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Kassandra ✨

@kassandratyst.bsky.social

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🇦🇹🇸🇪 | writer | here for the magical & whimsical | professional bunny cuddler | rep: @luciennediver.bsky.social‬ at The Knight Agency

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Jul 4

I never posted the art I commissioned on here and need to rectify that immediately 👀 here are Elsie and Theo ✨

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Jul 17

A little delayed, but I have some news ✨
I have signed with @luciennediver.bsky.social at the Knight Agency and I couldn’t be happier!

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Jul 15

I couldn’t have wished for a better agent and I’m so excited to see where this journey will take me! 🥰

Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · Jul 15

I’ve taken on the amazing author @kassandratyst.bsky.social and her romantasy THE PORTRAIT OF THEODORE QUILL. So excited and can’t wait until we get this out on submission!

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Jul 4

Art by Roscheri

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Jul 4

I never posted the art I commissioned on here and need to rectify that immediately 👀 here are Elsie and Theo ✨

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Apr 25

Omg! So exciting!!

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thank you!

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thank you!

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Apr 19

🥰

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thank you!

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Apr 19

BLD OVR BRGHT HVN x ARCANE
Jim's grad research was meant to save rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul.

Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning.
#PosterPitQ #A #F (credit to @d-and-a-authors!)

Movie poster for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. In the background is an anatomical drawing of the musculature of a man from his right side. Four comparison titles are listed across the top (The Two Doctors Gorski, Arcane, Babel, and Don't Let the Forest In). At the bottom is the text "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?" and "In Agent Inboxes Now"

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Apr 19

When Elsie accidentally frees Theo from a painting he was trapped in for 106 years, she discovers a fatal secret.
Theo is on borrowed time, and Elsie heart might not survive.

The invisible Life of Addie LaRue x Time Traveler's Wife

🖼️ 🥀🕯️🐈🪷

#PosterPitQ #A #F

A movie poster for the portrait of Theodore Quill

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Nell @nelsnote.bsky.social · Mar 17

A burned-out jazz pianist seeking refuge at a seaside inn is drawn into the orbit of a brilliant painter whose work doesn’t just capture his subjects—it devours them. And now she's caught in his frame.

Art by the lovely saranillustration

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A

Character art of a young woman with long black hair, and a man with blonde hair behind her. They're very close together and it seems like the man may be pulling her backwards.

The background is ocean waves, with a smidge of red.

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · Mar 17

The love lives of two sisters become complicated after they develop the ability to sense love and as they navigate a world where direct use of magic has been banned they become all the more curious about the unknown of forbidden magic

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #F #R #A

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Mar 17

I may or may not have cried while writing some chapters 🤐

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Mar 17

It devours them?? I want to read 👀

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Victoria Lilly @victorialilly.bsky.social · Mar 17

An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance set in Victorian England.
When an impressionable young spirit-medium is hired to exorcize an evil spirit, the real question is what could possibly go right.
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi

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Char ✨🇱🇹🐺🥀 @charwritesstories.bsky.social · Mar 17

POWERLESS X ONE DARK WINDOW

Being a teen sucks. Working with a handsome memory snatcher to save magic? A little less 🤷‍♀️

❤️‍🔥 pinning and slow-burn
🦇 mental health rep
🌊 atmospheric setting
😈 feminine rage core
🔥 found family
🍴eat the rich

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #amquerying

A mood board containing a dark romantic aesthetic. Pictured are seaside cliffs, caverns, gardens, a rabbit, roses and a pair kissing in shadows

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · Mar 17

NAUSICAÄ x EMILY WILDE

Heidi has a plan: scorn her suitor, keep his money, and start her research. It’s perfect - if she can survive long enough in the cursed forest to finish her thesis.

🪲 Cozy-yet-unsettling Fantasy
🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative world
📚 Academia

#PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F #LGBT

A collage of images, starting from top left and going clockwise to center: Elinor Dashwood from Sense & Sensibility, tea being poured into a teacup, a journal with a diagram of a flower, a pink with black spots truffle pig, a partially shadowed hand writing on a chalkboard, a clump of light pink blooming flowers in a forest, a brontosaurus skeleton in a museum, a desk with flowers and journals, and in the center a diagram of ancient plants.

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thank you!! 🥰

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Mar 17

Hehe 👀

Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thank you!

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Victoria Lilly @victorialilly.bsky.social · Mar 17

My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying

With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #adult #horror #gothic

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · Mar 17

Everything about this sounds incredible 🙌🏻

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · Mar 17

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
🧑‍🎓A cut-throat postgrad academia w/
⚛️engineer magic
🤌obsessive yearning
🚨unreliable narrator
📻corrupted magic tech
🩺medical ethics & consent
🩻body horror
🏆dangerous magic duels
🛠️blacksmith biceps
🌿strange plants
👤& the strange man who ❤️s 'em
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

Pitch card for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. Background top image is an anatomical diagram of a torso with left arm outstretched, bottom image is of dark nested ferns. Atop the image is a digital painting of a man with curly dark hair and medium skin tone, wearing dark green clothing and a gold hoop earring in his right ear, looking away from the camera. His hand rests atop a text box reading "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?"

Also in the text box is the author's name and "Adult dark academic fantasy, 107k words." Below the textbox are cover images of the Netflix show Arcane (with Viktor's face), BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M.L. Wang, THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI by Isaac Fellman, DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, by C. G. Drews, and RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter.

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