ALT Title page agent's guide. Title: "The Mage who carved out his Soul by Melanie Locke". Lower "a 105K dual timeline science fantasy standalone with a romantic tragedy at its center". Pale green background with plant details and a yellow flower at the center.

ALT Pitch page, paper background with plant edges and yellow flowers. The era of Mages: a dying mage and his partner seek a way to use magic without slowly killing its wielder. But their love turns to tragedy, tearing them apart when both become soulless immortals. The era of thaumaturgy: Two magic PhDs must end a Blight consuming all that is alive. They must uncover the truth of what doomed these immortals and help them die before their pain destroys the world.

ALT Comps slide, green background with plant details and flowers. At the top, poster of Arcane featuring season 2 Viktor. Text: Giving up & regaining emotion. Magic science blend & its tragic creators. Left bottom: cover of Slow Gods by Claire North. Text: Exploration of love and humanity & autims representation. Bottom right: The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri. Text: doomed reincarnating lovers.

ALT Excerpt. Papery background, with frame of yellow flowers. Leander took his own soul in a tight grip, and for a moment, all he’d ever felt flooded his being. After years of silence, he screamed into the dark night, casting out everything that had once defined him. An alien sound, even to himself, something guttural and raw and nothing like the person he’d once been. Mages didn’t feel, and they didn’t let it show. Leander had lived by those rules, had never lost himself to rage or terror or sorrow, and once this was done, he never would again. But for a single moment, he broke down for the darkness to see.

ALT "Hero For Hire"

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ALT the picture of the two main characters, Jonathan and Roman

ALT An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy.

ALT Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind. Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails. Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto.

ALT Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Daughter Of No Worlds (Carissa Broadbent) - Reluctant allies to lovers - Broken love interest with a scarring secret - Male yearning - Betrayal - Hidden rage & trauma Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - High stakes survival and adventure - Critical quest fuelled by legend - Changing loyalty - Pirate fantasy - Sea myths & magical creatures

ALT Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?” Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought. What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words. How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to. Would he have regretted her kiss? “No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”

ALT Introducing: Towards the Sky I Offer It, an adult dark academia complete at 124k words

ALT The Pitch: Four students are thrown into a quest for answers after witnessing the professor in charge of a prestigious academic fellowship hold a ritual sacrifice in the woods The ambitious scholarship student, the heir to the Aelfric fortune, the boy whose grandfather believed in magic and the poisonous plant expert/tarot card reader

ALT the vibes: ⟡ an isolated university in the Scottish Highlands ⟡ academic rivals who are one more disagreement about poetry away from ending each other ⟡ a found family that’s just four traumatized uni students ⟡ far too much time spent in drafty libraries ⟡ feeling a deep connection to that one weird lake on campus ⟡ tarot card symbolism ⟡ spending so much time studying myths, you start to become one

ALT “Why are you so certain that I spend all my time watching you?” Bran demanded. Perhaps it was the proximity to the fire, but she suddenly felt unbearably warm. She wanted to crawl straight out of her skin. “Are you really that conceited? You genuinely think you’re that irresistible?” “No,” Callen finally replied, his voice quiet. “I know because I watch you too.” “Why?” “Because,” he said, breathless, furious. “You drive me fucking crazy.”

ALT a 3x3 moodboard, images listed from left to right top row: a gaunt face looking vengefully over their arm, hundreds of tally marks clawed in a wall, someone clawing their way out of a grave middle row: an illustration of a goat headed wingered demon, the quote 'maybe in another life' written in white on a black background, a brown haired boy and a blonde haired boy kissing bottom row: a statue of an angle soaked in blood, a white man's arm wrapped in chains, the tarot card The Devil

ALT Digital art. Greenhouse scenery with a table with magestones on top. A man with long brown hair and light brown skin sits against the table. He wears floor length purple robes draped across one shoulder, revealing his magestone. He is reading a notebook. Ash stands beside him with an arm wrapped around him. He is a broader man, carrying several books within his free arm. He wears a green tunic and brown pants and boots, and has a lighter skin with black hair and a beard.

ALT a moodboard for GODCAT, complete at 80k words, featuring pictures of black cats and a magpie's eye.

ALT Opening page to agent's guide. Text: Agent's guide to You are Not the Chosen One, an adult queer fantasy by Melanie Locke. Placed at the center of an artdeco frame with black and golden coloring

ALT Part two of the agent's guide. Artdeco background with black and gold. Pitch: When Seer Cass learns there's no Chosen One to save the world from a Fear based apocalypse, he tells firefighter Esti she's the Chosen One. If she ever learns he lied, the world will end. Comps on the right with covers and a poster. The Umbrella Academy season 1 poster, the Last Hour between World, the Raven Scholar, Dark Rise.

ALT “How did it feel?” she asked, voice soft. Careful. For a moment he looked at her, eyes like broken glass. He sat up, fists clenched. “Bad! It feels fucking bad, okay? But it doesn’t matter. If I have to kill one man to save a village then that is what I will do. You can’t save the world without getting blood on your hands. And the worst thing is, it didn’t even work.” Esti didn’t know what to say. Cass stared into the distance, arms wrapped tight around his body. He’d never looked so small before. And yet Esti knew what he was capable of. It mattered little how he felt, his sorrow didn’t bring the mayor back. And perhaps he would have died no matter what. Perhaps Cass had done the best he could in impossible circumstances. But Esti couldn’t forget he’d murdered a man in cold blood. “I didn’t ask for this, you know.” Bitterness spilled out like a basilisk’s venom. “Being the seer meant to stop the Fear, having only one year left."

ALT An Agent's Guide to THE LESSER SOUL by Christian Oxford. It is an Adult Fantasy novel with 80,000 words.

ALT An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantic fantasy.

ALT Pitch: Delphine’s always wished for a life as romantic and adventurous as her stories. With any brief escape punished by her employer, she’s desperate to flee, if not for Otto; her best friend, and the only family she’s known. So when he is sent with pirates after a mythical Stone, she refuses to be left behind. At sea, a budding romance with the Captain reveals he’s tailed by a dark past, one he’d sabotage the mission to escape. But the pirates claimed Otto’s life if anything goes wrong, and Delphine will do anything—even use the Captain’s past against him—to get the Stone and save Otto.

ALT Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - Love interest with a scarring secret - High stakes survival and adventure - Looming villain - Pirates - Sea myths & magical creatures Howl's Moving Castle - Impact of societal expectations - Power of romantic and self-love - Steampunk elements - Chosen family - Taking responsibility

ALT Excerpt: Summers spent in a bordello ought to have prepared Delphine better. Though Hunter and his girls had always ensured Delphine did not see anything vulgar or unsightly, it was difficult to be ignorant when sitting around a dinner table amongst chattering girls. They told tales of their clients, giggling or rolling their eyes at wild requests from sailors. Hunter would shush them and send a pointed look in her direction, only goading them to spin even more dramatic and rather gruesome tales. Delphine would blush, but she took the joy in their teasing gratefully; summers spent in Hunter's Bordello were only full of fond memories. But they should have prepared her better for the view she had walked in on. Bobbin Boutique was a renowned tailor shop in Wyndell Bay, their suits a favourable cut for her employer and her best friend. The Benton's only owned suits from there. It was understandable why, with the soft silks and delicate stitching, all in the familiar blue--

ALT Moodboard. Top left: wooden staff standing against pillar. Top right: misty greenhouse. Middle: crystal in a hand. Middle right: tropical plants. Bottom left: spiral staircase in library. Bottom middle: open book. Bottom right: typewriter on desk.

ALT A fake magazine cover with a drag queen on a light background. She is wearing a short purple dress and has a large styled blonde wig. At the top is EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS. Autumn Winter 2025. £2.80. Tropes Road trip! Found family! Rivals to lovers! Forced proximity! Comps Here we go again, It's a sin, Priscilla, kinky Boots. Adult contemporary fiction. In the bottom right is a barcode.

ALT gothic horror moodboard in black and white with images of a knife, two wolves fighting, a woman staring in horror as tears form in her eyes, masks falling into oblivion, and ghostly figures using people as puppets. text scattered around the collage reads: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” “Oh familiar bones. How I hate you. How I love you. How I am made of you and you of me. Just us two. In the end. Right? It’ll always be just us two.” “I feel my ancestors in my blood. I am a body of people that are asking not to be forgotten.” “You will not choke the divine from me.”

ALT Character art of two female main characters against a gloomy, seaside/lighthouse background setting, hugging intimately. One limply holds a knife, a blue crab crawling on her leg. Around them is a trope map: A curse Ghost ship Sleuthing lesbians Coastal town with sinister secrets Chronic illness rep Corrupt church Angry witches Stabby x sunshine