Democrats sweep off year elections.....polls show people blaming trump and the republicans.....trump calling for the end of the filibuster.....republicans tearing each other apart over the issue. Schumer: This is a good time to fold on the shutdown while gaining nothing.

"The Salt Grows Heavy" sounds intriguing! 🌊📚 I love how it blends horror with rich storytelling. Can't wait to dive into its depths! #BookRecommendation #SFF #Horror 🌌✨

Me working on me Query Letter: #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting #amquerying

"We have been observing your Earth." Those were the words that came from the stars when Humanity stood on the brink. (Opening lines) #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting #amquerying #SFF #Booksky

She got into the Sky-Carriage. A flying taxi with sleek brass trimming and comfortable interior. One thing that struck Elise about the Jada is how they treat everything they built like works of art. Even something as basic as a Taxi. #writingcommunity #wipsnips #amquering #amwriting #amediting #SFF

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"We have been observing your Earth." Those were the words that came from the stars when Humanity stood on the brink. (Opening lines) #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting #amquerying #SFF #Booksky

#Writingcommunity, thanks for all the support during #Questpit. The story is now Query Ready. Just fine tuning my Query Letter and doing my homework to find the right agents to reach out to. Wish me Luck. #amquering #amwriting #amediting

Editors, The Bitch Pack was a group of brilliant dancers helmed by the charismatic patron Lovey. After the company collapsed, and her final muse's disappearance, Frankie is assigned to tell Lovey's story. But not all stories are as simple as tragedy. #QuestPit #A #HF #OS

You've reached a pitch event checkpoint. Relax, have fun, stay hydrated. #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

#QuestPit thread My “fun” book, this is what I’m turning to when I just need a break. While I am usually a meticulous plotter, I am trying my hand at pantsing here and am excited to see what eventually comes of it

#questpit #YA #W #SCFF THE UTOPIA CHRONICLES On a secret island, the powers that be are looking for a key that will help them build an ultimate weapon. But the owner of the key is MIA, and their next best option is his Firstborn son, Julius Jones—except he's having none of it.

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 BARNABY PRINCE? Vampire-prince Barnaby is in trouble. He's afraid of his own shadow and still can't fly. When a strange letter arrives inviting him to a human school, his parents sign him up as a last-ditch effort. But the school staff have their own evil plans.

THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD Charlotte Sumner’s life is scary enough flunking math & dodging the high school bullies. But when she falls for a sweet guy in a Depeche Mode T-shirt, she becomes entwined in an evil cult's sinister spell. #questpit #Q #YA #F

"Word Processor of the Gods" by Stephen King × "Gothic" by Phillip Fracassi A teenager receives a 3D printer as a gift. Turns out the printer is possessed by a demon, making it a 3D printer from Hell. -NB protagonist -disabled representation -Giant wasps #questpit #Q #A #H #LGBT #amquerying

#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

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

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

Aspiring artist LUCY JEAN THE COLORING QUEEN creates magical masterpieces with her big box of crayons until she gets ONLY 3 at a restaurant! Can she still create a masterpiece with only yellow, blue, and red? A lyrical #pb about emotional regulation and creative problem-solving. #questpit #q

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

Enby teen Sam is supposed to put cryptids & conspiracies behind them. But when bestie Katie starts acting weird, Sam knows the cult on the edge of town is to blame. The only one who'll help them prove it is Casper, who's from the cult himself. Can Sam trust him to save Katie? #QuestPit #YA #W #H

Amazing news! Gladiatrix Daughter of War - was just selected by Film Revolution via FilmFreeway.com! #QuestPit #A #H

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

Forgot to add that #amquerying this one! #QuestPit #Q

NEVERMOOR X ANDOR ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, 12yo Catch—the only kid at a spy academy for wizards who doesn’t know magic—must master spell-hacked spycraft to stop Acolytes from enslaving Guardian Spirits like Bigfoot & seizing the Minerals of Power. 
#QuestPit #MG #F #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

BOUGHS OF FATE Two tree-dwelling teenagers find themselves at the center of a prophecy rumored to save their forest. ❤️Childhood friends to lovers 🌳Sentient Forest 🌲Tree elves ❓Prophecy (or not?) ⚔️ Threat of war ✨ Magic 🤫Secrets #questpit #q #ya #f

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

Dark Comedy disguised as Horror. When 5 goths seek out the 700 y/o ruins of a Slovene town, a dysfunctional Scooby-Doo gang of demons and folk creatures bicker through the haunting process as the ghosts of the village plead with them to pull it together for everyone’s sakes #questpit #Q #A #S #H

Aspiring artist LUCY JEAN THE COLORING QUEEN creates magical masterpieces with her big box of crayons until she gets ONLY 3 at a restaurant! Can she still create a masterpiece with only yellow, blue, and red? A lyrical #pb about emotional regulation and creative problem-solving. #questpit #q

In a haunted fortress where blood seals loyalty and love defies death, a young healer marries a widowed sorcerer obsessed with his dead wife. As ghosts stir and power shifts, she must choose: free the bound soul—or become the next one trapped. #questpit #writingcommunity #W #DR #DF

For #editors ! THE PENETRATION TEST Contemporary romance x suspense. 🌶️ high spice 🏙️London 👩🏻‍💻women in stem (&real code) 🥷🏻hidden identity 🔀twist ending ❤️‍🩹betrayal A tech entrepreneur with a debt to pay. An investor battling a mysterious extorter. = one (unstable) connection #questpit

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

RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME x FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE 💌 dual timeline 🍂 fall in upstate new york 👻 ghost of loves past 🍻 messy college drama resurfacing as adults ❤️‍🩹 grief and healing within #questpit #W #S #PR

#Rewritten Goosebumps meets Wimpy Kid in stinky, spooky, spider-infested showdown. A Fart Witch wants to possess Jacob’s Abuela. His brother’s armed with beans. They’ve 1 shot to save the town & Abuela—with flower potion & sibling chaos. #SayExcuseMe #MG #F #HA #QuestPit #Q

Following her parents’ assassination, Aveline must flee from those intent on stealing her throne. Adrift in foreign lands, she finds allies in an unlikely place: three hawk-riding scouts, who aid her in her quest to reclaim her birth right. #QuestPit #W #Revising #YA #SFF

Norah only meant to write an obituary ✍️, not awaken her cursed gift. Now ghostly visions 👻 reveal a garden socialite’s death 🌸 is tangled with her mother’s unsolved murder 🩸. In the South, even the graves keep their secrets buried deep 🪦. #QuestPit #Q #A #S #MY #T

#QuestPit #A #Q #RF Assistant to the Villain X OUAT Hope rests on thin ice when a bitter, unemployed witch teams up with a handsome yet clumsy new Overlord to save her town from a frigid queen’s harsh economic freeze 🤏🏻pinch of spice 🎃Hijacked holiday 💎Heist 🔮Mundane magic

Dracula & Frankenstein aren’t just stories. They’re ancient warriors protecting an amazing power. 7 tweens stumble onto that power, gaining the ability to become monsters and defend it against a sorcerer determined to use it to rule the world. 🎃🧛🏾👻 #MonsterSquad #MG #Q #BIPOC #QuestPit

Hell-bent on dethroning her father and ending his war, Liora finds an unlikely ally in Sam, an enemy spy. Trapped in a crumbling Keep where monsters pose as prophets and politics rot with ritual magic, desire flickers in the dark as victory and surrender begin to blur. #questpit #w #a #f #rf #df