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Sydney Applegate is 🎸ON SUB🎷
@booksbysydney.bsky.social
Romance & Fantasy Author ✍️💖
Rep: Brooke Mondor @ MBG
Currently on submission with BAND CAMP - a nerdy, new adult romcom
https://www.sydneyapplegate.com
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
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My husband may not have gotten me anything for Valentine's (*that I know of*), but the Dallas Morning News sure did! 🏹💘🗞️
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
February 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When someone asks me for book recommendations (I literally write books)
February 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
add in my “thinking cap” and I’m ready to roll post lunch break
January 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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
January 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
#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
January 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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
January 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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
January 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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
January 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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
January 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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
January 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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
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
January 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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
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
January 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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
January 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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
January 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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📖
January 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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
January 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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
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