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Kirsten E Bell

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I write 💫 witch books💫 kirstenebell.com Pre-Order "Chords of the Cliffside" now! a.co/d/cew22CU

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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
V2 in the works but I took a break today to draft a query letter. It's getting realllllllllllllllll 👀 #queryingauthor #writingCommunity #murdermystery
On a small island, in a big lake, lies a town.
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Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Unsung Ballad of Blume THE CRIMSON MOTH X THE SOUND OF MUSIC A traitor bard hiding in a convent is forced to accept a position as the governess for a widower and his seven children. Only to discover the father is the Captain hunting her for treason. #W #A #RF #questpit #WIP
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
❄️ Clara ❄️ #YA Holiday #Fantasy ❄️ Witchy Nutcracker retelling Clara and a trio of misfits will travel the world to find the magical gift stolen from her at this year’s Yule Ball. And it’s not just a doll this time. It’s the only thing keeping the darkness INSIDE the Sugar Plum Forest. #Q #QuestPit
Woman holding lantern with text from the book: By the time the three were pulling themselves onto one of the lighted sailboats, the calls of Captain Nicholas and Mother Ginger were soft in the night wind. The lighthouse was free of its cursed shackles, now peacefully sinking to the bottom of the Aegean Sea.
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Been craving a book with: 🪻Cozy witchy plot like Practical Magic & Garden Spells 🪻Murder Mystery 🪻Fast 🪻Based in a cozy harbor town 🪻Twisty (i just read My Husband’s Wife so the bar is HIGH) 🪻Age gap main characters So I wrote it:) Draft 1 is done! #W #MY #QuestPit
There's a collage on the right with 6 pictures representing a harbor town and some witchy imagery, including a lake scene, horse carrige in front of a big white house, the lake, a woman working with herbs, a boat in a river, and a harbor. The left says "The Shoppes at Hyacinth, A Speculative Mystery by Kirsten Bell."
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
COVER REVEAL *screams silently* Chords of the Cliffside, a speculative fiction about a rock band's wish for fame and a witch's thirst for revenge, is available for pre-order now and will release March 17th!!! a.co/d/0h9kLccZ #writingcommunity #authorsofbluesky #debut
Chords of the Cliffside book cover. Spells Lies and Rock and Roll at the top, Kirsten E Bell at the bottom. A hand is pulling guitar strings with Pictured Rocks in the background. Mushrooms and stars flank the guitar.
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Very insane thing I have to say but ummm........🥁 My debut novel, Chords of the Cliffside, is available for ebook pre-order!!! a.co/d/3syccWL #writingcommunity #booksky #magicalrealism #fantasybook #witchbook
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Returning to my Nutcracker reimagining now that *winter is coming* ✅ New batch of queries out ✅ Filmed some social content ❎ Nothing yet from 2 small press pubs that requested a full and partial Anyone else writing a holiday project?? #writingcommunity #amquerying
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Is there a button in #querytracker for: "Hey #litagent, I see you skipped over my holiday manuscript in August. It's 35 degrees out now... ready to review?"
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Heading back into the query trenches today with my ✨heavily revised✨ witchy Nutcracker retelling. 1. Dante's 9th circle should have been eternally editing your book. 2. LOLed every time I read a headline and then just returned to my weird little story. 3. Proud af. #amquerying #writingcommunity
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Anthology of the Woods 🪕🔮🌔 A coven’s chance encounter w/ a rock band might not be as coincidental as once believed when Brigid, a witch trying to protect her farm, meets her match in the band's frontman. There will be a showdown of fame and magic so don't play the wrong chord... #QuestPit #Q #S
The text on the picture says "And yet the human blood that kept my heart beating on this earth was like poison. The catalyst of heartbreak. A drug, misdosed. There's a girl with her eyes closed laying in a flower field.
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS Witchy like The Once and Future Witches Rock n Roll like Daisy Jones and the Six ⚠️Warning⚠️ Don't play the wrong string when it comes to battles of fame vs magic... #QuestPit #Q #Speculative
Anthology of the Woods is written across what looks like an album cover. The artist is attributed to The West End. Three women's silhouettes are dancing in a field at night. There's an advisory label and a barcode as well.The back of the album cover. There are 5 tracks in order titled: White Anemone, Burn Hole, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, I Only Asked for Help, The Pearl. There are 3 pictures on the right, one of two people kissing, one of a woman with a sword and one of a hand reaching out for a ghost like figure. all are in black and white.
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Good morning #writingcommunity! Woke up before the sun with a BIG idea. It's a cool 60 degrees and my cherry coffee is piping hot. Let's goooooo!
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Reading a gothic thriller at the pool and the fence posts are GIVING. So far so great: The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths #booksky
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
About to start day 2 of the Writing Day New England workshop! Loving the online format. Would recommend! Also - I have TWO pitches with agents today 😬 Good vibes, por favor!! Will update after!
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I did it. I GUTTED my book for a 2nd time because I knew deep in my soul it just needed it. ✅ 3 rounds of personal eyeballing edits ✅ professional developmental edits ✅ from the heart because I knew I could do better edits AotW is now a witch book worthy of a spot on a book shelf 💜 #AmQuerying
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS A witch tale with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells". ✔️Cottage Core ✔️Twist Ending ✔️Sisterhood ✔️Morally Gray FMC ✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll ✔️Atmospheric ✔️Feminism ✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻 #BluePit📖 #Q #Spec #A
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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
#BluePit #DIS #TR #LGBT #ND #YA #F Three gay witches---a transfemme autist, a burnt out prodigy, and a runaway music witch---and a sentient plant must hide from the peering eyes of witch society for three months. Cue magical training montages, emotional exploration, and a helping of sapphic love.
A Harmony o witches collage with flowers, magic and picnic
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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
DRAGONFALL x FFXIV When Mick agrees to be his mage bff(/crush) Eleanor's adventuring partner, all he wants is to keep her safe. But a twist of fate changes him into a divine dragon, and his priorities shift to: stop a war, protect Eleanor, and stay alive. In that order. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #F #R #W
Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha.

Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies.
Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels.
Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer.

A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.
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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #BluePit #Q #A #LF #M #BluePit📖
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book: a neon rock n roll sign, london (notably big ben), a man playing the guitar, someone punching a mirror into shards, a man staring into the camera with his face concealed, someone walking down a hallway, stars falling from the sky, photos hanging from the ceiling and finally, an audience at a gig. all nine images have a red hue.
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS #BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP A coven’s chance encounter with a rock band might not be as coincidental as once believed. Brigid a witch trying to protect her family farm will meet her match in the band's frontman. Secrets, spells & rock&roll will ignite a showdown between fame & magic.
A woman lying back in the water with a line from the book reading: "I rested my lips alongside his ear and whispered, "run".
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
CLARA #BluePit📖 #Q #YA 🐁🔮A witchy reimagining of the Nutcracker for fans of the -ber months🌜❄️ The ballet never mentioned Clara was a witch. At this year’s Yule Ball, Clara and a rag-tag trio of misfits will be traveling a lot further than the Sugar Plum Forest to save their magical kingdom.
Woman holding lantern with text from the book: By the time the three were pulling themselves onto one of the lighted sailboats, the calls of Captain Nicholas and Mother Ginger were soft in the night wind. The lighthouse was free of its cursed shackles, now peacefully sinking to the bottom of the Aegean Sea.
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for hosting this event, #SmallPitch!!! 'Clara' will be headed off on submission now to an amazing Indie Press right where she's always wanted to be 🖤
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS #Speculative #A #Q Coven of witches with secrets 🤝 Rock band with secrets Brigid (the green witch) with a revenge plot 🤝 Frontman with a selfish goal The Once and Future Witches 🤝 Garden Spells The Craft 🤝 Taylor Swift's Folklore #PlaylistPitch
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Do some sleuthing! I received 2 agent ❤️s and full requests after seeing those agents post what they were looking for at that pitch event. I commented my pitch to their posts and ended up getting requests from those! #BluePitHype
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS has received feedback about its lovely lyrical prose and beautiful atmosphere but this is the character visual board that built the cast :) #UnhingedPit #Q #Speculative
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
CLARA: For fans of the -ber months. #UnhingedPit #Q #YA
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Love this album! It was written about a coven of witches the band met once along Pictured Rocks. Kinda spooky but I can tell Banks is obsessed with one of them. Maybe too obsessed? #UnhingedPit #Q #Speculative
An album cover that depicts the silhouette of 3 women outside and the album cover is Anthology of the Woods by the West End.The back of the album cover. It says Anthology of the woods then 5 song names and a description.
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
OMG I'm preparing for a writing conference and I've fallen so far down the pitching rabbit hole that I'm considering changing my title...... SOS. ................................. Or, like, should I?.......... #writingcommunity #authorsky
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS 🌜The Craft🌛 scored by 🕯️Folklore🕯️ #Q #SwiftiePitch A cozy tale of folklore with fangs that would shelf nicely with "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells". ✔️Cottage Core ✔️Twist Ending ✔️Sisterhood ✔️Morally Dark Gray FMC ✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll ✔️Atmospheric ✔️Feminism
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#swiftiepitch?!?! OMG hold please....
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
QUESTION! #writingcommunity #amquerying #onsub Have you guys personally (not by agents or other professionals) collected market data for your book? I've found a few good sources but wondering if there's some nice public data from GoodReads or Amazon that would be dependable/accurate?
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My life: 1. Hears song at coffee shop that makes me feel introspective. 2. Rushes home to write a ~1000 word zero draft inspired by said song. 3. Gets coffee the next day - restarts cycle. Today it was "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone". How many zero drafts do you have? #WritingCommunity
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Framing this. Crawling out of "maybe pile purgatory" inch by inch. #writingcommunity #amquerying
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Full request alert!!! My therapist is going to be so psyched that I'll now have a new thing to obsess about 😬 #amquerying #writingcommunity
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Michigan cherry coffee + editing 📝 A perfect morning. #writingcommunity #authorsky
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Two thoughts I had this morning, roughly 4 minutes apart: 1. I don't think I'm cut out for this. 2. I think this is the best book ever written. #writingcommunity #AmQuerying
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A warbler's winged warning, and the smell of spoil. That’s all it took. #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #MagicalRealism
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Even mortals have accused one another of being witches and demons. Some even claim themselves to be gods and prophets." #WIPSnips #AmQuerying
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Was about to finally yell into the void, "DOES SOMEONE WANT MY BOOK?!" but registered for my first writing conference instead!! Anyone from the #writingcommunity heading to the Writing Workshop of Chicago??
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
#WIPSnips #AmQuerying #MagicalRealism
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS A cozy tale of folklore with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells". ✔️Cottage Core ✔️Twist Ending ✔️Sisterhood ✔️Morally Gray FMC ✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll ✔️Atmospheric ✔️Feminism ✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻 #QuestPit #Q #MR
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Jason L. @jasonlangford.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
What happens when the horror follows you home? Trans boy Owen killed a monster to escape captivity in the woods--except whoever kills the monster must become its replacement. Now Owen must choose his fate: succumb to the darkness within, or fight for his humanity. #questpit #Q #YA #H
An autumnal woodsy moodboard with nine images: a boy holding a football, a valley, a deer skull, a boy walking into mist, a piano, a fall street, a boy leaning his forehead against someone's shoulder, and two quotes: one reads: I know about things I wish I didn't, and the other reads: you've got your demons and darling they all look like me.
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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The job had one rule: don’t open the car’s trunk. Should have been a second rule: don’t give your friend a lift or she will absolutely break the one rule. Now, an interdimensional smoke monster is free and hungry for souls. Who has our disaster bi been working for? #Questpit #Q #A #F
Poster with image of woman surrounded by smoke. Words at top: magic & monsters, snarky banter, sapphic romance, female friendship. Middle: Riding in Cars with Monsters. Adult contemporary fantasy by Michelle Ogilvy. Bottom: One rule: Don’t open the trunk.
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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
THE GODS OF ATLANTIS ATLA x The Selection When Mireia is chosen as the new avatar of the sea goddess, her simple life is upended. Now she & her alleged true love, the boy chosen as the sun god, must face a storm of politics & religion that threatens to destroy the land itself. #Questpit #YA #F
Atlantis Moodboard featuring:
Ancient board games, temples with waterfalls pouring into pools, neat ancient fantasy cities, forehead kisses, frolicking in canals amid a palace, beautiful island coastlines, more ancient cities, and cool statues of strange gods.
Center Quote: “From the day you left this village, you became more than merely yourself. You are the Sea Mother. This is the role fate has placed upon you. I told you when you left that I believed this path has opened up to you for a reason. I still believe that. You’ve been given a chance that few others ever have—the chance to change the world for the better. I’d even dare say it’s your duty to do so, now that you have the means.”
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Carlee Brae @carleebrae.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
OF SONGS AND PHANTOMS is a darkly lush retelling of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, where the ingenue discovers her voice has forbidden magic, and the only way to save herself from being executed for witchcraft is to place her trust in a mysterious phantom. #Questpit #Q #A #RF
a collage with a ballerina, a cathedral, a marble staircase, a champagne flute, a single red rose, a chandelier, a pile of skulls, a pedestrian bridge, and a group of ballerinasPitch: Adult Romantasy, 110 000 words
As a chorus dancer in the Lutesse City Opera, classically trained soprano Seraphina Dallier does not sing in front of people. That is, until one fateful night, she slips up, and her heretically magical singing voice attracts the attention of a mysterious stranger…and the theocratic authorities. 
Accused of witchcraft and exiled from everything she has ever known, Seraphina must put her faith in that same stranger, seeking refuge with him in a seductive city of magic hidden beneath the city. But can she trust her heart? Or, will phantoms from her past come back to haunt her, threatening everything she has come to love?
For fans of...
phantom of the opera retelling, 1920s era, forbidden magic, shadow daddy mmc, he falls first...hard, female rage, lgbtq+ characters, slow burn to spicy spice (with three chili peppers), only one bed, found family Comp Titles:
The Gilded Wolves - magical parisian setting, diverse cast of characters 
Serpent and Dove - magic vs. church, sloooooooow burn, 
The Vine Witch - secrets and betrayals, "a handsome stranger"
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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Grim Portents HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of 📖 #Q #A #DF #PR #Hu #H #QuestPit
Cover for Grim Portents featuring a skeleton hand gripping a feather, emerging from a flaming book over a mazePoster Cover for Grim Portents featuring Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan. Behind them are a girl with glowing eyes and a glowing book, a woman with a shotgun, two shadow creatures, and the face of a demon. The words GRIM PORTENTS are big and in a classic Indiana Jones Style font"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow.
But now the monster had been given a name, an identity.
It was real."
BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK.
NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS.
FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.
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M.R.Bronn - Author @mrbronn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Harlow discovers a thought-to-be-extinct baby bird— Best day ever! But when she drops it at the Amzi Bird Sanctuary, she’s forced to team up with an estranged friend to halt a dangerous poaching ring. Saving the bird means outrunning hunters, betrayal, and her past #Q #YA #F #T #LF #questpit
In the top left, a black owl with gold accents sits on a tree branch. In the top center a glowing blue humming bird flitters. The top right contains a heavy black girl (the estranged friend). The bottom left shows a lacrosse playing girl (the betrayed friend). the center bottom has a shrew and bird hybrid holding a berry. In the bottom right is a bird plague doctor from the manuscript.
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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 07/05/2025
ARCANE x BLD OVR BRIGHT HVN x DISCO ELYSIUM 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad STEM academia w/ 🩺corrupted magic tech/ethics 🩻body horror 🤌obsessive ace yearning 🧠neurodivergence as power 🚨unreliable narrator 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🏆dangerous duels 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man growing them #questpit #A #F #Q
Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, skeletal structure shown in part, 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, 107,000 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 prove 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.A painting in the background of a blond man viewed in profile, head bowed, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull and spine is visible. The text reads

THEMES:
ivory tower classism & egos
manipulative relationships
neurodivergence as power
grey ethics in technology
academic power abuse
consent in medicine
code-switching

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(there was only one bed)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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Kanani O’Kelly @kananiokelly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late. 🌊 Pacific Islander Rep 🌊 Elemental Magic 🌊 Endless Banter #QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide
This image is the first of four to showcase elements for my upcoming book, Whispers of the Sea. 

The picture reads: “An Agents Guide to Whispers of the Sea.” 

This book will be a young adult fantasy.This is the second image in my guide, and it includes the pitch for my novel. 

Such pitch reads to say: 

“Whispers of the Sea follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom.

Maia must voyage across the seas to this mysterious isle where she’ll team up with a local boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.”This is the third image in my guide, and it portrays my comp titles. 

My book will be perfect for the fans of the Jasad Heir, A River Enchanted, Curious Tides, and the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. This is the last image in my guide, and it showcases the aesthetic and a few elements that can be found in the book. 

A few of these elements are: found family, secret ploys, outlawed magic, and self discovery.
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