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Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So thrilled to share this announcement of the sale for ELSIE LOVELACE'S GALLERY OF ENCHANTMENTS by @kassandratyst.bsky.social to Grand Central Publishing. This is a book that will make hearts happy, and I can't wait for you all to read it! #cozyfantasy #romantasy

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A little delayed, but I have some news ✨ I have signed with @luciennediver.bsky.social at the Knight Agency and I couldn’t be happier!

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I couldn’t have wished for a better agent and I’m so excited to see where this journey will take me! 🥰

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I never posted the art I commissioned on here and need to rectify that immediately 👀 here are Elsie and Theo ✨

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 19/04/2025

BLD OVR BRGHT HVN x ARCANE Jim's grad research was meant to save rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning. #PosterPitQ #A #F (credit to @d-and-a-authors!)

Movie poster for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. In the background is an anatomical drawing of the musculature of a man from his right side. Four comparison titles are listed across the top (The Two Doctors Gorski, Arcane, Babel, and Don't Let the Forest In). At the bottom is the text "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?" and "In Agent Inboxes Now"

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

When Elsie accidentally frees Theo from a painting he was trapped in for 106 years, she discovers a fatal secret. Theo is on borrowed time, and Elsie heart might not survive. The invisible Life of Addie LaRue x Time Traveler's Wife 🖼️ 🥀🕯️🐈🪷 #PosterPitQ #A #F

A movie poster for the portrait of Theodore Quill

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Nell @nelsnote.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A burned-out jazz pianist seeking refuge at a seaside inn is drawn into the orbit of a brilliant painter whose work doesn’t just capture his subjects—it devours them. And now she's caught in his frame. Art by the lovely saranillustration #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A

Character art of a young woman with long black hair, and a man with blonde hair behind her. They're very close together and it seems like the man may be pulling her backwards.

The background is ocean waves, with a smidge of red.

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The love lives of two sisters become complicated after they develop the ability to sense love and as they navigate a world where direct use of magic has been banned they become all the more curious about the unknown of forbidden magic #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #F #R #A

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Victoria Lilly @victorialilly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance set in Victorian England. When an impressionable young spirit-medium is hired to exorcize an evil spirit, the real question is what could possibly go right. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

NAUSICAÄ x EMILY WILDE Heidi has a plan: scorn her suitor, keep his money, and start her research. It’s perfect - if she can survive long enough in the cursed forest to finish her thesis. 🪲 Cozy-yet-unsettling Fantasy 🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative world 📚 Academia #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F #LGBT

A collage of images, starting from top left and going clockwise to center: Elinor Dashwood from Sense & Sensibility, tea being poured into a teacup, a journal with a diagram of a flower, a pink with black spots truffle pig, a partially shadowed hand writing on a chalkboard, a clump of light pink blooming flowers in a forest, a brontosaurus skeleton in a museum, a desk with flowers and journals, and in the center a diagram of ancient plants.

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Victoria Lilly @victorialilly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️ #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #adult #horror #gothic

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 17/03/2025

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓A cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineer magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺medical ethics & consent 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man who ❤️s 'em #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

Pitch card for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. Background top image is an anatomical diagram of a torso with left arm outstretched, bottom image is of dark nested ferns. Atop the image is a digital painting of a man with curly dark hair and medium skin tone, wearing dark green clothing and a gold hoop earring in his right ear, looking away from the camera. His hand rests atop a text box reading "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?"

Also in the text box is the author's name and "Adult dark academic fantasy, 107k words." Below the textbox are cover images of the Netflix show Arcane (with Viktor's face), BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M.L. Wang, THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI by Isaac Fellman, DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, by C. G. Drews, and RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter.

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kay @kswrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

ADDIE LARUE x TVD - vampires hiding their fangs - a lost god searching for identity - power-hungry gangs and dubious detectives - morally grey protagonist - regretting (?) what you wished for - realising what you truly are - in the speculative underbelly of Taipei #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

On the top half of the image, text on a background of an urban nightscape that reads "For The Days We Never Had", followed by text against a translucent reddish background that reads, "After Kai Le and Ai Yu encounter a mysterious entity at a bus-stand, they find themselves getting what they wanted - and more. Thrown into the world of urban legends, they have to grapple with the monsters they have unleashed, both figurative and real. Are their dreams worth losing themselves over?"; "Adult Urban Fantasy - 94k words".

On the second half of the image is a 7-Eleven at dusk, with a row of pictures over it: the book cover for Velvet was the Night; the book cover for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue; and the anime poster for Durarara!

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a passionate romance with a pirate captain–or needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life. #Q #NA #RF #questpit

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Greatest Showman x The Invisible life of Addie La Rue A gymnast is forced to perform in a magical circus alongside a man she doesn’t recognize, but he knows her… and he’s watched her die dozens of times. 💕”Who did this to you?” 💫Grounded fantasy 🖤Dark whimsy 🎪Atmospheric #Questpit #F #Q #A

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Victoria Lilly @victorialilly.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE MISTRESS OF BARROW The Conjuring meets Carmilla in a historical dark romance about a spirit-medium ensnared by the very ghost she was meant to banish, with deadly consequences. #agentsguide #questpit #Q #A #DM #H

Banner image of white and red roses. Overlaid is the text 'An agent's guide to Mistress of Barrow by Victoria Lilly - a sapphic gothic horrormance'

Text and images are overlaid on a black and red background of rose motifs. On one side the text of the novel's pitch is overlaid, reading 'A job of exorcising a murderous ghost promises both fame and fortune to the rising spirit medium Agnes, but what she truly desires is companionship. Her wish is granted, but the identity of her newfound love casts Agnes into a deadly conflict of interest.'
On the right are covers of six comparative works: the film 'Crimson Peak' by Guillermo del Toro, the novella 'Carmilla' by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the TV series 'The Haunting of Bly Manor' by Mike Flanagan, and the novels 'Mexican Gothic' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 'My Darling Dreadful Thing' by Johanna van Veen, and 'Bitterthorn' by Kat Dunn

On a black and red background of rose motifs are overlaid six images conveying the tone of the story and illustrating prominent tropes. The tropes are 'haunted house', 'slow-burn romance', 'plain bad heroines', 'love triangles', 'toxic relationships' and 'gothic horror'.

An excerpt from the book is overlaid on a background of red and white roses, reading, “I whispered, ‘Don’t leave me alone.’
The darkness did not respond. It waited to see what my next move would be. A mute and shapeless terror yanked the line that it had by then firmly hooked inside my breast; I turned on my heel and ran back down the stairs.
As Grandmother used to say, now was the hour of monsters, when any sort of terrible thing might come to pass.”

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 12/02/2025

ARCANE x BABEL x RIPE Jim's graduate research was meant to save rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning. #questpit #Q #A #SF #F #SF #H #agentsguide 💙📚

Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, with the text "an agent's guide to SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines," an #agentguide #agentsguide for an #amquerying manuscript.
Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, with the text "an agent's guide to SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines," an #agentguide #agentsguide for an #amquerying manuscript.

PITCH: (dark STEM academic science fantasy, 108,000 words)
When Institute grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?

For fans of: the grounded and ugly magical academia of BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, and THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI; the criticism of tech venture capitalism of RIPE; the obsessive acespec yearning, body horror, and unreliable narrator of DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, and the corruption of tech and its makers of ARCANE.

Image: a silhouette walking up the stairs, head haloed by a lit chandelier.

EXCERPT from SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines/@gwenvines

This time, though, it was not Six whose face was bathed and baptized by light. It was Bash’s, his lone gold hoop gleaming amidst his curls, the spindly shadows of his lashes stretching over his dark eyes, and the sleeve of his linen robe where it draped from his arm rendered translucent by the sun’s rays. It was Bash who sat atop his regal, woody throne and passed judgment upon Jim.

Jim, his blond hair set aflame not by Kontrolle or diffuser but by the sun’s fleeting gift, stared back, waiting. Unlike Etienne, the King Reluctant, Jim had never been told he was the best. Unlike Six, the King Desirous, Jim had never needed to be the best. Unlike Bash, the King Apparent, Jim had never been the best.

Jim’s calling, his compulsion, was to be of use. That is all he had ever needed, wanted, or been. And it was Bash, now, to whom he wished to be useful.

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Kassandra ✨ @kassandratyst.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So when can I start querying? 👀

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 24/01/2025

RIPExBLOOD OVR BRGHT HAVN When grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, intoxicating suitemate Bash warns it could be weaponized—& stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience? #YouDeservepIt #A #F #SF #Q 💙📚

Moodboard in tones of yellow, featuring equations, an image of an eye looking sideways, a man in a wool coat and glasses looking off camera, a man supporting another who is stumbling, a stack of books, raised hands lit in a spotlight, two men embracing.

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 24/01/2025

Jim's graduate research was meant to bring salvation to rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning. #YouDeservepIt #A #SF #F #Q #agentsguide #litagents

Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, with the text "an agent's guide to SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines," an #agentguide for an #amquerying manuscript.

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Persee 🐉 @innatelywriting.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Barbie 12 Dancing Princesses but with stabby lesbians Impulsive sorceror Midge was hired to uncover where 12 mischievous princesses go dancing each night, but realized forming a tenuous alliance with the deadly Princess Yvette would be much more fun #YouDeserveplt #WIP #YA #F

A grid of nine squares, described left to right by row: The silhouette of a woman with a sword in front of clouds, grand castle staircases and chandeliers, a pink princess lying in foliage, a body of water surrounded by statues and trees, the back of a woman in a pink ballgown facing a crowd, a pink hued royal ball with people dancing, a woman’s legs with sparkling high heels on, a tree covered in dangling lights, the back of a woman in a white/pink dress in the middle of a green forest

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

OUTLANDER X FRENCHMAN'S CREEK Secrets & obsession make for a dangerous tale... 🏴‍☠️Pirates ☠️A sprinkle of magic 🏴‍☠️Fiery FMC always getting into trouble ☠️Flirtatious pirate captain w/ a dark secret 🏴‍☠️True slow burn romance ☠️Dark villain lurking @ edges #NA #RF #UW #Q #P2Ppit

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Tilly is querying ✨️🏰 @handle.invalid · 17/01/2025

Theia, an untalented conjurer, needs more than luck to survive—she needs magic. Even if that magic happens to be forbidden blood magic and bound to a grimoire that once belonged to the Prince of Darkness. What could go wrong? 🤷‍♀️ A HEART WROUGHT BY DARKNESS #A #FR #P2Ppit #UW

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Ivy Lin | Querying Author @ivy-lin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

SOMETHING MORE x TOMORROW (x3) To win a $100k coding competition, Mia Pan must learn to code—with help from her autistic teammate, who she’s crushing hard on. But falling for him makes her wonder: is she autistic too? #YA #C #R #UW #Q #P2Ppit

Mia and Owen sit in a dark room illuminated by a TV screen. Owen is holding an Atari controller while looking at Mia, who is eating garlic bread.
Art by Joy Ling.

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hello all, setting down the #agentsguide of my YA Fantasy duology for consideration by #litagents and #editors! Spears in the Dark is my #amquerying project. The 74,000 word novel explores the topics of found family, and anti-colonialism and resistance in a mystical Persianate world.

Everything to know about Spears in the Dark

Zyra lies, her village burns, & her best friend and village chosen one is ripped away. To get him back, she must cross a world that calls her enemy, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.

spears in the dark is a multi-pov novel which is the first in a duology.

Fifteen-year-old loner Zyra is the daughter of a traitor and an outsider, the two things her insular village tolerates the least. Unwanted, unloved, Zyra dreams of a world in which she is the hero.
When the empire of Lyucyent invades her home to take advantage of its natural resources, zyra must embark on a quest to save her home.

Where Zyra goes, Lyucyent follows, and soon she comes to realise that the world is bigger than she dreamed. The path to significance is steep, and it just might crush her.

Spears was long-listed in the Times/Chicken House Children’s Novel Competition 2023!

•YA
•FANTASY

•k. Applegate, tomi adEyemi, Deborah falaye
•Animorphs, atla, ffvii, blood Scion
•anticolonialism narratives
•teens making terrible choices
•bipoc leads, disability rep
•found family
•women's wrongs

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