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Letty Sharpe is Querying

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Winner of the 2024 Northern Debut Award for Young Adult Fiction. She/her. Contact: [email protected]

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Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 13

When provided with the opportunity to steal a necklace containing immeasurable magic, hedge witch Blake Delacroix must decide whether to accept the life society has laid out for her or steal the power she has always been denied.

#bluepit #Q #YA #LGBT #F

An image of a castle surrounded by forest. VEILED ENCHANTMENTS. YA FANTASY WITH DARK ACADEMIA AND SAPPHIC RIVALS TO LOVERS. COMLPETE AT 80,000 WORDS.

The blurb:

Seventeen-year-old Blake has spent her life studying magic at Holtsworth Academy with the hope of joining the ranks of the Royal Corps, an elite infantry comprised of divine witches descended from the gods. There’s only one problem: Blake isn’t a divine witch at all.

As niece of the headmistress, she is confined to the role of assistant and silent observer of the extraordinary lessons unfolding around her, her own negligible powers denying her full participation.

A spark of hope arrives when Blake learns that the Grandwitch has brought a secret necklace containing a volatile and immeasurable magic to the academy. Just as she finds a way to obtain it for herself, the necklace disappears and Blake believes she knows exactly who to blame: Maeve Moram, a powerful student who has always had it in for her.

What begins as a quest to recover the necklace results in Blake unearthing not only the hidden truth of her fellow hedge witches but also a deeper and darker power that she can’t begin to comprehend.

Comp Titles:

Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven (sapphic romance, rivals to lovers, generational trauma)

Wisteria by Adalyn Grace (familial relationships, lost deities, gothic-lite)

Snippet:

“It all comes so easy to you, and you don’t even deserve it.” I scoff. “Do you think the Corps would have selected you if your mother wasn’t Lady Death? I bet Adrien only sticks around to take the attention away from him being one of the Dregs.”

It can be hard to remember just how far down the gods’ bloodline he is when he’s lording it over me. But there is no forgetting just how close Maeve is to the power of Death herself.

“Where I get my magic from doesn’t matter.” She steps so close that I can feel her breath on my skin. Her eyes are slits, her teeth bared. “All that matters is that I have it – and if people want to make use of it, who are you to say otherwise? Just because you hate how small you are. How weak. You must drown in it.”

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Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Aug 1

The ungodly urge to make a Killing Eve edit to The Subway

Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 29

A glimpse into the new WIP I'm hoping to start drafting later this week.

JANE EYRE x MONSTER HOUSE

Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 27

quaking in my boots

Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 27

There's nothing quite like the high of letting a new story idea unravel.

Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 23

isn't*

a baby in a striped shirt is covering his face with his hands .

ALT: a baby in a striped shirt is covering his face with his hands .

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Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hi everyone! I'll be participating in a bunch of pitch events over the summer, so I've made a second account to save the feeds of anyone who aren't interested. 😂

Pitch account: @lettysharpepitches.bsky.social

Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hi Katie, if authors have queried you through your website, will you still be looking at those or are they void? Congrats!

Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 13

The chaos!!

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Ryan (is Querying ✉️) @ry-is-writing.bsky.social · Jul 13

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth.

#BluePit📖 #Q #YA #OV #LGBT #SF #R

Starboy

LGBTQ+ YA Sci-Fi

Complete at 83k words

Blurb

When Bennett Barker is forced to move to a small town for his senior year of high school, he thinks his biggest problems will be missing his friends, figuring out his back-home situationship, and coming clean to his mom that he isn’t following in her footsteps by majoring in astronomy. Then an alien named Caelum crash-lands into his life. Literally. Bennett rescues the alien when his pod slams down to Earth while Bennett is out delivering pizza. But this isn’t an E.T. situation. Caelum is tall, turquoise, and incredibly kind, which makes it hard for Bennett not to catch feelings. Now Bennett has to find a way to get Caelum back home. But as Bennett grows closer to the alien, he starts wondering if his extraterrestrial crush is hiding the truth about why he ended up on Earth.

Characters

Bennett
Bummed he moved to a new town his senior year
Likes learning (hah, nerd)
Works as a pizza delivery boy
Wants to become an engineer
Gets fixated easily on projects and people

Caelum
Home planet is thousands of light-years away
Likes plants and flowers
Doesn’t enjoy wearing clothes
Can photosynthesize, would rather drink coffee
Moon-shaped eye marks glow when he’s happy

Vibes

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

IF YOU LIKE
First encounters
Nerdy boys flirting
Having to hide a hot alien in the bedroom
Traumatized intergalactic cinnamon rolls
Kids on bikes saving the world
Earth food taste testing
Super-powered pacifists

SIMILAR STUFF
Starfire from Teen Titans
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

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Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 13

VEILED ENCHANTMENTS ✨

When provided with the opportunity to steal a necklace containing immeasurable magic, hedge witch Blake Delacroix must decide whether to accept the life society has laid out for her or steal the power she has always been denied.

#bluepit #Q #YA #LGBT #F

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Lotte is querying @lottevansande.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hop in loser, we’re going to South Africa

An agent’s guide to WILD HEARTS

🐆 lots of wildlife
🐆 set at a wildlife conservation in South Africa
🐆 influencer x grumpy worker
🐆 two cheeky meerkats
🐆 rewilding and releasing of cheetahs

#BluePit #q #A #R #amquerying

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Kelton Davis is querying! 🏹⚔️🌠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · Jul 13

GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #AmQuerying

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title Card
Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now!

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees | Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, red arrow fletching, a red forest.
Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least.
"Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text:
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title: Pitch
Text: Niozene has never been good enough.

As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule.

When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter.

Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.

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Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 13

love a bit of mind communication ✨

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Jul 13

A booksmart mixed race FMC, caught between:

👑 a prince who would do anything for his kingdom
✨ celestial being who lingers in her mind through an unexpected bond.

Who can Ariella trust, before the power she never asked for tears her world apart 🌍

#bluepit #A #F #R

Tropes god v mortals ancient creatures yearning

for lovers of gild, bridge kingdom and these hollow vows

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Letty Sharpe is Querying @lettysharpe.bsky.social · Jul 13

a man with a mustache is wearing a blue jacket and a leopard print shirt .

ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a blue jacket and a leopard print shirt .

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

METAL BONES, PLASTIC HEART

👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker
🤖Mysterious android boy
❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance
🩸Powerful mega-corporations
🌃A sprawling city
🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold answers about more than just a murder...

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #SF #M #Q

girl leaning against a bare mattress. a pink and blue jelly fish. blurry red and gold fish. .a blond-haired man cooking with a cat on his back A tall, purple-tinted tower. A hand with blue fire. Two people almost kissing. A distorted silhouette. A dandelion on fire. A city with a red haze.

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Gabriela is querying a dystomance @gabriela-stluke.bsky.social · Jul 13

Dear Citizen of Calasca,
Pack your bags! I am happy to extend an invitation for you to join us on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new reality holovision program where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. We can promise you’ll find the one who’s to die for.

#bluepit📖 #bluepit #NA #R #H #SF #SP #W

Above view of paradise dock on a beach with words overtop.

Find the one who's to die for

An agent's guide to
LAST CHANCE MATCH
New adult dystopian romance thriller with horror elements

Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop.

Pitch:
Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Down-trotted waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop.

Comps:
THE VILLA by Ruth Kelly - dating show setting, twisted games, desperation to win
HEART OF THE SUN by Mia Sheridan - 'enemies' to lovers, second chances, dystopian love story
THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver - winning = freedom, life or death consequences, strong female protagonist

LOVE ISLAND - Love Island-inspired dating show
SQUID GAME - games created for a killer time
BLACK MIRROR - dystopian future with sci-fi twists

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Apr 5

"They say being offered to the Gods was the highest honour. However, if the whispers from the scribes were true, no mortal that crossed over to the immortal realm survived." #1stLinePit #NA #RF #C

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

MEXICAN GOTHIC X HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

The letter from Malacca arrived on a Sunday, exactly four days after Gracie Chen first dreamt of the woman in red....

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #HF #H #M #P

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fabs is editing 🫣✨ @simplyfabs.bsky.social · Jul 13

#bluepit 📖 #NA #A #POC #R #DR #W

TITLE: the villain's muse.
COMPS: god of fury x king of sloth x perfect addiction
GENRE: bipoc dark romance!
WORD COUNT: est. around 90k+ after dev edits!

She healed. He destructed.

- the fmc is bangladeshi, the mmc is puerto rican!
- the fmc is writing/bookish content creator + freelance editor, the mmc is a dj and illegal underground boxer!

these are the main tropes of the book *not* including the numerous microtropes that would've made this list TOO LONG otherwise !!

the comps of the book !!! i added silly little captions for just the vibes and with the current direction of the book as it undergoes heavy developmental edits and revisions—they honestly make the most sense !!! it felt right to have ONE movie comp here because i wanted to, hehe <33

spoiler alert: i came up with the dedication on the spot and it'll be a working dedication for now *unless* i'm not changing it! enjoy being delulu and kicking your feet besties <33

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Morgan is Editing @morgan-writes.bsky.social · Jul 13

Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're extremely attracted to each other.

It's only natural that they become friends with benefits.

But all too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything.

#BluePit #R #W #A

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fergwrites.bsky.social @fergwrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

THE ROSE BARGAIN X PERSUASION
🌷✨🌱💌
#bluepit #YA #F

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Greg Leunig @books-that-go-boom.bsky.social · Jul 13

Available for preorder in a couple months, Neon Citadel, the sequel to Colossus, explores a world newly populated by magic. Nagash Jensen takes on a job to find a missing scientist. His first job as a vampire, and last job of his career if all goes as planned.

#BluePit 📖 #P #A #POC #cyberpunk

Title page of the hardcover edition of Colossus, by Greg Leunig. A man in a fedora stands in the rain in a neon city at night.

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Ari Wilde @ariwilde.bsky.social · Jul 13

LEGENDBORN x RAVEN BOYS

🖤 Enemies to lovers slowburn
🤯 Society where people believe in a King Arthur come back like a Messiah
🌠 they study ley lines! At school!
💯 modern Arthurian magic
🫶🏻 super diverse cast

📖 #BluePit #YA #F #Q #OV #LGBT #ND

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