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Jo Conklin Author

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I write kissing books! (And sometimes murder and magic books). Rep’d by Leah Pierre at Ladderbird Literary. JoConklin on most socials. Black Lives Matter 🏳️‍⚧ https://linktr.ee/joconklin

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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · Nov 14

Hey there newskies!

Quick intro:

📚 I write romcoms, urban fantasies, and witchy murder mysteries, and read widely across a lot of genres.

✨old, fat, AuDHD, queer, transmasc, alt text enthusiast, social cognitive psychology nerd

⛔️ TERFs, SWERFs, gen AI fans, “All Lives” and crypto bros can GTFO

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 1m

It’s going to be breathtaking! 🤩

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 3h

Those comps are fabulous, love the action and intrigue!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 3h

Still enchanted by this pitch and the mysterious 📚!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

This is so lovely 😭💜

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

Dang 😂 I mean yes, but would also read this cover to cover to see how that plays out!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

Was not expecting that twist! Love this pitch, and I hope it gets picked up!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

Love this framing of two generations and the combination of commonality and contrasts! Really interesting premise.

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

This sounds brilliant!!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

I don’t read a lot of historical but this one’s a “shut up and take my money” when it hits shelves.

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 5h

Kindred x All My Rage

Thrown back into the 1970s from 2024, a dead body at his feet, Imran must solve the murder he's stumbled onto before the National Front, a British nationalist & fascist movement, find him guilty. That, and find his way home.

#DVPit #YA #Speculative #HF #MV #MH #Asian #WOC

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

How did you get two full-gasp plot twists into 300 characters?? Outstanding.

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

Wow you have packed this pitch with voice and tension! I’m hooked 🤩

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

I want this one too, first as a book then as a movie! The costumes would be as fabulous as the action scenes 🤩

Jade Wilburn @jadewrites.bsky.social · 4h

QUEEN’S SPADE X BRIDGERTON

Thief Selene impersonates a Lady and fakes a courtship with Prince Henry to protect him in exchange for a hefty payday. It’s knives out for the upstart from both the glittering high society and the assassins who won’t stop until Henry is dead 💀

#DVPIT #YA #F #booksky

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

I’m here for sapphic sky pirates!!! 🤩

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

I’m ridiculously excited to read this someday 😂 I hope an agent snaps it up!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 4h

Somebody pick this up so I can read it please!!! 🤩😭

Shaya Lin Susan @shayalinsusan.bsky.social · 7h

STEPFORD WIVES x Tradwife influencers

Max infiltrates a tradwife cult to save her sister. But alongside sourdough and selfies, an ancient evil lurks beneath the cottage-core facade.

👰Cult leader
👹Neolithic god
🩸Sacrifices
👻Feminist horror
🤎POC MC
❤️‍🔥Sapphic Horrormance

#DVpit #YA #H #LGBT #POC

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 8h

I’m not an agent so I had to work so hard not to hit that like button 😂

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 8h

Soul heist in the underworld is 🔥 (pun intended). Love this!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 8h

Love those comps, and I can really see the movie potential here!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 8h

This sounds amazing! I can see series potential? But lots of gorgeous setting and intrigue!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 9h

So what we’re NOT doing for DV pit is supporting pitches with AI slop images AND no alt text. That goes against the whole spirit of the event.

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 9h

Those comps are perfection!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 9h

I can tell this one’s going to need a good cry and a lot of ice cream to read, and I want it anyway 😭💜

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 9h

Wow really well crafted hook, I feel like this one’s going to tear our hearts out 💜😭

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 9h

This has a lot of intrigue and interest, I can almost see the movie trailer!

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 9h

Michigan summer tourist towns in winter always have such liminal energy! Can’t wait to see how this one plays out.