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Flossie Foster

@flossiefoster.bsky.social

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• Writing books with a scattered mind and Hobbit heart. • Studying Japanese mythology, culture, and language. •Currently playing BG3, Tears of the Kingdom, and Genshin.

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

SPIRITED AWAY x OUTLANDER

🌿 Sarcastic botanist
🥀 Broody yokai

“The fluttering of leaves whispered his arrival.”

#1stLinePit #Q #F #NA #YA #BookPitch #RF #Mythology

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · May 14

#AmQuerying
🧨Dynamite Red🧨

STEM Picture Book inspired by a real Disney firework creator.

🎆A demolitionist turned pyrotechnician.
✨A talking spark with big ideas.

Together, they’ll light up the sky—if they don’t blow up the lab first.
#KidLit #BookPitch #AgentsGuide #PB #STEM

Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

SPIRITED AWAY x OUTLANDER

Clove Lewis, a botany major, gives her name to a Japanese deity—and is pulled into their deadly, mythic world.

🌿 Sarcastic botanist
🥀 Broody yokai

“The fluttering of leaves whispered his arrival.”

#1stLinePit #Q #F #NA #YA #BookPitch #RF #Mythology

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

🔥🔥🔥

Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hell ya! 🔥

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Liz 👻🍂🪦 @thewriteratlas.bsky.social · Apr 5

NAUSICAA X IF WE WERE VILLAINS

‘Ari waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriageway to break the window.’

#1stLinePit #A #F #WIP

Moodboard featuring: misty old building through a gate; a shelf of animal and human skulls, a piano in a greenhouse with a chandelier; a hand reaching out of thorns; a center square with reading: BONES WIP, Eco dark academia, ghosts, murder, bone magic; a messy desk with books and plants; a messy shelf with oddities; a big antlered skull on a rock; a shoulder dressed in an old-style buttoned white shirt and black vest.

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

An #AgentsGuide to KAMI TOUCHED:

Clove Lewis, a botany major, gives her name to a Japanese deity—and is pulled into their deadly, mythic world.

“The fluttering of leaves whispered his arrival.”

#1stLinePit #Q #F #NA #YA #BookPitch #RF #Mythology

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leahbauerwrites.bsky.social @leahbauerwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

Dead leaves break beneath her boots like brittle bones. They cover the forest floor, every branch above them bare save for the evergreens. No matter when she is summoned, those eternal fir trees remain unchanged.

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #R #LGBT #CMe

a background image of gothic stonework and the title Every Demon Has Three Names. Log line: one to bind them, one to release them, and the one they choose for themselves. Adult Fantasy Romance. A collage of images:
candles glowing in glass jars, the words "every demon has three names", light streaming in through church windows and arches, dozens of open books, a human skull, dead leaves, rope, thorny branches, a person behind a sheer curtain backlit by the sun.

An opening excerpt from Every Demon Has Three Names: Dead leaves break beneath her boots like brittle bones. They cover the forest floor, every branch above them bare save for the evergreens. No matter when she is summoned, those eternal fir trees remain unchanged. Steadfast or stubborn? And between the two of them, the spruces and her, who will return to the earth first?
For everything one day must rot. Thankfully.
She continues to the edge of the woods and stops before the church entrance, glancing up at the round stained-glass window and its depiction of The Righteous beheading The Abomination. Her eyes catch on the scarlet drops of blood that cling to the blade; the triumphant grin on the man’s face as he holds the severed head aloft; the forlorn stare of green eyes empty of life. With a muttered curse, she tears her gaze away and shoves the door open—it hits the stone wall with a satisfying thud.
She may be bound, but she will not come meekly, a pet heeling for table scraps.
The human waits for her at the altar. What demand will they make? Will they tremble and struggle to say her name, or will they toss it out carelessly, as if it were theirs to do with as they please? The first are right to fear her and the second are fools.
With measured steps, she stalks down the carpeted nave, as if she has all the time in the world, as if her feet don’t burn with each pause between strides. She can’t ignore a summoning, but she damn well can make them wait for it.

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X WHEN THE MOON HATCHED

There are three rules for provoking a Galah: never look into its hollow eyes, never speak your true name, and never, under any circumstances, let go.

Fantasy retelling of SEA folklore
⚔️ So. Much. Yearning
⚔️Forbidden Love
#Q #NA #YA #F #RF #1stLinePit

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

LOVE a meddling god trope 🔥🔥🔥

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Kendall Stern @kendallstern.bsky.social · Apr 5

“If the Faceless Gods knew I read the missive sprawled out on the painted desk before me, I’d be dead.

Unfortunately for my masters, the note, written in golden, honey-sweet lettering, contained the most delicious news of my lengthy existence.

As if I’d give it up now.”

#1stLinePit #Q #A #F #RF

A guide to THE FATEPAINTER.

Text in image:

120,000 word adult romantic fantasy.

Determined to win the approval of her immortal masters, a lesser goddess with the power to alter human fate embarks on a mission to destroy a mortal prince’s court.

Comp Titles:
THE FOXGLOVE KING by Hannah Whitten
A FATE INKED IN BLOOD Danielle L. Jensen
SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik

* Meddling gods
* Courtly intrigue
* Enemies-to-lovers
* Tension and yearning
* Fairy tale vibes
* Unique mythology/magic

A mood board that includes images and drawings of: snowy landscapes, a palace, masked figures dancing around a fire, a woman surrounded by stars, a moonlit lake, and a river of gold.

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

The Age of Skilled Steel looks 🔥🔥🔥

Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thank you and happy #1stlinepit day!

Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

Happy #1stlinepit day! Your whole pitch sounds so good!! 🔥

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Courtney Reece is on sub @courtneywrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

“I’m not a good person anymore.”

#1stLinePit #A #P #T #OS (very soon!)

An Editor's Guide To
RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME
80k Word Thriller
Agent: Najla Mamou

PITCH
When Sophie is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice in her head prodding her to seek revenge.
As terrible accidents begin to befall those closest to her, she can't help but wonder:
Is she possessed or just pissed?

From the time I was a child, I was taught to be agreeable.
Kind.
Quiet.
Showing emotions other than gratitude or cheerfulness was frowned upon. It was as if the adults knew that if little girls tapped into the frustration, the seething anger, the screaming resentment burrowing deep in our little chests before we could even articulate the injustices, the leering eyes, the condescension, and the double-standards feeding the flames, we would become too powerful.
So instead, they shamed us for our outbursts.
Told us we were out of control.
Hysterical.
Crazy.
Weak.
In return, we learned to control our fires, even as the men around us punched walls and screamed, exerting their emotions like powerful weapons to wield. But those sparks in our chests were never fully extinguished, and for some of us, they were left smouldering unattended while dangerous, mischievous kindling, carelessly strewn about, smiled as it caught flame.
EXCERPT

COMPS
right where you left me - bonus track
Taylor Swift
＜
trapped in the feelings of a
relationship that has ended
LISA
JEWELL
A NOVEL
NONE OF THIS IS TRUE
unrellable narrator
truth-bending
NOVEL
PAND
THEN
FELLN
ALIGIA
ELLIOTT
supernatural haureng
descent into madness

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

LOVE your first line and pitch!!

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thank you! Your book, To Ruin the Sky, sounds so rad!

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · Apr 5

"Heat beats me down to a sweaty pulp, the sun ablaze and unforgiving like it’s trying to set the world on fire."

- To Ruin the Sky ⚡️

#1stLinePit #q #RF #NA #UF #OwnVoices

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thank you! Happy #1stlinepit day!

Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

SPIRITED AWAY x OUTLANDER

🌿 Sarcastic botanist
🥀 Broody yokai

“The fluttering of leaves whispered his arrival.”

#1stLinePit #Q #F #NA #YA #BookPitch #RF #Mythology

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Feb 19

👌👌 that’s what I’m trying to balance right now.

Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Feb 19

Would you rather…

✍️ Draft

or

📝 Research and world-build?

#writingcommunity #fantasywriter

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J. Sydney Morris ✨is querying ✨ @jsydneymorris.bsky.social · Feb 14

Moira wants a life of love and adventure - when her father is thrown in prison she willingly takes over the family merchant business...only to join the revolution and overcome betrayal, heartbreak, and death - leading her to a life on the high seas.

#FaRo #CuPit
Mortal Follies x Dark Water Daughter

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Feb 14

SPIRITED AWAY x OUTLANDER

🌿Sarcastic botanist
🥀Broody yokai

Clove Lewis, a botany major, gives her name to a Japanese deity and is pulled into their deadly, mythic world.

#Q #CuPit #RF #NA #BookPitch

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · Feb 14

Natural historian Heidi is falling for her guide through the cursed forest. The problem? They’re the night sky trapped in a mortal form, and will do whatever it takes to return and go where Heidi can’t follow.

📚 Dark Academia
🪲 Cozy fantasy with teeth
🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative world

#Cupit #RoFa #A #FBW

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