Amy J. Wilber-Author ✨is querying paranormal crime romance✨

Fellow indie authors! If I wanted to self publish my book with focus on getting it into physical stores, which platform is your go to choice? I plan on purchasing ISBNs for ebook and paperback if querying agents for traditional publishing doesn't pan out. My other works are on Amazon.

Apparently, after all these years, it's only cold black coffee I don't like because I thought all cold coffee tasted the same. I can't believe what I've been missing. I've been having the mocha frappucinos and iced caps for now. It's like a whole new world for me.

Now that it has been a few months since my son's high school graduation, I've been submitting a few queries for my debut novel. I can't bring myself to shelve it to work on anything else. I will keep trying to acquire an agent for publishing.

Too many "life" things going on right now instead of focusing on writing. My son graduated high school last week. Super proud! Preparing for open house. I've sent a few queries here and there for my debut novel, but on the back burner they unless turns in my favor.

Took a few months to do massive edits to manuscripts based on previous rejections. Fingers crossed. Entering querying trenches again for paranormal crime romance sprinkled with some erotica.

Making myself blush a little while revising a romantic part in my story is where I'm at in writing today.
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Another round of edits on my book completed after a long day at work. Feeling accomplished for the day.

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Mystery of Fate revised agent guide

Law&Order/CSI X Ghost/The Godfather
Regan Blackwell doesn't know who she is following a car accident. A ghostly specter aids from beyond the grave. A slow burn romance is put to the test by a family secret as Regan's family is targeted by a ruthless mafia company.
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I did so much research just on how to get started. I wish I would have done it before my 40's though to be honest.

As I only have been querying my debut novel since Oct 2024, I want to give a shout out to the #WritingCommunity because I have learned so much. No one in my family is a writer, so I had no one to learn from. Each revision brings me one step closer to my story finding a home.

Angry yesterday, crying today. Menopause sucks. No agent likes on my pitches. I think I'm done for a while.

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Complete debut novel 96,000 words

Law &Order/CSI X Ghost/The Godfather
A case of mistaken identity intertwines with an undercover investigation involving suspicious murders to create a story with all the feels.
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #SPEC #PR

Mood board with glowing magic in cupped hands, a teenage girl looking at her phone while chewing her nails, hands bound in rope, a ballerina balanced on one leg, someone spying through a window, teenage boys glaring at each other, five headshots with a teenage girl in the center of two teenage boys and two men, magic swirling around a puckered mouth, bared vampire fangs, and a silhouette of an embracing couple looking at each other. A badge reading "Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist" is in front of the pictures in the upper left quadrant.

Fantasy fugitives kidnap a ballerina w/ a panic disorder for their leader’s magic in her, but though they threaten her family so she'll live w/ them until it can be returned & forbid ballet school, she risks everything after she bonds w/ them & falls for 1

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #RF #FR #F #R #M #ND

A mood board for Princess Mira, showing a Black princess with dresses and jewelry, a message in a bottle, a crown made of shells, a conch shell, and romantic scenes of the princess with her love interest, a white princess with red hair, including their faces pressed together, kissing in the reflection of a handheld mirror, and running across a grassy field arm-in-arm. The lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted across the grid, with the first row of picturetinted light orange, the second row tinted cream/white, and the third road tinted a rosy pink.

To pay her own bride price, Princess Mira hunts for lost treasure—but to break the curse binding her to a vengeful pirate’s ghost, she must fall in love with a fisherman’s son.

The problem?

Her heart already belongs to another princess.

🧡🤍🩷

#YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT

A moodboard for Captain Amir, showing dusty rum bottles, a mysterious elixir, silver coins, a ship shrouded in fog, a captain’s leather boots propped onto a table, a pile of treasure, a corset top, a captain’s wheel, and a ship with a happy crew sailing into the sunset.

Captain Amir would do anything to appease her toxic sea witch lover—even betray her crew. When they curse her to possess a teen princess in love with her own witch, Amir must decide which hearts to guard—and which to break. 🏴‍☠️🫀🗡️

#YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT

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I’m very ordinary.
Good kids & hubby.
Even my dog is a good citizen.
I AM ALSO A FELON.
25 yrs ago I was arrested for murder & bullied into a guilty plea that changed my life.
At the Women Of Impact Gala, I told what really happened.

#YouDeservePIt #Q #A #NF #MEM

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Nathan playing hockey. Maggie playing keyboard. Maggie studying. Preschool. Nathan listening to music with eyes closed. Nathan and Maggie skating. Nathan kissing Maggie’s hair. Bunny hugging teddy bear. Nathan and Maggie hugging.

Comp titles: Lynn Painter’s Better Than The Movies; Ann Liang’s This Time It’s Real; Tashy Bhuiyan’s Counting Down With You; Laura Taylor Namey’s A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow; Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Maggie Wang lives by her tiger mom’s rules—even her crush ticks all the right boxes. But when she finally works up the courage to confess to the perfect guy, he’s too oblivious to look beyond their friendship. Desperate to turn his head, Maggie hatches a plan: snag a fake date to his hockey team’s skate party and make him jealous, as long as she can survive her clumsy self on the ice. Enter Nathan Myers—the team grump. Once he agrees to be her stand-in, everything seems simple enough: he’ll teach her how to skate, and she’ll put up with his attitude. Only the more time they spend together, the more Maggie discovers a gentle teddy bear hidden beneath Nathan’s gruff exterior. For the first time, she wonders if it’s okay to let go of certain expectations—being herself might actually be enough. But Nathan’s a wild card with no college plans. He doesn’t fit in the future Maggie’s mom has mapped out for her. Trapped between the family expectations and her growing feelings, she must decide whether breaking the rules is worth it with the boy who’s becoming more than just a fake date.

#tropes and elements

#YouDeservepIt
It’s Only Me, a YA contemporary romance:
Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules.
#Q #YA #R #C #ComingOfAge #poc #writingcommunity #amquerying

Amber Baird: KINSHIP, 84k word horror-thriller agent's guide. Subversion of gothic tropes, long-lost siblings, true crime podcast, prey, family secrets, psychedelic, unhinged queer female protagonist, generational trauma, predators, meat, bears, remote California location, dark humor.

KINSHIP blurb. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her girlfriend's husband back in San Francisco, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up a murder he commits, because that's what family's for... probably. Now if she wants to get back to her lover in one piece, she'll have to navigate her brother's taboo affections and dodge multiple suspicious parties. So much for her quiet weekend away.

KINSHIP first lines. Driving all night across the state in a part of California no one vacations in, a part that still belongs to the animals, my eyes burn for sleep. Car flanked as it is by clear paths as far as I can see, would it be so bad to let my eyes drift closed for just a moment?

KINSHIP, for fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leeds (surrealism), My Sister the Serial KIller by Oyinkan Braithwaite (exploration of family), A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers (dark humor), Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild (female rage).

KINSHIP, a pitch-black thriller with horror elements featuring queer characters, long-lost siblings, and (of course) murder.

6 literary agents are currently reading it. Wouldn't you love to read it too? #Q #A #T #H #YoudeservepIt

This isn’t real but I like to manifest

This is isn’t real but I like to manifest.

5TH WAVE meets NOPE meets ARRIVAL meets INTERSTELLAR

After encountering an alien while dealing with grief, Astra, a runaway, must choose between saving humanity from an alien invasion and reconciling with her dad before it’s too late.

#YouDeservePit #YA #literary #scifi

An Agent’s Guide to my YA Medieval Mystery The Ghost of Avalon. Cream text on a maroon back ground over another background of a castle surrounded by water.

Slide 2 of my agent's guide to The Ghost of Avalon. Slide titled "The Intrigue." At five years old, Avalon was betrothed to a prince. At fourteen, she was forced to fake her own death. Now, five years later, she must come back to life to save the only man who knows she’s still alive--the king who had a hand in her supposed death.

Slide 3 of my agent's guide to The Ghost of Avalon. Slide titled "The Plot." When Avalon uncovers a plot to murder the royal family, she must return to the castle she fled under the guise of death to save the only man who knows she’s still alive—the king who had a hand in her supposed death. With the help of a pesky armored guard whose face she’ll never admit to wanting to see, Avalon must search out clues and implant herself in the affairs of visiting nobility in the hope of discovering who wants the royal family dead. When she discovers the current threats tie back to the death she faked five years ago, she must expose the person responsible for the ghosts who haunt her past and the current murder of a castle servant before death finally comes back to claim her for real…or she ends up married to a prince. She can’t decide which is worse.

Slide 4 of my agent's guide to The Ghost of Avalon. Slide titled "The Similarities." Throne of Glass - Unforgiving female protagonist and castle setting For She is Wrath - Back from the dead and revenge murders The Princess Bride - Storytelling aspect Fable - Fantasy without magic An Ember in the Ashes - Intrigue and murder

A....Guide to The Ghost of Avalon
YA Medieval Mystery

🔥Tension-filled Slow Burn
😏Witty Banter
🫶Found Family
👀Questionable Truths
🗡️Second Chances Gone Wrong

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #M #MY #F

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Pitch

Genres/Themes/Triggers

Comp Titles

Law & Order/CSI X Ghost/The Godfather

Mystery of Fate
Paranormal Crime Romance
👮‍♀️Undercover murder investigation
😵‍💫Amnesia
🤐 Found family secret
👻 Ghostly interaction
❤️ Slow burn romance with a little erotica
🔪 Corrupt mafia style company
🤔 Mistaken identity

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #SPEC #PR

#BluePit - Jan 13th, 2025 2,529 Pitches 54.8K Likes 16.1K Reposts Donut Charts Status: Querying - 44% WIP - 35% On Sub - 2% Published - 19% Audience: Adult - 67% Young Adult - 21% Middle Grade - 7% Picture Book - 4% New Adult 1% Representation: No Tag - 61% LGBTQIA+ - 26% Disabled - 6% Women's Fiction - 3% Person of Color - 2% Neurodivergent - 2% Genres: Fantasy(#F) - Over 1000 Romance (#R) - Over 400 Sci-Fi (#SF) - Over 200 Horror (#H) - Over 200 Dark (#D) - Nearly 200 Thriller(#T), Historical (#H), Mystery (#M), Humor (#HU) - Around 100 Crime(#C), Non-Fiction(#NF), Memoir(#ME), Erotica(#E), and Paranormal (#P) - Under 50

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JOURNEY TO RALLEM
Josie, Jameson, and their friends travel across the continent in the hopes of bringing back Josie's lovers. They face unexpected challenges from meddling, immortal ancestors with age old vendettas. At each turn, events drive Josie and Jameson closer. #P2Ppit #Q #r #f

The Title Page of the Agents Guide. The title of the book is THE STOLEN IDOL by Christopher Lee. It is a 86K word YA Fantasy. An image drawn and colored digitally by the author is in the center of the page. The image shows a broken opal colored disk in front of the Cat Si's golden eye.

The Pitch: Jaimie Whitfield’s heart broke when his best friend rejected him, but his world shattered when he learned his father saw the brief kiss between the two young men. His father deludes himself into believing Jaimie is a fae changeling and gathers an army of Vikings to rescue a son who isn’t actually missing. To save his life, Jaimie escapes his home and joins some not quite human thieves to warn the fae. Jaimie and the thieves, Fotini the centaur, Tragos the satyr, and Ailsa the pixie, are soon joined by the witch and forest guardian, the Cat Sí. Together they race to save the fae, steal treasure, and uncover the secrets of an ancient war between pantheons.

Tropes and Themes: Found Family Generational Trauma Unrequited Love Betrayal Acceptance LGBTQIA+ Representation Celtic Mythology Greek Mythology Norse Mythology Egyptian Mythology Heroes Journey Small Trickster Fae Magical Girl Transformation

For Fans of: Daughter of Sparta series by Claire M. Andrews New take on several ancient myths Mentions of gods from other lands Ancient setting Lore by Alexandra Bracken Original story with mythical characters Intense fight scenes She-Ra (Netflix) Lighthearted LGBTQIA+ representation Found family Scary cat lady

A centaur cheats at jousting, until the fake horse head goes KERPLOP!

🌈Mythology X SPOP
🗡️Betrayed by the man he loves
🗡️Betrayed by his father
🐈‍⬛Cat Si from Irish folklore
🐐Snarky/greedy satyr
🐎Badass centaur
🧚‍♀️Tricky pixies can't lie
☀️Gods from many pantheons

#P2Ppit #YA #Q #F #amquerying #writing

Mystery of Fate Mood Board

Mystery of Fate Mood Board

Law &Order/CSI X Ghost/The Godfather
A case of mistaken identity intertwines with an undercover investigation involving suspicious murders to create a story with all the feels.
#P2Ppit #UW #Q #PW #A #C #PN #R #writingcommunity #litagents #editors