Lucia

bet 🤭

When Reina discovers a lost elven kingdom in the woods, she will have to decide if saving a friend is worth shattering the fragile boundary between two worlds. 

Make sure to lock your screen and flip 💫upside down 💫

#questpit #q #a #f

🎨 IG @cinematicaroline

TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF

left leaning film strip: hand on a turntable, spotlight on female singer, fake news left upright film strip: paparazzi hounding female singer and her dj, a hand on a recording studio soundboard, concert crowd right upright film strip: female singer right leaning film strip: vip placard. there is a record and music notes in a blank space created by the film strips mentioned above. background: film strips, purple roses, flight tickets and a globe.

#QuestPit
Daisy Jones x Celine Dion

Good Idea!: team up with a semi-retired music manager
Bad Idea?: fall in love with him

She's gonna be famous.
She just hopes it's pop star and not reality TV star.
#Q #A #WF #RF

#Agents I am currently querying DIVINE BLOOD, a voice heavy, character driven romantic fantasy told from the point of view of a corrupt king's evil advisor - and love interest.

TWs: Classism, power imbalance, violence. The FMC and MMC have a very unpleasant start.
#questpit #Q #F #DF #R #A

I will soon be querying DRAG YOU DOWN, a contemporary fantasy following a mermaid hunter who, after dying in an accident at sea, is forced to contend with her family's legacy when a curse revives her as a flesh-eating siren and she falls for the "monster" who saved her.

#QuestPit #A #F #h #r #lgbt

WRITING HENNIE mood board: snapshots of different London locations over the Union Jack and New Jersey state flag

FLEABAG x ROMANTIC COMEDY

Hennie's in freefall when she inherits a London flat from the father she never knew - and gains a downstairs neighbor, Everett, who’s about to be caught in her chaos. Too bad they make questionable choices. Sex tends to complicate things.

#Questpit #A #R #Q

The image is of a fake book cover, mocked up for the novel ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE by Bee Morris. The background is a mish-mash of gothic, suburban houses, all layered over one another in chaos, in monochromatic shadows. The text, written at a slanted angle, reads: ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE, a novel.

🪦 ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE 🪦 #QuestPit #Q

Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & exorcising spirits...

...too bad 'chasing down a serial killer' wasn't part of the job spec 🔪

👻 paranormal mystery
🧠 autistic FMC
🌊 ghosts by the coast
🏡 found family (living & dead)

A girl with long brown hair cups the face of a red-headed boy as they gaze into each other's eyes. Surrounding text: "Rehearsal" kisses cinnamon roll boy socially awkward heartthrob love letter to fandoms co-stars playing onscreen LIs Asexual rep former tween star paparassi drama cute cats

Teen heartthrob Nolan struggles with off-script conversations.

Former tween star Phoebe can't escape the tabloids.

When they're cast as LIs in a superhero comic adaptation, they'll fight the straight-washing of a canonically ace character.
And their feelings for each other.

#QuestPit #AG #YA

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x THE POPPY WAR x Ukrainian folklore

♟️smart but morally flawed FMC
🕯️secret society
🩸found family
❤️‍🔥(very) slow-burn romance
🗡️dark 1900s-inspired setting
✨diverse character cast

#questpit #Q #A #F #ownvoices

A dark, blue themed collage. Is says: An Agent's Guide to The Earth-Shattering God. A 87,000 word adult fantasy novel by Lucia Judinova. In the middle is a veiled, mysterious woman, the sea angry behind her. Then a cropped picture of angry eyes, a clipart of a dagger and a vial. A quote that says: The feminine is not dead. Nor is she sleeping. Angry, yes. Seething, yes.

A pitch. The background is brown and white themed, dark, a group of women from the back, all wearing white robes. It says: On the 100th anniversary of the gods' banishment, a common thief, anny Jame, accidentally uses her divine, elemental power and garners the attention of a ruthless cult wanting to bring the gods back. The priestess they send is everything she is not. Bianca is infuriating and beautiful, but mostly brainwashed by her Order. When Bianca learns Danny is her ticket to restoring the gods to their rightful place, she magically binds them together, forcing anny onto a reluctant quest to gather objects infused with godly essence.

The background is dark and blue, a hallway, some pillars. There are comps: The Knight and the Moth, The Priory of the Orange Tree, Sweet & Bitter Magic, Godkiller, Six of Crows, A Dark and Drowning Tide. There is also a snippet fron the novel: Her vision tunneled. Moments before Danny passed out, the woman finally hurried closer. "So sorry!" she called, getting nearer. The pain receded and Danny collapsed to the ground, scraping her elbow. "I wanted to see if it worked. Terribly sorry about that. I'm Bianca." "Don't... care," Danny pushed through gritted teeth. Aftershocks of pain rocked her body, muscles tensing and unclenching "I had no other choice, Im afraid." Bianca knelt at her side. The rage channeled in Danny's gaze did not scare her off.She had the nerve to smile down at her. "You are a Link. A true, living and breathing Link. How wonderful to meet you." A blinding grin spread, showing incisors bent slightly to the sides. "We'll do great things together. Divine things, Daniela, absolutely divine."

A dark collage: a woman raising rocks in the air, around a picture of a satin white robe, next to it a sweet, happy woman smiling, with long, blond curls. On the other side a picture of a medieval mercenary-looking outfit. Leather, boots, a dagger. Beneath a picture of a serious woman with short dark hair, face a little scratched up and bloody. Over the pictures, are the tropes and themes is bold blue lettering: girls supporting girls (rights and wrongs), powerful women, queer found family, sapphic love, forced proximity quest, battling propaganda and secret societies, magic stolen from gods with consequences, 'enemies to would kill for you' ragtag crew.

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x SAPPHIC

Rhea Ripley-esque grumpy and the sunshine priestess who kidnaps her.

💥magic & consequences
🏳️‍🌈queer found family
🌸powerful women
🏰slavic elements
💔forced proximity quest
🌌gods and cults
⚔️battling propaganda

#Q #A #F #questpit #agentsguide

Moodboard for ALL ABOARD: a shadowed knife, a train with headlights on in the snow, a screaming, indistinct face, a skull in a palm, mist-capped mountains

Features: forced proximity, unreliable narration, f/f enemies to lovers, power and influence, survival, identity and paranoia. Pitch: When Sam Hambrook, heir to the Hambrook potato chip fortune, is found poisoned and stabbed aboard his family's snowed-in train, his ex-fiancee, Poppy, scrambles to solve the crime despite interference from her brother, Lars—whose desperation to cover up that he stabbed Sam is merging with a haunting only he can see.

Snippet for ALL ABOARD: The lamp flickers and a strange energy thrums through the train. Panic claws at my insides. I sense it before I see it: a hooded figure gliding through the closed gangway door. It leeches the forest green from the wallpaper and the gleam from the mahogany hardwoods as it drifts toward me, leaving a drab gray in its wake, and why oh why is no one else so much as flinching? Why is Poppy still asking investigative questions over Sam’s dead body? I’m the only one who can see it. The only one it can terrorize.

Comp books: "We Used to Live Here," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Train from Platform 2," "Hamlet"

TRAIN FROM PLATFORM 2 X WE USED TO LIVE HERE X TELL-TALE HEART

Hamlet, flipped on its head
Dual POV (sibs Ophelia & Laertes)
A private train to a will reading
2 snowed-in murders & a haunting
F/F enemies to lovers to—

❄️Querying soon❄️

#questpit #agentsguide #A #T #H #W

sure!! Keep me in mind!

In the centre is the logo for 'Accursed Moon Soul', the pictures surrounding the logo from left to right - a ship wheel, someone falling into water, a woman holding a glowing orb, a ship sailing through fog, a woman in a row boat, a manta ray, the same woman from the third image bloodied and holding a sword, a hand touching their reflection, and the silhouette of a woman with red eyes

'Evelyn Farrow is an infamous ex-pirate who is haunted by the night she murdered her crew. The same night she was branded with a strange mark when she wanted no part in her crew’s dealings with a devil. Determined to put her pirate days behind her and find a cure, Evelyn has lied her way into a new crew of faithful and upbeat treasure hunters. Whilst chasing a rumour of a hidden artefact, the mark finally awakens, and an otherworldly voice makes home in her mind. An alteration to the strings of fate has bound them together, and in order for this entity to reignite a centuries-long grudge with the gods, it needs Evelyn to obtain this artefact by any means necessary. Unending nightmares of that fateful massacre serve as a reminder of what she’s running from, and as the mystery surrounding the mark and this entity unfold, her lies begin to unravel. Freedom lies in finding the courage to face her past, or she risks losing the crew that would sail to the end of the world to save her.'

Graphic to display comp titles and tropes, the three include The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, and Baldurs Gate 3 by Larian Studios. The text reads from left to right: Dark pasts, pirate/sailor fmc, psychological horror, found family, 'own voices' mental health rep, queer cast, alter-ego, high stakes treasure hunt, battling internal monsters, 'bantering misfits' group dynamic

On top of a dark underwater background, the text reads: 'Waves crashed against the lone pier as the sea waited to drown me. I had no recollection of how I got there, teetering like I was on the edge of a great precipice. The dense fog and heavy stench of brine disorientated what little of myself I still had some control over. I stared out into the nothingness. The nothingness stared back. This was how the Manta Ray and her terrible legacy would finally come to an end. I’d had one tattooed across my back, in commemoration of the title. Its white markings were intentionally skeletal, with a wingspan that wrapped around my shoulder blades. Now, the ink prickled, wanting to remove itself as much as I was desperate for it to. The name had meant something once, before it became an ironic joke. The creature’s alternative name of devilfish was a dull ringing in my ears. Every waking moment, the reason why haunted me. I’d had enough. - Chapter 1'

Accursed Moon Soul 🏴‍☠️😈🗡️

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi x One Dark Window

An ex-pirate searches for a cure to a strange mark left by the crew she betrayed, but her past will catch up and consume her mind and soul, no matter how far she runs.

~ #agentsguide #agentguide #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

the hook is insane!! 🔥💯

red toned collage of a young woman and power themed images

Blue toned collage of a man and power themed images

Block of white text on a black background

Nikita x Ready or Not
A young woman teams up with a serial killer (her childhood bestie) to burn her family's rich, evil, secret society to the ground, as long as those in charge don't kill them both first.

#QuestPit #A #Q #T

A BRUSH WITH LOVE x DO YOUR WORST

🩺An anxious (and cursed) med student
🗞️The sunshiney journalist determined to learn his secret
🎆Fake dating in the Highlands for New Year's Eve
🤙🏻Meddling flatmates
💕Unspoken feelings
🥃Quite a lot of whisky

What could go wrong?

#QuestPit #A #R #W

the actor & the writer
♡✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡♡˚

Arthur + Kitty

♡︎ friends to lovers
♡︎ met as college students
♡︎ can the writer navigate the dream world of the actor's nightmares to save him, from something far worse than death?

#questpit #W #H #S #R

moodboard for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem showing plum blossoms; a man fighting in bamboo forest; a view of a Chinese palace through red gates; a woman with a death stare; a man with a serious displeased look; moon-gate looking into a Chinese garden with a pavillion on the pond; a man kissing a woman's neck intimately; Chinese calligraphy and brush pen

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS

She planned to be the terror in his life.
He planned to ignore her.
Neither planned on saving a crumbling empire from a tyrant—or falling in love.

91K-word adult fantasy romcom / Smoochpit '25 mentee
#questpit #A #RF #Q

SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY X IMOGEN OBVIOUSLY…

F IS FOR FALLING (YA Contemporary-Romance)

🏳️‍🌈lesbian romance
❤️ ex-best friends to lovers
🤝 forced proximity
🏳️‍⚧️nonbinary rep
🪩prom night confessions

#questpit #YA #R #Q #WritingCommunity

okay, yeah, need this asap!

A shadowy school building, stars in the sky, and the text: an agents guide to the bells of le fay, adult dark academia fantasy, A. J. Sable

The silhouette of a woman holding a ball of light in front of trees. The text reads: pitch, The price of magic is monstrous-literally. Lola Knight didn’t mean to murder her best friend. When her violent and volatile magic spirals out of control, instead of punishment, she’s enrolled in an elite magical academy to seek control before it kills again. But there she finds herself at the centre of a monstrous mystery; one that threatens the future of the entire witching world.

A spell book lying open amongst candles and a mirror. The text reads: tropes, sapphic enemies to lovers, female rage, elite magical university, secret society, body horror, underworld realm.

The shadow of a woman standing before a giant misty creature. The text reads: with the cathedral-like academy behind her, the gothic towers soaring above the treetops, it felt like she was in a fairy-tale. But if that were true, she was no princess. She was the monster they had to defeat.

A DEADLY EDUCATION x KATABASIS

The price of magic is monstrous—literally.

When Lola Knight accidentally murders her best friend, instead of punishment she is enrolled in a magical academy to seek control before it kills again, or consumes her…

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

"An agent's guide to THE BOG PRINCE by Julianne M, a 99k word YA fantasy romance."

The pitch... Eighteen-year-old Everin Lockett’s dreams of returning home from ruthless Wyverith College are shattered when she manifests a forbidden necromancy magic that reanimates the bog body of her kingdom’s lost prince. If the college discovers the truth about her abilities, she will be conscripted into their brutal army, doomed never to see her family again. Desperate to guard her secret, Everin strikes a deal with the long-lost Prince Byrnan: if he helps keep her power hidden, she will help him solve his centuries-old murder. But when Byrnan’s quest for justice could be the very thing that endangers her last hope of going home, Everin will need to confront the true cost of falling for a lost prince with nothing left to lose—and a kingdom to reclaim.

Pictures of book and album covers in ornate antique frames. The text reads: For fans of... Yearning and bog bodies (Hozier's debut album) Dark academia and lyrical prose (A Study in Drowning and Curious Tides) Haunting gothic atmosphere (One Dark Window and Florence + the Machine's Lungs album) Slow-burn romance (Divine Rivals)

Snippet... A fork of lightning split the rain-soaked sky in two, and the ground trembled with a deafening clap of thunder. But even after the rumbling faded, the bog still shuddered beneath me, swelling and quaking like a pair of lungs drawing their dying breath. I lurched away, my heart jolting against my throat as I scrambled back through the mud. Another crack of lightning. And in its wake, silhouetted against the flash of violet light— A single grasping hand, clawing its way out of the earth towards me.

In honour of #QuestPit and the upcoming #SmoochPit showcase, here's an updated #agentsguide for THE BOG PRINCE, my upper #YA #RF about a necromancer who reanimates the bog body of her kingdom's long-lost prince. 💀👑

Maybe some secrets are better left buried... 🖤 #agentguide #Q

Wow! All of this!! 💯

Introducing an Editors Guide to: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CALLIOPE LECLAIRE

🧡 YA romantic fantasy standalone
🌌 dual-POV
⏳ grumpy x sunshine
🌠 sister-story
💌 gods based on human psyche
💫 whimsical island in the sky
🕰️ identity & self-acceptance

#questpit #F #YA #RF #AG #OS

the aita is genius 💯👏

had me at the sapphic retelling tbh 🔥

Hi, #questpit, here’s my latest #WIP

SAPPHIC ALICE IN WONDERLAND RETELLING 🐇🥀♣️🃏 #NA

“I will always wait for you. Even when you forget me. Especially then.”

#WritingCommunity

all your tropes 👏👏👏💯