C.W. Rose

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

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When 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Briella searches for her missing brother, she doesn’t expect:

🐉A realm of dangerous Chinese myths and legends 

💀A curse marking her for death 

⚔️A lethal, alluring yaoguai assassin as her only lead

In this 🌏, she isn’t the hero. She’s the prey.

#RF #A #F #QuestPit

On a quiet Oceania island, Briella Fan’s brother goes missing - and she’ll have to work with a dangerously alluring yaoguai assassin to find him, and stay alive with a demon hunter hellbent on executing them both. 

#questpit #RF #A #Q

DAUGHTER OF THE 🌙 GODDESS x KNIGHT & THE MOTH

Intro slide to Agent’s Guide: Title Beyond the Mistveil, at the bottom reads Romantic Fantasy, and 92K words.

Comps slide: Outlander, Kpop Demon Hunters, Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee, Knight & The Moth by Rachel Gillig, and Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

Tropes slide: Reluctant Allies to Lovers Yearning Forced Proximity Slow Burn Only One (Flying) Horse Chronic Illness Rep (asthma) Morally gray assassin & yaoguai MMC They save each other Who Hurt You

BTMV pitch: When asthmatic physical therapist Briella’s brother vanishes, she’ll risk her last breath to find him—only to find he’s trapped in a world of sinister Chinese spirits. Her only lead? A dangerously alluring yaoguai assassin whose help can cost her life.

#AgentsGuide to BTMV

💞OUTLANDER if Claire was a physical therapist & Jamie was a morally gray yaoguai assassin

⚔️KPDH vibes, but the hunter is the villain & the demon is the hero.

👩🏻Asthmatic PT searching for her missing brother 
🐲Steeped in Chinese myth

#RF #questpit #A #Q

OUTLANDERxKPOP DEMON HUNTERS
#questpit #A #RF #Q

When asthmatic PT Briella’s brother vanishes, she’ll risk her last breath to find him—except he’s trapped in a world of sinister Chinese spirits. Her only lead? A dangerously alluring yaoguai assassin whose help can cost her life.

I am here for it!

😍😍😍

Yeah, and she’s def not happy about it 👀

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Fingers crossed for you!! 🤞🏼

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On a quiet Oceania island, Briella Fan’s brother goes missing - and she’ll have to work with a dangerously alluring yaoguai assassin to find him, and stay alive with a demon hunter hellbent on executing them both. 

#questpit #RF #A #Q

DAUGHTER OF THE 🌙 GODDESS x KNIGHT & THE MOTH

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On-screen text reads: “THE SURGEON OF SILENCE agent guide.” This slide exists to set expectations. The visual language is restrained and institutional: clean lines, dark tones, nothing flashy because this story is about how violence often wears a professional face. The mood is controlled, deliberate, and uneasy. Nothing is screaming, and that’s the point. This image introduces a speculative thriller concerned less with spectacle and more with systems: who builds them, who authorizes them, and who gets harmed when they’re allowed to operate without scrutiny. The title isn’t loud. It doesn’t need to be. Silence here isn’t absence, it’s policy.

On-screen text references multiple points of view, including operatives, command figures, and witnesses. This slide is doing structural work. It signals that the story doesn’t belong to a single hero or a single moral lens. Everyone is inside the same machine—some enforcing it, some benefiting from it, some trying to survive it, some trying not to look too closely at what it’s doing. The tone here widens the frame. The harm isn’t abstract, but it’s also not isolated. Decisions ripple outward through command chains, protocols, and people who will later insist they were only following procedure. This image emphasizes proximity: who is closest to the damage, and who gets to stay distant enough to sleep at night.

On-screen text references a surgeon who built the system and came back to end it, alongside themes of institutional control and high stakes. This slide explains why the story exists. It centers on accountability rather than redemption. The surgeon isn’t returning to fix a mistake or reclaim a legacy—she’s confronting the consequences of her own work after it’s been repurposed into something dangerous and sanctioned. The mood is tense but quiet, focused on refusal rather than rebellion. This image is about the moment when someone realizes that walking away wasn’t enough and that silence, even when it feels like survival, can still cause harm. The system didn’t break. It worked exactly as designed. That’s the problem.

On-screen text highlights institutional violence, bioethics, and quiet tension. This final slide is intentionally unresolved. The visual restraint reinforces the core discomfort of the book: that some of the most devastating violence is clean, legal, and calmly justified. No chaos. No villain monologues. Just paperwork, protocols, and people doing their jobs very well. The feeling this image aims to leave behind is unease rather than closure. It asks the reader to sit with the question of complicity—what it means to build something powerful, to benefit from it, or to look away once it’s no longer yours to control. The silence here isn’t peace. It’s what’s left when everyone decides not to speak.

🩺 THE SURGEON OF SILENCE — #agentsguide

🧠 Institutional control
🩸 A surgeon who built it, now here to end it
🕳️ Decommissioned blacksite
💀 High stakes
🔍 Multi-POV operatives & overseers
⚖️ Obedience vs refusal

Adult #SpeculativeThriller. Querying soon (currently editing)

Omg I love the sound of this!

An agents guide to the unmaking an upmarket speculative novel querying now

The pitch: nova makes people forget what pains or impassions them, but her own grief unleashes a glitching witness who remembers everything she’s erased. And he won’t let her forget.

The comps: with the haunting erasure of the memory police, the escalating momentum of chain-gang all-stars and the corporate ritual menace of Severance in Apple TV+

The opening: nova once wondered in the memories she’d cut out followed her around, waiting for their moment to tear out her own.

THE UNMAKING — 95k Upmarket Speculative Fiction

The Memory Police x Chain-Gang All-Stars

🧠 A memory technician that makes people forget.
📺 A glitching stranger who remembers.
🧪 A system that calls emotion error.

Some things cannot be erased.
#QuestPit #A #Q #LF #S

Agent’s Guide for The Garden of Levot - Title Page

Agent’s Guide for The Garden of Levot - Pitch Page

Agent’s Guide for The Garden of Levot - Comps & Tropes Page

Agent’s Guide for The Garden of Levot - Opening Lines Page

ATLANTIS: TLE x SIX OF CROWS

After botching a job for a crime lord, grizzled mercenary Caston is blackmailed by the royal court to lead an expedition with 2 convicts in search of a mythical garden. Refusal means execution & leaving his ill granddaughter orphaned.

#QuestPit #A #F #Q

Mythical healing herbs and Atlantis comp 👀👀

Garden of Levot mood board. Clockwise from top left: An ancient ruin doused in eerie green light. Caston, the story's hero and a mercenary of the serpentine Wasini faumen tribe. A port town with several ships docked. Two sailing ships battling on the open water. A dark cavern filled with illuminated plants. An opulent throne room cast in sunlight.

THE GARDEN OF LEVOT

ATLANTIS: TLE x SIX OF CROWS

After botching a job for a crime lord, a grizzled mercenary is blackmailed by the royal court to either lead an expedition to locate a mythical garden full of potent healing herbs or be executed & leave his granddaughter orphaned.
#BluePit📖 #F #A #Q

The FMC - Catriona Balfe as Listy Snippet - Listy swallows against the dryness in her throat. 'You loved her very much, didn't you? Rianna.'

The MMC - David Gandy as Kris Snippet - He looks at her. 'I fell in love with her the moment I saw her,' he says bleakly.

MMC's late wife - Ana de Armas as Rianna Snippet - Rianna sets her glass down and rises. The moonlight traces the ineffable beauty of her face, its clever shading masking the eyes which can't always disguise their cruelty.

MMC's childhood sweetheart - Eleanor Tomlinson as Christina Snippet - How is it she's the one at fault now? The one made to feel guilty. When it is his fault. What happened is his fault. They both know it. And they both know she will never forgive him.

𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒙 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬 𝑺𝒌𝒚'𝒔 𝑹𝑰𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑹𝑨

When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec must decide how far to go to protect them. Esp. the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband.
#Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY

My cast list for who would play my MCs.👇

I need this, that is all

Moodboard for ALL ABOARD: a shadowed knife, a train with headlights on in the snow, a screaming, indistinct face, a skull in a palm, mist-capped mountains

Features: forced proximity, unreliable narration, f/f enemies to lovers, power and influence, survival, identity and paranoia. Pitch: When Sam Hambrook, heir to the Hambrook potato chip fortune, is found poisoned and stabbed aboard his family's snowed-in train, his ex-fiancee, Poppy, scrambles to solve the crime despite interference from her brother, Lars—whose desperation to cover up that he stabbed Sam is merging with a haunting only he can see.

Snippet for ALL ABOARD: The lamp flickers and a strange energy thrums through the train. Panic claws at my insides. I sense it before I see it: a hooded figure gliding through the closed gangway door. It leeches the forest green from the wallpaper and the gleam from the mahogany hardwoods as it drifts toward me, leaving a drab gray in its wake, and why oh why is no one else so much as flinching? Why is Poppy still asking investigative questions over Sam’s dead body? I’m the only one who can see it. The only one it can terrorize.

Comp books: "We Used to Live Here," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Train from Platform 2," "Hamlet"

TRAIN FROM PLATFORM 2 X WE USED TO LIVE HERE X TELL-TALE HEART

Hamlet, flipped on its head
Dual POV (sibs Ophelia & Laertes)
A private train to a will reading
2 snowed-in murders & a haunting
F/F enemies to lovers to—

❄️Querying soon❄️

#questpit #agentsguide #A #T #H #W

THE BRASS THAT BITES

LEGENDBORN meets FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: At an elite academy, Xavier learns pattern-driven intelligence isn’t honed—it’s hunted, and his neurodivergent mind is prime prey.

🧠 Neurodivergent MC
🤝 Ride-or-Die friends
🧸 Missing kids depend on them
#questpit #agentsguide #writing

Oohh I am rooting for them to find these missing kids!

THE BRASS THAT BITES

LEGENDBORN meets FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: An elite academy opens its doors to the lower class—education isn’t the goal.

🧠 Neurodivergent MC
🏛️ Industrial dark academia
⚙️ Magic fueled by stolen lives
🤝 Ride-or-Die friends
🧸 Missing kids depend on them

#questpit #Q #YA #SFF #F

DEMON CHEVALIER | editor guide
100k standalone

Demon Zarazîn steals an exorcist into Hell like a forbidden fruit from Eden—an enemy he is meant to damn, not crave. But if exposed, his treason will cost him everything...his lover's life and his very soul.

#QuestPit #AG #A #RF