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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 18

Omg 🥹 This is so kind of you, thank you so much Corinne! ❤️

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Ash is 🌟vague🌟 @ashleyrugg.bsky.social · Aug 16

#YA with crossover appeal // BRIDGERTON x DRACULA
✨6 ms requests✨

🦷His life is at stake for biting her
🦇Her life is at stake for surviving it
👑All she wanted was to find family, now she has to 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦
🩸Blood is thicker than water… 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑦.

#PosterPitQ #SPF #R #H #PosterPit

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 16

Lovers to enemies??? I am so sat for this 😍

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H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social · Aug 16

A #NA dual-POV #F #R where These Violent Delights meets Arcane.
Featuring:
🥀 A firebrand FMC from the slums
🥀A gilded MMC with blood on his hands
🥀 Class war meets monster horror
🥀 Fated mates with a twist
🥀 He'd do anything for her
🥀2 publishers interested / 10 manuscript requests.

#PosterPit #Q

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · Aug 16

Introducing the #PosterPit premiere of…

A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME

The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies

Will the waves of a broken Kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al’Maii?

☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine
🌊 Sunken kingdom, hidden beneath the ocean
🌟 Magical politics
⚔️ Quest

#W #F #R #NA #RF

A mock movie poster for a book. The background is an overlay of a close-up of a beach and the tree line of a misty forest.
The Images show:
- Outline of a woman with a sword
- Outline of a man with a bow and arrow
- Outline of an eagle
Text across the top reads:
GRUMPY x SUNSHINE
INSPIRED BY ATLANTIS
SLOW BURN WITH a chilli
LOST MAGIC, all of these with 5. Stars

Title reads: A kingdom to drown me, a romantasy novel by Emma Al-munshi

QUERYING SOON
Tagline is: Will the waves of a broken kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al’Maii

Then a mock up of a film rating that reads NA, Contains Mild 'Spice" mild violence and some scenes that readers might find exciting/terrifying

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 16

I love the Tourette’s rep 🥹 this sounds amazing!

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Abigail is ✨Agented✨ @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · Aug 16

TANGLED X ANASTASIA

In a Swiss realm where people forget their worst memory, an orphan with Tourette's recruits a flirtatious thief to help restore her forgotten past.

🪻Found Family
🪻Disability & LGBTQ Rep
🪻Cozy Setting
🪻Swoony Romance

#PosterPitAG #PosterPit #F #YA

Titled “WHERE MEMORIES BLOSSOM”. Poster has a blue background featuring flowers. Art includes four young adults: one girl with braided black hair and blue eyes wearing an old-fashioned blue dress, one girl with black hair in a bun and a pink shirt, one boy with orange hair and a brown vest, and one boy with long brown hair and a red cape. YA COZY FANTASY. FOUND FAMILY. Directed by Abigail Wadlington and repped by Rebecca Williamson.

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is SO stunning!!! What a beautiful poster!

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · Apr 19

Once Gwen was called Wendy. She was promised love. All she lost was her humanity.
Once Hook was called Rosie. She was promised adventure. All it cost was her family.
Together, maybe a cranky immortal & a smug pirate can find a thing they didn’t know was missing.
#PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #F #H #LGBT

Image shows the close-up of a young woman laying amongst plants in a jungle. Her mouth and upper chest spattered in blood, though no wounds are visible.
Text is as follows:

A Film by Alex Baker
Gwen Dale as Wendy Darling
Roseline Rivière as Capt. Hook

Enemies to Lovers
Butch/Femme Pairing
Pan-pires & Pirates
Spicy Sapphics
Hurt & Comfort
Support Women's Wrongs

"An Education in Malice X Peter Pan"
- Movie Reviewer

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME
What Really Happened After Neverland

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 16

Such a cool concept and poster! You nailed this 😍

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE OFFICE x GOOD OMENS

Virgil Mora has three months to turn around a vampire-ran Ohio gas station to restore Heaven’s faith in Hell and save his boss, Lucifer, the angel he’s fallen for.

Before his past mistakes come back to haunt him. Literally.

#PosterPit #W #A #C #F #LGBT

A movie poster, at the top is the title “Hell Is Work” and underneath it a tag line “The Devil is in the details”

The background is red with a light red graph showing a plummeting arrow representing a failing business.

In the foreground is a three pronged Devil’s pitchfork with a halo around the central tine.

Sitting on the curved crook of the right tine, nonchalant, with one arm wrapped around the tine is a black silhouette of a man wearing a suit and tie. His legs dangle casually above a field of flame.

On the curved crook of the left tine, staring at the other man, is a white figure of a man with wings spread, casually playing footsie with the other man.

At the bottom is the words “A novel by Zed Prospero”

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 16

I loooove the spooky gothic vibes of this! Gorgeous 😍

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Kara is writing (maybe) @karasiert.bsky.social · Aug 16

EVEN SEINTS FALL: a monster-hunting exploration of identity, religious corruption & believing in something greater than yourself.

💀Seven deadly sins as monsters
🩸Chronic illness rep
🥀Religious corruption
🖤Found family

#W #YA #F #H #posterpit

Image shows a dark, moody photo of a cathedral with the title, "Even Seints Fall" with red splattered across the final word. Subtitle at the top of the poster reads, "A gothic horror fantasy." Underneath, two sets of accolade-style laurels accompany text reading, "One last adventure" and "One last chance." A mock five star review reads, "ID LITERALLY DIE FOR HIM" - my best friend. The bottom of the photo reads, "Kara Siert" in a smaller subtitle.

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #Q
ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE - 75K / NA / Paranormal Mystery 🕵️

🧹 cleaning haunted houses
🔪 serial killer mystery
🌊 british coastal setting
👻 ghosts, ghosts & more ghosts
🧠 autistic protagonist

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 16

You already know how much I love this, but in case you forgot: I LOVE THIS SO SO SO MUCH!!! And I’m happy you didn’t get put in Bluesky jail for the bl00d 🤣

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Ash is 🌟vague🌟 @ashleyrugg.bsky.social · Aug 16

BRIDGERTON x DRACULA x PRINCE HARRY+MEGHAN DRAMA
✨6 ms requests✨

🪦Vampires are going extinct.
🫦Eden shouldn’t have survived his bite.
⚔️Now she has to try to survive his family of Romanian royals
🩸Blood is thicker than water… 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑦.

#PosterPitQ #SPF #R #H #PosterPit

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 16

💀 A necromancer, doomed by her own dark power.
👑 A long-lost prince, murdered in the ruins of his crumbling kingdom.
🖤 Maybe some secrets are better left buried...

THE BOG PRINCE—a #YA #F with big 5 editor interest—coming to a #Q inbox near you very soon 👀

#PosterPit

A movie poster for Julianne's upper YA romantasy novel, THE BOG PRINCE. The image combines two dark, moody oil paintings, depicting hands lowering a crown onto a skull. The text reads: The Bog Prince. Upper YA/Crossover, Dark Academia, Gothic Romantasy. There are two quotes: "I will be thinking about this book and your gorgeous writing for a long time" and "Noooo stop r u kidding meeeee no nononono", both above 5 star ratings. The tag at the bottom reads, "Maybe some secrets are better left buried..." and the text underneath says: When a necromancer at a ruthless magic school reanimates the bog-preserved body of her kingdom's long-lost prince, the two must work together to hide her forbidden power and solve his centuries-old murder before the college closes in and executes them both.

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 7

You are the sweetest 😭❤️ thank you so much friend! That means the world to me!

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Ash is 🌟vague🌟 @ashleyrugg.bsky.social · Aug 6

Everything about this book is *chef's kiss*. I'm so lucky to have read it early! Julianne is one of my favorite humans ever! And her prose is to die for!

Agents, you won't want to miss this beautiful world, high stakes, adrenaline pumping scenes, and yearning finance 😍😍😍

Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 6

Introducing the #agentsguide for my very soon to be #Q novel, THE BOG PRINCE!

💀 A necromancer, doomed by her own dark power.
👑 A lost prince, lying murdered in the ruins of his crumbling kingdom.
🖤 Maybe some secrets are better left buried...

#Questpit #YA #RF #agentguide

A picture of a crumbling castle with text that reads: an agent's guide to The Bog Prince by Julianne M, a 105k word YA fantasy romance.

Eighteen-year-old Everin Lockett’s dreams of returning home from ruthless Wyverith College are shattered when she manifests a forbidden necromancy magic that reanimates the bog body of her kingdom’s lost prince. If the college discovers the truth about her abilities, she will be conscripted into their brutal army,
doomed never to see her family again.

Desperate to guard her secret, Everin strikes a deal with the long-lost Prince Byrnan: if he helps keep her power hidden, she will help him solve his centuries-old murder. But when Byrnan’s quest for justice could be the very thing that endangers her last chance of going home, Everin will need to confront the true cost of
falling for a lost prince with nothing left to lose—and a kingdom to reclaim.

Maybe some secrets are better left buried…

For fans of...
Hozier (Yearning & Bog Bodies)
A Study in Drowning and Curious Tides (Dark Academia and Lyrical Prose)
Belladonna, One Dark Window, and Florence + the Machine (Haunting Gothic Atmosphere)
Divine Rivals (Slow-Burn Romance)

Snippet...

A fork of lightning split the rain-soaked sky in two, and the ground trembled with a deafening clap of thunder. But even after the rumbling faded, the bog still shuddered beneath me, swelling and quaking like a pair of lungs drawing their dying breath. I lurched away, my heart jolting against my throat as I scrambled back through the mud.
Another crack of lightning.
And in its wake, silhouetted against the flash of violet light—

A single grasping hand,
clawing its way out of the earth towards me.

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yay! Happy you like it! Thanks Willy 🫶🏻

Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 7

That’s the goal! Thanks so much Juniper 🫶🏻🥹

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 6

CURIOUS TIDES x BELLADONNA X ODW

When a necromancer at a ruthless magic school reanimates the bog body of her kingdom’s long-lost prince, the two must work together to hide her forbidden power and solve his centuries-old murder before the college closes in.

💀👑

#QuestPit #YA #RF #Q

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Aug 6

Introducing the #agentsguide for my very soon to be #Q novel, THE BOG PRINCE!

💀 A necromancer, doomed by her own dark power.
👑 A lost prince, lying murdered in the ruins of his crumbling kingdom.
🖤 Maybe some secrets are better left buried...

#Questpit #YA #RF #agentguide

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · Jul 30

A little TBP snippet for today's #WIPSnips! Coming to a query inbox near you very soon 👀

A quote from Julianne's novel, The Bog Prince. A white text box over an image of light reflecting onto cobblestones reads: Through the sparse cover of trees, twilight painted Sodarnick’s main street the colour of a day-old bruise. Flickering streetlamps spilled pools of golden light onto the ice-slick cobblestone. The storefronts were quiet and dark, all the open signs turned over. The grocer. The bookstore. Amna’s shop.
This street was as familiar as the creases lining my palm. But it suddenly felt strange, like I was seeing it through new eyes. With every step we took, something I couldn’t quite name clutched at my chest. Equal parts hope and dread, twisting tighter and tighter around my heart.

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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · May 16

Editing is fun because sometimes you spend hours reworking an entire chapter only to decide it worked better the first time and 🙃 change 🙃 it all 🙃 back 🙃

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