WINE & WHITE SQUIRRELS by Samantha Gwyn. This is an adult contemporary rom-come complete at 70,000 words and has series potential. Small town life and a woman who doesn't have time for games, blend in this fun and sexy story sprinkled with laughter, interfering aunts and gallons of red wine.

Comps and Tropes. IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER, THE PUMPKIN SPICE CAFE AND BOSS WITCH. Themes and tropes: family and found family, quirky small town, meet-cute, grump/grump, self discovery and redemption & growth.

The Pitch: Maddie had no idea that moving to a small town meant secret fiancées, ALL the town gossip, a crazy ex and two men who drive her wild, but when a tornado hits, she faces her biggest challenge yet.

An Excerpt: She chuckled a low throaty laugh and turned toward the sidewalk. “Well, this evening turned out much different than I thought it would.” she said, looking over at him as they walked. “Do you always go to the bowling alley and make-out with strange women on Sunday nights, or is this a one off?” He watched as she licked her lips which were slightly swollen from his short beard. “This was a first for me,” he grabbed her hand as they walked “I usually make my moves during miniature golf.”

Updated #agentguide #editorguide ready for the world.

Mean Maddie is moving to the country, but the country might not be ready for her.
She had no idea small town life could mean secret fiancées, ALL the town gossip, 2 interfering aunts, 1 sexy neighbor and a literal tornado heading right for her.

Text reading "An Editor's guide to Phoebe and Nolan Make a Scene by Kyra Nelson. Rep: Nicole Eisenbraun and Ginger Clark of GCL"

A girl with long brown hair cups the face of a red-headed boy as they gaze into each other's eyes. Surrounding text: "Rehearsal" kisses cinnamon roll boy socially awkward heartthrob love letter to fandoms co-stars playing onscreen LIs Asexual rep former tween star paparassi drama cute cats

Text reading For Fans Of with book covers for Flip the Script by Lyla Lee Kiss and Tell by Adib Khorram Geekerella by Ashley Poston Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee and You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

Phoebe’s acting career has stalled since the completion of her hit tween series and her public breakup with her co-star. When she’s offered the lead role on a high-budget superhero miniseries, she sees a chance to revive her career. Even if the showrunner is pushy, sexist, and determined to straight-wash her canonically asexual character. One thing she’s not going to do? Fall for her new co-star. Nolan may be an on-screen darling, but can barely carry a conversation off-script. Until he meets Phoebe, who couldn’t care less about his stardom or awkwardness. For the first time, Nolan feels like he can be himself, only to realize he doesn’t even know who he is behind the superstar persona. He’s spent his whole life trying to please others, particularly his controlling mother, at the expense of figuring out his own life. As Phoebe and Nolan’s off-screen chemistry becomes as undeniable as their on-screen chemistry, their delicately balanced lives collide, and they’ll need to learn to write their own happily ever afters.

An #EditorGuide for PHOEBE AND NOLAN MAKE A SCENE

A starlet trying to save her floundering acting career and a socially awkward teen heartthrob, cast as love interests, must fight the straightwashing of a canonically ace character, and their feelings for eachother.

#YA #Romance #LQBTQ #onsub

New adult science fantasy with romance. Editors guide to: The Crooked Jackal, by Tasha Livingstone. Represented by FinePrint Literary Management.

Tropes and treats: QPOC MMC & LI (#own), transdimensional smuggling, stabby X cinnamon roll, magical mafia, friends-to-lovers, anticolonial. Fanart by Ikki.

Pitch: Framed for murder, infamous thief Faine seeks freedom, power, and retribution from a transdimensional mafia, but when best friend Devlin becomes entangled in his downfall, Faine must decide which is more important—achieving his goals, or protecting the only man he’s ever loved. Jade City + Foundryside

Mood board: Tattoos, cityscape at sunset, skulls, vibrant colors

Guess who completed Round 1 of agent revisions? To celebrate, I wanted to reveal the title and #editorsguide for my new MS. To any lurking #editors, please 🖤 or contact
@laurenbieker.bsky.social
at FinePrint, if you’re interested in seeing more once it’s on sub. 👀🔥

#WritingCommunity #editorguide

✨first editor request✨
for DEMON CHEVALIER 🥳

Thank you 🤘🏼

#QuestPit #editorguide #romantasy

A guide to A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT by Chezza Lee. Represented by Alex Land at MWLA.

Pitch: an epic love story across lives. In a feminist reimagining of an Asian folktale, rebellious Shizhi runs away with the farmer she's forbidden to marry, but when a jealous Celestial Empress forces her to live a past life that spans three realms, Shizhi must confront madness, tragedy, and hell itself to reclaim her freedom and save the man she loves. Comps: IMMORTAL, ARIADNE, A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS, THE SCORPION AND THE NIGHT BLOSSOM.

Tropes/themes: romantic fantasy, non-linear narrative, cdrama vibes, journey through hell, female friendships, forbidden love, Asian myth retelling, spiritual magic, mythological beasts, generational trauma, red thread of fate, angst and blood.

Snip: “A troublemaker, and a clumsy one at that.” Mingniu inspected my palm as I relished the feel of his fingers on mine. His hands were warm and soft, still new to the work that would form a lifetime of calluses and cracked skin. I momentarily glanced at the place where our hands were joined, but my eyes were drawn back in an instant. A ghost of a thin red line was tying our wrists together, almost too faint to see, as if the moonlight was playing tricks on my eyes. I blinked, and it was gone. Drawing a handkerchief from his robe, Mingniu looked at me with eyes full of intensity, and my breath caught in my throat, the red line forgotten. “This will hurt.” All I could do was nod.

New guide for A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT!✨
A Cowherd & Weaver-inspired romantic fantasy about fate, storytelling, love, and freedom.
🕊️Star-crossed lovers (HFN)
🕊️Myth retelling
🕊️Diverse world // 3 realms
🕊️Hell quest

Rep: Alex Land at MWLA✨
#editorguide #readerguide

Now #agented
THE GIRL WITH BLOOD ON HER DRESS
Eliza Graves wakes up with amnesia and can only speak French, a language she has never spoken before. Afraid someone wants her dead, she must trust the complete stranger everyone says is her husband.
#questpit #AG #A #T #EditorsGuide #EditorGuide #mswl

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA

💋middle-aged feminist rage
🛼campy 80s setting
💋body horror
🛼satanic panic backdrop
💋dark humor
🛼the darkest of deals
💋bubblegum horror

#QuestPit #AG #A #H #W #WIP #editorguide

BRING ON SPOOKY SEASON! 🎃👻🍁

When a Halloween ghost hunt awakens a haunting family legacy, 12 y/o Casey must figure out who he is beyond his recent grief, and who he refuses to become. Especially since his sister’s soul, and reality itself, depends on it. #MG #H #editorguide

Trope Map. Fanart of FMC with sword. QPOC FMC & LI (#own). Magical mobsters. Transdimensional war. Anti-colonial. Swordplay. Exes-to-lovers. Dark academia. Fanart by Ikki.

Editors guide to THESE WILTED BONES by Tasha Livingstone. Represented by FinePrint Literary Management.

Short pitch. Anti-colonial Fourth Wing Meets Jade City with an LGBTQIA+ twist in this exes-to-lovers romance when conscripted weapon specialist Amira and mafia heir Havoc investigate disappearances at Stormfront War Academy, where their returning feelings for one another may prove more hazardous than surviving their lethal exams.

Long pitch.

Here is my updated #editorsguide to THESE WILTED BONES, a new adult romantasy (anti-colonial Fourth Wing x Jade City). To any lurking #editors , please 🖤 or contact
@laurenbieker.bsky.social
at FinePrint, if you’re interested in seeing more. 👀🔥

#WritingCommunity #agented #editorguide

And then my dad tells me a story from when he was in college. A REAL STORY I want to ask him a million questions, but they all stick in my throat. I hit pause on the recording app. Because I know one thing for certain: Dad definitely isn't talking about Mom.

Almost Flying, Imogen Obviously, YES DAY, The Babysitter's Club series

Hannah Miller dreams of becoming a journalist, but right now, she’s just trying to navigate her parents’ divorce and the end of 7th grade. At least she has Picnic Day to look forward to—a weekend where she can reunite with her best friends, Diego and Gemma, during their parents’ college reunion. But when she interviews her dad for her podcast about his first Picnic Day memory, she uncovers a heartbreaking story that makes her question what kind of love he’s hiding. Diego’s got his own worries. He’s hoping his moms will let him join an elite travel baseball team, and he can’t stop thinking about Gemma and the almost-kiss from last Picnic Day. As he works on perfecting his breaking ball, he wonders if he’ll get his heart broken this weekend, too. Gemma, tired of dealing with endless school drama, is looking forward to a peaceful Picnic Day with her besties. But with her parents busy hosting and the reunion crowd bigger than ever, she worries this year won’t feel like the familiar weekend she's been counting on.

*** #EDITORGUIDE for PICNIC DAY ***
My quirky MG/lower YA about three best friends navigating their parents' college reunion at the FAMOUS UC Davis Picnic Day.
If you love queer role models, multi modal texts, and awkward cringe moments, this might be a story for you!
#EditorsGuide

In celebration of flinging my new MS at my agent 😂 I've been working on my upcoming #editorguide

I swear, these vibes have changed me as a person 😆🥲💅

#WritingCommunity #editorsguide #WIP

Editor guide / a smokeless fire / arianna Siddiqui

Pitch: adult fantasy murder mystery when Sahara a 24-year-old woman with bipolar disorder discovers that her fiancé‘s dead body has been possessed by charming gin. She strikes unlikely deal. She’ll let him stay in the decomposing body if he helps her solve her fiancé‘s murder a smokeless fire explores the intersections of mental illness, Pakistani folklore and identity offering in #OwnVoiceIsNarrative

A love letter to Pakistani culture, a ticking clock in the form of a decaying body, grumpy, ( her) sunshine ( him ) bipolar one rep, #OwnVoices

hi #editors, here’s a #editorguide to my project, A SMOKELESS FIRE 🔥 a 🇵🇰 inspired low fantasy murder mystery, going on sub soon ☺️

feel free to interact or contact my agent!

Presenting a MG horror adventure centered around generational curses, urban legends come to life, terrifying shadow worlds, and unbreakable friendships throughout grief, ghosts, and growing up. 🎃🐈‍⬛🪦

#MG #H #OS #questpit
#editorsguide #editorguide

Self-made character art (via picrew) made into a chart (via Canva) for queernormative Adult Epic Fantasy STARLING by J.L. Comes Center: Stel, a strikingly beautiful dark-skinned, frost-haired Black boy of 21 years, is a prince born by an accidental wish upon a Star Upper Right: Darren, a moss-skinned, beautiful and scarred man, who is confined to the form of a big, black wolf (reason unknown, due to trauma-induced amnesia) Lower Right: Nos, 18 years, trained transboy enemy Assassin of the The Order of the TriCes, a group against all magickind Lower Left: Delilah, 24 years, an (unknown at the time) Fire Elemental who is curvy, feisty, and always in the mood to be pleased. Upper Left: Sephor, 23 years, is Stel’s closest friend, a sweet, thick young man who has been secretly hiding his ability of mentally speaking with animals (and, soon, all manner of creatures) through touch

LOTR x THE SWAN PRINCESS x STARDUST
#editorguide

Five stand against a Shadow Demon hellsbent on destroying the Realm:

✨The Wish-born Prince
🐺 The Wolf in disguise
🔥 A Lady of Fire
🏹 An Enemy Assassin
🐉 The Beast-Tamer

Magic. Power. Love. Is it enough?

#questpit #A #F #AG

Dear acquisition #editors, I’m thrilled to present my #editorguide for BODY INSURANCE #SF #SPEC #A

📌ROSE is society’s darkest secret that threatens utopia.
🌎Grounded Upper World
⬇️Steampunk Underworld
🫀Cyberpunk Flesh Market
🧬Science of Organ Growth
🗯️NYT Bestselling Blurbs

An Editor's Guide to Hold Me Like a Grudge by Kyra Nelson, a young adult romantasy repped by Nicole Eisenbraun and Ginger Clark of Ginger Clark Literary.

An image of a goth girl with purple hair and boy in a red sweater surrounded by tropes: Academic rivals to lovers, only one bed, pastel goth, Addams family vibes, magic archeology, fire powers x water powers, forced proximity, grumpy x grumpier

If you like The Shadows Between us, What's Not to Love, Wednesday, Monster High, As If On Cue, Dance of Thieves.

Lydia Blackwater’s father may be notorious as a corrupt politician, but all Lydia wants is to quietly study ancient magical artifacts. That, and avoid her long-time nemesis Nico Edevane, the son of the man who put Lydia’s father in prison. When Lydia and Nico scuffle near an artifact, the artifact’s magic malfunctions and creates a tether binding Lydia and Nico to the artifact, and consequently to each other. Unable to move more than twenty paces from the artifact or each other, they scheme to make it through a school week without their connection being discovered. As the two rivals are forced to work together for the first time, Lydia starts to realize that Nico might not be any of the things—vapid, arrogant, selfish, cruel— that she thought he was. Maybe they’re both victims of their father’s messy history. But the closer they grow, the more Lydia realizes she’s not just at risk of losing her dream internship; she’s at risk of losing her heart.

#EditorGuide

A mishap with an artifact leaves Lydia magically tethered to her rival, unable to move more than twenty paces from him. If they don't undo the spell, she risks losing a dream internship in magic archeology...and her heart

#YA #Romantasy #onsub

House in the woods at night with lights on in the windows, Rep: Morgan Hughes

Pitch plus first line and moodboard: Upper left: Hallway with closed door and greenish light Upper center: Forest with tall, thin trees in the mist Upper right: Stone sculptures from cemetery with one kissing another’s head Center left: Cemetery stones at night in orange-ish light Center: Four Girls looking at the camera on a bed, making peace signs with their hands Center right: Dark and shadowy road covered in mist Lower left: Camera in black and white with a hand holding the lens cap Lower center: Birthday cake with candles Lower right: Blonde-haired girl sitting in a room with a red light and staring at the floor with a sad expression

Tropes plus illustration: 12yo brown-haired Sami in her pjs (black tank top and flannel pj bottoms) is wearing the silver necklace her Grandpa gave her. She's standing in the dark hallway with her friend, Jadah, who has dark, spongy curls, dark skin, and is wearing stretchy blue pjs. They are both holding their phones with the flashlights pointed outwards and they both appear scared.

Comps: The Conjuring, Coraline, Stranger Things 4, Karma Moon Ghost Hunter, It Found Us, Asking for a Friend

I'm excited to share my #EditorGuide for THE SHIVER, a middle grade horror with THE CONJURING vibes about a shy 12yo who struggles with her nightmares and secrets. But a ghost hunting game will release all her secrets and more! 😱

#writingcommunity #editors #MG #Horror #onsub #agented

OCEAN'S 8 meets BLACK PANTHER THE SOA PITCH 13 yo Ida's first loyalty is to the Sisterhood of thieves she calls family. But when a trial heist goes wrong she's faced with a choice: betray her sisters to protect them or refuse and bring their death. #MG #mystery #scifi

COMPS Top photo: A picture of the Black Panther in his dark blue panther suit and the country of Wakanda behind him. Middle photo: A young girl called Carmen Sandiego. She's wearing a red winter coat, black gloves and pants. To the left side is the logo N. Bottom photo: The cover of Ocean's Eight movie with Sandra Bullock.

From top left to bottom right: A Black model wearing a metal jacket and shades. A cyber punk like city with neon colors and the silhouettes of seven people standing against it. A hacker's computer screen awaiting a passcode. An underground sci-fi train station with a slick train and neon lighting. The eye of a determined Black person. A screen covered in codes with a bracelet floating on it. A model wearing black biker gloves. The den of a hacker with multiple surveillance monitors on the wall. A Black girl wearing box braids pulled up in a slick bun.

Two Black girls stand in a silver lit corridor in front of a message board. One girl is in her night gown complete with a bonnet and smiling. The other is grinning uncomfortably and wearing a cat suit with light stripes. They are two main characters from the middle grade fiction The SOA written by Peace Zodanou and currently on sub to editors. art by Bemoodieart (Brittany Moodie)

Any #Editor out there in the mood for a fast-paced West African inspired middle grade fic? You get:
- Fearless thieves who care about the poor.
- Corrupted officials.
- Rehoming of stolen African artifacts.
- Sticking it to the colonizer.
Get in touch with Emily Forney at BookEnds Lit.
#EditorGuide

#EditorGuide

A middle grade horror adventure centered around generational curses, urban legends come to life, terrifying shadow worlds, and unbreakable friendships throughout grief, ghosts, and growing up. #MG #MGhorror #onsub

Mood board with girl with flowers in her hair, girl laying on the ground with text "an agent and editors guide to TBBB" next slide is a mood board with deer antlers and forest imagery with stats "80k word horromance" and the next slide is except in which Grace gets impaled by a deer god.

Images on moodboard is person holding a knife behind their back, a deer, a couple kissing, a skeleton, and hands holding a rat.

Feels and sounds like Halo Kitsch, des rocs, grandson, Maeve Fly, far cry 5, apostle with a person wearing a skull as the background

#agentguide // #editorguide to THESE BRANCHES BEAR BLOOD an adult horromance in which yours truly tried their best to be super commercial please reward the fruits of my labor 😩

Agent & Editor Guide to TIME TRAVELER'S ETIQUETTE GUIDE Standalone Sci-fi of 99,000 words Revisionist history Mulder/Scully protagonists The secret origin of platypuses Time-traveling bunny assassins Grigory Lukin

Pitch: When careless time travelers almost destroy history, the only solution is to write a better guidebook! Our timeline is falling apart, and its last defender is Bob Renner, the overworked 28th-century bureaucrat from the Organization for Time Travel Oversight (OTTO). Snarky, exhausted, but always helpful, writing this guide is his last chance to save the world as we know it – and to work off his own time-crime debt to the OTTO. But first, he needs help from a skeptical 21st-century scientist. As Bob and his aloof colleague analyze the 100 worst time-crimes, we realize the OTTO itself caused many of them. Juggling inept interns, time-traveling influencers, and the imminent risk of timeline collapse, Bob must save history – and gain back his freedom – or disintegrate trying.

Comps: Killing Time by Jodi Taylor The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Moodboard: public domain images: Vampire: Bela Lugosi's Dracula (1931) Watches: Rhetos Golem: Thander Wizard: ErikaWittlieb Theseus: ArchaiOptix Platypus: Nellie Pease/CABAH The Valkyrie: Peter Nicolai Arbo (1869) UFO: George Stock Book snippet in the middle: "Congratulations on your new time machine! Please don't destroy the world. It takes forever to repair, and it never comes out quite right afterwards."

#agentguide and #editorguide for my sci-fi novel TIME TRAVELER'S ETIQUETTE GUIDE ⚛️⚛️⚛️

#writingcommunity #amquerying #scifi