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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Sep 19

Updated #editors guide to my soon-to-be #onsub dual pov eco-fantasy novel SALTSTONE 🌿 ✨

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE WITCHER x PAN'S LABYRINTH

When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she accompanies a grumpy mercenary into the Wilds to find her.

Rep: Ciara Finan

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Sep 20

Thank you so much Megan!

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Sep 19

Updated #editors guide to my soon-to-be #onsub dual pov eco-fantasy novel SALTSTONE 🌿 ✨

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE WITCHER x PAN'S LABYRINTH

When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she accompanies a grumpy mercenary into the Wilds to find her.

Rep: Ciara Finan

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Sep 19

The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR comps and tropes

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Aug 21

✨ The tropes & themes you know vs the ones you don't ✨

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE WITCHER x PAN'S LABYRINTH

When Olive’s daughter goes missing, she reluctantly accompanies a grumpy half-beast mercenary in a journey through the Wilds to find her.

ON SUB SEPT/OCT!
Rep: Ciara Finan @ Curtis Brown

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Aug 20

When a woman moves in with her grandmother to take care of her family farm, the town where she was raised isn't what she remembers. Those in charge? Widows from bizarre farm accidents plaguing the county.

#CattleWIP

Thank you to @megansajbelfield.bsky.social for making these gorgeous graphics!

misty pasture with cow poking his head through a fence

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE WITCHER

Join Olive as she journeys to find her daughter through the realms of earth, air, fire, water... and death.

🌿 Dual POV mum/daughter
🌿 Reluctant allies to lovers
🌿 Coming-of-age queer romance
🌿 Everyone's morally grey

#queerpit #df #a

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you! Yes, using a stock video 🫶

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · Aug 15

HOW TO COME HOME: #queerpit edition

An ex-Prohibition fixer and a small-town general store owner must overcome holding their pasts too present in order to build a future together in 1930s America.

#amquerying #HF #HR #A

HOW TO COME HOME
Romantic historical fiction, 107k words

Now querying!

Contents:
Queerness w/o a “coming out” narrative
Complicated sibling relationships
Disability =/= disabling
Small-town vibes, big-city secrets
30+-year-old protagonists
Historical queer parenthood

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · Aug 15

THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a shapeshifting fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

#QueerPit #A #FR #F

Book cover with title "The Heart Devourer's Song" and author name "L. Liu" over illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · Aug 15

Brooke isn't just searching for her missing secret girlfriend, Leah. She's searching for the pastor's daughter in a cult-like church that seems determined to deny her very existence. She's fighting for her love. And her sanity.

#QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you!

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Bree Buonomo @breebwrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE x SO THIRSTY
22yo Casey thought death by vampire bite was a fitting end, until she doesn’t actually die and the vamp uses his sweet talk to woo her into submission. Surviving isn’t enough anymore, now she has to fight to reclaim her agency. #QueerPit #A #H

Background picture of withering plants; google search stating book title "These Mortal Woes" with the results stating:
vampire x human
breaking cycles
cabin in the woods
reluctant alliance
don’t trust the supernatural
preying on the desperate
my new addiction

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Andrea Mariana 🏳️‍🌈 is ON SUBMISSION! @andreamariana89.bsky.social · Aug 15

EDITORS - London, 1755: Theodora, a destitute young shopkeeper, partners with a company of "mollies" - queer s*x workers - to build a thriving "coffeehouse" ☕️👀

But where hot drinks - and hot love - are for sale, danger is just around the corner...#QueerPit #HF #A #ACE #OWN

Top from left: Copper coins, man in pink 18th C. clothing, purple flowers
Middle from left: close up of 18th C. painting, chess piece, pink 18th C dress
Bottom from left: lavender plants, pink fan, close up of 18th C. stockings and skirt

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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Handyman Method x Scream 2

When a canceled flight strands Cody & friends in Wales, she must find a hotel w/vacancy before the storm hits. But a surprise engagement and 10 days worth of tension lead to a rising body count.

Hotel Adair has been waiting.

#Queerpit #A #H

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Aug 15

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind
#QueerPit #AG #YA

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x THE WITCHER

Join Olive as she journeys to find her daughter through the realms of earth, air, fire, water... and death.

🌿 Dual POV mum/daughter
🌿 Reluctant allies to lovers
🌿 Coming-of-age queer romance
🌿 Everyone's morally grey

#queerpit #df #a

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Jun 9

For anyone curious, here's what my dual pov mother/daughter, eco-horror fantasy novel SALTSTONE is all about...

(on sub ✨ soon ✨ #editors)

#writingcommunity

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · Jun 9

For anyone curious, here's what my dual pov mother/daughter, eco-horror fantasy novel SALTSTONE is all about...

(on sub ✨ soon ✨ #editors)

#writingcommunity

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · May 7

Our Wives Under the Sea x The Witcher

When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she reluctantly accompanies a grumpy half-beast mercenary in a journey through the Wilds to find her.

✨ On sub soon ✨

#questpit #a #f #ag #amediting #wip #editors

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amarie is ✨ON SUB✨ @amariewrites.bsky.social · May 7

FOR LOVERS OF BRIDE & ANA HUANG

When Isadora struggles to keep her aunt’s magic shop open, she marries grumpy demon, Gio, in order to secure his inheritance. If she can make it a year, he’ll give her the funds needed to get the shop out of debt.

#questpit #AG #W #PR #R

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amarie is ✨ON SUB✨ @amariewrites.bsky.social · May 7

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.

#questpit #OS #R #AG

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Tyler is querying 👑🪲🌿 @tylerstasi.bsky.social · May 7

#QuestPit #W #F #agentguide #agentsguide

HURRICANE WARS x SWORD CATCHER

👀my dark whimsical jeweled-insect fantasy, feat:

👑morally gray FMC
🪲shapeshifting bug royalty
🌿twisted political intrigue
💫cunning female villain
🌋unique volcano/nature magic

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · May 7

Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R #RF
#agentsguide #amquerying

An agent’s guide to: “Mark of a Magpie”
YA Romantic Fantasy
119k Words

Behind the text is a piece of parchment paper surrounded by ocean water and gold flower outlines.

Blurb:

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy…
Ryn is a small-town thief with a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d definitely be a fool to take up, but desperation fuels ever decision she makes.
Five for Silver, Six for Gold…
Seven is set in his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. When the castle goes into lockdown, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The rich are dropped like flies, and all suspicions are on them.
Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told.

The text is on a piece of parchment paper, with ocean water and gold flower outlines behind it.

The Atmosphere:
There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand.

Behind the collage of pictures are ocean waters, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.

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Makayla Leigh 🌿🌊⚔️ @themakaylaleigh.bsky.social · May 7

A bounty hunter pirate walks into a heist with an assassin prince & a group of thieves:

🌊who have to kill each other to break their Marks
🖤but they made a blood pact, so they can't
🌊OH & the pirate may have fallen in love with the prince

#QuestPit #F #RF #NA #A #AG #OS soon!

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