I'm so excited to be working with @anjahudson.bsky.social on WHAT REMAINS OF AURELIO, a Gothic Horror that immediately enthralled me!! I can't wait to spend more time in this fascinating story that asks "Are they lovers?" and answers with a bolded and italicized *~WORSE~*♡
#RevPit
That’s wonderful to hear!😊🥹
Thank you! 🩷🩷🩷
This made my day oh my goodness 😭🩷 tysm
Editor Raquel Brown @raqueledits.bsky.social will work with Anja Hudson @anjahudson.bsky.social on WHAT REMAINS OF AURELIO (Adult Horror) #RevPit
Same!
Valerius wants to keep his musical muse forever.
Aurelio would rather die.
| M/M gothic horror/tragedy| obsessive patron
Fans of A DOWRY OF BLOOD, THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS, and AMADEUS, meet WHAT REMAINS OF AURELIO.
#amquerying #writingcommunity #Litagents #editors #literaryagents
#YA horror romance • BRIDGERTON x DRACULA • #editors ❤️ if interested
👑a deadly royal court
🩸ceremonial hunts & balls
👑meet-cutes + murder-cutes
🩸there's only one haystack
👑Targaryan-esque family trees
Blood is thicker than water...but tastes may vary
#questpit #ag
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
BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”
Coming soon to agent inboxes!
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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 #amquerying #QuestPit
I think so too! I absolutely love the name 😊
Hi #questpit! Introducing my travel-themed contemporary women’s fiction with strong romance crossover, THE SINGLE ERA
👀Angsty love triangle
🫦Enemies-to-lovers
🔥Slow burn
👫Friends-to-lovers
🚩Red flags
🐶Golden Retriever boys
#agentsguide #Q #A #WF #R
#QuestPit #Cozy #FR #A #Q
🔮Dark times are upon Narissa’s home town, with the Snow Queen sending it into an economic freeze, but when a handsome yet clumsy debut Overlord arrives, she risks her “good witch” status by joining forces to strategize a coup🔮
nosferatu & frankenstein 🤍
the creature
#Frankenstein
I just finished #Frankenstein and….wow.
Absolutely phenomenal.
Now to watch it for a second time!
Title page for an agent's guide to KNOW YOU BETTER, adult plus-size romcom. Green background, two character stock photos, photos in polaroids to of tattooed hand holding, a corgi + golden retriever, and a Red Wings game
"Know You Better" one-paragraph pitch: After her boyfriend of six years moves out and leaves her with rent she can’t afford, retail manager Sydney Bennett is barely hanging on—juggling long shifts and a side hustle dog-sitting for clients with the worst-behaved pets in Metro Detroit. When she meets Owen Sutton in the personal care aisle after a rant about two “demonic Pomeranians,” he’s instantly charmed—and in need of a sitter for his own, much better-behaved dogs. What starts as a business arrangement turns into something gentler and deeper: a slow-burning romance between two people still healing from betrayal. But as Sydney faces losing her apartment and Owen’s past betrayal comes back to haunt him, they’ll have to decide if the safety they’ve found in each other is worth risking their hearts for. On a green background with two stock images of the characters
A sample of writing on the left from Know You Better, as well as 4 images of comp titles, including their book covers and information. Savor It by Tarah DeWitt for the sizzling banter & tension. You With a View by Jessica Joyce for the emotional exploration of starting over. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez for acts of service as a love language. And Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen for the plus-size confidence.
Tropes of "Know You Better" and character images, stock, along with information about the characters. Sydney Sage Bennett: 30, Aquarius, Retail Ops Manager. Empathetic. Competitive. Amazing cook. Loves hockey. Sarcasm as a shield. Pilates girlie. Brunch is her love language. Poor spending habits. Younger sister. Sworn off relationships to focus on herself. Owen James Sutton: 31, Cancer, National Events Manager. Patient and loyal. Flirty. Loves hockey. Bottles everything up. Former company co-founder. Amazing dog dad. Acts of service. Takes care of his elderly neighbor. Older brother. Prone to emotional spill-overs.
A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her with rent she can’t afford—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient, and in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever🐾
#QuestPit #A #R #Q
an agent's guide for DON'T FORGET ME🕰️☕️🖋️
if you like:
- dark academia
- second chance
- dual POV
- dual timeline
- hispanic rep
- themes of trauma (DV)
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying #agentsguide
The introduction to my young adult novel, Whispers of the Sea.
The pitch: A teen girl embarks on a journey to a mysterious island where she’ll team up with a boy to uncover the whereabouts of her missing uncle. But to save him, Keahi must interfere with the King’s plans to restore power to his kingdom—except the throne was never his to claim, and the island only answers to one: the girl with a heart of fire.
For fans of: Disney’s Moana, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle
MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE
An #agentsguide to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, my #amquerying young adult fantasy.
Feat:
🌊 Hawaiian-inspired mythology
🌋 setting as a character
🌊 angry female mc
#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #OwnVoices #AgentGuide
Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood Red Sand 109000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark
Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide.
Title: Pitch Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck. Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him. But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all. Background image: same as other slides
SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA
There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.
Corado's about to break all three.
🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities
Querying soon!
#A #F #W #QuestPit
Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom: A novel by B. van Bodegom
BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE
Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.
#QuestPit #A #S #SF #W
Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life…
"I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS. IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY. IT WAS REAL." Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray. Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track. Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days. Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life.
Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.
Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
GRIM PORTENTS
HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE
A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of.
👻 #SP #F #H #PN #OWN #GhostPit
#DVPit #GN #A #LGBT
Going undercover as a race car mechanic, a young mobster makes the mistake of falling in love with his target. Unable to quit his mission or his new romance, he is forced to choose between which truth he wants to live. Either could cost him his life.
Having my wisdom teeth taken out has been a JOURNEY. Shake shack sounds so good right now 🥲 #wisdomteeth
Aw 🥹 thank you!