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Nia Brown💫is querying💫

@niabrown.bsky.social

YA writer | junnie b jones coded | lover of all things weird and whimsical ⭐ she/her

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Bethany!@majimeri.bsky.social · last yr.

#bluepit LAPIS BAY: An undersea princess runs away from home and finds herself in a small beach town where she must adapt to her new life on land as her royal family tracks her down. -Explores sisterly bonds and the feeling of belonging -Fantasy Comedy #bluepit #gn #mg

Kristen Argyres || MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES @kargyres.bsky.social · last yr.

MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES A husband is a required inconvenience to escape Lark's home life, but when a faerie roots a rose in her flesh, rumors abound. Lark must convince the petty bastard to remove the rose, but the forest is full of danger - & newfound desires. #P #A #R #F #LGBT (Demi) #BluePit📖

A mood board for "My Thorns For Your Roses."

A collage of scenic photos which includes a night sky, a pine forest covered in snow, a bonfire, a stream in a dark wood, a butterfly on a thistle flower, a fox in an autumn wood, the Scottish lowlands, and a shrub of white roses in full blossom.

At the center, a quote is pair of quotes: "You shouldn't touch a woman who isn't your wife so casually." Then, "Is that a proposal?"

The COMPS:

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. The cover depicts whimsical plants with blue flowers and red capped mushrooms and an open book at the bottom.

The caption reads: "Fae will be fae" and "Practical, adult heroine."

For the Wolf. The cover shows a woman clad in a red hooded cloak standing before a white-treed forest with a misty blue between her and the woods.

The caption: "A magical wood that isn't always friendly."

After the Forest. The cover shows a fox mask with auburn hair along with a variety of pinecones, leaves, antlers, a bear and a wolf, and a ginger bread house at the bottom.

The caption reads: "Faerie tale retelling" and "Complicated family dynamics."

Character art for Lark and Tamlin for “My Thorns For Your Roses” by Twitter user nanasuen2650.

Lark has long, tawny hair with decorative braids and a white rose behind her left ear. She is wearing a sand-colored dress with a paneled skirt and leather belt.

Tamlin has long, wavy brown hair decorated with flowers and wears a belted plaid with an intricate leaf design and accessories.

Lark's bullet points include:

Daughter of a famous, retired blacksmith
Oldest daughter syndrome (IYKYK)
Trauma, but not because her family was tragically murdered
Her parents and 4 younger siblings are all still alive!
Wants to get out of this town and needs a man to accomplish her goal
Doesn't believe in faeries for REASONS

Tamlin's bullet points are:

Child of the oldest oak tree in the forest
Faerie Lord of Cairnwood (local forest)
Shapeshifter - plants, animals, objects
Resents being told his kind don't exist
Enjoys messing with Lark
Totally not scared of his cannibal ex

Nia Brown💫is querying💫@niabrown.bsky.social · last yr.

Ending my #bluepit run with some of the media that inspires my writing 💫 STARFALLEN is an ode to my fav fictional things: underdogs, impossible odds, heartfelt adventure, delicious mysteries, and most of all—magic! Hope to see you all on the shelves! #bluepit📖 #YA #F #R #SF #M #SP #Q #OV #POC #ND

A graphic. In the top left, it reads For Fans Of... which is eventually connects to ...Except with 20-Year-Old BIPOC PROTAGS. In the between these are three sub-sections. The first reads fantasy + sci-fi and cool world-building and has the media Kingdom Hearts, Atlantis: the Lost Empire, Starlight Brigade, and Treasure Planet. The next reads weird woods and small-town mystery and has Stranger Things and Gravity Falls. The last reads adventure + danger + whimsy and reads Coraline + Castle in the Sky + E.T. At the bottom is the pitch which reads: A girl and her maddeningly charming childhood friend must shelter a young star who falls to their sinking hometown while also trying to solve a string of disappearances surrounding a shady, local science lab.

Rachel North - querying @rachelnorthauthor.bsky.social · last yr.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE x TENET A socialite-turned-cryptographer must time travel to reverse her ruined reputation and get her fiancé back—but when she meets a handsome time traveler, she wonders if finding love in the past is worth the risk. #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #F #DIS #ND #agentsguide #amquerying

A woman in a white empire-waisted gown stares into the distance. A gold clock is superimposed over her. The text over the image reads, "The Genesis Clock."

Pitch for The Genesis Clock:

Imbued with time magic, chronoglass could alter the Napoleonic Wars.

For cryptographer Georgiana Adams, it gives her the chance to erase the moment that soiled her character and forced her betrothed to leave her. For Joshua Durand, the chronoglass would undo the mistake that crippled him in the Battle of Trafalgar and cost him his job as a British spy.

When they catch each other stealing chronoglass, they make a deal: they won't turn the other in as long as they work together and ration the precious magic. The deal should be easy--until they fall in love.

Comparable titles for The Genesis Clock:
- The Austenian writing style of Pride and Prejudice
- The time-traveling spies of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- The feminist social commentary of Queen Bee by Amalie Howard
- The Regency magic of A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft

A snippet from The Genesis Clock:

"The opportunity to control time, to hold raw power even for a moment, lured Joshua in.

His fingers closed around the chronoglass. Frigid cold shot through his bones, so cold he wanted to drop the glass, so cold his knee almost collapsed, but then it warmed to his skin. He looked around the room for a sign that something had changed. Everything was the same. The map, the steaming tea, Mr. Brooke standing beside the ticking clock.

Brooke smiled and opened his mouth, but something about the movement of his lips was odd. He spoke, speech gargled. What in heaven's name ...?

Joshua's gaze sharpened. Steam curled back into hot liquid. The second hand moved backward one, two, ten seconds. He reached for his gloves, and they rose on their own to meet his fingers, skin and velvet meshing.

His body reacted before his mind did. Muscles unclenched, and velvet and chronoglass crumpled to the desk. Joshua sucked in a breath.

The stories were true."

alexa bosy ✨ commissions open!@alexabosy.bsky.social · last yr.

🌿✨THE WILD HUNT✨🌿 🌿 Peter Pan x Hilda and the Fairy Village x Spirited Away ✨ Ancient morally ambiguous fae ⚔️ Magical conflict 🫂 Female friendships and found family 💪 Personal growth and coming into your own #F #YA #Q #LGBT #BluePit 💥 #GN

a full colored comic page. in the first panel, three figures walk along a wide open field. in the second, one character teases the other about the third being superstitious. in the third, there is a close up of a folded shawl in a character's hands as she says there is something mysterious going on. in the fourth, the first character brushes it off, saying there will be a real explanation. the last panel is a wide shot of the three characters standing at the edge of a dark and misty forest.

a character lineup of two characters. one is a pale young man with medium length dark hair and blue eyes. the other is a pale young woman with long dark hair and blue eyes. to the right are various expression sketches for the young woman

A lineup of six young women wearing shades of green against a white background. The first two are twins, darker skinned girls with brown short hair and bright green and pink face paint (Nym and Tamsin). They wear raccoon skin cloaks. The third is a muscular tan skinned girl with dark hair and bright red face paint (Kya). She wears a bear skin cloak. The fourth is a black girl with red colored natural hair and bright magenta face paint (Vi). She wears a fox skin cloak. The fifth is a pale girl with red hair and bright blue face paint (Darcy). She wears a hare skin cloak. The sixth is a short girl with blonde hair and bright cyan face paint (Hannah). She wears a skunk pelt cloak.

A character lineup against a white background. The first character is a pale green fae with long green braided hair floating above the ground (Crow). The second is a grey haired man with one arm wearing a blue-lined black cloak (Fischer). The third is a blue skinned woman with long dark hair and branch antlers with golden leaf accents dressed in royal blue and gold jewelry (Queen Mab). The final figure is a pale haired green skinned woman in rags and a cloak with a large leaf collar (???).

Nia Brown💫is querying💫@niabrown.bsky.social · last yr.

LEGENDBORN x STRANGER THINGS 💫 childhood friends-to-lovers slowburn 💫 sassy, magical child 💫 reckless genius FMC + loyal protecter MMC 💫 celestial powers 💫 strange disappearances 💫 shady local lab 💫 BIPOC, fat, anxiety, type 1 diabetes rep #bluepit📖 #bluepit #YA #F #R #SF #M #SP #Q #OV #POC #ND

Nia Brown💫is querying💫@niabrown.bsky.social · last yr.

LEGENDBORN x STRANGER THINGS x ATLANTIS A girl and her maddeningly charming childhood friend shelter a young star who falls to their sinking hometown while also trying to solve a string of disappearances surrounding a local lab. #bluepit #bluepit📖 #agentsguide #YA #F #R #SF #M #SP #Q #OV #POC #ND

A purple background with light colored stars. The text reads "An Agent's Guide to Starfallen By: Nia Brown YA Low Fantasy 115K Words" At the very bottom is the tagline "The sun by day. The moon by night. Recite these words. Release the light.

Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨@diamondf.bsky.social · last yr.

ATLA x WICKED Calypso must steal 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies. Villain FMC Hero MMC Elemental Magic Destroy the world, dont save it Hate at first sight #BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #F

A vilain rises pitched as ATLA x Wicked
Ya fantasy, 106k words the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

The pitch: Calypso must steak 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies. Pictures of four books: Heartless Hunter, One dark window, the prison healer, poweless the background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

Themes: villain fmc, elemental magic, destroy the world, dont save it
Tropes: secret identity, forbidden love, hate at first sightthe background is our solar system planets aligned in a straight line with starts on the outer edges

First lines: Calypso Morana was five when her world burned.
Later that cruel night, with tears and ash staining her face, she vowed every person involved in the destruction of her realm would die by her hands.
Thirteen years later, that time has come.

The night is still as Calypso plunges her dagger into the bark of a Red Tree, carving deeper as the trunk squirms with each cut. Thick branches above her shake, dropping a crop of crimson leaves in protest. A low warning echoes from the depths beneath the soil as the ground shifts. Slowly a root snaps up, lifting itself to freedom, slithering toward her like an eyeless serpent.

Elisa Winther @elisawinther.bsky.social · last yr.

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS x MOON-BRIGHT TIDES In her darkest hour, Nilah’s dalliance with Death sinks her deep into an ocean of grief. Destruction looms as the only way left is down, but what if that’s exactly what she needs? Will her needs align with her wants? #Bluepit📖 #A #F #H #W #BluePit

Moodboard for the short story with the working title "A Teasing Fate So Cruel" by Elisa Winther. A speculative horror which includes the ocean, death, and rebirth. The imagines include a face of someone drowning, a glowing mermaid, underwater kelp, and the sea.

Kelton Davis is ON SUB! 🦇⚰️🤠@keltondavis.bsky.social · last yr.

GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin. 🏹 Strong FMC 🏹 Rich Worldbuilding 🏹 Hunt for Redemption 🏹 Cyclical Trauma 🏹 Found Family #BluePit 📖 #A #Q #AmQuerying

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title Card
Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now!

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees | Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, red arrow fletching, a red forest.
Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least.
"Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text:
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title: Pitch
Text: Niozene has never been good enough.

As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule.

When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter.

Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.

Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

DISSONANCE A psychological thriller for readers who like 🩸Protagonists who can't trust their own mind 🩸Family secrets that come back to haunt them 🩸Small town lies 🩸Psychological warfare Bonus excerpt attached! #BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #LGBT #DIS #WF #ND #OV

Excerpt
“Before we do the press conference, I need to go somewhere.”
“Where?”
“Montgomery.”
Zack’s head tilts downward, shadows casting over his eyes. “To talk to that teacher?” His tone probes at her, and even though it was a question, it feels much more like a threat. “You’re not investigating, are you? You know how dangerous that is, right?”
She expected nothing less from him. After all these years, he was still their protector. Alex leans close to him, palms resting flat over her thighs and holding on desperately. “Please,” it strains her to hold eye contact, skin tingling, but she persists in boring her gaze into Zack’s. She begs, she challenges. Do not fuck with me. Please give me mercy. “Just take me?”
His stare holds just as firm. Where Alex is a scrappy, determined thing, Zack has looked into the maw of something darker. His irises are inky and he uses it to barb through her. She blinks first.

Lilith Murphy || Writer@lilithwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

SHARP OBJECTS x BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x THE HUNGER GAMES When her sister goes missing, Alex learns there's nobody in their small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save what's left of her family. #BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #OV #LGBT #DIS #WF #ND

An agent’s guide to...
Dissonance
An adult psychological thriller by Lilith Murphy

Mad Sparrow @madsparrow.bsky.social · last yr.

In a desperate attempt to prove her her house isn’t haunted, Jenny invites a group of reality tv show hunters (the Ghost Slappers) to investigate the home. #BluePit💥 #BluePit #A #NA #PN #W #Q #LGBT

Cover art for Ghost Slappers. Jenny sits behind a dollhouse while doll sized Ghost hunters investigate the inside of the house. Jenny holds the shows host, Rick Dickerson, up to her eye to examine him as he shines a flashlight in her face.

Montage scene of Jenny fixing up and renovating her new flip. The panels are separated by blue painters tape instead of the typical border

Jenny makes a sandwich that night, but hears something spooky that interrupts her from her dinner. She grabs a knife

Jenny follows the noise out of the kitchen, up the stairs and to a crawl space door to the attic. Shes gripping her knife and looking anxious

Stacy Milbourn @stacymilbourn.bsky.social · last yr.

BURN DOWN THE WORLD is… DEFY THE NIGHT x REDEMPTOR 👯‍♀️ a love story about sisters 👸 royal teens ✌🏻dual POV 👣 body swapping 👹 monsters 🗡️ sword fighting 🌱 nature-based magic system 💖 enemies-to-lovers romance 🌥️ dark but hopeful #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #F

Purple background with an orchid, mountain, and potion bottle. Text reads: BURN DOWN THE WORLD. YA Fantasy. A dark version of Freaky Friday with the tone of Defy the Night and the Underworld quest elements of REDEMPTOR.

In a world where magic is forbidden and soul-sucking monsters lurk in an alternate dimension beneath the earth, Princess Leese secretly swaps bodies with her sister, Queen Arie, taking her place on a deadly underworld quest to save Arie’s life and their kingdom. But monsters come in more than one form, and Arie is forced to fight off a coup while struggling to do the impossible: get Leese back to this world alive.

Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · last yr.

There’s something in the water 🌊 When an island whispers different versions of unwritten local legends & turning into a creature of the deep as a result of heartbreak makes you want to drown your ex- no one is safe Especially not the ex boyfriends #BluePit #Q #A #R #Sp #F

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · last yr.

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign. #BluePit 📖 #A #H #M #Q

The image shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

@fergwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

THE ROSE BARGAIN X PERSUASION 🌷✨🌱💌 #bluepit #YA #F

jenn (is querying and writing)@kotegentarri.bsky.social · last yr.

A MASTERY OF SELF 🎬 an actor is trapped in a nightmare of an identity crises after playing too many roles🖤 -speculative hollywood -friends to lovers - eldritch horror or real doppleganger? ALAN WAKE II + THE TWILIGHT ZONE #BluePit 📖 #A #H #SP #W #DIS #WIP

A moodboard of nine black-and-white images, featuring surreal and mysterious elements: a man in a cracked mirror, hands with strings, formal attire, shadowy figures, spirals, blurred crowd, and a woman with pearls, conveying intrigue and tension, Old hollywood dark energy.

Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · last yr.

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE For readers who like: 🩸 dangerous criminal underworlds 🩸 secret occult organizations 🩸 married villain protagonists 🩸 no-nonsense women in STEM 🩸 attractive men covered in blood 🩸 terrifying body horror 🩸 the threat of an Elder God #BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #H #W

A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.

Rissa Allen (is querying)@honeyscribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

NOTHING MORE TO TELL X AGGGTM Lennie doesn’t know what happened the night her ex-bff went missing but she does know one thing: it’s always the boyfriend. #BluePit #Q #YA #M #agentguide

An agents guide to catch you in the trees yay thriller romance approximately 90k words

It’s always the boyfriend… right? Lennie Torres’s senior year captaining the XC team turns deadly when her ex bff goes missing and she ends up a suspect. Her only way out? Team up with nemesis golden boy Lysander Hayes, the boyfriend of the missing girl and the last person to see her alive. But Lysander not the only one keeping secrets and if both Lennie and Lysander want to make it through xc season, they’re going to have to figure out how to trust each other or someone’s going to end up dead.

Comp titles: nothing more to tell, no place left to hide, they’ll never catch us
Unconventional comps: the marauders era cruel summer 2022 pretty little liars 2010
Tropes/vibes: rivals to lovers, running culture, private school, chaotic academia, dual timeline, dual pov, ride or die friendships

Hayes takes my hand, wrapping his fingers firmly around mines “Deal.” His eyes glint an odd silver in the chrome and linoleum hallway and I think of people making deals with devils at crossroads. I wonder if they get the same storm of nerves I have swirling in my blood right now.
I don’t trust Hayes.
But I need him.
“Deal.”

Trinity🪞is querying🪞@trinitywrites.bsky.social · last yr.

METAL BONES, PLASTIC HEART 👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker 🤖Mysterious android boy ❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance 🩸Powerful mega-corporations 🌃A sprawling city 🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold answers about more than just a murder... #BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #SF #M #Q

girl leaning against a bare mattress. a pink and blue jelly fish. blurry red and gold fish. .a blond-haired man cooking with a cat on his back A tall, purple-tinted tower. A hand with blue fire. Two people almost kissing. A distorted silhouette. A dandelion on fire. A city with a red haze.

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · last yr.

Slow Horses x Life on Mars When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK's role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #Q #A #T #SF #BluePit 📖 🦋 #litagents #agentguide #writesky #writers

Dark blue background with a circular, time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a time tunnel, or vortex. Text reads:

An Agent's Guide to:
Out of Time
By Gert Ramm

Espionage/Time Travel/Thriller

Images from Pixabay

Dark blue background with a circular, time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a time tunnel, or vortex. Text reads:

1972 is a rough year for intelligence officer Eddie Fletcher, and it’s only January.

First he discovers the Cold War is really about time travel, then he’s framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster.

Sealing a lethal time rift is the only way to clear his name - much easier said than done when he’s being hunted by the British government.

Then there's a Russian spy on a mission so vital he’s travelled from 1997 to complete it.

Pitch:

Slow Horses X Time Travel

Images from Pixabay

Dark blue background with a circular, time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a time tunnel, or vortex. Text reads:

Comps:
Slough House Series (Mick Herron)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Gillian McAllister)
Four Minutes (Brian Andrews/Jeff Wilson)
Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)

TV Comps:
The Ipcress File
Day of the Jackal
Life on Mars
Callan

Images from Pixabay

jenn (is querying and writing)@kotegentarri.bsky.social · last yr.

— A DROWNING AMBITION — a zealous journalist turns up missing, so their rival makes it his mission to find her. he finds her at a strange lighthouse… she doesn’t recognize him at all… and there’s a strange monster lurking on the bottom floor… #BluePit 📖 #A #H #SP #W #DIS

A moodboard of nine images conveys a mysterious and eerie tone of mystery and thriller. Elements include a hand on fingerprint documents, turbulent ocean water, anonymous figures with cryptic text, a spiral staircase, a quote on moral dilemmas, a tentacled creature silhouette, missing person posters, a stormy lighthouse, and a bulletin board with clippings.

jenn (is querying and writing)@kotegentarri.bsky.social · last yr.

THE BRIDE OF THE KING IN YELLOW 💛 two lovers struggle against class and religion to be together- but can a play that turns all readers mad be their freedom? Themes of: -class/religious pressure -eldritch horrors or insanity -existential purpose/fate #BluePit 📖 #A #H #SP #Q #DIS #amquerying

Title page for the work "The Bride of the King in Yellow"
A gothic, masked figure in a red, ornate costume faces a shrouded, eerie figure in tattered yellow. Bold, stylized text and yellow vintage wallpaper

A collage/moodboard of nine surreal, ominous images with a red and yellow color scheme. Features figures, landscapes, and abstract scenes evoking mystery and tension, and gothic energy.

Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · last yr.

Here’s my #agentsguide to A CROSSROAD OF LILIES, my complete YA romance with a speculative twist! 🍄A magical mushroom curse 🍄A friends-to-lovers romance 🍄A retired childhood actor 🍄A bullied scholarship student 🍄An otherworldly secret they both must keep #Bluepit📖 #R #YA #Q

🕷️🎃Profmare on Em Street🎃🕷️@professoremily.bsky.social · last yr.

HOUSE OF LEAVES x THE GIVER Inside, the Tenement is an endless maze of halls & doors. Outside, there is Nothing. When Noah's mother mysteriously vanishes, it sets him on a journey to uncover the secrets of his surreal world... Even if it means tearing the whole thing down. #BluePit📖 #W #YA #D #M

An image of an eerie wooden hallway with yellow lighting and a vaguely veiny, organic quality to the walls. At the center of the image, the hallway disappears into a swirl of blackness. Text reads: “FOLLOW THE RULES. PAY THE RENT. DON’T ASK QUESTIONS. AN AGENT’S GUIDE TO TENEMENT, A YA DYSTOPIAN MYSTERY.”

TENEMENT moodboard featuring:
A window onto a black void
A tattered photograph of a woman’s silhouette in a hallway, with the words “Where is Cassie Walker?” typed at the bottom
A dark creepy hallway with wooden floors
A compass
A hand holding a lantern
Cramped library shelves stuffed with books
Another dark creepy hallway with wooden floors
A creepy wooden staircase
TEXT:
(Top left) "I punched the curtain between my fingers and folded it back... And what I saw was... Nothing "
(Top right) "All we knew was we had to keep doing it month after month and not ask questions... Pay the rent or die in the dark."
(Center) "No one ever left the Tenement. That was Rule Number One."
(Bottom) "I wanted to argue. I wanted to tell him that this whole place was an evil machine designed to stifle every ounce of curiosity and joy out of our souls. I wanted to tell him I felt sorry for him, because the machine had already succeeded in stifling his own soul. And maybe my mother had the right idea-- maybe escaping out a Back Door was better than living like this."

A dimly lit frame with the first four Rules of the Tenement:
RULE ONE
Under no circumstances shall anyone leave the Tenement.
RULE TWO
The Front Door is to remain shut and locked at all times.
RULE THREE
Any windows that appear are to remain closed, with the curtains drawn, and should be avoided until they disappear again. Tenants are forbidden from looking upon the outside.
RULE FOUR
These Rules, being given to us by our Landlord and passed down unchanged from the founding of the Tenement, shall be inscribed into the heart and mind of every tenant for the wellbeing of all
A mysterious photo of a woman in a dark hall and a scrap of paper are tucked into the bottom corner. The paper reads "Where is she?"