Joy is ✨querying✨ 🥀🪦

Dark green background. On the left, a green-themed moodboard featuring weeping willows reaching pond water, a hand reaching from a tree trunk, a lake surrounded by trees, hands reaching for each other, a house surrounded by trees and a lake, someone running out of sight in a maze, a lake surrounded by trees, candlesticks on tree branches, and a pier jutting out into lake water. Around the moodboard, 4 arrows point to the following: RevPit 2025 winner, big 5 editor interest, 6 POVs, summer is an antagonist. On the right, three pictures of book covers. THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy has an arrow saying “internally-driven conflict & revelatory abuse”. NOT QUITE A GHOST by Anne Ursu has an arrow saying “psychological stakes”. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding has an arrow saying “adult-free environment & emergency hierarchy”.

Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive.
ft:
🎹 haunted piano playing
☎️ cut phone cords
🐊 crocodiles that shouldn’t be there
#QuestPit #Q #MG #H

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This sounds amazing!!! Love those comps! 🫶

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Moodboard from left to right: swampy road, a person in a flannel, an orange moon, a sign that reads: don’t go into the woods, a house sinking into a river, an ac unit in a window, a blue truck in a field at night, two girls kissing, a religious sign reads: are you going to heaven?

THIS RAVENOUS FATE x MEN IN BLACK

The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls—and one wants Elle’s heart for her own.

🫀Deep Southern cryptids
🫀sapphic pining
🫀coming of rage
🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability

#questpit #W #YA #H #R

An agents guide to: What Lurks Beneath the Glass By Joy Culp

Pitch: 13-year-old Maggie must team up with Adelaide, the morbid and lonely heir of Greer Manor, to solve a deadly mystery and prove her father's innocence in a recent fire after Mr. Greer blames him for planting explosive bushes. But as the mystery turns paranormal, and people start disappearing, the girls realize there may be something scarier lurking than just specters, and the rare botanical specimens that inhabit the Manor's greenhouses may have a taste for more than just bugs— Beware the plants you trod on . . . Comps: The Swifts, Don’t Let the Forest In, Serafina and the Black Cloak, Little Shop of Horrors, Aggie Morton: Mystery Queen, The Haunting of Aveline Jones

49,000k Historical MG Garden Horror Snippet: She gently brushed her hand over one of the fat triangular petals, its leathery surface rough like the skin of an exotic reptile. She rose on her toes, disrupting several flies before peeking over the center. A gaping circular hole was in place of where the pollen should've been, and crawling in the center of the flower was a horde of shiny black beetles. The creepy little insects climbed over each other rapidly, thousands of legs rolling and rippling like the tides of the ocean. While their curved pincers chomped away at the gooey inner flesh of the flower. She shivered, quickly backpedaling away from the foul sight as she fell. She landed roughly on the ground, her hands hitting something strangely squishy, almost like a delicate cake. She lifted her hand in horror, as slimy red hunks clung to her fingers. A thin line of mucous connected the lumps, the sap dripping from her fingers.

Carnivorous flowers & hungry plants, Inspired by Alnwick Poison Garden, Haunted teaparties & spooky seances, Victorian Horticultural society, cottageGORE & botanical horror, subterranean greenhouses Moodboard from left to right: abandoned greenhouse, fancy manor, Victorian girl, poisonous flower, Venus flytrap, a conservatory, a historical woman with a skull, an abandoned estate, a person drowning.

Proudly presenting my new guide for my revised manuscript w/ ✨Big 5+✨ editor interest!

In the life of a Victorian noble, society will rip you to shreds. But in this Iris-istibly deadly mystery, so will the flowers that lurk around Greer Manor. . . 🥀

#questpit #MG #Q #H #MY

The Book of Blood and Roses In book one of a seductive sapphic paranormal fantasy, …

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Sapphic vampires, secret societies, AND dark academia vibes??? These flirty lesbians stole my heart!

4.5 🌟

If the cast of ✨What Lurks Beneath the Glass✨ were a bunch of cats🥀

#UnhingedPit #Q #MG #H #MY

As WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN begins hitting agent inboxes, here's an updated #agentsguide, ft.
🪭An eldritch craving belonging
🏹A failing chosen one
🪭A pampered heir losing it all
🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion

❤️ this post or DM if interested!
#agentguide #F #A #writingcommunity

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When you reread that crazy snippet you just HAD to write at 3 am, and it’s kinda 🔥🔥🔥

Oooh, excited to see what everyone’s working on!!

I realized I hadn't posted my #agentsguide seperate from Questpit yet, so here it is!

And that’s a wrap!

I’ll be announcing both winners tomorrow!

Still awesome! 🙌

Also!! In case you’re not in the mood for a critique, I’m totally flexible and willing to do a 30 pg positivity pass if that’s what you’d prefer! 🫶

1k Giveaway For a 30 pg manuscript critique Comment + follow for a chance to win!

✨1K GIVEAWAY✨

To celebrate meeting 1k of the wonderful #WritingCommunity,
I’m doing a 30 page giveaway!!!
To enter: follow, and tell me something unique about your book or wip!

Entries will be open until 12pm est 5/24 and a winner will be chosen on Sunday.
Good luck!!

That would add to the intrigue lol

Y’know, getting ready to move and being stuck in a blur of packing tape and cardboard is not very conducive to writing 🫠
The creative beast is yearning to escape!

Literally me and my mom, she loves that show and it’s been going on for so long now 🫠😂

^^^ yes! Absolute incredible story potential for the right person to write it!

Literally when I heard that happen I went 👀🫣
Hopefully nothing too drastic will continue to follow that cursed doll lol

Awww thank you Katie!!! Your story was truly magnificent, and I can’t wait to see where it goes! 💕