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Laura Walker | Author

@lauraiswriting.bsky.social

LA-Based Creative Director & Writer ✍🏼 #AmQuerying my New-Adult Contemporary Romance, AMERICAN PARTY GIRL, complete at 82k words.

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Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

First #QuestPit in the books and I have to say I’m wowed by the outpouring of author support. The #WritingCommunity is truly so special! 🫶🏼

Madisson Blake, Author @authormadissonb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

An updated agent’s guide to THAT’S SO SCOT💕 a romcom dedicated to the eldest daughters who have given up their dreams because of the pressure placed on them to be the third parent (or the only parent). It’s never too late to find yourself. 🫶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #questpit #A #R

bcastillo28.bsky.social @bcastillo28.bsky.social · 5mo ago

June Summer moves to NYC to attend her dream college. Her side quest to prove that her soulmate exists gets complicated when she meets three love interests. Now, she must decide if giving up her dream is worth proving her theory of love. 📚: Are You The One? #questpit #Q #YA

A collage of photos from two girls, a baseball fan, university photos, and a wrestler.

Christine O. Adler @artsavestheworld18.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Two women, 100 years apart, connected by a Brooklyn brownstone. Each must decide if she has the strength to stand up for the life she desires despite what her family—and society—dictates. #agentguide #questpit #Q #WF #HF #R #DualTimeline #LGBTQ

Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BEACH READ x GIRL ABROAD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Study abroad romance 📚 Academic rivals-to-lovers 💅🏼 International found family 💁🏼‍♀️ Coming-of-age 👥 Forced proximity 🔥 Slow burn Now querying AMERICAN PARTY GIRL. #Questpit #NA #R #WF #Q

Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Now querying AMERICAN PARTY GIRL 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Every heartbroken girl studying abroad in a new city (in this case Edinburgh) needs a girl group to help her get back on her feet. Meet Evelyn (our FMC) and her new, randomly assigned roommates! #QuestPit #Q #R #NA #WF

Samantha ✨is editing✨@samanthakwrites.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A college track athlete is determined to reach her lifelong goal of becoming an Olympian with nothing in her way, but when she catches feelings for a boy she must confront her identity as an athlete and find a way to allow love and success to hold equal weight in her life. #questpit #W #R

Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

✨something to set the mood(board)✨ Dumped hours before her flight, Evelyn must now spend her semester abroad not only mending her broken heart but her declining GPA. There’s only one thing standing in her way, her smart, frustrating, and very handsome classmate, Liam. #QuestPit #NA #R #WF #Q

Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️@tamaratoday.bsky.social · 5mo ago

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Dual POVs 🎲 Second Chance Romance 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

Left to right.

Top Row: Playing cards that spell out LOVE. A martini glass with a clear drink, dice, and a floating candle inside. A Queen of Hearts card with its eyes scribbled out.

Middle Row: Stairs and an elevator with moody red lighting. “Life is a gamble.” An eerie red hallway with many doors and chandeliers.

Bottom Row: A joker card with a demon on it. A beverage being poured into a glass. Playing cards that are three 6s.

Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 5mo ago

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000’s setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings #questpit #W #A #NA #R

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

Forbidden Romance.
High Society Match Making.
European Setting.
Slow Burn.
Love VS Duty.
Black Swan-esque Awakening.
Masquerade Ball.
2000’s Setting.
Obsessive Yearning.
Secret Lake Meetings.

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
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And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy #QuestPit to all who celebrate! 🎉🙌🏼 I’d like to introduce AMERICAN PARTY GIRL, my New-Adult Contemporary Romance complete at 82k words! Perfect for fans of Emily Henry’s BEACH READ, Elle Kennedy’s GIRL ABROAD, and Ali Hazelwood’s LOVE, THEORETICALLY. #Q #NA #R #WF #AmQuerying

Summary and tags for AMERICAN PARTY GIRL—my New-Adult contemporary romance complete at 82k words. Now querying. Recently dumped and thousands of miles from home, college junior, Evelyn, must spend her semester abroad not only mending her broken heart but her declining GPA, which threatens her college career and academic scholarship. There’s only one thing standing in Evelyn’s way, her smart, frustrating, and very handsome classmate, Liam.

Comp Titles include: BEACH READ by Emily Henry, GIRL ABROAD by Elle Kennedy, and LOVE, THEORETICALLY by Ali Hazelwood.

Tropes and Tags include: rivals-to-lovers, coming-of-age, slow burn, light academia, yearning, banter, ensemble cast, strong female friendships.

Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sweet dreams to all those preparing for #QuestPit tomorrow! #writingcommunity #amquerying

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Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

✨ manifesting for my new-adult contemporary study abroad romance ✨ 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 #QuestPit 🕯 agent interest 🕯️ *please* 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Five topics I could give an hour talk on: 🍝 The four Roman pastas ⚡️ Merits of HP fan-fiction 🫒 The perfect dirty martini 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A semester abroad in Edinburgh ⚾️ The best food at Oracle Park

Margot Miller@margotmiller15.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Five topics I could give an hour talk on: 🔪Buffy the vampire slayer 📖How books can be a type of therapy 🇮🇪Boys of Tommen ⛸️Ice skating 🐶Dogs >>> Humans

Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Made it to BlueSky! Who else is doing #QuestPit tomorrow?

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