VEILED ENCHANTMENTS ✨ Hachette/Tempest Winter 2028 Rep: @KirstenLaaaang @ZenoAgency
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ALT Art by nataliab_draws of three people on a plain bronze background with a triangle decorated frame. To the left, a white person with black flowing hair reaches for the person in the middle. He wears a red khlamus and khiton and he appears enraged as he reaches cruelly. The person in the middle wears Mycenaean clothing with green and silver, and she looks back over her shoulder to the person on the right. She has dark curly hair and has psoriasis plaques on her skin. On the right, a person with warm brown skin is dressed in Achaemenid traditional clothing of golds and purples and blacks, and he gently leans into the person in the middle. He wears a crown of gold and amethyst and he holds her softly.
ALT the title card of an agent's guide for my querying novel THE BALLAD OF NETHER AND ALVAIS. it features the painting 'courage, anxiety and despair' by james sant
ALT the blurb card for my querying novel THE BALLAD OF NETHER AND ALVAIS, not all of it fits within the word count for alt text but here are the basic vibes: witch. wanderer. wildling. three tragic deaths. two warring families. one infernal ballad to haunt the sleepy, folklore-steeped village of sorrow’s alden.
ALT the for fans of card for my querying novel THE BALLAD OF NETHER AND ALVAIS, if features a list of tropes which are the following: atmospheric and immersive settings that feel like characters themselves, complex family dynamics, crumbling manors, doomed love, eerie secrets and haunting obsessions, ensemble casts and non-linear narratives, folklore as a means to examine reality alongside that which is speculative in nature, awash with the supernatural and the sinister. these are the comps: god of the woods by liz moore, meet me at the surface by jodie matthews, the hounding by xenobe puvis, lanny by max porter, the witch by robert eggers, under salt marsh a tv show, the fall of the house of usher a tv show and wuthering heights the 2011 version
ALT the extract card for my querying novel THE BALLAD OF NETHER AND ALVAIS, once again, the extract itself doesn't fit within the word count of alt text, but what is featured is the main character, ottilie, hearing her future at folkloric site known for bestowing such
ALT THE TREES HAVE TEETH AN APPALACHAIN FOLKHORROR
ALT PITCH Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She's nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes. In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive's door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn't, the town, and with it the boy she loves, will be eaten whole. KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.
ALT COMPS Wolf Worm, Don’t Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow Botanical horror, Appalachian mountain setting, nature & rot, isolated setting, eerie folklore
ALT Moodboard featuring creepy images of nature and mountains
ALT The background image is a gothic manor in desaturated tones. The title 'THISTLEWOOD' is in the foreground in yellow, while the following tropes are at the top of the image: english gothic, sapphic romance, time-loop curse, sentient manor
ALT This slide contains the following comp titles: The Haunting of Hill House, Bitterthorn, Jane Eyre, and Monster House
ALT The pitch of THISTLEWOOD: When her sister disappears while seeking a new position, Peregrine Dale tracks her to the decaying Thistlewood Estate. Entrapped by a manor of shifting doors and puppet-like ghosts, she must navigate the psychological games of the manor’s elusive mistress to uncover the family secrets and festering rot hiding beneath the house’s genteel facade.
ALT A gothic image of a girl reading with her back against a large tree in the foreground of a foggy moor or field. In the foreground is a quotation from the novel: 'curiosity is a terminal diagnosis in this house'.
