Steph is ✨????????✨

HYSTERICALLY

If you need me, I’ll be screaming for the next 5-7 business days.

A 9-square collage with 8 pictures and one text box. The pictures are of five glasses of beer, a man in a suit, an empty boardroom, a fancy bookstore with intricate ceilings and shelves of books, a man running, a man lifting weights, a person at a computer looking at a spreadsheet, a picture of london with a double decker bus. The text reads: Sometimes you have to slow down to find what you're missing

A 9 square collage including a black cat, two glasses of red wine, a woman in a chef's coat cooking in a pan, a city skyline, a woman laying in the grass with a black cat, a woman plating salads, a mountain skyline, and a table in a restaurant with plates and wine. The center square has text that says: sometimes failure is the way to success.

Childhood friends to secret lovers to lonely workaholics an ocean apart.

She's regrouping. He's running away.

A twist of fate puts them back in each others’ arms at Christmas.

Until someone else's greed threatens to tear them apart forever.

✨Stiletto Contest Finalist✨

#QuestPit #OS #R #onsub

A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: An Editor's Guide to Enchantments & Adversaries, A cozy romantasy complete at 95k combining the plus-sized lead and cozy setting of A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon with the banter and STEM-inist bent of Love on the Brain. Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.

A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: the blurb: When Cecilia’s latest prototype—an amulet to protect non-magic persons—fails, her former college rival, Caspian Wolfe, offers resources from his magical engineering firm in exchange for co-credit. Despite her reservations he’s still the man who deals in hostile jabs and animosity, she relents, putting her research first. After weeks of blazing chemistry in the lab and between the sheets, Cecilia finds herself falling for a man she’s terrified to trust—if only her research into protection charms would ward her traitorous heart. Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.

A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. A dark haired woman and blond man are center. Text reads: the vibes: - plus-sized lead finding her power - complicated, messy family dynamics - strong, female friendship - cozy, modern fantasy setting - STEM based magic - "It was always you" - book covers for 'Do Your Worst' by Rosie Danan, 'Love on the Brain' by Ali Hazelwood, 'The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches' by Sangu Mandanna, 'A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon' by Sarah Hawley. Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.

A purple background with a blazing pastel comet. Text reads: chapter one - My magic rushes through the front door and finds nothing but static from the cottage’s inhabitant. It’s a glaring reminder I don’t belong here. I hesitate on the front porch, frowning at the doormat. Home, sweet home. I hadn’t considered my parents’ house my home in over a decade, after how they’d reacted when my long dormant magic stretched to life. I still remember the looks on their faces. My mother paled with unease; my father reddened with rage. For most, magic found its way to the surface before puberty. As early as seven or eight, but not past twelve. Tense breaths and watchful eyes filled my first twelve years, coupled with near constant reminders I wouldn’t have magic. As the daughter of two magicless, it was statistically improbable I’d break the mold... Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US.

Adding benefits with her hot, magical engineer rival seems risk averse, but when Cecilia realizes he’s no longer the man he once was, it’s too late to use their research into protective magic to ward her heart...

#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #F #R

A three by three moodboard. From left to right, top to bottom: a white table with dishes piled on it like oily dough sticks and silky bean curd, with the road in the background; a woman holding a guy's hand as they run past a Japanese food stall; a man holding a woman by the waist as they dance; a blue-tinged photo of a hand holding a person's neck and the person holding the hand; an image of a bus stand in the dark, whereby the bus stand is the only thing illuminated; a photo of three hands clinking three glasses of cocktails; a blue-tinged photo of a hand holding a cigarette up in a decrepit room; a red-tinged photo of a step of stairs leading up that is harshly shadowed; a red-tinged photo of a silhouette holding up a transparent umbrella by a building. In the middle of the moodboard, it states "adult upmarket speculative, FOR THE DAYS WE NEVER HAD." At the bottom of the moodboard is @kswri.tes.

ADDIE LARUE x VELVET WAS THE NIGHT

A hopeless romantic drags a grumpy college student with her to chase after an urban legend, and the rest is…

A nightmare of scary men and shady gangs and bloodthirsty vampires. Well, this certainly isn’t the romcom she had in mind.

#questpit #AG #A #SFF #S

Collage of candy canes, a muddy bog, a watch, a lollipop, a girl lost in the woods, an image of a snake biting a hand with text that reads: trust no one; a noose shaped from candy, dark chocolate, a red necklace, a dark castle draped in fog. Text over a dark candy patterned background reads: spells gone wrong, "ah trust issues," magic watch, time to get questing, torture by lollipop, deadly candy even deadlier games, inconvenient crushes, sugar transformation body horror, bewitched necklace.

THE OTHERWOODS x creepy Candy Land

To wish her wish come true and fix her ruined life, 13yo Nora plays the ultimate Game, leaping into a candy world laced with poison and riddles. But the Game's rigged, treats are torture, and she’s one wrong bite from being trapped forever.

#questpit #mg #h #ag

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING
A group of rivals get stuck inside a glitching VR competition and must overcome their longstanding grudges to break themselves out—or they'll lose their minds to the simulation before they figure out who’s trapped them inside.
#QuestPit #AG #YA #SF

SIX OF CROWS X A DARK & DROWNING TIDE
A flirty rogue & a haughty noble on a deadly quest must trust each other to gain power they desperately need—if only they’d stop lying to each other.
-Sapphic yearning/bickering
-Vicious gods
-Eye-centered magic system
#QuestPit #AG #F #A

I did get it! It was actually a really good thing, and I got really good news.

I NEED IT

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA

💋middle-aged feminist rage
🛼campy 80s setting
💋body horror
🛼satanic panic backdrop
💋dark humor
🛼the darkest of deals
💋bubblegum horror

#QuestPit #AG #A #H #W #WIP #editorguide

And I LOVE not knowing!!

THE HUNGER GAMES X THE FIFTH WAVE

After a missile explodes near San Francisco, ending a half century of global peace, 16-year-old Zuriah Laguerre and her 7-year-old twin siblings begin a dangerous journey to safety and discover an enemy not of this world. #Questpit #Q #YA #SF #S

I cannot wait to sink my teeth into this book. The goat tension calls to me.

The Magic of Now The story of a 62-year-old-farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it. Unique manifestations of grief woman-led cult offbeat humor central sister relationship older female protagonist neuroscience meets "woo" pseudoscience By: Cailin Barrett Bressack Rep: Alex Land, Mad woman literary agency

Gyla's sister's soul has returned as a goat, and her only lead to why is a new-age cult that vividly relives memories. As Gyla goes from skeptic to inner circle, she must choose: an illusion of the past where her sister is alive (and human), or acceptance of her sister's new form 🐐
#questpit #AG #A

Have I told you lately how much this moodboard slaps?

A image of the dunes at night behind a photo collage showing: the beach, tattoos, moonlight behind dark trees, a couple holding hands, a spell book, two friends covering each other's eyes, an inky hand over a pale throat, a hand sinking into the ocean

UNDEAD GIRL GANG x BRING HER BACK

When Parker's family ink magic predicts her best friend's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong step in the spell will damn both their souls to an inky hell forever.

#questpit #ya #h #ag

I love me a good enemies to ????

GIDEON THE NINTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING
A sapphic political intrigue fantasy that features:
- a twisty murder mystery
- sentient, decaying magic with a price
- magical history lost to corruption
- childhood friends-to-enemies-to-????
- women’s wrongs
#QuestPit #AG #A #F

REST IN PEACHES is now a Locus Award finalist AND a Dragon Award finalist!

My silly queer YA slasher is my favorite child and I’m so excited to see her getting some love! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Today is a really, REALLY good day.

Thank you!!

I fear tomorrow may be more of the same.

Anyway, 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

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Today was very

I paid a terrible price (too little sleep)

NIGHT COFFEE WAS A BAD CHOICE

There’s nothing I enjoy writing more than stories of underdogs biting and clawing their way through a nightmare-infested abyss, monsters gnawing at their bones as they slap fight for survival.

Motherfucking wind farms…

I’m SO sorry. Yes, move here. Just don’t bring any of that humidity with you.

It’s one of the prettiest regions on Earth and I will die on that hill