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Alyson Greene @alysoncgreene.bsky.social · 7d

To scare away the PTA, a single mom claims to be a witch. When displays of roadkill and pentagrams appear at school, she’s the main suspect. To clear her name, she works with the asst principal to find the culprit, but they struggle to keep their eyes (and hands) off each other. #roundtablementor #R

7 9 24

Chelsea H. | Writer @chelseahwrites.bsky.social · 6d

BRIDGE KINGDOM x CRESCENT CITY

To earn the location of her mother’s killer, monster hunter August Finch must risk infiltrating a monster-run city to uncover the truth behind its gruesome murders—all while working with the most ruthless creature of all.

#RoundTableMentor #A #F #UN

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Akiho @babumura.bsky.social · 7d

WATER MOON x ADDIE LARUE

An immortal mage takes bribes and fakes results for her soulmate business. It’s all for her goal: reincarnate the friend she lost centuries ago.

🌷morally gray aroace MC
💔a (shady) soulmate business
🔬whimsical STEM-based magic

#roundtablementor #F #A #UN

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Alyson Greene @alysoncgreene.bsky.social · 7d

MAKE ME YOUR WITCH
A Sapphic rom-com about a single mom claiming to be a witch with

👵🏻👵🏽 Gen X romance
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 motherhood vs personal life
🏳️‍🌈 discovering queerness after divorce
🧙 found family of witches
🕯️hilarious mishaps with spells gone wrong

#roundtablementor #R #un

9 14 28

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Tiffanie Leung Abbott @tleungabbott.bsky.social · 7d

EYES THAT KISS IN THE CORNERS x I AM GOLDEN

I don’t look like Mom or Dad or anyone in my family. I feel so different from them. In the mirror, all I see is me, but maybe that’s all I need to be.
I LOOK LIKE ME is a lyrical celebration of self love and mixed-race heritage.
#RoundTableMentor #PB #UN

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 7d

Sailor Moon x The Untamed x Indonesian folklore

My book has:
🗡️ messy magical girl
🤝😈 dark pacts with monsters
👭🏻 the power of friendship
💀 curses
⏳ time travel
💎 quests
🗡️❤️‍🔥👑 slow. burning. yearning

#roundtablementor #YA #F #UN

7 6 17

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L. Amariti @lamaritiwrites.bsky.social · 7d

LOVELESS x SIMONVERSE: Aroace freshman Izzy learns high school isn’t such a piece of cake, or garlic bread.

Featuring
🌈queer coming of age
🌈the importance of creating community
🌈SHAKESPEARE x COUTURE FASHION
🌈a dramatic, loveable Italian-American family

#roundtablementor #YA #Con #UN

8 7 18

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Shaya Lin Susan @shayalinsusan.bsky.social · 7d

Max thinks the tradwife cult her sister joins is weird but harmless…till the bake-offs turn into human sacrifices.

🏠Tradwife influencers
👹Hungry ancient evil
🪓Sacrifice disobedient women
🏳️‍🌈Sapphic Horrormance
🎂Baking battle
🎃Halloween gone wrong

#roundtablementor #YA #H #UN

6 9 25

Chelsea H. | Writer @chelseahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x CRESCENT CITY
🔥 Snarky, monster-hunter FMC
🦇 Frankenstein-inspired love interest
🔪 Deadly competition in monster-run city
🧨 Feminine rage & daddy issues
✨Hellhounds, witches, angels, and more!
#RoundTableMentor #A #F #UN

7 7 21

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 7d

Mia Miller wants out.
Out of the cultish Olympus society.
Out of secret identities and quests.
But now that her biggest secret's been spilled by a mysterious author, she may not have the choice.
Could she really give up her music powers, anyway?
#RoundTableMentor #YA #F #un

(Formatted like a song thumbnail. Photo of girl staring into the camer) "The Apparently Famous Mia Miller. Saturn by Sleeping at Last meets The Truman Show. A Lower YA Fantasy."

5 7 23

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zara zanzi @zzanzi.bsky.social · 7d

NO EXIT x MOB WIVES x CONEY ISLAND SIDESHOW
✨♠️🏙️❤️‍🔥🪩🔪🧨🎡
When the heiress to NYC’s most notorious crime family and her estranged wife arrive in purgatory on the same night, they must overcome their murderous differences to find a way out. Or kill each other again. Whichever is easier.
#roundtablementor

14 11 32

Chelsea H. | Writer @chelseahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

THE WORLD ISN'T READY FOR YOU OR YOUR STORIES! So excited for you and glad we were mentee sibs! 💕

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Ara Lani is having a #NonStopNovember @aralani.bsky.social · 7d

Haunted by grief, Amara’s quest for death leads her to Xelan, the Black Widower. But when their union yields her survival and an unwanted soul tie, Amara and Xelan must navigate their new bond as they face Xelan’s perilous world, and the forces that were after her all along.
#roundtablementor #A #F

Mood board of the living wife:
Top L-R: A close up of a man in medieval clothing, Two hands bound by a long red ribbon, a curly haired girl leaning on a statue.

Middle L-R: Glowing amber eye, the words ‘The living wife’ in white against a black background, a sun globe lamp encased in branches.

Bottom L-R: A close of a man in a white shirt holding a sword, a clock striking twelve, a bride clutching her bouquet to her chest.

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Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 7d

To save her sister, Destiny joins a luck-bending alien in a dangerous Vegas con. His borrowed human body is breaking, her heart is unraveling, and every win brings them closer to ruin. Now it’s love or family. Either choice could destroy them both.
#roundtablementor #A #H #R #UN

10 11 30

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Emily Bennett @emilybennettwrites.bsky.social · 7d

The Greek gods X Jenny Han

The goddess Aphrodite risks losing her powers and her title if she can’t get the grumpy god of craft and fire to fall in love with her by the end of the school year

❤️‍🔥 reluctant romance
❤️‍🔥 first love
❤️‍🔥 grumpy / snarky
❤️‍🔥 ex-best friends
❤️‍🔥 HEA

#roundtablementor #ya #un #r

4 7 23

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james gemmill @jameshgemmill.bsky.social · 7d

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE x COME CLOSER x WE USED TO LIVE HERE

In 1991, a journalist is lured to an isolated rural town and must untangle a tragic mystery involving haunted teen girls, buried secrets, and a demonic possession passed from mother to daughter. #roundtablementor #UN #A #H #M

5 7 20

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EMBlaauw @emblaauw.bsky.social · 7d

AMARI x MEGAMIND

When a magical villain school recruits (aka kidnaps) 12y/o Carsen, she must win her freedom by becoming the best villain in her grade, or else the school will use Carsen’s strange magic to return her supervillain aunt to power. #MG #F #UN #roundtablementor

A mood board with the title "The Villainous Institute for Better Education" in the center, surrounded by graphics of dark towers, kids fighting with magic, and robotic creatures and dragons. Beneath the title it says "a middle grade novel".

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 7d

Peep my #agentsguide folks.
All of this AND
🎶music magic
👯complex friendships
🐶puppy love and betrayal
⛪️soft cult vibes
🤦‍♀️coming-of-age
💕good mother-daughter relationship
📸unwanted fame
🫥anxiety/depersonalization
🎧a killer playlist

#roundtablementor #YA #F

Purple background with a tuning fork and wisteria. "An agent's guide to The Apparently Famous Mia Miller. A lower YA Fantasy"

(same background) "Pitch: Being the gods' lackey isn't new to 15 year old Mia Miller, an anxious girl with musical powers. But when a quest with her BFF is derailed by a book where she's the MC, Mia must fight to take back her secret before Olympus finds out."

(same background) "Comps" (Image of The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan) "Aged-up Riordan. Quest with BFF" (Image of Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria) "Southern Fantasy. Anxiety Rep" (Image of The Truman Show) "Crumbling Worldview. Is my life real?"

(same background) "Snippet. My eyes rove upward to those stage lights, like maybe the gods are above the crowd down below, watching the band play while dust particles dance, sparkling like glitter in the blaze of their glory. I let my magic out, let it brush up against the music before wrenching it back with a quick glance at the ceiling. Always watching. Always judging. I shut my eyes. Those assholes."

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Sonja J Kaye @sonjajkaye.bsky.social · 7d

Natalie pretends to be a good girl at the country’s most elite boarding school but secretly craves to hurt(kill?) people. Wouldn't that be more fun?

When new girl Aylin sees through Nat’s mask a game of cat&mouse begins where desire and danger blur.

Until someone dies

#roundtablementor #YA #T #UN

10 11 25

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rachael @rachaelallysa.bsky.social · 7d

BIANCA TORRE IS AFRIAD OF EVERYTHING X LAMAR GILES

I spy with my little eye…

a girl who needs cash fast,
a missing town sweetheart,
a hefty reward,
a swamp monster,
and a whole lotta honey

#roundtablementor #YA #M #UN

4 4 10

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hanna @hhoshino-writes.bsky.social · 7d

Nisha J. Tuli’s NOT SAFE FOR WORK x SUITS

⚖️ law school rivals to lovers
🤌 forced proximity
💼 workplace romance
❤️‍🔥 slow burn
🌶️ banter as foreplay

#roundtablementor #A#R #UN

9 8 27

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Kayley is stressfully revising @lowvisionliterary.bsky.social · 7d

As Death's reapers are murdered, a stranded, newly dead woman agrees to spy on their killers in exchange for passage to the afterlife. But as she gets to know the spirit army, she begins to wonder who the real enemy is and whose word she can trust.
#roundtablementor #A #F

9 10 25

Chelsea H. | Writer @chelseahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

BRIDGE KINGDOM x CRESCENT CITY

Monster hunter August Finch is hardly thrilled to work with the most feared monster of all to catch her mom’s killer. But as they close in on answers, she realizes there’s more to the murder—and to the monster she’s falling for.

#RoundTableMentor #A #F #UN

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Chelsea H. | Writer @chelseahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

I'm arguably horrible at being active here, but tomorrow I'll be participating in the #RoundTableMentor pitch party alongside all the other RTM mentees!

Feeling nervous but also excited as I'm nearing the query trenches again. Time to start putting this book out there! 🔥🥹

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Chelsea H. | Writer @chelseahwrites.bsky.social · Nov 15

Here’s some fun facts about me:

- I’m a thirty-something year old in the Midwest (she/her)
- I am super passionate about native and vegetable gardening
- Before the pandemic, I went to at least one EDM concert a week
- I’m a mom to a toddler and definitely don’t get enough sleep

#writingcommunity

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