🚨🚨🚨 ATTENTION WRITERS 🚨🚨🚨 The next #MiseryPit pitching event will be December 1, 2025! 6 AM PST - 6 PM PST See you then! #WritingCommunity #BookSky #LitAgents #Writers #Editors #Authors #MysteryWriters #ThrillerWriters #TrueCrimeWriters

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#MiseryPit is over! Thank you everyone for pitching your mysteries, thrillers and true crimes! The moodbards have been amazing! These events wouldn't happen without writers who participate so thank you for pitching! If you've received an agent or editor like on your pitch, please let us know!

❤️‍🔥The League❤️‍🔥 Liam is a serial killer. He had a crush on Eamon as a child, until Eamon murdered Liam’s parents. Now, he wants Eamon’s head. Shame that Eamon grew up gorgeous, suave, and so dangerous. And he 🥵wants Liam. Let the games begin. #MiseryPit #A #Q #CT (with psych suspense+horror vibes)

Gladiatrix Daughter of War - I am Aoife, survivor of the Druidic Ynys Môn genocide, Piso's brothel slave, witch of Roman General Germanicus, Hand of the Dark Mother and I will have blood justice for my people! Book I in the Gladiatrix Chronicles #MiseryPit #A #HT #WFT

About 20 minutes left for this #MiseryPit event!! Get those last minute pitches in!

#a #q #miserypit #hm GRAVEWATER In the spring of 1919, something sinister is lurking in Loire Valley and Elle McIntyre is pretty sure it has a name and a seat on the city council. Her search for the truth turns deadly and will haunt Gatewood Manor for decades to come.

A quiet town is put into chaos and distrust when they awaken to find that every other house has their door painted yellow for an unknown reason. #MiseryPit #SFFT #WIP

Can Ava's relationship survive her choice to be a dominatrix? Will she be able to find out who killed her friend? Will the killer try to stop her? Find out in MURDER, SHE KINKED. 🩸🩸 #A #WFT #Q #MiseryPit

The supernatural has been an open part of the world since phone cameras, especially here in LA. Yet August has no idea where his oddly specific time shifting powers came from. When strangers gun him down in his own office, his mysterious powers become his only hope. #MiseryPit #Q #A #FM #CM

#a #q #miserypit #hm She can’t rest until justice is served, he will always answer her terrible haunted call. GRAVEWATER An excerpt….

Introducing my #WIP THE TAXIDERMIST, a romantic horror mystery described as THE HUNTING PARTY X RIP VAN WINKLE. Illustration: own work. Background image: provided copyright free by Birmingham Museum Trust. #RT #MiseryPit #A

1 hour left for #MiseryPit!!! Get those final pitches in before the event ends at 6 pm PST! Good luck and happy pitching!

The city’s lousy with heroes—cape-wearing, laser-eyed, sky-flying showboats. Don’s not one of them. He’s a PI with supernaturally sketchy luck, a nose for trouble, and a trenchcoat that smells like bad decisions. Now powers are vanishing, and he might be next. #A, #SFFM, #Q, #miserypit,

#MiseryPit #A #CT #ND #Q

#MiseryPit #A #HM #Q A Thousand Blows x Ripper Street x The Alienist 19th century Scotland. 🔎Wife of a famous psychic says a Celtic monster is trying to kill her. 🔎Violent female gang is her protection 🔎Fake heir 🔎An immigrant detective with scientific skills 🔎Corrupt colonial interests

SADIE X ROYAL BLOOD Francine steals a voodoo doll of herself, planning to destroy it, but whenever she touches the doll, she can feel it on her own skin. Unless she can break the doll’s spell, she will never be safe—but that would mean killing the person who created it. #YA #CT #Q #MiseryPit

The Secret History x Final Exam Shortly after Jess lands the lead in the semester's play she finds a dead body on campus. when more bodies begin turning up around school Jess wonders which of the thousands of students is turning her friends into corpses #miserypit #A #CT #RT #Q

SALIVATION is a dark romantasy with thriller and horror elements inspired by Hulu's Dopesick! 🧛 Vampires 🎶 Magical music 🌶️ M/M spice 🏳️‍🌈 Enemies to lovers gay romance 🏢 Evil corporations #MiseryPit #SFFT #A #WIP

2 hours left for #MiseryPit! If you have a #mystery, #thriller, or #truecrime manuscript or WIP, this is the event to pitch! Happy pitching!! #booksky #writingcommunity #writersky

The city’s lousy with heroes—cape-wearing, laser-eyed, sky-flying showboats. Don’s not one of them. He’s a PI with supernaturally sketchy luck, a nose for trouble, and a trenchcoat that smells like bad decisions. Now powers are vanishing, and he might be next. #A, #Q, #miserypit, #SFFM,

3 hours left for #MiseryPit! If you have a #mystery, #thriller, or #truecrime manuscript or WIP, this is the event to pitch! Happy pitching!! #booksky #writingcommunity #writersky

Love & Lust A Legionary Romance - Castra Vetera's top doc Medicus Galenus falls for Marcus, a disgraced siege-works engineer plagued with survivor's PTSD. In a May/Dec romantic thriller, Marcus & Galenus find love while facing bloody barbarians, ghosts, plague & Caesar. #MiseryPit #A #HT #LGBTQ #Q

#MiseryPit #A #Q #CT (with psych suspense+horror vibes) To escape her oppressive family, Avery needs to join the wealthy secret society-the League. When she discovers she must kill an innocent man to join, she teams up with a man who murders League families to burn it all down instead.

I'm a little late for #MiseryPit, but if you like: 🇰🇷 Korean folklore & mythology 🩸Generational grief 🌀The gradual descent into grief, madness, & monstrous transformation 👻 Dark, intimate prose with psychological & body horror ❤️ Slow-burn romance Then here's my adult horror romance, Gumiho #H #A #R

#MiseryPit #A #HM #Q Victorian Scotland. Can a scientifically minded detective see through the theatrical misdirection to solve murder, a fake heir, and a mythical monster? And will he realise that the unusual servants in the home of a famous psychic are all members of a female criminal gang?

A murdered dominatrix. Her best friend is out for justice. Some BDSM. Multiple suspects. Blood. Intrigue. MURDER, SHE KINKED 🩸🩸 #A #WFT #Q #MiseryPit

In a city swarming with heroes, Don is a PI who must use his questionable superhuman "luck" to investigate the widespread decline of superpowers, or turn in his trenchcoat and let society become as ordinary as he fears he is. Hench X Jessica Jones #A, #miserypit, #SFFM, #Q

A best friend who needed too much. A caretaker who gave too much. A girl who died. A woman who’s unraveling. A secret buried under grief, guilt, and devotion. Looking for representation for EVERYTHING I GAVE HER. Complete at 89k words. #A #WFT #miserypit #writingcommunity #amquerying

Introducing SALIVATION, a dark romantasy with thriller and horror elements inspired by Hulu's Dopesick! 🧛 Vampires 🎶 Magical music 🌶️ M/M spice 🏳️‍🌈 Enemies to lovers gay romance 🏢 Evil corporations #MiseryPit #SFFT #A #WIP

Haunted by her past as a child soldier, a Stone creature trained as a Star Destroyer is forced into a tense alliance with the Star Chancellor sent to execute her, and the desperate friend who betrayed her. But trusting your enemies is tricky when everyone is hiding secrets. #MiseryPit #A #FM #FT

#a #q #miserypit #hm One woman fights for justice even after her untimely end. Nearly a century later, another woman discovers the haunting truth she left behind. GRAVEWATER

Hi #MiseryPit pitchers! We've got about 3 hours left for pitching! Get your pitches in! #WritingCommunity #Booksky #WritersSky

The city’s lousy with heroes—cape-wearing, laser-eyed, sky-flying showboats. Don’s not one of them. He’s a PI with supernaturally sketchy luck, a nose for trouble, and a trenchcoat that smells like bad decisions. Now powers are vanishing, and he might be next. #A, #miserypit, #SFFM, #Q

#a #q #miserypit #hm Rebecca x The Secrets of Rose Briar Hall 💀 Mysterious Illness 🪦 Love Beyond the Grave ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏘️ Corrupted Councilman 🪶 Haunted Letters Elle goes searching for funding for a children's library and instead finds a sinister secret so dark even the dead refuse to rest.

Burgandy 2: After The Paleblood Fall The Black Bureau hires a countryside Hunter (Rieux) to track down and kill the last 7 remaining Palebloods. But he finds himself falling for the beguiling charms of Monica and ends up guiding her through thick and thin to the safe haven of Eauport. #miserypit

WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS × JACKAL A psychological thriller with elements of feminist horror: 🩸female rage 🩸good for her 🩸prey vs predator 🩸social criticism 🩸art as clues 🩸caves 🩸serial killer(s?) 🩸latina FMC 🩸(dysfunctional) mother-daughter relationship #MiseryPit #A #thriller #horror

#MiseryPit #A #HM #Q Victorian Scotland. British colonial interests imports a violent criminal to Glasgow. The Black Heathers, a female gang, finds an unexpected ally in the detective investigating a fake heir and a sighting of a murderous monster.

Cassie is a dominatrix who is brutally murdered. Ava is her best friend. Wouldn't you want justice? Ava does, and she's determined to get it, no matter the cost. MURDER, SHE KINKED 🩸🩸 #A #WFT #Q #MiseryPit

When he’s shot in his own office August Lloyd can use his limited time-shifting ability to escape, but he has no idea who wants him dead. Others like him, with unexplained powers, are also being targeted. To understand why, they must solve the mysteries of their own magic. #MiseryPit #Q #A #FM #CM

If you’re an agent who loved the twisting depths of the true crime Scamanda podcast and want that kind of suspense in fiction, Everything I Gave Her might be for you. The deeper you go, the more it twists. It’s currently garnered interest from 2 agents requesting queries. #A #WFT #Q #miserypit

When superpowers start flickering out, the city turns to Don, a PI with one crooked gift: chaotic luck. He’s no hero, but if he can’t crack the case, the age of wonders dies—and he might finally prove just how ordinary he’s always been. #A, #miserypit, #SFFM, #Q