Moodboard with old church, girl running, old bible, girl with lighter, cassette with flowers, girl licking red off hands, fair at night, field, old church pews.
Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Sapphic Pining
monstrous romance
#ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep
cultish town in the prairies
Bubblegum horror
cannibalism as metaphor for love
#MupPit #YA #AG #R
agents guide for DAD BODIES. top left: moodboard layout with 9 squares 3 x 3, 6 have over the top terrified men (the dads), along the top and bottom 3 squares. Blood decal drips from top squares through the middle to the bottom ones. A Victorian mansion silhouette sits in the middle most left square, the title DAD BODIES in the middle, and right of that is the silhouette of a d20 with a skull icon showing. top right: PITCH & COMPS, CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT, when their detective friend is murdered during annual gaming retreat, 5 dads nust use their years of ttrpg experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like npcs in a badly-written campaign. bottom left: "Fuck me, Troy." “That’s a bit inappropriate, Dave, considering the situation.” Dave averted his gaze from the bloodied corpse of their friend to face him. “Really, Troy? Now?” Troy shrugged. “Marv would’ve laughed.” The grin on his face faltered. Marv was lying in a pool of his own blood. The cause of death was clear, the hilt of the murder weapon protruding from his back. Since Marv was stiff as a board—not much different from his current state—they could rule out suicide. Marv was also more inclined to stab others in the back instead of himself. bottom right: DAD FRIENDS, HORROR AND MYSTERY, DARK HUMOR, SECLUDED MANOR, TTRPG ELEMENTS, DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. 3 SQUARES next to each other. First contains silhouette of an old mansion, middle has TITLE DAD BODIES, third has a skull on a d20
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.
#MupPit #A #H #Q #OS
A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship
When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.
But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board
Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…
#A #H #MupPit #WIP #goth
Another amazing #questpit full of so many good stories! Can’t wait for them to all be on my shelf one day! I was very lucky and came out of it with some agent likes 🤯🥳 so thank you to everyone who supported me! 💜
They were for my #wip - new motivation to get it finished!
A collage of Victorian-era images surrounding the words 'when the dead talk, secrets don't stay buried.' The images include: a woman holding a candle, a policeman finding a body, four images of seances, a woman stalking another woman in the street, and a slum.
1874 London
🔪Ada - a fame-hungry, fraudulent medium turns to murder to create a ghost
👻 Harriet - terrified of spirits, cursed with the ability to hear them
When Harriet’s best friend is murdered, she must face her fear and seek out the dead to hunt the killer 🩸
✨Dual POV #questpit #a #hf #q
A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship
When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.
But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board.
Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…
#A #H #HF #QuestPit #W
A collage of Victorian-era images surrounding the words 'when the dead talk, secrets don't stay buried.' The images include: a woman holding a candle, a policeman finding a body, four images of seances, a woman stalking another woman in the street, and a slum.
1874 London
🔪Ada - a fame-hungry, fraudulent medium turns to murder to create a ghost
👻 Harriet - terrified of spirits, cursed with the ability to hear them
When Harriet’s best friend is murdered, she must face her fear and seek out the dead to hunt the killer 🩸
✨Dual POV #questpit #a #hf #q
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
I am hooked! I need this in my life!
MIDSOMMAR X WHITE LOTUS
A wrong plane landing traps a group of rich guests at an idyllic wellness resort where rituals replace spa treatments, confessions are mandatory & the staff already knows who won’t be leaving.
Girl Dinner X The Compound
#questpit #U #H #LF #W #A
A moodboard of 9 images: a white rabbit running down a staircase, a gold mask on a creamy cloth, a group of people in masquerade masks facing profile, a rush of river water, a red book of Indonesian tales with a teacup and teapot, a starry sky with a full moon and dark clouds, a red-gold Indonesian dress with a pink cape, a hand emitting a gold flame and smoke, and an Asian woman in a white fancy dress with white hair and a crown
BEAUTY & THE BEAST retelling x SEA fairytales 🇮🇩 x HEIR
A village girl has three days to break her curse that turns her into a beast or death greets her. But on her quest, she accidentally awakens a long-forgotten goddess and this goddess is full of fury...
#questpit #W #YA
When Princess Inayah strikes a dalliance with the rebel Laith, she uncovers the bodies that power her modern kingdom. She must choose between justice that risks her head or loyalty that kills her soul. CHANDI: SouthAsian #A #F w/messy families, political drama, & second-chance romance. #Q #QUESTPIT
THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO
Chris is haunted by Shadows since almost dying.
They are increasing in power.
A Red Eyed God talks of change.
A Shadow with a hat seeks to use him for his dark purposes.
🍂 New England set
💽 2000's nostalgia
🧹 Witchcraft
🌕️ Cosmic Horror
#Questpit #H #W
Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? Seven generations after collapse, oceans have reclaimed coasts and civilization’s remains are rotting back to the earth. Extreme climate and violent humans threaten a peaceful community hidden in the Green Mountains. Niwa, a gifted yet timid young empath-scholar, is prompted by group vision to lead a perilous and mystical quest to retrieve a rumored key to peace. Using unique psychic gifts, archaic technology, and nature-based survival skills, Niwaju’s group traverses a depopulated but healing landscape to save their people from impending doom. The travelers draw upon their survival skills, varying levels of control over their own unique psychic gifts, and residual tech artifacts, encountering diverse, unique characters on crumbling highways and swollen rivers through the mountains of Appalachia, moody swamplands of “New New Orleans”, and the Rocky Mountains. As she finds her inner resilience, Niwa’s mission becomes about more than saving her People from destruction; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change. Incorporating mindfulness, sustainability, earth based magic, and wilderness skills, this tarot-themed journey offers a vision of hope, transformation, and growth in a narrative adventure guide to thriving civilization’s aftermath, with surprising twists.
a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated.
Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built
🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot
🌪️ #CliFi
🌷 #Hopepunk
#F #S #Q
#Questpit
A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship
When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.
But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board.
Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…
#A #H #HF #QuestPit #W
A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship
When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.
But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board.
Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…
#A #H #HF #QuestPit #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… #writingcommunity
"I always told myself it wasn't real. 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.
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…
📖 #Q #A #P #F #M #D #Hu #QuestPit
Thank you!
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × DUNGEONS & DADDIES
A #litagents and #editors guide to DAD BODIES!
Big 5 interest!
#QuestPit #A #H #M #Q
A collage of figs, a mule on a dirt road, a goddess in a river, and sand, with the text "AGENT'S GUIDE, THE UNMAKING OF A MUSE, 109,000 words, Adult Romantasy"
A background of sand with an illustration of a mesopotamian goddess and a lion, with the text: "THE UNMAKING OF A MUSE, Roman Holiday x Midsommar in ancient Babylon. Lali, a spoiled muse, persuades an innocent butcher to help her take down a human cult that's blocking her muse magic and brainwashing her sister into giving up eternal life — but when Lali starts falling for the earth-born butcher, it’s the first sign she's been brainwashed."
Sand as a background with mesopotamian illustrations and text that says: "FIRST LINES, It’s tedious work, trying to inspire genius in mortals. It always has been. Even decades ago, long before this recent sun cycle, when they began to resist the muses’ influence."
A background of sand, with images of books overlayed - Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan, Circe by Madeline Miller, Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, and A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher, with the text "Comp Titles" above them and cuneiform letters below.
A twist on Roman Holiday with a touch of Midsommar set in a reimagined Babylon.
🧞♀️ Goddess trapped in a human body
🥐 Cinnamon roll boy who takes pity on her
🐠 Fish out of water story
🤺 Sisters getting revenge on each other
🍷 Creepy, mysterious cult
🏺 Ancient Babylon vibes
#questpit #Q #A #F #RF
Text: An agent’s guide to When the Magpie Flies by M H Wottenmoss. Background of mountains, trees, and a giant mushroom. A magpie flies in the sky.
Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, dreams of becoming a Conduit. As the realm’s only defense against monstrous spirits, Conduits are beloved and privileged—and it’s Magpie’s best chance to escape the undertow of poverty. When a spirit chooses her for the honor, marking her with a cold, entrancing touch, her dream is suddenly within reach. To fully ascend as a Conduit, Magpie, alongside the other newly-chosen, must embark on a journey into the heart of the spiritwoods. The only thing holding her back is her best friend, Calladonna. There are rumors about how Conduits are changed by the mysterious journey, and Calla can’t shake the feeling that if Magpie leaves, she won’t come back. Determined to reassure her, Magpie convinces Calla to come along in secret, hidden from the other Conduits. For the first time, Magpie’s future is bright and shining—until one of the other Conduits turns up dead, and it seems like Calla may be to blame.
Comps: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: clueless lesbians, murder and betrayal, journey of ascension. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: found family, humor and darkness, perilous quest. Also featuring undiscovered magic, monstrous spirits, chaotic academia, ill-advised rituals, haunted forest, queer & autistic ensemble cast, giant mushrooms, original music
Opening lines: The world went dark just after she jumped off the roof. In one moment she could see the clocktower before her, the ledge beneath its defunct face familiar and inviting, and in the next there was nothing. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence, necessarily, but damn if that wasn't inconvenient timing.
#agentguide for WHEN THE MAGPIE FLIES (81k queer fantasy)
When troublemaker and hobbyist scholar Magpie is chosen by the spirits, she breaks an ancient tradition rather than leave her best friend behind—and brings the wrath of spirits and humans alike down upon the realm.
#questpit #Q #F
Infamous portrait of Duke Maximilian Philipp of Bavaria by Sebastiano Bombelli, 1666, in an elaborate golden Baroque frame. This mustachioed nobleman has very long curly brown hair (possibly a periwig), an open doublet with dozens of tiny silver buttons, massive petticoat breeches, voluminous sleeves and lacy cannons, and a truly terrifying quantity of blue and pink ribbon hanging from every part of his body. He wears shoes with high red heels. 17th century handwriting over the image reads: This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
1. Be born tranſexual Anno 1645
2. Don 1000 yards of ribbon
3. ???
4. Manhood
In the case that further detail be required, pray consult:
THE DUEL IN 1660, a swashbuckling farce
#W #YA(?) #LGBT #histfic for #QuestPit
YA Gothic romance • BRIDGERTON x DRACULA x PRINCE HARRY+MEGHAN DRAMA
👑a deadly royal court
🩸ceremonial hunts & balls
👑meet-cutes + murder-cutes
🩸there's only one haystack
👑Targaryan-esque family trees
🩸blood type tasting (respectfully)
🔥burning it all down (less respectfully)
#QuestPit #YA #Q
Ohhhh sounds good!
A faded dark blue background title page
Faded dark blue background with the pitch for the Other Side of Eternity
Comps page with the same faded dark blue background, with pictures of the covers of Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Fable for The End of The World by Ava Reid
Faded dark blue background with drawings of an undead lady screaming and a skeletal monster crouching, with a list of tropes and themes in the center
When the mayor’s perfect daughter Lacey Bennet must ally with societal outcast Danira Keres to save her dying brother—the heir to their plague-ravaged world’s brutal patriarchy—her journey becomes one of monsters, impossible love and a fight for the key to humanity’s salvation.
#questpit #Q #A
Can do! 😊
Golden Gate Bridge, Couple Holding Hands, Opulent Ballroom, Black and White portrait of a 1930s woman, ferry boat on water at sunset, hollywood sign, hands being held to comfort, woman at library looking at a book shelf. Middle square reads Project Darling Vibes
The Lost Apothecary x Anita De Monte Laughs Last 🔍
A grieving woman finds solace investigating a 1930s mystery of a hidden wife that seemed to have jumped off an overnight ferry following the news of her Hollywood exec husband’s demise. Inspired by a true story, dual timeline.
#questpit #Q
#A #MY
A collage of Victorian-era images surrounding the words 'when the dead talk, secrets don't stay buried.' The images include: a woman holding a candle, a policeman finding a body, four images of seances, a woman stalking another woman in the street, and a slum.
🔪 Ada - a medium & fraud, turns to murder, determined to create a ghost for her show
🪦 Harriet - terrified of spirits, cursed with the ability to hear them
☠️ When her best friend is murdered, Harriet must face her fear & seek out the dead to hunt the killer
✨Dual POV #questpit #a #hf #w #q soon
image of Black Hills, amphitheater seats that are orange, cloudy sky. On a stage there is a horde of zombies (mostly sillhouettes). One zombie is crawling amongst the stadium seats. one zombie close up along the right side of the image. Blood splatter across the whole image starting from bottom left corner. white text: THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW.
🏳️🌈3 bi disasters take on the end of the world
🧎♂️The Preacher = out for blood
🧟♀️The Horde = hunting for flesh
🥼The Dentist = can't stop smiling
THE Z WORD x THE WALKING DEAD
#questpit #q #lgbt #h #sf #a