#agentsguide #questpit #darkacademiafantasy Currently querying THE BELLS OF LE FAY with agent and publisher interest! ✨

feeling all of the love in the community from #questpit I figured I’ll put myself out there and ask if any other authors might want to start up a writers group with me? Comment/dm if you’re interested! I’m writing mainly in thriller/suspense but also read a lot in horror!

Honor roll call of the debutantes mentioned. Go find their pitches. The Epic & The Eerie: @preserver.archivistorder.com @backlundasal.bsky.social al.bsky.social @georgiapatterson.bsky.social @cawestwood-author.bsky.social

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC MEXICAN GOTHIC x STARLING HOUSE Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements. 🕯️An orphan seeking security ⌛An immortal man bound by a curse 📰A marriage notice that is a trap Nellie must choose: her heart or her survival #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #H #DR

SUCCESSION X THE MUMMY A priestess must break her vows to stop her eldest sister from powering the throne with the blood of street serpents from the slums. To save her youngest sister, she ensnares a war-hardened prince, and triggers a bloodline war. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #EF #MorallyGrey

Selling insurance sucks. So does monster social work. At least nothing at Geico has fangs. But Jax is broke, and 1 last job for her secret society doesn't sound too bad... until it turns into a setup for her murder. Just her luck that the killer is trying to fracture the Veil too. #QuestPit #Q #F

These Curses We Bear: X-MEN x BROTHERS GRIMM 🍂 Curses as gifts 🍂 Outcasts and misfits 🍂 Religion as control 🍂 Friendship and found family 🍂 Tangled relationships 🍂 Mothers and daughters 🍂 Dark fairytale vibes #QuestPit #W #DF #YA

@questpit.bsky.social A ritual begins. Five stories. Each releases a demon. In 1906 Pittsburgh, a steel heir is pulled into his uncle’s infernal “Book Club,” where five dark tales will begin to tear the lid off hell itself. Everything burns EXCEPT the books. #QuestPit #A #DF #IndustrialAcademia #W

A24’s PEARL X THE GOSPEL SINGER 🐊 Florida Gothic 🐊 Sapphic Enemies to Lovers 🐊 Multi POV 🐊Religious horror 🐊Dark family secrets 🐊 Feminine rage 🐊 Historical setting 🐊Pairs well with Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter album and general religious trauma #W #A #H #questpit #SouthernGothic

When Adelaide’s husband is drafted into the Vietnam war, her sleep paralysis visions start bleeding into her real life. When she finds out her husband never showed up for the draft, she decides to confront the demon that’s been haunting her. #questpit #T #Q #A

I’m bored let’s swap support. If you need a #questpit boost comment here and we can swap 🖤

FRUIT OF SPOILED SEED CIRCE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN Rowan’s dream of training at Typhon Academy is becoming a nightmare as her magic and body succumb to chronic pain. Desperate for a cure, every path she takes reveals darker clues & they lead closer to home than she ever imagined #QuestPit #W #DF

IN THE NAME OF YOU 🏕️ Saved! meets Ali Hazelwood 🛶 89k YA Contemporary Romance 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🛶 Dual POV “I’ve never thought about sex more than at church camp, and it’s all thanks to Sloane Miller.” #questpit #Q #YA #R #C #amquerying

Presenting Cassidy Dade and Vincent Hendrix from SINS OF LEVARIA. When Vincent promises to tell Cassidy what he knows about her sister's killer, Cassidy must decide if vengeance is worth what little family she has left. #questpit #Q #A #HF #F

🪐 OCEAN'S ECHO x MASS EFFECT x A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE 🪐 A human rebel, a human-alien enemy soldier, a quantum entanglement that binds their thoughts, memories, and emotions together—and a common goal that requires a sacrifice neither may be prepared to make. #questpit #Q #A #SFF

#amquerying The Prophecy of Braemorra She was meant to stay invisible. He was never supposed to look her way. The prophecy had other plans, and now neither of them can turn back. #Q #YA #F #RF #questpit #agents

NIDA AND THE EVER RAINS In a world drowning in endless rain, a temple watcher and a half-goddess must defy their deepest instincts and unearth the lies of those they love most to stop the deluge before their world is washed away. #QuestPit #WIP #A #F

CRIMSON PEAK x BELLADONNA Edgar Allan Poe never wrote fiction & now his victims want revenge. When a soul-devouring spirit is released, Edgar’s daughter, Annalise, & her childhood friend, Henry, must defeat the spirit or lose their souls. art: _riarenne #questpit #YA #H #P 2027

NIDA AND THE EVER RAINS 🌧️ a character-driven fantasy steeped in Baltic mythology My take on the story where Perkūnas and Saulė were lovers until Saulė committed infidelity with Mėnulis, leading an enraged Perkūnas to... #QuestPit #WIP #F #A

PENELOPE GRAY'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LOVE AND THE UNDERWORLD, a cozy young adult fantasy that's PRINCESS DIARIES X DISNEY'S THE OWL HOUSE. This is for you if you love: ✨ Whimsical fantasy 💜 Sapphic romance 👑 Secret royalty 💀 Ancient rituals that just might cost your soul #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

TETHERED BY SHADOW (97k words Adult Dark Romantasy) For fans of ONE DARK WINDOW's parasitic magic. A thief infected with living magic.🕸 A man sworn to contain her.⚔️ A bond neither of them asked for.🖤 Welcome to the Citadel. 🏰 #QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #Romantasy #WriteSky

UPROOTED x RAPUNZEL 🗼Belltower 🌲 Wood that becomes dangerous at night 🌱Plant/earth magic 🦌 Carnivorous deer ❔Quest to find missing people ❤️ Romantic fantasy #questpit #RF #F #W

Meet the newest members of MIT’s incoming class! Featuring Miranda Wang, brother of biology whizkid Daniel Wang, Elliot Chen, former piano child prodigy, and Lexie Ma, aspiring astronomer. #questpit #Q #YA #R

HAPPY PLACE X THE FAVORITES 🥞☕️🍿💘🐾 a love story of a journalist stuck in sad girl ways and the man who patches her butterfly wings when working on a story about a new Persuasion film, while confronting their own past engagement #QuestPit #litfic #halfagonyhalfhope #romance

A troublemaker chosen by the spirits breaks an ancient tradition to keep her best friend (not her crush, obviously) by her side, resulting in deadly—and possibly apocalyptic—consequences feat: a looming Shadow that lives in the sky and occasionally swallows the sun #QuestPit #Q #F #NA #LGBT #ND

GET IT TOGETHER | 88K | Adult Black Rom-Com ✨ Nothing can stop Cassie and Malcolm, bona fide workaholics, from pursuing a second, serendipitous chance at love, until a tangled web of money, frenemies, and yarn jeopardizes their best-laid plans and threatens to tear them apart.🧶🖤 #QuestPit #Q #R #A

The Cold War X Time Travel When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON x ANNABEL LEE 🏰 a crumbling castle 🌊 at the edge of a sea cliff 👗 a weeklong ball 👻 ghostly suitors ✨ a family curse 🕯️ doomed bargains with gods A MOST DECADENT CURSE 🌊👻 US cover reveal May 13! Coming Jan 2027! #questpit #ag #f #ya

My agent's guide to #questpit ✨Spheres in the Afterglow✨ a dual pov slowburn portal romantasy priorities of my main characters: advanced physics, mathematics or translating ancient languages📚 >>> rodent jokes🐁 >>> expressing feelings like a normal human 👀 #W #A #RF#questpit

omggg this looks AMAZING!!

Now querying! BROOM— 77k word Gothic Romantasy! Do you know the BROOM origin? Full Questpit thread below! #questpit #A #RF #Q

An agents grimoire THE LUNARIA WITCH 110k NA/A Fantasy Romance ND REP 🌿Spells, magic & folklore ✨ Self acceptance & prejudice 🐦‍⬛ Snarky crow ❤️‍🔥 Slow burn & yearning 🌙 Found family & sisterhood #questpit #a #na #f #r #o

FRANKLY IN LOVE x CHRISTMAS CLASH 🥡a restaurant kid who can only date Asians ⚔️the boy whose family is bent on destroying hers 🧁a Caucasian cinnamon roll who bakes 🎬fake dating ❤️‍🩹complicated immigrant parent-child dynamic 🌪️a chaotic AAPI found family #QuestPit #YA #R #W

Beauty & the Beast × Dracula: A Love Tale introducing THE LAST KISS OF WINTER 🖤🥀🌨️ ∗ 85k word gothic tragedy ∗ star-crossed lovers ∗ vampire aristocracy ∗ winter isolation ∗ regency era ∗ forbidden romance ∗ found family querying this fall ₊°｡❆ #questpit #W #A

🥀 LURKING IN THE DARKNESS 🥀 Rain’s world shatters when a kidnapping reveals her hidden legacy as a witch/vampire hunter. Thrust into a supernatural war, Rain must choose between her love, her family, and her destiny to stop her life from plunging into darkness. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #PR

A morally grey Snow White reimagining where the "fairest of them all" is cursed with ice powers and snow blooming across her skin—vitiligo the world calls monstrous. A prophecy says only the Andes realm heir can stop her. Too bad their souls are bound. #QuestPit #F #R #Q #OWN

Wren has spent her life running from magic. Finn has spent his life stealing it. THE CARNEGIE is a dual POV YA contemporary fantasy complete at 83k. For readers who love: ✨Magical libraries 📚Dangerous books 🔥Attractive thieves 💰Heists 🧩Puzzle-solving 🧇Found family #Q #YA #F #Questpit

What if Enid mended broken hearts for a living... and Wednesday arrived without a heart at all? ❤️‍🩹sunshine MC hiding secrets 🫀LI who doesn't know what it means to be human 🔥a deadly mystery 🪶quirky, meddling witch (ahem, enchantress) #questpit #AG #YA #F #R for #Editors

QUERYING IN JULY MY WIP! DELIVERED- 77-80k words Adult Thriller Romance. ~Its “YOU” meets “The Notebook” ~ Full QuestPit thread below! #questpit #W #A #T #R

Hi #questpit DREAMLAND 77k The Knight and The Moth X Quicksilver Forbidden Romance Reality vs Fantasy Identity vs Illusion Told in dual POV, it follows a daydreamer whose fantasy man is real, but he’s a thief who enters her dreams to take what she doesn’t realize she’s guarding #Q #RF #A #DF

FLOWERS FROM VERNON YOU’VE GOT MAIL x ACT YOUR AGE, EVE BROWN 🌸Hidden identities 🌹Enemies to lovers 🌺BIPOC cast 🌻Female friendships 🌼Male friendships 🪷Rom Com 🪻Musicial x Writer #questpit #q #querying #romance #bipoc #NA

Love #Bridgerton, but looking for a queernormative Regency? THE SECRET COURT Enter the candy-coloured world of Mothshire Court and follow the story of Morgan and Liam as they navigate court politics and love. A Wattpad Original: www.wattpad.com/1584423834-t... #p #A #R #HFic #LGBTQ #questpit

A young preservationist is invited by its eccentric owner to study a sealed Gilded Age mansion to discover an heir bound to it. As the manor begins to respond to her, she becomes the only one who can break his curse before it claims him forever. Starling House x Crimson Peak #Questpit #PR #R #A #Q

After demon Cariad falls for a seraphim, their romance is threatened when his sovereign seeks to make political pawns of them both, but to free them, she must embrace her dark magic that threatens to control her if she can’t control it first. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #SFF #AmQuerying

Sapphic Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac Sometimes trying to save someone you love results in their death sentence instead. 🔥Slow-burn romance ☕️ Tea leaf reading magic 💌 Letters exploring grief 🦢A monstrous swan curse 🕰️ Time is the enemy 🔮Witches 🥀 Dark fairytale #questpit #Q #YA #F

When two costars secretly and impulsively marry after a wrap party, they plan to pretend it never happened. But ahead of their movie’s premiere, the studio asks them to fake a romance for the press tour—and their secret could jeopardize her big break and his exit from Hollywood. #QuestPit #Q #A #R

THE EVERWINTER KING Adult Fantasy Standalone 💛 Grumpy/Sunshine, platonic 💕 Second Chance MM romance ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 🏅 Tournaments & Trials 💙 Mental health rep 👑 Hidden royalty 🏳️‍🌈 Queer normative world 🍋 Mediterranean inspired setting #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

AN EMBER IN THE ASHESxTHE 3 MUSKETEERS: Two apprentice warriors, an empress in hiding that doesn’t know & the son of a dark lord trying to do right, are forced to work together to restore her throne & stop a war his dad is trying to start. Romantasy adjacent. Male fat positive. #YA #F #Q #questpit

LILY KING X NOAH KAHAN She is using solitude as a coping mechanism & he relies on emotional unavailability and moral injury to survive. PICTURE US, FALLING is not about being saved, but about being seen, & the brutal, beautiful act of loving while breaking. #questpit #Q #A #U #LF #amquerying