PERSUASION x Vampires🧛🏻‍♀️ After Vampire Anne ends her engagement to Human Fredrick at her family’s urging, breaking her own heart, she doesn’t expect to meet him again 200 years later. Much less to find he’s been Turned. Will war draw them closer or will Anne fall for another? #LGBT #A #MR #PR #PreDV

A LOVE LIKE THE MOVIES is The Holiday x Virgin River, a 70k adult rom com about a woman who flees to a tiny Lake Superior town with two goals: focus on herself and stay away from men, only to meet the local coffee-shop owner, who is determined to make her fail at both.
#preDV #nd #A #RomCom

Two immortal witches who’ve spent centuries sabotaging each other must recover a cursed ring. Alten needs it to reclaim her ability to love. Rowen needs it to restore her reputation. Can they work together, or will centuries of attraction get in the way?

F/F Spicy Romantasy
#LGBT #A #R #CF #preDV

#PreDV This pitch is vague & could be describing multiple books. Be specific. Whats unique to your novel? MC wants/needs (goal), but after (inciting incident), MC must (do a specific thing alone or with others) or (a terrible consequence that leaves us wanting to know more) will happen.

DEVIANT X HOMESTED

Her husband's corpse is chasing Tessa. That's weird enough, but now a werewolf cowboy is determined to help her, and the radio is urging supernaturals to converge on a truck stop in Nebraska.

#PreDV #GN #ND

Exiled to a cursed wilderness and unwillingly bound to an ancient imprisoned god, a guilt-ridden archivist must master a volatile magic she was never meant to wield before the tether connecting their souls consumes them both.

🔒Forced Proximity
🐺Animal Companion
❤️‍🔥Slow Burn
#preDV #F #A #CI

#preDV Wow this sounds so fun, and I’m a huge fan of eye-catching emoji list pitches. My only thought is to consider avoiding “all-American” as the term has been co-opted by white supremacists. Perhaps something like “non-Asian” could work instead?

1924 💃Merche spent her life escaping abusers. Fascist police mistake her for a woman with a divine idol & will kill for it. For her final escape, she must find the idol, outwit police & anarchists & keep the idol from possessing her while her mental health collapses

#PreDV #A #F #Hist #Q

THE DEVIL’S ROSE (w/ @noah-oliver.bsky.social) Pirates sail the edge of a centuries-old hurricane & end up sucked into the center. As crew members go missing and a vengeful ghost hunts them, two men—a pirate and the handsome man he press-ganged—must work together to save them all. #A #F #H #PreDV

THE LOVE MATCH x THIS TIME IT'S REAL
🥡 a restaurant kid who can only date Asians
🧁 her all-American cinnamon roll crush
⚔️ the boy from the rival "Chinese" restaurant
🎬 fake dating
❤️🩹 complicated immigrant parent-child relationships
🌪️ chaotic AAPI found family #PreDV #YA #Asian #RomCom

She's the only thing keeping a world-eating god chained to a ruin. He's the only reason she's still breathing. Neither of them planned on needing the other, and both know exactly how it ends. #preDV #F #A #CI

That's it for #PreDV Day 1!

We saw some amazing pitches and can't wait for #DVpit on September 30 8AM-8PM ET!
Thank you to everyone who provided pitch feedback & participated!

For more info on #DVpit go to dvpit.carrd.co

If you didn't get a chance to practice today, we're doing Day 2 tomorrow!

SO happy and grateful to participate! I want to be clear that although I have a debut picture book coming, I am unagented and would LOVE feedback on my 2 pitches! #preDV #dvPit

Nati longs to hunt yellow-eyed beasts. When her cousin is injured, Nati bargains to take her place, but when her hunting partner is rot-touched, their relationship grows teeth. Now she must choose; unravel the rot's secrets or keep her place among the hunters The Knight & the Moth X Uprooted
#predv

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN X THE BONE WITCH

A witch-hating pirate discovers her brother’s cursed body.
A witch’s daughter must break her coven’s curse.
They bargain to help each other.
But there is only one thing that can break either curse, and it can only be used once.

#PreDV #YA #F #LGBT

HOMESTEAD X DEVIANT

Tessa travels the highway, determined to find or learn the right magic to stop her husband's corpse from stalking her. A run-in with a werewolf cowboy draws her into protecting his secret, but that may not be possible, given the supernatural civil war brewing.

#preDV #GN #ND

TLT x STARS ARE LEGION x Mad Max

When hero’s daughter Calypso is imprisoned on a spaceship temple, she must survive deadly “bloodgames” & charm her family's oldest enemy to buy time to prevent the God-King Asteria’s ascension, or the universe will suffer an invincible tyrant.

#preDV #A #SFF #LGBT

TLT+THE STARS ARE LEGION+Mad Max

Trapped in a temple to the brutal God-King Asteria, a failed hero's daughter must survive deadly “bloodgames” to buy time & prevent Asteria’s ascension. But her mission to save the universe is compromised as she falls for who Asteria once was.

#preDV #A #SFF #LGBT