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ellie 🥀
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🇬🇭 American • 23 • she/her • adult fantasy writer • registered nurse • lover of drama

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ellie 🥀 @mkbaffour.bsky.social · Feb 22
Seven months since I pulled my last manuscript out of querying (and later shelved), and I am so excited to announce that I will be querying vamp wip: ALL MINE, MY HEART later this week (Wednesday, most likely). #agentguide

As always, agents feel free to interact!
All Mine My Heart. An agent’s guide. Eighty-three thousand word contemporary fantasy with horror elements. Over close up of black woman in glasses left eye. Pitch. Ivy only has three concerns: graduating, getting into law school, and pretending to be over her ex-situationship. What is certainly not on that list is being turned into a vampire—nor being hunted by evangelical vampire hunters. Photos of posters and book covers: The invitation (movie), A Dowry of Blood, Ninth House, and Immortal Dark. Themes/Tropes Metamorphosis: being remade Vampires, magic, and the unknown The pervasiveness of Gen-Z humor Black, female rage Details lost to time/death Perception related to truth and justice College Setting Snippet Ivy crossed her arms and looked out the window. It was a pitiful attempt at seeming unboth-ered. Cleo was only meant to be a ride home for her and Leah, a tight-lipped, unquestioning chauf-feur. Ivy supposed it was a ridiculous fantasy to ex-pect. And now she felt bare in a way she only felt in front of her family. She wasn't equipped with the tools to counteract the way her chest ached. She couldn't think of witty retorts to throw at her the way she did Leah. Couldn't use silence as cruelty like she so often did with Emerson. Instead, she was left with a stinging regret. She wished she hadn't called Cleo. She wished that, with a wave of her hand, she could repaint the memory in Cleo's mind.
mkbaffour.bsky.social
lol so I’m starting all over
mkbaffour.bsky.social ellie 🥀 @mkbaffour.bsky.social · May 2
This might be the best first chapter I’ve ever written (new wip delusion).
May 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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This might be the best first chapter I’ve ever written (new wip delusion).
May 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Planning/writing in a physical notebook might be the move bc look how much I’ve plotted for my new wip already:
Photo of Ellie holding chunk of notebook pages.
April 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
Halfway through @kalrmorgan.bsky.social ‘s current WIP and I’m so in love??? I’m tearing through this manuscript and it’s only draft ONE? I’m surrounded by the most talented writers.
a woman in a gucci jacket is waving her hand in the air
Alt: a woman in a gucci jacket waving her hand in the air while running away
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April 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
I admittedly have not been active on here enough and twt is a cesspool.
April 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I was planning to take a larger break while querying AMMH but this next WIP has completely taken over my mind.
March 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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I’m surprised I don’t write more romance. Whenever I come up with an idea the first element I usually think about is any romance subplot.
March 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
Here we go again!
Screenshot of query stats on query tracker. Four queries have been sent.
February 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
Seven months since I pulled my last manuscript out of querying (and later shelved), and I am so excited to announce that I will be querying vamp wip: ALL MINE, MY HEART later this week (Wednesday, most likely). #agentguide

As always, agents feel free to interact!
All Mine My Heart. An agent’s guide. Eighty-three thousand word contemporary fantasy with horror elements. Over close up of black woman in glasses left eye. Pitch. Ivy only has three concerns: graduating, getting into law school, and pretending to be over her ex-situationship. What is certainly not on that list is being turned into a vampire—nor being hunted by evangelical vampire hunters. Photos of posters and book covers: The invitation (movie), A Dowry of Blood, Ninth House, and Immortal Dark. Themes/Tropes Metamorphosis: being remade Vampires, magic, and the unknown The pervasiveness of Gen-Z humor Black, female rage Details lost to time/death Perception related to truth and justice College Setting Snippet Ivy crossed her arms and looked out the window. It was a pitiful attempt at seeming unboth-ered. Cleo was only meant to be a ride home for her and Leah, a tight-lipped, unquestioning chauf-feur. Ivy supposed it was a ridiculous fantasy to ex-pect. And now she felt bare in a way she only felt in front of her family. She wasn't equipped with the tools to counteract the way her chest ached. She couldn't think of witty retorts to throw at her the way she did Leah. Couldn't use silence as cruelty like she so often did with Emerson. Instead, she was left with a stinging regret. She wished she hadn't called Cleo. She wished that, with a wave of her hand, she could repaint the memory in Cleo's mind.
February 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
I’m neglecting my Bluesky but I promise good stuff is coming. A certain, agent guide shaped thing this weekend. 👀
February 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Had rewards so spent only $2 on an advance ticket for a Challengers rerun at the theater…it’s the little things in life.
February 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Very close to querying and I'm so excited. Just have to get through these edits...
February 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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There’s so much lore in vampire WIP that won’t ever make it to the pages 😭 problem with being a plotter.
February 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
Had zero energy today (🩸) but I somehow managed to get halfway through my fourth-to-last chapter of this draft and I’m very proud of myself.
February 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
New desk + mouse pad + wrist rests 🥹

I HAVE to lock in now and finish this draft.
Image of Ellie’s desk with monitor, keyboard, and course over wood finish.
February 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
I’ve been manifesting so HARD the past month. When writing gets hard just think about where you want to be next, whether that’s getting an agent or a book deal, and it will propel you forward. Don’t give up! I’m expecting to see ya’ll’s books my desk in the future!
January 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
How do people keep their glasses so clean. I wipe mine down and point two seconds later they’re dirty again.
January 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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ameliagthorn.bsky.social
The Dying Religion -

KAOS x WITCHER x GODKILLER

No one expected orphans to survive the war to end magic, instead they won it.

Victory’s cost? The death of their God.

“Do you know what it costs to be loved by a God?”
“Tell me, how’s it pay to be feared by one?”

#YouDeservepIt #agentsguide #A #F
The title cover to an agents guide for the project. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. The words “An Agent’s guide to” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box. “The Dying Religion” - in an echo effect in black and white font surrounded by an orange glow. “Adult epic fantasy” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box. The pitch page for the project. The pitch itself is in a large black box with dashed orange borders, the word pitch intersects with the box and is in a black and white echoing font. The pitch is: No one expected orphans to survive the war meant to end magic, least of all win it. But victory’s price? The death of their God. Now war returns to a still healing continent, the enemy intent on slaughtering the five remaining Gods. and the children raised as Holy-War cannon fodder must decide if they’re worth saving. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. The comps & tropes page for the project. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Every box is black with an orange, dashed border, and the boxes for tropes and comps have the appropriate title, partially intersecting the relevant title. The quotes do not. Comps: Kaos, Witcher and Godkiller The quote “martyr, coward, traitor or fool. Your choice, really, you’ll serve our needs one way or the other.” The quote “there is only one religion in war, and believe me when it’ll you it’s a godless faith.” Tropes: Gods pay their dues Hero x villain Found family Heist into hell Friends to lovers to enemies Morally grey mc & villain Magic comes with a price A villain and hero page for the project. The hero and villain both have information about the individual characters in two separate black boxes, both with orange dashed borders. The word “hero” and “villain” intersects the relevant boxes (right and left respectively) The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Villain The gods killed all he loved Out for revenge on the gods Brainwashed veteran Waterbender Raised as cannon fodder Reborn as propaganda In love with the hero Hero: Raised to be the weapon of the gods Out to destroy the institution that forged him Guilt ridden veteran Electricity bender Raised as cannon fodder Remade as a national threat (not what graphic says but need to resave that one) In love with the villain In the centre is the quote “your first mistake was thinking that people like you and I were ever born to do anything but burn.” With arrows pointing from hero (the receiver) to the villain (the speaker.)
January 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social
⋆⁺₊ ✧ White Trash Witchcraft ✩ ₊ ˚. ⋆

Southern inheritances are always dark—But when Sierra’s dad succumbs to something even stronger than his usual opioids, she must decide which monsters to slay and which to become

#YouDeservePit #Q #H #T #LitAgents #Agentsguide
January 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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noreeswrites.bsky.social
NINTH HOUSE x LIBRARY OF UNWRITTEN

🖤Book magic
🖤Scottish mythology

The day her brother vanishes Astra saves an intriguing man tied to his disappearance, together w/ a demon cat & anxious banshee they embark on a road trip to find him before it’s too late
#youdeservepit #OS #A #F #booksky
January 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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austinsgrace.bsky.social
an #agentsguide to untitledwip, a queer historical romance ft:
🛤️ an ex-con with a head full of numbers
🎼 a musical-prodigy-turned-shopkeeper
💰 a buried stash of blood money
📖 navigating family, love, disability, & selfhood in the 1930s
#YouDeservepIt #A #R #HF #LGBT #amrevising (querying soon!)
PITCH & BASICS 111k words Queer historical romance Dual POV with flashbacks Ten years ago, Nathan Gilliard turned informant on his family's Prohibition empire, damning his brothers to life in prison in exchange for a ten-year sentence of his own. Now, he's released back into the world with one goal: earn enough money to get on his feet and spend the rest of his life alone and penitent, never forgetting what he did to his family—and why. Taking a job in the small town of Aurora, Kansas, Nathan gives a false name and vague backstory to his new employer, the unexpectedly kind Lawrence Freburg. But Lawrence's kindness isn't all that catches Nathan off-guard—he has his own secrets, far from being the nondescript single father he appears to be, and as the two of them live and work together they only find each other more intriguing, admirable, and irresistible. The closer they grow, the more Nathan is faced with an impossible choice: follow his long-held conviction of a life of solitude, or follow his heart and risk becoming the very sellout he was labeled so long ago. And when the real threat of Nathan's former life comes back with a vengeance, both men must face the consequences of holding their pasts too present—and decide how to seize control of their futures. CHARACTERS Art of Nathan (a man with short, dark curly hair and dark eyes, wearing a dark sweater) and Lawrence (a blond man with glasses, wearing a brown jacket and tie with a light blue shirt and navy vest) with accompanying moodboards next to them. COMPS Netflix's Godless • Trials and tribulations of small-town midwestern America • Running from the past, returning to the past • Disability =/= disabling • Unconventional family structures We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian • Twentieth-century American life • Queerness and homemaking • Taciturn homebody x hapless yapper • Roommates to lovers Peaky Blinders • Crime family. criminal brothers • Costs of winning, costs of losing • The (in)justice of vengeance • Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty Bonus! Sounds like... Hozier's self-titled album Babel by Mumford & Sons Laurel Hell by Mitski Nathan Gilliard digs his own grave as the moon sets and the first streaks of purple lighten the night sky. The half-rusted shovel works only marginally better than his hands at digging into the earth, but the repetitive motion has long since numbed his limbs. Sweat pools into pockets of ice as it collects on his scalp and back, trickling down his arms in freezing rivulets, but he doesn't pause. Half a mile away, the car he stole from his brother is cooling down, engine ticking in relief at finally being able to rest after three days of nonstop driving. Far enough from his digging that if anyone was truly tailing him-Christ, he hopes they aren't tailing him—they'd take some time finding him, but only as far as he could make it while hauling bags of money in arms trembling from lack of sleep. The money waits like obedient dogs, a haphazard group, the solemn image of the mighty Gilliard legacy. Two generations of hard-fought profit, stolen in a night. Nathan thinks of the roar his brothers will let out when they realize what he's done, and digs faster.
January 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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margreyfield.bsky.social
#AgentsGuide
AN EMBER IN THE ASHESx4TH WING
FMC must marry into power during a martial tournament but decides to compete & fight for her people.
Seducing & battling, her plans unravel when she's paired with the vexing future King, falls in love, & joins the Duke's hitlist
#Q #F #R #RF #YouDeservepIt
A Guide to To Cage a Shadow A 90K Word YA/Adult Crossover romantasy By Marceline Greyfield Pitch Ferne, a shadow-wielding spy, infiltrates the annual magical martial tournament to manipulate and marry one of the three powerful men. When she finds out that the tournament winner receives anything they want, she enters the competition to fight for her people’s survival. In doing so, Ferne falls in love with her loathsome, irritating tournament partner and endangers herself and everyone around her when the Duke grows suspicious of Ferne and stalks her every move. Themes and tropes Sarcastic FMC Morally grey FMC Ensemble cast Overcoming grief Trauma as a lingering ghost Supporting women's rights and wrongs Power or family? Angsty slow burn Forced proximity Obsessive love Secret identity Criticism of capitalism She saves him BETRAYAL Comps An Ember in the Ashes: FMC operating as spies in a hostile environment with political intrigue From Blood and Ash: Hidden magical identity and a FMC discovering her true power. Fourth Wing: Competition-based plot structure and battery enemies to lovers Red Queen: Magical hierarchy and political manipulation. These Violent Delights: Forbidden romance and complex family loyalties.
January 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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adropofmagick.bsky.social
ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK

Nocturne's halls hold secrets darker than Alyss ever imagined. With sinister professors & corrupted moon magic, she'll need to work with her ex, his new girl, & an infuriately charming vampire to avenge her sister's murder.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F
A Memory of Moonkissed Malice Villain Era Protag Frenemies to Lovers Queendoms Found Family Fantasy Dark Academia Vampires Feminine Rage Corrupted Moon Magic
January 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
mkbaffour.bsky.social
Introducing 🐺 WIP on 🦋:

A multi-generational family strewn over rival pack lines must decide what’s worth fighting for.

🩸 werewolf dementia
🩸 lycanthropy as gen. trauma
🩸 mate trope subversion
🩸 lycan gang war
🩸dysfunc. family

#youdeserveplt #WIP #A #F
Mood board of Ellie’s werewolf work in progress. Theme is grayscale. Background photos: forest from below with a wolf cut out, broken window with a man pointing a pistol through, close up of ashy eye, two men squaring up in front of crowd, carving of Remus and Romulus with mother wolf, 1920s woman putting on lipstick through foggy window, man holding hands up in front of people, someone jumping through window, four men standing beside a railing. Cut outs: golden coin, claw slash mark, moon
January 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM