James Keller-Am Querying

@thekellerverse.bsky.social

Aspiring Author looking for representation. Football Fan. GO BILLS. Lover of Films, Symphonic Music, and Animals.

She was never to see him again. That was the condition of the bribe she took to leave him. But 15 years later, she's auditing his company. And he still looks good. Sparks fly when he demands answers as to why she left, but she does too - why is he laundering money? #WIPPit #A #Con #R

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TAKARA ❄️ A kitsune who survived centuries by devouring men. One deadly bride selection, one infuriating winter god and suddenly she's the one in danger of being consumed. 🦊 Man-eating fox spirit ❄️ Yōkai folklore 🖤 Enemies to lovers The God and the Gumiho x The Poet Empress #WIPPIT #A #RF #F

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Monsters Inc x Supernatural Hell needs souls, chronic pain patients need relief, and American healthcare is worse than Hell. Ash finds himself remembering his past while he feeds on a patient's pain at the ER, discovering a plot that will make him choose between legacy and love. #A #RF #WIPPIT

Been working on & off on our #Kumans book. 🕑 to get back on. In a world connected by interplanetary ocean currents, dive into stories of migrants told through a fusion of comic book pages, epistolary short stories, poetry, songs, & more. By Christian Ochoa, Jason Piperberg, Haolun Huang #WIPPIT #SFF

Kumans poster showing some of the concept art and designs of the characters and creatures from our world. Art by Alex Ries, Manny Edeko, Ville Sinkkonen, Christian Ochoa. Logo by congruent graphics.

NINTH HOUSE with a Southern Gothic flavor 🖤Twisty double pov 🖤Enemies-to-lovers 🖤Touch him and die 🖤Dark Academia with a dropout mc A bittersweet romance between a con man who raises the dead for a single day and the hell-bent dropout who won’t let hers stay buried SATURNINE #WIPPit #A #F #RF

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Reverse FRIEREN x DUNGEON MESHI x international monster myths Mal doesn’t understand how she became the world’s only immortal human, but that won’t stop her and her bookworm elf companion from slaying every mythical beast until they’ve unlocked the secret to ending immortality. #WIPPIT #WIP #A #F

This is a graphic with pink clouds and a pink-purple sky. In the center is a full moon shining over a Europe-style castle that appears to be floating on mist above blue-tinted mountains. In the air are small birds and a flying female deity in East Asian robes. She’s pointing towards the castle and a black silhouette of an elf walking with a caped human. Near them is text that reads, ‘Journey WIP.’ In the foreground are two elaborate mirrors: one featuring the characters from the anime Delicious in Dungeon, and the other featuring Frieren characters.

A PHO LOVE STORY x THIS TIME IT'S REAL When her whiter-than-white-bread crush finally asks her out, a restaurant kid must get her immigrant parents to rescind their "only date Asians" rule by fake dating the one Asian they hate--the boy whose family's business is ruining hers #WIPPIT #YA #CON #R

Mood board with school supplies, a blond boy writing on a blackboard, a Chinese takeout container, an Asian boy and girl, macarons, a bowl of spicy instant ramen, and text boxes that read *covers up real feelings with aggressive sarcasm* and a text exchange: you're annoying/but you love me/doesn't make you less annoying

Catalín can coax the mortally wounded back to life, the kind of gift that makes her valuable to the brutal Empire. As her unexpectedly kind warden edges closer to the truth—and Catalín's heart—both women's secrets threaten not only their bond but their lives #A #LGBT #F #WIPPit

PROJECT BONES After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. 🦴 Death magic 🏰 Locked-castle mystery 🕯️ Medieval fantasy 🏹 Robin Hood trope 🏳️‍🌈 MM romance Status: drafting! #WIPPit #A #F #LGBT

A moodboard containing imagery of ghosts, bones, foxes, the night sky, and a palace. The title says "PROJECT BONES." PITCH

Necromancer Nevell of Farlay cannot die, not since surviving the plague as a youth. Now he works as a priest to the god-king, summoned to protect His Majesty during the plague season. But when a mysterious spirit is sighted and nobleman is found dead, Nevell’s reputation gets called into question. His only alibi is the cagey, annoyingly handsome Lord Margrave, whose reluctance to help Nevell clear his name threatens Nevell’s clergy rank—the only thing protecting his home from the horrors of the plague.EXCERPT

“Have you no sense?” Nevell stepped between the man and the dying girl’s bed. His magic persisted, but the man carried a lantern that brought too much light into the room, threatening to wash out the spell. “A priest is at work. You should not be here.”

The man paid him no mind, instead peering over Nevell’s shoulder. “I’ve been called senseless before,” he said, speaking with the same grace his attire implied. “Is she…?”

“Dead? Nearly. The spirits are about her. You may have let them out.” 

“Her mother has tended to her since this morn.” The man still didn’t look at Nevell. “The spirits will have fled already, if they intended to.”

“Spirits often lack intention.”

“You would know best.” The man took a few steps toward the bed, only stopping when Nevell grabbed his shoulder. He tried to shrug out of the grip, but Nevell held fast. “Father, we can save her—”

“Nay,” Nevell said. “She’s gone.”INSPIRATION

This image contains inspirations for this WIP, including:

A serious of T. Kingfisher books ("A Sorceress Comes to Call," "Nettle & Bone," and "Hemlock & Silver) labeled "T. KIngfisher's horror-fantasy blend.

A picture of Robin Hood from Disney's Robin Hood, labeled as such.

An image of a necromancer with skeletons from Bioware 4 labeled as "The Country Nevarra from Dragon Age 4."

"The Tainted Cup" by Robert Jackson Bennett, "The Gentleman and his Vowsmith" by Rebecca Ide, and "Green & Deadly Things" by Jenn Lyons, all labeled as "potential comps."