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
31.01.2026 08:21 — 👍 239 🔁 123 💬 20 📌 1
Where The Dark Stands Still x Powerless
Wounded by a shadow beast immune to her blade, a knight stumbles upon an abandoned manor and meets a sorcerer whose star magic can slay the monster...but only if she convinces him to finally leave his cage
#QuestPit #RF #YA #W (Querying soon)
31.01.2026 05:55 — 👍 63 🔁 31 💬 9 📌 0
Mood board with: two interlocking wedding bands; a pendant with a heart that looks like a computer chip; a push-button computer chip; a gloved hand holding a flaming tube of red lipstick; a "New Messages" notification envelope symbol; a false eyelash; a broken mirror with pieces being picked up by a woman's hands; a woman's head and torso covered with billowing, sheer red fabric; a control room with a high-backed chair and several red computer screens; a woman in a long, close-fitting black dress with several dangling cords around her; a staircase with a woman in a formal black dress at the top and a man in a suit at the bottom, both people with their backs to the camera; fingers holding a broken mirror in which one eye is reflected; and a cocktail glass with cherries in and around it as well as a lipstick- and other red substance-smeared napkin, and a woman's hand (with long red nails, two silver rings, and sheer black fabric covering part of her hand/wrist) holding the glass.
“Love Is Blind” x THE STEPFORD WIVES
Alyssa attends a singles retreat where, unbeknownst to her, a wealthy man pays a hefty sum to make her fall in love. When she returns home after two years abroad with him, her friends are shocked at just how much she's changed.
#QuestPit #Q #A #S #T
31.01.2026 05:08 — 👍 93 🔁 40 💬 6 📌 1
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
31.01.2026 05:13 — 👍 70 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0
Gothic mood board depicting a skull, an ancient Irish chieftain with a hunting dog, hands reaching through a ghostly gauze, a yearning man kissing the hand of his lover, a thurible spewing incense, hands clasped in prayer with a rosary, a woman in white facing a vast forest, and hands ripping a hole in the center of the owner's chest. Text reads "The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 82,000 words, adult gothic horror"
The pitch: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s eternally young banshee, he hunts her down to learn who in his family is fated to die. In the struggle, he triggers memories of the banshee’s previous life, and she demands he give her more.
They meet by moonlight searching for answers in the banshee’s memories, and Ciarán’s growing attraction sets him on a path of macabre desire. But as the devastating bubonic plague closes in, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his dying family or succumb to the seduction of the death-bringer.
I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I’d heard her for years.
It was an early summer’s day when we went to the lough. Niamh led us through the forest along the stream, babbling with a lightness that opposed her urgent pace. “This could be our best chance to see the merrow,” she said, her little voice all singsong. “Auntie said the veil is thin. They’ll be near and then we can speak!”
“She also said we shouldn’t go this far,” I reproached her.
Again about the merrow. She had been speaking of them for days, and insisted that Deaglán and I journey with her to the lough, where they lay beneath the surface. Finbar wasn’t supposed to come, but Aunt Eithne had made us watch him while she harvested yellow flowers on the hillside. He slowed us down, and Niamh’s frustration roiled off her like steam against the cool breeze. Though the land was ripe with life, winter still dragged a claw through the air.
As we ventured deeper into the forest, a feeling of unease grew within me. A sound rang in my ears, so faint I could not tell if it was imagined or real.
Because for weeks, it had haunted my dreams.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES x WUTHERING HEIGHTS
🖤 Toxic yearning in the time of bubonic plague
🥀 Lush, gothic atmosphere
💀 Only one grave
💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee
#QuestPit #Q #A #H #Horrormance
31.01.2026 11:00 — 👍 37 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
Collage: an ominous figure covered in chains and a veil; a girl looking out of a misted window; candles in the snow; pumpkins; shadows figures gathered around a fire; blackberries.
WHAT THE THORNS REMEMBER #Questpit
#W #A #DF #H
Written as a gothic folklore alternative to seasonal cosy fiction.
💫 An outcast raised by witches.
💫 A girl who sees visions of death.
💫 A priest who hungers for power.
💫 A farmer with who hears the secrets of the earth.
31.01.2026 11:02 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
A DARK FLORAL BACKGROUND AND THE TITLE "A DEATH WITHOUT YOU" IN A GOLD FRAME. White text: A WIP. HEATHER CARTER. AGENTS: MARISA CORVISIERO & KATRINA LEMAIRE OF CORVISIERO LITERARY AGENCY
A DARK FLORAL BACKGROUND AND THE TITLE "A DEATH WITHOUT YOU" IN A GOLD FRAME. White text: PITCH. CAN TRUE LOVE TRANSCEND THE CHASM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH? CHLOE TAKES REFUGE IN A HAUNTED HOUSE, ONLY TO THE BE TRAPPED THERE, MARKED AS THE FUTURE BRIDE OF THE UNDERWORLD PRINCE. SHE HAS THREE WEEKS TO BREAK THE BOND, OR BE HIS FOREVER. BUT WHEN HER HEART DRIFTS IN ANOTHER DIRECTION, THE DISTRACTION MAY VERY WELL BECOME HER DAMNATION.
95 WORDS. ADULT GOTHIC ROMANTASY
A DARK FLORAL BACKGROUND. Four images in frames: The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall book cover, Lakesedge book cover, The Haunting of Hill House Netflix cover, and Phantasma book cover. White text: Comps & Features: ADULT GOTHIC ROMANTASY, AUTISTIC/PLUS SIZE REP, SOUL MATES, GHOSTS, MORALLY GRAY VILLAIN.
A DARK FLORAL BACKGROUND AND THE TITLE "A DEATH WITHOUT YOU" IN A GOLD FRAME. WHITE TEXT: OPENING LINES. CHILLY RAIN DROVE INTO ME LIKE TINY KNIVES AS I RAN FROM THE BRUTAL MAN I ONCE LOVED. MUD CAKED MY CLOTHES. MY LUNGS BURNED, AND MY LIMBS SHOOK. I DIDN'T WANT TO DIE. I DIDN'T WANT TO LIVE WITH HIM EITHER, A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH.
HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE x LAKESEDGE
Fleeing her controlling ex, Chloe hides in her uncle's haunted mansion, only to be trapped there by the underworld prince- marked as his bride. She has 3 weeks to break the bond or be lost to the underworld forever.
#QuestPit #AG #A #F #R #WIP
31.01.2026 06:04 — 👍 38 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0
Love neurodivergent rep!!🤩
31.01.2026 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A slide titled "The Pitch."
Sophie D'Angelo always knew she would be a molecular biologist. She never expected to drop out of grad school, and she definitely had no intentions of becoming a resistance fighter.
Dropping out wasn't so bad. If she hadn't, she never would have joined the lab of her old mentor Christoph, or met his other right-hand women: Katya, a tiny experimental radiologist from Ukraine who insists it's not paranoia if you're right; and Morgan, a hacktivist-turned-bioinformaticist Christoph took under his wing after she escaped difficult beginnings.
When tensions between the two governments that both claim the territory known as Paeonia spiral out of control, a terrorist attack on the hospital where they work leads them to flee the country with the help of Michael, a soldier with a past he really doesn't want to talk about. Their destination: the Trinity Island Laboratory Complex, a secretive research facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
At first, everything seems okay, if not a little stiff and bureaucratic. But as they begin their research, it becomes clear that they are just pawns in a much larger conflict than the one they escaped, and their loyalty to objective truth may cost them not just their careers, but their lives.
A slide titled "Comps" that contains polaroid-like images of three movie/book covers, labeled with captions.
In the First Circle: "Hostage scientists choosing between safety and dignity."
Real Genius: "Science that feels playful...until it isn't."
The Lucifer Effect: "At what point does a person with a soul stop following orders?"
☣️UNHOLY TRINITY☣️
👩🏻🔬 Neurodivergent, female scientist as narrator
🎓 Grad school at its worst
🩷 Found family (and polyamory)
🇺🇸 Post-collapse America
🤯 “Oh God, what have we done?”
🚩 False flag conspiracy
🧠 Persecution of intellectuals
🏛️ Literal Socrates worship
#questpit #Q #A #S #D
31.01.2026 10:35 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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
31.01.2026 05:00 — 👍 131 🔁 53 💬 8 📌 1
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
31.01.2026 06:20 — 👍 171 🔁 94 💬 6 📌 0
Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text:
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood from Stone
112000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Now
Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark
Title: Pitch
Text:
In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires.
Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune.
Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death.
It is a hell of a lot of money, though.
Background image: same as first slide.
Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image:
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
Background image: same as first slide.
SINNERS x THE DEVILS
There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.
Corado's about to break all three.
BIG 5 EDITOR REQUEST!
🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities
Querying now!
#A #F #Q #questpit
31.01.2026 05:45 — 👍 121 🔁 68 💬 7 📌 0
Quote from T. L. Coughlin agented work: I have 2,925 days left of my curse and I’m not going to let one fool of a knight ruin my chances. A black and white image of a girl with long hair looking down at a sliced off marble head of a man with a bloodred “tear”. Behind them is a collage. A girl sunken in water with a white dress flowing. A pearl with fire swirling around it. A boy, up in a tree, laying on a branch. A hilt of a jeweled sword, a stone bridge across a small river in a forest. A curled, pink, rosebud. A stone carving of a qilin. An open book laying upon leaves. A vial of liquid in an enchanted forest.
TANGLED X PRINCESS BRIDE X STARDUST
💘 He fell first (literally), she fell harder
☀️Golden Retriever MMC meets 🌑Black Cat FMC
🐦🔥🐉 Mythological creatures ft. Chinese/Italian beasts
🗡️ Impossible quests
✨Intertwined curses & a trickster slug
#questpit #NA #YA #F #AG
31.01.2026 05:22 — 👍 139 🔁 53 💬 11 📌 0
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!
• • •
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
31.01.2026 05:00 — 👍 211 🔁 114 💬 14 📌 0
Just joined from the other app and I’m looking for any fellow #writingcommunity friends! 📚✨
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