S.M. Levine

📖 Less than Perfect by S.M. Levine

Her ideal man might just be … less than perfect.

✨ Opposites attract
✨ Secret admirer
✨ Extensive pining
✨ OCD rep
✨ Awkward cinnamon roll hero
✨ Novella length

“Don’t touch her, reach around her and place his forearm on the bar and let her walk past him. And don’t touch her. He was fairly certain he could keep from imploding, as long as that one rule stayed in place.”

I absolutely love an awkward MMC. Henry can't stop tripping over his feet around his crush, but not to worry. It turns out he's perfect for her anyway...

Just 5 more days until Less than Perfect is out! #romancelandia #booksky

The cover for A.M. Weald's "Hunt Monsters, Do Magic, and Fall in Love" has a mixed text style font for the title with a rough action paint for Hunt Do Fall and glowing bright neon for Monsters Magic Love. The style of the title is reminiscent of the 1990s. The background is a sparkly purple. Four of the main characters are featured with art below the title. Margot is hugging Emili, and Nora and Thom are smirking at one another.

✨ contemporary fantasy
☃️ mythological beings
🔥 elemental magic
📚 family-linked stories
📼 80s, 90s, and today
🧡 established sapphics
🙄 grumpy-grumpy to lovers
📗 closed door

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GR tinyurl.com/MAGICGR1
SG tinyurl.com/MAGICSG1

🌈📚💙📚🪐📚⚔️📚🌈🚀💫

I’m so happy that we got these two funky little wlws and their love front and centre of this cover 💚 It feels so important.

comic page where vampire contemplates feeding on compelled girl

Art school was tough before the vampire tried to kill Edie. Now? It sucks. Armed only with a makeshift vampire hunting kit, Edie must try to survive freshman year.

Oh, and… figure out if she can trust the hot Vampire Barista that got her into this mess.

#QuestPit #YA #GN #WIP

I just read a proof of this and let me tell you… $5 is a steal. Don’t miss out!

Black and white moodboard for my book, The Wasteland. Multiple images on black background, mountain top, cracked earth, a knife on a tree stump, two little girls walking hand in hand, shot from behind, barren tree, stair case.

Silo x Squid Game
Two sisters take very different paths when they’re sent to prison at the end of the world.
#questpit #YA #Dystopian #W

cover saying MagiChef SWEET! with a chef themed magical girl

THE PRINCESS IN BLACK X SAILOR MOON With a monsterfied cousin rampaging through town and evil villains lurking in the shadows, there’s only one thing for a MagiChef to do — Grab her talking corgi, magic spatula, and… Make Some Culinary Magic! #QuestPit #CH #GN #Q

The Wasteland

Silo x Squid Game

🌎 A dying Earth
👩👩 Two sisters sent to prison for murder
🎲 A competition for freedom
🤫 A family secret that could save them both

#questpit #YA #Dystopian #W

Top (l to r): girl with bowed head, a couple looking distressed, a hand holding a cigarette; middle: a door in a forest, twins facing a wall, a path in the woods; bottom: shadowy figures, two girls sharing a smoke, a bowling alley

TJ Klune x Seanan McGuire: Bright kid turned clueless adult just wants to matter to someone IRL. When her 'not-so-imaginary' imaginary friend offers her a better world, it's hard to say no when the only cost is....her self. #NA #SPEC #QuestPit

Title of my novel; blurred images of faces behind a veil

The pitch for my novel, with a moodboard featuring doors, a dark forest, an empty factory, and shadow figures lurking in doorways.

The covers for my comp titles: The Midnight Library, Under the Whispering Door, The Hollow Places, and Dark Matter

A snippet from my novel

The World of No: A little bit of Dark Matter and a soupcon of The Midnight Library, complete at 97k words.
It features:
🟢 coming of age (even for adults)
⚫️ second chance love
🟢 twisted realities
⚫️ Life is messy; jump the hell in already. #QuestPit #A #SPEC #Querying

Two images, both of the same old, rusty ship, overlaid with text. Top: young adult survival horror THE SHIP (in red) After a rainstorm ruins their California beach bonfire, failing high school student Willa and her friends seek shelter in a derelict shipwreck. But when the exit slams shut and the doors ahead demand blood to open, Willa faces the most important test of her life: figure out what the ship wants before everyone—her included—is dead. Bottom: The Ship TROPES AND VIBES (in red) - strong girl MC not taking crap from anyone - hot love interest with an accent - setting as character: sentient ship - forced proximity - hurt / comfort - no one is safe - blood and sacrifice - metal and steel and rust - brothers like on Supernatural / Prison Break - survival horror - group of friends in trouble - claustrophobia

SS OURANG MEDAN x SAW

Stuck on a ship, sucks to be you
To get back out, you must spill blood
Cut off a finger, or a toe
And maybe the ship will let you go

Or maybe … no

#QuestPit #YA #NA #H #Q

EARLY MAGIC; images: a young woman doing a ceremony, a beach boardwalk, a teen girl, a forest

Pitch: When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a ruthless plan to steal it back—even if it means betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic. Book covers: Spells for Lost Things, Practical Magic, Wild is the Witch, a Dark and Secret Magic

Tropes: Clueless X Practical Magic; California vibes, frenemies to enemies, romantic debacles, dodgy strangers, betrayals, mom issues, Two good dogs, Angry girl energy, opening night dramatics, missing portal; image: young woman blowing on a burning book

Image of a witch running away; Opening LInes text: The witches wore black veils in the moonlight. How dramatic. Rowan, waiting at the edge of the clearing, attempted to distract herself from the cold by mentally improving the aesthetic of their ceremonial robes. Still, she wanted one of those veils. Badly. Obviously she wouldn’t get one tonight, her very first ritual, and just her official presentation. But maybe after her naming. She could last two weeks. Surely she wouldn’t have to wait a whole damn year, until she was actually initiated? God, she hated waiting.

🧹 Early Magic 🧹
#questpit #YA #F #Q
When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a ruthless plan to steal it back—even if it means betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic.

Cover of the book A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE, showing the silhouette of a woman over a red and gold background.

BLOOD IS LIFE. BONES ARE STRENGTH. FLESH IS CONTROL. SKIN IS DEATH.

🌹 Historical fantasy
🇫🇷 Belle Époque
🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance
🩸 Body-based magic system
🗡️ Family feuds
🗝️ Gothic vibes

Coming 10/21/2025, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue & dangerous magic.

#QuestPit #P #A #F #HF #R

mock-up of a book cover in black and white: At the center, a ship sits beached on a vast plain of sand, the dramatic clouds above breaking to let rays of light through to illuminate just the ship. Below in large blood-red font: The Ship. Beneath in smaller print: A YA HORROR NOVEL At the very top the words “This ship demands blood. At the very bottom, the pitch: Stuck on a ship, sucks to be you To get back out, you must spill blood Cut off a finger, or a toe And maybe the ship will let you go Or maybe … no

To get her friends back out of a bloodthirsty shipwreck, failing high school student Willa must ace the most important test of her life: figure out what the ship wants before everyone—her included—is dead.

#QuestPit #YA #NA #H #Q

Secrets are often liabilities

Sometimes they are power

When the Empire of Colours slaughters 17,000 of his silver-eyed kin, Lucas Rhine buries his hatred, hides his eyes behind coloured lenses, and vows to liberate his country through a diplomatic secession. Usurped prince Faye Phlorik escapes from prison and joins the revolutionaries. They need a silver-eyed champion to rally the people, and Faye needs their resources to reclaim his crown. Lucas and Faye must eliminate each other to achieve their goals. But when the empire's warships come again, they must unite their forces or there will be nothing left of the people they're both trying to liberate.

The Revenant of Surolifia A political fantasy Florence Chien

✨ THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA ✨
belle époque vibes | so many schemes

🗡️ an imperial officer bent on revenge
🪽 a thief plotting scandals & revolution
🩸 they aim to kill each other
🔥 but must cooperate to stop another war

📅 07.07.26 #questpit #P #A #F

A collage of images: A window to space, two man holding hands, a man walking a desert landscape, a spaceship flying, Earth from space, a sci-fi space station, more desert landscape. In the middle the title: “The Gravity of Hope”.

To win the meds he’ll die without, Avery must win the world’s most competitive job interview:

🌏 return to the dead planet, Earth

🚀 build a spaceship from scraps

💫 fly it back to Titan

💔 team up with his rival ex

🗡️ kill him before landing

🖤 I said kill, not kiss…

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #LGBT

Two man holding hands in a desert landscape, overlaid with the title “The Gravity of Hope” in a movie poster style.

🌙 RISINGx4ALL MANKIND
In a contest for a job on the next coloniser, a dying engineer & his space pilot ex are sent back from Titan to the dead planet, Earth.
As the competition turns deadly, they must set aside past grievances (& unresolved feelings) to get back to Titan alive.
#QuestPit #Q #A #SF

At Hotel Adair, doors lock themselves, spectral scenes play out in empty rooms, &Cody's friends die in ways her favorite slashers can’t script. If she wants to protect her bff &survive, she must become a Final Girl who doesn’t just fight monsters but herself.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H

A green gold & orange themed moodboard with 9 images representing the pitch. 1. A picture of an ornate palace doorway 2. A still from the movie Jodha Akbar 3. An el Doradoesque view 4. A golden chessboard 5. A woman experiencing power thru meditation 6. Sanskrit manuscripts 7. A magical staff in rock 8. Two royal ladies who "seem" like bffs 9. A lavish palace corridor

HotD × Raven Scholar

V swore to see her liege, Eka, as the queen of their divided island. But when enemies attack amid trial season, & Eka prioritizes politics over people, V's loyalty wavers—Then there's her ex, trying to seduce her back for his nefarious ends.

#questpit #Q #F #A #NA #PoC

A book cover of “Let Me Be Your Villain” with the tropes around it: grumpy ghost librarian, MM romance, asshole hero antagonist, sunshine villain protagonist, cozy fantasy, magic library, book characters escaping to the real world.

When Draven—the deleted villain of a fantasy book—finds himself in a library of forgotten stories, he teams up with the reluctant ghost librarian to travel to the real world, find his author, and convince them to rewrite his story before he fades out of existence.
#QuestPit #P #A #F #onlineserial

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Surprise! I’ve got a story in this year’s Hellarkey, vol. IV!

Hellarkey is one of my favorite annual releases. The variety of voices is top notch. Preorder a copy and see what I and others have cooked up this season!

trope graphic showing Less than Perfect cover and tropes: open door, extreme pining, f-it moment, OCD rep, awkward hero, secret crush, novella length

Once upon a time, a perfectionist nurse asked out a disorganized guy on a practice date, but what she didn't know was he'd had a crush on her for months, and also, sometimes the messy things in life happen to be the best. Less than Perfect is out on Aug. 13th! #booksky

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✨ Opposites attract
✨ Secret admirer
✨ Extensive pining
✨ OCD rep
✨ Awkward cinnamon roll hero
✨ Novella length

Cover reveal time! I'm so thrilled to share the new cover for Less than Perfect, the prequel novella for The Well Space series! This opposites attract, sweet and spicy novella is one of my favorite stories I've written to date, and I can't wait to share it with you. #romancelandia #booksky

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