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yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · last wk.

Very, very tempted to write a sapphic horromance in the South Carolina Sea Islands.

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

Devera wants to destroy the Sacrifice—a deadly ritual that sends unmarried women into the dangerous, Appalachian-inspired wilderness to die—but the only being capable of helping her survive is a demon bound to the ritual itself. #questpit #A #Q #R #F

A moodboard collage featuring various Appalachian-inspired and hiking photographs, as well as the title Blood of the Broadlands

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

Agent Guide for Blood of the Broadlands, 99k, Adult Romantasy #Q #A #R #F #questpit

Title card with background a foggy Appalachian landscape, "Blood of the Broadlands" title, under it reads "An Appalachian-inspired revenge quest meets a demon road-trip romance in a kingdom built on sacrificing women"

"When the sacrifice--a deadly trial for unmarried women in the Appalachian-inspired wilderness--claims Devera's best friend, she swears to make it to the northern mountains and demand the Wretched King end it once and for all. But the deeper she travels through deadly landscapes, the more entangled she becomes with Ciaran, a demon whose connection to the ritual threatens Devera's revenge, her humanity, and eventually, her heart."

Comps are Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten, Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village.

“My children!" the elder yelled above the crowd. "We are gathered tonight to honor the girls who will be given to the wilds of the Broadlands as an offering to appease The Great Curse and the Wretched King.” I fought against rolling my eyes. “As it has been done for centuries, our unwed girls will enter the woods at the outset of dawn tomorrow, and only the bravest and most worthy among them shall survive.”

No one. No one survived.

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sunday night date-night-in this week involves ordering a flight of dips from our favorite local Mexican restaurant and watching a decrepit old copy of The Butterfly Effect.

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 3w ago

Devera wants to destroy the Sacrifice—a deadly ritual that sends unmarried women into the dangerous, Appalachian-inspired wilderness to die—but the only being capable of helping her survive is a demon bound to the ritual itself. #bluepit #📖 #A #Q #R #F

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 3w ago

When a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings Amelia back to her hometown, she must decide if it’s worth working with the man who broke her heart and vanished eight years ago—especially when he doesn’t seem to remember her at all. #bluepit #📖 #A #Q #R

A moodboard collage featuring various coastal-inspired romance and setting photographs, as well as the title Something Like Always

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

THE EVERWINTER KING Adult Fantasy Standalone 💛 Grumpy/Sunshine, platonic 💕 Second Chance MM romance ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 🏅 Tournaments & Trials 💙 Mental health rep 👑 Hidden royalty 🏳️‍🌈 Queer normative world 🍋 Mediterranean inspired setting #QueerPit #A #F #amquerying

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · last mo.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x INDIANA JONES x VOLATILE MEMORY 🏺Grumpy archaeologist 💸 Repentant trillionaire 🤖 Sassy robots 🥀 Race against time 🧠 Synthetic consciousness ❤️‍🩹 Doomed (or is it?) Romance 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Found Family ❤️‍🔥 Yearning 🚀 Stealing spaceships 👀 And they were (bunker)mates #QueerPit #A #SF #FTA

A NASA image of the Sun in high detail with black boxes of white text over it. The text reads: The sun is dying way ahead of schedule. Good news is this pushed the government to not only approve the OEM’s funding request, but triple it to send a team to Earth. Bad news is all the potential piles of data and artifacts could be wiped out by one rogue wave of stellar guts.

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

MALACHI is a former holy king. AGAPIOS is the sun god who lives in his head. When Agapios vanishes, Mal returns to the home he abandoned to find him before his disappearance rids the world of its chance to break free from an endless winter. CH. 1 of THE EVERWINTER KING #QueerPit #A #F #amquerying

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerPit #SPF #SF #COA #NA #YA When a faith healer flees his mother's cult, he joins forces with a UFO-forum moderator who just caught his own meteorite as they head to a UFO festival- until the cult closes in to capture their unwilling Chosen One.

Slide featuring an image of two boys in blue against a red backdrop, one has a shaved head, wears a black hoodie, and is shorter with dark eyes. the other has long blond hair, wears an olive jacket, and pale eyes. There are space-themed images of a galaxy and a comet. Text reads:Witnessers of the unknown, When Christophe Montague, a trans faith healer, flees his mother's
cult after a miracle goes wrong, he joins forces with February Purdue,
a UFO-forum moderating hitchhiker whose hand is undergoing an
unearthly change after catching a meteorite.
They embark on a supernatural road trip to a UFO festival –
before the cult can drag Christophe home and use him as their
Chosen One. YA/NA, 96k Words, SFF t4t Romance Subplot

Comparative titles Witnessers of the unknown: Featuring Hell Followed With Us, Into the Light, Old Wounds, trans coming-of-rage
religious trauma
speculative road-trip
T4T trauma-bonding

Witnessers of the unknown first sentences, picture features two boys, one has blond hair and points up at a meteor shower, the other follows his hand with his eyes, they lay in the bed of a pickup truck, surrounded by a desert landscape. quote reads “Christophe hides in the closet at the back of the church. The echoing voices tell him that the sanctuary is full. The dusty, out-of-tune piano pounds out a hymn, and his heart leaps inside him. He should be out there, helping pass out the cups of grape juice, the cups of wine, the wafers of Our Lord.
He should be preparing for the healing, the laying-on of hands, when his mother will call him to the front.” YA/NA, 96k Words, SFF
t4t Romance Subplot

Comparative FILMS and Playlist on a moon: Nowhere by Gregg Araki and Leviticus, psychedelic, queer, aliens
faith healing and recovery
Screenshot of spotify playlist

Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋@sashakielman.bsky.social · last mo.

Kazmera's grandfather murders her parents & orders her, a shadow witch, to marry light witch Prince Edan for a false peace. To save her kingdom from her grandfather’s totalitarian regime and impending war, Kazmera & Edan form a fragile alliance while facing their inner demons. #A #FR #QueerPit

A trope map graphic for BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON by Sasha Kielman, featuring art by @winterofherdiscontent. A black background with art positioned as the book cover. White and golden yellow text and arrows pointing to: enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, elemental magic, slide to pitch, adult romantasy (93,000 words), mental and chronic illness and queer representation.

BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON Forced into an arranged marriage as a fragile peace treaty, two powerful witches must learn to trust each other in order to prevent war across their Realms. But will their love be enough to stop a war? Perfect for fans of The Hurricane Wars and The Bridge Kingdom, BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON is a critique of authoritarianism and a demonstration of the power of love in all its forms, recognizing that while not all illnesses can be healed, they can be managed with care. @SashaKielman

A Canva graphic with gray smoke on a black background and white text.
If you like...
Fairyloot cover of the Hurricane Wars, original cover of the Bridge Kingdom
then try...
Art for Between the Sun and Moon by Sasha Kielman by winterofherdiscontent
@SashaKielman

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE “When the Sun disappeared, the Stars wept.” ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QueerPit #A #F #R #RF

Between Fractures of Light
A Romantic Portal Fantasy
Coming Soon tọ the Query Trenches
Intertwined Stories
Mental Health Representation
Alternate World

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring the god back, and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QueerPit #F #A #amquerying

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerPit #A #R #F Facing eviction from her apothecary in two months, a disabled witch seeks help in a grocer to run her shop until she clears the blight killing the town’s crops. As they fall in love, the blight kills a regular, and she must push through her pain to fight it.

Coworkers to lovers, cottagegore, witch x werewolf, instalike but slow butn, femme x butch, pining and yearning, winter vibes, You Bloom In Winter (or The Witch and The Grocer)
Collage of apothecary stuff blight cat forest aesthetic

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · last mo.

Devera wants to destroy the Sacrifice—a deadly ritual that sends unmarried women into the dangerous, Appalachian-inspired wilderness to die—but the only being capable of helping her survive is a demon bound to the ritual itself. #QueerPit #FR #A

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey, that's me! ☺️

Five Minutes@fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Not Yet, Soon" by @camorrison.bsky.social, who is passionate about crafting stories that explore strength in the face of adversity and the sometimes dull horrors of day-to-day life. fiveminutelit.com/not-yet-soon

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hannah Whitten’s For The Wolf x M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village x the Appalachian Trail #WIPPIT #A #RF #WIP

A title card that reads: Blood of the Broadlands, An Appalachian-inspired revenge quest meets a demon road-trip romance in a kingdom built on sacrificing women

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Devera wants to destroy the Sacrifice—a deadly ritual that sends unmarried women into the dangerous, Appalachian-inspired wilderness to die—but the only being capable of helping her survive is a demon bound to the ritual itself. #WIPPIT #A #RF #WIP

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My local theater is playing Fried Green Tomatoes for the 35th anniversary and this is my gift to myself this week. I never thought I'd get a chance to see my favorite movie in theaters!!

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings Amelia back to her hometown, she must decide if it’s worth working with the man who broke her heart and vanished eight years ago—especially when he doesn’t seem to remember her at all. #questpit #Q #A #R #Contemporary #agentsguide

Title Card Reads: Something Like Always, by Colleen Morrison, Adult Contemporary Romance, 87000 Words, Now Querying

Pitch Reads: Every Summer After meets loml meets Normal People

A once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings Amelia back to her coastal hometown where she unexpectedly runs into Alex, her first love who vanished years ago without a word after she took the fall for a crime they committed. Now, working at the same nonprofit as him with her future in his hands, Amelia must decide whether she can trust him again, or if she’s better off letting go for good. Especially when he doesn't seem to remember her at all.

Comps are Same Time Next Summer, Paradise Garden, and This Summer Will Be Different

Excerpt Reads: I supposed there were worse places to have a mental breakdown than a storage closet. Probably.
I wasn’t sure what they were, but I was certain they existed.
I was currently experiencing mine somewhere between a suspiciously crumpled box labeled “Winter Gala 2015” and a metal filing cabinet that looked like it predated the internet. I vaguely wondered when my last tetanus shot was.
To be fair, it wasn’t a full breakdown. Just the kind where your common sense short-circuits, your instincts abandon you completely, and you start seriously questioning whether you could survive a job where the love of your life didn’t recognize you on sight.
In my defense, I hadn’t expected him to still live here.

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings Amelia back to her hometown, she must decide if it’s worth working with the man who broke her heart and vanished eight years ago—especially when he doesn’t seem to remember her at all. #PosterPit #R #C #A #Q

poster titled Something Like Always, logline: every summer after meets loml meets normal people

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings Amelia back to her hometown, she must decide if it’s worth working with the man who broke her heart and vanished eight years ago—especially when he doesn’t seem to remember her at all. #PosterPit #R #C #A #Q

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 4mo ago

No matter what happens tomorrow, I'm so thankful for all the amazing friends I've made in this process. Can't wait to see all you insanely talented humans at camp! ✨✨✨

Revise & Resub@reviseresub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

And for the last time in 2026... #RevPitWaiting: Results are in TOMORROW! We know it’s daunting, but let’s give each other some much needed kindness! Words of encouragement go a long way!

#RevPitWaiting

4/12 - Encouragement

Results are in TOMORROW! I know it’s daunting, but let’s give each other some much needed kindness! Words of encouragement go a long way!

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The discord group I so luckily stumbled into! You guys have been amazing, and I'm so thankful we've had each other through our waiting period (and beyond!). ♥️

Revise & Resub@reviseresub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#RevPitWaiting for Saturday, April 11: Is there anyone you’d like to thank? Someone who made #RevPitWaiting better? Who helped you get to today?

#RevPitWaiting

4/11 - Thank Yous

Is there anyone you’d like to thank? Someone who made #RevPitWaiting better? Who helped you get to today?

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I see your Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls and raise you Here Is Gone by The Goo Goo Dolls.

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Something Like Always Every Summer After x loml x Normal People #CR #FBW #A #cupit

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy #Cupit day! When a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings Amelia back to her hometown, she must decide if it’s worth working with the man who broke her heart and vanished eight years ago—especially when he doesn’t seem to remember her at all. #CR #FBW #A

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I suppose I'm here 🤷🏻‍♀️