"Averting his eyes from the bright moon light, he saw the shadow of a bucket in the gloom. If only he could reach that, use it to support him. He swung his legs, the rope biting into his armpits." #WIPSnips #Writesky

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#MiseryPit #WIP #A #H JEEPERS CREEPERS X SEE NO EVIL X THE MIST What would you and your friends do when a fun night at the county fair turns into a night of survival after crossing paths with a serial killer? Craosdeamhan is the Midwest's New Nightmare!

ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK X THE GOD OF THE WOODS A serial killer is hitting like clockwork—1 ☠️ per day. The local police, FBI, and a floriculturist with a passion for pastries must track his signature to save the last shreds of innocence left in small-town America. #A #T #Q #miserypit #agentguide

#Q #agentsguide KINSHIP, 84k, #A #CT w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #miserypit

AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT x THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS Haunted by the serial killer she escaped twenty years ago, Minyoung will do anything to protect her hard-won life, even if that means confronting secrets that could destroy the few precious relationships in her life. #MiseryPit #A #Q #CT

Mixing sugar with butter? Good. Mixing business with pleasure? Bad. Terrible. Stupid. But there's no crying in baking, and the cost to save S&N Sweets? Pretending to be his live-in girlfriend. #R #A #YouDeservePit #AmEditing

#MiseryPit #Q #A #HM I, SAID THE SPARROW ♦️Peaky Blinders vibe ♦️1920s ♦️Slow burn romance ♦️Dysfunctional family ♦️LGBTQ+ FMC ♦️Seaside setting ♦️Secrets & lies ♦️Dual timeline & PoV

REBECCA x RIVIERA x THE PERFECT COUPLE When a death is suspected a murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Especially the man she loves. The dead woman's husband. Secrets🤫 Lies🧐 Slow❤️‍🔥 Obsession🖤 Betrayal🔪 Murder💀 #MiseryPit #Q #A #RM

The Ipcress File x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #editors #litagents 🦋

Hello #LitAgents: A dying estate. A bankrupt legacy. A suitor offering salvation or a love that could destroy her. A mother’s death shrouded in mystery. A father she can’t trust. A blood curse feeding the manor’s hunger. Lottie Bradbury must face it all. 96k set in 1919 #MiseryPit #A #Q #H #HM

Existential Crisis Isekai x Historical K-dramas 🩸 sins of the parents 🕰️ timeless societal and familial pressures 🫂 love vs. fate 👁 trauma-inflicted self-doubt 🧮 undying trust vs. expected betrayal 📚 East Asian fairytales ❤️‍🔥 the one you love vs. the one who loves you #A #W #Up #Spec #R #YouDeservepIt

SHADOW AND BONE x ACOTAR When Keira's sister is captured by a shape-shifting immortal, her fate intertwines with the God of Light to rescue her; but an ancient darkness grows within Keira, and she must choose between stopping those who seek to harness it or saving those she loves #2025Pit #RM #A #F

Ninth House x The Shining 2 new employees arrive at an eerie hotel where things aren’t quite what they seem. Dreams turn to nightmares, costs become apparent, and something deep below draws them ever closer. Will they learn the truth before their debt is owed? #MiseryPit #FT #NA #WIP #Horror

A magical cat is swept into a hidden world of secret agents, underground cities, and strange allies, only to realize she must reclaim her power or watch her ruthless mentor destroy everything she loves. #YouDeservepIt #Q #MG #F

CARNIVAL ROW x Se7eN In a post war gothic city, a detective and his partner go on the trail of a serial killer who murders black marketeers in search of illegal garlic for his Paleblood "cure". Should they stop him before he wipes out the population of ruling Palebloods? #MiseryPit #A #FM #Q

Dear #litagents FYC When hired to prove an accidental death was actually murder, a lady detective finds it’s neither. She needs to find out why, before she ends up at the bottom of the stairs herself… 🕰️ 1824 🕵🏻‍♀️ Lady detective 🌈 characters ☠️ accident / murder or ? #A #WIP #HM #LGBTI #Miserypit

LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER When fighters start disappearing from an underground elemental tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament’s secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate. #2025Pit #YA #F #Jewish

In a lake cabin, a botany student haunted by the whispering woods searches for the missing boy who vanished from his spring break kegger as a siren-like monster lures him and his friends into the water in this lush re-imagining of Morgan Le Fay with a dark twist. #miserypit #Q #YA #T

Celia Walters wakes up to find her roommate murdered and she's the prime suspect. Memory gaps, blackouts, and hidden identities blur the lines of truth as she fights to prove her innocence. No one can be trusted in this psychological thriller, especially not Celia. #MiseryPit #A #CT #WIP

A walking, talking corpse just lost a magic marble, triggering a chain reaction that threatens to burn the world down. Haf the demihuman fixer is going to find it, even if she never sleeps again. Buffy the Vampire Slayer x This Body's Not Big Enough For Both of Us #2025Pit #Q #A #F #LGBTQ

#Q KINSHIP, 84k, #A #CT w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan finds her new brother is enamored with her after she cleans up a murder he commits. For fans of female rage, serial killer fiction, and V.C. Andrews. Comps: My Sister the Serial Killer, A Certain Hunger, Blood Sugar. #miserypit

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #MiseryPit #A #CM #HM #Q

[✈️ Last call for your flight to Berlin!] ’97: ONLY ONE SUMMER IN BERLIN, then she can return to France. But she’s falling for the city—and for her reluctant host. So is he. Together, they sizzle. The devastating catch? His duty is here. She must go. Heartfelt, retro+destination #A #R #2025Pit

Slow Horses ➕️➕️➕️ Time travel's brutal for an MI5 agent on the run from his government. They almost blew up 1972; he got the blame. Now there's a temporal vortex to close, if the hunters don't kill him first, and a Russian spy from 1997 is running interference. #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #agentguide 🦋

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written game. #MiseryPit #A #FM #WIP

#2025pit #A #F *Loose Alice in Wonderland Retelling* When Brooklyn native Katya's pursuit of her missing twin leads to a dangerous and fantastical city- she enlists a guarded Detective for help, as they both struggle with the only truth they can agree on: loving people is a losing game.

An elderly woman holds a grudge for forty years. On the outside, she goes to church, knits baby blankets and babysits, but her husband's betrayal has unleashed a psychotic anger that knows no bounds: a racy, multi-POV thrill ride with killer twists. #2025Pit #A #S #T #R #LGBTQ+

When fame-obsessed Ellie is killed off her TV show, she’s forced to return to the dark and glittering world of pageants. But when her co-host turns out to be her childhood devil, Ellie must fight for her stardom and her fragile sanity, as he tries to claw his way back into her life. #T #A #MiseryPit

Dear #litagents, here's an #agentsguide for THE HUGGLEBEEZ, a 65,000-word YA horror/thriller with surreal and subversive elements. For fans of The Muppets and fandom mascot horror (FNAF, Amazing Digital Circus, DHMIS)! Agent & Editor interest! 🤩 #MiseryPit #Q #YA #H #T

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP A retired explorer, torn between the fear of losing his wife and a desire to return to the wild, fixates on a towering, imprisoned forest. Driven by an esoteric rumour, he heads for the forest. And he will regret every choice from then on... #MiseryPit #WIP #A #DT #DS

Dear #litagents FYC A Crimson Rage: Fighting injustice to restore her name, a lady detective is faced with a horrible decision: catch the culprit who killed a cruel man or loose her re-entry into society forever ... 🕰️ 1824 🕵🏻‍♀️ Lady detective 🌊 seaside town 🔪 revenge? #A #WIP #HM #Miserypit

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An #agentsguide to Baking Your Heart Out, a Sapphic Christmas story--like if you mixed Bake-Off with Hallmark and lesbians #youdeservepit #uw #q #a #r #lgbt

#W #YA #H #UA #YouDeservepIt Stranger Things meets IT meets Species. There’s a mystery in Locust Creek. Girls are missing. But who or what is taking them? When Star’s best friend/crush is murdered, she decides to investigate. But what she finds isn’t human. #QueerProtagonist #Feminist #Southern #80s

🌶️HEARTLESS x ✈️KILT TRIP x 🖋️C Fortune ’97: ONLY ONE SUMMER IN BERLIN, then she can return to France. But she’s falling for the city—and for her reluctant host. So is he. Together, they sizzle. The devastating catch? He must stay for his son's sake, and she must leave. #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #R

Turning 18, Drew Lovell questions what it means to be a man. Then, between '85 and '93, he undergoes a set of often wild, sometimes painful, and always revealing experiences, nearly dying trying to conform to conventional masculinity, before finally embracing who he is. #YouDeservepIt #Q #NA #LGBT

PLL + ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Secrets don’t stay buried forever. And friends lie. Mere unearths trouble on hunt for missing best friend after clues lead to crush Ozias. She risks heart and mind to solve mystery. Sometimes truth kills. #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #R #M

ROTTEN LUCK, ROMANCE AND OTHER PERILS OF WRITING Fangirl x Austenland x Midsommar/Stranger Than Fiction #YouDeservepit #OS #A #R #BookTrailer ☠️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨Enemies to Friend to Lovers 🔮MC’s fanfic presage events 🔥Slow Burn 🌶️Spicy Climax 🪝Cliffhanger Ending 🌞Full #HEA in second book in duology

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #SF

Captain Amir would do anything to appease her toxic sea witch lover—even betray her crew. When they curse her to possess a teen princess in love with her own witch, Amir must decide which hearts to guard—and which to break. 🏴‍☠️🫀🗡️ #YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT

A 🐚 is the perfect gift for a crush, but stealing from the sea has consequences. As it stirs, John is swept into danger—and a truth he’s always avoided: maybe he doesn’t really *want* to be a boyfriend. Maybe he doesn’t want to be a boy at all. #YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT