Leigh Hellman

Please take all the time and space you can! Healing and rest and spaces for joy are so, so needed in the grueling fight ahead! 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

An epistolary prequel to DRACULA, by way of HANNIBAL (TV). (6/6)

#A #H #HF #DIS #LGBT

When the Count finally arrives, Reinfeld finds himself both untethered and resistant, thrashing against the seduction of the night. (5/6)

At first feeling free in the client's absence, Reinfeld soon comes to be haunted by dreams and voices calling out, whispering all of his darkest desires back to him. (4/6)

Although he knows that it is a fool's errand, meant to keep him out of more important and profitable positions, Reinfeld hopes that this job may lead to better opportunities. (3/6)

Reinfeld, a young Jewish clerk, is sent to assist in managing the affairs of a mysterious foreign nobleman who has rented a large house in the wealthy Prairie district. (2/6)

For #2025Pit agents' and editors' consideration:

Chicago, 1873. In the shadow of the Great Fire, the city draws new blood as it is reborn. (1/6)

Can they all untangle their feelings? Or are they destined to live in this comedy of errors?

(Three couples' stories can be interwoven in one novel or divided into three novellas.) (4/4)

#A #R #RomCom #CON #DIS #LGBT

About one of their co-workers and one of their exes who get caught up in a ridiculous game of telephone. And about a mysterious cousin who shows up, London posh but full of secrets and scars and nightmares. (3/4)

It's about what happens after, in the bumbling work of trying to go back to normal. About two village police officers who can't quite figure out what their relationship is. (2/4)

For #2025Pit agents' and editors' consideration:

Cults, terrorists, secret societies protecting the world. It's all out there and--for a small village in southwest England--they've seen most of it. But this story isn't about that. (1/4)

As they build Tokki's new career together, they have to figure out where their professional work ends and their private melody begins. (3/3)

#A #R #RomCom #CON #LGBT #Novella

At first resentful of what he sees as a lack of faith in his talent, Tokki slowly becomes intrigued by the composer's blunt but sweet nature and their strange, awkward chemistry. (2/3)

For #2025Pit agents' and editors' consideration:

Tokki, a former K-pop idol trying to forge his own identity as a soloist in an industry culture where over 30 means basically dead, butts heads with the hit composer his label brings in to try and guarantee sales. (1/3)

At first resentful of what he sees as a lack of faith in his talent, Tokki slowly becomes intrigued by the composer's blunt but sweet nature and their strange, awkward chemistry.