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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Jun 14

BLACK MIRROR x DARK MATTER x ANNIHILATION

All parents lie to protect their kids. Hers lied to protect the world. Now, a disgraced hacker must untangle her father's past before his quantum algorithm unravels global encryption—and her very sense of self.

✨ 4 fulls! ✨
#agentsguide #amquerying

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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 23

Awwww yissss partial request! #amquerying

harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 19

ANNIHILATION x BLACK MIRROR x DARK MATTER

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Critics are raving about HAWKE ARCHIVES:

"A bleeding heart at its quantum core."

"Unnerving. BRB need to destroy my devices."

"I didn't read this. It READ me."

#PosterPitQ #SF #T #H #A

Cyberpunk, tech-noir style movie pitch poster for HAWKE ARCHIVES, a Kaitlin Harvey original novel. Starring: identity dissolution, techno paranoia, real privacy threats, and a thriller structure with a bleeding heart. A quantum core looms in the background, next to the tagline: "ALL PARENTS LIE TO PROTECT THEIR KIDS. HERS LIED TO PROTECT THE WORLD." A glitchy, hooded figure stares out at the audience, but we don't know who they are. Overlaid near the title of the novel, a hawk and radar graphic stretches offscreen. Beneath the title, the pitch: "Disgraced hacker Carley Hawthorne must untangle her father's past before his quantum algorithm can destroy all data privacy--and her very identity." Beneath this, to both unnerve and entice: "THIS THRILLER READS YOU."

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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 23

870 words this morning. So happy to be back in the daily groove - 4 days in a row now, so far!

I haven't written with this much reckless abandon, at least outside of HAWKE, in years.

It feels GOOD. How's everyone doing today?
#amwriting #WritingCommunity

harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 22

Woo! Just finished a fantastic writing session prior to work. Another 1057 words down, and I just got to a super fun scene in Act 3.

So close to the finish line on this first draft of adWIP! 💪✍️ #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 22

Woo! Just finished a fantastic writing session prior to work. Another 1057 words down, and I just got to a super fun scene in Act 3.

So close to the finish line on this first draft of adWIP! 💪✍️ #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 20

Hey, thanks again! <3 I was only going to do two, but then this one came to me late on Friday and I just HAD to play with the phishing theme. ❤️ So glad you like it!

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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 20

Right back at you, Mike! Thanks for the support - can't wait to see your stories on the shelf someday soon. :)

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · Apr 19

The Strangehorn mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery conceals a time machine - a one-way ticket to Victorian London. When three cousins become stranded in 1860, their search for a way home is threatened by a gang of necromancers - and their grandfather is a prominent member.

#A #F #PosterPit #PosterPitW

Against a black background is the form of a man wearing a gas mask and holding a flaring red torch aloft. The smoke from the torch is rising to form the image of a red, distorted human skull. Above the image, text reads: “When I drink Italian wine, I see dead people”

Below the image, text reads:

Resurrection Men
A novel by Gert Ramm
A time portal inside a mausoleum sends three cousins to Victorian London, where they must rescue their grandfather and stop a necromancer from raising an army of the dead.
Coming soon to the spirit aisle

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Anna is editing gothic horror 💌 @annahirsch.bsky.social · Apr 19

When a faerie in disguise enters an elite royal messenger competition, her quest for the prize money is derailed by a centuries-old secret. 🗡️🩸🍃✨

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #F

What Bleeds Beneath: An adult dark fantasy novel by Anna Hirsch. Background image depicts a castle seen through a twisted forest, and a hooded figure standing before a castle window.

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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 19

Absolutely love the sound of this one!

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · Apr 19

Slow Horses x Life on Mars

When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.

#A #T #SF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ

Against a dark background is a large metal box, reminiscent of a mausoleum. In front of it are two park benches.

Text reads:

“Like Slow Horses and Life on Mars shagging on the back seat of a Vauxhall Viva”
(image of five gold stars)
Out of Time
A novel by Gert Ramm
High stakes thriller / time travel / stale beer espionage / weird science / Cold War subterfuge / working class hero / hunter to hunted / antagonist from the future / enemy turned ally / proles vs privilege
In the query trenches now

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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 19

This is spectacular!

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Florence Chien 🗡️ REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA (07.07.26) @florencechien.com · Apr 19

1937. 21yo a-Ling's final task in Shanghai is to save her cousin's magazine from censorship. But when the Kempeitai murders her cousin, a mysterious British financier promises to whisk her away to the London of her dreams, if only she spies on her family and country.

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #HF

Movie poster mock-up of Hollow Whispers of the Wind, a historical fiction written by Florence Chien. Poster depicts a sensual biracial couple of a Chinese woman and a Caucasian man, set against an old and torn up photograph of The Bund, Shanghai, in the 1930's.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · Apr 19

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW meets THE MARTIAN with the sweet fun of PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION and the satirical bite of YELLOWFACE

An anti-capitalist workplace comedy.

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #A #C #LF #HA

Book pitch designed like a movie poster mock-up. Centered line art illustration of a wheeled luggage bag with stickers, painterly pale orange background. The title “Elsewhere, Right Now” is a sticker on the luggage, along with a blue Earth planet sticker and a smaller red Mars planet sticker. Below the line art illustration of the back of woman’s legs in pants and heeled shoes reads the tag line “Who gets to go?” Beneath the entire image: “A novel by Rae Mariz” At the top of the poster, where featured actor names are usually found, genre and tropes are listed: Literary fiction, Workplace comedy, Ensemble cast, Opposites attract. And at the bottom of the poster in all caps, instead of further production credits, the pitch: “Hollywood has taken over casting for a televised mission to mars. Refugees & wanderers, frustrated scientists & bored adventurers all compete in a reality tv spectacle for a one-way ticket away from this mess. A fandom of teen girl vigilantes defy the tech-bro showrunner to keep their faves on screen.” Below that: “Out now in agent inboxes”

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Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · Apr 19

#posterpit #posterpitQ #YA #F #C

When a cocksure teen witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a ruthless plan to steal it back—even if it means betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic.

Photo of a young woman blowing ashes off an open, burnt book. Text reads, large: Early Magic. Smaller: YA Fantasy by Jessica Fisher Riches, frenemies to enemies, romantic debacles, California vibes; In the query trenches now

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Michelle Sanchez is AGENTED! @sanchezmm.bsky.social · Apr 19

MEXICAN GOTHIC + POE + PUERTO RICO

Dear readers,
I invite you into a lush, atmospheric, and propulsive tale of love and obsession that tests how far Cora will go to keep her grandfather's box of hearts fed while concealing the truth about herself and Casa del Demonio.
#posterpit #posterpita #YA #H

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Samantha is QUERYING 🖤🕯️ @samcrouchbooks.bsky.social · Apr 19

EMBER IN THE ASHES x SCORPIO RACES

A moon-blessed wilding girl must compete in the kingdom’s horseball tournament to awaken her magical counterpart—the only way to stop her darkness-plagued brother from poisoning the realm 🌊🐎 #PosterPitW #PosterPit #YA #F

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Amy Pepin @appleseed-amy.bsky.social · Apr 19

They played the game. Now the game is playing them.
CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD X FEAR STREET 1994 X ONE OF US IS LYING
#PosterPit #PosterPitW #YA #H

A poster for a novel called Eff Marry Kill with a melting pink cherry.

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Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Apr 19

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE

“If I were you, I’d cooperate. God isn’t here to save you from me.”

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #H #T #A

A fake movie poster in a black and red color palette featuring a low-angle image of city skyscrapers in front of an ominous, ring-shaped phenomenon in the sky reminiscent of an all-seeing eye. The buildings are black but reflecting the red color of the sky. The center of the ring is black, with a reddish in the very middle.

The text at the top says:

Villain Protagonists
Married Main Characters
Criminal Underworld
Cosmic Horror

In the lower third of the poster, text says:

THE DEVOURING
A Novel by A. M. Shilling

News of his brother’s murder sends Jason on a vengeance-fueled hunt for the killer, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play. The deeper they dig for the truth, the more they risk losing: their sanity, their lives, and each other.

COMING SOON

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Michelle Sanchez is AGENTED! @sanchezmm.bsky.social · Apr 19

MEXICAN GOTHIC + EDGAR ALLAN POE + PUERTO RICO

ONE box of human hearts hungry for blood
TWO men eager to steal Cora's heart
THREE dead bodies found missing their hearts

Ba-boom. Ba-boom. Ba-boom.

ON SUB SOON!

#posterpit #posterpitos #editors #ya #gothic #horror

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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · Apr 19

The job had 1 rule: don’t open the car’s trunk.

Should have been a 2nd rule: don’t give your friend a lift or she will absolutely break the one rule.

Now, an interdimensional smoke monster is free and hungry for souls.

Who has our disaster bi been working for?

#PosterPitQ #F #A

Poster with image of woman surrounded by smoke. Words at top: magic & monsters, snarky banter, sapphic romance, female friendship. Middle: Riding in Cars with Monsters. Adult contemporary fantasy by Michelle Ogilvy. Bottom: One rule: Don’t open the trunk.

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Kerrie Faye, Author of Dead Girl @kerriefayebooks.bsky.social · Apr 19

“Dearest Reader,

Are you not entertained?

Between Politics, Intrigue, and Betrayal our Enemies become Lovers under the harshest conditions…

the Usurper’s Colossus Games.

Will LOVE Conquer All?

Or BLOOOD?”

~Anonymous, WHISPERS, excerpt (the empire’s gossip paper)

#PosterPitQ #YA #F #PosterPit

The Guardian and The Light Bringer movie poster for a YA Romantasy in the query trenches.

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Ann Littler @annlittler.bsky.social · Apr 19

AT NIGHT, WE HIDE, a YA dystopian thriller, coming to theatres near you on November 7th.

Fear condemns them. Hope awakens them.

#PosterPitQ #YA #Dys #T #PosterPit #ANWH

AT NIGHT, WE HIDE, a YA dystopian thriller, coming to your eyes on November 7th 2025.

Winner of Best Snarky MC and the Hope is Dead and So is Everyone I Love Award.

Featuring found family, a super slow burn, and plenty of secrets and lies, mostly courtesy of the thieving, morally-grey FMC.

Fear condemns them. Hope awakens them.

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Dani @dani-s-writes.bsky.social · Apr 19

#PosterPitQ #A #T #H

This adult murder-fest thriller has disability & LGBTQ rep, and is full of eat-the-rich vibes, family secrets, forbidden romance, feminine rage and (a little) spice.
Plus the morally-grey villains are ✨hot✨

Agents, ❤️ if you want to see more...

Black/blue dark background movie poster. Photo of a young woman in the shadows in the centre. Red font of the title "The League." White writing on the top and bottom explaining the plot, comps and beta comment.

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Kerrie Faye, Author of Dead Girl @kerriefayebooks.bsky.social · Apr 19

GLADIATOR X BRIDGERTON (+MAGIC) 💫

When the empire’s gossip paper darling travels afar rumors spread…

Is he truly hunting for Gifted contenders for his House, or does he have a secret agenda?

Better yet…

Does his fiancé know? 👀

#PosterPit #YA #F #R #PosterPitQ

The Guardian and The Light Bringer YA Romantic fantasy pitch for #posterpit
Image featuring profiles of a man and woman.

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Jacqui Culler @cullerpictures.bsky.social · Apr 19

When the king kidnaps her friends, a thief with illusion magic must pull off an impossible heist in order to save them, but she’s in a city she was never supposed to return to and short on people she can trust.

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #YA #F

A mostly black poster made of irregular-shaped boxes that alternate between images and text, arranged in two columns. (The poster is inspired by the 2001 movie Heist poster.)

The top box in the left column is a photo of a young woman sitting in an antique chair against a dark green background. She holds a feathery masquerade mask up to her face, hiding all of her features except her eyes. The box below has white text that reads, “Whatever you see is part of the show.” Below that box is an image of a woman’s hand taking a man’s.

At the top of the right column are two boxes. One has the words, “Young Adult, Fantasy, Heist” listed. The box next to it is an image of a woman’s silhouette standing in front of an old timey circus at night. Below is a box with the title, “Capers, Crowns, and Thieves” and below that is a box with the image of crown sitting with a pair of dice.

Across the bottom of the poster in smaller, skinnier text, it says, “Capers, Crowns, and Thieves is a manuscript written by Jacqui Culler, intended for children of YA ages but also appropriate for crossover audiences. The pitch: When the king kidnaps her friends, a thief with illusion magic must pull off an impossible heist in order to save them, but she’s in a city she was never supposed to return to and short on people she can trust. Set in a 1920s-inspired city, featuring gangsters, magic, and romance. Currently querying.”

The text below mimics graphics found on a movie poster and read, “YA, for teen and crossover”, then “Querying Now”, and “Genre Classification System: Fantasy Heist.”

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