Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy

I hope so too! 🫣🫣🫣🫣

I just got a full request from an editor at an amazing publishing house 🫣

Girl with brown skin and curly hair with her hands on her hips in front of a green background

Everyone, meet Zenora Vivra, the 18yo autistic transfemme protagonist of my novel A HARMONY OF WITCHES!
Zenora is a garden witch with a terrible secret: she has a brown thumb.

#amquerying #litagents #sapphicbooks #gelphie #wicked (art by my friend Erina 🥰)

This was mine 😭😭😭 I’m so proud

Thank youuu ❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️

After a missile explodes near San Francisco, killing thousands, 16-year-old Zuriah Laguerre and her 7-year-old twin siblings begin a dangerous journey to the military base they call home and discover an enemy not of this world. #GhostPit #Q #YA #SF #DR

Thank you!!

The witch and the grocer 78k sapphic cozy fantasy romance

The romance Witch x werewolf Butch x femme Ownvokces heds rep First time Open door spice Alarra Thorne Robin Hart

The pitch Alarra thorne is a broke, disabled, single witch getting evicted from her failing apothecary. On a commiseratory night out with her half-satyr bff Trixie, Alarra meets Robin Hart, a half werewolf butch grocer wanting a second job thanks to the spreading friit blight. After seeing alarra collapse at work, Rlbin ahrees to work with her despite the low pay.

Comps The homey witch Late bloomer The very secret society of irregular witches Legends and lattes

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to work in her failing apothecary. But when she and the grocer fall in love, a ghost torments the shop! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her new hot gf.

#ghostpit #A #FR

Thousands of phantom stingers pierce my skin, leaving no evidence but for the shaking of my hands. I flip the wooden sign on the front door to “Closed,” sighing as the cold winter daylight streams in through the glass panes. It reflects little white squares on the knobby wooden floor. Funny. Kinda makes me want to play hopscotch. As if I could. I heave a deep sigh, glancing around my apothecary. Dust motes swirl in circular ballets, bouncing off each other in fireworks of throat-scratching particles. How poetic. Limping, I hobble over to my counter, where piles of the most common herbs lay, untouched. I’m fucked.

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

THE WITCH AND THE GROCER
- femme x butch
- witch x werewolf
- slow burn
- small town apothecary
- ghosts
- haunted fruit
- #OV #DIS rep

#ghostpit #FR #Q #A

First lines ⬇️

When cursed trans Prince Casper Sweetwater is caught and forced to live as his deadname, he thinks all hope is lost. He’s to be married off to a stranger, and to make sure he doesn’t run away, he’s been assigned a constant elven guard named Darrow Broadside. Desperate to return to the rebellion planning to kill the king, Casper realizes that his only chance of survival, to live as his true self will be if he breaks his curse. He enlists the assistance of a palace mage to help. She discovers that the cure to the curse is in Darrow’s homeland, which means that Casper cannot be cured unless he leaves. Casper must figure out how to escape the palace while dodging his suitor and his shadow. The only problem is, Darrow is very handsome and shockingly kind, and Casper is very gay. He must fight off distraction (or invite it in) to have any hope of freedom.

SWORDCROSSED X FAEBOUND

Under the Royal Guard’s Gaze

- forced proximity
- prince x guard
- arranged marriage
- tyrant king
- secret rebellion
- elemental magic
- persuasion magic
- trans MC
- open door spice
- elf LI
- baths and royal logistics

#ghostpit #NA #FR

Thank you KJ 😭😭😭😭

Tropes in AHOW around a book saying a HARMONY OF WITCHES

Text excerpt from chapter two with daisies on it

WICKED X R&J X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

An autistic, transfemme, plant-killing garden witch works with a rival music witch to care for an ancient flower. When a meltdown turns it sentient, she must regulate her emotions to turn it back & prevent a war.

#ghostpit #ya #f #q

Images: girl holding pumpkin, profile of teen girl, magical books, girl on surfboard with witch's hat, teen witch mid-ritual; text: Early Magic, ya contemporary fantasy

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 👻 🎃

Clueless x Practical Magic

Two witches. A missing portal. And a crafty daemon. Also a hot vet and some surfing.
Oh, and a perfect pair of Prada boots.

#ghostpit #Q #F #YA #Q
#WriteSky

Red background. Text: everything changes, except me. Next to a milkshake with a blood drop running down the side.

When vampire Corrine enters a cooking competition, the last thing on her mind is love. She has to battle stiff competition and her growing feelings, all while keeping her secret hidden from the reporter who she's falling for.

#ghostpit #wip #pn #r #cozy

Thousands of phantom stingers pierce my skin, leaving no evidence but for the shaking of my hands. I flip the wooden sign on the front door to “Closed,” sighing as the cold winter daylight streams in through the glass panes. It reflects little white squares on the knobby wooden floor. Funny. Kinda makes me want to play hopscotch. As if I could. I heave a deep sigh, glancing around my apothecary. Dust motes swirl in circular ballets, bouncing off each other in fireworks of throat-scratching particles. How poetic. Limping, I hobble over to my counter, where piles of the most common herbs lay, untouched. I’m fucked.

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

THE WITCH AND THE GROCER
- femme x butch
- witch x werewolf
- slow burn
- small town apothecary
- ghosts
- haunted fruit
- #OV #DIS rep

#ghostpit #FR #Q #A

First lines ⬇️

When cursed trans Prince Casper Sweetwater is caught and forced to live as his deadname, he thinks all hope is lost. He’s to be married off to a stranger, and to make sure he doesn’t run away, he’s been assigned a constant elven guard named Darrow Broadside. Desperate to return to the rebellion planning to kill the king, Casper realizes that his only chance of survival, to live as his true self will be if he breaks his curse. He enlists the assistance of a palace mage to help. She discovers that the cure to the curse is in Darrow’s homeland, which means that Casper cannot be cured unless he leaves. Casper must figure out how to escape the palace while dodging his suitor and his shadow. The only problem is, Darrow is very handsome and shockingly kind, and Casper is very gay. He must fight off distraction (or invite it in) to have any hope of freedom.

SWORDCROSSED X FAEBOUND

Under the Royal Guard’s Gaze

- forced proximity
- prince x guard
- arranged marriage
- tyrant king
- secret rebellion
- elemental magic
- persuasion magic
- trans MC
- open door spice
- elf LI
- baths and royal logistics

#ghostpit #NA #FR

collage with red background and pictures of a pomegranate, a knight, a snake, thorns, a shelf of herbs, and an ouroboros. atop it, the name of the book: when time runs out of death

BUTCH-FEMME x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH

In a realm where magic is wielded through pain, a disabled healer joins a quest to cure the wraith-infected land from the Omen, Chaos, as her grief threatens to destroy her.

🥀 butch knights
🥀 disability rep

#RF #A #Q #GhostPit #LGBT #G #amquerying

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #GhostPit #A #Q #R #LGBT

Image: Wednesday-like girl holding a small pumpkin; text: Early Magic, ya contemporary fantasy

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Clueless x Practical Magic

When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a ruthless plan to steal it back—though it means betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic.
👻
🧙‍♀️
❤️
🏄‍♀️
🌲
🎃

#ghostpit #YA #F #Q
#WriteSky

Door in the Fernwood: In this magical Irish bloodline, poison runs deep.

When sixteen-year-old Quinn puts on an ancient ancestral ring, it shatters the protective binding spell her family cast at birth—awakening clairvoyant powers she should have inherited from her Irish magical bloodline. But the ring also makes her visible to Neris, a Victorian sorceress who hunts Quinn to steal the ring. Hidden away in an Oregon enchanted forest with extended family, Quinn must master her powers before Neris destroys not only her, but their entire family tree.

Portal to another realm, plant magic, elixirs and poisons, romance subplot, magical artifacts, time travel, magical baking

Quinn gripped her camera and leaned forward, her shins pressing against the greenhouse ladder. Face to face with her majestic corpse flower, she held her breath as its infamous, putrid odor spilled from the curling burgundy folds. After years of careful cultivation, she couldn’t afford to miss a single stage of its first bloom. The camera’s shutter clicked one final time as she aimed into its central chamber. Satisfied with her shots, she climbed down and switched on the exhaust fan. Through the greenhouse glass, she watched her elderly neighbors on their back deck, gossiping as usual, completely unaware of the olfactory surprise heading their way. Right on cue, Vera’s voice rang out. “Woo-ee! Who died?” she screeched, sniffing the air. “Nobody croaked,” her husband Artie grumbled as he sipped coffee from his John Deere mug. “It’s that young girl next door. You remember she invited us over to look at some big, stinky flower tonight?” “Well, I’m not goin’. Bet you I’d pass out if I got any closer,” Vera said. “You know her mother keeps her locked up in that backyard doing the strangest things. It’s just not normal for a girl her age.” Although the comment stung, small-town judgments like this only fueled Quinn’s retreat into her own backyard utopia, where she propagated plants from all over the globe—the carnivorous, poisonous, endangered, the beautiful, the ugly, and the common. She sketched the rare or interesting ones—charcoal drawings lined the interior walls of her garden shed wherever she found a blank space. She collected their seeds, dried their leaves, made teas, salves, and medicinal remedies.

A teen outcast from a secret line of Irish plant magicians must harness newfound powers to protect herself from a poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time.
🍄 Plant magic
🌿 Poisons + elixirs
💌 Romance subplot
🎂 Magical baking
🚪 Portal to another realm
#amquerying #GhostPit #ya

fruitwip poster by tyler stasi

fruitwip pitch and moodboard

fruitwip themes and comps

#GhostPit #W #Spec

Severance x PIRANESI x THE GARDEN

How far would you go to hide the person you used to be?

⚜️botanical/psychological horror
⚜️epistolary
⚜️moral decay
⚜️unidentified FMC
⚜️literary-leaning

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

🍓👒🪴🕰🪑

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING

Time and Time Again.

In a gothic world of haunted seas and long-lost monsters, a queer ship navigator takes one last voyage—only to discover he’s not just mapping the sea but retracing the paths of a past life.

#GhostPit #A #Q #F #PN #LGBT #G

A green background, an Agent's Guide to "KNOW YOU BETTER," an adult plus-size romcom by Brittney Farrell. Includes two stock images of characters, one plus-size woman and a tattooed man. Plus images of two dogs, a kitchen, and laser tag.

"Know You Better" one-paragraph pitch: After her boyfriend of six years moves out and leaves her with rent she can’t afford, retail manager Sydney Bennett is barely hanging on—juggling long shifts and a side hustle dog-sitting for clients with the worst-behaved pets in Metro Detroit. When she meets Owen Sutton in the personal care aisle after a rant about two “demonic Pomeranians,” he’s instantly charmed—and in need of a sitter for his own, much better-behaved dogs. What starts as a business arrangement turns into something gentler and deeper: a slow-burning romance between two people still healing from betrayal. But as Sydney faces losing her apartment and Owen’s past betrayal comes back to haunt him, they’ll have to decide if the safety they’ve found in each other is worth risking their hearts for. Along with Target Audience info: Millennial and Gen Z women who love books that feel like a Taylor Swift song. For fans of heartfelt romcoms that balance wit and humor with deep topics. And readers who fall in love with real, messy characters and crave positive plus-size representation. And comp titles with images of "Savor It" by Tarah DeWitt, citing sizzling banter and tension, "Curvy Girl Summer" by Danielle Allen for the plus-size confidence, "You, With a View" by Jessica Joyce for the emotional exploration of starting over, and "Just for the Summer" by Abby Jimenez for acts of service as a love language. On a green background with two more stock images of characters.

Green background with a writing sample and quotes from "Know You Better"

Tropes of "Know You Better" and character images, stock, along with information about the characters. Sydney Sage Bennett: 30, Aquarius, Retail Ops Manager. Empathetic. Competitive. Amazing cook. Loves hockey. Sarcasm as a shield. Pilates girlie. Brunch is her love language. Poor spending habits. Younger sister. Sworn off relationships to focus on herself. Owen James Sutton: 31, Cancer, National Events Manager. Patient and loyal. Flirty. Loves hockey. Bottles everything up. Former company co-founder. Amazing dog dad. Acts of service. Takes care of his elderly neighbor. Older brother. Prone to emotional spill-overs.

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. #GhostPit #Q #A #R

👻EVERY CRUEL CORPSE is a YA/NA urban fantasy about two reapers who kill instead of guide for a government in the afterlife, forced to perform magical manipulation rituals when they begin to be haunted by the ghosts of their victims. #GhostPit #Q #F #PN

My updated #AgentsGuide for...
✨ ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE ✨
#GhostPit #Q #PN #M #NA

🏡 cleaning haunted houses
🌊 spooky vibes by the sea
🎭 dark humour
🔪 serial killer plot
🧠 neurospicy herione
🌈 queer & trans rep

Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life…

"I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS. IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY. IT WAS REAL." Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray. Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track. Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days. Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life.

Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.

Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”

GRIM PORTENTS

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of.

👻 #SP #F #H #PN #OWN #GhostPit

An illustration of a ghost overlaid on an oil painting of an old house in the mountains. Text reads: Here Comes Trouble.

A girl.
Her dog.
A whole lot of trouble.

When Kit Raglan takes a quick job staying a night in a haunted house to make a few bucks, she expects a quiet night, maybe a ghost if she's really lucky. Instead, she finds a body with her name carved into it. HERE COMES TROUBLE. #GhostPit #A #W #T 👻

A moodboard for my sci-fi horrormance WIP, BABEL ON CALLISTO. On the top left is a glowing humanoid figure with a planet and rings orbiting its head. In the center, white glitchy text reads: "NOT ALL ENDINGS ARE THE END. SOMETIMES THEY ARE THE BEGINNING," repeated multiple times. Beneath that, a figure walks into a starry void shaped like another person, reaching toward each other. Other elements include a flatworm floating in a grid-like space, a silhouetted couple reaching toward each other in a virtual tunnel, and hands weaving a glowing galaxy-like thread.

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

⭐ two exiled men (+ their secrets)
🌙 one lunar prison (+ its horrors)
⭐ a government that wants their data
🌙 a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t make it out alive

#ghostpit #SF #H #R #LGBT #WIP

Picture of a shadow person. Text: "I am nothing more than a husk, waiting to be filled by something greater than myself. A great change is upon me. A great change is moving through the world. It is already in motion. It cannot be stopped." Coming to beta winter 26. Querying Spooky Season 26

"HatWIP"

The Babadook X The Exorcist

He has been tormented by Shadow people since almost dying at age six.
They are increasing in frequency.
The Red Eyed God in the woods speaks of a great change.
Now, a man in a hat, who speaks the language of hate, wants him too.

#GhostPit #W #Horror #A

The witch and the grocer 78k sapphic cozy fantasy romance

The romance Witch x werewolf Butch x femme Ownvokces heds rep First time Open door spice Alarra Thorne Robin Hart

The pitch Alarra thorne is a broke, disabled, single witch getting evicted from her failing apothecary. On a commiseratory night out with her half-satyr bff Trixie, Alarra meets Robin Hart, a half werewolf butch grocer wanting a second job thanks to the spreading friit blight. After seeing alarra collapse at work, Rlbin ahrees to work with her despite the low pay.

Comps The homey witch Late bloomer The very secret society of irregular witches Legends and lattes

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to work in her failing apothecary. But when she and the grocer fall in love, a ghost torments the shop! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her new hot gf.

#ghostpit #A #FR