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Denice Lovelace @denicelovelace.bsky.social · Jan 24
IN THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS meets MIDSOMMER in WOLFSKIN, a sapphic folk-horror in which Anja Chervyakova is bathed in coarse sea salt, drugged, draped in a flower-embroidered vyshyvanka, and sacrificed to Fryavodski’s woman-eating woods’…women.🥧🪱
#YouDeservepIt #A #H
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🎶Three musicians band together to steal a legendary violin from a museum. The catch? The violin once belonged to a god. Even when getting the violin proves easy, betrayal sends everyone reeling. The violin chooses the player, and it isn't always who you'd expect.
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #F #DIS #LGBT
Photo collage of four photos. Primary color scheme is pinks and browns. Top: close up of a violin Right: silhouette of a dancer with her arms overhead, she is outside with pink fluffy clouds behind her Left: glass of beer on a table Bottom: out of focus lights, looking like sparkles
January 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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biaonomatopoeia.bsky.social
A seer tethered to a tainted legacy and a lab-engineered weapon with more power than his body can handle. Clandestine meetings aren’t enough to absolve them from witnessing the horrors surrounding them—and certainly not from participating.

#YouDeservepIt #W #A #SF #DS
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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hlcarterauthor.bsky.social
-A haunted mansion, decrepit by day, alive with a 200-y/o ball every night
-Two people desperate to escape the ghostly limbo
-Demonic lions, flooding rooms, and violent entities trying to 💀them
-Romance, horror, and survival
#YouDeservepIt #A #agented #H #R #gothic #OS (soon!)
A gravestone background with white text that reads: A GUIDE TO ECHOES OF RADFIELD HALL BY HEATHER CARTER. AGENT: RAMONA PINA (BOOKENDS LIT) GRAVESTONE BACKGROUND WITH TEXT THAT READS: THE PITCH: ALLOSON AND JOHN ARE TRAPPED IN A DECREPIT MANSION THAT COMES TO LIFE NIGHTLY WITH A TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD BALL. AMID FLOODING ROOMS, DEMONIC LIONS, AND VIOLENT ENTITIES, THEY MUST BREAK THE CURSE OR BECOME GHOSTS THEMSELVES. COMPS: STARLING HOUSE X CRIMSON PEAK THE TROPES: ADULT GOTHIC FASTASY, - AMNESIA, - GHOSTS, -TIME TRAVEL/LOOP, -HORROR AND ROMANCE, -SPICE OPENING LINES: "One more step. My fractured mind repeated the phrase, coaching myself through the endless hell before me. Soft, cold earth beneath my bare, half-numb feet gave way, sending me to my knees more than once. Twigs, moss, wet, brown leaves among the mud. I knew what the names of these things were, but not much else."
January 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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zprospero.bsky.social
GOOD OMENS X THE OFFICE

Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, has 3 months to turn the business around to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, getting a celestial pink slip.

But his old job, and mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally.

#YouDeservePit #WIP #A #F #LGBT
A grid of 5 images, at the top the words "I DIDN'T EXPECT 'GO TO HELL' TO BE CAREER ADVICE" and at the bottom "HELL IS WORK" The images are, in order: 1 - A black pawn topples a white king on a chessboard 2 - 8 - A businessman stares at his shadow which has horns and a tail. 3 - The central image is a customized pentagram sigil with the name VIRGIL MORA around it in a circle 4 - A lit lighter being held in a man's hand. 5 - A man in a white suit is back-to-back with a man in a black suit. They are holding hands.
January 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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THE RIVER HAS TEETH BUT IT'S CALIFORNIA IN 1988
Ash and Tawny met once upon a dream. The problem is that their shared dreams are a gift from a proto-whale-shaped ocean deity and prophesize a flood of apocalyptic proportions.
#YouDeservePit #WIP #A with crossover potential #H #R
two people standing on some rocks with hammerhead sharks flying over them. there's a frame, and the title reads "saltwater in their veins."
January 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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abigailwadlington.bsky.social
#YouDeservepIt

An agent’s guide to my YA Tangled x Anastasia cozy fantasy, THE FORGOTTEN REALM, feat:

🪻Disability and LGBTQ rep
🧚Swiss folklore
✨Found family
🎊Whimsical festivities
🐶A really cute dog

Querying in March!
#WIP #YA #F
January 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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danzee.bsky.social
HISTORY IS ALL YOU LEFT ME x HEARTSTOPPER

August lost his memory after being in an accident that almost took his life away. The thing is, it was not really an accident. The thing is, as much as Quentin wants to help, he just keeps on making things worse.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #R
January 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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A jarl's daughter must trick her father's murderer into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family. But the more time she spends with her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything
#YouDeservepIt #NA #Romantasy #Q
A mood board with the title TRUE HATE'S KISS with images giving viking vibes, magic weapons, feuding clans, Scandinavian folklore, Enemies to lovers
January 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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sallybromley.bsky.social
In WWI Sussex, when a petty criminal is found gutted like a fish, tales of forbidden love, the infamous Fowler Gang, and the suffragettes, bleed together staining the River Arun red.
#YouDeserveplt #Q #A #HF
Agents Guide to I, Said the Sparrow. Images of the Peaky Blinders Gang, a WWI soldiers, 2 women kissing, a man and woman kissing, a dead fish.
January 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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bmfwriter.bsky.social
An Agent's guide to REIGN OF NIGHTMARES.

🔥Adult Romantic Fantasy
🖤Gothic
☠️Horror vibes (but make it fun)
❤️‍🔥Slow burn/forced proximity
💫Fated mates
🕷Monsters & Magic
🗡High stakes
💔Betrayals & plot twists
💞Found family
🌈Diverse ensemble cast

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #F #RF
Mood board Dark, Gothic, monsters, magic, villians, fated mates Pitch Mood board and playlist Comps, tropes and themes
January 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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kiffwrites.bsky.social
🖤MY LADY JANE X HEARTLESS HUNTER🖤

A witch & a thief compete to steal a necklace from an evil inquisitor
A task easily resolved in 20 pages if not for the:
❣️flirting
🗡️bickering
💫glittering balls &
💃DANCING PLAGUE ~slowly but surely~ bewitching everyone in town

#youdeservepit #ya #uw #f #q
Trope map of my book with my two MCs fighting for the same necklace
January 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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gunsmile.bsky.social
JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE

Professional hitman Jason seeks revenge for the murder of his brother, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play.

🩸 cosmic horror
🩸 criminal underworld
🩸 married MCs
🩸 villain protagonist

#YouDeservepIt #WIP #A #H #T
A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.
January 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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ON SUB

A failed restaurateur must rescue her hometown holiday feast, but there’s more at stake than food when her college fling’s vengeful ex arrives.

With a bullseye on her back, she must save the feast, herself, & the man she's desperate not to lose again.

#YouDeservepIt #OS #A #R
An Editor's Guide to The Tinsel Twist: A Tinsley Falls Romance by rosie J. Potter Pitch: This Christmas there's more at stake than cranberry salad and Christmas ham, as Adealide must fight to save the town's holiday feast, herself, and the man she's desperate not to lose again. Cozy Hallmark Holiday Vibes meets Sabotage and Suspense Adult Contemporary holiday Romance, 89,750 words, Contact: Katie Monson at SBR media, @LitAgentKatieM Blue snowy background with gold trim and holly at the corners Comp Title Covers for The Tinsel Twist including The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score, This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens, The Mistletoe Bet by Maren Moore, Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai, and The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter Featuring: Childhood Friends to Lovers, BFF's younger brother, second chance romance, feast in peril, high stakes, criminal ex, love corner, strong female friendship, cozy appalachian town, feline companion Blue snowy background with gold trim and holly in the corners Worn parchment in center of page that reads Adelaide's Recipe for a Christmas Disaster: 1 cup Feast to Save, 1 cup sabotaging Grinch, 1 cup secret college fling's surprise arrival, 1 cup kidnapping. Stir vigorously and bring to boil. Simmer, then put on ice. See if Adelaide's heart, her second chance, and the feast make it out unscathed. The Tinsel Twist by Rosie J. Potter ON SUB NOW
January 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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guendalina.bsky.social
[Clytemnestra X Howl’s Moving Castle]

Freed courtesan Andromache has tasted freedom once - she’s not going back.

Andromache’s latest years
Lyrical prose
Themes of found family, freedom, and sacrifice
Platonic relationships

#YouDeservePit #Q #A #myth
Mock Netflix guide of my novel
January 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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All dark adventure blogger turned law school student Riley wants is to solve the lethal riddle 💀 of her college town🌲before someone else winds up dead. All rock star Liam wants is Riley... & for her not to dismantle his career🎸 in her pursuit. All The Creature wants is their blood🩸 #YouDeservepIt #Q
January 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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To pay her own bride price, Princess Mira hunts for lost treasure—but to break the curse binding her to a vengeful pirate’s ghost, she must fall in love with a fisherman’s son.

The problem?

Her heart already belongs to another princess.

🧡🤍🩷

#YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT
A mood board for Princess Mira, showing a Black princess with dresses and jewelry, a message in a bottle, a crown made of shells, a conch shell, and romantic scenes of the princess with her love interest, a white princess with red hair, including their faces pressed together, kissing in the reflection of a handheld mirror, and running across a grassy field arm-in-arm. The lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted across the grid, with the first row of picturetinted light orange, the second row tinted cream/white, and the third road tinted a rosy pink.
January 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"Why did the treasure disappear under my hands if it was meant for only the king?"

After her attempts to save the God King's treasure result in a death sentence, soldier-turned-fugitive Salima escapes with the leader of a group of sky pirates in search for answers.
Top Left: A small silvery tower sits among the sky and the clouds. Top Center: In a nighttime or dark setting, a book sits nears growing flames. Top Right: A statue of a man, presumably a kingly figure holding a crown over their head. Middle Left: The yellowed page of a book. (Reference used is the Voynich Manuscript). Middle Center: A shooting star falling down bottom left. Text reads, "Ballad of the Dying Wish". Middle Right: A small infant's hand grips the finger of their mother. Bottom Left: In the sky, there are several floating islands. The background is cloudy. Center Bottom: In what looks to be ancient pottery or construction, a depiction of a castle with two giant standing pillars. Bottom Right: A pirate ship in the sky. (Reference picture is from Skies of Arcadia)
January 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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DRESDEN FILES X BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

While meeting her dad, Edie Grayson falls in love with his seaside town. Unfortunately, there's a dark undercurrent here. Edie has to find out: what is wrong in Bludeye Beach?

🫂Found family
💕Slowburn romance
👻Monster menagerie

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #H #F
A tourism style poster showing several bright and cheerful images of sandy beaches and people playing in the water. The bottom image is a smiling girl with big red X's over her eyes. Over the collage are the words "Welcome to Bludeye Beach", and over that text a graffiti style phrase "something is wrong in bludeye beach"
January 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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amweald.com
A reader's guide to the multi-genre writing of A.M. Weald.

Every single one (and even those not yet written) guaranteed emotional pain and/or trauma, past or present or both, with either grief or rage or both.

The lightest read is the fantasy (Magic); the heaviest is the sci-fi (Fires).

💙📚
A READER’S GUIDE TO A.M. WEALD’S MULTI-GENRE BOOKS as a 4 ellipses venn diagram. EVEN IF WE’RE BROKEN has archaeology 400 pages central FTL, and has in common with UNBURNT (speculative fiction which has firefighting 100 pages friends to lovers subplot) over-40 main characters. unburnt has in common with hunt monsters do magic and fall in love (fantasy which has folklore 150 pages and established and strangers to lovers romances) elemental powers. magic has in common with fimbulvinter's fires medieval weaponry, and fires has in common with broken grief. fires is on its own as non-contemporary science fiction with a central strangers to lovers and 200 pages. every single one of them has emotional pain and trauma.
January 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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amwriting2025.bsky.social
WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS X THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS

Hatshepsut’s shaking hands poise the dagger for his throat, but she can’t kill him, partly because he’s already dead.

A badass heroine💪🏾
Visions from the gods🔮
Swoonworthy romance🌹
An assassin’s blade🗡️
Murder most foul🔪
#YouDeservepIt #YA #Q
January 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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scasswriting.bsky.social
When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she reluctantly accompanies a grumpy half-beast mercenary on a journey through the Wilds to find her.

🍃 Eco-horror fantasy
🍃 Dual POV mum/daughter
🍃 Love, lust, life & death
🍃 Elemental second world
🍃 Everyone is morally grey

#youdeservepit #wip #a
January 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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isanasantiz.bsky.social
#litagents & #writingcommunity! Check out the first ever #litagentsguide for Salted Wounds Epic Fantasy #A #F #Q

Themes:
🔎Mysterious Disappearances👹Caribbean Monsters
🤐Secrets Lies 💣 Ticking Time Bombs
🪔1600s Magical Tech
🌔Morally Gray All the way🥷Masked Monster Reapers
#YouDeservepIt #amquerying
Title page An Agent Guide to Salted Wounds by Isana Santiz. The image shows a Moorish fortress and city on the sea, there are sailboats and galleons on the water. Off to the left the inscription reads: To vanquish the creatures of the Endless Dead Abyss from the Saltwoods, the reapers must be summoned. It’s time to call the Torvé Messor. Comps: Four comparable books are depicted: Witcher, Mistborn, Abhorsen, Throne of Glass The themes and tropes similar to Salted Wounds from these books include Secondary Gray world, Creature fantasy, Multiple MCs POV, 1600 century gaslight building & setting, Killer Females, Found Family of Misfits, Secrets leading to Ticking Time Bombs, and Forbidden Love Pitch: This picture has the Pitch for Salted Wounds, it reads: Hellkite is at the top of the Torvé Messor as death’s perfect reaper, until the day she disobeys to save the Saltwoods from being overrun by creatures straight out of Caribbean folklore, the loup garus—the disobedience will have her losing more than just her soul. Next to the pitch is a stormy gif of a cover mockup for Salted Wounds with tropes & themes: Mysterious disappearances, Creatures from Caribbean Folklore, Ticking Time Bombs, 1600s magical tech, Morally grey misfits, and masked monster hunters. Snippet: This page holds a mood board collage of images showing stock images of character in era clothing, different locations with Spanish-Moorish architecture of colorful buildings, different shadow monsters, a colosseum style arena, pistols, swords, and armors.
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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amberbairdpdx.bsky.social
KINSHIP, a pitch-black thriller with horror elements featuring queer characters, long-lost siblings, and (of course) murder.

6 literary agents are currently reading it. Wouldn't you love to read it too? #Q #A #T #H #YoudeservepIt
Amber Baird: KINSHIP, 84k word horror-thriller agent's guide. Subversion of gothic tropes, long-lost siblings, true crime podcast, prey, family secrets, psychedelic, unhinged queer female protagonist, generational trauma, predators, meat, bears, remote California location, dark humor. KINSHIP blurb. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her girlfriend's husband back in San Francisco, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up a murder he commits, because that's what family's for... probably. Now if she wants to get back to her lover in one piece, she'll have to navigate her brother's taboo affections and dodge multiple suspicious parties. So much for her quiet weekend away. KINSHIP first lines. Driving all night across the state in a part of California no one vacations in, a part that still belongs to the animals, my eyes burn for sleep. Car flanked as it is by clear paths as far as I can see, would it be so bad to let my eyes drift closed for just a moment? KINSHIP, for fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leeds (surrealism), My Sister the Serial KIller by Oyinkan Braithwaite (exploration of family), A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers (dark humor), Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild (female rage).
January 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM