Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️

Neon picture for an agent’s guide to Get Ghosted. Features a picture of a kid wearing a sheet with sunglasses over it and pointing to the titled Get Ghosted

Text with arrows pointing to the different pictures reads: vengeful ghosts, reunited the boy with his body, talk to ghosts, and am I actually dead though?

On a neon smoke background is a long snippet from the book

School Spirits x Cemetery Boys

When Skyler made a 🤝 with the reaper to catch 👻 in exchange for putting her cancer in remission, she did not have a half ghost boy begging her to reunite him with his body on her bingo card. The ⏰ is ticking and the reaper doesn’t like secrets.

#questpit #Q #YA #LGBT

Moodboard for Get Ghosted

Recipe:

1 tsp teenage 👻 hunter

2 tsp 🤝 with the grim reaper to keep her cancer at bay

3 tsp annoying 👻 who swears he’s alive & begging for help finding his body

2 tbsp potential to ruin her 🤝 if she helps the 👻

Shake and stir. Pray the reaper doesn’t know what you’re up to
#questpit #Q #YA

TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF

Practical Magic x The Honey Witch

Two sisters develop the ability to sense love and are able to determine a person’s true love… for everyone except themselves ✨

With Big 5 Editor interest

#QuestPit #Q #A #YA #F #R

A shadowy school building, stars in the sky, and the text: an agents guide to the bells of le fay, adult dark academia fantasy, A. J. Sable

The silhouette of a woman holding a ball of light in front of trees. The text reads: pitch, The price of magic is monstrous-literally. Lola Knight didn’t mean to murder her best friend. When her violent and volatile magic spirals out of control, instead of punishment, she’s enrolled in an elite magical academy to seek control before it kills again. But there she finds herself at the centre of a monstrous mystery; one that threatens the future of the entire witching world.

A spell book lying open amongst candles and a mirror. The text reads: tropes, sapphic enemies to lovers, female rage, elite magical university, secret society, body horror, underworld realm.

The shadow of a woman standing before a giant misty creature. The text reads: with the cathedral-like academy behind her, the gothic towers soaring above the treetops, it felt like she was in a fairy-tale. But if that were true, she was no princess. She was the monster they had to defeat.

A DEADLY EDUCATION x KATABASIS but make it sapphic.

🖤A witch with ‘control or be consumed’ magic
🖤A monstrous mystery
🖤A combative love interest with too many secrets
🖤A magical academy with too many libraries
🖤And an underworld realm with an (unhelpful) ghost

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

Assassin's Creed x The Louvre heist (iykyk)

When a heist goes wrong, 2 members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a jinn bent on the subjugation of human & jinn-kind. With Seen and Unseen on their tail, can they thwart the jinn's plans?

#questpit #Q #YA #UF

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind.

#QuestPit #AG #YA

Mood board with: two interlocking wedding bands; a pendant with a heart that looks like a computer chip; a push-button computer chip; a gloved hand holding a flaming tube of red lipstick; a "New Messages" notification envelope symbol; a false eyelash; a broken mirror with pieces being picked up by a woman's hands; a woman's head and torso covered with billowing, sheer red fabric; a control room with a high-backed chair and several red computer screens; a woman in a long, close-fitting black dress with several dangling cords around her; a staircase with a woman in a formal black dress at the top and a man in a suit at the bottom, both people with their backs to the camera; fingers holding a broken mirror in which one eye is reflected; and a cocktail glass with cherries in and around it as well as a lipstick- and other red substance-smeared napkin, and a woman's hand (with long red nails, two silver rings, and sheer black fabric covering part of her hand/wrist) holding the glass.

“Love Is Blind” x THE STEPFORD WIVES

Alyssa attends a singles retreat where, unbeknownst to her, a wealthy man pays a hefty sum to make her fall in love. When she returns home after two years abroad with him, her friends are shocked at just how much she's changed.

#QuestPit #Q #A #S #T

Red and tan collage of images, a moodboard with sewing items and red beads reminiscent of blood. A beaded torso with red wound on the chest, silver storm scissors, chipped black nail polish, patches that say they/them and DIY or die, a dress form with tattoo patches and top surgery scars.

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind.

#QuestPit #AG #YA

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more deadly, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind.
#QuestPit #AG #YA

TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF

A black and white sketch of two boys leaning their foreheads together. One has short curly dark hair and many scars, and the other has short blonde hair and nicer clothes.

❤️LESS HUNTER x PRINCE OF FORTUNE
🏳️‍⚧️ ex-princess Finn wants revenge on the empress who killed his family, but soon falls for her son, a boy with illegal magic. The boys must outrun the empress’s hunt for Finn before she discovers she’s not hunting a girl at all. #QuestPit #YA #F #W

❤️LESS HUNTER x PRINCE OF FORTUNE
🏳️‍⚧️ ex-princess Finn is getting revenge on the empress who killed his family, & must NOT fall for her son, a boy w/ illegal magic. ft:
- dual pov Yearning™️
- ghost magic!
- oh u have a knife to my neck…are we about to kiss

+ WNDB Mentorship

#questpit #YA #F #W

A moodboard for the dark fantasy, GODCAT, featuring liminal spaces, black cats, and a magpie's eye.

SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN x PIRANESI

A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—until she meets a godling who knows things about her only her owner could've known.
#Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC

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

Moodboard. Top left: piece of antler against lack background. Top middle: lit candles against black surface. Top right: bloodied white rose on white surface. Middle left: Dark picture of knight with helmet atop a horse. Middle: red moon and clouds against a dark sky. Middle right: piece of a cathedral against dark cloudy sky. Bottom left: blue glowing mushrooms against dark background. Bottom middle: pair of hands held up in prayer. Bottom right: supply of herbs and crystals in a basket for witchcraft

GODKILLER x WITCH KING

🏰 An empire built on hatred of demons
🗡️ An escaped demon assassin
🏛️ A condemned priest
❤️ And the newly born god of Love

Together, they must return compassion to the world. But Love is a dangerous force, and its god is no different.

#Questpit #A #F #DF #W #LGBT

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

Assassin's Creed x The Louvre heist (iykyk)

When a heist goes wrong, 2 members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a jinn bent on the subjugation of human & jinn-kind. With Seen and Unseen on their tail, can they thwart the jinn's plans?

#questpit #Q #YA #UF

A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME

Will the weight of an underwater kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al'Maii?

🦅 Forced Proximity
✨ Middle-Eastern folklore & unique magic system
⚔️ Quest
♥️ Yearning & spice
⚖️ Magical politics/Corruption & Greed
🪞 Exploration of ‘otherness’
💫 23 fulls

#Questpit #Q #RF

TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact & she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF

An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy.

Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind. Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails. Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto.

Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Daughter Of No Worlds (Carissa Broadbent) - Reluctant allies to lovers - Broken love interest with a scarring secret - Male yearning - Betrayal - Hidden rage & trauma Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - High stakes survival and adventure - Critical quest fuelled by legend - Changing loyalty - Pirate fantasy - Sea myths & magical creatures

Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?” Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought. What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words. How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to. Would he have regretted her kiss? “No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”

Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter

A maid and a pirate hunting for a mythical stone spark a budding romance, but when his past threatens their mission & her bff's life, she must betray her heart to save her friend.

#QuestPit #NA #RF #Editing

A mood board for our querying novel, THE SIREN'S CALL. There are 9 quares in a 3x3 format. The images in the corners and centre are a brighr shade of blue, while the others are greyscale. From top left to bottom right the images include: A pirate flag. A man silhouetted in front of a sail, holding onto rigging on a ship. Sails and rigging. A blond boy reading a book. A black ship ominously heading towards camera. A brown haired girl with her back to camera. A wheel on a ship. A male figure in a suit with their back to camera. A map and sword.

Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter

Running to sea to escape her violent employer, Delphine never expected to fall for a pirate Captain - or to betray him to retrieve a legendary Stone & save her bff's life.

#QuestPit #NA #RF #Q

Group of six misfit ghost hunters huddled around a laptop. One looks excited. The rest are bewildered. One accidentally spills his coffee. The words, “announcement of literary representation” are above them.

It’s been a long journey getting here. Details on the agency to come at a later time, but I am now officially agented! (I think my ghost hunters are taking the news with the utmost grace.)

#amwriting #amquerying #amagented

An agent's guide to THE HEART DEVOURER'S SONG, an adult asian-inspired romantic fantasy. Selected for the 2025 SmoochPit mentorship program.

Devious sunshine fox demon bard x Soft-hearted grump demon hunter. 🌈Asexual spec MC 🌦️reluctant alliance 🌱Found Family ❤️Slow burn romance 🪕Inspired by Chinese music and mythology 🌖Morally gray yet kind MC 🏔️Chinese demons, immortals, and magic

Pitch: THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a fox demon bard seeking to become human so she no longer has to devour hearts joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain but falls for a soft-hearted grump demon hunter—and with only one wish at the mountain’s peak, love is a weakness she can’t afford.

COMPS: Immortal, The Scorpion and the Night Blossom, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

An #agentsguide to THE HEART DEVOURER’S SONG, an adult, Asian-inspired romantic fantasy that was selected for the 2025 #smoochpit mentorship program.

All the art used in my agent's guide was illustrated by me.
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#querying #fantasy #grumpysunshine #queryingwriter #romanticfantasy #amquerying

A Pop Art style graphic with the title of the book in bubble writing in the centre, with the text Coming Spring 2026.

Synopsis: Adopted 23yo Harri senses a chance to escape from his dilapidated hometown after hearing of the death of his secret and estranged Uncle Eric. Upon meeting Eric’s flatmate Gloria in her Soho home, Harri discovers Eric was the opposite of his homophobic adoptive mother—he was Wilma Cockburn, the iconic lead star of famous 80's act The Dragnificent Seven, and prominent gay rights activist. Learning Uncle Eric’s dying wish was to reconnect with his drag friends, Harri sets off on a road trip with Gloria’s attractive friend Jack. Together they have one goal: find the missing queens. As each queen reveals their part in historical LGBTQ+ activism, Harri uncovers a dark truth about his adoptive mother’s past that will now impact his own future. When Harri attempts to organise a reunion show for the queens, he battles to keep his relationship with Jack alive. But when Jack goes missing, Harri’s mother arrives to demand Harri returns to his hometown. Caught in a showdown between his mother, Jack, and the drag queens, Harri must choose to honour the legacy of his uncle and fight to build a future with Jack, or keep ties with the woman who raised him.

👑EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS 👑

An Adult LGBTQ+ RomCom. Arriving Spring 2026 through Spectrum Books.

The novel follows Harri as he undertakes a road trip to reunite members of his late uncle's iconic 1980's drag troupe, The Dragnificent Seven.

An agent's guide to STARSENT, by azi ossman

An #agentsguide to STARSENT, my MISTBORN x HOUSE OF THE BEAST friends-to-enemies YA secondary world Fantasy, or “Friendtasy”, complete at 106k words, already with Big 5 Editor interest!

I’m now officially #amquerying so if you’d like to see this, lemme know! 💫

The front cover of the book, with the characters of Alex and Theo nearby. The text reads: Available now. Half the World Away. When Theo joins Year 9 at his local state school, he reluctantly agrees to take part in a new national pen pal project. After losing hope of a reply, an unexpected letter arrives from Alex, a confident private school boarder, sparking a connection that could change everything. www.linktree.com/jamesalyons

Reviews - “Would fully recommend. It was such an easy read, and I absolutely loved it. The flow of the writing between Alex's letters and Theo's day were really well done and made it seamless to the point that you knew exactly what was going on.” ~ ARC review “A gorgeous, heartwarming, fuzzy book. I adored this from start to finish. I would have loved to have read more books like this growing up - so much about this book was wholesome and at the same time thought provoking. I would highly recommend this book! Absolutely gorgeous” ~ ARC review “Half the World Away explores love, distance, and identity in such a heartfelt way that I found myself smiling one minute and tearing up the next. It was tender, funnny, and quietly powerful. The themes of belonging, queer identity, and self-discovery shine through with warmth and emotion.” ~ ARC review “Half the World Away is a gorgeous, heartwarming story and I know you’ll just FALL IN LOVE with it! If you liked Heartstopper, you’ll love this! Sweet, wholesome and everything you need in a book.” ~ ARC review

SEPTEMBER 1995 According to Nan, I’m four times more likely to be eaten by a shark than I am to win the National Lottery. Well, the joke is on her. I have never paddled deeper than my shins in the sea, and in front of me sits a winning lottery ticket. It may only be three matching numbers and worth a tenner, but I will take any positivity I can get. Life has been one kickback after another recently. Ten pounds won’t change that, and I often wonder if I’ll ever get a real lucky day. Today is my second ever first day of school. With the way Mum has been making a fuss, I should have an adventurous excitement flowing through my veins with each ripple from my heartbeat. The truth is my stomach is knotted as I stare down at three soggy Weetabix. They swim around my bowl, turning to mush, whilst Take That remind me from the radio to never forget where I came here from.

Heartstopper meets Boy Like Me. Theo has been home schooled for three years, but his mother’s terminal illness forces him into Year Nine at his local school. Struggling to adapt, he’s persuaded to join a national pen pal project. His letter lands on the desk of Alex—a confident, private school boarder, and aspiring county rower—everything Theo is not. Despite their differences, the two begin to secretly confide, sharing struggles with grief, loneliness, and the pressures of a society demanding conformity. As their correspondence intensifies, Theo realises he has fallen for the boy in the letters. Concerned the outside world remains unwelcoming, and with Alex set to move to France, Theo must express his true feelings before they miss their chance to meet.

Half the World Away is now yours.

HEARTSTOPPER meets BOY LIKE ME

Set in the midst of Section 28, the BBC launch an inter-school pen pal project. Theo writes. Alex replies. This is what happens next.

Thanks to those who have written such wonderful reviews.

I really hope you all love it ✉️🌎

Opening page to agent's guide. Text: Agent's guide to You are Not the Chosen One, an adult queer fantasy by Melanie Locke. Placed at the center of an artdeco frame with black and golden coloring

Part two of the agent's guide. Artdeco background with black and gold. Pitch: When Seer Cass learns there's no Chosen One to save the world from a Fear based apocalypse, he tells firefighter Esti she's the Chosen One. If she ever learns he lied, the world will end. Comps on the right with covers and a poster. The Umbrella Academy season 1 poster, the Last Hour between World, the Raven Scholar, Dark Rise.

Snippet. Same background as previous picture, with messy paper on top. Text: “How did it feel?” she asked, voice soft. Careful. For a moment he looked at her, eyes like broken glass. He sat up, fists clenched. “Bad! It feels fucking bad, okay? But it doesn’t matter. If I have to kill one man to save a village then that is what I will do. You can’t save the world without getting blood on your hands. And the worst thing is, it didn’t even work.” Esti didn’t know what to say. Cass stared into the distance, arms wrapped tight around his body. He’d never looked so small before. And yet Esti knew what he was capable of. It mattered little how he felt, his sorrow didn’t bring the mayor back. And perhaps he would have died no matter what. Perhaps Cass had done the best he could in impossible circumstances. But Esti couldn’t forget he’d murdered a man in cold blood. “I didn’t ask for this, you know.” Bitterness spilled out like a basilisk’s venom. “Being the seer meant to stop the Fear, having only one year left.”

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR

👁️ a gay seer determined to fake it till he makes it
🚒 a butch lesbian firefighter who thinks she's the Chosen One
😱 a Fear based apocalypse set to end the world

Without a real Chosen One, what could possibly go wrong?

#Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #Q

Moodboard. Top left: wooden staff standing against pillar. Top right: misty greenhouse. Middle: crystal in a hand. Middle right: tropical plants. Bottom left: spiral staircase in library. Bottom middle: open book. Bottom right: typewriter on desk.

A dying mage and his lover research a way to wield magic without killing mages, but tragedy leaves them separated, soulless and immortal. Centuries later, two magic scientists must retrace their mistakes and help them die before their pain consumes the world.

#Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #W

CRITICAL POSITIONS in inboxes as soon as I can get it properly edited

🫀Aggy has to try her hardest to win the chess residency in order to win a chance at meeting her father. And try not to die while doing so.🫀

#H #R #A #W #Questpit