Steph E Barry

BEHIND HER EYES meets DANTE'S INFERNO Twisty Paranormal Romantasy 95k When a young woman's magic is blamed for tearing people from existence, she must ally with the prince hell-bent on destroying her kind to return the lost. One small snag: they’ll likely erase themselves first ⭐️Indian-inspired/ Hindu Lokas from my heritage ⭐️Neurodivergent protagonist ⭐️Diverse found family ⭐️Enemy-to-lovers ⭐️Dual world ⭐️Lovers of Ember in the Ashes & Katabasis #OwnVoices #F #S #RF #PR #Q #writingcommunity #Questpit

I don’t like AI for creative writing. it seems to be saturating submissions & markets. As someone who’s worked for years&years on their novel it’s truly disheartening. However, I also really hate the witch hunt. We have to find a better way of preserving the industry without pitchforks.

I do not love The Atlantic accusing H. M. Wolfe of using AI to write Daggermouth. AI detectors are not reliable, and authors of colour face enough barriers in publishing as it is. While I am staunchly against the use of AI in creative endeavours, I cannot condone this.

@IrishWritersCtr This is fantastic news! About time💕💕

Fantastic news this weekend! irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

@TheBeeMorris I’ll go with that💕😁😁😁 I use to build websites at one point in my life - no clue where that person disappeared to. All my design skills packed their bags & left, didn’t even leave a note to say goodbye 🤣🤣

@stephyebee I think as long as your stuff has personality, then it doesn’t matter what the graphics look like! (At least that’s what I’m telling myself hahaha)

Please please PLEASE don’t use ai for your #questpit posts 😭 As someone with questionable canva skills, I PROMISE YOU that readers/agents/editors will connect with your ‘rough around the edges’ pitch more than they ever would with a machine-generated image. If you’re genuinely stuck - DM me and I’ll make you a moodboard myself! 🫶🏻

@Louie_Dobson_ Personally, if your target audience is saying change it - I’d listen to your readership. You can always change the spelling if you want to keep the sound 💕 but ultimately it’s your story, your choice

So currently standing everyone within the writing community says it's fine to keep it, everyone I've asked from BookTok/reading communities says I should change it...this is distinctly unhelpful

@francesu_writes Last pitch event I had a couple of bookmarks & a producer liked my pitch . So could be agent, editor or even film industry professional🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 I hope you get to find out 💕

i really hate not being able to see who bookmarked your tweets 💔 COME OUT OF HIDING PLS

@rebleighauthor I got one but it’s one more than I thought I’d get. 🥳🥳🥳Def keep pitches pinned. Congratulations to you on your several 🤗 🤗 🤗

SEVERAL agent likes now. always keep your pitches pinned 😉

@eoinbutler My grandad was from Mayo. Congratulations 💕🥳

Shame on Mayo supporters who booked holidays thinking we’d never make All-Ireland. O ye of little faith. Unfortunately, I’m one. Been at every Croke Park game since 1985. If we win today we’ll know what the real curse was. I don’t mind. This is the year (possibly)!!!! #mayogaa

@ByYourBedside Move out immediately. It’s the only safe option 🤣. I had a cockroach scurry across my face when I was sleeping. That was 15 years ago & I’m still in recovery ❤️‍🩹 😁

A spider fell on me at 1am and I haven't been able to find it since. Thank you for your sympathy at this tragic time. The bedroom belongs to the spider now. I'll be accepting thoughts, prayers, offers of new homes, and emotional support as I begin my new life in the living room.

@RebeccaPapin Scary. Stay safe 💕💕

A water plane flying into the forest fire, as seen from my home on Thursday night. I remain alone with my children in the evacuated city of Biscarrosse. No update on what to do since being told to shelter in place on Friday morning.

@pippawestauthor Thanks query frog. 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸 Dear Agent, I don’t have a blurb but I did spot the query frog, please offer me representation 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 yours ribbit 🐸

This is the querying frog. If you see him, he will send you good news... hopefully!!

@_morganchampine Love the blurb 💕💕

GIDEON THE NINTH X SIX OF CROWS, in SPACE An agent’s guide to “Mayfly”, a queer cyberpunk space opera. ft ⭐️a nonbinary mc & trans love interest ⭐️messy found family ⭐️anti-capitalist revenge plots ⭐️alien museums #QuestPit #SF #LGBT #W #A

@leonahwrites It blows my mind when people say I’ve had x number of fulls & use AI in pitches. Yes, there are editors& agents but we’re also all readers!!!! Your potential target audience. And also the fairies 🧚‍♀️ the poor poor fairies 🤗

seriously though, stop blatantly disrespecting the rules and fellow artists. it’s embarrassing.

every time someone uses ai during questpit, a fairy dies

@AbigailLissit @elizanane Congratulations 🤗🤗🤗

I am thrilled to announce that I’ve signed with Gabriella Melendez at Great Dog Literary for my cozy fantasy heist, City of Lost Dragons.

BEHIND HER EYES meets DANTE'S INFERNO Twisty Paranormal Romantasy 95k When a young woman's magic is blamed for tearing people from existence, she must ally with the prince hell-bent on destroying her kind to return the lost. One small snag: they’ll likely erase themselves first ⭐️Indian-inspired/ Hindu Lokas from my heritage ⭐️Neurodivergent protagonist ⭐️Diverse found family ⭐️Enemy-to-lovers ⭐️Dual world ⭐️Lovers of Ember in the Ashes & Katabasis #OwnVoices #F #S #RF #PR #Q #writingcommunity #Questpit

@CamilleASinger The right agent, your agent, won’t let you go 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗💕

It's always bittersweet when an agent who passed on your query likes your pitch. I wanted you, now you want me, but alas we will never be together 😞

BEHIND HER EYES meets DANTE'S INFERNO Twisty paranormal romantasy, 95 K A sharp-tongued girl whose magic is accused of tearing reality apart must survive a Dante-like descent through dying worlds with her loathed enemy prince to reclaim a relic that returns the dead by devouring the living. ⭐️Indian setting/ Hindu cosmology ⭐️Neurodivergent Protagonist ⭐️Enemy-to-lovers ⭐️Deadly sky-scars with a literal mind of their own ⭐️People and places vanishing ⭐️Yearning, slow-burn, spice - hot. #Questpit #writingcommunity #S #PR #FR #R #F #H #OwnVoices

To keep her illegal lack of electric power from being discovered, Lady Lola Donner runs away with streetwise Warrick Jones to uncover the truth about why she’s being hunted and stop a tyrannical institution from sparking an electrical war. #Q #questpit

Katie is a young carer for her Mum who has MS and dreams of becoming a ballerina. When an opportunity in New York arises she must learn that the greatest cost of caring isn't the sacrifice. It's making yourself invisible. #questpit #W #YA

Hello #QuestPit! I present the #agentsguide for my queer thought-he-was-dead second-chance romance steeped in necromancy & found family: Forged in the After 🗡📚☕🐾☕📚 #A #FR #F #R #Q