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Sydney Applegate is 🎸ON SUB🎷
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Romance & Fantasy Author ✍️💖
Rep: Brooke Mondor @ MBG
Currently on submission with BAND CAMP - a nerdy, new adult romcom
https://www.sydneyapplegate.com
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The perfect romcom escape for fans of Lynn Painter and DCOMs like Camp Rock and Lemonade Mouth!

💚Summer band camp for adults
🩵Second chance romance
💚Found family
🩵Mental health rep
💚Secret summer fling
🩵Coming of age in your 20’s

🎸 EDITORS interact if you're interested ✨

#QuestPit #AG #A #R #OS
collage muted green of a friend group spending their summer together in the mountains, playing cards, etc scrapbook collage of book vibes including comparison titles, music artists with similar vibes, musical instruments, and movies
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Them: Omg I wish there was a Dancing with the Stars romcom.
Me: Hold my beer

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL ✨

💜Showmance
🪩Sunshine female competitor x Grumpy male pro
💜Nanny x Single dad
🪩Ballroom, studio, and country dancing
💜Mutual Pining
🪩Dual POV

#QuestPit #A #R #AG #W
digital art commission of a couple dancing a waltz under a silver spotlight tropes list for a dancing with the stars inspired romcom
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Dancing With The Stars meets THE ROM-COMMERS by Katherine Center and Elsie Silver's HEARTLESS

Live-in nanny Taly thought she was pretending to fall in love for TV ratings until her jaded pro partner—and his secret preteen daughter—start making things feel a little too real.

#QuestPit #W #AG #A #R
collage of single parenthood, competition dance rehearsals, and dancing with the stars photo aesthetics A tropes list designed around a mock book cover placeholder
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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My husband may not have gotten me anything for Valentine's (*that I know of*), but the Dallas Morning News sure did! 🏹💘🗞️
local bookstore newspaper feature
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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BAND CAMP - 88k - NA/A Romcom

After her therapist-recommended summer music program is crashed by her ex-boyfriend, Haven must prove to him, her new friends, and herself that she's been doing just fine since he left—all while avoiding her lingering feelings 💚🏔️🥁🤓🎷🫶🏻

#questpit #R #A #Q #amquerying
Collage of friend group summer camp memories Tropes and micro tropes list Collage of comp titles
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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DWTS🪩 meets THE ROM-COMMERS💜 and HEARTLESS💋

After being slated for a popular dance competition show, Taly and her jaded pro partner form a showmance to amass more audience votes, only the lines between real love and reality tv start to blur the further they advance #QuestPit #A #R #W
Collage of dancers, life at home, family time, and ballroom and ballet elements
February 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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When someone asks me for book recommendations (I literally write books)
Kendrick Lamar facing the camera mid performance
February 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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add in my “thinking cap” and I’m ready to roll post lunch break
Girl wearing a cardigan and Valentine’s antennae
January 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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After her therapist-recommended summer music program is crashed by her ex-boyfriend, Haven must prove to him, her new friends, and herself that she's been doing just fine since he left...even if it means denying feelings that never truly went away. 💚🏔️🥁🤓🎷🫶🏻

#YouDeservepIt #A #R #Q #amquerying #romcom
Collage of summer camp memories, friends and lovers, music, card games, swimming in the lake Comp titles for BAND CAMP: Happy Place, Nothing Like the Movies, Jana Goes Wild, Again But Better, Pitch Perfect, and Begin Again
January 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#P2Ppit and #litagents, here's a glimpse into my current romantasy thriller wip, CARNAVOYEUR 🩸

🔪 Fatal tasks
❤️‍🔥 Cunning FMC
⛓️ Reluctant alliance
👀 Voyeuristic, unseen villain
🔍 Mortal girl in a dark fantasy realm
‼️ Rescue mission
🫀 Mind games
🖤 Doomed romance

#A #W #RF #T
comparative titles, bloody and eerie collage Pitch for CARNAVOYEUR following Tigerlily's journey
January 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Hey #P2Ppit pals and #litagents! Here's a glimpse into my nerdy new adult romcom BAND CAMP that I #amquerying and is complete at 88,000 words 🫶🏻

HAPPY PLACE + NOTHING LIKE THE MOVIES

Perfect for ages 17-27, music lovers, and fans of Ali Hazelwood and Christine Riccio

#Q #C #R
collage of my friends hanging out over the summer, swimming, local shops, etc Pitch for Band Camp Tropes and Microtropes list
January 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Tigerlily must cross through a mansion’s series of sadistic mouse traps before sunrise, or die trying. But more precarious than her dwindling odds of survival is the voyeuristic game master’s growing fascination with her…

Let the bloodlust begin🩸☠️

#P2Ppit #W #RF #T #H #UW
Rocky Horro Picture Show movie poster Phantasma book cover Saw movie poster Squid Game season 1 poster
January 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Them: Omg I wish there was a Dancing with the Stars romcom.
Me: Hold my beer

SHOWMANCE ✨

💜Real love vs Reality TV
🪩Sunshine female competitor x Grumpy male pro
💜Nanny x Single dad (kinship care)
🪩Ballroom, studio, and country dancing
💜Mutual Pining
🪩Dual POV

#BluePit📖 #WF #A #R #W #amwriting
Collage of my dancing with the stars inspired romcom. dance stage, disco ball, a man and a woman with children they care for, dancing together on stage or in rehearsals
January 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Put a finger down if you like

❤️‍🔥 Final girls
🔪 Squid Game
🩸 Rocky Horror
🪦 Phantasma
✨ Eerie mansions
‼️ Mind Games
😈 Saw x Clue
⛓️ Allies to lovers
🫀 High stakes
👀 Being watched

If you have four or more fingers down, you should read my romantasy thriller CARNAVOYEUR
#BluePit📖 #R #T #F #W #wip
dark moody collage of my romantasy thriller/horromance CARNAVOYEUR. Wild animals, bloody scenery, eerie notes, and red-tinted romantic encounters
January 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Haven: So...going to an adult band camp should pull me out of my personal funk?
Her therapist: Yeah! It's foolproof!
Haven: Okay!
Sponge Bob narrator: A few hours later...
*Haven's ex bf sees her for the first time in 3 years while she's kissing his roommate*
#BluePit📖 #A #R #romcom #Q #amquerying
summer time collage of friends, lovers, lake properties, and Colorado scenery. Styled like scrapbook cutouts Art by fefeiry on instagram. Reid, Kento, and Haven smile for a photo. Reid grabs Kento's face, Kento throws up a peace sign, and Haven pretends like she's not nervous at all to have her love triangle documented like this
January 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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What if meeting someone once upon a dream wasn’t happily ever after, but a death sentence? 🩸

This Sleeping Beauty retelling follows a ruthless young king after he dreams of a girl plotting to 🔪 him…dually narrated by two villains ❤️‍🔥

#BluePit📖 #IN #P #R #F #A
January 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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BAND CAMP🏔️🎷🎹

After her ex-boyfriend shows up at the summer music program her therapist recommended, Haven tries to fight her lingering feelings for him by forming a rock band, learning the oboe, and indulging in a summer fling that might be more detrimental than distracting. #BluePit📖 #A #WF #R #Q
Collage of campus life, friends, a love triangle, card games, and lake/mountain views Title and basic word count and genre info about BAND CAMP Tropes list for BAND CAMP Comparative titles and core elements and inspirations of the story
January 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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In efforts to save her queen, Pandora allows a masked assassin to abduct her in the night. But when she learns of her captor’s infatuation with her—and dark secrets about the family she swore to protect—she must decide between honoring her bloodline or following her heart.
#BluePit📖 #A #IN #R #F #P
January 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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THE CRUEL PRINCE + THE SHADOWS BETWEEN US

After the villainous King Jericho has a prophetic dream about a mysterious girl, he must figure out why before she pulls off her secret plot to revenge 🔪 him. Luckily, falling in love might just buy him some time.
#BluePit📖 #A #IN #P #R #F
Book cover by moonpressdesigns Collage of a tortured soul, different fantasy type settings, and images of the woman who has captured his soul, who just happens to be his enemy Tropes and comparative titles list for THE FALL OF JERICHO
January 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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After being slated to compete in a dance competition show, Taly and her jaded pro partner, Sanya, agree to form a showmance to amass more audience votes. But the closer they advance to the winning cash prize, the more the lines between real love and reality tv start to blur
#BluePit📖 #A #WF #R #W
Collage of images for my wip: SHOWMANCE. Red head woman with dark haired man. Single parent/nanny images. Ballroom dance floor, rehearsals, and performances Tropes list for my wip. Comparative titles for my wip. 1 tv show and 2 books
January 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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PHANTASMA + Squid Game + Rocky Horror

After mistaking a death trap for one of her boss’ brainteasers, criminologist assistant Tigerlily Fowler must fight her way through a sadistic fortress run by an elusive master in order to save herself and her boss from certain doom.

#BluePit📖 #A #R #T #D #W
Collage of thematic images and elements for a dark romantic thriller inspired by Phantasma, squid game, and rocky horror. Tropes and micro tropes list and genre detailing
January 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Here’s a look at the vibes for my new adult romcom BAND CAMP—which follows Haven as she throws herself into everything her unorthodox summer music program has to offer in efforts to prove to her ex boyfriend that she’s doing just fine without him (but is she…?) 🤪

#amquerying #A #WF #R #BluePit📖
Collage of friends on campus in the summertime, happy, sipping milkshakes, playing cards, gathering around a fire, enjoying lake house life Art commission of Haven, Reid, and Kento from BAND CAMP by fefeiry on instagram, posing for a picture inside a house
January 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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TAH DAH! Here's my official Agent's Guide for my new adult commercial romcom BAND CAMP that I currently #amquerying 💚🎼🥰🎷

🥹 Coming of Age in your 20's
❤️‍🩹 Mental Health Rep
🛶 Small Town
💋 Second Chance Romance vs Summer Fling
🫂 Found Family

#writingcommunity #litagents #agentguide
Cover page explaining my new adult rom com, Band Camp. Collage of aesthetic camp and tourist pictures Peaceful lake in back of pitch description Tropes list and photo of girl playing the piano in a sparkly dress, relaxed collage of comparative titles and vibes that relate to the story. Music from Taylor Swift, Maisie Peters, Abba, and Coldplay. Books by Emily Henry, Christine Riccio, Lynn Painter, and Emma Lord. TV: Pitch Perfect, Camp Rock, Rock of Ages
January 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Still hard at work in the query trenches with BAND CAMP, but I thought I’d flaunt my indie college romance I’m self publishing in August! 🩷🧡💛
This book and its upcoming series really helped me fall back in love with WRITING again, rather than “going big”, and I hope you’ll love it too! ☺️
January 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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With me devoting more of my energy into the contemporary romance genre, I figured I’d shout out my og romantasy babies that got me to this point. Mommy loves you! ❤️💙
December 13, 2024 at 12:20 AM