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ALT 1. A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.
ALT 2. A misty Lake District backdrop. In the foreground on the left are four images aligned vertically: a Cornish coastal view with a blue sea and a rich coastline. A silhouette of a woman exploring an urban exploration-style tunnel. A mist-bathed mansion style building, framed by a silhouetted tree. Lastly, a pen placed diagonally across filled notebook pages. On the right, a white box with text: THREE FRIENDS DESCEND INTO AN ABANDONED CORNISH MINE. TWO RETURN. TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. 99,000 words. Currently: Querying. THEMES: * Grief * Identity * Found family * Inherited power * Truth vs narrative * The cost of loyalty * Hope after trauma * Nature remembers * Institutional corruption
ALT 3. A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, text which reads: FOR THOSE WHO ENJOY… Beneath, three book covers: Jackson P. Brown’s The Reaper, Daniel Church’s The Hollows, and Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House. Below each book, a bullet-point list relating to each title, following the above header of “for those who enjoy…” and stating: “HIDDEN UNDERWORLDS & FOLKLORE / SUPERNATURAL. FOLK HORROR & ESCALATING TENSION. POWER DYNAMICS & INSTITUTIONAL DARKNESS.”
ALT 4. The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text: BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY. When an urban exploration ends with Conor being dragged into the dark by a creature of Cornish myth, Alyx Delaney (22) can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw. Shouldering guilt at the disappearance of her closest friend, and the feelings they left unspoken, Alyx digs for the truth. She uncovers Trinity: a covert, science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore. Grief drives Alyx to unearth secrets…
ALT moodboard for wip by tyler stasi
ALT a moodboard detailing nine images related to my querying novel THE BALLAD OF NETHER AND ALVAIS, they are: a manor house, white fire, a woman surrounded by ghosts, a knight and a lady, three distorted faces, a page from a fairytale book, the moon surrounded by ferns, black and white photographs scattered on a table and finally, a boat by a lake.
ALT MANUSCRIPT TITLE: COME BACK WRONG
ALT PITCH: In an enchanted rural town, four estranged siblings enact a dark ritual to summon their missing sister, who vanished four years prior. Their summoning spell contains a single command: COME BACK. When a monstrous creature begins killing townsfolk in the dead of night, the siblings are forced to reckon with the possibility that their beloved sister may have returned to the nest in the most horrific way possible...and it's up to them to make it right. But in order to do that, they must confront the reasons their sister left home in the first place.
ALT COMPARATIVE TITLES INCLUDE: "The Raven Cycle" by Maggie Stiefvater (setting & atmosphere); "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman (magic system & worldbuilding); "Evocation" by S.T. Gibson (character-driven story); and "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides (character dynamics.)
ALT THEMES, TROPES & FEATURES INCLUDE: small-town politics and exploration of gentrification, a diverse cast, repressed trauma as cosmic force, the domestic abject, critique of the nuclear family, a sentient house, and morally gray characters.
ALT 1. A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.
ALT 2. A misty Lake District backdrop. In the foreground on the left are four images aligned vertically: a Cornish coastal view with a blue sea and a rich coastline. A silhouette of a woman exploring an urban exploration-style tunnel. A mist-bathed mansion style building, framed by a silhouetted tree. Lastly, a pen placed diagonally across filled notebook pages. On the right, a white box with text: THREE FRIENDS DESCEND INTO AN ABANDONED CORNISH MINE. TWO RETURN. TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. 99,000 words. Currently: Querying. THEMES: * Grief * Identity * Found family * Inherited power * Truth vs narrative * The cost of loyalty * Hope after trauma * Nature remembers * Institutional corruption
ALT 3. A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, text which reads: FOR THOSE WHO ENJOY… Beneath, three book covers: Jackson P. Brown’s The Reaper, Daniel Church’s The Hollows, and Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House. Below each book, a bullet-point list relating to each title, following the above header of “for those who enjoy…” and stating: “HIDDEN UNDERWORLDS & FOLKLORE / SUPERNATURAL. FOLK HORROR & ESCALATING TENSION. POWER DYNAMICS & INSTITUTIONAL DARKNESS.”
ALT 4. The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text: BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY. When an urban exploration ends with Conor being dragged into the dark by a creature of Cornish myth, Alyx Delaney (22) can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw. Shouldering guilt at the disappearance of her closest friend, and the feelings they left unspoken, Alyx digs for the truth. She uncovers Trinity: a covert, science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
ALT a 3x3 moodboard top row (left to right): a black and white image of a young man kneeling, being puppeted by chains. two male hands trying to cling onto each other, a young man in a suit crying in an armchair middle row (left to right): a bundle of lavendar flowers, a white lamb with its feet bound in rope, two pale bleeding arms bound in silver chains bottom row (left to right): two young boys in white shirts hold each other, a white torso with a hanf clawing at the skin, a demonic figure with red eyes being grabbed across the face by a large red paw
ALT This Starving Thing Adult Upmarket Women’s Fiction 75,000 words // WORK IN PROGRESS
ALT PITCH: Love Has Won x The Girls x Social Creature Kaya O’Reilly’s followers see her as a God, and they believe her starvation-induced ascension is the only thing that can save the world. Mallory Nash, Kaya’s jealous former best friend, might be the only one who can save her from the dangerous cult she created for herself.
ALT Tropes: - messy women - redemption arc - beach setting - female cult leader - toxic friendships - difficult mother/daughter relationship - overcoming shadow
ALT PLAYLIST Wildflower by Billie Eilish Back to This by Helio Sequence Nightlife by Phantogram The Defeat by Ben Howard Bags by Clairo Everybody Hates Me by The Japanese House Daydreaming by Radiohead About You by The 1975
ALT 1. A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.
ALT 2. A misty Lake District backdrop. In the foreground on the left are four images aligned vertically: a Cornish coastal view with a blue sea and a rich coastline. A silhouette of a woman exploring an urban exploration-style tunnel. A mist-bathed mansion style building, framed by a silhouetted tree. Lastly, a pen placed diagonally across filled notebook pages. On the right, a white box with text: THREE FRIENDS DESCEND INTO AN ABANDONED CORNISH MINE. TWO RETURN. TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. 99,000 words. Currently: Querying. THEMES: * Grief * Identity * Found family * Inherited power * Truth vs narrative * The cost of loyalty * Hope after trauma * Nature remembers * Institutional corruption
ALT 3. A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, text which reads: FOR THOSE WHO ENJOY… Beneath, three book covers: Jackson P. Brown’s The Reaper, Daniel Church’s The Hollows, and Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House. Below each book, a bullet-point list relating to each title, following the above header of “for those who enjoy…” and stating: “HIDDEN UNDERWORLDS & FOLKLORE / SUPERNATURAL. FOLK HORROR & ESCALATING TENSION. POWER DYNAMICS & INSTITUTIONAL DARKNESS.”
ALT 4. The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text: BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY. When an urban exploration ends with Conor being dragged into the dark by a creature of Cornish myth, Alyx Delaney (22) can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw. Shouldering guilt at the disappearance of her closest friend, and the feelings they left unspoken, Alyx digs for the truth. She uncovers Trinity: a covert, science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
ALT Books on bookshelf, LOVE sculpture, girl and boy swinging around, scene from Philly with Ben Franklin atop city hall, blonde girl wearing sunglasses in a field, boy looking up, Superficial book, comic books.