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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 2d

i really tried lol

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 2d

awe thank you!!

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 2d

Loved beta reading this story!

Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 2d

When a Black atheist discovers she’s half of two warring magical bloodlines, she must stop a secret society from finding the Garden of Eden—and turning the mind-controlling men into gods.
THE NEAR BIBLICAL ADVENTURES OF DIAMOND DAHLIA
#QuestPit #NA #F #Q

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 2d

Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide!

SINNERS x IWAV

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.

#QuestPit #W #A #F

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 2d

#questpit #SFF #W #A
When reality is stitched together by a secret org called the Seam using a mind-controlling machine, it’s up to Keisha to join forces with the Seam and destroy it from within. Who cares if theyre protecting alien/magical lives, the public deserves the truth!

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 2d

When a Black atheist discovers she’s half of two warring magical bloodlines, she must stop a secret society from finding the Garden of Eden—and turning the mind-controlling men into gods.
THE NEAR BIBLICAL ADVENTURES OF DIAMOND DAHLIA
#QuestPit #NA #F #Q

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 2d

THE NEAR BIBLICAL ADVENTURES OF DIAMOND DAHLIA
#agentsguide #questpit #NA #F #Q

A Southern liberal arts campus hides a holy war.
A girl discovers her bloodline is both miracle and curse.
The Garden of Eden is real—
and someone plans to weaponize it.

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 2d

When Diamond Dahlia is nearly killed by an Adamite sent to destroy her and her hidden powers, she joins their rivals, the Everi, and must stop the Adamites from finding the Garden of Eden or else the misogynistic jerks will become immortal rulers of the world. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

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Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · 2d

#W #A #R #QuestPit
In the highly competitive hunting grounds of Silicon Valley, where there are 1.5 men single never-married men of prime age for every woman, join Madison Thompson as she hunts, stalks and captures the prized game: A Hot Nerd

The word "Silicon Valley" is in green letters on a green background, similar to The Matrix movie visuals of a close up screen. Layered in the background, semi-transparent is a photograph of downtown San Jose. The image is quartered into the four panels of this Agent's Guide.
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Agent's Guide to Mad & Max: A Silicon Valley Romance
The Pitch
A WIP Adult Contemporary Romance set in Silicon Valley. Madison is the newly hired CFO of Bravovix Software with no personal life. Max is the VP of Engineering of Paris EnCRYPTion. Madison is tired of waiting for men to make the first move, Max is tired of doing all the chasing. After a whirlwind weekend romance, Madison discovers on her first day at her new job that Bravovix wants to acquire Paris EnCRYPTion, but ethics demand that she puts the romance on hold during negotiations. Mad and Max are torn between putting their careers and companies first or their hearts.

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Tropes & Comps
Older Woman/Younger Man
Falling for My Brother's Best Friend by Piper Rayne
She’s tall, he’s shorter
Cecilia or Too Tall to Love by G.L. Robinson
Work keeps them apart
A Conflict of Interest by Morgan Adams
Trouble balancing work/life
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
She chases him
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Half Mexican-Half Italian romantic lead
Slightly plus-sized 31 y.o. FMC
They meet in a bookstore
Double meet-cute
Weekend whirlwind romance
Silicon Valley is the background location character
SF Bay Area food & wine scene

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Quotes
If it wasn’t for trips to the gym, her secret addiction to romantacy books, her vibrator and free porn on the internet, she would have gone on a murderous rampage and wiped-out half of the finance bros of Wall Street years ago.

He tasted of wine and the destruction of her will to deny him anything he wanted of her.

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Why is it...?
Why is it that in most romance novels the man is older, taller, more powerful, and the workaholic of the couple?

Who says that men always have to make the first move?

In my latest WIP, Madison walks up to Max in a bookstore to at least say hello, and maybe ask for his phone number or a date.

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 8d

A Light in the Attic x Where the Sidewalk Ends x Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

There's things that will give you a fright. Things that will scare you right out of your pants.
Things that go bump in the night.
Are you sure you want to give this a chance?

#W #A #PT #GhostPit 👻

A black background with spider webs and hanging spiders at the top.

Below the webs is the title Which Witch is a golden yellow color with orange trim to look like light in a pumpkin. There are also the words A collection of spooky season poetry & short stories.

Below the words are 2 pictures. On the left is a witch holding a staff in a yellow hued forest and field. On the right is a Jack-o'lantern. Below those two are 3 pictures. Left to right is an orange hued skull, a zombie woman in a white dress by a business, and a willow tree in a graveyard at night lit by yellow lights from the background.

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 8d

The Familiars x The Physick Book of Deliverance x The Once and Future Witches

Can Arealia survive the hunt that's out to take her life in a time when witchcraft is illegal in Rutello?

#W #A #F #G #GhostPit

A black background.

Top is a curly orange font for the title, Rutello: Arealia and the Last Flame. It has fire to each side of it.

In the middle is a pic of a woman in a dress shadowed in front of flames. To the left top to bottom is: a mob going toward homes, a woman in a dress with wings and a feather mask holding a raven/crow, a woman in a black hooded cloak, and 2 women a red head and black haired walking beside each other in a field.

The right top to bottom: a woman in a purple dress with fur around the neck/shoulder area holding a staff and a snowy owl, a woman holding a wolf in wood vines, a woman with antlers riding a big bear with flames in her hands, and a red headed woman in a green dress holding a fox licking her face.

At the bottom between the bottom left and right pics are 3 pics, left to right: a shadowed woman standing in a forest, a black haired girl in a black dress in the woods holding a raven/crow, and a woman in a red cloak doing a spell revealing a fire

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty Dead Queens x Murder in G Major

Emberley has two missions after her death: find a way to protect the new queen from meeting the same fate and help solve her own murder while dealing with grief and court scandals.

#W #A #MM #P #GhostPit

Top left photo: a book with a skull and fake candle on top and a bottle of poison marked by a bat in front. Under that an orange tinted and blurred photo of a queen from behind, then below that is a feast of foods below it.

Top right pic: A hand and arm in a white dress laying on the ground. Words in orange Ghosts of Our Past. Below that is an orange quote with a fancy floral surrounding “The difference between medicine and poison is in the dose.” Finally there are king and queen chess pieces sitting on something in the bottom photo.

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 8d

Annabelle x Chucky x Paranormal Activity

When Leona is gifted a doll, strange things start happening and they try to get rid of it, but how can you get rid of something that doesn't want to leave without the one it came to claim?

#W #A #F #T #GhostPit 👻

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 8d

Girl of Nightmares x For Whom the Belle Tolls x Daughters Unto Devils

When no one believes Hina that her parents are missing, she goes to find them with the help of a mysterious stranger she must learn to trust if she wants to survive the dark path ahead.

#W #A #F #G #GhostPit

Top left to right. A cloaked man sitting in a pub smoking. A woman in a forest in a red and white dress carrying a baby dragon.

Middle left to right. A horror zombie looking horse head coming out of water. A bird-like entrance in water with a girl in white. A castle bathed In red light and a red moon in the sky.

Bottom left to right. 3 cloaked figures riding 3 black horses through fog. A foggy forest with a red sun and curly words in the fog Rutello: The Dark Veil, What happens when monsters and fears come to life? A deer antlered, large, shadow creature with white eyes in a foggy forest.

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

How does an UberEats driver become someone who controls the minds of the public? She just opens her opinionated mouth while delivering pizzas in a random meeting and was offered the job.

Now, she’s going to tear it all down and reveal the secret organization.

#Pitdark #Na #f

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

LEGENDBORN x TWILIGHT

Diamond didn’t believe in God before her first week in college. But after an attempt on her life, she’s learning the myth of Adam and Eve developed into a holy war between the Adamites and Everi. And she may be the key to ending it forever.

#Pitdark #NA #F

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

Keisha’s broke, opinionated, & very done with the world—until a pizza run lands her a job inside The Seam, the group literally stitching society’s thoughts together.
Now she’s tearing the whole system apart.
#PitDark #NA #SF

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

The Adamites—the mind-controlling patriarchs of the world—want the Garden of Eden.

The Everi want revenge and to thwart them.

Diamond Dahlia—their impossible hybrid—might be the key to both.

#PitDark #NA #F

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

THE NEAR BIBLICAL ADVENTURES OF DIAMOND DAHLIA

✨ secret societies
🫶🏽enemies-to-lovers
🔪killing God
🤝secret alliances
👩‍❤️‍👩is she my friend or my hater?
🍎Adam and Eve retelling
🎶Theme song-Brutus by the Buttress
#PitDark #NA #F

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

KEISHA GOES INTO THE SEAM

MEN IN BLACK x I GOT ABDUCTED BY ALIENS AND NOW IM TRAPPED IN A STUPID ROMCOM

🧠mind control
👽aliens
🤫secret organization
💻falling in love with a computer
🛸falling in love with an alien
🔪betrayal
🎶song-Handlebars by flowbots

#pitdark #na #SF

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

Diamond has seen this power before. She saw it the night she accidentally used it on her ex-boyfriend, who’s been hospitalized ever since. Now, her new pal, Evan, just tried to murder her with it. What is it? Why does he say only men can use it?
And why can she?

#pitdark #NA #F

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

All Keisha had to do was deliver those damn pizzas. Why’d she have run her mouth in the middle of the random meeting, telling them how to fix their marketing? Now, she’s uncovered a secret organization that controls the world and has to do something about it.

#PitDark #NA #SF

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

LEGENDBORN x LUCIFER

When a near-death encounter reveals her unprecedented magical heritage, Diamond must join a secret society to stop immortal patriarchs-in-the-making—while navigating college life and a dangerously charming classmate with secrets of his own. #pitdark #NA #F

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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 8d

CARPENTER’S THEY LIVE x MEN IN BLACK
When Keisha stumbles upon a secret organization that controls the minds and information of the public, she decides to take it upon herself to destroy it from within.
#pitdark #NA #SFF

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 10d

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