Absolutely over the moon to announce that I’m now represented by Suzannah Ball & Caitlin Mahony at WME 🥳🎉
Their enthusiam for KILL ME MAYBE made me cry actual happy tears, and I'm so lucky to be able to work with such a passionate team 🥹
Thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way! 🔥✨
Thank you so much!! I'm over the moon 🤩
Haha I know it’s been absolutely insane!!
🎵 Hey I just met you / and this is crazy / but here's my number / so CALL ME VAGUE 🔪❤️
💕 Now officially querying KILL ME MAYBE 💕
Heather wants to die. Finn can't wait to kill her.
🫀 dark rom-com thriller
🎭 dual pov
💘 serial killer club
...for fans of LIGHTS OUT, BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD, and the MINDFUCK series
Collage-style promotional graphic for the novel Babel on Callisto. Four illustrated polaroid images show two men, Jack (blond) and Elias (dark-haired with glasses), in different scenes: wearing space suits, working together in a lab, leaning close in a quiet moment, and kissing. The background is pink and textured with scientific sketches and handwritten notes. A torn paper excerpt of prose is centered. Text on the images reads “Babel on Callisto,” “Now Querying,” “88K Sci-Fi Horromance,” and “@saraduranauthor.”
Now querying!
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ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
✨two exiled men (and their secrets)
✨one lunar prison (and its horrors)
✨a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💖the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive
#SF #H #R #LGBT #AmQuerying #CuPit
I’m working on it! 🫡
They’re SO good! 😍
🫶🏻
photo montage: baseball catcher; teens kissing; boy and girl on prom night; cupcakes; baseball; couple running before sunset We are not together.
BETTER THAN THE MOVIES X PLAYING FOR KEEPS
After her kiss-cam accident with The Jerk became viral, 17yo Jess thought she’d reached rock bottom. But to make things worse, she sets up a fake-dating scheme with him. No way she’ll get lower than that and catch feelings, right?
RIGHT?
#RC #YA #Cupit
A gothic style original painting of a vampire dressed in black holding a man dressed in white linen in a stone corridor, surrounded by candle light and moonflowers.
A pitch card that reads benevolent vampire Ishmael’s carefully balanced life is shattered when Edric, the tutor of his adopted nine-year-old spirit medium son, awakens a love he thought lost centuries ago.
A tropes and themes page that reads: DUAL POV, love after grief, queer love and joy, soft gothic, sentient manor, soft fatherhood, ghosts, awkward vampire and sunshine human, Victorian era, queer normative setting, opera house and music, yearning soulmates, and happily ever after
A snippet page that reads in every world, in every time, I would choose you. You are the song of the stars, and the whisper among the trees. It has been you. It has always been you.
A Vampire’s Lament 🖤🦇🥀
Book One in the Time and Time Again series. Benevolent vampire Ishmael’s carefully balanced life is disrupted when Edric awakens a love he thought lost centuries ago.
#Cupit #PR #GR #LGBT #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #queerwriters
A 4-up photo montage including a couple kissing by a tree, a couple snuggled up by a fireplace, a silhouette of a woman, and a silhouette of a male firefighter
She’s an event planner with her promotion on the line. He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they have to pull off the fire department’s holiday gala.
🎄 Small-town
🚒Holiday romance
🎄Found family
🚒MMC in uniform
🎄"Keep it casual and no one gets hurt"
#cupit #q #rc #cr #a
ONE GOLDEN SUMMER x 32 DAYS IN MAY
After a life-altering diagnosis, a manager of a Halloween-themed café teams up with her brother’s (irritatingly) charming boss to recreate her father’s road trip across Atlantic Canada—but it sparks a longing for a future that’s out of her reach.
#Cupit #A #CR
💕 KILL ME MAYBE 💕 #Cupit
Heather wants to die. Finn can't wait to kill her 🔪♥️
🫀 dark rom-com thriller
🎭 dual pov
🌶️ unhinged spice
🌦️ black cat x (psychotic) golden retriever
💘 serial killer club
☠️ touch her and die (literally)
🚩 so many red flags
📚 for fans of the Mindf*ck series
Shame cause it’s such a classic!
All this time writing about a reluctant medium who deals with spirits on a daily basis and NOT ONCE did I think to comp Ghost Whisperer – what was I thinking?! 👻 #amquerying
Okay folks, February is the month!! I am determined to get draft 1 of K!LL ME MAYBE finished by the 28th 💪 #wip #writingcommunity
Woke up to TWO rejections on this fine Monday morning and one of them made me laugh so much, I might have to get it framed 🥲
Another fantastic #QuestPit yesterday!! 🎉 loved seeing all the amazing pitches in my feed & I'm absolutely blown away by the love shown to my WIP!! 🥹
Fingers crossed K!LL ME MAYBE will be query-ready by the time the next QuestPit rolls around! 🤞
STOP why have I only just noticed that I've been pitching ALICE for a whole year, saying that she's EXERCISING ghosts not EXORCISING THEM oh my god 😭😭😭
Glad my ghosts are getting a decent workout 🏃♀️🏋️♂️
The image is of a fake book cover, mocked up for the novel ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE by Bee Morris. The background is a mish-mash of gothic, suburban houses, all layered over one another in chaos, in monochromatic shadows. The text, written at a slanted angle, reads: ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE, a novel.
🪦 ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE 🪦 #QuestPit #Q
Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & exorcising spirits...
...too bad 'chasing down a serial killer' wasn't part of the job spec 🔪
👻 paranormal mystery
🧠 autistic FMC
🌊 ghosts by the coast
🏡 found family (living & dead)
There are 3 book covers. The first is for LIGHTS OUT by Navessa Allen. Text underneath reads: darkly funny, obsessive attraction, twisted love and flirty danger. The second book cover is for BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD by Brynne Weaver. The text underneath reads: serial killers, enemies to lovers, dark humour and killer chemistry. The third book cover is a mock cover created for the work-in-progress novel KILL ME MAYBE by Bee Morris. The text underneath reads: dual POV, serial killer club, dark rom-com and questionable morals.
💕K!LL ME MAYBE💕 #QuestPit #WIP
Heather wants to die. Finn can't wait to kill her 🔪♥️
💘 serial killer club
☠️ touch her and die (literally)
🌶️ unhinged spice
🌦️ black cat x golden retriever
🚩 so many red flags
📚 for fans of the Mindf*ck series
Background of fog moving over the treetops of a forest. Book title reads: LYDIA IS DEAD. 110,000 words, horromantasy, Adult/New Adult
Background is dark, blue water. Text reads: The Pitch. Lydia is dead, and Charlie knows who killed her. Her prime suspect? Markus, enigmatic bachelor and Lydia’s ex- boyfriend. Determined to prove his guilt, Charlie launches her own investigation: seduce Markus and uncover the web of lies lurking in Gildervale’s supernatural shadows. But as her attraction to Markus grows, Charlie's grip on reality starts to slip. Are these paranormal horrors real, or is she finally losing her mind?
Text reads: Book/TV Comps. Images include covers of popular books & TV including: Shapr Objects by Gillian Flynn, Hannibal TV Show, and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. Additional text reads: serial killer mystery, amateur sleuthing, cannibalism, toxic love, body horror, occult, magic and murder
Background is a small fire in the dark. Text reads: Themes & Tropes. Morally grey hero, flashback chapters, murder mystery, dark romance, supernatural, generational trauma, genre blending, magic & curses, witchcraft, cannibalism, magic tea, seances, heists, betrayal
💀LYDIA IS DEAD💀
#QuestPit #AgentsGuide #Q
Lydia is dead... and Charlie knows who killed her.
♥️ dark romance
🦷 magic & witchcraft
🌶️ seducing the enemy
🍽️ cannibalism curse
🫀 body horror
Here's my second-chance, forced proximity, slowburn, autumnal Edinburgh, with the bet trope romance novel, DON'T FORGET ME.
💻 she's a hispanic tortured writer & poet
🎥 he's a producer offering her a movie deal
💔 but he's a ghost from her past
#Q #R #NA #amquerying #questpit
THE BONE COLLECTOR. a light green background, comps: Eragon, Where the Dark Stands Still, The Last Unicorn, The Counterpart, and Daughter of the Bone Forest. There are floral elements, bones, and art in the top and bottom right corners. "Pitch: Raised to compete to become her father’s heir, Olena Thunderchild has kept her bone magic a secret all her life. But when a plague threatens her siblings and village, she treks into the mythical woods to find the “cure.” With the support of two Animal Weavers, Olena learns how to be a Bone Breaker and the ways of the world." "Snippet: Olena cinches the purse shut, turning it over to study the intricate threads and beads of the outside. Black spiders with brown dots and dark green vines flow across the maroon fabric. Olena traces them like she imagines her mother did. Did she keep her bones in it too? Did she collect bones at all, or were Bone Breakers not supposed to store the dead so close?"
Olena needs to find a dragon to save her family, but everywhere she turns a new myth sprouts up. Including herself.
🌿death/bone magic
🪻inspired by slavic folklore
🌞mythical coming of age
🪻missing someone you never knew
🌿a magical band of misfits
#questpit #YA #F #AG
A collage of ocean, coastal academic images with droplets of fantasy and mystery.
BENEATH THE WHISPERING COVE is a gothic coastal fantasy about a young woman’s quest to uncover a missing book of folktales and secure her research funding.
The misty water-logged mystery of A STUDY IN DROWNING with the folkloric richness of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE
#questpit #YA #F
Black and white background of desert sand dunes with white script "The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh Agent Guide"
Background of black and white desert sand dunes The Pitch Nefeli's gift of sensing magical relics has made her a world-class thief, but tapping into her power comes with a cost: her vision. With every use of her magic, her degenerative eye disorder worsens. A few more heists and Nefeli fears she'll be left with vague shadows in the dark—something she's avoiding at all costs. What use is a thief who can't see what she's trying to steal? But when her sister Sadiya's fragile health crumbles, Nefeli must choose: her sight or her sister. Against Sadiya's wishes, Nefeli agrees to a dangerous job posing as a noble at a political summit. If Nefeli can hunt down a long-hidden relic for a secretive influential family, she'll earn enough for her sister's treatment. The catch? The summit is crawling with dragons, scheming politicians, powerful magic users…and worst of all, Kadir, a former fling who knows Nefeli's not who she claims to be. Nefeli only has a fortnight to find the missing relic before access to the palace closes for another century. If she's going to succeed, she must rely on Kadir's help, despite the risk of him blowing her cover at any moment. And with her vision tunneling in, completing the job will force Nefeli to confront her biggest fear: without her sight, who is she? The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh
Background of black and white desert sand dunes The Snippet "I'm scared," she whispered. "I'm scared of the day I open my eyes and there's nothing left to see. It doesn't matter that there are aids or that so many people thrive without sight. I know that one day, my memories of what things look like will fade—and they will. Even now, I forget constellations that I used to be able to see. Like those constellations, all other images will fade into the darkness until I don't remember the details of a sunset, or the flash of Sadiya's smile. I will be trapped inside my head, smothered by the knowledge of just how much I've forgotten." The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh
Black and white background of desert sand dunes The Comps Two lines of photos, top includes the covers of A Dance of Lies, Godkiller, and One Dark Window Botton line includes The Stardust Thief and The Foxglove King The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh
Locke Lamora X ODW
To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good.
#questpit #Q #A #F
Hopeful rebel and charismatic sailor race to save the cosmos from climate disaster. Optimistic politics, ancient swords, easy romances, and unlikely friendships form a thoughtful romp through the “Veins of the Ether”. What’s more important: a revolution, or what comes after?
#questpit #sff #f #sf
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