The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

I’m getting VERY close to querying this novel now. If any #litagents are looking for something just like this, you know what to do. 🖤

Sometimes you sit down to write and instead you think or cut or rewrite or unwrite. That’s okay. That’s a productive day because all of those are part of the process. Keep going.

An ancient knife turns up at the wrong museum and a PI turns to an old frenemy to put his hyperfixation to use on the case. When her client is killed, a web of secrets begins to unravel. Now, they must race to protect the archeological record and stop the body count from rising. #QuestPit #Q #A #MY

Agent's guide to THE JOURNEY TO THE END OF THINGS. A grieving daughter has the chance to fix the mistakes of her past. But is she willing to risk her soul to do it? ✨Greek reimagining ✨Devil's bargain ✨Demigod-mortal romance #questpit #q #a #f #agentsguide #amquerying

COVET x FAIRYTALE x ACOWAR An Agent's Guide to REIGN OF NIGHTMARES ❤️‍🔥Slow burn 🗡️High stakes 🖤Gothic/horror vibes ♀️Feminine rage 🌈Diverse ensemble cast 💞Found family ♨️Steamy 💫Genre-bending 🫀Twists & betrayals ⌨️118,000 words 📖Standalone with strong series potential #questpit #A #Q #RF #DF #H

SILENT PATIENT + THE OUTSIDER Karis faces a choice: protect a dark legend & let a murderer walk free, or expose the truth & embrace all consequences. 🫥 Fiancé secrets ❤️ New love interest ⚠️ Blurred morality 🧛‍♂️ Reinvented trope 📖 Plot Twists 🪶 Indigenous M.C. #Questpit #Q #A #DF #RF #PR #T #MY

THE BARGAINER x SIX OF CROWS x THE LOST APOTHECARY A Reader’s & #LitAgents Guide for NIGHT BIRD, an adult romantic fantasy ft: 🕰️dual timeline ✴️invisibility & intangibility magic 🔪FMC vigilante for wronged women 💞friend or foe? ☠️poison & female rage 🫂found family #QuestPit #Q #RF #F #A #AgentGuide

A grief-torn healer, bent on vengeance against the god who claimed all she loved in death and decay, uses her craft to infiltrate the god’s court—entangling with a haunted heir, plagued by fated dreams of her arrival, who will stop at nothing to unearth her purpose. #questpit #w #f #r #a

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #QuestPit #YA #H #T

Mex Gothic x Lisa Jewell It's easy to romanticize writing a book in a remote location, but when a sentient house attacks & a psychopath threatens, a novelist must unearth the key to this madness, or his park ranger sister will arrive in time to write his eulogy. Alt TL POV #QuestPit #A #T #H #GH

NINTH HOUSE x A LESSON IN VENGEANCE Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen— even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her and losing the ones she loves the most. #Q #A #DF #PR #QuestPit

DARK ACADEMIA + NIGHT CIRCUS Master art forger Sage Davis jumps at the chance to win a patron for life. But when she discovers the true price of the competition—their magic—she must work with a rival artist to end it before either of them are the next to lose #QuestPit #A #NA #SPEC #F #Q (soon)

AN ACT OF FLESH & FINS A scorned marine biologist turned mermaid queen must return to Bermuda as a human siren and seek revenge on men, guarding her heart from a mystifying man on the beach, while doing whatever it takes not to become a monster in the process. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #PR #amquerying

For fun, a moodboard in my antagonist's POV! Shapeshifter Liraz served under the God of Chaos' command up until his master's demise. After tricking the last surviving gods and stealing their powers, he went into hiding. Now centuries later, he's back and has set his sights on Keira #Questpit #RF #F

UPROOTED X FIDDLER ON ROOF 🌳Mesopotamian, edge-of-desert world 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Multi-gen family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Multi-POV 🪄Symbiotic family & god & farmland 🌳Farm magic vs land reform ❤️Slow burn subplot 👨‍🦱Seduction & betrayal 👨‍👦Meaning of sacrifice 🏜️Slow unraveling #questpit #F #A #W

A magicless orphan will go to great lengths to save her best friend, the Princess, from marrying the enemy prince—even if it means becoming an assassin, outwitting a charming enemy spy, and stealing the last dragon egg in existence to tip the scales of power. ✨️ #Questpit #NA #RF #W #R #F #A🐉

Hades&Persephone x THE CITY IN GLASS 🌆 an underground city on the brink of collapse 💊 a drug that stops a cannibalistic epidemic 💉 vaccine scarcity 🔥 a woman who may be the cure ⛪️ is she a Saint or a witch? 🍎 & the man determined to use her #questpit #AG #A #F #H

If you could control someone’s mind with a single touch, how could you ever trust they loved you? 🎭 A thief with forbidden magic forced into a high-stakes con 💍 Fake betrothals ⚔️ Slow burn enemies-to-lovers 💔 Forbidden romance 👑 Court intrigue & psychological warfare #questpit #A #RF

LEGENDS AND LATTES x THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES Alarra, a disabled witch, hires Robin, a butch grocer, to help her failing apothecary. As Alarra trips and stumbles into love, she angers the ghost haunting her shop! #QuestPit #RF #Q #ownvoices #dis #A

🌿 The creepy whimsy of PAN'S LABYRINTH 🫧 The tragic romance and sea creatures of OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA ⚔️ Henry Cavill as Geralt in THE WITCHER ✨ HOTD's Alicent Hightower on the rare occasion that she smiles (but also when she's sad) 💔 ROMEO & JULIET #questpit #ag #w #f #a

A hapless idealist follows her dreams to be a Lily Maid, beautiful ambassadors of enchanted perfumes known to make the most insipid hypnotically irresistible, down a path that could lead to her death when she’s chosen as the newest Lily. #questpit #YA #F #RF #W

GLASS ONION but w/ ❄️ + 👻 My #A #MY #PR has: ✨a sister feud + messy MC ✨MC's ex invited to the party ✨new romance ✨murder ✨cozy/snowy cabin setting ✨ghosts ✨a murderer on the loose who's intent on killing a whole bachelorette party🔪 #W #questpit

He’s a threat to the crown they both serve. 👑 ⁣ She’s a threat to more than just his heart. 💔 As the web tightens, the Spinners always come first.⁣ 🎻 THE SPINNERS' GUILD, an adult romantic fantasy #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q

🌶️HEARTLESSx✈️KILT TRIPx🖋️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? His duty is here, and she must go. Heartfelt, retro+destination #A #R #QuestPit #Q

WICKED meets ROMEO AND JULIET Zenora, a garden witch with a brown thumb, teams up with Melody, a music witch from a rival coven, to protect the sacred Allflower. To succeed, Zenora must confront her faulty magic and learn to love herself despite her disapproving family. #YA #WIP #QuestPit #RF

When headstrong Reign is saved by an alluring warrior, it serves as the catalyst to awaken her dormant powers, exposing her & the sister she fiercely protects to a depraved god hellbent on consuming their magic. Slow burn Found family Diverse cast Horror vibes Female rage #questpit #Q #RF

The Spirit Princess: A godless priestess and her love interest, a giant warrior princess, work to escape a murderous cult and unravel an ancient mystery that has damned countless generations. Folklore, action, adventure, horror, wlw without unnecessary drama! #QuestPit, #A, #F, #amquerying

Cece is a 17-year-old mercenary who has been hopping from planet to planet since her parents disappeared five years ago. When information reaches her that her parents may still be alive, she sets out on her biggest adventure to rescue them. #QuestPit #SFF #SF #YA #W

Happy Place (but gay) x Emily Wilde In a town wrapped in fairylore, a group of roommates discover stories of fairies stealing people away in the night aren’t what they seem as they begin to suspect their romantic partners might be more legend than human 🧚🏼 #QuestPit #W #A #F #R

When Carter starts to fall for another contestant on a popular dating show instead of its female lead he must decide between his original plans and where his heart is pulling him while facing what it means to be famous in a franchise whose audience can turn on a dime. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #LGBT

#QuestPit #W #F SEVERANCE x PIRANESI When memory-erasing fruits begin to disappear, a woman in an endless greenhouse will go to harrowing lengths to keep her past from resurfacing. 🍓👒🪴🕰️🪑 -mystical cottagecore setting -themes of desire, solitude

COVET x FAIRYTALE When Reign & the sister she protects are violently thrust into a land filled with lascivious temptations, she must accept the help of a dangerous warrior that reveres her to defeat a depraved god & the ravenous army eager to consume their rare powers. #questpit #Q #A #RF

On the U.S.-Mexico border human smuggling is a problem, human trafficking a danger, but the transport of fentanyl into the U.S. is a deadly catastrophe. The Shadow Wolves are part of the answer and California Fish & Wildlife Warden Kat Grant will find herself in the middle of it.

THE LONG CONCEALMENT Chinatown X Last of the Dogmen

When California Fish and Wildlife K-9 Warden Kat Grant kills a poacher in self-defense, she finds herself on a collision course with not just his family, but also businessmen who will commit any crime, including murder, to capitalize on California’s new oil—water. #2025Pit #A #S #T

@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Is your starter pack for "Great writers, published and unpublished, well worth following, who are also seeking representation by a literary agent" still open? If so, I'd like to join. If not, thanks for what you're doing for the great unpub'd masses.

#2025Pit #A #CON #RM Hint of #SPF Anne Hotchkiss, aspiring author, predicts her own bad luck through her latest fanfic. When she hits rock bottom, she meets her romantic literary ideal, who hates her. Anne needs to build a friendship with him or risk not allowing herself to finally fall in love.

#RM #A #YA #DIS #ownvoices #2025Pit THE HONEY WITCH x LATE BLOOMER 🐝 sapphic romantasy 🐝 autistic MC 🐝 physically disabled MC 🐝 queernormative world 🐝 sweet and sexy romance 🐝 femme witch x butch grocer 🐝 nonbinary best friend 🐝 ghost story The Witch and The Grocer

#2025pit REIGN OF BETRAYAL In a cursed kingdom, a vengeful prisoner and a heartless prince are force together in deadly trials to find the cure. As betrayal and dark secrets surface, love becomes their greatest challenge—can it survive where duty and revenge collide? #Q #A #RF #darkromantasy

THE HONEY WITCH x LATE BLOOMER A disabled witch hires a butch grocer to help her failing apothecary, but in falling for the grocer, the witch angers the ghost haunting her shop, and, oddly, her half-satyr best friend. The Witch and The Grocer 🍇🐝 #RM #A #YA #DIS #ownvoices #2025Pit

The flight wasn’t supposed to change Gettie’s life. Acing her interviews and bagging gallery representation was. Seat 4B shared her need to kill germs. Eradication led to banter and TMI. TMI led to intimacy. Intimacy led to the thing too hard to abandon if her dream didn’t land. #YouDeservepIt #Q #R

Life imitates art, and Gettie’s was a version of "The Scream." A new image developed on that flight to LA, jetting her toward her artistic dream. Falling for seat 4B shouldn’t have been part of the picture. But to stay in LA and his life, her vision to needed to become a reality. #2025pit #A #CR

The flight wasn’t supposed to change Gettie’s life. Acing her interviews and bagging gallery representation was. Seat 4B shared her need to kill germs. Eradication led to banter and TMI. TMI led to intimacy. Intimacy led to the thing too hard to abandon if her dream didn’t land. #YouDeservepIt #Q #R

I’m just a hard-working guy, living in NY, loving his pizza. It’s tough. High rent, low pay, vampires who want me dead. So when a hot billionaire offers me a well paid job overseas, I jump on it. Too bad the pizza and vampires in London suck. ~Jason Blue Bloods x Yakuza #PR #A #2025Pit

A Tale of Two Thieves Keket and Xulong end up in more trouble than they bargained for when they try to steal a ancient artifact. Not only are they wanted by the Lich King they stole it from they King of the land wants them too. The Crystal Shard x Brimstone Angels #2025pit #YA #EF #FA