SURPRISE!!! I’m self publishing!!! 10.20.26 Add this contemporary lit fic love story to your TBR babes and gents! www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... #SelfPublishing #writingcommunity #bookcommunity #booksky
Quin Madden
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🖊️ Emotionally resonant fiction QUERYING MY LATEST WORK
She wants to believe anything is possible but life has shown her it’s unkind & unjust. He wants to belong to something bigger than himself. What if they found what they seek in each other but were destined to lose it all? #questpit #q #a #upmarket #amquerying
ANCHORED BY YOU! If Free Willy was a romance with a marine biologist FMC. Can Expect: 🦭Reappearance of teenage Ex 🦭”Of course he’s hot now” Brother’s Best Friend 🦭Second Chance Romance 🦭Forced proximity 🦭Protection of adorable, endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals #unhingedpit #A #R #Q
The hottest unpublished romcom is LOVE YOU LIKE A HURRICANE. You'll find: Rivals to lovers Disability (SMA) rep in a lead role Broadcast meteorologists A major hurricane hitting a tiny town Forced proximity A cat named Drizzle #UnhingedPit #A #R #OWN #AG #Disability #RomCom
Writing group renamed👉WE LOVE CASSIE, BUY HER BOOK RN! DIVERGENT meets THE GIVER but not for kids and also kinda 1984 with notes of HAL from 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY plus the love story of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. She erases memory but then memory becomes 👻 #unhingedpit #q #a #sf #s
Theo James: Are You Kidding?
ALT: Theo James: Are You Kidding?
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what would it be like if 2012 Taylor Swift dated Heather Ledger's character from "10 Things I Hate About You"? read my literary romance novel "I Speak of Dreams" to find out #unhingedpit
Craigslist missed connections as a last resort when you’re too unhinged to actually speak on the phone…🫣 PICTURE US, FALLING 81k word upmarket/women’s fiction #unhingedpit #Q #amquerying #WritingCommunity #litagents
UPDATE: I, the author, (34F) still haven’t forgiven myself for what I did to these two people 81k word upmarket/women’s fiction PICTURE US, FALLING #unhingedpit #amquerying #litagents #Q
Hinge’s best worst match 🌲🌃🗻 What if healing was hot but also extremely inconvenient? THE LIGHT WE LOST meets WE ARE CALLED TO RISE These two have no idea what’s coming for them. 81k word upmarket/women’s fiction #unhingedpit #Q #amquerying #upmarketfiction #litagents
Woke up to a rejection. She said she was really intrigued by my pitch but my literary upmarket sample felt too commercial for her. This is hard to decipher bc other, more commercial agents have rejected w/ ‘it’s intriguing’ but not a fit. If everyone’s so “intrigued” what is happening?! #amquerying
My Hail Mary pitch for PICTURE US, FALLING ✨ If you’re an agent who hypes intential, devastating fiction w/ bk club potential &… • own voices author • dual pov • marginalized FMC • neurodivergence rep • deep emotional stakes #amquerying #ownvoices #litagents #booksky #WritingCommunity
Took everything I wish I’d known before I thought about querying and put it in an interactive workbook for others who are joining/in the trenches! Download it for free! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/riy24... #amquerying #querying #writingcommunity #booksky #fullrequestfriday
CURRENTLY QUERYING: PICTURE US, FALLING This literary upmarket novel is permeated w/ themes of grief, identity, & love. “I’ve always been… Emotionally scarce but undeniably present, even for the moments I wished I could evaporate instead.” #amquerying #WritingCommunity #booksky #litagents
WRITERS & LOVERS X TALKING AT NIGHT PICTURE US, FALLING is an 81,000-word literary upmarket novel. Themes of identity, compounded grief, and the way love makes everything possible. #amquerying #litagents #querying #BookMockup #pitch
WRITERS & LOVERS X TALKING AT NIGHT PICTURE US, FALLING is an 81,000-word literary upmarket novel. Themes of identity, compounded grief, and the way love makes everything possible. #amquerying #litagents #querying #BookMockup #pitch
Okay #amquerying writers… am I the only one not sleeping for being so stressed about the trenches? Read my latest #substack and maybe we (the #writingcommunity) have this in common 🫣 #booksky #selfcare #mentalhealth #publishingjourney quinmaddenwrites.substack.com/p/dream-driv...
Dream-Driven Insomnia
I Can't Stop Thinking About It
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#questpit was SO fun and I’m so thankful to have been a part of it. I wrote about my experience, showing up completely unmotivated and the perspective it gave me while I #amquerying #WritingCommmunity #booksky open.substack.com/pub/quintana...
Showing Up Numb: Motivation Is Optional
I signed up for a pitch event I didn’t even want to do this week.
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What do you get when you cross an award-winning cidermaker with zero business sense and a finance bro with a toddler's palate? CIDER SEASON | A 75K word upmarket contemporary rom-com | 2026 #revpit winner #questpit #q #a #u #r #writingcommunity #amquerying
![First page and comps from GOOD BOYS ONLY. Comp titles include Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings, You, With a View by Jessica Joyce, The Re-Do List by Denise Williams, Young & Hungry TV show. Sample text: Much like my life, my apartment is going up in smoke.
I choke on the black cloud billowing from the oven. My gourmet dino nuggets have turned to fossils. “Oh, fuck me,” I groan.
Lava-like heat bites through my oven mitt, and I drop the sheet pan on the stovetop. Shrill barks echo in tandem with the smoke alarm that’s now going off, piercing my ears like it’s in surround sound, live from Hell. Lovely.
“Piper, Phoebe, get back! I’m trying to save you.” I shoo the orange Pomeranians away from the radiating heat. Dog sitting was supposed to be an easy way to get out of this shithole apartment, not burn it down. Even if I dream about lighting it up most days.
But the aggressive “Past Due” rent letter taped to my door this morning is on the counter, taunting me, like some sick adult version of a haunted house. “Thanks, Devin,” I spit into the ether, as if he can hear me from Chicago. And a big thanks to me, too, for treating my credit cards like Monopoly money.
Flicking on the exhaust fan to clear my galley kitchen, I take a misguided deep breath, and the cremated dinosaurs send me into another coughing fit. In a fight for my life, I snag my Getting Figgy With It towel off of the oven door and wave it pathetically below the alarm.
After a couple of minutes and more pathetic towel waving, the fog clears and the chirping stops. But the dogs are still barking. Though, to be fair, I don’t think they’ve stopped barking all weekend.
While fishing out the scraps of remaining treats from the girls’ travel bag, they hit my calves like starving, vicious dust bunnies. I blew through their supply in an attempt to Pavlov them into loving me. All it did was condition them to misbehave and still demand treats. [sample continues]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xrnw5sea7coaxzrmdmfyytg2/bafkreifflksbgcbv6yde66pu23vts5nxvxmpogrfkxyrhb5ffdilt3q7zu)
