Agents, this decision’s a piece of cake: in a nutshell, you’re looking for queer sci-fi with eleven cooking scenes, a foodie ship’s cook, alien fusion cuisine, and a cat who only wants protein cubes. Message me, I’ll spill the beans, and we can bring home the bacon together. #FoodPit #SF #Q #LGBT

A RECIPE FOR DISASTER: Heartbroken summer camp staff Sage and Nico start a casual relationship to get over their recent heartbreaks. Nico realizes he wants this to be more than a summer thing, but Sage has some unfinished business back at school that she won't let go of so easily. #foodpit

Recipe for my #FakeDatingFoodies #YA romcom: 🥡a restaurant kid who can only date Asians ⚔️the boy whose family is trying destroy her parents' noodle shop 🧁a cinnamon roll who bakes 🎬fake dating ❤️‍🩹complicated immigrant parent-child dynamic 🌪️a chaotic AAPI found family #FoodPit #W #R

THE Z WORD x WALKING DEAD Also featuring RV mac & cheese, eggs, honey dandelion lemonade, and sourdough. 🏳️‍🌈🧟 #foodpit #h #q #lgbt

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

THE ATOMIC ALL-IN, my first novella, is available for pre-order! Detective Keroux LaTour, on the trail of a dangerous crook, finds himself on a swanky casino starship that's bursting with wealthy scumbags. Find here at Nat 1 Publishing: nat1publishing.com/books/atomic...

I’m excited to announce that ARIA UNSUNG, my book with mech-driving witches who use resonance magic with crystal technology, has been acquired by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social for publication in the Spring of 2027! Check out the blog announcement: inkedingray.com/aj-super-and...

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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

🌈 If Becky Albertalli wrote The Kissing Booth 🌈 When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process 🌈 Perfect for fans of Heartstopper #Q #YA #questpit

THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an adult gothic romance with: 🕯️Forbidden Romance 🕯️High Society matchmaking 🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening 🕯️Obsessive yearning 🕯️European setting 🕯️Secret lake meetings #W #A #R #questpit

An Agent's guide to: THE SHAPES WE TAKE IN THE FIRE! ✌️dual pov/dual timeline 🌶️ open door slow burn 🎶 moody and lyrical ❤️ he falls first 🫂 touch starved LGBTQ friendly BIPOC & minority voices #questpit #Q #A #R #U

Hopeful rebel and charismatic sailor race to save the cosmos from climate disaster. Optimistic politics, ancient swords, easy romances, and unlikely friendships form a thoughtful romp through the “Veins of the Ether”. What’s more important: a revolution, or what comes after? #questpit #sff #f #sf

MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER X SUCH A FUN AGE 🔪💪🏾 Who’d ever think that motherhood would awaken your homicidal tendencies? Milly is loving. Rational. A new mom doing her best. She’s also planning to murder her ex-boss in his Chelsea mansion. Nothing could go wrong, right? #QuestPit #W #A #T

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

#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🔮

Dean and his girlfriend want to explore polyamory, but Dean isn’t out as bisexual so it would be a terrible idea to choose the housemate of someone from Dean’s acting class as a third. Unless the housemate is really cute and funny and they both like him a lot… #questpit #Q #A #NA #R #LGBT

Last year, Lucy’s anxiety reached new levels and her life fell apart. Now, all Lucy wants is some normalcy, her old friends back, her old life back. There's no way she’ll admit her crush on her female BFF, one of the only people who stuck around. She can’t risk losing Jaime too. #questpit #W #YA

The Poison Chalice Charmed x Shadow hunters x A Touch Of Darkness Condemned to purgatory she must make a deal with the Maith for her kind, the son of the devil has other ideas. ❤️ He falls first/harder 🤫 Family secrets 😓 Betrayals #questpit #A #F #RF #DF #W

HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK  x THE END OF MEN After a women’s plague, a farmer contemplates the end, when a woman who shouldn’t exist kills a thief on his farm. They flee reprisals across a frozen prairie & battle into the wilds where survivors plan to save humanity. At all costs. #QuestPit #A #SF #Q

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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

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

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

Someone pinch me because dreams really do come true 🥹 I’m so excited to announce that I’m now represented by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency. My strange little book filled with kudzu, cults, and rotten girls doing rotten things has found the perfect person to champion it! #agented #author

ALIEN x EVEN HORIZON When the crew of a starship encounters a distressed freighter that looks eerily similar to their own, they board it hoping to find survivors, but find their own corpses instead. RECURRENCE #questpit #SF #H #A #Q

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

FLEABAG x SCHITT'S CREEK THE MULLIGAN YEAR 80K When scandals rock a small town, a new therapist tries to help before becoming embroiled in the whole mess. 🧠 Mental Health 🍂 Intergenerational 🏋️‍♀️ Coming-of-age 💞 B-plot romance #QuestPit #F #amquerying #bookclub #contemporary #upmarket #comedy

Updated #agentsguide following #questpit 'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪 #litagents #amquerying

An empress with disability. A Dragon hoarding romance novels. A dysfunctional family of gods. Not the start of a joke, but Sy's undoing. When her ex, the chosen one, is murdered, feisty Sy fights the gods to escape a fate worse than death: becoming their eternal slave. #questpit #Q #F #BIPOC #LBGT

Hey Alexa...combine retelling myths like PERCY JACKSON but w/ the daughter of Hades😵 &➕🧠health in the vibe of GIRL, INTERRUPTED Also, throw in ❤️=Noah & Allie’s in THE NOTEBOOK (but like…make Noah an Incubus😈)✌️ ✍️82K #A #F 🤬Angry girls & gods 📸Readers say…👇 #questpit #Q #DF & elements of #RF #PR #H

Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're extremely attracted to each other. It's only natural that they become friends with benefits. All too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything. #QuestPit #R #Q #A

JUST ADD WATER // adult contemporary romance // open door // 80K 🪼 small town 🪼 one camper / one bed 🪼 golden retriever x black cat 🪼 workplace romance 🪼 forced proximity 🪼 women in STEM THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS X GIVE ME BUTTERFLIES X NOT SAFE FOR WORK #questpit #A #R #Q

EMILY WILDE X DIVINE RIVALS To win her independence, the granddaughter of a famed botanist must team up with a brilliant, brooding scholarship student to unlock the secrets of a dying magical garden, even as their rivalry blossoms into something more. 🌿✨ #QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R

Serpent & Dove X In the veins of the drowning 🐍 🌊 🌶️ Bloodbound to a ruthless hunter, surviving each other might be hardest task 🩸 🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹 😏 Forced Proximity 🔪 Enemies x Lovers 🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits #Questpit #NA #F #R

EtD #Questpit #YA #Dys #W MOCKINGJAY x LEGEND (vibes and sans romance) Why conform when you need to save the world from destruction? Featuring: 👀Dual timelines 🌳A forest 🏫A bunker ⁉️A secret 🌎Four young adults against the world 🥺Anxiety representation 🧠Manipulation of mc

Hadley and Miles are at odds from the start. Her job? Get the reckless point guard under control and take over as owner of the team. His mission? Ignore her rules and make things as difficult as possible. 😠 enemies→lovers 🏀 sports romance 💙 he falls first 💔 betrayal #questpit #W #A #R

Zail, a slave who becomes a sky pirate, must work with Tadgh, a dragoon of the holy empire to follow the Witch of the Sea and find a map holding the power of the stars. Along the way they teach each other that freedom isn't something you're given; it's something you take. #Questpit #HF #LGBT #Q

Comic, locked-room #mystery. A juggernaut of Gen-X women—all named Jennifer—escape to NC woods to relive their youth. Someone is murdered (spoiler: it’s a Jennifer). Trapped by a flooded bridge, POV must control narrative, calm her campers, and hand police a suspect. #QuestPit #Q

I asked for protection from my abuser & was told I had no proof. He made false claim about my miscarriage & I was arrested--also without proof. True story of being silenced by justice. #Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

MATCHA DO ABOUT NOTHING 💘Loose Shakespeare inspiration 🍵Family-owned matcha shop 🇸🇬Mixed Asian American rep 📚Academic rivals to…? 🌉Bay Area setting 🫂Family drama Coming soon to the query trenches! #QUESTPIT #YA #W #R

GUEST LIST+HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE+LEAP YEAR Haunted by her past, Rosie must team up with a handsome local man to solve a murder—and outrun the monstrous presence stalking them across the Irish countryside. 🖤Gothic 🖤Enemies to lovers 🖤Murder mystery 📚Querying #agents now! #QuestPit #A #H #Dis #Q

#questpit 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, while uncovering secrets that could destroy the crown. I’m a trad-published author. #w #rf #a

DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST / contemporary romance After receiving a life-altering diagnosis, a woman teams up with her brother’s (irritatingly) charming boss to recreate her father’s road trip across Atlantic Canada—but it sparks a longing for a future that's out of her reach. #questpit #Q #A #R

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF Sarah Waters meets Shirley Jackson. For readers of: 📖 MEXICAN GOTHIC 📖 THE LITTLE STRANGER 📖 REBECCA 📖 PIRANESI A woman falls in love with a house. She cannot quite tell whether the feeling is mutual. #QuestPit

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

MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦‍⬛📖 When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #YA #A #F #RF #OS #DIS #EditorsGuide #Editors

THE HANDMAID’S TALE x MIDSOMMAR Under a theocracy preaching human sacrifice as the path to salvation, seven young women determine how much they’re willing to sacrifice to save their own lives when they’re selected as the year’s “Offerings.” #questpit #h #d #a #q