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Tahira Heru | Andree Koehler @theru.agnubloom.com · May 24

My current #WIP, YESTERDAY IS TOMORROW is a #A #SF #R
Before she dies for the last time, Myra Blake gives 3 gifts to her granddaughter: an inheritance beyond her wildest dreams, a frightening secret, & a story about love too crazy to be true. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY X THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE

Double image: on the left, a woman and man in 1970s era clothing and on the right a woman and a man in futuristic attire... They could be the same couple... That's the mystery!

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Sabrina is editing a portal romantasy ✨ @sabrinamars.bsky.social · May 23

INUYASHA x SAILOR MOON x D&D

✨College lacrosse player turned fated magical girl (portal fantasy)
✨Reluctant hero
✨Forbidden magic
✨Even more forbidden romance
✨Found family
✨Grumpy x anxious sunshine
✨Sexy sparring
✨D&D wild magic

#WIPPIT #PitchDat #writingcommunity #rf #na

A collage of many different things all together: flowers, floating lanterns, two people dancing, a castle, a sword, books, a blonde woman holding flowers, two people touching each other's hands, two statues about to kiss

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · May 23

Stunning mood board!

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Mike Mizov @mizov.bsky.social · Apr 19

Her family is broke, the gardener is dead, the manor might be alive, and Lottie Bradbury has a blood curse to break before she becomes its next victim.

Do you dare see the slow-burn gothic horror of The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor?

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #A #H #HF

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor poster. It features a young girl burying a body in a cemetery while a young man looks on in abject horror while a manor looms over them in the background.

It reads:
Slow-burn gothic horror festival
Blood curse and gaslighting father fest
Cryptic diary and trauma bonding fest
Traking place in 1919 fest

The gardener is dead
The House is alive
Her family is cursed
Lottie Bradbury is
The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor

Now querying

There are two quotes
"Something about is resonated" - RevPit Editor
"I am wildly passionate" - Literary Agent

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor movie poster featuring a young woman in a blue dress looking terrified as she falls down a well (or was she pushed?).

It has the tagline "You don't inherit a curse. You earn it"

Lottie Bradbury is "The Reluctant Heiress"
Gregory Winthrop is "The Wealthy Suitor"
Baron Thomas Bradbury is "The Lying Father"
and introducing Arthur as "The Forbidden Love"

It's 1919, the gardener is dead, the house is alive, and Lottie Bradbury must break a blood curse before it claims her mind, her future, and her soul.

Now querying

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · May 23

Thank you!!!

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · May 23

Thanks friend!

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Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social · May 23

In 1900s Latvia, Stasi mixes blood with paint to create reality-shaping art, but when she enters a prestigious art competition and discovers wealthy elites are killing female artists, she risks her forbidden sapphic love and life to stop them.

#WIPPIT #HF #H #R #LGBT

The Colour of Blood, a feminist coming-of-rage 70k sapphic horromance, featuring Latvian mythology, examination of colonialism and misogyny, art school rivals-to-lovers, generational trauma, a unique paint-based blood magic system, and all the barbed banter ("Mind your step, lest you trip over my affairs.")

Excerpt from the Colour of Blood: I draw the imbuing knife across my palm and wince. My skin is accustomed to this ritual, dulled to the sting. But today, the blade finds something soft, something still capable of pain, and sinks its teeth in. Blood wells fast, eager, filling a shallow groove in my palette. I carefully pour water into the next. Flickering candlelight reflects on the pools. The water skitters under the light, but the blood is thicker, darker, slower to settle. Yellow may be my most loathed colour, but red has always been my favourite. The colour of love, of rage, of life. The colour of blood.

Tropes, themes, and comps, including Blood Over Bright Haven, Mexican Gothic, and Juniper & Thorn.

Blurb: In 1900s Latvia, female artists combine blood with paint to yield reality-altering art. Stasi, an ambitious artist, is selected to compete for a coveted year-long residency at the Von Nachtraben estate, home to Europe’s most powerful paint magnate. For Stasi, the competition is a chance to elevate her social standing, earn her emotionally distant parents' approval, and escape the brothel where she's secretly working.

But when a talented competitor suffers a gruesome death during the first trial, Stasi suspects the competition’s purpose is not recruitment but the elimination of the world’s strongest magical women. Stasi's unease turns to horror when she uncovers a hidden laboratory in the estate where the Von Nachtrabens craft a toxic green pigment engineered to weaken women who paint. And when she tries and fails to escape the estate, she realizes participation in the competition is no longer an option but a compulsion.

As a forbidden sapphic romance kindles between Stasi and her childhood rival—and more women vanish—Stasi must navigate deadly trials, competitors willing to sell each other out to advance, and the Von Nachtrabens’ insidious web of control. To stop the elite intent on silencing women who dare stand against them, Stasi will have to risk her love and her life.

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · May 23

A cursed kingdom, a lost princess, and a prince with a secret – trusting each other may be the key to survival – but whose?

❤️‍🔥Planned Duology
❤️‍🔥Dual POV and Hidden Identities of HEARTLESS HUNTER
❤️‍🔥Cursed Kingdom of SLEEPING BEAUTY
❤️‍🔥Feuding Kingdoms A RIVER ENCHANTED
#RF #PN #NA #WIPPIT #R

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · May 7

Haha seriously, so good

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · May 7

A Dolly Parton Wannabe walks into a bank and robs & kidnaps her ex-boyfriend...wait, what's the punchline again?
🤑only one getaway car
💋 themed "road trip" playlists
🤑she brought her pet POSSUM?
💋We're gonna die...

#questpit #OS soon #AG #R

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Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social · May 7

In 1900s Latvia, Stasi imbues paint with blood magic to create art that becomes reality, but when she discovers a plot to eradicate blood-magic women after entering a prestigious art competition, she rises against those who threaten her kind.

#W #A #HR #S #H #questpit

Cover image for the agent's guide of my 70K sapphic horrormance with magical realism elements titled The Colour of Blood.

Tropes, themes, and comps for The Colour of Blood:

🔥 Coming-of-rage
🇱🇻 Latvian mythology and folklore
🎨 art-based magic system
🌲 Sentient baltic forest
⚔️ Rivals-to-lovers
🛌 Only one room
💕 LGBTQIA+ rep

Comps are Blood Over Bright Haven for misogyny, feminine rage, and colonialism; Mexican Gothic for sexism, exploitation, and generational trauma; and Juniper & Thorn for Eastern European Setting, creepy mansion, and gothic horror.

Blurb for The Colour of Blood: In 1900s Latvia, women wield blood magic that, when combined with paint, creates art capable of shaping reality. Stasi, an ambitious artist, is overjoyed when she's selected to compete for a coveted year-long residency at the Von Nachtraben estate, home to Europe’s most powerful paint magnate, but she soon learns the competition is far from idyllic.

When a talented competitor dies during the first trial, Stasi suspects the competition’s purpose is not recruitment but the elimination of the world’s strongest magical women, making women easier to control. Stasi's fears deepen when she discovers the Von Nachtrabens have developed a toxic green pigment to weaken women like her.

As a forbidden romance kindles between Stasi and her rival, and more girls vanish, Stasi must navigate an increasingly dangerous maze of deception, power, and control to stop the wealthy elite that would have her kind silenced forever.

Excerpt from The Colour of Blood: I press the heels of my palms into my eyes until sparks bloom, white light piercing darkness like the moon trailing a path across the night sky. During my childhood summers in Tiraine, I was taught the story of Mēness, the moon god who traverses the sky atop a white horse. Mēness was married to Saule, the sun goddess. When he was unfaithful, the goddess sliced him into pieces, creating moon phases. Like the sun, I too will carve into pieces those who tried to break me.

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · May 7

Oh my gosh. Yes please? I love all things lighthouse and I’m digging these atmospheric vibes

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Beth “B.R” Smith @brsmithbooks.bsky.social · May 7

🌊A small boy finds a body floating in the fish hold of his father’s boat.

🌊A writer packs up her missing lighthouse keeper father’s things.

🌊A private investigator searches for the missing and the drowned.

🌊A horror rises from the deep.

#questpit #onsub #editors #m #h #a #os

A killer whale tail rises from a Black Sea, a red-headed woman throws back her hair, a lighthouse stands against a wind-whipped sky.

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · May 7

Ummm you had me at millennial night club….. that’s my jam

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · May 7

Omg neurodivergence as power?! Yes please!!!!!

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