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1 week ago

What if Princess Jasmine was the street rat and found the genie first? and she refused to make her last wish forcing the genie to stalk her and lay witness to all her insufferable choices? like trying to kill a dictator as she fakes being in love with him?
#unhingedpit #q #a #f #na #r

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3 weeks ago

☺️☺️☺️

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3 weeks ago

it’s such a great series!

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3 weeks ago

Thread of #cupit posts for #amquerying NA romance, The Great Throuple.

#NA #CR #LGBT 1/3

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3 weeks ago

top left quote: "I've fallen in love with you, Rowan, and I didn't think that would be possible again after Grace. But it is. I love you."

bottom left quote: "You are worth every ounce of pain and hardship I have been through."

Right text:
Overcoming
An 89,000 word adult contemporary romance
Journalist Rowan Adams refuses to let the death of her parents define her.
Charlie Shaw, a brooding photojournalist, swore off women forever after being left at the altar.
Together, they interview the sole survivor of a plane crash and unintentionally uncover the airline’s secret purpose as hitmen and a surprising connection to Rowan’s parents. Just as they give in to the attraction they’ve tried to ignore, a threatening email forces Charlie to betray Rowan and destroy her chance at justice for her parents.

Happy Valentine's Day, and happy #cupit!

She's afraid of flying. He's afraid to fall. When they discover a hitman for hire scheme posing as an airline, they must face their fears together.

Now querying!
📌Agent Guide pinned

#CR #MHR #A #Q #writesky #writingcommunity

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3 weeks ago

A collage of pretty purple things. Eg. blackberries, feathers, a boat, impressionist painting, interlocked hands, and a blacksmith. In the middle is a long feather under the title QUILL.

After Poppy the Quilldresser suffers the loss of her elderly friend, his hunky Blacksmith son moves in next door and awakens a cascade of repressed memories. To escape her painful flashbacks and befriend her new neighbor, Poppy must learn to accept her grief.

💜🪶🫐

#cupit #CRF

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3 weeks ago

Collage-style promotional graphic for the novel Babel on Callisto. Four illustrated polaroid images show two men, Jack (blond) and Elias (dark-haired with glasses), in different scenes: wearing space suits, working together in a lab, leaning close in a quiet moment, and kissing. The background is pink and textured with scientific sketches and handwritten notes. A torn paper excerpt of prose is centered. Text on the images reads “Babel on Callisto,” “Now Querying,” “88K Sci-Fi Horromance,” and “@saraduranauthor.”

Now querying!

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ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

✨two exiled men (and their secrets)
✨one lunar prison (and its horrors)
✨a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💖the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT #AmQuerying #CuPit

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3 weeks ago

Eight years previously...
That party at Cambridge was the first time they'd met...
From family snaps of Kris, Listy had known what to expect, of course. What she didn't expect was the startled lurch as her eyes met his, the catch in her breath. He had merely dropped his gaze to his brother asleep with his head in Listy's lap. Then a very pretty, buxom undergrad had claimed his attention, sidling up to offer him a bottle of Kronenbourg with all the awe and piety of offering a libation to Zeus himself.
CARELESS WHISPERS
Romantic Suspense 97k words

𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒙 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬

When murder is suspected, a PR exec who's always tried to do the 'right thing' must decide how far to go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's in love with.

#Cupit #Q #A #RS #RM 📚💙

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3 weeks ago

WhereTheDarkStandsStill x AFarWilderMagic

When a knight teams up with a star-wielding sorcerer to save her family from killer shadow beasts, she begins to fall for him, even if he believes his curse makes him an unloveable monster

Querying spring
Big 5 editor interest x2
#Cupit #YA #Romantasy #WIP

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3 weeks ago

EVERY SUMMER AFTER X HAPPY PLACE

When her ex shows up at her sister's wedding, a heartbroken woman faces the tragedy that broke them up 10 years ago at the cottage, is pulled into a spiral of distrust that brings out her worst and an HEA may not even be worth it. #cupit #a #cr

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3 weeks ago

Heartbroken summer camp staff Sage and Nico start a casual relationship to get over their recent heartbreaks. Nico realizes he wants this to be more than a summer thing, but Sage has some unfinished business back at school that she won't let go of so easily.

#cupit #na #cr

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3 weeks ago

FAST AND FURIOUS X ROMEO + JULIET (1996)

A burnt-out romance author plunges into a gang-ruled street-racing city and becomes addicted to a reckless racer whose world of speed, violence, and secrets blur the line between love and survival.

#cupit #W #A #CR #MHR

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3 weeks ago

An artist escaping a viral video scandal. A widowed mechanic going through the motions. One dare to say yes to everything. #Cupit #amquerying #A #RC #CL #disabilityrep #invisibledisability

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3 weeks ago

Black bg with pink paper heart strung, almost ripped in half

roses are red...
ryde cassidy is a catch...
welcome, contestants, to
LAST CHANCE MATCH
an adult speculative sci fi horromance

Black bg with pink paper heart strung, almost ripped in half

roses are red...
the humanoid host is a bitch...
but it makes a killer pitch

Without a government-appointed soulmate, 28-year-old Cera faces extermination at thirty, the age at which soulmateless are killed to aid in population control and limiting resources. A new dating show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change the luck of the soulmateless and give them another shot at finding their other half. Cera is chosen to participate, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

Black bg with pink paper heart strung, almost ripped in half

roses are red...
the government is betraying...
here's what the viewers are saying

Lots of snippets from beta/alpha comments

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roses are red...
cera should have seen the signs...
especially with these opening lines

The old holovision in the corner of Kona’s Diner projected the fuzzy image of a news reporter. A patron passed by it, their arm grazing the hologram. It skipped as the woman tilted her head, but her raven-colored bob stayed perfectly placed.

“Within the next hour, eighteen lucky individuals will be notified via holomessage if they’ve been chosen to partake in Last Chance Match. To quote President Blanche, this initiative will allow for select soulmateless to find the one who’s to die for,” said the reporter. “As a reminder, it is mandatory for those chosen to travel to—”

Cera shook her head, then grabbed a holotablet from the charging station. Last Chance Match was an excuse for the government to capitalize off the miserable lives of soulmateless and being so close to the age of thirty, Cera wouldn’t be picked for the show.

𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏𝙎. 𝘾𝘼𝙈𝘽𝙊𝙏. 𝘽𝙇𝙊𝙊𝘿𝘽𝘼𝙏𝙃.

The deadly game play of SQUID GAME and the futuristic horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND.

𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧?

#CuPit #HOR #SFR #A

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3 weeks ago

A gothic style original painting of a vampire dressed in black holding a man dressed in white linen in a stone corridor, surrounded by candle light and moonflowers.

A pitch card that reads benevolent vampire Ishmael’s carefully balanced life is shattered when Edric, the tutor of his adopted nine-year-old spirit medium son, awakens a love he thought lost centuries ago.

A tropes and themes page that reads: DUAL POV, love after grief, queer love and joy, soft gothic, sentient manor, soft fatherhood, ghosts, awkward vampire and sunshine human, Victorian era, queer normative setting, opera house and music, yearning soulmates, and happily ever after

A snippet page that reads in every world, in every time, I would choose you. You are the song of the stars, and the whisper among the trees. It has been you. It has always been you.

A Vampire’s Lament 🖤🦇🥀
Book One in the Time and Time Again series. Benevolent vampire Ishmael’s carefully balanced life is disrupted when Edric awakens a love he thought lost centuries ago.
#Cupit #PR #GR #LGBT #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #queerwriters

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3 weeks ago

Moodboard with images of a throuple, a man kneeling on stage, and a man being silenced. Text reads: The Great Throuple. If their secret comes out, so does he. New adult romance. Michelle Ogilvy

Dean is not out as bisexual, so when he and his girlfriend begin a polyamorous relationship with a man who lives with Dean’s classmate (the one with a crush on Dean), things are bound to get messy as they try to keep it all a secret.

#Cupit #CR #NA #A #LGBT #amquerying

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3 weeks ago

For Cupit here's a new and improved #agentguide for my 84k queer omegaverse romantasy 🌿HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS🌿 feat:

🐺alphas, betas, and omegas
👑royal drama
💔forbidden love
🔥heats & ruts
💚found family

#Cupit #A #RF #LGBT #amquerying

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3 weeks ago

A light yellow Background. Top left pic is a garden leading up to a castle. Top right pic is hot pic flowers, maybe roses growing in a garden. Middle left pic is a king in a suit facing away. In the middle is the title in hot pink fancy font Beauty of the Gardens. Middle right pic is a bride in a long flowy wedding dress standing in a stone archway with climbing ivy. Bottom left pic is a girl in a white and pink flower dress from above reading a book with a white sheet on the grass, a basket of flowers, a straw round hat, and a pie. Bottom right is another garden with an extravagant cathedral in the background.

When King Adam sees a beautiful woman enjoying his late mother’s garden he becomes captivated. However, war is on the horizon and threatens the new found couple's blooming romance. Can their love survive the destruction or will they be torn apart?

#W #NA #RR #Cupit

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3 weeks ago

Top left pic is an old art piece of a steamboat traveling down the Missouri River by the old town of Hermann. Top right pic is an art piece of Hermann not long after it began. The title is there A Home in Hermann.

2nd row left pic is of a couple kissing in the town of Hermann in the winter, the pic is made to look older. 2nd row right pic is a pic from the movie A Christmas Vintage which was set in Hermann, it is the main characters kissing in a gazebo in front of a Christmas tree.

3rd row left pic is of people enjoying Oktoberfest in Hermann (it is known as little Germany in Missouri). 3rd row right pic is of the gates of the Hermannhof Inn decorated with two gold deer on the columns and wreaths on the gates.

Bottom left pic is a picture of Hermann, Missouri today during the winter. There is a quote on it “No matter how far we may roam, there will always be a place to call home.” Bottom right pic is a picture of Hermann, Missouri today during the spring.

Dear America x A Christmas Vintage

When a young woman feels lost after running from an abusive situation, it is her great grandmother who reminds her that no matter how far we may roam there will always be a place to call home.

#W #A #HR #CR #Cupit

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3 weeks ago

Shale, a spellcaster on the run, accidentally releases an immortal Other, imprisoned for unknown crimes. Their growing bond leads to a multi-dimensional pursuit through the afterlife, the realm of the gods, and perhaps the most dangerous place of all: the mortal world. #Cupit #RoFa #A

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3 weeks ago

⛈️PREY OF PARADISE⛈️

Trapped an island where dragon shifters hunt mortals for sport, a mortal girl must fight for her life—and avoid love at all costs—in this YA romantic fantasy reimagining of The Most Dangerous Game

Currently querying!

#Cupit #YA #RoFa #Q

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3 weeks ago

My unserious graphics for my very serious novel.

SINNERS x IWAV

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and a two hundred years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.

#Cupit #A #RoFa #LGBT #BIR #Q

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3 weeks ago

Recieved text: Will you be my fake girlfriend? Sent text: only if it results in a trip to Fiji. Typed unsent text: …btw I love you

What happens when you fall for your fake boyfriend during a Christmas competiton?
#Cupit #A #Q #RC #CR #FWB #FR

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3 weeks ago

My first ever #agentguide for my current WIP 🐺ALL I EVER LONGED FOR🐺 a queer paranormal romance feat:

🐺werewolf boy x human boy
🍃atmospheric forest town
🗡️knife throwing
💙mates

#CuPit #A #PR #LGBT #WIP

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3 weeks ago

Okay here are the serious ones 😂

#Cupit #A #RoFa #LGBT #BIR #Q

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3 weeks ago

A movie poster for "CARGO", depicting a sunset with two crescent moons in the sky. In the foreground are silohettes of two people, only their arms visible, their pinky fingers grasping each other tightly. The arm on the left is thinner and has four fingers. The arm on the right is of average proportions and has five fingers.

The top of the poster reads "A match made in space. While stealing things."

Below the name "CARGO", there is smaller writing in an alien language, presumably the title translated.

At the bottom of the poster, the credits section is as follows:
CATHERINE WINTERS AND COREWARD BAKER PRODUCTIONS LTD PRESENT A CATHERINE WINTERS NOVEL

‘CARGO’ STARRING TAI OF MICAPA
THYLLIS CHAUMEDEROT
TALATAGARI QUIRIN
TALATAGARI ANENTO
FRANK THE CAT
JEREL BESKROS
CHOST MOL RAZIK
FEATURING COOL MOSS ABOVE STILL WATER
AND INTRODUCING CLARKE

SHIPS BY SETEBO-URANQ AND CONSTANT VERIDITY INTERSTELLAR
COSTUMES BY UPPER CORE ATELIER
“HUMAN” CREATURE EFFECTS BY 3.8 BILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION

CASTING BY THE TRADE AUTHORITY
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CATHERINE WINTERS
DIRECTED BY CATHERINE WINTERS
WRITTEN BY CATHERINE WINTERS

WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Tai can get through this. Things'll go back to normal. Steal the cargo, stop thinking about the human, wipe the security feed, stop thinking about the human, get out of the vault, stop thinking about the human. Easy. #CuPit #SFR #LGBT #SF #A

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3 weeks ago

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS

Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. With Jack's frozen 🩵 melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves

#CuPit #YA #RoFa #LGBT #CliFi

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3 weeks ago

PERCY JACKSON x ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES

Viv has been dreaming of a mysterious scarred man, but when she finds out he’s the key to solving her mother’s murder and now her foretold death, she must go on a quest with her two druid friends to find him.

#Cupit #Q #RoFa #RS #TDR

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3 weeks ago

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

TROPES:
Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
loveable pet/terrifying monster

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT
Ship's cook Tai just learned their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and a human who wants to be friends. And why can't they stop thinking about her? #CuPit #SFR #SF #LGBT

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3 weeks ago

Pastel-toned collage of photos in a country theme

Block of dark text on a cream square over a beach background

List of comp elements and tropes in white writing on a beach background

TJ KLUNE x RACHEL LINDEN x LIBBY IRIKS

A burnt-out teacher escapes to the Australian outback to gain control of her powers, and finds friendship, a safe love, and a new appreciation for life.

Agents, this cosy women’s fiction with romance is looking for a home 💖
#Cupit #A #CL #FBW #amquerying

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