📚 Author of YA Dark Fantasy 🏹 Querying THE MONSTER'S BROTHER 🪽 WoodWren | Neshama ✡️ The forest keeps what the world forgets A whisper for those who carry all
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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 A dark burgundy background decorated with cream-coloured flowers and braided red strings. A torn parchment page features a hand-drawn illustration of two hands linked by red threads. The text reads "An Agent's Guide to TO FORGE A BOND" by VM Booysen. Four checked details describe the novel as Upper YA, Dark Epic Fantasy, 98,000 words, and a Tragic Love Story.
ALT Two torn parchment character profiles with hand-drawn portraits. Relario, a serious-looking boy with wolf ears, is a banished bloodweaver willing to sacrifice anyone to save his homeland. Labelled "The Kidnapper." Laurelle, a cheerful-looking princess, was raised in a tower, is bonded to a dragon, claims she can control it, and is definitely hiding something. Labelled "The Princess (Relario plans to kill)."
ALT A hand-drawn fantasy map on aged parchment titled "The Unlikely Journey," with red arrows connecting five numbered stages. Abduct a princess (relatively easy). Board a mercenary ship and become stowaways (oops). Accidentally collect a found family, including a boulder-sized pet lizard. Return home, where Relario faces execution. Find the dragon and restore the princess's bond before it destroys everything. Playful sketches show a tower, ship, travelling companions, mountains, and a dragon.
ALT Three comparison titles displayed on parchment against a burgundy floral background. Six of Crows — Morally grey protagonist and ruthless choices. Avatar: The Last Airbender — Banished prince and found family. Once Upon a Broken Heart — Grumpy × sunshine, betrayal and heartbreak.
ALT Black-and-copper pitch slide titled “An Agent’s Guide: Inquisitor for Hire.” Text reads: “Adult dark fantasy noir. 93,000 words. Multi-POV. Standalone.” The case description reads: “Once Rysia’s feared Grand Inquisitor, Wynsten now catches adulterers to make rent. When he is hired to find a missing ambassador before an uneasy peace collapses, the case leads him through forbidden magic, vanished daughters, and a conspiracy tied to the royal blood ritual that made him a legend, ruined his life, and fused the empire’s worst secrets to his chest.” Beside it is a historical painting of a royal procession entering an ornate city gate, overlaid with: “A missing ambassador. A disgraced legend. A kingdom rotting from within.”
ALT Black-and-copper slide titled “Opening Lines,” with a historical painting of a besieged city across the top. The excerpt reads: “The heretics had nowhere left to run. Wynsten had made sure of that. Months of blood and smoke had led him beneath the Sovereign’s castle, into the old mines carved through the bedrock. A stronghold under the heart of the kingdom. These apostates would face justice here or burn.” Below it reads: “Twenty years before he became an investigator for hire, Wynsten stopped a ritual fueled by Rysia’s own royal blood.”
ALT Black-and-copper comparison slide over a historical painting of Crusaders approaching a fortified city. Heading: “A fantasy investigation with teeth.” Subheading: “Three touchstones. One decaying empire.” Three covers appear beneath: The Justice of Kings, representing institutional rot and compromised justice; The Tainted Cup, representing a secondary-world mystery engine; and Chinatown, representing slow-burn corruption and a poisoned victory. The closing line reads: “Everyone has an angle. Power decides who pays.”
ALT Black-and-copper slide titled “Inside the Case,” subtitled: “A dark-fantasy noir for readers who want the mystery and the damage.” Story elements listed are: a post-conquest secondary world inspired by the Crusader states; fallen hero and disgraced legend; corruption at the highest level; missing ambassador; reluctant found family; forbidden magic; power no one understands; secrets beneath the city; and morally gray choices. Beside the list is a historical painting of mounted Crusaders entering a conquered city. The closing tagline reads: “He saved the kingdom once. Maybe he shouldn’t have.”
