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New story up at GNS:

“The asshole knew I loved him,” said Gerry. “At least I hope so.”
“Nothing wrong with telling him again,” I said. “I talk to dead folks all the time.”

Read “About Face” by Teresa Milbrodt
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A square Valentine. There is a dark purple frame with hearts as a border with white angel wings in the middle. The text reads You're my angel to: from:

A square Valentine. The background is pale pink hearts and the border is pale pink bows. The text reads You have a beautiful soul to: from:

A square Valentine. There is a dark red-purple rose in the center with a matching border. The text reads Our love transcends death. to: from:

Will you be my (two week late) Valentine 🥺

#UnhingedPit #A #F #LGBT #Q

A blue image of distant stars with an upside down caduceus (the common medical symbol with snakes) and a transparent heart with two rings around it. Over the image are the glowing blue works “You pass my regulatory inspection, Valentine!” graphic made in Canva

A pink background covered in hearts with a black sketch of an anatomically correct heart over it. Around the anatomically correct heart are words in red: “I want you in the drainage holes of my heart, Valentine” Image made in Canva

A photo of a gloved hand holding a glowing green test tube that lights an otherwise dark image. Around it are works in funky bright green font resting “Our love is a scientific innovation Valentine” Image made in Canva

A photo of a number of glass test tubes with clear liquid inside on a bright white background. Over the photo are a number of light pink splatters. There’s also a green heart with a light pink splatter and a stethoscope over it. Words at the top in dark green font that are formatted like handwriting read: “Will you be my lab experiment, Valentine?” Image made in Canva

Romance of the far future: suspiciously charismatic scientist who works alone in his isolated space station and hapless station regulation inspector.

Will someone get arrested? Will someone die? No matter what, sparks will fly! (Also blood splatter. That will also fly.)
#UnhingedPit #SF #H #A #Q

A bingo board done in shares of purple If you like... Weird angels, the song Unity by Alan Walker, Family Drama, Ride or die sisters, aro/ace and very confused main character Everybody's queer! Yes even the angels are queer. You're welcome., Women kissing, Being a person for the first time, I would die for you. Literally. Only one bed but make it Weird, Really, lots of romance tropes but platonic, Free Space, Road trips, the song Let Me Be Your Armor by Assemblage 23 I would kill for you. Literally., Sharing bodies, Maybe it's cozy, maybe it's horror,, certianly it's contemporary fantasy., Felonies Learning to love your queer self, Ride or die girlfriend, Comped to Alice Isn't Dead, Gas station snacks, The weirdest relationship drama ever seen then you'll love My Sister's Stolen Soul! Now querying

It's 8am somewhere, let's play bingo!

#UnhingedPit #A #F #LGBT #Q

A green slide with the upper half of an hourglass with green sand. It also has black sketch images of acorns, a gun, a wolf, and a simplified red blood splatter around dark green words. The words read: An Agent’s Guide To August Out Of Time An Urban Fantasy Sunshine Noir With a small text addition at the bottom: Made in Canva by Theodore Snapdragon

Another light green slide decorated with the top of an hourglass, and this time acorn sketches. The top of the slide is titled “Pitch” and reads: “When he’s shot in his own office, August Lloyd can use his limited time-shifting abilities to escape, but now only has days to escape his future murder by figuring out who wants him dead” Visible underneath behind the glass of the hourglass is the word “Featuring” and bullet pointed below it is text reading: “- Disaster bisexual MC - MLM werewolf love interest - Butch banshee bodyguard - Twisty fae shenanigans - Urban fantasy Los Angeles - Personal identity exploration” with decorations of hearts themed to the bi flag and another heart with dots making up an infinity symbol over it.

Another light green slide with the bottom of an hourglass that matches the top hourglass in the first slide to make the image whole. It’s decorated with golden outlines of vine plants in the background. Near the center of the slide is the titled “For fans of” Around the slide are four book covers, with their titles and short captions nearby. From left to right they read: “The creativity of By A Silver Thread by Rachel Aaron Urban fantasy worldbuilding of Book of Night by Holly Black Sensitive queer main character of Witness For The Dead by Katherine Addison Magical mysteries of Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch”

Another green slide with the bottom of an hourglass matching the top of the hourglass on the second slide. It’s also decorated with doodles of a plant and city buildings. On the left side of the hourglass is the titled “Described In Five Songs” with is connected with a dotted arrow to text on the right side of the hourglass, reading: “Protagonist: Kids (MGMT) Setting: LA Devotee (Panic! At the Disco) Plot: Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival) Climax: Shake It Out (Florence and the Machine) Ending: Carry On (Fun.)” Below that is another section of text titled “Excerpt”. The text below it reads: “The pain in his shoulder disappeared, replaced by the feeling of soft, warm sheets. The noises of pounding and bootsteps vanished into soft bird calls from outside his window. August opened his eyes on Saturday, a little less than a week before the Thursday when he’d almost died. There was a pale acorn in his left hand.”

A guide August Out of Time, one of the novels I’m querying!
I was inspired to make this guide in Canva when I saw other writers making guides like these on BlueSky, like motthepaladin, enemes, and catherinewinters.
Image descriptions in alt text.
#urbanfantasy #fantasywriter #queerwriter #writersky

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
Journals of a Familiar
Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape.
#questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

One of my favorite beta reads of last year! The graphics on this turned out so gorgeous 👼 Love it

An Agent's Guide for My Sister's Stolen Soul Adult Contemporary Fantasy * 78k words aro/ace flag, pansexual flag, disability flag, Sapphic flag, agender flag

For fans of The River has Roots (sisterly love transcending death) When the Angels left the Old Country (it/its angel goes on an adventure) Rules for Ghosting (mortician who sees ghosts) Here We Go Again (drama filled road trip) What's Left of Me (sharing a body with a sister)

Playlist Unity - Alan Walker Take My Soul - ZHU Girlfriend - Icona Pop Anything for You - Ludo Memento Mori - Will Wood Even In Death - Evanescence Lonely Day - System of a Down Back From The Dead - Halestorm You’re Somebody Else - Flora Cash I Don’t Wanna Die - Hollywood Undead Let Me Be Your Armor - Assemblage 23 Anthem of the Angels - Breaking Benjamin

Excerpt “Who are you?” she asks. “My name is Melody, I’m Lyra’s younger sister,” I say. “You two are identical.” I wish I could ask Lyra if she’s okay with Annie knowing everything. Better yet, I wish I could make her explain it. Her girlfriend, her problem. But I’m here alone, Annie is the one who saw Lyra last, and I want any information she can give me. It’s not like I could pretend I’m Lyra and ask why she ran out last night. I kind of need to tell her. I’ve never had to explain us. I don’t know where to start. It’ll be easier since she can already sense Lyra and I are different people. Somehow. But it’s still going to sound insane to a normal person. “I’m six years younger than Lyra. She died when we were kids, and I… I don’t know what I did but I saved her soul. I kept it.” I press my hand against my chest, careful to avoid the burn. “We’ve shared this body—my body—for over twenty years.”

When Melody's sister Lyra is abducted, if Melody wants her back she must put her trust in two strangers: one claiming to be an angel and Lyra's girlfriend who can't tell them apart.

#questpit #Q #A #S

Currently querying HOSTIAE (103k) 🐑
🩸religious horror
🩸near-future dystopia
🩸Southern Gothic
🩸sapphic protagonists
🩸complicated & toxically co-dependent friendships
🩸multi-POV ensemble cast of unintentionally (or sometimes very intentionally) unreliable narrators
#questpit #amquerying #h #s #d

A movie poster edit with the words “Unintended Designs” in huge, slightly glowing purple letters over a photo of a glowing, translucent jellyfish with red spots in dark water. Under the title and jellyfish are the words “Everyone Makes Mistakes” in red capital letters. Below that in a lighter color are the words “Querying Soon to an inbox near you” and “Theodore Snapdragon - Jen Ishii - Jonathan Isengrim - Nao Tanaka - Rose Harken”.

Inspired by Harker in Dracula’s castle, UNINTENDED DESIGNS brings a scifi biohorror spin to classic horror tropes.

Sent to investigate a “false” distress signal from an isolated biomedical research station, Gen Ishii finds the resident scientist both ominous and charismatic.
#QuestPit #SF #H #A #Q

a 3x3 mood board with nine images: a pale eye with white lashes, sloppy paint letters "Magic comes with a price", the seal of the demon Gusion from the Ars Goetia, a photo of an Elevator screen stating it's going down to Hell, a silhouette of a boy in a hooded cloak in front of a red window, red text on a white background "Sell your soul, sign here", a "Get out of Hell Free" card with a little Devil in striped clothes, a fist clutching an ornate silver knife, and a pair of feet in leather lace-up boots. In the center, block letters spell out "Not Yet Corpses" with skulls for O's

After Riordan Payne accidentally resurrects an amnesiac corpse, he'd do anything to get rid of it. He didn’t think ‘anything’ meant making friends with it, rescuing a kid wizard together, taking a road trip across the desert, or reawakening his humanity.
#QuestPit #YA #F #H #Q #LGBT

Opening page to agent's guide. Text: Agent's guide to You are Not the Chosen One, an adult queer fantasy by Melanie Locke. Placed at the center of an artdeco frame with black and golden coloring

Part two of the agent's guide. Artdeco background with black and gold. Pitch: When Seer Cass learns there's no Chosen One to save the world from a Fear based apocalypse, he tells firefighter Esti she's the Chosen One. If she ever learns he lied, the world will end. Comps on the right with covers and a poster. The Umbrella Academy season 1 poster, the Last Hour between World, the Raven Scholar, Dark Rise.

Snippet. Same background as previous picture, with messy paper on top. Text: “How did it feel?” she asked, voice soft. Careful. For a moment he looked at her, eyes like broken glass. He sat up, fists clenched. “Bad! It feels fucking bad, okay? But it doesn’t matter. If I have to kill one man to save a village then that is what I will do. You can’t save the world without getting blood on your hands. And the worst thing is, it didn’t even work.” Esti didn’t know what to say. Cass stared into the distance, arms wrapped tight around his body. He’d never looked so small before. And yet Esti knew what he was capable of. It mattered little how he felt, his sorrow didn’t bring the mayor back. And perhaps he would have died no matter what. Perhaps Cass had done the best he could in impossible circumstances. But Esti couldn’t forget he’d murdered a man in cold blood. “I didn’t ask for this, you know.” Bitterness spilled out like a basilisk’s venom. “Being the seer meant to stop the Fear, having only one year left.”

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR

👁️ a gay seer burdened with saving the world
🚒 a butch lesbian firefighter he convinces she's the Chosen One
😱 a Fear based apocalypse set to end everything

Without a real Chosen One, what could possibly go wrong?

#Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #Q

A thread of my #QuestPit posts to easily find them. All #YA, all #Q. First up, my #YA #F #LGBT #Cli, Summer's Cruel Warmth, Winter's Gentle Chill

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A black background with flames on the bottom. White text reads: YA Horror Fantasy, 85k words. A Not Yet Corpses Agent's Guide

A black background with flames on the bottom. Excerpt from Not Yet Corpses: “So what do I call you?” he asks. “Roy.” “Just Roy?” Even under the sepia light of the streetlamps, he radiates life. It’s off-putting. Downright annoying, when I think about it too long. “Unless you want to call me Riordan Payne.” He laughs. “Weird—I like it. Monster Hunter, Riordan Payne.” “Not a monster hunter.” As much as I want to punch him every time he opens his mouth, I can’t shake the pride settling in my bones, watching him do something as simple as running a hand through his hair. You’d never know he was dead an hour ago. I did that, and I'm not even sure how. Beneath that pride, a primal fear coils inside me. If my patron ever finds out what I’ve done, there’s no telling what he’ll do to the corpse. But I’ve got a pretty good idea what he might do to me. I have to dump this undead body the first chance I get.

A black background with flames on the bottom. A Tropes/Comps graphic for Not Yet Corpses. Various orange arrows point to the cover in the center, depicting a pale, white-haired teenager wielding a knife and a handful of flame. Tropes: Annoyances to Friends to ???, Devil Deals (with red devil graphic), Stabby Trans MC (with cover of Ander Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth), Goths Gays and Theys, Found Family, Accidental Resurrections (with cover of Aiden Thomas' Cemetery Boys), Combatting Oppression (with cover of H.E. Edgmon's The Witch King)

A black background with flames on the bottom. Pitch: After Riordan Payne accidentally resurrects an amnesiac corpse, he'd do anything to get rid of it. He didn’t think ‘anything’ meant making friends with it, rescuing a kid wizard together, taking a road trip across the desert, or reawakening his humanity. Graphic Title of Not Yet Corpses in white at the bottom, with skulls for O's

Not Yet Corpses, a YA Horror Fantasy is coming back to the query trenches, featuring:
👿angry trans sorcerer without a soul
🧟the hot amnesiac corpse who won’t leave him alone
🐈‍⬛the nonbinary kid wizard they rescue together
👹angels and devils and monsters, oh my!
#Questpit #YA #F #H #LGBT #agentguide

A movie poster edited in Canva. It features the title “AUGUST OUT OF TIME” in large, pale text around an hourglass with bright green sand. In smaller white text are the words “A Novel by Theodore Snapdragon” and “NOW QUERYING”. It’s over a grainy textured background with a gradient from green to black. Note: image created by @MotThePaladin originally

A beautiful, mysterious lady visits PI Lloyd’s office: she summons a magic acorn before he’s gunned down. This is no regular noir.

August Lloyd escapes death by going back in time, but he needs help, like a banshee bodyguard and werewolf pack, to solve his future murder.
#QuestPit #PR #F #MY #Q #A

Playlist for My Sister’s Stolen Soul Unity - Alan Walker Take My Soul - ZHU Girlfriend - Icona Pop Anything for You - Ludo Memento Mori - Will Wood Even In Death - Evanescence Lonely Day - System of a Down Back From The Dead - Halestorm You’re Somebody Else - Flora Cash Let Me Be Your Armor - Assemblage 23 I Don’t Wanna Die - Hollywood Undead Anthem of the Angels - Breaking Benjamin

‪What's Left of Me x When the Angels Left the Old Country

When Lyra is abducted from their shared body, Melody will do anything to get her back; including setting out on a 3,000 mile road trip with Lyra's girlfriend she's never met and an angel inhabiting a corpse.

#questpit #Q #A #S

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing: 1. Always have an escape plan. 2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud. 3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark. 4. Never get involved with golems. The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right: A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs. B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow. C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards. D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn. E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment. F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game. G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks. H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

When 16-year-old Nia picks the wrong pocket, she unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her friends are on the run with a living doll, pursued by gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #QuestPit #W #F #LGBT #YA

A mood board that is a collection of 12 images: breakfast at a diner, women in the front seat of a car, a gas station at night, a cabin in a snowy forest at night, women holding hands, a road at sunset, an angel statue, a car in the dark with its headlights on, a car mirror with a sunset, a snowy forest at sunset, a paper map, a blonde woman holding a paper map, a purple orb, an eye with a purple iris, hands holding a rainbow flag, and a sheet of music. There is pink text in the center that reads My Sister's Stolen Soul.

Rules For Ghosting x Here We Go Again

This book features:
💚 An aro/ace MC
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend
🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer
🪶A guardian angel willing to commit crimes
👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more
🚗 An epic road trip

#questpit #Q #A #S

Moodboard with photos of scientific vials, holes, an x-ray of a skeleton, a wall with “Everyone Makes Mistakes” on it in capital white letters, plants growing in water, and a space theme. In the center the words “Unintended Designs” are written in rough red script.

ALIEN X WHAT MOVES THE DEAD
An isolated space station. A mysterious scientist. A trio of government inspectors. A “false” distress signal. An omnipresent AI. A zoo of animal test subjects. What could go wrong?
The dark secrets of UNINTENDED DESIGNS may swallow Gen Ishii alive. #QuestPit #A #H #SF #Q

THE SUNBEARER TRIALS x HEATED RIVALRY

🏟️ Summer & Winter princes compete to become the next Mother Nature
👨🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼 Grumpy x sunshine
👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends ➡️ rivals ➡️ lovers
🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them
🫣 Love & betrayal
🪩 Winter ball shenanigans
🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT

CEMETERY BOYS x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
If Riordan Payne’s infernal patron finds out that he’s been dabbling in necromancy again, he can kiss his freedom—and his soul—goodbye.
So the corpse he just accidentally resurrected has got to go, and fast.
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #H #LGBT

Digital art of a circle of orange-red sky with a couple fluffy clouds. Over the sky art are the words "GENRE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT" in glowing letters along with blue doodles of a pencil, paintbrush, and books.

Digital art of a circle of purple sky with a couple fluffy white clouds. Over the sky art are the words "GENRE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT" in glowing letters along with green doodles of a pencil, paintbrush, and books. The art is themed to the purple, green, and white of the genderqueer flag.

Digital art of a circle of pink sky with a couple fluffy white clouds. Over the sky art are the words "GENRE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT" in glowing letters along with blue doodles of a pencil, paintbrush, and books. The art is themed to the blue, pink, and white of the trans flag.

Digital art of a circle of purple-black sky with a couple fluffy white clouds. Over the sky art are the words "GENRE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT" in glowing letters along with yellow and purple doodles of a pencil, paintbrush, and books. The art is themed to the purple, black, yellow, and white of the nonbinary flag.

Genre Is A Social Construct
I’m making writing themed art in Procreate to add to Redbubble! This one has pride flag variations~

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Graphic shows silhouette of couple filled with courtyard, leather armor, and a structure consumed by flames. Six of Crows X Witch King Demon's Bargain A bastard gentrywoman, Kahyla struggles to protect her siblings against assassins, demon-eaten mages, and political rivals intent on the throne. She faces a demon's bargain: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life. 120k Epic Fantasy Novel. Tropes list: Deliberate values dissonance Feminist within patriarchy Heel-face turn Slow burn Forbidden love Powers via Possession Coming of Age Quiet girl finds her voice Target markets: adult fantasy for darker themes, detailed world-building, and a blend of magic and political intrigue. YA for coming-of-age story and slow burn romance, while skewing older for the consequences of difficult life choices. #F #R #YA #A #Q Body count 11, proposals 4, weddings 2

Kahyla faces a DEMON’S BARGAIN: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life. The demons are real but the saints require her body as a vessel.

⛓️Feminist
🦶 Heel-face turn
❤️ Slow burn
🕴️Powers via Possession
🗣️Quiet girl finds her voice

#BluePit 📖 #Q #F #R #YA #A

An edit of a movie poster featuring original digital art as a background. The art is of a golden wolf lying in a crescent on green grass. with bushes and trees around it. The golden wolf looks up at a starry night sky with a full moon that gently lights the scene. Pieces of the wolf's fur are so brightly gold that they lightly glow. Over the art are the words “Mage By Blood” in red letters. In smaller white letters are the names Theodore Snapdragon, Izak Biralei, Theodoric Heirdic, Adaline Helmorpus, and Nalai Biralei. In the bottom in yellow letters is the questions “Where do your loyalties lie?”

Izak is a government Mage, forcibly recruited as a magically talented child. His blood family is just a memory.
Yet when Izak is captured by anti-Mage extremists, his brother is among his captors. Broken family bonds may be his only hope against ideological bloodlust. ❤️‍🔥
#BluePit #P #A #F #LGBT #OV

Fergus Werewolf, my beloved 😍

An edited movie poster made in Canva with the words “August Out of Time”, “A movie by Theodore Snapdragon”, and “No Going Back Now” over a close up photo of an hour glass set on a rock in nature. In smaller font at the bottom are names: August Lloyd, Fergus Werewolf, Mina Banshee, Serena Lloyd. At the very bottom are the words “Coming Soon”.

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR X THE CURSEWORKERS
PI August Lloyd can timeshift back to an earlier version of himself, but only as far as the last time he used this ability. In LA with weres, selkies, and more, he feels ordinary. So why has he been targeted for murder?
#BluePit #F #A #Q #LGBT #OV

An angel?? In MY corpse? 😱
Despite the spooky subject matter, this book is so fun and full of heart! Blessed to have gotten to read it before it was cool 😎

A movie poster edited in Canva. It features the title “AUGUST OUT OF TIME” in large, pale text around an hourglass with bright green sand. In smaller white text are the words “A Novel by Theodore Snapdragon” and “NOW QUERYING”. It’s over a grainy textured background with a gradient from green to black. Note: image created by @MotThePaladin originally

When he’s shot in his own office August Lloyd can use his limited time-shifting abilities to escape, but he has no idea who wants him dead.
Many with unexplained abilities, like him, are targeted. To survive, they must uncover the secrets of their own magic and identities.
#BluePit #Q #A #F #LGBT