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After my #StarterPack of writers seeking an #agent I made a waiting list. It got huge. So instead I've done Pack 2, adding other people #querying Please repost to help them out. If you want one of the few places left, please follow the instructions at the end of the thread #booksky #writingcommunity

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An updated #agentsguide for THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN. 🔴 LGBTQ+ positivity and activism 🟠 Humour 🟡 Forced proximity road trip 🟢 Slow, slow burn romance 🔵 Unreliable narrator 🟣 Found family v real family Six full & partials of this manuscript are currently with agents. #amquerying #writingcommunity

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ONE MONTH TODAY will be the release of my teen LGBTQ+ novel Out in Greenwood, published by @srlpublishing.bsky.social Still time to pre-order from the SRL website, as well as all bookshops. srlpublishing.co.uk/product/out-...

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THIS IS REAL, ISABEL BENES ready for #Cupit 💘! (+Big 5 editor interest!) ✨ Two gifted kids, now adults, falling apart… and in love? 🏠 Forced proximity 🔥 Rivals to lovers & slowburn 🌞 Small-town charm & summer vibes 🌸 OwnVoices Latinx rep, anxiety, vitiligo, & celiac disease #CR #MCR #MHR #A

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DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a passionate romance with a pirate captain–or needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life. #Cupit #RF #NA #Q

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ROMEO & JULIETTE X ZELDA: BOTW Mates are rare, selected by Saints. When royals from rival Kingdoms are chosen, the blessing becomes a deadly curse. As it strengthens & grants powers, they must conceal the bond, or their families may weaponise it in war. #WIP #NA #RF #questpit

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ARCANE x BABEL x RIPE Jim's graduate research was meant to save rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is excellent at pruning. #questpit #Q #A #SF #F #SF #H #agentsguide 💙📚

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HERE WE GO AGAIN x It’s a Sin When a gay man honours his estranged late uncle's wish to reunite six drag activists, he learns the dark truth about his adoptive mother With her past impacting his future, he must choose—his uncle's activism legacy or the woman who raised him #QuestPit #A #Q #con

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Take three characters: Morally grey + sunshine romantic + yearning god Combine with: Vampires, cutthroat gang leaders, dubious detectives Put into situations of: Paranormal horror, triad action, literary suspense, a little romcom (as a treat) You get: FOR THE DAYS WE NEVER HAD #questpit #Q #A #F

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Squid Game x 1984 🔪📺🩸 To find her bestie, Tate lies her way onto the Trinity Trials—televised games in which viewers decide all:magic players are 💉 with, the hunter, &each twist. She must survive not only the games+hunter but other desperate players who follow their own rules. #QuestPit #YA #Q #SFF

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A town with missing memories. A snowstorm that never happened. A dark figure playing a fatal game behind the scenes. 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. #QuestPit #YA #SPEC

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SOMETHING MORE x TOMORROW (x3) To win a $100k coding competition, Mia Pan teams up with an autistic coding prodigy, who she’s crushing hard on. But falling for him makes her wonder: is she autistic too? #YA #R #Q #QuestPit

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Constance is a bruiser w/the ability to exorcise ghosts, but she’d rather ignore spirits &keep that a secret When one of her only friends starts a ghost hunting business, she’s ready for it to fail so they can give up &call it an early midlife crisis Too bad life—and death—have other plans #questpit

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THE EVER KING X DARK WATER DAUGHTER 🏴‍☠️Pirates ☠️A mythical stone 🏴‍☠️Fiery FMC always getting into trouble ☠️Flirtatious pirate captain w/ a dark secret 🏴‍☠️True slow burn romance ☠️Dark villain lurking @ edges #Q #NA #RF #questpit #agentsguide

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RISE FROM THE SEA Therian was raised to sink ships, not to fall in love with its captains but when they fall hard they will do everything in their power to return to her, even strike an alliance with the captain’s estranged mother. #questpit #q #YA #F

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1919 Ireland. A girl is found dead outside a Magdalene asylum for morally undesirable women in Dublin, with her friend Bridget caught red-handed. To avoid the looming gallows, Bridget unravels stories of abuse, love, and defiance of the asylum inmates. #questpit #W #A #HF

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While honouring his estranged uncle's dying wish to reunite six iconic drag queens, a young gay man learns the horrifying truth about his adoptive mother. With her past impacting his future, he must choose—his uncle's queer activism legacy or the woman who raised him. #QuestPit #A #Q #con

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LAST AIRBENDER x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST 💫 chosen one talks shit and gets hit 👑 axe wielding magicless princess 🔥 mute squire w/ fire as hot as the sun 🌊 asthmatic explorer obsessed w/ boba 🗽 8ft. polite sentient statue 🫥 MC’s bff disappears on MC Art: @magpiesandmayhem.bsky.social #W #YA #F #Questpit

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LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN Ursa’s the last daughter of humanity-loving fallen stars, adopting mortal skin but burning with power—& the royals want her dead. Except she didn't know that til their soldiers came, and her best friend disappeared the same day. #YA #F #SFF #DF #W #questpit

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LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN Stars adored humans so much, they crashed to join them. Ursa hates being a descendant, hunted by the monarchs—the “rightful” heirs. Their princess, born magicless, goes turncoat to teach Ursa how to blaze as a star in mortal skin.#YA #W #F #QuestPit

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THE MISTRESS OF BARROW The Conjuring meets Carmilla in a historical dark romance about a spirit-medium ensnared by the very ghost she was meant to banish, with deadly consequences. #agentsguide #questpit #Q #A #DM #H

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Scooby-Doo replacing "zoinks" w/more colorful lingo, complete with Misfit ensemble cast Hidden pasts Urban legends brought to (after)life Slow-burn opposites attract Unhinged spirits Rapidfire banter Missing people Human experiments Humor,heartache,horror Darker the deeper you delve #QuestPit #q #a

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HERE WE GO AGAIN x It’s a Sin While honouring an uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man learns the dark truth about his adoptive mother's past. When she turns on him, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #QuestPit #A #Q

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ADDIE LARUE x VELVET WAS THE NIGHT A hopeless romantic drags a grumpy college student with her to chase after an urban legend, and the rest is… A nightmare of scary men and shady gangs and bloodthirsty vampires. Well, this certainly isn’t the romcom she had in mind. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #UF

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ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineering magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺ethical dilemmas 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them #questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

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DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a passionate romance with a pirate captain–or needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life. #Q #NA #RF #questpit

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Since we've hopped back into #querying, here's a new #AgentsGuide! ☠️ Pirates 🏴‍☠️ A sprinkle of ✨️magic✨️ ☠️ Fiery FMC always getting into trouble 🏴‍☠️ Flirtatious pirate captain w/ a dark secret ☠️ Dark villain lurking @ edges #literaryagents #WritingCommunity

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An agent's guide to THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN: My HERE WE GO AGAIN x IT'S A SIN LGBTQ+ contemporary. I now #amquerying so if you've liked a pitch for this project, it will be in your inbox. If you'd like to see it too, let me know! Some full and partials are currently out there! 💃 #writingcommunity

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DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART A fiery maid races to sea after her bff & a legendary map, but a passionate romance w/ the pirate captain opens her eyes to a world of danger & she must do anything to get the map before she loses her friend. #YouDeservepIt #NA #Q

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BLOOD SCION X COBAB 👀 Fake Chosen One 🗡 Women's wrongs ✨️ Persianate inspired world 👏🏼 Anticolonial agenda 🙏🏽 BIPOC & disability rep 🔫 Teens making terrible choices 🌎 Powers bestowed by the planet 💚 Ecofantasy #YouDeservePit #ya #f #q

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GOOD OMENS X THE OFFICE Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, has 3 months to turn the business around to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, getting a celestial pink slip. But his old job, and mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally. #YouDeservePit #WIP #A #F #LGBT

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Sierra loves her family and fears becoming them. Their healing hurts and their pills make you sick. But as infectious iron creeps through veins like kudzu, she is forced to take on her dark inheritance. If she must deal with monsters, she might as well become one. #YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

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BABEL x RIPE Desperate to study at the Institute, graduate student Jim pitches rising star Professor Tanner a device that could revolutionize—or weaponize—medicine. Tanner wants to put it in everyone's pocket...and she doesn't care who it might hurt. #YouDeservepIt #A #F #SF #Q 💙📚

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THE SHINING+Squid Game friendship arc 🏨 When Cody's group checks into Hotel Adair, she hopes to bond w/her bestie. But the hotel feeds on doubts. As the bond cracks, bodies pile up,&reality warps, she must face the hotel’s hunger if she wants to save her bestie& check out. #A #H #WIP #YouDeservepIt

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Squid Game x TBOSAS 🌲🔪⌛🩸✨ To find her sister, Tate lies her way onto a deadly televised tournament of hide&seek where players are injected w/magic chosen by the audience. Survival depends on working w/the enemy. He might save her life - if he doesn't take it first.   #YA #F #Q #YouDeservepIt

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In 80’s London, seven drag queen activists fought for the LGBTQ+ community. In modern day Soho, the community needs them back, but six queens left town twenty years ago. The estranged nephew of the late Wilma Dickfit must now take on his homophobic adoptive mother to find them #YouDeservepIt #A #Q

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When Delilah’s dream visibilities start to malfunction right as she’s questioning her asexuality, her senior year threatens to crumble. If she doesn’t fix it fast, her anxiety may derail her plans for the year & she might lose the one boy she ever liked. #Q #YA #youdeservepit

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KINDRED x LIFE ON MARS A young Muslim man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to the 1970s from 2024. #YouDeservePit #YA #spec

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I FEED HER TO THE BEAST X THE POPPY WAR Budding necromancer Sera maneuvers her way out of the gutter & into infamy. Haunted by a ghost only she can see, she claws her way to the top of the kingdom courts but discovery of her gift means death, & it's a long way down... #YouDeservePit #YA #F

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💫 chosen one talks shit and gets hit 👑 axe wielding magic-less princess forced to mentor chosen one 🔥 mute squire with power over the sun's fire 🌊 asthmatic explorer obsessed w/ boba 🗽8ft. polite sentient statue 🫥 MC’s bff disappears suspiciously when MC’s kidnapped #YA #F #WIP #YouDeservepIt

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LAST AIRBENDER x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST Ursa's bff moved away without telling her. Oh and on the same day, Ursa's arrested for apparently being a blazing star in human form. The princess, born without that honor, rebels for her--but Ursa just wants to know why her bff left. #YA #F #WIP #YouDeservepIt

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Barbie 12 Dancing Princesses but with stabby lesbians Impulsive sorceror Midge was hired to uncover where 12 mischievous princesses go dancing each night, but realized forming a tenuous alliance with the deadly Princess Yvette would be much more fun #YouDeserveplt #WIP #YA #F

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THE BRILLIANT DEATH × CRUEL PRINCE Julianna is on a quest to save her kingdom. She doesn't know that Sawyer is working for the enemy Sawyer is on a quest to kill Julianna. She doesn't know that the boy she's falling in love with is Julianna in disguise #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F

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RIPExBLOOD OVR BRGHT HAVN When grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, intoxicating suitemate Bash warns it could be weaponized—& stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience? #YouDeservepIt #A #F #SF #Q 💙📚

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Jim's graduate research was meant to bring salvation to rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is excellent at pruning. #YouDeservepIt #A #SF #F #Q #agentsguide #litagents

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Solo Leveling|The Ones We're Meant to Find Malia’s search for her missing sister Callan pulls her into a glitching, game-like world. There, she has no choice but to trust her sister’s dangerous rival to get them home—before Callan’s powerful magic breaks reality. #NA #F #R #WIP #YouDeservepIt

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