Samantha is QUERYING 🖤🕯️

lit agents, if you're looking for a YA sapphic, enemies-to-lovers tale of string theory-inspired magic, anxiety/compulsion rep, and lots of flirty banter, THE GILDED AND THE CURSED is for you 👀🖤

currently querying w/ 'big five' editor interest x2 ✨

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✨currently querying ✨my dark YA fantasy that's SHADOW & BONE x SLAYING THE VAMP CONQUEROR and features:

🪡string theory-inspired magic
✨anxiety rep
🖤sapphic Beauty and the Beast vibes
⛈️deteriorating realm
😈infiltrating the enemy

check out my agents guide below!

Brooke is ready to tear her cult apart to find Leah...literally.
9 Full Requests
Now with EDITOR INTEREST!
#PosterPit #LGBTQ #YA #T #Q

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

None of This Was Real 87,000 words - adult contemporary romance / book club - for fans of emily henry, carley fortune & paige toon or are they just yearning for nostalgia? Was he the one who got away

After tragedy and family drama broke them up, Jasper and Brett moved on with their lives. Ten years later, they reunite for a wedding in the place they fell in love and fell apart. Has their dormant love story reawakened or are they just yearning for nostalgia?

#a #q #r #posterpit

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

movie poster with man and woman titled "Nowhere to Run"

LIGHTS OUT x BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD (but paranormal)

The Wolf and Red are morally gray fated mates who team up to fight the Huntsman together. But he's a crime boss accused of murder, and she's the DA assigned to prosecute him. What could possibly go wrong?
#posterpit #a #q #ft #r #posterpitq

Leah is missing, and Brooke is ready to tear their cult-like church apart to find her. (Literally.) But no one, not even Leah's own mother, seems to remember her.

Signs of sacrifice point to the truth being stranger than any nightmare.

#QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying

a movie poster for my novel ALL THE DEVILS. the main image on the poster is of a man with his face obscured showing only his eyes. this image is in black and white. over the image is some text. in the left hand corner is a snippet stating the following “there would be no them from the tomorrow that had already begun. the devils were done. the dream destroyed.” on the right of the image is some information about the novel as follows: daisy jones meets knives out, a literary mystery, crossover potential. underneath the image is more text. first we have the tagline “the song of death never sounded so sweet”. next is the novel’s tile “all the devils”. “a novel by char young” follows this and then underneath is the novel’s pitch as stated above in the post. finally at the bottom are the words “coming soon to the query trenches” and “strand studios”

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#posterpit #q #a #lf #m

Brooke is ready to tear her cult apart to find Leah...literally.
9 Full Requests
Now with EDITOR INTEREST!
#PosterPit #LGBTQ #YA #T #Q

The pregnant sex ed teacher is the first to fall. Then anyone who’s touched or been touched is up in flames and speaking with one voice. In the shadow of the spread, two girls must learn all they were never taught and see if you really can fight fire with fire
#PosterPit #AG #YA

A #NA dual-POV #F #R where These Violent Delights meets Arcane.
Featuring:
🥀 A firebrand FMC from the slums
🥀A gilded MMC with blood on his hands
🥀 Class war meets monster horror
🥀 Fated mates with a twist
🥀 He'd do anything for her
🥀2 publishers interested / 10 manuscript requests.

#PosterPit #Q

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

THE DEADING x SotR x THE 100

🌿a sentient earth hungry for vengeance
🗡rivals to lovers who seek to uncover the truth no matter the cost
🔆found family paired with a competition for survival

#QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #SF #SFF #S #RF

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

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

an #agentsguide to WE FEED THE RIVER, my MaXXXine meets Midsommar adult Midwest folk horror—hitting inboxes soon!

featuring:
🍂 a bluegrass festival
🍂 cults
🍂 female rage
🍂 a dash of romance
🍂 & a speculative twist ending

#questpit #agentguide

WARNING: FALLING IN LOVE WILL RESULT IN DEATH

🌊a deadly heist including dragons and vampires and sea witches, oh my!
🗡break the mark or kill each other
🖤if everyone is a traitor, where is the line drawn?
⚔a torturous slow burn

#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #NA #RF #F

DAISY JONES x MCR x GIDEON 9TH

4 bands arrive in New Orleans for an artistic retreat:

💅A girl punk band
❤️‍🔥An undead goth rock duo
💀a necromancer & their ghosts
🎪an ex-circus troupe

They don’t know they’ve been lured as ritual sacrifice & the house might just eat them alive… #QuestPit #A #H #Q

TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
💋 sapphic w/ trans LI

Querying soon. #QuestPit #A #H #LF #LGBTQ #WIP

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 losing control, or is something more sinister happening in their tiny town?

#A #MY #T #QuestPit

Moodboard of 7 images including an open pocket watch held in a hand, two faceless girls in an embrace and wearing old-fashioned dresses, an Indonesian mythological figure with fangs and large eyes, an Indonesian dagger, hands clasping potion bottles, a body of water flowing, a dagger being held by a faceless figure in an old-fashioned dress

Sailor Moon x The Untamed but sapphic x Indonesian mythology

A messy time-bending magical girl makes a pact with a queen of monsters to save her cursed family, but she must literally steal the heart of her true love to do so

🫀🗡️✨

#questpit #YA #F #Q

Graphic with a decorative victorian gothic border with a title that reads Don't Keen for Me: 70,000 word gothic horror by Anna Hirsch. A mock book cover is featured in the center of the image surrounded by trope text callouts: He's human, she's immortal; byronic hero protagonist; only one grave; tragic ending; bubonic plague; Medieval Irish setting; uncovering lost memories.

Comps: the folkloric love story of Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid, the catholic guilt of The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, the family trauma of Haunting of Hill House directed by Mike Flanagan.

DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST x NOSFERATU

Ciarán’s family hasn’t trusted him since his cousin died in his care. So when he hears the family banshee warning of another death, he’ll do anything to prove his truthfulness—if he doesn’t fall for the banshee first. 🥀❤️‍🔥

#QuestPit #H #R #A #W

SLAYING THE VAMP CONQUEROR x SHADOW AND BONE

🪡string theory-inspired magic
🖤sapphic Darklina vibes
✨anxiety/compulsion rep
❤️‍🔥messy love triangle
🪞mystery dimension
⚔️infiltrating the enemy but falling in love instead
👿who's the real villain?

#questpit #Q #YA #F

im so obsessed with this book. it made me smile, laugh, giggle and kick my feet, and also gasp out loud. #litagents COME GET THIS AMAZING YA PARANORMAL ROMANTASY NOW!!

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

Eeeek I (officially) #amquerying !! Reposting my #agentsguide in celebration. 🖤

oh MY this is a sick poster

MASTERS OF DEATH x ADDIE LARUE

After Death goes missing a reaper meets a recently dead man who can't move on.

💀 Star-crossed lovers
💀 Murder mystery
💀 Meddling gods
💀 Supernatural meets Florence and the Machine
#PosterPit #PosterPitA #agented #F #A