Sarah Pounds

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Top left: Girl pressing against a glass in blue shadows Top center: Balloons, streamers, disco ball under party lights Top right: Hanging clock with industrial background Center left: Empty shoes on wet asphalt with a shadow of a person on the ground Center: Person’s hand adjusting trophies on a shelf Center right: Girl’s legs standing in a shaft of light in a dark gymnasium with books on the ground Bottom left: Words lit up ‘Time Is Precious’ Bottom center: Girl sitting in mostly dark near a white door Bottom right: Rain splashing into a puddle outside a red-bricked building

EELGRASS BOG x NIGHT TRAIN

13yo Daria hopes to end the student president curse. But the angry school ghost takes the curse to the next level by snatching kids from their beds. Now Daria must play her game or she and the others will face a watery fate.
#questpit #mg #h #ag

A Venetian-inspired 'Mr & Mrs Smith' where a shapeshifting conwoman must outwit a ruthless bounty hunter to steal the source of magic and save her people

🔥Enemies-to-lovers
🔥Heists
🔥Everyone is morally grey
🔥Spicy slow burn

#Agentsguide #Questpit #A #F #Q

A blue eye with frost lashes

A large black horse running in snow

Marbles statues in an overgrown garden

🐎MY LADY JANE X 🗿BOTW

When Princess Alarra is ambushed on her 18th birthday, she’s carried by a horse into a cursed winter wood from which no one returns. Allied with a mysterious boy, she must uncover the forest’s secrets before it consumes them both.

#YA #questpit #OS #AG

Working at an all-inclusive island resort is all fun and games until Quinn's one-night stand becomes her teammate in a competition that puts their jobs and hearts on the line. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #AgentGuide

Working at an all-inclusive island resort is all fun and games until Quinn's one-night stand becomes her teammate in a competition that puts their jobs and hearts on the line. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #AgentGuide

Working at an all-inclusive island resort is all fun and games until Quinn's one-night stand becomes her teammate in a competition that puts their jobs and hearts on the line. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #AgentGuide

Working at an all-inclusive island resort is all fun and games until Quinn's one-night stand becomes her teammate in a competition that puts their jobs and hearts on the line.

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #AgentGuide

THRILLED to share the editor’s guide to A Forest of Snow and Shadow, my YA dark fantasy with crossover and series potential. Peep the new pitch ❄️🐎 👀 #yabooks #editorsguide

Sent my wintery YA enemy to lovers fantasy off to my agent and now I’m left lingering in this world and missing these characters #yafantasy #bookcommunity

Okay the newest episode called, “The Well.” Just confirms dark, horror sci-fi #DoctorWho is so back, baby.

😄 Thanks!!

Show jumping is Kinley’s whole world, until a charming competitor asks for help...
#Editors, grab your tickets now for this YA rom/com with all the pretty horses and banter you can expect from a rivals-to-lovers summer romance. #posterpit #posterpitOS #YA #R #posterpitAG #C

Fake movie poster for unpublished book - DEATH IS LIVE - The Podcast. Guy walking from the shadows into the light

A teen's selfish deed is causing a rift between the living and the dead, one podcast at a time.

Death is Live - The Podcast 🎤👻

Shortlisted for #RevPit 2025 🥳

#PosterPit #YA #F #T #R #PosterPitQ

Thank you! 😄

Top: From the Writer Christine Letizia Next: MG "The Conjuring", Ensemble Cast, Social Anxiety, Ghost Hunting, "Will give you Chills" Next: Based on the true case files of The Dunhams Next: A Middle Grade Horror Title: The Shiver Tagline: Some Games Shouldn't be Played Description: It feeds on her nightmares. It talks to her little sister. It traps her babysitter. And it won't rest until it steals one of their bodies. Pitch: Twelve-year-old Sami Shane's creepy old house has a monster in its walls that feeds on nightmares. When her friends' ghost hunting game releases the monster, Sami must banish the creature before it steals their spirits and claims a body for itself. Bottom: On submission now, Rep: Morgan Hughes, Fine Print Background: Bed with three pillows and iron headboard with lamps on either side and textured wall designs.

#Editors, tickets are now on submission for THE SHIVER! A guaranteed spine-tingling experience. You won't want to miss this twist on a haunted house with The Conjuring vibes. 🍿

#PosterPit #PosterPitOS #MG #H

Attn: #Editors
Tickets are out now for the submission of STABLE MANNERS! A guaranteed swoon-worthy comedy for horse lovers you won't want to miss! 🍿💖🐴 #PosterPit #PosterPitOS #YA #R #C

Thanks!! I hope it finds the perfect home! 🩷

Hanging with my girl this afternoon while dreaming, wishing, praying for my YA horsey rom com currently sub 🥰🐴 #kidlit #writingcommunity

Every author after typing the end:

“Should this have been first person POV?”

Take a second.
Think about something you did today. No matter how big or small.
And tell yourself how proud you are of you.
Really mean it.
💜

So #authors keep writing cause all the stories are needed!

New readers are always growing up, discovering these stories for the first time.

What feels “done” to editors and agents is often brand new to kids and teens picking up their first books in a genre.

Lukewarm trad pub take:

Just because you read a book like this five or ten years ago doesn’t mean it’s not viable now.
Vampires, dystopian worlds, and portal fantasies aren’t “over”they’re perennial.

Agented by Fine Print lit and on sub

MY LADY JANE x A Curse So Dark and Lonely

On her 18th birthday, Princess Alarra is kidnapped and trapped in a cursed forest of eternal winter.
To survive, she must trust a roguish boy with secrets and escape before the woods claim her memories.
#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #YA

MAXTON HALL x HEARTLAND

17yo Kinley is focused on earning a spot on her dream college’s equestrian team, but when she agrees to help the charming heir of Ireland’s most famous show-jumping dynasty, she risks losing more than just her concentration.
#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #YA

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Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉

This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!

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Jumping on this fun trend of creating an editor's guide for my YA equestrian rom/com-
STABLE MANNERS that is currently on submission 🐎💛
#booksky #kidlit

9-square grid moodboard featuring moody images of a redheaded girl's closed eye, a school hallway, a crow, a gnarled tree, half a claddagh ring, a poofy black ballgown, a stone angel, a ghostly figure and a ghostly hand on glass. Text reads: An agent's guide to EMMELINE HARPER, PSYCHOPOMP. YA supernatural fantasy. 70,000 words. Leila A. M. Martin. All images sourced from Pexels. No AI.

Black text on a cream-colored background. Text reads: The pitch. High school first year Emmeline Harper has 13 weeks to fulfill a bargain with a death goddess or lose her soul forever, all the while balancing life, school, family and friends with the demands of a boyfriend who goes from charming and sexy to controlling and coercive. EMMELINE HARPER, PSYCHOPOMP is for anyone who enjoys edge-of-death worldbuilding, limited-time challenges, mything elements in the real world, teen problems through a supernatural lens, and the triumph of finding your way out of abusive relationships.

Square image: a sky full of black birds, overlaid in grayscale. White text on top. Text reads: Ten tropes in EMMELINE HARPER, PSYCHOPOMP. Supportive friendships. Deals with death goddesses. Hang on, my teacher is a wizard?! Charming, sexy boyfriends who don't stay that way. High-stakes challenges on a time limit. Fiery YA FMC. Secret meanings in ancient jewelry. A gentle exploration of love and grief. Forays into Death. Young women triumphing over abusive relationships.

Black text on cream-colored background. Text reads: The comps. darker by four / skirting the edge of death; reaper mechanics and responsibilities. Bravely / fiery girls making bargains with gods. Wayward Children series / found family, but dealing with dark stuff too. Buffy the Vampire Slayer / typical teen dilemmas explored through supernatural metaphors. The Abhorsen Chronicles / I know SABRIEL is 30 years old now (cries in elder millennial) but before DARKER BY FOUR existed, these were the edge-of-death mechanics and responsibilities that informed Emmeline's story.

BRAVELY x BUFFY x SABRIEL
Emmeline Harper steals a ring from her Gran's casket & gets more than she bargained for. New school? No problem. Amazing new friends? Heck yeah. Balance life & death, deal w/ a toxic boyfriend, avoid a hungry shadow & find Gran before time runs out? Iffy.
#P2Ppit #YA #UW

A collage of photos: school lockers; two broken, disused wells; blood splatter; old manor homes

CINDERELLA...but make it horror

✅Find magic well. Make wishes
✅ Become popular & date 'him!'
✅ Wish for a body like hers
❌Crap...get rid of the body under the bed

With her wishes going wrong, Zoe must hurry to undo them before everyone winds up dead #P2Ppit #YA #H #WIP

Sirensong: by Taylor Coffman 133,00 words Sci-Fi/Romance

Tropes: complicated twins, found family, mind control, found family of nerds, disability rep, slowburn. Themes: power/corruption, queer normality, good/bad subversion, hunting CEOs.

Opening Line: The last day of life as I knew it began with a thunderstorm. The rain slammed the pavement in sheets, creating a dark, slick look that reminded me of spilled oil. I could hear it drumming against the windows, a fuzzy background static that blended well with the sickly gray tint of the sky. It was mid-day but it looked like dusk, and on the one hand I was never happier to be in a dry, warm office. On the other hand, I have never hated my job more.

Look, Ellie's fine. Yes, her and her twin were in an accident and now they have mysterious powers. Yes, her dad's true killer is back after 15yrs (hi, trauma), and yes, there's a dark-yet-hot vigilante killing the rich and making her question her morality.

But she's fine.
#P2Ppit #A #UW #Q (soon)

Clockwise from top left: the kids from The Goonies, the kids from It, the kids from Stranger Things, the kids from Bob’s Burgers.

1988. Suburbia. Wannabe writer Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure with his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a creepy mansion and uncover a dangerous conspiracy, all in one night. #MG #SF #UW #Q #P2Ppit