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ALT A man and woman dressed in Victorian clothes look over their shoulders at something unsettling. They are standing in a snowy forest at night and the woman is holding a lantern.
ALT A slideshow pitch deck. The background is a dark ocean with floating ice. The top text in white says “An Agent’s Guide to Project Antarctica, cosmic horror, thriller”. On the left white text says “COMPS” and underneath it is the movie poster for “The Thing” x the book cover for “Annihilation”. The top right corner has a small headshot of the author, who is wearing a blue turtleneck and glasses, is white and has brown curly hair. Next to the photo reads “Morgan Champine, @_morganchampinewriter_”. Below the photo it reads “EXCERPT” and includes an excerpt from the novel. In the middle the photo reads “THE PITCH” and includes the novel’s one sentence pitch.
ALT Two boys sit overlooking a field. Text reads: An agents guide to Eulogy for frogs. Literary fiction. 90,000 words. Written by L.K. Jones.
ALT The pitch: Eighteen-year-old Noah Greene plans to end his life on his twenty-fifth birthday, until he meets an alluringly persuasive, emotionally indecisive boy who derails Noah’s intent to die young.
ALT The Comps: The queer summer adolescence of Girl's Girl by Sonia Feldman. The Instant connection, ticking clock, and inevitable tragedy of They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera. The finding your anchor and levity within existentialism of The Wedding people by Alison Espach
ALT EULOGY FOR FROGS is a 90,000-word LGBTQ+ coming-of-age literary fiction with romance. The adolescent queer lens of Girl’s Girl by Sonia Feldman meets the oftentimes humorous reality of existentialism in The Wedding People by Alison Espach, with the nihilism and inevitable tragedy of They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera.
ALT The Shrouded Renegade An Agent Guide A 115K MultiPOV Dark Epic Fantasy Based On A Homebrew DnD Campaign
ALT Death was in hell. A familiar buzzing in his coat pocket claimed his attention. Like the smell right before it rains, predictable dread twisted in his gut. He pressed his tongue to the roof of his mouth. Hard. He slid his bionic hand into the hidden jetted pocket, soft fabric gliding over the metal. After five years, Death still wasn’t used to it. The magic made it seamless—the same movement, control, and dexterity of his biological arm, but it wasn’t his. Lungs burning, he held his breath, staying perfectly still—careful not to let himself go down that memory. Never that memory. (Text Contd.)
ALT Beneath the looming threat of a rebellion, a rag tag team is hired to investigate an upcoming election, instead they’re thrust into the fray of tyrants, oppressors, and an ancient secret cult determined to revive an exiled god.
ALT Princess Juni has one last chance to escape her impending arranged nuptials. To free herself, she must find a lost relic to restore her court’s full power, but her search lands her in the middle of another realm’s corrupt election. Determined not to see another oppressor take a throne, she assembles a group of unlikely allies to investigate. They learn that an underground cult is behind the tampering, and also harbor the relic she needs. As the election draws nearer, she must juggle the increasing instability of her magic, her cruel sister, and court politics, but things become dangerously complicated as she develops feelings and puts her fate in the hands of the realm's most notorious assassin, Death. Arathorn Vhours was cursed by his father to spend his life mercilessly killing at the whim of his family’s illegal empire as the assassin Death. His father’s interest in the election forces him into close proximity with a secret princess masquerading as a senator’s assistant, and feelin
ALT When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their fear of falling—and losing their carefully planned careers.
ALT The comps: Unstesdy by Peyton Corinne, Revolve ny Bal Khabra, and Off Campus by Elle Kennedy.
ALT The tropes: Deal trope He falls first, she falls harder Forced proximity Grumpy x sunshine “Take off that jersey”
ALT Parker Knight and Barret Keats share two things—their love for the ice and an injury that’s jeopardized both of their futures. Determined to compete in her senior year before leaving her grueling coach, heartache from losing her father, and hometown forever, Parker strikes up a deal that could make or break both their careers: he helps her get back on the ice, and she pulls strings to give him one last shot at the NHL. As Barret begins training Parker, mutual attraction and shared grief brings the pair closer, and their deal becomes so much more than what’s left on the ice. Barret must untangle his abandonment issues and fleeting career, while Parker must decide if her love for the ice and growing feelings for the hockey captain are worth another fall—and her need to leave it all behind.
