C. is QUERYING

#QuestPit #F #H #AG an editor’s guide to THE FRUITIST, a literary horror fantasy THE UNWORTHY x PIRANESI x Severance 🍓epistolary weird-girl slow burn horror 👒sororal tension 🪴mother/creator archetype 🕰50+y/o FMC 🪑moral decay art: giuseppe arcimboldo

Happy #QuestPit day! If I like your pitch (and you think we’re compatible), I’d love to see your story in my inbox 📚

NA Dark Romantasy ✨️ 7 deadly sins x Fourth Wing 🕯 secret identity x deadly stakes 🌑 dark academia-It's kill or be killed to graduate 🔥 Female rage ❤️‍🔥 rivals-to-lovers ♥️ found family ⚔️ misfits with mental powers 🪦 morally grey characters #QuestPit #F #A #NA #RF #Q

Ten years after her brother went missing, Hannah is determined to find out if her ex is hiding details about that fateful night, but when his sentient house awakens with her arrival, the truth might just kill her. #questpit #Q #A #PR #T

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON x ANNABEL LEE 🏰 a crumbling castle 🌊 at the edge of a sea cliff 👗 a weeklong ball 👻 ghostly suitors ✨ a family curse 🕯️ doomed bargains with gods A MOST DECADENT CURSE 🌊👻 US cover reveal May 13! Coming Jan 2027! #questpit #ag #f #ya

POV your fated mate is the heir to the enemy throne #questpit #DF #RF #NA #Q 🖤 Enemies x Lovers ⛓️ Forced Proximity 🐺 Shifters/Magic Families 📖 Dark Academia ✒️ Psych Thriller X Dark Romantasy Comps: Den of Vipers, Psycho Shifters, Unhinged First 3: tinyurl.com/4ecd4y37

Alexandria Bothe is dead. But when Death dares to save her soul and is banished to the mortal realm as punishment, they must both crawl their way across war torn lands and defy false gods in order to find each other, and their humanity, again. #questpit #Q #YA #HF #F

✅Find a magical, moving island ✅Give a princess private lessons in piracy ✅Avoid being eaten by monsters on the Indian Ocean ❌Fall in love ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES is a retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor if it were YA & enemies to lovers #questpit

If I can find an agent soon you’ll read mine soon 🤭 Manifesting ✨

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

IWTV x SNOWPIERCER 🚂sentient train with an appetite ⚔️vengeful, morally grey protagonist 🎵autism and anxiety rep 🖤‘they make each other worse’ queer romance 👑commentary on class, propaganda, and unchecked power 🩸horror as a metaphor for imperial vanity #QuestPit #AG #H #F

PHANTASMA x NOSFERATU 🌌Paranormal bargains 🌌Dark, suave Sandman-inspired God of Night 🌌Haunted (literally), soft FMC 🌌Dark academia 🌌Spicy New Adult EDITORS, interact if interested in this gothic romantasy! #Questpit #OS #RF #A #onsub #writingcommunity #writing #AG

HAZELTHORN x YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN Something monstrous is growing, and it needs to be fed. 🪰 bug and body horror 🌿 abandoned estate 🪰 slow burn 🌿 rivals to lovers #questpit #Q #A #H

THE STARVING SAINTS x MISTRESS OF LIES x INNAMORATA 🥀adult horror-fantasy 🍇food-based magic system 👑Medieval fever dream ⚔️‘let her cook’ (literally) ❤️‍🔥closing bi love triangle 🩸court intrigue 🏰claustrophobic castle with a secret #QuestPit #AG #F #H

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a new guide 🤍 • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AG

@Neil_ODonnell Thank you so much Neil Patrick! 🤍

@NeedWriter You're awesome! You wrote a manuscript and put it out there into the world! You're an author! Also, most queries never receive a response, so you've gotten further than most of the queries I submitted through the years

Just got my first rejection It really hurts 😭 😭😭 #amquerying #writingcommunity

@NiamhMaraWrites Thank you for the motivation 💖

@NeedWriter Being a writer is both awesome and soul destroying. Don't give up, the awesome bit will follow again soon.

@DanielOba12 Aaaw I’m sorry, I hope you’ll find your dream agent soon!!

@NeedWriter I feel you. Just got a rejection from an agent who said she loved and enjoyed reading my manuscript. Even commended my voice before adding the "but I can't represent this now" part. Every published author got there on a mountain of rejections. We will get there, soon.

2nd rejection At least they always come after I finish work but then I spend the whole night thinking about it so I can’t enjoy my off work time I’m really into the query trenches.

@Narrativeboost_ Yes I think I will write book 2 and simultaneously the gothic one so I don’t lose my motivation

@NeedWriter then strategically developing the dystopian or gothic project as your next expansion. Consistency now will pay off later

Now I need to seriously dive into writing book 2 But I also wanna start my dystopian WIP that I gave up on 10 years ago And suddenly wanna start a vampire gothic book #amwriting