Elizabeth Heyn [in my mad woman era]

My second-chance pirate romantasy is currently in the trenches!

Solaris Oakflower, a masked pirate captain, reunites with her childhood sweetheart, who she abandoned ten years ago, on a dangerous journey to save her sister.

Will they heal their broken past, or will their love sink in the storm?

Thank you! 🥹 Third manuscript to query is the charm, I hope!

Just sent out a whole batch of queries. Fingers crossed someone likes what I've sent! Being in the #querytrenches is not for the weak.

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My #QuestPit pitches all in one place 👀

A mood board containing the following images: a rocket launch; two women gazing at the sky; a constructed habitat on a desert planet; a woman distributing missing posters; a space shuttle ready for launch on a Saturn V rocket

A cruise ship disaster in space.
Two sisters separated by fate.
The journey to find each other again spans worlds--universes--and it's all their mom's fault.

Spaceship road trip
Rivals to friends
A dark family secret
Alternate universes
Ace rep

#q #QuestPit #YA #SF

a football player, downtown Houston, a business woman

BOOK LOVERS X THE EX TALK

🤍 Sports romance 🏈
🤍 Divorced childfree FMC
🤍 Men who go to therapy
🤍 Eldest millennial daughter

#questpit #Q #A #R #writingcommunity

grey and black background of black sand with two grey dragons flying overhead White text reads: Fourth Wing X One Dark Window The City of Dragon Glass five photos with black and gold borders top left: dark photo of hand on skin top middle: person from neck down in beige scarf and black clothing in a desert environment top right: dark architecture with arches bottom left: round gem with stone removed in the center to reveal a red opal with green flashes bottom right: woman from neck up with tan skin, gold hoop earrings, long curly black hair staring at the photographer slightly through her bangs with her chin raised

grey and black background of black sand with two grey dragons flying overhead with text that reads The dragon released a growling trill. "Cairn would like me to remind you that if you do not treat them with respect, you will meet the same fate." The translator stopped for a Moment, her scale-painted eyelids fluttering as the green dragon communicated. "He also hopes that any who choose to disrespect them from now on will be a bit less gamey." In the middle of four photos of book covers reads "COMP TITLES" top left cover: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, tan cover with a large white moon background and antlered elk in front; arrows coming off the photo pointing to "disability rep" and "queer-normative world" top right: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, yellow/tan background with black lettering and dragon illustrations; arrows pointing to "dragons", "queer-normative world", and "enemies to lovers (with blades)" bottom left: The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten (I also have NO idea how to describe this cover) arrows pointing to "political machinations" and "atmospheric setting" bottom right: One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, blue-green background with a woman walking across a bridge; arrows pointing to "atmospheric setting", "magic with consequences", and "broken magic needs fixing"

grey and black background of black sand with two grey dragons flying overhead with text that reads "THE CITY OF DRAGON GLASS...AS MEMES" Upper left: screenshot of a white tweet with black text saying: "wow you're so mature for your age" thanks it was the trauma Upper right: screenshot of a white tweet with black text saying: god: I have made mankind! angels: you have fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it it's got anxiety middle left: black and tan chihuahua who looks to be tensely smiling with text above saying "then there's a deep rage burning inside of you but you gotta act nice coz you at work" center: image of a white man with short hair in a blue suit, white shirt, and blue and white striped tie smiling at a man with his back to the camera. text says: interviewer: so why do you want this job? Well, I've always been really passionate about not starving to death middle right: Doctor: do you exercise? Me: I'm a runner. I run from my problems, I run late, and I run my mouth Left under mid-left: white goose with a knife in its beak and a rainbow background with blue text that says "be gay do crime" Under mid-right: black with white text that reads: Guys like girls that can take charge. Ask him out. Plan a date. Take some hostages. Overthrow a government. Burn down his ex's house. Maybe buy him a puppy. bottom left: background of a bowl of what appears to be spaghetti-o's in alphabet shapes. foreground is a spoon with noodles spelling "send money" bottom middle: white background black text me: today is going really well and I don't trust it some shit: *starts happening* me: ah there it is...the Fuckening Bottom right: woman torso in backless white lace wedding dress with a person in a suit with their hand on her waist (no faces shown) with the white text: Marriage is like a walk in a park. Jurassic Park. the word "marriage" is crossed out in blue with "lust" written above

With her degenerative eye disorder accelerating with every use of her artifact-seeking power, a visually-impaired thief searches for lost treasure in a desert palace riddled with dragons. If only her smooth-talking former fling wasn't present & able to blow her cover at any moment #questpit #W #A #F

FUNNY STORY X LEGALLY BLONDE on the Portuguese coast

⛱️Sun-soaked European adventures
💋Hot Local who refuses to make the first move
🫦Slow Burn
🍷Art, wine, and finding yourself in unexpected places
🤭A rom-com that makes you laugh and swoon
🥵 Steam
🥂 Fun!

#QuestPit #RomCom #editors #booksky

UPROOTED x STUDIO GHIBLI

Assistant natural historian Heidi ventures into the cursed forest for her thesis. She expected danger. She didn’t expect to fall in love with a strange rogue who presents her with a choice - help them start a war, or betray them to keep her family safe.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

Dystopian, manipulation, hidden knowledge, The Alpha Project

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

An Agent’s Guide to None of This Was Real Adult Contemporary Romance

The Pitch If you love someone, let them go and if they come back for your sister's wedding, then nothing can possibly go wrong. Jasper’s life in NYC is falling apart. She might get fired and she’s not over her last relationship. She arrives at her family’s lake house in the Quebec Laurentians for her sister’s wedding week only to find her favorite ex is also invited. She broke his heart years ago. She wants him back. He doesn’t trust her. But should she even trust him?

Comps: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Happy Place by Emily Henry Seven Summers by Paige Toon

What to expect Canadian Setting Two timelines Family Drama 2010s Nostalgia Flawed characters

HAPPY PLACE + EVERY SUMMER AFTER = NONE OF THIS WAS REAL

If you love someone, let them go and if they come back for your sister's wedding, then nothing can possibly go wrong.

She broke his heart years ago. She wants him back. He doesn’t trust her. But should she even trust him?

#questpit #q #r

I'm excited to query you! I have two projects I'm currently querying that fit your MSWL, so it's just a matter of deciding which one to send 😅

Visual representation of a thriller novel with the quotes "I will never stop loving you," Shane said. "You're my whole world. Everything is okay as long as you're okay." and "A spark of hope ignited in his stomach, a tiny firefly lighting up what had before been a chorus of darkness."

LOVE & MONSTERS X SURVIVOR SONG

Alyson spent her whole life getting to the pinnacle of pop star fame. None of that matters in the apocalypse.

🐞oversized animals
💥found family
🥹 romance
😱 apocalyptic thriller
🖼️ art about art

#questpit #q #a #T

A still from Office Space. Peter Gibbons sits in his office.

A still from Die Hard. John McClane holds up a terrorist.

A still from the movie Shane.

A still from the movie Kill Bill.

OFFICE SPACE X Don DeLillo X THE FUGITIVE

THE WHITE RABBIT, at 73K words, is about:

✅private equity firms running their own counter justice system
✅ a terrorist killing CEOs in the street
✅a failed academic-turned-corporate drone who becomes the unwitting face of revolution

#Q #A #L #T #QuestPit

A collage of six images and a few text bubbles. The images are: 1) a smiling girl with big red X's over her eyes 2) A view from inside a cave looking out at the ocean. 3) A cliff overlooking the ocean. 4) A distant view of a road through trees. 5) The silhouette of a girl standing in front of a bright green light. 6) A black and white image of a hand covered in unidentified black substance, with the word help written over it. The first text box reads "Something is wrong in" and leads to a big word graphic over the entire poster reading "Bludeye Beach". The other text bubbles read "Is something out there", "Never walk home alone at night", and "Cat, Manny, Milo...what do they know?"

Collage of six picrew cartoon looking characters. 1) an excited girl with curly brown hair and glasses holding a book, with the name Edie in front. 2) a gloomy looking boy with the name Milo in front. 3) a grinning boy with sunglasses and wavy hair, with the name Manny in front. 4) a purple haired girl sticking out her tongue and holding up a peace sign with the name Viola in front. 5) a reserved looking girl with the name Cat in front. 6) a stern looking girl with the name Alexandra in front.

NETTLE & BONE x CAMP DAMASCUS

Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in BLUDEYE BEACH.

🫂Found Family
👧Character driven
💕Slow burn romance
👻Monster menagerie

#QuestPit #Q #F #H #A

Illustrated cover with designs of various women in historic cultural dress A gold cover reads: An Agents Guide to: Remarkable Young Women

Illustrated full figures of young women from various cultures accompanied by text briefly describing their significance

Rediscover history’s young, forgotten female heroes in this educational and empowering standalone with series potential.
📜 Diverse histories
📜 Forgotten figures
📜 Inspiring women
#NF #Q #YA #QuestPit

A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy. Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/
⚛️engineering magic
🤌obsessive yearning
🚨unreliable narrator
📻corrupted magic tech
🩺ethical dilemmas
🩻body horror
🏆dangerous magic duels
🛠️blacksmith biceps
🌿strange plants
👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them
#questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

moodboard layout with 9 squares 3 x 3, 6 have over the top terrified men (the dads), along the top and bottom 3 squares. Blood decal drips from top squares through the middle to the bottom ones. A Victorian mansion silhouette sits in the middle most left square, the title DAD BODIES in the middle, and right of that is the silhouette of a d20 with a skull icon showing.

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their 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 #MY #W

3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman in a forest with a giant wolf; a silhouette of a woman; silhouette of a couple kissing; a woman reaching out to light; two hands touching; a woman surrounded by a phoenix; art of a winged person saving someone falling; silhouette of couple kissing in the sun; a crown and dagger

Crown of Amethysts Na Romantic Fantasy 99,000 words Shadow and Bone meets A Court of Thorns and Roses Pitch: When Keira's sister is taken by a shapeshifter, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land and sea, and her own dark powers to save her. But the enemy could be anyone, and his price for her sister will have her question the cost of love and duty. Comp titles: a fate inked in blood and spark of the everflame. Tropes and themes: love vs duty, found family, vengeance and betrayal, Forbidden and slow-burn romance, forced proximity, dark secrets and hidden truths, half the Gods are dead, and gods. Goddesses, mortals, and more.

When Keira's sister is taken, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land & sea, & her own dark powers to find a shapeshifter who could be anyone & whose price for her sister will have her choose b/w love & duty
✨️ #Questpit #RF #F #Q #A 🌗

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

🏀 Catalina Corazón 🏀
Hates: Quinn
Likes: Sofie
Loves: Basketball, Xanax, & Quinn

💕 Quinn Carter 💕
Hates: Herself
Loves: Music & Catalina
Murdered: ???

🔥 FIX YOU 🔥
The story of a totally healthy Catholic high school romance.

#questpit #YA #Q

A visual moodboard for a romantasy story featuring a pirate ship, potions, a couple kissing underwater, the flex hand from pride and prejudice 2005, a tavern, an elf, and a lagoon with a waterfall. The text over it reads, "The smoldering ember of hope inside her that'd been so close to burning out was crying out for oxygen; she needed this. Needed him. No matter the cost."

The Princess Bride X Something Wilder

Solaris sails through dangerous waters to find a cure for her sister's fatal disease, but when her childhood love turns up and reveals he's after the same cure, everything changes.

💟Second-chance
🔥 Slow burn

#Q #A #RF #questpit

Oh hi I haven't checked in in awhile!

I had to take some time away from writing and querying to give myself a much-needed break. But I'm planning to dive back in later this week because if I don't query the book I'll never get an agent 🙃

I always forget how much energy it takes to send queries until I send a batch out ✨ but at least they're out there!

It's my birthday! I am so grateful to have had another year of reading, writing, listening to music, and having adventures with my husband and friends 🫶

I bought the surprise piano work jacket. Don't even care that it doesn't seem like it'll be that warm. I love it.

It's okay! I already wrote it, so I'll query it anyhow 😅