Maisie Bannion 🖤 is querying

yesterday someone asked me if I was ready for back to school (tbf I was wearing a chuck e cheese shirt)

I love this!!

White Text on top says Brutal Betrayals, Enemies to Lovers, and Treacherous Seas. Photo of a girl with a double-exposure pirate ship on her face on a snakeskin background. Title reads Purely Wicked Souls. White review text reads A young Adult Dark Fantasy Doused with Betrayal reviewed by readers around the world. Large yellow text reads Querying Now.

POWERLESS X THE SHADOWS BETWEEN US X FABLE

Caught in a maelstrom of morals, a ship captain must decide what she desires most—to resurrect her sister, or kill the boy she’s grown to care for and let her wicked heart feel again.

#PosterPit #Q #YA #F

SLAYING THE VAMP CONQUEROR x SHADOW & BONE w/ big 5 editor interest 🖤

A young immortal acrobat must strike a bargain with a trickster princess to uncover the consequences of her enemies' deceitful rule and the realm's string theory-inspired magic ✨ #PosterPit #Q #YA #F

cool poster, love the saul bass vibes!!

An image of herb bunches, gemstones, and an animal skull. Overtop is text reading: fantasy dark academic, bone magic university, environmental horror, the MAW is hungry. A novel of academic obsession. Adult fantasy, thesis woes, gray morality. Coming soon to inboxes November 2025.

In the course of researching his thesis, Aris accidentally resurrects the ghost of the man he’s studying, and together they uncover a conspiracy on campus that threatens to destroy magic in their world.

#PosterPit #A #F #W

Mariah and Chloe's white, glowing silhouettes are standing chest to chest. The background is abstract night sky with stars and clouds mingled in the back and foregrounds. The title: Lineage of Light, and the word count and genre: 88,000 word Scifantasy is along the bottom, and between them is this blurb: Chloe and Mariah, magnetized against their will by blood magic, orbit each other as they deploy their newfound power against personal adversities and sprint toward their destiny to rebalance light and dark in the universe. All lettering is in black and white to showcase symbolism.

📚Upmarket/bookclub
🦋Laini Taylor-like Lyricism
💅Immortal villain in his Soft Girl Era
👵🏿 Multi-generational rep
🪄 Literal Black girl magic
🏳️‍🌈 pan MC
👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏿 Interracial Dual POV (platonic with romantic potential)
#posterpit #F #SF #Q #NA #Ownvoices #BIPOC

Art: Grainy photo of a boy and girl embracing. (Or could be be biting her neck?) Text: THE JINXBOROUGH VAMPIRES She makes him feel human again "It all felt so fresh, quirky, and creative" Selected for the 2024 SmoochPit Mentorship "Incredibly strong & distinct writing voice" FRIENDS TO LOVERS | WORKPLACE ROMANCE | MAGICAL MISHAPS | FAMILY SECRETS | YA PARANORMAL ROMANCE | 95,000 WORDS | COMPS: IN NIGHTFALL, SPELLS FOR LOST THINGS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | STARRING A NEWBIE WITCH & A YOUNG VAMPIRE Now Querying Credit @maisiebannion

It's a slow night at Fraley Books & Oddites — until coworkers Laurie and Vincent slay a vampire.

Who knew customers could be a literal pain in the neck?

(Vincent, actually.) 🧛🤫

#PosterPit #Q #YA #R #PR #amquerying

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES x MULAN w/big 5 editor interest

A moon-blessed girl must infiltrate her former kingdom and play in its annual horseball tournament to awaken her magical counterpart & prevent her darkness-plagued brother from poisoning the realm 🏇❄️ #PosterPit #W #YA #F

Art: Atmospheric photo of a figure gazing upward, hazy purple and green tint. Text: WHAT HAPPENS IN PATTON Who will be next to ascend? NOW DRAFTING YA Sci-fi Romance / Ace Rep / Dual POV / Work in Progress Credit @maisiebannion

🛸💚 X-FILES + LOVELESS 💚🛸

After a UFO abduction, a teenager gains psychic abilities and investigates his cultish hometown—actually a corrupt, budding alien colony—but unexpectedly bonds with his inquisitive neighbor, adding love to his growing list of problems.
#PosterPit #W #YA #SF #R

Movie poster concept for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance by Dawn Berkoski. Art and photography by Dawn Berkoski. It depicts a man in a hoodie (Jason) walking in a dark alley towards a man in a suit. (Alex)

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. #PosterPit #Q #R #A #writing

#PosterPit #Q
ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE - 75K / NA / Paranormal Mystery 🕵️

🧹 cleaning haunted houses
🔪 serial killer mystery
🌊 british coastal setting
👻 ghosts, ghosts & more ghosts
🧠 autistic protagonist

A YA Sapphic horror, sometimes friends change in more ways than one. It's going to be a KILLER SUMMER, represented by Alex Land @MWLA. torn picture of girl licking red off hand and girl in denim jacket looking away. Poster has pink undertones

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
friends to lovers
cannibalism as metaphor for love
#ownvoice Queer and Indigenous rep
cult town in Canadian Prairies
monstrous romance
Bubblegum horror
Sapphic pining
#posterpit #YA #H #R #AG

Art: Purple textured border and transparent blood splatters, portrait photo of a blonde girl with vampire fang marks on her neck behind the silhouette of a boy in a hoodie. Text: The Jinxborough Vampires. A match made in murder. FRIENDS TO LOVERS | WORKPLACE ROMANCE | MAGICAL MISHAPS | FAMILY SECRETS | YA PARANORMAL ROMANCE | 95,000 WORDS | COMPS: IN NIGHTFALL, SPELLS FOR LOST THINGS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | STARRING A NEWBIE WITCH & A YOUNG VAMPIRE Now Querying *Selected for the 2024 SmoochPit Mentorship* Beta reader quotes: "A snappy, fast-paced read that kept me super engaged the entire time.“ “Incredibly strong and distinct writing voice.“ “I have never laughed or loved characters so early in a book before.“ “If I bought it from a bookstore . . . I’d finish it in a day.“ Credit @maisiebannion

💜 A match made in murder ❤️

When a vampire and a teen witch kill a high-ranking vamp in self defense, they team up to hide the murder from the slain foe’s vengeful clan—and bonding over the deadly secret just might kindle their offbeat romance.

#PosterPit #Q #YA #R #PR

Illustration of two cameo portraits on a wall in an oddities shop, green, pink, and black color palette. Tags: workplace romance, friends to lovers, magical mishaps, ghosts from the past (literally)

🩷Spells for Lost Things meets Buffy💚
When a vampire and a teen witch kill a high-ranking vamp in self defense, they team up to hide the murder from the slain foe’s vengeful clan—and bonding over the deadly secret just might kindle their offbeat romance.
#QueerPit #YA #P #R

Moodboard collage, images from left to right, top to bottom: Red-tinted photo of couple holding hands, witchy spell scene with candles and pumpkins; closeup of a black and red colored eye, store bookshelf, faded photo of a sheet ghost; red sunset, silhouette of couple kissing, red-tinted photo of a girl hugging her knees

When a vampire and a teen witch kill a high-ranking vamp in self defense, they must team up to hide the murder from the slain foe’s vengeful clan—and bonding over the deadly secret just might kindle their offbeat romance. ❤️🦇

#QueerPit #YA #P #R #amquerying

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE x HOUSE OF HUNGER

🧛‍♀️ Vampires
⛰️ Appalachia
💀 Toxic relationships
❤️‍🩹 Healing from trauma
⛏️ Mining history
🩸 “Be careful in the company of monsters that you don’t become one.”
💜 Ace rep

#queerpit #A #H

The Jinxborough Vampires, YA Paranormal Romance, 95,000 words Illustration of a witch girl embracing a vampire boy with the tags: workplace romance (creepy bookstore), magical mishaps, witches vs vampires, dual POV, friends to lovers, ghosts from the past (literally), crossover appeal

PITCH: Laurie Loveday, a newbie witch, and Vincent Fraley, a newbie vampire, are two (somewhat) ordinary bookstore clerks in Jinxborough, Massachusetts, until a top vamp from the fearsome House Greaves attacks Laurie. The teens vanquish him and team up to hide the murder—if the truth gets out, claiming self defense won’t spare them from the Greaves’ vengeance. Just when Laurie and Vincent think they’re in the clear, a ne'er-do-well vampire comes forth with photographic evidence of their transgression. Juggling their growing connection and a dwindling deadline, they must steal and destroy the images before they’re forcibly initiated into the blackmailer’s unruly clan—and a surprise guest from House Greaves has a front row seat to the “party.” COMPS: In Nightfall by Suzanne Young, Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

SNIPPET: I killed Wyatt Greaves. That was bad. Very bad. I didn’t want it to be this way—I’d tried to tell him to leave in peace. He’d forced me to intervene. It was pure instinct, really. I couldn’t stand there while he drained an innocent person. How long until Hank caught wind of his brother’s demise? He’d put out a hit on me—on Laurie, too. Sluggish, Laurie sat up and coughed. “Oh, my God. I think it got in my mouth.” She gagged. Blood seeped into her white shirt. The bittersweet smell was a hundred times more potent than her silly paper cut. My upper jaw ached from keeping my fangs at bay, and my sinuses burned. Don’t you dare. Laurie was already scared and hurt. Plus, she was my coworker. I even thought she’d warmed up to me today. Focus, idiot. I repeat: I killed Wyatt Greaves. Hide the murder. Cover it up. That was the only option. I tucked the impromptu stake into my waistcoat—it would need to be destroyed later. “Are you okay?” I kicked Wyatt’s ashes into a storm drain. Particles clung to my shoe. I cringed and shook it off. “No, I’m not okay,” she snapped. “He was a… And you… God, I can still taste it!”

In Nightfall 💜 Spells for Lost Things 💜 Buffy
A match made in murder 🧙‍♀️🧛

#QueerPit #YA #P #R #amquerying

SLAYING THE VAMP CONQUEROR x SHADOW & BONE

A young immortal acrobat must strike a bargain with a trickster princess to uncover the consequences of her enemies' deceitful rule and the realm's string theory-inspired magic 🪡🖤✨#questpit #Q #YA #F

Moodboard images from left to right: silhouette of a hand against a mysterious white glow, UFO darting across a green sky, hand holding, boy giving a girl a piggy back ride outdoors, a house with an eerie green light in the window, starry night sky with trees, a group of people emerging from the woods in a yellow and green glow

THE X-FILES meets LOVELESS

After a UFO abduction, a teenager gains psychic abilities and investigates his cultish hometown—actually a corrupt, budding alien colony—but unexpectedly bonds with his inquisitive neighbor, adding love to his growing list of problems. 🛸

#QuestPit #YA #SF #R #W

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES x MULAN x FIRE AND BLOOD

A moon-blessed girl must infiltrate her former kingdom and participate in its annual horseball tournament to awaken her magical counterpart--the only way to prevent her darkness-plagued brother from poisoning the realm 🏇❄️ #questpit #YA #F #W

he Jinxborough Vampires, YA Paranormal Romance, 95,000 words Comps: In Nightfall by Suzanne Young, Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Illustration of a witch girl embracing a vampire boy with the tags: workplace romance (creepy bookstore), magical mishaps, short guy, tall girl, witches vs vampires, dual POV, friends to lovers, ghosts from the past (literally)

SNIPPET:I killed Wyatt Greaves. That was bad. Very bad. I didn’t want it to be this way—I’d tried to tell him to leave in peace. He’d forced me to intervene. It was pure instinct, really. I couldn’t stand there while he drained an innocent person. How long until Hank caught wind of his brother’s demise? He’d put out a hit on me—on Laurie, too. Sluggish, Laurie sat up and coughed. “Oh, my God. I think it got in my mouth.” She gagged. Blood seeped into her white shirt. The bittersweet smell was a hundred times more potent than her silly paper cut. My upper jaw ached from keeping my fangs at bay, and my sinuses burned. Don’t you dare. Laurie was already scared and hurt. Plus, she was my coworker. I even thought she’d warmed up to me today. Focus, idiot. I repeat: I killed Wyatt Greaves. Hide the murder. Cover it up. That was the only option. I tucked the impromptu stake into my waistcoat—it would need to be destroyed later. “Are you okay?” I kicked Wyatt’s ashes into a storm drain. Particles clung to my shoe. I cringed and shook it off. “No, I’m not okay,” she snapped. “He was a… And you… God, I can still taste it!”

When a vampire and a teen witch kill a high-ranking vamp in self defense, they must team up to hide the murder from the slain foe’s vengeful clan—and bonding over the deadly secret just might kindle their offbeat romance. 💜🦇

#QuestPit #YA #PR #Q

Agent's Guide to The Jinxborough Vampires, YA Paranormal Romance, 95,000 words. (Image description: character art of a witch girl and vampire boy, embracing and smiling at one another)

PITCH: Eighteen-year-old Laurie Loveday is having a rough night—apparently, she’s a witch, vampires are real, and they’re in Jinxborough. Oh, and their bites freakin’ hurt. Trying to connect with locals doesn’t mean having someone’s teeth at her neck. Unable to sass her way out of the predicament, she breaks free with her latent magic but is pushed to the ground. Right before she becomes human à la mode, Vincent, her coworker from the bookstore, appears and kills the attacker. Vincent Fraley hates being a newbie vampire, but he’s grateful his sharp instincts saved Laurie. The transition from rebellious mortal to upstanding bloodsucker has been difficult. What’s more challenging is hiding the murder—and shielding Laurie from his obtrusive, anti-witch mother. Falling for his natural enemy is a big blunder, but Laurie makes Vincent feel human again. They can’t get too distracted by their mutual attraction, since the slain foe’s family, House Greaves, will seek vengeance if the murder comes to light. Just when they think they’re in the clear, a ne'er-do-well vampire comes forth with photographic evidence of their transgression. Juggling their growing connection and a dwindling deadline, they must steal and destroy the images before they’re forcibly initiated into the blackmailer’s unruly clan—and a surprise guest from House Greaves has a front row seat to the “party.” Workplace love / friends to lovers / against the odds

COMPS & VIBES: In Nightfall by Suzanne Young (suspense & action, evil vampire gang), Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch (eccentric setting in MA, heartwarming romance, generational family secrets), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (teen angst & sass, antics & mischief, early 00s nostalgia), Practical Magic (murder cover-up, magical mishaps)

MOODBOARD: image collage of a cobblestone Salem sidewalk with fall foliage, fanged mouth dripping blood, ouija planchette, sheet ghost chilling with sunglasses and a cat, white rose splattered with blood, a couple kissing on a dark snowy night, blue and green spellbooks, a blue neon bookstore sign, and a bedazzled flip phone next to a tube of lip gloss Bsky & Insta @maisiebannion / maisiebannion.com

IN NIGHTFALL x SPELLS FOR LOST THINGS x BUFFY

💜 friends to lovers
💼 workplace romance (books + oddities shop)
🔮 salem vibes
👻 ghosts from the past (literally)
👫 short king mmc + tall fmc
📟 00s nostalgia
🩸 got blood?

#QuestPit #YA #PR #Q #agentsguide

quiet guy with absolutely no poker face? 🤔

I feel your pain. I had gum grafting on six teeth last week and I've been living on smoothies, blended soup, and yogurt (......and ice cream) 😬

Moodboard images in a grid: couple walking holding hands, black and red eye, dark red sunset, bookshelf, silhouette of a couple embracing, witchcraft ceremony with candles and pumpkins, sheet ghost at night, a sitting girl hugging her knees

IN NIGHTFALL x SPELLS FOR LOST THINGS x BUFFY

When a vampire and a teen witch kill a high-ranking vamp in self defense, they must team up to the murder from the slain foe’s vengeful clan—and bonding over the deadly secret just might kindle their offbeat romance. ❤️🦇

#bluepit #bluepit📖 #Q #YA #PN #R

teen vampire romance where the love interest is not 100+ years old 🤙
#UnhingedPit #YA #R #amquerying

How could I refuse?

making moodboards when I should be drafting 👽✨ #WIP #amwriting #writesky

Illustration of a witch girl embracing a vampire boy with the text: found family, magical mishaps, ghosts from the past (literally), friends to lovers, newbie witch & newbie vampire, workplace love, against the odds

When a vampire and a teen witch kill a high-ranking vamp in self defense, they team up to hide the murder from the slain foe’s vengeful clan—and bonding over the deadly secret just might kindle their offbeat romance. 💜

#QuestPit #Q #YA #PR #amquerying