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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Mar 28

Introducing my #WIP for #UnhingedPit

DOKTOR FAUSTUS X MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR

Elise walked away from the violin a decade ago. But when her brilliant and volatile ex-lover invites her to join his avant-garde string quartet, she’s drawn back into the seductive world of music.

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Feb 1

Being on the internet late on Friday night feels like walking through Times Square during the peak of the pandemic: chilling, quiet, oddly peaceful.

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 31

Just sent the full manuscript of my novel THE LILAC ROOM out for the twelfth time. With 12 full and 4 partial manuscripts out with literary agents, I’m hoping to bring the novel to you guys very soon!

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 27

Ayy thank you!!

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 27

Woo thank you!! Let’s get this pitch in front of an agent!!

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 27

Thank you so much!!

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 27

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#A #LF #2025Pit

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 25

I have reached the point in my writing career where, if I need to back up a point I make with an external article, I just link myself 👌🏻

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 25

Thanks!! Hope I can get it out to you soon 😃

Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 25

Woo thank you!!

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

Thank youuu

Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#Q #A #YouDeservepIt

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

Thank you!

Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

😊

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

Woo thank you!!

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#UA #Q #A #YouDeservepIt

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#UA #Q #A #YouDeservepIt

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

Thank you!! 💜💜

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Jan 24

Sierra loves her family and fears becoming them. Their healing hurts and their pills make you sick. But as infectious iron creeps through veins like kudzu, she is forced to take on her dark inheritance.

If she must deal with monsters, she might as well become one.

#YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

A moodboard collage of green and grey images with an earthy, spooky vibe. There's a white woman with moths on her face, a deer skull emerging from the bushes, a black fist strangled with vines, white pills in a pile, images from trailer parks, a copperhead, and a sign saying "No More Overdose Deaths"

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H. L. Docherty @hldocherty.bsky.social · Jan 24

#YouDeservepIt with my latest #AgentsGuide
Romeo and Juliet meets The Hunger Games in this NA, dual-POV, romantic fantasy. A fiery, slum-dwelling rebel and a guilt-ridden aristocrat find forbidden love amid a brutal uprising, hidden magic, and deadly monsters that could destroy them both. #NA #F #R

THE GIRL IN THE MEADOW
by H. L. Docherty
Romeo and Juliet meets The Hunger Games in this 119k New Adult Fantasy Romance

Opening Lines:
A burnt-out sign lay in our tattered front yard, face to the sky. Mum's blue eyes flashed as she stared at the smouldering pile of trash. Beneath the scorch marks, the faint words
'Welcome to Harroworth Central College' could still be made out. Someone had burned the college entrance sign in our garden, scrawling 'Scabs not welcome' across it.
Scabs. Always that word. Like we were nothing more than dead skin, picked at until we bled. Anger bubbled up, threatening to spill over. I wanted to scream, to burn their precious city to the ground, but I shoved the fire back down my throat until it was ember in my stomach. Like always.

Tropes and Themes:
Starcrossed Lovers /
Forbidden Love
Mental Health Rep
Class Divide
Morally Grey Characters
Complex Sibling Dynamics
Found Family
Queer-Normative World Power and Corruption
Loss
Survival and Morality
Identity

Comps:
THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT by Carissa Broadbent
SERPENT AND DOVE by Shelby Mahurin
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LA RUE by V. E. Schwab

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char 𖤓 @charyoung.bsky.social · Jan 24

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #LF #M

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

Having so much fun today with #YouDeservepIt meeting so many amazing authors and reading about everyone's stories! If you are an agented author who thinks that my pitch might be a good fit for your agency, please reach out! Would love to chat about a potential referral to anyone who is open :)

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

Yayyy thank you!

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

Yesss let’s get this in front of an agent!

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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · Jan 24

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#UA #Q #A #YouDeservepIt

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