Jeanette is Writing

After plotting/writing/editing/revising for 8 years, querying for 3 years, and collecting so many rejections I lost count, I can finally say I'm incredibly, wonderfully, absolutely ✨vague✨ #WritingCommunity #vague

a woman standing in a doorway with the words hello written on the bottom ALT: a woman standing in a doorway with the words hello written on the bottom

Um…hello? #WritingCommunity #UnhingedPit

What would you do if you found this note in your room, the only trace left behind from your one night stand with a handsome stranger? #UnhingedPit #Q #Mystery #YA

Age yourself with a movie you saw in theaters as a kid.

A piece of parchment paper in front of ocean waters and surrounded by the gold outlines of flowers. The parchment reads: Mark of a Magpie in songs I’m Dangerous by The EverLove: “Standing at the edge of the fire, Fighting for the will to survive, I feel it burning under my skin, And I’m back on my feet again.” Fool & The Thief by THE HARA: “So I’ll be the fool, yeah, I’ll be the thief, I’ll be the ghost just to get what I need, Heavily fortified, So I dare you to give it your best try.” Who Are You, Really? By Mikky Ekko “I have nothing left to prove, ‘Cause I have nothing left to lose, See me bare my teeth for you, Who, who are you?” I’ll be damned by gavn! “Told her, “Fire and brimstone, my fate I got blood on my shirt and I’m stained, I ain’t worth all these prices you’ll pay, Don’t you follow me down to this grave.” She said, “I’ll be damned, pull my hand, Down if you have to, If Heaven won’t have you.” YA Romantic Fantasy 119k Words

🐦‍⬛📖 MARK OF A MAGPIE 📖🐦‍⬛

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?

(But this time, in songs 😂)

#2025Pit #Q #YA #F #R #RM
#amquerying #DIS

Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken.

A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance.
#2025Pit #A #HF #R #T

a woman in a black jacket is surrounded by bees and says bees !! Alt: a woman in a black jacket is surrounded by bees and yells “BEES!!!”

FUCK THIS MURDER captures the warmth & camp of SCHITT’S CREEK, along w/ the humor & suspense of FINLAY DONAVAN, & combines them w/ the realistic portrayals of being autistic & chronically ill in Talia Hibbert’s Brown sister’s romantic romps.

#2025Pit #A #M #autism #Disabilty #LGBTQIA+ #OWN #BEES

Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, YA Sapphic Gargoyle Urban Fantasy “What will you do with your shadow?l A colorful painted sky, interior of church with stained-glass windows, sillouette of a woman in a dark hallway, a stone angel like found on a grave, drawings and sketches with pencils laying on them, gargoyles, a goth-girl looking feirce.

When a troubled girl falls in love with a gargoyle, and a technicolor hellscape spills into the school, a dark power must be unlocked to stop warring monsters from destroying both worlds.

"Wednesday Addams goes to Oz"

Don't Let the Forest In x Daughter of Smoke and Bone

#2025Pit
#Q #YA #F

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There is a collage of pictures in front of ocean water. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture three shows a group of rich party-goers climbing a marble staircase. Picture four shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture five is of a chair by the window of a ship, looking out on ocean waters and a ship in the distance. Picture six shows two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture seven shows an old tavern shelf shocked with whiskey. Picture eight is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture nine is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand. Surrounding the collage are gold outlines of flowers.

🐦‍⬛📖 MARK OF A MAGPIE 📖🐦‍⬛

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?

#2025Pit #Q #YA #F #R #RM
#amquerying #DIS

Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible. Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire. Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's. Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses. Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest. Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky. Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.

GIDEON THE NINTHxFFXIV
When magicless Mick agrees to be an adventuring partner for Eleanor, his mage best friend (and crush), a mishap turns him into a dragon and binds him to the gods' dead adversary. Now they're rushing to break his curse before his existence triggers a war. #2025pit #F #R #A

Picture of Mads Mikkelsen padding a stuffed unicorn.

UPGRADE x HANNIBAL

Neural experiment. Secret island.

Billionaire Ashlynn wanted empathy, not murder. Now her brain’s hijacked. Only Dr. Fields—the man she’s falling for—can help. But is he savior or villain?

Love/terror clash as every thought turns deadly.

#2025Pit #T #S #A

v v whole vibe

My comp titles over a circus tent background: A Lesson in Vengence, AGGTM, Truly Devious, and Five Survive

TRULY DEVIOUS X FIVE SURVIVE
The Show Must Go On, my 82k YA Mystery

🎪 Traveling New England Circus Academy
🍂 Found Family
🐈‍⬛ Theater Kid Vibes
🤎 Slow Burn, Subplot Romance
🔪 True Crime Lover FMC X Painter MMC

#P2Ppit #YA #M #Q

Reposting this for #2025pit 🎪

ONE ITALIAN SUMMER X A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES

Thirty year old Talia discovers she’s a witch & must unlock her ancestral powers while evading a ruthless military force determined to hunt her down — all while denying her attraction for the mysterious Roman officer tasked w/ her capture. #2025Pit #RM #A

My #agentguide for Out of Time.

Slow Horses ➕️ The Ipcress File ✖️ Life on Mars

#litagents #editors

Nathan playing hockey. Maggie playing keyboard. Maggie studying. Preschool. Nathan listening to music with eyes closed. Nathan and Maggie skating. Nathan kissing Maggie’s hair. Bunny hugging teddy bear. Nathan and Maggie hugging.

Comp titles: Lynn Painter’s Better Than The Movies; Ann Liang’s This Time It’s Real; Tashy Bhuiyan’s Counting Down With You; Laura Taylor Namey’s A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow; Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Maggie Wang lives by her tiger mom’s rules—even her crush ticks all the right boxes. But when she finally works up the courage to confess to the perfect guy, he’s too oblivious to look beyond their friendship. Desperate to turn his head, Maggie hatches a plan: snag a fake date to his hockey team’s skate party and make him jealous, as long as she can survive her clumsy self on the ice. Enter Nathan Myers—the team grump. Once he agrees to be her stand-in, everything seems simple enough: he’ll teach her how to skate, and she’ll put up with his attitude. Only the more time they spend together, the more Maggie discovers a gentle teddy bear hidden beneath Nathan’s gruff exterior. For the first time, she wonders if it’s okay to let go of certain expectations—being herself might actually be enough. But Nathan’s a wild card with no college plans. He doesn’t fit in the future Maggie’s mom has mapped out for her. Trapped between the family expectations and her growing feelings, she must decide whether breaking the rules is worth it with the boy who’s becoming more than just a fake date.

#tropes and elements #FakeDating #GrumpySunshine #YAHockeyRomance #HeFallsFirst #ComingOfAge #FamilyDynamic #SiblingDynamic #FriendshipBreakUp #POCOwnVoice #SpecialHobbies

❤️YA contemporary romance
⌨️ 70k words
Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules.
#2025pit #Q #YA #R #CON#poc #writingcommunity #amquerying

Walking in the woods, a spooky house, moonlit night, hooded man, hiker, ghost at the bedside.

A sentient house can be tricky, but night terrors and jump scares are tolerable when a struggling author acquires talent.
When the House attacks, a stalker threatens, and his sister attempts a rescue, they must confront secrets, their dark past, and both monsters to survive
#2025Pit #A #T #H
Alt POV

Wait what?? 😭😭😭 screenshotting this comment and reading it every night before bed until I die.

Practicing all my witchy spells to manifest Ben into a real person. We need him over here in the US anyways.

In the roaring 20s, a thieving socialite accepts a mysterious invitation into a criminal society reserved only for the most wicked and cunning. But when she learns her membership will cost her freedom, she must team up with a rake to escape their gilded prison. #2025Pit #Q #YA #NA #Mystery

I beta read this, and these characters (one big brother character in particular) live rent free in my head. And I hope they never leave.

"On the surface, I smiled. I kept shoving thoughts down in to the hollowness that had opened inside me, but the harder I pushed, the more something else cracked. Pretending that everything was fine was choking something vital, something buried deep. But I kept smiling, hoping whatever I was strangling wouldn't suffocate completely."

#2025pit Romeo & Juliet meets The Hunger Games in this dual-POV romantic fantasy. A fiery, slum-dwelling rebel & a guilt-ridden aristocrat find forbidden love amid a brutal uprising, hidden magic, & deadly monsters that could destroy them both. #NA #F #R
🥀LGBTQ+ & Mental Health Rep

A collage of photos for the novel Moonlit by Harper-Hugo Darling. The images depict gray wolves howling at the sky and playing in the snow, a dark sky with a red moon, a woman with a blood-covered chin smiling, snow-covered forests, the Edmonton cityscape, white hands holding a green potted plant, a close-up of a lush pink blanket, glasses of wine, and mugs of coffee. In the center of the collage is a luminous moon containing the title of the novel and a snowflake.

📖 BEING HUMAN X CACKLE
What happens to a found-family forged in violence once the blood dries? Selene is a newly-turned werewolf trying to keep her pack from splintering. How can she do that when her sister hates her and every day her finances slip further into dire.
#BluePit #Q #A #F #LGBT #Dis #OV

🌿✨ Introducing Saltstone, my adult fantasy novel ft... ✨🌿

🖤 Dual POV mother & daughter
🖤 Grumpy x sunshine slow-burn
🖤 Coming-of-age queer romance
🖤 Quests, swords & sea creatures
🖤 Reluctant royalty & court machinations
🖤 Elemental secondary world

#bluepit #a #f #w 📖

Wintery background Mood Board featuring a dark haired girl in a knit cap and scarf, heart graphics, graphics of hot chocolate mug topped with whipped cream & candy canes, a snowy village scene, the feet of a couple together (probably dancing) the female feet are in high heels with a red dress (or skirt), a picture of a dark haired guy with his back to the viewer, graphic of a sign that reads North Pole, a snowy mountain range picture, and a picture of a gingerbread-looking house decorated in lights, and a photo of snowy trees.

SUGAR & FROST, a #YA #F #R #Q:

❄️An edict
⛄A collision (hey, Kallie wasn't raised in North Pole Village or w/snow, so it's not her fault. Chase won't sue her, right?)
❄️A feud
⛄Winter puns (and other puns)
❄️Cinnamon rolls (the pastry-don't read this on an empty stomach)
⛄Romance 💖
#bluepit📖

HEART OF DARKNESS retold as grimdark fantasy

Don't count the hours.

Time & space are thin in the vast dark of the Wup Wups. Rima knows this dangerous swamp but can she keep these imperial brutes safe from this place? Herself from them? All of them from the cargo they carry?

#BluePit 📖 #W #A #F #D