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Freelance editor and writer of historical fiction. Longlisted @write-mentor.bsky.social Novel Award 2025. Top 100 @bathnovelaward.co.uk 2024. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally.

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · 22h

Editors: Female rage is really selling right now!

Me: May I present Exhibit A…

🌊 Good for her
🌊 Twisty plot
🌊 Atmospheric setting
🌊 Orcadian folklore
🌊 Multi POV
🌊 Chronic illness rep

#amquerying #writingcommunity #ownvoices

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · 6d

Here's my #AgentsGuide to GUMIHO, my horror romance. #H #R

🖤 Placed 3rd in the horror/paranormal category of the PNWA writing contest
🖤 Big 5 Editor interest

A woman cursed w/ a gumiho must confront the darkest parts of herself to save the man she loves & her humanity—or become something monstrous

An Agent's Guide To:

GUMIHO

78,000 word Horror Romance by Jennifer Luce

Centuries ago, Mina Kim made a promise after her brother’s tragic death—to rid the world of the vile, the greedy, and even the gods who abandoned her and her brother when they needed them most. To receive the power of a god, Mina was possessed by a gumiho, a wicked fox spirit that feasts on one soul each year, and has spent her life collecting a thousand souls. Now she needs just one more.

Mina spends her days as a museum curator in the present-day gray city of Seattle, where she finds her final target in Kaiden Brennan, a grad student with a quiet charm whose hopefulness contrasts with everything she’s come to despise in humanity. With Kaiden in desperate need of help on his dissertation, Mina bides her time, waiting until the curse allows her to seize her chance and kill him. The more time she spends with Kaiden, the more she’s drawn to him, the human emotions she’s long thought buried beginning to resurface. Falling for Kaiden doesn’t just make her question her final kill, but the centuries of sacrifice she’s made to keep her promise.

But the fox refuses to let a single man ruin its destructive plans. Wicked whispers invade Mina’s mind, horrid hallucinations of her loved ones haunt her at every corner, and her own body starts to change. Mina realizes she’s being consumed from the inside out. With the fox hellbent on claiming Kaiden’s soul, Mina must confront the darkest parts of herself to separate from the fox to save him and her humanity—or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something monstrous.

Tropes & comps:

Korean folklore, set in modern-day PNW, anti-hero POV, slow-burn horror & romance, psychological unraveling, monstrous transformation, themes of grief & emotional vulnerability

SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow.

A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.

“G-Gumiho!” the man shrieked in Korean, stumbling through the dense, snow-packed woods of the Bukhansan Mountains. Not far off, Seoul glistened below the edge of the forest, where many were lured into the national park by the quiet beauty my country still had to offer.

Except it was the dead of winter. And even the moon hid from us beneath a thick blanket of black clouds, turning its back on what it was about to witness.

Near-deafening silence answered him, and within it, the crunch of my boots against the snow as I strode closer. The tips of my fingernails, curved into claws, carved against the dry bark of a nearby tree, the low scrape reverberating through the empty forest—a sound I knew would only sweeten the terror in my victim’s heart.

The drunken businessman cried out my name once more. As if anyone was foolish enough to be here out at night, and even if they were, nobody would believe his panicked words.
Gumiho.

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 29

Who else is doing #1stlinepit on 📸 tomorrow? (Sneak peek at part of my pitch below.)

Find me @ natalielouiseauthor to swap support! 🥰

#WritingCommunity #amquerying

Moodboard with Orkney landscape and seafaring vibes with the words, ‘The sea must have her own’ in the middle.

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 20

Another full request for my girl! 🥹 I am so in love with this story and I really hope it finds its champion soon.

#amquerying #writingcommunity #writing #querying

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE SIRENS X THE BOOK OF WITCHING

✨ Editor interest ✨

🌊 Feminine rage
🌊 Twisty plot
🌊 Atmospheric setting
🌊 Orcadian folklore
🌊 Multi POV
🌊 Chronic illness rep (own voices)

#PosterPit #A #HF #Q

Text: THE BALLAD OF AGNES DAY (Querying now): When a storm wrecks his island’s passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous finfolk, a grieving musician must find out the truth about who she is before more of his people die. Longlisted for WriteMentor Award 2025, Top 5% Bridport Prize 2025, Top 100 Bath Novel Award 2024. Image: A young woman with long dark hair and a 1900s dress stands in front of a lighthouse on a cliff path. There is a blood spatter in the corner of the poster.

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 18

It was a lovely day, thank you! 🥰

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 18

It was! I wish I’d been around more for the whole thing — especially bc everyone was so supportive of my pitch — but I had my cousin’s wedding on Saturday then a long drive home yesterday. Hopefully I can lock in next time. 🥹

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 18

On X I went in to second your poster just now, but I just saw the hosts closed the voting an hour ago, so I don’t know if it will be counted. (They also said they were going to try to make voting less confusing next time!)

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

😂😂

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

I would have returned the favour, but someone beat me to it! 😂😂

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

Ah, thanks so much for the nomination! 😍😍😍

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a door that says meeting in progress

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a door that says meeting in progress

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sounds fab! Best of luck on sub. ✨🤞🏻

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you! ☺️

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

Oh Soph! ❤️❤️❤️

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thanks so much! ☺️

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

Why, thank you! ☺️

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

I honestly think it would translate really well to film, but I’m a bit biased! 😂

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

Can’t wait to read this! 🤩

Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 17

Ah, thank you! 🤩

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · Aug 16

Brooke is ready to tear this cult apart to find Leah...literally.
9 Full Requests
Now with EDITOR INTEREST!
#PosterPit #LGBTQ #YA #T #Q

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · Aug 16

Brooke is ready to tear her cult apart to find Leah...literally.
9 Full Requests
Now with EDITOR INTEREST!
#PosterPit #LGBTQ #YA #T #Q

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Amanda @romancerunner.bsky.social · Aug 16

The only things waiting for her at the finish line will be a medal and a banana.

💗Sports romance
👟complete at 95k words
💗Whiskey Business x What Happens in Amsterdam

Trailer 🎶: Into You by Ariana Grande

#PosterPit #Q #R #A #C

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Ash is 🌟vague🌟 @ashleyrugg.bsky.social · Aug 16

#YA with crossover appeal // BRIDGERTON x DRACULA
✨6 ms requests✨

🦷His life is at stake for biting her
🦇Her life is at stake for surviving it
👑All she wanted was to find family, now she has to 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦
🩸Blood is thicker than water… 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑦.

#PosterPitQ #SPF #R #H #PosterPit

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~CRK @authorcrk.bsky.social · Aug 16

#posterpit #ya #wip

Everything always changes. Friends, life, perspectives, relationships. Cera hates it. Why does everything always have to be ruined? Will her new life be ruined, too?

Magical realism
Meta-narrative about revision/revising your life and self
Mental health advocacy
Dark humor

Poster of a sunset-colored cityscape of tall buildings. With text: a city with hidden spaces, girls with their own secrets, a rewritten reality, an unfinished portrait, inevitable changes. Change is Cera’s worst enemy. Subtle, Flowing Changes.

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Kim Cayley @kimcayley.bsky.social · Aug 16

✨ ✨ FATED FAKES✨ ✨ features:
🔮 terrible psychic FMC

🙅 science teacher / skeptic MMC

👻 a haunted school

🛌 disturbing, nonsensical prophesies

📖 it was supposed to be fake, what if it's fate?

#PosterPit #W #A #R
#QueryingSoon

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