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New Atlantis: Intergalactic Zoo (115K words) is a #sci-fi novel with multiple POVs that will appeal to fans of the diverse found families of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet & The House on the Cerulean Sea. The novel features ...

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Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books. Text: A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM: A Contemporary Romance

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books. Text: After losing out on her dream job at the Library of Congress, Kathleen “Sour Grapes” Gallagher is done chasing things. Not jobs, not boyfriends, not Beyoncé tickets. If it’s meant to be, it’ll happen, and if not, she never wanted it anyway. So when a disgraced movie mogul taps her for a vanity project tracking down missing volumes from the Library of Congress’s original collection, Kathleen only accepts the gig to appease her well-meaning mentor. Never mind his hints that this might be her chance to escape academic exile. Across the National Mall at the Library of Congress’s archival arch-rival, Smithsonian historian Dr. Grant Ordoñez vows to get revenge on the Hollywood mogul who stalled his sister’s promising acting career by finding the missing books first. As the eldest son of a mixed-status immigrant family, Grant is used to playing catch-up, so he’s confident he can outpace an entitled librarian who doesn’t even have a PhD and seems immune to the concept of actual work. But Grant finds out that Kathleen isn’t some lazy nepo baby when his interference forces Kathleen to actually do her job—and to confront what she gave up by leaving her dream behind. As they chase leads around the Beltway and back, their frigid rivalry turns into a love affair steamier than a summer in the nation’s capital. But with their feuding institutions breathing down their necks, Grant and Kathleen learn that finding what you’re looking for isn’t the same thing as getting to keep it.

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books. Text: I’m halfway across the room when Grant speaks again. “Hey Kathleen, how tall are you?” “Five foot six,” I say automatically. Then I stop and turn around. “Wait, why? How tall are you?” “Five-eleven,” he says. “If you were actually five-eleven, you’d round up to six feet,” I challenge. “That’s small-minded of you.” He lowers his laptop screen. There’s a smile playing around his mouth. “I prefer to play the long game and round down to five-ten. Make the other five-elevens sweat a little.” I laugh. “That’s surprisingly diabolical. And you still haven’t answered my question.” Grant looks pointedly at the books in my arms and thumbs something into his phone. “I just want to be sure I’m giving the U.S. Marshals an accurate description of the midnight book thief.” “Oh my god, it’s not even six o’clock in the evening.” He peers around the desk hutch at me. “‘But wearing high heels, so… five foot nine?”

A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM is what you’d get if Ali Hazelwood turned National Treasure 2 into a romance novel. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #R

⚔️Smithsonian x Library of Congress feud
📜Secret alliance
💃Rivals-to-lovers
📚Hunt for Jefferson’s lost library
🧠Mental health rep

Drawing by Irene Campos of a Caucasian woman in a black beanie in with messy black hair, wearing a sleeveless brown coat, a black Cyberdyne t-shirt, brown pants, and Doc Martens. She has sleeve tattoos and is holding a bokken in her right hand and a duck headed cane in her left.

UPGRADE x MIRIAM BLACK

Revenge, vigilante justice, or both? A shady government agency offered Lucy freedom in exchange for six months of secret experiments. They drugged her, stole her free will, bloodied her hands, and left her for dead. Should have finished the job.

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Still reeling from their heartbreaking pasts, Mukti and Jamie are blocking the world out, not letting anyone in—the only people they can’t keep out is each other

Can they move forward together—or are some people not meant to fall in love?

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Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens Text: An agent's guide to Overcoming An 89,000 word adult contemporary romance by Kate Cooper

Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens Text: Pitch 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.

Excerpt Angela releases him, and I get my first look at the photojournalist every woman swoons over. His tan skin contrasts with the light blue of his button-up, the sleeves of which are rolled up to his elbows. His curly black hair and dark stubble give him a rugged look that would make me a little weak in the knees if I wasn’t already sitting. “I’m so pleased you agreed to join us for this story! This is your partner, Rowan Adams.” “Pleasure to meet you.” I stand and hold out my hand, forgetting it’s wet from the condensation on the iced latte I set on Angela’s desk. “Likewise." he gives me the shortest handshake known to man before pulling back and glaring down at his wet palm. “Sorry! I promise it’s nothing gross. Just water.” I grab my coffee and hold it up to show that I’m not a liar, but it slips out of my hand. Time slows as the cup tips through the air and the lid pops off. The liquid douses his bag and my favorite flats, and I clap a hand over my mouth, horrified. His expression is less than amused.

Background: top view of a table with 2 sets of hands, a map, a laptop, a camera, notebooks, and pens Text: Comps and tropes Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, workplace romance, second chance at love, fear of loving again, mental health representation Book covers at bottom of image (from left to right): Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry The Right Move by Liz Tomforde Marlowe Banks, Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins

✨Updated Agent Guide✨

She’s afraid of flying, he’s afraid of falling. When they discover a hitman for hire scheme posing as an airline, they must face their fears together.

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Jules!! This sounds amazing!!

Collage on top of a purple background. From left to right, a couple stargazing; cherries; equations in beige square paper; Federal University of Paraná; a blackboard with notes; bookshelf; brushes and paint; a person with an open shirt and suspenders: medication container; a woman sleeping; a bouquet of tulips; a soccer arena; a capybara; cobblestone sidewalk with wave pattern.

THE NAME FOR SPACE IS DEVOTION

Interstellar x The Love Hypothesis about nerdy Brazilian lesbians

Ask any physicist what gravity is and you will get one answer: the warping of the space-time continuum. 

But for Teresa, gravity is magic.

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An Agents' Guide to ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES by Ayishah Hasni

Pitch: In a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of SINBAD THE SAILOR, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a journey across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiance from a mysteriously moving island.

Comp titles: THE STARDUST THIEF, SPICE ROAD, FABLE and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

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What if the oceanic adventure of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN was set on the 17th-century Indian Ocean and included the Islamic mythological monsters of Maiya Ibrahim's SPICE ROAD? #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F #POC #OV

🕌muslim mc's
⚔️pirate x princess
🔥enemies to lovers
🎇interest from 2 big 5 editors

Your prose is GORGEOUS 😭

THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME X THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Exiled to Lucerne by a scandal, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she cannot love, and risks repeating the tragedy that once broke him.

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Background image of man putting finger to lips. Text reads: The Great Throuple. If their secret comes out, so does he. New adult romance. Michelle Ogilvy. 80,000 words.

Pitch: Dean is still in the closet as bisexual to everyone except his girlfriend, Trish. When he and Trish decide to explore polyamory in secret, the man they choose happens to live with Dean’s classmate (the one with a crush on Dean). If their secret comes out, so will Dean. But the longer the relationship lasts, the trickier it becomes to keep both the secret and the man. Underneath are three images with names and descriptions. Dean: Introverted over-thinker who worries too much about how others see him. Image is of nervous looking young man leaning against a brick wall. Trish: Confident on the outside extrovert who is full of insecurities on the inside. Image of young woman with long red hair and an unimpressed expression. West: Loudmouthed extrovert, told he is too much so many times, he thinks it’s true. Image of young man in hat with cheesey grin.

Comps. Images of covers for books The Charlie Method by Elle Kennedy and Unromance by Erin Connor. The following text is overlayed, with arrows indicating similarities with each: 3 POV, MFM, New Adult, Secret relationship, ‘only one night’, Teasing banter, Bi rep, Actor MC.

Opening lines: Dean had fucked up. He needed Trish to make it better. He needed her to console him after the most awkward, idiotic social blunder of his life. He needed her to not be mad at him about this. There was little chance of that last one. Underneath are images of a woman and man looking at a phone, a stage, two men standing close to each other on a stage, three people laying together, a woman with finger to lips, two men sitting on a bed together, a woman holding hands with two other people and a woman looking shocked.

👥 A young couple exploring polyamory for the first time
➕ The man they want
➖ That man’s friend who wants the MMC
🟰 One hot night, one big secret and a mess that none of them intended.

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READY OR NOT X VARIATION
Struggling with unplanned motherhood, ballerina Theodora won’t waste her chance as the lead of a new production. But juggling a baby, unforgiving rehearsals and the cute lawyer crashing into her life risk crushing her way before opening night
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Green background with the text "He falls first. His dogs fall harder." Images of a plus-size woman, a tattooed man, and a golden retriever + corgi. Sample text from the book: The text is accompanied by the cutest picture of Pawvel and Crouton curled up on my be—no, not ‘my.’ Laying on the guest bed. Owen: i think the boys like you more than me Owen: they won’t leave your room Owen: they miss their new mom Fighting the upward curve of my lips is impossible. Syd: Maybe if you were nicer? Fed them more snacks? They love me because they get cute accessories and snuggles Owen: maybe if you were here to snuggle it would be better? ;) Syd: You want your dogs to humiliate you in person? They would definitely choose me Owen: oh i think all three of us would choose you, no question Text at the bottom: GOOD BOYS ONLY, adult plus-size romcom, dual POV

GOOD BOYS ONLY is a tender, funny slow burn where the dogs behave better than the exes, and the crackling chemistry is impossible to ignore 💚

🌿 confident plus-sized fmc
🐾 black cat x golden retriever
🌿 she’s his dog sitter
🐾 found family
🌿 facetimes & texts
🐾 tattooed MCs

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“the dogs behave better than the exes” hahaha loveeee

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Gorgeous premise and poster!!

Old school looking book cover: Ominous redheaded girl overlooking the Earth. Book title, Tangle and Tether, Brilliance of Earth, Book One. More about the book: Brilliance Overland is a prodigy who craves answers and adventure. Her invention— latticed entanglement aperture passthroughs (LEAP)—opens a quantum-based wormhole to a world more advanced, yet far more backward than she imagined. With her best friend Annie, Brilliance enrolls at Avram Circle, the premier science academy in a system of interlinked worlds, hoping to unravel their origins. But in a place where every relationship is entangled, every truth is knotted with lies, and every discovery leads to deeper complexity, Brilliance finds that her will and scientific principles alone can’t untangle the mess. Brilliance relies on Annie’s empathy to navigate the social brambles rooted in this new world, but as Brilliance buries her own “unproductive” feelings, Annie’s patience frays. When their friendship is tested, Brilliance must confront the tethers that bind her: Unspoken grief for her mother, whose voice and lessons echo as AI in her mind; the causal chains that connect her actions to unintended consequences; and the realization that even in a universe of infinite possibility, some bonds—of love, loss, and home—are impossible to sever. To survive forces that want to control them, Brilliance must learn that true understanding isn’t just about unraveling mysteries, but about embracing the beautiful, messy tangle of relationships and the tethers that hold us together—even across worlds. Themes: - Quantum entanglement as a metaphor for the complexity and messiness of relationships, regardless of time or distance. - Tethering as both a source of strength (home, love, memory) and a challenge (grief, responsibility, causality) - The interplay between scientific genius and emotional intelligence - The search for origins—of worlds, of self, of the bonds that shape us

Tangle and Tether
Teen scientist Brilliance Overland and her bestie Annie complete her late mother's quantum wormhole tech!
They escape to a promising world beyond. But something breaks that promise.
Their exploration is mired in loss, loneliness, and a childhood bond that no longer works.
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Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY

When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.

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Good Boys Only cover page. Stock images of a plus-size white woman, and a plus-size white man with tattoos. Agent's Guide, 89,000 words, adult-plus-size rom-com. Images of polaroid pictures with stock images, including tattooed hand-holding, a Red Wings game, and a corgi + golden retriever. On a green background with Sydney and Owen repeated in a transparent deboss over the background

Good Boys Only pitch. Includes a stock image of a man with tattoos, and a plus-size woman. Emoticons of a pawprint and leaf. Split green background with sage green and light green. With this text: After her boyfriend of six years moves out, retail manager Sydney Bennett is barely hanging on—juggling long shifts and a side hustle dog-sitting to tide her over. When she meets Owen Sutton in the personal care aisle after a rant about two “demonic Pomeranians,” he’s instantly charmed—and in need of a sitter for his own, much better-behaved dogs. What starts as a business arrangement turns into something gentler and deeper: a slow-burning romance between two people still healing from betrayal. But as Sydney faces losing her apartment and the past comes back to haunt Owen, they’ll have to decide if the safety they’ve found in each other is worth risking their hearts for.

Sample page and comp titles. Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings. You, With a View by Jessica Joyce. Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen. Young & Hungry (TV Show). Text: “I hate to admit it, but you might be onto something,” I say with a small smile. “A compliment? From the chef herself? Whew, I’m gonna need to sit down.” Owen beams at me, and it’s a blast of electricity straight to my heart. “But think about it—you can finally get out of retail hell. I can help you, too. With a business plan. I’m kinda good at that stuff.” His grin turns sheepish before he dips his pinky finger into the sauce, sneaking a taste. My body processes the feeling before I do, and I lean closer to him, a newfound buoyancy floating across my limbs. “You’d do that for me?” “I’m not sure when you’ll get it through your pretty head that I’d do anything for you, Syd. Literally anything you asked.” He steps toward me, body radiating heat like the oven, casting me in a warm glow. His words have my stomach sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Tension circles the space between us, grasping the string and yanking us impossibly close. I scan across him, the art decorating his perfect form, and it’s suddenly a bucket list item to be part of his canvas. “Would you get a tattoo for me?” Owen’s nostrils flare and he squeezes his fists, as if he can feel the sting of the needle inking me onto him. “What’d you have in mind?” he chokes out. I crane my neck. He’s so close, eclipsing the steam from the pan surely teetering toward burnt. I can’t find it in me to care. “I think a sage leaf sprig would suffice, since you do love using my middle name.” “I’m not opposed. Where would you want it? Somewhere hidden? Where you’d only see it if I let you? Maybe front and center for a daily reminder of you?” He shifts. Our chests brush. Breathing is an illusion, a magic trick. I’ve never drawn in a breath in my life.

Good Boys Only Tropes: black cat x golden retriever, stranger to lovers, she's his dog sitter, confident plus-sized FMC, facetimes & texts, found family, he falls first his dogs fall harder, set in Michigan, starting over at 30, when the spice hits... The Couple. Two images with Sydney Sage Bennett text over a plus-size woman, and Owen James Sutton over an image of a tattooed man. Text: 30, Aquarius | Retail Ops Manager Empathetic. Competitive. Amazing cook. Loves hockey. Sarcasm as a shield. Pilates girlie. Brunch is her love language. Poor spending habits. Younger sister. Sworn off relationships to focus on herself. 31, Cancer | National Events Manager. Patient and loyal. Flirty. Loves hockey. Bottles everything up. Former company co-founder. Amazing dog dad. Acts of service. Takes care of his elderly neighbor. Older brother. Prone to emotional spill-overs.

GOOD BOYS ONLY🐾🌿

A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #R

A haunted house backdrop featuring three ghosts (an Indonesian man, a child spirit, and a lady in white) alongside a human woman. This is an agent's guide to HAUNTING LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE

The Pitch: Trapped in an American haunted house, an Indonesian tourist-turned-ghost is offered a second chance at life if he can help his immigrant childhood crush reconnect with Indonesian culture—starting with making her believe in ghosts again—only to discover she’s out to debunk all things paranormal.

Pitch image for HAUNTING LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE, a paranormal romance with a ghost MMC and human FMC (The Dead Romantics), exploring class divide and power imbalance within  shared culture (The Bride Test), with ghost-hunting adventure vibes (Crazy Spooky Love)

What to expect: Dual POV, black cat x golden retriever, second-chance romance, friends to lovers, found family, immigrant story (#OwnVoices). Themes: love, identity, and belonging, being caught between two cultures, the cost of community is inconvenience (and sometimes, sadly, conformity)

HAUNTING LITTLE THING CALLED
LOVE 👻💕

After dying on vacation, an Indonesian tourist is trapped as a ghost in an American haunted house and his only way out is his childhood crush who's stopped believing in ghosts.

💌 Second chance + friends to lovers
🏚️ Cozy haunted house

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#R
#PN
#OV

Those last sentences 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Scifi romance?? I need this!!

Right? What’s a dead tourist gotta do?

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