#WIPSnips This surprise knock during Virgil's meeting with Lucifer, while quite subtle, could not have ANYTHING to do with the day it's happening being Valentine's Day. None at all. Complete coincidence. Really. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writers

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #knock Rushak is late! A sweet moment with Rush and Cerel. POV Cerel - Brother’s Keeper, my WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

#WIPSnips - knock Late on in the draft with this one. Ben is suffering from severe blood loss and silver poisoning. Cassie tries to help, but giving him her blood is not the best idea in this situation.

🧛‍♂️ A Gentleman's Tour of the Empire 🦇 #wipsnips #amwriting #writingcommunity

TBF to Sunny, he *was* mostly crying about losing Daisy & Mother Nature before he opened the door. But, yes, also Jack Did I choose this so I could include recent edits? Yes. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Summer’s Cruel Warmth, Winter’s Gentle Chill 🌞😭

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It really depends on the story for me. I'd say, I prefer something a little catchy and unexpected, maybe snarky (they're teens), that captures an element of where the story is going. #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt 1/4

"Why can't I find X book title in your comp-finder database?" I've had this question pop up about my databases (www.aealexander.com/comp-finder-...). The purpose of these is to help you find effective comps for your query letter, so not every book published ever is going to appear in them. 1/3

We 1st meet Sunny distracted from his studies by a butterfly, which he uses as an excuse to check out Jack through the window, while Jack works on sword forms. He playfully sends a shower over Jack’s head & Jack playfully ices up the windowsill he’s leaning on so he’ll slip #AwesomeCharacters 1/8

Announcing the date of our next event: JULY 13-19, 2026 This session will be open to all unagented authors. Get those manuscripts ready!

THE SUNBEARER TRIALS x HEATED RIVALRY Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. With Jack's frozen 💙 melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves #QueerPit #YA #F #LGBT #CLI

The Merge x Rules For Ghosting When Melody's sister is abducted from their shared body, she'll do anything to get her back. Including subjecting herself to an uncomfortable road trip with an angel inhabiting a corpse and her sister's very confused girlfriend. #QueerPit #F #A #CON #SN

Desperate to explore the lands above, a mermaid bargains her life for crippling legs and must kiss a prince before seafoam takes her life. A task turned on its heels when his cousin returns from a seafolk hunt, uncovering a deadly conspiracy between him, the prince and the sea. #QueerPit #YA #F

#QueerPit #SPF #SF #NA #YA #amquerying WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN Hell Followed With Us X Leviticus (96k Words) When a trans healer flees his mother's cult after a miracle goes wrong, he joins a UFO-hunter who just caught a meteorite. They road-trip to a UFO festival... with the cult in pursuit.

NOT YET CORPSES is querying now, featuring: 👿 angry trans sorcerer without a soul 🧟 the hot amnesiac corpse who won’t leave him alone 🐈‍⬛ the nonbinary kid wizard they rescue together 👹 angels and devils and monsters, oh my! 📜 the last chance to save his soul #QueerPit #YA #F #UF #SN #H

Heatmiser & Snowmiser, but instead of brothers: 🩵 BFFs 💚 rivals for Mother Nature’s power ❤️ secretly in love with each other 💙 the Winter prince wouldn’t know a joke if it nipped at his nose 💛 the Summer prince can be ridiculously silly at times 💜 longing, betrayal, HEA #QueerPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

#SunmerOfStories 1 Hi I'm Emily and I'm going to try to keep up with this prompt game! I mostly write fantasy/dystopia YA/New Adult. Current WIPs: 1. The Gods of Atalantis trilogy - Book 1 out now, Book 2 coming along slowly... books2read.com/b/bP21wz 2. Tenement - The Giver + The Backrooms

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 #QueerPit #YA #SF #LGBT

You gotta write, and you gotta write your own stuff, and you have to write stuff you'd want to read. Enjoy writing for its own sake and enjoy what you write, because if you don't, no one else will either.

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 #QueerPit #YA #F #R #LGBT #CLI

Hi, I’m Sage! I write YA novels, SF & F, & short stories of all flavors, mostly <1500 words I’m currently working on world-building/description edits on my YA M/M fantasy, Summer’s Cruel Warmth, Winter’s Gentle Chill (Sunny Ray & Jack Frost, Jr) 🌞❄️ #SummerOfStories #WriteSky #WriyingCommunity 1/4

HALF LIFE x MINDWALKER Taylor’s not threatened by BOIS, androids made to be perfect BFs. The girl he 💘s, head of their BOIS' rights club, would never buy one When Taylor learns he's a BOIS-friend, he's 😡 at her hypocrisy & starts a revolution to prove he's > his programming #QueerPit #Q #YA #SF

In CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS FOR LONELY HEARTS, two awkward scientists must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world. #QueerPit #A #RC #SF - Mistaken identities - Enemies to lovers - Fake dating - Black cat and porcupine - Explosive chemistry (both kinds)

THE LUNAR CHRONICLES X FF7 Emily wakes from a 20 year stasis to find that the one who trapped her also unleashed the demon lord on the universe. Knowing she can’t face him alone, she joins a crew on a quest to defeat him—but first, they must learn to trust each other. #queerpit #ya #ef #f #sf

Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

CEMETERY BOYS x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH A goth trans sorcerer tries to weasel out of his contract with Hell and accidentally resurrects a corpse, rescues a child, and reconnects with his humanity along the way. #QueerPit #YA #F #UF #SN #H

STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

After bombing an audition at 16, HS senior Matthew has 1 last chance at🎶school, but Mom's wants a safer future. When his crush Grayson offers to help practice, Matthew will have to break the rules and risk his❤️or lose Grayson &🎹forever. #QueerPit #YA #CR #LGBT

Sorta had a crush on this boy forever, but I'm worried. Red flags? ⛳️ He maybe likes girls? ⛳️ He only smiles when I'm ridiculous ⛳️ We're competing for the same job ⛳️ His touch leaves frost on my skin ⛳️ He only kissed me to cheat on a test ⛳️ His dad would happily murder me #QueerPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

Rules For Ghosting x Alice Isn't Dead My Sister's Stolen Soul features: 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪽 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip #QueerPit #A #F #SN #CON

18-yo Cora has life after high school all planned out, starting with a summer in San Francisco, working for her uncle’s bakery. What she didn’t plan for? Falling for the daughter of a rival bakery. Now, she’ll have to choose between breaking the rules or breaking her heart #QueerPit #RC #YA #lesbian

🚀 PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE: 💫 anti-imperial sci-fi 👭 fierce sisters 🤖 sarcastic sidekicks ⚡ dangerous powers ❤️ found family A reluctant child soldier must decide whether to betray the empire that "blessed" her to save her sister. #QueerPit #MG #SF

GODKILLER meets GREATEST SHOWMAN #NA #YA fantasy: a deaf sea witch escapes imprisonment and flees on a circus ship. Shark wrestling pays her fare but revenge pays her debt 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 🎪 Author raised in circus 💜 Aspec FMC 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM side romance ⚔️ Ride or die M&F besties 💕 Found family #QueerPit

SPIRITS FED BY SUN AND STREAM is my solarpunk, queer-normative #YA #SF #F #CLI about an anxious teen in an eco-utopia where people’s spirits are bonded with trees, seeking the cure for the suspicious blight that’s killing her best friend’s soul. #QueerPit

WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL x SNOWGLOBE 18yo Hale & his celebrity BFF have 1 week to film a blockbuster ep & attract investors for their futuristic-TikTok musical. But planetary power outages & weather-system glitches thwart their ability to deliver 🌈 pan, trans, & ace rep #QueerPit #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

Framed for the murder of the father who once ordered her to the plank, a cursed, cold-hearted pirate is forced into an uneasy alliance with a sly, beautiful captain to carve out the truth behind the death before the pirate lords carve her down. #QueerPit #YA #F #DF #FR #H #M #AC

After Riordan Payne accidentally resurrects an amnesiac corpse, he'd do anything to get rid of it. He didn’t think ‘anything’ meant making friends with it, rescuing a kid wizard together, taking a road trip across the desert, or reawakening his humanity. #QueerPit #YA #F #UF #SN #H

YA Toby Daye Halloween traditions become a matter of life and death when a teenage lesbian medium must use them to protect an aroace Faerie warrior princess from assassins. Failure means death, or worse, moving back in with her mother. #QueerPit #YA #F

SHREK x A FORGERY OF FATE x PONYO When a thieving mermaid meets her match against a seafolk hunter, she must elude his suspicions as she tries to kiss his cousin, uncover her ancestors' connection with the land, and resist falling in love with the hunter's storytelling voice. #QueerPit #YA #F

📚College #CR 💕Fake dating 💜Aro-Ace #LGBT rep 💢Twin rivalry 🎒Philosophical existential crises 🖤One-sided pining 💔Afraid of growing up + growing apart #QueerPit #YA

a dystopian epic fantasy about an uprising against a fascist queen whose touch turns bodies into sugar, led by a grieving royal translator who finds solace in outlawed books 🍰 french revolution x THG x babel 🍰 politics, found family, love triangle 🍰 POC cast #queerpit #F #D #A

NEVER THOUGHT I’D END UP HERE X A BANH MI FOR TWO 20-year-old Olivia Zhou, feeling disconnected from her Chinese heritage, goes on a summer exchange in Shanghai, but the most important lessons are learned outside the classroom. #queerpit #YA #R #COA

Careful how you handle a girl's heart, she might be writing and singing songs about you! Celine and her new friends start a pop idol group, the Midnight Angelz. But Celine's not the only teen idol at her school... LOVE LIVE x SOMETHING MORE #YA #COA #RC #QueerPit #amquerying

ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY; GODKILLER x THE GRISHAVERSE x PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 🏴‍☠️ lesbian pirates; ❤️ slow burn; 🔥 elemental magic; 🫂 found (and lost) family; 👩🏻 female focused and character driven; “No place for mortals. So, I said, ‘I will no longer be mortal.’” #QueerPit #EF #F #A #AmQuerying

PONYO meets MONONOKE #NA #YA fantasy about a deaf sea witch hunting the colonisers who imprisoned her. Plagued by the ghosts of lost women, she must discover what happened to them before she's recaptured 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 💜 Aspec FMC 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM slowburn ⚔️ Ride or die M&F besties #QueerPit #DF #F

Editors: Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QueerPit #SF #R #A

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QueerPit #A #SF #R #HA

Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. With Jack's frozen heart melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves #QueerPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q #CliFi

#QueerPit #SPF #SF #NA #YA #amquerying 🔮 Chosen One (refused) 🩹 Boy who can heal everyone but himself ☄️ Boy who caught a meteorite 🚗 queer romantic subplot 👽Paranormal experiences (grounded within our world) 🛸UFOs and Cults