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Drummer andrews

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Querying writer of MG and YA. I follow all writers / authors. I live in the U.K. with my husband and 6 cats. I🖤The Cure.

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Drummer andrews @drummerandrews.bsky.social · 2d

#QuestPit, #A, #Q, #T
YOU x Dexter
Quiet teacher, Ella, is not a psychopath – she’s just very committed to her anti-bullying policies. The kind that involve zip ties, knives and plastic sheeting.
And if you stay cruel and remorseless as an adult, she’ll teach you one final, bloody lesson. 🔪

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Drummer andrews @drummerandrews.bsky.social · 10h

My dad had Alzheimer's so I feel like we lost him a few years back in many ways.
He died last week and now I feel like we've lost him all over again.
What a cruel illness dementia truly is.
Love you, Dad. Sleep Well. #Alzheimers

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Tony the Invisible Writer @tkbwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I Am Not A Toy #Questpit 👨‍🦽 #PB #W #DIS #A

Kids at Tommy's new school push his wheelchair without asking.
His teacher helps him see this is unintentional bullying and teaches him self-advocacy by talking to his class.

I hope this PB will help kids & adults learn about this very real issue.

#KidLit

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Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social · 2d

#QuestPit

Stuck baby-sitting AGAIN, 12-y.o. Frankie Abagnale sneaks off to Pom Squad auditions w/ her immunocompromised, recovering-from-heart-surgery baby sis in tow. It's no big deal...until a teammate is diagnosed with measles.

*First draft done!
*Currently revising.

#MG #CON #W

Moodboard for THE CONTAGIOUS ZEST OF FRANKIE ABAGNALE, Middle grade contemporary of 30K words. Images of: teen girl holding pom poms, teen hand holding baby's hand, baby having her temperature taken with digital thermometer, girl in silhouette looking sad and alone. Text: Middle school! Poms! Measles?!

Frankie Abagnale has sent friend requests to: images of book covers for THE YEAR MY LIFE WENT DOWN THE TOILET, HAZEL HILL IS GONNA WIN THIS WON and SLOUCH. Screenshots of RevPit 10Queries feedback from editor Leah Rambadt: "Love the voice in this one! Very engaging and entertaining. Instantly caught my attention. Great work previewing writing stylce and MC voice [in query letter]. It's a little on the long side, so tightening the language and focusing on GMC while still keeping voice is key." "MC is hilarious, def want to follow them around for an entire story. Love the MC's voice, the bits of interiority, and how descriptive lang reflects the MC's POV. Opening seems high energy to reflect MC's high energy; it's an effective hook, but would use strategically."

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Kayla Hebbon 🌙💕🔱 🫧 @khebbon.bsky.social · 2d

A loner girl named Rowen who works as a reaper must keep her latest assignment, a popular classmate named Jahmir, from falling for her (and keep herself from doing the same 👀) before she’s set to collect his soul in 30 days. #QuestPit #Drafting #YA #R #F

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Arne Knudson @aknudson.bsky.social · 2d

The Tale of Twoshirts is a humorous cozy fantasy about a goblin boy who befriended a genie and wished he could grant wishes. Shenanigans ensue when a new friend makes an accidental wish, and mysterious woman in black captures the genie.
#Questpit #Q #YA #NA #F #TheTaleofTwoshirts

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Liz King @lizking.bsky.social · 2d

Movies. Monsters. Mobsters. Murder.

A lone wolf P.I and a museum curator dodge cops and mobsters in 30’s Hollywood, after she finds a recently dead crook in a box that should contain an ancient princess.

The Mummy (1999) X Bringing Up Baby

#QuestPit #M #HS #F #W #C

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samantha ✨ is querying ✨ @sothisisam.bsky.social · 2d

DROWNING IN FLAMES - YA Mystery (85k words)
💜sapphic romance
📚secret society at girls boarding school
👠feral girls
💔friends to lovers to enemies
🧩passageways
#questpit #Q #YA #M

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Blair read the letter for the third time, her eyes darting left and right, a horrid knowing look in her eyes.

She faced me. "We can't go to the Headmistress with this," she said.

"Why not?" I asked.

"My name is on here. Expelled member or not, this letter reveals that !
broke school conduct. Curfews, prohibited gatherings..."

"But you could explain that you were forced into the society," I said.
"Just like I would."

"But the difference would be you didn't do anything past breaking curfew. I got a teacher fired, Emmaline. If the society goes down, then so would I. So would we." She glanced at the letter again, fire in her eyes. "And Sylvia knows it."

Three young women are highlighted, each labeled with roles: Emmaline (MC) as "New girl," Blair as "Outcast," and Sylvia as "Class president." Background shows school setting. Text hints at mystery involving hidden treasure on campus. Emmaline is tied to a crime mystery, Blair and Sylvia have conflicting interests. Tone is tense and mysterious.

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samantha ✨ is querying ✨ @sothisisam.bsky.social · 2d

F IS FOR FALLING
YA sapphic romance (55k words)
💔 ex-best friends to lovers
🏫 teenage self-discovery
🪩 prom night confessions
💬 snappy banter
#questpit #Q #YA #R #witingcommunity #amquerying

Title slide featuring a blurry school background. Text reads: F is For Falling YA Contemporary Romance, 55k words. Ft. Enemies to lovers, sapphic romance, snappy dialogue, and coming of age tropes.

Pitch: When a struggling artist and her overachieving rival are forced to work together for a high school art project, their cut-throat remarks ease as past feelings resurface and they realize they may have more in common than not.

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Roseanne Baxter Frank | Kidlit Everything @roseannefrank.bsky.social · 2d

“If she cannot read, she cannot lead.” Amalia shares nothing with/her sister Katkia inc. the throne. But Katkia meets a book collector of who reveals the magic that could prepare her for her future-unless Amalia’s evil is stronger than Katkia’s belief in herself. #questpit #PB #Q

an open book with a purple light coming out of the pages

ALT: an open book with a purple light coming out of the pages

media.tenor.com

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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · 2d

#questpit #W #A #F #DF #blackbooksky

BERSERK x THRONE OF GLASS x TSDS

🔮 black fmc is the heiress of an elite sorceress line
🔮 fmc evil sorceressed so hard she resurrected a dead tyrant
🔮 magic system is jacked up and you may be the cause — congrats
🔮 magical politics between who deserves magic

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · 2d

THE ATLAS SIX meets NINTH HOUSE

A summer research cohort turns into a horrifying experiment when six students find documents about a secret society's attempts to conquer death--and the beast they found on the other side.

#questpit #w #a #sff

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Tyler is querying 👑🪲🌿 @tylerstasi.bsky.social · 2d

#QuestPit #S #F #W

an adult speculative literary-leaning standalone:

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus x THE DOLL PEOPLE x LAPVONA

A rare wind-up doll in a traveling oddities show uncovers a dark truth about her troupe's origins.

🚂🗝🫖🕯🎭

moodboard for dark speculative standalone novel wip by tyler stasi

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aymaneckford.bsky.social @aymaneckford.bsky.social · 2d

All sinners bleed&You
A queer autistic journalist hides his secret life as a serial killer, while a trans autistic detective hunts the Ritualist, unaware their lives are fatally entwined by a cult that hates them both.
#Questpit #A #T #Q

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Kellie Beggs @authorkelliebeggs.bsky.social · 2d

When Southern Living chooses her big sister’s wedding to feature for a yearlong spread, Mercy regrets the last four hours she’s spent at the engagement party pretending to be in a head-over-heels relationship with a guy she just met.
Lyla Sage X Emily Henry
#Questpit #R #A #RomCom #OCD

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Austin Bridges 💫 @austinbridges.bsky.social · 2d

A queer sci-fi reimagining of the Greek labyrinth myth ft.

🌌 a sentient, bioluminescent maze
😈 evil AI
💎 crystal-bending powers
❤️🔥 rivals-to-lovers romance between a thief and a prince
💀 an underground cult
🐍 a giant snake
🐺 wolf-rider girls
🌎 cli-fi themes

#QuestPit #YA #SF #SFF #LGBT

A moodboard with blue tones. At the center is a glowing blue planet. Surrounding it are: a snake, a cluster of glowing crystals, neon lights forming a geometric pattern, futuristic blocks with glowing lines between them, a pair of hands, some glowing optic fibers, blue crystals laid out in several rows, and some bioluminescent waves. There are two neon squares overlaying the moodboard—one smaller one outlining the planet at the center, and a larger one crossing through the corner images.

Art of Ren and Micah from my YA sci-fi book, commissioned from artist kaizmos. Ren has pale skin and dark brown hair in a half-ponytail. Micah has brown skin and dark brown hair with an undercut. They are both wearing futuristic dark bodysuits with glowing blue lines. They are standing waist-high in water and surrounded by glowing blue crystals. They are holding hands and gazing dazedly at each other.

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Shelbey @shelbeyd.bsky.social · 2d

DRAGONS LOVE TACOS X STUCK

Billy’s scheme to ditch his baloney sandwich in favor of cookies backfires, miraculously leaving him with an even bigger sandwich! Driven by his sweet tooth, Billy hatches a plan to dig himself out of trouble, but he gets his just desserts instead. #QuestPit #PB #Q

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cchristie317.bsky.social @cchristie317.bsky.social · 2d

SCHOOL SPIRITS x WE WERE LIARS
Lexie vanished while on the senior trip. Now only her ex-crush turned high school dropout, Jeremy, can see her. Everyone close to Lexie hides secrets, but exposing the dangerous one linking them could bring her home—or end them both. #Q #YA #R #M #Spec #Questpit

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cchristie317.bsky.social @cchristie317.bsky.social · 2d

To save her aunt's dog rescue, Emma teams up with her ex, Ryan, to find the truth about a witch from the 40s said to be summoned to a dance in the 90s. She didn't mean to fall for him again and activate the curse. Now, losing the contest means losing the rescue and Ryan. #YA #Q #R #M #Spec #Questpit

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J. Morgyn White @jmorgynwhite.bsky.social · 2d

In the glitzy high society of 1950s NY, a model turned wealthy socialite plots the perfect murder to escape her abusive husband. But when she discovers his mob ties, she must stop a killer far more dangerous than the one she hired. #questpit #A #HF #S #T #Q Cheshire Novel Prize Highly Commended

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 2d

🇸🇻 PRECOLONIAL (INDIGENOUS) EL SALVADOR 🇸🇻

Itotia’s a healer’s apprentice struggling to meet her mentor’s expectations. Metztli's a worship-hating deity. When Itotia binds them together, Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she thought

#QuestPit #Q #RF

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #questpit #A #OS
A dark book for dark times that screams fem rage
Sometimes our fate is repeated history
Or used as a statement for the world
Where good and evil mean different things to different people
A body. Missing teen. A mass shooting.
Is Abuelo real?

Griselda X Zero Saints X AHS

A collage of dark images for the book Diablo Ranch

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

THE SLOW BURN (82k words)

She’s an event planner up for a promotion. He’s a firefighter and her dad is his chief. They’re planning the fire dept’s holiday gala and agree to a no-strings fling.

Small town
Holiday romance
Found family
MMC in uniform
Slow burn

#amquerying #questpit #a #r #q

The Slow Burn photo grid featuring atmospheric images of a small town and a couple

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karimecc.bsky.social @karimecc.bsky.social · 2d

ide and seeker x Mayan myths

Ixtab, Mayan goddess of Death, haunts a little Mexican town, dragging people to Xibalbá, the land of the dead. She's got Gustavo, and his sister Alondra would do anything to save him... even descending to hell
#questpit #YA #H #OWN #POC #Querying

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liv @livalcott.bsky.social · 2d

🕯️Reapers, rituals, and necessary evils.

In a government in the afterlife, two reapers kill instead of guide, haunted by the ghosts of their victims. When they’re forced to perform rituals to end the haunting, rotted secrets raise.

#Questpit #A #YA #FA #Q

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