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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 2d

you had me at spy!!!! 😻😻

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 2d

i NEED this! 🫨

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · Aug 27

I decided to make an #agentguide for my newest novel! Coming soon to a query inbox near you! #writingcommunity #querying
(Thank you @carisadunn.bsky.social or helping me format this!)

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A clairaudient girl in a city where silence means survival must uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance—before the ancient archive whispering inside her destroys her and her world from within.

#posterpit #F #LitAgents #GothicFantasy #WritingCommunity

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 20

mini #agentsguide to THE BONE ARCHIVE
THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A gothic fantasy romance following a clairaudient girl and the heretical hunter as they battle silence and the monsters that feed off it.
🖤Currently has EDITOR interest 🖤
#litagents #gothicfantasy #fantasy #WritingCommunity

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 17

“In a world where silence is law, loving you was my loudest rebellion”.

CITY OF BRASS meets A QUIET PLACE
🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound
🖤 Slow Burn
🥀Beware the silence—it festers
❤️‍🔥 And never, ever fall for the heretical hunter
#posterpit #F #gothicfantasy

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Julianne @juliannejh.bsky.social · Aug 23

Mood board for my current #WIP #amdrafting #writingcommunity

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 20

mini #agentsguide to THE BONE ARCHIVE
THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A gothic fantasy romance following a clairaudient girl and the heretical hunter as they battle silence and the monsters that feed off it.
🖤Currently has EDITOR interest 🖤
#litagents #gothicfantasy #fantasy #WritingCommunity

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 17

“In a world where silence is law, loving you was my loudest rebellion”.

CITY OF BRASS meets A QUIET PLACE
🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound
🖤 Slow Burn
🥀Beware the silence—it festers
❤️‍🔥 And never, ever fall for the heretical hunter
#posterpit #F #gothicfantasy

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Abigail is ✨Agented✨ @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · Aug 16

TANGLED X ANASTASIA

In a Swiss realm where people forget their worst memory, an orphan with Tourette's recruits a flirtatious thief to help restore her forgotten past.

🪻Found Family
🪻Disability & LGBTQ Rep
🪻Cozy Setting
🪻Swoony Romance

#PosterPitAG #PosterPit #F #YA

Titled “WHERE MEMORIES BLOSSOM”. Poster has a blue background featuring flowers. Art includes four young adults: one girl with braided black hair and blue eyes wearing an old-fashioned blue dress, one girl with black hair in a bun and a pink shirt, one boy with orange hair and a brown vest, and one boy with long brown hair and a red cape. YA COZY FANTASY. FOUND FAMILY. Directed by Abigail Wadlington and repped by Rebecca Williamson.

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16

thank youuu 🥹🫶🏽

Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16

ahhh! thank you 🤭🫶🏽

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16

stop it!! thank you 💕

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Mylee J. Miller is AGENTED! @myleejmiller.bsky.social · Aug 16

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN x SIX OF CROWS

When four criminals are hired to steal an artifact from the most dangerous sea in their world, they'll do anything to take it for themselves - even betray each other.

#PosterPitQ #F #NA

The poster pitch for Mylee J. Miller's epic fantasy novel, BENEATH THE WAVES OF THE LABYRINTH SEA. Showcases Mylee J. Miller cosplaying as one of the main characters, the pirate Raelynd, and the tagline "Diver. Smuggler. Warlock. Pirate. Nobleman. And a traitor." and the words "An epic sea-heist fantasy by Mylee J. Miller".

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Author Alexis Veenendaal @alexisveenendaal.bsky.social · Aug 16

Title is TBD at the moment. I couldn't stand missing another pitch event, so here I am, just in it to avoid the FOMO :)

Announcement and release date coming soon(ish)!
#PosterPit #A #F

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16

thank you so much 🤭

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Izzy Grace (𝚒𝚜 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐) @izzygraceauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME x THE CITY OF BRASS

Half-breed Aelia is forced to go on the run with a pure-blood mercenary, after revealing her powerful Runelight turns her into a hunted weapon for a war between realms

✨full ms with lit agent✨

#PosterPit #Q #F #R #NA #amquerying

A beam of light bursts from the silhouette of a woman. Title: Runelight Burning by Izzy Grace. Laurels: Forced proximity slow burn. Norse-inspired rune magic. Subverted chosen one trope. She's the anti-hero, he's the moral compass.

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · Aug 16

📖🐦‍⬛Mark of a Magpie🐦‍⬛📖

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#PosterPit #PosterPitOS #PosterPitA #AG #OS
#A #F #R #DIS
#onsub #editors

Fake movie poster featuring the book "MARK OF A MAGPIE"

Text reads: An adult fantasy by Emilia Young, On submission next week, Thief x Assassin, Forced Proximity, Morally Gray, Women's Wrongs

Behind the text, there is a ship crossing the ocean, with two magpies flying high above it, it is unclear whether they're fighting or dancing.

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Laeti is ✨ querying ✨ @lnmbeck.bsky.social · Aug 16

BABEL X THE WILL OF THE MANY

The God of Knowledge is dying, and all knowledge is withering alongside him.

📚 Dark Academia
📚 Found Family
📚 Twisty Plot
📚 Eerie
📚 Sacred Artefacts
📚 Gods & Curses

#PosterPit #Q #A #F

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE SIRENS X THE BOOK OF WITCHING

✨ Editor interest ✨

🌊 Feminine rage
🌊 Twisty plot
🌊 Atmospheric setting
🌊 Orcadian folklore
🌊 Multi POV
🌊 Chronic illness rep (own voices)

#PosterPit #A #HF #Q

Text: THE BALLAD OF AGNES DAY (Querying now): When a storm wrecks his island’s passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous finfolk, a grieving musician must find out the truth about who she is before more of his people die. Longlisted for WriteMentor Award 2025, Top 5% Bridport Prize 2025, Top 100 Bath Novel Award 2024. Image: A young woman with long dark hair and a 1900s dress stands in front of a lighthouse on a cliff path. There is a blood spatter in the corner of the poster.

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16

ahh, thank you 😭🫶🏽🫶🏽

Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16

thank you! 🥹🫶🏽

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A clairaudient girl in a city where silence means survival must uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance—before the ancient archive whispering inside her destroys her and her world from within.

#posterpit #F #LitAgents #GothicFantasy #WritingCommunity

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 6

STARLING HOUSE meets AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, set in a sensory perilous world like A QUIET PLACE.
🦴 Whispered secrets are currency
📚 The archive is listening
🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound
🖤 Slow Burn- never, ever fall for the heretical hunter
🥀Beware the silence—it festers
#QuestPit #F #agentsguide

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 6

working on it! 😤

a black keyboard with the letter r on the bottom right

ALT: a black keyboard with the letter r on the bottom right

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