#MSPW: paranormal romance

[antique-symbolism]

For Moon+Seraph Pitch Week on writeblr, I present to you...

Miniature Roses, a sapphic historical fantasy

Comp Titles: For readers who love stubborn, smart women with hearts of gold and for fans of remixed genres featuring fantasy, historical fiction, and romance. See: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite and A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Blurb: As witness to the unparalleled scientific progress of the early 20th century, there’s no medical solution Minnie Teasdale considers outside the bounds of possibility. With a sharp mind, a hard head, and a soft heart, Minnie doesn’t bat an eye when she discovers the strange case of Ruzena Vitova -- a reticent artisan with a peculiar affliction requiring her to consume human blood for nutrition. While finding a suitable treatment is tough in its own right, Minnie’s true challenge comes in cracking Ruzena’s cold façade... and revealing the soft, lonely heart beneath. 

Themes: discovery motivated by love; the vulnerability of the authentic self; determination in the face of adversity

Current Stage: editing 

WIP links:

Story Intro

Story Inspiration Tag

Character Inspiration Tag (Minnie)

Character Inspiration Tag (Ruzena)

Content warnings: descriptions of (surgical) wrist cutting and wrist wounds

[incorrectgoddessgang]

Moon+Seraph Pitch Week March 2023

The dark magical girl flair of Madoka Magica meets the messiest group of queer fantasy Costco adults in...

Goddess Gang

A newly formed magical girl group, the Goddess Gang, fights for the safety of their home and families after an unknown source suddenly grants them and their enemies power that hasn’t been seen in ages. They prove their worth as they haphazardly figure out their own version of teamwork, but the girls are full of mystery and despair and they must figure out their mysteries before it's too late. The one with the deepest mystery, the weakest link, is Bambi - Evelyn Wirth's recently reunited brother. The leader of the team, Lila Wirth, feels like this is deja vu but no one knows why, not even Bambi. Even with her decades of training and study in the dark arts, Lila can't solve this mystery, and if she doesn't... it may spell doom for all of them.

Themes

power in femininity

love and friendship

despair and hope

learning to love yourself again

the harm that mothers do

trauma recovery

Quick note!! This story is a memoir, from my life in 2015-2019. All of it is based on and connected to real events and people - highly fictionalized, but based on a true story nonetheless.

Current Stage in Writing Process

I wrote the Internal Struggles plotline years ago and it was good but I got stuck. BUT I recently got unstuck by developing the External Struggles plot as well. So now I’m heavily editing the plot and preparing to start on the first draft. Also it was originally a comicbook project, which is why I haven't started on a prose manuscript.

Content warnings

violence

murder

self-harm mentions

suicide

emotional abuse

relationship abuse

past parental abuse

past religious trauma

transphobia

drug use

past SA/CSA

stalking

disordered eating

Thank you @moon-and-seraph for organizing this pitch week!

[cljordan-imperium]

Moon+Seraph Pitch Week

Brought to you by @moondust-bard and @saintedseraph

The Imperium Chronicles

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse x Mortal Instruments x Black Dagger Brotherhood

When the Horsemen are called it creates chaos in Hell, and they take over.  Now with Death as the Queen, War as the King, and a legion of their friends and family, they will take on the remaining Princes off Hell across multiple realms.  Connected through a Web of Lives, no one is disconnected from another, even if those spider silk connections are at first invisible to see.  Rooted in Imperium (Upper Hell), Human Realm (Earth), Uffern, and Pustota, the web will be woven into an intricate and beautiful pattern of violence, love,  death, life, destruction, and ultimately victory….but for which side?

Themes:

Friendship

Family

War

Love

Hope

Forgiveness

Justice

Currently - In Process

Please just let me know if you would like added to the tag list.

Story Page https://theimperiumchronicles.tumblr.com/

Content Warnings -

evil, demons, angels, religion, blood, viscera, evisceration, gore, swearing, slavery, manipulation, ptsd, emotional manipulation, dv, sa, abuse, death, hell, torture, violence, war, fighting, anger, injury, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, PTSD

[scribe-of-stories]

Moon + Seraph Pitch Week

Marble Hornets x Pact/Pale x Cult of the Lamb

Broken Whole

The modern age ended 15 years ago and what's left is broken countries, waring states, and a hidden society of mysticism revealed. A letter arrived for Jacob, a Godless Priest, saying that he inherited his father's land: a tiny island and its church. A Ghost of Worship lives within those walls, meanwhile a predictor in the trappings of religion lives without. The island is a new life for Jacob, a community to nurture, a new faith to found, and a past to confront. A collection of Broken people and Broken things gather, and together they might be able to make a Whole.

Themes

Found Family

Polyamory

Ethical spiritual practice vs rigid religion

Occultism

Loss and Healing

Monster Hunting/Hunted by a Monster

Current Stage of Writing:

Finishing up planning and character building, starting the first rough draft soon.

Content Warnings:

Trauma related to Religion, Loss, Fear, and Failure

Psychedelic and Body Horror

Death of loved ones

Religion/Cults

[surroundedbypearls]

Moon & Seraph Pitch Week

Night World meets the boarding school mystery

Closet Pun

Up on that totally normal-looking hill over there sits a house. In that house, Rebecca Faulkner sits with her students, trying to teach them to get their abilities (and their emotions) in check. We’ve got vampires, werewolves, witches, and more - this much chaos in one home is not in fact a recipe for disaster. It’s a recipe for the queerest student body around. And when students start disappearing and the air starts to fog, who better to step up than long-time resident Jet and his new friends?

Themes

Friendship

Found family

Temptation

Mortality

Current Stage in Writing Process: Structural Editing

Art related to wip

A moodboard for Juniper!

Wip-relevant links

WIP intro

Characters: Jet / Juniper / Toby / Hazel / Richie / May

WIP playlist

WIP tag (see more excerpts and moodboards!)

Content warnings

Death

Mild gore

Blood

Like or reply to be added to the taglist!

[moondust-bard]

Charmed X Immortals After Dark

Lost in the Witherwoods #1: Shadefyre

Four young witches, while en route to perform an ancient ritual upon which their coven’s magical wellbeing is dependent, are kidnapped by a band of their people’s most dangerous foes: werewolves.

Now in the den of their deadliest enemies, witches Sage, Maeve, Flora, and Arden Emberbright will uncover secrets surrounding the time-honored rite for which they have prepared since age thirteen, unravel the truth of a centuries-long feud, and discover the reason why one of their own is seemingly devoid of a single drop of magic in her blood.

Themes

• perils of capitalism

• friendship

• prejudice

• magic vs. technology

• betrayal

• corruption

Current Stage in Writing Process

character development and world-building

Content warnings

• kidnapping

• mental illness

• mature sexual content

• death

• violence

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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MSPW: mental health rep MSPW: ownvoices mental health rep

MSPW: neurodivergent rep MSPW: ownvoices neurodivergent rep

MSPW: queer rep MSPW: ownvoices queer rep

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[incorrectgoddessgang]

Moon+Seraph Pitch Week March 2023

The Godfather meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in...

The Incubucks

The Santorini mafia is a crime syndicate made up of seven head families. Each have a son who is expected to take over once their fathers are gone, but these young men are pushed into the fray before their time as their consigliere is abruptly replaced. The new one  - who simply goes by Comet - is enigmatic and strangely young for the job but Rudolph, heir of the Santorini family, finds out that he is actually a demon who buys and trades information with otherworldly entities, and uses that intel to advise Mr. Santorini - which has resulted in them nearly tripling their earnings overnight. And at the request of Mr. Santorini, Comet grants Rudolph and the other heirs the arcane and enticing magic of an incubuck - an incubus buck - and tasks them with protecting their own from other forms of supernatural harm prowling the streets. Being thrust into gang violence at a young age doesn't do well for anyone, but there's no harm if it's for the sake of your family, right? ... Right?

Themes

coming of age

overcoming societally enforced internalized bigotry

solidarity

toxic masculinity and comphet

the burden of dealing with the mess your parents' made

(in a sense) child soldiers

grudges and vengeance

Current Stage in Writing Process

This idea came to me 4 months ago and in that time I was focusing on my main project, Goddess Gang (when I wasn't scrambling to finish up my degree), so this is a very much a zygote of a story.

Content Warnings

violence

murder

internalized homophobia

more TBD

Thank you @moon-and-seraph for organizing this pitch week!

[surroundedbypearls]

Moon & Seraph Pitch Week

Night World x the boarding school mystery (trope)

Closet Pun

Up on that totally normal-looking hill over there sits a house. In that house, Rebecca Faulkner sits with her students, trying to teach them to get their abilities (and their emotions) in check. We’ve got vampires, werewolves, witches, and more - this much chaos in one home is not in fact a recipe for disaster. It’s a recipe for the queerest student body around. And when students start disappearing and the air starts to fog, who better to step up than long-time resident Jet and his new friends?

Themes

Friendship

Found family

Temptation

Mortality

Current Stage in Writing Process: Structural Editing

Art related to wip

A moodboard for Juniper!

Wip-relevant links

WIP intro

Characters: Jet / Juniper / Toby / Hazel / Richie / May

WIP playlist

WIP tag (see more excerpts and moodboards!)

Content warnings

Death

Mild gore

Blood

Like or reply to be added to the taglist!