#agentsguide for “Starry, Starry Night”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish protag in 🇨🇦 Toronto
⏱️ deadline/against the clock
❤️‍🩹 trauma & PTSD
🩸 #psychologicalthriller
🏙️ art as a reflection of darkness

#crime #thriller #querying #detectiveseries #upmarket #querytrenches #CrimeThriller #noir

A girl lying on the marble floor of an old castle

In a gothic mansion, a horny motherfuktress fell in lust with her friend's hot brother.

Quick question: Can one die of unrequited lust?

#chaospit
#A #Gothicfiction #Upmarket #Amwriting #wip #writers #writing #writingsky #bluesky

SHAMELESSLY WANTING, Upmarket Women’s Fiction w/ Romance. 80k. Querying.

#amquerying #writesky #amwriting #upmarket #womensfiction

Epigraph page from HAUNTED by Venetia Grand. A man, injured after a rain fight, speaks of honor and integrity when his wounds are being tended to by a woman.

before a story can reopen… something had to be sworn, broken, or lost.

now, back to where it begins. ⬇️ HAUNTED by Venetia Grand

#ReadSky #BookSky #Romance #iwanttoreadthis #Upmarket #bookclub #amquerying

#booksky #amrevising #childhoodabuse #trauma #darksecrets #duality #secretlife #dualidentity #foundfamily #belonging #harmony #upmarket #spychologicalfiction #RecoveringHarmony #WIP #authorcommunity

I know I haven't been on here much lately, but it's been a very migraine-y past month. However, I couldn't pass up "library." Hope everybody has been well! 🫶

#writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity #amquerying #romantasy #romanticfantasy #wipsnips #newadult #upmarket #bookclub #crossover

FATHER FIGURE: my #upmarket #womensfiction novel 💚

A lapsed Catholic turned disillusioned tabloid journalist reunites with her ex-boyfriend, now the priest at her family parish.

There’s angsty yearning, grappling w/ faith and vocation, and one too many George Michael references 😉

#RevPitWaiting

One Golden Summer X We All Live Here

A conscientious nurse returns to her estranged father’s home for a wedding, but her role in an accident 12 years earlier hangs over the reunion with her childhood sweetheart. Has she done enough to atone for her past mistake?

#RevPitWaiting #Upmarket #Romance

Mood board for an upmarket paranormal novel. Lighthouses, foggy forest, a girl looking out to sea with binoculars all depicted. Entered into RevPit!

A modern-day lighthouse keeper pricks her finger on a cursed painting, allowing her to speak to the dead, this new-found power compels her to uncover her family’s history and break the curse before everything in its wake goes up in flames. #RevPit #a #paranormal #ghoststory #upmarket

New #WIP: Feeling alienated from her wife’s pregnancy, a woman begins a mysterious bio-hacking regimen that upgrades her body each month. By the ninth injection she may become powerful enough to lose her humanity, her marriage, and her desire for motherhood. #upmarket #LGBT #domestichorror

Mood board for an upmarket ghost story featuring a lighthouse, foggy forest, a girl looking through binoculars with water in the background, and a ship on a foggy sea with a lighthouse in the background.

A modern-day lighthouse keeper must travel to a small town in Ohio to break the ancestral curse she unleashed — before it destroys everything in its wake. #a #upmarket #ghoststory #paranormal

Here is my mood board/aesthetic for #revpit.

A collage made for an aesthetic of a novel getting ready to query. There are two picture of lighthouses, a foggy forest, a ship in a misty horizon with a tiny lighthouse out in the distances, and a girl looking into the distance with binoculars.

Here is mine for #RevPit! My longline still needs a little work, but here that is too: A modern day lighthouse keeper must travel to a small town in Ohio to break the ancestral curse she unleashed — before it strengthens and hurts everyone in its wake. #upmarket #adult #ghoststory #paranormal

AITA for breaking into my childhood vacation home and eventually destroying the marriage of the family that took me in?

#UnhingedPit #A #Upmarket

Moodboard with 7 images: blue pendant chess pieces FIGHT LIKE A GIRL man and woman snuggling shadowy figure green landscape heart confetti

An ADHDer must overcome her greatest weakness to save the secret world she fled as a child, while holding onto the relationship she’s yearned for her whole life.

🗡️Reluctant Chosen One
🍭Trope Spinning
🦹‍♀️Female Villain

#WSPit #Q #NA #F #R #own #dis #ND #upmarket #crossover #romanticfantasy #romantasy

blue background with book cover in middle that says: ELLA HADLEY THE THRONE'S GUARDIAN 2 waterfalls, lake, dagger in stone, greenery words on blue background: GRUMPY X SUNSHINE IDENTITY & BELONGING RELUCTANT CHOSEN ONE FEMALE VILLAIN #OV ADHD/DIS REP FRESH, QUEERNORM WORLD SLOW BURN at bottom: www.ellahadleybooks.com ellahadley.bsky.social

SHADOW AND BONE x OUTLANDER x THIS WOVEN KINGDOM

In the fight to save her hidden world from a cruel sorceress, Blakely must learn to wield a magical necklace whose unusual powers hinge on her biggest weakness.

#WSPit #Q #NA #F #R #own #dis #ND #upmarket #crossover #romanticfantasy #romantasy

Los Angeles skyline with a plane flying over it.

A fading polaroid of a newlywed heterosexual couple.

Two women of color calmly sit on a sofa with a rainbow flag on their shoulders.

A DSLR camera facing a blank backdrop.

#WSPit
All that 30 yr old background actor YAZ RAMOS has are bills 💸and insecurities 😭
But she's gotta sacrifice
💜her love life (cool actor GF)
🧑‍🧑‍🧒her family (queer aunt, mystery dad?)
⏳her dedication
to an industry that gives nothing back 🎬
Will it ever be enough?
#LGBT #L #Upmarket #Q #A #own

moodboard with 6 images: man and woman kissing heart alcove woman punching woman looking up through floorboards dagger in grass painted landscape of town

THE THRONE'S GUARDIAN

In order to save the hidden world she fled as a child, a quirky ADHDer must learn to wield a magical necklace whose unusual powers hinge on her greatest weakness.

🏳️‍🌈Queernorm world
🔥Forbidden slow-burn romance
😂Humor

#wspit #q #na #f #r #own #dis #nd #upmarket #crossover

PITCH Caught between two worlds, tethered to both, fully fitting in neither. Blakely has no plans for being a hero and zero interest. She just started dating the best friend she’s loved her whole life, and she’s ignoring the magic sparks she can make that no one knows about. Then she learns that an ancestral necklace with extraordinary magic links her to Noríah, a hidden land she escaped as a child. She was always meant to save her home from a cruel dictator—if only she can overcome crippling self-doubt to access unique powers that amplify those of the resistance she’s supposed to lead. With the constant threat of battle, a traitor lurking within, her own fear of failure, and her dream relationship tumbling out of her control, Noríah will test just how far Blakely will go—and how much she will give up to save it. THE THRONE'S GUARDIAN by Ella Hadley New Adult Romantic Contemporary Fantasy

ART 1 man in a blue uniform 1 woman in half a uniform and half a hoodie and jeans 1 man in a shirt and jeans

COMPS Shadow and Bone Outlander This Woven Kingdom Legendborn

SNIPPET Arali keeps explaining. It doesn’t help. In fact, I feel my stomach heave again. “You are the heir to the throne’s protectors. The Danár. Leader of our forces. With the Lusáni Pendant, you wield a unique power called the trunála that helps us win battles.” I turn back around to face her. “I’m not interested in what you’re selling,” I say. “I don’t approve of the wars in my own world, so why would I want to help fight yours?” Arali’s face is dead serious, and her eyebrows lift. “Because this is your world, Blakely,” she says. Everybody watches me, waiting for my decision. My arms are crossed so tightly that they hurt. I look at Cameron, who stares back with a mixture of worry and fear on his face. I wish he could help me make this decision, but it’s mine, and mine alone. Could this be the answer I’ve been searching for my whole life? I’ve always wanted to make a real difference in people’s lives—stand up to bullying and oppression and be powerful when I have always felt powerless—but not this way. This terrifies me. Everything is so perfect at home right now. What happens if I choose this path? What lays further down it? Can I really say no to it?

✨NEW✨ #agentguide!

THE THRONE'S GUARDIAN

In order to save the hidden world she fled as a child, a quirky ADHDer must learn to wield a magical necklace whose unusual powers hinge on her greatest weakness.

#newadult #na #upmarket #crossover #ownvoices #nd #romanticfantasy #amquerying #writesky

Blakely initially doesn't want the role that was handed down to her, but she grows to embrace it and even love it.

And I have new art!
#writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity #amquerying #romantasy #romanticfantasy #wipsnips #newadult #upmarket #bookclub #crossover #writers #awesomecharacters

This is an early scene, when Blakely is first learning her destiny. Does anyone else like writing angst?

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity #amquerying #romantasy #romanticfantasy #wipsnips #newadult #upmarket #bookclub #crossover #writers

moodboard with man and woman kissing, heart-shaped cavern, woman punching, woman looking up through boards, dagger in grass, landscape

THE THRONE'S GUARDIAN

In order to save the hidden world she fled as a child, a quirky ADHDer must learn to wield a magical necklace whose unusual powers hinge on her greatest weakness.

🏳️‍🌈Queernorm world!
🔥Forbidden romance!
😂Humor!

#cupit #q #rf #rofa #mhr #na #upmarket #crossover #dis #lgbt #nd

blue background with a book cover that has a dagger sticking out of a rock. worrds around it say grumpy x sunshine, identity & belonging, reluctant chosen one, female villain, #OV ADHD/dis rep, fresh, queernorm world, and slow burn. at bottom, www.ellahadleybooks.com and ellahadley.bsky.social

LEGENDBORN x THIS WOVEN KINGDOM x OUTLANDER

An ADHDer must overcome her greatest weakness to save the secret world she fled as a child, while holding onto the relationship she’s yearned for her whole life.

#cupit #q #rf #rofa #mhr #na #upmarket #crossover #dis #lgbt #nd

Moodboard with blue pendant, chess pieces, words FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, man and woman cuddling, dark figure, heart confetti, and green landscape

THE THRONE'S GUARDIAN

When Blakely discovers she’s the heir to the protectors of a hidden world devastated by civil war, she must overcome her self-doubt to unlock the extraordinary magic needed to save it.

#cupit #q #rf #rofa #mhr #na #upmarket #crossover #dis #lgbt #nd

Next, one which I #amquerying, This Ends Now. Or, an #upmarket book about what happens when collegiate bullshit gets stuck to your clothes like a burr you can't shake off and the next thing you know you're walking out on multiple perfectly cromulent marriages because WHY NOT??

A 9 by 9 grid of pictures including a Los Angeles skyline with a plane over it, a multiracial lesbian couple, a meteor shower over Joshua Tree, a star on the Walk of Fame, and a faded polaroid of a married straight couple.

MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES meets THE ANIMATORS in this #Upmarket #LGBTQ #A #LF novel about a failed actor, her successful girlfriend, an estranged family, and a life-changing audition. #Q #POC #questpit

Failed actor Yaz Ramos gives her dreams🎬 one last shot as she faces a troubled family past🧑‍🧑‍🧒, her not-so-healthy jealousy towards her successful-actor girlfriend👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩, and her hunger to make a name for herself‼️What must Yaz sacrifice for her dream audition? #Q #A #Upmarket #LF #LGBTQ #questpit

FLEABAG x SCHITT'S CREEK

THE MULLIGAN YEAR
80K

When scandals rock a small town, a new therapist tries to help before becoming embroiled in the whole mess.

🧠 Mental Health
🍂 Intergenerational
🏋️‍♀️ Coming-of-age
💞 B-plot romance

#QuestPit #F #amquerying #bookclub #contemporary #upmarket #comedy

Mine is ADHD like me!

#dailyocs
#writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity #amquerying #romantasy #romanticfantasy #wipsnips #newadult #upmarket #bookclub #crossover #writers

For January 26th's word, "commit."

Anyone else a fan of angst?

#writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity #amquerying #romantasy #romanticfantasy #wipsnips #newadult #upmarket #bookclub #crossover #writers