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ALT A book held out in front of an autumnal street. Mosaic style book cover for VEIL US IN GOLD by Shepard Distasio, cover by Kimmy Mar. The background is blue mosaic tiles with some golden dots (stars), and a gold, Roman mosaic, braided frame wraps around the edges. In each corner there are different flowers (from top left, clockwise): Lavender, Snowdrop, Feverfew, and a white rose. In the center of the cover is a two headed snake (opposite ends), and it wraps around the title VEIL US IN GOLD. The top head looks at the viewer, and the bottom bares its fangs at the subtitle "Blessed be they who kill gods". White text on the cover: Book 1 of Sins of the Divine VEIL US IN GOLD Blessed be they who kill gods Shepard Distasio Cover by Kimmy Mar
ALT Two characters (drake and Hyakinthos) holding one another in winter clothing (art by shizunpilled) stood before a white page that reads “Read on for a preview of BIND YOU BY BLOOD” and the background is a dark blurred image of waves crashing against jutting rocks
ALT Two pieces of art are centered above and below two white pages. On the left, the glossary 1st page that details Aiegam definitions, and the image of drake and delian kissing (art by me). On the right, drake is cradled by Hyakinthos (art by me), situated above a diagram (done by kimmy mar) that shows the five principles of Aiegam
ALT Olek finally turned her gaze to him, her eyes flashing to his lips. “I think we should go to bed.” Ronan rose to his full height, his hands found hers again. “I think that’s best.” They stood there for a moment, their eyes meeting. They were like the ground and grass intertwined to make earth whole again.
ALT The cover image features two genus of orchids of greenish white color on a solid black background. The text on the image reads: an agent & editor's guide to... FEED ME YOUR ORGANIC HEART, an adult upmarket psychological horror, 85,000 words.
ALT With the same background as the 1st image, on a piece of paper, titled PITCH, in black text, it reads: In this deadly cat and mouse queerplatonic horror reimagining of Beauty & the Beast, told through a modern lens, a doomed codependency festers between a genderfluid, heart-eating monster desperate to become human, and the vision-tormented hunter obsessed with murdering it.
ALT With the same background, the title of the slide reads, COMPS. Connected with small white arrows, are the titles of 5 movies and books, The Eyes are the Best Part, You Weren't Meant to Be Human, Hannibal, The Summer Hikaru Died, and The Vegetarian.
ALT With the same background, the slide is titled, Themes. It consists of listed themes with a red arrow pointing at each one. They are as follows: botanical body horror (allegory for twisted adoration), true descent into MADNESS, nightmarish surrealism, social commentary/ gender roles/ body image, cultural dysphoria + genderfluid rep, quiet, forested town setting.
ALT The rebellious mystic thrust into war & revenge
ALT The scholar, ranger, & warrior, haunted by the weight of his past
ALT A brutal empire determined to turn back the clock & restart the machines
ALT & the group of rebel heroes who will do whatever it takes to stop them
ALT a 3x3 moodboard top row (left to right): a black and white image of a young man kneeling, being puppeted by chains. two male hands trying to cling onto each other, a young man in a suit crying in an armchair middle row (left to right): a bundle of lavendar flowers, a white lamb with its feet bound in rope, two pale bleeding arms bound in silver chains bottom row (left to right): two young boys in white shirts hold each other, a white torso with a hanf clawing at the skin, a demonic figure with red eyes being grabbed across the face by a large red paw
ALT This is a moodboard featuring nine images and one quote. The quote reads: Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?- Daughter by Janice Lee. The images consist of: a woman looking into a cracked glass mirror, looking at her reflection, a heart-shaped cake 'bleeding' from where it has been stabbed with a knife, a man looking at a fuzzy version of himself in the mirror, a figure opening their chest to reveal a void, white space, a shot of a lake surrounded by trees, exposed bloodied fangs, a hand passing a cigarette to another hand, red meat, and a man in a suit with the white button down of it saturated with blood.
ALT MANUSCRIPT TITLE: COME BACK WRONG
ALT PITCH: In an enchanted rural town, four estranged siblings enact a dark ritual to summon their missing sister, who vanished four years prior. Their summoning spell contains a single command: COME BACK. When a monstrous creature begins killing townsfolk in the dead of night, the siblings are forced to reckon with the possibility that their beloved sister may have returned to the nest in the most horrific way possible...and it's up to them to make it right. But in order to do that, they must confront the reasons their sister left home in the first place.
ALT COMPARATIVE TITLES INCLUDE: "The Raven Cycle" by Maggie Stiefvater (setting & atmosphere); "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman (magic system & worldbuilding); "Evocation" by S.T. Gibson (character-driven story); and "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides (character dynamics.)
ALT THEMES, TROPES & FEATURES INCLUDE: small-town politics and exploration of gentrification, a diverse cast, repressed trauma as cosmic force, the domestic abject, critique of the nuclear family, a sentient house, and morally gray characters.
ALT green and black creepy shadowy moodboard
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