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I really want the next literary feminist rage novel like The Handmaids Tale, Vox, Night Bitch, and When Women Were Dragons. I'm currently closed to general queries, but if you have something like the above please use this special link: querytracker.net/query/ColeLa... #MSWL

soo many great elements!!

An industrial space station hallway, with the title of the book and the undertitle. JAK STERZAND: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT

TREASURE PLANET X STARFIELD

When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Eris—a tech prodigy—he couldn't have guessed it would tear him from his home on a pirate space station to an interstellar quest for answers about his dad's legacy, old mysteries & himself.
#2025Pit #YA #SF #M

The sun is dying and there was a living being inside the mysterious artifact from Mercury. The first android CEO of the Sol System has to save his citizens, but his enemies and love life make it nearly impossible. Novel working title: ANCESTORS OF EARTH
#2025pit

A man in a villa swimming pool at night. A note saying 'I know what you did'. A couple kissing; central partial photo of a woman floating in water; a man standing over a table, hanging his head in despair; a couple's clasped hands; a woman in evening dress hurrying up a staircase; a man standing on a rock by a beach; a woman screaming, her head thrown back; a shattered wineglass.

REBECCA x RIVIERA x THE PERFECT COUPLE

She's always tried to do the 'right thing', but when a death becomes a suspected murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband, the man she's in love with.
#2025pit #A #R #M

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.

#2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ

A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles

A photo that reads: Crowned In Light A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query! This one has it all! - Magical Realism - Slow Burn - Found Family - Gods and Goddesses - Music Heavy - Soul Mates / Past Lives - Strong Female Friendships - Disability/BIPOC representation - DAVID BOWIE?!?!

A photo that reads: The Pitch! It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions. When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world?

A photo that reads: For Fans of: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Maggie Stiefvater Richelle Mead Laurell K Hamilton Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality. Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way. Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory. Playlist: Have I Found My Home by Paden What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin Breathe Me by Sia Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes Silence by Marshmello & Khalid The World We Made by Ruelle Like That by JP Saxe Safe Place by RuthAnne Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt Somebody Loved by The Weepies For You by Angus & Julia Stone Past Life by Morgan St Jean Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last

💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES

🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory
❤️‍🔥Slow Burn
👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖

#2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV

love this!

sounds so interesting!

spooky b&w backbend. Photograph by Letitia Trent, 2002.

ghostly figure in a dark kitchen. Photograph by Letitia Trent, 2003.

STIR OF ECHOES X IN THE WOODS

THE LAST VICTIM
Lillian survived a serial killer, but can she survive ghostly visitations from a rapidly rotting corpse, asking for help to solve her murder? Lillian risks her hard-earned anonymity, sanity, and life as she gets closer to the truth. #2025Pit #A #PH

7th century Antarctica sounds so cool! such a great setting

#2025pit

In mythological depths of the 7th century Antarctica, a half human warrior princess and her ex-childhood friend undertake a doomed quest to save her father's corpse from the writhing forest lair of a elder god. Death, madness, and body horror follow.

The Ritual X The Left Hand of Darkness

A collage of images showing Shah Wali, Commander of Bagram AIrbase during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, his daughter, Mina Wali, a young girl devoted to her father, and images of the brave mission she undertook to bring education to a remote village in the foothills of the Tora Bora Mountains for girls and boys.

He raised her to pursue education at any cost. But when Soviets topple the Afghan monarchy & her father, Commander of Bagram AB, is arrested, Mina is betrothed at 16. Decades later, now an Afghan-American, she fulfills her father's dream on the dowry land she never wanted.
#2025Pit #CNF #A

It's pitch day!

The Ghost of Trees
George Block brought his family to PA to renovate the family home. But something dark out in the woods will demand a high price for this new life. The Block family will have to reckon with their past to survive. THE SHINING + AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY
#H #GF #2025Pit

Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man.

KINSHIP, 84k, #A #H #T w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan finds her new brother is enamored with her after she cleans up a murder he commits. For fans of female rage, serial killer fiction, and V.C. Andrews. Comps: My Sister the Serial Killer, A Certain Hunger, Blood Sugar. #2025Pit

GREAT COMPS! 🔥

Light Red background. Title at the top reads: "Agent's Guide to Camille & the Cookies.” The text reads: “Love an anti-hero? Let us introduce you to Warren Wolf - our misunderstood businessman just trying to sell some cookies in our 940-word picture book. This is a cheerful, modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood that moonlights as a subtle allegory for teaching about online cookies. But for now, it’s all about the Cookies! Camille's Granny and Warren Wolf run a beloved cookie stand. Everything seems perfect, but things take a sudden turn when Granny is away and Warren is running the stand alone. The cookies taste better than ever, but something feels off. Can Camille and Granny restore harmony and set their idyllic world right? With endearing characters and delicious challenges, this contemporary retelling of little red riding hood is sure to delight all readers.”

Light Red background. Title reads: "Comps for Camille & the Cookies.” There is a bulleted list of 3 works. Little Red Riding Hood (My First Fairy Tales) by Tiger Tales (Author), Loretta Schauer (Illustrator) (March 3, 2015) The Little Cyber Engineer, By Amber DeVilbiss (Author, Illustrator) (July 17, 2022) Chicken Clicking By Jeanne Willis (Author), Tony Ross (Illustrator) (September 1, 2015) Underneath the list comes the cover images of each of the books. On the left, is an image of a book, Little Red Riding Hood, with a cartoon wolf and a little girl. The little girl's hair is in pigtail braids with a red cape and hood. She’s wearing red shoes and white and blue striped long socks. She’s holding a basket. The wolf looks more kind than sinister with yellow eyes. He’s rubbing his hands together raised under his chin. They both look like they’re dancing or running. On the center, left of the cover in the background are cartoon pine trees and forest. In the front part is grass with white small flowers. There are some small blue butterflies. In the distance, is granny’s cottage. The author and illustrator’s names appear in the grass in white print. The middle image is of a book with a navy cover. Its title is The Little Cyber Engineer in yellow text. The image is of a little girl in all black looking like a ninja or hacker. She's carrying a sack full of money. The author and illustrator is listed in the bottom right hand corner in white and yellow text. On the right, is an image of a very cartoonish adorable and humanized chick sitting in front of a desktop computer with a computer screen glowing. The chick is using a mouse and keyboard and is obviously online surfing. The chick has blushing cheeks. The Title, Chicken Clicking, appears in big, yellow font. The author’s and illustrator’s names in small blue font on either side of the title. There’s a quote on the cover in a cartoon bubble that reads, “A great book…to introduce safety on the intranet. GUARDIAN”

Light Red background. Title reads: "Tropes for Camille & the Cookies.” Then there is a list of 5 tropes. Sparkle emoji. Modernized fairy tales. fairy emoji, female scientist emoji. Empowering the Underrepresented. wolf emoji. No real villains supervillain emoji. Redemption arcs superhero emoji. open laptop emoji. Digital messages in (mostly) analog format. old style dial telephone emoji. At the bottom is an image of a smiling brunette girl in a red hood and cape. She looks like a traditional Little Red Riding Hood. She’s skipping. She appears to have brown shoes and bare legs. Her fists are closed and she has a very wide smile. There is a black thin arrow leading to a picture of a red drawstring hoodie and a picture of 3 chocolate chip cookies. Underneath these pictures reads the following text: “Contemporary Little Red Riding Hood & A Lesson About Online Cookies”

Mood board with a light red background. In the first row of pictures, three photos described left to right. 1st - is a collage of chocolate chip cookies. 2nd- is a stack of older bound books with the book on top open and the pages arranged in an arch. 3rd - is a colorful assortment of handprints made from paint, assembled as if done for a school project. The second row has three images and a text box. From left to right- The first image is rendition of a planet in space with light hitting the top of the planet. This image is outlined by text resembling computer code in blue with images of locks to indicate data security. The next box is black text over a white background. In a cursive font, it reads “Everything is idyllic in the town of Alaurea.” In the third box is an image of a figure in a red hood carrying a basket walking along a dirt trail into a green forest. The fourth box is a closeup of an outdoor carousel. At the top right of the image is the face of one horse of the carousel. The rest of the carousel animals are seen from behind. In the third row, there are 4 boxes, 3 with images and one with text. From left to right - The first box has the image of a young Black girl (around 6-8) set to an off-white background. The girl has dark curly hair, is wearing a lab coat and blue safety goggles and is holding her chin as if she is thinking. In the second box is the image of a gray wolf lurking behind a tree. Only one of the wolf’s eyes is visible and there is a cloudy nature scape in the background. The colors of the image are wintery, with a bit of light blue hues. The third box has a white background with black text. In cursive writing, it reads “until a wolf changes everything…can Camille put it to right?” The final box has a market stand with rows of cookies. These are lots of cookies, some with marshmallows and chocolate, some double chocolate peanut butter, some white macadamia and either oatmeal raisin or Chocolate chip.

Camille & the Cookies 🍪
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD X CHICKEN CLICKING
A girl learns that sometimes free things come with hidden costs when her granny’s business partner, Mr. Wolf, starts using new business tactics & everything changes.
🧚‍♀️Modernized fairy tale
🐺No real villains
#2025pit #PB #Kidlit #DIS

The tunnel to nowhere in North Carolina.

REBEL RIDGE x OZARK x WALKING TALL

A prosecutor's investigator returns to her small town to help run the family funeral home and confronts white supremacists, a corrupt sheriff, drug overdoses and human trafficking.

2021 Hugh Holton winner from MWA-Midwest

#A #M #2025Pit

A moodboard for summoning trouble with a cityscape, a forest, two mugs on a table, a magnifying glass on some books, and potion materials

David and Wallace run a magical anomaly investigation agency together. When they're called in to help a potion shop owner, they think it's just a run of the mill job.
But most of their jobs don't involve demons.
Queer cozy fantasy with a focus on friendship and a cute moth dragon

#2025Pit #A #F #OS

DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND x FEVER HOUSE

A Providence mob enforcer and his trainee chase down a traitor who has harnessed the power of the Celtic gods. A supernatural noir filled with betrayal, brutality, and lost love.

CHAMBER THE ROUND

#2025pit #A #H #T

BECKY CHAMBERS x STAR TREK

18 years ago, Captain Zannis began searching for Astraea Albright, her former mentor and confidant who vanished mysteriously. When Ensign Ava Albright joins the Starship Elpis, Zannis is stunned to learn Astraea had a daughter.

#2025pit #A #NA #SF

Photos of Orange County, California in a blue-and-orange collage. From left to right, top to bottom: UCI’s campus, a building in downtown Orange, a pair of palm trees on Newport Beach, a girl standing in front of the ocean at night, a street sign for San Joaquin Hills, a bird’s-eye view of a burning log, mist-ridden trees towering over campus apartments, a road at night, and a silhouette standing in front of an orange sunset.

THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC

A gritty speculative thriller in which a socially bereft pre-med student must team up with her academic nemesis to prove that she didn’t kill her classmate — unless, of course, she did.

#A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC

love the comps!! This is 100% what I'd need to get out of a reading slump!!

this sounds amazing!!! I'm getting OMITB season 3 (or 4?) Oliver Putnam vibes and LOVING it!!!!

thank you so much 🥹🥹