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hey, the query is in your inbox😊 I’m very excited and hope you like it!

An agent’s guide to RIBBONS OF MIND!

A twist on Sleeping Beauty but with elemental magic, war, and far more dragons.

🐉⚔️❤️‍🔥🧠🧙🏼‍♀️

#questpit #NA #Editing #romantasy #pitch #agentsguide

Towards the Sky I Offer It, an adult dark academia complete at 131k words

The Pitch: Four students are thrown into a quest for answers after witnessing the professor in charge of a prestigious academic fellowship hold a ritual sacrifice in the woods The ambitious scholarship student, the heir to the Aelfric fortune, the boy whose grandfather believed in magic and the poisonous plant expert/tarot card reader

the vibes: ⟡ an isolated university in the Scottish Highlands ⟡ academic rivals who are one more disagreement about poetry away from ending each other ⟡ a found family that’s just four traumatized uni students ⟡ far too much time spent in drafty libraries ⟡ feeling a deep connection to that one weird lake on campus ⟡ tarot card symbolism ⟡ spending so much time studying myths, you start to become one The Secret History x The Raven Boys X BBC Merlin

The Fellowship is the key to a whole new world...but only if you're willing to make the sacrifices required to get in

i am seeking representation for TOWARDS THE SKY I OFFER IT, my dark academia novel inspired by t.s. eliot's "the wasteland", arthurian legends and celtic mythology

🕯️academic rivals to ??
🍂 first in a series
⚔️ multi-POV

agents, please ❤️ for a query/sub!

#questpit #Q #A #F

SINNERS x INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE x BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL

❤️Vampire marriage bonds
🖤Dark secrets Femmine rage
🖕🏾Black/African rage Ancestral Magic
💔Narrative that spans 200 years 🖤🖤Forgotten memories
❤️Ride or die love
#QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

The image is of a fake book cover, mocked up for the novel ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE by Bee Morris. The background is a mish-mash of gothic, suburban houses, all layered over one another in chaos, in monochromatic shadows. The text, written at a slanted angle, reads: ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE, a novel.

🪦 ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE 🪦 #QuestPit #Q

Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & exorcising spirits...

...too bad 'chasing down a serial killer' wasn't part of the job spec 🔪

👻 paranormal mystery
🧠 autistic FMC
🌊 ghosts by the coast
🏡 found family (living & dead)

THE BRASS THAT BITES

LEGENDBORN meets FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: An elite academy opens its doors to the lower class—education isn’t the goal.

🧠 Neurodivergent MC
🏛️ Industrial dark academia
⚙️ Magic fueled by stolen lives
🤝 Ride-or-Die friends
🧸 Missing kids depend on them

#questpit #Q #YA #SFF #F

the actor & the writer
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Arthur + Kitty

♡︎ friends to lovers
♡︎ met as college students
♡︎ can the writer navigate the dream world of the actor's nightmares to save him, from something far worse than death?

#questpit #W #H #S #R

Red and tan collage of images, a moodboard with sewing items and red beads reminiscent of blood. A beaded torso with red wound on the chest, silver storm scissors, chipped black nail polish, patches that say they/them and DIY or die, a dress form with tattoo patches and top surgery scars.

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind.

#QuestPit #AG #YA

A dark, blue themed collage. Is says: An Agent's Guide to The Earth-Shattering God. A 87,000 word adult fantasy novel by Lucia Judinova. In the middle is a veiled, mysterious woman, the sea angry behind her. Then a cropped picture of angry eyes, a clipart of a dagger and a vial. A quote that says: The feminine is not dead. Nor is she sleeping. Angry, yes. Seething, yes.

A pitch. The background is brown and white themed, dark, a group of women from the back, all wearing white robes. It says: On the 100th anniversary of the gods' banishment, a common thief, anny Jame, accidentally uses her divine, elemental power and garners the attention of a ruthless cult wanting to bring the gods back. The priestess they send is everything she is not. Bianca is infuriating and beautiful, but mostly brainwashed by her Order. When Bianca learns Danny is her ticket to restoring the gods to their rightful place, she magically binds them together, forcing anny onto a reluctant quest to gather objects infused with godly essence.

The background is dark and blue, a hallway, some pillars. There are comps: The Knight and the Moth, The Priory of the Orange Tree, Sweet & Bitter Magic, Godkiller, Six of Crows, A Dark and Drowning Tide. There is also a snippet fron the novel: Her vision tunneled. Moments before Danny passed out, the woman finally hurried closer. "So sorry!" she called, getting nearer. The pain receded and Danny collapsed to the ground, scraping her elbow. "I wanted to see if it worked. Terribly sorry about that. I'm Bianca." "Don't... care," Danny pushed through gritted teeth. Aftershocks of pain rocked her body, muscles tensing and unclenching "I had no other choice, Im afraid." Bianca knelt at her side. The rage channeled in Danny's gaze did not scare her off.She had the nerve to smile down at her. "You are a Link. A true, living and breathing Link. How wonderful to meet you." A blinding grin spread, showing incisors bent slightly to the sides. "We'll do great things together. Divine things, Daniela, absolutely divine."

A dark collage: a woman raising rocks in the air, around a picture of a satin white robe, next to it a sweet, happy woman smiling, with long, blond curls. On the other side a picture of a medieval mercenary-looking outfit. Leather, boots, a dagger. Beneath a picture of a serious woman with short dark hair, face a little scratched up and bloody. Over the pictures, are the tropes and themes is bold blue lettering: girls supporting girls (rights and wrongs), powerful women, queer found family, sapphic love, forced proximity quest, battling propaganda and secret societies, magic stolen from gods with consequences, 'enemies to would kill for you' ragtag crew.

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x SAPPHIC

Rhea Ripley-esque grumpy and the sunshine priestess who kidnaps her.

💥magic & consequences
🏳️‍🌈queer found family
🌸powerful women
🏰slavic elements
💔forced proximity quest
🌌gods and cults
⚔️battling propaganda

#Q #A #F #questpit #agentsguide

Clinging to the Stones Adult fantasy heist by Hussain A. Ayoub 109K Words Multi-POV The river of fate drags everyone forward. Only the desperate dare to cling to the stones.

The heist: Acyrnar Acyrnar has fragile bones, a dying father, and only half the will to hunt his rogue master. But here he is anyway, because living hurts. When he learns his master’s mission might hold the only cure for the rot killing his father, Acyrnar turns coat and joins him. Simple enough. Except he must first kidnap the Empress of the Crimson Empire, brand himself an outlaw forever, and make enemies of some of the most powerful and vindictive people alive. The Counter-heist: Melam Across the sea, Empress Melam fights to protect her son from a succession ritual that will slaughter all but one heir to the throne. Scarred by personal loss and a world rigged against her, Melam does what any desperate mother would do—she turns to the criminal underworld to break her son out of the impregnable Cage. She doesn't need a savior; she needs a distraction. Their colliding paths are set to ignite a war, unravel loyalties, and decide the fate of nations.

Comparative titles: The Age of Madness series. The Lies of Locke Lamora. Andor. Grave Empire.

“You are marked by the stars.” Mother used to repeat that grim prophecy, her voice a warm feather tickling his cheek, her words an icy blade piercing his soul. “Like the Surabrenna, three daughters bind you: one will pass without you, one will weep for you, one will burn with you.” Clinging to the Stones A fantasy inspired by Syrian history & mythology.

Here's CLINGING TO THE STONES, inspired by Syrian history & mythology:

🌟A broken philosopher-warrior seeking a legendary spear.
🌟An imperial mother must extract her son from an impregnable fortress.
🌟Their paths are about to collide.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentsguide

"An agent’s guide to KISS THE WALL a 97k word queer sports romance by Siobhán Dorr" Silhouette hoisting a rainbow checkered flag.

"PITCH: When rival drivers-turned-teammates Grayson and Corey are forced to road trip the season together, their biggest challenge becomes their secret romance and deciding what they want more: standing in the winner's circle alone or hand-in-hand." Portrait of Grayson and Corey by @formulanni on insta!!

EXCERPTS: Grayson If there were ever a word to describe Corey Wilder it would have to be intense. But a good runner up for that would be handsome. Tanned skin, gold-speckled brown eyes, and a jawline I’d personally kill for. I haven’t been this close to him since our fight at the beach in Daytona. This close, I can smell his aftershave and trace my fingers along the tracks of his razor, each movement precise so he keeps up his perfectly preened image. The only thing that falters in his attention is when his eyes flick down to my lips. My body heats, knowing there is no way I missed that signal, knowing that there is something darker stirring within Corey right now accompanied by the most entertaining intrusive thought; how fun would that be? Corey The bright vastness of a clear blue sky does nothing but make my body hum with anxiety, praying that clouds will roll in soon. Maybe it’s the promise of an unimpeded race day or maybe it’s too overwhelming to see the unending horizon, the edge of the Earth tapering off into nonexistence too much for my brain to comprehend. Rain clouds and fog soothe me, the atmosphere reaching down and embracing me, never failing to tamp down festering negative emotions. Growing up without much affection, I don’t know what comfort should feel like, so humidity is the closest thing I have. Even one cloud above me is enough to set my rapid mind at ease.

"KISS THE WALL tropes: slow burn romance, enemies/rivals to lovers, forced proximity, only one bed, spicy peppers, standalone with series potential! Comps: [primarily shown as book covers] Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid, Crash Test by Amy James, Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery, and the anime Yuri!! On Ice"

HEATED RIVALRY x NASCAR

When rival drivers-turned-teammates Grayson and Corey are forced to road trip the season together, their biggest challenge becomes their secret romance and deciding what they want more: standing in the winner's circle alone or hand-in-hand.

#questpit #q #a #r #lgbt

a moodboard with a desaturation filter over it. the images are: an anatomical model, police tape that says CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS, a darkened city, a long winding flight of stairs, wires plugged into jacks, a brain scan, and a screen full of code.

Serial Experiments Lain x DDLC

6 P.M: Arden watches the evening news. The new Athena brain chip has caused another death.

10 P.M: Arden receives a message from the dead man. He claims this wasn't a product malfunction, but a murder. And the killer's targeting them next.

#questpit #SF #W

The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism, and identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#questpit #W #A #LF #T

Calling all #litagents I am excited to present the new & updated #agentsguide for my adult grounded romantasy SONDER! 🦢

THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE meets CITY OF ANGELS in this emotional tale of star-crossed lovers✨

NOW QUERYING!

#questpit #Q #A #RF #F #WritingCommunity

A DARK FLORAL BACKGROUND AND THE TITLE "A DEATH WITHOUT YOU" IN A GOLD FRAME. White text: A WIP. HEATHER CARTER. AGENTS: MARISA CORVISIERO & KATRINA LEMAIRE OF CORVISIERO LITERARY AGENCY

A DARK FLORAL BACKGROUND AND THE TITLE "A DEATH WITHOUT YOU" IN A GOLD FRAME. White text: PITCH. CAN TRUE LOVE TRANSCEND THE CHASM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH? CHLOE TAKES REFUGE IN A HAUNTED HOUSE, ONLY TO THE BE TRAPPED THERE, MARKED AS THE FUTURE BRIDE OF THE UNDERWORLD PRINCE. SHE HAS THREE WEEKS TO BREAK THE BOND, OR BE HIS FOREVER. BUT WHEN HER HEART DRIFTS IN ANOTHER DIRECTION, THE DISTRACTION MAY VERY WELL BECOME HER DAMNATION. 95 WORDS. ADULT GOTHIC ROMANTASY

A DARK FLORAL BACKGROUND. Four images in frames: The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall book cover, Lakesedge book cover, The Haunting of Hill House Netflix cover, and Phantasma book cover. White text: Comps & Features: ADULT GOTHIC ROMANTASY, AUTISTIC/PLUS SIZE REP, SOUL MATES, GHOSTS, MORALLY GRAY VILLAIN.

A DARK FLORAL BACKGROUND AND THE TITLE "A DEATH WITHOUT YOU" IN A GOLD FRAME. WHITE TEXT: OPENING LINES. CHILLY RAIN DROVE INTO ME LIKE TINY KNIVES AS I RAN FROM THE BRUTAL MAN I ONCE LOVED. MUD CAKED MY CLOTHES. MY LUNGS BURNED, AND MY LIMBS SHOOK. I DIDN'T WANT TO DIE. I DIDN'T WANT TO LIVE WITH HIM EITHER, A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH.

HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE x LAKESEDGE
Fleeing her controlling ex, Chloe hides in her uncle's haunted mansion, only to be trapped there by the underworld prince- marked as his bride. She has 3 weeks to break the bond or be lost to the underworld forever.
#QuestPit #AG #A #F #R #WIP

After a heist gone wrong binds a thief to the soul of a long-dead hero, she must outrun the law and bargain with a vilified goddess for her life, all while deciding whether the world would be better off with her survival or the hero's resurrection.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

a nine frame moodboard (3x3x3) of red, yellow and orange tones that evoke gothic and lovecraftian strange energy with skulls, a book, lonely women, and a cross.

THE BRIDE OF THE KING IN YELLOW
☠︎︎ ⋆₊ ♱

two lovers struggle against class and religion to be together--but can a play that turns all readers mad be their freedom?

-novelette (17k)
-eldritch horrors or insanity
-existential purpose/fate

#questpit #Q #A #H #DR #S #R

Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!” The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death. “Magic should never return.” After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended. Sent him back to his body.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV.

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

THE GRAVE BROTHERHOOD tropes✨

🎓women in STEM
💭morally flawed characters (most of them)
🔥mutual disdain to power couple
🪦deadly touch (his)
🖤he’s mean but secretly gentle
⚔️grumpy x grumpy
📍100% NOT colonizer romance

#questpit #Q #A #F

An agent’s guide to "Dissonance" An adult psychological thriller (Work In Progress) by Lilith Murphy

Comps Include: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter - Protective sister dynamic - Prior trauma/haunted by the past - Paranoia Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn - Domestic thriller - Complicated family dynamics - Family secrets dragged into the open Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll - Imperfect victims - FMC who isn’t believed by men An arrow connects the following bullet point to both Pretty Girls and Bright Young Women: - Beauty and its influence on the treatment of women

The Pitch Three years after the death of their parents, former psych student Alex Doyle’s life is turned upside down by the kidnapping of her younger sister Charlie. Unsure of who to trust, Alex must unravel the secrets of their small hometown to find her before it’s too late.

Tropes: Unreliable narrator Unhinged women Small Town/Insulated community Secrets dragged to the surface Past haunts the present

PRETTY GIRLS x BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x SHARP OBJECTS

When Alex's sister goes missing, there is nobody in her small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save the little that's left of her family.

#QuestPit #W #A #T #WF

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. six suspects. one the killer of renowned rock star sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

Editor's Guide To MARK OF A MAGPIE Crossover Romantic Fantasy 118k Words Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

Blurb One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy… Ryn is a small-town thief who has a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d be a fool to take up, but with her family scattered across the sea after the draft, a fool is what she’ll need to be to find them. Five for Silver, Six for Gold… Seven is set on his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. Once whispers of the past begin to resurface and nobles begin dying around them, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The castle is under lockdown, and all bets for the crown are placed on their capture. Seven for a Secret, Never to Be Told. Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

Tropes and Themes - Thief x Assassin - Mental Health Rep - Identity vs Duty - Class Difference - Forced Proximity - Secret Code - Morally Gray - Women's Wrongs - Unlikely Allies to Lovers Comps: Throne of Glass's castle-setting murder mystery and theme of "who you are versus what you have to do" meets the banter-heavy dialogue, strong female protagonist, and nautical setting of Daughter of the Pirate King. Text is on a piece of parchment. Beside the text are two headshot drawings: one of a girl with brown hair pulled back by braids, and the other of a black-haired boy with a worried expression. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

The Atmosphere: There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand. Picture seven shows a bottle of alcohol. Picture eight has a medieval alleyway. And picture eight shows a ship's crew enjoying a sunset. There is text below the collage that says: ON SUBMISSION NOW! Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media, contact information available on my website! Behind the parchment, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.

MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦‍⬛📖

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#QuestPit #YA #A #F #RF
#OS #DIS #EditorsGuide #Editors

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood from Stone 112000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Now Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Pitch Text: In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires. Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune. Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death. It is a hell of a lot of money, though. Background image: same as first slide.

Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide.

SINNERS x THE DEVILS

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

BIG 5 EDITOR REQUEST!

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying now!
#A #F #Q #questpit

Agents guide for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem, 91K adult fantasy romcom, revised through SmoochPit 2025 mentorship

Pitch - She planned to be the terror in his life. He planned to ignore her. Neither planned on saving a crumbling empire from a tyrant—or falling in love. Twenty-year-old Wen Anling would sooner commit murder than give up her home and freedom. But with no way out of her arranged marriage to Han Shiyan, the wealthy Lord of Qinglan, she devises a plan: let him be the one to beg for divorce… once she transforms herself into the nastiest wife possible. Shiyan only married Anling to honour his mother’s dying wish. Had he known his new wife would send his simple life straight to mayhem, he would have thrown honour out the nearest window. He struggles to see any good beneath Anling’s heavily powdered face, overly red lips, and shrill screams, but when she continues to get under his skin, he cannot help but grow intrigued—especially after catching his first glimpses of the real Anling beneath her prickly exterior. While Anling wrestles with her desire to escape the prison of marriage and he

Comps The Darkness Within Us - cunning, unlikeble heroine, enemies-to-lovers, drives him up the wall but he can't help falling A Song to Drown Rivers - Chiense history-inspired setting, political intrigue & schemes How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - romantic comedy, slow burn, lots of banter

Extract & Tropes - Multicultural w/ POC leads - Marriage of convenience - Enemies to power couple - Slow burn w/ a dose of spice The not so meet cute... Shiyan’s eyes widened for a heartbeat before he forced composure back onto his features. Her face was powdered with a thick layer of white, as if she had simply dunked it into a bowl of flour. Her bright red lip-paint smudged at the edges and… Heavens forbid women dab their cheeks with uneven blobs of pink. Even the most senile and stern of his guests held their hands to their stomachs, straining to hold back fits of laughter. He would have gladly joined them, too, if he wasn’t the one with the honour of marrying this… this… buffoon. He swallowed and recited the wise sayings of his forefathers: one should not judge a book by its cover; a woman’s beauty runs deeper than appearances; virtues are lasting while beauty is fleeting. Oh, to hell with wise sayings. An eyesore was an eyesore no matter how virtuous it might be.

A cunning prankster plots against her lord husband and ends up saving the empire in a fantasy romcom version of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS
😈 unlikeable heroine
⚔️ enemies-to-power couple
💑 marriage of convenience
🔥 slow-burn & low spice
#questpit #Q #A #RF #agentsguide

Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Drama Mystery with Romance 94k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!)

Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe?

#QuestPit #YA #MY #R
#AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”

Coming soon to agent inboxes!

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ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

What? You wrote a Nordic adult romantasy without vikings? ✨gasp️✨

UNFATED is instead set in a John Bauer inspired medieval Sweden, steeped in folklore, mythology and authentic Swedish culture...not a horned helmet in sight 🫢

A 92,000k standalone novel

#questpit #Q #A #RF

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x THE POPPY WAR x Ukrainian folklore

♟️smart but morally flawed FMC
🕯️secret society
🩸found family
❤️‍🔥(very) slow-burn romance
🗡️dark 1900s-inspired setting
✨diverse character cast

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Thanks a lot, sure will! 😊