J.V. Seabourn

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

This image is the first of four to showcase elements for my upcoming book, Whispers of the Sea. The picture reads: “An Agents Guide to Whispers of the Sea.” This book will be a young adult fantasy.

This is the second image in my guide, and it includes the pitch for my novel. Such pitch reads to say: “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. Maia must voyage across the seas to this mysterious isle where she’ll team up with a local 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.”

This is the third image in my guide, and it portrays my comp titles. My book will be perfect for the fans of the Jasad Heir, A River Enchanted, Curious Tides, and the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

This is the last image in my guide, and it showcases the aesthetic and a few elements that can be found in the book. A few of these elements are: found family, secret ploys, outlawed magic, and self discovery.

JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES

Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late.

🌊 Pacific Islander Rep
🌊 Elemental Magic
🌊 Endless Banter

#QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide

The Shadows Within

🪨Nerdy rock collector
🌎A society deep in the earth
✨️Dream fueled magic
💀Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in
🙊All tangled around a terrible secret

#ya #fantasy

MONSTERS INC X NOSFERATU

YA Horror Romance

When a horror fan’s exorcism fails, she finds that the monsters aren’t just on the page—they’re real, and she must blend in their world while finding a way back to the world of the living before the monsters discover she isn’t one of them
#questpit #YA

Movie covers for The Glass Castle and Orange is the New Black.

I returned home to Decatur shackled & cuffed & taken straight to jail for murder charges. My family hadn't seen me in yrs. But even news headlines & family grudges couldn't hinder their love of the grandchild they never knew while I struggled within a sisterhood behind bars.
#Questpit #Mem #NF #A

GHIBLI x #MG CEMETERY BOYS 

When a grieving 12-year-old girl meets a ghost boy in a lighthouse, he promises her the one thing she wants most—the chance to speak with her late mother, but only if she solves the mystery of his death.

#questpit #Q

A theme park worker can travel back in time to the Titanic. But can he save the heroic victim he's come to love? Titanic Voyage, free on Hoopla or $3.99 at major retailers. (Cover of Titanic Voyage: A glowing porthole on a dark sky with the ocean and a faint silhouette of a roller coaster in the background)

Titanic Voyage cover (glowing porthole over a starry sky and the ocean, roller coaster track in the background) *Slice of life + angsty romance + grief *Time travel via a struggling amusement park *Emotional hero, sweet heroine *Teenage computer genius sidekick *NO VILLAINS (unless you count the iceberg?) *Oops all cinnamon rolls *Maybe second-person? *Hopeful ending Titanic Voyage, available now

Clara, I haven't been entirely honest. I'm not really one of the men who designed the Titanic. I'm a theme park employee who traveled back in time.

Something terrible's going to happen to the ship tonight. But I'll save you. I promise.

TITANIC VOYAGE

#QuestPit #P #RF #SFF #S

👑 divinity marked her; tradition damned her
🗡️ royalty made her a pawn—training made her a weapon
🔥 hunted by monsters, haunted by desire
🩸 she was never meant to rule—so she’ll burn the rules instead

✨A SAVAGE, INFINITE NIGHT✨

#QuestPit #A #RF

Several different pictures, including the Space Needle, the Las Vegas sign, the LA skyline, a statue of Texas, a red Volkswagen van, and a dark house. The text on the screen reads "In Search of Thicker Blood. New adult novel featuring vampires, queer characters, and questionable relationships. A WIP by Caspian Tuttle."

An image with the following text: "Velvet Baxter was just fine on her own. She just wanted to be as famous as any other 80's music star. Instead, she’s spent the past forty years surviving on the streets of LA as an Orphaned vampire - abandoned by her Sire after her Turning. While trying to cling on to her humanity and learn the unspoken rules of a society she never asked to be a part of, her Sire is sending vampires to kill her. Then the vampire passing through town - Emory Lancaster - ends up stealing her guitar, the one link she has to her humanity. She’s just fine taking her guitar back and being on her way. That is, until she loses control and ends up drinking his blood. Now, she’ll have to navigate being Blood Bonded to a total stranger. But as Velvet and Emory get closer, the lines of what’s her and what’s the Bond begin to blur. And it turns out that Vampiric Society is a bigger deal than she initially thought." There is a picture of Velvet Baxter in the bottom right.

An image with a teaser for the novel. "“Even if we just lay here, that’s still a win in my book…” Velvet’s heart stumbled as Emory spoke. She couldn’t help the undignified laugh that escaped her lungs - at two things. The situation she’d found herself in. And the intrusive thought that lurched in her mind, that thought he might’ve been about to take a sort of revenge and bite her back as he had leaned in close. “You’re horrid, Em,” she whispered back the peculiarly fond tease as she realized the proximity of their faces. “If I had known you were such a flirt, maybe I would’ve bitten you sooner.” There was a low laugh from Emory as his heart too stumbled. His face moved, loomed over her, nearly inches apart from her face. His eyes studied her features - the splashes of lighter coloured skin against the darker tone. The small faint flecks of blue that remained in her crimson eyes. And she studied him too. The way his dark brown hair cascaded over his shoulder, hovered to her side. His eyes, crimson but swirling with other red hues. “Now now, don’t get my hopes up, V. I might wanna take a bite out of you if you keep that up.” Emory parted his lips slightly, licked his fangs with his tongue. She could spot the hungry look in his eyes - not for blood." There is a picture of Emory in the bottom left.

You ever drink another vampires blood and end up going on a road trip with them? And think you might be falling in love? But you can't tell because their blood makes you feel closer than you actually are?

Well... Velvet has!

In Search of Thicker Blood is still a WIP!

#QuestPit #W #A #R #LGBTQ #PR

🎶 Battling her post-rehab life and paranoia, a radio station assistant must uncover how song requests are tied to a string of nightclub murders in Myrtle Beach before she’s the final track on the killer’s playlist.

#A #Q #T #QuestPit

THE ONLY ONE LEFT x HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE

🪦 family funeral home in chaos
📸 viral scandal with severed limbs
🛒 skull-covered oddities shop
⚰️ grief, obsession, & one very stolen corpse
💀 Southern Gothic unraveling

#A #Q #H #T #MY #QuestPit

[Broke my graphic.🙄]
#QuestPit #W #SF
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #writesky

Whodunit?
My #mg #murdermystery features:
🗡️A 12yo framed for murder
🗡️An art thief
🗡️A race to find a murderer
🗡️ Hunter's father returning from the dead 😱
🗡️Cryptic clues
🗡️Plots & schemes that shouldn't go wrong...
🗡️Kids spying on adults, &
🗡️Family secrets
#Questpit

Grid with a man and microphone, text: She's fake dating the rocker she thinks is her soulmate, text: The Wrong Love Song with sheet music, a woman with a bat in a rage room, a woman with a camera, bright pink hair, a back tattooed with music with text: All this time there was a part of me written on you, text: So why are sparks flying with his brother?, a man playing a piano

Lola has always felt like world-famous rock star Rory Kincaid's songs were written just for her, so when she's asked to join his tour as his fake girlfriend, she jumps at the chance, sure sparks will fly. They do, but with the wrong man: the star's grumpy older brother.

#questpit #Q #A #R

#Questpit #f #mg
An agent's guide to Rewitched featuring:
✨A dyslexic witch
✨A magical coffee shop
✨A school of dark academia
✨Sea monsters, and
✨Family secrets

Everyone has secrets. Devan's is that she killed someone.

📖 Dark academia
🔪 Morally gray main character
💵 Rich kids with secrets
🌪 Twist ending
❤️ Revenge plot
✏️ Boarding school setting
⏳ Countdown clock

#QuestPit #Q #YA #T

Picture collage of Jane - fan cast as Anne Hathaway, two hands holding pinkies, Ezra fancast as Oliver Jackson-Cohen, a pink forest over a river, tree houses, and a space colony

TARZAN OF THE APES X CONTACT.

Female scientist meets wilderness survivalist. Love and tension alike sparks as they meet. #questpit #Q #A #SF

Tropes:
Star Crossed Lovers
Female Scientist
Aliens
Fast Burn Romance
Grounded Sci-fi

An image board including pictures of sheet music covered in small flowers ribbon scissors and leaves, writing on paper saying "I am happy" with the pen adding a smiley face at the end, a darkened window all spattered with rain, a hand reaching down to a mirror slightly propped up in a field, a strange antique box being opened, a woman curled in bed in the dark looking at a lit phone screen, train tracks along a natural path, a tabletop in sharp focus with a blurry cafe scene in the background, and a church at the end of a road at dusk.

Annalise never expected her music box to break; the antique from her grandmother that magically dispels her sadness when the music plays. She's all the more determined to fix it once he reflection starts talking to her. Without her coping mechanism, she's desperate to find a solution.

#questpit #W

#questpit

When a sacred hero’s estranged husband is kidnapped, his working-stiff squire is thrown into a nightmare of infernal magic and political conspiracy, and forced to take control of her own desperate future.

💀Dark fantasy
😨Body horror
🔎Self-discovery
🏳️‍🌈Queer MC
👩‍⚖️Social justice

#W #A #DF #LF

Q: What do you call a werewolf mafia king?
A: The dogfather

The mob boss is one woman's only chance at unlocking the secrets of her past before they destroy her future. All she has to do is agree to belong to him.

There's only one problem: it's her job to put him in prison.

#questpit #w #a #pr

A collage of photos: a weathered stone window in Gothic architecture; a classic red Vermont farmhouse in autumn, with a low stone wall in the foreground; a forest scene, with a path cutting through the trees, suffused by sunlight, branches reaching towards each other; a man’s hand clasping a woman’s hand, with a snow-covered fir tree in the background; many candles, all lit, dripping in candleholders; a dark-haired woman floating face upwards in water, surrounded by white flowers, her eyes open. Beneath the last picture is the title of the novel, “This Ends Now.”

THIS ENDS NOW: Lainey Pike can orchestrate the perfect exit: she's done it in her own 2 marriages. But she can't stop bolting 'til she's tracked her toxic 1st love to Yale, where he's brilliant, tenured & overdue for a reckoning. Some ghosts need more than a gentle goodbye. #A #WF #QuestPit #Q

Oliver has ADHD and a big imagination. When he notices someone in need, he must get his mom to see the world the way he does. But will he be able to show her his world or remain alone and misunderstood?
#questpit #pb #os #ag

Reposting for the mid-day crowd!

#questpit #Q #HF

THE GAMES THE GODS PLAY x NETTLE AND BONE

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

This sounds incredible. And I love the idea of the magic system!

Him💫My life’s a mess, and my focus must be my son. I’ve no time for the French houseguest the language school sent me by mistake. Except when we talk, I feel this connection with her. Then comes longing.
But she’s off-limits—and only in Berlin for the summer.
#QuestPit #Q #A #R

GRIMM X FOURTH WING X MOTHERLAND FORT SALEM
By day, Aurora fights to break her curse at an academy for monster hunters. By night, she fights in a nightmare world. When a mysterious stranger named Philip appears in the Dreaming, her dreams of freedom and her heart will be tested.
#questpit #A #wip #F

BRIDGERTON X HANDMAID’S TALE

What if the Bridgerton’s social season took place in Gilead, and the Diamond was determined via culty bride auction?

Dahlia doesn’t want to participate.

But a little blackmail goes a long way.

FOOL’S GOLD is querying in one month!

#questpit #w #a #s