James Keller-Am Querying

Hope everyone had a good #bluepit. I saw a lot of good pitches.

Thank to all who have liked and reposted my pitch.

digital painting in shades of blue, depicting a vague crowd of people gathered around a dying orc. a gnomish woman stands with her hands on his head, a golden halo of magic around her own face. behind her, a bird-like man keeps his hands on her back and glances up at the shadowy figure of Death watching overhead.

#BluePit #BluePIt📖 #W #F #A #LGBT Memento Mori protagonist 2: Evarin, overworked medical singer at a tiny gnomish clinic. If her mentor would just hand her the reins, she could fix things. But her ambitions are blinding her to her husband's thinly veiled troubles. Is she bearing too many burdens?

A paperback book, Carnivorous Cupid, stacked on top of its 3 sequels - outside on a stone bench, greenery and blue skies in the background

TARANTINO writing PERCY JACKSON

- a disgruntled, skeptical FBI agent
- an angry Greek god on a rampage, with ☠️ly arrows that cause victims to eat hearts of their soulmates
- the Greek god's mother, posing as a human to figure out her son's problem

#BluePit #A #H #M #PN #P

An orange, black, and white movie poster for my manuscript Cargo, inspired by Saul Bass's famous vintage posters for Vertigo and The Man With the Golden Hand: "Tai's terrified of humans. Everyone is. So why did their captain just hire one, and why can't Tai stop thinking about her?" Now Querying: Cargo The credits section is as follows: CATHERINE WINTERS AND COREWARD BAKER PRODUCTIONS LTD PRESENT A CATHERINE WINTERS NOVEL ‘CARGO’ STARRING TAI OF MICAPA THYLLIS CHAUMEDEROT TALATAGARI QUIRIN TALATAGARI ANENTO FRANK THE CAT JEREL BESKROS CHOST MOL RAZIK FEATURING COOL MOSS ABOVE STILL WATER AND INTRODUCING CLARKE SHIPS BY SETEBO-URANQ AND CONSTANT VERIDITY INTERSTELLAR COSTUMES BY UPPER CORE ATELIER “HUMAN” CREATURE EFFECTS BY 3.8 BILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION CASTING BY THE TRADE AUTHORITY WRITTEN BY CATHERINE WINTERS DIRECTED BY CATHERINE WINTERS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CATHERINE WINTERS WITH APOLOGIES TO SAUL BASS Catherine Winters dot Com

“Humans. I’d seen them before: one or two here and there over the years, a small pack once. It was always the same: crowds silently parting to make way for a lone hunter, dock workers going out of their way to avoid a human ship’s berth. But this one wanted to talk to me.” #BluePit #Q #SF #LGBT #A

A montage of a female vampire and the 3 book covers she appears on.

Diary of an Everyday Vampire – Volume 1 (of 3)
If vampires did stand-up comedy, this would be it.
Meet the Everyday Vampire: sarcastic & really unimpressed with modern life. No glitter, no romance, just frustration & biting observations on humanity.
#P #A #F #bluepit
mybook.to/EverydayVampire1

Unforgiven by P T Lacy Being a superhero was supposed to be easy. Fans, fame and fortune, yours for the asking. But nothing ever comes easy for Ricky, known to the world as the flame-throwing Pyro. With the press on his back, his boss on his case, and a terrible thirst for booze, trouble is never far away. No sooner does he commit to clean himself up than his past comes calling. An old friend, long abandoned, reminds him of a broken promise to take down the ones who hurt them, a promise Ricky thought he’d left behind. Revenge might cost Ricky his freedom, or scorch his soul, or even make him a monster. Would he give up everything, just to bring peace to the dead?

#BluePit📖

UNFORGIVEN

If you had to pick between avenging your past, or saving your future, what would you pick?

For the superpowered Ricky, what was meant to be an easy decision quickly becomes impossible....

#F #SF #SP #C #Q #BluePit

#BluePit📖

Unforgiven is sure to be a hit with fans of:

🦸the grit and fury of The Boys
🦸the maturity of Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible and Fight Me
🦸the emotional resonance of Joanne Harris' Broken Light
🦸fans of superheroes tired of empty power fantasies

#F #SF #SP #C #Q #BluePit

75k YA Satirical Dystopian Fantasy 99 WAYS TO GET EX-SPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER By Victoria Jayne 星星亚

The Pitch Anarchocommunist, OCD-ridden Posey Peabody has been drafted into the American Army Academy for Powerful Witches. By entry stats she's the Winner--First Rank of her class. All is well as can be until Amelia Appleton takes her Rank with reckless, dangerous, wrong magic. And then Appleton doesn't get expelled. Competitive streak activated, Posey and Appleton engage in reckless, rule-breaking acts of magic and mischief. While trading First Rank between each other, Posey realizes that Appleton might not be such a weirdo after all. In fact, she's annoyingly pretty. That said, Appleton's got her eye on that government position through all this, and Posey would rather die than work for the fascists in charge. Posey's intention is to truly get expelled. She wants to be the first one to do it. Meanwhile, an underground betting ring rises up, classmates betting on whether or not Posey will have to kill someone to get expelled. Posey hopes it's not true, but whether or not she finds out is entirely up to her.

& FIRST LINE SNIPPET Somewhere behind the stage, Headmaster Josephus Crimble is puking his guts out. I remind myself that it's okay if I start to count and stop myself after the limit, so long as I don't make it to ten. If you make it to ten, the limit goes down by one, Posey. Don't forget. I started at five hundred. Drifting through the rest of the day in this half-there state, I sit with my feelings locked tight in a jar of my own design. Ґ1l preserve my emotions like lemons, until they're laden with salt and mellowed in their sourness. That feeling, or lack thereof, feels warm as home to me, and my deep yearning for Nukeville ebbs into a soft ache that gently rubs my heart into a smoother, steadier rhythm. There will be no need for counting when there's no feeling to (dis)regulate.

Drafted into a ridiculous magical military academy, Posey develops a list of ways to get expelled—without committing murder. Lookin’ at you, Amelia.

As she fails, questions rise. Will Posey have to kill? Is getting expelled what she really wants? And why is that girl so damn pretty?
#bluepit #ya #f

1847: A surveyor feels a pulse in the soil. It isn't a tremor. It’s a breath.
2025: A detective enters a restaurant where the menu is a lie and the basement is a throat.
It isn’t a god. It’s an ancient hunger, and it just received #TheLastOrder.
#BluePit #BluePitA #H #CH #L #Horror

Everything You Did BOOK CLUB FICTION GHOST FISH X BLUE SISTERS X EUPHORIA

Ever since her best friend Bridget died ten years ago, Meg has been seeing her “ghost” to cope. Will an apology tour to the people Bridget hurt make her go away or will the truth of the night she died be a roadblock to moving on? #bluepit #bluepit📖

#BluePit 📖 #W #A #SF #LGBT

He can’t remember why he tried to kill his AI god; those memories were wiped to quell his rebellious thoughts. But as much as he wants the peace of a new life, forgotten friends and lovers are trying to drag him back to his old one.

a picture of a woman with the words time travel sends you netflix Alt: Animated man with the words time travel sends you back to a past, not the past.

Merlin's Invention
4 books chronicle Merlin's accidental time travel
4 moves back in time
Merlin evolves as he is forced to adapt to living in different eras as he struggles to keep recreating the machine that sent him back in time.

#A #SF #DIS #Q
#Bluepit #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Part Time Girl How much longer can Michael hide his sex-switches?

If, like me, you get frustrated seeing all the awesome WIPs that you can't read yet 😥 here's one that was recently published 😁 braevitae.com/w/parttimegirl

If you like my writing style, I'm OPEN to Beta read requests, especially Queer spec-fic. Reply or DM 🙂

#BluePit 📖 #P #F #YA #LGBT #OV

There's a plothread I'm trying to work into my pitch about Willie getting drafted to pilot a berserker but the words aren't synthesizing.

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Colorful picture book illustrations of a girl in overalls as a spot illustration next to a full page of a cow tied to a red balloon that is floating over a city as hands hold up phones that are recording video BrianKirbyStudio.com

#BluePit 📖 #pb After Melody spots a COW ON A BALLOON, the Internet explodes with wild speculation. As the world loses its mind, Melody keeps hers, proving that in a frenzy of clicks, clout and chaos, creative problem solving can save the day (and keep a cow grounded). #OS BrianKirbyStudio.com

vibrant digital painting in an impressionist style. an orc takes a desperate breath as he emerges from the water, eyes glowing and a magic circle around his head like a halo. he is bleeding from a small wound on his chest.

#BluePit #BluePIt📖 #W #F #A #LGBT Memento Mori, protagonist 1: K'arik. Deaf aroace orc prince, coronated alongside his elder brother. But they both intend to abdicate by the end of the decade. They know their family history. How easily power corrupts. And establishing a new system is no easy task.

Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars, a dark epic fantasy. Shows a book cover with the same title and four figures in front of a map

An empire in turmoil. A forbidden magic promising death. The lives of 4 strangers changed forever as they must learn to master their powers and confront their fears and traumas.
🔥Tortured heroes
🪵Found family
🌊East Asia
⚙️Enemies2Lovers
🐦Trauma/Redemption
💗 He falls first subplot
#BluePit 📖 #P #A #F

Mood board titled: All Tomorrow's Photos. A collage of images, starting top right going counter clockwise: Realism artwork of the characters Maurice(right) and Kenneth(left), drawn by S.S. Genesee; a vinyl record of The Velvet Underground & Nico on a record player; a red 1962 Chevrolet pickup truck; a woodsy area with police tape that says: "Police line do not cross"; downtown Grand Rapids in the 1970s; a view of Arbutus Lake near Traverse City, Michigan.

🔪ALL TOMORROW'S PHOTOS🔪
— HANNIBAL x THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (yes, the band)

✨1970s Michigan
💖Dark MM Romance
🔪Serial Killer MC
💕Cinnamon Roll LI
📸Film photography
🩸Blood Play
💦Angsty & suspensful

Character art drawn by yours truly!
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GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN X BODY FRIEND

A college junior battling endometriosis and an injured quarterback playing his last season, embark on a journey to find joy by completing the “hobby hop” list.

#bluepit 📖 #A #R #W #OV

6 photo collage. Top left is an image of a city with lights beaming from the sky. Top center is a close up of a girl with pink hair singing into a microphone. Top right is a close up of a screen with a warning sign and the word malware underneath in pink font. Bottom left is a hand grabbing a phone with a pink tint and a blue cube bouncing off the screen. Center is a 5 girl silhouette with a purple backdrop. Bottom right is a crowd in front of a music stage with a blue hue over the stage.

SAILOR MOON x HANNAH MONTANA x TRON

By day, Mia & her friends are a hot pop group. By night they're vigilantes who fight virus monsters in a metaverse.

⚡️Mixed race & Chinese rep
🐶TALKING CORGI
🔥Magical Cyber Girls
🗺️Diaspora themes
💞Rivals to lovers

#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #ya #f #sf #q #poc

THE LOVELY LONG AGO

September 1992 to May 1993

A group of students come together in the campus dorm rooms and legendary night clubs of Brighton - living and loving, dancing and . . . dying?

Feel the rock rhythm, hear the heavy music, meet the unusual suspects.

#BluePit 📖 #A #M #Q

#BluePit 📖 THE ROSE BARGAIN x CINDER. The alien princess is making queer girls compete to be her wife. 16yo Darla is outed to her family and kicked out when she is chosen. Now she has to win, but with the aliens' power to control minds, she might not want to. #YA #SF #LGBT #OV #Q

A collage including a line drawing of a woman pouring a watering can, a photo of a little red house on the edge of a meadow and forest, an arching bridge over a lazy river, another photo of stones placed in a circle in a foggy valley, and a photo of a forest of birch trees.

A cosy fantasy mystery inspired by farming sims like Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon

Eden is the last in line to inherit her great aunt’s farm, who disappeared years ago. As she finds her place in a new community, she begins to wonder what happened to Auntie Su?

#bluepit #w #NA #F #M

Illustration of cover art for False Start by Mae Grenade, featuring two girls facing away but almost holding hands

Heartstopper X Only Yesterday:

FALSE START is a gentle, second-chance sapphic romcom. When introverted demisexual Sera learns at a reunion that track star Reese secretly adored her back in school, she sets out to find out just what Reese saw in her.

#BluePit #BluePit💥 #F #R #Q #LGBT #OV #YA #A #NA

HER Space Inc.

Mina, an obscure astrophysicist/CEO, proves her controversial gravity hill theory when her research company creates a wormhole.

This transforms HER Space into a commercial space giant that finally breaks the Big Six monopoly.
#A #SF #DIS #Q
#Bluepit #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Two mugshots of people: one a long haired man and the other a dark haired woman, overlaid on top of one another, torn down the center to reveal some of the other's face. Superimposed over top is a burning city street, two people running from the fire. Text over top reads "slow burn, fleeting love, found family, morally gray" and "what does it take to prove your worth?" The title is "Marked for Life" a novel by Aimee Cozza and Tory Keith. Text at the bottom reads "querying now."

Non-humans Azra & Brooke form a pact: Brooke’s freedom from a cult in exchange for information about the hunter forces who want their kind dead. The lines of their partnership blur as they strike back in an attempt to drive them from the city of Dayno.

#Q urban #D #SF/#F #R #LGBT
#BluePit #A 📖

Snowy Village scene with Christmas decorations in the background. In the front of the image is a graphic of a couple in formal attire dancing, with a festively decorated lamppost behind the couple. Text on the image reads: You never know who you might run into on an icy sidewalk...a newcomer..enemy...or...? SUGAR & FROST YA Fantasy by Bethany Averie

Who knew slipping on an icy sidewalk and colliding into the world's coldest guy could totally change your life? Kallie is about to find out just how much meeting Chase will affect her arrival in North Pole Village! #Bluepit #YA #F #Q

A white, glitched labyrinth, with overlaying words reading: an erotic reimagining of the tale of the minotaur out of the depths written by salem szarek

A faded white, glitched labyrinth, with overlaying words reading: minotaur x trans m sacrifice dystopian cyberpunk setting size difference hacker protagonist d/s dynamics touch-starved li human experimentation dubious consent topping from the bottom

OUT OF THE DEPTHS; Matthaios is a hacker — but hackers, even skilled ones, are nothing special in Detroit. So why has one of the richest women in the world contacted him for a job?

What is in the labyrinth under Argyris Inc.? #bluepit #bluepit📖 #W #SF #R #LGBt

Time, Not Space

Merlin is a grad student working on an experimental spaceship engine
The test fire accident sent him back 100 years to the 1950s
No friends, No family, He is utterly alone

How can he get back with 60s technology?

#A #SF #DIS #Q
#Bluepit #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents