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Hannah Brooks

@hbrookswrites.bsky.social

writing contemporary romance & speculative romance | indie bookstore enthusiast

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Haley ✨@halphelan.bsky.social · last yr.

THE SPELLSHOPxLATE BLOOMER A witch, moonlighting as a lady knight, must team up w/ a human to save the ren faire 🪽 magical renaissance faire ✨ women in armor 🧚 meddling magical creatures 🔮 palm readings ⛅️ grumpy/sunshine 🔥 twin flames #questpit #F #R #lgbtq #AG #OS soon

Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social · last yr.

#ND & emotionally volatile Nora only wants to survive college, but when her foster sister is kidnapped by a ruthless Fae queen, Nora faces a realm where her emotions can be used against her & the brooding Fae prince who would keep her there. #questpit #Q #A #RF

Agent's guide for A FAE FORGED IN IRON, a 99k adult romantasy.

Tropes, themes, and comps listed for A FAE FORGED IN IRON, including a neurodivergent FMC, a lost foster sibling, a dual world, and only one horse. LGBTQIA+ & disability rep. Comps are The Serpent and the Wings of Night for the power struggle, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers, and search for identity; Spark of the Everflame for the fight against injustice and oppression, found family, and royal palace intrigue; and From Blood and Ash for the FMC's hidden and developing powers and the kidnapper-turned-love-interest storyline.

Nora, a neurodivergent student, wants two things: enough money for her next meal and to know why her intense emotions flicker lights, slam doors, and wilt flowers. When Nora’s dysregulation causes her foster sister to vanish, Nora joins group therapy to temper her feelings. There, she meets dangerously handsome Ash—an undercover Fae prince. Ash abducts Nora, transporting her from Earth to Itheca—a Fae realm where emotions are weapons.

Ash claims he’s working with Ithecan rebels to overthrow his mother, an evil Queen who kidnaps human children. Nora uses her powers to attack the Queen’s associate and discovers the Queen has kidnapped her foster sister and is using children’s unbridled emotions to create a spectral army that will consume human and Fae energy.

Ash demands Nora wield her emotions to help fight the Queen. But Nora distrusts her ability to rein in her turbulent feelings. Ash’s arrogance turns persuasively charming, and Nora starts to believe in not only him but also herself. But what if falling for him is a trap devised by his mother?

The fate of Nora's sister and both worlds hinges on Nora's ability to regulate herself but also to know when to let her feelings fly at their full force.

Excerpt from A FAE FORGED IN IRON: Using my powers in the caves felt euphoric. Like my body knew what to do, on instinct. Like it’s what I was made to do. Sure, I had no self-control and probably gave myself a mild concussion, but I can’t deny that letting my emotions flow through me felt right.

I’ve been floundering here on Earth for almost twenty years. Even before my parents died, I never truly felt like I fit in. After so long trying to be normal—like everyone else—I’m tired of it. Maybe it’s not what I was meant to do.

avery✨@averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · last yr.

#questpit, welcome to an #editorsguide to WELL PLAYED! this rivals-to-lovers #YA romance about high school trumpet players will be #OS SOON 💛 #AG #R

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

A Dolly Parton Wannabe walks into a bank and robs & kidnaps her ex-boyfriend...wait, what's the punchline again? 🤑only one getaway car 💋 themed "road trip" playlists 🤑she brought her pet POSSUM? 💋We're gonna die... #questpit #OS soon #AG #R

Hannah Brooks @hbrookswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Bride 😇 She tortures men on dates for social media clout. 🩸He’s a vampire who only gets a coveted seat on the council if she falls in love with him. ✨ Are they gonna marry, kiss, or kill each other? (I’m betting on all 3) #questpit #PR

amarie is ✨ON SUB✨@amariewrites.bsky.social · last yr.

FOR LOVERS OF ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE x TALIA HIBBERT x DANIELLE ALLEN When Amara struggles to find a contractor to renovate her plus-size boutique, she enlists the help of her ex-childhood best friend (& first love), Theo, who she hasn’t spoken to in 8 years. #questpit #OS #R #AG

Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨@saraduran.bsky.social · last yr.

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

A moodboard showing the pirate (Amir), the princess (Mira), and John.

Amir silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a sword slung over her shoulder and a group of joyful sailors on a pirate ship. She has this quote:

Continue to love
Continue to forgive
Continue to grow

Mira is shown in the reflection of an ornate mirror. She is wearing long white gloves and a pink ballgown with her hair in a natural updo and the lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted over her photo. There is another photo of two girls kissing in the surf at sunset. Mira has this quote:

We looked at each other a little too long to be “just friends”

John is shown with his bare back to the viewer, facing the sea with the trans pride flag subtly depicted over his photo. He also has a close up of iridescent mermaid scales and this quote:

Go bravely, go deeply, or do not go

CSP/FallsIntoGrace@TemporaryHiatus @cspatra.bsky.social · last yr.

THE LITTLE MERMAID x THE LAST AIRBENDER After Kian falls for Wari, a mermaid, he finds out the ocean is being destroyed to make room for new buildings. One of the men behind its destruction is Kian's father. Now he must save her and the ocean before both are gone. #questpit #Q #YA #R

New moodboard for Maiden Underwater, my YA romance novel. Full of ocean and stormy goodness.

Hannah Brooks @hbrookswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

👩🏻‍⚖️ a law student w/ OCD, about to lose her scholarship 💪🏻 the hot CrossFit coach who rejected her 🏋🏻‍♀️unwittingly on the same team for a competition 🪴 a failing plant shop ✨ 1st in a potential series of interconnected standalones #questpit #A #R #litagents #agentsguide

Lauryn Hall @authorlaurynh.bsky.social · last yr.

Secrets of Magic/Battle Prologue This world was created long ago by powerful beings that built it with a purpose of life & wonder. Creating magical humans called witches & wizards that held the powers of the moon, water, fire, earth, nature, spirit, reality, air, and chaos. #1stLinePit #F #P #YA

A mood board made up of 9 different images. Top three is a couple hugging, a couple joining hands, and soldiers fighting. The middle three is a girl with stars around her, a stack of books with a dragon, and two dragons flying around in the sky. The last three is a hand with a smoky black bird, hands tied with strings, and a couple by a lake

Charlene Groome @charlenegroome.bsky.social · last yr.

If bad things happened in threes, Megan was sure the worst was over, but it didn’t help the ‘what if’s’ clouding her mind like dust bunnies. #1stlinepit #R

Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨@saraduran.bsky.social · last yr.

#1stlinepit #YA #F #LGBT #WIP

The Drift was more sea than land.
Its cities were a riotous array of flotsam lashed from Angloria's seized ships, and it was on these vast expanses of floating garbage that the world's most eclectic misfits found women for their beds and goats for their cook-pots, though the empire's history books would come to claim it was the other way around.

Alyssa Dianne Writes @alyssadiannewrites.bsky.social · last yr.

I did not wake up this morning with the intention of becoming a getaway driver. #1stlinepit #q #t #amquerying 85k thriller - The Blonde Identity × Bonnie and Clyde (with fake dating)

Helena is querying and drafting @nethermagic.bsky.social · last yr.

"Carob syrup, sweetened with figs, clean mallow—not to eat but to infuse in steam—and a roasted orange before bed. In the cramped space of my humble hut, I prepared all three ingredients for my last client of the day." —Fates Wrought in Mist #F #NA #Q #1stLinePit

Scarlet Mitchell ⚒️ The Gerzean Blade out NOW!😍@scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · last yr.

The streetlights glowed with an amber hue, a color that still unnerved Ben. It had once been an omen of danger, but that had been another place, another life. Now, he was safe in his cab, crawling along the quiet road. #1stLinePit #Q #YA #NA #F #UF YA Sapphic Gargoyle Urban Fantasy

Text next to an image of dragon gargoyles reaching out from a cathedral steeple-
Rooted in Stone
YA Urban Fantasy
100k words

Words written over a dark black background with a crow motif-
Rumors say that St. Romain’s is haunted. That suits lonely, troubled goth-girl Helena, perfectly fine. Right away she is fascinated by the eerie sculptures on the campus chapel. Wounded by past rejections, she is reluctant to open up to anyone. All she wants to do is fool her therapist long enough to not get kicked out of another school. When she develops a crush on the mysterious and beautiful Kia, Helena learns her secret… Kia is a gargoyle. The statues are not just stone, but powerful guardians of a rift between worlds. These uncanny guardians quickly find a friend in Helena, but she hides a dark power of her own.
When war spills through the rift, the stones of their beloved chapel begin to crumble and Helena is drawn into the battle to protect the world. Trapped in a strange, technicolor netherworld, our goth-girl heroine must face the darkness within or risk the collapse of both worlds and the destruction of her newfound family of stone… and Kia with them.

Kayla ✨📚@kaylawhittle.bsky.social · last yr.

Sunrise blushed over the autumn-tinged treetops while Elodie yawned by the carnations, waiting to trim a few memories. 🌸 memory magic 🌹monsters lurking in a garden 🌷mutual pining 🌻set in autumn 🍂 🌼committing small crimes together ✨ 🌺 sapphic & ace rep #1stLinePit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · last yr.

#1stLinePit #Q #A #F Wind cut through the dense air that had collected around the men, picking up bits of saliferous dust from the mines at the edges of the Saltwoods. Kyros Harel had no plan of execution. Bloody abyss, he didn’t even have a clue as to what was causing it. #agentguide #amquerying

Michelle Sanchez @sanchezmm.bsky.social · last yr.

"Edgar Quarles is an insufferable and selfish old man." This is the first line from handsome and mysterious Duke Lugo in my dual POV Gothic horror novel, HOUSE OF HUNGER. #1stlinepit #agented #gothic #ya #horror

Kelly Crescenzo @kcresc12.bsky.social · last yr.

FROM BLOOD AND ASH x SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME THE QUEEN IS RISING Stories are pretty, but the truth is real and full of pain. #1stLinePit #Q #A #RF

Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · last yr.

“The company had become his pride and joy, malleable to his command.” I AM Chosen by Dawn Berkoski PITCH: Alex, a power-hungry CEO penned in by corporate vampires, meets an orphaned bartender who helps him get the fangs to fight back. #1stlinepit #PR #A #Q BlueBloods x Yakuza

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

Hannah Brooks @hbrookswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

The first year of law school, I learned to be satisfied with average. But no one had prepared me for failure. #1stlinepit #A #R #CMe

Hannah Brooks@hbrookswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

A law student with OCD ( #ownvoices ) and a gym owner who is his mom’s primary caretaker train together for a CrossFit competition and try not to fall in love. Spoiler alert: the chemistry is too damn strong 😍💪🏻 #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · last yr.

⚡️To Ruin the Sky - Reactions to Axel Archer⚡️ ❣️He's my new tatted up book boyfriend I'm going to ignore my husband for 🫦Axel is gonna fill a Xaden shaped hole in my life 🗡️He’s no Prince Charming and he doesn’t pretend to be 🔥Oh and he's HOT as hell #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #writingcommunity

Mood board
Text that reads:
Axel Archer
"I'm a fucking Ruin. I take and do whatever I want.
Lyla:
"Only one arsehole calls me sugar."
Images include: a to do list, a man with a beard, hands on a bed, a tattood handed man touching a necklace, hands at the waistband of jeans, a whisky tumbler, a man pinning a woman against a wall, skull and crossbones

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

THE BARGAINER x SIX OF CROWS x THE LOST APOTHECARY #PitchCard for NIGHT BIRD, an adult romantic fantasy ft: 🕰️ dual timeline ✨ invisibility & intangibility 🔪 FMC vigilante for wronged women ☠️ poison & female rage 🌃 newly industrialized world 🫂 found family #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F #Q

Picture: A woman playing a cello with hair flowing

Words: NIGHT BIRD
An Adult Romantic Fantasy
The Bargainer x The Lost Apothecary x Six of Crows
Ava can become invisible and walk through walls but can’t escape her warded cage. Destined to become a courtesan and spy, she breaks free with the help of a boy, Zev, who then disappears.

Eight years later, she reinvents herself as Night Bird, a vigilante for wronged women. She and her misfit gang find themselves in the crosshairs of a shadowy man, who turns out to be Zev. It’s unclear if he’s friend or foe.

When she takes on her biggest target—the last man to see her mother alive—Zev may be the only person keeping her from going up in flames.

Hannah Brooks @hbrookswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

amarie is ✨ON SUB✨@amariewrites.bsky.social · last yr.

Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · last yr.

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit

Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · last yr.

#PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #LuckyPit THE SUN DIAMOND PRINCESS & THE BLIND ASSASSIN #BookTrailer #A #RF Brienne of Tarth X Daredevil X Tristan & Isolde 👸Biracial #POC Princess who doesn't look perfect 👨‍🦯Blind #Dis Romantic Interest 😍He falls for her first 🔥slow burn/angst 🌞👰🤵🌶️#HEA w/ spice