#predv #m

Her best friend: dead. The husband of the friend is accused of the murder. When prosecutor Nashwa Rahman starts hearing from her dead mother from Barzakh, a parallel realm which serves as a purgatory: solving the murder means confronting secrets the living would rather keep buried.

#PreDV
TALES OF A TEENAGE SCREAM QUEEN
16yo Audrey is done being ghosted by William Rothstein, the horror director who knew her late
scream-queen mom so she rallies a ragtag crew of misfits to create a horror short and earn the Wagner Student Film Fest’s grand prize: a convo with Rothstein.
YA 56k

SPEED RACER set in a South Asian Iron City from ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL

To save his people, Heshan joins a conquering regime to change the system from the inside, but to save his best friend, he’ll need to help the rebels in exchange for vital medications #PreDV #YA #SF #F

#PreDV
When 11yo Shenandoah wakes up with a real chest hair he decides to turn his bedroom into a makeshift mad scientist’s lab to complete his puberty transformation before sixth grade starts so he can outgrow his humiliating nickname Shannon Doughy.
THE HAIRY TRUTH ABOUT GROWING UP
45k humorous MG

SIX CRIMSON CRANES X SING ME TO SLEEP
A princess is turned into a siren against her will in a country about to go to war against the siren nation.
That’s why she must find a cure that turns her human. Before the healer her father hired either heals her… or falls in love with her.
#preDV #YA #F #MH

A rebellious figurehead for a controlling government makes a deal with a captured rebel to find out who is trying to kill her. #YA #SF #preDV

Some prisons have walls. Others are made of promises.

> Ride-or-die friendship
> Mystery solved only by working together
> Slow-burn romance
> Found family
> Animal companion
> Society built on dark secrets and propaganda

>> So cool, charming and… kind. Sure they're villains? <<

#preDV #A #F

MUSE

Ellie Reece, junior lit agent - I'll do anything to become a published author.

Paris Parris, senior agent - Ellie, face it, your writing is basic.

The Muse, dark presence - Ellie, I'll turn you into a wordsmithing baddie but you have to steal talent from other writers.

#PreDV #A #LF #MH

PERCY JACKSON X THE NEVER-ENDING STORY

🪄 12-year-old girl attends magical writing camp
📚 Group of friends must save the world’s stories from being erased by a monster
👹 The problem? Our heroine created the monster!
🔮 Fantasy world w/ magic system based on story tropes

#preDV #MG #F #SFF #DIS #CI

MEXICAN GOTHIC x 10K DOORS OF JANUARY
The dictator’s men insist Sabela find a magical idol. Problem: she’s not Sabela and doesn’t know what or where the idol is. Merche has be somebody she’s never met, find something that likely doesn’t exist while not getting murdered
🇪🇸1924
#PreDV #A #F #Hist #Q

Hi y’all, I wasn’t able to participate in #preDV yesterday so I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s amazing pitches and hopefully getting some feedback on mine.

HOMESTEAD X DEVIANT

When a broken-down car places Tessa in the path of a werewolf, she's more annoyed than afraid. Being stalked by your dead husband will do that. Now she has to navigate a war between supernaturals as she looks for the magic that will help her husband finally rest. 

#PreDV #GN

Adult political epic fantasy with a strong romantic thread, morally complicated alliances, a generations-long fight for power. In a colonized world ruled through relics, Aleyna's Bright Soul burns red, threatening the Realm's balance of power. She seeks freedom; they seek to shift it. #preDV #A #F

After her dad’s death, Ro numbly moves schools. She doesn’t plan on falling in love with her lacrosse teammate, Lila. But when Lila’s brother dies in a freak accident, Ro has to wade through her own grief to comfort Lila through her loss. Can they survive this? #preDV #con #lgbt #woc

When an archaeologist excavates artifacts on long-abandoned Earth, she discovers more than trinkets to fill her exhibit: she finds the love of her life.

💸 Repentant trillionaire
🤖 Sassy robots
🥀 Beauty & The Beast Retelling
❤️‍🩹 Doomed (or is it?) romance
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Found Family

#preDV #A #SF #R #ND #LGBT

When colleagues attempt to kill a brooding super-soldier turned pencil-pusher over policies she enacted, Soleil enlists the enemy's help. Together they unravel clues that lead to a political conspiracy that could destroy both their planets. #YA #SF #preDV

PIXAR’S UP x HEARTSTOPPER

Caught between the spark of a new romance and the weight of a lost first love, a queer teen caring for a prickly survivor of the AIDS epidemic must bridge the generational gap to find light in their shared grief.

#preDV #YA #LGBT #DIS #own #cr

THE LOCKED TOMB x THE STARS ARE LEGION

Trapped in a temple to the God-King Asteria, Calypso must survive deadly “bloodgames” to buy time & prevent Asteria from consuming everything in the universe to ascend. But her mission is compromised as she falls for who Asteria once was.

#preDV #A #SFF #LGBT

THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED X RED RABBIT GHOST
Gods and the dead walk the mountainous woods around Boothe. They coexisted quietly with Boothe’s residents, even the serial killer using a god’s territory to hide his victims. That is, until the killer murders the gods’ last devotee.
#PreDV #A #LGBT #H

PIXAR’S UP x HEARTSTOPPER

One is mourning a first love; the other is mourning a generation lost to AIDS. As a teen navigates a new spark while caring for this prickly elder, they discover a shared grief that threatens to anchor them both to the past.

#preDV #YA #LGBT #DIS #own #cr