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The Waiting

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A 29-year-old woman begins a prestigious nutrition internship at the hospital where her birth mother died, determined to prove she belongs—until she discovers there’s no record her mother was ever there, unraveling the story she’s built her life around. #Q #Querying #U #upmarket #A #Questpit

Querying THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US ✨Women’s Fiction 3️⃣Triple-POV 🏡Real-world Stakes 🫂Sister Relationships ❄️Chill vibes Come find out how three sisters react to their parents selling their childhood home. (Spoiler: You won’t see “congratulations” in the MS.) #questpit #wf #q

THE LONELY WIVES CLUB🍸 contemporary women's fiction An updated #agentsguide for #questpit Martinis and marriage problems. That's what every Monday night is about with this group of friends- except for Jordan. She has no marriage problems. Or, so she long thought. #q #a #wf

Ok soo, what would you do if your arrogant glasses-wearing coworker started showing up in your romantasy manuscript?? ASKING FOR A FRIEND. (HE’S NOT THE LOVE INTEREST I PROMISE) (I mean, he’s BLONDE) (So he could never be the love interest) (Right? RIGHT?!) *INSPIRED BY YOU* #questpit #w #r

THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x BABEL A translation assistant with a crippling fear of illness is thrust into the scheming royal court of the enemy when he is ordered to spy on the queen's translator. ⚔️ lethal all-female knights. ☠️ conniving courtiers. 🔥 a cat and mouse game of wits. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

An autistic heroine who isn't a sidekick, a lesson, or comic relief. She reads spirits the way she can't read people. Hides her power in a kingdom where magic means death. And the two realms? Mortal vs. Immortal, both are collapsing because she exists. The Mist Between Us #W #QuestPit #A #RF #ND

Hooray! It's #QuestPit Day! 😀🎉 Excited to share this #agentsguide for my contemporary #speculative novel ✨THE SEA CURSER✨ 🌲Remote Maine Island ⚓Folklore & Myths 🧜‍♀️Mythical Sea Creatures 👹Ancient Curses 🙏Loss & Reconciliation 👭Women’s Retreat #Q #A #F #S #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity

Actively querying my debut novel SHE CAME BY IT HONESTLY, a multi-generational story of mothers and daughters and the corrosive power of family secrets. #questpit #Q #U #WF

Actively querying my debut novel SHE CAME BY IT HONESTLY, a multi-generational story of mothers and daughters and the corrosive power of family secrets. #questpit #Q #U #WF