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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · Aug 6

#agentguide to CARELESS WHISPERS my romantic suspense set in Greece.
It's du Maurier's REBECCA x Sky's RIVIERA x Netflix's THE PERFECT COUPLE

The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive...

💥Secrets
💥Loss
💥Slowburn ❤️‍🔥
💥Obsession
💥Unrequited💘
💥Betrayal
💥Murder
#Questpit #Q #A #R #MY

PAGE 1 is a blue background with a hand reaching out of water.
Words along the top say SOME SECRETS ARE JUST TOO DANGEROUS TO KNOW...
An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, a 98k word romantic suspense.

PAGE 2 has a picture of a woman looking over her shoulder at the camera. On the other side says Pitch & Plot and has the following text:

With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her.

Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Beautiful, manipulative Rianna had not been well-liked. Her speciality was ferreting out people's secrets. And everyone, Listy discovers, has something to hide.

As she unravels what happened to Rianna, the truth threatens Listy’s future happiness and the lives of those dear to her, and she must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price she's willing to pay.

PAGE 3 has a photo on one side of a villa at night. On the other side it says Opening Lines and has the following text:
As the song fades, she hears the footsteps behind her. She doesn't rise from the lounger or turn her head. Just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon.
'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.'
'I have plenty to say.'
Her head whips round then. She smiles, and the villa's floodlit swimming pool pulses as if it, too, is energised, its rippling glow tipping the brooding hedges with gold. She'd been wondering if one of them would turn up. She'd refused to go to the stupid party. They're all stuck-up and boring, and they hate her so she knows she won't be missed. But sitting here alone by the pool, drinking, waiting for her phone to ping a reply – any kind of response! – she'd grown bored and been thinking maybe she ought to go after all. Just to spoil their fun.

PAGE 4 has a collage of pictures and the title Tropes & Themes & The Vibes.
Tropes and Themes are: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder

Lower half of page has The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera.

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, get you, Sally, at Glyndebourne 😂 Posh, indeed. Great photo. 💕

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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 4d

Jumping on this trend
#10bookstogettoknowme
These all blew me away!
#bookpost

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Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
The Marriage Portrait
The Handmaid's Tale
The Trick to Time
Fortune's Rocks
Sons and Lovers
There are Rivers in the Sky
Return of the Native
Shuggie Bain
Still Life

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 7d

REBECCA x THE PERFECT COUPLE
She's always tried to do the 'right thing' but when a death becomes a suspected murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's in love with.
#DVpit #A #RomSuspense #WOC

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 7d

du Maurier's REBECCA x Netflix's THE PERFECT COUPLE x Sky Atlantic's RIVIERA
They're like family to her, but when a death begins to look like murder, how far will she go to protect them? They all have a motive. Esp. the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband.
#DVpit #A #RomSuspense #WOC

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no!! 😱😄

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Love this! And you got agent likes!! 🥳🥳🥳

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

For you too! 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Love this! 😃

💥 @awriterslifetbc.bsky.social's posts aren't being found when searching #DVpit so boosting for #litagent eyes. 👇🏽 💥

Angelia N. Bailey ✨️is querying✨️ @awriterslifetbc.bsky.social · 7d

They loved hard, broke harder when she ran from the crown, and spent a year pretending it didn’t matter. Now the pleasure mage she abandoned and his best friend are back as she's hunted by a ruthless regime. Between love, lust, and vengeance, Viv learns freedom always costs blood.

#DVpit #NA #DF #R

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

@awriterslifetbc.bsky.social's posts aren't being found when searching #DVpit so boosting for #litagent eyes. 👇🏽

Angelia N. Bailey ✨️is querying✨️ @awriterslifetbc.bsky.social · 7d

#Own voices, Sapphic, Dark, & yes 🍍 goes on 🍕!! 🖕

🔮Witches
😈Princes of hell
🗡Epic battle
❤️Poly

Psychic Lilu's ex gets possessed (GF *totally* had nothing to do with it!), demonic cults want her soul, & Dad's been acting all evily since Mom disappeared. But everything's fine! 😌
#DVpit #YA #UF #LGBT

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

@awriterslifetbc.bsky.social's posts aren't being found when searching #DVpit so boosting for #litagent eyes. 👇🏽

Angelia N. Bailey ✨️is querying✨️ @awriterslifetbc.bsky.social · 7d

All Viv wants is to live a quiet life topping underground fight pits and beautiful women 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

But a fascist regime rips apart her home and murders her mentor in their hunt for her magic.

They won't let her have peace? Fine. She'll wield the power they'd burn the world to erase.🗡🔮
#DvPit #NA #DF #LGBT

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

😅 Folks will have to read it to find out.
Thank you, Angelia! 🥰

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Love this!! 🖤
#DVpit

Angelia N. Bailey ✨️is querying✨️ @awriterslifetbc.bsky.social · 7d

Lilu will tear Hell open to find her mom. But her demon possessed ex, human GF, and family's blood magic cult could cost Lilu her own soul.

🔮Witches
💪Feminine rage
🩸Blood magic
🗡Family/Cult rebellion
💔Enemies to lovers

UNHOLY TERRORS x LEGENDBORN

#DVpit #YA #UF

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Go get them, Viv!

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

🥰🥰🥰

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Bless you! Rooting for you too! 🤗🥰

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

✨️✨️FIVE✨️✨️ 😳🥳

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Make that ✨️THREE✨️!! 😃

Thank you all so so much for your support in yesterday's #DVpit 🥰
Once again I was blown away by the awesome talent in the #writingcommunity and tried to support as much as I could. I hope we all find the perfect champion for our books. ✨️🕯🕯🕯✨️
#amquerying

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 7d

Agent like, agent like! 😱 I hadn't noticed. Too busy scrolling!

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

🥰 ...I think your kind repost might be what got me 2 more agent likes this afternoon so thank yooou too, so much! ❤️

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

This sounds amazing, Sara! 😍
Good luck! ✨️✨️✨️

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S.C. Field @saracatherine23.bsky.social · 6d

#editorsguide for Manon—
This story is my baby, my first love. She is everything I ever wanted to read in a story as a reader, and I can’t wait to see where she lands a home❤️

#editors #agented #gothicfiction #editorsguide #gothic #historical

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S.C. Field @saracatherine23.bsky.social · 6d

I beta read this gem, and #litagents it is so beautifully written. One of the best books I have read this year❤️

Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 7d

BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X DORIAN GRAY
Gracie Green, selfish & reckless, pledges her soul to the Devil in exchange for eternal youth & beauty, but the Devil plays tricks & sucks Gracie into a spiral of destruction threatening her lovers & the life of her perfect sister Faith.
#DVPit #A #LGBTQ #DIS

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks, L.D. Congrats to you too!

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! ☺️

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! Well done you too! 🙌🏽

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 6d

Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 7d

Agent like, agent like! 😱 I hadn't noticed. Too busy scrolling!

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Ryan. Hope you get some agent 'love'.🤞🤞