The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism, and identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#MENApit #WIP #A #L #T

A multiracial teen grapples with her illegal dual heritage in a world where eye colour determines status, elemental affinity and who you're allowed to love. If her secret is discovered, she'll be executed by the Empire – but if she keeps on hiding then she'll never be free. #Pub #MENApit #DY

KPDH x THE HONEYS

To avoid being cut by their label and saying goodbye to each other, girl group Mantis infect themselves with hivemind-forming parasites. Newfound synchronicity onstage brings success, but a shared mind means no space to be yourself.

#MENApit #AG #WIP #H #YA

They Hate Each Other X Imogen, Obviously
Ares needs to do 3 things in life so he doesn’t let his family down:
-Date a nice Cypriot girl
-Get into a good university
-NOT fall in love with his rival, the brother of his sister-in-law
✨Big 5 imprint editor interest
#MENAPit #YA #C #R #LGBT #OWN #Qu

To save her late mother’s Algerian bakery from ruin, a 25yo baker accepts to cater her nemesis’ lavish wedding—unaware the job would include uncovering her mom’s buried past…and falling for the groom.

#A #R #MENApit 💞

a moodboard of images; - a bouquet of flowers in the top left, feathers in top center, a hand holding a thread (IMAGE BY Stephanie Rew Fine Art) in top right - a skull covered by a translucent sheet in the center left, center image has a woman covered by thread (PHOTOGRAPHED BY Becca Geden), and center right has a sword in snow - bottom left has a spider on a web, bottom center is a photo of a flower underneath the petals, and bottom right is a loom

When a rebel witch is betrayed and sentenced to death, the executioner saves her by claiming her as his bride—forcing them to navigate a fake marriage, colonial politics, and traitors, all while secretly dismantling the empire that is destroying their home. #menapit #a #f #wip

An #AgentsGuide
They Hate Each Other x Imogen Obviously
💘Bi MC & Bi LI
🛏️Forced proximity (have to share a room)
🏀Basketball jocks
❤️‍🔥Rivals to lovers
😘He calls him pretty boy
💖Secretly yearning
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Set in Cardiff, Wales
✨Big 5 impr. editor interest
#MENAPit #YA #C #R #LGBT #Qu

magic meets tech moldboard: grimoire, smart glasses, voodoo doctor, high tech nature embedded world

MAGIC MEETS CODING

A Silicon Valley-inspired New Orleans where a teen writes spells down in code to stop the army of undead.

🧟 dead brought back to life with magic
💻 girls in stem
👯‍♀️ twin sisters magically bonded
❤️ friends to lovers
#MENApit #Qu #F #SF #YA

Art by Roscheriart on Instagram

PITCH: In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way. EXCERPT: They would be, Sera thought, the blood thrumming in her ears. The dead here had been raised. En-masse, probably. She could only imagine the power that had taken. A whole village’s dead, raised in one night. She could see the figure now in her mind’s eye, a Harbinger cloaked in black under the light of a silvery full moon, the crimson wash of his Necromantic power seeping into the soil like blood and unleashing horrors, an army of the dead clawing their way out of their final resting places. She shivered.

Adult Dark Fantasy

Unlikable female MCs, Death Magic/Necromancy, Fall Arc. Women's Wrongs. Comps: Gideon the Ninth, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gode, The Poppy War, Sabriel

TGUWG x I Feed Her to the Beast

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let morals get in her way.

#MENApit #WIP #A #DF

When a card game has telepath Mona fleeing town, a handsome djinn spy drags her to an underwater kingdom where she awakens old djinn magic. But with the oceanic sky failing, will inner demons drown her before she can save her people or will warring factions claim her?
#MENApit #Qu #RF

A moodboard for GODCAT, an adult dark fantasy/horror blend, featuring six black cats and one magpie eye in the center.

PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive.

🔪 Revenge plot
🏚️Liminal Spaces
🐈‍⬛Cat POV
🎭 Unreliable narrator
☠️ Body horror
#MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS #POC

First 200 words of GODCAT, a dark fantasy/horror.

SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN x PIRANESI

Be drowned as a cat.
Be reborn a human.
Ascend.
Kill your murderer as the New God of Revenge.

Marsh tries to shed all humanity to become revenge itself. Except humanity is what she always wanted.
#MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS

Broken and strained stone with arabesque patterns. Clinging to the Stones Hussain A. Ayoub Epic Fantasy, Multi-POV, 109,000 Words Quote from The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati: “Everything goes by — men, the seasons, the clouds, and there is no use clinging to the stones, no use fighting it out on some rock in midstream; the tired fingers open, the arms fall back inertly and you are still dragged into the river, the river which seems to flow so slowly yet never stops.”

Prayer beads dangling from a black crescent on a background of broken stone with arabesque patterns. The Pitch: The Broken Warrior: Born with brittle bones, Acyrnar is a disgraced philosopher-warrior of the Koldaryun Order. Driven by familial devotion, he embarks on a daring mission: kidnap the Empress of the Crimson Empire to secure a legendary spear—the key to curing his father's affliction. The Cornered Empress: Empress Melam is trapped in a religious, tyrannical court ruled by iron and prophecy. A desperate mother, she orchestrates a treasonous heist using street thieves. Her mission: break her only son out of an impregnable fortress known as “the Cage” before he is slaughtered in a divine succession ritual. Two desperate hearts. Two impossible heists. One inevitable collision.

Comps: Background of broken stone, black stone, with arabesque patterns: The Traitor Baru Cormorant: (Geopolitical Intrigue) The Will of the Many: (Social Criticism) The Age of Madness: (Moral Ambiguity) The Jasad Heir: (Immersive SWANA Setting) Six of Crows: (High-Stakes Heist) Andor: (Slow-burn & realistic)

Excerpt (in red): Background of grey broken and stain stones with geometric patterns and a triangle of three green stars. An excerpt from the book: “You are marked by the stars.” Mother used to repeat that grim prophecy, her voice a warm feather tickling his cheek, her words an icy blade piercing his soul. “Like the Surabrenna, three daughters bind you: one will pass without you, one will weep for you, one will burn with you.”

Inspired by Syrian history & mythology:

A disgraced philosopher-warrior must kidnap an Empress to save his dying father.

The Empress plots a daring heist to save her condemned son.

Their collision will ignite a war, shatter a hundred-years peace, & decide the fate of nations.

#MENApit #Qu #F#A

A moodboard for the dark fantasy, GODCAT, featuring liminal spaces, black cats, and a magpie's eye.

A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—until she meets a godling who reveals personal things only her owner could've known.
#MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS #POC

An Agent's Guide to ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES by Ayishah Hasni.

Pitch: In a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a voyage across the monster-filled Indian Ocean in order to rescue her fiance from a mysteriously moving island.

Comp titles: SPICE ROAD, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, and THIS WOVEN KINGDOM.

Snippet of the first page of ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES.

What if the high-stakes, swashbuckling adventure of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN met the rich Islamic folklore of Tahereh Mafi's THIS WOVEN KINGDOM? #MENAPit #Qu #OWN #F #YA

🕌muslim mc's
🏴‍☠️pirate x princess
🖤enemies to lovers
☀️sunshine x darkness
🌊17th-century indian ocean
✨interest from 2 Big 5 editors

Today is @menapitch.bsky.social . I feel honored to join in a pitch event geared specifically toward SWANA authors, especially now during #arabheritagemonth.

SWANA authors make up less than .5% (A HALF OF A PERCENT) of published authors.

#menapit #ag #hf #LGBTQ

A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES by @kaitlynabdou.com is on preorder sale on Kobo NZ (and possibly other places) right now, so I just ordered!! I need some swash buckling to look forward to. 🏴‍☠️🦜⚓

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Ahhhh yaay!!!

New art & character(s) reveal!!

Thank you so much to the incredibly talented @myameam.bsky.social for this perfect likeness of two of my favorite members of the crew—teenage twins Tristan & Trevor!

It was such a delight working with Meam & watching this drawing come to life!! 😍 Thank you so much!

I appreciate it so much!!

I did release my prologue in my newsletter a few months ago with the cover release! I hopefully have a "first chapters reveal" coming up soon

Thank you!!

Thank you!

Also HUGE thank you to my Quartermaster, my dear friend, and my wonderful agent, @keiralekseii, for going to battle for me and spending hours on calls with me over the last week. She even helped me edit my entire manuscript, yall! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

PUB DATE UPDATE?!

Thank you all SO MUCH for your support! Your efforts—the comments, shares, preorders, etc, HAVE NOT GONE UNNOTICED!!

It really has made such a huge difference, I am so grateful and relieved!

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