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ALT Black-and-copper pitch slide titled “An Agent’s Guide: Inquisitor for Hire.” Text reads: “Adult dark fantasy noir. 93,000 words. Multi-POV. Standalone.” The case description reads: “Once Rysia’s feared Grand Inquisitor, Wynsten now catches adulterers to make rent. When he is hired to find a missing ambassador before an uneasy peace collapses, the case leads him through forbidden magic, vanished daughters, and a conspiracy tied to the royal blood ritual that made him a legend, ruined his life, and fused the empire’s worst secrets to his chest.” Beside it is a historical painting of a royal procession entering an ornate city gate, overlaid with: “A missing ambassador. A disgraced legend. A kingdom rotting from within.”
ALT Black-and-copper slide titled “Opening Lines,” with a historical painting of a besieged city across the top. The excerpt reads: “The heretics had nowhere left to run. Wynsten had made sure of that. Months of blood and smoke had led him beneath the Sovereign’s castle, into the old mines carved through the bedrock. A stronghold under the heart of the kingdom. These apostates would face justice here or burn.” Below it reads: “Twenty years before he became an investigator for hire, Wynsten stopped a ritual fueled by Rysia’s own royal blood.”
ALT Black-and-copper comparison slide over a historical painting of Crusaders approaching a fortified city. Heading: “A fantasy investigation with teeth.” Subheading: “Three touchstones. One decaying empire.” Three covers appear beneath: The Justice of Kings, representing institutional rot and compromised justice; The Tainted Cup, representing a secondary-world mystery engine; and Chinatown, representing slow-burn corruption and a poisoned victory. The closing line reads: “Everyone has an angle. Power decides who pays.”
ALT Black-and-copper slide titled “Inside the Case,” subtitled: “A dark-fantasy noir for readers who want the mystery and the damage.” Story elements listed are: a post-conquest secondary world inspired by the Crusader states; fallen hero and disgraced legend; corruption at the highest level; missing ambassador; reluctant found family; forbidden magic; power no one understands; secrets beneath the city; and morally gray choices. Beside the list is a historical painting of mounted Crusaders entering a conquered city. The closing tagline reads: “He saved the kingdom once. Maybe he shouldn’t have.”
ALT A green mountain shrouded in fog with book title and metadata.
ALT A green mountain shrouded in fog displaying a book one-line pitch.
ALT A foggy mountain and river background with four comparative titles displayed (The Mercies, Weyward, The Wolf in the Whale, and I Who Have Never Known Men).
ALT A foggy seaside cliff background with a first-page excerpt displayed.
ALT The Agent's Guide to Natural Neon by Alicia Maskley. Upmarket Speculative / Dystopian. 90k Words.
ALT For fans of... MPOV, Dark and Gritty Speculative Fic, Irrecerently Funny / Unhinged Characters, Vengeful Androids, Sex Clubs, Cults, Social Commentary, Astral Projections, Freaky Florida, Nonlinear Timelines. Influenced by I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter and Journey of Souls.
ALT The Pitch. At the glitzy CappaCale, Londyn dances for tourists, but when she volunteers for the club's black-market B2B implant to get some extra credits for her brother's medication, she starts seeing a horrific death that doesn't belong to her. Londyn's waking world is unraveling. Her boss/boyfriend is becoming more obsessive, her brother can't take anything seriously, and she might just be falling for the implant's inventor, Julian Butcher. As the mod pulls her toward her breaking point and social unrest seethes in Miami, Londyn must decide whether to surrender her mind to the system that has consumed everyone she has ever cared about, or tear herself free by inviting a violent, uncontrollable force into the mind she barely owns herself.
ALT Comps & Vibes: Altered Carbon, The Dream Hotel, Station Eleven and 12 Monkeys.
ALT Mood board for 'Soul Eater's Death Rider', written by Kristen Slice writing as 'D.C. Rutherford'. Rock pile, Celtic cross, ancient landscapes, wild boar in a dark forest, spooky forest, bonfire, horse statue.
ALT An agents guide to A Threadless Fate
ALT Drowning in debt and trapped in a dead-end job, Shindara finds escape in her favourite fantasy novel. But when a freak accident pulls her into its pages, she awakens in a body not her own, armed with the knowledge of how the story unfolds. Her plan to secure a safe future by attaching herself to the hero takes an unexpected turn when she becomes entangled with Evian, the villain destined for tyranny, madness, and death. As she falls for the very man she knows is doomed, Shindara must defy the story, unravel fate, and save Evian from his tragic ending. But rewriting destiny comes at a price, and saving him may come with a soul-shattering cost.
ALT Comps
ALT scheming FMC x villainous MMC 🖤"I will sacrifice the world for you" 🖤political intrigue 🖤 schemes & mind games 🖤he falls first & falls hard 🖤 found family 🖤dangerous, complicated situationship to love? 🖤morally gray characters
ALT Agents if you loved...
ALT The strong character arc of Beatrice in Divergent
ALT With tropes of a dying Earth, a ticking clock, self sacrifice, the reluctant hero, and the quest for a cure.
ALT He belongs to the forest. She's meant to die there. Image 1 overlay: framed hunched man. Image 2 overlay: framed woman with her face scratched over. "The Neighbors" repeated in the background.
ALT (1) notes found in the woods I frequently hike. Wrapped in foil, clipped to trees, pinned under leaves, or placed under a small rock. Images of cryptic notes overlayed. (2) Your local hiker-author with the unfortunate knack for finding strange notes and an underlying sleepwalking condition that has led her friends to believe SHE is the one leaving all the notes around central Pennsylvania. Framed image of R. A. Betzer on a wooden footbridge walking away from camera.
ALT The Pitch. "When Raven March moves to Pinehollow, she hopes the quiet woods will help her heal. Instead, she wakes to whispers, shadows between the trees, and warning notes in her own handwriting that she doesn’t remember leaving. Her only solace is Kane Han, her aloof yet ever-present neighbor. Their attraction is instant and volatile, but Kane belongs to the forest, and Raven is beginning to suspect it has plans for her, too." Includes gray runes and a framed image of a couple embracing on a dark background.
ALT Tropes & Vibes. Ripped pieces of paper with the text: cottagegore, New England Appalachia, tragic, romantic in a feral way, folkloric. Includes framed image of a shadowy couple running away holding hands on a dark, woodsy, dirt road.