Lola is 👻querying👻

honestly sooo happy with how this one turned out i was rlly in a flow state

no bc genuinely i made half my stuff from today on canva while procrastinating editing my last chapter 😭

a mock newspaper featuring a large photo of a woman and a small photo of a man. the headline says “local man vanishes without a trace” in a smaller leaders and “girlfriend doesn’t cry on news” in much larger letters. Body text criticizes a woman for failing to cry while talking about her boyfriend’s disappearance on the news.

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND
Windego is a 35K word supernatural horror novella based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all.
#questpit #Q #A #H #S

i love love love folk horror! they work so well together 🙂‍↕️

#agentsguide to How to Be the Girl Who Stays!

HBGWS is about a grieving teen working through her best friend's posthumous list of dares the summer after HS graduation.

🏔️ Set in Western NC
🌷 Lesbian MC
☀️ Summer-y
🌌 Complex Friendships/Relationships
#questpit #Q#YA

the way i didn’t see this was from you and i was like wow that description sounds so familiar

CONTAGION x THE POWER

A strange disease that only seems to affect men appears on an isolated island in Alaska. Fishermen claim the disease came from a mermaid.
The women must choose between finding a cure, despite the implausibility of the mens’ claims, and saving themselves.

#QuestPit #W #A #H

MOUTH PIECE

desperate for beauty, validation, and digital relevance, Blanca seizes on a mysteriously gifted skincare product that promises to transform her life only to discover that it causes a small, insatiable mouth to grow on her stomach.

#W, #LF, #H, #questpit

LOVE this visual marisol omg

An image that looks like a playlist preview that reads: Welcome to the 35K word horror novella Windego highlighting themes and elements of coercion and manipulation from the people who are supposed to love you, platonic soulmates and the ways they help us face trauma and native american folklore from a Bodéwadmi author

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND
Windego is a 35K word supernatural horror novella based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all.
#questpit #Q #A #H #S

Introducing 🍃A RAVEN SONG 🍃

For eldest daughters and platonic soulmates.

⛩️portal fantasy
💫star crossed friendships
🍂nostalgia will kill her
❤️‍🔥touch her and you die, but they're best friends
🗡️reckless bargains and a tattooed elven soldier

#questpit #q #a #f

SLEWFOOT x NIGHTBITCH

When chronically-ill Hannah returns home from college, she learns her maternal line turn into vigilante deer on their 22nd birthdays, leaving her to decide whether she will transform into a deer or choose a shortened human life for love.

#questpit #a #w #h

Two fishing boats sail on a grey ocean, with seagulls in the overcast sky. White text overlaps the grey sky. It reads: A guide to 'From the Sea Fret' a 74k adult queer horror

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Excerpt Text is outlined: I scanned the horizon. It was just me on the water. There wasn’t anyone out sailing, or anyone swimming. I was completely alone. But… was I? Beneath me were leagues of ocean. Unlike in the forest, where you can hear the wildlife around you, there were creatures that could pass by in the sea and I would never know. The water concealed their movement, cloaking them from my view. It was getting harder to breathe. The vastness of the ocean was too open, and my skin felt too tight around my chest. I knew, deep in my bones, that something was beneath me and it was watching. On the port side, the water rippled. Though it was only a few steps, the length of the deck felt miles long. I was compelled to look below, and my body moved on its own accord. Though I was terrified of what I would see, I peered over.

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Pitch and Comps Text is outlined: Callum Point moves to the dead-end town of Perne to scrape together a new life. He's hoping that the small fishing town will give him what he always wanted; peace. Unfortunately, what greets him is a place rife with secrecy, conspiracy and creatures beyond comprehension. 5 posters for books and shows have arrows and notes coming out of them. Dredge by Black Salt Games has the notes: Capitalism despite the horrors. Something's wrong with the fish. Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner has the notes: Queer and trans identity. People are monsters too. The Fisherman by John Langan has the notes: Lovecraftian. Ocean madness. The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers has the notes: Ocean madness. Obsession with answers. Blood in the Bayou by Just Roll With It has the notes: Who can you trust? Small town cosmic terror.

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Themes A moodboard of 9 images sits in the middle. A hand reaching out into dark water. Thick seaweed-covered chains being pulled from the ocean. A foggy wharf at night. A group of sharks in dark water. A pencil drawing of a compass on white paper. Close-up of a hazel eye with the pupil completely white. A pile of fish. A porthole looking out onto a grey ocean. The inside of a fishing shack. Text surrounds the images. It reads: Paranoia turns revenge. Struggles with identity. Trans and queer rep. Grief over what could have been. Desperation to fit in. Cosmic/psychological/body horror. Content warnings: emotional abuse, attempted sexual assault, manipulation, transphobia, internalised transphobia, misogyny, cosmic horror, psychological horror, religious trauma, drug/alcohol use, gore, death, blood, paranoia, body horror

⚓FROM THE SEA FRET⚓ - A cosmic horror from a queer perspective

Callum Point moves to Perne in search of peace. What he finds instead are religious zealots, monstrous fish, and a constant fog that whispers to him.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #LGBT

A reader's guide to Killer Summer by H.D. Pine YA Sapphic Bubblegum horror

Tropes black cat x golden retriever vibes, monstrous romance, cannibalism as metaphor for love, Ferris Wheel confessions, Sapphic pining, toxic independent friendship, cult town in Canadian Prairies, #ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep, touch her and die, friends to lovers

Jennifer's Body, together we rot, this delicious death, the river has teeth, devil in ohio. Pitch: boys start to disappear in lyric's backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/unrequited crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate the cultish town Eleanor calls home and if there is something monstrously wrong with her best friend.

Reach out Opening lines: It took one year of knowing Eleanor for my life to be forever altered down to the core of my being. I haven't decided if it is for the better yet. Represented by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary agency.

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Sapphic Pining
monstrous romance
#ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep
cultish town in the prairies
Bubblegum horror
#Questpit #YA #AG #H #R

OUTERBANKS X EUPHORIA X SEVERANCE
When a designer drug that lets the rich edit memories sweeps through a coastal state split between luxury and neglect, the poor become its testing ground. For fans of Bunny by Mona Awad. #U #Q #A #S #H #LF #T #questpit

An Agent Guide to GUMIHO 86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance By Jennifer Luce

The pitch: Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous.

For fans of... SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore MY DEMON - Redemption through connection THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero

First Lines Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.

Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!

✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest

#A #F #H #R

A college track athlete is determined to reach her lifelong goal of becoming an Olympian, but when she catches feelings for a boy hours away she becomes distracted from her sport and has to determine which takes first place in her life: love or a gold medal. #questpit #W #R

A collage on a dark green background, featuring a lily-of-the-valley pendant and a ruby-and-skull mourning ring, a golden heart pierced by red arrows, a skull set in a golden sunburst plaque, a thorny rose vine, a flame-licked hand reaching for a ruby, an illustrated woman in a mourning veil, a rocky crag full of lava, a gravestone, an all-seeing eye, and a dried rose.

🥀WHAT RETURNS🥀

A Seer with indecipherable visions, a knight returned from the dead, & a motley team of spies & mages must form a plan to defeat a grief-mad necromancer-queen & her massive undead army, preferably before the continent is swallowed by civil war. No pressure.

#questpit #W #DF #R

3x3 mood board, from top left: image of two women braiding each other’s hair while silhouetted against a window; image of a lamb nuzzling another lamb’s ear; image of a white columned mansion; image of white dresses hanging on a dead tree; image of a woman leaning back against a marble altar; image of three figures in white dresses running through a dark forest; image of a bloody hand gripping a sink; image of two masculine figures wearing suits with their heads/faces covered by red silk opening a door to a red-lighted room; image of a young woman laying facedown on a forest floor while shadowy arms reach for her

THE HANDMAID’S TALE x MIDSOMMAR

Under a theocracy preaching human sacrifice as the path to salvation, seven young women determine how much they’re willing to sacrifice to save their own lives when they’re selected as the year’s “Offerings.”

#questpit #h #d #a #q

thank you!! 🩷 i’m sooo excited (and a little scared) to start querying

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SALTBURN X CATCHER IN THE RYE

After being left without any adult supervision, a closeted teenage boy invites his best friend and her brother to his abandoned family estate for the summer.

#QuestPit #YA #LF #HFic #WIP

Enter the maze. Face eldritch horror. Die. Memory rinsed. Repeat.

This is what Maeve Veros must do in order to be reunited with her family.

Each death cuts at her life force & she's running out of time.

The Gods aren't done playing, though & their time is infinite.

#QuestPit #W #A #F #H #LGBT

if NIGHTBITCH and YELLOWFACE had a weird-girl-lit-fic baby
they’d call it MOUTH PIECE

#W (on draft three and sending to betas in feb)
#LF, #H, #questpit

Woman with black eye and tape over her mouth that says SPEAK

I asked for protection from my abuser & was told I had no proof. He made false claim about my miscarriage & I was arrested--also without proof.
True story of being silenced by justice.
#Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

A cover slide that has a desert background with the words, “The 35K word supernatural horror novella Windego: An Agent’s Guide”

A slide with a pitch and blurb. The pitch says: Ivy’s world comes to a screeching halt when her boyfriend, Vince, and his friends all vanish without a trace during a camping trip in West Texas. When Vince shows up cold and shivering on the doorstep in the middle of the night two weeks later, it feels like all of her prayers have been answered, but his strange and disturbing behavior leads Ivy to wonder whether he really ever came home at all. The blurb says: Ivy has everything a girl could want: a thriving pottery business, a beautiful home, and a boyfriend she loves . One weekend is all it takes to destroy her life beyond repair. When Vince and his friends all vanish without a trace while camping in West Texas, Ivy is left alone and adrift, until a stray dog shows up on her porch. She’s always wanted a dog, and Vince has always promised her they’d get one some day, just not today, or tomorrow, or next week. Taking the dog in feels like admitting that Vince is never coming home, but Ivy has to start rebuilding her life at some point. When Vince shows up two weeks later, cold and shivering in the middle of the night, unable to remember anything about his trip, Ivy is elated. She can see the life she’s always wanted coming back to her, and better than ever. But Vince and the dog can’t stand each other, and by shades and degrees, it becomes clear that whatever Vince went through has fundamentally changed him, and Ivy starts to wonder how different someone can become before they aren’t themselves anymore.

A slide with a texas flag style background. On the left it says For fans of: The Only Good Indians, A House with Good Bones, The Lamb, and The Hollow Kind. On the top right, it says: Themes: Facing intimate partner coercion and manipulation, mounting paranoia and distrust in reality, social isolation, platonic soulmates, and overcoming trauma. On the bottom right, it says: Key elements: Based in native american folklore (own voices), Unreliable narrator, Surrealist blending of reality, strong imagery, and body horror

A slide that says excerpt at the top and is followed by: Sometimes, he talks about how I’m different from Mike and Jake’s girlfriends. How Steph and Amber won’t run errands for them like I do for him, or how they insist on having something their way, how they aren’t agreeable or generous like me. I know it should be a compliment, when says he’s happy I’m not a “bitch-wife” the way they sometimes are, but it doesn't feel like one. When we first started dating, he only ever said bitch-wife to make fun of the men who married women they clearly didn’t really like - a jab at the idea of a man who thinks his wife asking for anything makes her unreasonable. We’d laughed together about it, said we loved each other too much to ever be that mean and bitter, that we’d always do anything for each other. I'd believed it too, when he'd said he'd do anything for me. I’m not sure when it changed, when he started to use it for real. It was slow, I guess. The kind of creep you don’t really notice until you hear it one day and it hits you that it isn't funny anymore. That it doesn’t mean what it used to. He still uses it the old way sometimes. Just enough that I can’t ever be entirely sure whether he’s really calling Steph and Amber bitches, or whether he’s mocking Mike and Jake. I like to think it’s the latter. I’m not sure when I stopped asking for things, either. When I started to fear becoming a bitch-wife, even while refusing to admit he means it. Texas is a state built on enduring. Enduring drought, choking heat, bitter cold, sweat in your eyes and dirt that tastes like blood in your mouth. An endless rocky, barren, bitter landscape that refuses to change, and people that refuse to accept it won't ever change. I am a true Texan. There are two more sentences, but they do not fit in the alt text limit.

An agent’s guide to Windego, a 35K word speculative horror novella based on Anishinaabe folklore, exploring themes of: intimate partner manipulation, overcoming trauma, and the role our friends play in finding ourselves again
#questpit #Q #A #H #S #ownvoices

a moodboard that is designed to look like twelve notes on a bulletin board. Starting at the top left and moving towards the bottom right, the images are: A woman and ma embracing, a street sign that says the sun has risen the sun has set and y’all ain’t outta texas yet, Text reading For Fans Of: The Only Good Indians, A House with Good Bones, The Lamb, and The Hollow Kind; a texas flag flying on a snowy road, text reading “the 35k word horror novella Windego, A picture of a sign that says trespassers will be eaten, text that says “Ivy’s world comes to a screeching halt when her boyfriend, Vince, and his friends all vanish without a trace during a camping trip in west texas”, a cow skull, a wolf with a bloody face, a shed that has “all i had i gave” painted on the side, a girl and a dog sitting on a dock, and text that says “When Vince shows up cold and shivering in the middle of the night two weeks later, it feels like all of her prayers have been answered, but his strange and disturbing behavior leads Ivy to wonder whether he really ever came home at all”

Ivy has everything a girl could want: a thriving pottery business, a beautiful home, and a boyfriend she loves. One weekend is all it takes to destroy her life beyond repair. #questpit #Q #A #H #S

strike poster

‼️IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT‼️
In solidarity with the general strike happening this Friday, we’re postponing this week’s event by ONE day. The event will now take place January 31st on Saturday. This strike is important to the both of us and we would appreciate you joining us.

Picture collage includes three people nuzzling, three friends running and jumping through the air, a moss grown stone path in the forest, a woman with a lantern and white dress, and an English Manor House.

The MAGICIANS x THE RAVEN BOYS.

#questpit #W #A #F

The Lady of the Lake and Merlin bump into each other in the modern age. Not just meet cute but a meet-should-we-resurrect-King-Arthur?

Tropes:

Queer Love
Found Family
Destiny and Fate
Small Magic, Big Impact
Slow Burn
Dark Academia

omg i remember seeing this on tiktok forever ago!! so happy to see it’s on sub 👀