Thank you so much to the other writers in #questpit! Never done anything like it, and it was great to read your amazing pitches and be in community! Writers: always feel free to reach out to chat! And find me for book recs and bookish culture at ronareads.substack.com & on IG @ronareads4u

THE EVERWINTER KING Adult Fantasy Standalone 💛 Grumpy/Sunshine, platonic 💕 Second Chance MM romance ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 🏅 Tournaments & Trials 💙 Mental health rep 👑 Hidden royalty 🏳️‍🌈 Queer normative world 🍋 Mediterranean inspired setting #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND Windego is a 60K word supernatural horror novel based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all. #questpit #Q #A #H #S

TRUE GRIT x THE BEAUTY OF DAYS GONE BY meets American Primeval 🪶 Based on a true story 🪶 Brooding, determined heroine 🪶 Coming-of-age, family trauma, secrets 🪶 American Southwest/PNW 🪶 Tattoos + kidnappings + mysterious preachers 🪶 Lit fic prose #HFic #A #W #questpit

Just for the Summer x Things You Save in a Fire An overburdened, chronically ill daughter fights to keep her party girl mother in assisted living without losing her health and sanity in the process. 75k contemporary women’s fiction with romantic subplot Dual POV #Q #A #WF #QuestPit

BIG 5 EDITOR INTEREST🙀 PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive. 🔪Revenge plot 🐈‍⬛Unreliable Cat POV ☠️Body horror #Questpit #A #F #H #DF #LF #W #DIS #POC

What if the swashbuckling, enemies-to-lovers vibes of Dreamworks' SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS was in a YA novel with: 🌙muslim mc's 🏴‍☠️pirate x princess 🌊17th-century indian ocean setting 🐲beasts from islamic folklore ✨interest from 2 big 5 editors #questpit #YA #HF #Q

Devoshri is descended from a long line of jewel keepers to the Maharaja. When she's sent to the Tower of London to watch over the Kohinoor Diamond in 1849, she must unleash the prophecy of the ravens to steal it back... and enlist the help of their master. #questpit #W #A #HF

MYTH, MUSE, MAGICIAN A Forbidden Alchemy x The Night Circus x Peaky Blinders 💫1920s-tinted grit & glamor 💫Stage Magicians 💫Slow-burn, star-crossed 💫Magical Bootlegging 💫Mental Health Rep 💫Only one trunk👀 #revpit ‘25 Winner #Q #F #RF #QuestPit #agentguide

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

When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #QuestPit #W #F #LGBT #YA

#W #A #DF #PR #H #T #questpit RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 x DJANGO x THE BLOOD MERIDIAN x SINNERS 🦌former slave mc turned outlaw 🦌night creatures hunting innocents 🦌i ain't ever been this obsessed with no woman who stabbed me 🦌native american monster hunters 🦌why are you a deer masquerading as a wolf?

A CRUMBLING CERTAINTY: Historical Urban Fantasy set in an alternate version of Egypt in 1952. 💥 Political tension 👹 Paranormal Demons 😵 Dealing with trauma 📜Historical fantasy 🐪 Egypt in 1952 👨‍👨‍👧 Found family 💬 Witty banter #Questpit #Q #HFic #F #MY #A #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

🌾 TRUE GRIT X THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY meets AMERICAN PRIMEVAL 🌾 Brooding, determined heroine 🌾 Coming-of-age, family trauma, secrets 🌾 Perilous mountains, desolate deserts, hostile mining towns 🌾 Mental health rep 🌾 Lit fic prose #questpit #W #A #HFic

After a young woman on the Oregon Trail survives her family’s murder, assimilates into the Mojave tribe & reenters white society with a facial tattoo, she must hide her love for her Native family when she’s forced to sell her life story on a tour of the American West. #questpit #W #HFic #A

I'm also 85% done writing my second novel, a historical fiction about Olive Oatman. I've been drafting with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social #NovelMill workshop, led by Kristen Arnett, and it's been amazing! #WIP #amwriting #historicalfiction #historicalfictionwriters

I'm new here, so let's get to know each other! I'm an LA-based writer, online bookseller, and author of the book recs + culture Substack, The RONAREADer. I live with my Scottish terrier, Fezziwig, and my human man, Erik. ronareads.substack.com