All my favourite tropes and some tropes that I didn't even know I needed in one novel 🔥🔥🔥
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All my favourite tropes and some tropes that I didn't even know I needed in one novel 🔥🔥🔥
THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x CRESCENT CITY
🔥 Snarky, monster-hunter FMC
🦇 Frankenstein-inspired love interest
🔪 Deadly competition in monster-run city
🧨 Feminine rage & daddy issues
✨Hellhounds, witches, angels, and more!
#RoundTableMentor #A #F #UN
A town with missing memories.
A snowstorm that never happened.
A dark figure playing a fatal game behind the scenes.
And a dead girl walking with the answers. The only problem? She doesn't remember them & she has 30 days to figure it out before she dies again.
#roundtablementor #ya #f #un
CASTLEVANIA x THE CRIMSON MOTH ✨🗡️🖤
An indebted courtesan assassin - armed with outlawed blood magic - must kill the vampire tyrant king who murdered her mother, while resisting a forbidden romance with the commander sworn to protect him at all costs.
#NA #F #roundtablementor
The Sound of Marigolds is a character driven story about regret, forgiveness, and breaking the cycle of violence and hatred.
🌼Sapphic Villain Non-Human MC
🌼Obsessive Love
🌼Inspired by Aztec Mythology
🌼Old Gods and Magical Creatures
#roundtablementor #F #NA #UN
Desperate for a second chance at the afterlife, a rebel spirit and her army use a stolen scythe to wage war against Death's reapers. But as her enemies continue to ignore their plight, she wrestles with how much further she's willing to go for victory. #roundtablementor #A #F
#Roundtablementor #A #F #R #UN A maiden stripped of magic must seduce her people’s greatest sea-faring enemy – then use him to break her curse and regain her family’s long lost honour. THE FOXGLOVE KING’s scheming protagonist meets A FATE INKED IN BLOOD's swooning romance inspired by Irish myth.
This book has touched my heart in so many ways and I can't wait for more people to read it and experience what I did!!
9x9 moodboard for Xelan from ‘The Living Wife’: Top L-R: the words ‘I am of the notion that love does nothing but find ways’ in white and ‘to toy with me’ in cursive purple against a black background; a silver sword laid on a map, a lit candle placed in front of a small mirror on stacked books which reflects an unlit candle Middle L-R: a pocket watch with the time set to four minutes to 12; the word Xelan in silvery white against a black background; an illustration of the moon Bottom L-R: a dark tombstone on snowy landscape; a wilted flower in a glass vase; a silver canehead shaped in the form of a dog
Once the decorated son of the Bel-Cadyr, Xelan wants nothing more than to fade away under his scornful title as the Black Widower. But when Amara survives their fatal union, Xelan will stop at nothing to protect her from his treacherous world...and his starving heart.
#roundtablementor #A #F #R #UN
As Death's reapers are murdered, a stranded, newly dead woman agrees to spy on their killers in exchange for passage to the afterlife. But as she gets to know the spirit army, she begins to wonder who the real enemy is and whose word she can trust.
#roundtablementor #A #F
Absolutely adore everything this story is and will be ✨️
Mood board of the living wife: Top L-R: A close up of a man in medieval clothing, Two hands bound by a long red ribbon, a curly haired girl leaning on a statue. Middle L-R: Glowing amber eye, the words ‘The living wife’ in white against a black background, a sun globe lamp encased in branches. Bottom L-R: A close of a man in a white shirt holding a sword, a clock striking twelve, a bride clutching her bouquet to her chest.
Haunted by grief, Amara’s quest for death leads her to Xelan, the Black Widower. But when their union yields her survival and an unwanted soul tie, Amara and Xelan must navigate their new bond as they face Xelan’s perilous world, and the forces that were after her all along.
#roundtablementor #A #F
SAILOR MOON x THE UNTAMED but sapphic x Indonesian mythology
A hero has enough issues like yearning over her soulmate, having a pact with a queen of monsters, saving her cursed family from death, but that involves stealing the heart of her true love
#roundtablementor #YA #F #UN
A mood board with the title "The Villainous Institute for Better Education" in the center, surrounded by graphics of dark towers, kids fighting with magic, and robotic creatures and dragons. Beneath the title it says "a middle grade novel".
AMARI x MEGAMIND
When a magical villain school recruits (aka kidnaps) 12y/o Carsen, she must win her freedom by becoming the best villain in her grade, or else the school will use Carsen’s strange magic to return her supervillain aunt to power. #MG #F #UN #roundtablementor
MUSIC MAGIC
Purple background with a tuning fork and wisteria. "An agent's guide to The Apparently Famous Mia Miller. A lower YA Fantasy"
(same background) "Pitch: Being the gods' lackey isn't new to 15 year old Mia Miller, an anxious girl with musical powers. But when a quest with her BFF is derailed by a book where she's the MC, Mia must fight to take back her secret before Olympus finds out."
(same background) "Comps" (Image of The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan) "Aged-up Riordan. Quest with BFF" (Image of Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria) "Southern Fantasy. Anxiety Rep" (Image of The Truman Show) "Crumbling Worldview. Is my life real?"
(same background) "Snippet. My eyes rove upward to those stage lights, like maybe the gods are above the crowd down below, watching the band play while dust particles dance, sparkling like glitter in the blaze of their glory. I let my magic out, let it brush up against the music before wrenching it back with a quick glance at the ceiling. Always watching. Always judging. I shut my eyes. Those assholes."
Peep my #agentsguide folks.
All of this AND
🎶music magic
👯complex friendships
🐶puppy love and betrayal
⛪️soft cult vibes
🤦♀️coming-of-age
💕good mother-daughter relationship
📸unwanted fame
🫥anxiety/depersonalization
🎧a killer playlist
#roundtablementor #YA #F
The Greek gods X Jenny Han
The goddess Aphrodite risks losing her powers and her title if she can’t get the grumpy god of craft and fire to fall in love with her by the end of the school year
❤️🔥 reluctant romance
❤️🔥 first love
❤️🔥 grumpy / snarky
❤️🔥 ex-best friends
❤️🔥 HEA
#roundtablementor #ya #un #r
Love all of the messy aroace!
High school freshman Izzy navigates familial tensions, the status quo and the quest to be her authentic self, with
🧡 messy aroace coming of age
💛an even messier family
🤍 chaotic queer found family
🩵 FASHION AS SELF EXPRESSION
💙creating your place in the world
#roundtablementor #YA #Con #UN
Being a good girl? Overrated.
Hurting people—intriguing.
But that’d risk Natalie’s rep at her elite boarding school and her desired spot at Yale.
She’s got it all under control, until pretty new girl Aylin sees right through her mask.
Now, to kiss or to kill her?
#roundtablementor #YA #T #UN
SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME X ARCANE
Druids go through the Inflection, where an element will bless them with power 🍃💨💧
Industrialists are subjected to the Test of Attunement, where crystals can enhance their speed, strength, or senses 🔮💪🏼😈
But what if you aren't chosen?
#roundtablementor #A #F
LOVE the sound of this!!
Nisha J. Tuli’s NOT SAFE FOR WORK x SUITS
⚖️ law school rivals to lovers
🤌 forced proximity
💼 workplace romance
❤️🔥 slow burn
🌶️ banter as foreplay
#roundtablementor #A#R #UN
The stakes in this pitch 🔥
To save her sister, Destiny joins a luck-bending alien in a dangerous Vegas con. His borrowed human body is breaking, her heart is unraveling, and every win brings them closer to ruin. Now it’s love or family. Either choice could destroy them both.
#roundtablementor #A #H #R #UN
MAKE ME YOUR WITCH
A Sapphic rom-com about a single mom claiming to be a witch with
👵🏻👵🏽 Gen X romance
🧑🧑🧒🧒 motherhood vs personal life
🏳️🌈 discovering queerness after divorce
🧙 found family of witches
🕯️hilarious mishaps with spells gone wrong
#roundtablementor #R #un
This sounds so good!
To scare away the PTA, a single mom claims to be a witch. When displays of roadkill and pentagrams appear at school, she’s the main suspect. To clear her name, she works with the asst principal to find the culprit, but they struggle to keep their eyes (and hands) off each other. #roundtablementor #R
Omg I love everything about this! THAT ART 😍😍😍
ADDIE LA RUE X BEFORE I FALL
On the verge of death, Safa makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious jinn. Now she has 3 obscure clues, 0 memories and 1 month to win back her life.
💘 Reluctant Allies-to-lovers
🔍 Amnesia with a twist
🇵🇰-rep & folklore
⏳ ticking clock
#roundtablementor #ya #f #un