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Rebecca I.O

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Aspiring author studying to be a teacher in religious studies, now in the query trenches with my adult fantasy with romance inspired by the Norse myth 'The Wild Hunt' and The Handmaid's Tale. Love all things books, horses, and nature!🌲🌿

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

In a world where their faltering fertility ensues extinction, obeying orders has never been more vital. Or so the gods say. A FATE INKED IN BLOOD x SERVANT OF EARTH. #Q #A #RF #QuestPit

Background with dark green vines. Text in white in the middle: “An agents guide to Wilted Fate, adult fantasy with romance, 108.000 words”

Background with dark green vines. Header: The Pitch, followed by two pictures. The first one of several women with white large bonnets and red capes, taken from the series The Handmaid’s Tale, and next to it is a picture of the myth The Wild Hunt from Norse mythology. On top of both pictures is text: The Handmaid’s Tale meets Norse mythology. Below is the pitch, which says:

Extinction is the inevitable next step. Their first, volitional breeding project, where Astrid was born, failed, and now she’s adamant to prove her worth to the gods. Even performing a damaging ritual to incite magic in the earth again.

But the earth retaliates by revealing the consequences of her blind obedience. But should she fail to perform the ritual, the gods are desperate enough to take action again to restore their population.

Only, they won’t ask this time.

Background with dark green vines. Header: Excerpt from the prologue called The Slave. “The Slave had never known peace. She had tried to find it, though. Through compliance. Silence. By fitting neatly into expectations and holding her tongue. But being a female was not only a menial experience. It was also violent. Vicious. It was a war started against her and the other females in the room, bound by invisible chains to their beds. As they waited in compliance, silence, for a name to be called. And hoping that name wasn’t their own. But war never knew peace. War only knew wrath. The fragile light that seeped in from the windows slowly unveiled the terror of dawn. And with it, muffled sobs filled the room. But even if the Slave wasn’t grieving, she didn’t blame the females for it. It was easier to lean into the soft embrace of sorrow than to turn to the violent claws of fury. To lose hope, because there was none. The Slave had never known peace. Until she found the blissful reprieve of rage in this proclaimed war, something she’d never allowed herself to feel. Until now.

Background with dark green vines. Header: Comparative titles in the middle of the picture. Above it the text reads: The Norse lore and the slow-burn romance in “A fate inked in blood”. Below it the text reads: The unyielding FMC and The dismantling of societal structures in “The servant of earth”.

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Natalie Bulger @nebauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Deadly Bath & Body Works

🧬Genetic modification, ☠️anaphylaxis, and 🧪perfume chemistry provide the Consule a path to total control, unless Valeria 🏳️‍🌈 can stop them.

#SF #W #A #questpit

Mood board for Letalis Aroma novel. Images of laboratories, DNA, perfumes, four seasons.

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 18h

I love Ró already!!!

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 19h

What if you’re forced to hunt hearts that give humans magical powers when eaten, but you also kinda throw up at the sight of blood? 😬

Sneak-peak of the first page in my WIP!

🫀 Cultish magic
🧌 Scandinavian folklore
💀 Deadly personality tests
🖤 Slow burn romance

First page of a WIP called Feed Me Your Heart

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 18h

This is so intriguing!!!

Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 18h

⚔️Survival guide: Berserk edition⚔️

1. Don’t bring up the breeding project you were born in. If knives don’t start flying, fists will.
2. Speaking of knives, don't throw one at your superior.
3. Speaking of superior, don’t poke the wolf. Even with puppy jokes.

#Q #A #RF #QuestPit

Background with orange small flowers in a green bush. Header reads Wilted Fate (title of book). Above, a quote from the book reads: “What a poisonous flower you are, Eldarós.” At the bottom, a spotify code is embedded.

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 22h

This sounds amazing!!! 😍😍

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 22h

Ró always found eating hearts to be vile, even if it grants humans magical powers. But her town’s leader craves the heart of a seductive water spirit, and Ró yearns to impress.
Succeed and earn a much-needed boon from the town leader, fail, and it’ll be her heart on a plate🫀
#YA #F #DF #W #QuestPit

A girl (FMC in WIP) and a boy (MMC in WIP) embracing

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 23h

I love the sound of this!!! 😍

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Natalie Bulger @nebauthor.bsky.social · 23h

🧠Nature, 🫀self, and 🫁breath. All 3 souls pay the price of violence 🗡️. Can Veera use her healing magic to restore them before her mother is lost in the cage of her deteriorating mind?

#F #RF #W #A #questpit

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 23h

Their first breeding project failed. Their impending extinction nears. To prove her life wasn't a mistake, Astrid volunteers to execute a ritual. But the fate of her obedience is revealed, forcing her to choose between enslaving the earth or risking the wrath of the gods.
🥀⚔🪾🌲

#Q #A #RF #QuestPit

A moodboard with different pictures of the setting (forest, armies, colorful houses with a dooming sky), the main character (a red-head horse lover inspired by Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones), and the vibe (the handmaid’s tale and a kneeling woman with a torn dress). On the bottom right, a quote from the book reads: “Females were viewed first and foremost as mothers. Either watched upon with the expectation of conceiving, or a mother who had fulfilled their duty. But mothers all the same.But I refused to be reduced to my ability to bear a child when I was capable of so much more.”

A dark background with vines. A quote from the book, read: “Even though they were valued like fucking livestock, they knew their own worth. They never saw themselves as prey. So I became the next best thing.” A full-blown grin spread over my face that made my cheeks hurt. “A fucking villain. Because I’ll be damned if I lower myself to a male’s standard, god or not.”

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Linda Maleh @lindamaleh.bsky.social · 1d

LITTLE THIEVES x NINTH HOUSE

When a nefarious witch schemes to come back to life, 16-y/o Haley Thorne must use her death magic to travel to a realm of dead witches and monsters to stop her.

🎃Halloween deadline
🏙️NYC-setting
❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance subplot
💀Spooky graveyards

#QuestPit #Q #F #YA #witch

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing my #agentsguide for CONDUCT OF MAGES, an #A #F for fans of JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS

When her mentor goes missing Gemma teams up with fellow mage, Ren, to uncover a plot to eradicate mages…one that involves the emergence of a mysterious stone that mimics their powers.

#questpit #Q #querying

cover page that says CONDUCT OF MAGES, an adult fantasy complete at 102K words on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns

text reads THE VIBES and lists: energy magic, heists & scheming, found family, research subplot, slooow burn, female role models, SE Asian setting. placed on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns

text reads FOR FANS OF and then six book covers are displayed, from top left to bottom right: JADE CITY, JASAD HEIR, MISTBORN, HEARTLESS HUNTER, BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, and SIX OF CROWS

text reads EXCERPTS. the first is labeled FIRST LINE, and reads “Gemna was sorting through a basket of sparrowberries when she found out that her existence had been outlawed.” the second text bid is labeled CHAPTER 4 and reads: “In all fairness, Yala had never specified just how flammable elderfire was.

The heat was instantaneous and overwhelming. Gemna felt it scorch the edges of her sleeves before she pulled in the energy from the flames and, when she was nearly bursting with it, diverted it towards the two Hands at the front of the shop. The fire died harmlessly at her feet before it could eat its way into the hidden cellar below.”

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

This premise is so interesting!! Can’t wait to read it! 😍

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Linda Maleh @lindamaleh.bsky.social · 1d

PERCY JACKSON x LEGENDBORN

When 16-y/o witch, Haley Thorne, receives dream messages from dead witches about a coming threat, she must go on a quest through a monster-infested realm to stop a plot to open the door between the realms that will wreck the fabric of reality. #QuestPit #Q #F #YA #witches

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

She’s relatable on so many levels 😅

Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

Seductive forest spirit??? Deadly personality trials??? Count me IN

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 1d

💀What if MBTI-tests were deadly?💀

In order to save her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to play deadly games that’ll uncover the deepest parts of her personality. Win the tests to prove her worth. Loose and sacrifice her soul to the seductive forest spirits.

#YA #F #DF #W #QuestPit

Designed book title that reads "FEED ME YOUR HEART". The text drips with blood.

Comp titles for "Feed Me Your Heart" including "Where the Dark Stands Still", "Your Blood, My Bones", "Children of Ragnarök" and "A Harvest of Hearts"

Themes of Feed Me Your Heart, including slow burn romance, deadly personality tests and that humans must eat hearts to wield magic

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

❤️❤️❤️❤️ she is me, I am her hahaha

Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds INCREDIBLE!!!!

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Natalie Bulger @nebauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Three souls. Violence drains them. Veera is determined to heal them.

#RF #W #A #questpit

Castle background. Text reads "An agent's guide to Natureless adult fantasy with romance 106,000 words"

Snowy forest background. Images of Nocticadia novel meets Finnish Mythology with a Finnish forest image. Text reads:

The Pitch.

The guardians hunt, imprison, and kill Angels who commit violence before they turn into soulless, ruthless Devils. Veera believes there’s a better way.

When her mother commits violence, Veera seeks to restore her mother’s souls before she becomes what society fears.

Veera attends Midnight Sun Academy to research a cure, at the risk of being branded a sympathizer of the Devils and imprisoned herself.

Excerpt from Natureless novel. Text reads:

Prologue: The Trigger

I shrink away from the window as the Soul Savior passes by the panes. Their white cloak blends with the snow swirling through the air, the matte fabric refusing to reflect the aurora borealis as it ripples through the sky. The hooded figure pauses in front of the fence to our cottage. I tuck my knees into my chest, sinking deeper into the couch, as they stare through the glass.
My breath hitches when they adjust the iron chain hung around their neck, the circular pendant reflecting the moonlight. I kiss my thumb before tapping it to my heart, throat, and head, praying to Mielikki, our goddess of healing and luck, that the Savior moves on without demanding a measurement.
Once the chain sits perfectly centered on their chest, their frail fingers disappear beneath billowing sleeves, and they turn away. I release a sigh of relief as they float down the snow-covered cobblestones, not a single footstep left in their wake. The disappearance of the cloth void allows the shimmering droplets of color to flow freely through the air once again.
“Akio!” My mother’s scream breaks through the peaceful moment.
I whip my head around as my father flies through the kitchen door, running down the hall to my twin sister’s room.
“Akio! She’s dead!”
My heart stops. I blink. She can’t be. I just gave her lunch a few hours ago. She was laughing with me.
Mom’s pained wail breaks me out of my trance. I spring up from the sofa, my skirt cascading to the floor. I sprint to Tove’s room and freeze in the door frame. Mom is splayed across my sister’s lifeless body. Tove’s emerald eyes, the perfect match to my own, stare up at the ceiling. My hand flies to my mouth, trembling against my lips as I listen to my mother writhe in pain.

Comparative titles. Images of novel covers for Iron & Embers by Helen Scheuerer and On Wings of Blood by Briar Boleyn. Text compares the slow burn and research oriented FMC of Iron & Embers as well as Academic setting and found family of On Wings of Blood.

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

HANDMAID’S TALE MEETS NORSE MYTHOLOGY?

And a pushover with anger issues that has been bred to save them all from extinction?

Say no more.

🥀FMC bred to lead
🥀Diminishing magic
🥀Found family
🥀Female rage

#Q #A #RF #QuestPit

A dark background of a forest. In the middle, the title of the book “Wilted Fate” is written. From it, arrows point out to themes. They read: The Handmaid’s Tale meets Norse mythology, Adult fantasy with romance, Enemies to lovers, Mythology based, and the comparative titles A fate inked in blood x Servant of earth.

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much!! Norse mythology is the best 🌳

Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much ❤️❤️

Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 1d

The high stakes in this premise give me chills!!!

a woman sitting in front of a microphone with the words " i was just covered in goosebumps "

ALT: a woman sitting in front of a microphone with the words " i was just covered in goosebumps "

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Natalie Bulger @nebauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Angels who commit violence slowly lose their three souls. Society imprisons them. Veera sympathizes with them. Can Veera heal their souls before she’s discovered to care for those deemed unworthy?

#RF #W #A #questpit

Castle background, Natureless novel title, and five themes. Triple POV, Dark Academia, Finnish Mythology, Bisexual & Anxious FMC, Angels & Devils

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