Fantasy, Retelling & mystery Author

Mylee J. Miller

Mylee J. Miller is an American author of fantasy, retelling, and mystery novels. Inspired by the stories she grew up listening to at her bedside, alongside the disabilities she experiences, she hopes to bring more representation from the marginalized communities she's part of into the fiction literary sphere. Addicted to all things epic, dark, and emotional, most of her projects include characters with big flaws and bigger hearts, with themes that unravel the idea of what it truly means to persevere against terrible odds.Mylee aims to be a self-published and traditionally published author. She's best known for masterminding the twice-annual literary pitch event entitled #PosterPit, creating the literary-focused podcast Books & Beyond, obsessing over books she's recently devoured, and cooking a mean Italian Sausage Tortellini Soup. When not writing, she's screaming along to Hozier and walking her cats.Mylee is currently pursuing degrees in both History and English in hopes of becoming an editor or agent one day.

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

Mylee's Projects

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All of Mylee's fictional works are dark, enchanting, and contain Neurodivergent or Disability representation.

Young Adult Dark Fantasy

All That Withers

Arjein Silver cares for nothing more than his family, but when his dying father and drunken mother charge him with the protection and transportation of a cursed Remnant from a dead god, he's forced to abandon them and travel across his ruined world in search of someone who can better defend it. But as the Remnant bonds with him and he's targeted by those who want to destroy him or steal the object he's been told to protect, he's forced to decide between passing it on to someone more capable of guarding it… or keeping its cursed powers for himself.

DETAILS
Multi POV
Enemies to Allies
Sprawling Settings
Dying World
Spirits & Ghosts
Necromantic Archetypes

STATUS
Editing

New Adult "High Stakes" Cozy Fantasy

These Poisonous Flowers

Estranged sisters Lilith and Taven work at competing boutiques: one that sells poisonous flowers and one that sells poisonous fruits, to those who are in need of them. When they're both approached to kill an ambassador who'll soon arrive at their idyllic homeland with the intent to start a war, upending their work and their lives, they jump on the opportunity to destroy him. Too late, they realize that they'll need to work together to do so—and that they're both starting to fall for the one who hired them.

DETAILS
Dual POV
Sibling MCs
Sensory Processing Rep
Idyllic Kingdom
Magic-less Fantasy
Unreliable Memories
Poisonous Fruits & Flowers

STATUS
Drafting

New Adult High Fantasy

The Art That Devours Us

Sirelle, Imogen, William, and Elliot have never agreed on much, having recently graduated from a prestigious art college and always competed between each other to be the best at their crafts. But when the Great Transformation sweeps across the country, altering life and stealing jobs from freshly graduated students like them, they'll do anything to protect the art they've worked so hard to master—even steal it before it can be destroyed. Using their abilities from the arts: sculpting, painting, sketching, and metalwork, they attempt to save whatever famous pieces they can and plan to open up a Resistance Library. But they're not just racing the clock and the abolition teams—they're racing a group that seems to be destroying artwork from before their very eyes.

DETAILS
Multi POV
Found Family
Heists
Art-Based Magic System
Art As Powder (Conduits)
Gothic, Early 1900s Setting
Vanished Gods

STATUS
Drafting

New Adult Gothic Mystery Fantasy

Doomed Until Dawn

Silence, Finneas, Reverie, and Vincent are four of twenty heirs who wake up far from their homes in their respective kingdoms, locked inside a deteriorating castle wherein there's only one way to escape: kill one of the heirs they've been trapped with—and get away with it. As the heirs learn the one who escapes is the one who will become the next High King or Queen, bloodbaths ensue… until a devastating truth is revealed: they might not be facing a competition at all, but a punishment. And the only way to get out of it might be trusting in those they trust the least: each other.

DETAILS
Multi POV
Found Family
Heirs with Powers
Black, Magical Blood
Crumbling Castle Setting
Locked-room Murder Mystery
Second Chance Romance

STATUS
Drafting

New Adult High Fantasy

Mortar And Pestle

Morwen is a Keg, someone capable of making powder (from her blood) that serves as the currency, explosives, magical amplifiers, and vitalizes her city. When her powder-making employer is imprisoned for tutoring her in illegally making and selling the valuable resource, she'll do anything to save him. Forming a plan to break him out of prison and flee the country, she stumbles across trouble when she encounters the man who's sent to destroy her employer's business: Warwick. A discarded student of her employer, Warwick soon discovers Morwen's plan to save their mentor. He offers her an ultimatum: teach him the art of the power he never fully realized in exchange for his help rescuing her mentor, or leave the city chased by the authorities. But working with him could give him the chance to befriend her despite the warnings of her mentor, and allying with him could result in a fate worse than death: the fate her teacher now suffered as a prisoner.

DETAILS
Dual POV
Rivals to Enemies to Lovers
Reluctant Alliances
Powder-Based Magic Systems
Powder as a Power Source
Orphans & Clandestine Pasts

STATUS
Drafting

Young Adult High Fantasy

Sharp As A Needle

Needles are elite artists, raised and trained in the army of the god—the One—ruling the land of Carbolis. Everyone knows that. Everyone, that is, except for Jasper. Trained as a Seamstress apprentice to her crotchety grandmother, she's kept in a small village far from the populated lands wherein the Seamster's train. But when the soldiers of the One come to test the kids of the village as the Needles in the cities begin dying off to a deadly, mysterious illness, Jasper is discovered. Dragged to the capital and forced to train alongside dozens of other Needles working for the One, she and the others are set to the task of discovering the origin behind the sickness destroying them. But as her allies die off and a timid but ruthless boy named Crow demands her help in escaping their conscription, she's forced to choose: her survival, the city's, or Crow's—the very man who might be the key to freeing them all.

DETAILS
Single POV
Annoyances to Lovers
Corrupt Armies & Governments
A Magic-Manufactured Plague
A Boy Who Brings Death
Military Academies
Embroidery-Based Magic

STATUS
Drafting