Stardew Valley x Howl’s Moving Castle. Just add more small dragons 🐉 #revpit 2026 winner #questpit #A #F #cozyfantasy
Olinda Brown
@olindabrown.bsky.social
🇦🇺 Artist Farmer Chronically ill and writing cosy fantasies ✨️2026 RevPit Winner - A Guide To Living With Dragons ✨️
Cozy fantasy releases for July 2026 (these are the ones I'm aware of. Release dates are according to amazon on post date) The Reimagining of Thornwood House The Farewitch of Foxe Holler The Inn at the Foot of Mount Venegeance The Dragon Has Some Complaints Theodora's Tea Shop Sea Of Charms
Query and first 5 pages for my RevPit winning cosy fantasy about a hypermobile nature mage making potions with her cantankerous house dragon who steals her scrunchies. #cozyfantasy #amquerying
Revise & Resub@reviseresub.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Guide to Living with Dragons by Olinda Brown (Adult Fantasy) @olindabrown.bsky.social #RevPitShowcase reviseresub.com/showcase/a-g...
Calling all literary agents and acquiring editors! Our 2026 #revpit winners' showcase went live on Monday on reviseresub.com. Check out our query letters and the first five pages of our winners' manuscripts. A form is available to request more content if you see something you like! #amquerying
A Guide to Living with Dragons by Olinda Brown (Adult Fantasy) @olindabrown.bsky.social #RevPitShowcase reviseresub.com/showcase/a-g...
A Guide to Living with Dragons
by Olinda Brown (@olindabrown_) Adult Fantasy
reviseresub.com
Agents guide to A Guide To Living With Dragons. Adult cosy romantic fantasy. 89k standalone. 2026 #revpit winner. Full pitch and first 5 pages are available to read at reviseresub.com/showcase #cozyfantasy #romanticfantasy #amquerying
Day 7: Thank you so much to my editor @aealexander.bsky.social She saw the potential in my book and has helped me bring it to life. My writing has improved overall through this experience and I'll forever be grateful for this opportunity ❤️
Olinda Brown@olindabrown.bsky.social · 2mo agoTime has flown by. It's almost the #revpit 2026 showcase and the winners are preparing some goodies for everyone. Check in each day to see what we have to share!
Day 5: My Favourite Lines from A Guide To Living With Dragons. It was nice to know that if she was about to commit violence, the dragon was all on board. #revpit #cozyfantasy #favouritelines #firstline
Olinda Brown@olindabrown.bsky.social · 2mo agoTime has flown by. It's almost the #revpit 2026 showcase and the winners are preparing some goodies for everyone. Check in each day to see what we have to share!
New Agent Guide for The Spark of Ayla Graves - MG 🔮 Family of ghost talkers 🪦 Lives in a haunted graveyard 👻 Ghost friend needs help 👩 Missing Mom 👀 Mysteriois Visions 👯♀️ Eccentric Aunts 🧖 Spirit Realm #mg #paranormal #mgparanormal #mgmystery #revpit
I learned a lot about launching a brand when I opened Ash & Elm Cider Co. I'm using many of those same tools to launch my writing career. I put some tips into this article. Check it out! How Launching a Writing Career is Like Opening a Business open.substack.com/pub/thewordw...
How Launching a Writing Career is Like Opening a Business
And why shifting your mindset prepares you for publishing
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#RevPit Day 4 is comps for Chemical Solutions for Lonely Hearts. 💖 Steminist romcom a la The Love Hypothesis (Ali Hazelwood) 👩🔬 Saving the world with science a la The Martian (Andy Weir) And a tiny bit of history and philosophy of science a la Thomas Kuhn (but funny)
Day 5: First Line Reveal! #RevPit⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ Have you ever had disappointment punch you in the gut? I sure have. But what if your brother‘s life was on the line? 💔 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ BONUS: Any guesses about what the icons mean? 👀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #YAfantasy⠀⠀⠀
Day 4: Media Comps I’ve mourned not being able to use Disney’s “The Kid” as a query letter comp for THE STORYTELLER’S BACK PORCH…but I can use it here! “The Kid” (2000) “The Adam Project” (2022) When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead A Split Second by Janae Marks
It's the Friday before #revpit! Our group post for today is to post the opening line or our favorite line from our manuscript, but I'm nothing if not a rebel. Here are several of Phoebe's more colorful descriptions. #writingcommunity #amquerying
First line Friday! 🙌 "The weekend was always rife with misbehaving antiques." From The Wishing Well, my adult cozy fantasy! #RevPit #amediting #cozyfantasy #writingcommunity
Day 5: First line reveal! “Though my mother is the goddess of love, it was lust that created me.” - LUST-BORN #RevPit #YA #Romantasy #Fantasy #amwriting #writingcommunity
It is Day 4 of the #RevPit showcase! If you are wondering where What Remains of Aurelio fits on your bookshelf, it belongs right next to these favorites! (This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I fell asleep 😭) #writingcommunity
Day 4: If you love these, you’ll love my RevPit winning cosy fantasy: A Guide To Living With Dragons. Stardew Valley How To Train Your Dragon Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Howl's Moving Castle #revpit #cozyfantasy #romanticfantasy
Olinda Brown@olindabrown.bsky.social · 2mo agoTime has flown by. It's almost the #revpit 2026 showcase and the winners are preparing some goodies for everyone. Check in each day to see what we have to share!
Day 4 of #RevPit countdown: You might enjoy NOT A WITCH’s prickly heroine navigating a deadly mage academy—and awkward crushes—if you liked: 🔮 Lovely Dark and Deep (Elissa A. Bonnin) 🏰 Unhallowed Halls (Lili Wilkinson) 🔥 A Deadly Education (Naomi Novik) #amediting #writingcommunity #YAfantasy
June 4th- Day Four! Media Like Your Novel Portrait of a Fawn (YA Spec Horror) Comps 🥀Books: Don't Let the Forest In, Wilder Girls, Your Blood My Bones, May the Dead Keep You, Predatory Natures🥀 🥀TV Shows: Yellowjackets, The Summer Hikaru Died, Buzzfeed Unsolved/Ghost Files 🥀 #Revpit #amrevising
Day 4: Media comps for LUST-BORN 📚 Our Infinite Fates, The Rose Bargain, Belladonna, Once Upon A Broken Heart, and Immortal 📚🎥 Emma (for the matchmaking) 🎭 Hadestown #RevPit #YA #Romantasy #Fantasy #writingcommunity #amwriting
The recipe for FINDING GRAVITY: 1 Gal. ROMANTIC COMEDY by Curtis Sittenfeld 64 oz BACK AFTER THIS by Linda Holmes 3 sprigs I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL by Natalie Sue Pinch FUNNY STORY by Emily Henry Let ferment until it reaches...oh I'd say roughly 6.5% to 7.0% ABV. #amquerying #writingcommunity
My cozy fantasy, THE WISHING WELL, is for readers who loved: ✨ The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst 🌿 The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong 🐈⬛ Kiki’s Delivery Service by Hayao Miyazaki #cozyfantasy #writersky #bookcomps
Today for Day 3 of the #Revpit showcase lead up, we are talking playlists! Because my book is a Gothic Historical Thriller set in 18th century Venice, I built a historically accurate soundtrack to match the tension of the narrative! #amquerying #writingcommunity
anja is AGENTED 🥳@anjahudson.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo excited to participate in this with the other winners! RevPit has been an absolute dream experience for me and I can’t wait for all of us to showcase our hard work on June 8th! Made by the wonderfully talented @katiebhudson.bsky.social
Going to be one of those days today. These joints have been popping out just putting on my face cream #Hypermobility #heds
