It's entirely your call, but keep pushing forward. Whether that means setting it aside temporarily, or keep pursuing agents. I'm at 77 rejections (including CRNs) and I only had one full request recently to then be rejected. It's a long, hard journey but you can do it.

Querying is not for the faint of heart, let me tell you.

Imposter syndrome comes in waves, I find. But then I remind myself that I did, in fact, write the damn book. Remind yourself of that today if you're struggling: you did it.

#amquerying

A collage of nine images in a grid. A quill and ink pot on a desk. A half seen skull in shadows. Sky blue silk with gold lace. A stack of old books. The hilt of a rapier. Undead hands gripping an edge and pulling itself out of the ocean. The hull of a wooden galleon ship. The silhouette of a girl in front of a window. Gothic architecture. Images sourced from Unsplash and Pexels.

SABRIEL X CITY OF DUSK

When the necromancers attack three teens are all that stand between the kingdom of Lyr and the undead... they just don't know it yet.
#questpit #w #ya #f

A fantasy map

WHEN PHOENIX AND DRAGON AWOKE
Four strangers with dangerous powers forbidden under penalty of death must master their abilities and confront personal demons while evading capture by law enforcement and a corrupt empress.
🔥Tortured heroes
🪵Found family
🌊East Asia
⚙️Betrayals+secrets
#Questpit #A #F #Q

Bound by destiny, siblings Wren and Archer are thrust into a rising battle against the dark powers of Enwir. To survive, they must unite four strangers, each tied to an elemental stone with the power to save their world—or destroy it completely. Shadow&Bone x Stormlight Archives
#questpit #YA #F #Q

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I very much appreciate this comment!

I am sad this is also how you feel, but it's nice to know I'm not alone!

Right?!

Querying is soul crushing. Anyone else? Just me?

#writers #querying #YAfantasy #debut #newbie

Both are great first lines! Well done!

Thank you! 🥰

🍃Wind, Earth, Fire, Water Magic
🪨Ancient Stones of Power
👨‍👧‍👦Siblings
✨Chosen Ones
🤍Found Family
🌄Journey/Adventure Fantasy

Shadow and Bone x Stormlight Archives
#2025pit #YA #F

An agent’s guide to my YA Tangled x Anastasia cozy fantasy, THE FORGOTTEN REALM, feat:

🪻Disability and LGBTQ rep
🧚Swiss folklore
✨Found family
🎊Whimsical festivities
🐶A really cute dog

Querying in March!
#litagents #YA #F #2025Pit #agentsguide

A collage of spooky, witchy images with white text reading WITCHES LIKE SILVER STARS over a stained glass raven.

NINTH HOUSExGilmore Girls
A 21st-century witch promises to help a dead 17th-century predecessor. When she learns a coven masked as a company is using her ex to hunt the ghost for a killer internship, she must delve into her haunted past to save the man she loves & her kindred spirit. #2025pit #F #A

FATHOMFOLK X NINE TAILED

A nine-tailed fox and a god’s love ends tragically, but a thousand years later, their reborn souls must rediscover their past as Lyra fights to stop Winter's quest for vengeance and return his soul before an eternal frost befalls the Earth.

#2025Pit #A #F #R

Image collage of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a cascading waterfall, a vertical Celtic knot, a misty town illuminated by street lamps, a cafe lit from above, and a crow on a branch in a forest.

#2025Pit #A #SPF #T
ALAN WAKE X INDIANA JONES X DRESDEN FILES
Treasure hunter Kat never expected a cursed artifact to appear on her best friend's doorstep. When bodies start to pile up as a result of the artifact's influence, she must team up with a skeptic before the veil between worlds rips apart

you're a weapon and weapons don't weep smoke drifting from a hand a colosseum misty mountaintops someone touching a woman's chin a huge cavern a woman wielding a sword a cloaked figure in a foggy forest a woman's arm being grabbed light pouring through a cave nobody is coming to save you. get up

#Agents if you like the martial competition and political intrigue of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, the forbidden romance and family loyalty themes of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS, and the E2L banter of FOURTH WING, I have a book for you!

❤️‍🔥 Slow burn
🎭 Secret identity
🔪 Morally grey FMC

#F #R #RM #2025pit

Images of a frozen lake, winter trees, and a wooden Shack by a river. A young, red haired woman looks worried. They're are spectral eyes looking through a forest

'CROWSTONES'
BLY MANOR X THE BEGUILED
👭Female led
👻Ghost story
🗡️Murder mystery
🏔️Remote location
❄️The hardest winter on record
“Here lies a poor distressed maid. Just in her bloom she was snatched away, Her clothing made of the cold earthen clay.”’
#2025Pit #H #HF #A

As teenager Evie lies in a coma, a stranger offers her mother Anna a final chance to save her.

Anna must journey through her buried past, relive her worst memories and choose someone to die in Evie’s place.

But what is the stranger’s motive?

And does Evie want to be saved?

#2025Pit #SPF #A

Yes please!

Two figures in a lake at night. The sky is starry and it looks like dots of light are either pouring into the lake or being pulled from the lake. Image name: Untitled by Chung Seung Hwan

THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS x WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS

Eighteen-year-old gardener Mira never imagined she’d be plunging her trowel into the hearts of blood-thirsty, night-crawling monsters terrorizing her island.

🇵🇭 Filipino folklore
🌙 Moon magic
❤️‍🔥 Slowww burn love triangle

#2025Pit #YA #F #RM #Q

11yo Lagosian wannabe Nollywood actress believes to succeed, she must have connections. She comes across enchanted slippers, wears them to bring good luck, but it gives nightmares & is destined to kill her. To live, she must embrace the truth and not fake friends. #MG #2025Pit #OV #DIS #F #BVM

A collage of 4 images, all black and white. A crow in a winter tree, an autumn leaf, a river of stars in the sky, and a woman underwater.

Grim are immortal.
Auri knows this.
But when one shows up to take her father's soul, she cuts him a deal. If he spares her father, she'll find him what he wants: a way to die. Now Auri has a week and a day to kill this immortal (who she's definitely not falling for).
🐈‍⬛ #A #F #RF #2025Pit 🐈‍⬛

The Title Page of the Agents Guide. The title of the book is THE STOLEN IDOL by Christopher Lee. It is a 86K word YA Fantasy. An image drawn and colored digitally by the author is in the center of the page. The image shows a broken opal colored disk in front of the Cat Si's golden eye.

The Pitch: Winning a jousting tournament should be easy for a centaur, and it is, until the false horse head falls off Fotini’s shoddy disguise. She quickly steals the tournament prize, a golden idol, and gallops toward the forest ripping off her heavy jousting armor to outrun the tournament guards. When she arrives home to fulfill her contract, she discovers she accidentally ditched the idol with her disguise. Along with two fellow thieves, she retraces her steps praying the idol is still there. Hopefully it wasn’t cracked, or worse, found by a disgusting human. Seventeen-year-old Jaimie Whitfield is accused of being a fae changeling, a creature who kidnaps children and assumes their form. If he does not escape, he will be executed for impersonating himself. His father will then invade the fae kingdom to rescue a son who hasn’t actually been kidnapped, all because he saw Jaimie kiss another young man and would rather believe his son has been kidnapped than accept his sexuality. As he awaits his demise, Jaimie turns to the broken idol he found by the roadside with a quiet prayer. He doesn’t expect an answer, but is shocked when a mysterious black cat slips through his high tower window. Jaimie joins the shapeshifting cat known as the Cat Sí and the not fully human trio of thieves who dropped the idol to begin with. These outcasts race to warn the fae of the coming invasion. Along the way, Jaimie and his new friends learn long-forgotten secrets of how the Irish fae, the Cat Sí, and the Celtic gods are involved in an ancient feud with pantheons across the sea.

Tropes and Themes: Found Family Generational Trauma Unrequited Love Betrayal Acceptance LGBTQIA+ Representation Celtic Mythology Greek Mythology Norse Mythology Egyptian Mythology Heroes Journey Small Trickster Fae Magical Girl Transformation

For Fans of: Daughter of Sparta series by Claire M. Andrews New take on several ancient myths Mentions of gods from other lands Ancient setting Lore by Alexandra Bracken Original story with mythical characters Intense fight scenes She-Ra (Netflix) Lighthearted LGBTQIA+ representation Found family Scary cat lady

A centaur cheats at jousting, until the fake horse head goes KERPLOP!

🌈Mythology X SPOP
🗡️Betrayed by the man he loves
🗡️Betrayed by his father
🐈‍⬛Cat Si from Irish folklore
🐐Snarky/greedy satyr
🐎Badass centaur
🧚‍♀️Tricky pixies can't lie
☀️Gods from many pantheons

#2025pit #YA #F #writing #Q

Starter pack created for querying YA authors! Comment to be added 💙📚 #2025pit