NAME CHANGE! When I started writing and later signed with an agent, I had to decide what name to use. Since Marieke can be harder internationally (I’m Dutch), I decided to use my first name instead. From now on I’m annes_mesmerizing_books on my socials, and I’m writing under the name Anne du Pré.

As a now agented author, I’m offering free query feedback for one writer! So check out my Instagram if you’re in the query trenches or want to start querying soon. www.instagram.com/p/DYHWwC0DBV... #querying #writingcommunity #writesky #author #querytrenches

As a now agented author, I’m offering free query feedback for one writer! So check out my Instagram if you’re in the query trenches or want to start querying soon. www.instagram.com/p/DYHWwC0DBV... #querying #writingcommunity #writesky #author #querytrenches

This small-town art museum was a bastion of visibility for folks with mental health issues—until facing bankruptcy. Now five strangers are crossing America in a sushi delivery van to raise money with a new exhibition, before their museum closes forever. #QuestPit #Q #A #Con #LGBT #RF

KISS & TELL X SMASH OR PASS Take: a demi, canceled, mouthy, foodloving singer Mix: a hideout in Amsterdam + a meet cute in a cat café Add: a closeted football star + swirling gossip Bake off: a viral song that could tell his truth… or out the boy he’s falling for #AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀folklore horror 🥀snarky ghost hunters 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater 🥀dysfunctional family dynamics #questpit #WIP #YA #S #H

Four outcasts. One serial killer. The terrible things they'll do for each other. YA paranormal fantasy with chronic pain, neurodivergent, mental illness, and LGBTQIA+ rep. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #PA

WREN MARTIN X NOBODY IN PARTICULAR One scandal wrecks a demi teen singer’s life One closeted footballer sees him anyway One viral song could tell his truth… or out the boy he’s falling for MC: mouthy until it’s about himself Setting: Amsterdam Meet cute: a cat café #AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit

RADIO SILENCE is a queer coming-of-age drama about a British rock band’s rise to fame. Forbidden romance between band members, rival rock bands, terrible people coming back from their pasts - so much drama for one tour bus! radiosilencecomic.com #WIP #YA #R #LGBT #Dis #questpit #webcomics

Dead. Revived. No memories. One rule: fight the demons and forget your past. One problem: someone from hers is killing again, turning good people into demons, and this time, they’re coming for the stone that keeps her alive. #W #questpit #trans #DF #MY #A

This story is full of wit, heart, and love! It makes you laugh, cry, and laugh‑cry, and root for the depressed MC and the chronically ill LI to fall for each other.

HOTD × Raven Scholar × 3 DARK CROWNS Two estranged flames backing rival sisters in a succession feud must join forces when pirates invade their magic-island VIBES 💘Friends-&-flames to rivals-&-oh...wth ♟️Court intrigue × Found Fam 🧘‍♀️Magic with Consequences 🌈Bi & 🇮🇳Rep #Questpit #F #NA #A #PoC #LGBTQ

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS 🏟️ Competition between Summer & Winter princes 😠🥰 Grumpy x sunshine pair 👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends➡️rivals➡️lovers 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them 🌳 Who will be the next Mother Nature? 🪩 Winter ball shenanigans 🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #R #LGBT

TRULY DEVIOUS/HAZELTHORN When sentient plants take over the world and an eminent botanists winds up dead, a hungry reporter persuades a rival plant hunter to seek the truth. But as they become entangled, & the victims pile up, they’ll need sharp secateurs to avoid being next. #QuestPit #W #YA #NA #F

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS X AND NOW, BACK TO YOU #Questpit, welcome to BREAKING THE BLUEPRINT, an 84k word contemporary romance. Rival Architects on the verge of burnout exploit a company policy to work remotely across the country together, putting their rocky foundation to the test. #Q #R #A

HER ROOTS RECLAIMED Immortals are disappearing, and Thea Green is their best chance at rescue Character-driven standalone Lush prose Mental health rep Neurodivergent FMC For fans of V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue and Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House. #questpit #q #a #f #s #wf

BEND OVER BACKWARDS (Heated Rivalry x Star Shipped) After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🎪 Rivals to Lovers 🤸 Found Family 🍿 Only One Bed #questpit #q #r #a #amquerying #agentsguide

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

DEADNAME: A trans teen is stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they never wanted. #QuestPit #AG #YA #H

#QuestPit #A #C #Q 82K Picaresque Satire 🌟non-binary ❤️do it for the kids 💍do it for his wife ❤️found family 🌟heist ⭐️late stage capitalism 😅lol fun "Can he save the house he & his wife use to raise foster kids? Gotta rob the Prez to do that, and get his thief dad, who has Alzheimer's, to help."

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

Puerto Rican Practical Magic x Shameless True Apothecary features… - A Spanish-Salem town - A longstanding family brujeria - Witches & tea magic - A shady realtor with dark magical secrets - Copy cat witch shops - Romance - A little death - Family hijinks #questpit #Q #NA #A #F #R #S #PR

HITHER PAGE x KIT AND BASIE #QuestPit #Q #A #R When faced with a zoning violation that could close his yarn shop for good, high-strung, spreadsheet-loving asexual Noah Wakefield must team up with rival shop owner Benjamin Tasch to make the annual yarn crawl a success, while sparks fly between them.

💔OFFSIDES💔 75k words m/m college romance HEATED RIVALRY x DEEP END w/ big 5 editor interest! feat. 💔a love triangle ⚽️sports 🔥heavy spice 💙friends-to-lovers & friends-with-benefits-to-lovers 🌈queer rep #QuestPit #A #NA #R #LGBT #Q #amquerying

🥀YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES X HAZELTHORN🥀 Lucas begrudgingly works at a haunted community theater and must cooperate with Mira, a first-year criminal justice student with a sour attitude, to investigate the theater’s botanical horrors. #Questpit #S #H #WIP

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

#QuestPit #Q #A #R High strung, asexual yarn shop owner Noah Wakefield likes consistency and routine—but he’s thrown for a loop when charismatic rival yarn shop owner Ben crashes into his life. They must work together to make the yarn crawl a success and save Noah’s yarn shop.

WREN MARTIN X NOBODY IN PARTICULAR One scandal wrecks a demi teen singer’s life One closeted footballer sees him anyway One viral song could tell his truth… or out the boy he’s falling for MC: mouthy until it’s about himself Setting: Amsterdam Meet cute: a cat café #AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit

This is my critique partner’s story and it’s amazing! Think: • a sassy depressed MC • a chronically ill LI • a queer romance • so much found family • a road trip to never forget

WHAT THRIVES IN DARKNESS, a 88,000-word LGBTQ+ YA reimagining of Hades and Persephone about charting your own course—even when those who love you would rather own you. 🌿 queer Hades/Persephone 🌿 slow burn 🌿 grumpy/sunshine 🌿 found family 🌿 “touch him and die” 🌿 a ghost corgi #questpit #YA #LGBTQ

SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN X WITCHER. She cut her hair, stole a dead boy's clothes, and walked out of a burning Camelot with her mother's dragon scale. To save Britain she needs the Knight. To deserve the Knight she has to destroy the only power she has. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #sapphic

Coming in 2026 from Harlequin... 💅Golden Retriever who is SO BABY GIRL 🍞Type-A barista with her own sourdough starter 💍🏳️‍🌈 marriage of convenience 🐱He loves to eat 🫦She loves giving up control #QuestPit #A #R (Coming February 2026)

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY X TED LASSO... but 🏳️‍🌈 ⚾ Baseball coach x English teacher ⚾ Second chance with flashbacks ⚾ Small town baseball culture ⚾ Former HS teammates to colleagues ⚾ Teach me how to...teach ⚾ The Varsity Baseball team is rooting for them #QuestPit #A #R #AG #OS soon!

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION x SHE GETS THE GIRL Here's the #agentsguide for my LGBTQ college romance about love and friendship featuring: 💙 a bi love triangle (m/f/f) 💕sapphic yearning 👭 friends to lovers 🧨 drama and gossip 🇮🇹 culture and food #questpit #Q #NA #R #ownvoice

🌱 When a disgraced food influencer lands a SE London allotment as a last shot at rebuilding her life, she has to share it with the grumpy French chef whose career she accidentally destroyed. 🥕 A PATCH OF TROUBLE is a dual POV #r with enemies to lovers and grumpy sunshine #questpit #q #a

THE BELLS OF LE FAY Sapphic THE CRAFT x ONE DARK WINDOW 🌈 🖤A witch with ‘control or be consumed’ magic 🖤A monstrous mystery and a secret society (cult) 🖤A combative love interest with too many secrets 🖤A magical academy with too many libraries 🖤 Touch her and die (literally) #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Bone HousesXHouse of Hollow A delicate bloom holds a secret & threatens peace when Luna’s father vanishes into The Orade. She & Treasure search for him, but cruel sectors & a magic-plague force her to face untamed powers & a hard choice: save him, save Treasure, or lose herself. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

DEADNAME With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind #QuestPit #AG #YA #H

WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL x THE SOUND OF STARS 🏳️‍🌈 pan MC, trans LI, ace BFF 🎭 teens stream their own show 🎶 music connects us all ✨ space opera, but MC's terrified of stars 🧑🏾‍🔧 competent MC (usually) 😍 Romeo's got no game 🕵🏾 search for saboteur 👨🏿‍🤝‍👨🏻 crush-to-friends/found family #QuestPit #YA #SF #LGBT #Q

Last year, Lucy’s anxiety reached new levels and her life fell apart. Now all she wants is some normalcy, her old friends back, old life back. There's no way she’ll admit crushing on her female BFF, one of the only people who stuck by her. She can't risk losing Jaime too. #QuestPit #Q #YA #LGBT

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. W/ Jack's frozen 🩵 melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT #CliFi

A dysphoric farmer determined to change his luck hunts down the beast terrorizing his village. But instead of killing it, he helps it, leading to an affair that could change his life for the better. Beautiful, But Deadly, a queer monster romance novella Coming Soon! #QuestPit #W #A #RF #H #LGBT

KISS & TELL X SMASH OR PASS Take: a demi, canceled, mouthy, foodloving singer Mix: a hideout in Amsterdam + a meet cute in a cat café Add: a closeted football star + swirling gossip Bake off: a viral song that could tell his truth… or out the boy he’s falling for #AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit

A🏳️‍⚧️ woman resurrected with no memory fights demons for a secret underworld network, but the mafia hunting her knows exactly who she was, and reclaiming her past might cost her the second life she’s barely holding onto. - amnesia - mafia - victims to perpetrators - resurrection #A #DF #MY #questpit #W

LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME 🏚️ a child’s psychological games 🍇 scared girls who fight back 🪞 sibling opposites 🐊 summer is an antagonist 🧨 surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette 🌟 Big 5 editor interest 🌟 RevPit ‘25 winner #QuestPit #Q #MG #H

A SONG OF SILVER & SCARLET The prince he’s forbidden to love. The healer she’ll sacrifice anything to save. The curse that might end them all. 🗡 Reluctant assassins ⚔️ Dual POV ✨ Dangerous magic 🏳️‍🌈 All queer cast 💜 Gay panic 👀 Plot twists for days ❤️ Just kiss already! #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBTQ

An #AgentsGuide They Hate Each Other x Imogen Obviously 💘Bi MC & Bi LI 🛏️Forced proximity (have to share a room) 🏀Basketball jocks ❤️‍🔥Rivals to lovers 😘He calls him pretty boy 💖Secretly yearning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Set in Cardiff, Wales ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #QuestPit #YA #R #LGBT #Q

Abbott Elementary X Ted Lasso—but make it 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 An anxious high school English teacher is forced to mentor the new teacher/varsity baseball coach, who just happens to be his ex-best friend and first love. #QuestPit #AG #LGBT Soon to be #OS

Six of Crows x Romeo & Juliet An imposter princess. A pretender prince. A vengeful plot that might just get them both killed. Because when monarchs play their political games, it can only end in blood. 🗡 Reluctant assassins ⚔️ Dual POV ✨ Dangerous magic 🏳️‍🌈 All queer cast #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

Hi #questpit! Last time you landed me an agent, so who knows what happens this round 😀. Editor’s interest, maybe? Keeping my fingers crossed for all of you joining.