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Sophie Jane is querying ✨

@sophiejanebooks.bsky.social

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Professional editor, aspiring author, and writer of Scottish poetry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | she/her, pansexual like my characters 🍳🏳️‍🌈| querying my poisonous gothic romantic horror with Crimson Peak vibes 🌹

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

CRIMSON PEAK X RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER

At a remote estate steeped in death and decay, the new stablehand falls for the master’s daughter—a spectral girl whose touch burns like poison, and whose love might destroy him.

#agentsguide #agentguide #amquerying #WritingCommunity #h #a #writerpitch

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 24

A little sneak peek at what I’m working on for my book 🥀

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 19

With Tillie Cole’s new book coming out soon it is wild to me that she is still being published

How can you write a literal K(times 3) romance with a POC female main character and continue to have a career as an author?

And the fact that her agent didn’t immediately drop her is such a red flag

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Also I love a forbidden touch romance, so he touches her and dies?? The tension from wanting to touch but not being able to? I want more of that

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Right??? We need more poisonous women!!

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Omg thank you ❤️

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thank you 🥹🥹

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

I had so much fun making them!

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Does anyone know which agents are participating in #bluepit today?

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Would you read a book about a poisonous girl, a haunted estate, and the man who loves her so much he forgets who he is?
Rappaccini’s Daughter meets Crimson Peak, with blood-fed roses and a slow descent into madness.

#bluepit📖 #Q #NA #H #R

A romantic and eerie mood board collage for A Poison So Divine. Elements include a vintage-style plaque that reads: “Not every monster wants to hurt you,” a woman in a white dress reaching upward, a close-up of fingers penetrating a flower, a Greco-Roman statue partially buried in grass, and a man in an open white shirt clutching a necklace. Overlaid text reads: “the things I would do to you” and “if I could only touch you.” The background is textured with vintage paper, florals, and alchemical bottles.

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Pitching you my CRIMSON PEAK X RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER gothic horror romance with AO3 tags

#bluepit📖 #Q #NA #H #R

A screenshot styled like an AO3 fanfiction tag list. The story title is A Poison So Divine by Sophie Fitzpatrick. Tags include: forbidden touch romance, golden retriever MMC x black cat FMC, haunted manor, botanical horror aesthetic, hallucinations, mutual obsession, worship kink, psychological and sexual tension, Crimson Peak vibes, mysterious poisonous roses, slow descent into madness, and more. The layout mimics AO3’s interface with red, purple, and green icons in the top left.

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

My agent’s guide for my gothic horror romance about a man sent to work at an Italian estate—who falls for a girl cursed with a poisonous touch, trapped in a house that feeds on her blood.
He wants to save her. But what if he’s the one being undone?

#bluepit📖 #Q #NA #H #R

A gothic-style promotional graphic featuring a veiled, marble-like female statue entwined with thorny rose vines. Red roses bloom from her mouth and hands, surrounded by dark foliage. The text reads: “An Agent’s Guide to A Poison So Divine” in ornate white lettering, followed by the tagline “Crimson Peak meets Rappaccini’s Daughter in this gothic horror romance novel.”

A pitch slide over a dark rose background with white gothic text titled "Pitch." The text describes the novel's premise: Ishaan, arriving at a remote Italian estate with horses, is drawn to the mysterious Davina-Grace, a spectral girl confined by day and wandering haunted gardens by night. As his obsession deepens, he learns she’s as poisonous as the flowers she tends. Decorative white scrollwork borders the top and bottom.

A reader comp slide titled “For Fans Of…” with a list of tropes and themes: forbidden romance, ghostly horror, eerie setting, psychological tension, dark family secrets, dreamlike atmosphere, and obsession and yearning. Along the right side are book/movie covers: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, Nosferatu, Mexican Gothic, The Haunting of Hill House, One Dark Window, Crimson Peak, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The background is filled with red roses.

A lyrical excerpt overlaid on a background of dark roses. The passage describes a woman kneeling beside a rosebush, caressing its petals and whispering to it as if it were alive. She refers to the plants as her “darlings” and tells them it is “time to feed.” The text is in white with a gothic font, framed by elegant white scrollwork above and below.

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

CRIMSON PEAK X RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER

Gothic horror.
Ghosts in the walls.
A poisonous girl in the garden.
A love that might kill him.
A POISON SO DIVINE is about a boy who thinks he can save her…

But is he her savior or is she his destruction?

#PlaylistPitch #A #Horror #horrorromance #amquerying

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

What are the chances some of the closed agents I desperately want to query will participate in unhinged pit today? I’m just gonna spend my day being delulu

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yes same, it seems like so few agents actually use bluesky. Every pitch event I’ve done here has maybe one agent participating (if we’re lucky), and the events on Twitter can get 10x the attention

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

I haaaaaate it, I only did it because an agent I want to query (who is closed) participates in pitches over there, but I can’t wait to delete it

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

I made an account on Twitter for #unhingedpit so if you wanna drop your girl a follow it would be so appreciated, and I’ll follow back ❤️

x.com/sophiejbooks...

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

I got an agent like!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🥹 I’m screaming

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

A Poison So Divine

cross-genre gothic romance. poisonous girl. haunted manor. ghost mom crawling across the floor.
and he still thinks it’s true love.

#UnhingedPit #A #NA #H #Q #crossgenre

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

Since I’m just sitting in the query trenches just waiting for responses, it’s time to start another project…

How about Girl, Interrupted but make it a sapphic gothic horror 👀

#writerpitch #storypitch

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is quite literally photographic evidence of the MMC at the masquerade ball

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

A Poison So Divine

cross-genre gothic romance. poisonous girl. haunted manor. ghost mom crawling across the floor.
and he still thinks it’s true love.

#UnhingedPit #A #NA #H #Q #crossgenre

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

**touches her, immediately bursts into blisters, collapses in pain, vomiting in the grass**

MMC: “She’s perfect. I’m fine.”

A Poison So Divine is the gothic horror romance we all need to destroy our lives

#UnhingedPit #A #NA #H #Q #crossgenre

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

A Poison So Divine is if Rappaccini’s Daughter grew fangs

AO3 tags include:
– haunted manor aesthetic
– golden retriever boy x black cat girl
– forbidden touch = spontaneous rot
– hallucination-fueled mutual obsession
– “I’d die for you” “you literally will”

#UnhingedPit #A #NA #H #Q #crossgenre

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Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Sophie Jane is querying ✨ @sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

Pitching you my CRIMSON PEAK X RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER gothic horror romance with AO3 tags

forbidden romance, golden retriever x black cat, haunted house aesthetic, he falls first and harder, he talks her through it, slow burn, worship kink, come for the romance stay because you're trauma bonded