When his village is swarmed with mischievous tree sprites, a young sorcerer must learn to harness his unwieldy magic and save his home from the spirits’ ire.
🪄ATLA x Merlin
🫖Cozy fantasy
🐉Sword, sorcery, & spirits
♥️Slow-burn
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My agent's guide to GODCAT, a PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN dark fantasy/horror blend (with big 5 editor interest + an award)!
I'm #amquerying in a few weeks, so if you've liked a pitch for this, expect something in your inbox soon🐈⬛🫀🐦⬛ #writingcommunity
okay now that’s finished i can say confidentially that nothing has ever been as much of a fanfiction on screen as good omens 3 and i’m not just saying that i really mean it with my whole soul.
FREE QUERY CRITIQUES! APRIL/MAY edition - closes at 6pm on May 7th!
I'm giving away TWO (totally) free query critiques on X this month - one for April and one for May. Instructions to enter below. NOTE: this giveaway is only running on X this time BUT there are two critiques up for grabs!
There are ZERO strings attached. Just one author supporting another. That's it. 📷#WritingCommunity #amquerying
One of the best parts about #QuestPit was all the real humans flooding my notifications for once! 😂 Now that the bots are back spamming my posts, I am even more grateful for all the wonderful authors I got to interact with! Thank you all for a great time! 💖
a non-exhaustive list of schmagency red flags! just some off the top of my head as someone who’s been around for a bit (pitchwars mentee, roundtable mentor, on my third and fourth v wonderful agents):
-agencies that offer paid editorial services (agencies never charge $) 🚩
Don’t Let the Forest in x Rumpelstiltskin retelling
ROT WIP has
- Botanical Horror
- Rage and what happens when you swallow it
- Grief
- Dark Academia
- Horrormance
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WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE
a fantasy horror about a college freshman who joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic
🫀dark academia x body horror x STEM
🫀south asian rep x bi4bi
🫀vengeance, moral ambiguity, & guts galore
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An Editor’s Guide for my Romantasy!
‼️ LARGE Booktok Interest ‼️
🌊 Last of her kind w amnesia
🔥 Zutara coded
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
✨ Slow Burn
💔 Forbidden Love
👑 Knight x Princess
⏳ Painfully Slow Burn
🩸 TOUCH HER/HIM & DIE
#QuestPit#AG#A#F
mae is a disgrace figure skater. elise is a grieving artist. when their lives collide at college, they fall hopelessly in love, but the ghosts they carry threaten to tear them apart.
ft.
🌙 first love
🛰️ explorations of grief & abuse
🤍 literary prose
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The vibes of WORK IN PROGRESS, a contemporary romance with women’s fiction crossover
💌 Nemeses-to-lovers
🎨 Quarter-life crisis
🧧 #Asian-setting
🥴 Complicated family dynamics
❣️ 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU X CRAZY RICH ASIANS
#questpit#W#A#R#ownvoices
WEDNESDAY x CHINESE MYTHOLOGY 🖤🧧ft:
🗡️ morally gray heroines (sisters)
🐉 chinese folklore
🀄️ family secrets
💌 diverse found family
🗝️ secret society
❤️🔥 slowburn romance
📜 thousand yr old curse
#QuestPit#NA#F#Q#DF
If your novel moves too slow, readers will put it down partway through.
If it moves too fast, readers won't feel connected to your characters or immersed in your scenes.
Whether it's a slow start, a saggy middle, or a rushed ending, pacing is one of the biggest problems I see in manuscripts I edit.
Here are 5 practical steps to nail the perfect pace:
I’M AN AGENTED AUTHOR!!!
I'm so excited to share that I’m now represented by Brent Taylor at @triadaus
If you love:
✨ Found family
✨ Witchy romcoms
✨ Enchanted houses
CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL is one step closer to being in your hands!
It’s official!!! I’m gonna be a published author!! Words cannot describe how grateful I have felt these last few months, this is an absolute dream come true ❤️
Skeeter Pete 🐕🐶 is gonna steal your hearts (unless you’re a cat person 🤭)