Marina Lucas | Author

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HOW TO BE EATEN x ADELAIDE

I can’t forget you. What you were to me. I can’t pretend everything didn’t happen.

🖋️ writers wish on a star comes true
💔 obsession, temptation, depression, oh my
🔥 toxic relationship
🌌 healing isn't pretty—but it is possible

#QuestPit #A #F #S #Q

LIGHTS OUT (stakes/humor) X 365 DAYS (mafia/spice) X Rip and Beth's love story

Paranormal dark romance reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood featuring a DA searching for her estranged grandmother and the crime boss who makes her an offer she can’t refuse. Dark secrets abound.

#questpit #w #pr #dr

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A black raven on a grey background, with a blurb about the books.

A black raven on a grey background, with an excerpt from the manuscript.

A black raven on a grey background, with a list of tropes.

I: RAVEN QUEEN'S FLIGHT | II:RAVEN QUEEN'S RETURN

A tale of friendship, courage and self-belief in the face of betrayal.

A stolen throne

A perilous journey

Eagles and airships

Coming of age

Found family

#questpit #W #YA #SFF

I want all the #questpit books to get published, entirely selfishly, so that I can read them

A 4-slide graphic titled “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her”. Each slide features a foggy forest background with layered white text. Slide 1: Text reads: “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her” followed by: “89k words | Upmarket Psychological Suspense by Tiffany Darling.”

Slide 2: Same foggy forest background. Text reads: Pitch “When eight-year-old Lacey Carson finds her mother dead on the kitchen floor, something inside her fractures. Uprooted to a new town with a grieving, distant father, she latches onto the first person who shows her warmth—Emily Harper, a precocious classmate with a big heart and an even bigger need to help. What begins as innocent friendship festers into decades of obsession, manipulation, and a love so warped it leaves one girl dead, and the other wondering if she even knows how to survive a life without her.”

Slide 3: Same background. Title: Comps Left side shows the cover of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, with the words: “Complex female relationships Motherhood Buried secrets Slow burn Emotional depth” Right side shows the cover of The Push by Ashley Audrain, with the words: “Unsettling Emotionally charged Navigates maternal instinct Psychological unraveling Fear”

Slide 4: Same back ground. Text that reads “Dual POV / Nonlinear timeline Character-driven psychological suspense A slow burn that simmers... then detonates.

If you’re an agent who loved the twisting depths of the true crime Scamanda podcast and want that kind of suspense in fiction, Everything I Gave Her might be for you.
The deeper you go, the more it twists.
Currently has 2 full requests.

#QuestPit #T #Q #A

An executive order on a faded piece of parchment

The leader of a brutal patriarchy’s prized daughter is meant to find a tolerable marriage arrangement and keep quiet, not traverse the darkest parts of her apocalyptic world, fall in love with the outcast, or make a deal with death to save humanity—but the Fates had other plans.

#questpit #Q #A

A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship

When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.

But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board.

Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…

#A #H #HF #QuestPit #W

Would love some extra love if you can spare!! 🥹💙

An aesthetic collage for this story idea, featuring neons, sapphics, and space imagery.

A brutal god who consumes the life-force of living things catches up to the heroes who tried to stop her, and takes their daughter as a trophy. Now trapped on the god's ship, Calypso must get close enough to find out her ultimate plans without being consumed in the process.

#QuestPit #YA #A #SFF #W

Veins of Calris title, hands with plants growing from stitches in the skin

Stained glass windows behind a woman in a veil, an overgrown window arch, a rose bouquet in a dagger sheath with the dagger on top, and a spiderweb

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF

Ginevra was remade to be a weapon. But inside, something thorned and grieving is breaking free.

#QuestPit #Df #Q #H

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This mood board is everything!! 🖤

I love this so much!! Will 1000% read!

Italian castles?! Amazing!!

I love this!! 😂💙

Lucy Undying is a fabulous comp!! 🖤

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An excerpt from THE OTHER SIDE OF ETERNITY, my GIDEON THE NINTH x FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD dystopian romantasy!

Featuring:
🖤Magic and monsters inspired by both Appalachian folklore and Greek mythology
🌗 A ruthless patriarchy vs. vengeful Goddesses
🖤Forbidden sapphic romance

#questpit #Q

Mood board for a YA paranormal book focused on reapers.

When an accident turns Chess into a reaper, she hopes to reconnect with her late ex. But she finds his soul caught in a plot to tear down the veil between the living & the dead. If she can't master her magic, the veil will disappear forever, taking him with it #QuestPit #YA #P #F #DisabilityRep

An orange tabby cat lays on his back on a green background. He wears a blue hat with a daisy dangling from the tip of the hat. His name is Marius and he's a character in A Cobbler's Guide to Surviving a Fairytale

Lucy only tried on the shoe because the cobbler’s elves told her to, not because she had any interest in being the true love of a prince she’d never met. But fairies don’t care what humans like Lucy want — fairies want to tell their stories, no matter the consequences. So when the shoe refused to budge from her foot, Lucy knew she was in trouble. Comp titles are Half a Soul, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Teller of Small Fortunes, and Dealing with Dragons

ELLA ENCHANTED X HALF A SOUL

Lucy thought her biggest source of headache was getting the elves to follow a schedule. But when a prince proclaims his love for her & half the kingdom gets turned to stone, she realizes life can always get worse. Especially in a fairytale.

#QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q

Yay!! Bring on the gay!! ⚡️

Introducing Betsy! A pissed off old starlet stuck in an old moldy mannequin inside Vintaged, an antique store in small town America. 18 yo closeted lesbian Roxy is about to find out exactly how vengeful Betsy is. And how badly she wants a new body.

#QuestPit #A #H #F #Q

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WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS X THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS

While threatened by a cruel husband and an assassin’s blade, Hatshepsut takes the throne as a woman, and spills treasonous blood into the parched sand.

#questpit #Q #HF #YA

Brandy and Caleb were your typical angsty teen and werewolf couple. But now they're all grown up, and local residents are going missing. Is Caleb's bloodlust out of control, or is something more sinister happening in their tiny town?

#A #MY #T #QuestPit

Image split into four quarters of agent's guide. This panel features upper half body featuring Myra, a biracial tall woman with acne spots in a Turkish style jacket and pants. Arzhang is wearing only red dhoti pants, shirtless with well developed muscles and golden fringe across his eyes to indicate he is visually impaired. They are standing in a dark alley. AGENT'S GUIDE The Sun Diamond Princess & the Blind Assassin by Elise Betz 103K adult stand alone romantacy, light fantasy, dual POV, bi-racial princess, disabled blind romantic interest, plenty of pining, angst, sexual tension, and spice. First sentence, first page: “If beauty was a currency for women to procure a husband, Princess Myra was a pauper.”

A "sun diamond" (a roughly tumbled yellow crystal rock in a pendant faded in the background )- part of a panel with the upper half of the pendant. The Pitch Due to a mix-up at a brothel, a blind former assassin saves a facially scarred princess from an assassin sent by her mother, the queen regent. On the run together, the princess brokers peace with a warring country, offering herself up for marriage with hopes of returning home and deposing her tyrannical mother. The princess is torn between her love for her country and her love for the blind assassin.

Lower half of character bodies. Both wearing sandals. Tropes & Comps Relationship triangle between love & duty Bachelor auction at a brothel One bed at the shepherd’s hut He falls first Against the odds romance On the run together Slow burn, angst and pining Zinna After Dark by Paul Lucas The Ugly Princess by Henderson Smith Facially scarred, “not pretty” FMC Breinne of Tarth from Game of Thrones Tall, strong, principled FMC Daredevil: Blind romantic lead Tristan & Isolde with HEA Lovers kept apart due to political wedding engagement

Lower half of "sun diamond pendant" faded in background of quartering of image. What if we have a princess that isn’t beautiful, short, delicate, weak and helpless? What if the princess saves the romantic lead from a life of prostitution? What if we have a princess who is short tempered, can kick ass and swears? What if Tristan & Isolde had a happy ending instead? What if we have a story that criticizes sexually repressive patriarchal societies?

#Questpit #Q #A #RF #AgentsGuide #amquerying
The Sun Diamond Princess & the Blind Assassin
👸 #BIPOC bi-racial princess
👨‍🦯#disability #blind romantic interest
🛌🛖 One bed at the shepherd's hut
💞Against the odds romance
🔺Relationship triangle between love and duty
🌲Pining
🔥Slow burn
🌶️Spice

A collage of 5 pictures: three figures in darkness, a glitching city, a beautiful autumn road in the Catskills Mountains, and the image of two individuals on a road trip. Then in text: Glitch by Jessica Junqua The pitch: After a mysterious explosion fractures sixteen-year-old Lea Rigby’s reality—glitching entire towns and leaving survivors zombified in tech headsets—she escapes with her older brothers, the only family she has left. While static spreads across the sky and buildings blink in and out of existence, Lea clings to joy, to adventure, and to the role of holding her broken family together. But when a disgraced inventor—Arthur Jove—injects her with a prototype implant meant to replace the headsets he created, Lea’s mind begins to turn against her. Now haunted by static-filled visions, a voice that isn’t hers, and the fear that her body no longer belongs to her, Lea must fight to stay herself. If she loses, she won’t just be consumed—she’ll be weaponized. Glitch is a story about siblings, survival, and selfhood in a world that’s forgotten what it means to be human. Then in bolded letters: 92,000 words - YA Dystopian Thriller w/ Speculative Tech Elements.

A glitching world, a grieving family, and a queer 16-year-old girl fighting off the voice in her head—before she becomes the prototype for a disgraced inventor’s next evolution of control. ✨✨✨

For fans of THE DIVIDING SKY and HELL FOLLOWED WITH US.

#questpit #Q #YA #S #T #DYS

A fire background is behind images of a leaf, a building overrun with ivy, morel mushrooms with a variety of tiny faces, a woman's silhouette highlighted in a red hue, and a heart with vein like roots sticking out of it. The text says Morel Support. Featuring: A chaotic bisexual, sexy bandits, and a sentient mushroom with a vendetta against the government.

Introducing: MOREL SUPPORT

🍄 A Sentient Mushroom
❤️ Chronic Illness Rep
💰 Sexy Bandits
❤️‍🔥 Sapphic Romance
🔥 Anarchy
🫀 Literal Heartache

#QuestPit #A #Romantasy #R #F #OwnVoices #W #ChronicIllnessRep #SapphicRomance

Newspaper headline reads: Sederwall pleads guilty to concealing death

In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage.
A plea bargain was my only way out.
A world where women can be punished for what goes on with their bodies is a very scary place.
#Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

Two AMAZING comps!!