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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

+Thank you all so much for the love and support you've shown me and this book over the last few years. I absolutely would not be here if it was not for you, and I hope you enjoy setting off on this journey with me! 🪻🏹

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

+I'll be sharing updates on my TikTok (lucyhalley), Instagram (lucyhalleyauthor), and Twitter accounts in the coming weeks and months with updates including the finalised publication date (to be confirmed soon!), the book cover, accelerated reader copies, and more!+

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm incredibly excited to announce that my debut novel 'Hyacinthus', a retelling of the myth of the Spartan prince Hyacinthus and his love for the god Apollo, will be publishing early March 2027! I am so over the moon to finally be announcing this (thank you for your patience!)+

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Hannah Bashir @hannahbashir.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Pallas & Athena from my #amquerying novel OF WISDOM an Athena origin tale 🦉 🌊touch her and you die 🌊lost love 🌊grumpy x sunshine 🌊sapphic yearning 🌊the ultimate greek tragedy #CuPit #HF #A #BookSky #AgentsGuide

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Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

ALADDIN X GREEK MYTH Peleas wants to salvage his ailing father's dying business and woo Thetis, the woman of his dreams. When she hates his villa-turned-hotel plans, he must find a solution to make everyone happy before losing both #Cupit #CR #A

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Tim of the Author Jungle @words-of-a-nerd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Eat, Pray, Lve x Pmpkin Spce After a breakup, Gina discovers a letter from her recently deceased mother. She is to travel to the land of her heritage and spread her mother's ashes. Once in Ireland, she sets on a journey of self-discovery, self-purpose and mending a shattered heart. #cupit #CR #A

Lighthouse, castle, rocky cliff over ocean, sheep, man and woman kissing in sunset.

Eat, pray love movie cover, a year in Province book, The Irish Cottage book

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m 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

EVERY SUMMER AFTER x HAPPY PLACE Two exes reunite for a wedding at the lake chalet where they fell out years ago after a tragic accident changed everything. She broke his heart. She wants him back. He doesn't trust her. Maybe she shouldn't trust him either. #cupit #cr #fbw

An Agent’s Guide to
None of This Was Real
Adult Contemporary Romance

The Pitch
Jasper's life in NYC is falling apart. Returning to the Quebec Laurentians for her sister's wedding, she is reunited with her favorite ex, Brett. She broke his heart. She wants him back. He doesn't trust her. Maybe she shouldn't trust him either.

Comps: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, Happy Place by Emily Henry, Seven Summers by Paige Toon

What to expect
Set in Quebec, Canada
Second chance romance
Two timelines
Family Drama
2010s Nostalgia
Flawed characters who learn from their mistakes

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Aaliyah🌸 @alpaolucci.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

💜FOURTH WING X PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE💜 After a dragon bonds with a healer, the only way she’ll survive military training is with help from the dragon prodigy, a man she absolutely hates… …until she finds out what’s beneath his tough-as-scales exterior 🐉 #Cupit #RF #NA #Agented #OS (soon!)

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Hughes Davidson @sojourner-hughes-d.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

(New) Working Title: ACES FALL HARDER A dual-POV romance between two ace characters. Each is trying to resist love in different ways. Will they be able to get it together and open themselves to what’s in front of them? 💞Friends to Lovers ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn #Cupit #A #CR #LGBT #DIS #FBW #W

Mood board of people and paintings and hearts.

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Maddie Block @maddieblock.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My #MEM AM I THE PROBLEM explores my relationship with love in all its forms, and includes: 💔 A disastrous Valentine's Day ❤️‍🩹 Domestic abuse recovery 💕 Female friendships 🫶 Taylor Swift references 💜 BTS references 💌 Dating app DMs ❤️‍🔥 Situationship hell 💘 Finding love unexpectedly #Cupit #Q #FBW

A mood board with lots of red: wine, leaves, roses, a record player

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

When Zeus + Aphrodite compete in a game of, 'Who's your worst patron deity?', Helen must follow and marry a man far from her homeland of Sparta Her single goal becomes to break free from their divine influence and return to her true husband, and beloved king, Menelaus. #CuPit #Q #A #HF

Original art by stranded-ziggy.tumblr.com of Helen holding a rose up to her nose

Comps for Helen: Circe, Clytemnestra and Morgan is My Name

Original art by stranded-ziggy.tumblr.com of the remainder of Helen's bust

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot It's going to be a killer summer. 😍 Sapphic Pining ❤️ Friends to Lovers 👀 Cannibalism as metaphor for love 💖 Monstrous romance 🎀 Bubblegum horror vibes 🌽 Cult town in Canadian Prairies 🎡 Ferris wheel confessions 💋 Querying after SmoochPit #Cupit #YA #HOR #INR #LGBT

creepy hazy moodboard with pinkish red overtones. Old town bar with neon sign, Ferris wheel at night, silhouette of woman in front of red stain glass window, shadow of two people embracingbed with white curtains around it, cowboy hat, old church with red sunset, girl with match between teeth, a spilt BFF necklace, a heart, and a sign that says Yes I do bite. Flames line the edges.

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I #amquerying a YA science romantic fantasy, featuring 🩵 fae x human romance 🌿 enchanted forest 🩵 found family 🌿 environmental magic system 🩵 Black FMC #LitAgents, 🩵 this post if you’re interested! #CuPit #YA #RF #Q

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

An #AgentsGuide to HYACINTHUS, a 110k historical fantasy 🪻 Caught in the crossfire of a deadly rivalry between gods, Hyacinthus must find a way to ensure both his safety and eternal fame, or risk his name and everlasting love for Apollo being scorched from memory by the blazing sun. #cupit #Q #HR

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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Ceci Li @writerceci.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

📖It’s Only Me ❤️YA contemporary romance ⌨️ 70k words Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules. #Cupit #CR #RC #poc #YA #FBW #Q #writingcommunity #amquerying

Comp titles: Lynn Painter’s Better Than The Movies; Ann Liang’s This Time It’s Real; Tashy Bhuiyan’s Counting Down With You; Laura Taylor Namey’s A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow; Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Maggie Wang lives by her tiger mom’s rules—even her crush ticks all the right boxes. But when she finally works up the courage to confess to the perfect guy, he’s too oblivious to look beyond their friendship. Desperate to turn his head, Maggie hatches a plan: snag a fake date to his hockey team’s skate party and make him jealous, as long as she can survive her clumsy self on the ice.
Enter Nathan Myers—the team grump. Once he agrees to be her stand-in, everything seems simple enough: he’ll teach her how to skate, and she’ll put up with his attitude. Only the more time they spend together, the more Maggie discovers a gentle teddy bear hidden beneath Nathan’s gruff exterior. For the first time, she wonders if it’s okay to let go of certain expectations—being herself might actually be enough.
But Nathan’s a wild card with no college plans. He doesn’t fit in the future Maggie’s mom has mapped out for her. Trapped between the family expectations and her growing feelings, she must decide whether breaking the rules is worth it with the boy who’s becoming more than just a fake date.

#tropes and elements

#FakeDating
#GrumpySunshine
#YAHockeyRomance
#HeFallsFirst
#ComingOfAge
#FamilyDynamic
#SiblingDynamic
#FriendshipBreakUp
#POCOwnVoice
#OppositeAttracts

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Hello book people of Bluesky, I’m happy to present my brand new #agentsguide for Montgomery, my modern gothic lit fic novel! I plan to start querying after the holidays. #writingcommunity #litagents

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

With nothing left except the desire to win back his first love, a young man encounters an uncanny stranger who, under the guise of mentorship, sends him down a surreal path of pseudo-self discovery plagued by ghosts, drownings, and existential nightmare. #P2Pit #UW #Q #A #LF #H

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

WUTHERING HEIGHTS x SHARP OBJECTS 🐦‍⬛ lovelorn protagonist 🌧️ haunted PNW town 🕰️ speculative elements 🌊 complex female relationships ⚓️ local history & legend 🚬 social commentary 🖤 all things dark, dreary, & chilling #questpit #Q #F #A

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

An agent’s guide to MONTGOMERY 🐦‍⬛ With no passion left except for the desire to win back his first love, Wallace encounters an uncanny stranger who sends him down a surreal path of self discovery plagued by ghosts, drownings, and existential nightmare. #questpit #Q #F #A

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

An #agentsguide for my historical romantic fantasy HYACINTHUS 🪻🏹 If you love Madeline Miller’s beautiful prose, Costanza Casati’s immersive world building, and the queer romance of IWTV (AMC), this book might be for you!! HYACINTHUS has editor and agent interest 💜

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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In WWI Sussex, when a petty criminal is gutted like a fish & his cousin accused of the murder, tales of forbidden love, the infamous Fowler Gang & the suffragettes, bleed together, staining the River Arun red. #2025Pit #Q #A #HF

Images of Peaky Blinders, a dead fish, man&woman kissing, two women kissing and a WWI soldier.

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

had an indie editor like! so can I now say that my manuscript has editor interest…? ☺️

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

An #agentsguide to HYACINTHUS 🪻🏹 The fates do not let men soar too close to the sun without being scorched, and when Hyacinthus' love for Apollo forces him into a deadly rivalry between the gods, the prince can all but feel the wax start to drip... #2025pit #A #Q #HF #R #H

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

HYACINTHUS - a 110k historical fantasy 🪻🏹 Caught in the crossfire of a deadly rivalry between gods, Hyacinthus must find a way to ensure both his safety and eternal fame, or risk his name being scorched from memory. #2025pit #Q #A #HF #R #H

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Congrats!! And a very well deserved like! ☺️

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Crissie (C.T. Wood) @crissthecreative.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A Greek God Got Me Pregnant is PERCY JACKSON x TWLIGHT but for adults because immortals dating teens is actually kind of weird when you think about it… Think Sally Jackson’s story but with Apollo and a happy ending! #2025pit #A #R #RM #F #lgbtia #ace More comps below ⬇️

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tara @tarakazhani.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC A gritty speculative thriller in which a socially bereft pre-med student must team up with her academic nemesis to prove that she didn’t kill her classmate — unless, of course, she did. #A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC

Photos of Orange County, California in a blue-and-orange collage. From left to right, top to bottom: UCI’s campus, a building in downtown Orange, a pair of palm trees on Newport Beach, a girl standing in front of the ocean at night, a street sign for San Joaquin Hills, a bird’s-eye view of a burning log, mist-ridden trees towering over campus apartments, a road at night, and a silhouette standing in front of an orange sunset.

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

NINTH HOUSE x A LESSON IN VENGEANCE Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen— even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her and losing the ones she loves the most. #Q #A #F #H #2025Pit

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Tyler Stasi 🍓👒🕰️ @tylerstasi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#2025Pit #F #Q OUABH x ODW x TOG In a land on the brink of magical renewal, a young woman braves the hidden dangers of her kingdom to stop a mysterious rot from spreading. 💐sentient land w/no shores 👑insect queen 🌱disgraced heir hungry for revenge 🫐charming blue stranger

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A trailer for HYACINTHUS, my 110k historical fantasy 🪻🏹 THE SONG OF ACHILLES meets CLYTEMNESTRA and HERA in this lyrical, golden-gilded Greek myth retelling that centres on a Spartan prince’s desire for glory and all consuming love for a god. #2025pit #Q #A #HF #His #R

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Haha thank you! I made it for the last pitch event, it took a lot of hours but it was so worth it ☺️

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Tyler Stasi 🍓👒🕰️ @tylerstasi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#2025Pit #F #Q TOG x CARAVAL x ODW A young woman braves the hidden dangers of her kingdom to stop a mysterious rot from spreading. 🐝cloned insect army 🌷dash of botanical horror 💫slow burn romance 🐞unique nature magic 👑insect queen 🖤political intrigue

original moodboard for dark garden fantasy novel with series potential

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Lynn Love @lynnlove.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

'CROWSTONES' BLY MANOR X THE BEGUILED 👭Female led 👻Ghost story 🗡️Murder mystery 🏔️Remote location ❄️The hardest winter on record “Here lies a poor distressed maid. Just in her bloom she was snatched away, Her clothing made of the cold earthen clay.”’ #2025Pit #H #HF #A

Images of a frozen lake, winter trees, and a wooden Shack by a river. A young, red haired woman looks worried. They're are spectral eyes looking through a forest

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Lucy I PUBLISHING HYACINTHUS @lucyhalley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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Hannah Bashir @hannahbashir.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

OF WISDOM an Athena origin tale 🦉 ‘One day, when our deeds are no more than myth, and our names no more than memory, you will be remembered.’ #2025Pit #HF #A #Q

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Mia - Book Blogger / Author @paradiselibrary.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As teenager Evie lies in a coma, a stranger offers her mother Anna a final chance to save her. Anna must journey through her buried past, relive her worst memories and choose someone to die in Evie’s place. But what is the stranger’s motive? And does Evie want to be saved? #2025Pit #SPF #A

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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Taylor Swift’s RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME x WHAT LIES BENEATH When Sophie is brutally dumped, a voice in her head prods her to seek revenge. Is she possessed—or just pissed? 🌊unreliable narrator 🌊a haunting secret 🌊second chance love 🌊a twist that will 👀 #2025pit #na #t

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Yavanna Brouwer ✨ Writing Age of Sail Romantasy @yavannabrouwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Homebody Ondra accidentally becomes a death god, including a -probably- evil shadow minion. The Empire tasks her spitfire sister Ray to fix her. Or is she too late? Gravity magic & climbing | shadow mommy | #LGBTQIA+ Cinder Spires x Witchlands #A #F #R #2025pit #amquerying #writingcommunity

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J. L. Pavich 📚 @jlpavichbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN X MY DARK VANESSA Morgan spent years reinventing herself as Lily, a therapist in Los Angeles. But beneath her carefully curated life lies a simmering obsession: to dismantle the life of film producer Hugh Randall, the man who upended her life as a 15-year-old. #2025Pit #A #T

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Hughes Davidson @sojourner-hughes-d.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

“The Neon Blue” follows the transformative journey of a nonbinary adult figuring out who they are and how to love, taking unexpected turns with a speculative twist. The Thirty Names of Night x Old Enough 🔏Secrets & Lies 👽Hidden Identity 💔Third Act Breakup #2025Pit #A #LF #SPF #SF #LGBT #R

Collage: The upper left corner is a neon welcome sign against a red and blue-lit street. In the upper left corner is an envelope with a question mark on the flap. In the middle is a picture of WASP 39-b and Earth linked with a lipstick stain. On the bottom, two women hold hands in bed. In an image next to the woman, a hand paints on an easel. Both images lay against a black-and-white hypnotic background.

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