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Brianna Renee

@briannarenee.bsky.social

Aspiring author WIP: NOCTORIS 🗡️🖤✨

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Andrea Homoya is revising as a ✨2026 #RevPit Winner!✨@andreahomoya.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🍺 She makes cider 🍺 💰 He makes money 💰 💦 Things are about to get juicy💦 CIDER SEASON | An upmarket contemporary rom-com. Currently revising as a 2026 #revpit winner. Re-entering the query trenches with a sub-ready manuscript in 6 weeks. #questpit #q #a #r #u

Background: A close up of a glass of cider with foam and carbnation bubbles.

An agent's guide to CIDER SEASON
2026 RevPit Winner
A 75K word upmarket contemporary rom-com

Background: A lake in the mountains.
Pitch and Plot
Two years after a devastating breakup left her jobless, homeless, and heartbroken, Phoebe Skiles has made a name for herself crafting high-end, European-style cider at Appelle. When Elise, Phoebe's best friend and CEO, hires a consulting firm to keep Appelle from shuttering its doors for good, Phoebe finds herself living her worst-case scenario: putting her professional life in the hands of Miles Newport, a finance bro with a toddler's palate. Miles is convinced the only thing that can save Appelle is ‘pivoting’ to a ‘consumer product’ with ‘mass-market commercial appeal’.

Phoebe sets out to save Appelle and discovers that there’s a lot more to Miles than cashmere sweaters and Stylus pens. He's working overtime to bring on a high dollar client to repay his estranged father’s investment and support his best friend's working-class parents. With so much already on the line, what are Phoebe and Miles willing to risk for love?

Background: Apple blossoms
COMPS: Emily Henry's Funny Story, BK Borison's Lovelight Farms, Linda Holmes' Back After This, Sarah Chamberlain's The Slowest Burn
TROPES: Slow burn; found family; rivals-to-lovers; workplace romance; unique setting; small business; big stakes; disastrous meet-cute; witty banter; emtional depth.

Background: A bunch of people reaching forward to cheers with their glasses.
OPENING LINES: Phoebe Skiles sat back on her heels and blew a sweaty curl out of her eye. No matter what she used—elbow grease, power washers, EPA-regulated caustic—the concrete floors never gleamed like she wanted them to.
If she could ask her 17-year-old self to predict where she’d be in ten years, on her knees scrubbing yeast sludge off the floors wouldn’t have cracked the top hundred. Teenaged Phoebe would have chosen something more professional: a custom power suit, a corner office overlooking downtown Seattle, a Brazilian Blowout.
Like most teenagers, Teenage Phoebe was an idiot.
After years of striving to rise above her circumstances, she was much happier in a warehouse than she’d ever been in a cubicle. But every job has its downsides, and the weekly deep clean of the cidery floors was definitely a downside.
A drop of sweat fell from her forehead into the puddled suds between her hands.
Okay. Sometimes she missed the cubicle.

Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their resentment for each other. Welcome to SIX MINUTES ⛸️🏒💙 #QuestPit #R #A #Q #AgentsGuide

The Blurb: Parker Knight and Barret Keats share two things—their love for the ice and an injury that’s jeopardized both of their futures. Determined to compete in her senior year before leaving her grueling coach and hometown forever, Parker strikes up a deal that could make or break both their careers: he helps her get back on the ice, and she pulls strings to give him one last shot at the NHL. Consumed by the idea of making it pro, Barret finds himself not only fixated on HOCKEY, but the girl that holds his future in her hands. As the season begins, Parker must decide if her passion for the ice, and her feelings for Barret, outweighs her need to leave it all behind.

The Comps: Revolve, The Favorite, Off Campus.

Brianna Renee @briannarenee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Welcome to Noctoris 🖤🗡️🩸 Callaia, a simple fae of her realm, Aerithos, finds she can cross into forbidden realms after escaping the kings dungeon. She has to race to save the collapse of all realms. The only one who can help... the Prince of Noctoris. #QuestPit #RF #F #A #Q