Finally have the weekend off from work! Going to work on some edits for one of my YA fantasy books, send off some queries for another, and *probably* start writing a new book idea that I can’t stop thinking about! Feels like too much in such a short amount of time 🤣 #amquerying #writingcommunity

How do u tackle a new story that pops in your head? Do u sit down right away & start plotting, do u just get straight to writing & let the story come to u as u progress, or do u let the story marinate in your head for x amount of time before any of the above? #writingcommunity

I hope everyone who participated in #questpit had a good experience (and hopefully some agent likes)! I, unfortunately, didn’t receive any agent likes, but so many of you followed and supported me & that means a lot. Thank you 🙏 & I hope I didn’t miss anyone going through the lists!

I’m probably done posting this time around! I’ll still tune in throughout the evening and support where I can! Thank you everyone for all the support and follows today, this is the first pitch event that I received this kind of support 🥹 good luck to everyone!! 🤞🏻 #questpit

Bone Houses x House of Hollow Magic fades & Luna’s father vanishes into The Orade. With her friend Treasure, she crosses dangerous seas, survives ruthless sectors, & faces a dire magic-plague. The power inside her demands a choice: save him, save her best friend, or lose herself. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

THE BONES OF RENAVERE The Witcher X Game of Thrones ⚔️ Sword & Sorcery 🦴 Bone Based Magic 🐉 Dragon Lore 🌎 High Stakes 👥 Multi pov & timeline 🏠 Found Family #questpit #q #a #f #my

D29. Since today is #QuestPit day, have a few of my event graphics. #timetravelauthors #writingcommunity #amquerying #speclit #amediting #wipsnips

THE HOUSEMAID X STILL BEATING What would you do if your marriage was slowly killing you? Would you suffer silently, honoring the vows you swore to uphold? Or burn it to the ground for a love that sets you free? #W #A #RF #T #questpit

In a cyberpunk world that ostracizes those who dream, Rex witnesses someone's death whenever she sleeps. After she's taken by a rogue scientist and unlocks her true power, she must choose between aiding the warring kingdoms of another reality or finally getting revenge. #questpit #Q #A #SFF #SF

🌊An indentured servant w/ forbidden magic on the run after murdering her master ⚔️An exiled, magicless bounty hunter bound by debt to chase her United by vengeance and a plot that stretches across colonized islands, they must learn to fight together or let the world drown again. #QuestPit #A #W #F

the vibes of THE CELESTIAL RING, my #YA dystopian #SFF To defy the memory-devouring machine god who wants to claim her as sacrifice, Vega must: ⚔️Find her lost brother 💔Ally w/ her first heartbreak 🌑Uncover the truth her world was forced to forget #questpit #Q #F #D #amquerying

DIVINE RIVALS X TRAITOR BARU X MISTBORN 📋✨ The question isn't whether HR exists in a fantasy context—it's how could they not exist in a fantasy context? 📌Agent guide for THE DEPARTMENT OF BLACKMAIL & PAPER TRAILS pinned on profile. #questpit #F #RF #DF #Q #A

DIVINE RIVALS X TRAITOR BARU X MISTBORN📋✨ Daphne Kaiser takes her job very seriously. ✅Babysit key leaders + their affairs ✅Dig up blackmail for leverage ✅Resuscitate ex-snipers with drug problems ⭕️Uncover govt-sponsored crimes 📌 Guide pinned. #questpit #F #RF #DF #A #Q

Happy #QuestPit to all who celebrate! 🎉🙌🏼 I’d like to introduce AMERICAN PARTY GIRL, my New-Adult Contemporary Romance complete at 82k words! Perfect for fans of Emily Henry’s BEACH READ, Elle Kennedy’s GIRL ABROAD, and Ali Hazelwood’s LOVE, THEORETICALLY. #Q #NA #R #WF #AmQuerying

As the daughter of the wealthiest khan in the north, Aylin knew she could never be a real apothecary. She earned her degree anyway. Now she’s a licensed chemist, engaged to a widowed khan...and in love with his children’s caretaker. Steeped in Turkic Mythology and folklore. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

ALL THE FOREST EATS: Allie is not sure if she believes that the forest is a vicious, carnivorous beast, but if she’s going to escape the grasp of her abusive father, she’ll have to learn how to survive it. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #Queer #Sapphic

MY HANDS Perfect for Book Clubs, fans of Kristin Hannah & Patti C Henry. MY HANDS weaves history, friendship, love, complex family dynamics, & suspense. Dot becomes her family's ASL interpreter on the brink of WWII. While finding herself, she fights to save everyone else. #questpit #HF #HFic

#questpit #Q #PB HAVE YOU SEEN A EWE? If you’re a ram in the fall, you’d like to find one. Unfortunately, he can’t, and none of the other male animals he encounters have seen one either. A lyrical, funny, and educational peek into animal names in 360 words.

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

Elethea must lure sacrifices to a ruthless goddess to keep the world’s water blight-free. When she visits a restaurant, falls for the manager and develops close bonds with his staff while secretly working as a server, she questions her role in keeping the world in balance. #Questpit #A #F #Q

THE INTERNS | Upmarket | 95K An idealistic American law intern uncovers corruption in the Geneva-based NGO founded by her legal hero and must discover the depths of deceit before it’s too late to save her mentor, her friends…and her own life. CODED JUSTICE X MY OXFORD YEAR #questpit #Q #A #T #NA

OCTOBER DAYE X WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE When a blood-drained body is found at the edge of Foggy Dell, a quirky town in Northern California, Maisie—local ghost speaker—and Stacy—biologist and supernatural skeptic—become unlikely partners, investigating the mysterious death. #QuestPit #Q #PN #MY

I’m loving these #QuestPit pitches, but since some of them are agented already, I’ll just drop my query event link here. If you’re participating in QuestPit and think we’d be a match, feel free to reach out! querytracker.net/query/ErnieC...

Olivia isn’t the typical dating show lead. So when Logan, her brother’s best friend, steps out of a limo, they strike a deal: he’ll provide intel on the men as an undercover contestant. But pretending to fall in love on TV gets complicated. STEAL YOU AWAY: 92k contemp. romance #QuestPit #Q #A #R

It's one ride up the mountain for an inheritance the Pollock sibs direly need ... if they can make it back down. #agentsguide #questpit #A #MY #T #Q

What do you get when you cross an award-winning cidermaker with zero business sense and a finance bro with a toddler's palate? CIDER SEASON | A 75K word upmarket contemporary rom-com | 2026 #revpit winner #questpit #q #a #u #r #writingcommunity #amquerying

GET READY WITH ME - 70k words. Romance w/elements of suspense. A glamorous Los Angeles influencer and a troubled girl from Atlanta seem to live very different lives—until the past one of them tried to bury threatens to destroy the future she’s finally begun to build. #QuestPit #Q #A #R

WARCROSS X BLOOD DEBTS 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

Bree assumes “joining the Dark Goddess" is a lesbian sex club hazing prank—until she kills an evil politician with a gush of menstrual blood. The Goddess has given Bree real power. Her intentions? Murky. Her appetite? Insatiable. Her contract? Binding. #questpit #Q #A #H #S #LF

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

I’m seeing such INCREDIBLE pitches today for #questpit😁 everyone is so talented! I’m trying to support as many people as possible while at work. Will pop in as much as I possibly can! #amquerying #writingcommunity #queryingtrenches

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS X CALAMITY A territory dispute with aliens wasn't on Gloria's colony roadmap, but neither was falling for one. ✨ First Contact (But make it workplace rivals-to-lovers) ✨ Iridescent Aliens ✨ Corporate Satire ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Grumpy X Flirty #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue instead. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but will the help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? #questpit #W #YA #SF

He called her dull and boring. She’d just slit a warlord’s throat for him. When the Viper King discovers his ignored wife is the legendary assassin protecting his empire, he doesn’t just fall in love, he falls to his knees. ✨ Arranged marriage ✨ Slow burn ✨ Swords & Pirates #QuestPit #Q #A #RF

OF SOUL AND SPIRIT #questpit #Q #PR #DR 98,000 words Paranormal Fiction When a con artist discovers she can truly summon the dead and a jazz pianist is force into the criminal underworld, their fates intertwine in a high-stakes battle for love, redemption, and survival. Set in 1920s New Orleans

MAGIC MEETS CODING A Silicon Valley-inspired New Orleans where a teen writes spells down in code to stop the army of undead. 🧟 dead brought back to life with magic 💻 girls in stem 👯‍♀️ twin sisters magically bonded ❤️ friends to lovers #questpit #SF #F #YA #Q #SFF #agentsguide

The Rook x Grishaverse Abbie left dreamwalking when she left criminal defense, but music and a dead man have invaded her mind just as her ex returns. Defend the man accused of her dream murder?! But how can she say no to the only supernatural ever to face the death penalty? #Q #S #T #QuestPit

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND Windego is a 60K word supernatural horror novel based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all. #questpit #Q #A #H #S

#QuestPit #lf #u #dr #a #q EVERAFTER is Bingeable.

THE PARENT TRAP X THE UNHONEYMOONERS Co-parents of a graduating senior take her on one final trip all together, only to have her leave them stranded in Europe with no way forward but to hitchhike their way through, only one bed guaranteed! #R #C #A #QuestPit #Q

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU AND ME Miles and Topher are young actors often up for the same roles who have undeniable chemistry. What starts as a rivalry turns into something more as closeted Topher's career takes off and out Miles' career stagnates. #questpit #w #a #rf #lgbtq

🧚‍♀️ ALL THE TIME WE NEVER HAD 🍐 WIP #questpit #A #R #HF #H #L #Q 🌹Devine femininity 🫀Family sacrifice 👸Women’s roles in history 🏡Antique house 🧚‍♀️ Folklore and spirits 🤰Mother-daughter relationship

When a bi-disaster demon blacksmith is released from his shackles at the bottom of the lake, a perimenopausal single mom and her former prom date must find a way to lock the demon up before he chooses a new vessel. Hangry, horny, and possibly possessed. 😈🏳️‍🌈🪓 #questpit #lgbtq #h #r #w #nd

For anyone doing #QuestPit today, my Query Letter Critiques are just $30 USD in the event you'd like to make sure you're polished and ready-to-go. Many hearts to you! (Shares welcome)

Imagine being struck by lightning, only to wake up covered in tattoos and told you are the new king of an ancient race of djinn. Currently On Submission... Agent: Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary Agency #questpit #OS #YA #Fantasy #F #bipoc

If the main characters from Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, my adult romantasy murder mystery novel, had access to the Notes app. #QuestPit #W #A #RF

A broke 18 yo with OCD grinds away at a popular hotdog restaurant to escape her life in a dying desert town—but when her bestie vanishes, she uncovers a hunger that’s counting down to claim her next. #YA #horror #own #femgore #americansouthwest #questpit #Q

12-year-old Ryder can walk in dreams. His grandmother twists them into nightmares she can steal—and he can’t escape her stories. #QuestPit #MG #DF #Q

SEVERANCE x SILO On Apple TV+ #LiteraryAgents this is THE UNMAKING 🧠 A woman erasing emotionally volatile memories for the government 👾 The phantom unleashed by her grief, remembering everything 🔪 The devoted state enforcer sent to drag her back in line #QuestPit #Q #A #S #SF #SFF #U

LOVE ISLAND x SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE x COZY MYSTERY A producer on a reality dating show about rekindling exes must fake date her own first love in order to save the show from cancellation when she suspects her new boss of sabotage. #questpit #r #q #spicy #agentguide #a