ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

A SONG TO CROWN HIM - Dark Romantasy A siren binds herself to the man destined to kill her 🥀 #questpit #F #Q #A #R

Hey #questpit! Officially #querying my #a #fantasy #darkacademia

ARTICULATE playlist 🎶 🔥 Cynical — Conspiracy 🌾 Labour — Paris Paloma 🍽️ Eat Your Young — Hozier 👑 Empire Now — Hozier 🔥🏡 Burn Your Village — Kiki Rockwell 🤍 Work Song — Hozier #UnhingedPit #A #F #darkacademia ALMOST #Q ready

the most dangerous weapon in my fantasy novel is a grammar book. 🤓📖🧙🏽 #unhingedpit #a #f #darkacademia ALMOST #q ready

FAIRIES! Call the fae "fairies" and they'll eat you. GHOSTS! They're knocking about the White City. MARIJUANA! Stop being dramatic, Travis. Your life's not hard. You're only running away from lies that could shift society as we know it. Lyric Fiction #Q #UnhingedPit #A #F #Irreverent #ComingofAge

If I think hard enough 🧠 👀 maybe they won't see me Clan of the Cave Bear 🌱 meets Mists of Avalon 🌬️ meets Mad Max 🔥 an adventure in hiding from the bad guys #UnhingedPit #CS #A #SF #hopepunk #CliFi #meditation

There’s a sentient rabbit. Somehow she’s the most emotionally stable one. #UnhingedPit #A #F #darkacademia

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A question for the #writingcommunity — If querying a dark academia novel with a romantic subplot, should the query letter speak to the romance or focus solely on the central conflict? I would be so grateful for thoughts from other agented authors and literary agents

BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN = ARTICULATE 💫 Institutional betrayal 💫 Found family 💫 Forbidden magic 💫 Slow burn romance #questpit #w #a #f #s

Ricky's bff and teammate Zhan is papped getting intimate with a man who looks a 𝘭𝘰𝘵 like Ricky. So when Ricky overhears that Zhan may be traded for coming out, he decides to lie that it was him in the photo. Surely they can't trade 𝘵𝘸𝘰 queer players? FAKE DATING / ⚽ PLAYERS #QuestPit #LGBT #W #R #A

#questpit #A #Q #F DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy 105,000 words After a restless hibernation spent cursing the darkness, the darkness in others is now hers to wield. Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth

✨She's inherited her great aunt's house ✨He's the local coven's broad-shouldered handyman ✨And HE is the fake boyfriend she made in a drunken haze, who needs to be GONE before any real chance at love crashes down around her 🎉 Signing with an agent on Friday! #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS 🏟️ Competition between Summer & Winter princes 😠🥰 Grumpy x sunshine pair 👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends➡️rivals➡️lovers 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them 🌳 Who will be the next Mother Nature? 🪩 Winter ball shenanigans 🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #R #LGBT

BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN = ARTICULATE 💫 Institutional betrayal 💫 Found family 💫 Forbidden magic 💫 Slow burn romance #questpit #w #a #f #s

"They expected a safe proposal. A theoretical argument about pedagogy, proof that Alderhall's methods worked even on students with her... disadvantages. That was how Dunn had put it once. Despite your disadvantages, Miss Rose, you show remarkable progress." #questpit #w #a #f #s

🎉The pitch that got me 3 agent offers: When a brutal breakup and a grief- and margarita-fueled spell leave Mac living with a magical boyfriend she built from scratch, she must unravel the enchantment before it destroys her newfound home—and any chance at real love. #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

"As she stepped inside the house, she was met by the smell of dust and rosemary and petrichor—and the almost spicy back-of-the-throat tingle of layers and layers of magic." CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL 🎉Signing with an agent on Friday! #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

WISHAPON Winnifred finds a wish granting gashapon in the back of the arcade, but the thing about those is that you never know what you’ll get. #posterpit #q #mg #gn

THE ARGONAUT'S SON #PosterPit #HF #LGBTQ #Myth #Q #A #AmQuerying The Song of Achilles x The Women In Ancient Greece, when one man's dream of family and brotherhood collides with another's quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted. #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist

When a witch steals a grimoire to get back what she lost, her dreams, she gains uncontrollable magic, a soulmate when she sleeps, and just when she thinks she can catch a break, she has to prove to her family she’s a successful businesswoman. #PosterPit #A #R

In the tradition of the #scifi genre, Thief of Gods is #spaceopera that addresses themes of privilege, class, and race, but also asks questions like what is justice and who’s actually entitled to it? and How does one navigate systems specifically meant to oppress them? #posterpit #A #amquerying

Ró always found eating hearts to be vile, even if it grants humans magical powers. But her town’s leader craves the heart of a seductive water spirit, and Ró yearns to impress. Succeed and earn a much-needed favor from the town leader, fail, and it’ll be her heart on a plate🫀 #YA #F #H #PosterPit

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTH x PRINCESS BRIDE💕 A sky maiden lost her wings
 A tyrant king stole them An exiled kingsguard knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy 🦇 mythical monsters 🍃sentient woods ⚔️ pirate cities 🎭 masquerades 🔪 deadly trials ...what could go wrong? #PosterPit #R #F #A #Q 🇵🇭