#AmQuerying
🧨Dynamite Red🧨
STEM Picture Book inspired by a real Disney firework creator.
🎆A demolitionist turned pyrotechnician.
✨A talking spark with big ideas.
Together, they’ll light up the sky—if they don’t blow up the lab first.
#KidLit #BookPitch #AgentsGuide #PB #STEM
14.05.2025 07:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SPIRITED AWAY x OUTLANDER
Clove Lewis, a botany major, gives her name to a Japanese deity—and is pulled into their deadly, mythic world.
🌿 Sarcastic botanist
🥀 Broody yokai
“The fluttering of leaves whispered his arrival.”
#1stLinePit #Q #F #NA #YA #BookPitch #RF #Mythology
05.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 33 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
🔥🔥🔥
05.04.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hell ya! 🔥
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Moodboard featuring: misty old building through a gate; a shelf of animal and human skulls, a piano in a greenhouse with a chandelier; a hand reaching out of thorns; a center square with reading: BONES WIP, Eco dark academia, ghosts, murder, bone magic; a messy desk with books and plants; a messy shelf with oddities; a big antlered skull on a rock; a shoulder dressed in an old-style buttoned white shirt and black vest.
NAUSICAA X IF WE WERE VILLAINS
‘Ari waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriageway to break the window.’
#1stLinePit #A #F #WIP
05.04.2025 16:35 — 👍 68 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
a background image of gothic stonework and the title Every Demon Has Three Names. Log line: one to bind them, one to release them, and the one they choose for themselves. Adult Fantasy Romance. A collage of images:
candles glowing in glass jars, the words "every demon has three names", light streaming in through church windows and arches, dozens of open books, a human skull, dead leaves, rope, thorny branches, a person behind a sheer curtain backlit by the sun.
An opening excerpt from Every Demon Has Three Names: Dead leaves break beneath her boots like brittle bones. They cover the forest floor, every branch above them bare save for the evergreens. No matter when she is summoned, those eternal fir trees remain unchanged. Steadfast or stubborn? And between the two of them, the spruces and her, who will return to the earth first?
For everything one day must rot. Thankfully.
She continues to the edge of the woods and stops before the church entrance, glancing up at the round stained-glass window and its depiction of The Righteous beheading The Abomination. Her eyes catch on the scarlet drops of blood that cling to the blade; the triumphant grin on the man’s face as he holds the severed head aloft; the forlorn stare of green eyes empty of life. With a muttered curse, she tears her gaze away and shoves the door open—it hits the stone wall with a satisfying thud.
She may be bound, but she will not come meekly, a pet heeling for table scraps.
The human waits for her at the altar. What demand will they make? Will they tremble and struggle to say her name, or will they toss it out carelessly, as if it were theirs to do with as they please? The first are right to fear her and the second are fools.
With measured steps, she stalks down the carpeted nave, as if she has all the time in the world, as if her feet don’t burn with each pause between strides. She can’t ignore a summoning, but she damn well can make them wait for it.
Dead leaves break beneath her boots like brittle bones. They cover the forest floor, every branch above them bare save for the evergreens. No matter when she is summoned, those eternal fir trees remain unchanged.
#1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #R #LGBT #CMe
05.04.2025 14:15 — 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
LOVE a meddling god trope 🔥🔥🔥
05.04.2025 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A guide to THE FATEPAINTER.
Text in image:
120,000 word adult romantic fantasy.
Determined to win the approval of her immortal masters, a lesser goddess with the power to alter human fate embarks on a mission to destroy a mortal prince’s court.
Comp Titles:
THE FOXGLOVE KING by Hannah Whitten
A FATE INKED IN BLOOD Danielle L. Jensen
SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik
* Meddling gods
* Courtly intrigue
* Enemies-to-lovers
* Tension and yearning
* Fairy tale vibes
* Unique mythology/magic
A mood board that includes images and drawings of: snowy landscapes, a palace, masked figures dancing around a fire, a woman surrounded by stars, a moonlit lake, and a river of gold.
“If the Faceless Gods knew I read the missive sprawled out on the painted desk before me, I’d be dead.
Unfortunately for my masters, the note, written in golden, honey-sweet lettering, contained the most delicious news of my lengthy existence.
As if I’d give it up now.”
#1stLinePit #Q #A #F #RF
05.04.2025 14:03 — 👍 40 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0
The Age of Skilled Steel looks 🔥🔥🔥
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Thank you and happy #1stlinepit day!
05.04.2025 14:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #1stlinepit day! Your whole pitch sounds so good!! 🔥
05.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An Editor's Guide To
RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME
80k Word Thriller
Agent: Najla Mamou
PITCH
When Sophie is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice in her head prodding her to seek revenge.
As terrible accidents begin to befall those closest to her, she can't help but wonder:
Is she possessed or just pissed?
From the time I was a child, I was taught to be agreeable.
Kind.
Quiet.
Showing emotions other than gratitude or cheerfulness was frowned upon. It was as if the adults knew that if little girls tapped into the frustration, the seething anger, the screaming resentment burrowing deep in our little chests before we could even articulate the injustices, the leering eyes, the condescension, and the double-standards feeding the flames, we would become too powerful.
So instead, they shamed us for our outbursts.
Told us we were out of control.
Hysterical.
Crazy.
Weak.
In return, we learned to control our fires, even as the men around us punched walls and screamed, exerting their emotions like powerful weapons to wield. But those sparks in our chests were never fully extinguished, and for some of us, they were left smouldering unattended while dangerous, mischievous kindling, carelessly strewn about, smiled as it caught flame.
EXCERPT
COMPS
right where you left me - bonus track
Taylor Swift
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trapped in the feelings of a
relationship that has ended
LISA
JEWELL
A NOVEL
NONE OF THIS IS TRUE
unrellable narrator
truth-bending
NOVEL
PAND
THEN
FELLN
ALIGIA
ELLIOTT
supernatural haureng
descent into madness
“I’m not a good person anymore.”
#1stLinePit #A #P #T #OS (very soon!)
05.04.2025 13:43 — 👍 60 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 0
LOVE your first line and pitch!!
05.04.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you! Your book, To Ruin the Sky, sounds so rad!
05.04.2025 13:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Heat beats me down to a sweaty pulp, the sun ablaze and unforgiving like it’s trying to set the world on fire."
- To Ruin the Sky ⚡️
#1stLinePit #q #RF #NA #UF #OwnVoices
05.04.2025 12:31 — 👍 101 🔁 43 💬 10 📌 2
Thank you! Happy #1stlinepit day!
05.04.2025 13:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
👌👌 that’s what I’m trying to balance right now.
19.02.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Would you rather…
✍️ Draft
or
📝 Research and world-build?
#writingcommunity #fantasywriter
19.02.2025 14:10 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
SPIRITED AWAY x OUTLANDER
🌿Sarcastic botanist
🥀Broody yokai
Clove Lewis, a botany major, gives her name to a Japanese deity and is pulled into their deadly, mythic world.
#Q #CuPit #RF #NA #BookPitch
14.02.2025 22:06 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Natural historian Heidi is falling for her guide through the cursed forest. The problem? They’re the night sky trapped in a mortal form, and will do whatever it takes to return and go where Heidi can’t follow.
📚 Dark Academia
🪲 Cozy fantasy with teeth
🏳️🌈 Queernormative world
#Cupit #RoFa #A #FBW
14.02.2025 18:43 — 👍 36 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
🛵🍇 ROMAN HOLIDAY x ancient Babylon 🏺📜
A spoiled muse descends to earth disguised as a human — but when her ignorance and entitlement get her into a world of trouble, she persuades a too-trusting butcher to be her guide.
#CuPit #RF #RoFa #A #FBW
14.02.2025 16:32 — 👍 33 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0
💕 A romantasy with a Tom & Zendaya dynamic, but he’s a vegan butcher & she’s a ruthless goddess
When a muse’s divine influence over her mortal playthings stops working, she disguises herself as a human and goes to earth to fix it — but finds herself falling for a mortal...
#CuPit #RF #RoFa #A #FBW
14.02.2025 16:11 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
💜FOURTH WING X PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE💜
After a dragon bonds with a healer, the only way she’ll survive military training is with help from the dragon prodigy, a man she absolutely hates…
…until she finds out what’s beneath his tough-as-scales exterior 🐉
#Cupit #RF #NA #Agented #OS (soon!)
14.02.2025 06:09 — 👍 91 🔁 48 💬 11 📌 0
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50 something Feminist Nerd with a chip on her shoulder. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Pansexual, Wiccan, kettlebell enthusiast. (She/Her)
Writer. Qualified to beat a certain Scottish King and the Witch-King of Angmar. Work in Aothen Magazine, 7th-Circle Pyrite, AZE Journal, The Fantastic Other, and Ekklesia Magazine.
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SmoochPit '25 mentee for my Imperial Chinese-inspired fantasy romcom
Writer of young adult fantasy
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writer of climate-fiction novels of the romance and sci-fi variety and obsessed with her three cats
Lady of Books and Trees, writer and reader, friendly neighborhood bi, she/her. 🌈
Writer, photographer, and traveler on this road called life. linktr.ee/dawnberkoski
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Diversity. Bubble tea & coffee aficionado. Aspiring author. Latinx. #amrevising fantasy
Just an avid reader, cat lady, and teacher that’s querying for her debut novel: The Age of Skilled Steel.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@catladylovesbooks?_t=ZP-8vGZGkjQHPC&_r=1
36, she/her. Gamer, storyteller, polytheist. I like to write books about monsters, romance, and monster romance. 🇵🇭🇺🇸 amshilling.com
Current projects:
—THE DEVOURING, cosmic horror thriller
—THE CRUCIBLE OF THE BROKEN MOON, space opera romantasy
🚫 No AI
author of MEET ME IN THE WOODS 🩸 (Spring 2025 Wild Ink Publishing) | she/her | former English teacher | currently querying RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME 🌊🥀 (79k spec thriller)
Writer of Romantasy • Poet & Toddler mum • Former Entertainment Publicist • CB Creative Alumna • Words in Sunday Times Bestselling Anthology, “I Wanted to Quit Too” ❤️✌🏽
She/Her, Fantasy Authoress, PWE, PTSD, AuDHD Queer Mom of 2, Addicted Gamer, Reader of Many Books, Lover of Tea, and Crazy Cat Lady... #domesticviolencesurvivor
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Writer, poet, trail runner, wannabe birder. Querying a MG Fantasy with plant magic 🌻🌱 and picture books with 🐠 & 🐸.
Writer, book lover, researcher, public health professional.
#amquerying -> Determined to win the approval of her immortal masters, a lesser goddess with the power to alter human fate embarks on a mission to destroy a mortal prince’s court.
YA romance writer/blogger/opinionated reader with a cringy sense of humor
Represented by Amelia Appel at Triada US
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✍️ Author of Romance, Fantasy, & Historical Fiction (usually a combo of all three) jsydneymorris.com
🇺🇸&🏴 American Living in Scotland
🐈 Crazy Cat & Chicken Lady (mom)
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