French living room with bowl of lemons, sunshine and an open door
HOW TO KILL MEN AND GET AWAY WITH IT X A YEAR IN PROVENCE
What would you do if you discovered the house you inherited once belonged to a suspected serial killer?
#QuestPit #A #Th #U #Q
This is a moodboard consisting of the following images: A man and woman leaning toward eachother between bookshelves; A hand gently cradling a light pink Orb; A woman with long reddish-brown hair walking towards an office building; Friends having a picnic; An empty Billboard Top 100 chart; A vinyl with colorful clouds escaping from it.
SONGS DIES HERE #W #A #S #F #questpit
Who controls what the world gets to hear?
French living room with bowl of lemons, sunshine and an open door
HOW TO KILL MEN AND GET AWAY WITH IT X A YEAR IN PROVENCE
What would you do if you discovered the house you inherited once belonged to a suspected serial killer?
#QuestPit #A #Th #U #Q
The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END
When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.
#QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q
I have officially made my debut in HORROR!
My new short story The Vanisher is now available at the Chain Letter Substack! If you liked the movie Malignant, then this is for you!
Warnings for blood, gore, and garbage disposals
weeklychainletter.substack.com/p/the-vanish...
the (new) dedication of the book that will HOPEFULLY stay as it is unless it goes through another change <3
the book features my bangladeshi fmc, mahira and my puerto rican mmc, valentino !!
the tropes of the book, not including the various microtropes throughout !!
the comps of the book, though the third comp is a movie comp and has a book by the original author itself—i prefer the movie more over the book of the same name, hence i'm comping the movie adaptation instead of the original book <33
#questpit #NA #A #POC #R #DR #W
title: THE VILLAIN'S MUSE.
KING OF SLOTH x GOD OF FURY x PERFECT ADDICTION
She's healing a heart wrapped in silk carrying scars like armour.
He's a broken monster with blood on his hands and a hunger for chaos.
WEYWARD X VLADIMIR
Freshly divorced, Judith retreats to rural France to restore her great-aunt Catherine’s cottage—and inherits a town shaped by Catherine’s crimes. When the town’s turns on Judith, she doesn’t run. She fights back. And she might be just like Catherine.
#QuestPit #A #Th
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
BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”
Coming soon to agent inboxes!
• • •
ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive
#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit
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
I’d read this!
Thank you!
WEYWARD X VLADIMIR
Freshly divorced, Judith retreats to rural France to restore her great-aunt Catherine’s cottage—and inherits a town shaped by Catherine’s crimes. When the town’s turns on Judith, she doesn’t run. She fights back. And she might be just like Catherine.
#QuestPit #A #Th
The Tragedy of Lancelot:
Twilight x Masked Rider
A teenager with anxiety finds herself protected from a shadowy organization who commands mutant hybrids by a mysterious cyborg with connections to her estranged mother. #YA #Q #SFF #R #QuestPit
girl leaning against a bare mattress. a pink and blue jelly fish. blurry red and gold fish. .a blond-haired man cooking with a cat on his back A tall, purple-tinted tower. A hand with blue fire. Two people almost kissing. A distorted silhouette. A dandelion on fire. A city with a red haze.
METAL BONES, PLASTIC HEART
👩💻Lonely teenage hacker
🤖Mysterious android boy
❤️🔥Slow-burn romance
🩸Powerful mega-corporations
🌃A sprawling city
🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold answers about more than just a murder...
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #SF #M #Q
THE SOUND OF MUSIC x THE EXORCIST
Hell hath no fury as a nun scorned.
In 17C France, a small town is plunged into hysteria when a spurned nun accuses a priest of witchcraft, sparking a deadly inquisition. A feminist retelling of The Devils of Loudun.
#BLUEPIT #A #H #H #Q
THE SOUND OF MUSIC x THE EXORCIST
Hell hath no fury as a nun scorned.
In 17C France, a small town is plunged into hysteria when a spurned nun accuses a priest of witchcraft, sparking a deadly inquisition. A feminist retelling of The Devils of Loudun.
#BLUEPIT #A #H #H #Q
If you know someone affected by the ban on disposable vapes, an easy way to help them with the withdrawals is to buy them a packet of AAA batteries and allow them to throw one into a random bush or front garden each day so they can still get their fix
Dog on bed, still light outside
I used to like coming home just as it was getting light - now I love going to bed before it gets dark. Heaven !
Very pink shop window for a French beauty salon for children.
French beauty salon for age 3 upwards. Not quite Botox for babies, but definitely manicures, pedicures and facials for pre-schoolers…Thoughts ?
So many books seem to be going under the radar right until publication - and sometimes after. Marketing budgets ?
I'm obsessed with this li'l hungry bub.
Siamese with young grass snake
4th in as many days. Snakes 4. Cat 0
Oh, the folly of accepting an invite to a surprise birthday party on a school night
The image shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title. #writingcommunity #writesky #a #spec #wippit #questpit #bluepit #dvpit
CABIN IN THE WOODS×JOHN DIES AT THE END×KNIVES OUT
When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign. 🎲🥓
#WIPPIT #A #H #MM
“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’s backdrop is the interior wall of a spaceship wall with a single viewport looking out over an ocean 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)
WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN
Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worst of all, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #Q #SF #LGBTQ #R #A
Thank you anyway
Cambridge USA or Cambridge UK?
To Bordeaux, for example !
A collage of images, going from top left clockwise: a bouquet of colorful berries, swooping white towers with spiral balconies, a shiny purple beetle, a colorful shop full of knick-knacks, a blooming crocus in a dark forest, a drawing of a woman reaching out to the night sky as if to pluck a star, a crumbling castle on a moor, and mushrooms growing on a tree. In the center is a quote by Virginia Woolf: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”
UPROOTED x NAUSICAÄ
🪲 A naïve natural historian in desperate need of a guide through the cursed forest.
🌌 A non-binary rogue who will do anything to rescue their family.
👀 A plot to trap the rogue brings them together.
❤️ Their hearts will draw them closer.
#WSPit #WSPitQ #A #F #LGBT
