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@mkbaffour.bsky.social

🇬🇭 American • 23 • she/her • adult fantasy writer • registered nurse • lover of drama https://linktr.ee/mkbaffour

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ellie 🥀@mkbaffour.bsky.social · 2y ago

Seven months since I pulled my last manuscript out of querying (and later shelved), and I am so excited to announce that I will be querying vamp wip: ALL MINE, MY HEART later this week (Wednesday, most likely). #agentguide As always, agents feel free to interact!

All Mine My Heart. An agent’s guide. Eighty-three thousand word contemporary fantasy with horror elements. Over close up of black woman in glasses left eye.Pitch. Ivy only has three concerns: graduating, getting into law school, and pretending to be over her ex-situationship. What is certainly not on that list is being turned into a vampire—nor being hunted by evangelical vampire hunters. Photos of posters and book covers: The invitation (movie), A Dowry of Blood, Ninth House, and Immortal Dark.Themes/Tropes Metamorphosis: being remade Vampires, magic, and the unknown The pervasiveness of Gen-Z humor Black, female rage Details lost to time/death Perception related to truth and justice College SettingSnippet Ivy crossed her arms and looked out the window. It was a pitiful attempt at seeming unboth-ered. Cleo was only meant to be a ride home for her and Leah, a tight-lipped, unquestioning chauf-feur. Ivy supposed it was a ridiculous fantasy to ex-pect. And now she felt bare in a way she only felt in front of her family. She wasn't equipped with the tools to counteract the way her chest ached. She couldn't think of witty retorts to throw at her the way she did Leah. Couldn't use silence as cruelty like she so often did with Emerson. Instead, she was left with a stinging regret. She wished she hadn't called Cleo. She wished that, with a wave of her hand, she could repaint the memory in Cleo's mind.
ellie 🥀@mkbaffour.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve been manifesting so HARD the past month. When writing gets hard just think about where you want to be next, whether that’s getting an agent or a book deal, and it will propel you forward. Don’t give up! I’m expecting to see ya’ll’s books my desk in the future!

Amelia@ameliagthorn.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Dying Religion - KAOS x WITCHER x GODKILLER No one expected orphans to survive the war to end magic, instead they won it. Victory’s cost? The death of their God. “Do you know what it costs to be loved by a God?” “Tell me, how’s it pay to be feared by one?” #YouDeservepIt #agentsguide #A #F

The title cover to an agents guide for the project. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. The words “An Agent’s guide to” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box. “The Dying Religion” - in an echo effect in black and white font surrounded by an orange glow. “Adult epic fantasy” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box.The pitch page for the project. The pitch itself is in a large black box with dashed orange borders, the word pitch intersects with the box and is in a black and white echoing font. The pitch is: No one expected orphans to survive the war meant to end magic, least of all win it. But victory’s price? The death of their God. Now war returns to a still healing continent, the enemy intent on slaughtering the five remaining Gods. and the children raised as Holy-War cannon fodder must decide if they’re worth saving. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.The comps & tropes page for the project. The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Every box is black with an orange, dashed border, and the boxes for tropes and comps have the appropriate title, partially intersecting the relevant title. The quotes do not. Comps: Kaos, Witcher and Godkiller The quote “martyr, coward, traitor or fool. Your choice, really, you’ll serve our needs one way or the other.” The quote “there is only one religion in war, and believe me when it’ll you it’s a godless faith.” Tropes: Gods pay their dues Hero x villain Found family Heist into hell Friends to lovers to enemies Morally grey mc & villain Magic comes with a priceA villain and hero page for the project. The hero and villain both have information about the individual characters in two separate black boxes, both with orange dashed borders. The word “hero” and “villain” intersects the relevant boxes (right and left respectively) The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Villain The gods killed all he loved Out for revenge on the gods Brainwashed veteran Waterbender Raised as cannon fodder Reborn as propaganda In love with the hero Hero: Raised to be the weapon of the gods Out to destroy the institution that forged him Guilt ridden veteran Electricity bender Raised as cannon fodder Remade as a national threat (not what graphic says but need to resave that one) In love with the villain In the centre is the quote “your first mistake was thinking that people like you and I were ever born to do anything but burn.” With arrows pointing from hero (the receiver) to the villain (the speaker.)
ellie 🥀@mkbaffour.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introducing 🐺 WIP on 🦋: A multi-generational family strewn over rival pack lines must decide what’s worth fighting for. 🩸 werewolf dementia 🩸 lycanthropy as gen. trauma 🩸 mate trope subversion 🩸 lycan gang war 🩸dysfunc. family #youdeserveplt #WIP #A #F

Mood board of Ellie’s werewolf work in progress. Theme is grayscale. Background photos: forest from below with a wolf cut out, broken window with a man pointing a pistol through, close up of ashy eye, two men squaring up in front of crowd, carving of Remus and Romulus with mother wolf, 1920s woman putting on lipstick through foggy window, man holding hands up in front of people, someone jumping through window, four men standing beside a railing. Cut outs: golden coin, claw slash mark, moon
ellie 🥀@mkbaffour.bsky.social · 2y ago

With all the pitch events happening in the new year, I really want to make more friends! 💗 Hi, I’m Ellie (Michelle)! I currently have three WIPs in the lineup: - C. fantasy horror with vampires - Urban fantasy w/ dysfunctional lycan family - Epic fantasy with squabbling gods

Selfie of Ellie in car.Mood board for Ellie’s vampire work in progress. There are nine background photos. Top: a blurry image of driving past a forest, artwork of hands reaching toward a person, the door of a mysterious looking manor. Middle: a silhouette of a man opening curtains, close up of eyes with light blue eye liner, poster for season 1 of interview with the vampire with each character standing on a roof spike. Bottom: shot of a black woman looking at the camera tearfully, abstract artwork of a woman laying in the art with all parts of herself different colors, close up of a chest replaced by stars and a hand pressed against it. In the foreground: cut out of a moth, statue of two people embracing each other, blood splatter, and a man reclining. Note taped to image reads: what am I?Graphic with a large image of an eye in grayscale, Scott McCall from Teen Wolf looking at his shadow of a wolf, a close up of a crescent moon necklace, a hand pointing a dagger toward their chest, a golden eye, and a peek at a misty forest. Covering all this on the right side of the graphic is a cut-out of a young man in a long-sleeved t-shirt. Wolf and Man. It only takes one night. The tideholder forgives. The tidebreaker punishes. And the tidemaster maintains.Foreground images: brown eye with necklace dangling in front, naked back of black woman, man wearing animal skull, woman in halo crown and white dress, under shot of powerful man smiling, disc torch next to a window. Cut outs: woman with an African print shawl over right side of body, large sword, and ripped paper with text reading: Twelve, lift me! Twelve, free me! Twelve, heal me!
ellie 🥀@mkbaffour.bsky.social · 2y ago

The hardest part about writing is that there’s a hater in the back of my head yelling insults the entire time and I have to ignore it if I want to get any work done.

Gwend💫lyn Vines@gwenvines.academics.blue · 2y ago

RIPExBLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN When grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—& stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience? #P2Ppit #Q #A #SF #F

Moodboard in tones of yellow, featuring equations, an image of an eye looking sideways, a man in a wool coat and glasses looking off camera, a man supporting another who is stumbling, a stack of books, raised hands lit in a spotlight, two men embracing.