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NEWS!!!

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The River and the Star Signed Copies — Gabriela Romero Lacruz

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Cobbled my final thoughts together for the excellent The River and The Star by @gromerolacruz.bsky.social !! I'm so lucky to have gotten an arc so I can yap about how much I love Gabby's debut series ❤️ You can check out my full review on my substack

As WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN begins hitting agent inboxes, here's an updated #agentsguide, ft.
🪭An eldritch craving belonging
🏹A failing chosen one
🪭A pampered heir losing it all
🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion

❤️ this post or DM if interested!
#agentguide #F #A #writingcommunity

An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantic fantasy.

Pitch: Delphine’s always wished for a life as romantic and adventurous as her stories. With any brief escape punished by her employer, she’s desperate to flee, if not for Otto; her best friend, and the only family she’s known. So when he is sent with pirates after a mythical map, she refuses to be left behind. At sea, a budding romance with the Captain reveals he’s tailed by a dark past, one he’d sabotage the mission to escape. But the pirates claimed Otto’s life if anything goes wrong, and Delphine will do anything—even use the Captain’s past against him—to get the map and save Otto.

Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - Love interest with a scarring secret - High stakes survival and adventure - Looming villain - Pirates - Sea myths & magical creatures Howl's Moving Castle - Impact of societal expectations - Power of romantic and self-love - Steampunk elements - Chosen family - Taking responsibility

Summers spent in a bordello ought to have prepared Delphine better. Though Hunter and his girls had always ensured Delphine did not see anything vulgar or unsightly, it was difficult to be ignorant when sitting around a dinner table amongst chattering girls. They told tales of their clients, giggling or rolling their eyes at wild requests from sailors. Hunter would shush them and send a pointed look in her direction, only goading them to spin even more dramatic and rather gruesome tales. Delphine would blush, but she took the joy in their teasing gratefully; summers spent in Hunter's Bordello were only full of fond memories. But they should have prepared her better for the view she had walked in on.

While Ashlea and I are working on our major rewrite of our story, I'd like to present our updated #AgentGuide

This is our adult/crossover romantic fantasy with a true slow burn romance, and series potential!

#WritingCommunity 📖🦋

loveeeee this aesthetic!!!! <3

As promised, my review for TSATV in anticipation of it's sequel coming out in October this year!

So grateful to be on this street team and able to yap about one of my fave duologies of all time ✨@gromerolacruz.bsky.social is an incredible author and I can't wait for the sequel to storm the world <3

(These gorgeous illustrations are by @gromerolacruz.bsky.social herself depicting Reina, Eva and Maior, girls I would die to protect) #thesunandthevoid #theriverandthestar #thewarringgods #pridemonthreads

Did you know The River and The Star is out on Oct 7th? The first book is one of my all time faves and i am so lucky to have gotten an arc for the sequel! If you're looking for a pride month read then I'd 100% recommend The Sun and The Void, and then preordering the River and The Star 🤭🤭🌟

simple as: if you don't write your own words, from brain to page, you're not a writer. If you're using AI you don't understand what it means to be a writer. A hill I'll die on.

Not sure what the kid-lit community did to deserve @heykellyjensen.bsky.social but I’m glad she’s here. Just wow, what a resource. 👇🏽

photo of a hand holding a knife with a piece of red meat stabbed on it. white text overlaid on top.

Just a small snippet from the scene I'm working on.

I'm working to hit the sensory details and timing just right... Horror has to be so intentional with every line, and I'm having a blast with the challenge!

🩸📚 #Snippet #writingcommunity #amquerying (soon!)

omg this was so unsettling, i love it!

SO HYPED FOR KAY!!!!! <3

#Agents I started querying my gothic Sapphic fantasy!

Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it.

Wait i didn't realise you only started this morning!! That's even more insane go youuu!

Urban Legends and Wicked Spells: The Rise of Black YA Horror - Reactor There’s just something special about Black horror. Sometimes that means horror with Black people in it and sometimes it means where Blackness is as central to the story as the horror is. But we know i...

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Here's my agent's guide to THIS FAITH YOU BLEED FOR, an adult gothic fan(g)tasy, complete at 104k. #amquerying

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

Huge congrats!!!!

A CURSE CARVED IN INK by Tzeyi Koay, coming 2027 with @simonschusteruk and @atriabooksaus @simonschusterau ✨️

hope you're okay pal!!! but also yes direct this energy into your FMCs hehehe <3

I edited around 10,000 words of my novel yesterday and then made two (2) sheperd's pie afterwards, counting that as a solid win ☺️

run don't walk ppl!!! <3

So today was the official release day for my first traditionally published book.

Out in Greenwood is an LGBTQ+ teen novel with humour, mixed with the emotions of realising you are gay at 15 but having to hide those feelings.

Please retweet to help me get the word out.

that sounds so tough, sending love <3

On the top half of the image, text on a background of an urban nightscape that reads "For The Days We Never Had", followed by text against a translucent reddish background that reads, "After Kai Le and Ai Yu encounter a mysterious entity at a bus-stand, they find themselves getting what they wanted - and more. Thrown into the world of urban legends, they have to grapple with the monsters they have unleashed, both figurative and real. Are their dreams worth losing themselves over?"; "Adult Urban Fantasy - 94k words". On the second half of the image is a 7-Eleven at dusk, with a row of pictures over it: the book cover for Velvet was the Night; the book cover for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue; and the anime poster for Durarara!

my pitch card for my #amquerying adult urban fantasy, FOR THE DAYS WE NEVER HAD, ft. a discontented college kid and a hopeless romantic grappling with vampires, lost gods, gangs, and shady detectives

leave a ❤️/reply if interested!

#writingcommunity

Image: journal entry

Image: published print literary magazine

first draft vs. last draft:

“I paid a dollar for a vial of love off a woman on seventh street.”

“Finn paid a pound for a vial of love off a woman on Seventh Street.”

An agent's guide to ALL GODS MUST DIE by Kate Duarte

Adult Romantic Fantasy with Horror elements comps: heartless hunter, to cage a god, the starving saints, the knight and the moth, versailles When Merit's lover chooses her best friend as his next sacrifice, ​Merit vows to murder him. But to slay a god, she must first find his ​weakness—and defeat his loyal bodyguard, the wielder of death.

→ Lovers to Enemies → Female Rage → Slow Burn → Magic Corrupts You → Fake Courtship → Friends to Lovers → Banter → Religious Corruption

She never noticed the freckles speckling his hooked nose before. The flush is gone from his face, turning him less boyish, more lethal. “If I glue myself to the executioner’s shadow, who’ll have the guts to approach me?” “I thought the point was that you didn’t wish to dance.” “I don’t wish to dance with anyone who’d want to court me.” Merit taps his shoulder. “I believe I’m safe from that with you.” “Hm.” He turns her under the arch of his arm, hands twining again as she returns to his chest. “Either way, thank you.” “Likewise.” She smiles brightly, this time in earnest. Out of the corner of her eye, she notices Kalla close to the refreshments’ table, entangled with Talia and another woman. Good for her. Kalla’s gaze catches hers, an eyebrow quirked as if to say you witty bastard. Merit answers with a grin. Watch me, sister. I’ll go to the brim of the world to save you.

GODKILLER x THE CURSE OF SAINTS
When Merit's lover chooses her best friend as his next sacrifice, Merit vows to murder him. But to slay a god, she must first find his weakness—and defeat his bodyguard, the wielder of death.

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