Tate-Madison

Thank you!!

Well if it happens at least I know I’m in good company! And that is a great tip, thank you!❤️

#Querying is stressful for many reasons, but a real spooky thought just popped into my head: My birthday is next month. I could get a rejection on my birthday… I could get multiple rejections on my birthday! 🙀 Oh well! The opposite is true as well. I could get a request on my birthday!

Hey that’s how my parents met! (Minus the event planner thing) My dad was a firefighter and my mom’s dad was his chief.

so good! I especially love the Conan gray lyrics and the doorbell rings enter lesbians.

Mood board with 12 photos. Top row: picnic scene in a field with trees, three people mini golfing, making pizzas, three people watching a movie and drinking hot cocoa. Middle row: Actors doing a final bow after a play, pinned butterflies and moths, a field with a mountain in the background and a barn, two people running together. Bottom row: costume area backstage, view from a car window of grass fields, girls holding hands, two people high fiving on a snow covered street.

WILLOW HAWKINS' LESSONS IN BEARDING

🌈 79k words YA contemporary novel

🌈 When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process

🌈 Perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Becky Albertalli

#Q #YA #QuestPit

Your mood board is gorgeous!

same here, that’s why I really wanted to write it! 🩷

VOW✨

the canon sapphic event of having a crush on your best friend… and having to help plan her wedding a decade later.

find yourself & speak your mind before the church bells ring 💒

🏠 Queer found family
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rep
💖 Friends to lovers
💍 Fake Marriage (with a twist!)

#QuestPit #W #LF #RF #LGBTQ

This sounds so good!!

The book title "Matcha Do About Nothing" in bold letters above a collage that consists of two Asian American high-schoolers, a shot of San Francisco Chinatown, and a close-up photo of vibrant green matcha.

MATCHA DO ABOUT NOTHING

💘Loose Shakespeare inspiration
🍵Family-owned matcha shop
🇸🇬Mixed Asian American rep
📚Academic rivals to…?
🌉Bay Area setting
🫂Family drama

Coming soon to the query trenches!

#QUESTPIT #YA #W #R

This sounds so fun, let’s go! 💚

Ahh this looks so fun!!

Thanks, you too! (:

This visual is text over character art of the MC’s past and present selves reaching out for each other through a reflective pool. One is in modern clothes with female silhouettes behind him. One is in ancient robes. Red ribbons reminiscent of strings of fate flutter in the air around them. The text reads: YEARS OF RED TEARS 100,000 mord literary historical fantasy David Copperfield meets Asian timeslip dramas and slice-of-life isekai. MAX spontaneously dies and is reborn as a noble in an alternate ancient East Asia. Loveless and accomplishment-deprived in his first life, he now seeks true love and comfort despite familial obligations and supposedly being cursed to harm those he treasures.

THEMES & TROPES - mixed-Asian character and LGBTQIA+ rep - East Asian history and fairytales inspo - sentient nature - family trauma leading to self-doubts - modern day man vs. traditional values - loser then vs. overly popular now - love vs. obligation - undying trust vs. expected betrayal - chance meetings and destined partings - timeless societal and familial pressures - pen pals and soulmates - sentimental and indecisive man surrounded by women who know what they want

EXCEPTS (1) Nana shook her head. "You can't live only for me." "But you're my Hana. That's Eastern Tongue for flower, you know. My flower. I want to go where you go, stay where you stay. There's nowhere else, no one else." "You too, Young Master, only like the flowers in full bloom and dispose of them when they shrink with age." "Then I won't let them wilt. I'll find you a bookmark of pressed flowers," he combated in haste. "You haven't seen one yet, have you? Flowers are immortal in the right hands." (2) Only the celibate priesthood and those in mourning wear pure white outer robes," she lectured. "Don't let others think you're unfortunate like the priest said. They still go around calling you a cursed foreigner." He bit his lips, chewing on the loose skin salted by his tears. Wind, if it existed, had dropped him here and nowhere else. Perhaps it thought it was doing him a favor. What were his book learnings and drama binges worth here though? There was nowhere and no one who could claim him, minus [redacted]. "Do you believe so?" he asked to be clothed in reassurance.

Comps Martyr! - self-destructive MC - the shadow of parents - legacy of violence & neglect - mythologization of death David Copperfield - turbulent coming of age - overreliance on love & marriage - search for home and found family - the corruption of status and wealth The Names - contemplation of choices not taken - a life cut short - fear of becoming one's parent - the weight of a name/title

DAVID COPPERFIELD × THE NAMES ×
MARTYR! with East Asian inspo

Max wanted to die loved, NOT have others die
because of his affection. But the Wind who reincarnated him will not let him live an effortless life of luxury without inflicting him with new trauma.
#QuestPit #A #Lit #LF #HF #F #agentguide

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

Blood bags; period pads; demon; menstrual cup; vampire; menstrual cup; blood; period pad; blood

ARE YOU THERE GOD IT’S ME MARGARET X TEEN WOLF

Amara has been dreaming of getting her period for years. Turns out, puberty sucks.

#questpit #MG #H #W

What? You wrote a Nordic adult romantasy without vikings? ✨gasp️✨

UNFATED is instead set in a John Bauer inspired medieval Sweden, steeped in folklore, mythology and authentic Swedish culture...not a horned helmet in sight 🫢

A 92,000k standalone novel

#questpit #Q #A #RF

A mood board with a brown parchment top section bearing the text: "Reapers crept into everyone’s lore, sometimes taking the Black Plague’s macabre form and other times the shape of animals. They were male or female or neither. Death was a dog, a screaming spirit, a saint. Reapers completed a necessary task, were a necessary evil, and that’s what Eva thought this was: a necessary evil which might save both Archer and her. 'May rest come easy.'" Photographs below the excerpt include an image of black boots and the bottom of a long coat as someone walks on a rain soaked street, an old illustration of a skeleton and a fair woman to signify death and the grim reaper, a collection of human skulls, the black cat Binx from Hocus Pocus, Nancy from The Craft holding a dagger up to the sky, and a figure in a black hooded cloak silhouetted by a cathedral style window.

CHARMED X THE DEAD OF SUMMER

💀An Immersive Second World
💀Feminine Rage and Coming of Age
💀Ace FMC and Queer Ensemble
💀Long Lost Demigod Twins
💀The Power of Friendship ✨

#questpit #ya #f #q

Eva-core:

Willow Hawkin's Lessons in Bearding Clipart rainbow image YA LGBTQ+ Contemporary 79k words When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process.

Comps Book cover image of Thanks for Listening by Molly Horan, non-actor theater kid portrayal Book cover image of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, theme of having a complicated relationship with the place you call home Book cover image of Kings of B'More by R. Eric Thomas, celebration of platonic love

Tropes and other fun things High school musical GIF of Troy putting necklace on Gabriella and she asks, "T as in Troy?" Fake dating Romance between theater kid and athlete (the sapphic remix of High School Musical you never knew you needed?) Save the school theater program from budget cuts MC wants to be an entomologist and has two pet ferrets Small town in Washington state

🌈 If Becky Albertalli wrote The Kissing Booth

🌈 When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process

🌈 Perfect for fans of Heartstopper

#Q #YA #questpit

hi! i'll be pitching my YA contemporary novel

ya contempoaray (:

I'll be pitching my YA contemporary novel!

Almost! Mine is YA contemporary but the romance is a big part of the story. I was calling it a romcom but recently decided contemporary with romantic elements is more accurate for the story structure! love your art!

I'll be pitching my YA comtemporary novel about a girl who beards for her best friend, then ends up falling in love with his sister

I'll be pitching my YA contemporary novel (:

Thank you! 😊I’ll look for yours tomorrow.

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I need to write my pitch still but I’m hoping to pitch my YA contemporary novel about a girl who agrees to be her best friend’s beard, but then falls in love with his sister. 🌈