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Madisson Blake, Author

@authormadissonb.bsky.social

Coffee addicted author of romance novels Currently querying a Scottish Romcom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐮 THE CASE FOR US, available now💕⚖️🌅 IG: authormadissonblake

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Madisson Blake, Author @authormadissonb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wrote “the end” on the first draft of my fourth book last night!! And immediately diving back into the first draft of my 5th, which I got 30k words into before hitting ✨writer’s block✨ #writing #author #WIP

Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BEACH READ x GIRL ABROAD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Study abroad romance 📚 Academic rivals-to-lovers 💅🏼 International found family 💁🏼‍♀️ Coming-of-age 👥 Forced proximity 🔥 Slow burn Now querying AMERICAN PARTY GIRL. #Questpit #NA #R #WF #Q

sarah @sarahlynnwriting.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE UNDERSTUDY In the glamorous opera world, Serafina and Antonina are bound together by rivalry and a long list of secrets, including their own affair. Serafina’s devotion forces her to confront how far she is willing to go for Antonina and what she is willing to lose. #Questpit #Q #A #LF #HR

Serafina Angelo is a brilliant student at an elite music conservatory, tormented by her relentless pursuit of perfection. When her school is given the rare opportunity to perform at a prestigious opera house, Serafina is certain the lead role is hers and will launch her career. Until Antonina Vitale arrives. When she is cast as the lead and Serafina as her understudy, Serafina is devastated. Yet she feels drawn to her new classmate, developing an all-consuming obsession with Antonina that blurs the lines between envy and affection that may destroy them both.

Toxic lesbian opera singers
Dual POV
Rivals → lovers → rivals AND lovers
Post-WWII Italy
Historical literary fiction
Book one in a completed duology
110k words

For those who enjoy the complex characters of Elena Ferrante’s My Brillliant Friend, the intense sapphic relationships in The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden and Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth, obsessive perfectionist musicians, explorations of fame, misogyny, class and all-consuming lesbian desire.

Can such a thing as obsession, that virulent hunger that nags at the stitching between mind and soul, ever be fully satisfied? Is the idée fixe something that one can outgrow, or does that madness just become more implacable?

Serafina was not sure if it was something that could ever be satiated. Obsession was, she thought, quite violent—a desire so formless and volatile it could be nothing more than a doomed passion.

The stroke of her fountain pen was the only sound in the dim library, and the flickering candles illuminated amber, casting long shadows on the dusty bookshelves. It was one in the morning. She hadn’t slept for two days, but she snuck in to work on her essay about Hector Berlioz, a French composer from the Romantic period.

Paige Till @paigetillmixons.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mixons: The Emerald Awakening YA Fantasy ❇️ Magic College ❇️ Family issues ❇️ Friend Drama ❇️ Unpredictable Villain ❇️ Disability Representation #questpit #YA #F #Q

Madisson Blake, Author @authormadissonb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

An updated agent’s guide to THAT’S SO SCOT💕 a romcom dedicated to the eldest daughters who have given up their dreams because of the pressure placed on them to be the third parent (or the only parent). It’s never too late to find yourself. 🫶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #questpit #A #R

Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 4mo ago

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000’s setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings #questpit #W #A #NA #R

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

Forbidden Romance.
High Society Match Making.
European Setting.
Slow Burn.
Love VS Duty.
Black Swan-esque Awakening.
Masquerade Ball.
2000’s Setting.
Obsessive Yearning.
Secret Lake Meetings.

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
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And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

Madisson Blake, Author @authormadissonb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THAT’S SO SCOT is an adult romantic comedy featuring: 💕 cinnamon roll MMC 🔍 self discovery 👯‍♀️ sisters/family dynamics 🚗 road trip 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 culture, myths, kilts #questpit #A #R

Madisson Blake, Author @authormadissonb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

KILT TRIP x WORK IN PROGRESS, an adult romcom (76k words) 🙋‍♀️quirky eldest daughter FMC 📸supportive MMC in slutty glasses ❤️‍🩹emotionally absent parents 👯‍♀️ sister dynamics 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish road trip 🌌conversations beneath the stars #questpit #A #R

Madisson Blake, Author @authormadissonb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I had a spam email ask me if i want help marketing my book featuring “competence porn” and i cannot stop laughing over it 🤣

Madisson Blake, Author @authormadissonb.bsky.social · last yr.

Are there any authors/writers in the Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake area of the 757 that would want to do a coffee writing meet up? (Internet, do your thing) #writingsession #virginiabeach #authorgroup

Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · last yr.

There are a lot of things you *should* be doing today. Write today. When a writer writes, they are being kind to their future self. They are defeating the blank page and its silences. They are shaping a work they can fix later. Type harder. #writingcommunity #booksky #writingmore

Madisson Blake, Author @authormadissonb.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is World Book Day and apparently you’re supposed to get your loved ones a book and a rose…will I be disappointed or will my people deliver