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English teacher, romantasy writer, toddler mama, bougie coffee-drinker, can athleisure be the dress code, please? https://kcrescenzo.my.canva.site/kelly-crescenzo
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To eat cake after the peloton, or to not eat cake after the peloton…🤔

"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 lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb." #1stLinePit #Q #YA #F #T #WritingCommunity

A twenty-gold bill, a parchment with a name on it, and a condom. That's what a half-smile has done for me tonight. #1stLinePit #amquerying my adult fantasy #agentguide

MOANA X SHADOW AND BONE “Tides of utmost high crept toward the kingdom shores with deception in its midst.” #1stlinepit #WIP #YA #F

It was so much easier to steal when l worked alone. #1stLinePit #YA #D #SF #T #AgentsGuide

"The silver camera hunts me down, red power light burning like my father's anger." WALLBREAKER - 90K #1stLinePit #Q #A #SF #CMe

"If you could live for centuries—through famine and plague, through wars that razed cities and left ash in their wake, that not even a bomb crashing through your home could destroy you—would you choose immortality?" #1stLinePit #Q #F #G #P Agents Guide ⬇️

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

Athragast stood on the stoop of a rickety farmhouse and steeled himself for yet another monotonous, destiny-fulfilling day. #1stLinePit #OS #AG - #A #F #COM #CZ

"Before I talk about summer, the one with all those dead, I want you to know I tried being a good father." #A #H #booksky #WIP #1stLinePit #horror #writing #writesky 📚💙 #Asian #AsianHorror #AsianWriters #supernatural

#1stLinePit Grim Portents HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE We killed another guy at the Whataburger this morning, which makes three since we started on the road yesterday. #Q #A #F #COM #H #P

"He was told she could speak to the dead. He hoped against all hope that it was true." #1stLinePit #wip #a #st #amwriting #supernaturalthriller

A crack sliced through the undisturbed air, tearing through the clearing like a warning shot. The realm longs for hope. The trials were built for pain. And love? That was never part of the plan. #1stLinePit #A #F #Q

“Lily Hopewell stood in front of the closed oak doors as a feeling of dread crept through every inch of her. It invaded her mind, body, and soul. Her stomach was in knots and her head was foggy; she didn’t want to go through this again.” #1stLinePit #Q #A #F #RF #CMe

WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS X THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS “The sunrise on the worst day of my life was blood-red. Its rays crawled like tenuous fingers over the copper-hued hills of the desert. A falcon glided on puffs of balmy air, with outstretched wings and tucked feet.” #1stLinePit #Q #YA #HF

"Fuck me, Troy." “That’s a bit inappropriate, Dave, considering the situation.” #1stlinepit #A co(s)mic #Horror #WIP Query ready this summer at approx. 75k words!

Phantasma X AHS: Coven A mediocre witch competes for a spot in North America's top coven at a sinister island resort. Amidst spirits and demons, she must avoid possession and disqualification while investigating her mother's disappearance. #WIPIT #A #H #R

#1stLinePit #WIP #F #agentguide #agentsguide 👀 "The crown was woven of the finest Lejah grasses, its split-hued blades varying in length and texture as they twisted toward the emerald at its spiraled center. Caria could not wait to burn it." 👑🪲🌿💫🌋

What happens when your Blessing is actually a curse? #WSPit #WSPitW #A #F #LGBT

A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X WHEN THE MOON HATCHED There are three rules for provoking a Galah: never look into its hollow eyes, never speak your true name, and never, under any circumstances, let go. Fantasy retelling of SEA folklore ⚔️ So. Much. Yearning ⚔️Forbidden Love #Q #NA #YA #F #RF #1stLinePit

#1stlinepit #YA #F #LGBT #WIP

When the familiar emptiness gnawed, a lack Syrala could not fill, she painted. Her grandmother taught her: Seek solitude and focus on your art. Allow space for emptiness, and listen. It will help. For now. #1stlinepit #A #F #Q #agentguide #agentsguide

SILVER UNDER NIGHTFALL x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH "If anyone were to ever ask me what it was like to drink human blood, I would first advise them against doing so with five loaded crossbows pointed directly at their head." #1stLinePit #A #F #EverdarkWIP

“Clustered in the chest of Kit Clearwood, there lived a beast.” Howl’s Moving Castle meets Brave in a steampunk setting. 💕 #1stLinePit #WIP #YA #F

#Q #YA #RF #1stLinePit We run through the forest; the full moon is the only light we need. We know where we are going. A small group of warriors ready to take down the would-be usurper and all who protect him. (my 8am post that I didn't click post on 😅)

I didn’t run from the ballroom. I walked quickly. The laughter & chatter of the gala danced across the hotel, chasing me as I escaped the festivities. I settled into the sun that shined through the full windowed doors of the hotel lobby. #1stlinepit #WIP #R #F #P #ROMCOM Art by ThereseU3U

“I’m not a good person anymore.” #1stLinePit #A #P #T #OS (very soon!)

“As the Mistress of Ceremonies glided through the sea of performers, Thalia Rathmore could do nothing but silently beg her to suspend tonight’s show.” 🎪☠️🖤✨🏰 #1stLinePit #YA #WIP #F

"For the first time in ten years, Beatrice’s dad had a date tonight." 🌻YA Contemporary Romance w/ Speculative Elements 🌻Working Class Daughter X Actor's Son 🌻Found Family, Girls Support Girls 🌻Real Teen Issues: Bullying, Fitting In, Grief #1stlinepit #WIP #YA #Romance #amrevising

ALL IN ON LOVE ♥️♠️♦️♣️ The email lands in my inbox with a literal ping and a metaphorical thud. I close my eyes and force a deep inhale, sending a deliberate signal to my nervous system that I’m not defending myself from a saber-toothed tiger. I’m just opening an email. #1stlinepit #a #r #q

SPIRITED AWAY x OUTLANDER 🌿 Sarcastic botanist 🥀 Broody yokai “The fluttering of leaves whispered his arrival.” #1stLinePit #Q #F #NA #YA #BookPitch #RF #Mythology

FOURTH WING x SCORPIO RACES "I wince at the searing path it trails down my throat, but when the alcohol forces the knots in my neck to loosen, the restless thing inside me finally stops hammering against my mental walls." #1stlinepit #ya #romantasy #wip #agented

Down the spyglasses eye, the Tecora glinted in the distance. Its rusting metal hull flushed sanguine through peeling haint blue, disguising it as a bleeding cloud on the desert’s barren horizon. #Q #A #F #CMe #1stLinePit #CaribbeanGothic

"Today was the day the little girl's Blessing became a curse." -Cursed Blessings #1stLinePit #A #F #LGBT #WIP #CMe

No one ever left the Tenement. That was Rule Number One. 😨 Dystopian nightmare 🚪Backrooms ⬛Empty World 📜Follow the Rules 🤱Missing Parent 👥Wholesome Bro Friends ✊Rage Against the Machine 🗝️Forgotten Knowledge 🔎Buried Secrets 💊 Leaving the Matrix #1stLinePit #WIP #YA #S #M #D bsky.app/profile/prof...

When she hears the footsteps behind her, she doesn't rise from the lounger or turn her head. Just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine. 'I told you to leave,' she slurs. 'There's nothing more to say.' 'I've plenty to say.' Her head whips round then. She smiles. #1stLinePit #Q #A #R #S

"The library rumbles in the aftermath of an explosion; it’s the third one this week. I know better than to worry about another student struggling to learn that the incantation leuk may set something alight instead of producing a light." —Bleeding Stars #RF #A #Q #1stLinePit

Mick Martin was halfway through writing the words “coq au vin” when an eight-foot-tall rock golem rampaged after a rooster down the street just beyond the terrace of his family’s café. #1stLinePit #WIP #NA #F #R

Purple stained the lips of the girl paled by death. As if she had taken a sumptuous bite of a delectable fruit before drowning. 𝒶𝒹𝓊𝓁𝓉 𝓂𝒾𝒹𝓌𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓀 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇 🍂 #1stLinePit #WIP #A #H 🍂

in 1977, ash st. jude was drowned by a whale-shaped ocean god. he was dead for two minutes. he's been seeing glimpses of a future where the ocean has flooded the world ever since. only he and the girl with the golden eyes, who he's only ever met in his dreams, will survive. #WSPitW #NA #H #R #LGBT

I was trained to be a monster in battle and a lady in court. When blades locked, a frenzy overtook me, and I became what people feared—the Viper. 👑 Court politics 🗡️ A dagger wielding princess 🤔 Witty banter 🌶️ A playboy prince 🐦‍⬛ Dangerous cult uprisings 🛑NO TURNING BACK #1stLinePit #Q #F #RF #YA

KNIVES OUT X NANCY DREW “Another case solved,” I say aloud to no one in particular. I lean back in my desk chair, stretching my arms over my head. My back arches, and my shoulder blades crack. #1stlinepit #YA #A #crossover #M #Q #T

"My fingernails bit into my skin as I gripped the hilt of my dagger." #Q #A #RF #1stLinePit

The first year of law school, I learned to be satisfied with average. But no one had prepared me for failure. #1stlinepit #A #R #CMe

#Editors "Chilly rain drove into me like tiny knives as I ran from the brutal man I once loved. Mud caked my clothes. My lungs burned, and my limbs shook. I didn’t want to die. I didn’t want to live with him either, a fate worse than death." #1stLinePit #A #Gothic #R #F #OS

You know, I’m actually glad I missed it. Everyone says the end of the world was, overall, kind of a shit show. I don't remember that first day, when everyone disappeared. I was kind of busy being dead. #1stlinepit #SF #M #OS

Thread of #1stLinePit pitches: bsky.app/profile/zpro...

“Nothing is crueler than the hunger gnawing at my bones." #RF #Q #A #OS #CMe #agentguide #agentsguide #1stLinePit

“𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑐𝑘-𝑢𝑝 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ. 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑑-ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝑇𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑. I’ve been called a lot of names in my life, but only one stuck: flight risk. I can’t deny running from Rodney, Mississippi." 🛶MEET ME AT THE LAKE x WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING🐊 #1stLinePit #OS #editors