Oh shoot, does this mean the drive is over? I wanted to send mine but I'm just now catching up with podcasts/news after a long hospital stay so I may have missed the window...

Yesterday was the 1-month anniversary of THE CHAMOS PROJECT being out in the world!

It's weird to be promoting a book about androids fighting for their rights after losing my job to AI here in the real world, but here we are. Consider buying it to support an indie author! books2read.com/u/mdBDo5

The Agent's Guide to my new Fantasy Folk-Horror, The Ghost of Bongaon.

It follows a woman trapped in a fog-sealed village, where a sentient house and a resurrected boy force her to confront the evil she once unleashed.

#AmQuerying #AgentsGuide

I love your comps! 👏 This story is so NOW

a sheet of notebook paper with the words cj subko adult horror and "and the dark will know my name." scribbles in red. three polaroids with pictures: a woman screaming, a woman crying, and something carrying a knife

ERIC LAROCCA x GIRL INTERRUPTED

Ash doesn't *really* believe in curses, but when she recklessly casts one, people who have hurt her start ending up dead. If she can't find the counter-curse, it will strike down everyone she loves--& she may never recover from her depression.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #MH

four polaroids. one shows a white woman reading tarot. one shows a white woman with blond hair with candles. one shows several notebooks filled with writing. one showed someone in a black hoodie that says "gloomy"

ERIC LAROCCA xGIRL INTERRUPTED

Ash doesn't believe in curses--not really--but when she recklessly casts one, people who have hurt her start ending up dead. If she can't find the countercurse, it will strike down everyone she loves--she may never recover from her depression

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #LGBT

Mood board with shite lined squares: 1. crystals in a pink ceramic dish 2. tall white taper candles lit in the dark 3. the stacks of a library with hanging lightbulbs 4. a lit candle on a desk beside a journal 5. the silhouette of a boy and girl facing each other in a pinkish sunset 6. a pair of brown boots walking through orange fall leaves 7. a wooden bridge through the woods with autumn leaves 8. A cup of coffee, laptop, pen, an papers on a desk 9. twinkle lights

Ravensgrove Academy is trying to rid the school of witches. So when star student Gwen is caught doing magic by the principal's rebellious son, she's sure she'll be expelled. Instead, he offers her a deal—pretend to date him, and he won’t tell anyone she's a witch

#questpit #YA

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

I got a full request so maybe sooner than later 👀

So many good tropes here 🥹

snowy mountains background: An Agent's Guide to...Nearly Dead Already by Kelly Esparza, adult speculative/paranormal murder mystery complete at 72,000 words, previously agented, this book was a semi-finalist for the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, Querying!

snowy mountain background: Pitch: When Abby Martinez is killed at a party, fate intertwines her soul with Wyatt, the only guest who can see and talk to her ghostly form. They must both solve her murder, but if they can't by midnight, Wyatt will die too and Abby will never pass on to the afterlife.

snowy mountains background: What Does My Book Have? disability rep, mental health rep, strong Latinx female protagonist, found family, romance, ghosts

snowy mountains background: Comps: Glass Onion movie poster and Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson (book cover)

GLASS ONION x NOT QUITE DEAD YET

When Abby is killed at a party, Fate connects her soul w/ Wyatt, the only guest who can see her as a ghost. They must both solve her murder, but if they can't by midnight, Wyatt will die too & Abby will never pass on to the afterlife.

#questpit #Q #A #MY #PR #S #F

I love how the speculative bit makes it so much harder 🥹

Thanks I love it!!

Why Ellie is nostalgic for ‘90s college:
👩‍❤️‍👩BFF Brooke not missing
😘Crush Eric shyly smiled in computer lab
🎶Happiness = mixtape + Walkman
Today:
🤑Broke
☠️Divorced
💔Brooke missing
Now Eric is back & not shy! But hiding truth about Brooke…?👀
#QuestPit #Q #A #WF

an aerial view of a snowy area with buildings and trees in the background Alt: an aerial view of a snowy area with buildings and trees in the background

Before she dies, a former lead psychiatrist at a sanatorium admits to some dark truths about her time there, but not all. A phantom begins haunting her granddaughter, guiding her closer to the truth behind the institution's walls, deep in the Canadian woods.
#QuestPit #Q #PNH #M #R

Prague? Early 90s? I need this book!!

This story needs to be told. Rooting for you!!

Lol yes exactly! And I’ve stopped caring if they match my outfit. 20-something me is shocked at how current me leaves the house.

It’s so good!! That character has stuck with me for months

Yes! Older woman characters deciding they don’t give a damn…I love it

Hi Wedding Person comp friend!! This sounds so good…and so different than mine! I love a flexible comp!!

Liane Moriarty x THE WEDDING PEOPLE
Ellie’s college crush reappears at their 25yr reunion, charming her but rousing suspicions about his involvement with the friend who went missing. She must choose who to trust or risk losing everybody, including herself.
#QuestPit #Q #A #WF

Me too! Girl friend stories always get me

She uses clues from the ‘90s to guide her!

W/ tropes like Tomorrow, & Tomorrow, & Tomorrow
GenX Ellie is hiding her disability and really doesn’t want to be at her 25yr college reunion. The 90s are fully in the past (unfortunately). But her crush shows up, and he may know what happened to her missing friend…
#QuestPit #Q #A #WF #DIS

Moodboard clockwise from top left: silhouette of woman sitting on bed in darkened room; Sony Walkman with orange sponge headphones; hands clinking wineglasses over table; hands on top of each other in circle; cassette tape with the tape in a heart shape; scattered Polaroid pictures; woman lying head on man’s lap in field

Firefly Lane x Liane Moriarty
Disabled GenX Ellie reconnects with her college crush, but her friends suspect him in the unsolved disappearance of one of their group on graduation day. Ellie must risk her safety to learn the truth about her missing friend.
#QuestPit #Q #A #WF

Two women smiling behind N95 masks, wearing lanyards that say Ban This Book Fest 2025

Three stickers. One is yellow with words "My favorite childhood memory is actually having energy." The second is a possum holding the disability pride flag with the words "My disability may not be visible but your ignorance is." The third is a black cat with a rainbow and the words "Childless cat ladies against the patriarchy."

A collection of swag from Ban this Book Fest. A Lanyard with a "Volunteer" ID, a black t-shirt that reads "imagine being afraid of drag queens and books", the front of the event program, and a yellow tote bag with the Ban This Book Fest logo -- a book with a rainbow and the words overlaid.

Ban This Book Fest 2025 in Ferndale, MI (Oct 11). The day my soul needed! Mom and I volunteered (and they were so disability-friendly and accessible) plus paid for the swag bag—worth it!

Creative, inspiring, community! 💖
#BanThisBookFest #BannedBooksWeek

Thank you, friend!!

Your characters and world are so intriguing!

Thank you!