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H.L. Schiff

@hlschiffwriting.bsky.social

Writer, video game and language nerd, lover of fantasy and literary fiction. Well, all genres really. Terrible at social media but I might post now and then about cats and writing. Would love to connect! She/Her Formerly Linnea Schiff.

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LET THEM *BE* CAKE 🍰
Under a fascist empire led by a queen whose touch can turn bodies into sugar, a grieving royal translator finds solace in outlawed books. But when caught, she must escape and lead the revolution inspired by her defiance, or face being turned into royal dessert.
#roundtablementor

27.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 50    🔁 20    💬 26    📌 0
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IT CAME!! Thank you so much VERVE Books for the opportunity to contribute to this moving and important anthology!! 🥹

If you're like me, SOMEONE LIKE ME will make you shed tears of joy! Preorder here: www.vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...

08.08.2025 16:38 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Naaaah he's just as big as a mountain! Their trucks can totally handle that 🤣

09.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Lost dragon poster in the vein of a lost dog poster. The poster is orange, black, and white with dragon paw prints, a circular image of a black dragon. Text reads: "Lost Dragon. Reward Eila's Sanity. Last seen somewhere in the Miantbore Mountains harassing people with fiery dreams. If found, please tell Eila." In small font it reads, "But keep it hush hush. She's on a secret mission." There are flames in the corners.

Lost dragon poster in the vein of a lost dog poster. The poster is orange, black, and white with dragon paw prints, a circular image of a black dragon. Text reads: "Lost Dragon. Reward Eila's Sanity. Last seen somewhere in the Miantbore Mountains harassing people with fiery dreams. If found, please tell Eila." In small font it reads, "But keep it hush hush. She's on a secret mission." There are flames in the corners.

All Eila wants is to find her lost dragon.

And. You know. Not die trying to find him.

Not that anyone's making this easy for her.

#UnhingedPit #A #F #Q

09.07.2025 18:24 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah love her so much!!!!!

23.06.2025 06:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aaaaaah I love seeing my idiot child in drawing form! Gooie is right. I can't draw 🤣 Guess I have to keep on writing then!

Thank you so much!!!!

23.06.2025 06:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Entomologist? Monsters? Romance? Um. Yes please!

Signed the niece of two entomologists

31.05.2025 19:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Canton Gothic, love or pheromones, violent yearning, doomed romance, moths, swordswoman, lanterns, Chinese women

Canton Gothic, love or pheromones, violent yearning, doomed romance, moths, swordswoman, lanterns, Chinese women

FRANKENSTEIN but in a Cantonese matriarchy.

When an entomologist’s insect-pheromone powers evolves her into a gigantic Kaiju-like Asian monster, and when she and the cocky swordswoman sent to take her hostage fall in love, they must decide if their love is worth dying for.
#SEAsianPit #A #H #F #R

31.05.2025 19:33 — 👍 35    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 0

I love this idea so much. I cannot wait to see this book out in the wild!

31.05.2025 18:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Quote from The Love In Your Words: “If this year has taught me anything besides how deeply one can feel heartache and pain, it’s that time spent nurturing love can heal sorrow.” Top row, left to right: the Liverpool Chinatown arch, floating red Chinese lanterns, the Royal Liver Building lit up in red in front of the night sky Middle row, left to right: The Royal Albert Dock, the quote from The Love In Your Words, cranes on a shipping dock lit up at night Bottom row, left to right: candles and flowers on gravestones at night, a couple standing underneath an umbrella on a rainy night, fairy lights shaped like stars and moons hanging from trees

Quote from The Love In Your Words: “If this year has taught me anything besides how deeply one can feel heartache and pain, it’s that time spent nurturing love can heal sorrow.” Top row, left to right: the Liverpool Chinatown arch, floating red Chinese lanterns, the Royal Liver Building lit up in red in front of the night sky Middle row, left to right: The Royal Albert Dock, the quote from The Love In Your Words, cranes on a shipping dock lit up at night Bottom row, left to right: candles and flowers on gravestones at night, a couple standing underneath an umbrella on a rainy night, fairy lights shaped like stars and moons hanging from trees

KOMI CAN'T COMMUNICATE x TO ALL THE BOYS

Selectively mute 16yo Lena Mei wants to read a Chinese poem to honour her late mother, but she can’t read it. A charming autistic polyglot offers to help—not only with her speech but also in discovering her own autism.

#SEAsianPit #W #YA #CR

31.05.2025 12:01 — 👍 30    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 0
3x3 moodboard - a blond woman in black clothes leaning against a table - hand with black mist - masculine person in white old fashioned jacket with steepled fingers - roman architecture - a woman with a black cape waving behind her - a garden with a gazebo - two people embracing and kissing - curly dagger - a woman in a Greek dress with a dagger tucked in her garter

3x3 moodboard - a blond woman in black clothes leaning against a table - hand with black mist - masculine person in white old fashioned jacket with steepled fingers - roman architecture - a woman with a black cape waving behind her - a garden with a gazebo - two people embracing and kissing - curly dagger - a woman in a Greek dress with a dagger tucked in her garter

GIDEON THE NINTH x EMBER IN THE ASHES

🗡️murderous fem bodyguard with shadow magic
👑 a butch lesbian prince
💘 who hate each other
⚔️ need to work together
🧟 to discover who's trying to kill the prince
❤️‍🔥 and... recover their trust after the tragedy that drove them apart #questpit #A #F #W

07.05.2025 07:47 — 👍 53    🔁 21    💬 6    📌 0
A moodboard for #QuestPit featuring from left to right, top to bottom: gold scales, a girl sitting on a bench in black and white, 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. The moodboard is assembled to represent the aesthetics of the YA Fantasy, Starsent.

A moodboard for #QuestPit featuring from left to right, top to bottom: gold scales, a girl sitting on a bench in black and white, 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. The moodboard is assembled to represent the aesthetics of the YA Fantasy, Starsent.

LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Set in a world inspired by Golden Age Islamic astronomy, a delinquent village girl fights alongside a snobby magicless princess to escape a royal family who see her elemental powers as a threat to their rule. #questpit #YA #F #W

07.05.2025 12:01 — 👍 93    🔁 45    💬 10    📌 0
A picture of Lena and Alistair walking underneath an umbrella together, wearing blue and grey school uniforms. Romance tropes: Friends to Lovers, Forbidden Romance Character tropes for Alistair: Rich, Mentor, Infodumper, Sunshine/Golden Retriever, Fake Confidence, Speaks more than ten languages Character tropes for Lena: Poor, Mentee, Selectively mute, Grumpy/Black cat, No confidence, Barely speaks one language Art by Joy Ling

A picture of Lena and Alistair walking underneath an umbrella together, wearing blue and grey school uniforms. Romance tropes: Friends to Lovers, Forbidden Romance Character tropes for Alistair: Rich, Mentor, Infodumper, Sunshine/Golden Retriever, Fake Confidence, Speaks more than ten languages Character tropes for Lena: Poor, Mentee, Selectively mute, Grumpy/Black cat, No confidence, Barely speaks one language Art by Joy Ling

When 16yo Lena Mei turns to an autistic polyglot to learn Mandarin, she doesn’t expect to fall for him—or uncover a painful connection between their families that could uproot their growing love.
#YA #R #QuestPit #W

07.05.2025 10:49 — 👍 38    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0
Digital color drawing of Gooie’s birdsona reaching up with their 5-6 strange barn owl talons with watery eyes and a big owlish smile, looking up toward floating text that reads “I WILL DRAW YOUR OC” and then an arrow pointing at the owl’s face with dark text that reads “Gooie thanking her followers”

Digital color drawing of Gooie’s birdsona reaching up with their 5-6 strange barn owl talons with watery eyes and a big owlish smile, looking up toward floating text that reads “I WILL DRAW YOUR OC” and then an arrow pointing at the owl’s face with dark text that reads “Gooie thanking her followers”

✨ 💖 WOWIE 560 FOLLOWERS YIPPEE!! 💖 ✨

Now I shall give back by drawing (a portrait of) YOUR OC:

👉 Follow me
👉 Give me a reference
👉 Briefly describe your OC’s personality

🪶 It may take time, but I will draw all of them or so help me GOD
🪶 It will have simple color and shading
🪶 Like and Share ❤️

06.05.2025 03:31 — 👍 87    🔁 36    💬 42    📌 4
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Here's my agent's guide to THIS FAITH YOU BLEED FOR, an adult gothic fan(g)tasy, complete at 104k. #amquerying

05.04.2025 09:41 — 👍 24    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0
Title: “The Love In Your Words” Genre: YA Romance Word Count: 65,000 words A picture of Lena and Alistair walking underneath an umbrella together, wearing blue and grey school uniforms. The Royal Liver Building is in the background as red paper lanterns float in the sky.

Title: “The Love In Your Words” Genre: YA Romance Word Count: 65,000 words A picture of Lena and Alistair walking underneath an umbrella together, wearing blue and grey school uniforms. The Royal Liver Building is in the background as red paper lanterns float in the sky.

Pitch Sixteen-year-old Lena Mei has always felt like an outsider — too “Western” to be Chinese, too “weird” for everyone else — until Alistair Wong, an autistic polyglot, helps her reclaim her heritage by teaching her to read a Mandarin poem her late mother left behind. As their connection deepens, a devastating family secret threatens to uproot their budding love, forcing Lena to choose between family loyalty and a future with the boy who accepts her for who she is.

Pitch Sixteen-year-old Lena Mei has always felt like an outsider — too “Western” to be Chinese, too “weird” for everyone else — until Alistair Wong, an autistic polyglot, helps her reclaim her heritage by teaching her to read a Mandarin poem her late mother left behind. As their connection deepens, a devastating family secret threatens to uproot their budding love, forcing Lena to choose between family loyalty and a future with the boy who accepts her for who she is.

Tropes & Themes Autism & Neurodivergence, Language & Identity, Chinese Diaspora, Immigration, Grief & Healing, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Forbidden Romance, Grumpy/Sunshine, Found Family

Tropes & Themes Autism & Neurodivergence, Language & Identity, Chinese Diaspora, Immigration, Grief & Healing, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Forbidden Romance, Grumpy/Sunshine, Found Family

Comps “Something More” by Jackie Khalilieh (Autism & Neurodivergence) “Never Thought I’d End Up Here” by Ann Liang (Language, Heritage & Chinese Diaspora) “Komi Can’t Communicate” (Overcoming Anxiety & Communication Difficulties)

Comps “Something More” by Jackie Khalilieh (Autism & Neurodivergence) “Never Thought I’d End Up Here” by Ann Liang (Language, Heritage & Chinese Diaspora) “Komi Can’t Communicate” (Overcoming Anxiety & Communication Difficulties)

An agent’s guide to The Love In Your Words: a YA Romance set in Liverpool, where a selectively mute girl falls for an autistic polyglot who helps her embrace her Chinese heritage and neurodivergence.
#YA #Romance #writingcommunity #litagents #agentguide

06.05.2025 17:42 — 👍 72    🔁 21    💬 6    📌 3
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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

So excited!!!

06.05.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ooh fun! Have a description!

Elin is a young woman in her mid twenties with long wavy/curly black hair that she keeps in one braid. She has brown skin(warm undertone), and golden eyes. She's 5'1 and thin. Shy and quiet, she has a strong will and often gets herself into stupid trouble because of it.

06.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm not on social media much, but I'm going to try. I always say that, but...eh?

I'm H.L. Schiff and I'm a writer looking to start querying my high fantasy novel this coming fall. I love to travel, study, play video games, and write. I write mostly fantasy though I'll dabble in contemp genres too!

05.05.2025 19:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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