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Alissa is Querying ✨🔥🧪
@alissalindemann.bsky.social
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(She/Her) M.Ed. Writer of pop songs and #fantasy novels. Drinker of too much coffee. Collector of things. #ya #amquerying
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If Studio Ghibli made Frankenstein

EVA AND THE REAPERS: querying post edits ✨ 80k YA Fantasy/Bubblegum Horror

🪦Teenage Reapers & Witches
🪦Long Lost Demigod Twins
🪦War Over Humanity’s Free Will
🪦Whimsical 2nd World
🪦Ace FMC & LGBTQ Ensemble

#amquerying #WritingCommmunity #ya #fantasy
A border illustrating an antique gravestone with a skull and flourishes with a mood board of photos in the center. The top photo shows combat boots and the bottom of a long coat with the text “memento morí. The middle section shows a young woman with long brown hair looking off in the distance, a young man with brown hair who has his eyes closed and face upturned, and a close up of a human skull. The bottom image is a raven perched on a branch with the text, “The Greeks would attribute it to their muses. The Inquisition would blame demons. Eva wasn’t giving credit to anyone else. This was her.”
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Template for youuuuu
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Anyway, made my own.
Text reads “top albums of 2025.” Background is Sage green with an orange border and purple and lime squiggles with polkadots in yellow, pink and black. Nine album covers are pictured: Hayley Williams, Sam Fender, Florence + the Machine, Twenty One Pilots, Sleep Token, Conan Gray, The Midnight, Brandi Carlile, Bad Bunny
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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“How many drafts do you have?”
An image of files named Draft 1-7 with some additional sub files An image of Patrick Star from SpongeBob holding a hammer with a board nailed to his forehead.
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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When a digital music artist interrupts a heist, she becomes entangled in an underground Robinhood-style crime syndicate bent on destroying the corporate elite. It’s good to be famous in a digital world, but being infamous is so much more fun.

#QuestPit #A #SF #W
A white background with geometric black stripes and a hot pink border displays six images. They include an image of a robot fashioned after a human woman, a photo of sound equipment for making music, a dark city alleyway, a woman sitting on the floor while wearing a VR headset and typing on an old keyboard, a pink landscape of people looking at a city with the text "I'll be your Machine Girl, xoxo," and an image of fireworks at a concert as the crowd goes wild and holds their hands in the air.
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Arcane X The Darkness Outside Us X Vespertine

✨ #OwnVoices chronic illness rep
✨ Pyromancy and magic inspired by dark matter
✨ A reluctant heir
✨ Friends to lovers
✨ Youth in revolt

#QuestPit #YA #SFF #Q
Background is a brilliant image of space depicting many stars against a dark blue sky with orange and red toned galactic clouds from the Webb telescope. Images of the three main characters are drawn using glowing yellow to mimic constellations. Text reads: An Agent’s Guide to The Promise of Darkness. Background image is of stars against a black, blue, and orange space courtesy of the Webb telescope. Title says, “Vibes and Comps.” A lists of themes in the novel reads: fibro and chronic pain rep, queer as the norm, found family, soulmates, destiny vs choice. A shot of the playlist for the novel includes the songs Rise Up O Flame by Kiki Rockwell, Arsonist’s Lullaby by Hozier, Starboy by The Weeknd, and Euclid by Sleep Token. Comp titles for the novel are Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer and the TV show ARCANE. Text on the left reads: "The Plot; When more stars dim in the sky of a dark planet, an astronomer aligns himself against the guilty pyromancer regime. He plots the impossible, relighting the planet's star, with the help of a girl with celestial magic and a lovable alchemist. If the star doesn't kill them, the regime just might." On the right is a hand drawn image of main characters Ballad, a young man with brown skin and long dark brown hair wearing black robes, and Calx, a young man with white skin and dirty blond hair wearing green robes. Calx kneels in front of Ballad in an homage to John William Waterhouse's paintings. Background image is of stars against a black, blue, and orange space courtesy of the Webb telescope. Title says, “Excerpt.” Text reads: Lauryl had always imagined the pyromancers as fiery monsters, the very manifestation of everything she'd ever heard about them. Perhaps they'd look like The Beast, the old god of the wild, wolflike and menacing. This man appeared too normal. Beneath the flesh, he might be the same monster she'd pictured, but on the surface he was just a man, and that was the scariest part.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Charmed X Threads That Bind

The Underworld is about to get rocked.

💀 Cozy vibes with a hint of fright 👻
🗡️ The Chosen One Chooses Herself 🔪
🔮 Found Family of Lovable Queer Kids ✨
🎸 Canonical Companion Songs 🎤

#QuestPit #YA #F #H #Q
Background is a vibrant violet with a darker purple wavy border and pink and dark purple spray paint. This title card reads: An Agent's Guide to Eva and the Reapers; YA Fantasy; Bubblegum Horror; 80k Words Background is a vibrant violet with a darker purple wavy border and pink and dark purple spray paint. Title reads "Comps and Inspiration." An image of the book Threads That Bind is accompanied by the words "warring gods and fate." An image of the book Wrath of the Triple Goddess is accompanied by the words "demigods and death deities." An image of the book The Cruel Prince is accompanied by the words "hidden world and otherworldly beings." An image of the movie poster for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is accompanied by the words "musical mayhem." An image of the TV show poster for School Spirits is accompanied by the words "teenage spirits and liminal space." An imaged of the TV show poster for the original Charmed is accompanied by the words "cozy supernatural with high stakes." Background is a vibrant violet with a darker purple wavy border and pink and dark purple spray paint. The title reads "The Pitch." Pitch reads, "Eva Ender's life as a teenage Grim Reaper is normal as inhumanly possible, until one of her assigned near-deads does the unthinkable: he comes back to life. When The Underworld ask her to correct his fate by killing him, Eva chooses her own path, which leads her to the God of Death and the truth about who she really is. Now Eva and her friedns are caught between two gods vying for The Underworld's throne, and the fate of the mortal real, the afterlife, and their very lives hangs in the balance." A purple bordered rectangle highlights features of the book as "ace spec fmc, a supernatural found family, immersive world, careless gods with style, and other LGBTQ+ rep. A text bubble reads "eavsdropping on the table next to us 'I feel like you never see any good novels about grim reapers." Background is a vibrant violet with a darker purple wavy border and pink and dark purple spray paint. The title reads, "Excerpt." There is a short excerpt from the novel along with a button that reads "Grin Reaper" a Grin Reaper concert poster, a text bubble which reads "Eva is giving Steven Universe - partially magic and angry at the ancestors for making a magical goddamn mess," and a playlist called "Eva's Mix" that includes the songs The Void by Spiritbox, This City is a Graveyard by Baby Storme, Girls Against God by Florence + the Machine, and Children of the Grave by Black Sabbath.
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Arcane X The Darkness Outside Us X Shadow & Bone

The heir to a starless planet plots against the pyromancy regime with help from a girl with celestial magic and a lovable alchemist.

🔥 #OwnVoices Chronic Illness Caused by Magic
✨ Friends to Lovers to 🙊

#SFPit #YA #F #Dys #Q
A collage of images: someone holding a torch in front of a brick wall, a NASA image of space featuring many stars, a burst of flame, two figures cloaked in red robes, a girl with brown hair holding fire in her hands, Jayce and Viktor from the TV Show Arcane, an image of a solar eclipse outline. A quote reads: “Here they were again, always together, always touching, but at no point had either of them put name to what this was. In Calx’ mind, everything was impermanent, transmutable into something else. He waited for the day when this became something he no longer recognized. He did reverse alchemy. He tried to hold onto the gold as tightly as possible before it slipped away.”
October 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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I told you there was demand for my gay little grim reaper book (which I’m editing again 😅)
October 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I’ve failed marketing The Promise of Darkness, so let’s try again:

✨I need other ppl in this science boy fandom because I swear to god my own ship is killing me

🔥You’ll love my chronically ill FMC because she’s a soft girl who’s still going to burn the world down

#amquerying
A collage of images: someone holding a torch in front of a brick wall, a NASA image of space featuring many stars, a burst of flame, two figures cloaked in red robes, a girl with brown hair holding fire in her hands, Jayce and Viktor from the TV Show Arcane, an image of a solar eclipse outline. A quote reads: “Here they were again, always together, always touching, but at no point had either of them put name to what this was. In Calx’ mind, everything was impermanent, transmutable into something else. He waited for the day when this became something he no longer recognized. He did reverse alchemy. He tried to hold onto the gold as tightly as possible before it slipped away.”
October 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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POV: You only applied to this school because your boyfriend went undercover to dismantle the planetary govt. Now you're both trapped and your only hope is a girl with the most volatile magic you've seen who hates you both. You'd be over-caffeinated too. #unhingedpit #q #ya #sf #f
Background image is an ornate brass frame hung over a brown leather chair. The frame reads "Promethea Cafe; The Ballad: A plain latte loaded with sugar (and a croissant because he forgot to eat today...again); The Lauryl: Herbal tea with foraged berries and herbs; The Calx: Black coffee with an extra doubleshot or two (no one knows how many he's had and everyone's concerned about his caffeine level)
September 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I'm struggling through this WIP because my brain won't let go of the characters from my last manuscript, but if I write that sequel it's useless for the purposes of querying, so here we are!
Background image is gray with faint roses and a Victorian woman drinking tea. Text reads: September Write-A-Thon; Day: 21; Draft: 1; Words: 7400
September 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Another somewhat slow week for my September Write-A-Thon, but I still made word count progress! I keep feeling like I'm about to lose the plot (that I don't have in the first place because I'm a pantser) but then I get back on track. 😂
Background image is gray with faint roses and a Victorian woman drinking tea. Text reads: September Write-A-Thon; Day: 14; Draft: 1; Words: 6013
September 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I'm a little behind, but my submission is in for #PitchDis! It was really organic for me to portray my chronic illness in the character of Lauryl in The Promise of Darkness. I love how strong she remains even as the world (and her own magic) aims to destroy her. 🔥❤️
A white background covered with pink, yellow, blue, and purple, confetti which reads: #PITCHDIS 2025 Participant. A white woman in a white shirt with dark hair holds a ball of fire, which illuminates her face and arm.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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My first September Write-A-Thon update is on the light side, but I did finish the first chapter (this was my main goal) and I think I have a good start at the FMC's voice, which I expected to be harder because it's an existing character aged up and it's not my usual tense.
Background image is gray with faint roses and a Victorian woman drinking tea. Text reads: September Write-A-Thon; Day: 7; Draft: 1; Words: 3401
September 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I'll be working on my next manuscript all month long in partnership with The Porch in Nashville. Here's where we're starting!
Background image is gray with faint roses and a Victorian woman drinking tea. Text reads: September Write-A-Thon; Day: 0; Draft: 1; Words: 1142
September 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I haven’t decided if I’m posting for #1stLinePit because I’ll be on a plane most of that day, but I’d love to connect with everyone over on the camera app (which I use to annoy my irl friends mostly)
August 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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School Spirits X THREADS THAT BIND

Eva Ender’s life as a teenage Grim Reaper is as normal as inhumanly possible, until the night she’s sent to reap someone who doesn’t die

💀Ace Spec FMC
💀Found Family of Magical Misfits
💀A Mischievous Cat
💀Careless Gods

#PosterPit #Q #YA #F
A mock concert poser with stripes of dark purple, medium purple, hot pink, and highlighter yellow. Pink and yellow skulls accent the text. The top reads: EVA AND THE REAPERS PRESENTS: GRIN REAPER LIVE IN CONCERT. Bottom half reads: YA FANTASY, BUBBLEGUM HORROR, ACE FMC, FOUND FAMILY. NOW QUERYING. 8.16.2025. ALISSA LINDEMANN
August 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ARCANE X SHADOW & BONE

The heir to a dark planet plots revenge against the ruling pyromancy cult with help from a girl with star power and a lovable alchemist

🔥17th Cen Science Meets 20th Cen Tech
🔥Chronic Pain Rep
🔥Queer as the Norm
🔥Found Family

#PosterPit #Q #YA #SF #F
A fake movie poster titled "The Promise of Darkness." The background is gray with a faded image of the stars from NASA overlaid with alchemical illustrations from the 1600s. A more prominent rectangular image of the stars is at center with triangles depicting the three main characters. One is of a young White woman who is conjuring fire in her hands. The second is a of a young man with brown skin and long dark brown hair pulled back as he looks off in the distance. The third is of a young white man with glasses and short hair looking up. Text reads: chronic illness rep, dystopian sff, celestial and science magic, and friends to lovers above the images. Below, text reads: One will rule. One will burn. One will change everything. Now querying in inboxes everywhere. From the producer of "being personally victimized by the show ARCANE, and the director of "ready to throw hands for every woman in Star Wars" comes an epic tale of rebellion, magic, and love.
August 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Queen's Shadow X Shadow & Bone

"Ballad realized he wasn't the symbol of this revolution. He was the conduit, but that fire was hope. The symbol was always hope."

🌟Chronic Illness Rep
✨LGBTQ+
🌑Friends to Lovers
🪐Celestial Magic
🔥Alchemy

#questpit #q #sff #ya
Photo collage including: an image of snowy mountains with a clear view of the milky way above, a close up of flames and smoke, an image of a young white woman holding fire, an image of a young man with brown skin and long dark brown hair looking off in the distance, an image of a young white man with glasses writing at an antique desk, an image of old apothecary jars of varying sizes, and an image of someone's hands as they burn pieces of paper
August 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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School Spirits X Threads That Bind

A new mood board to celebrate my spooky teen grim reaper book’s return to the trenches.

🪦Ace Spec FMC
🦋Found Family of Magical Misfits
🔮Fate vs. Free Will
🎸A Rock Band a la Scott Pilgrim
⚰️An Arcane Library

#amquerying #WritingCommunity
An orange, pink, and lavender hued collage of images. They include: the silhouette of a woman in a black cloak from behind, a raven, a cave opening, a historic library, a rock band in silhouette on a stage surrounded by hazy stage lights, and a man with curly brown hair in a white shirt sitting on a rock beside the sea.
July 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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ARCANE X Shadow & Bone

A starless planet, an evil regime, a magical girl with a gift and a curse, a reluctant boy heir, and underneath it all...the love that will fuel a rebellion. This is Ballad's song.

#PlaylistPitch #YA #SF #F #Q
July 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I fear no one will be seeing my wrapped this year.
May 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Peter Pan X Yellowjackets

YA Fantasy and Eco Terror

💖 Sapphic Peter Pan Retelling
💗 WendyxTinkerbell
🧚‍♀️ Storytelling Magic
🐊 Setting as a Character

#WIPPIT #YA #F #LGBT #OWN
Moodboard featuring images of a tropical shoreline, a white woman with blonde hair with a wilderness background and blood on her face, a group of teens around a campfire, the eye of a crocodile, a plane nestled in a forest, and a still of Ellie and Dina from the show The Last of Us. In the center is an open book with a text overlay reading: Stories are magic. No one will ever make me believe otherwise. - Wendy Background image is of a tree canopy in summer. Text reads: Neverland is hungry. When Wendy Darling's plane crash lands in the middle of a mysterious forest, her stories begin to shape the world around her in terrifying ways. What starts as a perilous journey home becomes a fight for survival against an island which feeds on memory, story, and everything that makes a person human. Will Wendy lead her friends out of the wilderness, or will they be trapped by Neverland's magic like its first vicim: Peter Pan.
May 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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I present the new first lines of my formerly shelved ms.

REAPER is a 90k #YA #Fantasy (dare I say Cozy Horror) about a girl trying to find her place in the world while juggling band practice, a man who keeps resurrecting, and finding out her dad's the God of Death. #amquerying
The background image is a gray cave with stalactites and stalagmites. Text reads: Death was here again, and Eva welcomed it. The sensation was familiar, like being gently pulled apart, two sides of a wishbone nearing its breaking point. She braced herself.
May 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM