Elissa Grossell Dickey

@elissadickey.bsky.social

Author of The Speed of Light, Iris in the Dark, and Across the Earth and Sky (out September 8, 2026) 📚 | MS warrior 🧡 https://linktr.ee/elissagrosselldickey

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📁 CASE FILE: GAMA // QUERYING 📌 Location: Post-apocalyptic Switzerland 👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ #QuestPit #Q #A #RS #SFF

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ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.BildBildBild

🩸QUEERPLATONIC BEAUTY & THE BEAST x JENNIFER’S BODY🩸 In a forested town, a doomed codependency festers between a heart-eating monster desperate to become human and its vengeful, obsessive hunter. 🥩surrealism + madness 🪱plant-body horror 🥀ONE MUST DIE Querying SOON! #questpit #a #df #f #q

This title slide features two orchids on a black background as its backdrop image. Above it, the text reads FEED ME YOUR ORGANIC HEART in yellow and red text. In white text, below the title, it also reads, 'adult psych-horror contemporary fantasy, 85,000 words' in white lettering.

Image credit belongs to PinterestThe title of the slide reads, PITCH, in neon red lettering, on the same orchid background. The pitch text, in yellow and white letters, read: To become human, a genderfluid, eldritch monster in disguise must seek, charm, and devour the beating heart of one who truly loves them... but it gains the eyes of its vengeful, obsessive hunter instead. As bodies pile and madness takes hold, the two must either die in their struggle for survival or live the torment of finding themselves in the one they're destined to murder. 

Image credit belongs to PinterestThe title of the slide reads, COMPS, in neon red lettering. The covers of 5 novels are shown. The novels included are: The Fox and the Devil, The Tainted Cup, The Eyes Are the Best Part, The Summer Hikaru Died, and Vicious. 

Background image belongs to Pinterest.The title of this slide reads, TROPES, in neon red lettering. 10 tropes are listed on this slide in white and yellow lettering. The listed tropes read: surrealism + stalking + OBSESSION, nightmarish plant visions, descent into madness, genderfluid, ugly forest monster w/ beautiful guise, aro-ace vengeful hunter, doomed, all-consuming codependency, they're both 'monsters' that don't fit in, deadly game of cat & mouse, quiet, forested town setting, botanical body horror (allegory for twisted adoration).

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She is mortal in a realm where magic wielders are persecuted. He is a Fae lord who has hunted for her across the realms. Now she must find a way to unbind her power and her memories before darkness consumes the world — and before he loses her forever. #questpit #Q #A #F #RF

A silhouette of a nightingale on a crescent moon. Book title: THE LAST NIGHTINGALE 104 thousand words, adult romantic fantasySilhouette of a howling wolf with text: When a street-smart spy forms a dangerous alliance with a mysterious Fae lord, she uncovers a buried identity and a power that could save the realms from darkness— if she can survive the mad king hunting her, the magic threatening to consume her, and the would-be goddess who has been waiting for her for a very, very long time. THE LAST NIGHTINGALE is a story of self-discovery, unrequited love, and giving everything for a better world. Silhouette of male lion head with text: Perfect for fans of: One-Bed Rooms, Shifting Immortals, Fated Mates, Found Family, Snarky Banter, Discovered IdentitySilhouette of Mockingbird on branch, behind three images of book covers. Text: Comps

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