Nothing else seems to be working, so I'm going to have to actually *write* my book. I appreciate your understanding at this difficult time.
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Nothing else seems to be working, so I'm going to have to actually *write* my book. I appreciate your understanding at this difficult time.
YAY! Here's hoping for a repeat!
I've heard about something called "Full request Friday." Real or myth?
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR is officially my most requested project. Milestones from the first 45 days: 🩸 Editor full request 🩸 Agent reading it in a day and wanting to throw the book across the room at the ending 🩸 16% request rate 🩸 agents not open to unsolicited manuscripts requesting the full
Day 10 in the query trenches *checks watch* Me: Ah, yes. You're exactly on time. My doubts: #amquerying
Remi's a real psychic, but can't seem to decipher her own predictions. (Especially regarding her love life.) ✨️FATED FAKES✨️ is now #querying See my 📌 agent guide for more #amquerying
Whenever I finish a manuscript, I always have a stab of fear. What if this is it? Maybe that lightning flash of inspiration doesn't strike again, and there will be no more stories. Friends, I have been struck. #amwriting #writingcommunity
Asher is the personification of the Hot Professor. He's just a teensy bit* skeptical of the whole psychic thing. *understatement ✨️FATED FAKES✨️ is #querying now See my 📌 agent guide for more #amquerying #contemporaryromance #romcom #paranormal
Exactly! We have inboxes to check 😂
Saaaaaame.
FATED FAKES has been in the trenches for one week! 📖 complete at 81K words 💕 unlikely romance of a psychic and a skeptic 👻 a poignant ghost story perfect for spooky season #amquerying #agentsguide #litagents
Today feels like an extra-blast-o'-coffee type Monday.
Jerky first impression? ✅️ But will he get you there safely? ✅️✅️ ✨️FATED FAKES✨️ is now #querying See my 📌 agent guide for more #amquerying
Add in confusing psychic powers, a haunted school, and some very real *feelings* and... yeah. It's complicated. ✨️FATED FAKES✨️ is now #querying See my 📌 agent guide for more #amquerying
The "I can't pursue this because my client is working on something similar" rejections are so bittersweet. The grapefruit of rejections. #amquerying
Fake dating, anyone? Actually, her ex is the only one who doesn't know it's fake. Or is it? ✨️FATED FAKES✨️ is now #querying See my 📌 agent guide for more #amquerying
What can you expect this season of LAST CHANCE MATCH? 🩸 gut wrenching plot twists 🩸 cute robots that help style hair, makeup and clothes 🩸 she hates him, he loves her and there’s only one bed 🩸 man creates bot, bot kills man, bot inherits the earth #writingcommunity #agentsguide
The inner thoughts of my fave grumpy science teacher skeptic, Asher Mooney. (More like Asher SWOONY.) ✨️FATED FAKES✨️ is querying now ✉️ See my 📌 #agentguide for more #amquerying
Now that I'm officially in the trenches again, I thought I would introduce the main characters of FATED FAKES, Remi and Asher. I think they're kinda awesome. (See my 📌 #agentguide for more!) #amquerying
💫💫FATED FAKES 💫💫has: 🔮 a terrible psychic FMC 🙅♂️ a skeptic MMC 🧲 opposites attract 📅 fate dating for the ex 💪 coming into her power 📬Now querying!📬 #agentsguide #agentguide #amquerying #writingcommunity
My #1stlinepit post! ✨️✨️FATED FAKES✨️✨️ 🔮 Remi's a terrible psychic 🙅♂️ Asher's a grieving skeptic 🎭 It was supposed to be fake; could it be fate? (See 📌 agent's guide for more!)
I made a little something for #1stlinepit tomorrow. Will I see you on IG? (I'm @ kimcayley there!)
Query letter ✅️ Synopsis ✅️ Getting closer!
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I'm just a girl, sitting in front of her computer, shaking her head at the number of unnecessary uses of the word THAT in her book.
An #agentsguide to: ✨✨FATED FAKES ✨✨ 🔮 A terrible psychic. 🙅♂️ A grieving skeptic. 📖 It was supposed to be fake; could it be fate? #agentguide #litagents #amquerying in September!
Editing a big scene today. One that builds a foundation for this couple's whole future relationship. No pressure.
Woot! Anxiously awaiting more news!
Querying again is going to force me to be more social, isn't it?
More coffee = more inspiration Right?
🆕 #agentsguide to match #PosterPit. Nellie’s hiding more than a layoff. Struggling to pay rent and crushed by grief and expectations, she reconnects with her ex-work rival who helps her find what she truly wants beyond the role she’s been playing. #amquerying #q #wf w/ #r #litagents #filipinorep🇵🇭
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A 🧵 of my #PosterPit posts. Huge thanks for all the love today! My questionable graphic design skills and I were quaking at the thought of making *three whole posters,* but it turned out to be a lot of fun.
✨FATED FAKES✨ has: 🔮a bad psychic from a family of renowned seers 🙅a grieving skeptic agrees to be her fake date ⁉️her predictions suddenly start making sense, and they revolve around *him* #PosterPit #W #A #R #QueryingSoon
✨Boys are disappearing in Lyric's backwards backwoods town 🎀 her friend/crush Eleanor was the last to see them ✨Eleanor's cultish town nearby may be to blame 🎀 gives maneater a whole new meaning ✨more than just their friendship is changing... #YA #H #R #posterpit #ag
TWIN PEAKS x FOSTER'S HOME An eccentric millionaire seeks proof of cryptids with the help of their companion. Sunnyside, Michigan. 2005. A probable location for otherworldly activity. The thing is, EVERYONE is Sunnyside seems a little...off. #PosterPit #W #SPF #M #NA #LGBT
❤️BEFORE SUNRISE x 🌶️HEARTLESS A sensible summer student begins a sizzling, no-strings fling with her single-dad host in laid-back, edgy, leafy post-Cold War Berlin. But when love intrudes, so does reality: he can't leave; she must return to Paris. #PosterPit #Q #R #A
#PosterPit #W #NA #F #R #PiratesWIP During her world tour, Captain Holloway is captured by pirates. After encountering an assassination plot, a magical curse, an unlikely romance, and an imminent war, she finally takes a side. The wrong side. It's all Captain Falcon's fault.
October 1995. Delivery boy Mick and slacker Eleanor have run out of excuses for why they're throwing away their dreams. But when a run-in with a coven at their local mall leaves Mick with a strange curse over his head, they're forced to confront demons—theirs and literally. #PosterPit #W #NA #R #H
THE DEADING x SotR x THE 100 🌿the earth is sentient & hungry for vengeance 🗡rivals to lovers who compete to outsmart each other 🔆found family paired with a competition for survival ✨Currently On Sub✨ #PosterPit #AG #YA #SF #SPF #F
THE LAST OF US x THE WALKING DEAD in which three bi disasters navigate the zombie apocalypse. #horror, headshots & hookups 🏳️🌈 #posterpit #q #h #lgbt #nd
Clones are empty vessels, or so claims Mason, a grief-stricken neurobiologist desperate to resurrect his wife. But when his estranged son discovers clones can reject their memory grafts and threatens to blow the whistle, everything Mason has worked for is at risk. #PosterPit #AG
EVEN SEINTS FALL: a monster-hunting exploration of identity, religious corruption & believing in something greater than yourself. 💀Seven deadly sins as monsters 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀Religious corruption 🖤Found family #W #YA #F #H #posterpit
#YA with crossover appeal // BRIDGERTON x DRACULA ✨6 ms requests✨ 🦷His life is at stake for biting her 🦇Her life is at stake for surviving it 👑All she wanted was to find family, now she has to 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 🩸Blood is thicker than water… 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑦. #PosterPitQ #SPF #R #H #PosterPit
INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE x PERCY JACKSON 12 y.o. Félix gets body slammed to a parallel dimension where magic is real and his recently deceased mom is alive. But when a dark force threatens his new life, Félix must fight to stop it before it destroys both dimensions #PosterPit #MG #OS
✨Best Submission Award SCBWI MayFest✨ Simone is a seer Who is haunted and hexed If she touches Jadriel it burns But if he kisses her—Death will come for him *Unless her murdered cousin's spirit ends him before the curse can 🖤Feminist Horror with Romance & Revenge🖤 #YA #H #R #PosterPit #Q soon!
Jojo Moyes X Ali Hazelwood (minus the spice) Hannah was married and pregnant by the end of college, unable to pursue her dreams of grad school in psychology. Now she's widowed & raising 8yo Millie alone as a dev psych PhD student, trying to form a family for them both #PosterPit #PosterPitW #C #R
BRIDGERTON x DRACULA x PRINCE HARRY+MEGHAN DRAMA ✨6 ms requests✨ 🪦Vampires are going extinct. 🫦Eden shouldn’t have survived his bite. ⚔️Now she has to try to survive his family of Romanian royals 🩸Blood is thicker than water… 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑦. #PosterPitQ #SPF #R #H #PosterPit
Girl meets boy. Girl meets monster. Girl has to solve town mysteries. Edie Grayson stars in BLUDEYE BEACH #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #F #H #A
Sager | Lynch x THE DESCENT Writing a book in a remote estate may seem romantic, but when a sentient house attacks and a psychopath threatens, a novelist must unearth the key to this madness, or his sister will arrive in time to write his eulogy. #PosterPit #A #T #Q Light #H
🌲 Spooky mountainside town 👀suspicious locals 🌲missing hikers 👀aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide 🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep #PosterPit #A #AG #R #H
Líadan’s fate has been decided from birth. She is a mortal vessel for a dangerous saint, meant to spread pain and destruction with her volatile flame. But the god of chaos intervenes, giving her the choice to fight back. The only question: is she strong enough to do so? #PosterPit #A #F #LGBT
ELEANOR OLIPHANT x WHAT ALICE FORGOT Unreliable narrator Whatifshedoesn'trememberthewreck? Uneasy surroundings Whyallthestares? Unimaginable consequences Whatiftheytellhereverything? Uninhibited journey #PosterPit #Q soon #A #DIS
Each of my #posterpit posts has a different vibe, and this one is pure creature-feature energy 🦇🌲|| A deadly secret. A heist gone wrong. Now, a cyborg assassin with stolen wings is on her heels. And she can't outrun him forever. 📩➡️ skylaranthony.com #SFF #indieauthor #booksky #comingsoon 💙 📚
#posterpit #Q #A #C #M #amquerying
Aloïs is so close to being knighted. One last quest to prove she is worth of joining the Order of the Edelweiss. She is prepared. But one cannot account for every possibility when dealing with monsters. The only thing she's strived for slips through her fingers. Unless... #PosterPit #W #F #A #LGBT
When babies are born with birthmarks, lore says they recall past lives. Hers is memory and power. She meets a prince in a borrowed face; as they shake hands, something recognizes. The pull is dangerous. Destinies link. Things just got interesting....⚔️❤️ #PosterPit #F #A #Q
WHAT MOVES THE DEAD X THE VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE .˳·˖✶𓆩𓁺𓆪✶˖·˳. a widowed outlaw must work with a strange religious apostle to stop an eldritch virus from spreading across the desert. #PosterPit #Q #H #SPF
“If you would have told me three months ago I’d be experiencing the worst pain of my life because of a fucking boy, I would have laughed in your face, straight up called you an idiot, and maybe kicked your ass for good measure.” Their love is intense, but can it last? #posterpit #w #r #a #lgbtq
DAUGHTER OF MOON GODDESS x SONG TO DROWN RIVERS Falling in love shouldn't be this difficult. When family and fate are trying to keep them apart, how far will Shizhi and Mingniu go to defend their love? To the stars above...or hell itself? Art by hisurii❤️ #PosterPit #AG #F
A young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother whilst finding love as he hunts members of his estranged uncle's 1980's drag troupe. With her past set to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #PosterPitA #PosterPit #C #A
PRINCE OF THORNS × THE FOOL × THE BUTCHER BOY When a court jester finally snaps and murders the tyrant king, he must joke and kill his way out of a kingdom in chaos—hunted by loyalists, worshipped by rebels, and slowly losing his mind. #PosterPit #A #F #H #W
POTIONS UNINCORPORATED Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP 💜 Chronic Illness Rep 🌱 Plant Magic 💚 Bisexual Witches 🐈⬛ A Snarky Familiar 😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company ☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance ☕ Cozy Vibes #PosterPit #A #R #F #CozyFantasy #Q
BOBH X STUDIO GHIBLI ❤︎ BIPOC cast of “knights” & “cowboys” ⟡ mythical animal companions ❤︎ simmering slow burn subplot ⟡ a critique on western religion ❤︎ whimsical lore, landscapes, & magic ⟡ deconstruction & mental health rep #PosterPit #Q #A #F #OwnVoices
MOREL SUPPORT An Adult Sapphic Fantasy Rom-Com Featuring: 🍄 A Sentient Mushroom ❤️ Chronic Illness Rep 💰 Sexy Bandits ❤️🔥 Sapphic Romance 🔥 Anarchy 🫀 Literal Heartache #PosterPit #A #R #F #W #ChronicIllnessRep #SapphicRomance #OwnVoices
BEAUTY & THE BEAST X EX MACHINA X CLOVER In a bleak world, Revrant's journey of self-discovery begins where his old life ends - correcting the wrongs he helped create 🎇Dark Fantasy 👹Tale of redemption #PosterPit #PosterPitW #W #A #F
Now #Agented THE GIRL WITH BLOOD ON HER DRESS A woman wakes up with amnesia and can only speak French, a language she has never spoken before. Afraid someone wants her dead, she has no choice but to trust the complete stranger everyone says is her husband. #PosterPit #AG #A #T #M
🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡 the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #posterpit #q #a #lf #m
THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE A clairaudient girl in a city where silence means survival must uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance—before the ancient archive whispering inside her destroys her and her world from within. #posterpit #F #LitAgents #GothicFantasy #WritingCommunity
A shadow that accompanies them in the form of a lost love. DON'T FORGET ME follows the unfinished love story between Lysandra and Ezra. 🖤📃☕ #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #NA #R
Brooke is ready to tear her cult apart to find Leah...literally. 9 Full Requests Now with EDITOR INTEREST! #PosterPit #LGBTQ #YA #T #Q
HOW TO SURVIVE A SLASHER X FEAR STREET When a Jewish girl accidentally reawakens an ancient curse over her town, she must fight through mythological nightmares and break the curse before she's torn apart like the demon who start it all. (CURRENTLY EDITING!) #YA #H #Jewish #OwnVoices #W #PosterPit
Introducing the #PosterPit premiere of… A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies Will the waves of a broken Kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al’Maii? ☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine 🌊 Sunken kingdom, hidden beneath the ocean 🌟 Magical politics ⚔️ Quest #W #F #R #NA #RF
In a world plagued with monsters & machines mimicking loved ones, 2 sisters fight for survival as their bond reaches a breaking pt. When corruption threatens humanity, sacrifices must be made. Love & forgiveness isn’t easy, especially in the apocalypse.🧵 #PosterPit #YA #SF #AG ❤️ Subplot 👯♀️Dual POV
SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME x THE CITY OF BRASS Half-breed Aelia is forced to go on the run with a pure-blood mercenary, after revealing her powerful Runelight turns her into a hunted weapon for a war between realms ✨full ms with lit agent✨ #PosterPit #Q #F #R #NA #amquerying
JASAD HEIR/ONE DARK WINDOW There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret? #PosterPit #Q #F #A
BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #PosterPit #A #S #SF #W
THE SIRENS X THE BOOK OF WITCHING ✨ Editor interest ✨ 🌊 Feminine rage 🌊 Twisty plot 🌊 Atmospheric setting 🌊 Orcadian folklore 🌊 Multi POV 🌊 Chronic illness rep (own voices) #PosterPit #A #HF #Q
❤️ BEFORE SUNRISE x 🌶️ HEARTLESS '97 Berlin. Shaking off its Cold War slumber to the beat of techno. Clocks on street corners and lakeside beaches. And her larger-than-life yet adrift host… whose touch makes her wish this summer would last. But it can't. #PosterPit #Q #R #A
A romantasy twist on ROMAN HOLIDAY + a dash of MIDSOMMAR weird humor 🦎 weirder characters 🩸 light horror elements 🐡 fish-out-of-water hijinks ✨ lyrical prose 🏺 secondary world inspired by ancient Babylon #PosterPit #Q #F #A
COMING SOON 👀 One lunar prison. Two condemned men. Jack is a criminal with a blood-soaked past. Elias is an entomologist caught in a web of lies. In isolation, affection blooms. Beneath the surface, something ancient stirs. #PosterPit #SF #H #R #LGBT #WIP
THE LESBIAN CYBERFANTASY PREQUEL TO JOHN WICK YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED IN SPACE Monowires. Mechs. Magic. Mayhem. And a little taste of monogamy. BOOM GOES THE BRIDE #posterpit #sf #f #r #a #lgbt #boombride
Slice-of-life Isekai x June Farrow x East Asian classics 🫂 love vs. fate ❤️🔥 the 1 you love vs. the 1 who loves you 🐉 Asian fairytales 🪭 sentimental man & decisive women ✒️ pen pals & soulmates 🩸 sins of the parents 🕰️ timeless societal pressures 📕 multi-POV ✏️ newly revised! #PosterPit #Q #A #LF #HF #F
JADE CITY x A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC When his father is killed by a bloodline curse, the disowned heir to a blood-magic crime family has five days to reunite with his estranged siblings, find the murderer, and break the curse—before it kills them next. #PosterPit #A #F #W
TANGLED X ANASTASIA In a Swiss realm where people forget their worst memory, an orphan with Tourette's recruits a flirtatious thief to help restore her forgotten past. 🪻Found Family 🪻Disability & LGBTQ Rep 🪻Cozy Setting 🪻Swoony Romance #PosterPitAG #PosterPit #F #YA
HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom's soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom #PosterPit #Vague
A young pianist travels through purgatory-in-the-clouds to save her sick sister’s life 🧡 YA fantasy standalone 🫶🏼 slowburn romance 🌌 dual-POV ⏳ gods based on human psyche 🌠 sister-story 💫 whimsical island in the sky 📖 themes of identity & self-acceptance 🕰️ emotional-core #posterpit #Q #F #YA
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 #PosterPit #YA #H #AG
WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN, an adult epic fantasy, is now in theatres near you. For those we once loved, we will become villains. #PosterPit #Q #A #F
Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. #PosterPit #Q #R #A #writing
The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen is thrilled about it. #PosterPit #Q #PosterPitQ #F #NA #YA
#PosterPit #Q #F The Sabine Women, kidnapped by the Romans, have been mostly forgotten. So has the woman who sparked Rome's foundation. In "She-Wolf", both their stories are finally told.
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 #PosterPit #YA #H #AG
1. Take a ballerina w/ a panic disorder 2. Have fantasy fugitives kidnap her for their leader’s magic stuck inside her 3. Threaten her family so she’ll live w/ them until it can be returned 4. Watch her risk everything for freedom & her ballet dream #PosterPit #Q #YA #F #M #R
"Humans. I’d seen them before: one or two here and there over the years, a small pack once. It was always the same: crowds silently parting to make way for a lone hunter, dock workers going out of their way to avoid a human ship’s berth. But this one wanted to talk to me." #PosterPit #Q #LGBT #R #A
THE Z WORD x STATION ELEVEN If 3 bi disasters manage to not get eaten by the pandemic zombies, including their dentist, they’ll still have to dodge a preacher bent on building his post-apocalyptic flock. 🏳️🌈🧟♂️🥼 #posterpit #h #lgbt #nd #q
✨ ✨ FATED FAKES✨ ✨ features: 🔮 terrible psychic FMC 🙅 science teacher / skeptic MMC 👻 a haunted school 🛌 disturbing, nonsensical prophesies 📖 it was supposed to be fake, what if it's fate? #PosterPit #W #A #R #QueryingSoon
