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Agent guide for I Am Chosen, M/M paranormal romance. The picture is of a fiery orange and purple sunset over a highway. Photography and story by Dawn Berkoski

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

Photo of a vibrant sunset over a graveyard as seen from the window of a fast moving vehicle. It reads: PITCH: IN A WORLD CONTROLLED BY CORPORATE VAMPIRES, TWO MEN STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY. WILL A CHANCE MEETING LEAD THEM TO FREEDOM, OR A WEB OF SUBTERFUGE, WHERE EVERY THREAD BRINGS A MONSTER OFFERING DEATH OR PERMANTENT CONFINEMENT? Photo by Dawn Berkoski

Book vibes are all about the feel of the writing, setting, and story. The Blue Blood Series by Melissa de la Cruz Is used to represent the wealthy elite vampires living in New York, the fish out of water trope, dark secrets, and others. The Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice is used to represent young vampires rebelling against old rules and customs. Travel and setting also play a role. A plot point was inspired by the novel. Yakuza, Japan’s Criminal Underworld by David Kaplan and Alec Dubro, is used to represent some of the vampire rivals business practices. It plays a role in the series arch. Photography at the bottom: A dark cement staircase and photo of the London Eye by Dawn Berkoski

Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. #questpit #PR #Q #A #writing

Collage of images, zodiac wheel, solar system planets in a straight line, scorpio constellation, virgo constellation, text saying the villain and text saying the hero

ATLA x WICKED

Calypso must steal 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies.

Villain FMC
Hero MMC
Hate at first sight
Destroy the world, dont save it

#questpit #Q #YA #F

A nine image moodboard of a deer skull, a boy with the face blurred out, a wolf's maw, a note saying "this is gay", a boy being beckoned into trees, a raven, hands digging into green undergrowth, two hands making a pinkie promise, and feet hanging off a ledge.

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN x Over the Garden Wall
🏳️‍⚧️ boy Owen has come home from an 11-month captivity in the woods by killing the monster that held him, but when he starts changing, he realizes whoever kills the monster must replace it. #questpit #Q #YA #H #feraltransboys

Text: An agent’s guide to When the Magpie Flies by M H Wottenmoss. Background of mountains, trees, and a giant mushroom. A magpie flies in the sky.

Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, dreams of becoming a Conduit. As the realm’s only defense against monstrous spirits, Conduits are beloved and privileged—and it’s Magpie’s best chance to escape the undertow of poverty. When a spirit chooses her for the honor, marking her with a cold, entrancing touch, her dream is suddenly within reach. To fully ascend as a Conduit, Magpie, alongside the other newly-chosen, must embark on a journey into the heart of the spiritwoods. The only thing holding her back is her best friend, Calladonna. There are rumors about how Conduits are changed by the mysterious journey, and Calla can’t shake the feeling that if Magpie leaves, she won’t come back. Determined to reassure her, Magpie convinces Calla to come along in secret, hidden from the other Conduits. For the first time, Magpie’s future is bright and shining—until one of the other Conduits turns up dead, and it seems like Calla may be to blame.

Comps: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: clueless lesbians, murder and betrayal, journey of ascension. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: found family, humor and darkness, perilous quest. Also featuring undiscovered magic, monstrous spirits, chaotic academia, ill-advised rituals, haunted forest, queer & autistic ensemble cast, giant mushrooms, original music

Opening lines: The world went dark just after she jumped off the roof. In one moment she could see the clocktower before her, the ledge beneath its defunct face familiar and inviting, and in the next there was nothing. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence, necessarily, but damn if that wasn't inconvenient timing.

#agentguide for WHEN THE MAGPIE FLIES (81k queer fantasy)

When troublemaker and hobbyist scholar Magpie is chosen by the spirits, she breaks an ancient tradition rather than leave her best friend behind—and brings the wrath of spirits and humans alike down upon the realm.

#questpit #Q #F

Potions Unincorporated is written on a black journal with ivy stems and a mushroom on the cover. The tropes are listed with arrows on the right side: Grumpy x Sunshine, Found Family, Evil Pharma Potion Company, Plant Magic, Chronic Illness Rep, Cozy Vibes

The Pitch is written on a lavender field background: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company

A garden of comps is written on a leaf. The background is brown soil with plants next to comp titles: Legends and Lattes, The Spellshop, Howl's Moving Castle, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and Under The Whispering Door.

A snippet highlights the main character's relationship with her familiar, Toad. In the snippet they discuss Linatta's ex girlfriend and Toad's hatred of hats. A book is open below the image and has wildflowers growing out of the inside spine.

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED

Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP

💜 Chronic Illness Rep
🌱 Plant Magic
💚 Bisexual Witches
🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar
😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company
☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance
☕ Cozy Vibes

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #chronicillnessrep #ownvoices #LGBTQ #cozyfantasy

A pitch card for YA fantasy The Pirate, The Princess, and John by @saraduranauthor, marked “Now Querying” with a gold star noting “5 full requests and counting.” The book is a standalone, complete at 82,000 words.

I’m excited to share this #pitchcard for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, and JOHN, the YA fantasy novel I #amquerying, feat:

🏴‍☠️ LGBTQIA+ rep
👑 non-western setting
🌸 anti-colonial lens
🏴‍☠️ girls w/ swords
👑 besties-to-lovers
🌸 friendship > everything

#QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey. Featuring: Native Hawaiian Rep Cultural Identity Setting as a Character

The second slide showcases the pitch: WHISPERS OF THE SEA follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom. Keahi must voyage across the seas to this distant isle where she’ll team up with a boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.

The third slide indicates that WHISPERS OF THE SEA might appeal to fans of: Disney’s Moana, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle. The book includes the following tropes/themes: found family, self-discovery within cultural identity, Hawaiian-inspired mythology, and adventure.

The final slide includes a snippet from the book that reads: “Keahi’s legs were immobilized as her body tried to make the decision her mind could not. The feeling was strange for she had dreamt countless of times about leaving the island, only to seize the opportunity and awaken to find that she had been sold a nightmare instead.”

MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE

A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey.

Featuring:
🌊 Native Hawaiian Rep
🌊 Cultural Identity
🌊 Setting as a Character

#QuestPit #YA #F #W #OwnVoices #AgentsGuide

Thank you! 🌈

A collage of images starting top left and moving clockwise. Two women in white dresses running through a forest of dark trees. A large manor obscured by fog. A dark-haired woman with eyes downcast wearing a veil. A woman in a white dress staring away into the foggy field where a dark horse stands. Large wrought-iron gates at the end of a path lined with barren, dark trees. A man turned to the side, face obscured by his dark hair. At the center a woman wearing a white shirt with half her hair tied up with a white ribbon.

The residents of Blackwell Home for Wayward Girls can never leave—their magic harvested for wealthy patrons who will pay anything for it. A client promises to help Adelia, now 24, escape, but is she desperate enough to trust him? Time is running out—Blackwell girls never turn 25.
#QuestPit#w #a #f

Chosen as one of The Fated, Elena's powers from the goddess are fading; Battling a broken heart after a devastating betrayal, she must find a way to stop the dark chaos from consuming her entire kingdom, but the bond that should have saved them all is shattered
#questpit #Q #A #RF

Mood Board for Starlit Wanderer. The images are of a corkboard with strings and a hand pointing at a potential clue, flowers, a starlit mountain range, lovers kissing at sunset, a grumpy moon and cheerful sun, a protest with the a sign urging people to fight for a better future, grasped hands, and a magical circle of light surrounding an outstretched hand.

UPROOTED x THE FAMILIAR x THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS

Sparks fly when carefree Astra and steadfast Grey touch—they don’t know why and don’t have time to find out between a budding romance, a malevolent secret society, and a minor revolution.

#questpit #R #F #A #Q

An #epic #romantacy in which a princess and the assassin hired to kill her are bound by fate and a mysterious necklace; forming an alliance as they uncover the truth behind their mutual enemy and the force that draws them together. #F #RF #DR
#A
#Q
#WritingCommunity #questpit

UNDER THE CARPET: The House in the Cerulean Sea x Five Survive

Teenage orphans living under the eye of an institution’s vigilant faculty try to escape after discovering dark secrets and learning that their lives are at risk.

#Q #YA #SPEC #questpit

An Agent's Guide to Lattes and Love Potions by Mackenzie Lyn Marr; YA contemporary fantasy; the background of all the pictures in this group is a pastel pink and purple cloud-like swirl with little white twinkly stars and a text bubble shaped like a cloud

The Pitch: When magical barista Jolie's prank war with rival witch Levi gets out of hand and accidentally ignites a feud with a group of vengeful vampires, they must work together to save their coven.

Comp titles: ace self-discovery of loveless, contemporary witchy vibes of These Witches don't Burn, sapphic rivalry of The Dos and Donuts of Love, cute, cozy fantasy or the very secret society of irregular witches

What you'll find: rival teen witches, magical coffee shops, vampires, black cats, potions, crystals, tarot, and astrology, small town vibes, queer self-discovery, chronic illness rep

THESE WITCHES DON'T BURN x THE DOS AND DONUTS OF LOVE

When magical barista Jolie's feud with rival witch Levi gets out of hand, accidentally igniting a centuries' old dispute with local vampires, Jolie and Levi must work together to save their coven.

#QuestPit #YA #Q #agentsguide

Moodboard for an #amquerying manuscript featuring images of chemistry glassware; equations on a chalkboard; anatomical, botanical and medical diagrams; dark, lush foliage, and stars streaking through a night sky with long exposure astrophotography.

BABEL x RIPE x ARCANE
Desperate to study at the Institute, graduate student Jim pitches rising star Professor Tanner a device that could revolutionize—or weaponize—medicine. Tanner wants to put it in everyone's pocket...and she doesn't care who it might hurt.
#questpit #A #Q #F #SF #H #SFF

Daisy Jones x Gideon the Ninth

🤘A girl punk band
✝️A goth sibling duo
🎪An ex-circus troupe
💀A necromancer

…are invited to an artistic retreat in New Orleans, but their holiday becomes a living nightmare when a seance unleashes demonic forces intent on killing them all.
#QuestPit #A #Q #H #DF

Pushing Daisies x Louise Penny

When Maryl realizes she can talk to the dead, she decides to solve a decades old cold case at her university. She might solve the crime with the ghost’s own words ... or she might end up being the next school spirit

#QuestPit #A #Q #MY

THE GAMES THE GODS PLAY x PERCY JACKSON

Sam would do anything to save her dad. Even sell her soul.

🧙 adult fantasy
🪽 greek reimagining
🥾 hero's quest
😈 devil's bargain
🩷 demigod-mortal romance
💀 petulant gods
👨‍👧 heartbreak and healing

#questpit #q #a #f

Bonus moodboard for the WIP that I sporadically add to 😚

SHE IS A HAUNTING x HOUSE OF ROOTS & RUIN x MACBETH

#questpit #W #YA #DF #H

Moodboard for novel CYBER-SERIAL: POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS — 2000s aesthetical digital tubes, red criss-crossing lines across the sky, art of a magician crossing from natural world into the Matrix-like digital world, Serial Experiments Lain meme: you are tooo online // well you are too alive, Michaengelo trapped in cyberspace, anime girl meme: if you ever feel lonely just remember that there are thousands of algorithms tracking ur every move. ...someone cares! <3, Silver Surfer watching the cosmos from his surfboard, faerie girl raising the light in her hand: me when I call every last piece of my power back to me, art of a woman laying inside of a dark digitized room.

CYBER-SERIAL: POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS — Concept Board: Spirituality - Cybernetics - Intelligence - Angels - Duality - Daemons - Afterscapes - Transhumanism - Transcendence.

Gabriel is an ex-hacker who has decided to write a novel about a robo serial killer of trillionaires > a jovial AGI births inside of her PC, Sariel, who wishes to serve as her guardian angel >> famed AGI hunter and Catholic cyborg named Uriel investigates...

#QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

#QuestPit #WIP #A #H

JEEPERS CREEPERS X SEE NO EVIL X THE MIST

Luna Wheeler suffers from Enchlophobia; her identical twin sister, Mona suffers from Monophobia. Their therapist suggests spending time at the county fair, little does either of them know - a night of fun turns into a night of survival

A man and a woman stand with a putple wyvern with a backsrop of a city, the plaentary rings anf a putple moon

ANNIHILATION x PERDIDO STREET STATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#QuestPit #SF #A #Q

Priority of the Orange Tree X The Kiss of Deception

The Apprentice Speaker #YA #highfantasy
⚔️ Feminine rage
💔 Romantic betrayal, slow-burn strangers -> lovers
😈 Horror twists
🔥 She saves the men
🫶 Found family, self-identity

#questpit #Q #F #litagents

A photo collage depicting a limo, paparazzi, the Greek gods gathered in the throne room, a rain spattered window, an altar, a funeral pyre, a gold and marble hall with pillars, and art of Mt. Olympus. The book title Divine Damnation is placed front and center.

🏛️Divine Damnation🏛️
would be popular with readers of Scarlett St. Clair’s A TOUCH OF DARKNESS saga.

Within the court of Olympus—under the pantheon’s conniving eye—divinity either becomes or damns you.

🏺Diversity
🏺Slow Burn
🏺Why Choose
🏺Enemies to Lovers
🏺Prophecy
🏺Corruption
#QuestPit #RF #W #A

A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor.
DAMSEL's feminine rage x A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN x 🌶️🌶️
#QuestPit #Q #RF #R #F

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comps and themes

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COVET x FAIRYTALE x ACOWAR

An Agent's Guide to REIGN OF NIGHTMARES

❤️‍🔥Slow burn
🗡️High stakes
🖤Gothic/horror vibes
♀️Feminine rage
🌈Diverse ensemble cast
💞Found family
♨️Steamy
💫Genre-bending
🫀Twists & betrayals
⌨️118,000 words
📖Standalone with strong series potential
#questpit #A #Q #RF #DF #H

To save her kingdom and family, RocsAnne must put her faith in a hostile elf, a flirty prince, and a dangerous ransomer. Most importantly, she must learn to wield her greatest flaws as the only weapon capable of saving them all. #questpit #ya #f #Q #litagents

Twisted Tangled? Yes please 😍