Calling all literary agents and acquiring editors! Our 2026 #revpit winners' showcase went live on Monday on reviseresub.com. Check out our query letters and the first five pages of our winners' manuscripts. A form is available to request more content if you see something you like! #amquerying
Kelly Earnest
@kearnest56.bsky.social
Mama, writer, reader, and runner! ✨RevPit 2026 Winner✨
It’s LIVE! Check out the query letter and the first five pages of THE STORYTELLER’S BACK PORCH! Then stick around and check out the other amazing manuscripts!!!
The Storyteller's Back Porch by Kelly Earnest @kearnest56.bsky.social (MG SciFi) #RevPitShowcase reviseresub.com/showcase/the...
It’s Showcase time! Please check out the amazing work from some truly extraordinary writers. It has been such an honor to get to know them and their work, and I wish them all the very best! Thank you, @reviseresub.bsky.social, for providing such a great experience for emerging writers!
The Showcase is LIVE! Agents, feel free to peruse and request! Writers, show support! #RevPit #RevPitShowcase reviseresub.com/showcase
Day 7: Editor Shout-Out Sunday is a day of worship for me and my family, so I’m posting early! Working with @ashpreads.bsky.social has been phenomenal! She listens to my ideas, values my work, and cares deeply about my future readers. I am so grateful for her wisdom and guidance. Thank you, Ash!
Day 6: How I Became a Writer I loved “writing books” when I was little (a.k.a. drawing pictures and having my mom write the words) and have always wanted to try writing for real! During the 2020 shutdown, I finally wrote my first novel. I’ve been writing, editing, and brainstorming ever since!
June 5th- Opening Line "Under the blazing Fresnel lights, Lord Henry and Basil argued." Anyone recognize what play/novel these two are from? 👀 #Revpit #amrevising #YAhorror #wip
Day 5: First or Favorite Line Poor Dilla. She’s got beef with some very specific things in life, and she just can’t seem to escape them!
I'm so excited to introduce THE WISHING WELL, my adult cozy fantasy! In it, you’ll find: ✨ a magical wishing well 🐈⬛ feisty familiars 💖 found family 🫖 temperamental antiques 🏝️ a wandering island 🌷 quiet romance 🧐 forgotten history connecting witches, familiars & humans #RevPit #A #F #cozyfantasy
June 4th- Day Four! Media Like Your Novel Portrait of a Fawn (YA Spec Horror) Comps 🥀Books: Don't Let the Forest In, Wilder Girls, Your Blood My Bones, May the Dead Keep You, Predatory Natures🥀 🥀TV Shows: Yellowjackets, The Summer Hikaru Died, Buzzfeed Unsolved/Ghost Files 🥀 #Revpit #amrevising
Day 4 of #RevPit countdown: You might enjoy NOT A WITCH’s prickly heroine navigating a deadly mage academy—and awkward crushes—if you liked: 🔮 Lovely Dark and Deep (Elissa A. Bonnin) 🏰 Unhallowed Halls (Lili Wilkinson) 🔥 A Deadly Education (Naomi Novik) #amediting #writingcommunity #YAfantasy
The recipe for FINDING GRAVITY: 1 Gal. ROMANTIC COMEDY by Curtis Sittenfeld 64 oz BACK AFTER THIS by Linda Holmes 3 sprigs I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL by Natalie Sue Pinch FUNNY STORY by Emily Henry Let ferment until it reaches...oh I'd say roughly 6.5% to 7.0% ABV. #amquerying #writingcommunity
Day 4: Media comps for LUST-BORN 📚 Our Infinite Fates, The Rose Bargain, Belladonna, Once Upon A Broken Heart, and Immortal 📚🎥 Emma (for the matchmaking) 🎭 Hadestown #RevPit #YA #Romantasy #Fantasy #writingcommunity #amwriting
My cozy fantasy, THE WISHING WELL, is for readers who loved: ✨ The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst 🌿 The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong 🐈⬛ Kiki’s Delivery Service by Hayao Miyazaki #cozyfantasy #writersky #bookcomps
Day 4: If you love these, you’ll love my RevPit winning cosy fantasy: A Guide To Living With Dragons. Stardew Valley How To Train Your Dragon Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Howl's Moving Castle #revpit #cozyfantasy #romanticfantasy
Time has flown by. It's almost the #revpit 2026 showcase and the winners are preparing some goodies for everyone. Check in each day to see what we have to share!
Day 4: Media Comps I’ve mourned not being able to use Disney’s “The Kid” as a query letter comp for THE STORYTELLER’S BACK PORCH…but I can use it here! “The Kid” (2000) “The Adam Project” (2022) When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead A Split Second by Janae Marks
I can describe my novel's hook a million different ways, but if you want to know how it *feels*, these songs paint a picture of Phoebe's emotional journey. Also, it's got some real bangers. More at the link. open.spotify.com/playlist/4wP... #amquerying #writingcommunity #revpit
Day 3 of the RevPit countdown (and my personal favorite!) - the NOT A WITCH playlist! 🦹🏻♀️ Criminal - Fiona Apple ⚡️ Thunderstruck - AC/DC ☠️ Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying - Belle & Sebastian 🏰 Paper Thin Walls - Modest Mouse 🚫 I Can’t - Radiohead #RevPit #amediting #writingcommunity #YAfantasy
DAY 3: BOOK PLAYLIST 🏝️ Comptine d'un autre été - Yann Tiersen ✨ Nuvole Bianche - Ludovico Einaudi 💔 Blue - Billie Ellish 🍃 Serenity Found - Lindsey Stirling 🌊 A Town with an Ocean View - Joe Hisaishi #RevPit #cozyfantasy #writingcommunity
June 3rd (Day 3)- Book Playlist 🎧 Here's what I'm listening to as I edit Portrait of a Fawn, my YA speculative horror novel 🥀 #Revpit #amrevising
Day 3: Book Playlist for A Guide To Living With Dragons This is a mix of what my book is like/what I listened to while writing and editing it. #revpit #cozyfantasy #romanticfantasy
Time has flown by. It's almost the #revpit 2026 showcase and the winners are preparing some goodies for everyone. Check in each day to see what we have to share!
Day 3: LUST-BORN's Playlist Here's a small snippet of the songs I listened to on repeat while drafting and revising! Check out the full playlist on my spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6f1... #RevPit #Romantasy #Fantasy #YA #writingcommunity #amwriting
Today for Day 3 of the #Revpit showcase lead up, we are talking playlists! Because my book is a Gothic Historical Thriller set in 18th century Venice, I built a historically accurate soundtrack to match the tension of the narrative! #amquerying #writingcommunity
So excited to participate in this with the other winners! RevPit has been an absolute dream experience for me and I can’t wait for all of us to showcase our hard work on June 8th! Made by the wonderfully talented @katiebhudson.bsky.social
Day 3: Playlist If THE STORYTELLER’S BACK PORCH had a playlist, this would be it! Featuring Jimmy Eat World, B*Witched, Smash Mouth, Frank Sinatra, and a French song all about pancakes 🤣 open.spotify.com/playlist/02Z...
The Storyteller’s Back Porch
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Day 2: Tropes THE STORYTELLER’S BACK PORCH includes… ⏰ A heaping dose of time travel 🤝🏼 A pinch of enemies to friends 🤫 One unusual secret society 👵🏼 One sassy next-door neighbor ✨ One underdog protagonist 😖 A dash of past trauma 📚 A sprinkle of fanciful stories And pancakes. So many pancakes 🥞🥞🥞
#RevPit 2026! I'm excited to introduce Chemical Solutions for Lonely Hearts, a sci-fi romcom with real chemistry. If Ali Hazelwood and Andy Weir co-wrote a novel, it might be this tale of two awkward scientists who must put aside their mutual dislike to save the world from mass starvation.
After a few weeks of edits during which I cut 5K words and replaced them with 5K BIGGER and BETTER words, I'm very excited to tap my new cider...er...release my new manuscript...into the query trenches at the #RevPit Showcase on June 8th! Join me? #amquerying #writingcommunity
DAY 2: BOOK TROPES In THE WISHING WELL, you'll find: 🐈⬛ a disgruntled familiar 🫖 temperamental antiques ✨ a magical wishing well 💖 found family 🏝️ a wandering island 🧐 forgotten history connecting witches, familiars & humans #RevPit #adultcozyfantasy #amediting #writingcommunity
Day 1: Here’s the pitch for THE STORYTELLER’S BACK PORCH Reeling from her parents’ death, twelve year-old Dilla meets a troublesome time-traveler with no memory of who he is. As they work together to discover his identity, secrets from the past and future threaten to destroy them both.