Cassie Wallin Author

A kiss is never just a kiss.

From my upmarket speculative WIP about memory, identity, and the ghosts we carry.

#WIPsnip #FirstKiss #SpecFic #AmWriting #UpmarketFiction #WritingCommunity

Thanks! Should be done with polish before fall!!

Tech dystopia meets haunting love story my kind of weekend read.

Get excited, there is a devastatingly efficient AI which finds the inefficiency is humanity

Title slide: “THE LAST WORD – Upmarket Speculative Fiction” with comparison books Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Dark atmospheric background with glowing white title text.

Pitch text: “Emotion is outlawed. Memory is rewritten. Nova erases memories for the regime, but when a glitching implant shows her a phantom in the code, she must choose obedience—or a truth she was never meant to remember.” Themes listed include found family, soft rebellion, trauma and recovery, slow-burn romance, and hope in the darkness. Images of a woman walking in misty mountains, a glowing neural network, and a silhouette at sunset.

Quote: “I saw you under the maple tree.” Followed by atmospheric pitch lines: “A voice she can’t forget. A past they tried to erase. A choice that could break her—or set her free.” Visuals of blood on a wall, a tactical soldier, and a futuristic city skyline.

Nine-image aesthetic grid: futuristic cityscapes, a cabin in the woods, digital patterns, a forest, broken glass, and a lone figure walking into mist. Emphasis on contrast between nature and surveillance tech.

Final post for #questpit ✨

Thank you everyone!

Here’s a streamlined look at THE LAST WORD for agents and readers who want a quick glance.🧡

Emotion is outlawed. Memory is rewritten.
Soft rebellion, found family, slow-burn epic romance—and hope in the dark.

#W #A #S #SF

Image with the title “Agent Guide to THE LAST WORD” in large glowing white text over a dark, moody background of a dimly lit wall and benches. Subtitle reads “Speculative Fiction.” The tone is ominous and atmospheric.

Text slide titled “PITCH” over the same moody background. Describes a speculative novel set in a world where emotion is outlawed and memories are rewritten. The protagonist, Nova, is a neural rewriter who begins to hear a rogue voice in the code, challenging everything she thought she knew. Explores themes of identity, memory, and resistance.

Slide titled “COMPS” featuring covers of Never Let Me Go, The Power, The Memory Police, Ex Machina, Arrival, and Black Mirror. Bullet points draw comparisons to themes like identity, memory, AI, slow-burn romance, emotional restraint, speculative control, rebellion, and surveillance states.

Slide titled “EXCERPT.” Features a scene in which Nova sees a phantom appear during a blackout—flickering like an old video file. He speaks to her, referencing past pain she tried to forget. The moment ends with a whisper: “I saw you under the maple tree.” A terminal window activates on its own and her restraints fall away. Tone is eerie, emotional, cinematic.

The Memory Police x Never Let Me Go

💔 outlawed emotion
💻 a rogue in the code
🌲 found family & fractured trust
🔥 soft rebellion & slow-burn epic romance
👁️ surveillance, memory control, and a phantom in the tech
📼 “I saw you under the maple tree.”

#W #A #S #SF #U #questpit

Title slide: “THE LAST WORD – Upmarket Speculative Fiction” with comparison books Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Dark atmospheric background with glowing white title text.

Pitch text: “Emotion is outlawed. Memory is rewritten. Nova erases memories for the regime, but when a glitching implant shows her a phantom in the code, she must choose obedience—or a truth she was never meant to remember.” Themes listed include found family, soft rebellion, trauma and recovery, slow-burn romance, and hope in the darkness. Images of a woman walking in misty mountains, a glowing neural network, and a silhouette at sunset.

Quote: “I saw you under the maple tree.” Followed by atmospheric pitch lines: “A voice she can’t forget. A past they tried to erase. A choice that could break her—or set her free.” Visuals of blood on a wall, a tactical soldier, and a futuristic city skyline.

Nine-image aesthetic grid: futuristic cityscapes, a cabin in the woods, digital patterns, a forest, broken glass, and a lone figure walking into mist. Emphasis on contrast between nature and surveillance tech.

Final post for #questpit ✨

Thank you everyone!

Here’s a streamlined look at THE LAST WORD for agents and readers who want a quick glance.🧡

Emotion is outlawed. Memory is rewritten.
Soft rebellion, found family, slow-burn epic romance—and hope in the dark.

#W #A #S #SF

This sounds awesome 😎

#questpit #rf #q
If Fleabag couldn’t choose between Geralt of Rivia and Colin Bridgerton—after accidentally becoming the heir to a murdered goddess—her name would be Rosaline Everlight.
Sarcastic. Sleep deprived.
Motive to burn the kingdom to ash: loading.

I love firefly!

FIREFLYxEXPANSE
To earn a coveted science permit to a remote star system a desperate captain hires her roguish nemesis as co-pilot. But in getting tangled between feuding spies and her mother trying to destroy her again, he may be exactly who she needs to help.
#QuestPit #A #SF #R #Q

I love ai antagonists!

#YA #SF #questpit #Q

Ok I love your comps, I’d read

This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says: "A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#QuestPit #A #S #SF #W

It’s giving Alfred Hitchcock

A collage of vintage noir images featuring a man in a suit, shattered mirror reflection, puppet strings, surreal eyes, and intense facial expressions. The tone is mysterious and dramatic.

A MASTERY OF SELF
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an actor is trapped in a nightmare of an identity crises after playing too many roles🖤

-speculative hollywood
-friends to lovers
- eldritch horror or real doppleganger?

#questpit #W #A #H #S #R

Well from your pitch it sounds like a very interesting premise.

A 4-slide graphic titled “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her”. Each slide features a foggy forest background with layered white text. Slide 1: Text reads: “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her” followed by: “89k words | Upmarket Psychological Suspense by Tiffany Darling.”

Slide 2: Same foggy forest background. Text reads: Pitch “When eight-year-old Lacey Carson finds her mother dead on the kitchen floor, something inside her fractures. Uprooted to a new town with a grieving, distant father, she latches onto the first person who shows her warmth—Emily Harper, a precocious classmate with a big heart and an even bigger need to help. What begins as innocent friendship festers into decades of obsession, manipulation, and a love so warped it leaves one girl dead, and the other wondering if she even knows how to survive a life without her.”

Slide 3: Same background. Title: Comps Left side shows the cover of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, with the words: “Complex female relationships Motherhood Buried secrets Slow burn Emotional depth” Right side shows the cover of The Push by Ashley Audrain, with the words: “Unsettling Emotionally charged Navigates maternal instinct Psychological unraveling Fear”

Slide 4: Same back ground. Text that reads “Dual POV / Nonlinear timeline Character-driven psychological suspense A slow burn that simmers... then detonates.

If you’re an agent who loved the twisting depths of the true crime Scamanda podcast and want that kind of suspense in fiction, Everything I Gave Her might be for you.
The deeper you go, the more it twists.
Currently has 2 full requests.

#QuestPit #T #Q #A

You sound like you write like me 😊

A dark, gloomy moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following: - first column: two ancient bathhouses and an aqueduct - second column: an anxious man, a bathing woman, and a pair of hands covered in blood - third column: a torn book, a recursive fractal, and a person reflected in a puddle.

Two moodboards back to back, one cozy and comfy for the plant lady, the other dark and mysterious for the detective. Underneath, two pitches for the book.

An agent's guide to THE PALIMPSEST, a murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION🔎

–94k high-concept/spec thriller
–vibes of DARK x RECURSION
–multi POV
–lyrical writing
–metafictional hook
–book-within-a-book structure
–Claymore Award finalist (literary category)

#questpit #q #a #t #s #lf

I love glass onion as a comp, also it looks so cozy… which makes it spookier😬

mood board for the book I'm writing: what's pictured: snowy woods, woods, ghost, snowy cabin, blood, trees, footprints in snow, eerie moon and fog

NOT QUITE DEAD YET X GLASS ONION
While at a party in a ❄️ cabin, what Abby doesn't expect is to:
💢see her angry sis after a yr-long feud
💔run into her ex
🔪get stabbed in the back, murdered
👻 As a ghost, she must solve her own murder b4 others die & pass to the afterlife
#questpit #W #A #MY #PR #F #S

Ok, but can I watch the movie?

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising

In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures 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

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #S #SFF

fruit wip by tyler stasi

pitch for fruit wip by tyler stasi

comps for fruit wip by tyler stasi

#QuestPit #W #S #F

Severance x PIRANESI

How far would you go to hide the person you used to be?

⚜️dark cottagecore
⚜️psycho-magical realism
⚜️botanical horror elements
⚜️a false sanctuary setting
⚜️unidentified FMC

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

🍓👒🪴🕰🪑

This sounds super interesting, I love the sentient flora. Also your art is great!

THE DEADING x SotR x THE 100

🌿the earth is sentient & hungry for vengeance
🗡rivals to lovers who compete to outsmart each other
🔆"We're all monsters. We just get to choose what kind."

#QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #SF #SFF #S #RF

Wow, that’s a hook. I actually really want to read this.

The government promised safety: go to sleep until the plague passes.

His family checked in. He didn't.

Now, as the last waking witness, he’s uncovering a truth worse than never waking up.

#A #W #S #Questpit