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The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism, and identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#foodpit #W #A #LF #T

A purple book background with an hourglass filled with blood, rose and lilies, and bats flying around it

So!! What do you all think of draft one? I should have the cover for Book One, A Vampire’s Lament, in a day or so and this is for Book Two in the series, Time and Time Again. Is it a yay or nay?
#writersky #writingcommunity #booksky #queerbooks #lgbtbooks #mmromance

Text - “We brought. . . some provisions,” said Sparky. Opening his bag. He shifted the contents and pulled out a bundle wrapped in cheesecloth. “I will. . . make toast.” “I can make eggs,” added Desden. He dug around in his bag, pulling out a random assortment of dishes and silverware, followed by a plain wand. “Alright, how do you all like your eggs?” “Ugh, no thanks. I don't want to play Demonlands roulette with my breakfast. I'll just have toast, please,” commented Dimamire turning to Sparky. Sparky nodded, retrieving a knife from his bag to slice the bread with. Desden shrugged. The others looked at each other uncertainly. Grenda tapped her fingers a moment, then asked, “Do you think you could make a crab omelet?” “I can give it a try,” agreed Desden. He picked up a plate and pointed the wand at it. There was a flash of white light from the tip of the wand, and a pile of egg stuffed with cheese and meat plopped down onto the plate. He picked up a fork and set it on the plate handing it to her. She allowed herself to smile, just for a moment as she took it. “Okay, who's next?” asked Desden. Grenda stepped back and took a bite. It was perfect, tender fluffy eggs, layered with melted cheese bursting with a sharp sour flavor, sweet bits of caramelized onion, and delicate slightly salty crab meat. Estella moved closer cautiously, “Okay, so what's the catch?” Except from: The Fall of Ebonwald (White Cliff, book 1) Image - Omelet stuffed with crab, cheese, and spinach, and drizzled with salsa, on a blue and white plate with floral trim.

This tasty adventure takes readers from the food stalls of the Summer Starlight Festival in White Cliff to the farms of Ebonwald and everywhere in between.

#FoodPit #W #F #NA #Fantasy #NewAdult #WIP #WhiteCliff

The ending of the universe was never a surprise. The first thread unraveled the same way every time: with a Nobel laureate dropping his partner's hand to point at the glitter of early snow on the runway, his breath fogging the window as their jet cruiser touched down in Stockholm. BABEL ON CALLISTO - SARA DURAN - NOW QUERYING

Four hundred million miles away, on Jupiter's second-largest moon, Jack's unraveling always began with scrambled eggs. Or rather, with what passed for them on that side of the solar system: powder clotted into jaundiced paste, iodized and nutrient dense. Allergen-free. Suitable for long-term storage. BABEL ON CALLISTO - SARA DURAN - NOW QUERYING

The rehydrated gruel never got any easier to choke down, despite what the white coats on Earth had suggested during the six months of psychological screening Jack endured before liftoff. Somewhere between electrode pad residue and mental gymnastics involving levers and train tracks and whether people deserved to be saved, he'd eventually coaxed the truth from his lawyer, Murph Stevenson. BABEL ON CALLISTO - SARA DURAN - NOW QUERYING

"No," Murph had said, his wet laugh sticking to Jack's skin long after the electrodes came off. "There's no getting used to it." Not the eggs. Not the nights that lasted eight Earth days. "Hell, you might even hate the fucker they stick you with." But Jack didn't hate Sam. He couldn't. BABEL ON CALLISTO - SARA DURAN - NOW QUERYING

No better time to share the questionably eggy first lines of my ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN queer sci-fi horromance than #FoodPit 🤓🥚

#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying

The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism, and identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#foodpit #W #A #LF #T

The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism & identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#miserypit #A #WIP #CT #CM

The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism, and identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#questpit #W #A #LF #T

She built a system meant to heal. It kept running after she left—and learned how to hurt. When a blacksite reactivates, a trauma surgeon returns to dismantle it, forcing everyone involved to reckon with what survival cost them.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit

#MiseryPit #A #PSYT #WIP
Don't Hide from Me

Thirty-four-year-old, Emma Gelberbaum lives a carefully curated, isolated life in a smart home she designed herself—cameras, locks, voice assistants—all under her control. Or so she thinks...
Deep down, she fears someone might be looking for her...

Top left photo is people camping in an open area by hills and a waterfall with the title in orange We Were Students. Below that is 10 jets flying in a v formation in the sky. Then a quote with a white background and orange lettering “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Below are people on a trip type bus with a quote, “In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier of every world.” - Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams. Top right photo: a group of students high school age in front of a school from behind. Below that are people camping in a forest. Below that with a river running over rocks background is a quote, “War doesn't determine who's right, war determines who remains.” R.F. Kuang. Then at the bottom is 3 pans cooking food over a fire on a grate.

Red Dawn x Tomorrow When the War Began x Lord of the Flies

Caught behind enemy lines when WW3 breaks out during their school trip a group of students must face a harrowing journey that's filled with danger to make it to safety and stay alive.

#W #YA #CT #MiseryPit

Me too!

The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism & identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#miserypit #A #WIP #CT #CM

Hi Penelope, thank you so much for liking my pitch! It means a lot to me, and I can’t wait to query you when my WIP is ready ☺️

A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family

THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. YA Gothic Fantasy 93,000 Words

CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth.

FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...

ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F

Turquoise background. Open book image in bottom left with Bookclub 82k. A beautiful young woman in a gold picture frame, spelled with age

A beautiful young woman tossing long dark hair over her shoulder. Eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint on the blue grey background

Four book covers. Blue Sisters, drawing of a young woman's sad face, The Push, two women facing away from each other, silhouette, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a young man's face, half of it aged, Hello Beautiful, a young woman's smiling face. A series of images: spooky trees, a dilapidated pier, a woman on a cat walk, a woman having her face injected,a pale hand reaching for a devil's hand.

Turquoise background, splashes if gold, three boxes of text.

Updated #agentsguide following #questpit
'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪
#litagents
#amquerying

A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME

Will the weight of an underwater kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al'Maii?

🦅 Forced Proximity
✨ Middle-Eastern folklore & unique magic system
⚔️ Quest
♥️ Yearning & spice
⚖️ Magical politics/Corruption & Greed
🪞 Exploration of ‘otherness’
💫 23 fulls

#Questpit #Q #RF

THE CURSE OF MILA GOJSALIĆ
Falsely accused of treason, Mila bears her curse while searching for proof of her innocence with her hired mercenary

THE GIFT OF DIOTIMA
Prisoner to Pericles, prophetess Diotima makes a deal with Athens’s enemy to secure her freedom

#questpit #AG

"An agent’s guide to KISS THE WALL a 97k word queer sports romance by Siobhán Dorr" Silhouette hoisting a rainbow checkered flag.

"PITCH: When rival drivers-turned-teammates Grayson and Corey are forced to road trip the season together, their biggest challenge becomes their secret romance and deciding what they want more: standing in the winner's circle alone or hand-in-hand." Portrait of Grayson and Corey by @formulanni on insta!!

EXCERPTS: Grayson If there were ever a word to describe Corey Wilder it would have to be intense. But a good runner up for that would be handsome. Tanned skin, gold-speckled brown eyes, and a jawline I’d personally kill for. I haven’t been this close to him since our fight at the beach in Daytona. This close, I can smell his aftershave and trace my fingers along the tracks of his razor, each movement precise so he keeps up his perfectly preened image. The only thing that falters in his attention is when his eyes flick down to my lips. My body heats, knowing there is no way I missed that signal, knowing that there is something darker stirring within Corey right now accompanied by the most entertaining intrusive thought; how fun would that be? Corey The bright vastness of a clear blue sky does nothing but make my body hum with anxiety, praying that clouds will roll in soon. Maybe it’s the promise of an unimpeded race day or maybe it’s too overwhelming to see the unending horizon, the edge of the Earth tapering off into nonexistence too much for my brain to comprehend. Rain clouds and fog soothe me, the atmosphere reaching down and embracing me, never failing to tamp down festering negative emotions. Growing up without much affection, I don’t know what comfort should feel like, so humidity is the closest thing I have. Even one cloud above me is enough to set my rapid mind at ease.

"KISS THE WALL tropes: slow burn romance, enemies/rivals to lovers, forced proximity, only one bed, spicy peppers, standalone with series potential! Comps: [primarily shown as book covers] Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid, Crash Test by Amy James, Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery, and the anime Yuri!! On Ice"

HEATED RIVALRY x NASCAR

When rival drivers-turned-teammates Grayson and Corey are forced to road trip the season together, their biggest challenge becomes their secret romance and deciding what they want more: standing in the winner's circle alone or hand-in-hand.

#questpit #q #a #r #lgbt

Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #H

A mood board for our querying novel, THE SIREN'S CALL. There are 9 quares in a 3x3 format. The images in the corners and centre are a brighr shade of blue, while the others are greyscale. From top left to bottom right the images include: A pirate flag. A man silhouetted in front of a sail, holding onto rigging on a ship. Sails and rigging. A blond boy reading a book. A black ship ominously heading towards camera. A brown haired girl with her back to camera. A wheel on a ship. A male figure in a suit with their back to camera. A map and sword.

Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter

Running to sea to escape her violent employer, Delphine never expected to fall for a pirate Captain - or to betray him to retrieve a legendary Stone & save her bff's life.

#QuestPit #NA #RF #Q

Ooh, I’d love to read this!

After a heist gone wrong binds a thief to the soul of a long-dead hero, she must outrun the law and bargain with a vilified goddess for her life, all while deciding whether the world would be better off with her survival or the hero's resurrection.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

THE GRAVE BROTHERHOOD tropes✨

🎓women in STEM
💭morally flawed characters (most of them)
🔥mutual disdain to power couple
🪦deadly touch (his)
🖤he’s mean but secretly gentle
⚔️grumpy x grumpy
📍100% NOT colonizer romance

#questpit #Q #A #F

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
Journals of a Familiar
Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape.
#questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

Movie poster-style graphic for novel called ‘ALL YOUR QASAMS’ with author’s name Neha Yazmin underneath the bold title. Image is a close-up of a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery, smiling down at her maroon outfit. Along the top of the poster are the names of two comparison book titles ‘NEVER HAVE I EVER’ and “THE BEST LAID PLANS”. In the left corner of the poster, are three 5-star movie review-style texts pertaining to different aspects of the book. 1: “South Asian Main Cast. 2: “Friends to lovers with a difference” 3: “Bengali teens in STEM”.

Moodboard for ALL YOUR QASAMS with a quote from the novel reading, ‘You are madness incarnate’ and five images: picture of a hot chocolate drink and heart-shaped cookies, a couple embracing during a boat ride, a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery smiling down at her maroon outfit, a close-up of a young man kissing the forehead of a young woman, a close-up the joined hands of a south Asian bride and groom, a young man in an aesthetic library reading a hardcover text book. The Moodboard is surrounded by arrows pointing to text that allude to the themes and tropes in the novel: “Meddling grandpa”, “perfect firsts”, “friends-to-lovers with a difference”, “only one bed”, “a decades’ old Qasam and some new ones”, “Bengali teens in STEM”.

Kavi makes BFF Ryhan a Practice Boyfriend so she’ll become the perfect girlfriend to her actual bf Aaron Mirza. It’s her last shot at love—due to a Qasam—& has to be perfect

But Ryhan has a secret & if her family learns of any of this, she’ll lose it all—inc dreams of studying🩺 in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#QuestPit #YA #Q

Thank you!!

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

𝗛𝗶𝗺⚓The only fight I have left in me is for my son. I've no time for the houseguest the language institute sent me by mistake.
Until we talk. We click. Suddenly, I'm wishing for things again.
But she's not a choice I can make.
Come fall, I'll have to let her go too.
#Questpit #Q #A #R

88 K Bipoc psychological thriller

The pitch for The Scent of Delusion, a BiPoc psychological thriller.

Blurb for The Scent of Delusion, a #BiPoc psychological thriller.

Tropes and Vibes for The Scent of Delusion, a #BiPoC psychological thriller.

CASSANDRA × A MARRIAGE OF LIES

1 graphic designer faces
2 financial ploys & loses the trust of
3 friends bcoz of her
2 dozen paranoid episodes that culminate in
1 intruder aiming for her life & sanity
Now she depends on her home automation system & hyperosmia—both malfunctioning.
#A #T #QuestPit #Q