37 year old aspiring author from Chicago. Dachshund dad. Music nerd. Nap enthusiast. He/Him
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ALT Louisa paid an island retreat to fix her cheating husband. Now his replacement kisses her goodnight, then goes downstairs to eat him alive. It’s ordered her replacement next. She must free her husband before she joins him on the feeding table. Adult Horror 79k #QuestPit #Q #A #H
ALT Character art by @demonyong_nini, featuring Simone, her love interest Jadriel, and her cousin Nina, who is a ghost known as The East River Wraith. Book Pitch for THE ONE TO FEAR: Grief-stricken Simone summoned her murdered cousin, but the terrifying girl who returned wasn't Nina anymore. Now she’s a new urban legend known as The East River Wraith. A furious spirit who drowns deserving boys. Simone should help her find peace, but she’d rather Nina be a vengeful ghost than lose her again. Except, The Wraith’s going wrathful on the wrong boy. The bi boy next door, who Simone has never feared.
ALT Headline: Haunted & Hexed. Touch him & Burn. Kiss her & Die. The East River Waterfront sign now says East River Wraith. Book Comp images: Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch, The Invocations, Don't Let the Forest In. In a quote box, the first lines of THE ONE TO FEAR: One should never summon the dead. They can always find you. Follow you. Attach themselves to you. With the hashtag # The East River Wraith.
ALT Big 5 Editor and Literary Agent feedback on critiques for The One to Fear. And one from a beta reader: "Nina can do no wrong."
ALT Julian Butcher, Cappacale, cinematographer
ALT Londyn Bridges, Cappacale, dancer, chronically tired.
ALT Agents if you loved...
ALT The strong character arc of Beatrice in Divergent
ALT With tropes of a dying Earth, a ticking clock, self sacrifice, the reluctant hero, and the quest for a cure.
ALT He belongs to the forest. She's meant to die there. Image 1 overlay: framed hunched man. Image 2 overlay: framed woman with her face scratched over. "The Neighbors" repeated in the background.
ALT (1) notes found in the woods I frequently hike. Wrapped in foil, clipped to trees, pinned under leaves, or placed under a small rock. Images of cryptic notes overlayed. (2) Your local hiker-author with the unfortunate knack for finding strange notes and an underlying sleepwalking condition that has led her friends to believe SHE is the one leaving all the notes around central Pennsylvania. Framed image of R. A. Betzer on a wooden footbridge walking away from camera.
ALT The Pitch. "When Raven March moves to Pinehollow, she hopes the quiet woods will help her heal. Instead, she wakes to whispers, shadows between the trees, and warning notes in her own handwriting that she doesn’t remember leaving. Her only solace is Kane Han, her aloof yet ever-present neighbor. Their attraction is instant and volatile, but Kane belongs to the forest, and Raven is beginning to suspect it has plans for her, too." Includes gray runes and a framed image of a couple embracing on a dark background.
ALT Tropes & Vibes. Ripped pieces of paper with the text: cottagegore, New England Appalachia, tragic, romantic in a feral way, folkloric. Includes framed image of a shadowy couple running away holding hands on a dark, woodsy, dirt road.
ALT Title Slide: Title of the book across the top of the slide. The Women of Willow Hill by Samantha Gwyn. Contemporary Romantic Suspense. 70,000+ words. Graphics depicting a podcast.
ALT An Excerpt: The day the mayor went missing was the best day of her life. Not that she had anything against the mayor, besides the skeevy vibe she got from him once a couple of years prior, but Rosalie Foster loved nothing more than a good mystery. And this mystery just so happened to be in her very own town. A town where front-page news was a new stop sign being installed, the dates of the church’s yearly fish fry, or the one time where some of the farm boys motorized a bar stool and drove it around town.
ALT The Pitch: What started as an amateur investigation into her town’s missing mayor, somehow ended with her ex as her podcast co-host, the book club acting suspicious, the sheriff hiding evidence, a missing best friend and a possible serial killer on the loose. A podcast to die for
ALT Comps and Tropes: Book covers of ACROSS A VANISHING SKY by Catherine Cowles, FIX HER UP by Tessa Bailey, IDENTITY by Nora Roberts and SUITE LIES AND ALIBIS by Kristy Dixon. Tropes mentioned are second chance romance, brother’s best friend, a ticking clock, a missing person, nicknames and banter and small town gossip.
ALT From left to right, top to bottom: a hooded man at a boardwalk at night, a bus at night, a woman's profile silhouette at sunset, a 7-Eleven at night, a woman with blond hair doused in yellow light at night, shadows on the ground
ALT Colorful moodboard with the following images: 1. Aspen trees with white trunks and yellow leaves, there's yellow foliage on the ground and a blue sunny sky overhead 2. A coffee shop with a white counter and wood shelves. Everything is open and airy, there are hanging lights and shelves full of plants and supplies 3. A wood desk in front of a window, the sun is coming in on flower and little glass vials and green plants 4. a white girl, her face not pictured, is wearing a navy cardigan with yellow stars and jeans with sunflowers on them 5. Foam art being poured into a yellow coffee cup 6. a hand wearing grey fingerless gloves and holding crystals 7. a table with a mortar and pestle, small vials, and a spellbook 8. a watercolor of pink and green flowers 9. a ring of purple crystals with a white crystal in the center 10. 2 black cats looking out a window
ALT Mood board for the book I'm querying--what's pictured: mansion, brush, pearl necklace, eerie vibes/fog, sea, magnifying glass, mask, violin and sheet music
ALT a 4x4 grid of faded images top row: brown rabbits, a black eye, pink flowers, a stack of hand written letters with blue flowers second row: two young men hugging, three bloody hands clutching, blue storm clouds, a white flower crown third row: a meadow, a white rose, red apples, a blonde rabbit bottom row: a bloodshot eye, purple flowers, two young men kissing, a meadow
ALT collage of pictures: lake with a ladder on a floating dock, a long porch with rocking chairs and a 'Welcome Campers' banner in the distance. a large white building sitting down the hill with a thick forest behind it, several horses lined up looking away, an intricate stair railing with gilded pictures on the wall, a creepy path through the woods in the middle is a picture of a song as it would look on a device: The Kill (Bury Me) by Thirty Seconds to Mars.
ALT #questpit
ALT Creepy Halloween images including a witches hat, shadow people, ghost hunting equipment, witches boots, a spooky house surrounded by fogs, and a flaming woman.
ALT Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, sapphic gargoyle YA Urban Fantasy. A horned gargoyle face in a wall with its mouth open. A crow lit by stary blue sparkles, a stone angel, like one found on a grave, a dark hallway in a cathedral, colorful soft-focus rainbow sparkles