An #agentsguide to THE HEART DEVOURER’S SONG, an adult, Asian-inspired romantic fantasy that was selected for the 2025 #smoochpit mentorship program. All the art used in my agent's guide was illustrated by me. . #querying #fantasy #grumpysunshine #queryingwriter #romanticfantasy #amquerying

I got a partial request! Just when I was starting to self-reject again 🥹

Coming soon to the #querying trenches: LEARNING FOR YOU, an adult contemporary romance complete at 90k words about two new high school English teachers competing for a single spot in their department due to impending budget cuts. #agentsguide #agentguide #writingcommunity #amquerying

An #agentsguide to STARSENT, my MISTBORN x HOUSE OF THE BEAST friends-to-enemies YA secondary world Fantasy, or “Friendtasy”, complete at 106k words, already with Big 5 Editor interest! I’m now officially #amquerying so if you’d like to see this, lemme know! 💫

Half the World Away is number 4 in in the Gay YA chart today! Thank you anyone who has bought a copy, or shared one of my many posts about it!

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Half the World Away is now yours. HEARTSTOPPER meets BOY LIKE ME Set in the midst of Section 28, the BBC launch an inter-school pen pal project. Theo writes. Alex replies. This is what happens next. Thanks to those who have written such wonderful reviews. I really hope you all love it ✉️🌎

A full request???? 🧍‍♀️wait wait wait i was supposed to get another form R why is this in my inbox I JUST STARTED QUERYING. I'M VERY SCARED

SONG OF THE SIX REALMS x YOU A courtesan with no emotions ventures to an immortal’s palace to heal her broken soul—but the palace is hiding seven imprisoned women, and they all look exactly like her. 🔥Soul dualism 🔥Obsession/entitlement 🔥Self-destruction #questpit #AG #F #W

Leah’s class trip to London is all castles and stage kisses– till she’s deferred by her dream college again. Stuck between the boy she’s fake dating & a chance at the future she’s meticulously planned, she has to embrace her waitlist curse to break it. #questpit #ya #r #q

PJO XTrumanShow Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted. #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist

MLFI #QuestPit #YA #W #RF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES x TURNING RED What if a chance encounter led you to your soulmate, but you didn't click right away? Aimee and Hunter are going to find out in this dual POV romcom filled with tutoring, self discovery, and platonic soulmates.

#AgentsGuide to my upmarket #gothic #horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH 🖤 🇮🇪 Medieval Ireland 🥀 Doomed romance ☠️ The black plague 💌 2025 #SmoochPit Mentee #questpit #W #A #H #HF

The Promised Neverland x An Academy for Liars x Pls Take Care of Me in This Life As Well Meeting across three lives, Ravina and Ves become something like soulmates…if soulmate means being murdered together in every life until they break the curse, or time itself runs dry. #QuestPit #A #F #H #W

SHARA WHEELER x SHE GETS THE GIRL In college, Talia wants to catch up on the ‘teenage experience’. But when she falls for a cool genderqueer lesbian, she has to figure out what that means for who she is. Even if it might destroy the relationship with her mother. #QuestPit #YA #NA #C #R #Q

When a benevolent vampire vows to end the cruel reign of a monstrous council, he must battle the past and present to stop the curse they have unleashed—and to have the second chance with the only soul he’s loved. #questpit #Q #A #F #PR #LGBT

🍏 Those who do not share their vision covet the fruits of their labor. 🔥 Long after Collapse, an empath's quest to save her people offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change. 🌲wilderness skills 🌪️ #CliFi 🕉️ #mindfulness ✨earth magic 🔮psychic powers #A #Q #S #SFF #questpit

COBAB x Animorphs After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends. #questpit #Q #YA #F

When exorcising ghosts, it helps to have a medium with a cool head and sympathetic heart. Constance is a medium with none of those. In a blend of horror/comedy that gets darker as it goes, traveling ghost hunters get in too deep when the dead won’t RIP #questpit #a #q #uf #spec #h

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A dying mage and his lover research a way to wield magic without killing mages, but tragedy leaves them separated, soulless and immortal. Centuries later, two magic scientists must retrace their mistakes and help them die before their pain consumes the world. #Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #W

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x MARTYR! Want to draw your mother? Get her out the pond first. Keep her in the pond. Make use of your superpowers. Figure out your artistry - all of this in more or less this order, and before the crazy town you live in can harm her. #questpit #W #A #F #S

When a freak storm wrecks his island’s passenger steamer, sparing only a strange girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die. #questpit #A #His #M #H #Q

A disciplined French student falls for leafy, laid-back post-Cold War Berlin—and for her reluctant host, an ex-athlete reeling from a wrecked career and a failed marriage. The devastating catch? She can’t stay. #QuestPit #Q #A #R

Kindred x Life on Mars A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024. 🌙muslim mcs 🗡️murder mystery 🗣️1970s british racism deepdive #questpit #Q #YA #S #HF

COBAB x Animorphs After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends. #questpit #Q #YA #F

HOUSE OF THE BEAST x WILL OF THE MANY Big 5 editor interest 👀 A star in human skin is willing to destroy her body to find her lost friend. Except her friend wants her in cinders. 💥Friends➡️Enemies 💫Gold Age Islamic Astronomy setting 🌊Elemental high-consequence hard magic #Questpit #Q #YA #F #ND #POC

REALM BREAKER x ATLA x HEIR Guilt is Cindren's anchor as much as it's her jailer, but her golden eyes speak of ancestry whispered amongst the forsaken. Something once slumbering has emerged within her, painting her destiny as dark as the cloak she was born to wear. #Q #YA #F #questpit

All Amara wants is to get her period and walk with The Sharks, but her menstrual cycle is not what she imagined. When people start dying, she wonders, is she the one draining the blood of her neighbors? Or are The Sharks holding an even bigger secret?

celebrating #questpit with a new #agentguide !! Summer 1920. 8 children. 1 house. 1 games master. He’s a kid too, but this is his house, and it answers to him alone. Trapped in his games, they’ll have to get creative if they want to survive. 🐊 RevPit 25 winner 🐊 big 5 editor interest #Q #MG #H

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentguide #agentsguide WHAT VENGEANCE MIGHT BRING For fans of epic fantasy, elemental magic, dragons, reluctant heroines, and romantic subplots. ✨Rich world building 🗝️Found family ✨Secret History 🗝️Female rage

ALCHEMY OF A BLOOD MOON 🌙 The dreams that once consoled wall-flower Selene have mutated into blood drenched nightmares. Now she must seek the guidance of her coven and forgive the man that betrayed her—or be swallowed alive in the dark. #questpit #q #pr #litagents #amquerying #WriteSky #agentguide

An #Agentsguide to EVERY CRUEL CORPSE, a YA/NA fantasy about two reapers who kill instead of guide for a government in the afterlife, who perform magical rituals in order to destroy the ghosts that haunt them. HOUSE OF SALT & SORROWS x DIVINE RIVALS #Questpit #Q #YA #A #PR #F

Witcher meets Whitten: The God of the Mists 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. 🥀 Why-choose FFM 🦄 New England cryptids 🍷 Vampires!! ⚔️ Gothic romantasy #WIP #A #F #RF #QuestPit

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a shiny new agent guide ✨🌙 ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, feat: 💫 two exiled men (+ their secrets) 💫 one lunar prison (+ its horrors) 💫 a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT

Love was erased from the prophecy. A prince reborn from a dark entity meant to maintain balance, bound by his mother’s strings. A girl with scars whose markings conceal a divine purpose. Her devotion transforms into defiance. Together, they are each other's fate and each other's ending. #questpit #F

WHEN DEVILS SING X FEAR STREET "Four pieces reunited by sinner's hand may finally break the Curse." Looks like Chava Rose is sinning. 💞 Women's autonomy ✡️ Jewish mythology ❤️‍🩹 Star-crossed lovers who never give up 🌈 Diverse ensemble ⚖️ Strong themes of equality #YA #H #Q #OWN #Jewish #questpit

🔮 An odyssey through the #tarot across the former US using the power of meditation, archaic tech, and ancient survival skills, to discover a key to peace 🌞 a vision of hope, transformation, and growth 🌱 wild edible plants, facing fears, and other skills #A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi

HOUSE OF THE BEAST x WILL OF THE MANY Big 5 Editor Interest 🙊 To defeat monarchs and her estranged childhood friend-turned-enemy, a star in human skin must learn about her power from a reluctant princess—before failure turns her body to ash. #Questpit #YA #F #Q #ND #POC

SHE WHO BCAME☀️ x PRIORY🍊TREE 🏹Manchu+Mongol+Han inspired 🪭God blood as ink for tatoo magic 🏹An eldritch craving familial love 🪭A failing chosen one 🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion 🪭An heir w/ perfect life until the facade rips 🏹Editor interest+14 agent requests #QuestPit #Q #A #F

POV: u sent ur first batch of query letters ever and u dont know what to do with urself now #writingcommunity

TRIAL OF HEIRS A princess endures a trial designed to break her. To claim the throne, she learns that survival demands cunning, cruelty, and surrendering to the darkness that accompanies power. 🗡️feral FMC 🖤descent into madness 🕯️ancient magic #GhostPit #A #FA #Q

yall weren't kidding when u said querying is a rollercoaster like i was giggling & kicking my feet 5 min ago bc an agent i rly admire requested things from me and now im devouring a discounted chocolate muffin bc an agent sent me the kindest R but im still weeping 🥹

MAKE ME YOUR WITCH A Sapphic rom-com about a single mom claiming to be a witch with 👵🏻👵🏽 Gen X romance 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 motherhood vs personal life 🏳️‍🌈 discovering queerness after divorce 🧙 found family of witches 🕯️hilarious mishaps with spells gone wrong #roundtablementor #R #un

felt cute made an intro jingle for a potential new youtube channel...

NO EXIT x MOB WIVES x CONEY ISLAND SIDESHOW ✨♠️🏙️❤️‍🔥🪩🔪🧨🎡 When the heiress to NYC’s most notorious crime family and her estranged wife arrive in purgatory on the same night, they must overcome their murderous differences to find a way out. Or kill each other again. Whichever is easier. #roundtablementor

I need to seriously thank the #DVPit for making my first bluesky pitch event since moving to Tokyo so memorable. I almost didn’t participate this year bc i was so busy with moving into my new apt and starting my new job. I had nothing planned. And now i have so many queries im excited to send 🥺❤️

AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST Big 5 Editor Interest 🙊 To defeat monarchs and her estranged childhood friend-turned-enemy, a star in human skin must learn about her power from a reluctant princess—before failure turns her body to ash. #YA #F #DVPit #ND #POC