Lara Henneman

Having a pretty good day so thought I'd take it down a notch or five with some #querying

I am now officially querying two books 🤹🏻

Not sure if I need a high-five or a hug

Guys did you know if you check your email a million times a day it does NOT get agents to write back any faster? My continued experiments bear this finding out.

Wow that is dedication! 💪🏻

Received a 'no' from a prestigious #litmag saying my piece "interested them more than most," which is so so funny.

Like, this was better than most of the crap we get but still no. 🤭🪭

Dark hours audio book

Usually I listen to audiobooks in the car only but this beauty of a mystery by @amyjordanbooks.bsky.social had me listening at all hours, the audio equivalent of an absolute page turner.

#amreading #thrillers

This Book Will Bury Me is SO good. Loved the audio book!

It's SO good! Halfway thru and loving it

Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Dept. on threat to close agency Leland Dudek argues that a ruling blocking Elon Musk's cost-cutting team from access to sensitive taxpayer data could apply to all employees.

Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner at the SSA, said that the judge's order could apply to any SSA employees, Bloomberg News reported. "As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems," the report quoted Dudek as saying. He also said his antifraud team and IT staff could be considered DOGE affiliates. "Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency," Dudek said, according to the report.

Musk is censoring the following information: The US Social Security commissioner is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency.

“This move would immediately begin halting benefits payments for millions of Americans.”

archive.ph/1SiaC

#authorlife #writerslife #writeitdown #amwriting #writingcommunity

Logo for me state arts council

Holy guacamole 🥑 I won a MD State Arts Council Grants for Artists! I'm so used to getting "no's" from grants/ fellowships that I had to read the email 5 times before it sunk in. It's $2500 to support living expenses for artists and I won it for my fiction writing. Every little bit counts!

A series of religious and cosmic images on a black background: A tied up lamb, a hand clutching needles, an eclipse, a meteor swarm, and an ashamed looking nun. Additionally, there are two quotes: 'You fucked up, and I said sorry. with the word sorry repeating over and over, and 'Unwanted Child'

NEEDLEHEART
Between Two Fires X INDIKA X Educated

An acolyte on a suicide mission that would usher in the end times loses her faith as she experiences the outside world.

🌘Dark Celestial Fantasy
🌠Medieval Horror
☀️Religious Guilt
#Sludgepit #WIP #H #DF

3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman in a forest with a giant wolf; a silhouette of a woman; silhouette of a couple kissing; a woman reaching out to light; two hands touching; a woman surrounded by a phoenix; art of a winged person saving someone falling; silhouette of couple kissing in the sun; a crown and dagger

Crown of Amethysts Na Romantic Fantasy 99,000 words Shadow and Bone meets A Court of Thorns and Roses Pitch: When Keira's sister is taken by a shapeshifter, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land and sea, and her own dark powers to save her. But the enemy could be anyone, and his price for her sister will have her question the cost of love and duty. Comp titles: a fate inked in blood and spark of the everflame. Tropes and themes: love vs duty, found family, vengeance and betrayal, Forbidden and slow-burn romance, forced proximity, dark secrets and hidden truths, half the Gods are dead, and gods. Goddesses, mortals, and more.

When Keira's sister is taken, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land & sea, & her own dark powers to find a shapeshifter who could be anyone & whose price for her sister will have her choose b/w love & duty
✨️ #Questpit #RF #F #Q #A 🌗

FOURTH WING + ACOTAR

In a realm of monsters, humans are food.

A human princess on the hunt 4 the last dragon eggs must fight 4 survival and save her people while trying not to lose her heart to the vampire prince who craves not only her blood but her soul.

#questpit #NA #RF #W

THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS x THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES for any #LitAgents who have the following on their MSWL:

🥀 Forbidden Love
🥀 Family Feuding/Messy Family Dynamics
🥀 Mental Health Rep
🥀 Queer-Norm World
🥀 He Falls First
🥀 Dystopian NA Fantasy
🥀 Strong FMC / Soft MMC

#QuestPit #Q #NA #F #R

digital art by Julien_Blot on Pixabay of a giant robot/golem

A golem made of spent bullets and shrapnel has a question, but can anyone on earth answer it? If she leaps to the stars, will she receive the solace of a reply there? Poignant Christian #PB for older children and adults who also wonder, “Why?” #CF #A #Q #QuestPit #Faith

a photo of my holding a hardcover of ΔΆΙΟΣ in front of the Newport Aquarium with white text that reads Newport Aquarium.

a moodboard for ΔΆΙΟΣ with a bunch of images that give a general revolution and overthrowing the government vibe.

ALL FOR THE GAME × THE FALL OF ICARUS × MY HERO

🪶 trans men's wrongs
🪶 destroying the fascist corpocracy
🪶 explicitly autistic characters
🪶 what the horseshoe crabs doin?
🪶 tattoos as therapy
🪶 toxic gays
🪶 we were here before your laws and we will be here after them

#P #A #DF #QuestPit

It's 1996 and 18 yo Roxy just tragically lost the love of her life. All she wants is to escape her small midwest town, but in a twist of fate, starts working at an antique store where she meets Betsy, a mannequin who will change her life, and the town, forever. #questpit #H #A #F #Q

A series of six photos set against the backdrop of the ocean at dusk. Top row, from left to right: The backview of a hooded figure at a boardwalk, with a sole streetlamp lighting the path; a bus arriving at a bus-stand at night; the silhouette of a woman's side profile lit by a dusky sky. Second row, left to right: A 7-Eleven storefront at night; a woman with blond hair clad in a black dress standing outside a warehouse at night, with the flare of a streetlamp on the top left hand corner of the photo; three shadows stretched across a pavement at night.

ADDIE LARUE x TVD

- vampires hiding their fangs
- a lost god searching for identity
- power-hungry gangs and dubious detectives
- morally grey protagonist
- regretting (?) what you wished for
- realising what you truly are
- in the speculative underbelly of Taipei

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #UF

Eight images total. First column, three images, top to bottom: the planet Jupiter, a colourful alleyway with wet pavement and purple and blue lighting, a spaceship flying across the sky with a red trail. Second column, two images, top to bottom: a M/F couple kissing under red light, the words “We can be heroes just for one day” in neon yellow lights. Third column, three images, top to bottom: two disco balls hanging from ceiling, a ringed planet in purple and blue neon lights, a couple in space suits holding hands on a rocky terrain.

THE FIFTH ELEMENT x HOT FUZZ w Eleanor Shellstrop

After a job gone wrong, data thief Enmity and space cop Mirek end up handcuffed together, at the center of a political coup, and on the run from space thugs, disco-dancing assassins...and catching feelings for one another. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

lesbian psychological horror with

🥩queer obsession&psych dynamic of hannibal
🫀girlhood&female desire of the lamb
🥀cannibalism as family trauma of bones and all
🔪unreliable narrator of eileen
🪦mommy issues&eating disorder exploration of milk fed

(ft meta board w inspo)

#QuestPit #W #A #H

Barely making ends meet through bartending, singing, and a bit of swindling, Lennie longs to explore. But you need money to do that. When plans for a heist fall into her lap, she thinks she sees her chance.

I mean, how hard could a heist really be? Boys do it.

#QuestPit #A #F

9x9 Picture Grid: Painted rock depicting red sailboat with white sail, shark fin poking out of water; tween girl with rainbow hair wearing a light green shirt with paints behind her; a partially sunny sky; a black cat walking down an alley; gray lockers with a note with the word “love” cut out of them; two hands holding by the pinky, each with bracelets on them; a stormy sky with lightning striking over a cityscape; a tween boy standing underneath a sign that reads “game over” holding trigger fingers wearing a dark blue shirt over a red and white striped shirt; a picture of the front of an arcade with sign lit up in neon blue Picture credit: Pixabay, Pexels, Unsplash

Lonely Jane has mood-affecting weather abilities, Corwin’s an anxious new kid and both could use a friend. When Jane’s shady landlord threatens eviction because of her, she has to control her emotions, but how can she when she’s majorly crushing on Corwin?!

#QuestPit #MG #Con #RomCom #Spec #Q

Super creative post 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

A newspaper welcoming everyone to Havetsavain Academy of Arcane. The title: The Havets Happenings at the top. A photo of a beach down below with another photo of rocks by an ocean. There are different articles within the newspapers front page.

Welcome to Havetsavain Academy of Arcane!

A mysterious school that has sprung up in the Bermuda Triangle, welcoming new students while facing controversy from all around it!

Here is the front page of the school's newspaper, stay tuned for the next three pages!

#Booksky 💙📚 #MG #F #Q #Questpit

Why did Cletus Berger’s mama throw herself off the water tower, + why’s the whole town so tight-lipped about it? + could country icon Law Leylow’s illicit affair w/a teen really be THAT bad (it can)? Small towns’ long memories+ loose lips can only hold these secrets so long.

#questpit #q #litfic

Mood board featuring poppies, lightning, pen and ink, soldier, purple rose and Cornish cottage.

METOO X DOWNTON The horrors of the Great War come crashing into the comfortable Upper-Class lives of sisters, Kate, Evie and Susannah. Homefront WW1 novel on the ways women find of building new worlds when everything they know falls apart. #A #Q #QuestPit #HF 126k #upmarket #WF #poetry #roses

One Dark Window x Starling House

A house with a will of its own. A town that forgets its own history. A people-pleasing girl caught in an arranged marriage—until a golden retriever carpenter makes her question everything, if she can survive

#questpit #a #f #r

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
Bookshelf buddies:

📚 A Dark and Secret Magic 📚 The Lost Apothecary 📚

✔️ Fame
✔️ Witchcraft
Which one is the true dark magic? A group of magical women will meet a rock band and through
music and love spells, learn the consequences of combining these powers.

#Q #MR #QUESTPIT