Reading books ✨for comps✨ should count as a writing expense, right?

Broke my "No Slime" when a nice lady at an informational booth asked if my son could have some. It isn't nearly as bad as I thought and now I feel like I've been a very un-fun mom😅

🫀✨Thank you for all of the support during #Questpit! Let's keep in touch! Can't wait to see what y'all do🖤

STRANGER THINGS x A DOOR IN THE DARK ✨underground portal fantasy ✨multiple POV ✨D&D style party ✨tragic love across lifetimes ✨rescue mission ✨meddlesome gods ✨harmful magic ✨found family ✨a wish #QuestPit #Q #YA portal #F #LGBT

JESSICA JONES × ARCANE 🔥 vigilante with CPTSD 🧬 trauma = living glyph-code 🧠 subterranean inventor 🐀 rat seers 🩸 trafficked girls ☄️ Manhattan’s ruins fed by grief ✨ veiled rebels ⚙️ emotion-run weapons 🗡️ fighting mutation 🕯️ healing as resistance ❤️ love as presence #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #ND #MythTech

Ever wondered why we call our planet Mother Earth? Just think about how we treat our women. The atmospheric prose of Circe meets the corruption of Blood Over Bright Haven in this dark academia fantasy where feminine rage has catastrophic consequences – but who could blame her? #QuestPit #W #DF

My agent's guide to #questpit ✨Spheres in the Afterglow✨ a dual pov slowburn portal romantasy priorities of my main characters: advanced physics, mathematics or translating ancient languages📚 >>> rodent jokes🐁 >>> expressing feelings like a normal human 👀 #W #A #RF#questpit

NAUSICAA x WILL OF THE MANY After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, university student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried. 👻 #GhostPit #A #F #LGBT

THE CRUELEST GIFT Mood Board Ana was chosen by AWOL gods to bring peace to the world. She failed miserably, killing a young friend in the process. Meanwhile, a zealous death cult threatens her home, and psychosis threatens her mind. She can only save one. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF

Meet some of the endangered residents and staff of THE MYTHICAL CREATURE CONSERVATORY as drawn by 10yo Hudson (co-imaginer). A Middle Grade Fantasy that turns anxiety into a super power, eco-fiction into hopeful action for kids, and a sketchbook into a gateway to magic. #QuestPit #MG #F #Q

MAGIC MEETS CODING While tech-savvy Viva uses magic and coding to stop the army of undead, her twin sister, Tasia, is resurrected by witches forcing her to kill. 🧟 magic with Necromancy/Voodoo 👩🏽‍💻Girls in STEM 👯‍♀️Magically bonded twins ❤️ Slow burn friends to lovers #questpit #SF #F #YA #Q #SFF

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X FRANKENSTEIN Odessa Righteous is faithful to the Nine, rooted in the only community she's ever known. But when they choose her as the annual sacrifice to The Beast of the Beyond, her world shifts on its axis. #QuestPit #AG #A #W #RF

🎭FORGET ABOUT THE BOY #QuestPit #Q #YA The theatre kid friendship romance you didn't know you needed, ft: 💜Bi plus size fmc 🌟Rivals to besties ☕Migraine rep 💔Getting over toxic ex boyfriends 💙Aroace secondary character

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

TORCH THE STARS (104K), A Knight’s Tale X Warrior Princess Assassin Adult Fantasy with: 🐺high-stakes tournaments built on brutality & magic 🔥false Identities & hidden agendas 💕found family & complicated, yearning love ⚔️ a flawed FMC that makes world-ending mistakes #QuestPit #Q #A #RF

🏐🎲📝 #QuestPit #P #YA #R When Riley's spot on the volleyball team is threatened due to academic ineligibility, she’ll do anything to pass algebra. Including joining a club she knows nothing about to convince the smart boy in class to tutor her. She was ready to solve equations. Not catch feelings.

Introducing 🍃A RAVEN SONG 🍃 For eldest daughters and platonic soulmates. ⛩️portal fantasy 💫star crossed friendships 🍂nostalgia will kill her ❤️‍🔥touch her and you die, but they're best friends 🗡️reckless bargains and a tattooed elven soldier Querying today!! #QuestPit #Q #A #F

An #AgentsGuide to ASHMARKED for #QuestPit The first lie was calling it faith... #A #F #DF #Q

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x ALCHEMISED x METAL SLINGER Arden is a powerless mortal in a city of elemental warriors who must fight for scraps, but the Gods of Aethela are the last obstacle she expects to face, nor is she prepared to become the very thing she’s grown to despise. #QuestPit #Q #F

Ok soo, what would you do if your arrogant glasses-wearing coworker started showing up in your romantasy manuscript?? ASKING FOR A FRIEND. (HE’S NOT THE LOVE INTEREST I PROMISE) (I mean, he’s BLONDE) (So he could never be the love interest) (Right? RIGHT?!) *INSPIRED BY YOU* #questpit #w #r

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

🌟HEARTBREAK BOYS x MY FAIR BRADY🌟 #QuestPit #Q #YA AITA: I broke up with my cheating boyfriend (again), but we were just cast as romantic leads in the high school musical and I'm not over him! So...I asked this aroace kid on tech to teach me to "fall out of love" since shes obviously an expert

A death examiner forced to relive victims’ final moments must master her increasingly unstable magic to defy a king who seeks to control it. Offbeat tones of NETTLE AND BONE meets the recovery arc of THE STORM CROW Rep for anxiety, disability, deafness, LGBT+, adoption #questPit #YA #F #Q

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000’s setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings #questpit #W #A #NA #R

He killed a prince to save the kingdom. Now a fallen inquisitor, he’s been hired to find a missing ambassador, and the deeper he digs, the more it looks like saving the kingdom was a mistake. INQUISITOR FOR HIRE - multi-POV, 89k words #QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

👑🩸The Blood of Zellandine🩸👑 dark YA sleeping beauty reimagining After a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic. ~querying in June~ #questpit #w #rf #ya

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

ONE PIECE IN SPACE A runaway must work with the infuriating partner of her unfortunate crush to rescue him and his breakthrough magic from becoming a weapon, even as her growing feelings clash with her history of running from everyone she’s ever loved. #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #SFF

Here is my list for QuestPit 1. Eternal Daybreak #W #A #RF 2. Pangaea #W #A #AU #T 3. Pangaea Divided #W #A #AU #T 4. Fur the Best #W #YA #C

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

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

🌀 HIGH CONCEPT YA FANTASY ⏳ TIME LOOP FICTION 👁️ SMALL TOWN SUPERNATURAL 🌊 SPECULATIVE FICTION WITH GROUNDED MAGIC Image source: Personal photograph C'Ville, VA dtmall / Canva Thank you to @leonahwrites.bsky.social and @minaareis.bsky.social for organizing #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #MY #amquerying

Maddie lets Justin help her w/ a customer's order, but has no idea of the emotional whirlwind it'll bring when she finds herself torn between following her dreams or her heart. 🧁 #questpit #R #YA #P

🧁 She's a jaded pastry chef 🍰 He's a charismatic baker ❤️‍🔥 When their rivalry reaches an all-time high & sweet lies rise to the surface, will they achieve their desires unscathed or will all they've worked for leave a bitter aftertaste? #questpit #R #NA #A #W

🎭DEAR WENDY x MY FAIR BRADY🎭 #QuestPit #Q #YA When Sofia is cast as the romantic lead of her senior musical with her toxic, cheating ex-boyfriend, she enlists the help of skeptical aroace sound tech, June, to help her "fall out of love" with him, move on for good and become the star of her own show

NO TIME WASTED Little Mermaid X Upon a Starlit Tide X Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries “A witch’s bargain brings them to the same realm, but failure brings them together.” Querying this summer 2026! #QuestPit #A #FR #W #RF

A death examiner forced to relive victims’ final moments must master her increasingly unstable magic to defy a king who seeks to control it. Offbeat tones of NETTLE AND BONE meets the recover arc of THE STORM CROW 71,000 words #questPit #YA #F #Q

introducing my #agentsguide to DRIFT! featuring: → “i’m bad for you” energy 😈 → found family dynamics ❤️ → strangers-to friends-to lovers 🌃 → fish out of water writer MC ✍️ → a crazy criminal underworld ⛓️ → lots of street racing 🏎️ now #amquerying !

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

🪡 SHREDDING SHADOWS 🪡 🪄Sentient Shadow Magic 🌑 World of Ash 🎓 Dark Academia 🖤 Mentor Love Interest 🕯️Copper Lighthouse ✒️ Lost Spell Book 🐦‍⬛ Shadow Monsters 🔥 Slow Burn #QuestPit #Q #YA / #NA #F #R

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

Real Scandinavian items used by Ró as she joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back.   🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH   WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #Q #W #QuestPit

The Unsung Ballad of Blume THE CRIMSON MOTH X THE SOUND OF MUSIC A traitor bard hiding in a convent is forced to accept a position as the governess for a widower and his seven children. Only to discover the father is the Captain hunting her for treason. #W #A #RF #questpit #WIP

TELL ME AN ENDING x THE ONE x STATION 11 #QuestPit #W #a #lf #t #s Hungry for money, 4 artists join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their heads & the scientists behind it vanish, the 4 must untangle the case—or face permanent brain damage LLL Cheshire & Ascent Novel Prize

🗡️EVEN SENTS FALL When a final assignment leaves more questions than answers, two monster hunters must discover the truth behind the new horrors appearing across the land, even if it means unraveling their own identities and everything they believe in. #QuestPit #W #F #H #YA

Thank you to all of the support during #posterpit! If you're new here: Hi, I'm Kara! My writing explores grief/loss, disability, and motherhood through the lens of fantasy. My work appears in Artifice & Access, Unconventional Love, and the upcoming Disability in Dystopia anthology!

Thank you for all of the #Posterpit support! Now I must actually finish this book🗡️ Wishing everyone the best of luck & can't wait to see what y'all do!

After her parents are assassinated, Aveline must flee those intent on stealing her throne and restoring an authoritarian empire. Adrift in foreign lands, she befriends three hawk-riding scouts who aid her in her quest to restore her father’s legacy. #PosterPit #W #Revising #SPF #YA

PRIDE & PREJUDICE x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE When Lucy Korvas is cursed with the same illness that's killing her father, she must hide her wings from high society and find a cure for her father and herself before she is transformed into a crow forever. #PosterPit #Q #HF #F #R #YA #HFR #Regency