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Katy Townes

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Former burnt-out English major reclaiming the joy of reading and writing, one romance at a time. 💋 KissPitch alum ♥️ rep: Megan Carroll

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

PERFECT FITxTHE PARADISE PROBLEMxTHE HANGOVER

Becca has 3 weeks to raise $100k and save the job she loves-if she can survive a work trip to Vegas with her ex’s hot best friend first. ♥️♣️♦️♠️

♥️ gambling lessons
♥️ meddling co-workers
♥️ millennial themed nightclub party

#questpit #Q #A #R #agentsguide

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Mandy ✨ is querying ✨ @insomniauthor.bsky.social · Jul 15

For every other mom out there who is beating herself up because she is choosing to chase her dream instead of doing the laundry, your children will follow your lead. You are showing them what they themselves are capable of. Keep going.

#writingcommunity #amquerying #author

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · Jul 9

PLEASE inject this into my veins!!

Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · Jul 9

Sausage Dog's Book Review of To Ruin the Sky⚡️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Woof woof woof woof woof
*itches leg* woof woof *sniff*
Woof woof woof!

Translation: Excellent Urban Romantasy with supernatural beings, a potential apocalypse, banter & tatted MMC. Would recommend

#UnhingedPit #Q #NA #RF

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Katie Knightley @katieknightley.bsky.social · Jun 6

Mishaps, banter, and swoony moments ensue between impulsive Leah and grumpy Alaric as they navigate a ticking clock on their careers and hearts.

💕close proximity
👀grumpy x sunshine
📷found family
📝mentor/mentee
☕️fish out of water
🍂Oct-Dec
🏙️Houston

#JoyPit #AgentGuide #A #R #C #amquerying

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

♥️♥️♥️

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Linh Chau @linhwrites.bsky.social · May 7

RANMA 1/2 X DATING DR. DIL

#agentguide for STEPHANIE TAN RUNS A MARATHON, a contemporary romance with:

❤️ childhood friends to lovers
🐈‍⬛ black cat x golden retriever
🔎 meddling family and senior citizens
🇰🇭 SEA representation
🍸 Espresso martinis

#questpit #Q #A #R

Cover slide for STEPHANIE TAN RUNS A MARATHON agent guide. Includes pictures of Philadelphia, Asian childhood friends, and a woman running.

Pitch: Burdened by “Cambodian Eldest Daughter Syndrome” and an espresso martini-fueled dare, Stephanie must train for the Philly Marathon with her estranged, annoying handsome best friend-now living the tech dream they once shared-to save face and regain the ambition she lost along with her mother.

Comps for Stephanie Tan Runs a Marathon: Ranma 1/2, Dating Dr. Dil, Vietnamese Ice Coffee, Summertime Punchline, and The Girl Most Likely to.

Snippet from Novel:

“I left the kitchen to shower before the potluck, but when I came back, it was all gone. One of my roommates had a cat smuggled in their room and it came o–”

“Too much story. Tell me exactly how you made it so I can judge you in my dreams.”

I hear a warm, low laugh. Something about the sound melts the tension in my forehead and I ease further towards sleep.

“In our so-called kitchen, there was only one tiny pot so I had to boil the eggs in batches..."

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

Ah, thank you!! ♥️♥️

Paging all #litagents!!

Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!!! ♥️♥️♥️

Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

This looks so good!!!

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

♥️♥️♥️

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Judith Webster @judithlwebster.bsky.social · May 7

One Dark Window x Divergent
The most dangerous game of all is the one played by the heart.
#Questpit #Q #A #F
❤️Dark Alice in Wonderland reimagining
♠️A fate they both wish to escape
♦️A secret Rebellion led by a prince
♣️It takes a monster to destroy one
🃏A wild card

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

I’m sorry but…these comps?!?!?!!!!!

Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!! The escape we all need rn. 🎰🎰

Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!!! ♥️♥️

Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!

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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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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · May 7

A low-magic, high-intrigue crossover #A #F w/
🎭genre-savvy actress FMC
🤬hate triangle
🤺fencing to first blood
🚢treaties, trades & treachery
✨drift compatibility
🗡️"touch her and die" about a friend
😤infuriating love interests
🏝️archipelago setting
👩‍👦 ride or die siblings
#questpit #W

Moodboard for an adult political intrigue fantasy taking place on an archipelago. The text reads "Were you in any way suited for this world, you would know that diplomacy is often most effective in the absence of flags." The images show a rocky island coast from above, the rigging of a tall ship from below (sails lowered), a girl with dark eyes and dark braided hair with gold beads, the inside of a grand theatre, a large unfurled scroll of writing, a chess board with a knocked over piece, two fencers preparing to fence, palm trees at sunset, a khaen, and more ship ropes and rigging at night from the deck.

Photo at night of a tall ship's rigging and sail with a textbox over it reading "PITCH: Sabamere’s Crown is dead, & no one can know.
Least of all the two other nations at the Amber Coast diplomatic summit—if one isn’t responsible for his death, that is.

Luckily, the reclusive Crowns hide behind their selected Aftcastles, so the old Aftcastle can keep up the charade of stability until delicate negotiations are done & the new Crown can take the throne.

Enter street actress Rev, stage left. She’s the new Crown’s choice for Aftcastle, which must remain a secret until the summit ends, but her duty to her country—& her brother, jailed in a dungeon right below the negotiating table—has already begun.

All Rev needs to do is keep her head down, her ears open, & stay alive until her Crown’s coronation, then she can free her brother.

Too bad the diplomats have other plans for her."
REVERENCE SEVENTH AFTCASTLE
by Gwendolyn Vines

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Judith Webster @judithlwebster.bsky.social · May 7

In Cardonia destiny is dealt w/the pull of a card from the Deck of Fates. When Elara draws the Joker—a card that shouldn't exist—she must unlock her powers or lose her head but her only hope lies w/the Prince whose charm hides a rebellion to shatter the kingdom #Questpit #Q #A #F

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · May 7

Presenting to the #questpit & #writingcommunity crew…

Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ⚡️

Kingdom of the Wicked x Crescent City
♥︎Led by a sassy, 'shadow mommy' FMC
🫶🏼Fresh take on Romantasy
🪞#MiddleEasternRep
🚨Fills that Xaden-shaped hole in your life
#agentsguide #RF #Q #NA #writersky

ELECTRIC SEXUAL TENSION.
Excerpt reads: There's a possessiveness in how he touches me and I wish I hated it.
"How would you punish me?" I breathe out, unable to control my impulses.
Fingers touch my zip as he slowly slips it down, millimetre by millimetre. My body is completely in his thrall, unable to decipher the beat of my heart from the thump of the speaker's bass.
Cloudy background with one half of a lightning bolt

MORALLY-GREY IS THE COLOUR OF CHOICE...
Two moodboards with information about the two main characters

INCLUDES TOP TIER TROPES...
Four book comparisons: Crescent City, Kingdom of the Wicked, Book of Azrael, Quicksilver with tropes attached
The other half of a lightning bolt with a cloudy background

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

Look, waking up in Vegas isn’t always glamorous….

Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · Apr 19

I hope you get the chance to someday!!! 🎰🎰🎰

Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · Apr 19

Loooove!!!

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amarie is ✨ON SUB✨ @amariewrites.bsky.social · Apr 19

FOR LOVERS OF ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE x TALIA HIBBERT x DANIELLE ALLEN

When Amara struggles to find a contractor to renovate her plus-size boutique, she enlists the help of her ex-childhood best friend (& first love), Theo, who she hasn’t spoken to in 8 years.
#PosterPitOS #A #R #C

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