If you are a Southern California person upset about @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, the theatre his book tour will be at on 3/23 is the Moss Theatre.
Their phone number is 310-828-5582
Let’s get this film across the finish line! Be part of our crowdfund for JITTERS MOVIE! 🎥
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JITTERS Detective Collymore, a single divorced father, stumbles upon a mysterious case involving the death of Tiffany, Digging deeper, he discovers Jitters, psychological twists.
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Gorgeous!
"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?"
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I am open to queries! querytracker.net/query/Michel...
(Please check my guidelines and the note at the top of my query form as I am only open to select genres. Queries sent that don't match my genres will be rejected.)
Thank you!
I, for one, am pretty fond of Canada.
Mountains shrouded in mist
Whether you live in a penthouse apartment or on the street, in the end we all go back to the land. It's what we all have in common. 🌲🏔
That Day.
It was an honor to join the Minnesota Newspaper Association Convention and speak about the importance of local news.
We're lucky to have a paper in all 87 counties. They make sure every community in Minnesota is informed, connected, and well-served.
If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes
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To quote Kurt Vonnegut, "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things."
#LGBTQSkys #BookSky #AuthorSky #SapphicSky #FightCensorship #BooksNotBans
I didn’t participate in #youdeservepit but I’m so happy to have found some more writers to connect with, to learn about their books and boost their pitches. So much talent out there!
black spring querying novel original fantasy and romance subplot
black spring summary
black spring tropes/features
comps for original fantasy novel
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #F #R
a revamped #agentguide for my revised:
BLACK SPRING ✨🖤💐
👑an epic garden fantasy
🌷slow burn romance
🌱dash of botanical horror
🐝unique nature/ink magic
w/👀editor interest👀
Page 1 with background of the cliffs and sea at sunset. Split diagonally with on one side the text:An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, and piece of dialogue: '...our very own Greek tragedy,' says Troy. 'It has it all. Sex, money, adultery. Even, he must hope, murder.' On the other side is The Pitch: She's always tried to do the 'right thing'. But when a death becomes a suspected murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves who all have a motive. Especially the dead woman's husband, the man she's in love with.
Page 2 is entitled Opening Lines. As the song ends and the music fades into silence she hears the footsteps behind her. She doesn't rise from the lounger or turn her head, just takes another gulp of her wine. 'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice blurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.' 'There's plenty I have to say.' Her head whips round then. She smiles. She'd been wondering if one of them will turn up. She'd refused to go to the stupid party. They're all stuck-up and boring, and they hate her so she knows she won't be missed. But sitting here alone by the pool, drinking, waiting for her phone to ping a reply – any kind of response! – she'd grown bored and been thinking maybe she ought to go after all. Just to spoil their fun.
Page 3 has Tropes & Themes - du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder And The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera
Page 4 has The Vibes - moodboard with the following photos - the Acropolis at night; a man in a villa swimming pool at night. A note saying 'I know what you did'; a couple kissing; a Mrs Danvers type silhouette parting fine, lace curtains. In the centre is a partial photo of a dead woman floating in water. Either side is a photo of a man standing at a desk, hanging his head; a couple's clasped hands; a lone man standing on a rock by the sea; a woman gazing up at a man, her arms round his neck. Last row has a woman screaming, her head thrown back; the silhouette of a woman in a party dress running; a smashed wine glass and broken phone; a car driving away on a deserted coastal road at night; and a couple embracing, the woman tearful.
My 💫Agent's Guide💫 to CARELESS WHISPERS which was Longlisted for Joffe Books Prize '24.
REBECCAxSky Atlantic's RIVIERA×Netflix's THE PERFECT COUPLE
The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive...
💥Secret
💥Slow❤️🔥
💥Obsession
💥Unrequited💘
💥Betrayal
💥Murder
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #R #M
A tourism style poster showing several bright and cheerful images of sandy beaches and people playing in the water. The bottom image is a smiling girl with big red X's over her eyes. Over the collage are the words "Welcome to Bludeye Beach", and over that text a graffiti style phrase "something is wrong in bludeye beach"
DRESDEN FILES X BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
While meeting her dad, Edie Grayson falls in love with his seaside town. Unfortunately, there's a dark undercurrent here. Edie has to find out: what is wrong in Bludeye Beach?
🫂Found family
💕Slowburn romance
👻Monster menagerie
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #H #F
A collage of images starting top left and moving clockwise. Two women in white dresses running through a forest of dark trees. A large manor obscured by fog. A dark-haired woman with eyes downcast wearing a veil. A woman in a white dress staring away into the foggy field where a dark horse stands. Large wrought-iron gates at the end of a path lined with barren, dark trees. A man turned to the side, face obscured by his dark hair. At the center a woman wearing a white shirt with half her hair tied up with a white ribbon.
The residents of Blackwell Home for Wayward Girls can never leave—their magic harvested for wealthy patrons who pay dearly for it. A client promises to help Adelia, now 24, escape, but is she desperate enough to trust him? Time is running out—Blackwell girls never turn 25.
#YouDeservepIt #wip #a #f
3x3 moodboard, green themed. from left to right and top to bottom: a photo of a lake with trailing weeping willows; a hand bursting from a gnarled tree; a lake lit from above; three coloured circles diagonally placed, ochre green and deep red; a quote “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you” Lord of the Flies by William Golding; a porch with greenery; a lake surrounded by trees; the shadow of a reaching hand; someone running just out of sight in a hedge maze
LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE ASH HOUSE
contains:
🎹 haunted piano playing
🫐 suspicious berries
🐊 crocodiles that shouldn’t be there
🔥 burning portraits
⚖️ unwise use of a scalpel
⏳ an endless summer
👁️ a 14yo puppet master
🤲🏼 8 children who don’t yet know they’re his to play with
#YouDeservepIt #MG #Q
A collection of pictures depicting a cold, rocky island kingdom full of dragons and magic and complete with betrayal and love
Raegan longs to continue in her late mother’s footsteps, but when the king announces her betrothal to the prince-her x-bff & 1st love-she’ll have to swap her mage smock for a tiara, all while unraveling secrets long-held within the palace walls.
#YouDeservepIt #WIP #A #Romantasy
Nathan playing hockey. Maggie playing keyboard. Maggie studying. Preschool. Nathan listening to music with eyes closed. Nathan and Maggie skating. Nathan kissing Maggie’s hair. Bunny hugging teddy bear. Nathan and Maggie hugging.
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
#YouDeservepIt
It’s Only Me, a YA contemporary romance:
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.
#Q #YA #R #C #ComingOfAge #poc #writingcommunity #amquerying
Amber Baird: KINSHIP, 84k word horror-thriller agent's guide. Subversion of gothic tropes, long-lost siblings, true crime podcast, prey, family secrets, psychedelic, unhinged queer female protagonist, generational trauma, predators, meat, bears, remote California location, dark humor.
KINSHIP blurb. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her girlfriend's husband back in San Francisco, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up a murder he commits, because that's what family's for... probably. Now if she wants to get back to her lover in one piece, she'll have to navigate her brother's taboo affections and dodge multiple suspicious parties. So much for her quiet weekend away.
KINSHIP first lines. Driving all night across the state in a part of California no one vacations in, a part that still belongs to the animals, my eyes burn for sleep. Car flanked as it is by clear paths as far as I can see, would it be so bad to let my eyes drift closed for just a moment?
KINSHIP, for fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leeds (surrealism), My Sister the Serial KIller by Oyinkan Braithwaite (exploration of family), A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers (dark humor), Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild (female rage).
KINSHIP, a pitch-black thriller with horror elements featuring queer characters, long-lost siblings, and (of course) murder.
6 literary agents are currently reading it. Wouldn't you love to read it too? #Q #A #T #H #YoudeservepIt
Sage has finally trapped the God of Time, planning to kill him to avenge her dead love. Until he offers her a deal: if she can survive a human lifetime as a god, he'll help her kill the rest of the gods.
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #amquerying #WritingCommunity
Pictures of fire, long red hair with a braid, tears rubbing down a girl's cheek, a book with candles, and a castle on a hill surrounded by mist
Mageborn X Divine Rivals
When the king discoveres defiant Rhi has illegal 🔥 magic, she's sent on a quest with the prince to steal fairy tears from a neighboring kingdom. Fail and her status, her home, her family...all will be lost.
#youdeservepit #YA #F #R
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette
🎸 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
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #LF #M
Hey #writingcommunity friends! As the host of #YouDeservepIt I’ll be boosting as many pitches I can today from here and the @youdeservepit.bsky.social account! If you want a boost please let me know below!! Cheering ✨LOUDLY✨for all of you! (& please feel free to boost my pinned post if willing 🤗)
Sherlock Holmes x Oceans 8
Amanda is a human lie detector. More used to exploiting her talents at underground poker, she is drawn into a real life game of truth or lie, where the players will do whatever is necessary to keep the truth hidden.
#YouDeservePIt #A #T #Q #Heist #AgentsGuide
SNOW WHITE x EVELYN HUGO in this contemporary romance:
MORE THAN JUST A FAIRY TALE
❣️ grumpy and sunshine
🏠 forced proximity
🫶🏻 queer representation
🧑🤝🧑 ensemble cast
✨ modern retelling of a cherished fairy tale
#youdeservepit #A #R #AG #editorsguide #editors
ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK
When Birdie & Lennon accidentally summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three.
🌿coming of age
🌿multi-POV
🌿magical take on the string theory
🌿petty gods + politics
#YouDeservepIt #q #a #f
An illustrated background the story of Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden. A lush garden dominates the frame with an apple tree, with two brightly-colored parrots in its branches. A horse stands near the trunk. At the bottom a man and a woman stand naked, looking at each other as she reaches a hand and plucks an apple from the tree. A snake, coiled around the branch, watches closely.
Follow Eve, the "first woman," through 1,000 years of art history as her story is used as a tool of women's oppression and liberation in this ultimately celebratory work
🍎 Gorgeous artworks
🍎 Quality research
🍎 Historical context
🍎 Thoughtful discussion
#YouDeservepIt #A #NF #WIP
