
ALT Circe” by Wright Barker. She stands in a marble entryway, upon a tiger pelt, and lions and tigers and wolves surround her. She reaches out, with fabric flowing around her, and the animals snarl and relax near her. Art by nataliab_draws of two masc people on either side of a fem presenting person all in ancient clothing White text is in the foreground. Text reads: An epic dark fantasy | book 1 A Reader’s guide to UTSOF Shepard DiStasio | rep’d by Kirsten Lang

ALT The unicorn is found (from the Unicorn Tapestries 1495-1505) Half of the image is blacked out, and five book covers are in a row with text either above or below. Text reads: Comps (Above Fire and Blood) Succession Crisis, Warring Families (Below Thucydides) Peloponnesian War, Ancient Mediterranean (Below Dune) Chosen One Corruption, Religious Fanaticism (Below Poet Empress) NOT a romantasy, court politics (Above Black Sun) Vessel for the Gods, Prophecies And of course, there are dragons and unicorns Shepard DiStasio, Rep’d by Kirsten Lang

ALT Melinoe and Khares gripping onto one another in a dark, stone room, art done by shizunpilled. Text at center reads: The boy of the sun has no partner. He is… moldable. Shepard DiStasio, Rep’d by Kirsten Lang Text reads on left side: Pitch when the oracles of drábek were slaughtered a millennia ago, varsan basileiai lost all of their power--their lesyuk, eradicated, their beasts slain, and their goddess erased. but as the sea whispers of a religious war set ablaze by drákôn fire, melinoe dreams the oracles will return... with her as their vessel. Text on Right side: Inherent Corruption of Chosen One Nonlinear Timeline Sun + Moon Arranged Marriage Forbidden Romance (Romeo + Juliet) Love Triangle Wound Tending Dual-POV Religious Angst Mutual Pining A Dead Dove We Aren't Eating Enemies to Situationship? to Enemies Rep- Psoriasis + Crohns Disease + PSA Eating Disorders He/Him Lesbian Love Interest OCD + CPTSD Schizoaffective Disorder Contending with Comphet Tropes

ALT Art of Melinoe and Fravartiš wedding with both looking down solemnly, done by nataliab_draws A black block takes up majority of page and carries white text. Text reads: Excerpt “I will eradicate all of you," Kúlon whispered. "And all you will be remembered for is your name, aipéteupa. Your souls are forever mine. Your magic, forever extinguished. All you will ever be capable of doing again" -he yanked the dóru out before Melinoe could pull its point into her weakened heart- "is screaming." Kúlon stepped backwards, leaving her in a heap, pressing a hand to the gushing wound, and he nodded to his drákön. "Amphísbai!" he shouted, urging the drákön's head down so he could grab the spines on its neck to hoist himself onto an ephíppion that rested between its shoulders. "Burn her." Melinoe laid her head in the ash, and her breath rattled as Amphisbai reared its massive head back like a serpent prepared to strike. Its grey wings flared out, and its front legs creaked, claws digging

ALT Book cover featuring a black and blood-splattered red background. At the top, the title "DAD BODIES" is written in large white block lettering. Piercing horizontally behind the word "DAD" is an ornate emerald dagger. In the bottom left, there is a black silhouetted figure with small red crosses over its eyes. In the bottom right, a white twenty-sided die (d20) lands on the number 1, accompanied by the bold white text "ROLL FOR FUCKERY". Centered at the bottom edge, small white text reads: "A CO(S)MIC HORROR NOVEL BY B. VAN BODEGOM".

ALT A pitch deck slide for Sleeping Dogs Lie, a Sapphic thriller by Ellie Rhymer The background sets the mood: a crescent moon rises over crowded conifer trees, as if we are deep in the forest somewhere. A handwriting font adds asides to the following pitch: Everyone in the group chat dies x The Hunting Wives. Maureen is a struggling journalist who got out of Hometown, USA. She never intended to return to the small town of dark pasts, but when the former “it” girl at her high school goes viral, Maureen finds herself becoming more and more obsessed with Lacey’s mommy vlog and the investigation into the disappearance of her teenage son. Lacey never let a little thing like the truth stop her from recording content for her followers, but when her son goes missing, she wields her platform like a cudgel through Hometown to uncover what really happened to him...or is her distress just another performance? #QuestPit Querying 2027. "Dark, moody mystery" "I'm obsessed with her (unhealthy)"

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.

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






























































