I'm glad pitch events are happening again.
Here's a graphic I made to help pitchers understand why you may not have gotten a like. And there's lots more at play than the work itself. Shares welcome if you think it's reassuring!
#amwriting #writingcommunity #questpit #P2Pit
#P2Pit #PB #editor In class project to find extraterrestrial life, a group of kids print t-shirts with the message: "Free milk for all living outside our milky way, collect in our class. Instagram shots required." And they get a visitor! Hilarious and satirical.
It's still cool to see people talking about #P2Pit even after the event. I love being a monthly contributor @path2pub.bsky.social! Remember writers, agents and editors also often like pitches after the event, so keep those pitches up and pinned!📌
#writingcommunity #amquerying
Hi #P2Pit! If I liked your pitch yesterday, please check out how to query via email at the link below. Additionally, please mention P2Pit in the subject line and/or somewhere in the query.
www.sheldonfogelmanagency.com/submit.html
Thank you very much for the support, guys! #p2pit has been fun.
Sigh -- I dug into bluesky only a few hours after #P2Pit closed! I would have participated.
Still, it was very inspiring to see all the fun pitches. Some great authors + ideas out there! Congrats and good luck to all who participated. #WritingCommunity
Hi #P2Pit! If I ❤️ your pitch, please send me your query via email to queries AT parkfinebrower DOT com.
Remember to:
-put my name in the subject line (double check spelling—this is for our folder sorting system!)
-put P2Pit in the subject line along w genre & age category
What is #P2Pit? I keep seeing authors posting their books under it. Is it an event?
Lynn just wants to survive her junior year of high school. She wasn't prepared for:
💥friend group infighting. ugh.
💥her dad acting weirder... than usual.
💥and, uh, why is the government weaponizing super-powered kids??
#P2Pit #Q #YA
TRULY DEVIOUS X DON’T LET THE FOREST IN
After accidentally becoming a suspect in a reopening cold case, amateur sleuth Quinton Crow must use his paranormal abilities and true crime obsession to qcatch a killer before more students are murdered—or before he becomes the next victim.
#YA #P2Pit
A collage of images, starting top left and moving clockwise. Two girls in white dresses running through grass and large twisting trees. A large manor partially obscured by fog. A dark-haired girl with downcast eyes wearing a veil. A girl in a white dress facing away, staring out into a foggy background; a horse is there. A large wrought iron gate at the end of a path lined in dark, barren trees. A man turned to the side, face obscured by long hair. At the center is a dark haired girl turned away and wearing white, in her hair is a white ribbon. All the images have been edited to appear faded and like an old photo.
The residents of the Blackwell Home for Wayward Girls can never leave—their magic harvested for wealthy patrons who pay dearly for it. A client promises to help Adelia, newly 24, escape, but is she desperate enough to trust him? Time is running out...Blackwell girls never turn 25.
#p2pit #w #a #f
You’re a literary agent and you want to publish this illustrated dragon series so bad.
You are extremely interested in how this series explores dragon/human relations and worldwide dragon myths, especially african ones,
and how this ties into cosmic horror and existential dread
#P2Pit #SF #UW
An Agent’s Guide to my YA Medieval Mystery The Ghost of Avalon. Cream text on a maroon back ground over another background of a castle surrounded by water.
Slide 2 of my agent's guide to The Ghost of Avalon. Slide titled "The Intrigue." At five years old, Avalon was betrothed to a prince. At fourteen, she was forced to fake her own death. Now, five years later, she must come back to life to save the only man who knows she’s still alive--the king who had a hand in her supposed death.
Slide 3 of my agent's guide to The Ghost of Avalon. Slide titled "The Plot." When Avalon uncovers a plot to murder the royal family, she must return to the castle she fled under the guise of death to save the only man who knows she’s still alive—the king who had a hand in her supposed death. With the help of a pesky armored guard whose face she’ll never admit to wanting to see, Avalon must search out clues and implant herself in the affairs of visiting nobility in the hope of discovering who wants the royal family dead. When she discovers the current threats tie back to the death she faked five years ago, she must expose the person responsible for the ghosts who haunt her past and the current murder of a castle servant before death finally comes back to claim her for real…or she ends up married to a prince. She can’t decide which is worse.
Slide 4 of my agent's guide to The Ghost of Avalon. Slide titled "The Similarities." Throne of Glass - Unforgiving female protagonist and castle setting For She is Wrath - Back from the dead and revenge murders The Princess Bride - Storytelling aspect Fable - Fantasy without magic An Ember in the Ashes - Intrigue and murder
A....Guide to The Ghost of Avalon
YA Medieval Mystery
🔥Tension-filled Slow Burn
😏Witty Banter
🫶Found Family
👀Questionable Truths
🗡️Second Chances Gone Wrong
#P2Pit #UW #Q #YA #M #F #agentguide
Looking around my newly purchased old bakery that I am turning into a chocolate shop. It had lots of old dark wood and it was meant to be. For now I have a sign to fix. Charming chocolates #P2Pit #A #UW #Romance #Relationships
2 years after her banishment, a failed apothecary student is thrust in the middle of a 1000 year war between the physical and spiritual world, indebted by a blood oath made by her long dead grandmother to resurrect dead gods and defeat false prophets.
#P2Pit #A #F #SF #W #UW
Top Left: A young Asian man looks to the right with his thumb and finger on his face. He has black hair with a topknot and a brown jacket. Top Center: A megacorp building. Top Right: Perspective of someone looking down, with the shadows of an adult and child walking together. Middle Left: A glowing DNA Helix. Middle Center: Over a black background, two glowing hands - a red one in the top left and a blue one in the bottom right - reach out with their pointer fingers. Text is centered in middle, reading: A Cut to the Quick Middle Right: In what appears to be a classroom, individuals seem to be watching what appears to be an android. Bottom Left: Close up of a young woman's hand, with a wishbone ring on her finger. Her eye is barely out of view. Center Bottom: From the POV of looking up, a portal appears with angels flying down. Bottom Right: A young black woman with short black curly hair. She is wearing a white tank top, dark sunglasses and earrings. She leans against a stone wall.
Two lives intersect.
Jude Hisakawa. A young man determined to give his sister the world, even when that world wants him dead.
Avi Rosseau. A young lady destined for greatness, if a little too soft. But family secrets can stay hidden for so long.
#P2Pit #W #UW #SF
Feets / couple kiss infront fire /potions/broken clockwork/ quote
SLEEP TOKEN X OUAT X VINCENZO
In a world in where magic seems to be known to everyone, a woman comes to change everything.
#Uw #A #P2PPit #P2pit
“Did you hear? There’s a human on board.” A mood board for my manuscript: "SF heist meets F/NB romance: queer aliens rob the TED conference and complain about their human." The mood board is a spaceship wall with a single looking out over a planet. There are hexagon-shaped polaroid photos taped to the wall and a string of Christmas lights for cheer. On the right is a diagram of a spaceship on a post-it note with alien writing. There is overlaid text: Priorities: Make dinner Remain cozy Haul cargo Go for drinks Pull off one last score Try not to fall in love Problems: Gun-happy pirates, nosy crewmates, terrible translator software, cultural misunderstandings, and a ticking clock. Found family of dropouts and runaways: terrifying monster (ordinary human) agender ship’s cook (fussy) sweet little old lady (giant bug) loudmouth nudibranch (adorable) grumpy single dad (with a secret) autistic tween (with a bigger secret) renegade lesbian nun (big player) the mastermind (in over his head) Frank the cat (sleepy)
Tai's terrified of humans. Everyone is. So why did their captain just hire one?
Sci-fi heist meets F/NB Beauty and the Beast, where “Beauty” is the non-binary alien narrator, and “Beast” is a terrifying monster—or from her perspective, an ordinary human. #P2Pit #A #Q #R #SF #OV #lgbt
BUFFY X THE EX HEX
In SF, a self-taught hedge witch screws up a spell binding herself to a vexing handsome wizard chased by an ancient cult. Now she needs to fix the disaster while avoiding the demon dogs hunting them because if the wizard dies, they both die. #p2pit #A #R #UF
When a wizard turns a human sympathizing unicorn named Brody into a human to bring peace between the once hated, once not equally accepted unicorns and the always accepted witches and mortals Brody learns that he must stop a war, protect a girl but can he survive it all?
#p2pit #YA #Novella
All Gracie wants is to run her art gallery with her BFF, but instead she has to:
1. Find the Banksy-like artist threatening their success
2. Deal with her annoying new (hot) roommate
3. Go on more dates than roommate to win a terrible bet to keep her apartment
#p2pit #R #A
An unwilling medium with an unwanted ability, smart-mouthed bruiser Constance is a spirit magnet. With a death fresh on her conscience, she joins her friend's ghost hunting team to keep them safe. But trouble looms, risking the boundary between life & death. #P2Pit #uw #a #h #q #uf #horrorcomedy
Abby Lunay is just like Sherlock Holmes, aside from her gender, experience, age, location, name, lack of adherence to logic - ok, maybe she's nothing like Holmes, but there's a murder to solve, and she's on it.
The Hopeless Cases: It's mystery, comedy, and it's fun.
#P2Ppit #UW #Q #P2Pit
The Baneridge Murders
There are 2 rules in murder mysteries:
1. There must be a crime for the detective to solve.
2. There must be multiple suspects.
You’ll notice there’s no rule stating the detective can’t be the victim.
#P2Ppit #UW #Q #P2Pit
#P2pit #UW #YA #R Corey, a bi-racial boy with a prosthetic leg has one chance to win the girl of his dreams, taking her to their limb-difference support group's fall dance, but first he must overcome his toxic anxiety and ask her out.
Acerbic. Addicted. Apocalyptic.
Private eye Zan Anderson just wants to solve crimes and manage her various vices, but a serial killer's arrival in post-apocalyptic Chicago--and a sexy new client--force her to face her demons at the end of the world.
#P2Pit #OnSub #SF #Mystery
Top Left: A giant figure with no face and angel wings towers over a story. Top Center: A blood moon. Top Right: A masked figure with their hands to their face. An orange light shines through one eye. Middle Left: A flintlock gun, laying on red fabric. Middle Center: In darkness, a light shines in the middle. Further in the center is the silhouette of a hand. Upper text reads: IN SHADOWS Bottom text reads: WE TRUST Middle Right: In a red background, there is a dilapidated building, likely a home. Bottom Left: In darkness, light opens up a little through a door. Center Bottom: A mysterious person, presumably a girl, presumably in water and Bottom Right: Shadow play - over a white background, several shadows of scythes hang upside.
500 years post Severace - a calamity that gave the world strange powers and a wandering deity - sixteen year old Taryn Buck finds herself in competition with an elite band of individuals in order to search for her missing father.
#P2Pit #W #UW #F #YA
Started #P2Pit right away and I seem to have peaked.
I'll be hitting that follow button!
Wondering where the agents are...
Adult cozy mystery novel moodboard. The main color is green. Photos include a woman in a green clerical robe, a young girl, a bernese mountain dog, a red church door, a village street with a horse drawn carriage, a coffee pot, and a green hill overlooking a village.
MITFORD w/murder
Pastor Annie took her dream job at a tiny island church to help people, not hurt them. But when a man dies in her office, she's accused of poisoning him. If she doesn't find the real culprit, she'll be preaching her next sermon series in jail.
#P2Pit #Q #A #M
A square, three-by-three moodboard that mainly showcases the colors dark orange and dark blue, with black borders around each image and the square itself. The images are, starting from the image in the upper left and moving right, the lower left of Jupiter with blackness behind it, a deep blue curtain, several dozen tea lights in a dark room, the pilot room of a spaceship with a front window and several neon blue lights, an orange throne room with several chandeliers and a large throne, a blue, radar image of Earth with several simple white bodies in orbit, a close-up of a leather bound book under orange light, a picture of a blue galaxy, and a close up of the eye of Jupiter.
When a coup from Neptune threatens Jupiter’s monarchical rule, Prince Fazli is forced to flee.
He must travel from the warrior halls of Hadon to the marble statues of Deva, and all the while he must read the Books of Magic, to become a Mage and to retake the throne.
#P2Pit #A #sci-fi #UW #WIP
