J. Sydney Zaruba ✨is querying ✨

@jsydneyzaruba.bsky.social

✍️ Author of Romance, Fantasy, & Historical Fiction (usually a combo of all three) jsydneyzaruba.com 🇺🇸&🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 American Living in Scotland 🐈 Wolfhound, Maine Coon & Chicken mom ✈️ Owner of The Boho Traveller Luxury Travel Agency bohotravel.org

If the eerie magic of CARAVAL and the pulse-pounding tension of PREDATOR had a YA romantic fantasy baby, it would be called PREY OF PARADISE 🌺 dragon shifter romance 🌿 fantasy survival competition 🌺 pacey and thrilling 🌿 classic lit reimagining #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF

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Been craving a book with: 🪻Cozy witchy plot like Practical Magic & Garden Spells 🪻Murder Mystery 🪻Fast 🪻Based in a cozy harbor town 🪻Twisty (i just read My Husband’s Wife so the bar is HIGH) 🪻Age gap main characters So I wrote it:) Draft 1 is done! #W #MY #QuestPit

There's a collage on the right with 6 pictures representing a harbor town and some witchy imagery, including a lake scene, horse carrige in front of a big white house, the lake, a woman working with herbs, a boat in a river, and a harbor. The left says "The Shoppes at Hyacinth, A Speculative Mystery by Kirsten Bell."

THE BELLS OF LE FAY Sapphic THE CRAFT x ONE DARK WINDOW 🌈 🖤A witch with ‘control or be consumed’ magic 🖤A monstrous mystery and a secret society (cult) 🖤A combative love interest with too many secrets 🖤A magical academy with too many libraries 🖤 Touch her and die (literally) #QuestPit #Q #A #F

A nine image collage. From left to right, rows top to bottom. Image one is a black background with the text ‘Pariah, pur-rayh-uh. Image two is a beige background with a hand holding a puff of black smoke. Image three is a white background with the text ‘she was made of destructive magic’. Image four is a black background with a piece of paper on fire. Image five is the lower half of a mixed race girl’s face, with curly black hair falling over her cheek. Image six is a spellbook surrounded by lit candles and a mirror. Image seven is a black background with the text ‘I will not apologise for being born.’ Image eight is a white background with the silhouette of a woman and a massive cloud of smoke looming over her. Image nine is a black background with the text ‘Am I the villain’.

WHAT MAGIC REMAINS A witch turned vampire, only her magic survived. Now, every spell corrupts her skin. Every heartbeat breaks the rules. And Hell is closing in. But the demon responsible? He wants to keep her. 🩸Vampires 🔮 Witches 🔥 Infernal Corruption 🖤Forbidden Romance #QuestPit #W #A #FR

Top left image is a crow in a cemetery. Top middle image is a girl with back to the camera holding leaves. Top right image is a woman holding a book with a man’s hand  hers. Middle left image is a woman’s mouth with fangs. Center image is the word heretic. Middle right image is a man kissing a woman’s neck. Bottom left image a hand painted black touching the finger of another hand the black ins transferring. Bottom middle image is a man’s neck with necklaces. Bottom right image is a witch alter set up. small notes are in the images. death touched witch. Guardian demon? Punished, cursed, damned.

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 🏰dark YA sleeping beauty reimagining 🤟deaf MMC + ASL 👑quest to kill an evil queen 💀everyone she knows is dead 🐀ride-or-die rat companion 🎶he's immune to her song magic 🪢captor falls for his captive 🌳deadly enchanted forest ~querying soon~ #questpit #rf #w #ya

"The Blood of Zellandine Agent's Guide" written in cream against a starry sky surrounded by treetops
"The Pitch After waking from a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic." written in navy on a cream background against a starry sky surrounded by treetops
"The Details a YA sleeping beauty reimagining 98000 words grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, goblins, monsters, and fae, deaf MCC + ASL, animal companion, Tangled-coded, themes of self-forgiveness and autonomy, horror elements" written in navy on a cream background against a starry sky surrounded by treetops
"Comps" written in cream against a starry sky surrounded by treetops with the covers of Heartless Hunter, Never Ever After, and For the Wolf with arrows pointing from the words dual-pov romance, forced proximity, magical creatures, fairytale reimagining, enchanted forest

To save NYC’s witches from being hunted down and possessed by malicious spirits, 16-year-old Haley Thorne must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop the dead witch behind it all. LEGENDBORN x LITTLE THIEVES #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

In the Shadow of a Witch agent guideIn the Shadow of a Witch elevator pitchIn the Shadow of a Witch spooky vibesIn the Shadow of a Witch comps: Percy Jackson, Legendborn, Little Thieves

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x BLACK MIRROR Logar Iris didn’t want to lead. His team didn’t want to follow. But with memories stolen, a murdered mentor, and a tyrant on the rise, the Power of Sight must remember who they are—or risk losing everything. #QuestPit #A #F #SF #SFF #S #D

"Flashes Of Light"A quote, 'You're already starting to shape the revolution in your image'Contains ace, gay, gender non comformity, lesbian, neurodiversity and chronic fatigue repanother quote, 'We shoot, we maim, we punch, we literally don't know how to do anything else'