My agent's guide to my adult dark fantasy SAINTFIRE (and my WIP "Women's War Academy") is live now on my website! Check it out here: www.authorrmgrant.com/agents-guide

🛑CW: pain and injury description 🛑 Daud adjusts to his new burns. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

THE LIGHTHOUSE + BLOOD IN THE BAYOU Callum Point, a queer transman moves to a dead-end fishing town only to find it full of semi-mad townsfolk, monstrous fish, and an ever-present fog that whispers to him. #QuestPit #Q #A #H

POPPY WAR x STARVING SAINTS set in the tumult of a reimagined Reconquista 🔥trans + plus-sized protagonists 🔥sacrifice-based magic system 🔥enemies to rivals to lovers 🔥found family forged in ruin 🔥heartwrenching twists #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #LGBT #own

On an island quietly haunted by ghosts of grieving women, a depressed chocolatier teams up with five strangers—with scars of their own—to find their killer. Of the six, only five are really alive. Spirited Away x Shutter Island #QuestPit #W #A #F #T #PR

A trans assassin who wanted to be a knight. A sorceress who wanted to be a princess. ⚔️He will do whatever it takes to avenge his people 🩸To protect herself, she must sacrifice others Together they will burn angels and kings #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #LGBT #own

A different WIP today; a short story I've been tinkering on for years but am finally attempting to finish and submit. Today's word appears in the very first paragraph... That feels auspicious. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #amquerying

Some of my favorite beta reader feedback so far on my #darkfantasy Saintfire #writingcommunity #amquerying

#AgentsGuide to SAINTFIRE, an adult dark fantasy inspired by Berserk, Poppy War, Starving Saints, and The Salt Grows Heavy. Blood-stained action. Plus-sized, morally-gray witch x sweetheart, scarred transmasc knight turned assassin. Enemies to doomed lovers. Lots more! #GhostPit #A #C #F

SAINTFIRE 🔥 Sacrifice-based magic system 🔥 Struggling against fate 🔥 #ownvoices plus-sized + trans MCs 🔥 Enemies to rivals to doomed lovers 🔥 "only one bed in the gladiatorial cell" 🔥 Reconquista inspired setting 🔥 Found family 🔥 Vampire aes #GhostPit #A #DF #querying

Got some feedback from a beta reader who just finished Saintfire.... Oops? 🤭 I warned her it had a tragic ending! #writingcommunity #amquerying

🛑 CW: severe burns mention 🛑 Archbishop Marcellon investigates Daud as a potential candidate for recruitment while he tends to his sweeping and tidying. #WipSnips #WritingCommunity #DarkFantasy

Thahira 🚩: Spiteful, catty, mean for fun ✅: FIERCELY loyal, will absolutely kill for you Daud 🚩: Super religious in an unaware way ✅: Sweetest most chivalrous most devoted man you'll ever meet #writingcommunity #ghostpit #amquerying

🛑 CW: nudity, burn mention 🛑 Daud recalls his first encounter with the Witch's Manikin, a costumed, heretical knight #WIPSnips #writingcommunity

#OctoberWorldbuilders 28: In the west, sharing a reflection with someone is the same as sharing nudity. Fountains are made to froth, metal is forged covered in grit, windows stained or non-existent, all to make reflections harder to encounter by accident

Saintfire has not one but two gender-affirming-magic sex scenes (top and bottom ""surgery""). Now I just need to find my audience LOL #queerwriters #amquerying

🛑 CW: animal and people violent death 🛑 When confronted with horrific violence, Thahira is reminded of a blood-curdling memory. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity

#OctoberWorldbuilders Day 27: Saintfire is about (among other things) finding community / love after trauma, and the difficulties and joys and sheer importance of that experience. I hope my readers hug their best friends after they put the book down. #writingcommunity #amquerying

Saintfire lightning round 1. The Severn Expanse 2. The desert is harsh enough to be uninhabited except by travelers, except at the fringes 3. It stretches from an Iberian inspired region all the way to the borders of the equivalent of the Indian subcontinent 4. Ibex, lizards, carrion birds, &c

Getting settled in bsky by following some writing community starter packs -- disappointed to see how many ""AI agents"" are included in these lists #writingcommunity #amquerying

Beautiful art of my book #saintfire protagonists Thahira and Daud looking SO similar to how I imagine them in the early chapters (art by @galpalzzz on twitter) #amquerying #writingcommunity #DarkFantasy