A SONG TO CROWN HIM (Querying) THE DOG WHO KNEW (WIP)
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ALT An Agents Guide to What Magic Remains. An Adult Gothic Romantic Fantasy complete at 100k words.
ALT Comps and Tropes: The Foxglove King, Reap and Sow, One Dark Window. Political Intrigue, Outcast Protagonist, He Falls First, and Harder, Morally Grey MMC, Forbidden Romance, Magic with Consequences, and Forced Proximity.
ALT Retaining her magic after becoming a vampire makes Verena the only one of her kind. An anomaly. An abomination. A heretic. She blends into human society, hiding the monster she fears she’s become behind potions, glamours, and silk gloves. But she’ll risk being discovered to protect her friend from a secret human Order that’s abducting witches. Unfortunately, she doesn’t anticipate Wolfe, a man who—for reasons she can’t fathom—bends the rules to keep her sabotage hidden from the Order. Nor her inconvenient attraction to him. What Verena doesn’t know is that Wolfe is the demon Hell sent to find her—and the one who kept her magic alive. A secret he can’t afford to let Hell discover. As the Order grows more dangerous and Hell closes in to claim or destroy what never should’ve existed, Wolfe must decide what he’s willing to risk to keep her alive. Verena, meanwhile, must decide whether she can trust the man who’s reminded her what safety feels like—or if falling for him is the greatest
ALT Snippets: Top Left: She was mine, yet I couldn’t have her. I couldn’t claim her, though everything within me demanded I did. She wouldn’t be safe without me, but I wouldn’t be safe with her. Top Right: I’d survived a hundred years rationing my magic like breath beneath water. Concealing and guarding myself. Seven Hells, I’d managed. Yet standing in the cellar, watching the darkness now creep beyond the crook of my arm, I bristled at the reminder. Bottom Left: “It’s flattering how much you enjoy my company.” He let out a laugh, rich and dark as nightshade, that rumbled in through my body. “And here I thought it was you who was enjoying mine.” “Would you prefer I didn’t?” I dared. Bottom Right: Her body shivered as I kissed her jaw, moving slowly until my mouth hovered over hers. “But if I need to be clearer, Verena, it’s you.”
ALT The text reads, Off Book, Upmarket Fiction. Themes: Loneliness, Identity, Family. There is a gradient red/orange background and a photo of a script with a pencil.
ALT A red/orange gradient background with a small clipart of a script. The text reads: Off Book, the pitch: A thirty-one-year-old failed actress takes a job as a daughter for hire for lonely senior citizens to pay for her mother’s expensive memory care facility. When a client dies and leaves her a substantial portion of his estate she must contend with his estranged children and keep secret what happened the last time she saw him to maintain her claim on the money she desperately needs. After she grows close to the client's daughter, who she has been pretending to be, she has to choose between lying to the woman she is falling for or losing the money she needs to care for her dying mom.
ALT A red/orange gradient background with a small clipart of a script. The text reads: Off Book, Excerpt #2: Carl stopped humming and turned around. “Kris, you’re home.” His face transformed into a beam of light, radiating all the joy of a parent seeing their newborn for the first time. The energy was palpable in the room, and Mara couldn’t help but smile back. He crossed the room, a slight limp in his left leg, and took both Mara’s hands in his own. “I’ve made your favorite dinner. Just the way you like it with a pinch of sugar in the sauce.” Mara took a moment to compose herself, letting the mask of another person’s face slip over hers before responding. She closed her eyes and inhaled. “It smells great, Dad. Exactly how I like it.”
ALT The background is a gradient red/orange. The text reads Off Book, comps. A picture of the cover of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin with the text "one sided relationship". A picture of the cover of The Guest by Emma Cline with the text "Transactional relationships, playing characters for others". A picture of the cover of Audition by Katie Kitamura with the text "Family as performance, literally".
ALT An autumnal themed still art photograph, featuring various pumpkins and squash, flowers, and a snuffed candle, all situated on a round table. The top reads TO THE WIZARD, 85k Adult Fantasy.
ALT Text: Pitch After all her brothers are taken year after year by the elusive Wizard, Bronlei knows she is next. But when her best friend is taken instead, she decides to enter the annual contest to Hunt and Kill the Wizard. The only person who can help her reach the top of the mountain is her first love. The only problem? He despises her, and for good reason. But when Bronlei reveals she's in possession of the only existing guide on how to find and kill a wizard, the pair enter a tenuous alliance to help the other navigate the dangerous magic that has turned the mountain into an unpredictable gameboard.
ALT Text: Prelude On the eve of the Taking, the people of the mountain smear their doorways with blood. They sprinkle blessed holly ash through holes in the floor and hang their branches upside over from cracks in the ceiling. Each room is lined with salt, every headboard burned with iron in the shape of a petal. Some people say a chant in old Eila, some flip their rugs over. Others fill a dozen basins with water and leave them in the kitchen with a brew of clean bones, dead flowers, and uncut quarry stone. Their doors are bolted twice, windows locked, curtains drawn. What they don’t know, the people of the mountain, is that none of it matters. Salt or spruce, iron or ash, the Wizard takes who he wants. There is no way to stop him.
ALT A diagram of book covers from left to right: UPROOTED by Naomi Noviks (tone and intrigue) THE SCORPIO RACES by Maggie Stiefvater (atmosphere and romance) BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M.L. Wang (politics and secrets) NETTLE & BONE by T. Kingfisher (quest and stakes)
ALT Moodboard for Shifter WIP by Elisa Winther, an adult romantic fantasy.
ALT The cover image features two genus of orchids of greenish white color on a solid black background. The text on the image reads: an agent & editor's guide to... FEED ME YOUR ORGANIC HEART, an adult upmarket psychological horror, 85,000 words.
ALT With the same background as the 1st image, on a piece of paper, titled PITCH, in black text, it reads: In this deadly cat and mouse queerplatonic horror reimagining of Beauty & the Beast, told through a modern lens, a doomed codependency festers between a genderfluid, heart-eating monster desperate to become human, and the vision-tormented hunter obsessed with murdering it.
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ALT With the same background, the slide is titled, Themes. It consists of listed themes with a red arrow pointing at each one. They are as follows: botanical body horror (allegory for twisted adoration), true descent into MADNESS, nightmarish surrealism, social commentary/ gender roles/ body image, cultural dysphoria + genderfluid rep, quiet, forested town setting.