Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️

In the midst of editing MSU & I thought I’d leave this here. 🖤 #Writingcommunity #editing

Working on the synopsis for MSU and I don’t want to off myself quite yet. A win is a win 👏

THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an adult gothic romance with:

🕯️Forbidden Romance
🕯️High Society matchmaking
🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening
🕯️Obsessive yearning
🕯️European setting
🕯️Secret lake meetings

#W #A #R #questpit

THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME X THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Exiled to Lucerne by a scandal, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she cannot love, and risks repeating the tragedy that once broke him.

#BluePit📖 #W #A #NA #R

Three dolphins, a crown of blue shells. A woman with long black hair and a snake for her lower half sitting in a lake. A beach with cococut trees bending in the wind. A black girl with black curly hair up to her chest in water. A river with mangrove. A man with horns holding a goat. A tropical forest. Children with large bellies wearing straw hats.

#Questpit #MG #F #Q #POC

TRINIDAD FOLKLORE × AMARI

12 yo accepts an invitation to a secret island camp
Everyone's magical but her and scary folklore creatures are real
An evil magician threatens her island home
To stop him she must learn who the real monsters are and what makes her special

A priestess must break her vows to stop her eldest sister from powering the throne with the blood of street serpents from the slums. To save her youngest sister, she ensnares a war-hardened prince, and triggers a bloodline war.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #EF #MorallyGrey #SisterRivalry

fruitist by tyler stasi

fruitist by tyler stasi

fruitist by tyler stasi

fruitist by tyler stasi

#QuestPit #S #H #Q

THE UNWORTHY x PIRANESI x Severance

🍓epistolary weird-girl slow burn horror
👒sororal tension
🪴mother/creator archetype
🕰50+y/o FMC
🪑moral decay

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

✨w/editor interest!✨

pharos wip by tyler stasi

pharos wip by tyler stasi

pharos wip by tyler stasi

pharos wip by tyler stasi

#QuestPit #S #W #F

The Shape of Water x LIGHTS ON THE SEA

Who are you when there is no one to witness?

🌊mid-life crisis
🌊small town community
🌊redemption/soul transformation
🌊irony of the patriarchy
🌊maritime gothic

art: vincenzo caprile

Alt-Arabia: notorious thief masquerades as autocratic sultan’s right hand—only he’s not looking to pledge loyalty but usurp the throne.
#YA #Questpit #R #F #W

title card. background is a painting of an angel in dark shadow kissing someone in white, holding the angel’s face. In the foreground are three images. bottom left is a hand holding a flaming heart from a painting, in the centre is a hand reaching for a glowing fruit, in the top right is a hand reaching left. curved in a circle around the hands are the words forbidden fruits

title card. background is a painting of an angel in dark shadow facing the right and extending an arm. In the foreground are three images. bottom left is a hand holding a flaming heart from a painting, in the centre is a hand reaching for a glowing fruit, in the top right is a hand reaching left. curved in a circle around the hands are the words forbidden fruits

Background: black and white blurry shards of photos of eyes looking around. Foreground: bottom left, snip of a painting of a hand holding a heart on fire. In the middle, snip of a painting of a hand reaching out for glowing fruit. Top right, hand reaching out in invitation. Around the hands, the words FORBIDDEN FRUITS in gold capital letters.

DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE x ASCENSION

🥀angel summoning as dark magic (and a metaphor for OCD)
🥀violent longing
🥀corruption arc(s)
🥀MC thinks he’s in a romance novel until it’s (almost) too late
🥀Victorian secret societies
🥀epistolary dual timeline

#QuestPit #WIP #A #H #R

In the Shadow of a Witch agents guide, cover page. YA fantasy. 83k words.

In the Shadow of a Witch elevator pitch

In the shadow of a witch comps

In the shadow of a witch excerpts

LEGENDBORN x NINTH HOUSE

To save NYC’s witches from being hunted down and possessed by malicious spirits, 16-yr-old Haley Thorne must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop the dead witch behind it all.

#QuestPit #Q #F #YA

At Holy Conduits Academy, twins Beatrice and Benedict share a single miracle: two halves of the same Stigmata, the sacred yet painful marks that grant the power of divine healing. But when Beatrice returns transformed into a flawless, autonomous healer, Benedict is left abandoned in her shadow. However, her newfound perfection reeks of something unholy, and the darkness clinging to her is beginning to stir. COMPS Saint Maud Bunny Seklusyon Diablo IV The Secret History

A guide to REPLICA.

She returned with a perfect miracle, but her divine healing hides a hellish rot.

📖 Dark Academia: Holy Edition
🎭 Cult Vibes
❤️‍🩹 Toxic Sibling Dynamic
😈 Problematic FMC
💀 Dying Magic System
🪽 Religious Horror

#questpit #A #H #F #W

Gothic text treatment with a red skeletal graphic overlay with a spooky, dark forest photograph background. Text reads "An Agent's Guide to the Banshee of Clan Murtagh, a gothic love story, 82,000 words, adult horror, by Anna Hirsch."

Tropes & comps: Irish folklore, she's the monster, generational trauma, only one grave. The yearning in the time of plague found in Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Catholicism vs the Supernatural in The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, the medieval horror of Between Two fires by Christopher Buehlman, the death-crossed lovers of Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers.

The pitch: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s banshee for the first time in a decade, he knows one of his own is fated to die. Yet, his family doesn’t believe his warnings, and why would they? The last time Ciarán heard the banshee, he didn’t tell a soul until after his younger cousin tragically died under his watch. He’s been the family pariah ever since. Desperate for redemption, Ciarán hunts down the banshee in search of answers. She’s equal parts frightening and alluring, and in his struggle to confront her, he inadvertently triggers the banshee’s memories. Memories of when she was a servant of his household, decades ago—a woman named Deirdre. In hopes of learning whose death she foretold, Ciarán tenuously agrees to help Deirdre remember who she was. They begin meeting by moonlight, and with every clandestine encounter, his macabre desire for Deirdre grows. When the devastating bubonic plague befalls the Murtagh household, and Deirdre’s memories reveal a dark scandal in the family’s history, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his family’s side in their final hours or embrace the seduction of the death-bringer. But fate demands more than death, and Deirdre is no longer the only ghost cursed to haunt Clan Murtagh forever.

The first line: I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I'd heard her for years.

HAMNET x NOSFERATU

🖤 The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family falls in love with the banshee who’s haunted his household for generations—but as the bubonic plague closes in, he must choose between the living and the dead.

💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #HFic

A cabin on a cliff. A dead butterfly or moth. A wooden sign. A collection of insects/bugs. A girl with curly hair. A bedroom. A girl holding a baby deer. A collection of letters. Two girls sitting on a bed.

Trapped in the woodlands, Ivy's only hope of going home is to escape the faerie who enchants her into loving him, blinding her to what he is--monstrous.

#Questpit #YA #SFF

#YA horror romance • BRIDGERTON x DRACULA • #editors ❤️ if interested

👑a deadly royal court
🩸ceremonial hunts & balls
👑meet-cutes + murder-cutes
🩸there's only one haystack
👑Targaryan-esque family trees

Blood is thicker than water...but tastes may vary

#questpit #ag

Stylized movie poster of saltwater saints

🌊 SALTWATER SAINTS | 75k words | Upmarket Fiction

Set against the backdrop of an idealistic beach town, SALTWATER SAINTS explores friendship, love in all its stages, and the consequences of living your entire life for other people—and what happens when you finally decide to stop.

#questpit #q #a

Last one! 👀🐺🪄

MATE x DISCOVERY OF WITCHES

THE POTION DILEMMA is a cozy romantasy where a witch accidentally gives a love potion instead of a healing potion to a shifter assassin.

🐺 fated mates
🐺 unknown bound magic
🐺 morally gray mmc
🐺 dangerous quest

#questpit #W #RF #A #R #F

Chris—a bisexual designer—has avoided desire to stay in control… until his new job throws him together with Beatrice, a Latina writer who makes him risk his sobriety and sanity for the love he never thought he could have—especially after the last time he fell in love.

#questpit #Q #A #R #U

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

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)

DISCOVERY OF WITCHES x X FILES x RESIDENT EVIL

WHERE THE VINES CLING CRIMSON is a contemporary romantic fantasy complete at 90,000 words.

#questpit #Q #F #FR #amquerying

3x3 moodboard of the main character from my WIP featuring red themed gothic and dark romantic imagery

ANATHEMA x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH

A fledgling vampire, tension between vampires and monster hunters, a realm of eternal night, a mysterious elven priest, and a sinister plot that threatens everything held dear.

#questpit #W #DF #A #LGBT

Things you'll find in bi4bi Edwardian era demon summoning romantasy book MERE FLESH by Catherine Labadie

"Even demons do not compare to you." - Laban, Mere Flesg

A spoiled heiress surrounded by carnivorous artist friends (who might be in love with her) meets an undeniably charming demon when she summons him to dodge a beloathed fiancé & claim her world. Except the demon refuses to obey, & omens surrounding him might spell their end.

#questpit #P #R #A #LGBT

Meet the nyc witches in In the Shadow of a Witch

Haley Thorne - FMC

Alanna Kim - best friend

August Finnley - love interest

LEGENDBORN x LITTLE THIEVES

16-y/o witch Haley Thorne teams up with her new friends to go on a quest through a monster-infested realm before:
💀 A nefarious witch comes back to life
🐉 Monsters overrun NYC
💥 Malicious spirits hunt and possess the city’s witches

#QuestPit #Q #F #YA

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: LIGHTS, CAMBOT, BLOODBATH LAST CHANCE MATCH ADULT SPECULATIVE SCI FI PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROMANCE NOW REVISING WITH WRITEHIVE

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Pitch Welcome to the inaugural season of Last Chance Match, a government-funded dating show for the soulmateless to find their other half. Set in a tropical location, eighteen hopeful singles will compete for the chance to have a soulmate and all the benefits that come with it such as: free healthcare and education, better job opportunities and exemption from soulmateless extermination at thirty. Due to limited resources and population control, only three couples can win. Are you ready to find the one who’s to die for? 28-year-old soulmateless Cera thinks the opportunity could represent a second chance until the show takes a dark turn and a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host. The infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde swears he’ll get Cera home safely so long as they remain coupled to protect one another from elimination. But the fatal games they play for the nation’s entertainment pick the contestants off one by one, leaving Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: Themes & Tropes - Touch her and die MMC - Soulhates to Soulmates - What if divorce was eliminated and the government told you who your soulmate was? - head rolling twists - forced proximity - found family (then break it apart) - slow burn romance - genre blend sci fi dystopian horromance - survival of the fittest government mentality

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Comps: Media: SQUID GAME, BLACK MIRROR, LOVE ISLAND: The deadly gameplay of SQUID GAME and the futuristic horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND Books: Hide - Kiersten White, The Compound - Aisling Rawle, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells The eerie prose and romance arcs of Kiersten White, the dystopian dating show of THE COMPOUND and the frightening use of bots in THE MURDERBOT DIARIES

Dear Citizen of Calasca,

We're happy to inform you that you've been selected to join us on Last Chance Match. Congratulations! A CivilBot will pick you up shortly. We look forward to seeing you soon.

𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧?

#questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D

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

Clinging to the Stones Adult fantasy heist by Hussain A. Ayoub 109K Words Multi-POV The river of fate drags everyone forward. Only the desperate dare to cling to the stones.

The heist: Acyrnar Acyrnar has fragile bones, a dying father, and only half the will to hunt his rogue master. But here he is anyway, because living hurts. When he learns his master’s mission might hold the only cure for the rot killing his father, Acyrnar turns coat and joins him. Simple enough. Except he must first kidnap the Empress of the Crimson Empire, brand himself an outlaw forever, and make enemies of some of the most powerful and vindictive people alive. The Counter-heist: Melam Across the sea, Empress Melam fights to protect her son from a succession ritual that will slaughter all but one heir to the throne. Scarred by personal loss and a world rigged against her, Melam does what any desperate mother would do—she turns to the criminal underworld to break her son out of the impregnable Cage. She doesn't need a savior; she needs a distraction. Their colliding paths are set to ignite a war, unravel loyalties, and decide the fate of nations.

Comparative titles: The Age of Madness series. The Lies of Locke Lamora. Andor. Grave Empire.

“You are marked by the stars.” Mother used to repeat that grim prophecy, her voice a warm feather tickling his cheek, her words an icy blade piercing his soul. “Like the Surabrenna, three daughters bind you: one will pass without you, one will weep for you, one will burn with you.” Clinging to the Stones A fantasy inspired by Syrian history & mythology.

Here's CLINGING TO THE STONES, inspired by Syrian history & mythology:

🌟A broken philosopher-warrior seeking a legendary spear.
🌟An imperial mother must extract her son from an impregnable fortress.
🌟Their paths are about to collide.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentsguide

Book cover of ocean waves crashing against the shore – You have to go back; enemies to lovers; the haunting of maddy clare + the guest list; gothic vibes; murder mystery; pitch: Twenty years after a study abroad trip ended in tragedy, Rosie returns to Ireland to ind the truth and must face her haunted past—and a real haunting—as she teams up with a handsome local man to solve a murder.

A collage of book-related images including a woman in the water, the Irish coast, a cottage, and a couple embracing.

GUEST LIST+HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE+LEAP YEAR

Haunted by her past, Rosie must team up with a handsome local man to solve a murder—and outrun the monstrous presence stalking them across the Irish countryside.

🖤Gothic
🖤Enemies to lovers
🖤Murder mystery
📚Querying #agents now!

#QuestPit #A #H #Dis #Q

a collage of a blonde woman and brunette man, dragons, and quotes. "You -- my hunger, my ruin." "He knew me by heart. It infuriated me that he knew me by heart." IN THE EYES OF A SEER

After prophesying her own death, Olek is paired with a wannabe-bard, lover boy in order to save her country from utter ruin.

✨reluctant allies to lovers
🕯️her life for the worlds
🪞dragons & woodland beasts
🕯️talking swords
✨will she defy her fate?
#questpit #RF #A #AG

Three Cheers for NPC Revenge 108k words

Pitch - Freshly kicked out of his band, punk barista Josh Keller crash‑lands in a cursed video game world ruled by an authoritarian Dragon King. Armed with two misfit coworkers, a long-lost princess, and a heart he swears he doesn’t have, he’s only got one shot to save a doomed realm. Saving the world is hard. Saving yourself is the real boss fight.

Comparisons Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Princess Bride by William Goldman High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster Soul Music by Terry Pratchett This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher

Tropes - Found family Dysfunctional relationships Friends to Lovers Neurodiversity Love at first sight Wise female mentor More 90s and 2000s music references than an MTV documentary Nerdy culture references Fantasy taverns Subverted/refuted chosen one Heroic last stand

An #AgentsGuide to THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET REVENGE, the commercial, upmarket, adaptation-ready intro to the Bard of Aztaeron cycle.

#QuestPit #Q #SFF #R #NA