An agent's guide to Love and Mud *Tropes* *Reader reviews* *vibes* #Q currently querying #R love in wild places #A medium spiced #questpit

An #agentsguide to my contemporary romance, DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST featuring: 🚗Tension-filled road trip 💉Illness rep 🌄Coastal Canadian landscape ⛴️Boat ride in costume 📝(Not) a bucket list #questpit #Q #A #R

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Introducing an updated #agentsguide for A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME ✨Arab folklore & exploration of the myth of djinn 💎Unique magic system & world 🪞Explores inner demons & mental health ⚖️Corruption & greed as central to conflict 🧿23 full requests #questpit #Q #RF #agentguide

An empress with disability. A Dragon hoarding romance novels. A dysfunctional family of gods. Not the start of a joke, but Sy's undoing. When her ex, the chosen one, is murdered, feisty Sy fights the gods to escape a fate worse than death: becoming their eternal slave. #questpit #Q #F #BIPOC #LBGT

Love and Mud is for those of us who want a little adventure with their romance. Written with The Novelry, currently querying with 8 full requests out! #Q #A #R #questpit

AMARI x LOKI Kori, 12, finds herself stuck in a cryfest & painful menty b's after her mom dies When a meteor opens a portal, doppelgängers chase her. Kori learns their fates are bound & her grief transcends the multiverse Now, Kori must save herself — from herself! #QuestPit #MG #S #SF #Q #POC

Alpha and beta reader feedback for AT YOUR PACE, a new adult contemporary sports romance. It's made three people other than me laugh aloud so far, and hopefully more one day! If you want an ARC just dm me I just want people to enjoy this thing I wrote :) #QuestPit #Q #R #NA

SAPPHICS GONE GIRL IN SPACE When grieving widow Amani wakes up half way through a century long space mission, she must uncover the mystery of why she was awoken in the first place, haunted by an android with her dead wife's eyes. #questpit #SF #Q #D

GUEST LIST+HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE+LEAP YEAR Haunted by her past, Rosie must team up with a handsome local man to solve a murder—and outrun the monstrous presence stalking them across the Irish countryside. 🖤Gothic 🖤Enemies to lovers 🖤Murder mystery 📚Querying #agents now! #QuestPit #A #H #Dis #Q

When brainbox amputee Laura befriends a pirate in the supermarket, the new cabin girl must solve clues, defeat villains, placate sulky macaws AND win the day in court to save everyone she cares about. #Questpit 📖 #Q #MG #M #Adv #DIS #Hu

THE LITTLE MERMAID meets APPALACHIAN HORROR When Lily, a shadow-demon bound to the underworld, triggers an ancient prophecy, she must navigate a cult devoted to her estranged mother or become the catalyst that destroys her family and the Ozarks #QuestPit #A #H #F #DF #Q

THE HAAR x SLEWFOOT In SHEDDING SKIN, two men forced into molds make a deal to fix them both. 🇩🇪 Germanic folklore inspired m/m romance 🩼 Disability rep ❤️‍🩹 Intimacy through healing #WIP #HR #FR #lgbtq #questpit

LEAP YEAR, but haunted Rosie's travel to-do list: 🇮🇪 Return to Ireland 💀 Solve a murder 💚 Try not to fall for the mysterious local man 🧟‍♀️ Escape the monstrous presence stalking her 📚 Querying now - #agents, please reach out if you'd like to see it! 📚 #QuestPit #A #H #Horromance #R #Dis #Gothic #Q

DAVID COPPERFIELD × THE NAMES × MARTYR! with East Asian inspo Max wanted to die loved, NOT have others die because of his affection. But the Wind who reincarnated him will not let him live an effortless life of luxury without inflicting him with new trauma. #QuestPit #A #Lit #LF #HF #F #agentguide

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH Journals of a Familiar Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape. #questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

THE WHITE LOTUS x SUCCESSION An ousted Broadway marketing executive takes a job on a Black-owned private island in Miami, where ambition, scandal, and an ultra-wealthy family dynasty force her to decide how far she’s willing to go to restore her reputation and career. #QuestPit #A #WF #BVM #W

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #S #Q #Questpit #booksky

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE+THE GUEST LIST Twenty years after a study abroad trip ended in tragedy, Rosie returns to Ireland and must face her haunted past—and a real haunting—as she teams up with a grumpy-but-handsome local man to solve a murder. #QuestPit #A #H #Gothic #Horromance #R #Dis #Q

‼️IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT‼️ In solidarity with the general strike happening this Friday, we’re postponing this week’s event by ONE day. The event will now take place January 31st on Saturday. This strike is important to the both of us and we would appreciate you joining us.

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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

So honored to share that It’s All In Your Head got a Kirkus Starred Review!! ⭐️

Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live. Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...

✨New book update✨ I finished content edits for Across the Earth and Sky! 🎉 Thrilled to be one step closer to getting this book out in the world! It has romance, ride or die friendship, and chronic illness rep, and I can't wait for you all to read it. 📚 Stay tuned for more updates! elissadickey.com

✨It’s All In Your Head is now live on NetGalley! ✨

Thank you to everyone who supported my #QuestPit pitches! And thank you to the organizers, and to the agents who liked my pitches! Wishing everyone the best of luck. ❤️🙏🏻✨

A tale of subtle horror and butch-femme lesbian romance, with meditations on the grief that accompanies chronic illness and tenderness as the ultimate form of resistance. #A #RF #G #Q #LGBT #OwnVoices #questpit

Arcane X The Darkness Outside Us X Vespertine ✨ #OwnVoices chronic illness rep ✨ Pyromancy and magic inspired by dark matter ✨ A reluctant heir ✨ Friends to lovers ✨ Youth in revolt #QuestPit #YA #SFF #Q

A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME With 12 Full Requests (& a partial), expect… 💎 Unique magic system & world ♥️ Yearning & slow-burn spice ⚖️ Magical politics ⚔️ Quest 🦅 Forced proximity ✨ Arab folklore reimagined 🫶🏼 The below sensory aesthetics… #Questpit #RF #Q #NA

🥀VIOLET MADE OF THORNS X DEFY THE NIGHT🔮 ⭐Chronic illness & mental illness rep 🔥Forced proximity ❤️BFFs to enemies to lovers 🌿 Lessons in poison 👁️Involuntary visions of the future 👑Paranoid king with an affinity for poison 🗡️MC & rebellion are just using each other #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #DIS #OWN

LEAP YEAR, but make it haunted 👻 Rosie's travel to-do list: 🇮🇪 Return to Ireland 💀 Solve a murder 💚 Try not to fall for the mysterious local man 🧟‍♀️ Escape the monstrous presence stalking her #QuestPit #A #H #R #Dis #Horromance #Gothic #Q

SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted. #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist

A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her with rent she can’t afford—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient, and in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever🐾 #QuestPit #A #R #Q

🦽A woman who can't remember the accident.  💭A mind she no longer trusts.  🇫🇷A deep-dive into Paris.  ♌️A lioness.  👁️A blind man who helps her see the truth.  But only if she's brave enough to see herself for the first time again.  #questpit #Q #A #DIS

Starling House x Spells for Forgetting When Jude reluctantly returns to her hometown after over a decade away and accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster, she must rally her childhood friend group to stop their town from being erased from existence. #QuestPit #A #F #W

WHEN TIME RUNS OUT OF DEATH 🥀 Stone Butch-Femme lesbians 🥀 Chronically-ill MC 🥀 Pain Magic 🥀 If you are intolerable then I shall tolerate you 🥀 Angsty love confession 🥀 The unseen complexities of chronic pain 🥀 Tenderness vs. Rot #A #RF #Q #questpit #LGBT #OwnVoices

The HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE + THE GUEST LIST 🖤Horromance 🖤Gothic vibes 🖤Enemies to lovers When Rosie returns to Ireland, she must team up with a handsome local man to find her friend's killer—and escape the terrifying presence that's stalking her. #QuestPit #A #H #R #Dis #Q

A FORGERY OF FATE X LITTLE THIEVES Pearl's got three months to kiss a prince or become sea foam—if she isn't killed by his cousin's harpoon first, of course. 🧜‍♀️Mermaid with a side of thievery and stalking 🪄Magic (and phones, I guess) 👫First Friend (like ever) 🍽️Predator x Prey? #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide! SINNERS x IWAV Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway. #QuestPit #W #A #F

Dear Cera, Pack your bags! You've been invited to appear on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new dating show where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. Should you find a soulmate, you won't be exterminated in 2 years. Are you ready to find the one who's to die for? #questpit #A #R #SF #H #S #Q

WHEN DEVILS SING X FEAR STREET "Four pieces reunited by sinner's hand may finally break the Curse." Looks like Chava Rose is sinning. 💞 Women's autonomy ✡️ Jewish mythology ❤️‍🩹 Star-crossed lovers who never give up 🌈 Diverse ensemble ⚖️ Strong themes of equality #YA #H #Q #OWN #Jewish #questpit

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP 💜 Chronic Illness Rep 🌱 Plant Magic 💚 Bisexual Witches 🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar 😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company ☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance ☕ Cozy Vibes #QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #chronicillnessrep #ownvoices #LGBTQ #cozyfantasy

🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization? 🕸️ a post collapse adventure of psychic powers and nurturing community 🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US, with unexpected twists 🌱 Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built #A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky. Corado's about to break all three. 🤠 Vampire Cowboys 🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes 🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities Querying soon! #A #F #W #QuestPit

IMMORTAL x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS A reincarnated immortal and an emotionally damaged cowherd must escape the heavenly forces intent on tearing them apart. ✨A love destined to fail ✨A jealous Celestial Empress ✨An underworld filled with both torture and hope #questpit #AG #RF

PITCH x THROW LIKE A GIRL When a jeer-fearing quarterback is the first woman drafted to the NFL, she does everything she can to earn respect in the male-dominated sport she’s sacrificed everything for. #QuestPit #Q #A #R