Half the World Away is now yours. HEARTSTOPPER meets BOY LIKE ME Set in the midst of Section 28, the BBC launch an inter-school pen pal project. Theo writes. Alex replies. This is what happens next. Thanks to those who have written such wonderful reviews. I really hope you all love it ✉️🌎

COMPOUND FRACTURE x TOGETHER WE ROT A #YA horrormance ft: ⛰️ small-town Appalachian setting 🥀 sapphic romance between the preachers daughter x town rebel 🪾 cryptids, ghosts, and a 🐍 cult 🧠 unapologetic AuDHD rep 😈 morally grey girls doing morally grey things #QuestPit #H

Welcome to Caswell 👻 Where the ghosts outnumber people (and cows), people are worshipping snakes, and a rotting fog keeps inching closer into town. Two lesbian ghosts are the only ones capable of saving the very town responsible for their deaths. The only question is: will they? #GhostPit #YA #H

The new Agent's Guide to MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project. ───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ───── At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable. ───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ─────

My new YA novel HALF THE WORLD AWAY is out 11th November! It's an LGBTQ+ book set during Section 28. Pre-order now at linktree.com/jamesalyons Published by @srlpublishing.bsky.social

An #editors guide to: EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS. My adult contemporary road-trip RomCom featuring drag queen debauchery, melancholic yearning, and dark familial secrets in all four corners. HERE WE GO AGAIN x IT'S A SIN #Editors #OnSub

Mark your calendars! We have a US cover reveal date for LOVE GALAXY, my debut sapphic SF romantic thriller about murder on a reality tv show in space with forbidden romance and lots of yearning! Available to add on Goodreads now, link in the comments below 👇

COMPOUND FRACTURE X TOGETHER WE ROT Girls are disappearing. Kudzu is spreading like wildfire. People are worshipping snakes. The only hope? Two ghosts who hate (want to kiss) one another❤️‍🔥 🧠 an unapologetic AuDHD rep 🥀 town nuisance X preachers daughter 🌿 Appalachian cryptids #QueerPit #YA #H

Here We Go Again x Kinky Boots An adult contemporary, drag, gay road trip RomCom. Follow Harri as he joins crush Jack on a chaotic trip to find the iconic 1980's drag friends of Wilma Cockburn. Will their secrets about his adopted family's past change his life forever? #Queerpit #A #CON #editors

A young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother whilst finding love on a road trip to find members of his estranged uncle's 80's drag collective. With her past set to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #QueerPit #CON #A

COMPOUND FRACTURE x TOGETHER WE ROT A ghost determined to solve her own murder, allies with the vengeful spirit of a cult leader’s daughter to unearth the rotting secrets of their small Appalachian town. 🧠 AuDHD + queer rep 🥀 sapphic romance Coming soon 👀 to inboxes #questpit #ya #W #PR #H

I made a 3rd book agent guide for Of Magic and Grief, that's right, this story has a title now! OMaG is my Young Adult Urban Fantasy that's Cemetery Boys meets Legendborn. Book agent guides for my 2 Middle Grade stories are right below 👇🏼 🧵/1

☀️Sol's Plan for the Week: 🐺 Visit best friend at the harbor 🧚🏽 Practice flying 📖 Have a chilling history lesson 👑 Welcome father home before bed 🌑 Unwanted guest kidnap my parents 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Find out I have a missing twin brother 🏰 Save the queendom #BluePit #MG #F #HF #Q #LGBT #LGBTQIA

After 500 years, Tal will do anything to revive his lover’s soul. But when he finally creates a Wishing Stone, it ends up in the hands of a human girl lost in his world. Tall will have to help her friends on their rescue mission if he wants a chance to make his wish. #BluePit📖 #YA #Q #BluePit

AGGGTM X MARAUDERS ERA Lennie’s senior year captaining her XC team turns deadly when her ex-bff goes missing and she’s a suspect. Her only way out? Team up with nemesis Lysander, the boyfriend of the missing girl—and the last person to see her alive. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #Q #M

I AM NOT JESSICA CHEN X YOU’VE REACHED SAM A CROSROAD OF LILIES YA Rom-Com 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 #SP #Bluepit

A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor. DAMSEL’s feminine rage x A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN x 🌶️🌶️ #R #F #BluePit 📖 #amquerying

When their luxury liner sinks, Edith & others are rescued by a passing ship. But one by one, the survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board. Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim #A #H #W #BluePit 📖

FOREIGN BODIES is Euphoria X The Last of Us (if it had androids, duh), a YA Crossover spec fic. Found family, wealth disparity, unchecked oligarchs, genetic manipulation, perseverance, science, identity, connection, grief, mental illness & addiction. #BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #NA #SF #SP #OV #ND #Q

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

Wren swore she’d never return to Fenholt, but her pesky conscience got the better of her. Again. Now she’s desperate to keep a cursed necklace out of a necromancer’s grasp while dodging her old thieving crew. But is she desperate enough to trust a handsome priest of the dead? #BluePit 📖 #F #R #A #Q

Stalked swiftly, watched closely. Every second thirsts for alertness, Millie finds herself staying cautious of a classmate. Intertwined & made of shadows, Daz eagerly snatches moments of the unaware. Adjusting to the darkness, Millie begins seeing the sinister secrets he holds onto. #BluePit #W

THE HACIENDA X BAD CREE In a quiet neighbourhood, a gunshot slices through the life Taryn Shaykh has built. Compassion draws her into the circle of her neighbours & their charming friend. A voice in her head compels her to stay, a voice that won’t go away. #BluePit 📖 #A #Q #POC #gothic #SP

THE FAMILIAR x LES(bian) MIS 1793. An ambitious art student haunted by a cursed island searches for answers in an unholy secret society, but the cult's high priestess offers something even more precious. Across the ocean, a hungry new world smells blood in the water. #BluePit 📖 #W #A #F #HS #R

Stricken with the whiplash of an unfathomable that was forced to be seen, Ava Tahhan’s subconscious lingers on the mangled memories. Wandering in the surreal, desperately trying to latch onto happiness. Something watches, contouring reality subtly, shrouded in nothing but plain sight. #BluePit #W

Nettle & Bone X AddieLaRue 👑When the chosen Empress is assassinated, 🗡️her plucky, disabled ex-GF must defeat a dysfunctional family of gods or submit to the chosen's grim fate of becoming the gods' eternal slave ❤️Forbidden Love, Hot Banter, Dark Humor #BluePit 📖 #Q #F #OV #YA #LGBT #DIS #WF #POC #ND

Narok is a monster hunter blessed by the sun god. When his friend is murdered, he vows to discover the killer—against his god’s wishes. While on the hunt, he crosses paths with a sorceress from a rival religious order who knows more than she claims. #BluePit 📖 #W #A #F #TR #LGBT #ND

✨Adult historical fantasy with Ukrainian folklore. Comps: BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, THE POPPY WAR 🩸secret society 🗝️found family 🤎slow-burn romance 🐺mythical beings as main characters 🕯️high-stakes political mystery 🗡️anti-imperial struggle #BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #A #F #HS #OV

My dual-perspective adult contemporary romance follows Rowan and Charlie as they tell the story of the sole survivor of a plane crash. While writing their article, they fight to ignore their growing feelings for each other and discover there's more to the story than they thought. #BluePit📖 #W #A #R

EVERY SUMMER AFTER x BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL x GILMORE GIRLS A burnt-out middle school teacher flees to her family’s house at the Jersey Shore, where she reconnects with her first love, takes a job in his family’s restaurant, and re-evaluates her priorities. #BluePit #Q #R

HIDDEN TRUTHS X THE CHANCE TO FLY When 12yo Ivy longs to be seen, she elicits help from the antique mannequin from Mom's shop and her snarky grandma after her act for the talent show with frenemy BFF sinks. But will it be enough to step into the spotlight? #BluePit #MG #CON 📖

#bluepit #bluepit📖 #A #F #W Imose’s beauty cost her everything—her mother’s life, her freedom, her future—and she escapes her enslavement to strike a bargain with an imprisoned god who agrees to help her hunt down her abusers, only to find it isn’t her soul on the line—it’s her heart.

A neuroscientist is recruited to lead a team to find and “quench” consciousness if it emerges in supercomputers. A technical challenge that quickly spirals into a deep ethical conflict. Severance X Martian X Ishiguro #Bluepit 📖 #Q #A #SF #SP #POC #writercommunity #writersky #writers #AmQuerying

CAPTIVE PRINCE x INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Ocean's Blood is a dark, m/m fantasy with: ⚔️ true(!) enemies-2-a-giant-mess ❤️‍🔥 sloth burn 🦹‍♂️ an endearing villain 🤺 clash of 2 big egos 🪄 a unique magic system 🖤 guaranteed no HEA in book 1 😀 Find it on: mybook.to/OBL #BluePit #IN #A #LGBT #F 🌈📚🌈🚀💫

Nellie, a half-Filipino millennial, hides grief & doubt while chasing success at a top NYC firm. After losing her job, she faces her fears and forms an unexpected bond with her ex-work rival, learning to want more and believe she deserves it. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #WF w/ #R #OV #A #Q #AgentsGuide

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

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

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY x THE WEDDING SINGER ✨Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story.✨ *Same universe as MS I'm querying, Love, Lies, and Letting Go ( #agentsguide 📌) but works as a standalone #BluePit #BluePit📖 #WF w/ #R #A #W #AgentGuide

🎸 SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES 🎸 A 1970s MM romance about a band who makes it big—but tension and angst arises as the singer and rhythm guitarist grow closer than just best friends... — DAISY JONES × UTOPIA AVENUE [ #BluePit📖 ; #BluePit ; #W ; #R ; #HS ; #A ; #LGBT ; #ND ]

When Ehren sets off on a journey to reunite w/his estranged family, the last thing he expects is to be sent straight to Hell 🔥 🎩1899 London, Paris & Rome 💀gods of the underworld 💔family drama 🦇gothic horror monsters 🪦💋epic slowburn romance ft. kiss scenes in cemeteries #BluePit #HS #F #Q #LGBT #POC

TO GREEN, FROM BLUE: LETTERS TO THE LUMINOUS DEEP x RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND -sky pirates -semi-epistolary -twenty three years of yearning -childhood best friends to lovers -blackmail -one-sided fake dating -🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ -letters from no one -two bros chilling in a hot tub #BluePit #DIS #LGBT #A #R #F

A fugitive astronomer must seek the truth about his family’s doomsday prediction that led to their persecution and deaths. #BluePit #A #F #Q #agentsguide #BluePit📖

PJO DISNEY PLUS x ATLAS SIX 🌠 parallel worlds & quantum physics fantasy ❤️ gods and myths 😏 a very different school of magic 💯 ADHD rep ownvoices 🖤 cozy and fun with a bit of dark and edgy 📖 #BluePit #YA #MG #Q #OV #LGBT #ND #TR

— 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

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #BluePit #Q #A #LF #M #BluePit📖

To safely guide the soul of his deceased lover through a magical, dangerous darkland and to her final resting place, guardian Karnen must fulfill his Goddess' tenet to honor all shapes of faith. But honoring all faiths requires the hardest test: learning how to let go of his own. #bluepit 📖 #A #F #W

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION X THE KISS QUOTIENT When Reese escaped her toxic ex, she had no idea joining the crew of the World Cruise meant swinger passengers, rocky seas, tipsy tourists, crew drama, K-pop stars, and one grumpy guitar player she just cant stay away from. #os #a #r #bluepit 📖

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