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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Honestly I’d rather be writing, but I get into situations here I don’t know where the characters are going or how long it should take to get somewhere so I need to spend some time in logistics. This is the easiest way for me to do that.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This one is for my dark cottagecore fantasy. It has an epic fantasy backstory (I plan on writing a prequel too) but I need to know some of the geography for the backstory now to make sure I don’t back myself into a corner later.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Thanks. And it is a deliciously f***ed up cult.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Thanks, I’m very proud of the concept, now I just need to finish it and pull it off. 😅

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I’m a woman and not a gamer, but this sounds awesome!

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Dark cottagecore fantasy meets cat vs mouse mystery 🥷Assassin FMC mom 🦸‍♂️ Hero MMC dad 🩸 Targeted by the cult they escaped as youths Lennari and Rhode will have to embrace their past selves and follow the trail of dark magic ritual sites to save their children. #Questpit #W #A #F #DF #WF

Infused in Darkness
A Dark Cottagecore Fantasy Meets Cat Vs. Mouse Mystery
T. KINGTISHER
Mid 30s Parent
Protagonists
TAINTED
CUP
NETTLE
Baddie FMC with a soft side
BONE
Golden retriever MMC
with trauma
Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher
Shapeshifter best friend, dragon/Labrador
LOBERT JACKSON BENNETT
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson
Bennet
Established/love beyond passion romance
Witchy vibes
Dark, balanced with light humor

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Infused in Darkness
A Dark Cottagecore Fantasy meets Cat vs Mouse Mystery
Retired hero mage with a prosthetic
Former assassin
Bloodthirsty cult
Shapeshifter
"Home sweet home
Free spirit
Daughter
Nerdy son

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🏰 A city under occupation 🫅 A fugitive prince-turned-pick-pocket 🛡️ A royal Guardian seeking ancient magic to set things right Adult flintlock era epic fantasy. Will of the Many meets In the Shadow of Lightning #QUESTPIT #W #F #A

An agent's guide to
THREADS of the AETHGUARD
By Jordan R. Perret
Adult epic fantasy,
WIP
Querying soon
127,000
Words

Pitch
When a tyrannical empire invades his home,
Royal
Guardian Noaladar seeks to restore ancient magic to save the sole surviving member of the royal family, the thirteen
-year-old prince he loves like a younger brother.
Comps
JAMES
ISLINGTONI
THE
*MANY
HIERARCHY, BOOKI
IN MAGIC ENDS, EMPIREY SHA BRIAN MCCLELLAN
SHADOW LIGHTNING
The Will of the Many by James Islington
In the Shadow of Lightning
By Brian Mcclellan

Chapter 1
(Dusk 1723 AV)
Noal plummeted down the rope tied to the balcony banister, fibers tearing through the skin of his palms as the sound of musket fire blared from the rooms above.
He landed hard on the terrace outside the palace and bolted-heart thundering. Ahead. eleven-year-old Prince Oratharran ran, feet flying as they fled for the stables. Light from the full moon illuminated the ground before him, glowing on the ridge that stretched high on their left, a steep drop to the river below on their right.
Phrases from the Guardian Codex, the document that informed Noal's entire life and upbringing, rose in his mind.
'Shield the charge, move to a secure location.
The siege had begun that morning. At least, everyone had assumed it was a siege. The Zendarian army. brought across the strait by the staggering two-hundred-and-fifty ship fleet, now hemmed in the city's east-facing port and northern wall. The King. his advisors, and Noal's own father-the king's Guardian. had assumed they'd receive a message at dawn from the empire, demanding sworn fealty. They'd assumed the Empress wanted another monarch in her pocket.
They were wrong.
They came over the ridge. It was the only plausible explanation for the midnight attack. The ridge that backed the city had always been a defense. protecting Vandryn's rear flank.
But
while
everyone's attention had been on the army, a smaller force must have been sent to strike the palace directly. Chills down Noal's spine as he ran.
The roll of musket fire and screams from the palace echoed behind him. His older sister was still back there, probably protecting the Crown Prince. His father undoubtedly defended the king and queen.
In a crisis, your sole responsibility is to your charge. He couldn't think about his family now. His responsibility was to the second born prince, and him alone.
In several long strides, he caught up to the Orath and kept pace behind him. The prince was fast for his age.
and he was putting all his energy into
sp…

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

After signs of dark magic threaten their cozy life, a hero and an assassin must come out of early retirement to protect their children from the bloodthirsty cult that used to rule their lives. A dark cottagecore fantasy/cat vs. mouse mystery. #W #A #F #DF #WF #QUESTPIT

Dark green background with dried flowers, a skull and rib bones.

An agent's guide to
Infused in Darkness
Jordan R. Perret
A Dark Cottagecore Fantasy meets Cat vs Mouse Mystery
Work in progress

Dark green background with dried flowers, a skull and rib bones.

Pitch.
dark
After signs of dark
magic
surface and threaten their cozy life, a hero and an assassin must come out of early
retirement
to protect
their
children from the bloodyhirsty cult that once controlled their lives.
Comps
т. КІНСтІЯ
TAINTED
CUP
NETTLE
BONE
Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson
Bennet

Dark green background with dried flowers, a skull and rib bones. Moodboard featuring green black brown color scheme. Dragon, skull, Labrador, ritual scene, cabin, woman with knife, dandelion, prosthetic leg, herbs and book.

Tropes
Themes Vibes
Mid 30s.
Protagonists
Established Romantic
Relationship
Parenting through
CrIS
Breaking generational curses
Familial love
Witchy vibes
Cozy to dark
Baddie FMC With a
Soft Side
(Mama bear energy)
Golden Retriever MMC
with a traumatic backstory
Human sacrifice as dark magic
Dark vs light
Good vs evil
Light humor
Loyal Shapeshifter sidekick
(Spends most of his time as a dragon, or Labrado)
The toxic nature of evil
Magic tea
Loss of
innocence
Atmospheric

Dark green background with dried flowers, a skull and rib bones.

First Page
Blood had never bothered Lennari. It was just the thing that leaked out when skin was damaged.
So when she casually brought the hatchet down on the rooster's neck, separating his head from his body, she didn't flinch, or even blink. The red liquid drained from the opening and spilled into the grass beside the stump as she held him upside down. There was a beauty in the deep red color
-few things in nature were so rich a hue. Plucking the feathers and removing the innards, she finished the processing with practiced efficiency.
Lennari smiled as she stepped down the bank, bare feet padding on stones and avoiding nettles.
The stream babbled as she dunked the bird into the water, cooling it quickly. There was a time she did this almost daily for the Order. Never again. Now she gladly preformed the task for her family.
Family. The word still sounded foreign; as did wife, and mother. But they were words she cherished more than she'd ever thought possible.
Task complete, she stood-then froze, body going perfectly still. Her stomach rolled, skin prickled, heart ticked faster. With a held breath, she listened, trying to hear...something beneath the sound of the stream and the birds. She lifted her eyes to the tree line on the on the other side of the stream and scanned the nearby woods for signs of movement.
It was that pesky feeling that had been plaguing her on and off for the past month. The uncanny sense that something was watching her-preying on her. She waited.
Nothing.

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

~EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAIRIES meets SPIRITED AWAY~ 🌿 Sarcastic botanist 🥀 Broody yokai When Clove gives her name to a Japanese deity, she’s pulled into his deadly, mythic world. #Q #YA #Mythology #questpit

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Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation @sirbenjaminjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Hi! I’m Ben, author of Kinda Charming! Most fairytales have a prince. This one got Neil. (And he doesn't know what he's doing.) For fans of Percy Jackson & Land of Stories this book has: 🗡 Awkward heroes 🏰 Twisted tropes 😂 Laugh-out-loud mishaps #Q #amquerying #MG #Fantasy

A whimsical fairytale castle framed in ornate yellow scrollwork. Bold text reads “Kinda Charming.” Beneath it: “Most fairytales have a prince. This one got Neil.”

A magical castle background with golden scrollwork frames the description: “Kinda Charming – An upper middle grade fantasy-adventure for fans of Percy Jackson and The Land of Stories, blending fairytale tropes, awkward heroes, and laugh-out-loud mishaps in a magical kingdom where being kind-of-charming might be enough to save the day.”

A gingerbread house icon tops three humorous fairytale quotes in front of a forested castle:
“Never trust a house you can snack on.”
“Seems safe. Completely normal.”
“That’s fairytale logic.”
Below, it reads: “Welcome to Kinda Charming – where princesses have better options, villains get surprise audits, and sometimes the chandelier is mightier than the sword.”

Text set over a fairytale forest and castle reads: “Kinda Charming Comps.” Below it is a list of similar middle grade fantasy books:
Never After by Melissa de la Cruz
Once Upon Another Time and The Revenge of Magic by James Riley
The Accidental Apprentice by Amanda Foody
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
A Tale of Magic... by Chris Colfer

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Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Mulan x Avatar: The Last Airbender x Fourth Wing A woman rejected by the gods steals her brother’s place in war and manifests forbidden divine power while falling for her lethal commanding officer. SONG OF THE SICKLE Adult romantasy, 118k words #Questpit #Q #A #RF

An Agent's Guide to Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 118k words, First in a planned series. Background picture of wheat field. Big picture of amber ring and smaller picture of incense burning.

The Pitch, with small pictures of a military training camp and an old watchtower covered in moss. What if Mulan had magic, and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods?

Comp titles include The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem for hidden identity and forbidden magic, Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer for training ground romance, and The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig for weaponized faith system.

the opening lines of the book, beside a picture of a sickle with wheat. Tomorrow the gods would judge me. Tonight, I pretended they didn't exist. I swung the scythe, blade slicing through wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts at bay.

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Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

He killed a prince to save the kingdom. Now a fallen inquisitor, he’s been hired to find a missing ambassador, and the deeper he digs, the more it looks like saving the kingdom was a mistake. INQUISITOR FOR HIRE - multi-POV, 89k words #QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

Inquisitor for Hire Comps. For fans of The Tainted Cup’s genre-bending fantasy mystery, and the political darkness of Grave Empire, with the strange, decaying world of Mordew.

Tropes for Inquisitor for Hire: He saved the kingdom. He might have been wrong.

Fallen hero / disgraced legend
Chasing a vanishing truth
A secret the city was built to hide
Justice isn’t clean
Reluctant family forged under pressure
A power that takes more than it gives
Corruption at the highest level

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

How do we get this format when posting? It keeps cutting off the width. 😩 trying to be ready for questpit tonight/tomorrow.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I’ll keep you in mind when I’m at that point.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Definitely something I’m doing on my own. But I may reach out to an editor when I’ve done everything I can to self edit.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

From both my wips: Orath: Definitely a morning person. He wakes with boundless energy but crashes hard in the evenings. Noal: Also a morning person, he’s a disciplined soldier type. Lennari: Night owl, has insomnia. Rhode: Neither, he likes his sleep, lol.

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💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Is your character a night owl or a morning person? Sleeping aside, what time of day do they prefer to be most active? And why? Does it vary depending on what they are doing? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This one is from my adult epic fantasy about a fugitive prince-turned-pick pocket in an occupied city, and his loyal Guardian. If you read my previous #WipSnip about Orath, it’s clear food is important to him, lol. #writesky #amwriting #writingcommunity #amediting bsky.app/profile/wips...

While the other two slept, Orath sat in front of the fire, arms hugging his knees as he watched amber lines weave
through the air. He was clean, his belly full of roasted chicken, potatoes, and buttered bread. He was warm, and the clothing was soft and clean and comfortable. He felt as though he underwent a thawing. Not just from the cold, but a melting of his taught muscles.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The opening to my dark/cottagecore mystery/fantasy: #WipSnips #WriteSky #WriterCommunity #amwriting bsky.app/profile/wips...

Blood had never bothered Lennari. It was just the thing that leaked out when skin was damaged. So when she casually brought the hatchet down on the rooster's neck,
separating his head from his body, she didn't flinch, or even blink. The red liquid drained from the opening and spilled into the grass beside the stump as she held him upside down. There was a beauty in the deep red color-few things in nature were so rich a hue. Plucking the feathers and removing the innards, she finished the processing with practiced efficiency.
Lennari smiled as she stepped down the bank, bare feet padding on stones and avoiding nettles. The stream babbled as she dunked the bird into the water, cooling it quickly. There was a time she did this almost daily for the Order. Never again.
Now she gladly preformed the task for her family.

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Clay Sheldon @claysheldon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Writing Tip: Sky's the limit when it comes to worldbuilding. Sure, you could stick to tried-and-true swords and sorcery for a fantasy setting, OR, you could do steampunk, or pirates, or fantasy 'The Office'. If you can imagine it, you can do it! #writing #writingtips #Booksky

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a bald man in a suit and tie stands in front of a sign that says grow your small business

Alt: A bald man in a suit and tie stands in front of a sign that says grow your small business and says 'Dream Big'.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Is this saying it’s his first novel with a female lead? Or he thinks it’s the first ever novel?

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I’m in the line editing stage. Rn it’s off with beta readers and I’m giving them until mid June to finish reading then going to do a couple more rounds before the meticulous copy editing.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Wow. Sounds slightly depressing, but good. How far are you into writing?

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It’s an energy based magic system, so he can shift energy from one form to another, or concentrate it. Light can become sound, heat on the road he can concentrate into a flame, that kind of thing. But the transfer always takes a little of his own energy.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Awesome. Whats your manuscript about?

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Editing an adult epic fantasy. Drafting a dark/cottagecore fantasy mystery.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Character A. Is def old school, sword. Character B. Is a combination of stealth, speed, a pocket knife, and if he has his head in the game, magic.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

First #WipSnip From my Epic Fantasy, Theads of the Aethguard. Currently editing. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity bsky.app/profile/wips...

Once Orath caught his breath and gathered his wits he sat up and peered into the basket. Not only was there the stack of flatbreads, but a lump of fresh soft cheese wrapped in a cheesecloth, a jar of honey, and a lemon. He grinned as he bit right into the soft humble cheese, coating his mouth in a layer of fat. Next he opened the jar of honey and dipped a finger right into it then sucked off the sweetness. It mingled with the creamy tang of the goat cheese, and he suddenly felt spoiled, that he didn’t deserve such luxury. He had to blink away the wetness in his eyes at the taste.
He was so hungry he couldn’t help but finish off the cheese and one of the flatbreads, but he forced himself to put the rest in his pouch to share with the others. Lex at least deserved some of the honey.

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Jordan R. Perret @jrperret.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

First time posting, no idea what I’m doing. I’m an aspiring author just getting started in the social media game. Two books in the works, one in editing phase, the other is in the drafting stage. Excited to connect with other writers and readers. #editing #aspiringauthor #writercommjnity

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