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Blake Seabourn

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Blake Seabourn @blakeseabourn.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

Welcome to a movie poster mock-up for my adult fantasy WIP, BLOOD BASTARDS. It features a handful of images set against a dark backdrop: blood on pavement, a dagger, three silhouettes striding down an alley, and a bloody hand holding a lit match.

At the top of the poster, in place of actors' names, are some genre/story elements featured in the novel: "blood magic," "crime families," "murder mystery," and "sibling drama."

Towards the bottom of the poster is a brief pitch for the story, which reads as follows: "When his father is killed by a bloodline curse, the disowned heir to a blood-magic crime family has five days to work with his estranged siblings, find the murderer, and break the curse—before it kills them too."

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Blake Seabourn @blakeseabourn.bsky.social · 7d

“Setting as a character” comes through so clearly in this moodboard. Love how atmospheric it is!

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Vaughn Roe | adult romantasy @authorvaughnroe.bsky.social · Aug 16

DEMON CHEVALIER
adult gothic romantasy/male lead

One 𝐘𝐞𝐬 can seal your fate...or become salvation amid darkness when your love for the enemy burns brighter than any odds against it.

PHANTASMA x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x NEON GODS
#PosterPit #Q #A #R #F #amquerying #litagents

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Corrine @corrineonawhim.bsky.social · Aug 16

BABEL meets BAD SUMMER PEOPLE in this adult historical fantasy novel about rich boys doing stupid things like summoning demons.

🕰 Historical fantasy
🎭 Friends-to-foes
📜 Demon bargains
🎼 Grumpy violinist MC
☀️ Bar Harbor Gilded Age
🪑 Murder Mystery
🌹 Queer Rep

#Q soon! 💌

#PosterPit #F #HF #A

A fake movie poster picturing a man in a brown suit and a red bow tie. This novel is for fans of Babel, Bad Summer People, and Vicious! Some details are listed next: historical fantasy, friends-to-foes, demon bargains, grumpy violinist MC, Bar Harbor Gilded Age, murder mystery, and queer rep.
The tagline in the middle says, "You can pay to escape the heat but the company is hell."
The novel is titled The Tarnished Gentlemen and is about rich boys doing stupid things like summoning demons.
It also says "Coming soon to the query trenches!"

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M S Dyliacco @msdyliacco.bsky.social · Aug 16

LUTHER but Sci-Fi

Human-android double homicide wasn’t on disgraced PI Eliot’s bingo card. As more murders occur & clues point to the city’s first Wired mayoral candidate, he must ask his android ex-lover for help to stop the killer. Can he trust her to be on his side?

#PosterPit #Q #SF #A

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Blake Seabourn @blakeseabourn.bsky.social · Aug 17

I would buy this in a heartbeat, just fyi. Sounds so good!

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Blake Seabourn @blakeseabourn.bsky.social · Aug 17

I sure hope so, haha. Thank you!

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Aimee Bender X Eternal Sunshine (+ humor and goats 🐐)

THE MAGIC OF NOW is the story of:
✨a 62-year-old farmer,
✨the goat her sister may be reincarnated into,
✨and the new age cult that could be behind it.

#PosterPit #AG #SPF

A novel by Cailin Barrett-Bressack
The Magic of Now
woman-led Cult
Goat Tension™
explorations of grief
neuroscience
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency
The story of a 62-year-old woman, the goat her sister is reincarnated into, and the new age cult that might be behind it.
“It’s like a new life-lens is forming for me as I read it.”
“I sat down intending to read fifty pages and ended up reading the whole ding-dang book.”
“I’m not crying, you’re crying”
Best supporting Goat 2025

Meet the dream cast of The Magic of Now
Frances McDormand As Gyla Skeptical farmer, will do anything for answers about her sister Tina–including join a cult
Kathy Bates as Tina Deceased, but maybe reincarnated as a goat (?)
Kathryn Hahn as Karana Neuroscientist turned new-age cult leader

Guest Featuring: A Goat as The goat

Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency
A novel
by Cailin Barrett-Bressack

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE OTHERWOODS x creepy Candy Land

To win her wish come true and fix her ruined life, a 13yo plays the ultimate Game, leaping into a candy world laced with poison and riddles. But the Game is rigged, treats are torture, and she’s one wrong bite from being trapped forever.

#posterpit #mg #h #ag

A noose made of candy hangs over a dark forest background. White text reads: Twisted Treats. Deadly candy, even deadlier games.

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA

💋middle-aged feminist rage
🛼campy 80s setting
💋body horror
🛼the darkest of deals
💋satanic panic backdrop
🛼dark humor
💋bubblegum horror

#PosterPitA #A #H #PosterPit #WIP

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Darelle @darellecowley.bsky.social · Aug 16

Something wicked is waiting in the woods...

...and she's hungry.

#PosterPit #A #AG #F #WIP

A poster mock up with a forest background, howling wolf in shadows with text.

Text reads:
Political Intrigue
One Horse
Fairytale Retelling
Found Family
Stolen Magic

Something wicked is waiting in the woods

Best Howl, Riveting Spell Casting, Worst Timing

Project Fairytale

90% Outlined

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E.M. Kerkman | 🏴‍☠️☠️🔥 @emkerkman.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #W #SF #SPF #A #NA #PlanesWIP

Racing planes for a living, and newly accepted to the airforce academy, Terrah's living the dream when disaster strikes. Explosions on a flying city always mean trouble.

Especially when you live under it.

Text on poster: "De Terra Ad Infinitum: A new adult science fiction novel by award winning author E.M. Kerkman. One central mystery, Two worlds colliding, Three narrative POVs. Terrah always knew she would fly. She never expected to fall." Along the side, the repeating text reads "Omnes aequales sub astris. Pax diu". The background image is a real photograph of a North Vietnamese MiG-17 aircraft being hit by 20 mm rounds from an Air Force F-105D on June 3, 1967. Photo credits: USAF via National Archives

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Nova erases emotion for the Order—until a voice in her implant awakens forbidden memories, urging her to burn it all down. Will she forget and survive, or risk her life so humanity remembers?

Never Let Me Go X The Memory Police
#PosterPit #W #SF #SPF #A #Q (querying soon) @posterpit.bsky.social

A mock movie poster for a book "The Last Word" tagline: "Some things can't be erased" an upmarket speculative fiction set to query in fall 2025. A woman stands in a wheat field with a dark figure before her. A city with a tall spire stands in the background. A circle of light and data spins around the point of the tower. a double exposure of tower lights are superimposed in front of it. The image is dark and foreboding.

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Lindsey Baltz, Fantasy Author @lsbwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #Q #F #R #NA
My latest project 🥀 Currently #querying

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Christopher Kline Jr @jrklinewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

#posterpit #Q

Every 4 years, a bloodsport crowns a new king in what Nevlyn thought was a fair contest. When the king murders her brother to rig it, she enters the sport to deliver justice. She’ll either dethrone him, or at least get to spit in his face on the way down.

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Tyler @tobaker.bsky.social · Aug 16

Though I haven’t gotten any agent likes yet, I feel pretty good about this. Thanks for all the support :)
#posterpit
#posterpitq
#H
#A

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John Eric Vona @writeallalong.bsky.social · Aug 16

Stranded on a moon where electrical power is impossible, pursued by giants, and threatened by human colonists stranded a century ago, Sanika allies herself with aliens that live in near silence. Impeded by selective mutism, she must find a way home, or make this world into one.
#posterpit #ya #sf

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Ella Murphy (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 @nossumusstellae.bsky.social · Aug 16

Presenting: The 2nd story in the Archive of Memory Anthology.

GUARDIAN

📜partially inspired by Greek myth
📜multi POV
📜told in journal excerpts
📜past and present tense chapters
📜worldbuilding galore
📜supernatural elements

📜... is being almost entirely handwritten

#PosterPit #W #F #A #YA

PosterPit entry for GUARDIAN. Black and white sketch of the main character, Persephone. The sketch is a portrait, showing Persephone gazing directly at the viewer. There are hints of fur around her neck, crystal earrings hanging form her ear, and her hair is spiked upwards into a mohawk. Her face looks older, though she gives the impression of both youth and wisdom.
Text across the top reads: Threads of Fate; Asexual female main character; spirits and myths. A quietly fantastical world, reminiscent of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen.
Text across the middle reads: Guardian – Archive of Memory: Persephone Ace Kœrá.
Text at the bottom reads: Story by Ella Murphy, author of The Starsinger Chronicles. A single choice can change the world. Or destroy an entire timeline. Presenting The second story of Archive of Memory Anthology: Guardian. A tale of spirits, Nephilim, & love. Told in Journal Excerpts.
Prose heavy with ages and rippling with light. A golden reweaving of old threads, Fate, love and stranger things. Coming soon to the query trenches. Poster sketch of Persephone by the author.

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Carrie Walsh @carriewalsh.bsky.social · Aug 16

MULHOLLAND DRIVE x HAMLET x TTPD

Paddy is a b-list Irish actor. He is desperate for MORE fame and Hollywood movies. While starring in a mediocre play, he makes a bloody deal with a Hollywood producer. His sanity is pushed to the edge as his career blossoms
#posterpit #a #q #c

A movie poster with the title WELCOME TO THE ELYSIAN in yellow. The title is against three movie stills.
The top is a man agitated in a theatre auditorium.
The second is a shot of a bouquet of funeral roses in an Irish village.
The third is a row of red auditorium seats

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Gemma Writes @gemmamaria.bsky.social · Aug 16

#posterpit #Q #A #C #M #amquerying

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Kelly Young is ✨querying✨ @kyoungwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

The Metamorphosis of Calliopd LeClaire - 94K Romantic Fantasy Standalone by Kelly Young

Graphic pictures boy and girl standing in starry field with cotton candy clouds.

Pitch: In order to restore the erased record of her existence and convince the God of Time to save her sick sister’s life, seventeen-year-old Calliope LeClaire embarks on a perilous journey across a starlit purgatory-in-the-clouds alongside Time’s sullen Apprentice, Jasper DeWitte.

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Sam Peil 🧟 @sampeil.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE Z WORD x WALKING DEAD

Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a love triangle take on the end of the world in the Black Hills.

Bites, bisexuals, and a busted bunker!

#posterpit #q #h #lgbt #nd

Dentist with folded arms standing at an angle. Two ripped images of zombie eyes and zombie mouth over his face. Red background and dark red blood spatter across the whole thing.

Text from top to bottom:
HORROR
HEADSHOTS
HOOKUPS
THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW
by Sami Peil
Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a bi love triangle toke on the end of the world in the Black Hills. They all want each other but not in the some way.

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Aspen Andersen @aspenandersen.bsky.social · Aug 16

You are cordially invited to the red carpet premier of TWO LIES AND A TRUTH, an upmarket psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator. Code #amagenting gets you free admission💄🩸👠💋

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #T #A #NA

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · Aug 16

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING

DEADLY ARCHETYPES is a fast paced, grounded YA sci-fi that features:
- a high-tech, high stakes VR competition game
- an unlikely group of allies
- the ticking clock of a mind control glitch
- hero x villain archetypes
#PosterPit #AG #SF #YA

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Amanda @romancerunner.bsky.social · Aug 16

The only things waiting for her at the finish line will be a medal and a banana.

💗Sports romance
👟complete at 95k words
💗Whiskey Business x What Happens in Amsterdam

Trailer 🎶: Into You by Ariana Grande

#PosterPit #Q #R #A #C

Movie poster
Picture: two people running
Text: a Netflix original movie
Tags: dual pov, run club meet cute, set in Amsterdam, workplace romance, Latinx rep
Title: your pace or mine?
Text: they say in your late twenties you’re either getting married or… training for a marathon
Now querying

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