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Author Laurel Grant

@laurelgrantfantasy.bsky.social

I write epic high fantasy with nostalgic heroism, elemental magic & yearning romance for people who prefer a little sublime melancholy with their tea. 🫖 Website: laurelgrantfantasy.my.canva.site

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Author Laurel Grant @laurelgrantfantasy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#UnhingedPit BEYOND THE MIST is TAKEN x LORD OF THE RINGS where the FMC is about as stubborn and driven as Liam Neeson, minus the CIA training. And the One Ring? Well, purchasing that at the festival is what puts the target on Kim’s back in the first place. Nerissa to the Fae abductors: #F

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Author Laurel Grant @laurelgrantfantasy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

“Slowly, as the ringlets of light took root, took comfort in her wounds, they began lighting her up everywhere. Her scars began to glow like lightning bolts all around her, her open wounds filling with bright holyfire, cauterizing them and mending them.” #febchantment day 7!

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Author Laurel Grant @laurelgrantfantasy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

#agentsguide to BEYOND THE MIST 🌊 What if it wasn’t curiosity that pulled the little mermaid out of the sea, but guilt? ⚓️ morally grey protagonist 🔥 female rage & 💔 🩸 assassination plot 🗡️ rescue battle 🔮 discovery of magic 🫶🏼 found family #querying #litagents #writercommunity #author #fantasy

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Author Laurel Grant @laurelgrantfantasy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This February, my goal is to beat January’s query count (22) and meet her book count (5). I’d also like to add 10k words to my WIP! What about you? #writing #authors

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Author Laurel Grant @laurelgrantfantasy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Well, now that my first pitch event is over, time to send out 10 more queries ✨ When’s the next event?? #querytrenches

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Author Laurel Grant @laurelgrantfantasy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Hi Bluesky & #QuestPit! 🌊 What if it wasn’t curiosity that pulled the little mermaid out of the sea, but guilt? Adult crossover fantasy ⚓️ BEYOND THE MIST 🗡️ is a dark twist on the original Little Mermaid tale & is out for querying! ✨ #agentsguide #Q #A #F #amquerying

Side 1: Images surrounding “an agent’s guide to BEYOND THE MIST, Laurel Grant, adult fantasy 105k words”: female mermaid, bridge over a river, glowing hands on a tree trunk, cavern, male sailor aboard a ship, a girl running to the sea, a medallion, and a fishing shack. Side 2: coastal background. The Pitch - When fisherwoman Nerissa’s best friend is kidnapped by immortal Fae after she failed to warn her people that the kingdom’s warded Mists were evaporating, she must learn to face her guilt and fight to save her, or climb the mast herself.

Side 1: coastal city road background. The Opening: The slick burn of wine rolled down my throat as another strike of lightning flashed outside, the spark illuminating just enough to confirm what I already knew. The dark figure in the corner of the tavern was staring back. It was the senselessness of a waking dream: for an evening promising a quickening storm, the tavern was reasonably sparse … and far too quiet. Others should have noticed him. And yet, only I seemed to know that he was watching us – had been watching us. Side 2: cavern background. The Tropes: lovers betrayal, stages of grief, father & daughter bond, abandonment issues, morally grey protagonist, found family/sisterhood, he sails to save her, knight academy, the Quest, mythical creature sidekick, discovery of power, runes & ancient magic, decoding messages, healing magic

Side 1: apothecary desk background with scrolls, herbs, flowers, journals, and burlap. The Style: I yearned for that intoxication, not to save me from the nausea, but to numb the torment that relentlessly pinched my heart with every moment of Alicen’s absence. I knew I couldn’t feel anything more. It was unfamiliar. For all my life, I’d noted the absence of my mother, but I’d had no tangible sensations, no vivid memories to attach to her. Her absence was a constant; the origin. Missing her was to miss something that had never been there . . . to love a phantom, to long for the touch of nothing. When Andris had decided to leave for Fjordan, I’d feared that the same curse would befall us, and he’d join my mother in being utterly lost to me, as if he’d never been there. Though, the morning after Alicen disappeared was so much more horrifying than that. So much more vivid and surreal than I could’ve ever imagined. Suddenly, the grief over my mother that had always consumed me, that had likely been the genesis of the melancholy that had become inherently part of me, seemed merely more than a passing wind. What I felt now was a storm. Side 2: map of the Glynea continent; an island with 5 offshoot bluffs joined by bridges.

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