
ALT Digital painting of Evan & Jensen from BLOOD & WATER, a historical fiction/crime drama/romance WIP. Evan, on the left, is a redheaded man holding up a card with a small pinprick in it. Jensen, right, is seated, holding a hand of playing cards, and looking up at Evan. Dialogue: E: Imagine that. Someone in a five-mile radius who doesn't fall over themselves at the sound of Gilliard. J: I've yet to see you fall over anything. E: You just might now.

ALT Comps and contents for BLOOD & WATER Comps: Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, KJ Charles' Will Darling Adventures, Peaky Blinders, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's Mutual Interest, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan, brat by Charli XCX, Virgin by Lorde, This Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We by Mitski Contents: Contractually-obligated-business-associates-to-lovers Ill-advised gambling adventures Family by blood vs. family by choice 20th-century queer community Morality under capitalism The ones who love you the most cna hurt you the most

ALT Pitch card for BLOOD & WATER, a historical fiction/crime drama/romance WIP. When a war between rival factions threatens the balance of power and profit in Prohibition-era St. Paul, a reluctant crime boss desperate to prove his place in his family’s syndicate and a charismatic bootlegger hell-bent on maintaining independence in a criminal underworld governed by hierarchy must face whether their clandestine affection can withstand getting caught in the crossfire of opposing loyalties—and what decisions can be excused in the name of love and victory. A portrait of Jensen to the left, a white man with dark brown hair wearing a dark brown shirt, gray-green vest, and green tie, holding an open straight razor in one hand. A portrait of Evan to the right, a freckled white man with past-chin-length red hair, wearing a collarless white shirt and black suspenders, holding a cigarette in one hand.

ALT •YA •urban fantasy •secret societies •islamic mythology •she hates him •horror elements •heists PITCH: When a heist goes wrong, two rival members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a malicious Jinn, an Unseen creature from the myths, hell-bent on retribution. With both the Seen and Unseen on their tail, and a history of hatred between them, the two must work together to stop the jinn from exacting a plan that would mean the eternal subjugation of both human jinn-kind alike. A CONVERGENCE OF SOULS is a dual POV novel that centres on the deadly secrets of two members of rival secret societies.

ALT COMPS: Assassin's Creed, Alif the Unseen, Portrait of a Thief, The Stardust Thief, Indiana Jones EXCERPT: “Where is it?” Tabby asked, and Felix pulled the scarf fully from around his face. He was sweating. Gross. “Not here,” he muttered. “There was a Scholar.” “You lost it?” Tabby sounded disgusted. Her long black hair was gathered in a high ponytail, the sleek mane falling down her back as she leaned forward in her seat. “There was a Scholar,” Felix repeated defensively. “She punched me in places that may never recover, Tabitha.”

ALT PITCH: In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way. EXCERPT: They would be, Sera thought, the blood thrumming in her ears. The dead here had been raised. En-masse, probably. She could only imagine the power that had taken. A whole village’s dead, raised in one night. She could see the figure now in her mind’s eye, a Harbinger cloaked in black under the light of a silvery full moon, the crimson wash of his Necromantic power seeping into the soil like blood and unleashing horrors, an army of the dead clawing their way out of their final resting places. She shivered.


























