Isana Santiz

#agentsguide to 𝐋𝐄𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒 ✨

A speculative adult novel with a dark fairy tale twist 🖤

Where a heartbroken writer must decide: be consumed by a toxic love, or accept that her life isn't a perfect romance novel

#questpit #A #F #S #Q

Collage: (top row, left to right) bookshelf in misty greenhouse, angel of death statue, woman kneeling statue, hand outstretched with green fire, (middle row, left to right) excerpt reading "'I won't keep you long.' 'You can keep me as long as you want.'" , cloaked man walking in dilapidated church, middle eastern woman wearing dark green, green book with gold details on a desk, (bottom row, left to right) gold mirror on forest floor, a lightly sparkled hand reaching out to a hand painted black and heavily sparkled, a work station with medicinal herbs. Text: "Daughter of Sky and Sorrow" "H.S. Chaman"

THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE × VOICE OF WAR

Hadassah Nuri once escaped the Undercity.
Now, she's a scholar of healing.
The heretics call her something else.
Prophet. Symbol. Weapon.

For fans of divine rot, sacred rebellion, and soft hands stained red.

#QuestPit #W #A #DF #MY #LGBT

A collage of colour and black/white motorsport photos to help capture the tone of my upcoming racing novel, BETWEEN THE WHITE LINES.

They say Sam Ferguson's racing career is finished. He’s chasing his father’s legacy, but with an enemy in his garage and a ruthless champion dominating the grid, victory's anything but guaranteed.

Triumph and tragedy are separated by inches BETWEEN THE WHITE LINES.

#questpit #Q #A #HF

A pitch card for YA fantasy The Pirate, The Princess, and John by @saraduranauthor, marked “Now Querying” with a gold star noting “5 full requests and counting.” The book is a standalone, complete at 82,000 words.

I’m excited to share this #pitchcard for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, and JOHN, the YA fantasy novel I #amquerying, feat:

🏴‍☠️ LGBTQIA+ rep
👑 non-western setting
🌸 anti-colonial lens
🏴‍☠️ girls w/ swords
👑 besties-to-lovers
🌸 friendship > everything

#QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

For the late night / final round of #questpit crew & fans of epic #darkfantasy, check out my #agentguide!

Soon... so soon manifesting news!!!

Thanks to the #writingcommunity for support during #questpit! Sharing some vibes and some tunes, y'all have been amazing!

Volatile religious politics of Hannah Whitten’s THE FOXGLOVE KING x exploitation of loyalty in Alix E. Harrow’s THE SIX DEATHS OF THE SAINT
✨ rainy cities & existential crises
✨ missing girls who fight gods
✨ faking it till he makes it, detective edition
#questpit #A #F #Q

Graphic contains "An Agent's Guide to: Mark of the Horde" manuscript by Isana Santiz. The background is a dark star-flecked sky with an image of a dragon. The dragon's eye is shining warmly like an exploding sun but there are three black slashes across the dragon's face.

The graphic displays the book comparables for Mark of the Horde manuscript keeping the same theme of a star-flecked night background as the first graphic. The comps are: THE WITCHER for it's gray world, creature fantasy, and people as conduits magic system. THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER for it's multi-POV, secrets theme, and forbidden power. Finally SABRIEL for it's necromancer hunters, found family and objects of power tropes.

This graphic holds an artist rendering of two skull masked figures on a white beach with a rocky background. One of the masked figures is smaller than the other with dual short swords and a bandolier across her leather armor. The taller figure is wielding a sword. Their matching outfits and masks are in grey tones. Shadow magic swirls off them.

The artist rendering included in this graphic is of Hellkite: the female protagonist of Mark of the Horde. She's wearing the black leather armor for her status as an Elite Officer of the Torvé Messor (grim reapers serving the grand leader of the Horde). Hellkite is known as the Dragon grim reaper because her mask makes her appear like a dragon, it is black but highlighted in gold. She is fully covered with a cowl and is even wearing black gloves, as a Torvé Messor can never be identified by anything other than their masks. Shadow magic hovers around her legs and plays across her dual twin swords, making the illusion complete that she is a grim reaper, an immortal creature that guards the dead abyss. The writing in the graphic reads: "For the past thirteen years the Horde has ruled over the conquered holy lands of Dercas under the supreme rule of AREBOS, the ALPHA of all. For the first time in centuries, people are free to be masters of their own fates. One of these is HELLKITE who, through sheer will and brutality, was able to rise from nobody to the greatest warriors within the Horde, the Torvé Messor. When her last mission goes awry, Hellkite goes against orders to save innocents from the clutches of a Necromancer. The defiance cost her as it leads to the death of her beloved sister. Hellkite’s world begins to spiral. Riddled with guilt, Hellkite begins to question everything she ever knew. The deeper she dives into her sister’s final mission regarding a holy relic, the more distorted the truth becomes. With the help of her Torvé family, Hellkite break into the Alpha’s vault to steal the relic. In the vault, she finds the world is heading to destruction, all orchestrated at the hands of the ones she trusted most. Hellkite must resort to trusting her sworn enemies, the Rebellion, only then will she be able to unravel the secrets of the vault's relic before the world is consumed by the Dead Abyss."

Hey #Writingcommunity! Check out my #agentguide for Mark of the Horde.
#Amquerying Adult #Darkfantasy #epicfantasy

For those who love:
🔫Magic and Pistols
🗡️Shadow Female Baddies
🥷Hidden Truths & Secrets leading to Ticking Time Bombs
👪Found Family of Misfits

#questpit #A#F#DF

MONSTERS INC X NOSFERATU

YA Horror Romance

When a horror fan’s exorcism fails, she finds that the monsters aren’t just on the page—they’re real, and she must blend in their world while finding a way back to the world of the living before the monsters discover she isn’t one of them
#questpit #YA

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Thanks to the #writingcommunity for support during #questpit! Sharing some vibes and some tunes, y'all have been amazing!

A giant, spaceship hovers over a dusty, walled fantasy cityscape. In the foreground, two figures stand in shadow looking out over the scene. The words 'An Agent's Guide to CASCADE, by Gus Ryer' is along the top. His website, gusryer.com, is below.

A slide with metadata and story elements for CASCADE: Genre: Science Fiction w/ Fantasy Elements Wordcount: +-130,000 It also shows the book covers for the following: ASHES OF THE SUN, Django Wexler THE ARCHIVE UNDYING, Emma Mieko Candon ELDER RACE, Adrian Tchaikovsky NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE, Claire North Ps5's Horizon Zero Dawn Below that are the following phrases: Found family Failed terraforming A vast, hidden history Nanotech magic system Epic fantasy quest in a sci-fi world Ancient mechanical gods Arachnid mammals & guard drones Sword (1) vs. Railguns (lots)

A warrior woman w/ a winged helmet, armor, cape, and spear is along the right side of the image, fractured into triangles. Part of the following pitch is along the left: 2,000 years in the future, a galactic human empire fell, severing TRAPPIST-1e from other inhabited worlds before its terraforming could be completed. Wild nanotechnology ravaged the land, and civilization fell into a dark age. Eventually, the God Keepers—engineer priests who restored ancient nanotech—rose to power. While Lendi dreams of life outside the God Keepers, Falder is desperate to keep his best friend from abandoning their order—and him. But, when an ancient machine god crash-lands in a ball of fire and gray death, it severs Keepers from nanotech, plunging the world back into chaos. Meanwhile, Sedna and Renfrik have little patience for Keeper rules or mysticism. But, when a flood of nanites in the god’s wake consumes their home, they’re left with nothing to protect but each other...

Chapter 1 THE RUSH IS ON! This Tuesday, Planetfall, Inc. announced it would join the rash of megacorps racing to deploy terraforming infrastructure through the newly stabilized Taurine Strait. Previously dominated by New World Corporation, the franchised development of pseudoterra worlds is slated to be the hot market sector of the twenty-fifth century. -Excerpt from InvestSyder: Stellar Ed., June 15, 2398 The streets of Mahyan never fully slept. Night’s darkness, not yet broken by either the sun’s rise or the blinding, baleful Eye of Toros, wrapped Lendi more completely than her robes. Still, she couldn’t shake the feeling that eyes were on her. She wanted nothing more than to run. An eager vendor barred her way with his stringy arm. “A fine morning calls for a fine meal, miss.” He smiled and fanned out a selection of skewered mutton and whalemeat wrapped in sea grass. Pungent, spiced oil dripped onto the dusty street.

BOOK OF KOLI ➕ THE ARCHIVE UNDYING

Two fugitive engineer priests
Two vengeful warrior twins
Together, they’ll bring hell to the gods

🌍 Terraforming gone bad
🛰️ Ancient mechanical gods
🕷️ Arachnid mammals
🧙 Nanotech magic
⚔️ Sword (1) vs 🔫 railguns (lots)

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F #SFF

Hello, sinners.😈 Please enjoy my agents guide for Heaven's Tiny Daggers, a girl punk novel inspired by the true story of how My Chemical Romance created The Black Parade album in a haunted house.🔥 #QuestPit #A #Q #DF #H #PR

🩸THE BLOODMARKED DAUGHTERS🩸

“Shtrig, shtrig, where do you run?
Towards the forest, screeching as one.
Shtrig, shtrig, where do you sleep?
With worms and snakes, in a cave so deep.”

#questpit #YA #NA #F #Dark #DualPOV

When Vee finds Evergreen, an enchanted forest with roots to her ancestry, she must harness the forbidden magic blooming in her veins before Evergreen and the Human World fall to an eternal darkness.

#LitAgents, 🩵 this post or DM for a query/submission.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #SF

Thanks Mel!

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Awe thank you!

A collage of six images and a few text bubbles. The images are: 1) a smiling girl with big red X's over her eyes 2) A view from inside a cave looking out at the ocean. 3) A cliff overlooking the ocean. 4) A distant view of a road through trees. 5) The silhouette of a girl standing in front of a bright green light. 6) A black and white image of a hand covered in unidentified black substance, with the word help written over it. The first text box reads "Something is wrong in" and leads to a big word graphic over the entire poster reading "Bludeye Beach". The other text bubbles read "Is something out there", "Never walk home alone at night", and "Cat, Manny, Milo...what do they know?"

GRAVITY FALLS x DRESDEN FILES

Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in BLUDEYE BEACH.

👻Monster Menagerie
🫂Found Family
💖Slow-burn Romance

#QuestPit #F #H #Q

An agent's guide to "The Breath of Silence" a fantasy novel by M J Reynard against a dusk/dawn sunrise. At the top are three awards in laurels: Future Worlds 2023 Shortlisted; RevPit 2025 Shortlisted; Write Mentor 2025 Longlisted.

A sky and cloudscape with sunlight on the left and thick rolling cloud on the right. Title reads 'Comps' and below are four different subtitles with corresponding books: Magic - The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart Politics - The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem Atmosphere - The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne Slow Burn - One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (The Breath of Silence by M J Reynard)

A dark green forest. Caption reads - The Pitch: In a world where magic is forbidden, an outcast shifter & a heartbroken soldier form a fragile alliance to smuggle a relic, but as betrayal leads to murder, they must stop a vengeful sorceress or lose all magic - forever! (The Breath of Silence by M J Reynard)

Vertical red flames and sparks against a night sky. Two lists for Tropes & Themes: Slow burn Enemies to friends Culture clash Queernormative world Prejudice against magic & wealth Fish out of water Found family Shapeshifters & witches Immortals & reincarnates Dragons & tigers City in the sky!

BONE SHARD WAR/THE JASAD HEIR
There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret.
#QuestPit #Q #A #F #AgentsGuide

Love the pitch and the board!

Moodboard. Title: One Summer in Berlin. Main image: man and woman embracing (designed by Freepik freepik.com); arranged as Polaroids, clockwise: a Berlin train (photo by Lukas Bato on Unsplash); Brandenburg Gate (photo by Yannic Kreß on Unsplash); panoramic view of Berlin and the TV tower (photo by Max Saeling on Unsplash); Berlin Cathedral (photo by Julia Solonina on Unsplash)

Moodboard. Background image: Berlin Victory Column (photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash). Includes: Before Sunrise movie poster; Every Summer After (Carley Fortune) book cover; Heartless (Elsie Silver) book cover; Kilt Trip (Alexandra Kiley) book cover. Keywords: slow burn; friends to lovers; heartfelt; multicultural; '90s retro; spicy chemistry; single dad; forced proximity; destination romance

Moodboard. Background image: Berlin Victory Column (photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash). Beta reader quotes: "Great story with a beautifully crafted relationship"; “I found myself rooting for them from the beginning”; "Perfect blend of emotional and sexy"; "Lots of humor"; “The reveal was great”; “It definitely felt like I was there”; “I liked how the history was interwoven”

In ‘97 Berlin, a sensible French student’s plan to learn German leads to a sizzling romance with her reluctant host, an ex-athlete grappling with his future.
The devastating catch? Her career path is in Paris. To win custody of his son, he can’t leave.
#QuestPit #Q #A #R

A moodboard for the young adult manuscript by L. K. Carter featuring a haunted woods, a camouflaged dragon in flight, a powerful centaur ready to strike, a girl running for her life, an inviting mushroom ring, a pair of feet from someone fallen in the woods, and the embrace of a suspiciously kind stranger promising to keep everyone safe

Lenore would do anything to save her sister from the clutches of the monsters who took her. If only she knew how to survive the woods

A suspiciously kind stranger pledges his help, but can she still trust him when she learns his secret?

#QuestPit #Q #YA #Own #SFF #F #crossover

Love the new guide! It really pops off the feed!

An image of Lagertha from the TV show Vikings to the right and one of Robin Hood from the Robin Hood movie (2010) to the left, divided in the middle by an image of “Freydis sword”, adorned with intricate patterns, from the game Skyrim. Title: True Hate’s Kiss. 109,000 words New Adult Romantasy Text: “To break her curse, she needs a kiss… from the man she swore to kill.”

An image taken from the TV show Vikings of a hand holding a sword with Norse Runes etched into the blade. Text: When a man from the enemy clan murders Älva’s father, she swears revenge. But then her family is cursed to die. The only way to break the curse? A True Hate’s Kiss. The man she hates the most must kiss her of his own free will. But the more she learns about her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything.

An image of a man and woman kissing, silhouetted against the sunset. Text: Scandinavian Iron Age (almost Viking Age) Pretending to woo him while betraying him Feuding clans Enemies-to-forbidden-lovers Complicated family dynamics “Who did this to you?” / “You did!” Scandinavian folklore Nature spirits, magical swords, Norse witches Comp titles: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen, The Road of Bones by Demi Winters, Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, 10 Things I Hate About You (the movie)

An image of a conifer forest. Text: Opening Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart. “Lycki, stop!” My voice cracked, hoarse with panic. But my little brother’s green tunic and blond hair slipped through the conifer branches ahead, his distant voice floating back to me. “Come on, Älva! I found snowdrops!” Wonderful, we were about to start a war over flowers. Gut twisting, I burst into a sprint—past the overgrown sign nailed to a pine, ominous runes carved deep into the wood: ‘Hult Territory.’

She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family.

⚔️Age-old clan feud
🧪Unique magic & world
🐉Scandinavian folklore
❤️‍🔥Steamy Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers
🛡️"Who did this to you?" / "You did!
🗡️"Touch him & die"

#QuestPit #Q #R #F #A #AgentsGuide

Love the guide and the hook is great, really makes you want to keep reading through!

Text: An agent’s guide to The Ballad of Agnes Day, a 112k upmarket historical novel. Image: Two vintage-style mermaids with their tails entwined and a blood spatter across one corner.

The pitch: When a storms wrecks his islands’s passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die. Moodboard: Evil-looking mermaids, a violin, poisonous mushrooms and passenger steamers on stormy seas, with a moody blue-green hue.

Comps: The Sirens by Emilia Hart, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson as book covers

The snippet: ‘Are you seeing this?’ he cried. ‘Do you see them?’ ​ Dazed, Morton peered around him. All he could see was the black oil spill of the water, its steady surge and release. ‘What do you mean?’ he called back, blood thundering in his ears. ​ Edward’s eyes grew glossy with tears. Then he began to jerk around like a petrified beast, causing the boat to lurch beneath them. ‘They’re everywhere,’ he said in terror and wonderment. ‘They’re coming for me.’

Twenty-five years ago, men made history. But HER story will change everything…

🌊 Multi-POV
🌊 Feminine rage / ‘Good For Her’
🌊 Horror elements
🌊 Orcadian folklore
🌊 Atmospheric setting
🌊 Twisty plot
🌊 Editor interest

#questpit #Q #A #HF #agentsguide

A slide with green leaves and green watercolor stains says "The Pitch: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company." A black cat looks over it's shoulder at the text in the bottom right corner.

Tropes and Highlights include: found family, one bed at the inn, witches and familiars, cozy vibes, grumpy + sunshine, bi-for-bi romance, chronic illness rep, and foraging dates. Think, The Spellshop X Howl's Moving Castle. This text is on top of a green slide with green watercolor splotches and leaves. The book covers for The Spellshop and Howl's Moving Castle are in the center of the image.

Comps is written in the corner. Four book covers are shown in a row. Under the Whispering Door + Legends & Lattes + The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches = Potions Unincorporated. The words The Humor, The Cozy Fantasy Vibes, and The Romance make up the formula for the not yet published book on the far right. The slide is green with green water color splotches. A green vine is on the top right and the outline of a leaf and two mushrooms is on the bottom right.

First Lines is written at the top of the slide. The Text in the middle is on a tan, worn looking page background which says: Potions Unincorporated. Twelve vials sat on a shelf where one hundred should rest. Linatta Mosset picked up one of the tapered glasses---thumb-sized and filled to the brim with a warm, green liquid.

THE SPELLSHOP x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company.

#QuestPit #A #RF #F #agentsguide #disabilityrep #chronicillnessrep #cozyromanticfantasy

Cream background with gray lines curving across it. Brown outlines of flowers border the top left and bottom right corners. “An Agent’s Guide To,” “A Crown of Poison,” “YA Fantasy - 95k words,” and “Alyssa Archer” mark the center of the page in brown.

Three graphics of amber jars with white labels sit on a brown wooden shelf. “Craft Your Poison” marks the front of the shelf in black cursive. First jar: A yellow flower with green stems sits inside the jar. “Ingredient,” “Enemies to Lovers,” and “‘If you’re going to threaten to poison me, you should understand what you’re trying to poison me with’” mark the label. Second jar: Dark indigo berries with lime green leaves fill the jar. “Ingredient,” “Involuntary visions of the future,” and “Blue, unseeing eyes bore into me. Their emptiness seizes my consciousness, twisting it awake. When I blink, the woman’s eyes close, and she disappears into the darkness” marks the label. Third jar: A green leaf sits inside the jar. “Ingredient,” “Lessons in poison,” and “]I thought you couldn’t digest information from just reading.’ His chin dips, waiting to see if I uphold the lie I forgot about. I shrug. ‘It had drawings’” marks the label.

An aged sheet of parchment lies across a light wood table. “First page” with a line beneath it marks the top of the parchment. Text fills the rest of the parchment: Heat skitters across my legs and arms as I sink into the tub in my grandmother Leelee’s washroom. The lavender and rose-perfumed water suffocates the darkened room. My nose flinches at the disturbingly familiar scents, and my eyelids squeeze shut as I remember my vision from five years ago. The bloody images flash behind my eyes, and piercing screams reverberate in my ears. My gloved fingers scrape the tub’s sides as they curl into fists. “Star.” River’s even voice draws me back to the present and to what I promised her I’d do. I meet River’s pale Seer eyes. They mirror my own; my sky-blue irises faded to almost white after my Seer abilities showed at twelve. “Yes,” I grumble, irritated with her forcing me to trigger my first vision. Even though we do this every week, I hate it. I’d rather wear sopping clothes everyday than remember what happened on my twelfth birthday. I’m only obeying her wishes because of the deal we made when I was thirteen. The pleasant warmth from the bath loosens the knots in my back, and my anxious breaths slow until they’re steady. “Are you ready?” River’s dress plumes around her as she kneels beside the wooden tub. “Yes.” She unsheathes her dagger and flips her hand. A shard of light slips through the closed curtains, highlighting the dark edges of the Eye on her palm. She presses the blade’s tip into the pad of her index finger, and crimson bubbles from the wound. After sheathing her dagger, she leans over the steaming water, positioning her finger beneath my nose.

A collage with 12 photos. First photo is of yellow daffodils. Second photo is the book cover of “Violet Made of Thorns” by Gina Chen. Gold roses on green vines curve up the purple cover. Third photo is of a wine glass filled with a crimson liquid and dried flowers. Fourth photo is of a golden crown on a stool covered by a tan sheet. Fifth photo is of purple foxglove in a blurred field. Sixth photo is of a blond woman wearing a blue gown in front of a wall of red flowers. Seventh photo is of a blond man lying on the floor with a necklace dangling over his head. Eighth photo is a close-up of a light blue eye beside white flowers on the grass. Ninth photo is of a cliff with the sea at its bottom. Tenth photo is of the black pommel of a rusty sword. Eleventh photo is the book cover of “Defy the Night” by Brigid Kemmerer. Purple flowers surround a far away shot of a castle on the purple book cover. Twelfth photo is of purple calla lilies.

When the King’s lethal plans to eradicate magic threatens to expose a noble’s seer abilities, she exploits her engagement with the King’s son to uncover the Crown’s secrets, but her fiancé’s fascination with poison could make her his next test subject if she’s caught
#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #AgentsGuide