#MSPW: fairytale retelling

[moondust-bard]

The Cruel Prince X Twelve Dancing Princesses X A Dark and Hollow Star

Her Enchanted Garden #1: Potent Poison, Treasured Tonic

Living, breathing symbols of a decades-old treaty, half-faery Elowyn Fleetwood and her eleven sisters exist between worlds: their powerful human father’s mundane modern kingdom of sleek chrome and neon lights and their faery mother’s ethereal ancestral realm of magic and mischief.

The Festival of Fortune— a celebration held once every decade to commemorate the pact between worlds— draws nearer by the day. Eight courts—four mortal and four immortal— will gather in the Realm Between— but this time, chaos will reign.

An eternal life will yield to a pilfered poison, and only Elowyn holds the antidote to peace—or ruin.

Themes

• magic vs technology

• family

• tradition vs change

• loyalty

• nature vs. civilization

• fame & power

• revenge

Current Stage in Writing Process

• world-building, plotting, and character development in progress

Want to know more? Find the wip intro here!

[moon-and-seraph]

M+S Pitch Week: List of Hashtags

This is the official list of tags that participants of the Moon+Seraph Pitch Week will add to their pitch posts. The purpose of these tags is to allow people to sort through pitches based on their interests and tastes, so they're super important!

We'll have explanations of each category of hashtags, so read on to see which tags you'll want to add to your pitch! We recommend copy and pasting for ease.

General

This is a tag everyone will want to use, as it'll allow people to view all pitches collectively.

MSPW: pitch

Representation Tags

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Please note, the tags with "ownvoices" in them are set aside for people of that identity. For example, a disabled person whose story features disability representation would use "MSPW: ownvoices disability rep" AND "MSPW: disability rep". However, a nondisabled person whose story features disability would only use "MSPW: disability rep".

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Critique Tags

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