Emma Brand

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A woman holding money on the left. On the right, a door label "bad choices."

A viral video already wrecked her business.
Now, a dare to live like it’s Vegas might wreck her heart.

🎭Grumpy/Sunshine
👫Forced proximity
😆Humor
🏘️Small town
😌Rekindled friendship
😷 Invisible disability Rep
#questpit #A #R #Q

An Agent’s Guide To When the summer’s over New Adult Romance. 83k words

After losing her mom as a child, Sage has only ever felt at home in one place: Camp Woodvale. She won’t let her unrequited crush back at university ruin her final summer. When a devastating breakup derails Nico’s summer plans, he comes to Camp Woodvale. Amidst the unusual traditions and the staff drama, Nico finds comfort in Sage- the girl he’s certain his cousin is still in love with. They’ll be each other’s rebounds with two rules to follow... 1. Sage can’t talk to her crush 2. No discussing their future until the last day at camp When Nico can no longer hide his yearning for Sage, she must decide if she can finally close the door on unfinished business. And if she doesn’t, Nico will get hurt and Sage risks ruining her final summer-- with lifelong friendships caught in the crossfire. PITCH

Tropes, comps & Themes Found family Closed setting Love triangle Casual-to-lovers Jewish rep Multi-pov Just for the summer: Short-term Relationship dynamics Deep end: It’s casual But someone catches feelings Wildfire: Atmospheric Summer camp setting

meet the staff Sage office staff Loves camp Used to like Hugh Wants to be Color War captain Not over a guy at uni Nico sports instructor New to camp and hates it Hugh’s cousin Not over his ex Thinks Sage is cute Mariah sr. counselor Sage’s co-staff and bff Dating Hugh The ultimate cool girl Also wants to be Color War captain hugh sr. counselor Probably in love with Sage Worst counselor ever Can’t cook or fold clothes Corinne jr. counselor Mariah and Sage’s co-staff Has the nicest clothes Will steal your man

Heartbroken summer camp staff start a casual fling with two rules. Sage can't talk to her fling at school and they can't discuss the future until the summer's over. When someone breaks the deal, they both risk ruining their summers with lifelong friendships caught in the crossfire. #questpit #q #r

THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END x FREAKY FRIDAY x PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

In a world in which young people uncontrollably and frequently swap bodies, Sam’s journey to find his missing boyfriend teaches him to accept himself, no matter what he looks like. #questpit #YA #S #LGBT #Q

This could be on Netflix!!!!!!

Mood board for the book The Final Chapter: Halloween candy, black and white cat, girl with a pumpkin wearing flannel, crime scene tape, murder board, girl dress up as Harley Quinn, police car, a light hanging down at a bookstore.

QUEER NANCY DREW
17-yr-old Emmie is suspect #1 of a murder during her mother’s book event. She needs to get her life back before she's the next victim.
🕵️Amateur investigation
🎃Halloween
📚Indie bookstore
🐱Store Cat
🏡Small Town
💘Sapphic crush
#questpit #YA #Q #MY #LGBT

Black Santa, Black elf, reptile looking alien

Xmas Eve. Santa kidnapped. N Pole under alien occupation. All elves held hostage except timid, black nerd elf Elfin. With the fate of Xmas and the Earth falling on his unsure shoulders, can Elfin save everyone before midnight & figure out who betrayed them? Lets Elfin Go!🎄🎅🏾👽 #QuestPit #MG #Q #BIPOC

Opening page to agent's guide. Text: Agent's guide to You are Not the Chosen One, an adult queer fantasy by Melanie Locke. Placed at the center of an artdeco frame with black and golden coloring

Part two of the agent's guide. Artdeco background with black and gold. Pitch: When Seer Cass learns there's no Chosen One to save the world from a Fear based apocalypse, he tells firefighter Esti she's the Chosen One. If she ever learns he lied, the world will end. Comps on the right with covers and a poster. The Umbrella Academy season 1 poster, the Last Hour between World, the Raven Scholar, Dark Rise.

Snippet. Same background as previous picture, with messy paper on top. Text: “How did it feel?” she asked, voice soft. Careful. For a moment he looked at her, eyes like broken glass. He sat up, fists clenched. “Bad! It feels fucking bad, okay? But it doesn’t matter. If I have to kill one man to save a village then that is what I will do. You can’t save the world without getting blood on your hands. And the worst thing is, it didn’t even work.” Esti didn’t know what to say. Cass stared into the distance, arms wrapped tight around his body. He’d never looked so small before. And yet Esti knew what he was capable of. It mattered little how he felt, his sorrow didn’t bring the mayor back. And perhaps he would have died no matter what. Perhaps Cass had done the best he could in impossible circumstances. But Esti couldn’t forget he’d murdered a man in cold blood. “I didn’t ask for this, you know.” Bitterness spilled out like a basilisk’s venom. “Being the seer meant to stop the Fear, having only one year left.”

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR

👁️ a gay seer determined to fake it till he makes it
🚒 a butch lesbian firefighter who thinks she's the Chosen One
😱 a Fear based apocalypse set to end the world

Without a real Chosen One, what could possibly go wrong?

#Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #Q

Mood board with images including the Irish coast, a cottage, a woman in the water, a couple embracing, and a ghostly figure.

The HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE + THE GUEST LIST

🖤Horromance
🖤Gothic vibes
🖤Enemies to lovers

When Rosie returns to Ireland, she must team up with a handsome local man to find her friend's killer—and escape the terrifying presence that's stalking her.

#QuestPit #A #H #R #Dis #Q

Digital screen saying, "Constance is a reluctant medium with a death fresh on her conscience. She'd much rather keep her abilities a secret and turn her back on spirits, but when her only friend starts a freelance ghost hunting team, she tags along. Someone has to keep them out of trouble, right? If only things were that easy. But people go missing, spirits become restless, and as a building threat is determined to break the barrier between life and death, she'll discover that neither the past nor the paranormal are content to remain hidden. Great for adult fans of Ghostbusters, Scooby-Doo, psych-esque banter includes: unlikable heroine, found family maps, urban legends, fast- paced banter, mysterious organizations, human experiments, horror without gore, adult horror-comedy/ spec 97,000 words"

Blonde woman stands in front of a brick wall, stretching, ready to fight.

When exorcising ghosts, it helps to have a medium with a cool head and sympathetic heart.

Constance is a medium with none of those.

In a blend of horror/comedy that gets darker as it goes, traveling ghost hunters get in too deep when the dead won’t RIP
#questpit #a #q #uf #spec #h

an elderly woman is smiling and looking at the camera while wearing a sweater . Alt: an elderly woman is smiling and looking at the camera while wearing a sweater .

An elderly woman holds a grudge for forty years. On the outside, she goes to church, knits baby blankets and babysits, but her husband's betrayal has unleashed a psychotic anger that knows no bounds: a racy, multi-POV thrill ride with killer twists.
#QuestPit #Q #S #T #M #R

#A #questpit #darkfantasy #horror #Q #mystery
A dead woman with chronic pain must push her pain aside and reap killers, but when her daughter is kidnapped by someone she's stalking, she’ll have to choose- follow the rules & discover the truth about her death or save her daughter and never know

My current November writing challenge WIP, no pitch, just vibes:

👸Royal fake dating
👑Princess x King
✨Humor (I think?)
💔Hopeless romantic who has given up on love
💚’Party 4 u’ vibes
❤️‍🩹Healing each other
🧚Fairytale vibes

#QuestPit #F #R #A #W

Movie poster from The Monster Squad

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 #Q #BIPOC

Clockwise from top left: a girl dancing in the woods, a creepy house, a fire monster, creepy woods, a black bird and an abandoned factory.

ITxTHE RIVERMAN: Max finds identical photos, taken years apart, & embarks on a summer long quest to ID the girl in the photo & figure out her connection to the serial killer cult leader and the seven girls he's accused of killing. #YA #H #questpit

Books and TV shows that inspired this story: The Originals, The Spirit Barth its teeth, Market, Supernatura, Hollow, Vampire Diaries

Turned on the night he fled home, a feral fledgling must master his hunger and survive an ancient vampire feud.
This is a book about:

🧛 Vamp politics
🔪 Ancient feuds
🏠Found family
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rage
💊 Us vs. Normies, anti-cure vibes
🩸 Bloodlust as addiction
🍷New Orleans gothic

#questpit #W #DF #H #own

SCYTHE x ROMEO & JULIET

feudalism is law. Renaissance nobles have been cryogenically revived. an overly stabby heiress falls for her cleaner: the 365th teenage orphan cyborg cinnamon roll hired by a rival noble fam to murder her.

They’re the only ones happy.

#questpit #YA #SF #F #R

Grid of pictures: Hands coming out of the dark, a woman with a cloth over her face, a silhouette of a couple, a korean woman, a woman walking down a hallway, a woman with stained red hands and face

Here's a moodboard for GUMIHO:

🇰🇷 Inspired by Korean folklore & mythology
🖤Told from the eyes of an anti-hero gumiho
🌧Set in modern-day PNW
🥀Dark, intimate atmosphere
🌀Psychological unraveling & physical transformation
❤️Slow-burn romance

✨️Currently revising w/ SmoochPit✨️

#QuestPit #A #F #H #R

Erin & Liv Are Not (Not) Together 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ - 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️queer ensemble cast
🏡LGBTQ+care home
💖fake dating/friendship love
🍩doughnuts
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒found family
🫂mental health rep
🩷🫣🙌queer joy and chaos
🚩healing from toxic relationships
😶‍🌫️ complex family dynamics
#questpit #YA #Q #R

#GhostPit #YA #R #LGBT #Q Heartstopper X Imogen Obviously
Liv has everything taken away from her - her house, her best friend, and an ex girlfriend she is heartbroken over.Can a queer care home, a cute girl who likes Lego and a seaside town help rewrite her nightmares and choose herself after all?

ADULT SIX OF CROWS WITH GHOSTS

Jack’s sworn to protect the dead, so when a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he’ll stop at nothing to steal it back. His crew has a few more scruples. The masked serial killer offering to partner up? Less so.

#GhostPit #F #A #Q

HOW TO SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER x GHOSTS

When an Agatha Christie fangirl inherits an abandoned detective agency in a New England beach town, she teams up with a noir-loving ghost to find her neighbor’s killer in a case that mirrors her PI aunt’s only unsolved case.

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #MM #M

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) x BEAUTY & THE BEAST

When ex-slave vampire Dante kidnaps rare psychic Maren for his murder plot, his hunger for more than vengeance jeopardizes his freedom and Maren's life.

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #R

Hollis created the Fun House. He also created Jules, a VR depiction of his dead wife.

To boost publicity, CyberLand chooses five lucky winners to test the brand new attraction.

But Jules doesn't want strangers in her Fun House and she doesn't plan to let them out alive.

#GhostPit #Q #H #A #SF

While searching for her sister’s killer, Ana becomes the prime suspect. Now in the run, an unexpected ally becomes her only hope to find the monster behind the murders, clear her name and set her sister’s spirit free. #GhostPit #W #Spec #YA

THESE DEADLY PROPHESIES X BITTERSWEET IN THE HOLLOW

While searching for her sister’s killer, Ana becomes the prime suspect. Now on the run, an unexpected ally is her only hope to find the monster behind the murders, clear her name and set her sister’s spirit free.

#GhostPit #W #Spec #YA

Emma fell for Ryan once then swore she'd never talk to him again. But she did—now he may be doomed by a curse she accidently unleashed while investigating a '96 witch legend to win a contest and save her aunt's dog rescue. Lose the contest, lose the rescue & now Ryan—again #GhostPit #Q #YA #R #Spec👻

Twila Twigglefitz- Witch with a Glitch!

Twila is a six-year-old, mismatched-sock-wearing witch who conjures spells through rhyme, except for one problem— she’s terrible at rhyming!
Until she meets Abby, who loves rhymes and mismatched socks!

#GhostPit #PB #C #Q #ages4-7

Saylor the (Almost) Unicorn

Saylor LOVES unicorns. So much, she decides to become one—hooves, horn, and all. But when unicorn life turns out to be more hay and less hooray, Saylor learns that being herself might be the most magical thing of all.

#GhostPit #PB #C #Q #ages4-7

This Halloween season, nothing’s scarier to Sunny Ray than competing for the role of Mother Nature against his best friend, Jack Frost…except for admitting he’s secretly in love with him.

Even scarier: Jack’s heart is failing due to climate change

#GhostPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT #CLI