It's March 1, which means it's the first day of MS Awareness Month, and also the book birthday for my debut novel, The Speed of Light! 📚 I can't believe it's been 5 years...thank you to everyone who has read, reviewed, and supported my book! 🧡 elissadickey.com

Here's my #UnhingedPit #NA #F #R #W – that I've nicknamed the 'Plantomasy' Project – in vibes & pictures only! Boy meets girl: plants get in the way, with knitting, tango-dancing, annoying little sisters, troublesome relations & a pet house plant.

Latest LOVE YOU LIKE A HURRICANE public advisory from the National Tropical Storm Center. #UnhingedPit #A #R #RomCom #OWN #AG #Disability

I spent way too much time to bring you: SNAGGLETEETH characters as dogs #UnhingedPit #A #SF #LGBT #BIPOC #ND #Q

KNIVES OUT + LEAP YEAR + GHOSTBUSTERS I (39F) am staying at an inn on the Irish coast and got caught up in a murder investigation with a local man (40M) who I can't decide if I love or hate. Oh, and a demon might be chasing me. AITA? #UnhingedPit #A #H #R #Q

Hey editors! If you like TWISTER then consider LOVE YOU LIKE A HURRICANE. #UnhingedPit #A #R #OWN #AG #Disability #RomCom

For #UnhingedPit, here's my gothic romantic horror in X-Files memes: 🖤 A Mulder-and-Scully-esque duo trying not to fall for each other while 👻Ghost-hunting and solving a murder in Ireland SPOOKY MULDER + SKEPTICAL SCULLY #A #H #R #Q

A mood board for Hometown Mistletoe: Amber is single, back in her hometown, & now fake dating the owner of a game store in order to win a Christmas-themed couple’s competition. What could go wrong? #Cupit #A #Q #CR #RC #AmQuerying

LUTHER x BLADERUNNER The city simmers with interspecies violence. A series of human/Wired double murders threatens to make things worse. It’s up to private eye Eliot and his android ex-lover to find the killer before the state decommissions all Wireds. #Cupit #A #SFR #POC

Lark is at rock bottom. Betrayed, career in ruins, lying to everyone she loves… and the holiday market she’s working keeps running her into a man who smiles like he’s never met a problem. 🎄holiday romance 🔥 slow burn 🤫 secrets 😒🤠 grumpy/sunshine 🏘 small town 🌶reluctant chemistry #cuPit #w #a #cr

My current Fantasy Rom Com WIP: 👸Royal fake dating 👑Princess x King ✨Humor (I think?) 💔Hopeless romantic who has given up on love 💚’Party 4 u’ vibes ❤️‍🩹Healing each other 🧚Fairytale vibes #Cupit #RF #CFR #BIR #WIP

Now Querying! THE LOVE HATERS X LOVELIGHT FARMS 🎄an event planner with a promotion on the line 🚒 a firefighter who works for her dad 🎄 planning a gala together, but "let's keep it casual" 🚒 their chemistry threatens her career, family relationships, and the gala itself #cupit #cr #rc #q #a

CASABLANCA X KILLING EVE Shadows in the SKY A feminist re-trope of the broken spy romance 🍷 She’s more dangerous than he is 🍷 Bisexual heroine 🍷 Sapphic antagonist with on-page romance 🍷 Autistic rep #ownvoices 🍷 Consent-focused kink 🍷 30+ MCs #Cupit #Q #A #RT #LGBT #Bi+ #Sapphic

#Cupit #A #CR #DISR #OnSub TWISTER x RAIDERS OF THE LOST HEART Meteorologist Josie Cannon is always prepared for natural disasters. But when she’s forced to cover a major hurricane with her college rival, Theo Andrews, she discovers she’s completely unprepared for just one thing – falling in love.

LEAP YEAR + THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE When Rosie returns to Ireland, she must face her haunted past—and a real haunting—as she teams up with a grumpy-but-handsome local man to solve a murder. 🖤 Enemies to lovers 🖤 Gothic 🖤 Murder mystery #Cupit #A #Q #HOR #GR

When a dare to say yes to everything and pretend like it's Vegas leads Gabby into the arms of her brother's old friend, it's all fun and games until his secret collides with her biggest gamble yet. #Cupit #Amquerying #A #RC #CL #disabilityrep #invisibledisability

BRIDE X KING OF GREED refreshing voice like Ali MMC gets a wake-up call like Dominic But give him golden retriever vibes? 🐺 shifter CEO x undercover EA 🥡bonding over (delicious) food 👠 fashionista FMC 🧁 cinnamon roll MMC ✌️dual POV 🥰 he falls first, she falls harder #cupit #A #PR #RC #MlR #CR

A Vampire’s Lament 🖤🦇🥀 Book One in the Time and Time Again series. Benevolent vampire Ishmael’s carefully balanced life is disrupted when Edric awakens a love he thought lost centuries ago. #Cupit #PR #GR #LGBT #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #queerwriters

Now querying! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN ✨two exiled men (and their secrets) ✨one lunar prison (and its horrors) ✨a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💖the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AmQuerying #CuPit

Rosie's trip to Ireland is to die for. To survive, she needs to: ❤️ Solve a murder ❤️ Try not to fall for a handsome stranger. ❤️ Escape the vengeful ghost stalking her across the Irish countryside. THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE + THE GUEST LIST #Cupit #A #Q #HOR #GR

Now querying! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AmQuerying #muppit

BENT NECK LADY VIBES 🖤Best Submission Award 🖤Big 5 Editor Requests Simone summoned her murdered cousin, but she wasn't Nina anymore. MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND— #TheEastRiverWraith A Good For Her Horror with Romance & Revenge & Reclaiming Power A Revised #AgentsGuide Upper #YA #NA #H #Q #Questpit

THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE + THE GUEST LIST Twenty years after a study abroad trip ended in tragedy, Rosie returns to Ireland and must face her haunted past—and a real haunting—as she teams up with a grumpy-but-handsome local man to solve a murder. 🖤 #MuPPit #Q #A #Goth #R #P #Sup

Rosie's trip to Ireland is to die for. To survive, she needs to: 🖤 Solve a murder 🖤 Try not to fall for a handsome stranger. 🖤 Escape the vengeful ghost stalking her across the Irish countryside. THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE + THE GUEST LIST #MuPPit #Q #A #Goth #R #P #Sup

An agent's guide to Love and Mud *Tropes* *Reader reviews* *vibes* #Q currently querying #R love in wild places #A medium spiced #questpit

An #agentsguide to my contemporary romance, DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST featuring: 🚗Tension-filled road trip 💉Illness rep 🌄Coastal Canadian landscape ⛴️Boat ride in costume 📝(Not) a bucket list #questpit #Q #A #R

Thread of my #questpit pitches bsky.app/profile/magg...

Introducing an updated #agentsguide for A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME ✨Arab folklore & exploration of the myth of djinn 💎Unique magic system & world 🪞Explores inner demons & mental health ⚖️Corruption & greed as central to conflict 🧿23 full requests #questpit #Q #RF #agentguide

An empress with disability. A Dragon hoarding romance novels. A dysfunctional family of gods. Not the start of a joke, but Sy's undoing. When her ex, the chosen one, is murdered, feisty Sy fights the gods to escape a fate worse than death: becoming their eternal slave. #questpit #Q #F #BIPOC #LBGT

Love and Mud is for those of us who want a little adventure with their romance. Written with The Novelry, currently querying with 8 full requests out! #Q #A #R #questpit

AMARI x LOKI Kori, 12, finds herself stuck in a cryfest & painful menty b's after her mom dies When a meteor opens a portal, doppelgängers chase her. Kori learns their fates are bound & her grief transcends the multiverse Now, Kori must save herself — from herself! #QuestPit #MG #S #SF #Q #POC

Alpha and beta reader feedback for AT YOUR PACE, a new adult contemporary sports romance. It's made three people other than me laugh aloud so far, and hopefully more one day! If you want an ARC just dm me I just want people to enjoy this thing I wrote :) #QuestPit #Q #R #NA

SAPPHICS GONE GIRL IN SPACE When grieving widow Amani wakes up half way through a century long space mission, she must uncover the mystery of why she was awoken in the first place, haunted by an android with her dead wife's eyes. #questpit #SF #Q #D

GUEST LIST+HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE+LEAP YEAR Haunted by her past, Rosie must team up with a handsome local man to solve a murder—and outrun the monstrous presence stalking them across the Irish countryside. 🖤Gothic 🖤Enemies to lovers 🖤Murder mystery 📚Querying #agents now! #QuestPit #A #H #Dis #Q

When brainbox amputee Laura befriends a pirate in the supermarket, the new cabin girl must solve clues, defeat villains, placate sulky macaws AND win the day in court to save everyone she cares about. #Questpit 📖 #Q #MG #M #Adv #DIS #Hu

THE LITTLE MERMAID meets APPALACHIAN HORROR When Lily, a shadow-demon bound to the underworld, triggers an ancient prophecy, she must navigate a cult devoted to her estranged mother or become the catalyst that destroys her family and the Ozarks #QuestPit #A #H #F #DF #Q

THE HAAR x SLEWFOOT In SHEDDING SKIN, two men forced into molds make a deal to fix them both. 🇩🇪 Germanic folklore inspired m/m romance 🩼 Disability rep ❤️‍🩹 Intimacy through healing #WIP #HR #FR #lgbtq #questpit

LEAP YEAR, but haunted Rosie's travel to-do list: 🇮🇪 Return to Ireland 💀 Solve a murder 💚 Try not to fall for the mysterious local man 🧟‍♀️ Escape the monstrous presence stalking her 📚 Querying now - #agents, please reach out if you'd like to see it! 📚 #QuestPit #A #H #Horromance #R #Dis #Gothic #Q

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH Journals of a Familiar Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape. #questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

THE WHITE LOTUS x SUCCESSION An ousted Broadway marketing executive takes a job on a Black-owned private island in Miami, where ambition, scandal, and an ultra-wealthy family dynasty force her to decide how far she’s willing to go to restore her reputation and career. #QuestPit #A #WF #BVM #W

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #S #Q #Questpit #booksky

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE+THE GUEST LIST Twenty years after a study abroad trip ended in tragedy, Rosie returns to Ireland and must face her haunted past—and a real haunting—as she teams up with a grumpy-but-handsome local man to solve a murder. #QuestPit #A #H #Gothic #Horromance #R #Dis #Q

‼️IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT‼️ In solidarity with the general strike happening this Friday, we’re postponing this week’s event by ONE day. The event will now take place January 31st on Saturday. This strike is important to the both of us and we would appreciate you joining us.

Some very cool writerly items in this publishing-organized auction to benefit organizations in Minnesota, including Immigrant Law Ctr of Minnesota and Dios Habla Hoy Church food distribution. Auction runs Jan. 28-30 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

So honored to share that It’s All In Your Head got a Kirkus Starred Review!! ⭐️

Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live. Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...