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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com
A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064)
Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108)
Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371)
Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007)
JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP
601 California Street, Suite 1000
San Francisco, California 94108
Telephone: (415) 500-6800
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com
czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com
cyoung@saverilawfirm.com
kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com
Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953)
1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Telephone: (323) 968-2632
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: mb@buttericklaw.com
Counsel for Individual and Representative
Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
Richard Kadrey, an individual;
Sarah Silverman, an individual;
Christopher Golden, an individual;
Individual and Representative Plaintiffs,
v.
Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware
corporation;
Case No.
Complaint
Class Action
Demand for Jury Trial
Defendant."
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H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Last #P2Ppit post of the day with another #AgentsGuide (because I have a problem). #UA #NA #R #F #Q
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Jenna E Caputo @jennacapbooks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Worried about the future, 2 BFFs discover a magical orchard that thrusts them into a time-bending, reality-questioning adventure where they must escape the dark Shadow, save the orchard & get back to their own timeline before fading out of existence. #P2Ppit #Q #YA #C #F #R
mood board with a flying apple; cat; golden key; hourglass; full moon; a dancing girl; apple orchard; huge, gnarled tree; paintbrushes; a man's shadow; a ring of light; a couple holding hands; a dark, shadowy path in the woods; 2 hands reaching for each other; and a quote that says "the only way to have a life is to live your life..." ~The Orchard
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J. K. Lambo @jklambo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
🧁 She's a jaded, perfectionist pastry chef 🍰 He's a secretive, charismatic baker ❤️‍🔥 When their heated rivalry reaches an all-time high & sweet lies turn to bitter truths, can they achieve their desires without getting burnt or will they consume them? #P2Pit #PW #C #R #W #NA #A
Project Sugar and Spice moodboard

Top row: Black girl with afro in a pastry chef uniform; black couple laughing and spending time together; black man in a pastry chef uniform 

Middle row: decorated red velvet cake; "I'm not flirting; I'm just being extra friendly to someone who is extra attractive" quote; jelly doughnut sprinkled with powdered sugar

Bottom row: Macadamia nut cookies on a wooden board; brightly lit home kitchen; batch of snickerdoodle cookies
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Noga is in the query trenches!! @nogayourbroga.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS x BABEL x MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER NYC, 1945. After her third college rejection, Daniela Schechter fakes being an old money WASP to get around admissions quotas on Jews. Little does she know how much crime she'll commit to maintain the ruse... #P2Pit #A #UW #T #His
A moodboard with the following images: 1. A black typewriter 2. A black and white photo of a blonde white woman with shoulder length hair, wearing a sweater and a headscarf, looking to the side with a smirk 3. A marble statue of a Roman goddess holding a cornucopia 4. A silver letter opener 5. A burning house. Typewriter-style text in the middle reads, "If I must be vengeful, so be it."
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Marnie is reading! @amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
DIVINE RIVALS x POWERLESS A Saint is killed, triggering a set of deadly magic trials. Pia didn’t expect to be chosen for the competition, but is determined to win—and especially determined to beat her infuriatingly beautiful rival, Joanna #P2Pit #AgentedWriter #OS #F #editors
a collage style moodboard with: a red-haired woman (olivia cooke) in medieval clothing and a crown of stars, an altar, a quote saying ‘win because you don’t know how to lose’, a dagger, a quote reading ‘i will carve my way out with only my teeth’, hands holding a rosary, candles, two women almost kissing. the quote at the centre reads ‘let the games begin’
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L. Cyrus Whelchel @lcyruswhelchel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE x LEGENDS AND LATTES An agent's guide to my cozy fantasy mystery series Tail-Wing Trackers! It features a delightfully sassy FMC seeking to find her place in the world, though who's to say she won't also find love along the way? #P2Pit #UW #A #Q #F #M
A title poster for an agent's guide to a querying novel manuscript.A short elevator pitch for a querying novel, along with pictures of comparable books that potential readers may also enjoy.A moodboard for the novel along with a list of tropes for potential readers to see if they might enjoy the story.The opening lines from the manuscript.
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Z. T. Fairfax @ztfairfax.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
16yo actress Michelle only has to endure one season of THE HUGGLEBEEZ before moving on to the big screen. But when she’s sucked into the real Huggsburg with blood on her hands, her childish nightmare becomes a reality—and the puppets start to notice. Comps below! #P2Pit #Q #YA #H #T
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Kelly Esparza Is Agented Again! @kellyesparza.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
SUDDENLY A MURDER X KNIVES OUT When Harper Bolivar attends a billionaire’s masquerade ball & the heiress is found dead, she’s on the case. After she’s threatened by the murderer, can she stay alive long enough to catch the killer in 1️⃣ night before other guests--& her--die? #P2Pit #YA #M #T #Q
Mood board: what's pictured: mansion, pearl necklace, brush, magnifying glass, sea, fog, woods, violin and sheet music, mask
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Elaine Santos @elainecristinax.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What if the prey becomes the predator? What if the #villain is the main character? What if the #heroes have died long ago? What if the world you believed to be true is a #fantasy? Hit me up for a full manuscript request! #UW #Q #P2Pit #P2Ppit
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Z. T. Fairfax @ztfairfax.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Meet the cast of THE HUGGLEBEEZ! 🫂 Bernard - Best friend. Big Brother. Loyal to a fault 🌈 Michelle Alvarez - Creative problem solver 🙁 Margot Quizzly - Never met a question she couldn't ask 🔍 Clyde Sullivan - The best boy detective that ever lived #P2Pit #Q #YA #H #Spec #T
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FT Zahra @ftzahra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
A town with missing memories. A graveyard with disembodied crying. A snowstorm that never happened. And a dead girl walking with the answers. The only problem? She doesn't remember them, and she has 30 days to figure it all out before she dies again. #P2Ppit #YA #Q #U #SPEC
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Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION @morkalmarrh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is. #P2PPit #Q #SF #A
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Niko Stevens @nikostevens.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
As promised, here’s my updated agent’s guide to WILDERWOOD, a YA fantasy mystery complete at 90,000 words. #agentsguide #litagents #editors #writingcommunity #amquerying
Mood board, showing creepy forest pictures, a murder board, tapes, and an old buildingPitch. Reads “15y/o Quinton Crow arrives at Holloway Institute hoping for a fresh start. All he has to do to leave his past behind is keep his head down, paranormal abilities in check, and stay far away from the mysteries he’s spent his entire life obsessed with. His plan falls apart when he finds a fellow student murdered, her dead body being devoured by the forest called Wilderwood. Suddenly a prime suspect in the case, he must investigate to clear his name. But when he begins to dream of the Wilderwood, and finds the forest growing inside him, killing him from the inside out, he questions if he’s really as innocent as he’s trying to prove.Tropes: Dark academia, cottagegore, boarding school murder mystery, rivals to lovers (MLM), mixed media, sentient forests, portals, ghosts, and deadly competitions, #ownvoices BIPOC, trans, and mental health rep Comps: Truly, Devious X Don’t Let The Forest InFirst line: There was a thin line between paranormal investigation and instigation, and the currently, the only things between it were me and my grave.
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Chelsea Scott @chelseascottbks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
THE AGATHAS X SILENT SISTER 18 y/o Paige plans to spend her summer attending writing workshops and paddle-boating on the sparkly lake at camp. But when her boyfriend turns up dead and his BFF is arrested, she smells something fishy—and it isn't coming from the lake. #P2Ppit #Q #YA #M
A mood board with "let's go killing" written across the top next to an etching of mountain caps. Beside it is a picture of an orange tent. Polaroid-style pictures line the bottom. From left: a glowing question mark amid shadowed ones; an obscured face of a person wearing a yellow raincoat; the hand of a presumably dead body sticking out from underneath a sheet.
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Rachel is querying @rsumm.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
TWELVE AND THE COALITION They always said that the people who abandoned us must have loved us, because they could have sold us into slavery instead. It's hard to believe it when everyone else in this country is determined to prove we deserve our degradations. #P2Pit #Q #SF #A
moodboard collage: colorful cloths on clotheslines, blue buildings on a hill, ruins and rubble, fancy dinner party, skyscrapers, swat team arresting a man, silhouette of a man looking at the ocean, silhouette of a woman reading, two hands holding sparklers, old books on a bookshelf, a group of women sitting closely on stairs, very old computer station, abandoned room full of metal bedframes
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Alec @alecjmarsh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#p2pit #A #uw #F #lgbtq Scotland, 1925: a retired thief, a sorceress, and a demon hunter travel to England to steal a demonic grimoire. The thief and the sorceress are having a steamy affair, but he's pining after the hunter. As feelings clash, romantic betrayals threaten to become apocalyptic.
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Alec @alecjmarsh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#p2pit #uw #a #f #lgbtq Scotland, 1925: a thief must steal the English grimoire that started apocalypse 200 yrs ago. If he refuses, he’ll be hanged for past crimes. If he succeeds, he’ll hold the most powerful book in the isles… one that might destroy him. He still has time for an affair or two.
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𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐂𝐀𝓁𝓎𝓃𝓃ℯ is 𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 💗💛💙 @authorbeccalynne.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Detective Delilah races to unmask a serial killer in San Diego, uncovering haunting ties to her late father while battling her unraveling grip on reality. 🔪 modern day crime thriller 🧠 realistic mental health rep 🔫 female detective main character #P2Pit #UW #W
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Tyler is Querying! @tylerpyka.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
First post! INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE x DREAMGIRLS x IMMORTAL DARK - 🧛🏾‍♀️🩸Black vampires - 🎶 🎙️All about the music - 🖤 ⚔️Toxic romance Set against the rise of Motown and Civil Rights. #P2Pit #YA #F #W #P2Ppit #AW #Editor #WIP
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Niko Stevens @nikostevens.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X TRULY, DEVIOUS When 15y/o Quinton Crow finds a student dead, killed by the haunted forest he has control over, he becomes a prime suspect in the murder. But as he investigates, he realises he may not be as innocent as he’s trying to prove. #P2Pit #YA #UW
Film reel mood board, showing an old school, a deer skeleton, a forest, silhouettes in front of a clock, a murder board, and mushrooms
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17/01/2025
A turn of events forces Reign, romance author & skeptic to do the press tour for the movie based on her book with its lead actor/hopeless romantic Nathan. The internet eats up the hot chemistry between the two but is it more than just sparks? #P2Ppit #UW #A
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Dyamond_Writer @authorinspirations.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#P2Ppit #UW #W #A #H #T OUT OF THE TOMBSTONE Bernedette Dauphin was just doing her job as a member of the board of directors when she approved the expansion of Kindred Spirits Neurological Medical Center. Little did she knew that her actions would stir up Atlanta's dark past....
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Landon McAlister @ejoelwatts.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The book makes heavy use of Irish folklore + the slow psychological descent of the narrator all with a subversive message. Mostly told from the POV of the unreliable narrator, the Dearg-Du finally tells her story… to the Reader. #Ireland is second character #P2Ppit #a #ua #h
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Megan Daniels @meganauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
🕰️ 🖤JUNE FARROW X WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME🌻🔥 When struggling PhD student, Andy, is shoved 5 years into the future and finds she’s been murdered, she must work with her still-grieving husband to find her murderer and save herself. #P2Ppit #Q #spec #A #U
Two sisters hugging, a sunflower field, a man in front of a burning house, a mother holding her young child, two people getting married, the quote “She dreams too often of a face that isn’t hers.”
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Anna Lindsey @annalindsey.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
When 17-year-old Honor's ex-boyfriend shares intimate photos of her with their classmates, she has to decide whether to run from her problems and let him have the last word, or take back her story through her creative writing portfolio. #Q #YA #C #P2Ppit
ANYTHING BUT YOU
Contemporary YA Complete at 82,000 words
Photo collage featuring a photo of a small-town downtown setting, a journal open with pages torn out, hands holding cellphones, a man working as a barista in a coffee shop, a stack of letters, and the shilhoutte of a young woman.
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Mara Lynn Johnstone @marlynnofmany.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Dang it, kid, this is why we use protection when learning new magic. I told you we have spare gloves in the drawer. Yes, I know Ralphaniel doesn't need them and Fredward is pulling strings with his teeth. Go visit the nurse, then get some gloves. A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO STRING MAGIC #P2Ppit #W #A #F
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17/01/2025
TRUE BLOOD x BUFFY x BLOOD DEBTS Set in a southern gothic Texas, Nola waited her whole life to be a debutante in a long line of vampire slayers. But between century old treaties, vampires, witches, family feuds, star-crossed lovers and the bond between cousins what will fate decide? #P2Ppit #UW #YA
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Samantha is AGENTED 🖤🕯️ @samcrouchbooks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
AN EMBER IN THE ASHES x MULAN A moon-blessed wilding girl must compete in the kingdom’s horseball tournament to awaken her magical counterpart—the only way to stop her darkness-plagued brother from poisoning the realm 🌊❄️🐺 #P2Ppit #YA #F #W
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AL @alwritesnow.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Benny's grandfather founded a family full of musical, magical gifts, but that didn't save any of them from heartbreak. It's up to Benny, now nearing his 70s, to try to bring them peace in this life and the next before his time on Earth is up. #P2Ppit #F #Q #A
Agent's guide to WORTH THE WHISTLE: Midwestern family saga, magical realism, 96,000 words, multi-pov over four timelines: 40s, 60s, 2020s, and the afterlife. Also, there's a cute robin pictured.
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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom—or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #P2PPIT 📖 💙📚 #Q #R #A Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender
PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom—or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? 

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender I Am Chosen
By Dawn Berkoski

77,000 M/M Paranormal Romance
Dark with a little spice meets silly-sweet
Blue Bloods (minus the angels and school) x Interview with a Vampire (add more humor) x X-Men (replace Xavier with Stryker as head boss) x Yakuza

Tropes
*  Forbidden Love
*  Fish Out of Water
*  Forced Proximity
*  Dark Secrets
*  Unequal Power Structure
*  High Action Chase Scenes
*  Emotional Growth Arcs + Satisfying End

Quotes
"He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger."
~Jason Allard (Protagonist)
"Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!"
~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover)
"Alexander and I have unfinished business."
-Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival)

MAIN CHARACTERS
Alexander Grant	Jason Allard
CEO of M-Corp	Bartender
Control Issues	Anxiety/Clingy
Likes: Power + Money	Likes: Video Games +PizzaSeveral photos are shown in this Mood Board for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river.A car speeding past a cemetery. The view is seen from the driver, looking out their side window. Photo by Dawn  Berkoski
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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
🎸 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 #P2Ppit #W #A #LF #M
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, they are: big ben (london), a board of evidence, a street cornered off by crime scene tape, someone playing the guitar, the silhouette of a rockstar, musical notes, a crowd of music goers, evidence on the floor and someone punching a mirror.
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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #P2Ppit #Q #YA #F #R #RF #agentsguide #amquerying
An agent’s guide to: “Mark of a Magpie”
YA Romantic Fantasy
119k Words

Behind the text is a piece of parchment paper surrounded by ocean water and gold flower outlines.Blurb:

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy…
Ryn is a small-town thief with a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d definitely be a fool to take up, but desperation fuels ever decision she makes.
Five for Silver, Six for Gold…
Seven is set in his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. When the castle goes into lockdown, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The rich are dropped like flies, and all suspicions are on them.
Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told.

The text is on a piece of parchment paper, with ocean water and gold flower outlines behind it. Tropes:
Thief x Assassin
Mental Health Rep
Identity vs Duty
Class Difference
Forced Proximity 
Secret Code
Morally Gray
Women’s Wrongs
Unlikely Allies to Lovers

Text is on a piece of parchment paper. Besides the text are two headshot drawings: one of a girl with brown hair pulled back by braids, and the other of a black-haired boy with a worried expression. Behind the parchment paper are ocean waters with gold flower outlines. The Atmosphere:
There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand.

Behind the collage of pictures are ocean waters, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.
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H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Romeo and Juliet meets The Hunger Games in this dark romantic fantasy where a rebel girl and an Elite boy fall in forbidden love. As deadly monsters stalk the streets and war brews, they're pitted against each other. But Fate has a tricky sense of humour. #P2Ppit #UA #NA #F #R #Q
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Chelsea Scott @chelseascottbks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
THE COUNSELORS X A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE When the glue to their friend group is murdered, four teens at a remote summer camp for the arts must dig up dirt on each other's hookups, criminal pasts, and drug dealing to expose a killer who'll do anything to keep the truth buried. #P2Ppit #Q #YA #M
A mood board with a background of tan and gray colors torn away to reveal newspaper writing. At the top, in cursive is "Our Summer at Camp." Pictures are "taped" to the board. Clockwise, from top: a row of cabins; a group of teens huddled together, smiling, holding sparklers; a cherry between lipsticked lips; a teen girl with dark hair and bangs working on a sculpture; a man's hands in handcuffs; a girl in a dress, holding an axe, shadowed; heart hands against the sunset. A photo booth printout of attached pictures on the lower right features, from top to bottom: a young man posing for a picture; a woman giving the camera a mysterious look; a smiling young woman with her eyes closed; and a screaming woman with hands all over her face. The board has blood spatter, a trio of beige hearts etched on the top left and a sprig of wildflowers taped on the right. A drawing of a cluster of pine trees lines the bottom left.
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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
UNWIND X DRY X SWEET TOOTH Pure reds are wanted in the breeding labs and Candy’s unique biology makes her the perfect scientific specimen. Saving humanity from the sun sounds cool but falling in love with her cannibal friend sounds so much better. #P2Ppit #Q #YA #SF #writingcommunity
Kids walking, red lizard, silhouette of woman in red background, red clouds, dystopian person on the street, hot Los Angeles
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Rachel is querying @rsumm.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES x GREAT EXPECTATIONS When Twelve, an aged-out foster kid, is forced away from the only home he’s ever known, he has to learn how to appear complicit with the Coalition’s atrocities before the Coalition realizes he exists… #P2Pit #Q #A #SF
An Agent's Guide to Twelve and the Coalition: An Adult Science Fiction NovelPitch: When wealthy scion Laurel's parent's adopt a second child, she feels replaced and so decides to bully, and then romance, the one person in town who can't fight back - Twelve.  Meanwhile, when Twelve, raised in a children's home, learns of evidence that someone tried to hide him from the government, he reluctantly investigates his origins after a final fight with Laurel, unknowingly revealing his existence to the government, which won't let him get away again...Tropes/Vibes: Forced proximity, enemies to lovers to enemies to-, cool mentors, multiple POVs, feminist and classist bureaucracy, impossible choices, FMC: asshole with a heart of goldSnippet: "My father saved your life," Laurel said.  "He took my life away from me!" Twelve said.  "You both did.  What makes you so much better than me?  That you were sponsored and I wasn't?  We are not different, Laurel!"  She raised her arm to slap him, but he caught it and didn't let go.  "I take it back," he hissed.  "You belong here.  Happy to ignore injustice so long as your life is undisturbed.  You walk on others without thought and congratulate each other for being so noble, so enlightened, and you think we're the lowly ones?"  He let go of her arm and turned to walk away.  "You've changed," she said softly.  "Since when were you so angry?"  Twelve stopped.  A memory pulled at his mind, from the very first time they had met.  He turned.  "If I scream, they'll believe anything I say," he said.  "Isn't that what you said?"
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Rachel is querying @rsumm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
An agent's guide to my #amquerying novel, TWELVE AND THE COALITION:
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