Katie Collan

I'm so blessed to be nominated by @flaremagazine.bsky.social for this award. ❤️ Such an amazing platform for disability and chronic illness!

A collage featuring lanterns, roses, a ballroom, flowers, a red book, a crystal, a young woman with blonde hair carrying a bouquet of flowers

INUYASHA x SAILOR MOON x DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS

🥍College lacrosse player turned fated magical girl (portal fantasy)
✨❤️‍🔥Forbidden magic + forbidden romance
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Found Family after family trauma
⚔️Sexy sparring
🎲D&D wild magic

#questpit #a #w #rf

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

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Pirates, explosions, and now robbing the TED conference? Ship’s cook Tai only wants to get back to their kitchen—if only there wasn't a terrifying human in it. And just why is she so fascinating, anyway? #QuestPit #Q #SF #LGBT #R #A

Clockwise from top left: the Goonies, the Losers Club, the Hellfire Club and the kids from Bob’s Burgers.

1988. Suburbia. Wannabe writer Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure w/ his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a creepy mansion and uncover a dangerous conspiracy, all in one night. #MG #SF #questpit

TERRY PRATCHETT x NAOMI NOVIK:

Posey, an OCD-ridden anarchocommunist, is drafted into a magic military. When her pretty classmate doesn’t get expelled for ‘killing’ a teacher, she crafts a list of ways to get expelled, hoping to be the first in history.

#ya #f #wip #questpit

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #M

If this is what the guide looks like, I can't imagine how gorgeous your book cover will be on the shelves... 😳

Green background. Images of a woman's face in a gold picture frame. Splashes of gold.

A woman with long dark hair turning sideways, hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint. A gold handprint.

Background is the close up of a woman's face, splashed with gold paint. Three bookcovers. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, a young woman's sad face, The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Picture of Dorian Gray and a young handsome man with a partially diseased face.

Green background splashed with gold paint. Images of a model on a Catwalk, a woman having injections in her face, a group of spooky trees, a photographer and an evil hand reaching out for a pale woman's hand.

Presenting my #agentsguide for
'Beauty is a Brittle Glass'
BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
🪞 Adult 82k
🪞 Dual POV
🪞 Speculative Elements
🪞 Beauty & Fashion
🪞 LGBTQ
🪞 Friends to Lovers
🪞 Disability Rep
#questpit #A #Q

Thank you Sally!! 🥹 So sweet of you!

“Life tried so hard to cling to this place that all it did was make death sink in deeper.” “You can bury your past but don’t be surprised when it comes back to haunt you.” “Everyone lived in their own world, even when they were right next to each other.” Collage of photos: girls in dresses sitting in the grass, boat in blue waters, curtains at dusk glowing orange, melted chocolate poured over stacks of chocolate chunks, field of blue flowers with sun shining, girl in dress spinning in circles on grassy hill, messy pile of old photos, woman and child holding hands, rose bush, sunlight through tree leaves, a woman submerged in dark water reaching out, a woman in a white dress running away from something while barefoot in grass, restaurant with blue chairs by the sea at sunset, graves in the middle of a dark forest, girl in dark water with a white dress and arm over her chest and white roses over her torso, a man peering through the woods with a flashlight at night, a man and a woman dancing under a starry night, field of blue flowers in a forest, hands reaching up from water through lily pads, dragonfly wing close up, shadows of two friends back-to-back making finger guns

Spirited Away x Shutter Island

Reality and fantasy blur when an anonymous invitation sends a burnt-out chocolatier spiraling to hunt down a serial killer she thought she made up as a child.

🥀Found family
🥀Secrets
🥀Ghosts

🪻Mental health rep
🪻Disability rep
🪻LGBTQIA+

#QuestPit #W #A #F #T #PR

My Zombie Girlfriend Only Eats Tofu
A ton of witty fun?✔️
#LGBT themes/characters?✔️
A diorama of Highschool drama?✔️
Shady corpos doing shady corpo things?✔️
Cute zombie girls who’re more thot than rot?✔️
A love story that puts the romance back into necromancy?✔️✔️
#Questpit #YA #Romcom #PR

a ferris wheel in a parking lot with people riding on it Alt: a ferris wheel in a parking lot with people riding on it

A boy falls through a hole while ice fishing and is saved by his fourteen-year-old Granddad in 1963; a stranger from the present confronts him at a county fair, but he wants to stay to have adventures with his healthy granddad, because the one at home is sick.
#QuestPit #MG #ADV #F

A photo of a tattered vhs cover. Text overlay says The Movie Palace was Dustin's last refuge away from home. He refused to lost it because of a golden haired boy from Madison.

A four picture collage Top row a body in blue jeans holds a skateboard, a snapshot of a room with band posters on the wall an old television shows a still of jurassic park Bottom row a snapshot of a video rental store, a stack of books with a pair of discarded converse next to them

Rewind. Eject. Insert.
📼 Warning: This tape contains the yearning of Say Anything combined with small town politics, alt boys, queer awakenings, quirky side characters, and too much 90's nostalgia.

Press Play on Like the Movies.
#W #YA #QuestPit #writevember

ENCANTO VIBES IN A POST-MODERN SETTING

UNDER THE BRIGHT SUN is about a girl who must uncover the secret of a stranger's arrival to recover lost magic before everyone falls to an endless sleep from magic withdrawal.

#QuestPit #Q #MG #F #S

A Horror story, from the villain’s POV. Demons and folk creatures bicker about the best way to terrorize a group of teens too aloof to notice. Sometimes the best part of navigating the haunting process is the friendships made along the way. Being evil is harder than it looks #questpit #Q #A #S #H

Clockwise from top left: beefy guy, a castle, raging river, a princess, a desert warrior woman, a man in a black coat, a comic strip and weird woods.

AN EMBER IN THE ASHESxTHE 3 MUSKETEERS: Two apprentice warriors, an empress in hiding that doesn’t know & the son of a dark lord trying to do right, are forced to work together to stop a war his dad is trying to start. Romantasy adjacent. Male fat positive. #YA #F #Q #questpit

quote - "anyone can betray anyone"

photos of a golden eye, the silhouettes of two people standing intimately close, the quote "I am burdened with glorious purpose" by Loki, a silhouette removing a mask, "Awakening by O.C. Umeghalu", the phrase "poisoned love", two hands barely touching with the quote "we all broke our rules for someone", hands pulling strings attached to drawings of a brain and heart, a brown eye

the title "Awakening" against a dark crimson background with red florals surrounded by the phrases forged family, golden-eyed chosen one, betrayal, azula + zuko esque relationship, soft-hearted prince, budding love, ancestral power and forbidden romance

themes/comps - Forged Family (the Gaang, Quil and the others) Reckoning with Inner Turmoil (guilt, indecision, shame, responsibility) Ancestral Abilities (think Aang’s/Corayne’s birthrights) Bloodied Crown (think Zuko grappling with the Fire Nation seeking to conquer the world/Corayne looking to close Spindles opened by her uncle) Looming Global Threat (ie: Firelord Ozai/Taristan) Romantic Subplot (different love interest for each MC) Complicated Sibling Relationship (ie: Azula and Zuko) Betrayal (ie: Aiz and Quil)

*BIG FIVE EDITOR INTEREST*

REALM BREAKER x ATLA x HEIR

Amidst a tyrant’s reemerging rule, budding love and forbidden romance merge with betrayal to forge a warrior blinded by rage and a fallen prince burdened by grief who'll lead the world to victory or ruin.

#Q #YA #F #questpit

#A SIX OF CROWS W GHOSTS

🌩️🌞Grumpy-sunshine cousins
❤️‍🔥Slowest of burns
☠️Serial Killer
🤫Heist
🥰Found family

Jack’s sworn to protect the dead. When a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he'll stop at nothing to get it back.

#QuestPit #Q #F

A classic fairytale castle framed in ornate golden scrollwork. Centered text reads: “Kinda Charming” in bold fairytale-style font.

A fairytale garden background with soft lighting and vines. Bold header reads "The Pitch" followed by text: "When Prince Neil Charming, awkward younger brother of the Prince Charming, is sent on a quest to rescue a princess and prove he’s more than just a royal afterthought, he accidentally ensures every fairytale ends happily - just not for him. But when his wicked uncle seizes the throne, Neil must stumble his way through myths, magic, and matchmaking mishaps to save Ever After and be the prince he was always meant to be."

Set against a twilight fairytale courtyard, the image is titled "The Characters" and lists key characters from Kinda Charming: Cornelius "Neil" Charming – awkward younger brother of Prince Charming. Gwendolyn Page – master-level fairytale historian. Milo Smith – blacksmith’s apprentice and inventor. Grimm Charming – evil uncle with a pet dragon. Maximilian Charming – celebrity prince and older brother. Cinderella Charming – level-headed royal married to Max.

A vine-covered columned courtyard with elegant lettering reading “Themes.” Below are humorous and heartfelt themes from Kinda Charming: Fairytale Parody Accidents, Adventures, & Inventions Frenemies to Lovers (Oh, La La!) Royal Family Dynamics (Yikes!) Self-Discovery & Appreciation Magic, Myths, & Poultry Underdog Triumph Trope Evil Uncle/Villain (Mwah Ha Ha!)

🪄 #QuestPit 🪄

Kinda Charming
#Upper #MG #Fantasy | 70K+ | Standalone with series potential

Prince Neil Charming isn't 'the' Prince Charming - he's his clumsy little brother.

🐉Magic, mishaps, & matchmaking
👑Evil uncle & royal family pressure
😂Witty & sarcastic dialogue

#Q #AmQuerying
See below🔽

GENE POOL: NAVIGATING BREAST CANCER with BRCA1 is a memoir of surviving breast cancer twice, 20 years apart and during the Pandemic and is a:
🧬 DNA story
💪🏻strong females story
👩🏻‍⚕️ female doctors story
💉 controversial treatment story
👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 family story
#Q #M #NF #questpit

A Collage of pictures of the characters: A younger brother whose demonic magic is eating him alive, a sister with the ability to summon a hut of chicken legs, a tired, overworked man who wishes to adopt them both. Under images: Trying to figure out why the government suddenly wants the younger brother dead. Arrows pointing down on text: unique action scenes with weird locations and rivaling magic families

My little moodboard for EAT YOUR PARENTS:
#Q #F #A #H #DF #QuestPit

A football player in uniform holding a football. A woman painting an easel. A background of two people kissing in the sunset. He falls first. Opposites attract. Secret infatuation. Slow burn. NFL golden boy Kent Whitfield. Jilted artist Zoey Wylde. A Bid on Love, a novel by Rosie J. Potter. Will love bloom like Monet’s water lilies? Or will there be a flag on the play?

NFL quarterback Kent is at the top of his game; artist Zoey is at the bottom of hers.

Opposites in more ways than one.

A charity auction brings them together for the first time in 15 years.

But they have a history, and it’s complicated.

✨Maggie Award Winner
✨On Sub Soon

#QuestPit #AG #R

Here's some recent feedback on Time's Signature from an actual editor. Reposting it now, during #questpit, in the hope it catches the eyes of a few #litagents.

Slow Horses x The X Files

When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.

#QuestPit #A #T #SF #Q

Interest promo graphic for queer gothic fantasy novel RENDER TO SILVER by Catherine Labadie

Silver, god of greed, rules Aebbenary through his church & ambitious High Priest.

Fount Marzanna craves freedom, prioritizes survival when her accidental Miracle kills a cleric & draws his attention.

Silver's Hands & Eyes accompany her. But unholy secrets yet remain...

#questpit #p #df #rf #a

A ship sails through a starry night. The stars are perfectly reflected in the still sea below. A massive dark shadow swims below the surface. Yellow text at the top reads: The Ocean Rising, a Climate Fantasy by Annie Carew. Yellow text along the bottom reads: adult fantasy. 110K words. Complex family dynamics. Necromancy and other strange magic.

Vantis wants to become the world’s first necromancer and finally step out of his brother’s shadow. Unfortunately, there are a few things getting in his way:

💸 the sudden loss of his research funding
🧙🏾 his ecoterrorist brother
⚔️ an impending war
🌊 environmental disasters

#questpit #querying #f

Collage depicting gothic/medieval cities, Western environments, and dragons.

SIX OF CROWS x HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

A drunk wizard, a shadowy assassin, a disgraced elf warrior, a scheming cowboy, and a hapless farm boy decide to steal and then sell the king's beloved pet dragon.

But how do you deal with the creature once you've stolen it?

#questpit #Q #SFF #F

THINGS RUINING GEMNA’S DAY:

💥 mages are outlawed (she’s a mage)
👵🏻 her mentor is missing (also a mage)
❤️‍🔥 Ren (a broody, grey eyed mage)
‼️ the disappearance of MORE mages
👑 a king that wants them all dead

An Asian inspired #A #Fantasy for fans of JADE CITY x HEARTLESS HUNTER x MISTBORN #questpit #Q