It’s a jungle out there, but the will to survive is strong.

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Here we go! Stick around for updates and let me know if you’re in the trenches with me. #amquerying

Have my query package complete and my first batch of agents picked out! Into the trenches! #amquerying

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC MEXICAN GOTHIC x STARLING HOUSE Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements. 🕯️An orphan seeking security ⌛An immortal man bound by a curse 📰A marriage notice that is a trap Nellie must choose: her heart or her survival #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #H #DR

LEAP YEAR, but creepy Rosie’s trip to Ireland has everything: 👻 A vengeful ghost 🖤 A grumpy-but-handsome local man 💀 A twenty year old secret that needs to be unburied. ✨Querying now • revised for pacing✨ #QuestPit #Q #A #T #H #R #U #DIS #S #MY

❤️‍🔥⚔️ The Foxglove King x Final Fantasy x The Witcher Feasting & fornicating beats faith, until a duty-allergic prince finds a woman marked for sacrifice & saves her. Hunted by gods & men, with no shared language, they must make an impossible choice: each other or their people. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

New project: Those Who Carry My Bones. When the dead god's skeleton her country is built on begins to collapse, a woman must confront her past as part of the organization responsible and reverse the damage, all while falling for a man whose life she accidentally ruined. #questpit #a #f #rf #df #w

Find the truth. Even it destroys you. #QuestPit #W #F #H #YA EVEN SEINTS FALL: 💀 Seven deadly sins x monsters 🗡️ Stabby FMC & her pessimistic bestie 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀Corruption vs. truth 🖤Complicated families

I have been so excited to share this!! Knight Esther and Siren Adele from The Siren’s Knight: Dragon Song. Art by @fukkatsu.bsky.social #writingcommunity #queerwriters #writerscommunity

In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage. After months in jail w/ bond of $3 mil, media-hungry DA offered a deal- all I had to do was say I was guilty. #Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

When Rilla triggers a Creek tribe prophecy, she must battle folklore creatures, earn a god’s powers, and complete the deadly omen she put into motion before it ends the world in 4 days in the hopes this journey will also help her find her missing sister. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

#QuestPit WILD REVERENCE X THE VAMPIRE LESTAT After a horrific car accident derails Price’s music career, an encounter with the Goddess of Sleep makes all his dreams come true. Little does he know his ascension into rock god status will pit him against Death himself. #Q #A #H #F

#questpit #A #Q #F DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy 105,000 words After a restless hibernation spent cursing the darkness, the darkness in others is now hers to wield. Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth

FAST AND FURIOUS X ROMEO + JULIET (1996) A burnt-out romance author travels to a gang-ruled street racing city for inspiration, but when she falls for the reckless racer guiding her through it, she risks her career, her heart, and her life. #QuestPit #Q #R #A

Selling insurance sucks. So does monster social work. At least nothing at Geico has fangs. But Jax is broke, and 1 last job for her secret society doesn't sound too bad... until it turns into a setup for her murder. Just her luck that the killer is trying to fracture the Veil too. #QuestPit #Q #F

🗡️EVEN SENTS FALL When a final assignment leaves more questions than answers, two monster hunters must discover the truth behind the new horrors appearing across the land, even if it means unraveling their own identities and everything they believe in. #QuestPit #W #F #H #YA

LAPVONA x PIRANESI x TOKYO GHOUL Now querying! The Marble Garden, complete at 60k words, is a YA horror-fantasy novel that traces a young artist’s desperate attempts to survive inside a millennia old trap. #questpit #q #ya #h #f

THE INTERNS | Upmarket | 95K An idealistic American law intern uncovers corruption in the Geneva-based NGO founded by her legal hero and must discover the depths of deceit before it’s too late to save her mentor, her friends…and her own life. CODED JUSTICE X MY OXFORD YEAR #questpit #Q #A #T #NA

First #QuestPit! 📖 A preview of my #agentsguide to THE SPACES BETWEEN US, a 90K M/M Romance 👨‍❤️‍👨 “What does success mean if it requires walking away from the one person who has made that future feel real?” #Q #R #NA #A #Queer

INVINCIBLE x DISTRICT 9 x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL 👽 Alien Operative 🔪 Shapeshifters hiding in plain sight ⚔️ Civilians turned into weapons 💥 Unstoppable power = uncontrollable destruction ☠️ Unleash power & lose control 🌎 Hold back and lose what he loves #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #T #SFF

#QuestPit After a horrific car accident derails Price’s music career, an encounter with the Goddess of Sleep makes all his dreams come true. Little does he know his ascension into rock god status will pit him against Death himself.   WILD REVERENCE X THE VAMPIRE LESTAT   #Q#A#H#F

MAYAN MYTH x IT x HIDE&SEEKER On a fateful night, Alondra and Tavo defied the Mayan Goddess Ixtab. Since then, they've been haunted by her, until she gets Tavo and drags him to the Underworld. Now Alondra must save him before the wicked gods of Xibalbá devour him #YA #Questpit #H

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue instead. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but will the help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? #questpit #W #YA #SF

Pumped to pitch ETERNALLY DEAD - my 107k paranormal romantic fantasy that explores what happens when an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm 🧛‍♂️ 🩸🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q #amquerying

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000’s setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings #questpit #W #A #NA #R

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k gothic coming-of-age story with a dual POV My Darling Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society 🖤An heir 🖤A monster 🖤An ancient curse 🖤Scottish Highlands 🖤Familial exploitation 🖤Emotional & physical isolation 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #HF #PR #QuestPit

Just my favorite video of them ever.

He killed a prince to save the kingdom. Now a fallen inquisitor, he’s been hired to find a missing ambassador, and the deeper he digs, the more it looks like saving the kingdom was a mistake. INQUISITOR FOR HIRE - multi-POV, 89k words #QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #YouDeservepIt 📖 💙📚 #Q #R Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender

PRIDE & PREJUDICE x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x GRACELING In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her Curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. #QuestPit #Q #YA #HF #RF #F #historical #fantasy #romance

Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth 🔮 emotion-driven powers 💖 characters with depth 🎀 softness is her greatest strength ✨ light found in dark places 💋 slow-burn #Q #A #F

The Cold War X Time Travel When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

#questpit #A #DF #Q In my world, magic isn't invisible. It lives in your hair, eyes, and color. And when the darkness takes it... it erases you.

An agent's guide to INSPIRED BY YOU. Perfect for agents looking for: ❤️A NEW TWIST ON A ROMCOM 🧬A VERY LITERAL GENRE BLEND ❤️‍🩹THE HEALING ART OF STORYTELLING ⚔️ACCESSIBLE FANTASY 💌EPISTOLARY ELEMENTS #questpit #w #a #r #f

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

#QuestPit #A #F #W HIGH WINDS AND LOW WHISPERS #AStoryOfDainu Jaris has returned to his homeland after years of maritime adventures. He was told he would be welcomed as a hero. He was told his insights were invaluable. He was told his fellow Purnma were the greatest beings in Dainu! He was lied to.

Bea’s convinced she’s bad, and hides her sexuality in the pixelated boxes of TemptressB—it’s how she survived what came before. Until a suspicious subscriber, censorship-happy board member, and stupidly principled (utterly devastating) boss force her to be fully seen. #QuestPit #Q #A #WF #U #LF #R

A guide to Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel, a queer, heisty, spicy, sci-fi romance manuscript. Good Heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry. Are you its reader? 😍🌈🥵🌌🚀❤️

SEVERANCE x SILO Nova feels too much, and it could get her mind wiped clean. She's a state memory technician erasing people's most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won't let her forget. #QuestPit #Q #A #S #SFF #SF #U

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI 🧔 Middle-aged Dad Ensemble 🎲 TTRPG Nerds 😱 Co(s)mic Horror 🤔 But also Mystery 👻 Supernatural Folklore 🏰 Victorian Manor 🌙 Dark & Stormy Night 🤟 Final Dad #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Dis #Q #OS #AgentsGuide #AgentGuide

Agent's Guide for MOLDED BY MALICE Druids go through the Inflection, where an element will bless them with power 🍃💨💧 Industrialists are subjected to the Test of Attunement, where crystals can enhance their speed, strength, or senses 🔮💪🏼😈 But what if you aren't chosen? #questpit #A #F #Q

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #F THE SONGBIRD & THE HEART OF STONE x THE VAMPIRE LESTAT When Price’s music catches the attention of a goddess, he becomes Death’s target. Now he must find a way to become a god himself or be swallowed by the nightmare his dream of stardom has become.