L. D. Rex is Querying

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × DUNGEONS & DADDIES

A #litagents and #editors guide to DAD BODIES!

Big 5 interest!

#QuestPit #A #H #M #Q

A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey. Featuring: Native Hawaiian Rep Cultural Identity Setting as a Character

The second slide showcases the pitch: WHISPERS OF THE SEA follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom. Keahi must voyage across the seas to this distant isle where she’ll team up with a boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.

The third slide indicates that WHISPERS OF THE SEA might appeal to fans of: Disney’s Moana, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle. The book includes the following tropes/themes: found family, self-discovery within cultural identity, Hawaiian-inspired mythology, and adventure.

The final slide includes a snippet from the book that reads: “Keahi’s legs were immobilized as her body tried to make the decision her mind could not. The feeling was strange for she had dreamt countless of times about leaving the island, only to seize the opportunity and awaken to find that she had been sold a nightmare instead.”

MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE

A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey.

Featuring:
🌊 Native Hawaiian Rep
🌊 Cultural Identity
🌊 Setting as a Character

#QuestPit #YA #F #W #OwnVoices #AgentsGuide

One last post with all 3 of my pitches! Thanks for all the love, everyone! I've had such a great #questpit experience!

For anyone interested in Upmarket Horror Romance and Gothic horror:

#A #H #R

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This 90s horror about a haunted mannequin in small town America is sure to possess Grady Hendrix fans, however 18 yo closeted lesbian Roxy, who finds herself face to face with that evil pair of glass eyes, may seem less enthused.

#QuestPit #Q #H #F #A

DAISY JONES x MCR x GIDEON 9TH

4 bands arrive in New Orleans for an artistic retreat:

💅A girl punk band
❤️‍🔥An undead goth rock duo
💀a necromancer & their ghosts
🎪an ex-circus troupe

They don’t know they’ve been lured as ritual sacrifice & the house might just eat them alive… #QuestPit #A #H #Q

When Minjung returns to her estranged and ailing grandmother’s island estate to investigate her family’s history of disappearances, she finds the once-illustrious house steeped in rot and the prized garden now withered and dying. As Minjung’s physical and mental health deteriorate, her grandmother’s inexplicably improves. The decay in the house mysteriously begins to heal, while creeping vines from the garden hungrily spread throughout the halls, whispering warnings of a faceless ghost that draws closer each passing night. On the verge of her mind and body unraveling, she must unearth generations of her family’s secrets—and the truth buried in her grandmother’s garden—before she becomes the next woman claimed by its dark history.

3x3 grid of pictures: a statue covered in ivy, a woman in a forest, a ghostly figure in a forest, a person covered in ivy, a picture of a woman's face scratched out, a woman in a foggy, a woman with a moth, a woman with half her face hidden, hands wrapped in ivy

Oh no! I deleted my WIP post! 💀 Well, here we go again

Here's my newest WIP! A Gothic Horror:

MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK

🇰🇷A dark reimagining of the Korean folktale Heungbu and Nolbu
👻Haunted Houses
🥀Sentient Gardens
🖤Buried Family Secrets
✨️Biracial Representation

#Questpit #A #H #WIP

A mediocre witch competes in a trial for a spot in North America’s top coven at a sinister island resort. Amidst spirits and demons, she must avoid possession and disqualification while investigating her mother’s disappearance. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #H #R #LGBQ

Image of Deva Cassel in her role in The Leopard, I have used Canva to put a mask over her eyes and edit the image. Text reads. Lunaryn M. Redwood "I got a bit carried away and used my fire. They kind of...um, how should I say this...combusted"

Image of Orlando Bloom, unsure in which role. Text reads: Onwyn Storm "Listen here, you little shit. I've had enough of your attitude. You will talk to her with respect, or I'll have you spending a couple of nights in jail for insubordination."

Image of a black model, unfortunately I couldn't find out who it is. Text reads: Damian Maghanty "I must look horrendous if you'd give up your virtue for me. Although, now that I think about it, it would do you good to get laid. Always working so hard and for what? You have no time for fun"

Image of Jessica Chastain in The Huntsmen. Text reads: Ignis Silver "Oh, sure. Because our friend can't be trusted but a random daimon from the biggest illegal market in Melya can be? Are you insane?"

❤️‍🔥 THE HEALER WITCH ❤️‍🔥

Some of my favourite quotes, from some of my favourite characters.
🌙Morally grey FMC
🔥Elemental magic
🌸Meddling Gods
✨Multi POV
❤️The slowest flame to ever burn
🍒Spanish+Gaelic Folklore

#questpit #Q #A #F

I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL x HAPPY PLACE x THE WEDDING PEOPLE My #ownvoices adult coming-of-age novel (82k words) explores job struggles, grief, identity, and love while showing the quiet strength it takes to want something better. #questpit #q #a #wf w/ #r #agentsguide 📌

I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL x HAPPY PLACE x THE WEDDING PEOPLE My #ownvoices adult coming-of-age novel (82k words) explores job struggles, grief, identity, and love while showing the quiet strength it takes to want something better. #questpit #q #a #wf w/ #r #agentsguide 📌

I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL x HAPPY PLACE x THE WEDDING PEOPLE

My #ownvoices adult coming-of-age novel (82k words) explores job struggles, grief, identity, and love while showing the quiet strength it takes to want something better. #questpit #q #a #wf w/ #r #agentsguide 📌 #bookclubread

A foggy street. A vintage dress. A gas mask. Legs on rocky ground. A silhouette of a man and a woman. Flowers in sunlight.

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world.

#QuestPit #W #A #F

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Full request.

FULL REQUEST!

From a #BluePit agent like!!!

Coincidentally, it's my writing group tonight, and full requests mean I bring cupcakes to the meeting!

GOTTA GO GET CUPCAKES!
🧁🥳🧁🎉🧁

Moodboard for The Gerzean Blade, Adult Mystery "A mysterious artifact... a web of secrets and lies..." A pickaxe and other tools lying in the dirt, a hand tracing over a stone wall marked with glyphs, a piece of broken glass, a map of Illinois, a series of beautiful arrowheads, a silhouette of a woman running in heals, a long road, the St Louis Arch.

An ancient Egyptian knife turns up at an Illinois site, and disgraced archeologist, Talia, hopes to jumpstart a new career, but she has to turn to an old frenemy.

When her client is murdered, she embarks on a midwest road-trip to save priceless artifacts... and stop a killer

#QuestPit
#Q #A #MY

Eddie Munster x Olsen Twins X Veggie Tales

A gentle werewolf pup with a taste for turnips finds his dream life on a peaceful farm. But when the full moon rises, his wild side threatens to uproot his new home.

#QuestPit #PB #Q #SEL #Family #Backmatter

#WIPSnips Aug. 6th is "compete"
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Mad wakes up on Max's couch to a woman screaming in a mix of Italian and Spanish. Turn out she's Max's little sister screaming at Max he's a lousy host for making Mad sleep on the couch, but Mad doesn't know this yet.

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An elderly woman with forty years of pent-up rage is living in a small, Canadian community. What could go wrong?
#QuestPit #A #S #T #R

You are welcome!

Mood board of dark libraries, dark magic, shadow creatures, swords, misty dark forest, portals, a group of friends and Mumbai in the rain.

ATLA x Gregor The Overlander

Three teenagers learn that a star has blessed their souls, intertwining their destines with those of both the human and the hidden magical realm. As the threat of war looms, they uncover long-hidden secrets that could destroy both realms.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #F #MG

Mood board of dark libraries, dark magic, shadow creatures, swords, misty dark forest, portals, a group of friends and Mumbai in the rain.

ATLA x Gregor The Overlander

Three teenagers learn that a star has blessed their souls, intertwining their destines with those of both the human and the hidden magical realm. As the threat of war looms, they uncover long-hidden secrets that could destroy both realms.

#QuestPit #Q #F #MG

CARNIVAL ROW x Se7eN

In a post war gothic city, a detective and his partner go on the trail of a serial killer who murders black marketeers in search of illegal garlic for his Paleblood "cure". Should they stop him before he wipes out the population of ruling Palebloods? #QuestPit #HorrorNoir #Q

A red and black moodboard of images including a woman looking menacingly over a glass, a double-exposure image of masked faces, a group of friends sitting and singing on the floor, a person with painted nails holding their head in their hands, a person with short hair looking down, a woman applying lipstick in a mirror, two people kissing, a menacing backlit woman

DEADNAME

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind

#QuestPit #AG #YA

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY x THE WEDDING SINGER ✨Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story.✨ *Same universe as MS I'm querying, Love, Lies, and Letting Go ( #agentsguide 📌) but works as a standalone #questpit #a #wf #r

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY x THE WEDDING SINGER ✨Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story.✨ *Same universe as MS I'm querying, Love, Lies, and Letting Go ( #agentsguide 📌) but works as a standalone #questpit #a #wf #r

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY x THE WEDDING SINGER ✨Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story.✨ *Same universe as MS I'm querying, Love, Lies, and Letting Go ( #agentsguide 📌) but works as a standalone #questpit #a #wf #r

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY x THE WEDDING SINGER ✨Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story.✨ *Same universe as MS I'm querying, Love, Lies, and Letting Go ( #agentsguide 📌) but works as a standalone #questpit #a #wf #r

FUNNY STORY x SUMMER ROMANCE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY x THE WEDDING SINGER

✨Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story.✨

*Same universe as MS I'm querying, Love, Lies, and Letting Go ( #agentsguide 📌) but works as a standalone
#questpit #a #wf #r

Runelight Burning. New adult fantasy romance. Izzy Grace. @izzygraceauthor.

Pitch: Her power could spark a war. But will she let it burn? Callous half-breed criminal, Aelia, is forced to go on the run with an unfathomably moral pure-blood mercenary, after she reveals a powerful Runelight that turns her into a hunted weapon for a war between realms.

Tropes: Norse-inspired rune magic that burns you from inside, reluctant allies to lovers, slow burn and yearning, political intrigue and quest-like journey, she's the selfish anti-hero and he's the moral compass, forced proximity, rich worldbuilding, subverted chosen-one trope

Comps: The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole, The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

An agent's guide to RUNELIGHT BURNING for #QuestPit

SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME x THE CITY OF BRASS

🔥Norse-inspired rune magic that burns you from inside
🔥She's the selfish anti-hero, he's the moral compass
🔥Subverted chosen-one trope
🔥Forced proximity + slow burn
🔥Rich worldbuilding

#Q #A #RF

Eddie Munster x Olsen Twins X Veggie Tales

A gentle werewolf pup with a taste for turnips finds his dream life on a peaceful farm. But when the full moon rises, his wild side threatens to uproot his new home.

#QuestPit #PB #Q #SEL #BackMatter #Family

Love this premise!

And I want sparkle suspenders, just sayin’. 😁

Thank you! Aren't they cool?

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IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP - PITCH

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IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP
How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive?
For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases. When he overhears an esoteric rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion.
#QuestPit #Q #A #T

Background: an island superimposed with a woman pressing money to her face with a blackened hand Title: An agent's guide to THE BOOKMAKER OF PELLMELL by P. A. Cochran Subtitle: Dystopian urban fantasy / 75k words

Background: a male fighter's back pressed against a chain-link cage For fans of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Peaky Blinders, and The Last of Us The pitch: Trapped in a bleak world, a cynical young woman with the ability to glimpse future possibilities grudgingly takes over running a cage fighting ring to save her sick friend--and is horrified to find that she's excellent at it.

Images: (1) a hand holding burning money (2) a figure walking down a city street filled with litter (3) an albatross flying across an orange sky (4) a crumbling hotel (5) a woman sitting at a red-lit bar (6) a fighter's back against a cage Text: gritty neo-noir vibes | grounded fantasy | lyrical prose | FMC w/ "Breaking Bad" arc | found family | romantic subplot | cost of talent & obsession | hope's ability to save & corrupt

Opening lines: It was the beginning of storm season, and Tremmel City was glossy and slick as a bloodied fist. Arin didn’t mind. The wet paths up the caldera wall were dicey, but at least the rain muted the stench of trash and mule excrement. She pulled her jacket closed, the same black leather jacket she always wore. A relic of the past she couldn’t part with that swallowed her whole. She crossed her arms over her chest and climbed up the stone steps. PENTA OR BUST BLESS THE BRICKERS CURB THE COGS The graffiti was so repetitive it had long ago taken a melody in Arin’s head. She used to argue internally with each one: Don’t put your faith in the Pentathlon—only a fool would trust those odds. Don’t glorify the brickers—they only saved us once. Don’t demonize the cogs—some of us exercise self-control. But eventually the arguments petered out until all that was left was a bleak refrain.

THE BOOKMAKER OF PELLMELL
A cynical woman who can see the future grudgingly takes over a cage fighting ring to save her sick friend—and is horrified to find that she’s excellent at it.
🌘dystopian grounded fantasy
⚖️morally gray FMC
🔥romantic subplot
🫶found family
🌈diverse cast
#QuestPit #W #A #SFF

THE LAST LEAP - A gothic thriller. Rebecca X Mexican Gothic.

She has seen him kill. Now there is no escape. Where would she run when the man in the black suit is everywhere, even in her dreams?

#QuestPit #Q #T #H #A #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide

The image 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 × KNIVES OUT

When their detective friend is murdered during 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 campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #M #Q

This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says: "A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#QuestPit #A #S #SF #W