Catherine Ford

Shadowed man leaning against wall, snuffed out candle, woman made of stars, woman and man lying on floor looking at each other, agger, woman with hands tied behind her back, woman's face in the shadow, two ringed hands gripping each other. Words = "She could not hold his hand and betray him."

JASMINE THRONE x MASK OF MIRRORS X GOLDEN COMPASS

When Syrala, trapped in the palace as a pawn, discovers the queen severed her subjects’ souls to gain power, she must outwit the dynasty to reclaim her own–but to succeed she must betray the brooding prince she’s learning to love.

#questpit #f #q

Shadowed man leaning against wall, snuffed out candle, woman made of stars, tropical garden with bridge, two hands, one made of light, clasping, dagger, tropical ruins at night, woman's face in the shadow, descending stone steps

An #agentsguide to SHADOW’S GIFT my JASMINE THRONE meets MASK OF MIRRORS character-driven political fantasy with crossover appeal.

🗡️Morally ambiguous FMC
🗡️Coercive theocracy vs mystical magic
🗡️Layers of surveillance & deception
🗡️Art as resistance
🗡️Sub-tropical world

#questpit #f #q #agentguide

Thank you so much!

Woman floating upward through water into light. Text: One woman fights for freedom, conscience, and love in a totalitarian regime in: Shadow’s Gift. When Syrala, trapped in the palace as a pawn, learns the queen severed her subjects’ souls, she must outwit the dynasty to reclaim her own–but to succeed she must betray the prince she’s learning to love. Featuring: Political intrigue, Soul-based magic, Journey of self-discovery, doomed romance

SONG TO DROWN RIVERS x BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

🌼 Artistic FMC
🌼 Queen leads soulless cult
🌼 Brooding prince
🌼 Charming rebel spy ally
🌼 Character-driven
🌼 Sub-tropical world

#PosterPitQ #A #F

Thank you so much!!

Love that.

A Memory of Moonkissed Malice Villain Era Protag Frenemies to Lovers Queendoms Found Family Fantasy Dark Academia Vampires Feminine Rage Corrupted Moon Magic

The Pitch 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school’s guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic, and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most.

Chapter One The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night’s whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth.

For Fans Of... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting like... A murder mystery similar to...

The rain made it easier to rob his grave.

ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK

#1stLinePit #Q #YA #F

Love the dark humor here.

AN AGENTS GUIDE TO PURE RED YA ECO SCIENCE FICTION 82000 Words By Rachel Blaine

THE PITCH Sixteen-year-old Candy has been hiding her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now scientists want her for the one thing she can't hide, her skin color. After a new discovery is made public that only those with pure red skin can survive another onset of catastrophie climate change, Candy, a pure red, embarks on a journey to find her birth parents hoping they can help her understand how to better control her ability so she can stay a girl and avoid spending her adolescence as a science experiment.

Comparable Titles THE LAST BOOKSTORE ON EARTH LILY BRAUN-ARNOLD DUSTBORN ERIN BOWMAN SWEET TOOTH

THE EXCERPT • My hands squeeze my temples as I focus all my energy on my bowl of dried crickets. If I could resurrect them, could they write this pointless essay for me? They'd likely mock me with their nonexistent knowledge of what it's like to be a pure red girl. Useless writing partners. I guess I'll have to write this essay myself for the sixth year in a row. • My pencil lingers over my notes as I contemplate how to answer the same ridiculous prompt we get each year to pay tribute to The Great Coloring. Why Is Your Skin Color Special? I had a teacher once who swore he came up with the essay topic himself. I may have blurted out that it so obviously came from the Dome's unmistakable ducation agenda which caused him to punish me with one week of lunchtime alone in his classroom. Little did he know, I've spent ninety-five percent of my school lunches sitting alone. Joke's on him.

“My hands squeeze my temples as I focus all my energy on my bowl of dried crickets. If I could resurrect them, could they write this pointless essay for me? They'd likely mock me with their nonexistent knowledge of what it's like to be a pure red girl. Useless writing partners.”
#1stlinepit #YA #SF

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads: An agent's guide to: Out of Time By Gert Ramm Espionage/time travel/Thriller Images from Pixabay.

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads: 1972 has been a rough year for intelligence officer Eddie Fletcher, and it’s only January. First he discovers the Cold War is really about time travel, then he’s framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster. Sealing a lethal time rift is the only way to clear his name - much easier said than done when he’s being hunted by the British government. Then there's a Russian spy on a mission so vital he’s travelled from 1997 to complete it. Pitch: Slow Horses X Time Travel Images from Pixabay.

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads: Comps: Slough House Series (Mick Herron) Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Gillian McAllister) Four Minutes (Brian Andrews/Jeff Wilson) Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) TV Comps: The Ipress File Day of the Jackal Life on Mars Callan Images from Pixabay

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads: The text in the left-hand panel reads: Themes: Loyalty Betrayal Sacrifice Power Trust The text in the right-hand panel reads: First page: His coat smelled of Hermès Caleche, a heady reminder of his last embrace with Friede. She was the reason he'd come to this forgotten place tonight, but he couldn't be distracted by her. Taking his eye off the ball would get him killed. Edmund Fletcher's attention snapped into focus as he forced his lover from his mind. He padded through the disused sewer, catching the occasional whiff of human effluent still lingering in the brickwork, his penlight illuminating a narrow arched tunnel stretching ahead into darkness. Water trickled down the walls to form black, glistening pools on the floor and he shivered, quickening his pace. It was always cold so far below ground, heavy snow in the streets above had lowered the temperature further. He'd used this labyrinthine system often enough to know the layout by heart. He was directly below the Berlin wall now, Soviet territory lay only thirty feet ahead. While he held East German security services in the highest esteem, after four years in the smuggling business he knew how to stay ahead of them. Images from Pixabay

Slow Horses x Dark Matter

When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK's role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.

#A #T #SF #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #litagents #agentguide 🦋

Great voice!

An old boyfriend from high school strolled past the back of my car. A toddler walked beside him. In his arms, he held a baby no older than six months. What in the absolute hell did Mom talk me into? #1stLinePit #R #A #humor #disabilityrep #Q #AmQuerying

Love this.

“Gran has always known my future.”

Don’t Let The Forest In x Final Destination

If she touches him—it Burns
If he kisses her—he’ll Die

Death is Coming

THE TRUTH OF FEAR
🖤Tarot & Hauntings & Hexes
🖤Bi 4 Pan Cursed Love
🖤Coming of Age & Rage
🖤Feminist Horror + Romance

#1stLinePit #YA #H #R #SPF #Q

The title cover to an agents guide for the project. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. The words “An Agent’s guide to” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box. “The Dying Religion” - in an echo effect in black and white font surrounded by an orange glow. “Adult epic fantasy” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box.

The pitch page for the project. The pitch itself is in a large black box with dashed orange borders, the word pitch intersects with the box and is in a black and white echoing font. The pitch is: No one expected orphans to survive the war meant to end magic, least of all win it. But victory’s price? The death of their God. Now war returns to a still healing continent, the enemy intent on slaughtering the five remaining Gods. and the children raised as Holy-War cannon fodder must decide if they’re worth saving. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

The comps & tropes page for the project. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Every box is black with an orange, dashed border, and the boxes for tropes and comps have the appropriate title, partially intersecting the relevant title. The quotes do not. Comps: Kaos, Witcher and Godkiller The quote “martyr, coward, traitor or fool. Your choice, really, you’ll serve our needs one way or the other.” The quote “there is only one religion in war, and believe me when it’ll you it’s a godless faith.” Tropes: Gods pay their dues Hero x villain Found family Heist into hell Friends to lovers to enemies Morally grey mc & villain Magic comes with a price

A villain and hero page for the project. The hero and villain both have information about the individual characters in two separate black boxes, both with orange dashed borders. The word “hero” and “villain” intersects the relevant boxes (right and left respectively) The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Villain The gods killed all he loved Out for revenge on the gods Brainwashed veteran Waterbender Raised as cannon fodder Reborn as propaganda In love with the hero Hero: Raised to be the weapon of the gods Out to destroy the institution that forged him Guilt ridden veteran Electricity bender Raised as cannon fodder Remade as a national threat (not what graphic says but need to resave that one) In love with the villain In the centre is the quote “your first mistake was thinking that people like you and I were ever born to do anything but burn.” With arrows pointing from hero (the receiver) to the villain (the speaker.)

❝Magic untended festers. Magic forgotten rots.❞

Kaos x The Witcher x Godkiller

#1stLinePit #agentsguide #F

AN image of the Greek god Apollo in modern clothing with text in the top right corner that says "PERCY JACKSON x TWILIGHT but for adults.... because immortals dating teens is kind of weird if you actually think about it." Then the title across the center is A Greek God Got Me Pregnant. Then in the center at the bottom text that reads "When Larkin discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand with a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo, she must face monsters, vengeful gods, & most terrifyingly, her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child."

I didn’t run from the ballroom. I walked quickly. The laughter & chatter of the gala danced across the hotel, chasing me as I escaped the festivities. I settled into the sun that shined through the full windowed doors of the hotel lobby.

#1stlinepit #WIP #R #F #P #ROMCOM
Art by ThereseU3U

"We have been observing your Earth."

Mass Effect x Treasure Planet.

#1stlinepit

#ADV #SF #F

3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman with a bloodied face, a silhouette of a couple about to kiss, Korean architecture of a dokkaebi, a mouth with fangs, a woman looking down at a flower, a woman with yellow eyes, a woman staring into shattered glass, a silhouette of a woman, a hand clawing at the wooden floor

Gumiho Adult paranormal romance with horror elements Dark secrets, ticking time bomb, cinnamon roll mmc, grumpy sunshine trope, Forbidden and slow-burn romance, reluctant villain, dangerous attraction, Korean folklore and culture set in modern day PNW

"Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white layer of fresh snow.

A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would be his demise."

👻 PR w/ body horror
🇰🇷 Inspired by Korean folklore
🌦 Set in the PNW

#1stLinePit #A #P #R #H #WIP

All morning Morton Sinclair had watched the tempest rage outside his window, the rain hurling itself in sheets against the glass with such savagery he feared it might break.’

#1stLinePit #C #HF #A

Illustration of the main characters of my fantasy romance WIP. Lianna, a plus sized woman with dark brown curly hair stands in front of Fyrgus, a man with black hair and black fox ears. He is holding her in his arms and they stare lovingly into one another’s eyes. His hands are at her hip and waist and they are blackened with curse marks and have claws. Her hand raises up behind her to play at his hair. She wears a a midnight banyan embroidered with silver moons and a pink chemise a la reine inspired dress. Fyrgus wears a crimson coat embroidered with suns,

Shuffle of my fantasy romance WIP: Rosemary and Flame. The couple is in the center surrounded by trees and florals and a black fox, grey cat, a dragon flames, the sun and the moon

The great witch Beatrice Bontrower is missing and it’s up to her daughter, Lianna to find her. But Beatrice is lost in a magical land full of dangers and heart snatching fae and Lianna has no magic of her own. What’s a poor woman to do? Obviously bind herself to the first barely trustworthy fae she meets. He’s after the ring on her pinky, a family heirloom said to hold ancient magic, and he’ll do just about anything to get it, including helping a wayward woman find her missing mother. Together they traverse the wilds of Faerie on a path of danger and discovery, for Beatrice was a woman of many secrets and these secrets have teeth.

Tropes: -Grumpy/sunshine -Plus size 30 y/o fmc -A magical quest -Finding yourself as an adult -Bickering is a love language -He falls first but she saves him Characters: -An incorrigible flirt of a herione -A grump with a dramatic flare -A dragon king with a problem -Don quixote but make him a cat -A murderous witch

#1stlinepit

“Lianna Bontrower had a heart cursed to be stolen.”

#wip #f #r #adult #writingcommunity

Horrifying! Grabbed me by the throat.

Purple stained the lips of the girl paled by death. As if she had taken a sumptuous bite of a delectable fruit before drowning.

𝒶𝒹𝓊𝓁𝓉 𝓂𝒾𝒹𝓌𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓀 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇
🍂 #1stLinePit #WIP #A #H 🍂

Dagger, person holding soil & seedling, bare feet walking on fallen tree, cloaked figure with bow & arrow looking around side of house, peasant with sword, married couple holding sword, peasant woman looking behind her in fog, mysterious underground burrow, tree turning into a hand, burrow under tree.

The earth at the mouth of the Burrow was warm and loose.
Mullen sank down before it, cradling the stillborn buckling in his arms. He laid it in the Burrow, where the the air reverberated with life, vibrating in time with his heart.
#1stlinepit #A #F #WIP #Cme

Oh thank you so much!!

Thank you!!

Frightening!!

👀👀

Love this first line.

FROM BLOOD AND ASH x SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME

THE QUEEN IS RISING

Stories are pretty, but the truth is real and full of pain.

#1stLinePit #Q #A #RF