Thank you to everyone for all of the kind support during #questpit! If you're new here: Hi, I'm Kara! My writing explores grief/loss, disability, and motherhood through the lens of fantasy. My no-romance stories feature family bonds, platonic friendships, and best friends. Thanks for being here!

DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy, 105,000 words Disney-style enchantment with folklore teeth. Her enemies wield steel; Lisara wields their darkest emotions, animating them into living weapons that could consume her as easily as her foes. #questpit #F #Q #RF

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF A woman restoring a remote Cornish manor slowly loses her sense of where her mind ends and the house begins. The village knows the pattern. They just won't say it out loud. Epistolary gothic horror. #QUESTPIT

MERLIN X ERAGON DAUGHTERS OF THE SWORD How much would you sacrifice to find out who you are? Where you come from? Where you belong? For Bronwyn, the answer is: everything. Her life. Her home. In a world of dangers and magic, can she survive long enough to get her answers? #Questpit #W #F #DF

✨A story that I can't wait to write!✨ This new adult fantasy will feature: 💀Multiple POVs 💀Magic 💀Curses 💀Competitions 💀Enemies to ???? #questpit #NA #F #W

Hopeful rebel and charismatic sailor race to save the cosmos from climate disaster. Optimistic politics, ancient swords, easy romances, and unlikely friendships form a thoughtful romp through the “Veins of the Ether”. What’s more important: a revolution, or what comes after? #questpit #sff #f #sf

ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️ #QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F

Pre Orders are now LIVE for my debut, SPIKES, DICE & OTHER VARIABLES releasing Sept 15! Ft. 🏐Ace, ADHD FMC 💜Fat, nerdy MLI 🎲“Oh I love D&D” has never played once in her life 🌽Small town Midwest ✨️Messy girls with Big Feelings 📐Personal vendettas against math www.wordsmakeart.com/collections/...

THE REMNANTS OF TYRANTS When a prophet’s vision of the end of the world goes unheeded, she must team up with a sailor from a rival nation to uncover the cause of the apocalypse before an ancient darkness devours the world. #W #A #F #questpit

🧁 She's a jaded pastry chef 🍰 He's a charismatic baker ❤️‍🔥 When their rivalry reaches an all-time high & sweet lies turn to bitter truths, will they achieve their desires unscathed or will all they've worked for burst into flames? Coming soon to a bookstore near you 👀 #questpit #R #NA #A #W

OATHS OF RUIN— When Mira’s sister vanishes into the deadly northern woods, she must work with Odella, the woman responsible for the forest’s horrors, to find her sister and stop the woods from claiming more lives. #questpit #W #fantasy #A #LGBT

When Mia's sent on a quest to Nashville, she's just happy to bring her bff and warm up her restricted music powers. But when a breakout novel exposes her secret life & magical community, Mia must chose between following Olympus' orders, or salvaging her secrets. #QuestPit #YA #F

12yo sceptic Yanju becomes homeless, grieves, so loses the will to paint. She encounters a ghost, witch and Mamiwata(mermaid). To heal from grief, she must let her spirit guide help fight, and win an art competition to have a home, or else remain homeless and be a ghost #Questpit #MG #F #PR #BVM #Q

Agent’s guide to THE IDUN VARIANT: • Adult speculative medical thriller • Single POV • Domestic drama + ethical horror • Near-future biotech • 80,000 words • Standalone with series potential Querying now | #QuestPit

Hello, #QuestPit! 🌲🌱 Meet Project.Greenfield, a cozy slice-of-life fantasy! ~ My passion project ~ Multiple POVs ~ Status? Drafting! (130k words so far) ~ Part of a CHUNKY series ~ Cottagecore vibes ~ Covers heavy themes, but it’s full of hope #W #F #Writing #Writesky #WritingCommunity

#questpit #AG #Humor PRIDE &PREJUDICE with 4 brothers She wanted to marry off her 4 troublesome brothers. Instead, she accidentally stole her best friend's suitor & fell for the boy next door. Oh, and his former two-timing fiancée is back in town. ☑️80,000 words ☑️Sweet🧁 ☑️He falls first.

Dear #litagents, I'm happy to present an #agentsguide for a revised version of MAEVE MONROE AND THE SUNKEN PLACE! Complete at approximately 55k words, MMTSP is a middle-grade contemporary fantasy. This will hit the query trenches this month and be pitched for #DVpit! #amquerying #MG #F

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!) Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe? #QuestPit #YA #MY #R #AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

An #agentsguide to SALTWATER SAINTS Shep, Harvey, and Ray must survive a friendship destroying secret—as well as the other trials and tribulations of being in your late twenties—to save a beloved island landmark from the scheme of a conniving politician. #questpit #q #a

SWORD ART ONLINE x PRINCESS BRIDE x SELLOUT by DAN OZZI x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL A punk barista and a long-lost princess have one month to save a video game world that's been cursed by an authoritarian Dragon King, and sugar, they're going down swinging 🖤 🎸 🤘 #QuestPit #Q #NA #SFF

In a SINBAD THE SAILOR retelling, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a journey across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiancé from a mysteriously moving island. He may yet live through the treacherous voyage, but will his heart survive unscathed? #questpit #Q

Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance! ✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program ✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest ✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest #A #F #H #R

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

An #agentsguide to my contemporary romance, DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST featuring: 🚗Tension-filled road trip 💉Illness rep 🌄Coastal Canadian landscape ⛴️Boat ride in costume 📝(Not) a bucket list #questpit #Q #A #R

PORTRAIT OF A THIEF + THIEVES' GAMBIT How far would you go to repatriate what was stolen from you? 🎓 Prep school criminology students 💎 A stolen colonial diamond 🔥 A heist for justice They study crime, now they're pulling one. #questpit #YA #T #R #Q

A reluctant soldier and his steadfast partner embark on a final mission to investigate the horrors appearing across the land. The truth may unravel them both. 💀Seven deadly sins as monsters 🩸Chronic illness 🥀Religious themes 🖤Found family #W #YA #F #H #questpit

Everyone is like, "Be the fun mom! Be the yes mom!" But no one understands if you say 'yes' once you say yes forever- Now I have to fold my laundry in secret if I don't want to play Game Show Laundry with the toddler-

Self-titled "hopeless romantic" teenager me would be horrified by this, but my husband and I bought each other a new TV stand for Christmas & a blowup snowman for our son and honestly I couldn't ask for more.

A haunted house, but it's just the pharmacy automated call system

Shoutout to the nice lady at the thrift store who saw me come in with a toddler & gave me her cart, I hope she has a nice day~

They put my sister in the snow globe on a Thursday. Not secretly, nor illegally. It arrived already approved, polished, and explained to us as a necessary compromise. We put it in the living room, clear and shining, centre-stage so she wouldn’t feel ignored. (1/16)

My brain says making a snowman today with my toddler was fun, but my back and legs do not agree. The third decade is so fun, y'all!

🎊I heard I get to self-promo on my birthday so... Here are two lovely anthologies to add to your Christmas wishlist! Unconventional Love by Dragon Bone Publishing and Artifice & Access compiled by @ellatholmes.bsky.social ✨

Finding out you're sick as a 9-year-old is so inconvenient. Now as a boring grownup I just schedule my checkups into impromptu shopping trips. It gets better(ish)👍

I got to chat with @harperkinsley.bsky.social about writing disability and the complexity of "overcoming" narratives 😁💖 Watch it here 👉 youtu.be/Jaklw1v1r_E?... & let us know what you think! #Disability #DisabledStories #Writer

Just got a laminator & where has this been my whole life-??

517 candy bags handed out!! Now I begin planning for next year~~

Every year I say, "I won't wait until the last minute to finish Halloween costumes" and every year I do

Apparently I've fallen into enough holes in the backyard that my toddler finds it necessary to warn me about them...

Should I order more baby books yes or no

Please send in some messages to be included as artwork in this anthology! ✨ 🚨If we can raise an extra $400, there'll be enough funds for more art which will go into the presentation of each story! gofund.me/797ce01c #books #booksky #disability #anthology #submissionscall

Toddler is having a meltdown because it's not our turn for the "trash dump" to come yet. It's not even 10 AM. We're gr8t

I make art to support my writing but to support my art I've started crocheting, have I created a pyramid scheme for myself??

We are almost at 50 written reviews for Artifice & Access! 😍 If you're a #reader of fantasy #books 👀 you may have a good time with this one! And if you've already read it, writing a short review will help me continue uplifting disabled & chronically ill writers 😁💖

I want your empowering/supportive/disability justice messages, poems, and sentiments for the Disability in Dystopia Anthology! I'm going to make them into art for the collection. Submit a picture or typed message to [email protected] 💌 from now until November 1st! #books #disability

Met another mom. Exchanged numbers. THIS IS TERRIFYING IS THIS HOW YOU FRIEND

Toddler wants to know who's coming over today. The answer is NO ONE. No one is coming over today. I am not prepared to raise an extrovert help-

I've been dreaming about the day I'd see my own name on a book cover. A massive thanks to JV Artists for making the cover of my dreams! Child of the Dragon is releasing March 10, 2026 from @inkedingraypress.bsky.social and preorders are available now on their website!