ALT Agents guide to the unmaking

ALT Pitch: Nova feels too much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

ALT Comps: severance, silo, the dream hotel, chain-gang all stars

ALT Nova the complicit memory eraser. The stranger: the phantom unleashed by her grief. Kade, the devoted state enforcer sent to hunt her

ALT Title and Pitch

ALT Novel Summary

ALT Comparison titles and covers

ALT Main character names

ALT Post reads: "An Agent's Guide to Orange, 17k words, Adult Speculative Horror," in light greenish brown font. The poster is of a Dutch oil painting, a still life with fruit. A monkey is eating fruit in the right corner, and a hand holding an orange sits in the bottom left.

ALT Post reads "The Pitch," in light greenish brown font. The poster is of a Dutch oil painting, a still life with fruit. A monkey is eating fruit in the right corner, and a hand holding an orange sits in the bottom left. Comp titles are at the right, and include The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Icarus.

ALT Post reads "The Tropes" and "the Blurb," in wine-colored bubbles in light greenish brown font. The poster is of a Dutch oil painting, a still life with fruit. A monkey is eating fruit in the right corner, and a hand holding an orange sits in the bottom left.

ALT Post reads "The Snippet" with text from the story in a wine-red bubble in light greenish brown font. The poster is of a Dutch oil painting, a still life with fruit. A monkey is eating fruit in the right corner, and a hand holding an orange sits in the bottom left.

ALT First Graphic: An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet. Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming A Forbidden Gothic Romance Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

ALT Second Graphic: An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse. Comps and Pitch Jane Eyre The Viscount Who Loved Me The Phantom Of The Opera When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another. But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

ALT Third Graphic: Tropes. Forbidden Romance. High Society Match Making. European Setting. Slow Burn. Love VS Duty. Black Swan-esque Awakening. Masquerade Ball. 2000’s Setting. Obsessive Yearning. Secret Lake Meetings.

ALT Image 1 has a black & neon pink background with a pink graphic of a woman with sunglasses, and a pink graphic of a man with short hair, sunglasses, and a beard. The board reads:  An Agent's Guide To All Aboard a 75K mystery/thriller by Chelsea Scott told by ride-or-die sibs stuck on a haunted train  Between the graphics of the man and woman is a pink train graphic, and toward the top of the graphic are three sketched, pink hearts.

ALT Image 2 has a black & neon blue background that reads:  This Book Has:  A glitz & glam to survival-in-the-snow pipeline f/f enemies to lovers ("The Fate of Ophelia") Hamlet roots Tell-Tale Heart vibes 2 murders & a haunting adults behaving badly On the board are two neon pink skull graphics and several blue snowflakes.

ALT Image 3 has a black & neon blue background that reads: Pitch:  When the heir to the Hambrook fortune is found poisoned and stabbed aboard a snowed-in train en route to a will reading, his ex, Poppy, scrambles to solve the crime before another passenger is hurt. Poppy's brother, Lars, eager, to cover up his role in the death, secretly derails his beloved sister's efforts while fending off a doozy of a personalized haunting. Opening Line: Never thought I'd willingly board a train with the ex I'd gnaw my own arm off to avoid, and yet, here I am—stepping out of my brother's dented Tacoma and frowning at the squat white "station" ahead of us.

ALT Image 4 has a black & neon pink background that's labeled Comps, with images of 4 books and their descriptions: "The Train From Platform 2" by Stephanie Steel (trapped-with-a-killer suspense amid a closed-group investigation) "Everyone on This Train is a Suspect" by Benjamin Stevenson (amateur sleuths with snark) "A Girl Like Us" by Anna Sophia McLoughlin (themes of family power and inheritance) "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (flipped on its head and narrated by Ophelia (Poppy) and Laertes (Lars)

ALT Forest background, in the center of the image is a green square. In front of the square is a white wolf. Text above the green square reads: Shifter Secrets a YA Fantasy Romance by Bethany Averie / in the green square the text reads: Snippet 1: Mauri's Point of View: His gaze trails across my face. "Were you crying?" I lower my head. "Were you?" His voice is soft and tender. If things were different, maybe I'd admit everything. Afterall, that's my instinct. He outranks me whether I can shift or not. The pull to confess is strong. However, I can't. "I'm okay."

ALT Forest background, in the center of the image is a green square. In front of the square is a gray-and-white wolf. Text above the green square reads: Shifter Secrets a YA Fantasy Romance by Bethany Averie / in the green square the text reads: Snippet 2: Vest's Point of View: Mere hours exist before I turn eighteen. The magic will kick into high gear. If Mauri isn’t my destiny, I don’t want to hurt her. The rest of me argues the merits of a kiss. How it’s the best idea I’ve had. No, no, my conscience yells. You’ll be with a Moonrise female. You’ll break Mauri’s heart. The thought brings me up short. I would rather gnaw off my own arm than break her heart.

ALT Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery 82k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

ALT 4/13/1996 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

ALT What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

ALT 6/23/1996 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON