Welcome to the #agentguide for FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🪽
💕reluctant lovers on an epic quest
🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight
😉 a dash of humour
🦇 Philippine folklore
🍃 sentient forests
🏴☠️ pirate cities
🎭 masquerade balls
⚔️deadly trials
👑 battling religious tyrants
#agentsguide #fantasyromance
Writers truly never clock out 🫠
I’ve started intense and time-consuming research* for my
🌞west coast 🎰🍸urban filipino fantasy
feat. gods, monsters, strip clubs, Hollywood parties, casinos and convertibles
*rewatching Buffy
*rewatching Angel
*rewatching Charmed
What else should I research*?
Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!
ok. i am about to get sentimental on main.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
👀👀👀👀👀
Say less 😈
I want more fun mashups
a thousand and one arabian nights but its terminally online tiktok doomscroll brainrot
hansel and gretel giant robots
hatsune miku x barbie romcom
And you were a FABULOUS moderator!! ❤️🥰
Lia is a writer 📝 but she can’t seem to finish the epic battle scene at the end of her mega-viral romantasy series 🫠⚔️
James is a boxer 🥊 He doesn’t know how to coach creative crisis, but he needs to drum up business for his failing gym 😅💪
Can they help each other before they knock each other out?
A vicious manananggal desperate to become human is caught between
🌔 the terrifying Moon Goddess (Vegas casino kingpin)🃏🎰
🌞and the handsome Sun God (Hollywood movie star)🍸🎞️
in their war for Bathala’s divine thrown ❤️🔥
She must choose where her allegiances lie or risk the wrath of the heavens⚡️
Here’s a little thread of the pitches of chaotic romantic fantastical novels I’ve outlined rotting in my goblin writing brain ✍️❤️🔥🕯️
Affirmations are so important.
i like that if your robbery is sufficiently cool it becomes a heist
It was an absolute JOY to moderate the WHO’S TELLING THIS STORY (AND HOW?) panel at #CanCon2025 ❤️
We could have gone on forever about POV, first person vs third close narrative, and unreliable narrators!
Pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I taking quick breaks to eat and dance between all the fun CanCon activities ❤️
Not pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I sprinting to get to panels in time and taking nap breaks in the car 💤
Balance 🫶
#CanCon2025 highlight: THE MONSTROUS RETELLINGS PANEL!
Honoured to share the table with fabulous authors @kateheartfield.com, @anuja-v.bsky.social and Derek Newman-Stills 🫶
The room was PACKED the audience was ENGAGED and I had the BEST time!
Last day of #CanCon2025 and I can’t believe it’s almost over!!
I’ll be on a panel for THE TASTE OF SADNESS: WRITING EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION 🥀🥺🌊🍂
Come by to discover what makes people cry and all the ways we embody sadness for writing the feels 🫶
CanCon prep
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
As a reminder, here’s the talks I’m participating in! 🫶
Sending and receiving panel questions for @canconsffh.bsky.social and let me tell you, these talks are going to be SO COOL 👀✨📝
I am obsessed with Charmed and I now I must download go every single version 😍
Anyone else going to @canconsffh.bsky.social? 👀🍂📚💕
I can’t wait ahhhhhhhh 😍
Excited to be admitted into @futurescapesww.bsky.social Long Manuscript Workshop to work with Editor, Dianna Vega on my romantic fantasy adventure FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🎉🪽
Can't wait to meet my cohort and dig into the novel I've been obsessing over this year ❤️
Thank you!! Me too, it’s the passion project I wrote on the side of my desk and I can’t believe it’s evolved so much 🥹🫶
AHHHH thank you!!! That’s so kind haha it’s my fav things too 🥰
Wonderful, thank you so much! ❤️ I’ll be sure to send a query through soon ☺️
Oooo why thank you! Think pirates of the Caribbean Singapore scene meets the market montage in Tangled 🏮🌊⚔️
With only a ⚔️disgraced knight🔥 to aid her quest, Mahalina battles:
☠️mythical monsters
🍃enchanted woods
🏴☠️pirate city
🎭corrupt courtiers
👑ruthless tyrant
🔪deadly trials
to reclaim her lost wings🪽and ascend to heaven
..but the real risk is trying not to fall in love⚔️🔥
#DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT
When Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy
She must enter the perilous Wishing Wood to find him
In a world of
🕯️wishing curses
🎪enchanted markets
🕷️deadly riddles
⚔️impossible trials
💀false gods
nothing is certain and nothing is free
#DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT
