C G Maskell

Thoughts that stuck with me:

It is not up to someone or something to be "interesting" to you.
Everything is just matter; it's *you* who needs to meet the world with interest.

English is weird.

A resplendent rainbow, arching across stormy skies.

Wearily resting my eyes today, I opened them to see a rainbow. “Promise of bright and beautiful days ahead”, the invisible said, whereupon, I drifted back to sleep. With thanks for the kindness shown to me here, lighting up my virtual world, like a rainbow too! #ThankYou #GratefulHeart #Rainbow

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Ad for my books, Beggars' Dust and Paupers' Gold, showing the two book covers - one with mushrooms at the foot of a tree, the other showing a desert city in a dust storm. For fans of Stephen Lawhead, Frank Peretti, Stephen R Donaldson and George R R Martin... Featuring a tortured hero, a deal with the devil, corrupt politicians, a lost race, epic journeys, magical amulets, addiction, faking the dead, forgotten gods, prophecies, relatable relationships, poison mushrooms, naughty poems, maps, and REVOLUTION!

BEGGARS' DUST. An ancient evil is freed from its chains, and a government corrupted. A forgotten race in the mountains hides a great secret. Four youngsters linked by mind-talk seek answers, and begin an epic journey to discover their cultural past and their destiny.
#YouDeservepIt #SP #A #F

Happy Place x Emily Wilde

In a town wrapped in fairylore, a group of roommates discover stories of fairies stealing people away in the night aren’t what they seem as they begin to suspect their romantic partners might be more legend than human 🧚🏼

#YouDeservePit #WIP #A #F #R

A gold and turquoise collage of cats, ravens, trees, stars, a dreamer, and a couple in love.

Emily Wilde Series
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An Enchantment of Ravens
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Studio Ghibli

Auri strikes a desperate bargain with the voiceless reaper Kir'an. To save her father, she must kill the immortal, but she's slowly realizing she may not want to.

#YouDeservepIt
#WIP #A#YA crossover #F #RF

Mood board with glowing magic in cupped hands, a teenage girl looking at her phone while chewing her nails, hands bound in rope, a ballerina balanced on one leg, someone spying through a window, teenage boys glaring at each other, five headshots with a teenage girl in the center of two teenage boys and two men, magic swirling around a puckered mouth, bared vampire fangs, and a silhouette of an embracing couple looking at each other. A badge reading "Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist" is in front of the pictures in the upper left quadrant.

Fantasy fugitives kidnap a ballerina w/ a panic disorder for their leader’s magic in her, but though they threaten her family so she'll live w/ them until it can be returned & forbid ballet school, she risks everything after she bonds w/ them & falls for 1

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #RF #FR #F #R #M #ND

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising

In a beach town of people lost at sea and legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside–
it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible 🌊

#YouDeservePit #Q #A #F #R #SPEC

[photo grid] 6 pictures: dilapidated house in the woods with a puddle in the foreground; creepy and dark path through the trees; a metal and stone gate that’s open, leading toward a large house, but it’s all overgrown and unkept; a girl looking into a shard of mirror with only the bottom half of her face reflecting back, an ornate staircase that was once elegant but now is dilapidated; black background with red text reading ON AIR

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

A moodboard for #YouDeservepIt featuring from left to right, top to bottom: scales, a girl sitting on a bench, friendship bracelets, factories emitting plumes of smoke, a statue of a prince, "friend" scrabble letters, gold rings, mountains, a comet, a star in the center with "beware the stars" written on it, a broken heart, a princess in a dress and crown, knights with a horse, knuckles covered in blood, and a watchtower.

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

Blue and purple leaves, a snowy castle, multiple images of multicolored forests, a hand swinging a crown, a hand producing purple flames, a table fill of potions, a figure with blue hair obscuring their face

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

When saints and gods go to war, it is mortals who get trapped in the middle. It is mortals who will take hold of their own fate. And it is mortals who will live to see the sun shine another day.

They may be broken, but even broken bells can ring.
#YouDeservepIt #WIP #A #F

Sarahi would sacrifice everything for her family. Even if she can never see them again.

✨ lovers👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏽 ➡️ ENEMIES🤺
✨ complex female friendships 👯‍♀️
✨ privilege & duty 👑
✨ prophecies, beasts, & murderous royals 🔪
✨ twists that will leave you 😱😱😱

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #F #RF

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON

When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb
#YouDeservepIt #ya #f

black spring querying novel original fantasy and romance subplot

black spring summary

black spring tropes/features

comps for original fantasy novel

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #F #R

a revamped #agentguide for my revised:

BLACK SPRING ✨🖤💐

👑an epic garden fantasy
🌷slow burn romance
🌱dash of botanical horror
🐝unique nature/ink magic

w/👀editor interest👀

THE POPPY WAR X SHADOW OF THE GODS🌋🧿

On a chain of Greek-inspired islands, Iro Zikos is spared by dying gods and granted the gold touch becoming a coveted weapon—just as the king of the largest isle dies, leaving a power vacuum and five ambitious families to fill it.

#YouDeservepIt #F #A #Agented

Conscripted into a brutal war against the mystical Lumani, Rowynn keeps a dangerous secret - an uncontrollable magic rises within her, the very magic the army seeks to destroy. Her only solace is in a mysterious demon who visits Rowynn in her dreams. #YouDeservepIt #A #F #WIP

Anticolonialist Nature Epic Fantasy:

Ros sails across the ocean in search of missing memories when her crew shipwrecks on a hidden continent, where a red desert threatens the source of magic, and the magic-wielding natives think Ros and her crew are to blame.
TIDE OF SANDS

#Q #A #F #YouDeservepIt

A pink moodboard featuring images from madoka magica, two sisters, glitching tv screens.

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

Fourth Wing x Priory Of The Orange Tree

After a dragon bonds with a healer, the only way she’ll survive military training is with help from the dragon prodigy, a man she absolutely hates…

…until she finds out what’s beneath his tough-as-scales exterior 🐉

#YouDeservepIt #NA #F #R #OS (soon!!)

A Memory of Moonkissed Malice Villain Era Protag Frenemies to Lovers Queendoms Found Family Fantasy Dark Academia Vampires Feminine Rage Corrupted Moon Magic

ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK

Nocturne's halls hold secrets darker than Alyss ever imagined. With sinister professors & corrupted moon magic, she'll need to work with her ex, his new girl, & an infuriately charming vampire to avenge her sister's murder.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F

NINTH HOUSE x IT GIRL

What lit agents have said about AN OFFER SO GRAVE
“This is…inventive [and] finely plotted”
“Just steeped with literary flavor!” “Aster is such a compelling protagonist”
“Clearly I love the concept so much”

#agents the full is ready upon request!

#Q #A #F #H #YouDeservepIt

CLYTEMNESTRA X STUDIO GHIBLI
Longing for a lost home, Andromache's world shifts when her husband dies and she finds herself in a deathly battle of wills with her ex-captor's wife, but she's won't be a slave - not again

#YouDeservePit #Q #F #Myth

ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK

When Birdie & Lennon accidentally summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three.

🌿coming of age
🌿multi-POV
🌿magical take on the string theory
🌿petty gods + politics

#YouDeservepIt #q #a #f

Linky 🔗
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Lightning cracking over mountains and a lake reflecting it back Silhouettes of dragons A woman’s back with bloody scratch n marks A man in leather staring a glass of alcohol A woman with long nails drawing blood from her throat A woman mounting a bicycle

PotOT x The Originals

Teddy broke every natural law to save his love, seeking the help of the illegitimate heir to a fortune as ancient and bloody as the city he calls home.

Now nature and the City what was stolen back.

and the fight for his love becomes the fight for their lives.

#bluepit #F #A

An aesthetic described from top Left to bottom right A wolf superimposed howling over a haunted forest The quote “so tell me little wolf, do you want to punish those who have wronged you?” Hands snatching at thorns and vines entwining around a person A hand sticking through the vines and shrubs (the book is better at describing promise) Rusted chains Hands clutching burning stalks coming from a flakes figure The quote “I was only ever what you made me” with a bloodied mark

For the Wolf x King of Scars

🐺The Monsters in all of us
🧚‍♀️Forest spirits and demigods
🧭50 Shades of Morally Grey MC
💔Enemies to Lovers
♥️Fated Mates
🛡Redemption Arcs
🍬Sweet, sweet revenge

“Grief was a blossom in his heart - the weed had taken root throughout.”

#bluepit #F #WIP