Querying now! Agent guide pinned 📌 👩‍💻 workplace romance 😠 enemies to lovers 👫 close proximity 💚 mental health representation #Q #A #R #questpit #writesky #authorsky

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

EVERY SUMMER AFTER X HAPPY PLACE When her ex shows up at her sister's wedding, a heartbroken woman faces the tragedy that broke them up 10 years ago at the cottage, is pulled into a spiral of distrust that brings out her worst and an HEA may not even be worth it. #questpit #q #a #r

I KNW WHT U DID LST SMMR x HILL HOUSE x SCOOBY-DOO (2002) Whitney cut ties with her college friends yrs ago, but when she’s lured back to the deserted theme park where her brother vanished and is reunited with the gang, the past isn’t all she’s running from. #questpit #w #A #S #H #R

Dear Citizen of Calasca, We're happy to inform you that you've been selected to join us on Last Chance Match. Congratulations! A CivilBot will pick you up shortly. We look forward to seeing you soon. 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧? #questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D

Heartbroken camp staff Sage and Nico start a casual fling with 2 rules: Sage can't talk to her fling at school & they can't discuss the future until the last day of camp. When someone breaks their end of the deal, they risk ruining their summers & lifelong friendships. #questpit #q #r

Ten years ago, fallout from tragedy broke them apart. When reunited at the cottage for a wedding, she tries to resist the temptation of reigniting their flame, but he’s the one who can’t be trusted, and nostalgia might not be worth another heartbreak. #questpit #a #r #q

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. #questpit #q #na #r

Editing an old manuscript like:

My quest to lower my word count with this edit has failed

Ah, the "doubt everything about my book" stage. You're right on time.

Writer math: Calculating how to add to the story without ballooning the word count

When plans fall through and suddenly you DO have time to write

New year, new possibilities. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

Happy New Year, friends. May 2026 be good to us all.

Skipped! - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

When agents are blazing through their inboxes and stop on the query before yours - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

Me: Opening up my MS for the first time in days. My characters:

On the 80th day of querying, my manuscript gave to me.... a rogue punctuation mark (in a pear tree.) - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

Always the bridesmaid, never the big five editor interest. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

You know how everyone says time away from your story helps to see what's working and what needs work? I'm sorry to report it's true.

Seeing a lot of snowy pics on the timeline. Can someone lend Mother Nature a calendar?

When you've reached the Que Sera, Sera portion of the querying process. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

*record scratch, freeze frame* You're probably wondering how I got here. I wrote a book with a "strong premise" that, so far, "isn't a fit" for anyone's list. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

Waffling on whether to do another pitch event this week. I'm tired. Moreover, evidence suggests I'm terrible at them. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

Happy Halloween, my friends! 🎃 May you only find the good kind of jump scares in your inbox today.

Who's to blame when you waste years of your life waiting on the wrong man? I blamed dead people. #A #R #Q #GhostPit 👻

When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love. 👻 #GhostPit #A #G #T #Q

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 Clueless x Practical Magic When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a ruthless plan to steal it back—though it means betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic. 👻 🧙‍♀️ ❤️ 🏄‍♀️ 🌲 🎃 #ghostpit #YA #F #Q #WriteSky

Here is my list for #GhostPit 1. Which Witch 2. Rutello: Arealia and the Last Flame 3. Ghosts of Our Past 4. The Doll Murders 5. Rutello: The Dark Veil 6. Arterin Academy Feedback/critiques are welcome.

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to work in her failing apothecary. But when she and the grocer fall in love, a ghost torments the shop! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her new hot gf. #ghostpit #A #FR

After tragedy and family drama broke them up, Jasper and Brett moved on with their lives. Ten years later, they reunite for a wedding in the place they fell in love and fell apart. Has their dormant love story reawakened or are they just yearning for nostalgia? #ghostpit #a #q #wf #r

ALCHEMY OF A BLOOD MOON 81k Contemporary Paranormal Romance 🌙 PTSD Rep 🌙 Occult Rep 🌙 Hard earned HEA 🌙 Voicy & character-driven 🌙 All the yearn and spice #ghostpit #A #Q #C #Amquerying #litagents #WriteSky

WhereTheDarkStandsStillxPowerless A knight enters a perilous forest to find her godfather, but instead, she finds a shadow beast immune to her blade and a cursed sorcerer whose magic can slay the monster if she can convince him to leave his manor ✨Big 5 editor interest x2✨ #GhostPit #YA #RF #WIP

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. 👻 #GhostPit #A #His #M #H #Q

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W

7 steps to solving your best friend’s murder 🔪 #PitDark #NA #DR #H 1. Move home 2. Discover magic, witches & a cannibal curse 3. Find a dead body 4. Drug the mayor, crash a seance, slowly go insane 5. Seduce the man who killed your best friend 6. Survive a full moon blood ritual 7. Eat someone

Supposed soul mate? 😝 Fated fake date? 🥰 What's a girl with suspect spirit guides and meddling dead relatives to do? #A #R #Q #GhostPit 👻

Charlie knows who killed Lydia. Now she just has to prove it… #GhostPit #Q #H #RF #NA Top of her suspect list? Lydia’s ex-boyfriend, Markus. But when Charlie launches her own investigation (& covert seduction) she unwittingly unearths supernatural horrors lurking in the lakeside town of Gildervale.

Asher thinks the paranormal is malarkey. That is, until his new school seems to be haunted and he's fake dating a psychic. #A #R #Q #GhostPit 👻

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN ⭐ two exiled men (+ their secrets) 🌙 one lunar prison (+ its horrors) ⭐ a government that wants their data 🌙 a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t make it out alive #ghostpit #SF #H #R #LGBT #WIP

Who's to blame when you waste years of your life waiting on the wrong man? I blamed dead people. #A #R #Q #GhostPit 👻

So thrilled for my friend Jade! 🤗

Nobody told me pitching my book would require so much graphic design. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

Me, languishing in maybe piles: Release me! *receives form rejection* Me: Not like that - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

After so long in the trenches, I'm mostly impervious to rejections. But the ones that feel close? They still sting. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

It's FRIDAY in the query trenches! Instead of a short story, let's have some music. Give me your hype songs, your heartrending ballads, your perseverance anthems. Sing me a querying song! #queryingshortstory

Until I can celebrate my own good news, I will be feting everyone else's. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

A whodunnit except it's the mystery of a rejection so complimentary you're wondering why they passed. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory

Lit agents, seeing me in their inboxes for the third time. - a querying short story #queryingshortstory