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Sophie Jane is querying ✨
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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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A little sneak peek at what I’m working on for my book 🥀
July 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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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.
July 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Pitching you my CRIMSON PEAK X RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER gothic horror romance with AO3 tags

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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.
July 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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.
July 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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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
July 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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**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
July 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Officially a cat mom to this perfect boy ❤️ meet Mr Bingley
June 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Three pictures that perfectly match the vibes of my CRIMSON PEAK X RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER horror romance book about a remote estate steeped in death and decay, where the new stablehand falls for the master’s daughter—a spectral girl whose touch burns like poison, and whose love might destroy him.
June 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Using my 100th post to promote my BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish mythology book in the hopes an agent or editor will see this and just desperately want to get their hands on my book

#amquerying #darkacademia #writerpitch #storypitch
April 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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April 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This is for anyone who needs a reminder that most of the time it isn't you. A lot of querying comes down to right person, right time, right place. So don't discredit yourself every time a rejection comes rolling it.
#amquerying
April 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Nothing beats the joy of finding a picture on Pinterest that so fits the vibe of your book

Currently querying my BABEL X DIVINE RIVASL X Scottish mythology book and I’m obsessed with this

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April 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Introducing my gothic WIP

CRIMSON PEAK X RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER

#storypitch #writerpitch
April 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish mythology

I totally understand why it’s called the “trenches”

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April 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish folklore

She got into the best university in the kingdom. They didn’t want her there but she’s thriving anyway. She’s not the chosen one. She’s the one who stayed up late reading and accidentally uncovered a dangerous secret.

#writerpitch #storypitch #amquerying
April 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish folklore

Three ancient goddesses with sibling drama, feminine rage disguised as scholarly ambition, two rivals with tension that could qualify as arson, a pansexual mmc in dark wool, and a soft fmc who loves poetry and chooses her own path

What more could you want?
April 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish folklore

ft…
🧝🏽‍♀️ …fallen goddesses
😩 …so much yearning
🤍 …soft fmc x cynical mmc

#writerpitch #storypitch #amquerying
April 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish mythology

The song + the scene

#writerpitch #storypitch
April 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish mythology

A woman defies the odds to become a scholar in a kingdom determined to keep her in her place, only to find herself in a tense rivalry as she tries to unravel the secrets hidden in long-forgotten myths

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #F #R #NA
Mock movie poster for the New Adult novel The Whispers of the Rivers by Sophie Fitzpatrick. The image shows a woman in a flowing pink dress suspended underwater, her head tilted back toward the light above. The setting is dark and moody, evoking mystery and depth. At the top, bold text reads: "For fans of Divine Rivals and Babel." Above the title are thematic tags: "Dark Academia," "Feminine Rage," "Soft FMC x Cynical MMC," "Fallen Goddesses," and "Pansexual Representation." The title, The Whispers of the Rivers, is centered in elegant serif font. On the left and right sides of the image are laurel wreath graphics, each with five stars—one reads "Best Slow Burn 2025" and the other "Best Chemistry 2025." Below the title is a tagline: "She seeks the unknown. He seeks her." The synopsis underneath reads: "A woman defies the odds to become a scholar in a kingdom determined to keep her in her place, only to find herself in a tense rivalry as she tries to unravel the secrets hidden in long-forgotten myths." At the bottom: "a New Adult novel by Sophie Fitzpatrick" and the words "Querying Now" in bold.
April 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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I’m trying to distract myself from the query trenches so I made a little piece of art of my next project 🌹☠️🩸

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April 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish poetry

Seventeen goddesses, an immortal sister who took “you can’t sit with us” to mythic proportions, and two rivals trying to figure it all out.

#writerpitch #storypitch #NA #F #amquerying
April 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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New nails ft my kids playground at drop off
April 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish folklore

She’s not the chosen one. She’s the one who stayed up late reading and accidentally uncovered an empire-breaking secret.

#writerpitch #storypitch #NA #F #amquerying
April 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM