Lilith Murphy || Writer

a man in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk with a pepsi sign on the wall Alt: A man in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk with a light background. He waves two blue pom-poms with an excited expression.

Good luck to everyone participating in DV Pit today! I'm not pitching, but I'm cheering you all on!

Thank you! It's all in the name of a good story 😤

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . Alt: A cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire. The words "This is fine" is written above his head.

I'm realizing 30k words into my manuscript that my story would be so much more effective in first person rather than third... wish me luck you guys.

a small dog is sitting on a tiled floor . Alt: A small dog is sitting on a tiled floor. He taps his paws repeatedly on the tiles to show his excitement.

Who else is excited for #PitchDis ?

A portrait photo of three white peacock butterflies laying on leaves. The green is almost camouflaged with the green.

A portrait photo of one zebra butterfly laying on small green flowers.

Butterfly pictures from the zoo today 😊 refilling my creative well! 🦋

The upper two thirds of this moodboard feature a warm orange and black palette while the bottom third with more black and white with a close of on a fencing sabre’s guard, light shining down into a cave, and a crystal. The top two thirds have dice falling, an orange sub at sunset, abstract images that look like silhouettes casting magic, and in the center are three silhouettes backlit by an orange sunset, looking off into the distance.

After 500 years, Tal will do anything to revive his lover. But when he finally creates a Wishing Stone, it ends up with a human girl lost in his world. Tal will have to help her friends on their rescue mission if he wants a chance to make his wish. #QuestPit #YA #Q portal #F

How’s Summer Going for Nellie Garcia? 🤐 Laid off, not telling anyone 🇵🇭 Determined not to disappoint her Filipino dad 💸 Can’t afford BFF's wedding 🏠 Rent’s going up 😏 Keeps running into her ex–work rival (the groom’s brother) ...She’s fine. (She’s not.) #questpit #q #a #wf #r

How’s Summer Going for Nellie Garcia?
🤐 Laid off, not telling anyone
🇵🇭 Determined not to disappoint her Filipino dad
💸 Can’t afford BFF's wedding
🏠 Rent’s going up
😏 Keeps running into her ex–work rival (the groom’s brother)
...She’s fine. (She’s not.) #questpit #q #a #wf #r #amquerying

QUEER NANCY DREW
17-yr-old Emmie is suspect #1 of a murder during her mother’s book signing. She needs to get her life back & not get killed in the process.
💖Sapphic crush
🎃Halloween vibes
📚Cozy indie bookstore
✍️Author mom
🌈Pansexual FMC
#Questpit #Q #YA #MY #LGBT

When Nellie’s career crashes, she must face harsh truths about starting over, confront her messy past, and figure out how to pay next month’s rent—while reluctantly reuniting with her former work rival. #questpit #q #a #wf #r #bookclubread #agentsguide #filipinorepresentation

When Nellie’s career crashes, she must face harsh truths about starting over, confront her messy past, and figure out how to pay next month’s rent—while reluctantly reuniting with her former work rival. #questpit #q #a #wf #r #bookclubread #agentsguide #filipinorepresentation

When Nellie’s career crashes, she must face harsh truths about starting over, confront her messy past, and figure out how to pay next month’s rent—while reluctantly reuniting with her former work rival. #questpit #q #a #wf #r #bookclubread #agentsguide #filipinorepresentation

When Nellie’s career crashes, she must face harsh truths about starting over, confront her messy past, and figure out how to pay next month’s rent—while reluctantly reuniting with her former work rival. #questpit #q #a #wf #r #bookclubread #agentsguide #filipinorepresentation

When Nellie’s career crashes, she must face harsh truths about starting over, confront her messy past, and figure out how to pay next month’s rent—while reluctantly reuniting with her former work rival.
#questpit #q #a #wf #r #bookclubread #agentsguide #filipinorepresentation

The Apprentice Speaker #YA #f
⚔️Accepting her feminine rage
⚔️Slow-burn strangers -> lovers
⚔️Found family
⚔️Elemental magic, ancient gods

12 partial, 2 full requests and counting. 👀

#agentsguide #questpit #Q #litagents

A snowy forest. Steampunk gears. A shadowy hand. Steampunk tech. A woman in a gown. A full moon.

ATLA X BRIDGERTON

A hero's side quest is a life-shattering experience for someone else. When a legendary hero crashes into a young lady's life, she finds herself questioning everything she ever knew as the two try to save her town from a mystical murderer.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

Burnt out Marcy is having a terrible 21st Birthday. First, she’s chased through New York City by the headless horseman. Then, her boyfriend reveals he is a vampire. Finally, she finds out her father has disappeared — kidnapped by the Fairy King. In order to save her father, she must join forces with Alec, an Otherworld Guardian and descendant of the Tuatha Dé Danann. But Alec has his own thirst for revenge against the Fairy King and may be helping her — or using her. The deeper Marcy falls into Otherworld, the more she uncovers about her family secrets and her own hidden past. As she confronts the Fairy King she must make a devastating choice….save her father or save herself.

Comps for the Fairy King - Fate a Winx Saga: Chosen One (Subverted), Found Family, Diverse Ensemble Cast of Fae Warriors Legendborn: Parental Grief, Secret Society, Slow Burn, Urban Fantasy Ten Thousand Doors of January: Lyrical Prose, Portal Fantasy

Moodboard: A portal, two girls carrying a fairy house, a young woman on a fire escape, a fairy king on a throne, young man with black hair and a leather jacket, the headless horseman, a path in a forest, a woman with light coming out of her fingers, a black mermaid surfacing eom the water, a black raven, a Maine coastline

Burnt out Marcy’s 21st b-day gets worse when she’s chased by the Headless Horseman through NYC, then finds her father has been kidnapped by the Fairy King. To save him before Midsummer, she must team up Alec and the Fae Guardians, but the truth may force her to save herself. #questpit #f #sff #rf #w

Image is a photo collage depicting the vibes of FATED FAKES by Kim Cayley. Thumbnail images include a journal, an amphibious vehicle, Halifax's Old Town Clock, a person's hands on a steering wheel, a three-diamond ring, tarot cards, palm reading, a classroom, and a rain storm

✨FATED FAKES✨ facts:

🔮 terrible psychic FMC

🙅‍♂️ science teacher / skeptic MMC

👻 a haunted school

🛌 disturbing, nonsensical prophesies

📖 it was supposed to be fake; turns out it was fate

#QuestPit #W #R #PR #QueryingSoon

A foggy street. A vintage dress. A gas mask. Legs on rocky ground. A silhouette of a man and a woman. Flowers in sunlight.

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world.

#QuestPit #W #A #F

Hotel Adair’s wallpaper doesn’t peel. Its piano stays in perfect tune. Its plush carpet hides all stains—but grandeur only lasts when the hotel has been fed. Lately, the halls echo with hunger.

But Cody & her friends have plenty of secrets to satisfy it.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H

DON'T FORGET ME is a novel about:

📃A tortured poet from rural California
✈️A prestigious boarding school in Scotland
💔Betrayal, rainy love confessions, and second chances

#questpit #R #Romance #NA #Q #amquerying

A photo of a white hand holding a copy of Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin

Artwork of Jayce and Alexius from Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin

OF KNIGHTS AND BOOKS AND FALLING IN LOVE is out now!

- slice-of-life fantasy
- queernorm world
- MM knight x former servant of evil
- giggling and kicking your feet inducing romance

books2read.com/u/b5YEw1

clockwise from top left: man and woman embracing, woman writing in notebook, open road through somewhere in the southwest US, hospital room, man and woman holding each other, man's hand holding camera, NYC skyline, airplane outside hangar center text: The most difficult people are often the best ones once you get to know them.

Lies, secrets, betrayal... what more could you want in a contemporary romance?

✈️ She's afraid to fly
❤️‍🩹 He's afraid to fall.
👫 Together, they face their fears when they discover hitmen for hire disguised as an airline.

📌agent guide pinned

#questpit #w #r #a

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

Racthoh's Tale:

Racthoh, an exiled elf confronting profound loss, demands vengeance from those who destroyed his home and family. Alongside a compassionate Paladin and a struggling minotaur, they navigate a war-torn world of forgotten gods, necromancers, and dragons.

THE SHADOW KING
#questpit #Q #A #F #RF #R #agentguide #agentsguide

SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x FOURTH WING

A fantasy romance where one of them must die for the other to live.

⚔️Reluctant-Allies-To-Enemies-To-Lovers
❤️‍🔥 Spicy Romance
☠️Deadly Demons
💔Brutal Betrayal
✨Found Family

A collage of photos: John Singer Sargent’s “Portrait of Madame X,” a painting of a young woman in a sleeveless black dress; a classroom with a dark green chalkboard illuminated by the sun, with several wooden desks; library books on a shelf held behind iron bars; a man and woman embracing, both in rather woolly sweaters; a picture taken over the shoulder of a woman who is holding a polaroid picture of another woman; several drooping, dying flowers against a dark background; 7 or 8 old books, lying on floorboards, and with their pages opened as if the books had been dropped; a pink and white flip phone with a heart charm on its closed cover, next to a bottle of pink nail polish and a pink lipgloss; a black and white photo of a young woman in ¾ profile with her eyes mostly closed—over this the title of the WIP “Surface Tension” is superimposed.

GREEN DOT x EXCITING TIMES

SURFACE TENSION: The problem with studying women who make bad choices? You start to see yourself all over the syllabus. Jenny’s entanglement with her English professor isn’t fiction, but she’s starting to wish it was. #UP #W #A #questpit

#QuestPit
Reluctant medium Alice moves to the coast for some peace and quiet. Instead she accidentally lands a job cleaning houses & banishing restless spirits #PR #F

🧹 Cleaning haunted houses
🪦 Dead roommates
🧠 Neurodiverse rep
👻 Possessions & poltergeists
🐱 Psychic cat lady mentor
🔪 Serial killer

Trope board for LAST CHANCE MATCH Dystomance Dislike to lovers Forced proximity One bed Soulmates Biased government Deadly dating show Second changes Morally dark gray jealous MMC

0.6% of Calascans don’t have a soulmate and are exterminated at thirty until a new reality show, LAST CHANCE MATCH, gives matchless another shot, but when the show turns deadly, Cera and Ryde are forced to fight for her happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

#questpit #NA #dys #SF #R #S

Mood board for KRUTCH LEEROY of the fantasy novel series GRAYLANDS. Images emphasize his beleaguered and put-upon nature as he gets dragged into adventures he doesn't want, plus his weapon of choice and a suggested history with a sorceress. Top Row - a man, played by Brian O'Halloran in CLERKS, is slumped miserably over the counter in the convenience store he works - a pirate, played by Johnny Depp in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, frantically flees from angry pursuers with a panicked look on his face Second Row - a witch, played by Cassandra Gava in CONAN THE BARBARIAN, stands at the entrance of her hut, waiting for someone - a man, played by Jeff Bridges in THE BIG LEBOWSKI, looks perplexed while stirring a drink in his hand - a revolver pistol Third Row - a heavily bandaged man, played by Tom Hanks in THE 'BURBS, lays on a gurney and complains "I don't care! I've been blown up! Take me to the hospital!" - a cartoon drawing of Charlie Brown failing to kick a football after Lucy has pulled it away from him

Everything believes Krutch Leeroy is a dangerous man.

They think he's a ruthless pirate. A conniving thief and brutal warrior. A scoundrel and villain.

He's not. That's his curse.

Literally.

#QuestPit #P #A #SFF

An agent's guide to "Dissonance," an adult psychological thriller by Lilith Murphy

Comps The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Amazing sister dynamic Unreliable narrator Paranoid protagonist Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Domestic thriller Complicated family dynamics Family secrets dragged into the open Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll FMC (Female Main Character) who isn’t believed by men Imperfect victims

The Pitch Three years after the death of their parents, college dropout Alex Doyle must learn to take care of herself and her teenage sister Charlie. When Charlie disappears without a trace, Alex realizes she doesn’t know as much about her sister as she thought. Now, she must completely throw away everything she thought she knew-about her sister and their hometown-if she wants to find Charlie alive.

Tropes Unreliable narrator Paranoid protagonist Stalker Kidnapping Betrayal & Revenge

GONE GIRL x FEAR STREET x THE HUNGER GAMES

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

#QuestPit #W #A #T #H

a relationship web of the characters

At Camp Woodvale, everyone knows everyone's business. Who will make it to the end of the summer and which friendships will end as a result?

#questpit #w #r #na

Title: Revamped

The pitch

Comps: Gideon The Ninth, Voyage of the Damned, Fullmetal Alchemist, Iron Widow

A snippet

ATLAS SIX x HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING

💕Dual POV, MCs are a slow burn couple with Tony Stark x Steve Rogers vibes
🧑🏻‍🔬antagonist is rogue scientist
🩸blood magic
🃏worldbuilding with arcane magic
🔬Alt universe with different science and magic
#QuestPit #Q #A #NA #F #SF #SFF

I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL x HAPPY PLACE x THE WEDDING PEOPLE My #ownvoices adult coming-of-age novel (82k words) explores job struggles, grief, identity, and love while showing the quiet strength it takes to want something better. #questpit #q #a #wf w/ #r #agentsguide 📌

I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL x HAPPY PLACE x THE WEDDING PEOPLE My #ownvoices adult coming-of-age novel (82k words) explores job struggles, grief, identity, and love while showing the quiet strength it takes to want something better. #questpit #q #a #wf w/ #r #agentsguide 📌

I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL x HAPPY PLACE x THE WEDDING PEOPLE

My #ownvoices adult coming-of-age novel (82k words) explores job struggles, grief, identity, and love while showing the quiet strength it takes to want something better. #questpit #q #a #wf w/ #r #agentsguide 📌 #bookclubread

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.

#QuestPit #T #Q #A

UMBRELLA ACADEMY x HILL HOUSE
For rockstar Aster Maddox, dying is as easy as breathing.Staying dead is the hard part.Eager to uncover the truth behind his divine intervention, he crashes an artists retreat.But the demon queen who has his answers is about to rock his every belief. #QuestPit #A #Q #H