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TOO MUCH X ROMANTIC COMEDY

Rory didn’t mean to crash a pro quarterback’s life via her dreams.

With Wilder’s life falling apart, she might be the only one who can help.

But the more they try to break the link, the more their chemistry grows.

#questpit #RC #A #editors

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August 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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🙏🏻Editor’s guide for TRAD, an adult upmarket adult novel about a writer who pretends to be a trad wife online and proceeds blow up her life.

Editors, contact @morganstrehlow.bsky.social to read!🙏🏻

#questpit #os #a

Prayer hands on a pepto bismal pink pack ground with the words TRAD on it

Pitch on pink background: Writer Hannah Chambers was just joking when she became the internet’s most infamous trad wife.

But as the bit spirals and her following grows (along with her milkmaid dress collection), keeping the lie alive might cost her everything

For fans of: yellowface, by rf kuang, the glow, the most famous girl in the world, and such a bad influence

Snippet: “Was the fact that I pretended to be a trad wife—as a joke, no less—actually a big deal to people? It was clearly satire, right? The general public couldn’t be taking it that seriously. People lied on the internet all the time; what I did was nothing novel.”

May 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM

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🙏🏻Writer Hannah Chambers was just joking when she became the internet’s most infamous trad wife (or at least that’s what she told herself).

But as the bit spirals and her following grows (along with her milkmaid dress collection), keeping the lie alive might cost her everything.🙏🏻

#questpit #a #os

A square moodboard with TRAD in the middle and praying hands. The other squares are idyllic photos of trad wife life, with running children, freshly baked bread, and women in milkmaid dresses.

May 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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YELLOWFACE but TRADWIVES

When your new book is so unhinged not one but TWO separate people tell you they had dreams it got published 💁🏼‍♀️

#unhingedpit #a #OS

A text that says ELIZABETH I HAD A DREAM TRAD SOLD AT AUCTION FOUR WAYS

A text that says Ok but would you believe me when I tell you I haven't stopped thinking about your pitch for this and legit had a dream you got a book deal last night?!

March 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM

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Finding out my agent loved my new manuscript was the boost I needed today.

3 weeks ago, I had an idea: what if I wrote a book that was “Yellowface with trad wives”?

Meet TRAD. Influencer critique. Religious trauma. Purity culture.
Editors, contact @morganstrehlow.bsky.social if you want to read!

Pink book cover with praying hands on the front. TRAD: a novel by Elizabeth Richardson

March 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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And if I said I’m almost done with my new manuscript that I describe as “Yellowface with trad wives,” and I hope to have it on sub soon, what then?

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March 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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An editor's guide to STRINGS ATTACHED, my enemies-to-lovers rockstar romance.

🎸Nepo-baby music writer trying to make her own name
🎸Bad boy rockstar with a soft spot for his family
🎸Loathing that turns to yearning
🎸A peek behind the curtain at rockstar life
#WSPitA #R #A

Editor’s guide to
STRINGS ATTACHED
An adult contemporary romance
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Pitch: Rhiannon, a music journalist, lands a gig covering the wild tour antics of rock band Harbor of Echoes. The only catch? She hates the band. Despite swearing she’ll never date a musician, Rhiannon finds herself falling for bad-boy frontman Toby. Amidst drugs, sex, and drama, their relationship takes a backseat to the chaos of tour life. Rhiannon’s journey of self-discovery unfolds amidst the whirlwind of fame and temptation.

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COMPS: For One Night Only, Under Your Spell, Honey, The Lightning Bottles, Heavy Hitter

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Themes:
the draw and burden of celebrity
social media and its perpetuation of stan culture
fame and parasocial relationships
how fame corrupts
complex family relationships

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February 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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🎸When music writer Rhiannon goes on tour with a band she hates, she’s focused on proving herself. What she doesn’t count on? Falling for bad boy frontman Toby, with whom she gets off on the wrong foot.🎸

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It’s STRINGS ATTACHED.
#cupit #CR #booksky

A valentine that says roses are red violets are blue just because I have this job doesn’t mean I have to like you

A valentine that says roses are red violets are blue your dad got you this job this is going to ruin the tour

A valentine that says roses are red violets are blue you look like you haven’t showered in a week or two

A valentine that says roses are red violets are blue yes there are groupies backstage, what’s it to you?

February 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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When Seraphina's PR industry rival proposes they put their clients together for a fake relationship, she's skeptical. Why? Their clients hate each other.

Oh, and Javier is Seraphina's ex. Can they put their feelings aside and convince the public that their clients are the real deal?
#questpit #AG

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February 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM

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Everyone loves rock band Harbors of Echoes--except music writer Rhiannon. When she ends up covering their sold-out tour, she has to learn to work with bad boy frontman, Toby. He wants to rehab his image. She wants to be taken seriously as a writer. Neither expect to fall in love.

#questpit #OS #r

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February 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM

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My first newsletter goes live tomorrow and I’m chatting with @linnymackwrites.bsky.social !

Sign up here: elizabethrichardsonbooks.com/connect

February 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM

elizabeth *is agented*

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Reintroducing myself to everyone on here!

January 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM

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PR maven Seraphina agrees to put her client into a fake relationship, hoping it will catapult them both to new heights.

But all her plotting couldn’t never prepare her to fall in love with Javier, her counterpart with whom she has a complicated past. #p2pPit #r #amagented

January 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Trope map for STRINGS ATTACHED, my rock star romance 🎸

November 22, 2024 at 4:24 PM

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🎸An Editor’s Guide to STRINGS ATTACHED, an enemies-to-lovers contemporary rock star romance that looks at fame, parasocial relationships, and the burden of celebrity, all inspired by Taylor Swift, the 1975, Fleetwood Mac, and Kings of Leon 🎸 #writingcommunity

November 20, 2024 at 9:59 PM

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Editing is worse than writing, change my mind

Kacey musgraves is swinging Kermit the frog around her head. On Kermit it says ME, on Kacey it says EDITS

November 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM

elizabeth *is agented*

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When people tell me to “write the next thing” to keep my mind off of the publishing process but I’ve already written three books since I finished the manuscript that got me my agent.

November 14, 2024 at 11:48 PM

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New blind item just dropped 👀

#unhingedpit #a #r #os

November 13, 2024 at 1:17 PM

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STRINGS ATTACHED is for editors who:

🖤Are sick of good boys
✏️Like FMCs desperate to prove themselves
🔪Want the thickest tension
🎼Dreamed of being William in Almost Famous
📸Want to go on tour with a famous rock band
🎸Love the 1975 & Kings of Leon