Kasy Long

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Success! Today, I completed the first round of edits of my #WIP! Now, revisions…

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agent guide for how i stole from the president while saving a foster home images of mar-a-lago, a victorian home, and actor Jon Hamm as a burglar

themes/tropes for the agent guide

writing snip for the agent's guide

pitch for the agent's guide

satire/crime/upmarket at 82K

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A man unemployed so long that the foster home he and his wife own will be foreclosed, must apprentice with his retired master thief father, who has Alzheimer’s, and turn to crime. The score? A portrait of the Prez and $1M in cash.

#Q #A #T NoKings Found Fam

Green background. Images of a woman's face in a gold picture frame. Splashes of gold.

A woman with long dark hair turning sideways, hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint. A gold handprint.

Background is the close up of a woman's face, splashed with gold paint. Three bookcovers. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, a young woman's sad face, The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Picture of Dorian Gray and a young handsome man with a partially diseased face.

Green background splashed with gold paint. Images of a model on a Catwalk, a woman having injections in her face, a group of spooky trees, a photographer and an evil hand reaching out for a pale woman's hand.

Presenting my #agentsguide for
'Beauty is a Brittle Glass'
BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
🪞 Adult 82k
🪞 Dual POV
🪞 Speculative Elements
🪞 Beauty & Fashion
🪞 LGBTQ
🪞 Friends to Lovers
🪞 Disability Rep
#questpit #A #Q

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MAMMA MIA… Faye is planning her wedding. When she finds her mother’s diary, documenting her life up until her death, Faye spirals into an obsession to know more about the mother she never knew. Will there even be a wedding? 💍

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Thank you so much!! It’s published, so you can get it on Amazon!

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YOU’VE GOT MAIL x THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

Annie thinks no one cares about her poetry on Instagram. Until she gains a follower who reads every word. But is he the same man threatening her beloved library? 📚

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You did a great job with this!!

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA x THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME

MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an upmarket gothic romance with:

🕯️Forbidden romance
🕯️High Society matchmaking
🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening
🕯️Obsessive yearning
🕯️European setting
🕯️Secret lake meetings

#W #A #R #questpit

A cover page with a polar bear in the background. The text reads: An Agent's Guide to Bearskin, A Fairytale Retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon

The Pitch: There’s a troll in Freya Perin’s attic that only she can see, and it’s ruining her flawless reputation. Arranged to wed Kolsevic’s most eligible bachelor, Freya is determined to keep her visions a secret and leave her family’s scandalous legacy of madness behind. But when dark magic freezes her sister’s heart, only Freya knows the truth: a mythical creature called the Frost King is waking. Her only hope for a cure lies deep in the northern mountains, a place steeped in the very magic she’s spent her life hiding from. The journey is treacherous, and desperation forces her to form a pact with Soren, a notorious thief with secrets of his own. Freya and Soren must race to rescue her sister and stop the Frost King from unleashing an eternal winter . . . whilst resisting an attraction that threatens to destroy everything.

Comps, Themes & Tropes image. Includes the following comps: Where the Dark Stands Still, The Thirteenth Child, Spinning Silver, and My Lady Jane. Includes the following themes: Dark fairytale retelling, Wicked betrayals, Forced proximity, Yearning, Wintery Ambience, Magical plague, Morally grey FMC, Generational curses

The Opening: Freya Perin pretended not to notice the troll lurking in the corner of the parlor. No one else saw the creature, of course, but its beady eyes bored into her skull all the same. It snapped its gnarled fingers once. Twice. It hissed. “Look at me.” Beneath a placid smile, Freya gritted her teeth and focused her attention on her future husband’s well-oiled moustache. After their wedding, that would be the first thing to go.

It's #QuestPit, so here's an agent's guide to my dark retelling, BEARSKIN 🕯️✨ A tale of winter magic, tragic romance, and embracing the monsters within.

WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL X MY LADY JANE

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ALCHEMY OF A BLOOD MOON 🌙
The dreams that once consoled wall-flower Selene have mutated into blood drenched nightmares. Now she must seek the guidance of her coven and forgive the man that betrayed her—or be swallowed alive in the dark. #questpit #q #pr #litagents #amquerying #WriteSky #agentguide

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THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH&THE ORIGINALS
An autistic trans teen run away from home—only to wake immortal, feral, and consumed by bloodlust
Now trapped in a millennia-old vamp family feud, he must choose a side—has he finally found a family or is he destined to be used again? #questpit #W #DF #OWN

I’m intrigued!

How I stole from the President while saving a foster home Agent’s Guide

Themes/tropes for the agent’s guide

Writing snip for the agent’s guide An image of a hand drawn map of mar-a-lago is shown

The pitch For the agent’s guide 4 comps shown

Robin Hood robs the Prez in ‘25

#QuestPit 82K

He needs his dad, a retired thief w Alzheimer’s, for the score or his foster home will be foreclosed.

#Q #A #T satire/crime/upmarket

*How best to stand up to a bully than to mock them? Help me ridicule the orange menace. Support my manuscript.*

N-F-ELLE: an enemies-to-lovers sports romance | 80k words | adult

Pitch: Ellie Oakley is the first woman quarterback drafted to the NFL. With a crippling fear of sexist opinions and to avoid further shame, she doesn't date teammates. That's easy when it comes to Kaden Walker, the league's star tight end and Ellie's college nemesis who argues with Ellie almost better than he plays football. As the season gets underway, the first-string quarterback is injured, and Ellie is thrust into the starting position. Now facing more media attention than ever, she is forced to spend increased time with Kaden - from running explosive plays with their jaw-dropping chemistry, to faking friendship as the faces of the franchise. They burn every room down in endless feuds with each other, trying to deny their attraction. As the season progresses, Ellie’s critics get louder, and her success on the field declines. She must confront who she is - in life, love, and football - if she wants a future in the sport she loves and has sacrificed everything for. Comps: Throw Like a Girl by Sarah Henning Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Snap by Elizabeth Staple

PITCH ⚾️ x TED LASSO ⚽️

Ellie is the first woman quarterback drafted to the NFL.

When her nemesis is traded to her team & Ellie's unexpectedly thrown into the starting position, they have to fake a friendship as the faces of the franchise if they want their season to succeed.

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Thank you!

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BOATS AGAINST THE CURRENT - A lyrical voyage through love and the relentless pull of memory.

Think THE GREAT GATSBY with dreamy nostalgia. Each poem is a wave breaking against time.

NOW AVAILABLE!

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An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, a 97k word romantic suspense. Various pictures of characters from the book.

Pitch & Plot and has the following text: With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her. Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Beautiful, manipulative Rianna had not been well-liked. Her speciality was ferreting out people's secrets. And everyone, Listy discovers, has something to hide. As she unravels what happened to Rianna, the truth threatens Listy’s future happiness and the lives of those dear to her, and she must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price she's willing to pay.

OPENING LINES - When she hears the footsteps behind her, she doesn't rise from the lounger or look round but just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon. 'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.' 'I have plenty to say.' Her head whips round then. She smiles. SNIPPET - When she died,' Olympia says in a hard voice, 'I was relieved. All I could think was, we're free of her now. Now we can begin to be happy.' Listy's face spasms. 'But you're not,' she says. 'None of you are. It scares me, Olympia, all this hate. So much hate. Troy has it too. It's like...like it's eating him up. Rianna's dead but she might as well not be, the hold she still has on you all.' Olympia begins rummaging in the drawer again. 'You didn't know her. You wouldn't understand.' 'I want to. Tell me what happened the night she died. You said she and Kris were arguing.'

Collage of pictures and the title The Vibes, Tropes & Themes & The Comps. Tropes and Themes are: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera

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When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec who's always tried to do the 'right thing' must decide how far she'll go to protect them. Especially the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband.
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Yes!! Love this!! 🏈 #womeninsports

PITCH x THROW LIKE A GIRL

When a jeer-fearing quarterback is the first woman drafted to the NFL, she does everything she can to earn respect in the male-dominated sport she’s sacrificed everything for.

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Think FULL HOUSE…but the sisters never knew their mom’s past. Twin siblings Jesse and Faye hit the road to uncover their mom’s secrets — and what they find changes everything. They will never be the same.

NOW AVAILABLE!

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I know something you don’t know…😂 Read “Our Mother, Your Friend” by Kasy Long! If you love a good plot twist, you’ll enjoy this book.

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Hey, fellow writers! Who’s participating in #QuestPit this week? Let me know and I’ll support you! I’m participating, too. I’m looking forward to it. 🫶

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Saying goodbye to October with an excerpt from my poem titled “October,” featured in my poetry collection, “Boats Against the Current.” 🍁🍂 Available now on Amazon and Kindle!

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Sorry not sorry. 😂

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Have any indie/self-published authors been contacted by “book clubs” about their books being featured? I’ve been getting some emails like that this month and it feels like a scam.

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I had a lovely day at a book signing! Thank you to the Open Door Christian Bookstore for hosting me! 📚

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