Hello all, setting down the #agentsguide of my YA Historical Novel (with a Speculative twist!) for consideration by #litagents and #editors! AFFINITY is my #amquerying project. The 61,000 word novel explores the topics of found family, generational trauma, and racism in 1970s Britain.

Every time I start working on a new book I breathe a little sigh of relief that I still have new ideas and the desire to write stories hasn’t disappeared

STARLING HOUSE x WAYWARD CHILDREN Historian Vivian meets Elodie, a memory keeper who can free the past from plants, to investigate a century-old disappearance. They find more than expected: a monstrous memory, and an inescapable connection. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

EVOCATIONxJANE LAWRENCE why do you need an angel? according to the codex his teacher wrote, that’s the most important question to ask when summoning them. simon knows his answer: there’s someone he worships—the teacher he built a cult around—and he won’t stop until he has him. #QuestPit #A #H #wip

THE SONG OF ACHILLES x THE IRON GIANT in my 94k YA fantasy where a 17-yr old inventor’s apprentice must destroy a weapon of mass destruction with the face and body of a handsome young man, preferably before he falls in love with him. ❤️slow burn 🏳️‍🌈asexual MC 🌱ghibli vibes #questpit #Q #YA #F

ERAGON X THE LAST UNICORN 🌿bone magic & speaking with spirits 🕷️slavic myths in the woods 🪻band of misfits nearly dying a lot 🌞missing someone you never knew 🪻unique magic system 🕷️dragons, dead women, & forest men 🌿coming of age in a fantastical way #questpit #AG #F #YA

Agent’s Guide to 🌲THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER🌲 This romantic fantasy has: 🐻‍❄️ A setting inspired by the Canadian subarctic 🌋Roots in animistic religion ⚡️A physics based magic system 👵🏽 Crotchety immortals #QuestPit #W #Q this fall #A #F #R #RF #agentsguide

Welcome to Hotel Adair! We have a swanky bar, grand piano with constant classical melodies, and bodies. BOUQUETS! (Not bodies) Check in: 11am Check out: Dawn (if you can follow every horror movie rule + defeat your demons). 🩸We look forward to your stay!🩸 #QuestPit #A #H #W

When 16yo Lena Mei turns to an autistic polyglot to learn Mandarin, she doesn’t expect to fall for him—or uncover a painful connection between their families that could uproot their growing love. #YA #R #QuestPit #W

LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN Stars adored humans so much, they crashed to join them. Ursa hates being a descendant, hunted by the monarchs—the “rightful” heirs. Their princess, born magicless, goes turncoat to teach Ursa how to blaze as a star in mortal skin.#YA #W #F #QuestPit

Selectively mute 16yo Lena Mei wants to read a Chinese poem to honour her late mother, but she can’t read it. A charming autistic polyglot offers to help—not only with her speech but also in discovering her own autism. #YA #R #QuestPit #W

DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART A fiery maid races to sea after her bff & a legendary map, but a passionate romance w/ the pirate captain opens her eyes to a world of danger & she must do anything to get the map before she loses her friend. #questpit #Q #NA #RF

ONE DARK WINDOW x MALICE A cottagecore witch love interest with healing magic who would be the perfect main character for a cozy fantasy but instead her girlfriend is a shadow sorceress haunted by a monster so now she has to go through the horrors #questpit #A #F #Q #LGBT

ARCANE x OUR INFINITE FATES A dying mage and his partner seek to prevent magic from killing mages. Their efforts turn them both into soulless immortals. Centuries later, two magic scientists seek to stop a blight, and they must find a way to kill these cursed gods. #Questpit #F #W #A #LGBT

Whilst honouring his estranged uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man learns the dark truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. (New adult romcom) #questpit #Con #NA #AG

Damla wants the perfect, personal portfolio to finally enroll in the art college of her dreams. But in order to draw her mother, she must retrieve her from the pond she loves to swim in - and bring all her secrets out into the light... #questpit #W #A #F #S

DO YOUR WORST x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE Max's to-do list: 💥Suppress his errant teleportation curse 🩺Survive 5th year of med school 🧠Go back to therapy for his OCD NOT on his list: 📰Meet a cute (& nosy) journalist 🎆Fake date her for New Year's Eve 💛Fall hopelessly in love #QuestPit #A #R #F #W

A new #agentsguide to FEAR OF THE WEAVER ✨ Enter cursed sands and holy dreams in my 90k YA high fantasy 🏹 returning to the #amquerying trenches after extensive revisions! #questpit #Q #YA #F #agentguide

#Q Pitiful Peaches! #YA #HF #questpit (Now submitting to small presses!!!) ALMOST FAMOUS meets THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY. 🍑🎸

#QuestPit #Q #A #T Avery Baines 💀 people, but you'll love her anyway. 💥 eat-the-rich vibes 💥 all the feminism 💥 evil hot guys that flirt 💥 disability/queer rep If you could tear down the evil secret society giving you more wealth than you can imagine, would you?

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

HOW TO COME HOME 🛤️ PEAKY BLINDERS x CAT SEBASTIAN 🛤️ A newly freed convict takes a job working for a single father at his small-town general store, only to find that his criminal past and estranged family aren’t so easily left behind bars. #questpit #Q (in June) #A #HF #R

SONG TO DROWN RIVERS x CRUEL PRINCE x 4TH WING x APOTHECARY DIARIES ❤️Soulmates 🗡️Enemies-to-lovers 👑Assassin x Crown Prince 🔥Slow burn romance, fast & furious lust 🩸Vampire-like demons 😈Everyone's morally grey ☠️REVENGE☠️ 🪷C-drama vibe #Q #RF #F #NA #questpit

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

Four witches open a cozy bakery, but the detective next door would do anything to expose them for who they really are. If he succeeds they could be burned at the stake or worse...he could ruin their love lives! #QuestPit #Q #A #F #magicrealism #cozy #witch #romance #RF

When the King’s lethal plans to eradicate magic threatens to expose a noble’s seer abilities, she exploits her engagement with the King’s son to uncover the Crown’s secrets, but her fiancé’s fascination with poison could make her his next test subject if she’s caught #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #AgentsGuide

Plagued by the choice between duty to her people and following her heart, a competition for the princess’s hand in marriage holds the key to her Kingdom’s survival. 🏹Marriage Competition ✨Secret Romance 🔮Meddling Mind Magic 📚Secrets of the Past 💕Second Chance Romance #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're extremely attracted to each other. It's only natural that they become friends with benefits. But all too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything. #QuestPit #R #W

In Chicago, 1929, a math genius living in a crime syndicate’s luxury hotel allies with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, while secretly pursuing her own revenge. ☠️ campy & dark 🃏secret codes & speedy chases 🍸found family, settings as characters, murder & more! #questpit #Q #MY #A

An #agentsguide to my adult imperial-Asia epic fantasy with tattoo magic, WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN, featuring: 🪭An eldritch craving familial love 🏹A failing chosen one 🪭A saboteur of her own rebellion 🏹An heir w/ perfect life until the facade rips #questpit #agentguide #F #W

ARCANE x BLD OVR BRIGHT HVN x DISCO ELYSIUM 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad STEM academia w/ 🩺corrupted magic tech/ethics 🩻body horror 🤌obsessive ace yearning 🧠neurodivergence as power 🚨unreliable narrator 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🏆dangerous duels 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man growing them #questpit #A #F #Q

THE BASS ROCK x THE UNCONSOLED X ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT Burned-out jazz pianist Clementine falls for a brilliant artist at a seaside inn—then those he paints begin to vanish. 🎹Art‑as‑magic 🌫️ Gothic melancholy 🩶 Envy‑to‑attraction slow burn ❔Psych suspense #agentguide #questpit #A #LF #Q

An agent’s guide to The Love In Your Words: a YA Romance set in Liverpool, where a selectively mute girl falls for an autistic polyglot who helps her embrace her Chinese heritage and neurodivergence. #YA #Romance #writingcommunity #litagents #agentguide

Surprised and honored to learn that I was a finalist for not one, but two #revpit editors. I’m so thankful to have been able to participate this year, can’t wait to bring this book to the query trenches! And a huge, huge congrats to all the winners!

New #agentsguide for the book I plan to query soon. You like ghosts? Like quirky characters? YA books set in New Orleans? Look no further! Coming to agent inboxes this spring!

Sometimes I forget I can make fanart for myself from soon-to-be-querying!!

THIS IS REAL, ISABEL BENES ready for #PopUpPit! (+Big 5 editor interest!) 💗Two gifted kids, now adults, falling apart… and in love? 🏠 Forced proximity 🔥 Rivals to Lovers & Slowburn 🌞 Small-town charm & summer vibes 🌸 OwnVoices Latinx, anxiety, vitiligo, & celiac disease #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A

An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance set in Victorian England. When an impressionable young spirit-medium is hired to exorcize an evil spirit, the real question is what could possibly go right. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS x THE SECRET GARDEN As ghosts appear and people disappear—the gardeners at Greer Manor seem to be planting more than just flowers . . . 🥀✨big 5✨editor interest 🥀 plant horror 🥀 spooky séances 🥀 flower language #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #MG #Q

My #agentsguide to CARELESS WHISPERS, a romantic suspense set on a Greek island. REBECCA x RIVIERA x THE PERFECT COUPLE The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive... Secrets, Slow❤️‍🔥, Unrequited love, Betrayal, Murder Longlisted for Joffe Books Prize 2024 #LuckyPit 🍀 #PopUpPitA

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓A cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineer magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺medical ethics & consent 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man who ❤️s 'em #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

Tangleroot x A House of Roots and Ruin x Legendborn x near future science fantasy = THE ROOTS OF DESTINY 🦋 enchanted forest 🩵 BIPOC rep. 🍃 plant magic system 🦋 plants = fae lifeline 🩵 found family 🍃 botany boarding school #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #YA #F #SF #SFF #Q

THE RAVEN BOYS x S.T.A.G.S A series of murders at an elite private school in Ireland spark an aspiring journalist, a burgeoning psychic, and a rebel with a cause to investigate, confronting their privileged lives and sceptical beliefs. #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #YA #Mystery #Supernatural

A mortal woman teams up with the God of Light to put a stop to a power-hungry shapeshifter. But as she falls for his charms and nears uncovering the enemy's identity, she's forced to choose between love or duty—before the world & everyone she loves—falls to darkness #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #F #RF #NA

CAMP DAMASCUS x NETTLE & BONE Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in BLUDEYE BEACH. 🤷‍♀️Character driven ❤️Slow-burn romance 👻Monster menagerie 🫂Found family #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #Q #F #H #A

New name because after removing 67k words, it's basically a new book! ROMEO & JULIET meets THE HUNGER GAMES when a fiery rebel and shy aristocrat find forbidden love amid a brutal uprising, hidden magic, and deadly monsters that could destroy them both. #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #NA #FR #Q

TREASURE PLANET×THE EXPANSE A bookworm dreams of escape from a pirate-run space station. With his friend, a tech genius, he finds an ancient wrist computer tied to his family and a legendary lost starship. As they seek answers, so does a notorious captain. #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #YA #SF #M