N.C. Kay

I'd totally read yours in a heartbeat! It also reminds me a lot of the movie Equilibrium. And we definitely share some comps - I read both of yours as prep for this story!

Thank you, Diane!

Thank you! I hope I can do it justice

An evocative moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following: - first column: two drawings of human brains and an MRI machine - second column: a starling among blossoms, a dramatic frog statuette, a hand grasping forget-me-nots - third column: photos and a camera, art and brushes, a person holding a memory card

A movie poster containing a pitch and photos of the four main characters

TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs
#QuestPit #W #a #t #s #lf

Hungry for money, four 30+year-olds join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their head & the scientists behind it vanish, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever

A murder during a book signing! How creative!

Lovely setting!

A dark, gloomy moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following: - first column: two ancient bathhouses and an aqueduct - second column: an anxious man, a bathing woman, and a pair of hands covered in blood - third column: a torn book, a recursive fractal, and a person reflected in a puddle.

Two moodboards back to back, one cozy and comfy for the plant lady, the other dark and mysterious for the detective. Underneath, two pitches for the book.

An agent's guide to THE PALIMPSEST, a murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION🔎

–94k high-concept/spec thriller
–vibes of DARK x RECURSION
–multi POV
–lyrical writing
–metafictional hook
–book-within-a-book structure
–Claymore Award finalist (literary category)

#questpit #q #a #t #s #lf

Just submitted my entry to the 2025 Claymore Award! Fingers crossed 🤞

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Belated thanks to everyone who supported me yesterday for #PopUpPit, especially since it was a last minute decision for me to do it! I hope you all had a lovely pitch event. See you in the query trenches!

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Thank you, Taylor!

Ooh, those comps!

Thank you!

Oooh love stories with time travel shenanigans!

I love the postcard feel to this moodboard -- so evocative!

Thanks so much, Demri!

You had me at illegal world travel!

Two moodboards back to back, one cozy and comfy for the plant lady, the other dark and mysterious for the detective.

DARK x RECURSION but metafictional
#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA

Deep within the murky Roman baths, a murder keeps looping: same method & motive, hundreds of years apart. Now a detective & a plant lady must solve it & break the loop—before the world rewrites itself & they're the next victims.

Rooting for David and Luke!

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Rooting for those two to break the curse!

Crime family hotel? That sounds hella cool!

I love how your agent's guide looks like pages stolen from a magazine!

Thank you so much, Dawn! It was so fun to research the setting!

Rooting for the sleuth!

Rooting for Hale!

An evocative moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following: - first column: two drawings of human brains and an MRI machine - second column: a starling among blossoms, a dramatic frog statuette, a hand grasping forget-me-nots - third column: photos and a camera, art and brushes, a person holding a memory card

TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs
#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit

Hungry for clout & money, four idiots in their thirties join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their head & the scientists behind it vanish, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever

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Very very chaotic!

This sounds like such a classic adventure!