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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚
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Romance & Fantasy author 🧚🏼‍♀️💖| Literary Agent 📖| Cymraes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿| She/her | https://linktr.ee/Rhianparry
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A MORTAL DROWNING, my academic rivals to lovers romantasy ft. #ownvoices autistic rep, gothic undertones, Welsh folklore & big 5 editor interest is sitting pretty with 8 full manuscript requests (& 1 partial) after just 3 weeks of querying - and now, behold it in ✨meme form✨

#UnhingedPit #F #R #Q
July 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I see your toxic shadow daddy and raise you a sopping wet, pathetic loser so obsessed with the FMC (who’s literally immortal btw) that he nearly 💀 himself multiple times to protect her - while also being hunted by a deity drowning a nation in search of him 🤡

#UnhingedPit #Q #F #R
July 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Competing for magic that’ll save you from your immortal ex is fine until you fall for your academic rival - worse yet when he needs it to evade the deity drowning a nation in search of him 💀🥀

With 8 full requests (and 1 partial) in under 3 weeks, behold AMD in ✨meme form✨

#UnhingedPit #Q #F #R
July 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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✨Author News ✨

After amicably parting with my agent, I’m seeking new representation w/ A MORTAL DROWNING, my academic rivals to lovers romantasy ft. #ownvoices autistic rep, gothic undertones, Welsh folklore (& big 5 editor interest!)

#Agents hit me up if you’re intrigued 👀
June 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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If I see one more author justify using gen AI art by framing it as a class issue, I’m going to scream!! I did NOT spend years in the wattpad trenches making my own covers with nothing but the free version of canva and a dream for this discourse (and dare I say, they’re not bad??)
May 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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When I say I want gothic vibes in my submissions inbox, I mean this. Literally at the timestamp pictured too, thanks x
May 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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A mortal man with no memory of his past and a goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university’s magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying…

…and whichever student loses will have their own extinction to worry about 💀🥀

#QuestPit #AG #A
A woman with long, golden hair, amber eyes, freckles across her nose and cheeks, golden skin, and white flowers in her hair. She has a warm expression, and is holding an old green book and wearing a scarlet dress. Standing behind her is a man with dark, messy hair, deep blue eyes, pale skin, and sharp features. He’s frowning with his hands in his pockets, and is wearing a white shirt with leather braces. The image is stylised like a painting with a dark, stormy black and grey background, and features smudges and paint streaks that help create a dreamy sort of vibe to the portrait.
May 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Competing for magic that’ll save you from your immortal ex is fine until you fall for your academic rival* - worse yet when he needs it to evade the deity drowning a nation in search of him

🥀Dark academia
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Folklore
💖Autistic rep

*who’s chronically unserious

#QuestPit #AG #A
The title ‘A Mortal Drowning’ with a tagline that reads ‘characters in another life, specifically the MMC’ The background is digital artwork of the book’s central couple, a grumpy dark-haired man and a woman with long, golden hair holding a book. A painting of a happy clown holding an umbrella titled ‘naive clown’. Beside the image are the following descriptions: Confused but trying his best In love, pathetically Melodramatic king Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: "I picked more flowers for her in the time I had to pack, and although she courteously thanked me as she always does, she hasn't brought them on the trip so I can only assume she wishes me dead." Digital artwork of a buff, topless clown making a suggestive gesture titled ‘circus freak (capital FREAK)’. Beside the image are the following descriptions: Wait, he’s kinda… 🫦 Accidental agent of chaos Is it the autism? Or is he just deranged? Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: “You still haven't told me your grade.' 'Your insecurity is unbecoming, I breathe, my teeth clenched to stifle another moan. 'Please.' His breath is heavy in my ear. 'You're fortunate I can never say no to you.' A painting of a sad court jester sitting down titled ‘solemn jester’. Beside the image are the following descriptions: Uh oh, shit’s getting serious He’s being hunted? By a deity? Rip, my guy Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: "Given personal circumstances, perhaps I should embrace the opportunity to repent my soul. I would, truly, but I suspect soul repentance is quite the commitment and I'm a little preoccupied with trying not to die at the moment."
May 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ADDIE LARUE (with a Rebecca Ross vibe) in a world where altered mythology acts as an allegory for stifling oppressed voices, and where the alienation of autistic people perpetuates their inherent feelings of wrongness 🥀✨

#QuestPit #AG #A #ownvoices
Title of book: A MORTAL DROWNING, an academic rivals to lovers historical romantasy with: autism rep • grumpy x sunshine • dual POV and dual timeline • gentle FMC and babygirl MMC • dark academia themes and vibes • spice (written like acts of life altering, soul-weaving devotion) A mortal man with no memory of his past and a solar goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university's magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying. Olwen, a goddess, needs the prize to escape a murderous ex lover while Arthur, a mortal, needs it to recover his memory as the sole survivor in a string of men found drowned with magic in their lungs. But with more men washing up dead, and the magic that once saved a nation from falling to the bottom of an ocean on the brink of extinction, time is running out. Olwen and Arthur's academic rivalry intensifies alongside an unlikely romance, but when the two students join forces to make sense of the chaos, each new discovery leads to one damning conclusion: uncovering Arthur's missing past might be the mistake that kills them both. Snippets: Sometimes when I look at you it feels like I'm breathing for the first time. There are these persistent murmurings of something inherently rotten within me-a wrongness I exhaust myself in trying to smother, but around you, I can just be. I don't have to bury anything because you make everything that feels wrong in me feel right. I had to stop because I was going to hurt her, but I couldn't stop. I couldn't control it. I couldn't control anything. I picked her flowers and although she courteously thanked me, she's not brought them on the trip so I can only assume she wishes me dead. With him, life was no longer survival. I began perceiving my existence beyond my past. I traded surviving for living, and that was my gravest mistake. I just so happen to be nothing if not incredibly stupid. Comp titles: Modern Divination Divine Rivals Emily Wilde A Dark and Drowning Tide Morgan is My Name Babel A Study in Drowning Tales of a Monstrous Heart The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue A River Enchanted
May 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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A STUDY IN DROWNING X EMILY WILDE

🎓Academic rivals to lovers
☀️Grumpy x sunshine
🏰A touch of darkness
🌶️Romantic spice
✨Language-based magic system
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cultures surviving against all odds
🙂‍↕️Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC
💖Autistic rep #ownvoices

#QuestPit #AG #A
An aesthetic board with historical fantasy elements (circa 1920s), including a castle, books, a library, holding hands, a couple embracing, ocean waves and white flowers. Written atop it is: a mortal man with no memory of his past and a goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university’s magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying - and whichever student loses will have their own extinction to worry about
May 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Me pre-agenting: I don’t think I’ll be a super editorial agent, just provide some helpful guidance to steer authors in the right direction 🙂

Me to literally every author I’ve signed:
May 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Finally faced the minor life admin task I’ve been putting off for months that took me 10 mins to complete
April 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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And here’s the art by itself ✨ (as #PosterPit was me hard launching it!!)

My autistic sunlight deprived ghoul and his all-consuming obsession, a solar goddess whose strength is her softness. Their dynamic is literally this: ☀️🧎🏻‍♂️

(this is actually him smiling btw)

Art by khal_essie on 📸
A woman with long, golden hair, amber eyes, freckles across her nose and cheeks, golden skin, and white flowers in her hair. She has a warm expression, and is holding an old green book and wearing a scarlet dress. Standing behind her is a man with dark, messy hair, deep blue eyes, pale skin, and sharp features. He’s frowning with his hands in his pockets, and is wearing a white shirt with leather braces. The image is stylised like a painting with a dark, stormy black and grey background, and features smudges and paint streaks that help create a dreamy sort of vibe to the portrait
April 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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A STUDY IN DROWNING X ADDIE LARUE

🎓 Academic rivals to lovers
☀️ Grumpy x sunshine
🏰 A touch of darkness
🌶️ Romantic spice
✨ Language-based magic system
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cultures surviving against all odds
🙂‍↕️ Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC
💖 Autistic rep #ownvoices

#PosterPit #PosterPita #F #NA
A movie poster cut up into 3 sections - the top image depicts a man with dark hair, pale skin, and blue eyes standing behind a woman with golden skin, golden hair, and amber eyes. The middle section displays the novel’s title (A MORTAL DROWNING by Rhian Parry). The bottom section depicts two hands with interlocked fingers to the backdrop of ocean waves There are tropes listed at the top and bottom of the poster that say: Academic rivals to lovers Language based magic system Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC Grumpy x sunshine Dark academia #ownvoices Autistic rep Double POV Dual timeline
April 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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A mortal man with no memory of his past and a goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university’s magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying…

…and whichever student loses will have their own extinction to worry about 💀🥀

#PosterPit #PosterPita #F #NA
A movie poster showing a misty, slightly stormy cliffside with an ocean at the bottom of it. At the top of the table are two hands with interlocked fingers. In the lower right of the poster overlaying the water is the novel’s title (A MORTAL DROWNING by Rhian Parry) There are tropes listed at the top and bottom of the poster that say: Academic rivals to lovers Language based magic system Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC Grumpy x sunshine Dark academia #ownvoices Autistic rep Double POV Dual timeline A tagline at the bottom of the poster reads ‘an adult romantasy with mystery, wit, and a touch of darkness’
April 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Competing for magic that’ll save you from your immortal ex is fine until you fall for your academic rival - worse yet when he needs it to evade the sea deity drowning a nation in search of him

🥀Dark academia vibes
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh folklore-inspired
💖Autistic rep

#PosterPit #PosterPita #F #NA
A movie poster that depicts a man with dark hair, pale skin, and blue eyes standing behind a woman with golden skin, golden hair, and amber eyes who’s holding a closed green and gold book. The background is a stormy, dreamy blend of blacks, greys, and a little bit of red that look like smudges and brush strokes. There are tropes listed at the top and bottom of the poster that say: Academic rivals to lovers Language based magic system Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC Grumpy x sunshine Dark academia #ownvoices Autistic rep Double POV Dual timeline At the bottom of the poster it says ‘an adult romantasy with mystery, wit, and a touch of darkness’
April 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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50 likes and I’ll spend the last 6 hours of my flight playing this on a continuous loop
April 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Me when I create new plot holes by fixing other plot holes
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Reading over my latest (dare I say final?!) edits on the book I’ve been writing/editing since 2023 and I think I like it? Omg??

(Does it help that this is my view while reading it? Maybe, but that’s beside the point)
March 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I’m travelling so can’t adequately participate in #UnhingedPit but you bet I’ll recycle the minion meme I made during the last event for my romantasy w/ dark academia vibes, a sopping wet pathetic loser MMC, and a language-based magic system 🙂‍↕️ #A #OWN #AG

A STUDY IN DROWNING X EMILY WILDE
March 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Spotify just informed me that my most listened to artist atm is My Chemical Romance
March 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Me gushing about how much I love my characters while putting those characters through unspeakable trauma #WritingCommmunity
March 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A STUDY IN DROWNING X ADDIE LARUE

🎓Academic rivals to lovers
☀️Grumpy x sunshine
🏰Whimsy, wit & tomfoolery
🥺Soft FMC and baby girl MMC
🌶️Romantic spice
✨Language-based magic system
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cultures surviving against all odds
🙂‍↕️Sopping wet pathetic loser MMC
💖Autistic rep #ownvoices

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit
Historical aesthetic collage with text overlay that says: a mortal man with no memory of his past and a goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university's magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying - and whichever student loses will have their own extinction to worry about
March 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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A mortal man with no memory of his past and a goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university’s magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying - and whichever student loses will have their own extinction to worry about 💀🥀

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #PopUpPitE
An academic rivals to lovers romantasy that uses the weaponisation of altered mythology as an allegory for stifling oppressed voices, and explores how the alienation of autistic people perpetuates their inherent feelings of wrongness. Comp titles: Addie LaRue, Divine Rivals, Emily Wilde, Modern Divination, A Study in Drowning, and Tales of a Monstrous Heart Aesthetic collage showing the ocean, romantic prose, hand holding, white flowers, a castle, and a woman in 1910s/20s style clothing Olwen, a solar goddess, needs magic to escape an ex lover with murderous intent while Arthur, a mortal man, needs it to recover his memory as the sole survivor in a string of men found drowned with magic in their lungs. But with rumours of stirring deities intent on desolation haunting crumbling shores, and the magic that once saved a nation from falling to the bottom of an ocean on the brink of extinction, time is running out. Olwen and Arthur’s academic rivalry intensifies alongside an unlikely romance, and when the two students join forces to make sense of the chaos, each new discovery leads to one damning conclusion: uncovering the truth of Arthur’s missing past might be the mistake that kills them both.
March 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Introducing A MORTAL DROWNING, an academic rivals to lovers romantasy that uses altered mythology as an allegory for stifling oppressed voices, and explores how the alienation of autistic people perpetuates their inherent feelings of wrongness 🥀✨

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #PopUpPitE
A mortal man with no memory of his past and a goddess the earth has no memory of compete for their university’s magic in a world where magic, and the language that sustains it, is dying - and whichever student loses will have their own extinction to worry about. Comp titles: Addie LaRue, Divine Rivals, Emily Wilde, Modern Divination, A Study in Drowning and Tales of a Monstrous Heart Aesthetic graphic featuring the ocean, a castle, poetic prose, hand holding, white flowers and a woman in 1910s/20s style clothing Olwen, a solar goddess, needs magic to escape an ex lover with murderous intent while Arthur, a mortal man, needs it to recover his memory as the sole survivor in a string of men found drowned with magic in their lungs. But with rumours of stirring deities intent on desolation haunting crumbling shores, and the magic that once saved a nation from falling to the bottom of an ocean on the brink of extinction, time is running out. Olwen and Arthur’s academic rivalry intensifies alongside an unlikely romance, and when the two students join forces to make sense of the chaos, each new discovery leads to one damning conclusion: uncovering the truth of Arthur’s missing past might be the mistake that kills them both.
March 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM