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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · Jun 9

An #agentsguide to THAT WHICH DEVOURS, my new adult dark fantasy romance, featuring:
🎭monster masquerading as a court jester
👑princess who sees ghosts
🔪enemies to lovers
❤️‍🔥dual pov sapphic slowburn w/ mutual pining
🪦gothic & dark fairytale vibes
🍄eldritch mire oozing w/ magic
#agentguide #amquerying

An Agent's Guide to THAT WHICH DEVOURS

104k words | new adult sapphic dark fantasy romance | dual POV

The background is "And she never returned", an 1892 painting by Alfonso Simonetti. A woman sits on a cliff's edge beneath a full moon.

pitch

Princess Lenore is cursed to see ghosts. Court jester Fen is a monster hiding in plain sight. Lenore plans to slay Fen—until her brother is kidnapped by Others from the bog. Only Lenore knows where he was taken. Only Fen can lead her there. If they want to save the prince, they must work together, but Fen swore never to return for a reason. A long-dormant beast stirs within her. It hungers. Lenore must face her fears, and worse, her own dark desires.

comps

ANATHEMA by Keri Lake
-spooky, macabre world
-slow burn romance
-gothic

NETTLE & BONE by T. Kingfisher
-sharp humor
-whimsical, dark fairytale atmosphere

tropes and themes
-enemies-to-lovers
-(murder attempts are made)
-dual POV
-sapphic yearning
-gothic
-slow burn
-feminine rage
-inner monsters
-complicated sibling relationships
-eldritch bog
-body horror

On the left is my drawing of Fen, bowing with her arms outstretched. She has grey-brown hair and gray-ish eyes. She's wearing a jester's motley of blue, red, and yellow. Lightning flashes outside the windows in the background, while orange torchlight glows from above.

On the right is my drawing of Lenore standing in the rain, holding a bunch of heather. She is pale with long wavy reddish brown hair and dark brown eyes, looking solemn. She's wearing a long white dress. The background is misty and dark in the rain, with a shaft of sunlight illuminating the ground in front of Lenore.

excerpt
Lenore hardly registered her words. The darkest of dreads blossomed in the depths of her heart. She couldn’t breathe. She couldn’t move. Not merely stiff from sitting for so long. Cold spread through her, cold so sharp it hurt, like shards of ice had pierced her lungs.
Black ichor spurted through her clenched teeth with a strangled gurgling sound. Inch by lurching inch, she forced her eyes down.

Two gnarled spectral hands protruded from her chest, curling long crooked fingernails into her skin through her dress. They lifted her up until her legs dangled limply beneath her, toes barely touching the ground.

A voice like the breaking of ice spoke close to her ear. “What have we here, dearest? A frail little fawn caught frolicking beyond her father’s walls?”

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 6d

NETTLE & BONE x ANATHEMA
If a monster's capable of love then Fen loves Lenore. She files her claws & ignores the bog’s call. But when the prince is taken, she must lead Lenore to where she swore never to return. Her hunger grows—she must protect her beloved from herself
#DVpit #A #F #DF #R #FR #LGBT

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 6d

what a unique combination of comps!! intriguing 👀

Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 6d

thank you!!

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 6d

ANATHEMA x NETTLE & BONE
Lenore plans to slay Fen, a monster masquerading as a jester—until her brother's abducted. They must save him from the bog together, unless they kill each other first. Fen's hunger grows. Lenore must face her fears & worse: her own dark desires.
#DVpit #A #F #DF #R #FR #LGBT

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 6d

NETTLE & BONE x ANATHEMA
Fen hungers for Lenore’s beating heart. That’s love, right?

Lenore is haunted by Fen’s fanged grin. Clearly the cure is to murder her.

But with 2 lost siblings—1 long gone, 1 newly taken—such desires must wait. The bog plans to devour them all
#DVpit #A #F #DF #R #FR #LGBT

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 6d

this sounds soooo cute 🥺💖

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 6d

hell yeah!! we love setting as a character in gothic literature 🤩

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 7d

ANATHEMA x NETTLE & BONE
Fen loves Lenore. Lenore plans to kill Fen. Fen doesn’t mind—it’s not the 1st time. But when Lenore’s brother is abducted, she needs Fen to find him. Only for her would Fen return to the bog, even if it bares her bloody past & the monster within
#DVpit #A #F #DF #R #FR #LGBT

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 8d

the theme song is definitely 🎶Curses🎶 by The Crane Wives! and some more songs for the vibes 👀

Bite Marks - TEYA
Wildflower and Barley - Allison Russell & Hozier
The Well - The Crane Wives
The Woods - Hollow Coves

#DVParty

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 9d

DAY 5 of #DVParty, a community event to boost the work of Diverse Creators before our pitch event, #DVPit on Oct 8, 2025! Any diverse writer/artist can participate!

Today's Prompt: What's your story's theme song or playlist?

#booksky #writersky
For more info about #DVpit go to dvpit.carrd.co

#DVparty
Day 5 (october 6, 2025): What's your story's theme song or playlist?
Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag.
Open all day!
Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed.
Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit!
More info at dvpit.carrd.co
Follow us at dvpit.bsky social for more updates!

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Reposted by Hayden ✨ is querying!

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 10d

Just 3 days until #DVpit on October 8th, 2025--a pitch event for unagented marginalized writers & artists seeking out representation!
Here's our guide about what to do during the pitch event! dvpit.carrd.co#during

So excited for all the amazing talent we'll see! #writersky #booksky #artistsky

DVpit

pitch event for creators from marginalized communities.

dvpit.carrd.co

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 9d

ahhhh thank you!! I'm glad!! 😁💖

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 10d

yay, I'm glad it is! thank you!!

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 10d

thank you!! 🥰

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 10d

The opening lines of THAT WHICH DEVOURS 👀

"Princess Lenore Direhart knew life was not a fairytale. The monsters were real, but there were no happy-ever-afters. Only death, and if one was lucky, that was the end of the story."

#DVParty

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 11d

DAY 3 of #DVParty, a community event to get excited about the work of Diverse Creators before our pitch event, #DVPit on Oct 8th, 2025! All diverse writer or artist invited to participate!

Today's Prompt: Post your opening lines!

#DVpit rules & info: dvpit.carrd.co
#Writersky #booksky #artsky

#DVParty
Day 3 (October 4, 2025): Post your opening lines!
Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag.
Open all day!
Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed.
Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit!
More info at dvpit.carrd.co
Follow us at dvpit.bsky social for more updates!

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 12d

thanks sm!! 💖

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 12d

yes!! 🫡💖

Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 12d

thank you!! 😁

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 12d

THEMMMMMM 💖🥰

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 12d

ace monster hunter 🔥🔥🔥

Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 12d

thank you!!

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 12d

thank you so much!!

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 12d

hey #DVparty ! I'll be pitching my dark fantasy romance for #DVpit, featuring a monster masquerading as a court jester and a princess who sees ghosts! with a sapphic enemies-to-lovers slowburn 🗡️❤️‍🔥

here's some character art I drew!

My drawing of Fen bowing with her arms outstretched. She has grey-brown hair and gray-ish eyes. She's wearing a jester's motley of blue, red, and yellow. Lightning flashes outside the windows in the background, while orange torchlight glows from above.

My drawing of Lenore standing in the rain, holding a bunch of heather. She is pale with long wavy reddish brown hair and dark brown eyes, looking solemn. She's wearing a long white dress. The background is misty and dark in the rain, with a shaft of sunlight illuminating the ground in front of Lenore.

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 13d

jesterwip got another partial request 🥳 querying has been very quiet lately and I haven't been very active on social media, been busy busy busy working on things though 😈 and it's almost time for DVpit so I'll at least be back for that! I hope everyone's been doing well 💖

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · Sep 3

ahhhh jesterwip partial request!! omg omg omg!! 😱✨

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