Spent the day doing the pre-Christmas cleaning, which I HATE, but I listened to #thetorturedwriterspodcast @saranaidinecox.bsky.social which I LOVE, & time passed quickly. If you haven't listened yet, what are you waiting for? #writingcommunity #torturedwriter

Loved The Wedding People by @alisonespach.bsky.social Phoebe's life is falling apart - miscarriages, cheating husband - she checks into a luxury hotel, intending to end her life. All the other guests are celebrating Lila's million $ wedding, & Lila isn't about to have her wedding ruined. #bookpost

2 form passes for BEAUTY IS A BRITTLE GLASS yesterday, both from agents who requested the full MS of my first novel & asked to see my next one. Harsh. Still got 2 fulls & 2 partials out, so I'm stepping into Christmas optimistic I'll meet my #agent in 2026. #amquerying

Any other fans of #TheHoliday, preferably with a swanky mansion in LA, fancy a house swap for Christmas? I can't promise snow or Jude Law, but I have a cute cottage, chickens, wood fires & a claw foot bath squashed in a tiny bathroom. 😅 #litagents particularly welcome.🎄 #amquerying

The Black Rabbit pub, Arundel, features in my novel 'I, Said the Sparrow'. Thea meets William under the veranda & William spills the tea about his past. He is murdered walking home along the river. Thea is arrested & has to fight to clear her name. #amquerying #writingcommunity

To all my #WritingCommunity American friends, I am thankful we connected. 🙏 🧡 Have a great Thanksgiving if you celebrate. 🦃

Walk in Arundel Park this morning. Perfect November sunshine. Sheep nudged the grass & we were greeted by a skein of honking geese. Arundel features in my first two novels & in my WIP. Where do you go to find inspiration? #amwriting #amquerying

Perfect present for the reading walker in your life. Beautifully written, almost poetic. Describes walking on ancient pathways across the UK & a couple of other walks in the Himalayas & Palestine. Loved it! #bookpost

Updated #agentsguide following #questpit 'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪 #litagents #amquerying

Perfect for Christmas, 'A Bloody Merry Murder' by #theanonymums Emile Castera and Eve Goodfellow. I'm gifting this copy to The Arcade Bookshop in Littlehampton, who are holding a #giftforbookforchristmas event on Christmas Eve. #bookpost

A family flees a forest fire, treading water for hours in the sea before they are rescued. Traumatised and scarred, the forest destroyed, they seek answers in order to heal. A perfect metaphor for collective responsibility for global warming. #bookpost

LUTHER X BLADE RUNNER The Titus Imperative keeps Wireds from harming humans. At least, it should. When humans & androids turn up dead in his city, PI Eliot must prove the killer isn’t Wired before they decommission all androids, including the one he loves. #questpit #A #Q #SF #bipoc

She’s all big-city glamour and crème brûlée. He’s more meatloaf and Midwestern stubborn. When a culinary queen clashes with a grumpy college professor, sparks—and spatulas—fly. #questpit #Q #A #R

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife 🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025 🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025 🖤Big 5 Editor Requests GRIEF-RAGE-POWER Romance & Revenge A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith #YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit

I’m delighted to see all you Book People moving away from Leon’s World. Over here, the air is clean, the water is pure, and the skies are blue. I am * a soft-boiled mystery writer (pjdonison.com), indie published, working on Book 3, Death of the Butcher. 1/3

A sneak peek at my new WIP for #QuestPit Rapunzel X Eastern European Folklore #TowerWIP #W #YA #H #R

#editors take a 👀👀👀 at this! It'll be snapped up quickly for sure. ❤️🖤

Here is my list for #QuestPit 1. Healing Silver #W #A #R 2. The Children who Whispered to Water #W #MG #F 3. Wilderness Lockup #W #A #DR #Dys #T Feedback/critiques are welcome.

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 #SFPit #A #Q #SF #Clifi #agentsguide

#litagents take a 👀 at this. I loved Rebecca and can't wait to read this. 💥

𝕕𝕦 𝕄𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕣'𝕤 ℝ𝔼𝔹𝔼ℂℂ𝔸 𝕩 ℕ𝕖𝕥𝕗𝕝𝕚𝕩'𝕤 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℙ𝔼ℝ𝔽𝔼ℂ𝕋 ℂ𝕆𝕌ℙ𝕃𝔼 When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec who's always tried to do the 'right thing' must decide how far she'll go to protect them. Especially the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband. #Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY

A SPARK THAT SHATTERS STEEL – 87k What if UGLIES crashed a Regency ballroom? 🌟 Alternate history world of power and pretense ❤️ Slow burn 🔥 Girl genius vs gilded patriarchy 💅 Feminist rebellion that outsmarts ... 👑 A royal villain pulling every string #Q #YA #F #RF #questpit

presenting the #agentsguide for my adult queer gothic horror romance wip featuring: 🥀 angel summoning cult 🥀 corruption arc(s) 🥀 extremely unreliable narrator 🥀 it’s all a metaphor for ocd the problem with angels is, sometimes, they talk back. ✨ready for betas in December 👀 #QuestPit #W #A #H

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

In the highlands and in the glens, where the volcanic streams tick with waters yet prime, and the corncrake cries and the air is a Gaelic hymn, where blood was ploughed from a crop of people now peregrine. #questpit #LF #historical #OS #Q

BLOOD MOON (but make em witchy) & the twisted 🔥of IMMORTAL DARK A reluctantly good witch is forced to investigate her darkly gifted soulmate when she learns he’s planning to kill her at the altar so that he can keep his forbidden magic all to himself. #questpit #Q #YA #F #R #RF #S

PINEAPPLE STREET x SANDWICH THIS ENDS NOW: A serial marriage-jilter hits a swanky wellness retreat to learn why she keeps fleeing perfect husbands. But healing means facing her nastiest ghost: the manipulative, brilliant first love whose poison still runs in her veins. #A #UP #Q #QuestPit

GILMORE GIRLS in LATAM x Ashley Poston She spent years lost in maladaptive daydreaming—until one dream bleeds into real life. ❤️‍🔥 Rivals to lovers 🏡 Forced proximity 🌿 Small-town magical realism 🌺 Latinx, anxiety & vitiligo rep ✨Big 5 editor interest #QuestPit #R #A #Q

CRITICAL ROLE meets VAMPIRE DIARIES when half-celestial Cassandra is infected with a dark goddess' plague & marked for sacrifice. She & the beguiling vampire Sylvain must save the realm from eternal darkness before their star-crossed love dooms them all. #questpit #w #f #rf #a

Reverse KPOP DEMON HUNTERS x THE BRIDGE KINGDOM. A woman cursed with ice powers and vitiligo discovers the heir sent to stop her hides demon blood she can cure. They bargain to save each other. But their souls are bound, she's falling in love and his death means hers too. #QuestPit #F #R #A #OWN

Breath of Starlight follows Auryn, a fallen star, and Kailorien, the immortal forged to guard her, as they risk devotion and defiance to break free of a destiny that would consume them—or see their Bond become the weapon that ends the world for the second time. #questpit #RF #Q #A

When a powerful ghost and a skeptical ghost hunter find themselves inexplicably bound to one another, the would-be adversaries work together to figure out the source of their new connection while dangers from the ghost's past come to haunt them. #questpit #PN #Q THE GHOST-BIND

The darkness Jelena sees in Dominic’s soul terrifies her but she can’t deny the pull of desire. Her touch might free the nightmares chained to him, but blanket the world in chaos. When a banished evil returns for him, they must surrender their secrets & hearts to defeat it. #questpit #W #A #PR #R

🧠Nature, 🫀self, and 🫁breath. All 3 souls pay the price of violence 🗡️. Can Veera use her healing magic to restore them before her mother is lost in the cage of her deteriorating mind? #F #RF #W #A #questpit

🏆 Cheshire Novel Prize HC 💍 1950s NY High Society 💀Murdered Husband 👗Couture Gowns 🫦Noir Romance 🍸Sexy Bartender 💰Handsome Rich Widower 📖Family Secrets 🔫Mob Boss w/a Promise #questpit #A #S #T #HF #Q

AWAKEN NINTH HOUSE x BOOTS A supernatural murder mystery, one plot twist away from a lovestruck freshman ending up the scapegoat in a sinister plot to unhinge the world. 🖤Dark Academia ⚖️Complex politics 🗡️Murder Mystery ❤️‍🔥All the firsts #questpit #A #NA #F #RF #LGBT #OWN

COOP KNOWS THE SCOOP x BOB’S BURGERS: #MG kids on bikes adventure with 2 timelines: 1995: Friends find out their parents were in a band & go on a quest to find their hit album. 2025: Their kids hear about said album & go on a quest to find the lost recordings. #W #questpit

GENERATION V x NINTH HOUSE Despite a whirlwind romance that has him in a bi-panic-chokehold, Matt has to solve the magical murders of the Rogue to break a curse that marks him as a villain in a world he's dying to belong to. #questpit #Q #A #NA #F #RF #LGBT #OWN

A boy who wants to save his family, a girl who disappears into the woods, a magical house that no one understands. If they find each other, can they save each other? Will they escape darkness, only to find the forest knows it too -Based on true story #questpit #YA #F #Q #dark

Tragedy struck Natalie's family 34 years ago; now the past is threatening to tear her life apart again. #QuestPit #A #T #questpit

🇵🇷Irene's Summer Plan: 🧓🏾Visit Abuelo, but guess what he's evil 🌀Stumble into a new world via a portal 🏝️Learn Taíno gods are real 🌟Unlock her star magic 🦜Wake Slumbering Parents 👻Purify a spirit 💎Destroy a medallion 🕷️Stop a power hungry chieftain #QuestPit #MG #F #Q #LGBT

OLD WOUNDS + DREDGE ⚓Queer Transmasc MC 🐟Small town horror ⚓Ocean madness 🐟Psychological/body/cosmic horror ⚓Paranoia 🐟Grieving past life ⚓Transmasc rage "FROM THE SEA FRET" #QuestPit #Q #A #H

WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN Tai can get through this. Things'll go back to normal. Steal the cargo, stop thinking about the human, wipe the security feed, stop thinking about the human, get out of the vault, stop thinking about the human. Easy. #QuestPit #Q #LGBT #R #A

#questpit is on bluesky too?!?😱 Her life for a dream—that's the forgotten bargain Isla made with the god of sleep. 🩸Dracula, but immoral gods 💀Find you in every lifetime 🫀Dealing w/ Trauma & Abuse via Body Horror 🩶You came, you called 🥀Contemp, Gothic Fantasy & Historical themes #Q #A #LF #R #H

ADDIE LARUE x YOU'VE REACHED SAM On the verge of death, Safa makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious jinn. Now she has 3 obscure clues, 0 memories and 1 month to win back her life. 🇵🇰-rep & folklore 💘allies to lovers 🔍amnesia with a twist ⏳ticking clock #questpit #ya #f

TOUCH OF DARKNESS X ARCANA ACADEMY After a demi-goddess escapes captivity from her ex, she turns to an academic institute run by a prince of Hell, determined to start a new life as a schoolmaster. But her students are wicked & the headmaster wants her gone. #questpit #F #R #RF #W

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

A Half-Baked Harmony - a sweet, cosy romcom set against the backdrop of the Brighton seafront. Rock star Johan and baker Dominic, caught between their private hardships and the promise of a brighter future together, must confront their demons and choose each other over fear. #QuestPit #A #R #LGBT

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Nature is decaying, nobles are hoarding magic, and demons prey on everyone. A possible chosen one, a man who failed his destiny, and a woman rejected by fate must work together for one last chance to save the dying world. #questpit #Q #F #A #agentguide

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