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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🧡🏝️ COVER REVEAL 🧡🏝️ I am so thrilled to share the stunning cover for WORTH PLAYING FOR, my debut romcom novel 🎬 Coming 4/27/27 from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social ! Credits to Chris Ede (illustrator), Jeanne Reina (art director), and Angela Pettingill (cover designer) Available for preorder now!

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit

Feed Me Your Heart intro page colored red with a black and white image of a young woman

Themes for Feed Me Your Heart i.e. norse mythology and deadly personality tests

Comps for Feed Me Your Heart ranging from folklore fantasy to cultish horror

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Alice @alicel565.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

LOVELY RUNNER X KING OF GLUTTONY If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen— except the only way Ava can save her family name is to partner with her hot chef ex-boyfriend, and if she isn’t able to guard her heart, she might be getting burned by him—again. #Questpit #A #Q (soon) #R

The first page of the agent guide for Dinner Crush, an adult billionaire romance by Alice Li

Pitch: If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen— except the only way Ava can save her family name is to partner with her hot chef ex-boyfriend, and if she isn’t able to guard her heart, she might be getting burned by him—again.

Tropes and comps:
Moodboard for Dinner Crush

The Spice and banter of King of Gluttony
The yearning and angst of Lovely Runner

Billionaire romance
Second Chance
hot chefs
Slowburn
yearning
“It’s always been you”
To

Snippet: “How do I look?” Ethan asked, curiosity overtaking him even as suspicion settled in his gut.

“Like she’s the moon, and you’re the sun,” the man said. “And you want every day to be a solar eclipse.”

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Real Scandinavian items used by Ró as she joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #Q #W #QuestPit

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a Troll Cross pendant.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a traditional Scandinavian folk dress.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Title page with pitch line.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a piece of traditional Scandinavian ribbon.

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am so feral for this you don’t understand

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Sam Zoeller | Writer @samzoellerwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An introduction to the main characters from Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, my adult romantasy murder mystery with: 🌱 plant-based magic 🔮 witch prophecy 🖤 morally grey FMC ❤️‍🩹 angsty MMC who yearns 🕵️ flirting by finding murder clues ☕️ magical excellence as a love language #QuestPit #W #A #RF

A mood board for the FMC from Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, which is querying in fall 2026. The tone is moody but elegant, with images of a forest canopy, a book, pink fabric, a wildcat, a blonde woman, a crown, a forest fire, a wine glass with fruit beside it, and a woman shushing her lips

A mood board for the MMC from Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, which is querying in fall 2026. The tone is angsty and mysterious, with images of a man’s shadowed eyes, a frozen crystal ball, a garden doorway, two knight chess pieces, a man’s hands holding a smoking cigarette, a raven, a dark forest, a dried flower, and breaking glass

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am RAVENOUS for this story 👀🩸

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Linda Maleh @lindamaleh.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

To save NYC's witches from being hunted down and possessed by malicious spirits, 16-yr-old Haley Thorne must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop the dead witch behind it all. LEGENDBORN x NINTH HOUSE #PosterPit #Q #YA #F

In the Shadow of a Witch poster for PosterPit: YA fantasy - She has the magic no one wants. But now it might just save them all.

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

A film poster, depicting a woman with a dramatic red veil covered in Nordic runes, for Feed Me Your Heart, a YA fantasy/romance/horror novel about a girl addicted to magical hearts who has to hunt a water spirit to restore her shattered reputation

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Sam Zoeller | Writer @samzoellerwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

To escape her cruel father, Fallon Mercer manipulates a prophecy to marry a witch prince. When a spree of murders results from her con, Fallon must find a killer, hide her hoax from her husband, and cheat Fate once more — or watch everything she’s worked for unravel. #PosterPit #W #F #R #NA #A

A poster of a white flower with a dark background for Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, a fantasy novel with a yearning romance and murder mystery about Fallon Mercer, a girl who cheats a prophecy to become a witch princess. A tagline states: to catch a killer, they must survive each other.

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Emily @eriverowrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Things ruining Rhen’s Day: 🩸 Her prophesied power never manifests 👑 Being stripped of her titles as heir ⚔️ A (hot) man prevents her from unlocking her power 👁️ An arcane force tries to kill her when she's near the sea (she lives seaside) 🌊 The truth about her brother’s death #QuestPit #W #A #F

A collage of eight images, showing scenes of seaside cliffs, a sword, fortresses, bodies of water, and colorful strips of light throughout.

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HK Smith | Writer @thehksmith.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

LEGENDBORN x DUNE in a #YA fantasy where humanity survives by surrendering memories to a divine intelligence. To break her family's curse of being sacrificed, Vega must: ⚔️Find her lost brother 💔Ally w/ her first heartbreak 🌑Uncover the truth her world was forced to forget #QuestPit #SFF #F #Q #RF

A dark space fantasy aesthetic mood board with a collage of photos. Vertically down, from the first column:
1. A violet, light-tinged hole framing a violet sky
2. A faint silhouette of a woman beneath colors like the northern lights
3. Two hands reaching towards one another
4. A sci-fi inspired, dark uniform with a high collar
5. A grand stairwell, perhaps a futuristic religious site, with a single silhouette looking up
6. Two romantic silhouettes against a starry night sky
7. A lone figure with a backpack, standing amongst a shroud of sand-colored fog
8. A hand covered in glitter
9. A silhouette standing in front of a blue-lit circular tunnel entrance
10. A black woman with glitter coating her shoulder, just the bottom half of her face is visible, lips tilted slightly up in a smile
11. A black woman screaming
12. A stream of light breaking through dark clouds
13. An eye turned to show only the whites
14. Figures in robes seemingly suspended in mid-air
15. A figure on a black, sleek futuristic looking motorcycle

None of the images are my own. They are all sourced from Pinterest

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

These comps??? I would EAT THIS UP

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

HK created a world that’s unlike anything I’ve ever read with this story. I have been thinking about it long after I read the initial pages!!!

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I’ve had the privilege of reading the first few chapters of this, and it’s SO. GOOD. Agents, don’t miss out on the chance to jump on this!!!

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trang ☆ writer @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#DVparty moodboard pt. 2 what you can expect from my SE #Asian inspired #Fantasy: 🀄️ mahjong inspired parlor (heist) 🏮 LNY type festival (things go wrong) 🔬 research subplot (think Navani) 🥟 lush settings & food descriptions 💥 energy-based magic for fans of JADE CITY / SIX OF CROWS / MISTBORN

moodboard that showcases some images on and off screen - all in deep green, brown, and red colors. visible images include:
(top left) a table made out of mahjong tiles with a teacup on top
(top right) a painting of women in traditional Asian dresses with fans, clustered around a red backdrop
(bottom left) a wooden bathhouse with a large, dark pool of water
(bottom right) a multi level city with red hanging lantern lights and wooden buildings

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Allow me to reintroduce you to WORTH PLAYING FOR (fka as RIVAL ISLE), my adult romcom complete and headed for editors’ inboxes very soon. #editors, if you’re ready for the adventure of a lifetime, feel free to interact or reach out to Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media Group 🏝️🧡

An editor’s guide to WORTH PLAYING FOR
A 91k word adult romcom

The pitch

While pretending to be her concussed identical twin on a survival competition show, twenty-six-year-old Willa must fake a romance with her rival—who happens to be her long lost love—to win viewer votes and the cash prize that will save her family’s board game café.

What to expect
- second chance romance
- reality TV/beach setting
- quarter life crisis
- challenges and eliminations
- complicated sister relationship
- zany cast of side characters
- fake dating
- secrets and yearning
Comps
- Survivor
- The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
- Love Island
- Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid

Excerpts:
“My mom is attempting to Heimlich maneuver a meatball out of me when my sister bursts through the front door of our store and announces she’s going to be the next big reality television star.”

“I feel safe now because of you.
His words are heavy, tangible, as though the letters are digging their heels into my heart. I know he means safe in the game, but my mind takes me back to eight years ago when I first realized what falling in love meant to me: pure, unadulterated safety. The safety of knowing I could be wholeheartedly myself, flaws and all, and he would only find more reasons to adore me. The safety of knowing on days I didn’t particularly like myself, he would still never like anyone else more.
Maybe that’s why the end hurt so badly. It was danger infiltrating a place of peace.”

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Presenting to the #questpit & #writingcommunity crew… Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ⚡️ Kingdom of the Wicked x Crescent City ♥︎Led by a sassy, 'shadow mommy' FMC 🫶🏼Fresh take on Romantasy 🪞#MiddleEasternRep 🚨Fills that Xaden-shaped hole in your life #agentsguide #RF #Q #NA #writersky

ELECTRIC SEXUAL TENSION.
Excerpt reads: There's a possessiveness in how he touches me and I wish I hated it.
"How would you punish me?" I breathe out, unable to control my impulses.
Fingers touch my zip as he slowly slips it down, millimetre by millimetre. My body is completely in his thrall, unable to decipher the beat of my heart from the thump of the speaker's bass.
Cloudy background with one half of a lightning bolt

MORALLY-GREY IS THE COLOUR OF CHOICE...
Two moodboards with information about the two main characters

INCLUDES TOP TIER TROPES...
Four book comparisons: Crescent City, Kingdom of the Wicked, Book of Azrael, Quicksilver with tropes attached
The other half of a lightning bolt with a cloudy background

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Emily is QUERYING a romantic fantasy and writing romantasy 🐉 @emhenn921.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

If you love: 🐉accessible magic 🐉friends to enemies to lovers 🐉palace intrigue 🐉feminine rage 🐉Viking vibes 🐉one dragon this is for you! #questpit #W #romantasy

Raegan, an aspiring mage, is forced to give up her dream of protecting the realm after the king betroths her to Prince Arlon, the boy who broke her heart the night her mother perished. As Arlon’s icy exterior thaws, Raegan learns the true nature of his cold shoulder, and with time the walls around her heart begin to crumble. But with war looming across the sea and secrets around every palace corner, Raegan must choose between trusting the boy she loved, and protecting her heart and fleeing for good.

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

SURVIVOR x THE PARENT TRAP While pretending to be her concussed twin on a survival competition show, Willa must fake a romance with her rival–who's also her ex–to win viewer votes and the cash prize that will save her family’s board game café 🧡🏝️ #OS soon #AG #A #R #editors #QuestPit

Moodboard for my book RIVAL ISLE
Photos include:
- A cameraman and boom mic
- A ropes course in the jungle
- A pinky promise
- A couple kissing in the water
- Lit torches
- An island
- The text: "“My eyes land on the last rival in the row—number nine—and my stomach and heart switch places. It’s Noel Hudson. The only person to have ever broken my heart.”

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

✨on sub soon✨ SURVIVOR x THE UNHONEYMOONERS Willa’s goal: win RIVAL ISLE and use the $ to save her family’s board game café The issue? She’s pretending to be her twin, and her old flame is a fellow contestant. Editors, feel free to reach out! #PosterPit #PosterPitA #A #R

Movie poster for my romcom "RIVAL ISLE" an adult romcom on submission soon
- A novel by Katie Gergel, represented by Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media
- Second chance romance, twin switch, riddles and challenges, fake fating
- Images of an island, a reluctant couple, a kiss, a helicopter, a pinky promise, a secret, and a torch
- "test your limits" and "adventure awaits"
- "In the rut of a quarter life crisis, Willa takes her twin’s spot on a survival reality show where she fakes a romance with her rival–who happens to be her long lost love–in order to win viewer votes and earn the cash prize that will save her family’s dying board game café."

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

HIGMA and yap katiegwrites.substack.com/p/higma-or-a...

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’m very excited to share that I’m now represented by Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media! Beyond excited to work together to bring my Survivor-inspired romcom to life 🧡🏝️ So grateful for the opportunity and everyone who has helped along the way!

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Emily is QUERYING a romantic fantasy and writing romantasy 🐉 @emhenn921.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A new #agentguide for my NA romantic fantasy with accessible and unique magic and slow burn romance that is worth the wait! Hitting inboxes soon. Feel free to interact #litagents !

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Allissa is Querying📚 @allissawrites.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It’s time for me to finally post an #agentguide ✨ YOURS TRULY x SWIFT & SADDLED No one said rock bottom (sleeping with the hot dive bar owner after your husband’s infidelity wrecked your marriage) would feel so good…or orgasmic.

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Checking off a writer bucket list item tomorrow 🤩

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Broke ground on my new romcom today ✍️✍️

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Good news for good friends is my favorite thing ❤️❤️

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A new season of #survivor starts tonight (we all know this is important to me) so in honor of the premiere I’m throwing it back to the bday party I hosted last year: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2mqKCcg/

tiktok.com

The tribe has spoken 🔥 #survivor

TikTok video by Katie

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A rough-around-the-edges artist gets forced home to care for her ailing Gran, where she runs into the ex-bff and boyfriend assigned as caretakers. 💔second chances 🐈‍⬛angry FMC 🫂found family 🏚️atmospheric setting 📝list of tasks for forgiveness #WSPit #A #R #WF #editors: @charmstrong.bsky.social

mood board for the novel NOT READY TO MAKE NICE.
The acronym NRTMN is in red block letters behind a woman flipping off the camera. It contains the quote "this was who I am outside the shadow of my best friend and boyfriend. The same person I've always been without love to hold me together--selfish. Scrappy. Spiteful."

a scrapbook like moodboard of a man laying on a pillow and a woman smoking. The quotes say "In another future, I'd get all these moments with him--the sleepy ones, the early mornings, and late nights. The vulnerable soft smiles and hazy eyes." "I forgive you -- LOgan" "Let Me be your anchor." "tell me it wasn't real." "I've always meant it." "I broke us both." "I'm the same girl from ten years ago. I make the same mistakes, the same choices, the same self-destructive tendencies."

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Agents better move fast for this one 👀

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Makayla Leigh 🌿🌊⚔️ @themakaylaleigh.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Warning: falling in love will result in death 🌊 assassin prince x bounty hunter pirate 🖤 a deadly quest for a dragon's egg 🌊 a blood pact that might require them to kill each other to break it 🖤 rivals to enemies to lovers to ???? #WSPitQ #NA #A #F #R

top row: masculine blue eye with black strands of hair, golden dagger, and a masculine figure (prince) with their hand on the hilt of their sword

middle row: sails of a ship, quote: I can see the end as it begins, and the side view of the ocean from a ship

bottom row: a feminine figure (pirate) leaning against the railing of a ship, pearls and sea shells, and a woman looking down with blond hair

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Haley ✨ @halphelan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It’s been a minute since I’ve been active, so I thought a reintroduction was needed ❤️ I write romantic SFF, and my urban paranormal romance, IF THE MOON HAD TEETH, is on submission with my wonderful agent, Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong. I’m currently drafting a sapphic futuristic dystopian ✨

Text: An editors guide to IF THE MOON HAD TEETH by Haley Phelan

Set on the backdrop of a full moon

Text: THE PITCH
dahlia-half human, half vampire-goes undercover to court the most dangerous vampire hunter, compelling him in order to find a cure poisoning the blood of humans. There’s only one problem. For the first time, she craves the taste of blood. His.

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Querying is the roller coaster that you know will give you a headache and maybe make you nauseous but also plays really good music and injects you with dopamine and no matter what you’re going to ride it again and again even if you’ll need a margarita (or several) when it’s over

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This book is so much fun!!! Love Carter and Simon ❤️

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Messaged my CPs this morning “im getting a good feeling about today” and within hours two writer friends received amazing news 😭😭😭 thank you universe for the sign!!! Let’s keep up this good energy 🕯️

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Introducing my #agentguide to RIVAL ISLE, my adult romcom I #amquerying! #litagents, if you’re ready for the Adventure of a Lifetime complete with romance, humor, and a knock-off Jeff Probst, feel free to interact 🧡🏝️ #WritingCommunity

RIVAL ISLE

An adult romcom complete at 95k words

THE PITCH

A twenty-six-year-old survival reality show contestant fakes a romance with her rival—who happens to be her long lost love—in order to win viewer votes and earn the cash prize that will save her family’s dying board game café.

WHAT TO EXPECT

second chance romance
fake dating
reality TV/beach setting
zany cast of side characters
complicated sister relationship
challenges and eliminations
quarter life crisis

COMPS
Survivor
The Unhoneymooners
Love Island
Name Your Price

EXCERPT

The audience would probably love that shit, anyway. The only time I ever voluntarily participated in voting for a reality show was my sophomore year of high school when I fired off ten text messages every Tuesday night for my favorite Dancing with the Stars pairing because I was convinced they were knocking boots behind the scenes.
Turns out they hated one another. They did win the season, though.
Wait a second.
My head jerks up so quickly I pinch a nerve in my neck.
A lightbulb in my mind burns to life at the same time a separate piece of advice from Bernie bounces between my eardrums: “Make yourself vital.”

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

SURVIVOR x THE UNHONEYMOONERS Willa’s goal: win RIVAL ISLE and use the prize $ to save her family’s dying board game café The issue? She’s pretending to be her twin, and her old flame is a fellow contestant. 💕 romcom 🤫 fake dating ❤️ second chance 💪 mid 20s identity struggle #P2PPit #Q soon #A #R

Mood board for RIVAL ISLE:
- beach scenes
- torches
- sunsets
- couple kissing
- ropes course
- plane
- megaphone
- “stay tuned”

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

On today’s episode of tabs I left open from previous writing sessions and forgot about:

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Katie 🏝️🧡 @katiegwrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Powering through the final round of dev edits for this baby (fueled by incredibly helpful CP comments), and then it’s just a line level pass before #querying! Agents: RIVAL ISLE is coming soon to an inbox near you! 🏝️

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

New year, new name, same 💔 book. Excited to get this gem on submission! #editors chat with @charmstrong.bsky.social if you're interested a raw & beautifully honest women's fiction novel that examines the healing power of unconditional love, found family, & most importantly, forgiveness.

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