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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era

@weavinguptales.bsky.social

Weaver of stories & souls • librarian • a yearner for all things whimsical and Bill Skarsgård • she/her

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 3d ago

Imagine struggling to survive during the Depression and some clown monster that calls itself a god chooses you as its next meal. It doesn’t kill you immediately. First it weaponises and amplifies your fears against you, calls you jobless and broke. I would be so bloody mad 😭

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 6d ago

Me describing my books

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 6d ago

That Wicker movie has me thinking about how getting freaky with a wicker scarecrow works. Like how smooth is he that you wouldn’t get splinters or a rash? A Skarsgård making me think about the most wildest things is so on brand of this family 😭

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 6d ago

Rereading and rewriting a sentence until it makes sense and gets blurry because my eyes are burning 😭

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · last wk.

“Is your book published yet?”

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

All I can say is I’m locked in

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era@weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a secret wip but I won’t pitch or reveal it today

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well #QuestPit has been…quiet here on my side compared to twitter. Anyway thank you everyone for all the love and encouragement. I’m more excited and more confident to keep fighting for my stories

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Feeling the writer blues. Let me take a dose of Skarsotonin

Chezza @chezza.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bluebeard x Obsession x Chinese mythology A courtesan goes to an immortal's palace to reclaim her emotions, but discovers the palace has seven disfigured women hidden in the shadows...and they all look exactly like her. 🔥 #questpit #AG #DF #A

Moodboard for TO POSSESS THE FLAME, an adult dark fantasy novel. Featuring ancient Chinese buildings, a woman holding a mask, a plate of food, a fan, a locked door, medicinal jars, and a woman in red.

Emmaline Evans-Querying Author & Illustator @talesfromknotwood.bsky.social · 2w ago

🍼QuestPit Submission CURSE THESE SKINNY WITCHES 75k Cozy Fantasy x New Motherhood x Wellness Satire Think WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, but it’s about two postpartum witches counting curses instead of kicks. 🌿 Plant Magic ✨Fantasy Ozempic 📚Witch HOA from hell #questpit #A #F #S #CozyFantasy

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 2w ago

A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF

Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Black cat x golden retriever
Yearning
Bisexual awakening
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
Only one bed
Opposites attract
Gothic decadence
Big spooky house
Exploration of grief
Horror as a metaphor
Dreams-based magic
The occult
Alternate London setting
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

It was a poet’s job to seek out beauty, to be mesmerised by it. Darshil wanted to transform Rowan into swirls of ink, to fit his hands into the slight dips where Rowan’s waist met his hips and write him a thousand times over.

The only thing more fascinating than death was the tormented living it left behind.
It helped to hate him. It was less painful than loving him.
The dead thing woke to the acrid stench of its own rot.
Rowan matched him tenderness for tenderness, giving everything he could and knowing that for once, his everything was enough.
Perhaps closing his eyes stopped it meaning anything. Darshil knew he should do the same. This was shame beyond anything else, a secret to take to the unloving grave.
He kept his eyes open anyway. With Rowan beneath him, as beautiful as the dawn, he couldn’t bear to look away.

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A romantic dystopian heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #QuestPit #W #NA #A #D Querying this fall <3

List of tropes:
Dystopian, romance, heist
Teenage lovers to unaccounted for for many years, to rival gang members actually trying to kill each other to reluctant allies to lovers again???
Idk, it’s complicated..
Cyberpunk
Forced proximity
is it a gang or is it a cult?
Anything can be a murder weapon if you try hard enough
tending to wounds

All that stands between Aranea and her initiation into the Coven—the gang of women notorious for killing corrupt men and their own ex-boyfriends—is a bullet in her own ex's brain. Only, when her first boyfriend suddenly turns up alive after seven years with no trace, killing him doesn't prove entirely as easy as the rest. But when it's revealed that he's part of a rival gang and leading a heist to steal vital information from a famously impenetrable city–with the potential to save or obliterate their corrupt world–she must first infiltrate the heist and take the information for her own gang. Without letting old resurfacing feelings threaten the mission.

Opening lines:
Eyes on the target. Awaiting orders to shoot." I tighten my grip on the rifle.
The breeze sweeps some brown stray hairs over my eyes as I follow the target through my scope—Raymond, 25, male, with dark shaggy hair and a bag slung over his shoulder. Also known as my second ex-boyfriend.
"Awaiting orders to shoot," I repeat. My trigger finger burns to move.
The traffic drums in the background—car horns ring through the dirty air between dilapidated skyscrapers. Raymond dabs up one of the bouncers across the street. I track his every move; when he steps back to let a group pass by, when he scratches the five o'clock shadow on his chin, when he nods towards the entrance door two steps ahead of them. All that stands between me and my official initiation into the Coven, is one bullet in his brain.

"I fear the withdraw of us will be worse than any drug."

Books similar to Project Glitch:
Butcher and Blackbrid by Brynne Weaver
Coldwire & These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Scion by James Islington
To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Divergent by Veronica Roth

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses in A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK A Cozy Medieval Romantasy 🍰 Barbie for adults 🌸 Arranged marriage 👑 Princess x Prince 🕯️ Dual POV 🩷 Lovable family chaos #questpit #W #NA #A #RF

A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK

A Cozy Medieval Romantasy

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses x The Princess Knight

The Pitch:
No one likes an arranged marriage, but when Prince Alaric is grounded from his adventures until he can find a bride, he accepts his fate and puts a ring on the first princess he can find. Princess Genevieve would rather marry a plant than a prince, so in a desperate attempt to make him call it off, she must become the most insufferable princess Alaric has ever had the displeasure of meeting. Yet as the wedding inches closer, and devious mental games are played, perhaps not all arrangements are as bad as they initially seem.

The last rays of sunshine still linger over the garden as I clutch onto my skirts and haste across the lawn. And just as the sun sets I sink onto my knees before the statue of Inessa, folding my hands as I throw a last glance over my shoulder for any of my sisters. Then I purse my lips as I wait for the words to come, my head bowed in prayer.
“Dear Inessa,” I start, and shudder at the sound of my own voice in the empty air. “Please don’t send me into a loveless marriage. I don’t want a life at court and I don’t want to meet a supposed soulmate today, so if you could just call it off an make sure it doesn’t—”
“I knew I saw someone lurking around the corner.”
I yelp as I spin around, fall over and scrape my palms on the cobblestone.
A masculine chuckle chimes as I push away the curtain of hair before my eyes, my face heating with every note.
“My apologies, I never meant to scare you, I simply saw someone rush by and had to know if I was missing out on anything.” His cerulean doublet becomes unmistakable as he offers his hand and pulls me up before I can protest, or run away, or fall into an endless hole somewhere in the the earth.
“You’re here with the Cordellian prince, aren’t you?” The words stumble out of my mouth. He looks even better up close—sea blue eyes with a circle of green near the pupils that sparkle with life and firm hands around mine, speckled with sunspots and veins.
His eyebrows knit together for a moment. “I guess you could say that.”
I pull my hands from his and tuck them away behind my back. Manicured hedges shield us from spectators, but with him here who knows where the prince might follow.
“Now what are you doing here, alone on the ground?” he says with a boyish grin.
I bob my mouth open and closed like a fish, stepping in front of the statue of Inessa like it’ll shield the tall marble from view. “Touching the grass?”
“Touching the grass?” His brows furrow in disbelief.

Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit

Feed Me Your Heart intro page colored red with a black and white image of a young woman

Themes for Feed Me Your Heart i.e. norse mythology and deadly personality tests

Comps for Feed Me Your Heart ranging from folklore fantasy to cultish horror

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a secret wip but I won’t pitch or reveal it today

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Beauty & the Beast x Indonesian gothic 🥀 MC with a beastly curse that needs to be broken 😈 If monster, then why lover-shaped? 👻🎪 gothic sprinkled with extra generational curses & spirits 🤝🏽✨A dark pact with an eldritch goddess 🍂 The horror of being forgotten #questpit #F #W

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

SAILOR MOON x THE UNTAMED but sapphic x Indonesian mythology A hero has enough issues like yearning over her soulmate, having a pact with a queen of monsters, saving her family from a death curse, but that involves stealing the heart of her true love #questpit #YA #F #Q

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

MERLIN x 🇮🇩 myths Deaf-mute chosen one finds the world she’s destined to protect falling to soul-eating demons. They outmatch her, especially *their* chosen one. She & her vigilante knights must defeat them. That’s if she could resist the soul of her evil counterpart #questpit #YA #F #Q

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

BEAUTY & THE BEAST retelling x Indonesian gothic A village’s storyteller and monster has three days to break her curse or death greets her. But on her quest, she accidentally awakens a long-forgotten eldritch goddess and this goddess is full of fury... #questpit #F #W

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Publishing gatekeepers in the trenches be like:

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Seeing the face of the actor who plays Agamemnon…I’m sorry. I’m sure he’s a lovely person, but the helmet stays on 😭

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you see an eldritch horror devouring me with its eyes like this, don’t intervene. I’m exactly where I want to be

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Myths and legends are so alluring and part of that is because of their mysterious origins. Love them so much 🥹

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Btw we don’t know if Homer even existed or was a name used by a group of people. Or if he really wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey. It’s all a mystery

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just a reminder that the Odyssey supposedly written by Homer is one version of the story. We don’t know the original as it was passed down orally for centuries before being written down. That’s the beauty of myths. They can be told in many different ways and for different people across time

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2w ago

Me every time someone suggests I use chatgpt/ai for writing

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stop snubbing the WTD cast. They deserve their flowers

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 3w ago

80% of writing is figuring out different ways your characters can do with their faces and bodies…and look at things 😂

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · last mo.

Love it when Bill Skarsgård 🍑

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · last mo.

Let’s go Skars-gazing 😍