Happy Banned Books Week! 🖤

First batch of queries out. She’s finally out there in the world, slumbering with the other giants in slush piles, waiting to sink her teeth into the right reader. #querying

I placed 🖤 so honored!

Tonight, my manuscript will be listed among other finalists at the Pacific Northwest Writers Assocation conference awards ceremony (!!) I couldn’t attend, but the fact that my title, name, and photo will be displayed in a ballroom full of writers and industry professionals is pretty surreal. 😅

Query letter READY. One sentence pitch READY. Elevator pitch READY. Target audience READY. Bio READY. Comp titles READY. 97k word manuscript READY. 1 page, 2 page, 5 page and 7 page versions of my synopsis…eh 😅

Reading first two pages of my query-ready manuscript at my library’s open mic today. WHO SIGNED ME UP FOR THIS?! *checks notes* Oh.

I love thinking about how everyone was someone’s first crush

To the Bluesky community and everyone who follows and fights.

Portrait of a mother who takes kids to historical sites more than parks. Things I said to my kids today: “Is that a ghost? Oh, no it’s just Judy Garland singing.” “Watch out for the chamber pot.”

1 minute into Fox and the Hound and already crying… How on earth did I manage to finish reading The Deep by Nick Cutter this week?

Complete this sentence: In 2025, final girls can be…

With #questpit over Bluesky is back to feeling like an empty school hall 😅

Valentine Velásquez is not for the faint of heart. 🕯️just a small excerpt! #amquerying WHAT THE SOUND CARRIED is my 104k word historical horrormance/WHYdunnit 🕯️🖤 Perfect for fans of Isabel Cañas, Alma Katsu, Stephen Graham Jones, and Amy Harmon The Hacienda x The Hateful Eight #querying #pitch

Amaaazing 👏🏼

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. • power v obsession • what’s real v what’s not • LGBTQ & mental health rep • dark academia vibes #NA #H #Q #QuestPit

“May the path Fate pave be just.” A SILENCE SO DIVINE 🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️ A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying. #QuestPit #Q #DF #PR #R #A #agentsguide #gothicfiction

Mars colonization is no longer a dream. 8 astronauts are its first permanent residents-and Reality TV stars. On Earth, yearning to escape their working-poor existence, anonymous revolutionaries rope Desda into their plot. If they succeed, the Ares Mission will end in disaster. #questpit #w #sf #a

Ley-line engineer Merula keeps the energy powering her continent alive. But when the most dangerous repair of her career means working alongside her old rival, falling for an imprisoned woman, and untangling a magical prison, she might instead have to watch it all burn. #questpit #F #LGBT #Q

@jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social gets it 💁🏼‍♀️ #Q #questpit

THE WOMAN IN BLACK x DONT LET THE FOREST IN … made Appalachian and Sapphic ⛰️ small town Appalachia 🐍 religious cult ft. snake worshippers 💀ghost girls with monstrous tendencies 🥀 plant horror and bogs with teeth #QuestPit #questpit #YA #appalachia

RIPLEY x SONG OF ACHILLES Wheelchair-using assassin flees Lagos to London in pursuit of a football player … responsible for his paralysis 💔 friends turned foes ❤️‍🔥crime of passion 🤎 BIPOC queer ♿️ unlikely assassin 🌶️ steamy thriller #questpit #agentguide #Q #A #T #amquerying #ownvoices

CIRCE 𒉽 MIDSOMMAR 𒉽 Ancient Babylon A spoiled muse strikes a deal with an innocent butcher: if he helps her take down a mysterious human cult, she'll heal his father. But when she starts falling for him—a common mortal—it's the first sign of her own indoctrination... 🌴🏺🐐🍇🪔 #questpit #Q #A #F #RF

Looking for the agents at #questpit

Posted my four #questpit posts…now it’s time to let it simmer as I support fellow writers ✨🐺👏🏼🤭 #querying

#querying my 99k novel FEEDING GROUNDS is easy. All I have to do is remind y’all of this scene in Jaws. If you’d like a wolf novel that encapsulates the feeling of this classic moment in film, I’ve written it for you. @stephenking.bsky.social fans will devour this JAWS adjacent love story. #Q

JAWS x THE BEAR x WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME FEEDING GROUNDS is a 99k upmarket horrormance 🫀 “For the West, and the little ones we let howl.” ✨Perfect for fans of Stephen King, Mike Flanagan, Grady Hendrix, and Emily Henry. 🐺 Eco-Fic 🏜️Regional-fic 🫀 American folk tale 🎭 theatre #Q #PR #RF #S

SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER X SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A graverobber is hired to find a missing corpse. The corpse has other plans. #QuestPit #A #F #Q #H

Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R #RF #agentsguide #amquerying

THE SPELLMAN FILES × DEADBEAT DRUID Washed-up magician🃏Rick Firestick finds a thrift store snowglobe🔮that grants real magic🪄—until the snow settles. Now he's being hunted by a warlock✨ who wants it back. #QuestPit #A #CF #W

#querying my 99k novel FEEDING GROUNDS is easy. All I have to do is remind y’all of this scene in Jaws. If you’d like a wolf novel that encapsulates the feeling of this classic moment in film, I’ve written it for you. @stephenking.bsky.social fans will devour this JAWS adjacent love story. #Q

JAWS x THE BEAR x WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME FEEDING GROUNDS is a 99k upmarket horrormance 🫀 “For the West, and the little ones we let howl.” ✨Perfect for fans of Stephen King, Mike Flanagan, Grady Hendrix, and Emily Henry. 🐺 Eco-Fic 🏜️Regional-fic 🫀 American folk tale 🎭 theatre #Q #PR #RF #S

Told in dual, first-person, present tense with the luster and poetic grit of a Springsteen ballad and the tenderness and dread of Stephen King’s CUJO, FEEDING GROUNDS is complete at 99,000 words. #q #questpit #H #PR #agentguide

#questpit #UF #A #Q CARNIVAL ROW x Se7eN In a post war gothic city, a detective and his partner go on the trail of a serial killer who murders black marketeers in search of illegal garlic for his Paleblood "cure". Should they stop him before he wipes out the population of ruling Palebloods?

Sibyl likes grad school. Loves it. She has to, otherwise all the time and effort she spent getting there was pointless. She DOES belong there, but she’s constantly falling behind, until help comes from the strangest of creatures. All it asks in return is a bit of her time. #questpit #W #A #S #H

FROM THE SEA FRET Callum Point, a transman, runs to the small fishing town of Perne to escape his past. The people are strange, and the harbour is even stranger. In the constantly foggy town, he's thrown headfirst into a mystery that might cost him his life. #W #A #H #questpit

Flummoxed by the sudden reanimation of his dead lover, William becomes pseudo-caretaker for the undead and finds himself elbow deep in several people. Literally. Now William must satiate his lover’s growing hunger or doom his happily-ever-after. #questpit #LGBT #H #R Tiptoeing back into Skin Deep

This is one of the best book teasers I've seen in a long time 👀

THE WEDDING PEOPLE x SANDWICH THIS ENDS NOW: 2 husbands, 3 hometowns, 1 wedding planner ready to stop staging perfect exits from her relationships. When Lainey ambushes the man who taught her to vanish inside love, she'll need more than courage: she'll need to reclaim herself. #A #WF #QuestPit #Q

A new guide for APPARATUS, my jazz-era Historical Fantasy Academia 🇵🇭⚔️🪶 In pursuit of the sibling that abandoned them, a student conjurer becomes entangled in an arms race between two rival secret societies at the Cypress Institute of Invocation. #QuestPit #AG #A #F #HF

OLIVER TWIST x THE MATRIX. Dancing on a High Wire - a cyber fantasy. A high wire star in the circus, she couldn’t want anything more. Then one night, she is tricked away and trapped. Now she must learn new skills to escape. #questpit #YA #querying

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside– it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible #QuestPit #Q #A #R #S #SFF

There is so much about this I love! ✨🫀

This is great!

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