My #indiebookstoreday haul! Mood Reader Books hooked me up. #amreading #read #books

“I always wonder is my brain smarter than I think” when a character comes to take on a greater role. Tana French

Tana French says: “I just dive in and hope” is her approach to #writing. #pantsersunite #writingcommunity

Just sent in my first page to @writingdaywksp.bsky.social thriller/mystery/cozy contest. Find out more at tinyurl.com/wdwcon11

Enjoyed day one of the #writingawayrefuge grateful to my #writinggroup colleague who recommended it. @leeannward-writer.bsky.social #writingcommunity #amquerying

Like me and often finding out about pitch events too late? Found this list of events. Out of date but helped me look up options. #amquerying #writingcommunity Https://elisecarlson.com/2020/09/15/twitter-pitch-parties-mentoring-events/

As if I needed another reason to #readbooks and #write. My lifeblood.

Midlife retreat. No escape. Too many Jennifers. When one Jennifer is murdered at a women’s getaway in the NC woods, narrator J.B. has 24 hours to decide which Jennifer to hand to the police. #QuestPit #ComicMystery #JENNIFERJUBILEE #lockedlocation #Q #A

“If you’re such a people pleaser, name one person who’s happy with you right now.” …Story of Sadie’s life. After agreeing to fake a marriage to her best friend, Sadie’s life gets a lot more complicated when her unrequited childhood crush is the one who starts planning it. #QuestPit #W #RF #LGBTQ

🥎 UNSTOPPABLE AUDREY 🥎 💛 Witty 💛 Coming of age story 💛 Upper middle grade 💛 Family & friend dynamics 💛 Vulnerability & empowerment @questpit.bsky.social #Q #MG #contemporary #questpit #iamquerying

Take a look at the first couple pages of my 84k word queer omegaverse romantasy in the editing stage 🌿HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS🌿 #QuestPit #W #A #FR #LGBT #amquerying

The twisted trials and tangled love triangle of POWERLESS X the dark, fairy-tale world of THE HAZEL WOOD. 🖋️Three cutthroat Huntsman trials 🖋️A family of rebel tale-tellers 🖋️Full-length fairy tales 🖋️Wolves, witches, and snowy woods #Q #YA #F #QuestPit #amquerying

Commoner best friends Lor and Firmen don't have wealth or magic—just ambition and each other. But when they align with rival noble houses, they don't realize they're sabotaging each other—or that one's ambition could mean the other’s ruin. THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x C.L. Polk #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Nat dreams of playing pro soccer for her dad’s love, Matt dreams of practicing pediatrics in his hometown in honor of his late childhood best friend, when Matt rescues Nat from being trapped at a party, a deep attraction forms that will force one or both to stray from their path. #questpit #Q #A #R

LOVE HITS BIG is an adult contemporary rom-com perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez, Emily Henry, and sports romance! Janey, a wild-child roller derby skater, crashes into love with Alan, who is on a collision course to demolish the animal shelter she runs. Can love save the day? #questpit #W #R #A

Collages for MOTHER OF SPARKS, a Sapphic Dystopian Sci-Fi following a mother’s desperate attempts to escape an enemy planet. Attempts involve identity theft, a heist, and a mercenary who falls in love with her false persona… #questpit #A #W #SF #D

“What makes you think it’s still here?” Ward asked. Conrad was silent for a long moment, gazing at nothing; he laid his head down, hiding his eyes in the crook of one elbow. “A feeling. People—humans, aliens, whatever—don’t just leave Deuceridge. No one escapes this city.” #QuestPit #Q #sff #f

#Editors, if you’re looking to escape this cold weather with the perfect summer beach read featuring: ❤️ Second chance romance 🏖️ Cute beach town setting ✏️ Teacher MCs ✡️ Jewish rep ➕ Plus size rep 👫 Quirky townies 🏠 Found family SUMMER PLANS is the book for you! #QuestPit #OS #R #AG

Whatever Avira's friends may say about the "signs" at the abandoned silo, Avira does NOT believe in the 2012 apocalypse. But with her bestie competing against her in the art contest offering a full ride scholarship, and threatening her new crush, life's plenty apocalyptic. #questpit #YA #S #PR #Q

GOOD BOYS ONLY is a tender, funny slow burn, where the dogs behave better than the exes 🤭 🌿confident plus-size rep 🐾black cat x golden retriever 💚strangers to "just friends" to lovers 🐾found family 🌿tattooed MCs in their 30s 🐾healing from betrayal 💚...and maybe a hand necklace #QuestPit #Q #A #R

A quest to rescue a fairytale princess? What could go wrong? 😅 Meet Neil. He's lanky, a bit awkward, has allergies, and a lack of self-confidence. However, he is still kinda charming.🤴 THE LAND OF STORIES X PERCY JACKSON #QuestPit #Querying #Q #AmQuerying #Upper #MG #F #Fantasy #Comedy

Patricia Highsmith meets Sally Rooney in PRIVATE MYTHOLOGY, a gay literary novel with strong elements of mystery and romance set in the South of France in the early 1990s. #questpit #querying

Miguel is the first elemental mage to attend an esteemed school of magic in New York and now he's struggling between following the dreams his mami set out for him and uncovering the mystery behind her death. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT

Ok last post of the day! What a fun first #questpit! Beta readers say, "Like MAZE RUNNER, but for adults!" THE DAMNED, 103k, is a grounded near future sci fi featuring: 🌊Fast-paced plot 🏝️Romance 😆Humor 😣Mental health ⚡️Non-gory violence 😏Morally grey characters 🙌Redemption #questpit #SF #A #Q

HE HAUNTS ME NOT Xander makes Alice question the ways she’s always viewed herself. Alice makes him feel *alive.* DEAD ROMANTICS x WEDNESDAY 🖤Forced Proximity 🤍Human x Ghost Lovers 🖤Seances 🤍Witty Banter 🖤Gothic Elements 🤍Found Family #Q #questpit #A #R #PR

Sharing again for the #questpit night crowd! ✨DESERT STARS✨ Upmarket/contemporary #ownvoices 89K words #Q #A ✨Witty dialogue ✨Character-driven ✨LGBTQ leads ✨Multi-ethnic cast ✨Hollywood from the POV of a background actor on food stamps

WILD REVERENCE x I, MEDUSA Ancient gods, a love triangle none of them asked to be a part of, grumpy animal companions (her’s is a shadow bear), a corrupt government, a crazed cult of heretics, and the unfortunate truth no one saw coming. First slide is the opening scene #Q #A #F #R #questpit

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF Explores gaslighting and female rage through inherited houses, ancient covenants and unreliable records. A narrator whose certainty becomes the most frightening thing of all. The house has always needed someone. This time, it chose her. #QuestPit

The perfect pick-me-up for women in their 20's who are driving the struggle bus and in need of a getaway! 🌺ALMOST PARADISE🌺 🌴 found family 🛳️ vacation fling/situationship 🌴 conversations about shame 🛳️ vacation hijinks 🌴 self identity beyond a relationship #AG #R #WF #W #questpit

A RAVEN SONG is an adult, dual-perspective, second-world fantasy about the lengths three women, bound by childhood tragedy, will go to save each other. If the venn diagram was “Haunted by Suspian” and “Could not stop crying over Greta Gerwig’s Little Women” Querying today! 👋🏼 #questpit #q #a #f

These best friends have a 60-year age difference 🤝 Nita fled from Florida to NYC in 1970, while Violet made the same journey over 50 years later. Both left conservative families to live freely as queer women. Can Violet break the cycle and help find Nita's long-lost love? #QuestPit #HR #U #WF #A

PERCY JACKSON X GIRL, INTERRUPTED X THE NOTEBOOK (except Noah = incubus 😈) Can Ava unlock her past to save the ones she loves? 😵 ✍️82K Adult #F ✨Magic Tattoos 🐉Retelling myths 🧠Mental Health 🤬Angry girls & gods 💋Slow-burn 🐶Found family 📸Readers say…👇 #questpit #Q #A #F #DF w/ elements of #RF #PR #H

SCREAM x A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER THE FIRST DEATH OF JANE POE Ordinary Jane Poe becomes the victim of a masked killer, only to rise as a walking corpse. She has to go from opening kill to final girl to return to normal...or risk becoming a monster herself. #questpit #YA #horror #wip

God Forsaken by Marci Heider When a forbidden book whispers of goddesses erased from history and a long-buried magic thrums to life, Danara stumbles into a secret the crown would kill to keep hidden. #questpit #F #Q

💜 THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP x WATER MOON 💜 welcome to the Department of Ennui…change your talent, change your life 💌 hidden bookshop 🖼️ romance with magical realism / modern fantasy a woman wanting to exchange her talent meets a man without one, who works at the department #QuestPit #R #WIP

THE EXECUTIONER’S WIDOW: When the kingdom’s executioner dies, his teen son must inherit the blade. To save him, his widow disguises herself as her son and takes the post, risking death if exposed—and uncovering secrets that could destroy the crown. I’m a trad-published author. #questpit #w #rf #a

Comic locked-room mystery. A Gen-X retreat in the NC woods. Everyone’s a Jennifer. When one is murdered and a flooded bridge cuts off escape, the narrator must find the killer before police arrive. Lucy Foley + Only Murders in the Building #QuestPit #Q #A

🧬THE CITY OF ECHOES📚 Cyberpunk Dystopian world! Lyla Gow survives in a city where dissent is erased by mind-control. When she uncovers the truth, she’s torn between living the life she always dreamed of or fighting for freedom. But how many lives will it cost? #questpit #scifi #NA #querying

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth just wants to finish writing her book set on the bike trail and now a nature photographer has turned up dead in the beaver pond. #questpit #Q #A #MY

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people. #Q #A #SP #hopepunk #CliFi #witchsky #questpit

CHARMED X THE DEAD OF SUMMER 💀An Immersive Second World 💀Feminine Rage and Coming of Age 💀Ace FMC and Queer Ensemble 💀Long Lost Demigod Twins 💀The Power of Friendship ✨ #questpit #ya #f #q Eva-core:

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA X ONE DARK WINDOW Andra & her brother inherit their childhood home, only to find it in a dark curse's grip. The servants meet grisly ends as a phantom's obsession with Andra grows. She must break free before all is lost. #QuestPit #AG #WIP #A #F #R #Gothic

BEAUTY & THE BEAST retelling x SEA fairytales 🇮🇩 x HEIR A village girl has three days to break her curse that turns her into a beast or death greets her. But on her quest, she accidentally awakens a long-forgotten goddess and this goddess is full of fury... #questpit #W #YA

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF A woman restoring a remote Cornish manor slowly loses her sense of where her mind ends and the house begins. The village knows the pattern. They just won't say it out loud. Epistolary gothic horror. #QUESTPIT

When plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her breakup, the last thing she expects is to meet a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever 🐾🌿 #QuestPit #A #R #Q