Bryan 📃is querying & writing

#WIPSnips from HAPPY DEATH INC.

It's a fun (and slightly depressing) thought experiment to imagine late-stage capitalist absurdity.

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This is the cover of a novel titled "Corporeal Tourism; Or, The Flip" by Hawk Stevenson. The cover has a cream or pale yellow background. At the top, the title appears in large, bold dark green lettering.The central image is an artistic illustration of a large beetle or insect viewed from above. The beetle's body is decorated with vibrant, colorful patterns in blues, greens, reds, and yellows that give it an almost map-like or geographical appearance. The beetle has prominent antennae extending upward.Within the beetle's body, there's a circular opening or window that contains illustrations of two people - a woman with long dark hair wearing light-colored clothing on the left, and a person with shorter blonde hair wearing what appears to be a plaid or checkered shirt on the right.Below the beetle illustration, there's text that reads "yours in horror" in a handwritten-style font.At the bottom of the cover, the author's name "HAWK STEVENSON" appears in large, bold red lettering.The overall design combines realistic insect anatomy with fantastical, colorful artistic elements, creating a surreal and eye-catching book cover.

CORPOREAL TOURISM; OR, THE FLIP

This book needs to be read and spread! The message is sincere and important, like the author (bsky.app/profile/hawk...)

Help me share the work and the word!

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#WIPSnips from HAPPY DEATH INC.

Two agent likes from pitch events so far!

#writingcommunity #amwriting #specfic #scifi

Keep it up!

That's fucking cool!

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More than agent and even publisher interest, getting the crew of @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social in on this would be all I need from life.

Maybe #QuestPit can help me get there!

Thank you everyone for all the support. You're amazing 😁

BRIDGERTON X HUNGER GAMES

She’s from the slums of the south. He’s used to a silver spoon. Now, she’s going to steal it.

#QuestPit #A 🌶️#R #SFF #Q

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I haven't but now I have to check it out! Thanks 😃

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × DUNGEONS & DADDIES

A #litagents and #editors guide to DAD BODIES!

Big 5 interest!

#QuestPit #A #H #M #Q

The image 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 × KNIVES OUT

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 campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #M #Q

Door in the Fernwood, a Young Adult Fantasy novel, complete at 99,000 words. Currently querying. Tagline: In this magical Irish bloodline, poison runs deep.

Pitch: When fifteen-year-old Quinn puts on an ancient ancestral ring, it shatters the protective binding spell her family cast at birth—awakening clairvoyant powers she should have inherited from her Irish magical bloodline. But the ring also makes her visible to Neris, a Victorian sorceress who hunts Quinn to steal the ring. Hidden away in an Oregon enchanted forest with extended family, Quinn must master her powers before Neris destroys not only her, but their entire family tree. Website: KatieKrohn.com

Comp titles: The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett, A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I Lin. Themes: Portal to another realm, plant magic, elixirs and poisons, romance subplot, magical artifacts, time travel, magical baking.

“Woo-ee! Who died?” Velma Taylor screeched, sniffing the air as she sat on her back deck. “Nobody croaked, Vel,” her husband Artie grumbled as he sipped coffee from his John Deere mug. “It’s that young girl next door. You remember she invited us over to look at some big, stinky flower tonight?” “Well, I’m not goin’. Bet you I’d pass out if I got any closer,” Velma said. “You know her mother keeps her locked up in that backyard doing the strangest things. It’s just not normal for a girl her age.” From inside her greenhouse, Quinn could hear Velma and Artie, who were half deaf and regularly bellowed neighborhood gossip over the fence. Although the comment stung, small-town judgments like this only fueled her retreat into her own backyard utopia, where she propagated plants from all over the globe—the carnivorous, poisonous, endangered, the beautiful, the ugly, and the common. She sketched the rare or interesting ones—charcoal drawings lined the interior walls of her garden shed...

When a teen outcast discovers she's from a secret line of Irish plant magicians, she must harness newfound powers to protect herself from a vengeful, poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time.

🍄 Elixirs + poisons + portals
💌 Romance subplot
🎂 Magical baking

#questpit #q #amquerying

When people go missing, ghosts grow restless, and a building force threatens the barrier between this life and the hereafter, these freelance ghost hunters suddenly find that staying out of debt is the least of their problems.
#questpit #h #a #s #q #uf

#questpit #Q #R For your 90’s vibes GOSSIP GIRL x CRUEL INTENTIONS fix⤵️

THE FLOATING CASTLE

(POTOT X TWW)

She wants to control him. He wants to kill her.

🌊sea of monsters
🐉vicious dragons
🌹eternal rose garden
🧙‍♀️ witch matriarchy
👨‍👩‍👧 family drama
🫢 political intrigue
⚔️ war on the horizon

#questpit #F #A #DF #EF (#P 11/1)

IMAGE READS: THE FLOATING CASTLE, UPCOMING EVENTS. -July 9 with Introverted Indies -September 3 with Saffron on BOOKED -November 1 with Matt at Beard of Darkness Book Reviews

Image reads: My mini interview with the Introverted Indies crew is now on YouTube! Find out more about THE FLOATING CASTLE, listen to a paragraph from the book, and discover the inspiration behind the story!

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Image is of THE FLOATING CASTLE Goodreads listing, showing the mock cover for the book.

Learn more about THE FLOATING CASTLE, a dark, epic fantasy novel from the author of SPACE, COLLISIONS (Ghost City Press, 2018). Now available on Goodreads!

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#questpit #F #A #DF #EF (#P 11/1)

I'm still in revisions, but I've decided to participate in questpit! Introducing Project Mermaid.

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Neoma is the moon and stars calling Merrick home. The tides of fate have changed and their connection will be challenged by sirens in the deep.

Four photos showing: a piano, a stage, a grandmother holding hands with her grandchild, and a girl who's incredibly stressed.

BAND NERD x ALL THE ANSWERS

When Ellie discovers her grandma's piano has magical notes that answer her questions, she finds hope: to get her dad a job and win a showcase so she can still study music. But when the magic goes awry, Ellie must win on her own, or lose what she loves.

#QuestPit #MG #Q

songs that feel just like WITCHES DON'T BURN
🔥Adult fantasy
🔥Multi-POV
🔥Subplot of a slow burn romance
🔥Complex family + female friendship dynamics
🔥Chosen family
🔥Dismantling corrupt organized systems
🔥Female rage

Completed at 82k words
#questpit #q #f #a

gloomy sapphic moodboard with the quote: "If I told you about the darkness inside of me, would you still look at me like I'm the sun?"

What if SoC Inej & Nina went on their own sapphic quest to summon a dragon and take down gods?

🗡️ Vengeful antiheroine
✨ Cheerful priestess
⛅️ Grumpy/sunshine slowburn
🌈 Queer found family
🗡️ Stabbing abusers
💕 Learning to love again

Big 5 editor interest | 20+ requests 🎉

#Questpit #Q #YA #F

If you already enjoyed the dark, supernatural York of The Hiding, may I recommend Book 2?

People are going missing only to turn up 2 weeks later, de*ad. Searching for the kidnapper leads Harper into the dreamscape & the embrace of her deadly past.

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Reposting for #questpit! 🌊

- A YA Fantasy with eldritch fae in a whimsical setting
- Niche/Chaotic Logline: Candela Obscura meets What Remains of Edith Finch
- Familial angst and old grudges
- The characters need some form of therapy after this
- All magic comes with a price. ✨

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.

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a black cat is holding a nail file in its paw ALT: a black cat is holding a nail file in its paw

Meddling immortals ✅
Deadly conspiracy ✅
Unique magic system ✅
Scheming female protagonist ✅
Oh, and throw in some forced proximity, too ✅✅

#Q #A #F #RF #questpit

Background photo of several mirrors on a wall with text in front that says House of Mirrors, a collection of hermit crab essays by Aaron Chan

A synopsis of House of Mirrors

Four comps: High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez, In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt, and Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

The first two opening paragraphs of House of Mirrors, a multiple-choice quiz

Hey #questpit! Enter HOUSE OF MIRRORS, a collection of hermit crab essays--stories in the forms of preexisting types of writing like a teen mag quiz or newspaper--about the gay Asian experience.

It is about growing up in an immigrant family and the search for love & belonging.

#q #w #nf #lf

Lights Out book cover, 365 Days Netflix promo, closeup of Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton from Yellowstone

The recipe I couldn't find, so I made it myself.

Paranormal dark romance without:
❌Third Act Breakup/Miscommunication
❌Toxic MMC
❌MCs under 30

With:
✅Spice with full consent
✅She will burn the world for him
✅Strong FMC
✅Protective MMC
✅Lots of humor
✅Pet with personality

#questpit #w #DR #PR

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

My Darling Dreadful Thing X The Wicked Deep

When Clover's empathic abilities awaken, a ghostly presence visits her dreams, offering escape from others' emotions. But as kindness turns to obsession, Clover suspects they want to inhabit, not liberate. #QuestPit #Q #YA #DF #H #PR