Elisha Morales

ink drawing of Jak Sterzand, a teenage boy, crawling towards the viewer in a ventilation or maintenance shaft type tunnel. His name and title of the book JAK STERZAND above him, and underneath in smaller letters, the subtitle: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT All in black and white

TREASURE PLANET×THE EXPANSE
A bookworm dreams of escape from a pirate-run space station. With his friend, a tech genius, he finds an ancient wrist computer tied to his family and a legendary lost starship. As they seek answers, so does a notorious captain.
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KINGDOM AWAKENING

✨️Adult romantasy exploring themes of love, betrayal, & sacrifice

✨️The rich emotional contour of Jennifer L. Armentrout's FROM BLOOD AND ASH meets the toe-curling tension of Ali Hazelwood’s BRIDE

✨️Standalone with series potential complete at 112k

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3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman in a forest with a giant wolf; a silhouette of a woman; an image of a hand with puppet strings; a woman reaching out to light; two hands touching; a woman surrounded by a phoenix; art of a winged person saving someone falling; silhouette of couple kissing in the sun; a crown and dagger

A mortal woman teams up with the God of Light to put a stop to a power-hungry shapeshifter. But as she falls for his charms and nears uncovering the enemy's identity, she's forced to choose between love or duty—before the world & everyone she loves—falls to darkness
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Nineteen-year-old Lottie Bradbury is called home to her crumbling family estate with an ultimatum: marry or let the Bradbury name die. But in a post-war world where old traditions are crumbling and women are claiming new independence, Lottie refuses to be controlled. Her introduction is disrupted when the gardener is found dead, his skull shattered on the manor steps. His son, Arthur, warns Lottie that the house is hungry, that it killed his father—just as it did her mother a decade ago. And it’s not finished. Determined to seize control of her own fate, Lottie digs into the manor’s past, only to realize the house has other plans. Strange footsteps at night. Whispers slithering through the halls. Shadows shifting where none should be. Arthur insists the manor is alive, feeding on the sins of her ancestors, that her family is cursed. But he’s not the only one keeping secrets, and the deeper she digs, the harder it is to know who to trust. THE LAST HEIR OF BRADBURY MANOR is a slow-burn gothic horror set in 1919, blending the creeping dread of The Hacienda with the sentient menace of Starling House. A tale of inheritance, obsession, and a house that refuses to let go. The manuscript is complete at 96,000 words.

Comps for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor: Starling House: Dark inheritance, Family secrets, Sentient house The Hacienda: Unresolved grief, Psychological unraveling, Supernatural dread Crimson Peak: Decaying grandeur, Gothic vibes

A mood board for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor with... A decaying, messed up sitting room A spooky staincase with a girl walking A girl climbing out of a well A book on fire A cozy Edwardian dinner party A spooky gothic dinner party Text that reads: breaking the curse means losing him forever. Embracing it may damn her soul

Tropes for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor 🖤 Manor With a Mind 📖 Cryptic Diary 💀 Generational Blood Curse 🕯 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Ghosts 🏚 Slow-burn 🖋 Arranged? Meetcute? Ghostly Trauma Bonding? 🔥 If the House Doesn’t Kill You, Love Might 🕰 1919 but Make It Haunted ⚰ Who Needs a Dowry When You Have a Death Curse?

After returning to her family’s crumbling estate and finding the gardener dead, a reluctant heiress partners with his son to break a generational curse before it claims her too.

🕯 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Ghosts
🔥 If the House Doesn’t Kill You, Love Might

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Cover for Grim Portents featuring a skeleton hand gripping a feather, emerging from a flaming book over a maze

"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow. But now the monster had been given a name, an identity. It was real." BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK. NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS. FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.

Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.

Grim Portents

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a demon on his wedding day. With the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of

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Technically Yours x The Paradise Problem x The Hangover ♠️♥️♣️♦️
 
Becca has 3 weeks to raise $100k and save the job she loves-if she can survive a worktrip to Vegas with her ex’s hot best friend first.
 
♥️ gambling lessons
♥️ meddling coworkers
♥️ millennial-themed nightclub party
 
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In here you will find…🌼🫖

🎭Broadway Vibes
💕Adoption and Found Family
🫖A Gentle Monster who LOVES Tea
🤑A Greedy Warlock
😈A Rogue Fae
👹A Murderous Abomination
🤒 Chronic Illness
💀Death and Grief
🦷A Deadly Curse
🍱 Magic Food

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New #agentguide for #LuckyPit to my Pied Piper retelling X The Cruel Prince
Tropes and Features:
-The royal and the bodyguard👑⚔️
- Flawed POC FMC
- The MMC is the damsel
-Horror elements sprinkled in
- Identity and belonging
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MOTHER OF MONSTERS. Debut standalone #NVL. Outcast Echidna & her family must stop spree killer Harry, who has targeted them in order to prove himself to his father in modern inverted #MYT of Hercules’ Labors. #amwriting #amquerying #writeandgrind

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Priestess tarot card with a figure of light sitting in meditation on a large stone in the forest

map of the US with 60 m sea level rise over a back ground of leaves sprouting from sticks, an orange and pink sunset, and the Earth

Fool tarot card with a figure over a rushing river, stepping off a ledge holding a sunflower

hermit tarot card with a figure knee deep in a colorful swamp holding up a lantern

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?

A scholar-empath leads a #tarot themed odyssey across the former US & through the Wheel of the Year, using neoprimitive living skills, #permaculture, and #meditation powers

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Thanks!

A collage of spooky and moody images, such as shadows and ghosts and magical items and knives. It has two quotes which say “Sanguis eat vis vitae” and “Blood is the life force.”

THE IMMORTAL’S ASSISTANT

Alice Foster’s terminally ill father secretly learns a blood ritual where he must kill to stay alive, and she teams up with magic-wielding immortals to save him before he descends further into madness.

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Agent guide for my romance forward, fantasy retelling of the Jewish history/ biblical story of Esther/Purim!

ACOTAR x Redeeming Love

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Master Classes - San Francisco Writers Conference February 6-9, 2025. Your journey to literary success starts here!

Come to my in-person Master Class: Unraveling the Mystery of GMCs (goals, motivations, conflicts) and How to Prepare Pitches That Pack a Punch! When? Thursday, Feb. 6 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on Embarcadero 4:30pm - 7:30pm. Register now! www.sfwriters.org/events-and-p... #WritingCommunity

Not a fan of winter at all, which admittedly is strange considering where I live, but it is certainly beautiful when outside looks like a farmland snowglobe.

So, in case anyone is looking for a fantastic fantasy series that is perfect to read during the wintertime lull, try the Winternight trilogy! Rich in folklore and immersive.
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#amquerying

It's almost depressingly easy to fall into feeling this way in publishing. It's so heartwrenching to put a piece of your soul out there and have it rejected.
Just remember, you started writing because you love it!
Write something fresh and fun just for you. It really helps. Cheers!

Philippa Sitters launches new agency Philippa Sitters has left David Godwin Associates after a decade to launch her own agency.

The news is out! Congratulations, @phi11y.bsky.social! Very exciting to see my agent forge a new path.

If any #amwriting #amquerying writers are looking for rep, Philippa is currently open to queries.

Comp titles are so hard. However, no one will ask you if you've read the titles you're listing 🫣
They just want to know where your title would fit on the shelf. ie: what book it would sit next to. Not necessarily what book it is the most like. Hope that helps!

I'm not an agent, but have learned that the only time they want to know POV if it's dual.
I may be wrong, but that's what some agents I follow have said. Best of luck!

So sorry! Those rejections really sting, and it's easy to get discouraged. But you've done amazing things! You've written entire books, and that's something to be proud of!

Fingers crossed for you!!!

What was your reaction when you got your first full request?
I literally squealed, ran circles around my kitchen island, then called my sisters, repeatedly shouting, "I don't know how to be alive right now!"
What about you?
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I received this lovely gift from my darling coworker. This girl gets me

#WritingCommunity: hopefully everyone got the email Patrick @ #Query Tracker (Query Manager) sent out today. He said Dec. 20th the site is going to be "down" for upgrades, etc. The email says nobody would be able to send/view queries or send replies looks like not until 12/28/2024. #amquerying

hope is the only thing stronger than fear written on a green background ALT: hope is the only thing stronger than fear written on a green background

To my #amquerying friends who are receiving an influx of passes right now, just remember, those passes are not your forever. Just 1-2 weeks before I got my 1st agent offer I was wondering if I should pause my querying journey. Ride the waves. Don’t lose hope in your work 🫶 #writingcommunity