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Brodie Smith
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Writer by day, writer by night. Reader of fantasy, mystery, and National Geographic History. Australian.

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Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 24
My Agent's Guide to THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER, a young adult high fantasy featuring:

💜 • Ace protagonist
💫 • Mages challenging the gods
🗡️ • Assassination at the highest level
👑 • Complicated interwoven noble families
🪞 • A narrator very aware of her unreliability

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F
A black and gold swirled square background, upon which are the words "An Agent's Guide to The Prodigal Daughter 98K YA Fantasy By Brodie Smith" The words "The Pitch" above three inset images. On the left is the book cover of "Alanna The Song of the Lioness" by Tamora Pierce, with a black lioness roaring on a red background. In the middle is the promotional image for the television show Bridgerton Season 2, featuring Anthony, Kate, and Edwina. On the right is a promotional image for the television show Reign, featuring Mary Queen of Scots, King Francis, and Queen Catherine. Beneath this is the novel's pitch: "Achieving Mastery of magic at seventeen isn't easy. Why can't Kyan's family understand that? How far does she have to go to prove herself? When an assassin strikes at the king, and a conspiracy unfolds, she'll get her chance." A black book cover featuring a blue feather and the words "The Prodigal Daughter" on it. Around this cover are six tropes and tags: "bittersweet ending", "ace rep", "mages, knights & assassins", "gods walk among us", "nobility with secrets", and "runaway comes home". The words "First Lines" above three paragraphs relating the opening lines of a novel. "Chapter 1 - Kyan Gets Caught." "Kyanna Ravenspell has worked for this day what feels like all her life. She stands alone beneath n ancient arched dome, the navy dark stone crossed with goldwashed rafters. She stands still among whipping greenery. Vines and snakes tear at her hair. Spikes and wet leaves streak by, bladed, aiming to cut at her skin. But she's protected - by a thin barrier of sky blue magic."
brodiesmith.bsky.social
Never underestimate the motivational power of reading a book you think is not good. "I can do better than that" has some serious writer oomph.
July 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
brodiesmith.bsky.social
Can't believe I finally got to watch @criticalrole.bsky.social on a Thursday night 😍🥰

Thank you for coming to Sydney!! I hope we turned out for you as much as you turned out for us.

My fave pics from the night. No spoilers I hope!!
June 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
brodiesmith.bsky.social
Oh, I've been so busy with real life work and real life anxiety that I totally missed questpit coming up! I am so not in a good mental place to participate but I'm gonna go on a liking spree 🥰
February 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
brodiesmith.bsky.social
I've devised an "Ultimate Pitch" from the most used words in #SmallPitch pitches:

[Protagonist] meets father; two must save world in time and find way home. Life story, family secret, new friend, past love, and magic help.

Tell me yours!!
smallpitch.org #SmallPitch @smallpitch.org · Feb 6
The January 2025 Wrap-Up is live!

Read our latest post to learn more about how we ran the January edition of #SmallPitch, see numbers & stats, and what issues we ran into and the improvement opportunities for next time.
January 2025 Wrap-Up
In light of the recent changes to various social media platforms, we decided to move #SmallPitch events to a platform that is entirely within our own control. Now that our first fully independent e…
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February 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
brodiesmith.bsky.social
I got a #SmallPitch request!! 🫣🫣🫣
January 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Already cut 1500 words... 🫣
brodiesmith.bsky.social Brodie Smith @brodiesmith.bsky.social · Jan 29
Anyone else who submitted to #SmallPitch suddenly having a weird paranoia that their manuscript isn't finished *enough*, polished *enough*, and doing one more manic round of edits?

Just me, then?
January 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
brodiesmith.bsky.social
Anyone else who submitted to #SmallPitch suddenly having a weird paranoia that their manuscript isn't finished *enough*, polished *enough*, and doing one more manic round of edits?

Just me, then?
January 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written game.
#2025Pit #A #H #HA #M
6 over-the-top frightened man along the bottom and side edges on a black background, blood spatter between them with the title DAD BODIES in white on top of that.
January 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
TREASURE PLANET X STARFIELD

When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Eris—a tech prodigy—he couldn't have guessed it would tear him from his home on a pirate space station to an interstellar quest for answers about his dad's legacy, old mysteries & himself.
#2025Pit #YA #SF #M
An industrial space station hallway, with the title of the book and the undertitle. JAK STERZAND: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT
January 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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sallybromley.bsky.social

In WWI Sussex, when a petty criminal is gutted like a fish & his cousin accused of the murder, tales of forbidden love, the infamous Fowler Gang & the suffragettes, bleed together, staining the River Arun red. #2025Pit #Q #A #HF
Images of Peaky Blinders, a dead fish, man&woman kissing, two women kissing and a WWI soldier.
January 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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awritingcaitlin.bsky.social
🎶Em is a thief-turned-violinist who unfortunately must go back to thieving for *one last job*
🔥Lelia is a disabled woman who quits the enginemage job that was killing her in favor of a life on stage...but she's running out of savings
🎻Time to steal a legendary violin
✨Fun!
#2025pit #A #F #LGBT
Photo collage of six photos surrounding the name Em Robbins. Top right: Sheet music sitting on a brown lattice table. Top center: food spread including cheese board, tomatoes, salad, olives, and potatoes. Top right: Violin in case. Bottom left: pale blonde woman wearing a black shirt, holding a violin. Bottom center: foaming beer in a glass. Bottom right: docks overlooking the horizon. Photo collage of six photos surrounding the name Lelia Daniels in the center. Top left: blurry twinkle lights Top Center: reddish tea in glass mug Top right: brunette woman wearing brown cardigan playing violin Bottom left: violin Bottom middle: red potion in a bottle Bottom right: Stacked sheet music
January 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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dmshepard.bsky.social
Golden Girls x Jaw Breaker

Rebecca is on a wine cruise in France as a substitute for her deceased mother.

When bodies pile up, and blood flows like wine, she realizes her mother's Boomer mean girl squad has a secret past they'll kill to keep buried.
#2025Pit #A #M #U #R
January 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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gabriel-yuriria.bsky.social
TRIANGLE X TIMECRIMES

A dead lover + a deal with something not human to bring him back = a very unhappy ending

☠️ trans mc desperate for love
☠️ only person who loved him dies
☠️ eldritch entity in a forest
☠️ time loop where everything goes wrong
☠️ a lot of people die

#YA #H #Q #ShortStory #2025pit
Upper left: young man in hoodie walking into the woods Text upper center: all things beautiful died with you Upper right: dirty hands hovering over dirty legs Center middle: skull in the dirt Lower left: sysiphus pushing boulder, broken clock Lower center: hand lying in the dirt Lower right: person standing in the woods
January 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
SHADOW AND BONE x ACOTAR

When Keira's sister is captured by a shape-shifting immortal, her fate intertwines with the God of Light to rescue her; but an ancient darkness grows within Keira, and she must choose between stopping those who seek to harness it or saving those she loves #2025Pit #RM #A #F
Three by three grid of pictures: a white feather, a silhouette of a woman; a silhouette of a couple, a silhouette of a person with wings before a sunset; a silhouette of a woman wrapped in lights; a silhouette of a woman at sunset; a silhouette of a woman at sunrise; a couple kissing in the sun; a hand reaching out towards a window with sunlight.
January 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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eliwoodsgheist.com
DRESDEN FILES X GRAVITY FALLS

Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in Bludeye Beach.

👧Character driven
🫂Found family
💕Slow burn romance
👻Monster menagerie

#2025pit #A #Q #H #F
A tourism style poster showing several bright and cheerful images of sandy beaches and people playing in the water. The bottom image is a smiling girl with big red X's over her eyes. Over the collage are the words "Welcome to Bludeye Beach", and over that text a graffiti style phrase "something is wrong in bludeye beach"
January 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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hannahbashir.bsky.social
OF WISDOM
an Athena origin tale 🦉

Athena has been abandoned, cast aside on earth by a prophecy foretelling her rise to power and Zeus’ downfall.

Determined to prove she isn’t a threat, Athena embarks on a journey back to Olympus, unaware every step she takes is unravelling her fate #2025Pit #HF
January 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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blovewrites.bsky.social
17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard.

#2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ
January 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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crissthecreative.bsky.social
When Larkin discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand with a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo, she must face monsters, vengeful gods, & most terrifyingly, her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child.

#2025pit #A #R #RM #F #LGBTQIA #ace
January 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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altiayarrow.bsky.social
Grim are immortal.
Auri knows this.
But when one shows up to take her father's soul, she cuts him a deal. If he spares her father, she'll find him what he wants: a way to die. Now Auri has a week and a day to kill this immortal (who she's definitely not falling for).
🐈‍⬛ #A #F #RF #2025Pit 🐈‍⬛
A collage of 4 images, all black and white. A crow in a winter tree, an autumn leaf, a river of stars in the sky, and a woman underwater.
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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faegheh.bsky.social
GODKILLER X THE STARDUST THIEF

Mira, a mercenary, teams up with a demon without memories to find his summoner and avenge her beloved. But soon realizes to have her revenge she must confront the gods she never believed in.
#2025pit #A #F #RM #OwnVoice
January 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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goddessvicky.bsky.social
💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES

🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory
❤️‍🔥Slow Burn
👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖

#2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV
A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles A photo that reads: Crowned In Light A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query! This one has it all! - Magical Realism - Slow Burn - Found Family - Gods and Goddesses - Music Heavy - Soul Mates / Past Lives - Strong Female Friendships - Disability/BIPOC representation - DAVID BOWIE?!?! A photo that reads: The Pitch! It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions. When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world? A photo that reads: For Fans of: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Maggie Stiefvater Richelle Mead Laurell K Hamilton Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality. Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way. Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory. Playlist: Have I Found My Home by Paden What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin Breathe Me by Sia Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes Silence by Marshmello & Khalid The World We Made by Ruelle Like That by JP Saxe Safe Place by RuthAnne Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt Somebody Loved by The Weepies For You by Angus & Julia Stone Past Life by Morgan St Jean Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last
January 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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linala.bsky.social
NINTH HOUSExGilmore Girls
A 21st-century witch promises to help a dead 17th-century predecessor. When she learns a coven masked as a company is using her ex to hunt the ghost for a killer internship, she must delve into her haunted past to save the man she loves & her kindred spirit. #2025pit #F #A
A collage of spooky, witchy images with white text reading WITCHES LIKE SILVER STARS over a stained glass raven.
January 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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ruth-cantu-writes.bsky.social
⚔️Fate chose wrong, and Alys won't free her enemies from the queen's compulsion magic⚔️

🌙Night witches vs Day witches
⛓️Captured FMC
❤️Enemies to forbidden lovers
🫱🏼‍🫲🏼The weak many vs the powerful few
🌿Nature based symbolism
📚Effects of book bans and history erasure

#2025pit #F #A #RF #ownvoice #bipocFMC
A collage mood board themed in black and gold pictures. The text Eleutheria is displayed across the collage. From clockwise the pictures are a man and woman being ripped apart, a woman with a finger to her lips, a sun and moon motif smeared in gold, a golden key on an open book, a hand holding a golden crown, a blurred woman holding a skull, a pale woman with a crown atop her head and gold smeared makeup, a gold dusted man's chest clutching a clawed hand, gold snakes among gold vines, a closeup of black leather dusted in gold
January 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social
GIDEON THE NINTHxFFXIV
When magicless Mick agrees to be an adventuring partner for Eleanor, his mage best friend (and crush), a mishap turns him into a dragon and binds him to the gods' dead adversary. Now they're rushing to break his curse before his existence triggers a war. #2025pit #F #R #A
Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible. Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire. Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's. Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses. Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest. Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky. Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.
January 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM