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I'm SO excited to announce that I am now represented by @dorianmaffei.bsky.social at Kimberley Cameron Literary Agency! Thank you for loving this world as much as I do!!

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Evan doubts Blackbeard’s history of pirating Georgetown, SC, but he becomes a believer when he's chosen for battle & sinks in sand

Evan learns pirates never left SC in EVAN & THE PIRATES OF SHELL ISLAND

Now Evan must defeat Blackbeard’s ghost or risk becoming a ghost himself

#QuestPit #MG #S #W

EMILY WILDE X DIVINE RIVALS

To win her independence, the granddaughter of a famed botanist must team up with a brilliant, brooding scholarship student to unlock the secrets of a dying magical garden, even as their rivalry blossoms into something more. 🌿✨

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R

LUCK AND OTHER CHOICES 🌊📷
SADIE x WE WERE LIARS

REVISED 2026; a new manuscript

- YA contemporary thriller
- bodily autonomy
- a missing girl
- a ticking clock
- love & its complexities
- dysfunctional & found family

back in the trenches spring 2026
#questpit #R #Q #YA

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

6 photo collage. Top left is an image of a city with lights beaming from the sky. Top center is a close up of a girl with pink hair singing into a microphone. Top right is a close up of a screen with a warning sign and the word malware underneath in pink font. Bottom left is a hand grabbing a phone with a pink tint and a blue cube bouncing off the screen. Center is a 5 girl silhouette with a purple backdrop. Bottom right is a crowd in front of a music stage with a blue hue over the stage.

SAILOR MOON x HANNAH MONTANA x TRON

By day, Mia & her friends are a hot pop group. By night they're vigilantes who fight virus monsters in a metaverse.

⚡️Mixed race & Chinese rep
🐶TALKING CORGI
🔥Magical Cyber Girls
🗺️Diaspora themes
💞Rivals to lovers

#questpit #ya #f #sf #poc #q

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

Agents guide for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem, 91K adult fantasy romcom, revised through SmoochPit 2025 mentorship

Pitch - 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. Twenty-year-old Wen Anling would sooner commit murder than give up her home and freedom. But with no way out of her arranged marriage to Han Shiyan, the wealthy Lord of Qinglan, she devises a plan: let him be the one to beg for divorce… once she transforms herself into the nastiest wife possible. Shiyan only married Anling to honour his mother’s dying wish. Had he known his new wife would send his simple life straight to mayhem, he would have thrown honour out the nearest window. He struggles to see any good beneath Anling’s heavily powdered face, overly red lips, and shrill screams, but when she continues to get under his skin, he cannot help but grow intrigued—especially after catching his first glimpses of the real Anling beneath her prickly exterior. While Anling wrestles with her desire to escape the prison of marriage and he

Comps The Darkness Within Us - cunning, unlikeble heroine, enemies-to-lovers, drives him up the wall but he can't help falling A Song to Drown Rivers - Chiense history-inspired setting, political intrigue & schemes How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - romantic comedy, slow burn, lots of banter

Extract & Tropes - Multicultural w/ POC leads - Marriage of convenience - Enemies to power couple - Slow burn w/ a dose of spice The not so meet cute... Shiyan’s eyes widened for a heartbeat before he forced composure back onto his features. Her face was powdered with a thick layer of white, as if she had simply dunked it into a bowl of flour. Her bright red lip-paint smudged at the edges and… Heavens forbid women dab their cheeks with uneven blobs of pink. Even the most senile and stern of his guests held their hands to their stomachs, straining to hold back fits of laughter. He would have gladly joined them, too, if he wasn’t the one with the honour of marrying this… this… buffoon. He swallowed and recited the wise sayings of his forefathers: one should not judge a book by its cover; a woman’s beauty runs deeper than appearances; virtues are lasting while beauty is fleeting. Oh, to hell with wise sayings. An eyesore was an eyesore no matter how virtuous it might be.

A cunning prankster plots against her lord husband and ends up saving the empire in a fantasy romcom version of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS
😈 unlikeable heroine
⚔️ enemies-to-power couple
💑 marriage of convenience
🔥 slow-burn & low spice
#questpit #Q #A #RF #agentsguide

What? You wrote a Nordic adult romantasy without vikings? ✨gasp️✨

UNFATED is instead set in a John Bauer inspired medieval Sweden, steeped in folklore, mythology and authentic Swedish culture...not a horned helmet in sight 🫢

A 92,000k standalone novel

#questpit #Q #A #RF

A moodboard featuring nine photos in a 3x3 grid shape. From left to right, top to bottom: 1. A shot from the back of a person wrapping their arm around another person. They’re both leaning on each other, while sitting down. They appear to be next to a river or pond and sitting on grass. 2. Hands holding up a flower crown. 3. A close-up of an elf-like, long pointy ear. Colorized to be almost black and white. 4. A hand holding up dirt with what appears to be parts of a plant. Below it a patch of dirt with more green plant parts can be seen. 5. A wooden sign, pointing to the right, with big letters that say, “HOPE.” 6. A hand being stuck in water. The water seems to have dirt and some debris in it. I interpret it as a river. 7. A rustic village with a winding road, lots of trees and greenery, and a cluster of houses visible on the left. 8. Two hands hovering above a green plant. 9. An assortment of five chickens sitting on a wooden fence. Greenery can be seen in the background. (Images from Pinterest)

Blurred image of daisy flowers with text on top of it: Project.Greenfield Playlist: 1. Favorite Place (Humbear) 2. Somewhere Only We Know (Keane) 3. Sunflower (Amber Run) 4. Always Home (Leucadia) 5. Woodland (The Paper Kites) 6. Wolves of Worry (Chance Pena) 7. Waking Up (Sam Burchfield) 8. To Build A Home (The Cinematic Orchestra)

Short Pitch: Set in a war-torn country. An orphaned boy and his older brother feel like everyday is a struggle and a reminder of what they lost. Until one day, when they get the opportunity to move to Greenfield — a small, rustic village on the outskirts of the country and a chance at a real home. There, the boy meets Sam — a mysterious, closed-off girl with pointy ears. Together the two kids realize that facing their internal fears might not be so scary if they don’t have to do it alone.

Hello, #QuestPit!

🌲🌱 Meet Project.Greenfield, a cozy slice-of-life fantasy!

~ My passion project
~ Multiple POVs
~ Status? Drafting! (130k words so far)
~ Part of a CHUNKY series
~ Cottagecore vibes
~ Covers heavy themes, but it’s full of hope

#W #F #Writing #Writesky #WritingCommunity

Editor's Guide To MARK OF A MAGPIE Crossover Romantic Fantasy 118k Words Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

Blurb One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy… Ryn is a small-town thief who has a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d be a fool to take up, but with her family scattered across the sea after the draft, a fool is what she’ll need to be to find them. Five for Silver, Six for Gold… Seven is set on his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. Once whispers of the past begin to resurface and nobles begin dying around them, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The castle is under lockdown, and all bets for the crown are placed on their capture. Seven for a Secret, Never to Be Told. Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

Tropes and Themes - Thief x Assassin - Mental Health Rep - Identity vs Duty - Class Difference - Forced Proximity - Secret Code - Morally Gray - Women's Wrongs - Unlikely Allies to Lovers Comps: Throne of Glass's castle-setting murder mystery and theme of "who you are versus what you have to do" meets the banter-heavy dialogue, strong female protagonist, and nautical setting of Daughter of the Pirate King. Text is on a piece of parchment. Beside the text are two headshot drawings: one of a girl with brown hair pulled back by braids, and the other of a black-haired boy with a worried expression. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

The Atmosphere: There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand. Picture seven shows a bottle of alcohol. Picture eight has a medieval alleyway. And picture eight shows a ship's crew enjoying a sunset. There is text below the collage that says: ON SUBMISSION NOW! Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media, contact information available on my website! Behind the parchment, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.

MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦‍⬛📖

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#QuestPit #YA #A #F #RF
#OS #DIS #EditorsGuide #Editors

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

A DEVOTION SO RUINOUS is a 90K adult fantasy following Soraya, a young woman tormented by a jinn, a dictator, and her first love, as she fights for freedom

🏳️‍🌈 LGBT characters
🧠 Mental Health Rep
🌍 Middle Eastern Setting
✨ Gods Based Magic System
❤️ Lovers To Enemies
#️⃣ Own Voices

#QuestPit #Q #F #A

Quote from T. L. Coughlin agented work: I have 2,925 days left of my curse and I’m not going to let one fool of a knight ruin my chances. A black and white image of a girl with long hair looking down at a sliced off marble head of a man with a bloodred “tear”. Behind them is a collage. A girl sunken in water with a white dress flowing. A pearl with fire swirling around it. A boy, up in a tree, laying on a branch. A hilt of a jeweled sword, a stone bridge across a small river in a forest. A curled, pink, rosebud. A stone carving of a qilin. An open book laying upon leaves. A vial of liquid in an enchanted forest.

TANGLED X PRINCESS BRIDE X STARDUST

💘 He fell first (literally), she fell harder
☀️Golden Retriever MMC meets 🌑Black Cat FMC
🐦‍🔥🐉 Mythological creatures ft. Chinese/Italian beasts
🗡️ Impossible quests
✨Intertwined curses & a trickster slug

#questpit #NA #YA #F #AG

Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!” The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death. “Magic should never return.” After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended. Sent him back to his body.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV.

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Drama Mystery with Romance 94k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!)

Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe?

#QuestPit #YA #MY #R
#AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

SHE WHO HOLDS THE SEA

PRINCESS MONONOKE X THE POPPY WAR X ATLA

🔥 female rage
🧞‍♀️ goddesses
🏝️ inspired by pre colonial Jamaica
2️⃣ dual-pov
💓 yearning
💪🏾 a FMC determined to save her people
🌊 fire and sea magic
🐉 dragons
🗡️ anti-colonial

#Q #QuestPit #F #YA #A #H

Thank you 🫶🏾

Hand with gold bracelet. Text reads “This Twisted Eternity, East Asian Inspired YA Romantasy”

Pitch: In the Chinese underworld, a dead war general will face an eternity of torture—unless she can fool a treacherous immortal court into believing that she and her murderer are lovers.

Comparative titles slide with covers of four books with captions. Never Ever After (East Asian-inspired court intrigue), Darker by Four (Chinese hell myth), Immortal Consequences (Ser in the afterlife), the Cruel Prince (I love you and it disgusts me)

Excerpt: “Does it hurt, Fan Lihua?” he breathed into my ear. “Discovering that I’ve finally beaten you?” I gasped, the iron cold against my skin. No, I would not admit how much it pained me, losing to my mother’s killer. His smile curved viciously. “When you’re in Hell, I want you to remember this as the moment you became a failure. I want you to remember me.” His hand tightened around the hilt of the knife. “The one who finally beat you was General Han Xin.”

Recipe for THIS TWISTED ETERNITY:

☠️ Chinese Hell mythology of DARKER BY FOUR
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👑 Deadly court politics a la CRUEL PRINCE
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💕 Fake dating your own murderer
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🗡️ 1 ruthless girl,
🌟 1 irresistible golden boy,
🔥 and an attraction that could destroy Hell itself

#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #R #W #OV #POC

Black and gold mood board. Pictures of Chinese calligraphy, a pagoda-style building, jewelry, and dragon statues. Center reads “This Twisted Eternity” and the quote reads “I’m nobody’s pawn, least of all his.”

In the afterlife of Chinese myth, a dead war general will face an eternity of torture—unless she can fool an immortal court into believing that she and her murderer are lovers.

💕Fake dating your own killer
👑Deadly court politics
🌟Pretty boy x ruthless girl

#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #R #W #OV #POC

Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE

AMARI x LOKI

After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop
#BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide

#bluepit📖 #OV #POC #Amquerying

Hey 👋🏾

I’m a writer of a Princess Monoke x The Poppy War epic fantasy

🏝️inspired by pre-colonial Jamaica
2️⃣dual-pov
🧞‍♀️goddesses
💓yearning
🌊elemental magic
🐉dragons
🔥female rage

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Atlantis Moodboard featuring: Ancient board games, temples with waterfalls pouring into pools, neat ancient fantasy cities, forehead kisses, frolicking in canals amid a palace, beautiful island coastlines, more ancient cities, and cool statues of strange gods. Center Quote: “From the day you left this village, you became more than merely yourself. You are the Sea Mother. This is the role fate has placed upon you. I told you when you left that I believed this path has opened up to you for a reason. I still believe that. You’ve been given a chance that few others ever have—the chance to change the world for the better. I’d even dare say it’s your duty to do so, now that you have the means.”

THE GODS OF ATALANTIS

ATLA x The Selection

When Mireia is chosen as the newest incarnation of the Sea Mother, her simple life is upended. Now she & her counterpart, the Sun Father, must navigate their feelings for each other amid rising religious & political turmoil.

#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #YA #F