The mentality that has gotten me through querying four books: If I wanted to be a teacher, I’d go and get a four year degree. The difference with querying is that you can’t see the finish line. There is no definitive graduation date. But it’s okay for good things to take time. They often do.

Go bestie go!!! Andrea is incredibly talented, I have to remind myself to edit when I’m reading her work!!! 💕💋

From indie to major trad deal—author Sheila Masterson talks about her non linear journey, high-concept hooks, and the importance of community. open.substack.com/pub/thewordw...

SAINTBORN | 93k | FANTASY ROMANCE AVATAR x SHADOWHUNTERS In a world where the Saints are the source of all magic and power, a powerless thief discovers she is the heir to a Saint that shouldn't exist—and becomes the truth an empire will destroy to protect. #Q #RF #QuestPit

When a designer drug that lets the rich edit memories sweeps through a coastal state split between luxury and neglect the poor become its testing ground. #questpit #t #u #d

THE LOVE OF MY AFTERLIFE x CHARMED 🔮 When a tarot reader loses sight of her purpose, she’s taken on a Fool’s Journey by her spirit guides to challenge her selfish ways and finally see the otherworldly connection with her (very platonic) best friend💜 #QuestPit #A #R #PR #S #W

A burlesque dancer is hired to choreograph a socialite’s wedding, falling for the enigmatic brother, but ends up in the spotlight of a revenge plot where she’ll have to put on her best act yet: save the man she loves or lose him like she lost her brother. 82K w/ suspense elements #QuestPit #Q #A #R

ultra-wealthy guests must “atone” for their greed at a remote resort designed by the very people who prop them up, in a story with a Midsommar-style cult at a White Lotus–style luxury resort, blending dark social satire and rich people behaving badly. #q #a #h #r #lf #questpit

If you participated in posterpit, I’m gonna need you to keep an eye on your post likes because I’ve gotten more agent interest since it ended, as late as today!

My #posterpit poster Is up for best pitch! If you think it’s the best pitch, vote for it here :) t.co/2ZmmAktxMW

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I'VE GOT AGENT LIKES PLURAL FOR POSTERPIT Everyone, act natural

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#posterpit #h #r #t #satire #litfic #q #a

THE LOVE OF MY AFTERLIFE x CHARMED When a tarot reader loses sight of her purpose, she’s taken on a Fool’s Journey by her spirit guides to challenge her selfish ways and finally see the otherworldly connection with her (very platonic) best friend🔮💜 #PosterPit #A #R #SPF #CO #W

Leah’s class trip to London is all castles and stage kisses– till she’s deferred by her dream college again. Stuck between the boy she’s fake dating & a chance at the future she’s meticulously planned, she has to embrace her waitlist curse to break it. #posterpit #q #r #ya

She escaped monotony by falling in love. The only problem? Time will not allow it. RESONANCE — upmarket speculative about heartache, time distortion, and loving someone you are destined to lose. 🕰️ Time Travel 💔 Tragedy 🏰 English Manor 🎵 Lyrical Prose #PosterPit #Q #F #A

Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró 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 #R #H #PosterPit

A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her breakup—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever🐾💚 #PosterPit #A #R #CO #Q

"Your story begins with death." DONKEYSKIN meets DUNE in this sci-fi retelling of a classic tale filled with whimsy, yearning, and hope. Forthcoming 5/19/26 at @shirakipress.com 💚 ✨ Science fantasy 🌌 Distant planets 🚀 Interstellar travel 🐍 Giant snake 🌹 Sapphic romance #PosterPit #SO #A #SF #FT

A burlesque dancer is hired to choreograph a socialite’s wedding, falling for the enigmatic brother, but ends up in the spotlight of a revenge plot where she’ll have to put on her best performance yet: save the man she loves or risk losing him like she lost her brother. #PosterPit #Q #R #C #A ✨💃🩺🥼

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #PosterPit #W #A #F #H

SUCH A FICKLE FATE Viv has been dreaming of a mysterious scarred man, but when she finds out he’s the key to solving her mother’s murder and now her foretold death, she must go on a quest with her two druid friends to find him. EMILY WILDE x PERCY JACKSON #NA #F #Q #PosterPit

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

PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT X SORRY TO BOTHER YOU When a down-on-his-luck archivist takes a job from a shady tech company to save his robot friend, he uncovers a darker plot involving stolen memories while falling for a handsome anarchist with a grudge against his employer. #PosterPit #Q #SF #SPF #A

THE UNMAKING 95k 🧠💔💉👻 Nova feels too much, and that could get her mind wiped clean. She’s a state memory technician who erases the most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won’t let her forget. #PosterPit #Q #A #SPF #SF

When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they have to decide if their love for the ice outweighs their resentment for each other ⛸️🏒❤️‍🔥 #PosterPit #A #R #C #Q

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Writers participating in posterpit, can I get your opinion? Which graphic should I use for this project because I also have a poster for the satirical horror romance I’m revising and the sapphic horror romance I’m writing so I can only choose one.

There are a lot of #MSWL posts going around and I love that! I just want authors to remember NOT to self reject. Your book doesn’t have to be a perfect match to a MSWL If the agent takes fantasy and you have fantasy take your shot! ❤️ Don’t stress it!

I got a full request!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh! I’m so excited. I’ve only queried agents I’d be ecstatic to work with so every request is truly a pinch me moment. This puts me to 13 requests!!! What the heck is my life

GOOD BOYS ONLY is a tender, funny slow burn, where the dogs behave better than the exes 🤭 🌿confident plus-size rep 🐾black cat x golden retriever 💚strangers to "just friends" to lovers 🐾found family 🌿tattooed MCs in their 30s 🐾healing from betrayal 💚...and maybe a hand necklace #QuestPit #Q #A #R

When plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her breakup, the last thing she expects is to meet a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever 🐾🌿 #QuestPit #A #R #Q

MIDSOMMAR X WHITE LOTUS A wrong plane landing traps a group of rich guests at an idyllic wellness resort where rituals replace spa treatments, confessions are mandatory & the staff already knows who won’t be leaving. Girl Dinner X The Compound #questpit #U #H #LF #W #A

OUTERBANKS X EUPHORIA X SEVERANCE When a designer drug that lets the rich edit memories sweeps through a coastal state split between luxury and neglect, the poor become its testing ground. For fans of Bunny by Mona Awad. #U #Q #A #S #H #LF #T #questpit

I’m querying for the third time (I shelved the second way too early) w/ my sixth book. Here are my stats. Queries sent: 38 Rejections: 12 Requests: 9 Keep going. Breaking in takes persistence! Always be working on something else. I still tell myself “if not this one, the next.” #querying

Their plane lands at the wrong destination. The only thing there is an idyllic wellness resort—where rituals replace spa treatments, confessions are mandatory, and staff already knows who won’t be leaving. Midsommar x White Lotus xGirl Dinner #BluePit 📖 #W #A #NA #H #SP #Satire #T #litagents

When a designer drug that lets the rich edit memories sweeps through a coastal state split between luxury and neglect, the poor become its testing ground. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #NA #SP #T#LitFic #litagents #OV ##LGBT#DIS #ND #agentguide

KNOW YOU BETTER is a dual-POV slow burn romcom with sharp, witty banter, found family, FaceTimes & texts, and positive plus-size rep💚 MUSIC VIBES 🎶Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift 🎶Am I Okay? by Megan Moroney 🎶Overwhelming by Jon Bellion 🎶just friends by Virginia to Vegas #QuestPit #A #R #Q

A coastal paradise. A hallucinogenic drug. A girl who disappears and returns rewritten. The truth isn’t lost—it’s erased. They Called it Saltwater explores how far people will go to reclaim their identity—and what it means to trust in a world engineered to deceive. #Q #questpit #A #T #LF #S

KNOW YOU BETTER is like YOUNG & HUNGRY—but instead of his private chef, she’s his dog sitter—with the wit & banter of WELL, ACTUALLY, & the embodiment of EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED by Taylor Swift 🌿confident plus-sized fmc 🐾he falls first & harder 🌿facetimes & texts 🐾found family #QuestPit #Q #A #R

EUPHORIA’s aesthetic hallucinations meet the coastal setting of OUTER BANKS—a strange new drug is a cover for a conspiracy that weaponizes memories Midsommar–level feminine rage🌴 Unreliable narrators 🌊 Childhood friends-to-lovers 🌴 Touch him & d*e #Q #A #S #LF #questpit #T

A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her with rent she can’t afford—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient, and in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever🐾 #QuestPit #A #R #Q

If “Euphoria” and “Get Out” had a baby and left it on the beach to rot in the sun, this is that book. In a world where billionaires can buy forgiveness by erasing memories, remembering becomes an act of rebellion. #Q #A #S #LF #T #questpit

They call it Saltwater—because it burns going down. A strange new drug blurs memory and reality until two best friends can’t tell if they’re saving each other or destroying what’s left. Dual-POV, two unreliable narrators. #Q #A #S #LF #T #questpit

KNOW YOU BETTER in tropes & songs 💚 🌿 confident plus-sized fmc 🐾 black cat x golden retriever 🌿 he falls first & harder 🐾 she’s his dog sitter 🌿 facetimes & texts 🐾 found family 🎶 everything has changed - taylor swift 🎶 overwhelming - jon bellion 🎶 am i okay? - megan moroney #GhostPit #Q #A #R

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN ⭐ two exiled men (+ their secrets) 🌙 one lunar prison (+ its horrors) ⭐ a government that wants their data 🌙 a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t make it out alive #ghostpit #SF #H #R #LGBT #WIP

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W

KNOW YOU BETTER is about Sydney, a plus-size baddie trying to escape retail hell, who starts dog sitting for Owen—a tattooed, down bad (human) golden retriever—and they fall in love 💚✨ Well, Sydney *reluctantly* falls in love. Owen is definitely not reluctant 🤭 #GhostPit #Q #A #R #amquerying

On a coast split by wealth and ruin, best friends Carmen and Brigitte spiral into sunlit parties and a strange new drug that turns idyll into terror when one disappears and returns changed—forcing their tight-knit group to confront a conspiracy that weaponizes memory itself. #A #spec #lf #ghostpit

A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her with rent she can’t afford—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient, and in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever. #GhostPit #Q #A #R