Got my 100th query rejection 🥳

Touching grass isn't enough. I need to touch the ocean. I need to dive in and never come back up. Let me live in a whale fall, far from all the troubles of the world.

Last night I wrote THE END on draft 1 of my new WIP and I started crying. I didn’t realize how much of a toll unsuccessfully querying was taking on me until I realized I would be doing all of it again sometime in the future.

Vantis wants to become the world’s first necromancer and finally step out of his brother’s shadow. Unfortunately, there are a few things getting in his way: 💸 the sudden loss of his research funding 🧙🏾 his ecoterrorist brother ⚔️ an impending war 🌊 environmental disasters #questpit #querying #f

On the verge of leaving because of her forbidden power, Akaira’s plans are thwarted when ancient magic appears, and she becomes wrapped in solving the mystery of who is attempting to bring the Gods back before their overpowering magic destroys the entire world #questpit #Q #F #A

Fourth Wing x Priory of the Orange Tree After a healer is chosen by a dragon, she has no choice but to give up her medicinal crafting and become the desirable dragon prodigy's mentee...as well as the target of a murderous student seeking revenge #QuestPit #Q #NA #Romantasy

PHANTASMA x NOSFERATU HE’s a dark, suave God of Night (think Sandman) obsessed with her for centuries🌌 SHE’s haunted (literally) and constantly resisting him 🕯️ Also has: 🏛️ Dark academia 🌶️ Spicy bargains 🦇 Vintage gothic vibes #QuestPit #OS #RF #A #writingcommunity

🔥 After dying, Alexandra wakes up in a competition set in the past where redemption has a deadline. 💀 To win her life, she must relive her worst choices & fix every mistake over the past month. ⏰ But history is being rewritten and one of the friends she died with might win first. #questpit #W

🗡️Murdered in cold blood & resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes a formidable assassin. As her latest mission sparks a higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life.🪶 #QuestPit #F #P

#YA #F #Darkfantasy 75K - A young man fights tooth and nail to survive being raised by addicts, only to have his mother attempt suicide while on the road to recovery. He’ll have to decide, save his parents or himself (Based on a true story) #fastpaced #tragic #dark #questpit #Q

An #agentsguide to my 1920s urban fantasy pitched as PEAKY BLINDERS x A MARVELLOUS LIGHT. A gangster witch wants to escape her family’s criminal legacy, but she's bound by a blood oath, and the ritual to break it could cost her life. 🏳️‍🌈 sapphic 🖤 gritty 👵 multi-generational #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

THE WITCH OF THE WOOD - #QuestPit Milo Ashton races to save the forest his family relies on, and himself, from a horrible curse. He finds help in Cam, a mysterious man living in the woods, who is seemingly unaffected by the curse that has killed everyone who ventured into Hatwick Wood. #W #F #RF

A MASTERY OF SELF . ݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ the year is 1938 and something isn't right . ݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ an actor has lost his true identity in the many roles he's played on screen - speculative hollywood - friends to lovers - eldritch horror that seeks to replace him #questpit #W #WIP #A #H #S #RF #T

Two sisters discover their family legacy of love magic and develop the ability to sense love. But their own love lives become complicated when they discover that they can sense love for everyone- except themselves✨ #QuestPit #A #NA #YA #R #F #Q

On the verge of leaving because of her forbidden power, Akaira’s plans are thwarted when ancient magic appears, and she becomes wrapped in solving the mystery of who is attempting to bring the Gods back before their overpowering magic destroys the entire world #questpit #Q #F #A

Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after them. I Am Chosen~A different type of love story. #ghostpit #A #PR #Q #HappyHalloween 👻🧛‍♀️

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world. #ghostpit #Q #A #F

PERCY JACKSON WRITTEN BY TARANTINO A skeptical FBI is on the case of gory cannibalistic murders without knowing the culprit he's hunting is an angry Greek god - and his new partner is that god's mother. #A #SP #T #H #MM #M #GhostPit

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. #GhostPit #F #A #Q

WHEN THE MOON HATCHED X HEARTLESS HUNTER 🗡️ Mercenary Princess 🥀 Forbidden magic 🗡️ Saving the World 🥀 Romantic subplot 🗡️ Found family vs birth family 🥀 Animal companion 🗡️ Friends with benefits 🥀 Epic Battles #ghostpit #A #F #Q

SCOOBY DOO X RAVEN BOYS Four meddling teens and a half-ghost dog rally to save their town’s fading magic 👻 🐦‍⬛Halloween shenanigans 🐦‍⬛Ride or die friendships 🐦‍⬛Dark secrets 🐦‍⬛LGBTQ+ cast 🐦‍⬛The dog can’t talk (or can he? 👀) #GhostPit #F #M #LGBT #E

BOURNE x MR & MRS SMITH (but make it gay) Kai Tanner is an assassin sent to seduce and kill fashion mogul Jack Starling (an undercover MI6 agent.) After a (literally) explosive first meeting, they team up to unravel a conspiracy at the heart of the fashion world. #A #Q #T #R #LGBT #Ghostpit

An unorthodox mortician unknowingly accepts a position at a funeral parlor for the otherworldly, and must confront the true nature of her relationship with death to save her newfound family of monstrous outcasts when a scheming faerie king threatens their home 👻 #GhostPit #A #F #OS #LGBT #agented

DRAGON'S FLAME (a #GhostPit guide) what happens when the person who killed your parents turns out to be your long-lost best friend? - childhood friends to enemies to lovers - stolen memories/brainwashing - dragon (yes, singular) - "i think i know you." / "you used to." #W #F #RF #YA #LGBT

Law student Riley is desperate to uncover her town’s blood-soaked history. Rocker Liam needs his past to remain buried. When a dead body forces them to unravel a sinister puzzle while a sadistic killer closes in, will Riley & Liam risk it all to save their town, or die trying? 👻 #GhostPit #UF #NA #Q

Alice can see ghosts – and frankly, she’s had enough of them 👻 #PitDark #PN #UF #NA But when stubborn cleaner Rani ropes her into scrubbing haunted houses & solving her twin brother’s murder, Alice finds herself knee-deep in spirits, secrets, and a serial killer who is closer than she thinks.

SOMEONE TO BUILD A NEST IN X THE CENTER 👻On the brink of extinction a translator holds the fate of two species in her hands, but as she learns secrets from both sides, she must decide which, if any, deserve to be saved👻 #PitDark #A #H #SF #SFH #Horrormance

VIGILANTES ANONYMOUS is a dark romcom that follows two contract killers, Lana and Nic, as they off their targets and get off with each other 🖤🔪💋 📝 therapy meet cute 📍Milwaukee 💥 he's unapologetically obsessed with superheroes 📚 she works in a bookstore filled with cats #GhostPit #A #OS #R

WHEN THE MOON HATCHED X HEARTLESS HUNTER 🗡️ Mercenary Princess 🥀 Forbidden magic 🗡️ Saving the World 🥀 Romantic subplot 🗡️ Found family vs birth family 🥀 Animal companion 🗡️ Friends with benefits 🥀 Epic Battles #ghostpit #A #F #Q

Draft 5 is done. I’m going to nap now

HOWL Wulf’s life sucks. Being a werewolf named Wulf was bad enough sex is fine but “good boys don’t Howl.” His bi-panic inducing roommates train him to resist, and soundproof the bedroom, but when Sky, a vampire S&M club owner with a thing for fur, comes will Wulf? #QuestPit #W #A #E #LGBT

Jennifer's Body x The River Has Teeth It's going to be a Killer Summer. 😍Sapphic pining ❤️Friends to lovers 👀Cannibalism as metaphor for love 💖Monstrous romance 🎀Bubblegum horror vibes 🌽Cult town in Canadian Prairies 🎡Ferris wheel confessions #Questpit #YA #Q #H #R

BOOK OF WITCHING X SIRENS It's 1909 and while the suffragette movement gains ground in the south, the women on the remote Orkney island of Orphirsay remain bound to their fate—until a stranger washes up with only the shift on her back and a score to settle. #questpit #A #HF #W

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #QuestPit #YA #H #T

👻THE DEATH OF ASA CONWAY👻 Asa disappeared in 1822. After waking in the present, can Io Verity solve the murder of his brother's boyfriend before murderous ghosts find him? 🪦Unbury the gays 🐦‍⬛Unusual abilities 🕰️Correcting the past 👥Found family #WIP #YA #LGBT #MY #QuestPit

Death might be a god, but he’s not a god like everyone else. When a soul’s life hangs in his hands & long-lost legends come about, Death must reclaim his mortality to save Morticia’s life. The only problem? The rest of the gods have other plans for them. #questpit #W #A #F

Now, meet Lyla Kattan from To Ruin the Sky: 🃏Part of London’s Hive of Ruin 🖤Breathes shadows 🌙Has a new scar thanks to the eclipse 🤦🏻‍♀️Keeps blacking out/seeing things 👀Immortal (well she should be) ☠️Has no idea who to trust #QuestPit #Q #RF #Writingcommunity #litagents #writersky

Jennifer's Body x This Delicious Death Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend. #questpit #YA #Q #H #R

🎶Em is a thief-turned-violinist who unfortunately must go back to thieving for *one last job* 🔥Lelia is a disabled woman who quits the enginemage job that was killing her in favor of a life on stage...but she's running out of savings 🎻Time to steal a legendary violin ✨Fun! #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DIS

1874 London – Ada, a medium & fraud, turns to murder, determined to create a ghost for her show. But when Harriet recognises Ada's ghost as her murdered best friend, so begins a cat & mouse game between the pair, which can only end when one of them is dead. ✨Dual POV #questpit #a #hf #w #q soon

TA6xFMA When only the top student graduates and escapes expulsion to the desert: - an artist falls under arcane possession - an alchemist's bones rot for breaking alchemic law - an academic unveils the oasis's dark truth - an aristocrat discovers his desert ties #questpit #W #SFF

FOUNDRYSIDExARCANE 🎶Lelia doesn't want to be an enginemage, she wants to perform 🎻Em's life is performance, but when her violin breaks, she's out of luck 🔥They must work together to steal a prized violin before midsummer's end or they'll go to prison forever #QuestPit #A #F #Q #DIS #LGBT #ND

THE GAMES THE GODS PLAY x PERCY JACKSON Sam would do anything to save her dad. Even sell her soul. 🧙 adult fantasy 🪽 greek reimagining 🥾 hero's quest 😈 devil's bargain 🩷 demigod-mortal romance 💀 petulant gods 👨‍👧 heartbreak and healing #questpit #q #a #f

NETTLE & BONE x CAMP DAMASCUS Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in BLUDEYE BEACH. 🫂Found Family 👧Character driven 💕Slow burn romance 👻Monster menagerie #QuestPit #Q #F #H #A

THRONE OF GLASS X HEARTLESS HUNTER 🗡️ Epic battles 🥀 Forbidden magic 🗡️ Evil Gods 🥀 Romantic subplot 🗡️ Found family vs birth family 🥀 Animal companion 🗡️ Friends with benefits #YouDeservepIt #wip #A #F

The Dying Religion - KAOS x WITCHER x GODKILLER No one expected orphans to survive the war to end magic, instead they won it. Victory’s cost? The death of their God. “Do you know what it costs to be loved by a God?” “Tell me, how’s it pay to be feared by one?” #YouDeservepIt #agentsguide #A #F