Thank you @youdeservepit.bsky.social for hosting #YouDeservepIt! The supportive #WritingCommmunity made pitching a welcoming experience. Loved exploring your pitches and sharing my stories! Grateful for all the likes, RTs, and encouraging comments. Looking forward to more pitch events! Stay strong.

Honestly, this event looks like a hot mess with poor social media strategy.

Collector's Gift: Elsbeth, a Jewish transfer student at Smith, "gifted" immortality from an art historian—ancient memories and vampire legacy disrupt belonging. A #supernatural #comingofage tale exploring identity, insomnia, existential dread and college life. #YA #Q #magicalrealism #YouDeservepIt

Gala Gambit: A Jewish artist secretly works as a secretary for a Middle Eastern CEO, always three steps ahead, becomes his unexpected date at a holiday gala. A witty, subversive romance where power dynamics are never what they seem. #A #Q #Romance #YouDeservepIt

This moodboard! The colour balance and urgh - it's fabulous! Also, terribly intrigued about the dead husband! When can we read? 🥹 I'm captivated.

A man in a villa swimming pool at night. A note saying 'I know what you did'. Partial photo of a dead woman floating in water. Mrs Danvers type silhouette parting fine, lace curtains. Other photos: a man standing at a desk, hanging his head; a couple kissing; a man carrying a woman's limp body in his arms; a woman gazing up at a man; a woman with her hands in front of her as if warding someone off; a woman in a party dress running up a staircase. Last few photos: a woman screaming, her head thrown back; a smashed wine glass; a couple embracing, the woman tearful.

REBECCA x Netflix's THE PERFECT COUPLE x Sky Atlantic's RIVIERA

When a death is suspected a murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Especially the man she loves. The dead woman's husband.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #R #M

For the non-fantasy fans, read about Gala Gambit, an Adult Romance, here:

For the fantasy fans, read about The Collector's Gift, a YA Magical Realism, here:

Gala Gambit: A Jewish artist secretly works as a secretary for a Middle Eastern CEO, always three steps ahead, becomes his unexpected date at a holiday gala. A witty, subversive romance where power dynamics are never what they seem. #A #Q #Romance #YouDeservepIt

A Guide to To Cage a Shadow A 90K Word YA/Adult Crossover romantasy By Marceline Greyfield

Pitch Ferne, a shadow-wielding spy, infiltrates the annual magical martial tournament to manipulate and marry one of the three powerful men. When she finds out that the tournament winner receives anything they want, she enters the competition to fight for her people’s survival. In doing so, Ferne falls in love with her loathsome, irritating tournament partner and endangers herself and everyone around her when the Duke grows suspicious of Ferne and stalks her every move.

Themes and tropes Sarcastic FMC Morally grey FMC Ensemble cast Overcoming grief Trauma as a lingering ghost Supporting women's rights and wrongs Power or family? Angsty slow burn Forced proximity Obsessive love Secret identity Criticism of capitalism She saves him BETRAYAL Comps An Ember in the Ashes: FMC operating as spies in a hostile environment with political intrigue From Blood and Ash: Hidden magical identity and a FMC discovering her true power. Fourth Wing: Competition-based plot structure and battery enemies to lovers Red Queen: Magical hierarchy and political manipulation. These Violent Delights: Forbidden romance and complex family loyalties.

#AgentsGuide
AN EMBER IN THE ASHESx4TH WING
FMC must marry into power during a martial tournament but decides to compete & fight for her people.
Seducing & battling, her plans unravel when she's paired with the vexing future King, falls in love, & joins the Duke's hitlist
#Q #F #R #RF #YouDeservepIt

Woman with blue background; yellow sky; woman with purple background; red clouds; hot sun over city; woman with red background

THE LAST BOOKSTORE ON EARTH X DUSTBORN

Pure reds are expected in the labs and this pure red has a secret biological sex that could save all of humanity from the sun. But can’t a girl just fall in love with her new cannibal friend first?

#YouDeservePit #Q #YA #SF

Moodboard for Elisa Winther's novel, an old WIP she's currently outlining before she'll revise it. It includes images of afrofuturism, African inspired fashion, desert architecture, a dragon glowing from their maw, a dragon temple, and a soldier made of sand.

After a life depending on others, Salandrine vows to become her people’s strength as their magical paradise becomes unsustainable, but unexpected answers to questions never asked force her to be more than she ever thought she could be.

🐉Dragon god
🌈Autistic rep
✨Tech & magic

#YouDeservePit #A #WIP

DARK TWILIGHT x COME AS YOU ARE BY NIRVANA

❤️ Forbidden Love
🕊 An Offer
🖤 Lovers to Enemies
🌑 Soul Collectors
☀️ Daylight Horror
♊️ Twins
🦋 Beautiful Vengeance
❤️‍🔥 Temptation
💨 The Den
❌ Foul Redemption
🔇 Silence
💨 Wicked Whispers

#YouDeservepIt #YA #Q #H #PR

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.

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

An #agentsguide to My Forsaken Divine ✨

The only way to avoid execution is to solve her classmates’ murders.

🕵️ Amateur sleuths
⭐️ Ancient deities
📚 Dark academia
🔮 Forbidden magic
🌳 Sacred forest
💀 Morally gray characters
🔪 Plenty of exploitation

#youdeservepit #NA #F #M #Q

fmc: Mahira-Yasmin Ali.

If you like Mahira, you will LOVE these other fmcs!

#youdeservepit #WIP #DRAFTING #EDITING #R #DR #SOUTHASIANFMC

RECKLESS x KING OF SLOTH x VICIOUS PRINCE

If you love Mahira, you’ll love these other fmcs—your favourite girlbosses with a sharp tongue.

A visual with a dark blue background and dark grey border. To the left is an image of a empty glassless black chapel window looking from below with the text "The Black Cathedral Chapter XIV" beneath it. To the right is the text "An agent's Guide to Bunika A Gothic Novel by S. B. L. Grant All art and photography original."

A visual with a light blue background and dark grey border. To the left is the text "Introduction BUNIKA is an adult Gothic horror novel set in 18th century Slovakia. It combines the period elements of Kostova’s THE HISTORIAN, the queer narrative of THE GILDA STORIES and the lavish literary style of A DOWRY OF BLOOD." To the right is a photograph of an iron ouroboros on a black door with the text "Ouroboros Door Chapter II" beneath it.

A visual with a dark grey background and dark grey border. To the left is a map which says "Horné Uhorsko (Slovakia) 1712". To the right is the text "Pitch February 1712 After Marika is murdered at a witchcraft trial by a herbalist sect, she awakens as neochotný - “The Unwilling” - a half human/half vampire whose nature is in constant conflict. Fleeing to Modra Castle she becomes smitten with its heiress Ruzena, but is informed that an elusive cult leader named Bunika has orchestrated her turning. Marika must embark on a journey across Slovakia to confront Bunika, to be reborn into humanity and live peacefully with her lover. She must unite her conflicting nature, become stronger than she knows, or remain eternally tormented by psychological strife."

A visual with a mid blue background and dark grey border. To the left is a photograph of a castle tower under a dark grey sky with the words "Hrad Červený Kameň, Slovakia (Basis for Modra Castle) Chapter III" beneath it. To the left are the words "For those who enjoy: Historical Gothic romance (86k words) Remote European settings Traditional vampire folklore Gritty, uncompromising horror Strong LGBT themes Emotional erotica Dilemmas of identity Layered narrative and symbolism Shocking outcomes Moral relevance Re-readability and discovery"

In 18th century Slovakia, a young widow murdered and turned to vampirism by a herbalist sect must confront their elusive leader to reclaim her humanity.

THE HISTORIAN X A DOWRY OF BLOOD

🖤🦇🖤

Agent's guide included 📖

#YouDeservepIt #A #H #Q

#gothic #literary #vampire #writesky #folkhorror #LGBT 🏳️‍🌈

#YouDeservePit #romance #wf #poc

Cyrano x Unfortunately Urs
When penniless Jibran starts an epistolary affair with a spoilt heiress, little does he know he's falling for his best friend, the younger sister.
💍 Arrngd marriage
📷 Best friends-lovers
📷anxiety rep

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #SF

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #LF #M

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

Collector's Gift: Elsbeth, a Jewish transfer student at Smith, "gifted" immortality from an art historian—ancient memories and vampire legacy disrupt belonging. A #supernatural #comingofage tale exploring identity, insomnia, existential dread and college life. #YA #Q #magicalrealism #YouDeservepIt