ARTICULATE playlist 🎶 🔥 Cynical — Conspiracy 🌾 Labour — Paris Paloma 🍽️ Eat Your Young — Hozier 👑 Empire Now — Hozier 🔥🏡 Burn Your Village — Kiki Rockwell 🤍 Work Song — Hozier #UnhingedPit #A #F #darkacademia ALMOST #Q ready

the most dangerous weapon in my fantasy novel is a grammar book. 🤓📖🧙🏽 #unhingedpit #a #f #darkacademia ALMOST #q ready

FAIRIES! Call the fae "fairies" and they'll eat you. GHOSTS! They're knocking about the White City. MARIJUANA! Stop being dramatic, Travis. Your life's not hard. You're only running away from lies that could shift society as we know it. Lyric Fiction #Q #UnhingedPit #A #F #Irreverent #ComingofAge

If I think hard enough 🧠 👀 maybe they won't see me Clan of the Cave Bear 🌱 meets Mists of Avalon 🌬️ meets Mad Max 🔥 an adventure in hiding from the bad guys #UnhingedPit #CS #A #SF #hopepunk #CliFi #meditation

There’s a sentient rabbit. Somehow she’s the most emotionally stable one. #UnhingedPit #A #F #darkacademia

New virtual event! 250 Years of Resistance Join @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation about the inspiring history and extraordinary capacity of ordinary people to resist and organize for a better world. Friday, July 3rd Live from Chicago Get tickets:

A question for the #writingcommunity — If querying a dark academia novel with a romantic subplot, should the query letter speak to the romance or focus solely on the central conflict? I would be so grateful for thoughts from other agented authors and literary agents

BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN = ARTICULATE 💫 Institutional betrayal 💫 Found family 💫 Forbidden magic 💫 Slow burn romance #questpit #w #a #f #s

Ricky's bff and teammate Zhan is papped getting intimate with a man who looks a 𝘭𝘰𝘵 like Ricky. So when Ricky overhears that Zhan may be traded for coming out, he decides to lie that it was him in the photo. Surely they can't trade 𝘵𝘸𝘰 queer players? FAKE DATING / ⚽ PLAYERS #QuestPit #LGBT #W #R #A

#questpit #A #Q #F DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy 105,000 words After a restless hibernation spent cursing the darkness, the darkness in others is now hers to wield. Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth

✨She's inherited her great aunt's house ✨He's the local coven's broad-shouldered handyman ✨And HE is the fake boyfriend she made in a drunken haze, who needs to be GONE before any real chance at love crashes down around her 🎉 Signing with an agent on Friday! #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS 🏟️ Competition between Summer & Winter princes 😠🥰 Grumpy x sunshine pair 👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends➡️rivals➡️lovers 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them 🌳 Who will be the next Mother Nature? 🪩 Winter ball shenanigans 🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #R #LGBT

BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN = ARTICULATE 💫 Institutional betrayal 💫 Found family 💫 Forbidden magic 💫 Slow burn romance #questpit #w #a #f #s

"They expected a safe proposal. A theoretical argument about pedagogy, proof that Alderhall's methods worked even on students with her... disadvantages. That was how Dunn had put it once. Despite your disadvantages, Miss Rose, you show remarkable progress." #questpit #w #a #f #s

🎉The pitch that got me 3 agent offers: When a brutal breakup and a grief- and margarita-fueled spell leave Mac living with a magical boyfriend she built from scratch, she must unravel the enchantment before it destroys her newfound home—and any chance at real love. #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

"As she stepped inside the house, she was met by the smell of dust and rosemary and petrichor—and the almost spicy back-of-the-throat tingle of layers and layers of magic." CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL 🎉Signing with an agent on Friday! #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

WISHAPON Winnifred finds a wish granting gashapon in the back of the arcade, but the thing about those is that you never know what you’ll get. #posterpit #q #mg #gn

THE ARGONAUT'S SON #PosterPit #HF #LGBTQ #Myth #Q #A #AmQuerying The Song of Achilles x The Women In Ancient Greece, when one man's dream of family and brotherhood collides with another's quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted. #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist

When a witch steals a grimoire to get back what she lost, her dreams, she gains uncontrollable magic, a soulmate when she sleeps, and just when she thinks she can catch a break, she has to prove to her family she’s a successful businesswoman. #PosterPit #A #R

In the tradition of the #scifi genre, Thief of Gods is #spaceopera that addresses themes of privilege, class, and race, but also asks questions like what is justice and who’s actually entitled to it? and How does one navigate systems specifically meant to oppress them? #posterpit #A #amquerying

Ró always found eating hearts to be vile, even if it grants humans magical powers. But her town’s leader craves the heart of a seductive water spirit, and Ró yearns to impress. Succeed and earn a much-needed favor from the town leader, fail, and it’ll be her heart on a plate🫀 #YA #F #H #PosterPit

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTH x PRINCESS BRIDE💕 A sky maiden lost her wings
 A tyrant king stole them An exiled kingsguard knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy 🦇 mythical monsters 🍃sentient woods ⚔️ pirate cities 🎭 masquerades 🔪 deadly trials ...what could go wrong? #PosterPit #R #F #A #Q 🇵🇭

They say blood is thicker than water, but my family was built at the bottom of a lake. What if the stories you grew up hearing around the campfire were real? The flooded town named after your family really does hold all the secrets. 😈 🪓 🏳️‍🌈 #posterpit #lgbt #horror #horroromance #nd

When a brutal breakup and a grief- and margarita-fueled spell leave Mac living with a magical boyfriend she built from scratch, she must unravel the enchantment before it destroys her newfound home—and any chance at real love. CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL #PosterPit #Q #A #PN #R

BABEL × BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN A mixed-blood scholar. An academy built on a lie. One thesis that could save her people—if the truth doesn’t bury her first. #PosterPit #A #F #W

THE ALDERHALL SPECIAL - 2 oz inherited privilege - 1 oz manufactured illiteracy - a dash of conditional acceptance - splash of “you’re not like the others” - garnish with a dying mother and an illegal school serve cold 🍸 #UnhingedPit #A #F #W

the magic system is literacy. the villain is the school. the love interest is emotionally unavailable but great with children. #UnhingedPit

If Practical Magic, a kraken, and a lighthouse had a baby, it would be CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL. Now querying with 4 fulls out in the first month. #UnhingedPit #A #PN #F #R #Q

CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL got six requests in the first week of querying, including interest from a big 5 publisher. So, I guess you could say I’m a big deal. Wanna sit at my table? #UnhingedPit #Q #A #PN #F #R

EX HEX x MAGICAL INNKEEPING x Charmed. ✨ Found family ✨ Witchy romcom ✨ Enchanted house ✨ Diverse cast CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL #WSPit #Q #A #PN #R

Foul of mouth, slippery of tongue. Rosa knows the opinion of the clergy. To protect her family, she must transform her network of whispers into a weapon of resistance. If she cannot outmaneuver the priest's zealotry, the flames may reach her doorstep next. THE GOSSIPS #WSPit #WIP #A #WF #F

SHERLOCK HOLMES with BEES When a singer with ties to royalty vanishes, it's up to detective Arthur North to find her. But as he digs, he uncovers a plot to turn his people, the bee-like zizzun, into a target for the crown's wrath. Can he uncover their connection before it's too late? #WSPit #W #F #M

"Virgil Mora burned in Hell. It was a pretty good job." Virgil has 3 months to turn around a vampire ran Ohio gas station to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, from a celestial pink slip. But old mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally. THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS #WSPit #W #A #F #Hu #LGBT

MONTREAL PEN JOB A campy paranormal CEO romance. 🥂 CEO x Executive Assistent 🐺 secretly werewolves 👠 she'll sell him out once he falls 👔 he likes it when she's bossy #W #WSPIT #WIPSNIPS #A #R #PN

She had not slept. She had spent the night in the care ward, holding her mother’s hand while she called her by her dead sister’s name. “Six weeks. Maybe eight. I’m sorry, Miss Rose.” 📚 Babel × Blood Over Bright Haven | dark academia fantasy | ~95k WIP #WIPSnips #WSPit #W #A #F #L #BIPOC #Trad

“Rosa’s neck prickled, right at the base of her skull, like a stiff breeze on sweaty skin. And the whisper came. Nothing so evil as magic. Just a cunning. A trivial gift. And it told her the words to say to loosen any tongue that already sat poised to spill a story. THE GOSSIPS #WSPit #WIP #A #WF #F

CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL - a paranormal romance, now querying

BABEL × BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN They criminalized the oral tradition. They made literacy a bloodline. They called the dying a disease. Ariana’s thesis proved it was murder. Her mother has six weeks. And the cure is a word they were never allowed to speak. #QuestPit #A #DF #W

BABEL × BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN Ariana wiped blood from her lip and faced the committee. Her thesis proved magic isn’t inherited. It’s gatekept. Six weeks before her mother dies of a disease they designed. Alderhall’s offer: bury your findings or lose everything. #QuestPit #A #DF #W

BABEL × BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN A mixed-blood scholar. An academy built on a lie. One thesis that could save her people—if the truth doesn’t bury her first. #QuestPit #A #DF #W

THE GREAT BEYOND Ruby, the daughter of a celebrated 1930s spirit medium, falls in love with the man trying to debunk her mother and must make a life-changing decision about who – and what – to believe. 🕯️Upmarket #HF 🕯️Faith vs illusion vs fraud 🕯️Knotty mother–daughter relationship #QuestPit #Q

BABEL × BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN Ariana’s mother is dying of the Withering. Three generations. No cure. No hope. One thesis changes everything: the disease isn’t natural. It’s policy. And the cure was never meant for them. #QuestPit #A #DF #W