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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

four agent likes AND big 5 editor interest 🤩🤩🤩

Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A Language of Dragons x Crimson Moth Pickpocket Kit is hired by the King to infiltrate a gang of thieves. The heist? To steal and liberate the King's dragons from captivity. The problem? The leader of the gang is Kit's ex-best friend and she’s falling back in love with him. #dvpit #YA #F #DIS #lgbt

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

YA Romantasy SoC x Crimson Moth A teenage pickpocket is recruited as a spy to thwart a plot to steal the King’s dragons—except the leader of the thieving crew is her former best friend, and she’s falling for him 🐉 friends to enemies to lovers 🐉 betrayal angst 🐉 found family #dvpit #YA #F #DIS

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Artemis Fowl x The Thief of Farrowfell 11-yo Billie works with a hard-boiled fairy detective to work out who is killing fairies to sell their magic to humans. Power in the wrong hands is dangerous—if Billie fails, it’s not just the fairy world at risk; it’s her human home too. #F #MG #dvpit #lgbt

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

YA Romantasy/Murder Mystery Meredith is a human forager; Bracken is a faery. They’re rivals pickers in the once-a-year bloom of magical fungi, but when they discover a dead body they must put aside their differences to find the murderer before they’re the next victims… #YA #F #dis #dvpit

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

TO STEAL FROM THIEVES meets FOURTH WING + CRIMSON MOTH two former best friends three betrayals forty dragons to set free one life-or-death heist #YA #F #dvpit #lgbt #dis

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

will be participating in this and boosting as many people as i can 💛

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

after amicably parting ways from my previous agent, I'm seeking representation for this YA Romantasy featuring dragons, heists, betrayal and romance!! agent's guide below #amquerying #agentsguide #romantasy

An agent’s guide to: How to Steal a Dragon (YA Romantic Fantasy)

Pitch: Teenage pickpocket Kit is hired by the King to infiltrate a gang of thieves. The heist? To steal and liberate the King's dragons from captivity. The problem? The leader of the gang is Kit's ex-best friend who she might be falling back in love with.

First lines: The clanging bells of Buckstone's civic watchmen shattered the peace of the night. They announced that somewhere in town, a crime had been committed. It was a warning for citizens to take extra care, lock their doors and shut their windows; it was a signal that danger was nearby.
But Kit Galanis didn't hear warning, or danger.
She heard an opportunity.

Six of Crows (heist novel, found family); A Language of Dragons (political intrigue, morally grey FMC); Heartless Hunter (romance+betrayal, slow burn)

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🦋 YA dystopian sapphic romantasy 🦋 In a city built on inequality and policed by magical robots, a master thief and a climate activist team up to take down Panergy—the volatile, pollutive magic that is secretly destroying the world—in one explosive heist. #FR #YA #D #Agented #Editors #QueerPit

an editor's guide to... Burn The Moths
YA fantasy/dystopia

Six of Crows (heist novel, found family), Fable for the End of the World (dystopian society, sapphic romance), Blood over Bright Haven (complicity + corruption, magical secrets)

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Artemis Fowl x Deep Dark 11-yo Billie joins a hard-boiled fairy detective to work out who is killing fairies and selling their magic to humans. Power in the wrong hands is dangerous—if she fails, it’s not just the fairy world at risk; it’s her human home too. #F #MG #Agented #Editors #QueerPit

A collage moodboard of: purple and blue toned cityscapes, purple and blue butterflies, a crime scene sign, a fingerprint, some stars, ‘the moon’ tarot card, a text reading ‘I was being like 99.9 percent sarcastic’ and a cartoon drawing of a young girl in dungarees with fairy wings

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Erica Rose Eberhart @ericaroseeberhart.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

18yo Selwyn collides w/ an eerily familiar girl made of paper who bleeds ink. Now a story is cut loose; & they must outrun the plot before it devours them. 🏳️‍🌈bi4bi 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒found family 🩼disability rep 💗slow burn 🪾dark forests 🕷️nightmare monsters ☀️summer vibes #QueerPit #YA #DF #NA

A mood board for the book Blood Like Ink. It depicts forests, people within them, and ink splattered across the image while the words “I am wood. I am rot. I am, I am, I am. Tree. Leaf. Root. “You’re real to me.” Real to who? Tree. Leaf. Root.” Is printed across the image.

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜 @celticxpanda.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

SILVER IN THE BONE X SAILOR MOON 👑 Reincarnated King Arthur, but make it Magical Girl 👑 Knights of the Round Table as Magical Weapons 👑 Trans boy Merlin? Trans boy Merlin 👑 All myths are true, and they’re coming to kick Mordred’s ass #QueerPit #NA #F

A moodboard featuring art by SandraGHart, an image of a sword stuck in a stone, ancient books, peach roses, a crown, and the Scottish Highlands

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James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother whilst finding love on a road trip to find members of his estranged uncle's 80's drag collective. With her past set to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #QueerPit #CON #A

A graphic poster that is split in half, with a yellow background on the left and a pink background on the right. In the centre are a pair of dark drag queen eyes, with the title EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS underneath. At the bottom is the text "an outrageous adult lgbtq+ road trip romcom looking for editors: on submission this September". Four names of characters are in blue at the top of the cover: Harri Forrester, Jack Montague, Wilma Dickfit, Princess Thigh-Ana

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Olena has spent her whole life hiding, but the woods call upon her true self. 🌞missing someone you barely knew 🪻luck, betrayal, longing 🕷️bone & nature magic 🪻a band of magical misfits 🌞who are you when no one is looking? here’s some reader reviews! #QueerPit #agented

dark green background with white text reading “READER REVIEWS of The Bone Collector”
review from taylor: "...like Once Upon a Broken Heart, but different? More death.
Darker. Narnia too for the young adult adventures."
- taylor
review from suzanne: "I f-ing love bone collector, i really do.
Can't wait to give it to my (hypothetical)
baby." -suzanne
review from mina: "imagine being FIFTEEN, an illegitimate PRINCESS, whose father pits you against your brothers, with a DEADLY disease around, and you experience GAY panic at the first pretty girl to look at you, and you have to go on a QUEST while on your FIRST PERIOD... i'd end it"
- mina
olena is in the bottom right corner: a very pale 15 year old girl who looks incredibly tired. she has dark hair under a silk scarf that’s covered in art of lions and dragonflies. she’s wearing a dark blue cloak and dark dress and is fiddling with a bone.

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

to break the curse binding her to the ghost of a vengeful pirate, princess mira must fall in love with her best friend, john there’s just one problem: mira’s heart already belongs to princess dorothea 🩷🧡🤍 #queerpit #YA #F #LGBT #amquerying

Princess Mira (Black, braided hair, wearing a sky blue gown with pearl beads and silver tiara) and Princess Dorothea (white, wavy red hair, wearing a dark green gown with a gold tiara) gazing at each other on a ship’s deck at sunset, with a quote from THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN:

“It didn’t matter that the very idea was treasonous. For Dorothea, Mira would break any rule.”

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Letty Sharpe - Pitch Account @lettysharpepitches.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

✨VEILED ENCHANTMENTS✨ All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic and status she has been denied. Sapphic subplot! #QueerPit #YA #F

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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QueerPit @queerpit.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🌈 QUEERPIT RETURNS! 🌈 Happy #PrideMonth friends! The #QueerPit Board is thrilled to share that QueerPit returns on August 15th to *both* Twitter and BlueSky. This is a pitch event for authors who identify in the LGBTQIA+ community. Follow us, and more details to come! queerpit.wordpress.com

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Izzi Ward @ TBCAF Redshirt Hall B17a @izziward.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I finished it! By far my most insane fan project: A (hopefully) complete Farseer Family Tree from Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings. I can sleep now.

an illustrated family tree of the Farseer royal family from Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings books. There are approximately 5 generations of Farseers from King Bounty Farseer, down to Princess Bee Farseer, his great-great-granddaughter. Lines connect characters, varying from "legitimate" parentage, to bastards, to adoption/fostering. The Royal line is picked out in gold, from King Bounty down to his great-great-grandson, King Dutiful Farseer.

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Houndsaint🔜 MFF @houndsaint.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Hi! I'm a medievalist printmaker who specializes in linocut! I use Pfeil palm tools & hard lino, print with Cranfield/Hanco/Van Son inks, and I table at cons regularly! SHOP: houndsaint.etsy.com SITE: houndsaint.com 📷: instagram.com/houndsaint/ Telegram channel: t.me/HoundsaintAn...

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Houndsaint🔜 MFF @houndsaint.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

the teeny tiny

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

if you liked conclave but thought it needed more demons and wlw do i have the book for you

a mock-up book cover of ‘The Saint Trials’ by AM Croll. the main image is a woman holding up a candle to a dark, old corridor, seen from behind.

the blurb begins:
Pia Mortimus has spent her whole life striving for power. Born a penniless orphan, she has fought her way to ascend the ranks of the church and become a Bishop—but she wants to go further.
After the death of Saint Tomas, she is chosen to enter the Trials: a series of magical tests which will leave four Cardinals dead, and one crowned the new Saint. Pia is determined to win, and especially determined to beat her long-time rival, the infuriatingly beautiful Joanna Penvire.
But to win the Trials, she needs the faith of the people to power her miracles. She enters a world where public image is more important than holiness, and deceit might be the only way to survive. As the other Cardinals die screaming, bloody deaths, and Pia is haunted by the ghost of Tomas, she begins to question the cost of the Trials altogether. When she investigates the infernal secrets of their foundation, she discovers that Joanna shares her doubts about what it's worth to win power.
Now Pia has two choices: put her faith in Joanna and turn her back on the Trials, risking the wrath of the church; or pursue her dream of becoming Saint, but sacrifice everything she holds dear in the process-including her soul.
Perfect for readers who loved the bloody competition of Nisha J Tuli's
Trial of the Sun Queen', or the dark, corrupt nobility of Claire Legrand's 'A Crown of Ivy and Glass.

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

new substack! amcroll.substack.com/p/piranesi-c...

the title 'Piranesi, chronic fatigue, and ghosts who are not really ghosts (again)'. in the background is a picture of a sleeping dragon on a pile of books. at the bottom is the link amcroll.substack.com

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

DIVINE RIVALS x POWERLESS A Saint is killed, triggering a set of deadly magic trials. Pia didn’t expect to be chosen for the competition, but is determined to win—and especially determined to beat her infuriatingly beautiful rival, Joanna #P2Pit #AgentedWriter #OS #F #editors

a collage style moodboard with: a red-haired woman (olivia cooke) in medieval clothing and a crown of stars, an altar, a quote saying ‘win because you don’t know how to lose’, a dagger, a quote reading ‘i will carve my way out with only my teeth’, hands holding a rosary, candles, two women almost kissing. the quote at the centre reads ‘let the games begin’

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

@ editors if you want wlw rivals to lovers in a catholicism inspired dark fantasy…. it’s submission ready!

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

been trying out instagram recently if people want to follow an account dedicated to books (mostly reading but some writing!) www.instagram.com/sleepybooklo...

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

been trying out instagram recently if people want to follow an account dedicated to books (mostly reading but some writing!) www.instagram.com/sleepybooklo...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

2025 will be the year i get a book deal. i can feel it 🕯️

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 31/12/2024

"The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope." —"The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists"

A copy of Cheek by Jowl: Talks and Essays on How and Why Fantasy Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin, resting on an unfinished wood background

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

New York fantasia

Ink drawing of a fantastical building inspired by Manhattan’s upper east side beaux arts architecture

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

And finally, some picks from @zutsuit.bsky.social! - The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert - "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim - Kalyna The Cutthroat by @elijahkinchspector.bsky.social

Natalie Zutter: The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert; Clarkesworld Issue 209; Kalyna the Cutthroat by Elijah Kinch Spector. An arrow from The Bad Ones points to “Melissa Albert’s best work yet!!” An arrow from Clarkesworld points to “‘Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole’ by Isabel J. Kim”

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Lina Svärd 🐻 @softlywool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My kitty Lazy

artwork, a closeup portrait of my cat, Lazy, with a lot of sparkles in her green eyes and little star stickies on her face, not real ones ofcourse, she has dark brown and white fur with a few stripes and a pink nose.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

hey guys: I will need to open Emergency commissions rn. I have five slots of these portraits open, 40 usd each: only rules are: no portraits of real life people, no furry and mecha (beyond my capabilities) Anything else is ok. I can also do cat portraits!

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Gveanel @gveanel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Inspired by the work of Vincent Willem van Gogh

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

getting really into my worldbuilding document. 3000 words and i've only done two out of seven major nations oops

text reading:
Economy
Likrios’ primary income source is the tax levied on all foreign goods passing through the town of Market Town. This means taxes on civilians are extremely low, and the quality of infrastructure is generally good. Most people work in trade or fishing, though there is a small agricultural industry, especially on the island of Tamon.
Dress
Likrian clothing is predominantly made from linen, made locally but from flax imported from Haven. Other common materials are silks from Ituan, and wools from further north. Men and women alike wear tunics with hose; wealthier people wear long robes, where the working classes prefer more practical, shorter garments. Jewellery is another common status symbol, made either from precious metals or beast-teeth, which can be considered a sort of good luck charm. Likrian sailors practice a tradition of only wearing beast-teeth jewellery from a beast they themselves have slain.

there is a sketch of a man and woman in Likrian clothing

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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

big brown eyes and murder on her mind ❤️

a digital drawing of a pale woman with wavy red hair, wearing a dark red dress with a star on the shoulder. text reads ‘the fifth cardinal’. a halo of light surrounds her

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