So thrilled to share this announcement of the sale for ELSIE LOVELACE'S GALLERY OF ENCHANTMENTS by @kassandratyst.bsky.social to Grand Central Publishing. This is a book that will make hearts happy, and I can't wait for you all to read it! #cozyfantasy #romantasy

A little delayed, but I have some news ✨ I have signed with @luciennediver.bsky.social at the Knight Agency and I couldn’t be happier!

I couldn’t have wished for a better agent and I’m so excited to see where this journey will take me! 🥰

I never posted the art I commissioned on here and need to rectify that immediately 👀 here are Elsie and Theo ✨

BLD OVR BRGHT HVN x ARCANE Jim's grad research was meant to save rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning. #PosterPitQ #A #F (credit to @d-and-a-authors!)

When Elsie accidentally frees Theo from a painting he was trapped in for 106 years, she discovers a fatal secret. Theo is on borrowed time, and Elsie heart might not survive. The invisible Life of Addie LaRue x Time Traveler's Wife 🖼️ 🥀🕯️🐈🪷 #PosterPitQ #A #F

A burned-out jazz pianist seeking refuge at a seaside inn is drawn into the orbit of a brilliant painter whose work doesn’t just capture his subjects—it devours them. And now she's caught in his frame. Art by the lovely saranillustration #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A

The love lives of two sisters become complicated after they develop the ability to sense love and as they navigate a world where direct use of magic has been banned they become all the more curious about the unknown of forbidden magic #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #F #R #A

An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance set in Victorian England. When an impressionable young spirit-medium is hired to exorcize an evil spirit, the real question is what could possibly go right. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi

POWERLESS X ONE DARK WINDOW Being a teen sucks. Working with a handsome memory snatcher to save magic? A little less 🤷‍♀️ ❤️‍🔥 pinning and slow-burn 🦇 mental health rep 🌊 atmospheric setting 😈 feminine rage core 🔥 found family 🍴eat the rich #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #amquerying

NAUSICAÄ x EMILY WILDE Heidi has a plan: scorn her suitor, keep his money, and start her research. It’s perfect - if she can survive long enough in the cursed forest to finish her thesis. 🪲 Cozy-yet-unsettling Fantasy 🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative world 📚 Academia #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F #LGBT

My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️ #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #adult #horror #gothic

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓A cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineer magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺medical ethics & consent 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man who ❤️s 'em #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

ADDIE LARUE x TVD - vampires hiding their fangs - a lost god searching for identity - power-hungry gangs and dubious detectives - morally grey protagonist - regretting (?) what you wished for - realising what you truly are - in the speculative underbelly of Taipei #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a passionate romance with a pirate captain–or needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life. #Q #NA #RF #questpit

The Greatest Showman x The Invisible life of Addie La Rue A gymnast is forced to perform in a magical circus alongside a man she doesn’t recognize, but he knows her… and he’s watched her die dozens of times. 💕”Who did this to you?” 💫Grounded fantasy 🖤Dark whimsy 🎪Atmospheric #Questpit #F #Q #A

THE MISTRESS OF BARROW The Conjuring meets Carmilla in a historical dark romance about a spirit-medium ensnared by the very ghost she was meant to banish, with deadly consequences. #agentsguide #questpit #Q #A #DM #H

Squid Game x 1984 🔪📺🩸 To find her bestie, Tate lies her way onto the Trinity Trials—televised games in which viewers decide all:magic players are 💉 with, the hunter, &each twist. She must survive not only the games+hunter but other desperate players who follow their own rules. #QuestPit #YA #Q #SFF

ARCANE x BABEL x RIPE Jim's graduate research was meant to save rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning. #questpit #Q #A #SF #F #SF #H #agentsguide 💙📚

So when can I start querying? 👀

Squid Game x TBOSAS 🌲🔪⌛🩸✨ To find her sister, Tate lies her way onto a deadly televised tournament of hide&seek where players are injected w/magic chosen by the audience. Survival depends on working w/the enemy. He might save her life - if he doesn't take it first.

 #YA #F #Q #YouDeservepIt

RIPExBLOOD OVR BRGHT HAVN When grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, intoxicating suitemate Bash warns it could be weaponized—& stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience? #YouDeservepIt #A #F #SF #Q 💙📚

Jim's graduate research was meant to bring salvation to rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning. #YouDeservepIt #A #SF #F #Q #agentsguide #litagents

Barbie 12 Dancing Princesses but with stabby lesbians Impulsive sorceror Midge was hired to uncover where 12 mischievous princesses go dancing each night, but realized forming a tenuous alliance with the deadly Princess Yvette would be much more fun #YouDeserveplt #WIP #YA #F

OUTLANDER X FRENCHMAN'S CREEK Secrets & obsession make for a dangerous tale... 🏴‍☠️Pirates ☠️A sprinkle of magic 🏴‍☠️Fiery FMC always getting into trouble ☠️Flirtatious pirate captain w/ a dark secret 🏴‍☠️True slow burn romance ☠️Dark villain lurking @ edges #NA #RF #UW #Q #P2Ppit

Theia, an untalented conjurer, needs more than luck to survive—she needs magic. Even if that magic happens to be forbidden blood magic and bound to a grimoire that once belonged to the Prince of Darkness. What could go wrong? 🤷‍♀️ A HEART WROUGHT BY DARKNESS #A #FR #P2Ppit #UW

When Cody's group checks into Hotel Adair, she hopes to strengthen the bond w/her bestie. But the hotel feeds on insecurity& amplifies fears. As the friendship cracks& bodies pile up, reality warps. Cody must confront the hotel’s hunger if she wants to save her bestie& check out.

 #W #A #H #P2Ppit

SOMETHING MORE x TOMORROW (x3) To win a $100k coding competition, Mia Pan must learn to code—with help from her autistic teammate, who she’s crushing hard on. But falling for him makes her wonder: is she autistic too? #YA #C #R #UW #Q #P2Ppit

Hello all, setting down the #agentsguide of my YA Fantasy duology for consideration by #litagents and #editors! Spears in the Dark is my #amquerying project. The 74,000 word novel explores the topics of found family, and anti-colonialism and resistance in a mystical Persianate world.