s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌

millennial cat parent and wraith; aspiring fantasy author. Querying my manuscript "Twists of Woe" soon 🚫AI.

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

Dragon Age: Origins meets Tigana ⚔️

🐦‍⬛TWISTS OF WOE
112k Adult Dark Fantasy

When a court witch discovers a plot to take her life, she has no choice but to work with an outcast prince to survive and fight for their land. ✨

#QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

@AnnaSarlet I was raised too Catholic to ever possibly accomplish that

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

@Author_iknowles Best of luck! I'll start soon 😭

[nina is querying! @ninajrab]

So how do we get all of these great #QuestPit pitches onto bookshelves, because I want to read them yesterday

[Rebecca Jones @NovelistRJones]

A Soul in Pain: Une Âme en Peine

Corpse Bride X Phantom of the Opera

🖤 1899 Decaying French Chateau
🖤 “Touch her and die”
🖤 Forced proximity
🖤 Locked doors, forbidden rooms, hidden attics
🖤 Deceptive Guardian
🖤 Cursed tokens
🖤 Looming forced marriage

#W #A #R #PR #GothicRomance #questpit

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

This was my first #QuestPit and I think it went well! The anxiety alone of putting my pitch out there! No agent interest but lots of amazing pitches and some new author friends! On to the query trenches next!

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

Dragon Age: Origins meets Tigana ⚔️

🐦‍⬛TWISTS OF WOE
112k Adult Dark Fantasy

When a court witch discovers a plot to take her life, she has no choice but to work with an outcast prince to survive and fight for their land. ✨

#QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

[Shinyfluff 🌿🪬 @ShinyFluffdnd]

#QuestPit #A #F #HF #PR #W

paranormal con-artists Irina & Magda swindle aristocrats across Central Europe and end up entangled in a centuries-long battle between generational vampires including Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory

doing re-writew now! pix mine

[Neha♦️Reader | Writer | Dessert Person @NehaYazmin]

days before Aaryana is named Heir, a scheme is devised to not only take the throne from her but also to ruin her reputation completely

👸ambitious FMC w/ a soft❤️
🫅brooding MMC w/ a 💔secret
💘fake dating
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒found family
💔forbidden love
🖤slow🔥 hate-to-love
🧜‍♀️

#F #YA

[nina is querying! @ninajrab]

An agent's guide to THIS DARKNESS IS A PART OF ME

⚔️ deadly competition
🖤 he has sworn to take her life, she thinks he is her only ally
🧠 ancient power lurking, negative emotions manifesting as shadows
⚡️only her touch can soothe his fracturing mind

#questpit #Q #YA #F

[Laura Boss @LauraABond]

Most chosen ones fear their prophecies. Princess Velaya treats hers like homework: find the loopholes, cure the Corruption, escape the crown. One problem: the magic she loves may be destroying the world.

TIDES OF COLOUR | 120K Adult Epic Fantasy

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentguide

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

@LauraABond Considering I managed to sneak a typo in there? 💀

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

This should already be one shelves 🎨

[Laura Boss @LauraABond]

Introducing the art of spellpainting—a hard magic system.

But what happens when the colour runs out?

🌈 8 magical disciplines
⚖️ Power governed by balance
🌑 Overuse has devastating consequences
🏰 Academy

TIDES OF COLOUR | 120K Adult Epic Fantasy #QuestPit #Q #A #F

[Samantha Chung @drsamchung]

What if magic wasn’t an innate gift, but a language anyone could learn?

When a student discovers the elite magical academy she fought her way into needs the disease killing her mother, she must expose the truth before time runs out.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

@ninajrab I miss both so much I had to cram their vibes into my book 😭

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

GoT x DRAGON AGE:ORIGINS
🐦‍⬛
•magic is a burden
•religious persecution
•court intrigue & conspiracies
•slow burn
•reluctant allies
•no chosen ones
•portals & hidden realms
•High Medieval aesthetic
⚔️

#A #F #DF #Q #QuestPit

[Brook ✨is REVISING✨ @brfontenot]

THE TREES HAVE TEETH - Appalachian Folkhorror

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN

"Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her."

🌲 Nature & rot
💀 Death as an entity
🍄 Botanical Horror
⛰️ Mountains/woods
🐇 Eerie folklore

#QuestPit #A #H #W

[Bri Eberhart is querying ✨️ @bri_eberhart]

an #agentsguide to THE DELIVERANCE OF BRIAR GLEN, a paranormal thriller

Perfect for the following:
👻 Anyone who loves a supernatural twist on a thriller
❤️‍🩹 Simone St. James fans (romance aspects)
🏚️ Those who crave sentient houses
🔪 Fans of quiet horror

#questpit #Q #A #PR #T

[Ashleigh UpChurch @myquirkywriting]

In 1982, a reporter investigates the collapse of a notorious ballet empire, and the disappearance of the dancer who inspired its tyrannical founder’s final obsession. Agent and Editor interest! #QuestPit #Q #A

[Caitie Cochrane | Author @fairyandtales]

🦢 Editor’s guide for my Swan Lake meets Cyrano de Bergerac reimagining, SWAN SONG.

Hi, I’m Caitie! I’m a Canadian YA Fantasy author of creepy fairytales, grieving girls, and sapphic yearning. 

Any interested editors please contact my agent Rebecca Lommers at Katie Reed Literary.

#YA #F #RF #AG #questpit

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

@LauraABond Let the infamous last comment on the manuscript be thy testament

[s.v.riesling_#QuestPit 📌 @sv_riesling]

When Laura and I first exchanged manuscript for a critique swap, I wasn't hyped at seeing "chosen one" among the tropes—not my cup of tea. Well, her wonderful, thoughtful, deep story made me eat my words. I loved it. The characters, the world, the stakes are just so captivating✨

[Laura Boss @LauraABond]

THE WITCHER x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A princess seeks to outsmart her prophecy, only to discover that the magic she loves may be destroying the world she was born to protect.

🎨 Colour magic
🏰 Academy
❤️ Romance

TIDES OF COLOUR | 120K Adult Epic Fantasy

#QuestPit #W #A #F

[Melody is querying a pirate romantasy 🏴‍☠️ @melodywanders]

☠️PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN x FOURTH WING ☠️

Escaping her abusive master was just the beginning.
In order to survive, Aurelia must pass the deadly recruiting pirate trials.
Her only hope? The handsome first mate.
#Questpit #Q #A #RF #F

[Letty Sharpe HAS A BOOK DEAL! @LettySWrites]

STONESINGER

When her family is exiled to the industrial north, a fallen heiress must form a pact with a callous female mine owner to reclaim her future – even as the mine’s ancient magic unravels her morals and her sanity.

autistic & sapphic rep

#W #AG #A #RF #QuestPit

[T.L. Leicester | Fantasy Author @ByTLLeicester]

The agent’s guide to THE MASTER MACHINEER, a 90,000-word adult gaslamp fantasy novel.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F