Cydney Goodwin 💫 is querying

Writer | Aspiring Author | Artist. MFA in Writing. Adult, YA, Crossover. 🐉Fantasy 🪐Sci-Fi 👻Horror #writingcommunity #author Follow on Insta & 🦋: @thegoodcyd

[Cydney Goodwin 💫 is querying @thegoodcyd]

When his village is swarmed with mischievous tree sprites, a young sorcerer must learn to harness his unwieldy magic and save his home from the spirits’ ire.

🪄ATLA x Merlin
🫖Cozy fantasy
🐉Sword, sorcery, & spirits
♥️Slow-burn

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #SFF #agentguide #amquerying

[azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman]

My agent's guide to GODCAT, a PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN dark fantasy/horror blend (with big 5 editor interest + an award)!

I'm #amquerying in a few weeks, so if you've liked a pitch for this, expect something in your inbox soon🐈‍⬛🫀🐦‍⬛ #writingcommunity

[olive 🐞 is projecting and hailing @crws118]

okay now that’s finished i can say confidentially that nothing has ever been as much of a fanfiction on screen as good omens 3 and i’m not just saying that i really mean it with my whole soul.

[Cydney Goodwin 💫 is querying @thegoodcyd]

@Cliopadraart We got exactly what we didn't want 😂

[Carly has ✨A BOOK DEAL ✨ @CJVickWrites]

FREE QUERY CRITIQUES! APRIL/MAY edition - closes at 6pm on May 7th!

I'm giving away TWO (totally) free query critiques on X this month - one for April and one for May. Instructions to enter below. NOTE: this giveaway is only running on X this time BUT there are two critiques up for grabs!

There are ZERO strings attached. Just one author supporting another. That's it. 📷#WritingCommunity #amquerying

[Sally Bromley @sally_bromley]

BLUE SISTERS X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
'Beauty is a Brittle Glass' -
A sister always has your back until she sticks a knife in it.🔪
#editors please reach out to my agent @virtuallyleslie @PrentisLiterary
#questpit #AG #A #U

[Cydney Goodwin 💫 is querying @thegoodcyd]

So many author friends getting agented recently!! Really encouraging to see. Congrats everyone!! We all know you worked your asses off for this! ❤️

[Cydney Goodwin 💫 is querying @thegoodcyd]

@alpaolucci Um YES 👀👀👀 Your collage this last questpit really stood out, I loved it!

[Cydney Goodwin 💫 is querying @thegoodcyd]

One of the best parts about #QuestPit was all the real humans flooding my notifications for once! 😂 Now that the bots are back spamming my posts, I am even more grateful for all the wonderful authors I got to interact with! Thank you all for a great time! 💖

[lilly (豆腐心) has a book deal!! ✨ @LillyLuWrites]

a non-exhaustive list of schmagency red flags! just some off the top of my head as someone who’s been around for a bit (pitchwars mentee, roundtable mentor, on my third and fourth v wonderful agents):

-agencies that offer paid editorial services (agencies never charge $) 🚩

[Amanda Carbonell 🇵🇷 is repped again @Amandabadillo25]

Don’t Let the Forest in x Rumpelstiltskin retelling

ROT WIP has

- Botanical Horror
- Rage and what happens when you swallow it
- Grief
- Dark Academia
- Horrormance

#questpit #W #Q #YA #H

[Rihdara Klay (also on 🦋) @rihdaraklay]

WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE
a fantasy horror about a college freshman who joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic
🫀dark academia x body horror x STEM
🫀south asian rep x bi4bi
🫀vengeance, moral ambiguity, & guts galore
#questpit #W #A #F #H

[Alyssa is ✨AGENTED ✨ @lyssa_whitt]

An Editor’s Guide for my Romantasy!

‼️ LARGE Booktok Interest ‼️

🌊 Last of her kind w amnesia
🔥 Zutara coded
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
✨ Slow Burn
💔 Forbidden Love
👑 Knight x Princess
⏳ Painfully Slow Burn
🩸 TOUCH HER/HIM & DIE

#QuestPit #AG #A #F

[Cydney Goodwin 💫 is querying @thegoodcyd]

@bylaylanoor What a beautiful mood board ❤️

[layla noor ♡ @bylaylanoor]

mae is a disgrace figure skater. elise is a grieving artist. when their lives collide at college, they fall hopelessly in love, but the ghosts they carry threaten to tear them apart.

ft.
🌙 first love
🛰️ explorations of grief & abuse
🤍 literary prose

#QuestPit #Q #A #R

[ziqing @ziqingzip]

The vibes of WORK IN PROGRESS, a contemporary romance with women’s fiction crossover

💌 Nemeses-to-lovers
🎨 Quarter-life crisis
🧧 #Asian-setting
🥴 Complicated family dynamics
❣️ 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU X CRAZY RICH ASIANS

#questpit #W #A #R #ownvoices

[melinda 龚 | THIS WRETCHED DAWN out now!❤️‍🔥 @melindagong]

WEDNESDAY x CHINESE MYTHOLOGY 🖤🧧ft:

🗡️ morally gray heroines (sisters)
🐉 chinese folklore
🀄️ family secrets
💌 diverse found family
🗝️ secret society
❤️‍🔥 slowburn romance
📜 thousand yr old curse

#QuestPit #NA #F #Q #DF

[Alyssa Matesic @AlyssaMatesic]

If your novel moves too slow, readers will put it down partway through.

If it moves too fast, readers won't feel connected to your characters or immersed in your scenes.

Whether it's a slow start, a saggy middle, or a rushed ending, pacing is one of the biggest problems I see in manuscripts I edit.

Here are 5 practical steps to nail the perfect pace:

[Cydney Goodwin 💫 is querying @thegoodcyd]

@AuthorCWitcher @triadaus That's so exciting!!! Congrats!!!

[Christine Witcher | Author @AuthorCWitcher]

I’M AN AGENTED AUTHOR!!!

I'm so excited to share that I’m now represented by Brent Taylor at @triadaus

If you love:

✨ Found family
✨ Witchy romcoms
✨ Enchanted houses

CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR FAKE BOYFRIEND IS EVIL is one step closer to being in your hands!

[S.J. Cristea @sj_cristea]

It’s official!!! I’m gonna be a published author!! Words cannot describe how grateful I have felt these last few months, this is an absolute dream come true ❤️

Skeeter Pete 🐕🐶 is gonna steal your hearts (unless you’re a cat person 🤭)