I'm unbelievably honored that FROM ONE MIFLETZET TO ANOTHER was chosen as a runner-up. 🥹 Thank you so much Demi!! ❤️

We're doing author spotlights for our Strength in Stories Contest winners and runners up! 🏆️ 1st Place Winner Spotlight: "Dis-Abilities" (fantasy short story) by Katie Collan (@kancollan.bsky.social) Read the piece here: flare-magazine.com/1st-place-wi... . . . #litmags #contestwinner #shortstory

This song just hits so hard with the themes of my book! 🤩 "Everyone is hiding or we're lying or we're fake / And I can't stand it." #RevPit #RevPitWaiting youtu.be/5-lVKGuM8Kc?...

I never thought I would get awarded in a writing contest, let alone FIRST place... I seriously can't believe it. This is a dream come true. 🥹 Thank you to @flarelitmag.bsky.social for hosting this inspiring contest, and congrats to all the talented participants for creating art!

This snippet is basically the skeleton of my book! I love so many quotes, but there's a reason this excerpt made it into my agent's guide. This is where the real story begins. ❤️🙏 #RevPit #RevPitWaiting

Submitted to #RevPit yesterday and I've still got butterflies in my stomach... 😱 So excited! Good luck to everyone in the #writingcommunity who's participating! Linking my agent's guide for the manuscript I submitted: bsky.app/profile/kanc...

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance! ✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program ✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest ✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest #A #F #H #R

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

Here's my second-chance, forced proximity, slowburn, autumnal Edinburgh, with the bet trope romance novel, DON'T FORGET ME. 💻 she's a hispanic tortured writer & poet 🎥 he's a producer offering her a movie deal 💔 but he's a ghost from her past #Q #R #NA #amquerying #questpit

PACIFIC RIM X THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES Caden Fitzgerald is drawn into a world of Fairies and Giant Robots all connecting to his estranged mother. He'll need the help of a fairy named Pease Blossom to clear his name when accused of stealing the giant robot Gnome. #MG #F #Q #QuestPit

Clover’s stretched thin before the dreams start. Her family’s faking prosperity to save their hamlet & her empathic ability wear her down as the town’s superstition stirs. When a wraith invades her sleep, she must face a century of lies before it claims more. #questpit #YA #H #DF

IT X THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD: Max finds 2 photos, taken years apart & quests to unravel the mystery of the girl in the pics & her link to 7 missing girls while tangling w/ the eldritch horror their crazed cult leader murderer unleashed on the world. #questpit #YA #H #T #MY #Q

It's #QuestPit Day! 🖊️ Ready to query.. SEA CURSER (Adult Speculative) What ancient evil waits off Maine's iconic coastline... 🌊 ⏺️Closed-Setting 🌲Remote Island 🤬Ancient Curses 🧜‍♀️Folklore & Coastal Mythology 🙏Loss & Reconciliation #A #S #Q #agentsguide #amquerying #writesky #writingcommunity

An underprivileged girl must overcome long-held biases to prove herself as a Lily Maid, perfume magic ambassadors, but her predecessor’s death threatens all that she desires, and she fails to outdo the former Lily’s loveliness. #Questpit #Q #YA #SFF 🧴Perfume magic 🏠 Sentient house 💃Masquerade ball

THE DARK CURSE What would you do if you found yourself in the world of your favourite game? It’s a dream come true for Miles Porter, whose reality has been shattered. The only problem with dreams is that you have to wake up some time. #questpit #q #mg #fantasy

Meet the main characters of SIRENSONG (114k), which follows Ellie, a traumatized rookie superhero takes her accidental powers on a quest for vengeance alongside her optimistic twin Theo and the Shadow of Emerald City, the dark-yet-alluring vigilante who's agreed to train her. #questpit #SF #NA #Q

COOP KNOWS THE SCOOP X BOB’S BURGERS: #MG kids on bikes adventure i. 2 timelines: 1995: Friends find out their parents were in a band together & search for their hit album. 2025: Their kids hear about said album & go on a quest to find the lost recordings. #questpit #W

BENEATH THE WHISPERING COVE is a gothic coastal fantasy about a young woman’s quest to uncover a missing book of folktales and secure her research funding. The misty water-logged mystery of A STUDY IN DROWNING with the folkloric richness of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE #questpit #YA #F

Sammy is running from his mother's ghost, but there's only so many places to hide in his small town. When a charismatic newcomer shows up, he finds the escape he's been looking for – but the further Sammy's drawn from his family, the more the edges of reality begin to blur. #Questpit #Agentguide #YA

THE SLOW BURN (80k words) She’s an event planner up for a promotion. He’s a firefighter and her dad is his chief. They’re planning the fire dept’s holiday gala and agree to a no-strings fling 👀🚒🎄 Small town Holiday romance Found family MMC in uniform Slow burn #amquerying #questpit #a #r #q

Hopeful rebel and charismatic sailor race to save the cosmos from climate disaster. Optimistic politics, ancient swords, easy romances, and unlikely friendships form a thoughtful romp through the “Veins of the Ether”. What’s more important: a revolution, or what comes after? #questpit #sff #f #sf

MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES meets THE ANIMATORS in this #Upmarket #LGBTQ #A #LF novel about a failed actor, her successful girlfriend, an estranged family, and a life-changing audition. #Q #POC #questpit

MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦‍⬛📖 🐦‍⬛ Romantic Fantasy with Politics 📖 Assassin x Thief 🐦‍⬛ Unlikely Allies to Lovers 📖 Women’s Wrongs 🐦‍⬛ LGBTQ+ and Mental Health Rep 📖 Forced Proximity 🐦‍⬛ Class Differences 📖 Secret Codes 🐦‍⬛ Murders at Court #QuestPit #EditorsGuide #OS #Editors

PERCY JACKSON w/ the daughter of Hades X 🧠health = GIRL, INTERRUPTED X THE NOTEBOOK😵🐉💋 Fighting inner demons, lost memories & actual monsters, can Ava unlock her past to save the realms? ✍️82K #A #F #DF w/ #RF #R #PR & #H 📖Retelling myths 🎶Vibes m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 📸Readers👇 #questpit #Q

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 🏄‍♀️ California vibes 😡 Frenemies to enemies 🎭 Opening night drama ❣️ Romantic debacles #QuestPit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Q #F #YA #Querying #witch

If the king of Adarlan had raised Aelin Galathynius Katerina's shadow magic has thrust her into the heart of a war, where she must decide between absolute power at a nation's expense or destroying the king who made her. #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

Introducing an updated #agentsguide for A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME ✨Arab folklore & exploration of the myth of djinn 💎Unique magic system & world 🪞Explores inner demons & mental health ⚖️Corruption & greed as central to conflict 🧿23 full requests #questpit #Q #RF #agentguide

TRAIN FROM PLATFORM 2 X WE USED TO LIVE HERE X TELL-TALE HEART Hamlet, flipped on its head Dual POV (sibs Ophelia & Laertes) A private train to a will reading 2 snowed-in murders & a haunting F/F enemies to lovers to— ❄️Querying soon❄️ #questpit #agentsguide #A #T #H #W

When Gio’s BFF Sky falls down a sinkhole into another world, Gio follows to save her, but after becoming stuck herself, Gio must rely on her wit and D&D knowledge to survive, rescue Sky, and get them both back home. #QuestPit #YA #Q portal #F #agentsguide

QUEER NANCY DREW 17-yr-old Emmie has the coolest job at an indie bookstore with her sapphic crush, but when her archenemy dies during her mom’s book event, all eyes are turned towards her. She needs to get her life back & not get killed in the process. #Questpit #Q #YA #MY #LGBT

In a nation where every woman must bear children, serve as a state surrogate, or worse, one young clerk begins to question the only truth she’s ever known: her body was never her own. #questpit #S #H #W

SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN x PIRANESI A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—until she meets a godling who knows things about her only her owner could've known. #Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC

HALLMARK by Kevin Smith x NEVER EVERS: Framed as a mix tape & set in a 90s ski town, two teens from rival schools fall in love amid their friends’ shenanigans all while working to fulfill their dreams: he as a writer, she as an Olympic skier. Male fat positive. #YA #R #Q #questpit

#questpit here’s my #agentsguide to 99 WAYS TO GET EXSPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER), a sapphic ya satirical dystopian fantasy that dares to ask the question: What if The Bomb gave people nuclear magic? #w #d #f #lgbt #ya #ownvoices

I'm loving the creative posters for today's #QuestPit! Sharing my #agentsguide for THE FRAGILITY OF SEASHELLS, an adult upmarket novel w/ elements of suspense. 🌲Maine Setting 👨‍👧Found Family 🏫Academic Couple 🔏Generational Secrets 😦Family Obsessions #amquerying #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky

☀️TANGLED x AR VISHNY’S NIGHT OWLS☀️ Ash follows a magical lure to a forest tower where a beautiful golden haired girl lives. Then he realizes his blonde lover’s an evil witch-the soulmate bond really pulled him to the lost princess with 75-ft-long bushy brown hair. #QuestPit #Q #JV #YA #DIS #RF

WHEN DEVILS SING X FEAR STREET Sixteen-year-old Chava Rose is a Jewish girl stuck in a town of antisemites. Lilith is the mother of demons who supposedly cursed Chava's town with misfortune. Maybe they have more in common than they thought. #YA #H #Q #OWN #questpit

VOW✨ the canon sapphic event of having a crush on your best friend… and having to help plan her wedding a decade later. find yourself & speak your mind before the church bells ring 💒 🏠 Queer found family 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rep 💖 Friends to lovers 💍 Fake Marriage (with a twist!) #QuestPit #W #LF #RF #LGBTQ

Presenting a Netflix trailer for: THE SOUND OF A FALLEN LEAF 🍂 YA Historical Fantasy 🍂 Complete at 90K words 🍂 Speculative twist 🍂 Jewish rep #questpit #Q #YA #HF

LUCK AND OTHER CHOICES 🌊📷 SADIE x WE WERE LIARS REVISED 2026; a new manuscript - YA contemporary thriller - bodily autonomy - a missing girl - a ticking clock - love & its complexities - dysfunctional & found family back in the trenches spring 2026 #questpit #R #Q #YA

Ravensgrove Academy is trying to rid the school of witches. So when star student Gwen is caught doing magic by the principal's rebellious son, she's sure she'll be expelled. Instead, he offers her a deal—pretend to date him, and he won’t tell anyone she's a witch #questpit #YA

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #F #S #Q #Questpit

An #agentsguide to SALTWATER SAINTS Shep, Harvey, and Ray must survive a friendship destroying secret—as well as the other trials and tribulations of being in your late twenties—to save a beloved island landmark from the scheme of a conniving politician. #questpit #q #a

PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive. 🔪 Revenge plot 🏚️Liminal Spaces 🐈‍⬛Cat POV 🎭 Unreliable narrator ☠️ Body horror #Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC

92K - Dual POV - YA FANTASY 🏰 HERS - FANTASY 🛝 Childhood Friends 👭 Sister Bonds 👩‍🍼 Inherited Magic 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Leap, Then Look 💋 Kiss, Marry, or Kill? 🧌 HIS - HORROR 💑 Childhood Sweethearts 💕 Self-Sacrificing Loyalty 💀 Soul Selling 🤔 Anxious, Overthinker 🫀 Cannibal Witch #questpit #YA #F #H #WIP

An elderly woman holds a grudge for forty years. On the outside, she goes to church, knits baby blankets and babysits, but her husband's betrayal has unleashed a psychotic anger that knows no bounds: a racy thrill ride with killer twists. #Questpit #Q #A #S #T

#questpit #AG #Humor PRIDE &PREJUDICE with 4 brothers She wanted to marry off her 4 troublesome brothers. Instead, she accidentally stole her best friend's suitor & fell for the boy next door. Oh, and his former two-timing fiancée is back in town. ☑️80,000 words ☑️Sweet🧁 ☑️He falls first.

THE FORTxBOBS BURGERS: 1988. Suburbia. 13-yr-old Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure w/ his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a secret mansion & uncover a conspiracy that threatens more than their neighborhood. #questpit #MG #Q