death

#QuestPit #W #A #F
A collage of eight images, showing scenes of seaside cliffs, a sword, fortresses, bodies of water, and colorful strips of light throughout.
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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lindamaleh.bsky.social
PERCY JACKSON x LEGENDBORN

When 16-y/o witch, Haley Thorne, receives dream messages from dead witches about a coming threat, she must go on a quest through a monster-infested realm to stop a plot to open the door between the realms that will wreck the fabric of reality. #QuestPit #Q #F #YA #witches
In the Shadow of a Witch intro image The book pitch The book vibes Book excerpts
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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thehksmith.bsky.social
LEGENDBORN x DUNE in a #YA fantasy where humanity survives by surrendering memories to a divine intelligence.

To break her family's curse of being sacrificed, Vega must:
⚔️Find her lost brother
💔Ally w/ her first heartbreak
🌑Uncover the truth her world was forced to forget

#QuestPit #SFF #F #Q #RF
A dark space fantasy aesthetic mood board with a collage of photos. Vertically down, from the first column: 1. A violet, light-tinged hole framing a violet sky 2. A faint silhouette of a woman beneath colors like the northern lights 3. Two hands reaching towards one another 4. A sci-fi inspired, dark uniform with a high collar 5. A grand stairwell, perhaps a futuristic religious site, with a single silhouette looking up 6. Two romantic silhouettes against a starry night sky 7. A lone figure with a backpack, standing amongst a shroud of sand-colored fog 8. A hand covered in glitter 9. A silhouette standing in front of a blue-lit circular tunnel entrance 10. A black woman with glitter coating her shoulder, just the bottom half of her face is visible, lips tilted slightly up in a smile 11. A black woman screaming 12. A stream of light breaking through dark clouds 13. An eye turned to show only the whites 14. Figures in robes seemingly suspended in mid-air 15. A figure on a black, sleek futuristic looking motorcycle None of the images are my own. They are all sourced from Pinterest
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
These comps??? I would EAT THIS UP
stefannymonga.bsky.social Stefanny Monga Author @stefannymonga.bsky.social · Oct 8
POWERLESS X WEDNESDAY

Ascendants are being hunted for their mental abilities. When Riza develops an unknown chaotic elemental power capable of decimating anything in its wake, she allies with dangerous Eli to find the hidden monsters and a plan that could destroy her entire home. #SF #F #YA #DvPit
October 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
HK created a world that’s unlike anything I’ve ever read with this story. I have been thinking about it long after I read the initial pages!!!
thehksmith.bsky.social HK Smith | Writer @thehksmith.bsky.social · Oct 8
“To survive, you must forget.”

On a brutal planet, people feed memories to an AI God.

Cursed for sacrifice, Vega cheats death with forbidden magic. But the curse doesn’t break, it hunts.

To save her vanished brother, she must uncover what the world erased.

LEGENDBORN x DUNE in #YA #SFF #F #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
I’ve had the privilege of reading the first few chapters of this, and it’s SO. GOOD. Agents, don’t miss out on the chance to jump on this!!!
trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · Oct 8
Southeast #Asian MISTBORN x SIX OF CROWS

When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.

#A #F #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social
#DVparty moodboard pt. 2

what you can expect from my SE #Asian inspired #Fantasy:

🀄️ mahjong inspired parlor (heist)
🏮 LNY type festival (things go wrong)
🔬 research subplot (think Navani)
🥟 lush settings & food descriptions
💥 energy-based magic

for fans of JADE CITY / SIX OF CROWS / MISTBORN
moodboard that showcases some images on and off screen - all in deep green, brown, and red colors. visible images include: (top left) a table made out of mahjong tiles with a teacup on top (top right) a painting of women in traditional Asian dresses with fans, clustered around a red backdrop (bottom left) a wooden bathhouse with a large, dark pool of water (bottom right) a multi level city with red hanging lantern lights and wooden buildings
October 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
Allow me to reintroduce you to WORTH PLAYING FOR (fka as RIVAL ISLE), my adult romcom complete and headed for editors’ inboxes very soon.

#editors, if you’re ready for the adventure of a lifetime, feel free to interact or reach out to Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media Group 🏝️🧡
An editor’s guide to WORTH PLAYING FOR A 91k word adult romcom The pitch While pretending to be her concussed identical twin on a survival competition show, twenty-six-year-old Willa must fake a romance with her rival—who happens to be her long lost love—to win viewer votes and the cash prize that will save her family’s board game café. What to expect - second chance romance - reality TV/beach setting - quarter life crisis - challenges and eliminations - complicated sister relationship - zany cast of side characters - fake dating - secrets and yearning Comps - Survivor - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren - Love Island - Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid Excerpts: “My mom is attempting to Heimlich maneuver a meatball out of me when my sister bursts through the front door of our store and announces she’s going to be the next big reality television star.” “I feel safe now because of you. His words are heavy, tangible, as though the letters are digging their heels into my heart. I know he means safe in the game, but my mind takes me back to eight years ago when I first realized what falling in love meant to me: pure, unadulterated safety. The safety of knowing I could be wholeheartedly myself, flaws and all, and he would only find more reasons to adore me. The safety of knowing on days I didn’t particularly like myself, he would still never like anyone else more. Maybe that’s why the end hurt so badly. It was danger infiltrating a place of peace.”
June 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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emmaalmunshi.bsky.social
Presenting to the #questpit & #writingcommunity crew…

Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ⚡️

Kingdom of the Wicked x Crescent City
♥︎Led by a sassy, 'shadow mommy' FMC
🫶🏼Fresh take on Romantasy
🪞#MiddleEasternRep
🚨Fills that Xaden-shaped hole in your life
#agentsguide #RF #Q #NA #writersky
Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ELECTRIC SEXUAL TENSION. Excerpt reads: There's a possessiveness in how he touches me and I wish I hated it. "How would you punish me?" I breathe out, unable to control my impulses. Fingers touch my zip as he slowly slips it down, millimetre by millimetre. My body is completely in his thrall, unable to decipher the beat of my heart from the thump of the speaker's bass. Cloudy background with one half of a lightning bolt MORALLY-GREY IS THE COLOUR OF CHOICE... Two moodboards with information about the two main characters INCLUDES TOP TIER TROPES... Four book comparisons: Crescent City, Kingdom of the Wicked, Book of Azrael, Quicksilver with tropes attached The other half of a lightning bolt with a cloudy background
May 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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emhenn921.bsky.social
If you love:

🐉accessible magic
🐉friends to enemies to lovers
🐉palace intrigue
🐉feminine rage
🐉Viking vibes
🐉one dragon

this is for you!

#questpit #W #romantasy
Raegan, an aspiring mage, is forced to give up her dream of protecting the realm after the king betroths her to Prince Arlon, the boy who broke her heart the night her mother perished. As Arlon’s icy exterior thaws, Raegan learns the true nature of his cold shoulder, and with time the walls around her heart begin to crumble. But with war looming across the sea and secrets around every palace corner, Raegan must choose between trusting the boy she loved, and protecting her heart and fleeing for good.
May 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
SURVIVOR x THE PARENT TRAP

While pretending to be her concussed twin on a survival competition show, Willa must fake a romance with her rival–who's also her ex–to win viewer votes and the cash prize that will save her family’s board game café 🧡🏝️

#OS soon #AG #A #R #editors #QuestPit
Moodboard for my book RIVAL ISLE Photos include: - A cameraman and boom mic - A ropes course in the jungle - A pinky promise - A couple kissing in the water - Lit torches - An island - The text: "“My eyes land on the last rival in the row—number nine—and my stomach and heart switch places. It’s Noel Hudson. The only person to have ever broken my heart.”
May 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
✨on sub soon✨

SURVIVOR x THE UNHONEYMOONERS

Willa’s goal: win RIVAL ISLE and use the $ to save her family’s board game café

The issue? She’s pretending to be her twin, and her old flame is a fellow contestant.

Editors, feel free to reach out!

#PosterPit #PosterPitA #A #R
Movie poster for my romcom "RIVAL ISLE" an adult romcom on submission soon - A novel by Katie Gergel, represented by Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media - Second chance romance, twin switch, riddles and challenges, fake fating - Images of an island, a reluctant couple, a kiss, a helicopter, a pinky promise, a secret, and a torch - "test your limits" and "adventure awaits" - "In the rut of a quarter life crisis, Willa takes her twin’s spot on a survival reality show where she fakes a romance with her rival–who happens to be her long lost love–in order to win viewer votes and earn the cash prize that will save her family’s dying board game café."
April 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
HIGMA and yap

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April 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
I’m very excited to share that I’m now represented by Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media! Beyond excited to work together to bring my Survivor-inspired romcom to life 🧡🏝️ So grateful for the opportunity and everyone who has helped along the way!
March 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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emhenn921.bsky.social
A new #agentguide for my NA romantic fantasy with accessible and unique magic and slow burn romance that is worth the wait! Hitting inboxes soon. Feel free to interact #litagents !
March 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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allissawrites.bsky.social
It’s time for me to finally post an #agentguide ✨

YOURS TRULY x SWIFT & SADDLED
No one said rock bottom (sleeping with the hot dive bar owner after your husband’s infidelity wrecked your marriage) would feel so good…or orgasmic.
March 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
Checking off a writer bucket list item tomorrow 🤩
March 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
Broke ground on my new romcom today ✍️✍️
March 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
Good news for good friends is my favorite thing ❤️❤️
March 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
A new season of #survivor starts tonight (we all know this is important to me) so in honor of the premiere I’m throwing it back to the bday party I hosted last year:

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2mqKCcg/
The tribe has spoken 🔥 #survivor
TikTok video by Katie
www.tiktok.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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kellylbeck.bsky.social
A rough-around-the-edges artist gets forced home to care for her ailing Gran, where she runs into the ex-bff and boyfriend assigned as caretakers.

💔second chances
🐈‍⬛angry FMC
🫂found family
🏚️atmospheric setting
📝list of tasks for forgiveness

#WSPit #A #R #WF
#editors: @charmstrong.bsky.social
mood board for the novel NOT READY TO MAKE NICE. The acronym NRTMN is in red block letters behind a woman flipping off the camera. It contains the quote "this was who I am outside the shadow of my best friend and boyfriend. The same person I've always been without love to hold me together--selfish. Scrappy. Spiteful." a scrapbook like moodboard of a man laying on a pillow and a woman smoking. The quotes say "In another future, I'd get all these moments with him--the sleepy ones, the early mornings, and late nights. The vulnerable soft smiles and hazy eyes." "I forgive you -- LOgan" "Let Me be your anchor." "tell me it wasn't real." "I've always meant it." "I broke us both." "I'm the same girl from ten years ago. I make the same mistakes, the same choices, the same self-destructive tendencies."
February 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
Who knew fish guts could be so hot
themakaylaleigh.bsky.social Makayla Leigh 🌿🌊⚔️ @themakaylaleigh.bsky.social · Feb 26
Warning: falling in love will result in death

🌊 assassin prince x bounty hunter pirate
🖤 a deadly quest for a dragon's egg
🌊 a blood pact that might require them to kill each other to break it
🖤 rivals to enemies to lovers to ????

#WSPitQ #NA #A #F #R
top row: masculine blue eye with black strands of hair, golden dagger, and a masculine figure (prince) with their hand on the hilt of their sword middle row: sails of a ship, quote: I can see the end as it begins, and the side view of the ocean from a ship bottom row: a feminine figure (pirate) leaning against the railing of a ship, pearls and sea shells, and a woman looking down with blond hair
February 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
katiegwrites.bsky.social
Agents better move fast for this one 👀
February 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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themakaylaleigh.bsky.social
Warning: falling in love will result in death

🌊 assassin prince x bounty hunter pirate
🖤 a deadly quest for a dragon's egg
🌊 a blood pact that might require them to kill each other to break it
🖤 rivals to enemies to lovers to ????

#WSPitQ #NA #A #F #R
top row: masculine blue eye with black strands of hair, golden dagger, and a masculine figure (prince) with their hand on the hilt of their sword middle row: sails of a ship, quote: I can see the end as it begins, and the side view of the ocean from a ship bottom row: a feminine figure (pirate) leaning against the railing of a ship, pearls and sea shells, and a woman looking down with blond hair
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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halphelan.bsky.social
It’s been a minute since I’ve been active, so I thought a reintroduction was needed ❤️

I write romantic SFF, and my urban paranormal romance, IF THE MOON HAD TEETH, is on submission with my wonderful agent, Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong. I’m currently drafting a sapphic futuristic dystopian ✨
A picture of yours truly ❤️ Text: An editors guide to IF THE MOON HAD TEETH by Haley Phelan Set on the backdrop of a full moon Text: THE PITCH dahlia-half human, half vampire-goes undercover to court the most dangerous vampire hunter, compelling him in order to find a cure poisoning the blood of humans. There’s only one problem. For the first time, she craves the taste of blood. His.
February 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM