fabs is editing/drafting + brainstorming 🫣✨

as the person who’s read this book since its first draft:

✨it’s awesome sauce✨

BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD x LIGHTS OUT X BRIDE

👵 A missing grandmother
🐺A wolf shifter crime boss
🐈‍⬛ A black cat homicide DA
🤌 An offer she can't refuse

She's the only one he's ever wanted. He's the one thing she can't resist.

And it's her job to put him in prison.

#cupit #pr #dr #MfR #BnR #A #RoFa

The Shapes We Take In The Fire: An Agent's Guide

A bisexual designer takes a new job working on a high-profile ad campaign with a debt-ridden Latina writer, and chooses to risk his hard-won sobriety and mental health for her love, one he never thought he could deserve—especially after he destroyed his last relationship.

For fans of how to end a love story, seven days in june, atmosphere and tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow

Excerpt: And for the first time in months, he dreamed in color again. The dreams weren’t like before. They weren’t chaotic fever-swamps of guilt and fire, of parties and bodies blurring into chaos. He didn't suffer through another nightmare, masquerading as a memory. The images were gentle, at last. Peaceful. He dreamed of watercolors dripping onto the canvas, drawing on the shape of her hands resting on a notepad. Of an inward current taking shape. Of warmth without fire. THEMES Queer identity 
& reinvention The cost of secrets and self-erasure Recovery as a way of living The impact of trauma on intimacy Class divides 
and power

An Agent's Guide to: THE SHAPES WE TAKE IN THE FIRE!

✌️dual pov/dual timeline
🌶️ open door slow burn
🎶 moody and lyrical
🫂 touch starved
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA protagonists
✊🏽BIPOC & minority voices

#Cupit #CR #POC #LGBT #MHR

California, 1978: Jo Schwartz is determined to go down in history as the Western America ultramarathon’s first female finisher. In order to win, however, she’ll have to get around Mike Pritchard…and stop staring at his broad shoulders and muscular butt.

CATCH THE GIRL

FROM LUKOV WITH LOVE 💘 BATTLE OF THE SEXES

CA, 1978: Jo is determined to go down in history as Western America's first female finisher. To win, however, she’ll have to get around Mike…and stop staring at his broad shoulders and muscular butt.

#cupit #hr #histsportsrom #amquerying

LUTHER x BLADERUNNER

The city simmers with interspecies violence. A series of human/Wired double murders threatens to make things worse. It’s up to private eye Eliot and his android ex-lover to find the killer before the state decommissions all Wireds.
#Cupit #A #SFR #POC

Photo collage: Spiderman mask; Batman comics ; girl with pumpkins; friends hug; boy reading comics; cookies and latte; skeletons “I don’t need infinite stretch to put my foot into my mouth.”

YA COSPLAY CYRANO
After his two best friends break up, 17yo comic nerd Zach gets stuck in the middle–just like with his divorced parents. So he dresses up as a superhero to patch their relationship incognito. His plan was foolproof.
Though catching feelings wasn’t part of the plan.
#RC #YA #Cupit

Meet Finn & Theo from my 84k word queer omegaverse romantasy 🌿HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS🌿 now querying!

Art by oliv_pit on X!

#Cupit #A #RF #LGBT #amquerying

Moodboard. Centre image is a pressure cooker with "CHEMPORTAL" written across it. Outer images clockwise from top left: - fancy drinks and food on a table set for 2 - typed text on a page of a book. "Chemistry" is highly visible - a white woman with brown hair working on a car engine - the Toronto skyline - a colourful stack of books - a bright light shining through a partially open door, obscuring the world beyond - a bat hanging from a branch - a stack of latkes

What happens when a chemistry professor writes a romance?

If that prof is me, you get CHEMPORTAL, in which two awkward scientists battle cults, corporations, and unwanted feelings as they try to invent fertilizer.

Plus, feminist takes on science history. And maybe aliens.

#CuPit #Q #A #SF #R

Four pictures of a small town, a young woman covered in flowers, a tattooed handsome man, and a colourful temple. The middle says "Bride of the Mountain King"

BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN KING
Forbidden romance 😈
A cursed village😈
A revenge plot lifetimes in the making 😈
Novella length fantasy, mystery, and forbidden romance 😈
#Cupit #A #RF

Project Sugar and Spice moodboard Top row: Black business woman with colorful bandana around her hair scribbling notes down on a notepad; pistachio cupcake decorated with buttercream and a rose made of pink buttercream frosting; black business man in white shirt and gray jacket picking up a pencil and jotting down notes Middle row: Interior design of a cafe bar; "they're both stubborn and it's complicated" quote; restaurant cafe interior with light coming into the establishment Bottom row: Zeppole Italian ricotta donuts sprinkled with powdered sugar displayed in a white bowl; piece of carrot cake with buttercream frosting and walnuts on top; homemade blueberry lavender meringue tartlets on a white plate

🧁 She's a jaded pastry chef
🍰 He's a charismatic baker
❤️‍🔥 When their rivalry reaches an all-time high & sweet lies turn to bitter truths, will they achieve their desires unscathed or will all they've worked for burst into flames?

Coming soon to a bookstore near you 👀

#Cupit #CR #POC #BIR #NA #A #W

Pastel toned collage of photos in a country theme

pastel beach background with a block of dark text on a cream box

pastel beach background with a block of dark text on a cream box

List of comp elements and tropes in white writing on a beach background

RACHEL LINDEN x LIBBY IRIKS x TJ KLUNE

A burnt-out teacher escapes to the Australian outback to gain control of her powers, and finds friendship, a safe love, and a new appreciation for life.

Agents, this cosy spec women’s fiction with romance is looking for a home 💖
#Cupit #A #CL #amquerying

Agent’s guide. Baseball background with hearts. sports YA romcom

Baseball background. the pitch: A kiss doesn’t mean anything… And certainly not the fact that they hate each other.

Characters: the only girl in her team photo montage. Childhood-best-friend-turned-pain-in-the-a**

Comps: Heartbreakers and fakers, Better than the movies, Playing for keeps, Thriw like a girl

17yo Jess to-do list after kissing “The Jerk”:

💋 Use him to make crush jealous
✅ Help him get back with his ex
💔 Break up before playoffs
⚾️ Beat his team in the finals
🤐 Hide everything from her dad.
😱 Not fall for him… wait--what?
#RC #YA #Cupit

FAST AND FURIOUS X ROMEO + JULIET (1996)

A burnt-out romance author plunges into a gang-ruled street-racing city and becomes addicted to a reckless racer whose world of speed, violence, and secrets blur the line between love and survival.

#cupit #W #A #CR #MHR

PERCY JACKSON x ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES

Viv has been dreaming of a mysterious scarred man, but when she finds out he’s the key to solving her mother’s murder and now her foretold death, she must go on a quest with her two druid friends to find him.

#Cupit #Q #RoFa #RS #TDR

A pic collage. 6 images left to right top to bottom: a girl with natural red hair with headphones around her neck. A table with two laptops and coffees. A baby book with a little ink print of baby hand and foot. A table with candles wine flowers and a puzzle half done. A close of two women’s hands holding teacups. A woman with dark hair dressed office attire.

Discovering Nicola x When You Least Expect It

FINDING CHARLIE is a sapphic romance of self discovery featuring:
- Leaving your husband & becoming a lesbian
- Office romance
- Fem -> Masc discovery
- Sexy lawyer x buff math nerd
- Slow 🔥
- Mental health & audhd rep
- 🗺️Australia
#Cupit #A #CR #LGBT

ONE GOLDEN SUMMER x 32 DAYS IN MAY

After a life-altering diagnosis, a manager of a Halloween-themed café teams up with her brother’s (irritatingly) charming boss to recreate her father’s road trip across Atlantic Canada—but it sparks a longing for a future that’s out of her reach.

#Cupit #A #CR

Okay here are the serious ones 😂

#Cupit #A #RoFa #LGBT #BIR #Q

Non-AI. Black book cover with a white rectangular border. At the top, small handwritten-style text reads “A (very) dark rom-com.” The title “TWO, PLEASE” is centered, with “TWO,” in white and “PLEASE” in bold red, rough brush lettering. Below the title, a black-and-white illustrated anatomical heart pierced by a dagger radiates stylized lines. In the foreground, a man and a woman are shown from the shoulders up against the black background. Both have wide, anxious expressions and their mouths are covered with duct tape—black tape on the man, silver tape on the woman. The man wears a light gray sweater; the woman wears a coral-orange top. At the bottom, white text reads: “By the author of Dad Bodies: B. van Bodegom.”

SWEENEY TODD × TRUE ROMANCE × NATURAL BORN KILLERS

When two serial killers accidentally target each other, Cupid should've aimed for their throats. Killing together is double the fun. But when one of them wants out, the choice is either stay or slay.

#CuPit #A #HOR #DR #W

Moodboard titled ‘A Most Improper Marriage’ with five images. 1: young woman in a floral white dress and hijab smiling at a young man standing next to her. 2: a gravestone with red flowers. 3: a young man sitting down, his face in his hands as if crying. 4: a close-up of a bride and groom’s entwined hands. 5: a close up of the faces of the man and woman from image 1. 6: a cafetiere, a glass cup of coffee, ans a rose-shaped spoon on a wooden tray.

The last thing Rujina expects a few weeks after her talaq is a marriage proposal from single dad, Zakaria

She’s known Zak since they were teens; he’ll definitely be a better husband than her ex ever was

Quickly tho, she realises that marrying a widower comes with its own heartbreak

#Cupit #A #CR

Moodboard for ALL YOUR QASAMS with a quote from the novel reading, ‘You are madness incarnate’ and five images: picture of a hot chocolate drink and heart-shaped cookies, a couple embracing during a boat ride, a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery smiling down at her maroon outfit, a close-up of a young man kissing the forehead of a young woman, a close-up the joined hands of a south Asian bride and groom, a young man in an aesthetic library reading a hardcover text book. The Moodboard is surrounded by arrows pointing to text that allude to the themes and tropes in the novel: “Meddling grandpa”, “perfect firsts”, “friends-to-lovers with a difference”, “only one bed”, “a decades’ old Qasam and some new ones”, “Bengali teens in STEM”.

Kavi makes BFF Ryhan a Practice Boyfriend so she’ll become the perfect girlfriend to her actual bf Aaron Mirza. Her last shot at love—due to a Qasam—has to be perfect

But Ryhan has a secret & if her family learns of any of this, she’ll lose it all—inc. dreams of studying Medicine in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#Cupit #YA #CR

An artist escaping a viral video scandal. A widowed mechanic going through the motions. One dare to say yes to everything. #Cupit #amquerying #A #RC #CL #disabilityrep #invisibledisability

Two brown skinned characters on a lilac background. The young woman wears a navy blazer and pleated skirt with a beret, long black hair loose. The young man wears a sleeveless vest and trousers in black, he has short back and sides with curls on top. His arms are folded and she clutches a notepad.

HAZELTHORN/STRANGE BEASTS
When plants take over the world & an eminent botanist ends up dead, a reporter persuades a rival plant hunter to seek the truth. But as they become entangled, & the victims pile up, they’ll need sharp tools to avoid being next.
#Cupit #CFR #HOR #NA #W

A gothic style original painting of a vampire dressed in black holding a man dressed in white linen in a stone corridor, surrounded by candle light and moonflowers.

A pitch card that reads benevolent vampire Ishmael’s carefully balanced life is shattered when Edric, the tutor of his adopted nine-year-old spirit medium son, awakens a love he thought lost centuries ago.

A tropes and themes page that reads: DUAL POV, love after grief, queer love and joy, soft gothic, sentient manor, soft fatherhood, ghosts, awkward vampire and sunshine human, Victorian era, queer normative setting, opera house and music, yearning soulmates, and happily ever after

A snippet page that reads in every world, in every time, I would choose you. You are the song of the stars, and the whisper among the trees. It has been you. It has always been you.

A Vampire’s Lament 🖤🦇🥀
Book One in the Time and Time Again series. Benevolent vampire Ishmael’s carefully balanced life is disrupted when Edric awakens a love he thought lost centuries ago.
#Cupit #PR #GR #LGBT #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #queerwriters

A movie poster for "CARGO", depicting a sunset with two crescent moons in the sky. In the foreground are silohettes of two people, only their arms visible, their pinky fingers grasping each other tightly. The arm on the left is thinner and has four fingers. The arm on the right is of average proportions and has five fingers. The top of the poster reads "A match made in space. While stealing things." Below the name "CARGO", there is smaller writing in an alien language, presumably the title translated. At the bottom of the poster, the credits section is as follows: CATHERINE WINTERS AND COREWARD BAKER PRODUCTIONS LTD PRESENT A CATHERINE WINTERS NOVEL ‘CARGO’ STARRING TAI OF MICAPA THYLLIS CHAUMEDEROT TALATAGARI QUIRIN TALATAGARI ANENTO FRANK THE CAT JEREL BESKROS CHOST MOL RAZIK FEATURING COOL MOSS ABOVE STILL WATER AND INTRODUCING CLARKE SHIPS BY SETEBO-URANQ AND CONSTANT VERIDITY INTERSTELLAR COSTUMES BY UPPER CORE ATELIER “HUMAN” CREATURE EFFECTS BY 3.8 BILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION CASTING BY THE TRADE AUTHORITY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CATHERINE WINTERS DIRECTED BY CATHERINE WINTERS WRITTEN BY CATHERINE WINTERS

WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Tai can get through this. Things'll go back to normal. Steal the cargo, stop thinking about the human, wipe the security feed, stop thinking about the human, get out of the vault, stop thinking about the human. Easy. #CuPit #SFR #LGBT #SF #A

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS

Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. With Jack's frozen 🩵 melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves

#CuPit #YA #RoFa #LGBT #CliFi

Collage-style promotional graphic for the novel Babel on Callisto. Four illustrated polaroid images show two men, Jack (blond) and Elias (dark-haired with glasses), in different scenes: wearing space suits, working together in a lab, leaning close in a quiet moment, and kissing. The background is pink and textured with scientific sketches and handwritten notes. A torn paper excerpt of prose is centered. Text on the images reads “Babel on Callisto,” “Now Querying,” “88K Sci-Fi Horromance,” and “@saraduranauthor.”

Now querying!

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ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

✨two exiled men (and their secrets)
✨one lunar prison (and its horrors)
✨a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💖the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT #AmQuerying #CuPit

lazy to make a new pitch post so here's me reposting last year's one! <33

comps: KING OF SLOTH x GOD OF FURY x PERFECT ADDICTION
genre: BIPOC dark romance
title: THE VILLAIN'S MUSE.

"He hugged me the other day. And in that moment, I realised how much my heart had melted away for him."

Hopeful rebel and charismatic sailor race to save the cosmos from climate disaster. Optimistic politics, ancient swords, easy romances, and unlikely friendships form a thoughtful romp through the “Veins of the Ether”. What’s more important: a revolution, or what comes after?

#questpit #sff #f #sf

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: LIGHTS, CAMBOT, BLOODBATH LAST CHANCE MATCH ADULT SPECULATIVE SCI FI PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROMANCE NOW REVISING WITH WRITEHIVE

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Pitch Welcome to the inaugural season of Last Chance Match, a government-funded dating show for the soulmateless to find their other half. Set in a tropical location, eighteen hopeful singles will compete for the chance to have a soulmate and all the benefits that come with it such as: free healthcare and education, better job opportunities and exemption from soulmateless extermination at thirty. Due to limited resources and population control, only three couples can win. Are you ready to find the one who’s to die for? 28-year-old soulmateless Cera thinks the opportunity could represent a second chance until the show takes a dark turn and a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host. The infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde swears he’ll get Cera home safely so long as they remain coupled to protect one another from elimination. But the fatal games they play for the nation’s entertainment pick the contestants off one by one, leaving Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: Themes & Tropes - Touch her and die MMC - Soulhates to Soulmates - What if divorce was eliminated and the government told you who your soulmate was? - head rolling twists - forced proximity - found family (then break it apart) - slow burn romance - genre blend sci fi dystopian horromance - survival of the fittest government mentality

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Comps: Media: SQUID GAME, BLACK MIRROR, LOVE ISLAND: The deadly gameplay of SQUID GAME and the futuristic horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND Books: Hide - Kiersten White, The Compound - Aisling Rawle, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells The eerie prose and romance arcs of Kiersten White, the dystopian dating show of THE COMPOUND and the frightening use of bots in THE MURDERBOT DIARIES

Dear Citizen of Calasca,

We're happy to inform you that you've been selected to join us on Last Chance Match. Congratulations! A CivilBot will pick you up shortly. We look forward to seeing you soon.

𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧?

#questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D