SonnyZappa

Introducing my MC Rea through incorrect quotes:

(A historical fantasy set in WW2 Italy)

#UnhingedPit #YA #H #W

Thank you!

Black and white map of rome THIEVING SPARROW FOUND FAMILY HEIST LOW FANTASY The pitch: Nazi Occupied Rome, 1944 Eighteen-Year-old Rea Sisti wages her own war against Nazism by stealing Italian artworks en route to Germany. When a mysterious American hires her to obtain a painting, she sets up a crew of talented "undesirables" for the theft of the decade. But "Diana L'immortale" might be more than she bargained for.

ANATOMY OF A THIEF X INGLORIOUS BASTERDS X YA

Featuring:
🦋 A Mastermind teenage girl
🦋 A Heist against the Nazis
🦋 A group of talented "undesirables"
🦋 Found family
🦋 Yearning
🦋 Female rage and female friendship
🦋 Italian setting by Italian author
🦋 Resistance through art

#PosterPit #YA #HF #W

A movie poster of Aaron's YA Fantasy, SoulCast, with the lead characters in the center. One is a Black warrior, the other is a Black Prince.

HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS

Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom's soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#PosterPit #Vague

A poster, featuring an illustrated portrait of Aubeline de Sterraux from A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE. She is a white woman with brown hair tied in an intricate hairstyle. She wears a black dress with puffed sleeves and white earings. Aubeline is shown kneeling and praying, her head looking up. The top of the poster is colored, and the bottom part is black and white, the two part being separated by a red stain reminiscent of blood. The title of the book is in the center. Underneath is more text reading "A novel by Millie Abecassis," then a quote by April Yates reading "A gothic gem, rich with dread, desire, and a magic system as haunting as it is original." Under the quote are the names of several characters, listed as if they were actors: Aubeline de Sterraux, Vinnie Anneton, Damarisse de Sterraux, and "unhinged dudes." At the top are Cannes festival-style quotes reading "dangerous body-based magic" and "slow-burn sapphic romance."

Forthcoming 10.21.2025 at Brick & Bloom, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue and dangerous magic ✨

🌹 Historical fantasy
🇫🇷 Belle Époque
🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance
🩸 Body-based magic system
🗡️ Family feuds
🗝️ Gothic vibes

#PosterPit #P #A #F #HF

Request an ARC here: forms.gle/N6awtckRwFGy...

A movie poster featuring a girl holding a lighter with Rome on the background and embers that slowly turn into Fireflies. It reads: THIEVING SPARROW FOUND FAMILY HEIST LOW FANTASY The pitch: Nazi Occupied Rome, 1944 Eighteen-Year-old Rea Sisti wages her own war against Nazism by stealing Italian artworks en route to Germany. When a mysterious American hires her to obtain a painting, she sets up a crew of talented "undesirables" for the theft of the decade. But "Diana L'immortale" might be more than she bargained for.

INDIANA JONES X SIX OF CROWS

#PosterPit #W #YA #HF

What's straighter than *check notes* comparing your friend to the sun?

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My Mc Rea from my WW2 Wip keeps insisting she's not a lesbian, meanwhile this is what she's writing in her diary addressed to a friend who kissed her once and gave her a violet shaped necklace

#WritingCommunity #Snippet

#UnhingedPit seems like a suitable first public outing for my #WIP

Still very much in progress, but #A #Upmarket with #R elements

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible:

Teenage boy dies, decides to kill god

Thank you for the tag Millie but I don't have a page 187 yet...

Yo! #WritingCommunity, drop lines 8+9+10 from page 187 of your MS and tag 3 friends!
@lness.bsky.social
@chriscampeau.bsky.social
@sonnyzappa.bsky.social

The moth and the light that calls her

Moodboard

Pitch and comps

Sample

BABEL X DISHONORED
🌘Morally gray protagonist
⏳Dangerous Academia
🔮Soul-tearing magic
🦋Female rage
♟Sapphic Enemies AND lovers
📜Kill List
🏛 Ancient Rome inspired Steampunk setting
#WIPPIT #A #F

A foggy street. A vintage dress. A gas mask. Legs on a rocky ground. A silhouette of a man and woman. Flowers in sunlight.

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world.

#WIPPIT #F #A

THE STAR BARON'S HUSBAND A LGBT+ Steampunk Fantasy Webserial by Jean M. Hodges ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION BY SAE AKA LIGHTLYBOW

Fully-rendered illustration of a happy BIPOC mlm couple in a romantic embrace, one man with glasses on smiling as his husband gives him a kiss on the cheek. ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION: Fejtel on Bluesky

Failed steampunk inventor Ari is perfectly content w/ living a quiet life in isolation in his empty mountain town...until the eccentric star baron Cy fell out of the sky & screwed up those plans. Ari fixes his robot leg, they fall hard & fast. Will it last?

#F #HF #A #U #R #LGBT #SFF #WIPPIT #FBW

Every year, forty of Kilea’s children sent to a haunted ship as a sacrifice to avoid a war with the giants. Birdie’s part of this year’s sacrifice, but they’re armed with a slingshot and plenty of viciousness, and they have no intention of dying on that ship.

HUNGER GAMES X LITTLE NIGHTMARES
⚓️Young adult fantasy horror
⚓️Unhinged non-binary MC
⚓️Haunted ship
⚓️Found family
⚓️Theseus and the minotaur loose retelling
⚓️Deadly monsters
#F #H #YA #LGBT #WIPPIT

A moodboard feuturing various creepy animals and the lyrics to the chorus of Eat your young by Hozier.

HUNGER GAMES X LITTLE NIGHTMARES
Every year, forty of Kilea’s children sent to a haunted ship as a sacrifice. Birdie’s part of this year’s sacrifice, but they’re armed with a slingshot and plenty of viciousness, with only one objective: survive.
#F #H #YA #LGBT #WipPit

A graphic with CYANOSIS at the top, saying MORGAN WODRING is now represented by A.J. Van Belle of the Booker Albert Agency. The background is an illustration of a man and a woman back to back with a purple wyvern between them.

I am bouncing off the walls to announce that I'm now represented by @ajvanbelle.bsky.social of @bookeralbertagency.bsky.social! From the get-go, they understood this strange world and its characters and helped them to shine bright. I'm excited to begin this mycorrhizal symbiosis!

The MC from my WIP

I'm still learning how to draw (I started a couple of months ago), but I drew Sage, the MC from my Dark Academia WIP

I'm reading this one and trust me, it brightens your day.
#QuestPit

Image: a Regency woman with a clock superimposed over her. Text: The Genesis Clock.

PITCH: Imbued with time magic, chronoglass could alter the Napoleonic Wars. For cryptographer Georgiana Adams, it gives her the chance to erase the moment that soiled her character and forced her betrothed to leave her. For Joshua Durand, the chronoglass would undo the mistake that crippled him in the Battle of Trafalgar and cost him his job as a British spy. When they catch each other stealing chronoglass, they make a deal: they won’t turn the other in as long as they work together and ration the precious magic. The deal should be easy—until they fall in love.

Comp titles: Pride and Prejudice (writing style), This is How You Lose the Time War (time-traveling spies), Queen Bee (feminist social commentary), and A Fragile Enchantment (Regency magic).

Snippet from The Genesis Clock describing time travel.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE X THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

A cryptographer must time travel to reverse her ruined reputation and get her fiancé back—but when she meets a handsome spy, she wonders if finding love in the past is worth the risk.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #HR

Fall-themed background of wood and orange leaves with images of a blonde teen girl, two witches facing away and embracing in front of a fire, a goth teen girl, tarot cards, mixing spell ingredients in a small cauldron, and lavender and candles.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F John Tucker Must Die x The Craft

HEX GIRLFRIENDS CLUB: A lesbian witch teams up with her nemesis to curse the girlfriend who has been two-timing both of them, but as their revenge plot heats up, sparks fly, making the coconspirators wonder if they should be more than frenemies.

Text reads: Specters character storyline: Nersan Ziya Nersan supports his girlfriend wholeheartedly. When she embarks on an adventure of her lifetime, Nersan doesn’t think twice before following her. They encounter people who used to be his friends, but disappointed him in the past. Emma, dealing with her own problems, refuses to understand Nersan’s inner conflict regarding his former friends and the pair ends up separated. Once left on his own, Nersan has to admit that what his former friends did was a betrayal, on a very deep, personal level. Only then he’s able to fight his way back to those who truly love and care about him.

#QuestPit #W #SFF

In the world where people can control Elements of Nature, all Nersan wants is to make his girlfriend happy, but he has to make peace with his past first

#writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #fantasynovel

🎵GUILTY AS SIN x ANGEL OF MY DREAMS x COLORS🎵
Fate & her Atrocities (95k/Romantasy)
A locked gaze is all it takes for Starling to read a mind.
Kov has strange scars and the stranger ability to sow thoughts into heads.
Only they can't use their abilities on each other. #Q #Questpit #F #A #R

Six photos with labels overlay a background of foamy waves washing over golden sands. First photo is of a blond man lying on the floor with a necklace dangling over his head. "Lessons in poison" and "Prince just as lethal as poison" points at the first photo. Second photo is of a cliff with the sea at its bottom. "City on a cliff by the sea" points at the second photo. Third photo is a close-up of an eye with a light blue iris beside white flowers. "Involuntary visions of the future" points at the third photo. Fourth photo is of a blond woman wearing a blue gown in front of a wall of red flowers. "Chronically ill seer" and "Forced proximity" points at the fourth photo. Fifth photo is of a gold crown. "MC and rebellion are just using each other" points at the fifth photo. Sixth photo is of a wine glass filled with a crimson liquid and dried flowers. "Paranoid King with an affinity for poison" points at the sixth photo. "A Crown of Poison", "Violet Made of Thorns X Defy The Night", and "Young Adult Fantasy" marks the photo below the collage.

When the King’s lethal plans to eradicate magic threatens to expose a young noble’s seer abilities, she exploits her engagement with the King’s son to uncover the Crown’s secrets, but her fiancé’s fascination with poison could make her his next test subject if she’s caught🥀

#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #DIS

A list of tropes for Forewarning with a mockup of a cover that shows a photo of two hands clasping in rainbow light NB/M Prince/Royal Guard Forbidden romance but the entire internet ships it Best friends to lovers Royal murder mystery Psychic powers Bodyguard romance Seeing gorgeous half-naked men in your future but also death omens :/

A pitch for my novel Queer Romance FOREWARNING Prince Cole doesn't know why he psychically sees people's doppelgangers acting out the future, but it does come in handy. Cole's other secret not so much—he's desperately in love with his childhood best friend, royal guardsman Lucas, not least because Luc staunchly supports Cole being an openly nonbinary royal. Unfortunately, Cole can't marry a guardsman, and sweet, introverted Luc would never want to be a royal spouse anyway. But when a head of state is murdered and Cole's life is threatened, Luc steps in as Cole's 24/7 bodyguard. Together they must find a legendary weapon of mass destruction that threatens their own lives—and millions more. (And really, it would be easier for Cole to concentrate if his gorgeous bodyguard wasn't wandering around their room half-naked, but whatever. It's fine.)

Comps for Forewarning FOREWARNING is a bit like if Dean Koontz's ODD THOMAS was an upbeat queer romance. It will appeal to readers who enjoy K.J. Charles's DOOMSDAY series for its queer love story, strong B-plot, spice level, and titled/commoner dynamics; and the sassy tone of Alexis Hall's 10 THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

Details of Forewarning: Logline: A psychic nonbinary prince trying to solve a royal murder mystery must hide his romantic feelings when his guardsman best friend (and forbidden secret crush) becomes his bodyguard. Genres: Queer Romance, Low Fantasy, Adult, Contemporary Length: 54,000 words

For #QuestPit: FOREWARNING: A psychic NB prince trying to solve a royal murder mystery must hide his romantic feelings when his guardsman best friend (and forbidden secret crush) becomes his bodyguard.
#Q #A #R #F #S
*High spice
*Seeing gorgeous half-naked men in your future but also death omens :/

An agent's guide to Six Dark Seconds 90k word adult urban romantasy

Image with agents pitch: An urban romantasy retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, featuring a tough-as-nails district attorney in search of her long lost grandmother and the mafia king who makes her an offer she can’t refuse. Caught in the underbelly of a city at war, the line between good and evil blurs, and fate refuses to be denied.

List of tropes and themes

Blurb

A district attorney in search of her missing grandmother and the handsome mafia king who makes her an offer.

Nothing is as it seems, the line between good and evil blurs, and fate refuses to be denied.

🐺Little Red Riding Hood🐺 reimagined as a paranormal romantasy❤️
#questpit #w #a #pr #r #editing

Mood board for PB: pizza slices, share/care blocks, handprints, hands in heart shaped, hispanic decorations, heart petals, locks

CAKE VS. PIE x BRAVO, AVOCADO!

Josefina Jiménez Hernandez & Pedro Blanco, known as PB & J, must settle a dispute b/w friends, Sugar & Spice, over which pizza is better--spicy or sweet--before Sugar & Spice are no longer nice.

#questpit #PB #Q #Latinx

Hopepunk Cyberpunk 2077 x Mike Chen

Jaqs dreams of spacewalking, but illnesses keep her grounded. Joining the mob may be the answer, until she has to decide what she’s willing to give up: her friends, her morals, or her dream—even in a utopia, nothing comes without a price.

#QuestPit #A #SFF #Q