Amanda Lien 🌈🩸🗡️

Presenting my #agentsguide to CHILD OF SILK AND SHIELD, featuring: 🩸 a madness tied to blood 🕸️ adventures through the remnants of a ruined kingdom 🗡️ tenuous partnerships born of survival and sarcasm + my personal fave: 🏳️‍🌈 reluctant-allies-to-lovers yuri! #QuestPit #W #A #F

a thread of all my #questpit posts for the evening lurkers! SUCH A FICKLE FATE, a 75k grounded fantasy based on Celtic mythology, set in the Pacific Northwest. 🏔️ #Q #F #YA #NA

harrow the ninth x ghost station a science fantasy horror ft. 🥼 an underground facility ⚰️ a dead god which may just be the key to longevity 💉 a doctor who finds himself obsessed with the corpse 🫀 and starts to yearn for a taste of its flesh #questpit #ag #h #sf #a

Thank you @questpit for such a lovely event! The good vibes and camaraderie were lovely!!

#QuestPit pitch thread for CHILD OF SILK AND SHIELD, my adult fantasy MS with queer rep and horror elements, coming to the querying trenches June 2026! 👇🏻

THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE x THIS GILDED ABYSS x SILKSONG A woman wakes from a decade-long cursed sleep to find a dying kingdom, one surviving swordswoman, and the unbearable possibility that her own people left her there on purpose. #QuestPit #A #F #W #AgentsGuide

Ignore the ghosts. Excel in school. Get into a good college. Give your mom a better life. ...don't become the serial killer's next target. THE GRAVES WE DIG, YA paranormal fantasy...the picture says it all. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #PA

A disfigured violinist must revive a family curse that imprisons a soul-eating ghost orchestra within a sentient manor, forced to complete their cruel conductor's symphony and resist her growing, vengeful appetite. 🐦‍⬛Ambitious FMC 🎵Dark magic #QuestPit #GH #F #Q

@hannahgnagle My nosy ass was equally as invested in this as in your questpit posts! So glad it went well!

update the date went really well!! second one already in the books 🥰

When a rich, angry client burns down Winona's heart mending clinic & threatens her hard-won independence, she must pair up with a (literally) heartless girl to catch him. And try not to fall in love in the process... #cupit #YA #AG #questpit For #Editors

Four outcasts. One serial killer. The terrible things they'll do for each other. YA paranormal fantasy with chronic pain, neurodivergent, mental illness, and LGBTQIA+ rep. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #PA

What if the girl who woke you from a cursed slumber not only tasks you with saving the kingdom's sanity...but also wields madness as a love language? CHILD OF SILK AND SHIELD, adult fantasy with horror elements. 90k words, querying summer 2026. Get ready! #QuestPit #A #F #W

@sally_bromley All credit to @kitkatzehn – she has the artist's eye!!

@AlienWrites Love this moodboard 🧡💯

THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE x THIS GILDED ABYSS A cursed sleeper. A swordswoman losing herself to madness. A vow that may cost them both everything. (Adult fantasy with horror elements, 90k words, querying June 2026.) #QuestPit #A #F #W

@CassieWWrites Thank you! I've been having fun sharing about it via these events :)

@AlienWrites This is so intriguing 🤔

@AnnaSarlet The number of times I have just written "YURI IS HERE" in my outlining spreadsheet is hilarious but what can I say, I love it here!!

@AlienWrites YESS ALLIES TO LOVERS YURI 👀

Presenting my #agentsguide to CHILD OF SILK AND SHIELD, featuring: 🩸 a madness tied to blood 🕸️ adventures through the remnants of a ruined kingdom 🗡️ tenuous partnerships born of survival and sarcasm + my personal fave: 🏳️‍🌈 reluctant-allies-to-lovers yuri! #QuestPit #W #A #F

A grave-robbing outcast secures a coveted role at an elite institute, only to discover the mushrooms she studies let a secret society commune with the dead, forcing her to choose between exposing them or losing herself to what rots within the institute walls.🍄 #questpit #Q #A #H

@LillyLuWrites ⚔️ this is so generous!!

#questpit folks, if you’re a marginalized querying author, i am doing 2 query letter critique giveaways! (the most recent winner just signed with an amazing agent 🥹) drop an emoji repping your work here by 9pm PT & i will dm the 2 winners 💗 good luck today!