Kaitlyn Ikumi DelaCruz

Hand holding bouquet of sunflowers with the titles Till Death Do Us Part in the middle, along with mention of this being a Speculative WIP

Conjoined wedding bands, and email notification and butterflies on notebook paper, along with a pitch and comp titles: Freaky Friday x Margot’s Got Money Troubles.

A sticky note with a list of concepts and themes

26 yo, unemployed, Iris wakes in her mother’s body months before the wedding she knows is destined to end in divorce. Stuck in a loop of the best and worst times of her mother’s life, Iris will rewrite history for the person she loves most even if it means ceasing to exist.

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So excited and honored!! 🙇🏻‍♀️ 2026 is truly starting with a bang 😊

So cute!! 🥰🥹

Thank you, that really means a lot! 🥹

A collage of pictures from kids laying in the grass, people celebrating the obon festival in Japanese kimonos, sunflower/cherry blossoms, a couple holding hands with sparklers, three members of a family silhouettes standing and facing each other, a couple at the aquarium, a child playing with a floor fan, a grandmother and her grandchild bent over some fields and a quote about the culture diaspora experience (never being enough).

Moodboard for Somewhere In-Between my YA Contemporary story! A summer filled with nostalgia and grief as 16 year-old Misa confronts cultural expectation, first love and trauma she cant’t forget.

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Japanese-American teen Misa navigates abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family's clean image in their culturally insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up

🎌Immigrant story
🌸Coming of age
🫂Family tension
❤️First love

#QuestPit #YA #OWN #Q #agentguide

I’m going to assume this is my post from #10Queries until my feedback email comes in 🤞🏻if not welp 🤡 either way, however, I’m excited and grateful for the opportunity to get editor feedback! Thank you to all the editors who participated and #RevPit for organizing! 🤗

Thank you! And I know, his movies are just so atmospheric ☺️ I was deep in the country-side so the creative juices were for sure flowing!

Just got back from Japan where I took some engagement photos! May or may not be inspired for a seaside story in lieu of the magical realism in works from Makoto Shinkai 💕 Think Weathering With You and Your Name 👀

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These comps are elite! Sounds like a fun ride 😊

Never "Japanese enough" or "American enough" to finally belong, 16 yo Misa may have to break her family apart to belong as she confronts repressed abuse and her culture and family who expect her silence. Feat:

🎌Immigrant story
🌸Coming-of-age
🫂Family tension and identity

#DVPit #YA #ASIAN #OWN

MINARI x THE FAREWELL

16 yo Misa confronts her sick grandmother who wants her to be the perfect Japanese, and the abuse she can’t forget—but her culture expects her to—all while trying to revive the Japanese community she ran from

🌸Coming of age
🫂Family
❤️First love

#DVPit #YA #ASIAN #IMM #OWN

So many great topics here! I can tell this is a meaningful story 💕

This story sounds like a fun ride!

Oooo sounds fun but with high stakes! Love the diverse comps

Sounds fun an action-packed!

The summer before senior year, Japanese-American teen Misa navigates her repressed abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family’s clean image in their insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up.

🎌Immigrant
🌸Coming of age
🫂Family

#YA #OWN #ASIAN #DVPit

Ah, thank you!

Love the cultural layers in this and the messy family dynamics 🥲❤️

Love the high stakes here!!

So many interesting elements here!

Very interesting! Love the diverse elements in this pitch

Love the sister bond hinted at in this pitch with the psychological horror vibes 😊

Great comps with an interesting premise! 👀

Love this concept ☺️

Love these comps!

MINARI x THE FAREWELL

Japanese-American, Misa navigates abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family's clean image in their culturally insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up

🎌Immigrant
🌸Coming of age
🫂Family tension
❤️First love

#DVPit #YA #CON #OWN

My next project:

FREAKY FRIDAY x MARGOT’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES

26 yo Iris is stuck at home with her divorced, disgruntled mother when a mysterious email sends her back in time into her mom’s body during her wedding. Iris tries to stop the wedding, even if it means Iris ceases to exist

#DVParty #A

Japanese-American teen Misa navigates abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family's clean image in their culturally insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up

🎌Immigrant story
🌸Coming of age
🫂Family tension
❤️First love

#ya #own #amquerying #agentguide