samantha ✨ is querying ✨

If it makes you feel any better, I just read it twice and didn’t catch anything

Thank you!!

One day!!!

Yes!!!! Nobody ever knows what I’m talking about! I listen to the soundtracks ALL the time, and watch let’s plays on repeat while I work. WAV, CUR, and MHM are my favorites!

It is!! I have a wonderland ambience video playing every writing session:)

I’ve seen this before and remember thinking an editor will sweep this up ASAP. Come on editors!!!

Hehe!

Hi, #questpit, here’s my latest #WIP

SAPPHIC ALICE IN WONDERLAND RETELLING 🐇🥀♣️🃏 #NA

“I will always wait for you. Even when you forget me. Especially then.”

#WritingCommunity

SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY X IMOGEN OBVIOUSLY…

F IS FOR FALLING (YA Contemporary-Romance)

🏳️‍🌈lesbian romance
❤️ ex-best friends to lovers
🤝 forced proximity
🏳️‍⚧️nonbinary rep
🪩prom night confessions

#questpit #YA #R #Q #WritingCommunity

F IS FOR FALLING (Sapphic YA Romance)🫶🎨
When a struggling artist and her overachieving rival are forced to work together for a high school art project, their cut-throat remarks ease as past feelings resurface.
#agentsguide #writingcommunity #amquerying

So real

Moodboard collage of dark Alice in Wonderland aesthetic, featuring painting the white roses red, sugar cubes with red hearts, a spiral staircase of a clock, and two women in regency era clothing

Alura is late again. Her mother deems it a nasty habit, one she’s desperate for her daughter to break, always apologizing on her behalf. “She will be here soon.” “She isn’t usually so late.” “Don’t worry, I will have a word with her later.” That only fuels Alura’s desire for tardiness even more. Most mornings, she’ll pretend to sleep while her maid calls on her. It isn’t until her mother barrels through the doors, screaming her name and shaking her so violently that Alura sits up, yawns, and smiles. “So sorry, Mother,” she’ll say, voice dripping with honey, “I didn’t want to leave my dream.” Her mother says dreams are poison to the mind.

What if Alice fell in love with the Queen of Hearts? ♥️
But they realize in order to escape Wonderland, one of them must die.

#bluepit #WIP

This needs to find a home bc I need to read it

A low saturation moodboard of: a English village scene in the fog, a woman seated and covering her face with her hands, a dimly lit lecture theatre, an out of focus woman in the forest, a collection of lit candles, a person in a hoodie in a field at night giving the finger, a screen cap of Carnival of Souls, two people facing one another either side of a door, a crow perched on a tree in autumn.

#BluePit 📖 #M #A #OV #LGBT #WF

A lonely middle-aged academic falls under suspicion after her best student vanishes - but proving her innocence is complicated with her growing connection to her rival’s unconventional daughter.

An age gap lesbian love story within a dark academia mystery.

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

This sounds SOOOO GOOD. Liked and reposted hehe

A nine block mood board showing, in order: blood stained converse shoes, bisexual pride pins, a woman wearing a “sounds gay I’m in” t shirt, a creepy Manor House, a newspaper clipping of the word murder, jigsaw pieces, a woman bending down to give a black cat a stroke, a blood stained key, and close up of several people shoes all standing in a circle

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE x queer SCOOBY DOO

When five friends find themselves locked in a mysterious manor with the body of an eccentric puzzle master, they must play their way through the manor’s riddles and puzzles to escape with their lives.

#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖

Therapy setting of woman with cat. Text says "And then we learn everything Blair told Emmaline was a lie."

Therapy setting of woman with cat. Text says "So when Blair falls into the frozen lake, Emmaline doesn't try to save her."

DROWNING IN FLAMES (YA Mystery, 85k)
- Emmaline is accused of poisoning a student.
- Sylvia tried to poison Emmaline and frame her.
- Blair caught Sylvia and blackmails her into losing the presidential race.

Emmaline thinks Blair is trying to save her.
But, really, she's destroying her.

#bluepit

Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Drama Mystery with Romance 94k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1995 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1995 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSub 2026!)

Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe?

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #R #M
#DIS #LGBT #OV #OS

Featuring messy sapphic girls who will stop at nothing to feel understood, DROWNING IN FLAMES is a devastatingly dark academia, boarding school YA Mystery (85k words).

🏫all girls boarding school
💔lovers to enemies
🔮secret society

#amquerying #writingcommunity #YA #bluepit #agentsguide

They've probably sat on their shelf unread for years too

it's giving Wayward!! Sounds so good

Title slide featuring a blurry school background. Text reads: F is For Falling YA Contemporary Romance, 55k words. Ft. Enemies to lovers, sapphic romance, snappy dialogue, and coming of age tropes.

Pitch: When a struggling artist and her overachieving rival are forced to work together for a high school art project, their cut-throat remarks ease as past feelings resurface and they realize they may have more in common than not.

F IS FOR FALLING
YA sapphic romance (55k words)
💔 ex-best friends to lovers
🏫 teenage self-discovery
🪩 prom night confessions
💬 snappy banter
#questpit #Q #YA #R #witingcommunity #amquerying

Snippet: Blair read the letter for the third time, her eyes darting left and right, a horrid knowing look in her eyes. She faced me. "We can't go to the Headmistress with this," she said. "Why not?" I asked. "My name is on here. Expelled member or not, this letter reveals that ! broke school conduct. Curfews, prohibited gatherings..." "But you could explain that you were forced into the society," I said. "Just like I would." "But the difference would be you didn't do anything past breaking curfew. I got a teacher fired, Emmaline. If the society goes down, then so would I. So would we." She glanced at the letter again, fire in her eyes. "And Sylvia knows it."

Three young women are highlighted, each labeled with roles: Emmaline (MC) as "New girl," Blair as "Outcast," and Sylvia as "Class president." Background shows school setting. Text hints at mystery involving hidden treasure on campus. Emmaline is tied to a crime mystery, Blair and Sylvia have conflicting interests. Tone is tense and mysterious.

DROWNING IN FLAMES - YA Mystery (85k words)
💜sapphic romance
📚secret society at girls boarding school
👠feral girls
💔friends to lovers to enemies
🧩passageways
#questpit #Q #YA #M

these graphics are so good!

A three-panel aesthetic collage featuring moody, emotional scenes paired with text excerpts. Left panel: A person with long hair sits at a desk lit by a computer screen, their head bowed over papers. Text reads: “And it was then that I decided: If finding out who poisoned her was what I had to do to stay, then I would do whatever it took. I would work harder than I ever had before. Maybe this time it would be worth it.” Middle panel: Two people sit across from each other on a window ledge at night, talking closely. Text reads: “Her kisses drowned and ignited me all at once, like a flame dancing in the water that should extinguish it but only made it burn brighter.” Right panel: A person with long hair sits by a calm lake surrounded by trees. Text reads: “‘If she was getting better, then how…?’ It wasn’t a complete question, but the implication was clear. I let the words tumble out before I could change my mind. ‘I killed my mother.’”

Comps slide featuring: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee, The World Cannot Give, Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven, and Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson.

DROWNING IN FLAMES - YA Mystery (85k words).
Accused of attempted murder on her first day at her late mother’s prestigious alma mater, Hawthorne Academy, Emmaline Berry teams up with outcast Blair to expose a secret society someone will kill to keep hidden.
#QuestPit #Q #YA #M

A pastel pink and teal background of school lockers with a photo of two girls standing close together, one holding notebooks against her chest and the other’s hand visible near hers. Text over the image reads: “YA Contemporary-Romance — 55K words. Enemies to lovers. Snarky banter. Sapphic romance. Coming of age. Second chances. Dual POV. F Is For Falling. Out in the query trenches!” Small doodles of hearts and circles highlight the phrases.

Comps include Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth, Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler, and She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen.

F IS FOR FALLING
When a struggling artist and her overachieving rival are forced to work together for a high school art project, their cut-throat remarks ease as past feelings resurface and they realize they may have more in common than not. #questpit #Q #YA #R #writingcommunity

this is so real honestly

Thank you!!