After a heist gone wrong binds a thief to the soul of a long-dead hero, she must outrun the law and bargain with a vilified goddess for her life, all while deciding whether the world would be better off with her survival or the hero's resurrection.
#QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF
Hopeful rebel and charismatic sailor race to save the cosmos from climate disaster. Optimistic politics, ancient swords, easy romances, and unlikely friendships form a thoughtful romp through the “Veins of the Ether”. What’s more important: a revolution, or what comes after?
#questpit #sff #f #sf
moodboard consisting of 9 pics (a group of swords joined in a huddle (hands can be seen), a river, two hands reaching out for each other against a pinkish sky background, a good masquerade mask on a silky surface with fairy lights, a dagger held behind someone’s back - they’re in a medieval-like dress, the back of an Asian man in a decorated white suit, a skull cradled in the hands of someone in a white-yellowish 18th century dress - they’re also some plants, Indonesian shadow puppets and hands holding a pocket watch against a bluish dress background) in a grid
MERLIN x Indonesian mythology
Deaf-mute chosen one finds the world she’s destined to protect falling to soul-eating demons. They outmatch her, especially *their* chosen one. She & her vigilante knights must defeat them. That’s if she could resist the soul of her evil counterpart #questpit #YA #F
RuPaul’s Drag Race x Comic-Con
When two rival comic artists with romantic baggage are forced to partner on a reality TV competition, their rekindled chemistry goes viral—but the producers are editing their story into something it's not.
#QuestPit #A #R #Q
ALICE IN BORDERLAND X HUNGER GAMES
A pro gamer is invited to play an illegal game to afford her mother’s medical bills. Her experiences changes her world view, and unlocks a seal placed on her supernatural abilities throwing her life into complete chaos.
#questpit #fantasy #dystopian
Hennie mood board: chaotic imagery representing Hennie's vibe and mood, including nods to her family secrets, her journey to London, and her penchant for bad decisions.
Hennie POV Irritating this man might become her new favorite pastime. She wanted to find his boundaries and stick a toe across them. Maybe a whole leg.
Meet Hennie: a plus-size American chaos-goblin who hid her hurt behind being “the fun friend.” Grieving her father, losing her mother to dementia, she’s overwhelmed by her family's lies - and desperate for roots. She takes up space. Laughs too loudly. And she’s not apologizing.
#Questpit #A #R #Q
Everett mood board: moody, masculine, clean, neutral. Images of a writer's office and notebook, tea, and a library. Includes a link to a playlist he made for Hennie.
Everett POV Sunday dinner was meant to be about warmth and connection. For Everett, it felt more like ritual sacrifice.
Enter Everett: rigid, rule-bound, and convinced tea cures all - except his disastrous last novel. After the shock of Hurricane Hennie, he sees an opportunity: the perfect muse for his next book. But when feral energy become exactly what he needs, the rule book is out the window.
#Questpit #A #R #Q
Comps for WRITING HENNIE include ROMANTIC COMEDY, FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK, YOU, AGAIN, and HAPPY PLACE
FLEABAG x ROMANTIC COMEDY
WRITING HENNIE is also perfect for readers who love vivid settings (hello, London) and anyone looking for a romance featuring a plus-size woman where being fat is NOT something she needs to change.
#Questpit #A #R #Q
WRITING HENNIE mood board: snapshots of different London locations over the Union Jack and New Jersey state flag
FLEABAG x ROMANTIC COMEDY
Hennie's in freefall when she inherits a London flat from the father she never knew - and gains a downstairs neighbor, Everett, who’s about to be caught in her chaos. Too bad they make questionable choices. Sex tends to complicate things.
#Questpit #A #R #Q
When 12 y/o Bryn & her bestie Alex fall down, they never expected to face their future selves once they're back on their feet. Now, Bryn & Alex are on the clock as they race to solve their past problems before they’re stuck in the future forever in BRYN & ALEX RACE THE CLOCK
#QuestPit #MG #S #SF #W
PRETTY AS FIRE, AND JUST AS DANGEROUS is a story of betrayal.
Devil’s Up began as a game but led to arson. Fires baffle the town & truth or dare becomes truth or scare, as a group of teens get tangled in a web of lies & revenge.
Some will prevail.
Some will die!
#QuestPit #YA #T#CON #OWN
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
BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”
Coming soon to agent inboxes!
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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
Moodboard titled Aaryana (FMC’s name) with a subheading along the bottom: Heir to the Throne Series. Image 1 is of a young woman wearing a blue hooded cloak and holding two swords. Image 2 is a young woman in metal armour, holding a large shield and getting ready to strike with the sword in her other hand. Image 3 is a close-up of a young woman sitting next to a sword leaning against the wall. The final image depicts a young woman wearing an elaborate gold headpiece studded with blue crystals.
Moodboard with seven images and title along the bottom: Heir to the Throne Series. Image 1 is of a young man who appears to have huge angel-wings and a fire burning in the background. Image 2 is a scene of a ship that seems to have crashed against the rocks edging the sea. Image 3 is of a young woman with her arms around a young man. Image 4 depicts a young woman wearing an elaborate gold headpiece studded with blue crystals. Image 5 is of a young woman holding a sword and plummeting in the ocean. Image 6 depicts the outside of a beautiful castle, a huge moon in the sky, and a young woman in a black gown staring at the stars in the sky. The final image is of two ships caught in a storm at sea.
Aaryana is winning the contest that decides who will be the next Queen/King but her enemies—which may include her sisters—are determined to change that
👸ambitious FMC w/ soft❤️
🫅brooding LI who’s protective of his siblings
🧜♀️sea folk
💘fake courting
🖤slow🔥hate-2-love
💔forbidden love
#QuestPit #Y #F #P
A tragic journey about a woman living with grief while trying to find love.
🔥Behind Her Eyes meets Yours Truly
🔥Authentic characters with flaws
🔥Raw and real emotions
“That was enough to make me wish I could close my eyes and sleep forever.”
#QuestPit #W #T #R
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
black and white dragon based 9 picture moodboard
As a royal seer, Olek has prophesied her own death. There is nothing she can do to stop it, & she will run to it if it means saving her country & family from destruction. Teaming with her reluctant ally, Olek fights Hellish beasts, love, & a 2-headed dragon.
#questpit #AG #A #RF
Background of fog moving over the treetops of a forest. Book title reads: LYDIA IS DEAD. 110,000 words, horromantasy, Adult/New Adult
Background is dark, blue water. Text reads: The Pitch. Lydia is dead, and Charlie knows who killed her. Her prime suspect? Markus, enigmatic bachelor and Lydia’s ex- boyfriend. Determined to prove his guilt, Charlie launches her own investigation: seduce Markus and uncover the web of lies lurking in Gildervale’s supernatural shadows. But as her attraction to Markus grows, Charlie's grip on reality starts to slip. Are these paranormal horrors real, or is she finally losing her mind?
Text reads: Book/TV Comps. Images include covers of popular books & TV including: Shapr Objects by Gillian Flynn, Hannibal TV Show, and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. Additional text reads: serial killer mystery, amateur sleuthing, cannibalism, toxic love, body horror, occult, magic and murder
Background is a small fire in the dark. Text reads: Themes & Tropes. Morally grey hero, flashback chapters, murder mystery, dark romance, supernatural, generational trauma, genre blending, magic & curses, witchcraft, cannibalism, magic tea, seances, heists, betrayal
💀LYDIA IS DEAD💀
#QuestPit #AgentsGuide #Q
Lydia is dead... and Charlie knows who killed her.
♥️ dark romance
🦷 magic & witchcraft
🌶️ seducing the enemy
🍽️ cannibalism curse
🫀 body horror
❝she is a wisp, a wile, a wonder, someone who i'll probably never have the privilege of meeting, not in this lifetime at least.❞
introducing 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 & 𝐖𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃, an adult literary romance coming to the querying trenches later this year 🌞
#questpit #W #A #R #LF
12yo sceptic Yanju becomes homeless, grieves, so loses the will to paint. She encounters a ghost, witch and Mamiwata(mermaid). To heal from grief, she must let her spirit guide help fight, and win an art competition to have a home, or else remain homeless and be a ghost #Questpit #MG #F #PR #BVM #Q
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An Agent Guide to GUMIHO 86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance By Jennifer Luce
The pitch: Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous.
For fans of... SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore MY DEMON - Redemption through connection THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero
First Lines Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.
Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!
✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest
#A #F #H #R
Under the royal guards gaze bride elf flowers castle dragon fairy trans
The next time I open my eyes, it’s early morning. I slip my glasses on and look left. Bright orange light seeps through the red curtains, casting a dreamy haze across the room. Swirling dustmotes catch in the light, like little ghosts. It’s a bit peaceful, actually. It’s almost enough to make me forget that I’m being held against my will. When I look to my right, a ripple races down my spine as I shout: “Who the fuck are you?” A man—no, an elf steps forward. He’s in a royal guard’s outfit: dark purple uniform with a rhomboid panel on the front, gold buttons connected by golden chains dangling from breast to breast. The long sleeves meet at a pair of slender white gloves. His violet eyes glow in the orange light. Elves’ eyes can be violet? I thought that was just for cursed humans. Before yesterday, I’d never met an elf. Now I’ve met two, and both have unusual eyes. I don’t really know what else to think other than, Holy shit, what is happening and who is this? The elf bows, straight, pitch black hair swinging forward with his head. “Greetings, Your Highness,” he says in a voice that melts the ice in my ears. “My name is Darrow Broadside, and I am your new guard.”
#questpit #a #q #rf
A cursed trans runaway prince is caught, assigned a 24/7 guard, and betrothed as his deadname. To cure his curse, the prince must trust his guard and friends to plan a splashy escape w the guard. However, the prince risks his freedom and his friend’s lives should his plan fail.
𝗛𝗶𝗺⚓The only fight I have left in me is for my son. I've no time for the houseguest the language institute sent me by mistake.
Until we talk. We click. Suddenly, I'm wishing for things again.
But she's not a choice I can make.
Come fall, I'll have to let her go too.
#Questpit #Q #A #R
Top row, left to right: stone busts, clouds shaped as wings, solar eclipse Middle row, left to right: back of woman wearing cape, shadow of a couple kissing, white hood Bottom row, left to right: Romanesque stone statue, black woman wearing veil, lofty cathedral like ceilings
RED RISING x ROMEO & JULIET
An ambitious, lowborn scholar pretends to be of noble birth to enter an academy for spymasters, but as she rises, her rival vies for her heart, her family ostracizes her, and both rebels & imperials want her dead.
*BIG 5 EDITOR INTEREST*
#A #F #SF #Q #BluePit📖
Gold, Romanesque aesthetic Top: painting of flying Pegasus, black hole in space Middle: statue with half head, shadowed couple kissing, sword, woman wearing draping gown Bottom: black woman wearing white hood, statues
RED RISING x ROMEO & JULIET
An ambitious, lowborn scholar pretends to be of noble birth to enter an academy for spymasters, but as she rises, her rival vies for her heart, her family ostracizes her, and both rebels & imperials want her dead.
✨Big 5 Editor Interest ✨
#questpit #Q #A #SFF
Book Title: Alice & The Afterlife. 75,000 words, paranormal mystery, new adult. A background of a graveyard with a cute image of a cartoon ghost.
Background of the seaside. Pitch reads: Alice can see ghosts. She’d really rather not. After a public breakdown (and two-year stint in a “wellness” facility) Alice Windsor moves to the coast for some peace and quiet. Spoiler alert: she doesn’t get it. Enter Rani – a stubborn cleaner who offers Alice a job cleaning houses, exercising ghosts and solving her twin brother’s murder. But when rumours of a serial killer start swirling, and a vicious ghost from the past resurfaces, Alice must embrace her abilities or risk becoming a ghost herself...
Comp titles. Images include covers of popular media including: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, The Cemetery Boys, The Sixth Sense, Ghostbusters, Sunshine Cleaning and Maid
Themes page. Themes include: serial killer myster, haunted house hijinks, queer & trans rep, autistic heroine, found family, "i see dead people" (but make it funny), and "my dead roommate doesn't pay rent." There is also a quote from the first line of the book that reads: "There is a dead man sitting at my kitchen table."
Introducing ✨ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE✨
#QuestPit #AgentsGuide #Q
Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & chasing down a serial killer...
🌊 ghosts by the coast
🏡 dead roommate
👻 possessions & poltergeists
🐈 psychic cat lady
🧠 autistic FMC
🏳️🌈 queer & trans rep
#agentsguide
The Good Place x BEST HEX EVER with inspiration from Indian Mythology
✨ Second Chance Romance
✨ Millennial Married Couple
✨ Three Absurd tasks
✨ Slow Burn Romance
✨ Karmic cycle philosophy
✨ Soulmate Compatibility
✨ Scary Mermaids
#Questpit #F #R #A #Q
The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END
When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.
#QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q
LUCK AND OTHER CHOICES 🌊📷
SADIE x WE WERE LIARS
REVISED 2026; a new manuscript
- YA contemporary thriller
- bodily autonomy
- a missing girl
- a ticking clock
- love & its complexities
- dysfunctional & found family
back in the trenches spring 2026
#questpit #R #Q #YA
Editor's Guide To MARK OF A MAGPIE Crossover Romantic Fantasy 118k Words Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.
Blurb One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy… Ryn is a small-town thief who has a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d be a fool to take up, but with her family scattered across the sea after the draft, a fool is what she’ll need to be to find them. Five for Silver, Six for Gold… Seven is set on his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. Once whispers of the past begin to resurface and nobles begin dying around them, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The castle is under lockdown, and all bets for the crown are placed on their capture. Seven for a Secret, Never to Be Told. Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.
Tropes and Themes - Thief x Assassin - Mental Health Rep - Identity vs Duty - Class Difference - Forced Proximity - Secret Code - Morally Gray - Women's Wrongs - Unlikely Allies to Lovers Comps: Throne of Glass's castle-setting murder mystery and theme of "who you are versus what you have to do" meets the banter-heavy dialogue, strong female protagonist, and nautical setting of Daughter of the Pirate King. Text is on a piece of parchment. Beside the text are two headshot drawings: one of a girl with brown hair pulled back by braids, and the other of a black-haired boy with a worried expression. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.
The Atmosphere: There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand. Picture seven shows a bottle of alcohol. Picture eight has a medieval alleyway. And picture eight shows a ship's crew enjoying a sunset. There is text below the collage that says: ON SUBMISSION NOW! Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media, contact information available on my website! Behind the parchment, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.
MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦⬛📖
When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?
#QuestPit #YA #A #F #RF
#OS #DIS #EditorsGuide #Editors
