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K.M. Carlson

@wanderingbutton.bsky.social

#RevPit '26 shortlist QUERYING NOW! "I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes." -Hermia from A Midsummer Night's Dream

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 23h ago

Hey so...... I'm obsessed with this.

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying@itsamabee.bsky.social · yesterday

Two lyrics really influenced the creation of this story: Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground 'Cause I like to keep my issues drawn & But even statues crumble if they're made to wait I'm so afraid I sealed my fate Want more? Here’s a full playlist: tinyurl.com/7s9f7tuk #PitchDis

K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24h ago

Yuuuuup. Sound on.

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · yesterday

Day 9 of 12 Days of #PitchDis! Today's question: Is there a song that reminds you of your book? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply and search the hashtag to see the replies of other participants.

K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 4d ago

Single, third person limited. It would absolutely terrify me to sit in Falchert's brain for even ten minutes. The number of times he thinks about... you know what, never mind. Just trust me on this.

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · 4d ago

🎵Whoooaaa, we're halfway thereeee🎵 Ahem, okay. I'll stop singing now. But we're on day 6 of 12 Days of #PitchDis! Today's question: Is your story written from a single point of view or multiple points of view? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply.

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 5d ago

What if survivial depended on getting your education and the elites to notice you? What if your abilities were your only worth? What if you made the wrong deals to survive? What if you never learned how to love? ⬇️⬇️ ✨An Artistic Deception✨⬇️⬇️ #PitchDis

martyred by her people a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced three times to find her sacrifice in vain Agni attends of magical college to build a new life but when the past services she must either embrace murder them again or flea leaving behind the life. She’s built the woman she loves.

similar to the lies of locke lamora, a deadly education, six of crows, witch hat atelier, Arcana Academy

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · 5d ago

Day 5 of 12 Days of #PitchDis! Here is today's prompt: Tell us a little about the book you're pitching. Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply and search the hashtag to see the replies of other participants.

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

Do you like horror! Do you like monsters? What about a bug-horror story with cicadas which I wrote? You can now pre-order Southern Monsters for release on the 13th of August. I can't wait for you to meet Eli! #horrorwriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #horror www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBXW8QP...

First page of short storyTENERAL STAGE
BY GALEN DAVID BUNTING
WHEN ELI FOUND the black snake dead behind the chicken
coop, he knew what he needed to do. The black snake was a sign of
bad luck until it was dealt with, and he was just the one to deal
with it. His hands were long and clever, and he held the snake
between them, with his fingers working over its scales as though to
soothe it, even though it was dead. The black snake had lived in the
soil underneath the chicken coop and kept the pests away, the rats
that might have eaten their chickens up. He hadn’t given it a name,
but it had been a neighbor and it deserved a good place to lay with
the last rays of the sun still in the sky.

K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · last wk.

How you know your scene hit... #amquerying #querying #A #F

K.A. Hela ✨ Starting a new WIP✨@jundlife.bsky.social · 2w ago

Check out the cool kids club over here. (Or a big pack of supportive writing nerds with cool ideas). #writingcommunity #amwriting #amquerying #writesky

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 2w ago

OOOOOooooooohmygod I have a new idea for a novel that is way out of my comfort zone, and I love it. The main character is a cranky 74-year-old man named George.

Rome 2000s: Dreams Made Real

ALT: Rome 2000s: Dreams Made Real

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Ella H. ✨is querying a hidden world romantic fantasy!✨@ellahadley.bsky.social · 2w ago

When Blakely finds the Pathway back to war-torn Noríah, she learns only she can control magic inside a 700yo necklace—w/ the failsafe that she must have self-confidence to unleash it. If she wins, she gives up the only life she’s known. If she loses, Noríah falls. #questpit #q #f #romantasy #na #ov

moodboard with

blue gem necklace
2 chess pieces
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL text
boy & girl hugging
dark rainy image with dark figure
green countryside
pink/red hearts

Deborah Yeong Tyng @deborahbie.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU X THE FOX WIFE X BABEL X TOMORROW3 X JAPANESE GOTHIC “What if an ancient, brutal Tang Dynasty execution was actively destroying a modern Malaysian-Chinese family through a terrifying tarot-infused karmic loop?” #questpit #Q #A #U #S #T #H #OwnVoices

missyrahowrites.bsky.social @missyrahowrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dash and Lily X This Book Made Me Think of You After her mother dies, a grief-stricken teen discovers an advent calendar filled with 24 messages her mom left behind — each one pushing her to rediscover joy and face the Christmas she’d hoped to avoid. 🎄 😢Grief 👯‍♂️ Friendship ❤️ Love #QuestPit #W #YA

Melia's Mouth @meliasmouth.bsky.social · 2w ago

GenFury by Diana Venator (pen name) SPOILERS IN DECK As their 15th birthdays approach, Alec, Megan, and Tessa – GenFury – experience supernatural powers that, unbeknownst to them, are part of their destiny as the next generation of Furies. Now all they have to do is stay alive. #QuestPit #Q #F

Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈@dragonologe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reese blames his ADHD for the demons around him, until he realizes his comfy new job is in Purgatory, his boss is Lucifer and Reese is falling for him. PRIDE, a 35,000-word paranormal comedy, book one of the LGBTQ+ Deadly Sins series. QUERYING! #questpit #NA #LGBT

Falling angel, title Pride. Text saying can you imagine falling into Hell and not realizing it? The beginning of the queer demon series

Cheyne & Sarah are querying 📜🖊️@goodrenwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

DEADENDIA x JUST LIZZIE When their asexuality threatens their cultural responsibility, Humboldt flees to the mainland, where the radiation kills. They must come to understand themselves while surviving fallout, mutant monsters, and desperate people. #questpit #Q #YA #SF #CliFi #LGBT

An Ao3 listing called Smoke Signals. It is rated Teen, and has the Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings warning, and the catergories Multi and Gen. The summary reads "Humboldt hunts whales. They don't kiss. They don't even think about sex. So when they suddenly find themselves in an arranged marriage, they run.

On dry land for the first time, Humboldt must figure out who they are and how to survive before it's too late. Because land is full of radiation, mutated monsters, and strangers."

The work lists 32 chapters and a word count of 61,800 words. The tags are as follows:
Ash & Arkhaidyn-Leigh & Humboldt | Squid, Ash/Arkhaidyn-Leigh/Humboldt | Squid (Background), Ash (Smoke Signals), Humboldt | Squid (Smoke Signals), Arkhaidyn-Leigh (Smoke Signals), Asexual Humboldt | Squid (Smoke Signals), Nonbinary Humboldt | Squid (Smoke Signals), Intersex Humboldt | Squid (Smoke Signals), POV First Person, Political Marriages, Running Away, Ace Discovery, Coming of Age, Eventual Polyamorous Triad, Ocean Faring Society, Nuclear Summer, Post-Post-Apocalypse, So much beta we die like women

samantha-brins-lee.bsky.social @samantha-brins-lee.bsky.social · 2w ago

💕fake relationship ❤️‍🔥forbidden romance ☀️sunshine FMC ⛰️elemental magic 👑cast aside Prince 🥀plot twists and banter ✨nonspeaking rep 👹Korean folk tales come to life 🌷bridgerton-esque high society ❤️‍🩹 autoimmune skin condition rep (as a girlie with psoriasis, this was a must) #questpit #q #romantasy

Nicole Cutter - THE ORANGE PEEL GAME @nicolecutter.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE WESTING GAME x BLUE PRINCE x NATIONAL TREASURE What if there was an ARG set in 1949? 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 has been compared to... ♟ BLUE PRINCE 🧭 NATIONAL TREASURE, and the ✒ NANCY DREW games If you love these comps too, follow my debut's journey 🧡 #QuestPit #W #MY #NA #HF #U #WF #bookish 💙📚

The Orange Peel Game in a collage of theater motifs, ciphers, oranges, and 1949 magazines. Text says: Caroline shouldn't have heard what was on that call.

The Orange Peel Game. The Westing Game meets National Treasure. Blurb: Caroline shouldn't have heard what was on that call.

It's 1949 in Cincinnati, a time where everyone is unwrapping their wounds of war. Caroline, a
switchboard operator, overhears a murder in a nearby phonebooth with no one to believe her. But the encryption games of WW2, it seems, are not quite over: Her search for the killer propels her into a game of puzzles and cyphers laid out across the city. Those who've already been playing watch her from the shadows, and one of them might just be the murderer. And there's one more thing curious about Caroline:

She can taste the world. Comp titles: The Westing Game, for forced compition. Blue Prince, for vibes and puzzles. The 7 and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, for high concept and twisty mystery.

Excerpt from The Orange Peel Game reads: A small, wooden box, golden and virtually glowing with varnish. It was thoughtfully carved. Scalloped feet. A border of inlaid, yellow flowers crowned its sealed lid. Caroline neared a step closer to determine it was a music box, though just slightly larger than most. With another shuffling step aside, she realized it could rather be a jewelry box, just slightly smaller than what a woman would prefer.
Whatever it was, it looked awfully benign. It was something that very clearly didn’t belong. She could easily step over it, or around, but it arrested her by the now sealed doors at her back and demanded her every attention. In a stripped-out theater, this small object was what remained, pristine.
As she craned her neck to look around its corners, everything about it seemed entirely innocent— all except for a massive and brutish industrial combination lock, biting on its delicate features. Caroline looked up, with an unease rising in her gut, as it all had started to feel…
Artificial.

A collage of materials from the 1940s. Lines from The Orange Peel Game read: dangerous. Pith and pulp and orange peels. Everything means something in this game.

Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻@crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Hobbit x Discworld x The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher When a prophecy threatens the well being of Mabel Pearl's granddaughter she refuses to stand for it and instead takes her place on an epic journey to save their world from ruin. #W #A #Cozy #F #QuestPit

Black background

At the top in tan neon is the title Pearl's Road and a sword and yarn with knitting needles to each side.

Top 2 pics are: an old woman walking with a wolf and an old woman walking in a meadow surrounded by trees.

Middle 2 pics are: a woman rowing a small boat and a woman gathering sticks with her cat.

Bottom 2 pics are: a pile of tarot cards on a table with a small silver old key on top and a dirt path surrounded by trees.

At the bottom is a quote: “May to wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wow... honestly, the sheer talent in this quarter's #Questpit is extremely impressive. It was a tough week, and I loved being able to look through everyone's work. <3 Thanks, everyone!

Forever Writing 🌟@thefoxandrose.bsky.social · 2w ago

“I know the sun will rise another day, but if you are not there to see it with me, there will be no light.” #questpit #Q #A #F #FR

Forever Writing 🌟@thefoxandrose.bsky.social · 2w ago

CAMELOT X SONG OF ACHILLES A general tasked with leading a young queen and her nation into war. An enemy looking for safety beneath her banner. An empire threatening them all. 💫 a warlord's son disgraced 💫 a lost prince seeking asylum 💫 a queen suddenly crowned #questpit #Q #A #F #FR

Alexandria Fergusson @amfwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

#questpit #W #A #H #T

@ashiswriting.bsky.social · 2w ago

MAYBE NOW MAYBE FOREVER 70k The last place Nora expects to find herself after 20 years is back in Pineville for Thanksgiving. Nora’s mission: avoid Jack, the boy she loved and left behind. Check out my #agentsguide Vibes: 🥹promise me sunshine 🎵folklore 🛶Dawson’s creek #questpit #q #cr

A collage background and green font with white background that says maybe now maybe forever (the book title)

Carol Preflatish @carolpreflatish.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the Appalachian Mountains, destiny awakens and chaos falls in love. A young woman with inherited magical powers faces a life altering choice after falling for a male witch of chaos. #QuestPit #Q #RF #A

ryan bresingham @ryanbresingham.bsky.social · 2w ago

Introducing my #agentsguide to NOCTURNAL STAR! Darkness is death—and the sun is their sole salvation. ⭐️ elemental magic ⭐️ slow burn romance ⭐️ political tension ⭐️ empowered FMC ⭐️ grief representation #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

Kira Fierro @kirawritesbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

🪦 THE REVERENT BONES 🦴 YA Romantic Fantasy WIP❣️ Reluctant Allies descend into the Underworld. Inspired by my Mexican American roots! 🏵️ 🥀Spanish Renaissance-ish World 🥀Día de Muertos Inspo 🥀Arranged Marriage/Reluctant Allies 🥀Mutual Grieving 🥀Twins 🥀Mysterious 2nd Love Interest #W #YA #F #questpit

the reverent bones

YA fantasy romance WIP. Madalina falls into the afterlife and must work with her arranged husband, Prince Ceferino, to save her sister’s soul.

Reluctant Allies
Arranged Marriage
Exploration of Grief
Saving her Sister
Renaissance-inspired Society
Slow-ish Burn

comp titles
four images of book covers and movie posters

The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith - Everything for My Sister
The Phantom of the Opera 2004 Movie Poster - Mysterious Side Love Interest
The Book of Life Movie Poster - Lively Underworld / Día de Muertos Inspo
Wintersong by S. Jae Jones - Descent into Mysterious World

pitch

By night, she is La Última, the last bone-painter who turns skeletons into pieces of art, ready to be sent into the afterlife–La Eternidad. By day, she is Madalina Carvajal, heiress to a legacy she doesn’t want- no money, and no future. All she wants is to save her ailing sister, Marianela, but when her parents betroth her to crown prince Ceferino de Argüello, all seems lost.

When the King offers La Última a life-changing sum to paint the late queen’s bones, she takes on the task, unwilling to give up her livelihood, her connection to her bone-painter grandmother. When her sister succumbs to her illness, all seems lost.

Ceferino may be the heir to the throne and have the world at his fingertips, but losing his mother has left him hollowed. He couldn’t care less about his bride-to-be; he only wants to see his mother again. When he finds a spell to speak to the dead, he jumps at the chance… but the spell goes awry, and Madalina and Ceferino fall into La Eternidad.

Together, they must find a lost pair of sentient bones and work together to gather Saint-blessed artifacts to revive Marianela and achieve their respective goals. Bickering all the way and trying not to acknowledge their growing feelings for each other, the artist and prince must race through the afterlife to find the missing bone before the full moon, or else their souls will be stuck in La Eternidad forever.

Excerpt - the reverent bones

A beautiful day in the underworld... until...

Excerpt reads:
Madalina whipped her head around and scampered down the rocks, making a beeline for him. Ceferino stared up at her, watching her carefully bend down next to his chest. Her eyes twinkled with concern, and the pinkish moonlight backlit her dark, mahogany hair. She looked like an angel.
“Oh, thank the Saints,” she huffed, short of breath. “I was getting worried.”
“I think you broke my wrist,” he moaned. “And possibly my ribcage.”
“You fell on top of me,” grumbled Madalina, incredulous. Had her eyes always been so beautiful?
“The first time,” he corrected, with a sigh. His right leg had begun to throb, too. “This time, you fell on me and probably broke several of my precious, precious bones. Possibly forever. Who will nurse me back to health?”
“Oh, please.” Madalina rolled her eyes. “Nurse you back to health? You seem just fine to me, only a bit scuffed up.”
“Again, you must have broken one of my bones. I am not just fine,” he lamented. “In fact, I might die.”

@ashiswriting.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nora just wants to enjoy Thanksgiving and avoid the boy she love and left behind 20 years ago. Life has different plans. MAYBE NOW, MAYBE FOREVER | 70K #contemporaryromance PROMISE ME SUNSHINE x DAWSON’S CREEK, w/ the ache of folklore 🎶 #questpit #q Small town, second chances, and spaghetti

Jvilla876 @anoldermillenial.bsky.social · 2w ago

Like & Share: 19yo Jules livestreams ICE raids around his city. He documents the suffering but also the resistance. While the people struggle to keep their humanity during inhumane times, a powerful ally wakes. #questpit #NA #urbanfantasy

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

CEMETERY BOYS x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH A goth trans sorcerer tries to weasel out of his contract with Hell and accidentally resurrects a corpse, rescues a child, and reconnects with his humanity along the way. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #H #LGBT

A black background with flames on the bottom. White text reads: YA Horror Fantasy, 85k words. A Not Yet Corpses Agent's Guide

A black background with flames on the bottom. A Tropes/Comps graphic for Not Yet Corpses. Various orange arrows point to the cover in the center, depicting a pale, white-haired teenager wielding a knife and a handful of flame. Tropes: Annoyances to Friends to ???, Devil Deals (with red devil graphic), Stabby Trans MC (with cover of Ander Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth), Goths Gays and Theys, Found Family, Accidental Resurrections (with cover of Aiden Thomas' Cemetery Boys), Combatting Oppression (with cover of H.E. Edgmon's The Witch King)

A black background with flames on the bottom. Excerpt from Not Yet Corpses:
“So what do I call you?” he asks.
“Roy.”
“Just Roy?”
Even under the sepia light of the streetlamps, he radiates life. It’s off-putting. Downright annoying, when I think about it too long.
“Unless you want to call me Riordan Payne.”
He laughs. “Weird—I like it. Monster Hunter, Riordan Payne.”
“Not a monster hunter.”
As much as I want to punch him every time he opens his mouth, I can’t shake the pride settling in my bones, watching him do something as simple as running a hand through his hair. You’d never know he was dead an hour ago. I did that, and I'm not even sure how.
Beneath that pride, a primal fear coils inside me. If my patron ever finds out what I’ve done, there’s no telling what he’ll do to the corpse. But I’ve got a pretty good idea what he might do to me. I have to dump this undead body the first chance I get.

A black background with flames on the bottom.
Pitch: After Riordan Payne accidentally resurrects an amnesiac corpse, he'd do anything to get rid of it. He didn’t think ‘anything’ meant making friends with it, rescuing a kid wizard together, taking a road trip across the desert, or reawakening his humanity.
Graphic Title of Not Yet Corpses in white at the bottom, with skulls for O's

Lauren H. Dowdle @lhdowdle.bsky.social · 2w ago

RICK RIORDAN PRESENTS x LEGENDBORN To find her missing sister, Rilla must battle Creek folklore creatures, earn a god's powers, and stop a deadly prophecy she accidentally triggered before it ends the world in four days. 💕enemies x lovers 🫂found family #questpit #YA #F #Q

Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈@dragonologe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Feared as a demon and losing a war he can't win, Tobe travels back in time to keep his enemy Kura alive, only to find their hatred curdling into something far harder to resist. KISSING THE DEMON, an LGBTQIA+ romantic fantasy horror novel. Querying! #Questpit #NA #QPOC #LGBT #DF #FR #Q

Illustration of a person with dark brown skin and long red hair in a dark room where only two rays of golden light shine. He wears a crow mask and looks angry.

Above it says "Kissing the Demon," and below it says that Tobe's species has been hunted for so long that he decides to do something.

Illustration of a person with brown skin. He has a side braid and looks surprised.

Above it says "Kissing the Demon," and below it says that Kura has just been betrayed by the people he trusted, but not by the Red Demon.

Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally)@dee-therese.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Cruel Prince x The Knight and the Moth -YA Romantasy -100K -Duology -Dual POV A SONG OF RESONANCE-Plagued by a figure appearing to her in visions, Kori Woods faces more mystery when she can't distinguish her visions from the real world. #questpit #W www.scribble-bubble.net

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