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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · Jun 25

bc I’m just too excited to keep the first little bit of #MonsterWIP to myself 🤭
#amwriting

Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · Jun 8

In honor of 4 full requests, resharing my #agentsguide to HEART OF THE THORNEWOOD ✨

She must save her realm. He must save his father.

They both need one thing.

No one wins with a heart on the line.

#litagents #writingcommunity

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 9

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x RED QUEEN

🍸 Rich people scavenger hunt
❤️‍🔥Love triangle + forced proximity
🗡️Enemies to lovers to…? 😏
👯‍♀️Girl’s girl energy
🌲Little Mermaid, but make it a forest
✨Feminine rage

HEART OF THE THORNEWOOD | urban YA fantasy
#questpit #Q #YA #F

To save her realm and her people from extinction, lone Dryad, Eryna, must hide amongst human high society and play their twisted party games to take back the magic that was stolen from her land.

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 9

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

To save her realm and her people from extinction, lone Dryad, Eryna, must hide amongst human high society and play their twisted party games to take back the magic that was stolen from her land.

Save one heart, destroy another. Not all games can be won.

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 9

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

May HEART OF THE THORNEWOOD’s tropes be your Wednesday soundtrack 🎧

A sprinkle of feral forest girl energy, a dash of rich people problems, and a whole lot of “oops, I didn’t mean to catch feelings”

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 9

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

HEARTLESS HUNTER x WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL

She’s the last Dryad. His family steals Dryad magic.

She must save her realm. He must save his father.

They both need one thing.

No one wins with a heart on the line

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 9

A #questpit pitch thread from yesterday 🧵🧵🧵

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

Hello evening crowd!!

Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

HEARTLESS HUNTER x WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL

She’s the last Dryad. His family steals Dryad magic.

She must save her realm. He must save his father.

They both need one thing.

No one wins with a heart on the line

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

Ope an agent like for #questpit !!!!!!!!!!

Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

HEARTLESS HUNTER x WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL

She’s the last Dryad. His family steals Dryad magic.

She must save her realm. He must save his father.

They both need one thing.

No one wins with a heart on the line

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

HEARTLESS HUNTER x WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL

She’s the last Dryad. His family steals Dryad magic.

She must save her realm. He must save his father.

They both need one thing.

No one wins with a heart on the line

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

Ahhhh marauders comp!!!!!!

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x RED QUEEN

🍸 Rich people scavenger hunt
❤️‍🔥Love triangle + forced proximity
🗡️Enemies to lovers to…? 😏
👯‍♀️Girl’s girl energy
🌲Little Mermaid, but make it a forest
✨Feminine rage

HEART OF THE THORNEWOOD | urban YA fantasy
#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

Love these vibes!!

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Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · May 7

When Elaine’s dream of finding an ancient wonder comes true, she accidentally resurrects a king & her broken heart. Egyptian gods are desperate to restore the balance between life & death, leaving Elaine to decide how far she’ll go to protect the man she loves
#questpit #Q #HF

6 image moodboard with an orange tinged filter.
Row 1: a woman in an early 19th century traveling suit carrying luggage and looking over her shoulder; a female adventurer/archaeologist in early 19th century working apparel.
Row 2: a woman standing on top of dunes in a desert; an ancient Egyptian king in royal regalia caressing a woman’s face.
Row 3: a woman & a man in desert apparel tenderly holding each other; a man carrying an injured woman through a desert sand storm.
The Resurrected King | Demri Redmon

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

To save her realm and her people from extinction, lone Dryad, Eryna, must hide amongst human high society and play their twisted party games to take back the magic that was stolen from her land.

Save one heart, destroy another. Not all games can be won.

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!!!

Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

Okay this is so fun

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

May HEART OF THE THORNEWOOD’s tropes be your Wednesday soundtrack 🎧

A sprinkle of feral forest girl energy, a dash of rich people problems, and a whole lot of “oops, I didn’t mean to catch feelings”

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!! 💕

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Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · May 7

Agent’s Guide to 🌲THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER🌲
This romantic fantasy has:
🐻‍❄️ A setting inspired by the Canadian subarctic
🌋Roots in animistic religion
⚡️A physics based magic system
👵🏽 Crotchety immortals
#QuestPit #W #Q this fall #A #F #R #RF #agentsguide

An Agent’s Guide to The Land of Undying Summer
By Ivy T. Woods
Adult romantic fantasy
99,000 words

On a background of a map is a potted plant and a pestle

On the left is a piece of paper containing a picture of mountains and a river.

Pitch

After a wandering mage’s equipment is stolen he is strong armed into helping a disillusioned death priestess identify why no more mages are being born and how to fix it. As the two grow reluctantly closer, they find that the enemy is not always where it seems.

With roots in animistic religion and a setting inspired by the Canadian sub-arctic, THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER is a stand-alone with series potential.

Comps

The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon
Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

Vibes of with two arrows pointing at both book covers

Chapter One - The End of Darkness

Tilaani stepped through the Wolf’s Fangs, squinting into the bright light of early spring. The snow that clung to the mountain glittered in the bright afternoon sun.

“Shit.” She snatched her cloak from an icy stalagmite and darted into a slim crack in the cliff face. The frozen stone was still jagged from when the cliff had split and the edges tugged at her shirt as she sidled through, cloak still clutched in one hand.

Time warped within the cavern, stretching and compressing at random. Sometimes she would emerge to find that only a few minutes had passed outside. Today, the few hours she had spent being lectured by the spirits of the Ancients had become nearly an entire night and day in the land of the living. The dead delighted in wasting her time, especially when she had actual duties to perform.

Allak would be insufferable if she was late.

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · May 7

Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. 💙📚
#questpit #PR #Q #writing

Agent guide to I Am Chosen, an M/M paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. The picture is of a fiery orange and purple sunset over a highway. Photography by Dawn Berkoski

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

Photo is of a vibrant sunset over a graveyard as seen from the window of a fast moving vehicle.

It reads: PITCH

IN A WORLD CONTROLLED BY CORPORATE VAMPIRES, TWO MEN STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY. WILL A CHANCE MEETING
LEAD THEM TO FREEDOM, OR A WEB OF SUBTERFUGE, WHERE EVERY THREAD BRINGS A MONSTER OFFERING DEATH OR PERMANTENT CONFINEMENT?

Photo by Dawn Berkoski

Book vibes are all about the feel of the writing, setting, and story.

The Blue Blood Series by Melissa de la Cruz Is used to represent the wealthy elite vampires living in New York, the fish out of water trope, dark secrets, and others.

The Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice is used to represent young vampires rebelling against old rules and customs. Travel and setting also play a role. A plot point was inspired by the novel.

Yakuza, Japan’s Criminal Underworld by David Kaplan and Alec Dubro, is used to represent some of the vampire rivals business practices. It plays a role in the series arch.

Photography at the bottom: A dark cement staircase and photo of the London Eye by Dawn Berkoski

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Libby Lineweaver @libbylineweaver.bsky.social · May 7

CRIER'S WAR X CITY OF DUSK X THE FAMILIAR

One is a reluctant foreign agent.

The other's a vengeful border guard.

Both of their lives are held in the palms of politicians and Gods, as they stand at the crossroads of war and peace. Will they save their nations, or destroy them?

#QuestPit #W #A #F

A collage of six pictures with Cursed Blessings written at the top.

From top left to bottom right, the pictures are as follows:
A sunset over an ocean, framed with plants.
Two horseback riders on a beach in front of a sunset.
A black dragon in a foggy picture.
A black cat sitting on a metal fence with bare branches behind it.
A white, old-looking door that's opened to an alley with paving stones and plants along it.
The sun beaming through large trees in the woods.

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Kasy Long @kasylongauthor.bsky.social · May 7

What if the daughters in FULL HOUSE were never told anything about their mom’s past? Twin siblings Jesse and Faye go on a road trip to meet people who knew their mom — and they find out a shocking secret! NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON!

#questpit #P #YA #A #WritingCommunity #writers

A graphic with a collage of road trip pictures, a plane, a collection of Polaroid photos, and a book with “WE ALL HAVE SECRETS” in lettering.

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · May 7

Ella enchanted comp is always 🥹🥹🥹

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