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Taylor | 25 | Nashville | SFF Author | Currently querying my adult science fiction novel “Rogue Star”
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T.L. 🌻📚✍🏻🧋 @batteyshelf.bsky.social · May 7
After Rogue Star received an intergalactic cry for help, Junior Agent Seliah Cruso was sent on her first mission. It was her first time seeing the ocean, her first time feeling rain, and her first time plotting to assassinate a king.

#questpit #Q #A #SF #WritingCommunity
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An agent’s guide to Wraith, a dark academia speculative horror novel about fear, desperation, change, and hope.
When Sibyl finds herself cracking under the pressure of the program she worked so hard to get into, she’s willing to take help regardless of what it may cost her.
#questpit #w #a #s #h
cover slide with the title “Wraith: An Agent’s Guide” in the center and the words “Everything is fine” to the left of the title and “You love it here” to the right of the title. The top of the page reads “75K word paranormal horror” On the left side is a pitch which reads “Sibyl got everything she ever wanted when she was accepted into an elite graduate program at one of the world’s top universities, but once there finds herself desperately struggling to keep up with both academic and social responsibilities. An infuriatingly persistent shadow in the corner of her apartment threatens to send her spiraling, until it offers salvation. If she lets it in for just a little while, it takes care of all of her work for her and asks for nothing but a few hours in control in return. What’s the worst that could happen?” On the right side is a Query blurb which reads “At the tender age of 24, all of Sibyl’s dreams have come true. After spending countless hours revising, volunteering, writing, and interviewing, she’s made it into her top choice graduate program. Her only choice graduate program. She likes it there. She does, really. She’s not just saying that because she worked tirelessly to get there and that would all be pointless if she didn’t like it. It’s hard, but that’s fine. She knew there would be growing pains, but there just seem to be more and more and more of them. Just as she starts to feel herself cracking, help comes from the most unexpected place of all; a mysterious shadow in the corner of her apartment that seemed to appear out of nowhere. It does all her work for her. All it takes in return? A few hours where she is not herself. Far fewer hours than she would have spent doing the work. She doesn’t know what happens while she’s gone, but it’s a small price to pay nonetheless. “ For fans of Bunny by Mona Awad, A House with Good Bones by T Kingfisher, The Lamb by Lucy Rose. Themes of Dealing with anxiety & depression Processing grief Paranoia Toxic competition Platonic soulmates Family relationships Dark academia Key elements of Imposing gothic setting Unique paranormal encounters Unreliable narrator Surrealist bending of reality Strong imagery Excerpt reading “You one of the grad students?" The driver's voice wraps around me and cloaks me in warmth. "Yeah, how did you know?" I'm surprised she’s gotten it. I'm much younger than most of the other people in my program, most people mistake me for an undergrad. Sometimes I wonder if there’s a reason no one else is my age. "A little early in the semester to already be spending all night at the library otherwise." She looks at me in the mirror and smiles softly, the corners of her eyes and bridge of her nose crinkling ever so slightly. It reminds me of my mother, and for a brief moment I am a child again, looking at the rear view mirror in the back seat, and she looks back at the road and it's gone and the air is sucked out of my lungs. Immediately, I want it back so badly that a great yawning chasm of despair opens in my chest. I am simultaneously collapsing in on myself and bursting at the seams. The crack in my chest grows and grows, splitting first my ribcage and then my spine right down the center before they crash back together, the force fusing them into little mountains of bone. "I procrastinated pretty bad. Learned my lesson." The words burn my throat. I pray with everything I am that she’ll look up again, let me be a child for one more fleeting moment. But the moment is gone. "I hear that." She doesn't look up again. She keeps her eyes on the road. Did she ever look up in the first place, or did I imagine it? I spent too long in the basement in the library, too long working without a break today. My brain is fried. I haven't called my mom in three days, I'm just feeling guilty and it's manifesting in weird ways. This is normal. This is just a growing pain. Everything is fine.
May 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
ROGUE STAR- Junior Agent Seliah has been assigned her final mission to be promoted to a Senior Agent of Rogue Star. The mission: to infiltrate a foreign planet and assassinate its dictator by posing as his future bride 🪐 #questpit #Q #A #SF #WritingCommunity
May 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
Seliah had finally been assigned her first mission- to infiltrate a foreign planet and assassinate its king. The plan was simple, until the agent elected to assist her was the one person who hated her most.

#questpit #Q #A #SF #WritingCommunity
May 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
After Rogue Star received an intergalactic cry for help, Junior Agent Seliah Cruso was sent on her first mission. It was her first time seeing the ocean, her first time feeling rain, and her first time plotting to assassinate a king.

#questpit #Q #A #SF #WritingCommunity
May 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
AITA for developing feelings for the son of the man I'm supposed to kill?

So I (20F) am an intergalactic agent. My latest mission was to assassinate an immortal dictator (486 M). While undercover, I kinda fell for his son (20 M)...

#UnhingedPit #A #SF #Q #WritingCommunity
March 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
my wonderful amazing fiance got me the cutest new keyboard for my birthday today 💚🧩🌿🍏🐸🪲 to be known is to be loved!!
March 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
in honor of me just finishing the first draft of Rogue Star (!!!) please enjoy this illustration the lovely @purely-sophia.bsky.social made of my main character, Seliah 🫶🏻

#WritingCommunity
March 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
ROGUE STAR- Junior Agent Seliah has finally been assigned her final mission to be promoted to a Senior Agent of Rogue Star. The mission: to infiltrate a foreign planet and assassinate its dictator by posing as his future bride 🪐

#questpit #W #writingcommununity #scifi
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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kyrarain.bsky.social
today’s #sundaysnippet 🖤
#amquerying #writingcommunity #gothicfiction
From above, I can’t make out her figure in the inky depths. So, I suck in as much oxygen as my lungs will allow, and I dive down.
January 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
my fiance and his friends asked me to pick a book for them all to read together 🥹🥹🥹
January 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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“May the path Fate pave be just.”

A SILENCE SO DIVINE
🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️

A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #R #spec #agentsguide #amquerying
Avoiding damnation doesn’t always mean sniffing your Darkness, but stepping into it. Pitch- Eden has spent twenty-two years isolated in her father’s manor. But when he disappears and she’s discovered by two brothers, she must confront the Darkness that swims in her veins—lest she lose the only love she’s ever known. First line- The storm was relentless. But so was I. Tropes/Details - Corrupt churchmen Found family Feminine rage Enemies to lovers Sentient houses The chosen one Isolated location Everyone has secrets Dystopian future Southern gothic Sign language
January 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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🕰️🖤JUNE FARROW X WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME🔥🌻

🕰️ time travel
🔍 murder mystery
♥️ unique second chance romance
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒generational trauma
🤱🏻motherhood
🧠 mental health rep
👯‍♀️ rekindled sisterly bond
📖 upmarket

#YouDeservepIt #Q #U #spec #A
January 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
GODHUNTER- the complex tale of a woman on a path of revenge. Sage wants to avenge her husband by taking down the gods who killed him, until she's transformed into a god herself.

🐉 adult fantasy
🧚‍♀️ sapphic enemies to lovers
⚔️ morally grey protagonist

#YouDeservepIt #A #Q
January 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
AITA for swearing to kill the gods that took my husband from me then making a deal with one? OK OK hear me out- he told me he’d help me kill the rest if i could survive a human lifetime as a god 🫣 #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #LGBT
January 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
Sage has finally trapped the God of Time, planning to kill him to avenge her dead love. Until he offers her a deal: if she can survive a human lifetime as a god, he'll help her kill the rest of the gods.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #amquerying #WritingCommunity
January 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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logophobe.bsky.social
ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all
January 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
oh to be a dog resting on a couch
January 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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This is how cats lived before they were domesticated btw
January 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
just got my first ever agent like during a pitch event (currently panicking at work because i cant send anything to them until i get home) #WritingCommunity #amquerying
a poster for adventure time shows a yellow dog and a red frog
ALT: a poster for adventure time shows a yellow dog and a red frog
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January 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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In 18th century Slovakia, a young widow murdered and turned to vampirism by a herbalist sect must confront their elusive leader to reclaim her humanity.

THE HISTORIAN X A DOWRY OF BLOOD

🖤🦇🖤

Agent's guide included 📖

#P2Ppit #A #H #HF #Q #UW

#gothic #vampire #writesky #folkhorror #LGBT 🏳️‍🌈
A visual with a dark blue background and dark grey border. To the left is an image of a empty glassless black chapel window looking from below with the text "The Black Cathedral Chapter XIV" beneath it. To the right is the text "An agent's Guide to Bunika A Gothic Novel by S. B. L. Grant All art and photography original." A visual with a light blue background and dark grey border. To the left is the text "Introduction BUNIKA is an adult Gothic horror novel set in 18th century Slovakia. It combines the period elements of Kostova’s THE HISTORIAN, the queer narrative of THE GILDA STORIES and the lavish literary style of A DOWRY OF BLOOD." To the right is a photograph of an iron ouroboros on a black door with the text "Ouroboros Door Chapter II" beneath it. A visual with a dark grey background and dark grey border. To the left is a map which says "Horné Uhorsko (Slovakia) 1712". To the right is the text "Pitch February 1712 After Marika is murdered at a witchcraft trial by a herbalist sect, she awakens as neochotný - “The Unwilling” - a half human/half vampire whose nature is in constant conflict. Fleeing to Modra Castle she becomes smitten with its heiress Ruzena, but is informed that an elusive cult leader named Bunika has orchestrated her turning. Marika must embark on a journey across Slovakia to confront Bunika, to be reborn into humanity and live peacefully with her lover. She must unite her conflicting nature, become stronger than she knows, or remain eternally tormented by psychological strife." A visual with a mid blue background and dark grey border. To the left is a photograph of a castle tower under a dark grey sky with the words "Hrad Červený Kameň, Slovakia (Basis for Modra Castle) Chapter III" beneath it. To the left are the words "For those who enjoy: Historical Gothic romance (86k words) Remote European settings Traditional vampire folklore Gritty, uncompromising horror Strong LGBT themes Emotional erotica Dilemmas of identity Layered narrative and symbolism Shocking outcomes Moral relevance Re-readability and discovery"
January 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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mariahstillbrook.bsky.social
This 90s horror about a haunted mannequin in small town America is sure to possess fans of Grady Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism, however 18 yo closeted lesbian Roxy, who finds herself face to face with that evil pair of glass eyes, may seem less enthused. #P2Ppit #H #F #A #UW
January 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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charyoung.bsky.social
🎸 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

#P2Ppit #W #A #LF #M
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, they are: big ben (london), a board of evidence, a street cornered off by crime scene tape, someone playing the guitar, the silhouette of a rockstar, musical notes, a crowd of music goers, evidence on the floor and someone punching a mirror.
January 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
GODHUNTER- the complex tale of a woman on a path of revenge. Sage wants to avenge her husband by taking down the gods who killed him, until she's transformed into a god herself.

🐉 adult fantasy
🧚‍♀️ sapphic enemies to lovers
⚔️ morally grey protagonist

#P2Ppit #A #UW #Q
January 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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meganauthor.bsky.social
When struggling PhD student, Andy, is shoved 5 years into the future and finds she’s been murdered, she must work with her still-grieving husband to find her murderer and save herself.

#P2Ppit #Q #spec #A #U
Two sisters hugging, a sunflower field, a man in front of a burning house, a mother holding her young child, two people getting married, the quote “She dreams too often of a face that isn’t hers.”
January 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
batteyshelf.bsky.social
our first snow in our first (rental) home together 🫶🏻 my love forever and ever and ever!
January 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM