I’m thrilled to finally share the updated guide to my gothic horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH. Now revised through the 2025 SmoochPit Mentorship program! 🖤 Medieval Ireland 🖤 She's the monster 🖤 Bubonic plague 🖤 Only one grave #agentsguide #gothic #horrormance

Congratulations, Zilla! 😊🎉🎊 So well deserved!! You and Alex are going to be a FORCE in the industry! MNAHA is a bloody good time, and I'm so excited for editors to get to read it, too. Can't wait to see what's to come 🩸🔥

Blackout Poetry: Querying Edition ✨

I just got to type the two most beautiful words I'll ever write. 🥹😭

TALK TO ME x THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE x CABIN IN THE WOODS * dual timeline * tarot & ouija boards & seances * OBX setting * bachelorette weekend with a body count * best friends forever (as a curse)

#QuestPit always lives up to the hype 🥹 getting to see so many wonderful pitches, watching how the community embraces one another...It's magical. Thank you so much for all of the support & thank you for participating, even if we didn't connect. Never stop sharing your stories 🫶

EVERYBODY SCREAM x EVERMORE if they were books. 🕯️reapers who kill 🕸️important friendships and history 🪦second chance romance 🕰️a government in the afterlife 🐈‍⬛ghosts that haunt #questpit #A #YA #FA #PR #Q

ADULT SIX OF CROWS WITH GHOSTS Jack’s sworn to protect the dead, so when a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he’ll stop at nothing to steal it back. His crew has a few more scruples. The masked serial killer offering to partner up? Less so. #QuestPit #F #A #Q

🥀Broken Oath🥀 The Everlasting x Legends&Lattes ⚔️Retired lady Knight doesn't know her purpose in life anymore ⚔️Lonely grumpy witch who pushes everyone out to avoid being hurt ⚔️Magical food ⚔️We are now running an innkeep together? #QuestPit #W #A #RF

Dancing With The Stars meets THE ROM-COMMERS by Katherine Center and Elsie Silver's HEARTLESS Live-in nanny Taly thought she was pretending to fall in love for TV ratings until her jaded pro partner—and his secret preteen daughter—start making things feel a little too real. #QuestPit #W #AG #A #R

ANNA KARENINA x GOOD LUCK, BABE! After Kitty accidentally 13 Going on 30s herself into the future, she has a 2nd chance to win Alexei Vronsky's heart. In order to do so, she concocts a plan involving a woman who apparently knows her a little too well from her missed past. #QuestPit #W #A #R #SFF

WIP: The Reflections Saga Jaye Avenheart's story is not over yet. 👀 🪞Sequel to Nightfall 🪞Expect Newfoundland English and a lot of it (also Scottish Gaelic) 🪞Family secrets and the fallout 🪞Unexpected love 🪞Tagline: "There are shadows in every reflection" #W #CON #A #YA #LGBT #QuestPit

Earth was getting further away and I had no food. Would I starve to death? I was already so weak. I was alone out here, the only person within thousands of miles of emptiness. Maybe if I closed my eyes it would all be over when I woke up. /If/ I woke up. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #SF #SFF #S

Them: Omg I wish there was a Dancing with the Stars romcom. Me: Hold my beer THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL ✨ 💜Showmance 🪩Sunshine female competitor x Grumpy male pro 💜Nanny x Single dad 🪩Ballroom, studio, and country dancing 💜Mutual Pining 🪩Dual POV #QuestPit #A #R #AG #W

They grew up together… then, she vanished. Now, 15 years later, she’s torn between the difference of past & future, and figuring out how to hold onto the boy who knew her best without losing herself again. Seeking rep for THE LAST GREAT ALMOST. 67k word upmarket. #questpit #Q #R #LF #amquerying

High school freshman Izzy navigates familial tensions, the status quo and the quest to be her authentic self, with 🧡 messy aroace coming of age 💛an even messier family 🤍 chaotic queer found family 🩵 FASHION AS SELF EXPRESSION 💙creating your place in the world #questpit #Q #YA

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. #YA #H #T #questpit

When Liora, a tyrant’s daughter, captures Sam, an enemy spy, she enlists him in a plot to usurp her father’s throne. What begins as a reluctant alliance becomes a deadly bond: etched in prophecy and fueled by a magic so volatile it could end them both before the war is won #questpit #w #a #f #rf #df

THE POTION DILEMMA is a standalone fantasy romance where a witch accidentally gives a love potion to a shifter assassin and has to learn how to reverse it. #W #PR #RF #F #questpit

My Sister The Serial Killer X Such A Fun Age X Yellowface 💷Sterile wealth 💭Inner cynical monologues 🇬🇧UK vibes 🤰🏾Post maternity 🪞Identity and race Murdering your ex-boss is hard. Murdering him in his Chelsea mansion? 75% harder🔪 #questpit #W #A #T

PERCY JACKSON but with witches! 16-y/o Haley Thorne lives in a secret community of witches in NYC, but when she receives dream messages from dead witches warning of a coming threat, she must go on a deadly quest through a monster-infested realm to save the world by Halloween. #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

#questpit #Q #MG #F THE APPRENTICE Iram is a lowly teaboy whose greatest wish is to be an alchemist, but magic is out of his reach. When his city is threatened and his master is imprisoned for stealing a forbidden book, Iram must learn magic to save his master and his city from imminent doom.

HEART AND SOULS x PRACTICAL MAGIC - Seeking #editor for my agented cozy witchy murder mystery Summer in Paris. For a family of #witches, solving the murder of one of their own, and helping her cross over, is the trickiest #magic of all. #questpit #cozymystery #mystery #paranormal #onsubmission

🌿💀✨ A flower-seller inherits a countryside manor — overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. To keep her new home, she must restore the house & work with the necromancer to expel the ghosts… before she becomes a haunting, too. #questpit #A #F #Q

NANCY MEYERS AESTHETICS x ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Hollywood rivals for the title of Queen of Rom Coms find themselves serendipitously drawn into solving murders while fighting the patriarchy and enjoying gin martinis and witty banter. #questpit #A #M #WF

Brooke thought her biggest decision would be choosing a college major, until she discovered she could bend magic to her will. Thrust into a new world of mentors and secrets, she must decide whether following her power is worth the cost of losing the people she loves most. #questpit #YA #F #Q

17yo Sophie never believed in ghosts until one starts whispering her name beneath the red maples of her family’s cursed Texas estate. The house breathes. The trees bleed. And the boy she can’t stop dreaming about has been dead a century. #QuestPit #YA #H #Gothic #Q

MAMMA MIA… Faye is planning her wedding. When she finds her mother’s diary, documenting her life up until her death, Faye spirals into an obsession to know more about the mother she never knew. Will there even be a wedding? 💍 #QuestPit #W #A #R #WritingCommunity #writers

VOW 💒 In the wake of her estranged mother’s passing, Camille finds herself facing her greatest career challenge yet: running her ex-best friends staged wedding. With her world upended, she must decide between outrunning her past or forging a home from splintered wood. #questpit #w #lf #rf #lgbt

Romantasy adjacent. EMBER IN THE ASHES x the 90s 3 MUSKETEERS movie: an empress in hiding that doesn’t know it joins forces with the son of a dark lord trying to do right to restore her throne and stop a cataclysmic war his dad is trying to start. #YA #F #questpit

Turns out, survival is tough when you’re four inches tall, especially when the creatures of the forest are adamant about eating you for breakfast. #questpit #Q #A THE MYSTERY OF NATOSI FOREST🧚‍♂️ 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ Romance 🌲Wilderness Survival 👻Haunted Forest 🧚‍♂️Fairies that are actually small

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous x My Dark Vanessa Relapse/Rewind: a raw, brutally honest, time-travelling, upmarket page turner about a survivor seeking freedom in all the wrong places. #QuestPit #Q #A #DR

*The Best Kisser in Prague* She's telling herself she's got the Future all figured out. He's pretending he's let go of his Past. Will Mika and Dominik miss the magical Now? 🇨🇿 Expats in Prague 🇨🇿 Early-90s nostalgia 🇨🇿 Drifters, artists, seekers 🇨🇿 A crossroads in history #QuestPit #W #NA #R #HS

AMARI + CARIBBEAN Folklore🇹🇹 12yo accepts an invitation to a secret camp where magic & folklore creatures are real, but she's the only one without magic To save her friends and island home from an evil magician & his minions she must choose to change into what she fears most #Questpit #MG #Q #F

Aoife & Roman Gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder, but when he commits genocide against Germania's Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the legions Brotherhood of Sol Invictus. #QuestPit #A #H #S #Q

SNOW WHITE x THE BIRDS x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH * She commands a horde of feral, bloodthirsty birds. * He is the son of the mad king, searching for the help of four winged patrons that rule the realm. *Bound by a curse, the two must kill the four winged gods-or die trying. #QuestPit #W #F #A

#questpit #W #PR #MM Pack survival depends on werewolf Marc rescuing a kidnapped civilian from the Russian mafia. Joyously gay surf champion Chas is not what Marc expected of a brilliant data scientist. And it would help a lot if Chas would stop calling him Sweetcheeks.

Gilded, rancid, decadent, & accursed...that is the Aebbenary Saint Bettina returns to after her lengthy exile. Goddess has called her back at last - & Bettina intends to use Her love to save her grown children, mortal Cristoval & Godling Cosima, from the golden appetite. #questpit #a #df #rf #p

‪ ‪ Beyond the Gate #QuestPit #A #F #H #T #W #Q Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officers can wed. Unwilling to wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond fortress gates with the other 'wives' when an officer goes missing.Who killed Quintus & why?

A matchmaker selects high school exes—the girl whose heart was broken and the boy who broke her heart—for a marriage project. An 80,000-word contemporary romance inspired by Married at First Sight. ❤️Childhood Sweethearts 💍Arranged Marriage 🛏️Forced Proximity ❤️Second Chance Romance #Q #R #QUESTPIT

presenting THE FUN HOUSE, a horror-fied version of WILLY WONKA meets BLACK MIRROR: 🎫5 metallic tickets 🎡Set in a techie amusement park 💻Sentient computer virus 🤡Demented robot clown 🐋👽Whalien?? #QuestPit #Q #H #SF

As the resource-hungry Sovereignty expands unchecked, two sisters find themselves at odds: one a Sovereign pilot, the other a rebel. Their paths collide over besieged Iskar, where magically engineered weapons are unleashed by both sides—at great cost. #QuestPit #W #YA #NA #SFF

Roe wants to drown. Vanish. Plans change as she lands on a boat of ageless outcasts. They’ll face their demons soon. Today? They run. When pasts sneak up, Roe & her captain risk it all for the crew. In the end, is the answer life or love? Agent guide pinned! #questpit #Q #A #S #R

Meet some of history's most infamous sword-wielding, swash-buckling women in A History of Women in Piracy Life Under the Black Flag #QuestPit #A #NF #P Available now at Pen and Sword, Amazon etc.

Divine Flesh (forthcoming, Monstrous Angels anthology) x Neon Genesis Evangelion Half-angel Iustivan lives a quiet life with his girlfriend until angel eaters devolve into unhinged savagery led by a vengeful angel he knows all too well. #QuestPit #W #A #R #H #F

CURRENTLY QUERYING: AFTER SIRRAH, a FANTASY/ROMANTASY ROMEO AND JUILET BUT ON THE SEA? - SLOW BURN ENEMIES TO LOVERS - DUAL POV - PIRATE SUBPLOT - GIRLS WITH SWORDS - MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ILLNESS REP - WARRING COUNTRIES #writingcommunity #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

GREEN DOT x CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN SURFACE TENSION: The problem with studying women who make bad choices? You start to see yourself all over the syllabus. Jenny’s entanglement with her English professor isn’t fiction, but she’s starting to wish it was. #A #UP #W #QuestPit