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Brayden is querying

@braydenrwrites.bsky.social

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Hi there! I primarily write contemporary and literary fiction for both YA and Adult audiences. Occasionally, I write speculative fiction, and this one time I wrote a dystopian book. Currently querying.

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 2d

If “Euphoria” and “Get Out” had a baby and left it on the beach to rot in the sun, this is that book. In a world where billionaires can buy forgiveness by erasing memories, remembering becomes an act of rebellion. #Q #A #S #LF #T #questpit

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Mine overwhelmingly have come from twitter with a few Bsky outliers.

Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 1d

#writingcommunity who participated in questpit, ghostpit, pitdark or similar events— for science, what platform did your agent likes come from? I’ll start.

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Same sis, on both things lol

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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 1d

KNOW YOU BETTER is a dual-POV slow burn romcom with sharp, witty banter, found family, FaceTimes & texts, and positive plus-size rep💚

MUSIC VIBES
🎶Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
🎶Am I Okay? by Megan Moroney
🎶Overwhelming by Jon Bellion
🎶just friends by Virginia to Vegas

#QuestPit #A #R #Q

Agent's guide to Know You Better, dual-pov adult plus-size romcom, by Brittney Farrell, on a split green background, with stock images of two characters, two dogs, a kitchen, and laser tag

Pitch & comp page on a split green background. Stock image of a corgi and golden retriever. Know You Better one sentence pitch: A plus-size retail manager dog sits to survive after her ex moves out, leaving her with rent she can’t afford—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient, and in desperate need of a dog sitter… which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever. Comp titles: 4 images of books. Savor It by Tarah DeWitt for the sizzling banter & tension. You With a View by Jessica Joyce for the emotional exploration of starting over. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez for acts of service as a love language. And Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen for the plus-size confidence.

Opening page sample on a split green background:

Much like my life, my apartment is going up in smoke.

I choke as a black cloud billows out of the oven. My gourmet dino nuggets have turned to fossils.

“Oh fuck me,” I groan, reaching in to grab the sheet pan. I drop it on the stovetop as the lava-like heat bites through my oven mitt. Shrill barks echo beside me in tandem with the smoke alarm that’s now going off. It sounds like the inventory scanners from work in surround sound, live from Hell. Lovely.

“Piper, Phoebe, no!” I shoo the Pomeranians back from the still-open oven. Dog sitting was supposed to be an easy way to make money to get out of this shithole apartment, not burn it down. Even if I dream of it most days.

Gray smoke swirls around my galley kitchen, blending into the dull cabinets and walls. The scene’s taking me back to a night I’d love to bleach from my brain, but the soot clinging for dear life to the yellowed ceiling makes that impossible. “Thanks, Devin,” I spit into the ether, as if he can hear me from Chicago. And a big thanks to me, too, for treating my credit cards like Monopoly money.

Piper takes a piranha chomp toward my fingers—luckily still covered by oven mitts—while I wave at the haze circling their fluffy little heads. They charge forward again. “Get back, I’m trying to save you! This is your fault!”

My mistake for thinking they would be the easy, well-behaved angels I was assured they were. A ‘quick’ potty break turned into chasing a rogue Phoebe around my complex, begging her to slow down, while her sister snapped at my ankle. It took over thirty minutes to wrangle them, and the nuggets paid the price. I guess store-bought is not fine.

Pinterest style mood board on a green background, including images of: a tattooed hand holding another, laser tag, a plus-size woman, airplane, two dogs, a Red Wings game, a green kitchen, a tattooed man, pottery

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 1d

A coastal paradise. A hallucinogenic drug. A girl who disappears and returns rewritten.
The truth isn’t lost—it’s erased.
They Called it Saltwater explores how far people will go to reclaim their identity—and what it means to trust in a world engineered to deceive. #Q #questpit #A #T #LF #S

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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 2d

KNOW YOU BETTER is like YOUNG & HUNGRY—but instead of his private chef, she’s his dog sitter—with the wit & banter of WELL, ACTUALLY, & the embodiment of EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED by Taylor Swift

🌿confident plus-sized fmc
🐾he falls first & harder
🌿facetimes & texts
🐾found family

#QuestPit #Q #A #R

Green background with two stock images of characters and the text "Know You Better" under is "adult plus-size romcom"

Green background, stock image of a character cut out, with the name "Sydney Sage Bennett" followed by small lines and descriptions of her, including: thirty years old, dramatic & saucy, amazing cook & host, tattooed, beer budget, champagne taste, black cat energy, definitely *not* into owen, retail ops manager

Green background, stock image of a character cut out, with the name "Owen James Sutton" followed by small lines and descriptions of him, including: thirty-one years old, acts of service king, golden retriever energy, shameless flirt, events manager, heavily tattooed, *absolutely* into sydney, the best dog dad

Green background, stock image of a golden retriever and a corgi, with the names "Pawvel & Crouton" followed by small lines and descriptions of them, including: the best boys, #1 at napping, sheds a metric ton of fur per day, named after a hockey player, named for obvious reasons, performs houdini escape tricks, #1 at snacking

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 2d

EUPHORIA’s aesthetic hallucinations meet the coastal setting of OUTER BANKS—a strange new drug is a cover for a conspiracy that weaponizes memories

Midsommar–level feminine rage🌴

Unreliable narrators 🌊

Childhood friends-to-lovers 🌴

Touch him & d*e #Q #A #S #LF #questpit #T