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MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR

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The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantic fantasy.

Pitch: Delphine’s always wished for a life as romantic and adventurous as her stories. With any brief escape punished by her employer, she’s desperate to flee, if not for Otto; her best friend, and the only family she’s known. So when he is sent with pirates after a mythical map, she refuses to be left behind. At sea, a budding romance with the Captain reveals he’s tailed by a dark past, one he’d sabotage the mission to escape. But the pirates claimed Otto’s life if anything goes wrong, and Delphine will do anything—even use the Captain’s past against him—to get the map and save Otto.

Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - Love interest with a scarring secret - High stakes survival and adventure - Looming villain - Pirates - Sea myths & magical creatures Howl's Moving Castle - Impact of societal expectations - Power of romantic and self-love - Steampunk elements - Chosen family - Taking responsibility

Summers spent in a bordello ought to have prepared Delphine better. Though Hunter and his girls had always ensured Delphine did not see anything vulgar or unsightly, it was difficult to be ignorant when sitting around a dinner table amongst chattering girls. They told tales of their clients, giggling or rolling their eyes at wild requests from sailors. Hunter would shush them and send a pointed look in her direction, only goading them to spin even more dramatic and rather gruesome tales. Delphine would blush, but she took the joy in their teasing gratefully; summers spent in Hunter's Bordello were only full of fond memories. But they should have prepared her better for the view she had walked in on.

While Ashlea and I are working on our major rewrite of our story, I'd like to present our updated #AgentGuide

This is our adult/crossover romantic fantasy with a true slow burn romance, and series potential!

#WritingCommunity 📖🦋

How do people with curtain bangs deal with the feeling of hair on their cheeks?

Hello all, setting down the #agentsguide of my YA Historical Novel (with a Speculative twist!) for consideration by #litagents and #editors!

AFFINITY is my #amquerying project. The 61,000 word novel explores the topics of found family, generational trauma, and racism in 1970s Britain.

photo of a hand holding a knife with a piece of red meat stabbed on it. white text overlaid on top.

Just a small snippet from the scene I'm working on.

I'm working to hit the sensory details and timing just right... Horror has to be so intentional with every line, and I'm having a blast with the challenge!

🩸📚 #Snippet #writingcommunity #amquerying (soon!)

Editing the manuscript like those silly mice

If it’s meant to be it will be is specifically about me finding the 30th anniversary illustrated edition of the princess bride two days after watching and getting obsessed with the movie

#Agents I started querying my gothic Sapphic fantasy!

Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it.

It’s the best one🥰 that movie is what got me into the genre

Mock movie poster for the New Adult novel The Whispers of the Rivers by Sophie Fitzpatrick. The image shows a woman in a flowing pink dress suspended underwater, her head tilted back toward the light above. The setting is dark and moody, evoking mystery and depth. At the top, bold text reads: "For fans of Divine Rivals and Babel." Above the title are thematic tags: "Dark Academia," "Feminine Rage," "Soft FMC x Cynical MMC," "Fallen Goddesses," and "Pansexual Representation." The title, The Whispers of the Rivers, is centered in elegant serif font. On the left and right sides of the image are laurel wreath graphics, each with five stars—one reads "Best Slow Burn 2025" and the other "Best Chemistry 2025." Below the title is a tagline: "She seeks the unknown. He seeks her." The synopsis underneath reads: "A woman defies the odds to become a scholar in a kingdom determined to keep her in her place, only to find herself in a tense rivalry as she tries to unravel the secrets hidden in long-forgotten myths." At the bottom: "a New Adult novel by Sophie Fitzpatrick" and the words "Querying Now" in bold.

BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish mythology

A woman defies the odds to become a scholar in a kingdom determined to keep her in her place, only to find herself in a tense rivalry as she tries to unravel the secrets hidden in long-forgotten myths

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #F #R #NA

A white hare sleeping surrounded by flowers and a pomegranate, with a black viper coiled around it. Title: "The Dark Swan". For the fans of "The Marvelous Light" and "One Dark Window". "Adult gothic horror romantasy". "Vampire witches, generational curses, queer romance"

Edmund returns to inherit his father’s bookshop and triggers a pact with a cursed bloodline of witches that turns him into a servant to the coven’s obnoxious leader Amelia. With Edmund's return, they find he is the most valuable item in her possession.

Querying soon
#posterpit #A #F

A movie poster with an Indian man cages a white woman against the wall in a classic romcom pose. They both look in love. She is holding lock picks and wears chaps and a sports bra. He wears a croptop and a dipstick

In BLOODSPORT Áine is living out her dramatic dystopian fantasy to the end the world as they know it while Jothi just wants to live his sport romcom with his future wife

#PosterPitW #D #F #A

reddish textured background with a vintage key in the center. The following text overlaid: THIS HOTEL CRAVES NEW GUESTS…. MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR. CHECK IN THIS SUMMER. THE HANDYMAN METHOD MEETS GHOST SHIP. ADULT SPEC HORROR. CHRONIC PAIN REP. SENTIENT HOTEL. LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR. ESCAPE BY DAWN. FRIENDSHIP CORRUPTION. EVERYONE SUCKS. CREEPY VISIONS. TOO MANY SECRETS. PHANTOM MUSIC. SACRIFICES.

They came for one last trip— a nice hotel, some laughs, a break from things they weren’t saying. But when a storm traps them at the hotel, friendships crack along w/reality.
Deaths pile up, feeling less like accidents.
The hotel isn’t just keeping them safe.
It’s keeping 🩸them🩸.

#A #H #PosterPitW

A poster with a bright pink and yellow sunset with the sea and a boat. The top says the names "Delphine Moore" and "Osian Owens". Beneath are three wreaths with quotes; "Chemistry's def there" - Irish, Beta Reader, "Loved every second of it" - Firefly, Beta Reader, and "I really like this opening" - Ali, Beta Reader There's a large title in the middle in a curly font saying "THE SIREN'S CALL", with "Pirate Romantasy" below. Below it says "THE SIREN’S CALL is a adult/crossover romantasy complete at 85,000 words, with series potential. Fans of Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber will be drawn to both the desperate heroine always getting herself into trouble, and the cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest. Pair that with the nautical setting, adventure and slow burn romance of Dark Water Daughter by H.M. Long." At the very bottom it says the names "Danielle Bradbury" and "Ashlea P. Screaton" and "In Agent Inboxes Now".

DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART

When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a passionate romance with a pirate captain–or needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life.

#PosterPitQ #NA #RF

This poster is stunning! The contrast between the blue and yellow!! So excited for this book!

Movie poster style graphic for my querying YA novel. In yellow text, the title says In Your Dreams, Delilah Deville. The background graphic is a girl dressed in white lying on a white pillow and hugging a cloud, dreaming.

When Delilah’s dream visiting abilities start to malfunction right as she’s questioning her asexuality, her senior year threatens to crumble. If she doesn’t fix it quick, her anxiety may derail her plans for the year and she might lose the one boy she’s ever liked. #posterpit #posterpitq #YA #C

Movie poster for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. In the background is an anatomical drawing of the musculature of a man from his right side. Four comparison titles are listed across the top (The Two Doctors Gorski, Arcane, Babel, and Don't Let the Forest In). At the bottom is the text "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?" and "In Agent Inboxes Now"

BLD OVR BRGHT HVN x ARCANE
Jim's grad research was meant to save rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul.

Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning.
#PosterPitQ #A #F (credit to @d-and-a-authors!)

A poster for the novel “critical positions”. It depicts a chess board with three people on it. On the left is a tan Spanish guy (Nico) dressed as a white pawn, in the middle further down the board is a short blonde woman (aggy) with the queens crown on her head, on her right is a light brown haired man (Sutton) dressed in a suit with a tie matching her eyes. He has the bisschop symbol on his pocket. The bottom of the poster contains metadata

CRITICAL POSITIONS
Coming to agent’s inboxes fall 2025

#PosterPitW #H #R #A

A poster with a dark blue background with the sea and the sky at night with the shadow of a ship. The top says the names "Delphine Moore" and "Osian Owens". Beneath are three wreaths with quotes; "You've sold it to me, I need to read this" - Chloe, Tiktok, "I'm invested in them, chemistry's def there" - Irish, Beta Reader and "Giggling and kicking my feet" - Finn, Beta Reader. There's a large title in the middle in a curly font saying "THE SIREN'S CALL", with 'a romantasy series" above and "where fate intertwines with myth" below. Below it says "THE SIREN’S CALL is a adult/crossover romantasy complete at 85,000 words, with series potential. Fans of Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber will be drawn to both the desperate heroine always getting herself into trouble, and the cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest. Pair that with the nautical setting, adventure and slow burn romance of Dark Water Daughter by H.M. Long." At the bottom left are the names Danielle and Ashlea.

DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART

A fiery maid races to sea after her bff & a legendary map, but a passionate romance w/ the pirate captain opens her eyes to a world of danger & she must do anything to get the map before she loses her friend.

#PosterPitQ #NA #RF

This may be my favorite poster of yours yet!!! It’s stunning!

A fake movie poster.A bright pink poster has a black and white close up of a drag queen on the left hand side. The words THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN are written across the bottom as a title. Along the top is the cast list of Harri Forrister, Wilma Dickfit, Westward Hoe and jack Montague. On the right is a review type quote saying "An LGBTQ+ crossover romantic comedy.

Here We Go Again x It's a Sin

When honouring his uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man hears the truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him

#PosterPit #PosterPitA #C #NA

A movie poster for the portrait of Theodore Quill

When Elsie accidentally frees Theo from a painting he was trapped in for 106 years, she discovers a fatal secret.
Theo is on borrowed time, and Elsie heart might not survive.

The invisible Life of Addie LaRue x Time Traveler's Wife

🖼️ 🥀🕯️🐈🪷

#PosterPitQ #A #F

A fake movie poster. In the centre is a black and white image of a drag queen smoking a cigarette, Across the top are the names Harri Forrester, Wilma Dickfit, Princess ThighAna, Westward Hoe and Jack Montague. At the bottom is the title The Dragnificent Seven and a 15 age rating sticker.

Whilst honouring his estranged uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man hears the truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him.

#PosterPit #PosterPitA #C #NA

an image of a white woman in an orange dress laid out on the shore with a river and a gloomy sky in the background. the text on top of the image reads: "Water devoured me as I slept. I drowned in deep, dark waves of a roiling sea. No matter how hard I swam toward the warped moon bobbing above me, I was dragged further and further into its depths. But, I wasn’t afraid. I had known terror since I’d returned to London, but in the womb of the water I was safe. A figure shrouded in shadows drifted by me, but as I turned to look it was gone. A flash of yellow, a pinprick of light in the unyielding black. Iridescent scales tickling the tips of my toes. Comfort. Joy. Home."

i'm rearing my ugly head this side of severe burnout so let me introduce DEAD WATER DIRGE, the re-imagining of my ya historical fantasy that is now solidly ADULT GOTHIC HORROR with a hint of monsterfuckery. think nosferatu meets the shape of water set during the great stink 😈

Here's my agent's guide to THIS FAITH YOU BLEED FOR, an adult gothic fan(g)tasy, complete at 104k. #amquerying

Neon picture for an agent’s guide to Get Ghosted. Features a picture of a kid wearing a sheet with sunglasses over it and pointing to the titled Get Ghosted

On a neon smoke background Title: The Pitch Text: When Skyler made a deal with the reaper to catch ghosts in exchange for putting her cancer in remission, she did not have a half ghost boy begging her to reunite him with his body on her bingo card. The clock is ticking and the reaper doesn’t like secrets.

On a neon smoke background Five pictures: book cover of The Hollow and the Haunted, If I Have to be Haunted, and Cemetery Boys. Posters for the show School Spirits and movie Darby and the Dead. Text with arrows pointing to the different pictures reads: vengeful ghosts, reunited the boy with his body, talk to ghosts, and am I actually dead though?

On a neon smoke background is a long snippet from the book

New #agentsguide for the book I plan to query soon. You like ghosts? Like quirky characters? YA books set in New Orleans? Look no further! Coming to agent inboxes this spring!

Moodboard in tones of yellow, featuring equations, an image of an eye looking sideways, a man in a wool coat and glasses looking off camera, a man supporting another who is stumbling, a stack of books, raised hands lit in a spotlight, two men embracing. 💙📚

ARCANE x BLOOD OVR BRIGHT HAVEN
When grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, intoxicating suitemate Bash warns it could be weaponized—& stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?
#questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H