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Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · Sep 6

Now for BlueSky! After being selected as a Round Table Mentor finalist, and 7 long months of revisions, I'm back! And I’m proud to announce this author is back in the query trenches! To kick it off, I’m reposting a revised version of my pitch deck. 🥳🥂 #writer #querying #horror #romance

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Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!! The art was done by the amazing ArthShahverdyan!

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

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Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you thank you!!! 🥰❤️

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!! 🥹❤️ it made my mentor tear up so I had to include it

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!! 🥹❤️❤️❤️

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Appreciate the kind words!!! ❤️❤️❤️ Making the stakes clear was the part I was most worried about 😅

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!! 🥹❤️ I got it commissioned by the amazing ArthShahverdyan!

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!! So tough to put it such short format. Glad the intrigue still comes across ❤️❤️❤️

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️ Area 51 is so close by 👀 it only makes sense

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!! My plots definitely get called unique a lot 😄

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you thank you!!! 🥹❤️

Taylor ✨querying a horror rom 👽♥️🎲✨ @taylorkowens.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!!! 🥹❤️ who knew writing 280 characters could take me a whole month 😅

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Jamie @jamiesuwrites.bsky.social · 7d

Introducing my agent’s guide to THE ART OF COMMUNICATION, an adult rom-com! ☕️📸

FUNNY STORY x LUNAR LOVE x THE LOVE WAGER

Featuring:
💐 Friends to lovers
🥵 Slow burn
❤️‍🩹 Healing after heartbreak
🤝🏻 A strategic alliance
🫰🏻 K-drama vibes
💒 Need a date to a wedding

#agentsguide #roundtablementor #A #R #UN

An Agent’s Guide to The Art of Communication. Adult Rom-com. 91,000 words. Selected for the 2025 Round Table Mentor Program.

Pitch: In need of a date to face her recently engaged ex, a shy, aspiring web designer strikes a deal with a charming freelance photographer to help each other score dates this summer—there’s just one catch: he’s also her ex’s wedding photographer.

Comps & Tropes: The Love Wager by Lynn Painter, Funny Story by Emily Henry, the K-drama Business Proposal, Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen, and The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest. Featuring friends to lovers, slow burn, healing after heartbreak, a strategic alliance, K-drama vibes, and need a date to a wedding.

Mood Board: A collage with five images.

Image 1: A man and a woman lying affectionately on the couch together, next to a coffee table with a camera and scattered photographs. In one hand, the man is holding an open book and caressing the woman’s head with his other hand.

Image 2: A man in a striped shirt looking at the camera he’s holding.

Image 3: A smiling woman in a white floral dress.

Image 4: An album cover of the song blue - with MINNIE by yung kai and MINNIE.

Image 5: An album cover of the song Daylight by Taylor Swift.

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Meagan Cleveland @meaganc.bsky.social · 7d

Rhiannon risks it all to marry her enemy. When she’s told her newborn son is dead, she refuses to accept it. To bring him back Rhiannon must journey into the Otherworld and prove her worth in three impossible trials. If she fails, her son’s soul will be lost forever.
#ROUNDTABLEMENTOR #A #F #UN

A collage showing a saddened soldier, a maiden in a tower, and and dark king with the name Rhiannon

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 7d

PJO XTrumanShow
Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out.
#roundtablementor #YA #F #UN

Image grid: Greek statue, a raven, girl crying, girl holding arm up with magic, an oracle, magic lights, a face statue, Nashville at night. Text: "Music will be the death of me."

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Crissie (C.T. Wood) @crissthecreative.bsky.social · 7d

When Larkin discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand with a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo, she must face monsters, vengeful gods, & most terrifyingly, her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child.

#roundtablementor #A #R #F #Con #UN

A a graphic showing a temporary cover of a book called a Greek god got me pregnant by CT Wood showing the various tropes and themes of the book including one bed, Demi FMC #ownvoices, bi MMC, accidental pregnancy/force, proximity, nerdy girl and golden retriever boy, dysfunctional family (I mean, they are the great gods),love versus lust monster fights, sun related double entendres, forbidden love, and love is both medicine and poison

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 7d

Sailor Moon x The Untamed but sapphic x Indonesian mythology

A messy time-bending magical girl makes a pact with a queen of monsters to save her cursed family, but she must literally steal the heart of her true love to do so

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#roundtablementor #YA #F #UN

Moodboard of 7 images including an open pocket watch held in a hand, two faceless girls in an embrace and wearing old-fashioned dresses, an Indonesian mythological figure with fangs and large eyes, an Indonesian dagger, hands clasping potion bottles, a body of water flowing, a dagger being held by a faceless figure in an old-fashioned dress

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Sonja J Kaye @sonjajkaye.bsky.social · 7d

Natalie pretends to be a good girl at the country’s most elite boarding school but secretly craves to hurt(kill?) people. Wouldn't that be more fun?

When new girl Aylin sees through Nat’s mask a game of cat&mouse begins where desire and danger blur.

Until someone dies

#roundtablementor #YA #T #UN

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rachael @rachaelallysa.bsky.social · 7d

BIANCA TORRExLAMAR GILES

When town sweetheart goes missing, Etta can’t pass up the chance to fix her financial issues and debunk the town swamp monster. But when fact blurs with fiction, it leaves her overwhelmed questioning who—or what—she can trust
#roundtablementor #YA #M #UN

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 7d

Meet NYMPH'S POND, mentored by @cjsubko.bsky.social! ♥

BOOK OF LOVE x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA
🧜 an artist's coming of age
🧜 complex mom-daughter r/s
🧜 hostile small town
🧜 majority queer female cast
🧜 battles w/ self-esteem
🧜 water powers as a gate to past trauma
#roundtablementor #A #F #L

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james gemmill @jameshgemmill.bsky.social · 7d

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE x COME CLOSER x WE USED TO LIVE HERE

A closeted, disgraced investigative reporter follows the lure of a paranormal entity tied to her family to uncover the truth behind a decades-old tragedy haunting the small town her mother ran away from. #roundtablementor #UN #A #H #M

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rihdara klay 📖 @rushaida222.bsky.social · 7d

LET THEM *BE* CAKE 🍰
Under a fascist empire led by a queen whose touch can turn bodies into sugar, a grieving royal translator finds solace in outlawed books. But when caught, she must escape and lead the revolution inspired by her defiance, or face being turned into royal dessert.
#roundtablementor

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Emily Bennett @emilybennettwrites.bsky.social · 7d

OLYMPUS PREP: APHRODITE blends the mythological reimagining of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN with the adolescent drama of JENNY HAN’s novels and the contemporary humor of SEX EDUCATION. Readers who enjoyed the PERCY JACKSON series as pre-teens will love Olympus Prep.

#YA #UN #F #R #roundtablementor

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Chelsea H. | Writer @chelseahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

BRIDGE KINGDOM x CRESCENT CITY

Monster hunter August Finch is hardly thrilled to work with the most feared monster of all to catch her mom’s killer. But as they close in on answers, she realizes there’s more to the murder—and to the monster she’s falling for.

#RoundTableMentor #A #F #UN

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