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Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thank you so much @reactorsff.bsky.social for revealing the cover of A SWINDLER'S SONG! READ NOW for free on NetGalley until 8/21!!

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are delighted to reveal the cover for A Swindler's Song by Lindsay Bowen!! A romantasy heist featuring fake weddings, found family, and plenty of explosions, A Swindler's Song arrives April 2027 from @alcovepress.bsky.social!

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I can't WAIT for this book!!!! I've been hooked ever since I heard about the woman who wouldn't stop dying 🔥

Stephanie Binx 😈 HELLBOUND@stephwrites.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It’s TIME. Pre-orders for my dark contemporary romantasy HELLBOUND are live! Link in my bio. 💜

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Turns out, people LOVE a heist book 👀👀 #fantasybooks #romantasy

Wanted poster featuring five characters. Guilty of burglary, larceny, forgery, fraud, kidnapping and disturbing the peace.

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#litagents - I devourrrred this book. The lush prose, the sapphic yearning, the gripping plot. If light horror-mance is on your #mswl , this one is nooooot to be missed.

Brenna Rose | Author@brosewrites.bsky.social · 10mo ago

After an unforeseen turn of events, I am back in the query trenches! ARTWALKER is a speculative romance with folk horror elements. Agents! If you’d like to see this in your query box, please reach out! I would love to find this project with editor interest & award a new home! #amquerying

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#editors - I heard heists are in 😏 If you happen to be looking for something to scratch the jewel thief itch, boy have I got just the thing 👀 #WritingCommunity #fantasybooks

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

HEIST NERDS RISE. Also, I wrote one if there are any #editors out there looking for something to scratch the heist itch! #writingcommunity #publishing

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Big weekend for heist nerds.

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#editors - I heard heists are in 😏 If you happen to be looking for something to scratch the jewel thief itch, boy have I got just the thing 👀 #WritingCommunity #fantasybooks

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thank you to the Louvre heist for proving that a band of morons can in fact pull off an unbelievable robbery right under our noses Any Editors like this vibe? You'd love Lennie and her crew as they steal magical jewels with nothing more than some half-baked plans and a bad cover story #louvreheist

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · last yr.

A manic pixie dream girl (also Dolly Parton wannabe) walks into a bank & robs it...except her straight-laced ex-boyfriend is the bank teller. Oopsie! She kidnaps him & forces him along her hare-brained escape. What could go wrong? (a pet possum) #questpit #editors talk 2 @charmstrong.bsky.social

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON x FIVE BROKEN BLADES A sticky-fingered tavern girl scoops up abandoned plans to steal jewels. With a couple of pals and a lil gumption, she could be free to travel the world. How hard could a heist really be? Boys do it. #QuestPit #A #F

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Heists are in. Good thing I wrote one in a grounded fantasy setting reminiscent of a chaotic DnD campaign. #editors A Swindler's Song is on sub now ✨

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON x FIVE BROKEN BLADES A sticky-fingered tavern girl scoops up abandoned plans to steal jewels. With a couple of pals and a lil gumption, she could be free to travel the world. How hard could a heist really be? Boys do it. #QuestPit #OS

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

MANDALORIAN x THE GOOSE GIRL When a goose girl & a disgraced guard find an abandoned earthquake-causing baby, they hide her in plain sight, reluctantly working together to cope with their own forbidden magic & evade capture by armies that would exploit them all. #WIPPIT #F #A

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON x FIVE BROKEN BLADES A sticky-fingered tavern girl scoops up abandoned plans to steal jewels. With a couple of pals and a lil gumption, she could be free to travel the world. How hard could a heist really be? Boys do it. #QuestPit #OS

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · last yr.

My book, pitched in GIF form: #romancewriters #booksky #writingcommunity

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Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

My beloved A Swindler's Song (projectASS) is officially on sub today!! I love these two down-bad dummies so so much ✨ #editors looking for: 💎high stakes heist 💎slow burn romance 💎sea vibes 💎found family 💎plenty of hijinks reach out to @bookfairyangus.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

My beloved A Swindler's Song (projectASS) is officially on sub today!! I love these two down-bad dummies so so much ✨ #editors looking for: 💎high stakes heist 💎slow burn romance 💎sea vibes 💎found family 💎plenty of hijinks reach out to @bookfairyangus.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

My beloved A Swindler's Song (projectASS) is officially on sub today!! I love these two down-bad dummies so so much ✨ #editors looking for: 💎high stakes heist 💎slow burn romance 💎sea vibes 💎found family 💎plenty of hijinks reach out to @bookfairyangus.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · last yr.

When town disaster & trailer park queen, Stella, robs a bank to pay for her grandmother's care, she didn't expect the teller to be her neat & tidy ex-boyfriend. Kidnapping him to save her identity, they weave through her hair-brained escape...& like, omg she's actually pulling this off? #PosterPitW

Angie is ✨querying✨@angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · last yr.

ODW x Mexican Gothic x Belladonna When Tayah Wellworth moves to Ravensford seeking a fresh start, she instead finds a cursed town, a sentient house, and a mystery that could consume her like the women who vanished before her #PosterPitQ #A #F #R #amquerying

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON x SIX OF CROWS Lennie is a sticky-fingered tavern girl who scoops up abandoned plans to steal jewels. With a couple of pals and a lil gumption, she could be free to travel the world. Editors contact @bookfairyangus.bsky.social #PosterPit #romantasy #onsub

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Editors 👀 Welcome to life on Sarranac, where residents will never have a nightmare... unless they receive a flower. 🖤 Parallel Realities ✨ Sentient Garden 🖤 Lovers to Enemies ✨ Demon hunters 🖤 Forced Family ✨ Flower based magic #PosterPitOS #A #Romantasy

Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · last yr.

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

A sentence of mine I'm attached to from A Swinder's Song💎🌿🩵 You don’t have to accept this…me. But anything I have, I’ll give to you. You could have every piece of me if you desired. They may be splintered and shattered, but they’re yours. #WritingCommunity #onsub

Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · last yr.

Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart. ⚔️Age-old clan feud 🧪Unique magic & world 🐉Scandinavian fairytale creatures ❤️‍🔥Steamy forbidden love 🛡️"Who did this?" 🗡️"Touch him & die" #1stLinePit #Romantasy #NA #AgentsGuide

An agent’s guide to: TRUE HATE’S KISS

A jarl’s daughter must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family.

109,000 words
New Adult Romantasy
By Ann Glimmer

Blurb:
When a man from the enemy clan murders Älva’s father, she swears revenge. But then her family is cursed to die. The only way to break the curse?
A TRUE HATE’S KISS
The man she hates the most must kiss her of his own free will.
But the more she learns about her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything.

Comp Titles:
- A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
- Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli

Tropes:
Scandinavian Iron Age (almost Viking Age)
Pretending to woo him while betraying him
Feuding clans = enemies-to-lovers + forbidden love
Knife to throat
Complicated family dynamics
Magical swords and potions
Fairytale creatures based on Scandinavian folklore

Feedback from Beta Readers:
- "Couldn't stop reading all afternoon."
- "Your writing style is really strong, and you have a strong voice."
- "Their conversations being more tangible things rather than just flirtatious really open up the relationship."
- "This is one of thee the best books I've read since Addie LaRue."
- "It was a good slow burn romance and I liked that the male main character wasn't toxic or mean."
- "I loved how twisty the story became and found it a breath of fresh air in the genre."

Ilana Kelley @ilanakelleyauthor.bsky.social · last yr.

Only the night birds provided company in my caged existence. They were my link to the outside world, a fragile tether to life beyond my warded room. They’d swoop and dive, triumphant in their freedom—something I’d never known and never would. #1stLinePit #F #R #RF #A #Q #AgentGuide #AgentsGuide

An Agent’s Guide for Night Bird
An adult romantic fantasy novel

The Pitch
Ava is destined for a life of seduction, espionage, and assassination. Born with the ability to become invisible, she is the secret weapon of one of the five great houses. But when a mysterious boy, Zev, crashes through her warded cage, she is freed.

With her freedom, Ava transforms into Night Bird, a vigilante for wronged women. But tipping the scales of justice draws the notice of New Oster’s power elite, including one of the most feared men in the city, who turns out to be the boy who set her free. And when the house she left behind catches up, he may be the only one able to help her from following in her dead mother’s footsteps.

For Fans of:
DUAL TIMELINE
SLOW BURN ROMANCE
FOUND FAMILY
FEMALE RAGE & POISON
KNIFE TO THE THROAT
ESCAPE FROM OPPRESSORS
PAST CATCHING UP
INDUSTRIALIZED URBAN SETTING

Images:
Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa
Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole

A Snippet:
The man in the ring seemed inhuman. Not like the Zev I’d known.

“I’ve seen a serratys fight. Rumbled with a few myself,” Stone said, eyes flicking wildly to take in every detail. “They didn’t move like that. This fight was over before it began. He’s just providing good entertainment by not ending it right away, that’s all.”

Despite his blood-slicked skin, Digger remained on his feet, weaving desperately to regain footing. His unfocused eyes were dazed. Zev finally stood still, letting the other man throw a punch, then sidestepped with a hard elbow to the head. That was the end of Digger, who crashed onto the ground like a collapsed building.

Earsplitting cheers and stomping beat at my ears, and I wanted to clap my hands over them. Then the screams transformed from exuberance to fear as Zev sprouted horns on stage, body growing, muscles bulging—his serratys form taking over.

His roar deafened the crowd, but my hands dropped as his chest tattoos came into focus. With his constant motion, I hadn’t gotten a good look during the fight. But now he was still, and I saw it. The tattoo entwined by so many others, almost hidden. It was a bird, wings raised as if viewed from the side and slightly underneath.

A night bird. The exact ones I used to play my cello for on those lonely nights. Where Zev’s nickname had started. And that bird was now inked across his chest, directly over his heart.

Jenn Lee Frances @jennleefrances.bsky.social · last yr.

“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