Assassin's Creed x Alif the Unseen When a heist goes wrong, 2 members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a jinn bent on the subjugation of human & jinn-kind. #MENApit #Qu #YA #P #UF

After a crazy few weeks, I'm thrilled to announce that I'm now represented by Lucy Balfour at WME Books! Her vision and enthusiasm for THE DEATH AND DIFFRACTION OF SAFA RIZWAN blew me away. I'm so excited to work with her and so keen to take this next step into my writing journey!

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We’re getting close…

I’m thrilled to share that I’m now represented by @laneheymont.bsky.social at The Tobias Literary Agency for my gothic horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH, and future written works. I was blown away by Lane’s enthusiasm and vision for BANSHEE and for my career, and can’t wait for what’s next!

THIS WOVEN KINGDOM x ❤️LESS HUNTER 😈 ex-princess getting revenge on the empress who killed her family 🏳️‍⚧️ oh but he's trans masc ❤️ falls for the empress's son 😭 who's hunting his dead princess self 💔 this can't end well + WNDB mentorship! #WSPit #YA #F

Someone pinch me because dreams really do come true 🥹 I’m so excited to announce that I’m now represented by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency. My strange little book filled with kudzu, cults, and rotten girls doing rotten things has found the perfect person to champion it! #agented #author

Selected for 2025 SmoochPit Mentorship THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a heart-devouring fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything. #BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #amquerying

I, Robot didn’t scare folks enough for me

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 ✉️🌎

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA x THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an upmarket gothic romance with: 🕯️Forbidden romance 🕯️High Society matchmaking 🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening 🕯️Obsessive yearning 🕯️European setting 🕯️Secret lake meetings #W #A #R #questpit

CARRY ON x #YA SIR CALLIE ✨ secret magic school in Georgia 👫w/ gendered magic 🏳️‍⚧️ trans boy mc 🤫 hiding a childhood crime… Can he make it to graduation before the truth comes out? #questpit #YA #F #W

He's the only thing standing between college students and certain death. Unfortunately, teen monster hunter Daniel is responsible for more civilian deaths than monster kills, and unless he can find the key to a power he doesn't believe in, his new friends will pay the price... #QuestPit #YA #Q #UF

When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before his own budding romance ends in tragedy. #questpit #A #G #T #Q

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP 💜 Chronic Illness Rep 🌱 Plant Magic 💚 Bisexual Witches 🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar 😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company ☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance ☕ Cozy Vibes #QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #chronicillnessrep #ownvoices #LGBTQ #cozyfantasy

BUTCH-FEMME x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH In a realm where magic is wielded through pain, a disabled healer joins a quest to cure the wraith-infected land from the Omen, Chaos, as her grief threatens to destroy her. 🥀 butch knights 🥀 disability rep #RF #A #Q #GhostPit #LGBT #G #amquerying

It’s ace week and it’s a great time for agents show some of us querying aspec authors some love! My contemporary paranormal YA is in some of your inboxes now 👀 #amquerying

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. 🥀 second-chance sapphic romance 👻 exploration of grief through ghosts #DVpit #ND #H #LGBT

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 #DVpit #YA #LGBT #H

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

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 👇

Oh look, honey, my whole new personality just dropped. Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iB...

I officially #amquerying You are not the Chosen One, my adult queer fantasy with a fake Chosen One premise Below is my agent's guide:

Fading tattoo magic, banished eldritch kin, echoes of the old empire, and a mysterious magical scepter. As cracks shake the empire's core, its skeletons rise—and Muduri, Liyue, Nasurin, and Mo must decide where their loyalties lie in a world on the brink. #PosterPit #Q #F #A

Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive. How do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette? #PosterPit #MG #H #Q

#PosterPit with ✨Big 5+✨ editor interest & 10+ full requests 🥀 LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS x THE SECRET GARDEN x WEDNESDAY As ghosts appear and people disappear—the gardeners at Greer Manor seem to be planting more than just flowers . . . #Q #MG #M #H

School Spirits X Cemetery Boys When Skyler made a deal with the reaper to catch ghosts in exchange for putting her cancer in remission, she did not have a ghost boy begging her to reunite him with his body on her bingo card. The clock is ticking & the reaper doesn’t like secrets. #queerpit #YA #SN

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN x Over the Garden Wall Trans boy Owen has come home from an 11-month captivity in the woods by killing the monster that held him, but when he starts changing into something horrible, he realizes whoever kills the monster must replace it. #queerpit #YA #H

THIS RAVENOUS FATE x MEN IN BLACK The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls—and one wants Elle’s heart for her own. 🫀Deep Southern cryptids 🫀sapphic pining 🫀coming of rage 🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability #questpit #W #YA #H #R

LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST Set in a world inspired by Golden Age Islamic astronomy, a delinquent village girl fights alongside a snobby magicless princess to escape a royal family who see her elemental powers as a threat to their rule. #questpit #YA #F #W

When a misunderstood artist desperate for success thrifts a pair of rose-colored glasses, she sees a new thorny path to the top. #BluePit 📖 #A #Q

While Ashlea and I are working on our major rewrite of our story, I'd like to present our updated #AgentGuide This is our adult/crossover romantic fantasy with a true slow burn romance, and series potential! #WritingCommunity 📖🦋

As WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN begins hitting agent inboxes, here's an updated #agentsguide, ft. 🪭An eldritch craving belonging 🏹A failing chosen one 🪭A pampered heir losing it all 🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion ❤️ this post or DM if interested! #agentguide #F #A #writingcommunity

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Hello all, setting down the #agentsguide of my YA Historical Novel (with a Speculative twist!) for consideration by #litagents and #editors! AFFINITY is my #amquerying project. The 61,000 word novel explores the topics of found family, generational trauma, and racism in 1970s Britain.

NARNIA x GOOD DIFFERENT x King Arthur 12 y/o trans, undiagnosed autistic boy Lewis knows everything about Arthurian legend. When Merlin themself appears asking him to go into the legends to save Arthur, Lewis accepts...but if he fails, the legends disappear forever. #questpit #W #MG #F

An #agentsguide to my adult imperial-Asia epic fantasy with tattoo magic, WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN, featuring: 🪭An eldritch craving familial love 🏹A failing chosen one 🪭A saboteur of her own rebellion 🏹An heir w/ perfect life until the facade rips #questpit #agentguide #F #W

ARCANE x BLD OVR BRIGHT HVN x DISCO ELYSIUM 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad STEM academia w/ 🩺corrupted magic tech/ethics 🩻body horror 🤌obsessive ace yearning 🧠neurodivergence as power 🚨unreliable narrator 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🏆dangerous duels 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man growing them #questpit #A #F #Q

An agent’s guide to The Love In Your Words: a YA Romance set in Liverpool, where a selectively mute girl falls for an autistic polyglot who helps her embrace her Chinese heritage and neurodivergence. #YA #Romance #writingcommunity #litagents #agentguide

born to read fanfiction all day, forced to read work e-mails 😔

More indie bookstores, not billionaires.

Just reached over 50k in my Appalachian sapphic horrormance 👻⛰️🖤

#Agents I started querying my gothic Sapphic fantasy! Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it.

If I had big fuck around money, I'd open a publishing company but my goal wouldn't be turning a profit. I'd hire writers to write what I wanna read. I'd have a wish list like "ghostbusters but gay" & let writers pick TBW ideas they're amped about, then I'd pay them a lot of money to write 'em.