Physically I’m here, mentally I’m in 1820 dying of tuberculosis by the seaside

I’m giddymaxxing. I’m straight up whimsypilled. I’m gleemogging you at every turn.

Born to life of the mind, forced to capitalism

A CHESTERFIELD CARESS Jamaica 1811 Bram Stoker's great uncle is smitten by an enslaved, biracial laundress. Devastated he lacks the means to purchase her freedom, he betrays her in a love quadrangle. She must uncover her strength to raise their son, with or without his help. #questpit #Q #A #HF

The Faith would SACRIFICE her, the zealots would WORSHIP her, the apostates would WEAPONIZE her, and the Darkness would REMAKE her in his own image. #A #DF #F #Q #Questpit #QueryingSoon

THE TREES HAVE TEETH "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." APPALACHIAN FOLKHORROR 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄‍🟫 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting Currently drafting! #QuestPit #H #A #W

I’m thrilled (terrified) to be sharing THINK OF ME. It’s a multi-POV contemporary romance, complete at 92,000 words. THINK OF ME combines the yearning of a second chance romance, the magic of the open road, and a smoldering, queer poly relationship with older BIPOC MCs. #questpit #q #a #r

TETHERED BY SHADOW (97k words Adult Dark Romantasy) For fans of ONE DARK WINDOW's parasitic magic. A thief infected with living magic.🕸 A man sworn to contain her.⚔️ A bond neither of them asked for.🖤 Welcome to the Citadel. 🏰 #QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #Romantasy #WriteSky

EILEEN x I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS x Micah Nemerever’s THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS An agent’s guide to THE WATCHFUL MR. SHEPHERD, an adult psychological horror featuring— 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Rep 👁️ Obsession 🔪 Rising Body Count ❓ Unreliable Narrator 🍰 Moral Rot ❄️ Snowy Backdrop #QuestPit #W #H #A

Agent's Guide for MOLDED BY MALICE Druids go through the Inflection, where an element will bless them with power 🍃💨💧 Industrialists are subjected to the Test of Attunement, where crystals can enhance their speed, strength, or senses 🔮💪🏼😈 But what if you aren't chosen? #questpit #A #F #Q

Alayne discovers a heretical way to use elemental power WITHOUT an enchanting circle. When she is expelled by her university, she has to kill for her work— and becomes hunted by knight Royce. Alayne learns her invention is chipping away at her… but she can’t let go. #questpit #W #A #F

SING ME THE GRAVE About an archeologist witch who can see the memories of the dead, and the medieval seer she's excavating, as they communicate across time to expose a centuries-long conspiracy against a culture of women who dared to hold more power than men. #questpit #Q #A #HF #RF #U

CHAINED AND SHACKLED, OH I'LL UNRAVEL, OH IT'S A PITY, OH The MALEFICIUM playlist. A teenage witch in 1640s Yorkshire tries to be her village's saviour, but soon becomes the thing they fear the most. ✨️🌿🩸 #QuestPit #W #F #H

THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE x THIS GILDED ABYSS A cursed sleeper. A swordswoman losing herself to madness. A vow that may cost them both everything. (Adult fantasy with horror elements, 90k words, querying June 2026.) #QuestPit #A #F #W

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND Windego is a 60K word supernatural horror novel based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all. #questpit #Q #A #H #S

SPLITTING IMAGE is a #Filipino diaspora urban fantasy for 3rd culture ppl who hid their true selves to earn conditional love. ♾️ #neurodivergent MC 🤎 #BIPOC cast 🪽 pre-colonial 🇵🇭 folklore 🎭 fam drama ⛓️‍💥 cycle breaking Soundtrack (Spotify): tinyurl.com/spltimg #QuestPit #OwnVoices #W #A #U #F #S #H

Hi #agents + #questpit: GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING x CITY OF NIGHT BIRDS THE BLUE RIBBON, a 76k #A #HistFic about two real-life figures: 19th century ballet star Emma Livry who died after her tutu caught fire onstage, and painter August Renoir. #UpmarketFiction #BookClubFiction #ForgottenWoman

YEAR OF THE REAPER x THIS WOVEN KINGDOM 👑 Long lost prince 🏺Greek-inspired 👥 Dual POV 💀Animated skulls + creepy moths + weird earth vibrations ❤️ Romantic subplot 🏰 Saving a war-torn land 🐍 Threat of villain returning #Q #YA #SFF #questpit

Find the truth. Even it destroys you. #QuestPit #W #F #H #YA EVEN SEINTS FALL: 💀 Seven deadly sins x monsters 🗡️ Stabby FMC & her pessimistic bestie 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀Corruption vs. truth 🖤Complicated families

A girl who hears thoughts. A boy who steals memories. When raiders take her brother, Nimaro journeys through savannah and tree-top villages to find him. But a boy who can rewrite memories has plans for her. Nimaro must stop him, or lose herself entirely. #questpit #F #YA #Q #agentguide

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k standalone adult gothic coming-of-age story If Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray had a baby in the Scottish Highlands, this would be it. 🖤An heir 🖤A monster 🖤An ancient curse 🖤Familial exploitation 🖤Dual POV 🖤Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #QuestPit

THE STARVING SAINTS x C.G. Drew🕸️slowburn horromantasy A divine healer and a death-touched executioner navigate their godly lover’s insatiable appetite for human flesh, the dangers of a religious cult, and their growing attraction for each other. #OS #A #AG #H #RF #questpit

#questpit #W #YA #DF #H #T #write #writing #writers Scarlet Letter x Deadly Trials and for those who enjoyed Gerald Brom’s Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery, let me introduce The Huntress

Frances tries to become a vampire's feeder to protect her father from debt collectors—but she comes back as a succubus, instead. MIDNIGHT MASS' religious trauma meets the gothic atmosphere of HOUSE OF HUNGER & the bisexual, polyam yearning of A DOWRY OF BLOOD. #OS #A #AG #RF #questpit

#questpit #D #querying THE MANHATTAN WING [113k, postapoc, MOCKINGJAY x THE 100] 200 years after devastating solar flares force survivors underground, a cohort is sent to test the Surface’s survivability. But far more sinister than anything they may face above ground is what still lies below.

After surviving a house fire, Curtis gives up believing in fairytales until they discover their connection to a magical world straight of of a storybook that is in need of saving. 🦋-Hidden World 📖-Reluctant Hero ✨-Fairytale Themes 🕯️-Healing and Growth 🪡-Fantasy Adventure [ #W #F #MG #questpit ]

After twenty years, two ex-bffs are thrust together to recall their forgotten magical abilities and fix their childhood mistake: keep the dragon eggs they buried in their middle school playground from hatching and devastating the world. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #U #LF

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

✨ THE CRAFT x ONE DARK WINDOW ✨ When Lola’s deadly shadows escape, killing her best friend, she must seek control at an elite magical academy before they kill again—or lose her humanity. Perfect for agents who like: 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic BIPOC witches 🖤 Body horror 💫 Fantasy/Horror/Mystery #QuestPit #Q #A #F

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a new guide 🤍 • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AG

Hello firefly✨ Welcome to An Artistic Deception🏰✨🪄 Complete at 108k words, a new adult romantasy six of crows x a deadly education 😘 Welcome to our #LiteraryAgentGuide for #QuestPit All design is by @aeipathea & character art by @h4mm.iee #Q #R #F #A #QuestPit2026

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

SIX OF CROWS x JADE CITY When her mentor goes missing Gemna joins forces w/ fellow mage Ren to unravel the connection b/w the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages aren’t just outlawed…but wiped from existence. #QuestPit #AG #F art by nathcreare

THE BELLS OF LE FAY Sapphic THE CRAFT x ONE DARK WINDOW 🌈 🖤A witch with ‘control or be consumed’ magic 🖤A monstrous mystery and a secret society (cult) 🖤A combative love interest with too many secrets 🖤A magical academy with too many libraries 🖤 Touch her and die (literally) #QuestPit #Q #A #F

A secret choir of anxious, vengeful, middle aged Black women. A town’s inherited sins. A ritual that turns children into mouthpieces for the dead. When the ghosts of slavery demand a reckoning, can anyone survive the fallout? #QuestPit #Q #H #LF #S

Meet BLOODRUNE: BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x THE STARVING SAINTS Runecrafting graduate student Alayne has discovered how to harness elemental energy into a weapon. When her school condemns it, she must flee to protect her research— but it threatens to consume her body and mind. #QuestPit #W #A #F

I’m pitching the same work as last time, now complete 😇

This year for #questpit I’ve got updated comps and a completed manuscript 😏

Who else is preparing for #questpit on 4/29? 👀 Would love to trade support and hype up other members of the #writingcommunity!

Honestly I feel it ahead of time when one of my Substacks is gonna flop

I’m glad that my partner liked the opening chapter of my book, but getting glowing praise from one of my fellow Lit PhDs hits different 🤪 don’t tell on me though #writingcommunity

My #phd was an all-encompassing thing I did for seven years that occupied all my waking thoughts and effort, and it’s so strange that it’s over now. It feels like a weird alternate version of myself, rather than the me I am now. I can’t believe I finished the damn thing. But also, it feels fake

I “like” writing the same way I “like” the object that calls to me from the center of the labyrinth

Excited for this lecture on romantasy and its readership at Ole Miss this evening #booksky #romantasy

Editing my book is easier & harder than I thought. The easy: my draft is solid, yay! Some sloppy prose but the bones are good. The hard: it’s a marathon! I have to go through the whole dang book again! I have to push past the desire to be done, & wring out the potential #writingcommunity