Still squealing I was chosen for #10queries #revpit. The editor had such lovely things to say and I can‘t thank her enough for her wonderful feedback! Now it’s time for yet more revisions!

Yup....just death gripping my table over here in Spain. I might just have to wait until tomorrow morning!

Say no more - to the TBR it goes! Thanks! And good luck in those querying trenches!

Ooh any thoughts on/would you recommend Don’t Let the Forest in? The premise sounds like a good comp for me! Im currently thinking of using The Lamb.

As a translator who's suffered through so many transcripts...people do not actually speak how we think they do. Dialog has to be both shorter/more incomplete AND longer/less concise to feel realistic.

Everyone who has a body that gets in the way of our intentions knows that those 881 are a great accomplishmentt!

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Still tried! 🫣

Great! Thanks so much for answering!

Hi Raquel! I'm hoping to send you my horror featuring cannibalism, but I do have an odd multi-POV structure. POVs don't alternate. Instead, Character 1 narrates Section 1, Char. 2 narrates Section 2, etc. Is that a dealbreaker? (I'm open to changes!) Thanks so much!

Yay! Thanks so much for responding!

what helped me was looking at how many authors’ books are not published in written order. A shelving isn’t necessarily permanent!

Hi! Thanks for your time! I wanted to ask about your tastes in fantasy. I've got an adult horror about a female utopia fighting about how to rear sons. The leaders have special abilities, but are never called "witches". It's more magical realism/is it real or not vibes. Is that too out there?

Let us know if that works out for you (unless that requires killing us). So many of us are looking for a Plan B.

The only trickledown economics I believe in is where writers go to amazing events like these and I learn from all of you as your work gets published. #deepdiveorbust #tsnotyaw

HUNGER GAMES × COBAB × POWERLESS

Inspired by Central African mythology

A boy with dangerous blood magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom's soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#P2Ppit #YA #OS

@path2pub.bsky.social
AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER X ENCANTO
-Queer
-Disability Rep
-Elemental magic

Mexican inspired Horror-Fantasy with royals, secrets and way too many hallucinations. At least our MC has two best friends, a legendary mage and a spirit?👀 to guide her along the way.

#Q #P2Ppit #YA

Nine images and ripped paper reading "Is revenge worth losing everything?" in the center. The images feature from left to right - a red starry sky, a skull with a tilted crown atop its head and a fallen-over cup next to it, a girl with her back turned to the camera who has short red hair and is wearing a leather jacket, a chess piece knocking another chess piece over, a palace in the middle of the sea, a hand covered in fire, two girls about to kiss, a bloody door, and an ocean cliffside.

When Ley signs up for a competition to marry a prince, it's not for love but for revenge. To kill his mother for killing her own. Though Ley also has other problems... A vicious, pretty rival, a megalomaniac father, and powers that should be extinct but aren't.

#P2Ppit #W #NA #F

LOCKE LAMORA x BARU CORMORANT
A gendarme with chronic migraines will overthrow the empire. A thief with a record of dooming his partners will reclaim his throne. To succeed, they must kill each other. To liberate their silver-eyed kin, they must work together. #P2Ppit #A #F #2026debut

Pitch: When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled and gutsy ex-girlfriend must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods’ eternal slave and weapon against mortals. 112,000 words Adult Crossover Fantasy Comps: Damsel (2024 film) Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller T. Kingfisher’s A Sorceress Comes to Call V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Themes & Tropes: - Forbidden Love - Hot Banter - Feminine Rage - Anti-Chosen - Found Family - Second Chances - Dark Humor - Identity - Friends-to-lovers - Faustian Bargain - Choosing vs. being chosen Representation: - LGBTQIA+ - BIPOC - Mental Health - Neurodivergence

Excerpt: A gaunt mouse nibbled greedily at a stale bread roll left on my lunch tray. I didn’t have the heart to give her a name as I might lose her too. The cast iron rods of the bed dug into my ribs through the thin mattress. I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering. The medications I was forced to swallow left a cotton taste in my mouth and a dull ache in my skull. The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb. I was not allowed visitors or to walk in the fresh air outside. The faded floral pattern of the peeling wallpaper was my only reminder of life beyond these walls. I pulled the threadbare blanket tighter around my body, hugging my knees to my chest. It did little against the chill creeping into my bones. The raging blizzard had transformed the courtyard into a churning white sea, rattling the broken window shutters hanging askew. At least no screams echoed through the halls today.

Moodboard: Dark fantasy Victorian vibes with purple color composition. Top row, left-to-right: a Byronic, handsome man in black, a palace, a dark figure burning in hell fire, a masked female assassin of dark complexion holding a dagger, a serpentine forest trail at night marked with red flowers. At the center next to a silver plume is the text: “This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals.” Bottom row, left-to-right: a dark gaslit street, a gaslit city blanketed in coal smog at night, a young woman in a Victorian gown, wrought-iron gates opened to a foreboding foggy estate in the dark, a trail of red petals leading to a dark stone temple gate.

When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled & gutsy ex-GF must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods' eternal slave & weapon against mortals
🌶️Hot Banter
🖤Forbidden Love
🏳️‍🌈LGBT, BIPOC,♿, Neurospicy
#P2Ppit #Q #F

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#UA #Q #A #P2Ppit #LF

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#BluePit #A #LF #Q

A town with missing memories.
A graveyard with disembodied crying.
A snowstorm that never happened.

And a dead girl walking with the answers. The only problem? She doesn't remember them, and she has 30 days to figure it all out before she dies again.

#P2Ppit #YA #Q #U #SPEC

Love the idea of a pacifist vampire!🤣

The Guardian and The Light Bringer Romantasy Agent Editor Guide Image shows profile of man and woman in shadows

Image shows blood dripping. “It all comes down to blood, what’s hidden within it and who’s willing to bleed for it.”

Image shows blood dripping and the Blurb for the story.

Image shows a drama mask and the comps, tropes, and meta data for story

GLADIATOR X POWERLESS

What would you do to protect those you love?

You’d BLEED.

Him for revenge.

Her to protect.

But in the arena, the false queen only cares that you bleed to…

DEATH.

#P2Ppit #UW #YA

Worth the Whistle
Tropes and Pitch

My Mother Cursed My Name x Greenwood x Midnight Library

The story of a young mother who refuses to follow death's rules and her son, who just might live a life the whole family can be proud of.

#P2Ppit #A #Q #Familysaga

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, they are: big ben (london), a board of evidence, a street cornered off by crime scene tape, someone playing the guitar, the silhouette of a rockstar, musical notes, a crowd of music goers, evidence on the floor and someone punching a mirror.

🎸 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

#P2Ppit #W #A #LF #M

an image of two pairs of white legs dangling off a dock, feet just touching the water. The title reads "CAMP FEARLESS", the caption reads "queer upmarket fiction, 96,000 words, dual POV"

A background of pale skies and pine trees with the title "PITCH". The text reads: "Camp Fearless is where queer boys go to become healthy, happy, and heterosexual, but in the summer of 1998, camper David Avery cannot change the way he feels about his seemingly ex-gay counselor, Luke Kelly. And Luke, despite the purity-ring-wearing fiancé waiting for him at home, is equally fascinated with David. They become tangled in a reckless fling that ends in heartbreak, forcing David to flee the camp. Twelve long years later, when their paths cross in a Brooklyn bar, David is disgusted to find Luke is a conversion therapy superstar spokesman with a wife, two kids, and a secret Grindr profile. When Luke begs him not to expose their history to the press, David must decide what he owes to a man who is both a proponent and victim of the therapy that wounded them both." At the bottom is a picture of the book Swimming in the Dark by Toasz Jedrowski, and a picture of the movie But I'm A Cheerleader; two comps for this book.

At the top is a polaroid of Luke Kelly, a blonde teenage boy looking away from the camera. The text next to it reads: " When Luke was little, his father would tell him that God had x-ray vision. That he could peer down from heaven right into the pits and crevices of Luke’s heart, looking for lies. The idea had screwed itself tight into Luke’s child-mind. He would lie awake at night, thinking about it; God’s gaze, lunar, wheeling over Huntington Beach and looking for him." Beneath that is a polaroid of David Avery, a teenage boy with a necklace, earrings, and rings, looking away from the camera. The text next to him reads: " David loves his mother’s voice. He wants to wrap it around him like a silk dress. But she is distant, tawny as a rabbit, with dark, dreaming eyes. His own eyes are pale as nickels. He does not look like her. Sometimes, he thinks, he does not look like anyone."

A wood-grain graphic background with the title SAMPLE. The text on the page reads: " Luke puts a hand on the bar, steadying himself. He thinks: There must be some mistake. Because David is here, close-up and undeniable. He is taller, narrower, but otherwise unchanged; the puffy upper lip, the moon-eyes that are just as blue as when they were kids. Memory wells in Luke, like blood in a fresh wound. David’s eyes swim, as though dreaming, to Luke’s shoulder, his chin. “Oh,” he says. “Sorry,” Luke takes step back. “I didn’t know.” “No, I…” David looks to the bartender, then around him, stunned. “I didn’t know either.” The dip of his neck, the tips of his ears, are flushing. Luke remembers, with the force of a slap, that blushing ear between his teeth. Something within him mashes to a pulp. “I’ll go.” “What?” David’s jaw drops. “Stay! Are you kidding? Luke Kelly. I can’t believe it’s you.” Luke winces at the sound of his own name, eyes knifing around the bar. He turns to leave but David grabs at his wrist. Feeling runs up his arm, bursts in his throat. “Wait,” David says. “Please.” Inside his voice is an entire summer."

An agent's guide to CAMP FEARLESS #Q #U #P2Ppit

About 88K words

Additional comps is NOPE and FIFTH WAVE.

Agents/Editors guide to my YA literary sci-fi book

INTERSTELLAR meets NOPE with the emotional appeal and first alien contact of ARRIVAL (2016) & the suspense and alien hostility of FIFTH WAVE

Today is 2094 & dealing with grief. What worse could possibly happen?

#P2Ppit #YA #literary #scifi #book

FOURTH WING X PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE

When a dragon bonds with her, Lily must give up on becoming a healer and endure the training of a soldier alongside Ryker the Dragon Prodigy, the grumpy, brooding man she absolutely despises…

…or does she?

Currently Prepping for Sub!
#P2Ppit #NA #F #Editors