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Sammy is running from his mother's ghost, but there's only so many places to hide in his small town. When a charismatic newcomer shows up, he finds the escape he's been looking for – but the further Sammy's drawn from his family, the more the edges of reality begin to blur. #Questpit #Agentguide #YA

MEALS ON WHEELS When your boss already owns your soul, its hard to argue for better work conditions. 🔪 unhinged protagonist 🌲 PNW vibes 👻 horror with giggles 🫦 offbeat romance Urban fantasy. Seattle backdrop. Middle aged leads. Magic. Murder. Spice. Coffee. #QUESTPIT #W #A #F #RF #PR #H

With the bodies piling up and their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted, Andy realizes they’re being hunted by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s stolen the life they’re desperately trying to leave behind. #QuestPit #AG #YA

Hallmark Meets Poly: THREE'S THE SEASON Grieving lawyer Charlotte enlists her 2 best friends to finish her late husband's last wish: the Christmas List. When unexpected romantic feelings emerge she'll have to decide whether to risk her found family for a second chance at love. #QuestPit #W #A #R

Witcher meets Whitten: A village witch teams up with the vampire she vowed to protect her village from in order to take down the child of a god who has been terrorizing them both. #DIS/#ND protagonist ⚔️ #POC/#TR vampire 🧛‍♀️ #LGBT love 🥀 #Gothic vibes 🌘 #KillGod plot ⚰️ #QuestPit #Q #F #DF #A

CRYING IN H MART x I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE I'M CRYING 👩‍👧‍👧 Mother-daughter dynamics 🇰🇷 Korean adoptees 🍜 Food & travel writing 📖 History of US/Korea relations 🇺🇸 Mixed Korean/American identity 🧪 DNA test surprises WHERE THE TIGERS DIED: coming soon to agent inboxes! #W #NF #M #QuestPit

Alpha and beta reader feedback for AT YOUR PACE, a new adult contemporary sports romance. It's made three people other than me laugh aloud so far, and hopefully more one day! If you want an ARC just dm me I just want people to enjoy this thing I wrote :) #QuestPit #Q #R #NA

Emerson's tired of being single. But as he enters junior year of college, is he finally ready to bend his disciplined ways and do the work to overcome what's been holding him back from finding love? AT YOUR PACE is an 87,000 word new adult contemporary romance. #Q #R #NA #QuestPit

ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN: Speculative Fiction A group of elementary teachers fight a charter takeover by playing a D&D game with real-life corollaries For fans of The Grimoire Grammar School PTA, D20, and Roll for Romance Vibes and scenes in this mood board Querying Soon #QuestPit #W #A #S #F

#questpit here’s my #agentsguide to 99 WAYS TO GET EXSPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER), a sapphic ya satirical dystopian fantasy that dares to ask the question: What if The Bomb gave people nuclear magic? #w #d #f #lgbt #ya #ownvoices

Welcome to LAST CHANCE MATCH! A gov’t-funded dating show where the deadly game play of SQUID GAME + tech horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND. 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧? #questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D

I KNW WHT U DID LST SMMER x HILL HOUSE x SCOOBY-DOO (2002) 🎢 reunited friends 🎢 abandoned theme park 🎢 haunted by ghosts of guilt 🎢 dark secrets of the past 🎢 friends to strangers to lovers 🎢 for those who wished Daphne and Shaggy had a chance #questpit #W #H #S #R

In honour of #QuestPit and the upcoming #SmoochPit showcase, here's an updated #agentsguide for THE BOG PRINCE, my upper #YA #RF about a necromancer who reanimates the bog body of her kingdom's long-lost prince. 💀👑 Maybe some secrets are better left buried... 🖤 #agentguide #Q

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 🏄‍♀️ California vibes 😡 Frenemies to enemies 🎭 Opening night drama ❣️ Romantic debacles #QuestPit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Q #F #YA #Querying #witch

Sager x MEX GOTHIC w/o the mold and gore When a tormented writer treks to his mountain estate to write his next novel, a sentient house, an intruder, and a psychopath collide. He must unearth the key to this madness, or his sister will arrive in time to write his eulogy. #QuestPit #Q Psych #T #H #A

EVERY SUMMER AFTER X HAPPY PLACE When her ex shows up at her sister's wedding, a heartbroken woman faces the tragedy that broke them up 10 years ago at the cottage, is pulled into a spiral of distrust that brings out her worst and an HEA may not even be worth it. #questpit #q #a #r

🔎The Alchemist's Last Recipe🔎 An introverted book restorer unravels an alchemy-infused murder in a close-knit Prague courtyard community. #QuestPit #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #W #A #MY #WF

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS She planned to be the terror in his life. He planned to ignore her. Neither planned on saving a crumbling empire from a tyrant—or falling in love. 91K-word adult fantasy romcom / Smoochpit '25 mentee #questpit #A #RF #Q

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is haunted by Shadows since almost dying. They are increasing in power. A Red Eyed God talks of change. A Shadow with a hat seeks to use him for his dark purposes. 🍂 New England 💽 2000's nostalgia 🧹 Witchcraft 🌕️ Cosmic Horror #Questpit #H #Agentsguide

When a noblewoman helps a condemned pirate escape prison so his sentient ship can find her missing brother, she never expects to fall for the criminal—or to discover that he caused her brother’s disappearance in the first place. #questpit #A #RF #litagents #writingcommunity #amquerying #romantasy

IN REVISIONS AS A WRITEHIVE MENTEE 2026 Big Five Editor request x 2 20 agent requests #questpit

AITA? …Find out what happens next when the black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, even as the black plague closes in. 💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee #QuestPit #Q #A #H #Horrormance

#QuestPit #W #F #R an adult pirate x knight fantasy: A FATE INKED IN BLOOD x A Knight's Tale 🌊immersive worldbuilding ⚔️stone cold knight FMC 🏴‍☠️bloodthirsty pirate lord MMC ⚓️deadly bargain + mineral magic 🏰high stakes political intrigue

A guide to my #WIP 🌊 SCULPTOR OF THE WINDS 🌊 Book 1 in a planned duology, it has: ⚓️ Seafaring adventures 🌋Roots in animistic religion ⚡️A physics based magic system 🐙 Sea monsters large and small 🏠 Complex family dynamics 🌎 Accessible worldbuilding #questpit #A #F #RF #FR #W #LGBT #OV #AG

92K - Dual POV - YA FANTASY 🏰 HERS - FANTASY 🛝 Childhood Friends 👭 Sister Bonds 👩‍🍼 Inherited Magic 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Leap, Then Look 💋 Kiss, Marry, or Kill? 🧌 HIS - HORROR 💑 Childhood Sweethearts 💕 Self-Sacrificing Loyalty 💀 Soul Selling 🤔 Anxious, Overthinker 🫀 Cannibal Witch #questpit #YA #F #H #WIP

Ever since her troubled childhood, Phoebe has seen “traces,” or past and future versions of herself. The fact these traces were never over the age of 30 didn’t bother her then. At 29, it’s a concern. #questpit #Q #A #S

Timeslip Asian Dramas x Self-Aware Isekai More legible ver. of tropes & themes that recur throughout the MC’s lives. Also more issues for the poor (but rich) guy to tackle: 🕯️ consequences of wishes 🥀 self-fulfilling prophecy ⚰️ ghosts of the past 🧶 endless search for meaning #QuestPit #A #Lit #LF #F

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind. #QuestPit #AG #YA

Selected for 2025 SmoochPit Mentorship THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a heart-devouring fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything. #questpit #A #F #Q #amquerying

🐻found family 🐻forced proximity 🐻quest 🐻Appalachian folklore 🐻down with the patriarchy #OS #C #R #F #A

SWEENEY TODD × TRUE ROMANCE × NATURAL BORN KILLERS When two serial killers accidentally prey on each other, Cupid should've aimed for their throats. Killing together is double the fun. But when one of them wants out, the choice is either stay or slay. #QuestPit #A #H #DR #W

It’s been a while since I did a pitch event and I forgot the most important hashtag #questpit

🌊supernatural mystery 🌊polyamorous 🌊historical POV 🌊hauntings 🌊witty banter 🎶Missio- Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea #OS #A #M #R

*The Best Kisser in Prague* She's telling herself she's got the Future all figured out. He's pretending he's let go of his Past. Will Mika and Dominik miss the magical Now? 🇨🇿 Expats in Prague 🇨🇿 Early-90s nostalgia 🇨🇿 Drifters, artists, seekers 🇨🇿 A crossroads in history #QuestPit #W #A #R #HS

DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE x ASCENSION 🥀angel summoning as dark magic (and a metaphor for OCD) 🥀violent longing 🥀corruption arc(s) 🥀MC thinks he’s in a romance novel until it’s (almost) too late 🥀Victorian secret societies 🥀epistolary dual timeline #QuestPit #WIP #A #H #R

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 🏄‍♀️ California vibes 😡 Frenemies to enemies 🎭 Opening night drama ❣️ Romantic debacles #QuestPit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Q #F #YA #Querying #witch

ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️ #QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F

❝she is a wisp, a wile, a wonder, someone who i'll probably never have the privilege of meeting, not in this lifetime at least.❞ introducing 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 & 𝐖𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃, an adult literary romance coming to the querying trenches later this year 🌞 #questpit #W #A #R #LF

BETWEEN TWO FIRES x WUTHERING HEIGHTS 🖤 Toxic yearning in the time of bubonic plague 🥀 Lush, gothic atmosphere 💀 Only one grave 💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee #QuestPit #Q #A #H #Horrormance

Good morning #Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration, an #agentsguide to CAVERN CLIPPER (Treasure Planet x Journey to the Center of the Earth x The Last Exile) #W #SFF #SF #A

G'morning #Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration, an #agentsgude to Tides of Sourcery (The Witcher x Dresden Files) #W #A #F #DF

#QuestPit #Cozy #FR #A #Q 🔮Dark times are upon Narissa’s home town, with the Snow Queen sending it into an economic freeze, but when a handsome yet clumsy debut Overlord arrives, she risks her “good witch” status by joining forces to strategize a coup🔮

The Miles Between Us, which features: ✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance; ✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism, and identity; ✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles; ✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar; ✅ a romantic subplot. #questpit #W #A #LF #T

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #QuestPit #A #F #DF #H #W

Like everyone⬇️the Divide, I'm ugly & sick. Unlovable. Especially to my BF, Rem. The raffle for HealthCorp’s miracle💊could heal me & make me beautiful, but I’d have better odds stealing them from the CEO’s playboy son. A⬆️risk of being caught. And 0 chance of losing my❤️to him. #questpit #Q #A #SF #R

Pagans x Strike 📖 Author wars ⚫️ Black humour 🔱 Romans vs Celts 🗿 Stonehenge rules 🌞 Winter Solstice, baby 💰 Karens & Kevins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Refined English snobbery 📵 21st Century Luddites #QuestPit #W #A #MY #PR #T 🦋