While I'm actively querying Littles, I'm also getting started on writing the sequel! I wrote Chapter One (1,400 words) today! :)
02.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A moodboard for The Slow Burn, featuring side profiles of a man and woman individually and together, as well as atmospheric images including a Christmas tree farm, an event tablescape, a Christmas tree, and sparks from a fire.
THE SLOW BURN (80k words)
She’s an event planner up for a promotion. He’s a firefighter and her dad is his chief. They’re planning the fire dept’s holiday gala and agree to a no-strings fling 👀🚒🎄
Small town
Holiday romance
Found family
MMC in uniform
Slow burn
#amquerying #questpit #a #r #q
31.01.2026 21:02 — 👍 45 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0
Quadrant of four characters: Angelo, a PE teacher who plays a rogue with a circus past; Susanne, a chemistry teacher who plays a paladin; Catherine, a first-grade teacher who plays an elf sorcerer; Britt, a librarian who's the DM
Meet the characters from ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN
These four must band together to defeat the monsters in D&D and save their school from a charter takeover in a speculative fiction that's Jumanji X Abbott Elementary
Querying Soon 📆
#QuestPit #W #A #S #F
31.01.2026 21:03 — 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0
THE CAT OF VERSAILLES
12k children’s fantasy chapter book w series potential
Wishbone X Stillwater
Adapted from original script that got
• Austin Film Festival 2nd Round
• Sundance Episodic Lab 2nd Round
• Inevitable Foundation Semifinalist
• Coverfly Red List Top 1%
#Q #F #MG #QuestPit #KidLit
31.01.2026 19:40 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
When 12 y/o Bryn & her bestie Alex fall down, they never expected to face their future selves once they're back on their feet. Now, Bryn & Alex are on the clock as they race to solve their past problems before they’re stuck in the future forever in BRYN & ALEX RACE THE CLOCK
#QuestPit #MG #S #SF #W
31.01.2026 05:00 — 👍 71 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you!
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THE CHARACTERS
TERRIC
(Tweet: “Aw you remembered” of course I did I’m a manipulator)
"I can protect you, Tabitha.
It doesn't have to end here.
There are ways."
DRAGON SHIFTER
TEMPERATE COURT
(Power of the earth)
TABITHA
(Tweet: the eldest daughter urge to fight every authority figure)
"Keep your nerve. Play their game. Stay alive."
MORTAL
(Stronger than she knows)
KALYAN
(Tweet: what do you mean Just Standing There Ominously doesn’t count as socializing)
"I told you once to remind you. I'm telling you twice to save your life. I never ask for anything three times."
DRAGON SHIFTER
TORRENTIAL COURT
(Power of storms)
Sharing some of my favorite slides from my #questpit post in no particular order ☺️
PREY OF PARADISE: THE CHARACTERS
YA fantasy retelling of “The Most Dangerous Game.” A mortal girl trapped on an island where dragon shifters hunt mortals for sport, torn between survival and her heart.
#Q #YA #F #RF
31.01.2026 15:52 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A cover slide that has a desert background with the words, “The 35K word supernatural horror novella Windego: An Agent’s Guide”
A slide with a pitch and blurb. The pitch says: Ivy’s world comes to a screeching halt when her boyfriend, Vince, and his friends all vanish without a trace during a camping trip in West Texas.
When Vince shows up cold and shivering on the doorstep in the middle of the night two weeks later, it feels like all of her prayers have been answered, but his strange and disturbing behavior leads Ivy to wonder whether he really ever came home at all.
The blurb says:
Ivy has everything a girl could want: a thriving pottery business, a beautiful home, and a boyfriend she loves . One weekend is all it takes to destroy her life beyond repair.
When Vince and his friends all vanish without a trace while camping in West Texas, Ivy is left alone and adrift, until a stray dog shows up on her porch. She’s always wanted a dog, and Vince has always promised her they’d get one some day, just not today, or tomorrow, or next week. Taking the dog in feels like admitting that Vince is never coming home, but Ivy has to start rebuilding her life at some point.
When Vince shows up two weeks later, cold and shivering in the middle of the night, unable to remember anything about his trip, Ivy is elated. She can see the life she’s always wanted coming back to her, and better than ever. But Vince and the dog can’t stand each other, and by shades and degrees, it becomes clear that whatever Vince went through has fundamentally changed him, and Ivy starts to wonder how different someone can become before they aren’t themselves anymore.
A slide with a texas flag style background. On the left it says For fans of: The Only Good Indians, A House with Good Bones, The Lamb, and The Hollow Kind. On the top right, it says: Themes: Facing intimate partner coercion and manipulation, mounting paranoia and distrust in reality, social
isolation, platonic soulmates, and overcoming trauma. On the bottom right, it says: Key elements: Based in native american folklore (own voices), Unreliable narrator, Surrealist blending of reality, strong imagery, and body horror
A slide that says excerpt at the top and is followed by: Sometimes, he talks about how I’m different from Mike and Jake’s girlfriends. How Steph and Amber won’t run errands for them like I do for him, or how they insist on having something their way, how they aren’t agreeable or generous like me. I know it should be a compliment, when says he’s happy I’m not a “bitch-wife” the way they sometimes are, but it doesn't feel like one.
When we first started dating, he only ever said bitch-wife to make fun of the men who married women they clearly didn’t really like - a jab at the idea of a man who thinks his wife asking for anything makes her unreasonable. We’d laughed together about it, said we loved each other too much to ever be that mean and bitter, that we’d always do anything for each other. I'd believed it too, when he'd said he'd do anything for me.
I’m not sure when it changed, when he started to use it for real. It was slow, I guess. The kind of creep you don’t really notice until you hear it one day and it hits you that it isn't funny anymore. That it doesn’t mean what it used to. He still uses it the old way sometimes. Just enough that I can’t ever be entirely sure whether he’s really calling Steph and Amber bitches, or whether he’s mocking Mike and Jake. I like to think it’s the latter.
I’m not sure when I stopped asking for things, either. When I started to fear becoming a bitch-wife, even while refusing to admit he means it.
Texas is a state built on enduring. Enduring drought, choking heat, bitter cold, sweat in your eyes and dirt that tastes like blood in your mouth. An endless rocky, barren, bitter landscape that refuses to change, and people that refuse to accept it won't ever change. I am a true Texan.
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An agent’s guide to Windego, a 35K word speculative horror novella based on Anishinaabe folklore, exploring themes of: intimate partner manipulation, overcoming trauma, and the role our friends play in finding ourselves again
#questpit #Q #A #H #S #ownvoices
31.01.2026 17:43 — 👍 43 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
Nice good luck!! My book is also Maine inspired. 😁
31.01.2026 16:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster for the adult upmarket fiction novel, THE FRAGILITY OF SEASHELLS
Themes & Tropes: Remote Island, Found Family, Amateur Sleuths, Academic Couple, Twainian Wisdom, Generational Secrets, Obsessions
Summary: Deposited in a mail slot and raised by a moose—that’s how Esidora describes her unorthodox childhood growing up on Maine’s rugged coastline. Now a perpetual astrophysics doctoral student living in Chicago with her fiancé Tremblay (a Twain scholar), returning to Maine is the last thing on her mind… until she’s notified of her Aunt Beverly’s unexpected death back on Baribeau Island and the stunning news she’s a co-heir to her aunt’s estate. But as she returns to the remote island to probe for answers and confront her own secrets of the past, peculiar things begin to happen that put her own safety in jeopardy. When Tremblay unexpectedly arrives, the couple borrows from Tom Sawyer’s unique perspective as a fictional detective to unravel the startling family secret behind Beverly’s death.
I'm loving the creative posters for today's #QuestPit!
Sharing my #agentsguide for THE FRAGILITY OF SEASHELLS, an adult upmarket novel w/ elements of suspense.
🌲Maine Setting
👨👧Found Family
🏫Academic Couple
🔏Generational Secrets
😦Family Obsessions
#amquerying #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky
31.01.2026 16:13 — 👍 60 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
The Sun and Moon Brooches is book 1 in the Fae Princes Chronicles and its Avatar The Last Airbender meets The Dragon Prince. This is an aesthetic board for one of the protagonists, Prince Sol, my Latino coded character.
☀️Sol's Plan for the Week:
🐺Visit best friend at the harbor
🧚🏽Practice flying
📖Have a chilling history lesson
👑Welcome father home before bed
🌑Unwanted guest kidnap my parents
🧑🤝🧑Find out I have a missing twin brother
🏰Save the queendom
#QuestPit #MG #F #LGBT #Q
31.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Meet the nyc witches in In the Shadow of a Witch
Haley Thorne - FMC
Alanna Kim - best friend
August Finnley - love interest
LEGENDBORN x LITTLE THIEVES
16-y/o witch Haley Thorne teams up with her new friends to go on a quest through a monster-infested realm before:
💀 A nefarious witch comes back to life
🐉 Monsters overrun NYC
💥 Malicious spirits hunt and possess the city’s witches
#QuestPit #Q #F #YA
31.01.2026 15:57 — 👍 31 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 1
The image is of a fake book cover, mocked up for the novel ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE by Bee Morris. The background is a mish-mash of gothic, suburban houses, all layered over one another in chaos, in monochromatic shadows. The text, written at a slanted angle, reads: ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE, a novel.
🪦 ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE 🪦 #QuestPit #Q
Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & exorcising spirits...
...too bad 'chasing down a serial killer' wasn't part of the job spec 🔪
👻 paranormal mystery
🧠 autistic FMC
🌊 ghosts by the coast
🏡 found family (living & dead)
31.01.2026 16:00 — 👍 42 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
Comps for WRITING HENNIE include ROMANTIC COMEDY, FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK, YOU, AGAIN, and HAPPY PLACE
FLEABAG x ROMANTIC COMEDY
WRITING HENNIE is also perfect for readers who love vivid settings (hello, London) and anyone looking for a romance featuring a plus-size woman where being fat is NOT something she needs to change.
#Questpit #A #R #Q
31.01.2026 16:01 — 👍 39 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
An agents guide to the unmaking an upmarket speculative novel querying now
The pitch: nova makes people forget what pains or impassions them, but her own grief unleashes a glitching witness who remembers everything she’s erased. And he won’t let her forget.
The comps: with the haunting erasure of the memory police, the escalating momentum of chain-gang all-stars and the corporate ritual menace of Severance in Apple TV+
The opening: nova once wondered in the memories she’d cut out followed her around, waiting for their moment to tear out her own.
THE UNMAKING — 95k Upmarket Speculative Fiction
The Memory Police x Chain-Gang All-Stars
🧠 A memory technician that makes people forget.
📺 A glitching stranger who remembers.
🧪 A system that calls emotion error.
Some things cannot be erased.
#QuestPit #A #Q #LF #S
31.01.2026 16:03 — 👍 29 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you so much!!!
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Pitch cover for SHE IS KING
The opening scene from SHE IS KING
Tropes and Themes for SHE IS KING, including Good is Not Soft, Light Academia, Arthurian Folklore, and Reincarnation
Comps for SHE IS KING: Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken and Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
ARTHURIAN LORE X SAILOR MOON
👑 Reincarnated King Arthur
⚔️ Knights of the Round Table as Magic Weapons
🌩️ An Utterly Devoted, Godly Love Interest
🌈 Trans Boy Merlin? Trans Boy Merlin
🪶 The Morrigan's favorite host
❌ And a Mordred that gives you the Biggest Ick
#QuestPit #NA #F #Q
31.01.2026 15:21 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
ALT: Tower stock photo by Антон Злобин on Pexels. Sunflowers stock photo by Yaseminmsl on Pexels. Buda Castle stock photo by Ivan Dražić on Pexels. Cropped stock photo of a young Emmy Rossum by S Pakhrin on Wikimedia Commons. Cropped stock photo of a pale woman with hair turning between blonde and dark brown, by Mhajr Invincible on Pexels.Cropped stock photo of a young Adam Brody by GabboT on Wikimedia Commons. Stock photo of Italian guitar c. 1801 by Maccari-Pugliese Duo, found on EarlyRomanticGuitar.com. Storybook illustration of Ivan Tsarevich and the Firebird, by Boris Vasilyevich Zvorykin, in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons. Stock photo of a scientific illustration of “The fruit and flower of a pomegranate”, by Cornelis Markée c. 1763, in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons.
☀️TANGLED x AR VISHNY’S NIGHT OWLS☀️
Ash follows a magical lure to a forest tower where a beautiful golden haired girl lives. Then he realizes his blonde lover’s an evil witch-the soulmate bond really pulled him to the lost princess with 75-ft-long bushy brown hair.
#QuestPit #Q #JV #YA #DIS #RF
31.01.2026 15:28 — 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
A whimsical photos of a girls shadow standing in a mountain valley and magical signs of the zodiac surround her.
Lyra Galactic is famous for shedding stardust.
But when she learns her heart is an actual star ⭐️ set to supernova on her 12th birthday, she must race the zodiac constellations through the Rocky Mountains as kindness, creativity, and joy vanish from the world.
Second draft. 😅
#W #QuestPit #MG #F
31.01.2026 15:29 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Picture of classic Universal film monsters standing over a group of tweens with the words
THE MONSTER SQUAD
A reimaging of the classic 80s movie. Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, The Bride, The Mummy, and Gill-man. A group of tweens stumble upon an ancient gem that grants them the power to turn into these monsters to protect it from an ancient sorcere determined to reclaim it and take over the world.
Picture of Lucas from Stranger Things with the words
JOHN
STEVENSON
Unofficial leader of the Fearsome Foursome. Only one that doesn't get powers but still supports his friends and helps them to figure out their abilities.
Split picture of Mike from Stranger Things and Dracula with the words
DRAKE STOKELY AKA
DRAYKULA
OG member of the Fearsome Foursome. Joker personality. Most excited about getting monster powers. Butts heads a lot with Gillian and Francesca.
Powers include flight and ability to absorb energy from nearby sources, including humans and other beings, and redirect it with his "purple lightning".
Reincarnation of Amasis, master of the dark and a stealthy fighter.
Picture of The Bride of Frankenstein, a boy and girl Latin tween twins, and Frankenstein with the words
FRANCISCO 'CISCO' SANTANA /
FRANCESCA SANTANA
Francesca, anti nerd, BFF's with Gillian. Thinks brother and his friends are dorks but lowkey loves her twin. Reincarnation of Masika,
1 of the strongest warriors.
Frankiestein and Frankenstein
AKA The Frankentwins. Powers include energy absorption, shield generation, enhanced strength.
Cisco, OG member of Fearsome Foursome. A little timid but give him time. Reincarnation of Husani, equal in strength to Masika.
Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, The Bride, The Mummy, and Gill-man. A group of tweens stumble upon an ancient gem that grants them the power to turn into these monsters to protect it from an ancient sorcerer determined to reclaim it and take over the world. 👻 🎃🧛🏼 #QuestPit #MG #AD #Q #OV #POC
31.01.2026 15:29 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
BABEL ON CALLISTO
Querying February 2025
@saraduranauthor
sara.duran@bsky.social
COMPS
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.”
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.”
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.”
PITCH
“On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice.
As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live.
But the ice is thinning.”
TASTE
“Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall.
They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens.
As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”
Coming soon to agent inboxes!
• • •
ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive
#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit
31.01.2026 05:00 — 👍 211 🔁 114 💬 14 📌 0
An Agent Guide to GUMIHO
86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance
By Jennifer Luce
The pitch:
Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous.
For fans of...
SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability
THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore
MY DEMON - Redemption through connection
THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero
First Lines
Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow.
A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.
Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!
✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest
#A #F #H #R
31.01.2026 05:08 — 👍 230 🔁 85 💬 18 📌 1
Thanks!! I learned Procreate to be able to draw them, so even though they’re pretty rough I’m really happy the charm shines through!
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I love that so much!!! That is so kind, thank you!! I hope they get to read it. 😁
31.01.2026 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you, I’m glad you like it!!
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