Liz 👻🍂🪦

Hi Carly! Are you open to adult fantasy with higher word counts (118k)? And how do you feel about mixed structures like epistolary?

Fun one: what’s your favorite SFF book you read last year?

Hi Madelyn! If we submit to you in RevPit, can we still query you afterwards?

Also, how do you feel about mixed structures like epistolary and adult fantasy with a higher word count (118k)?

Hi Raquel! How do you feel about a) mixed structures like epistolary and b) higher word counts (118k adult fantasy)? thank you for answering questions today!

I’m super late but how do you feel about mixed structures, like epistolary (mixed with prose chapters still)?

considering my book includes an encroaching human-eating forest…there’s a lot of special trees. and cacti. and beetles.

probably DPR Ian’s LIMBO but my playlist for the book is 11 hours, sooo… there’s a lot of options

Okay, #RevPit, let's talk prep for the annual contest 🧵

When you enter, you'll need separate files for:
👉 Complete ms
👉 First 5 pages + Query letter
👉 Synopsis

In general, it's better to have a ms that you've revised some and isn't a first/zero draft.

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I’m thrilled to share that I’m now represented by @laneheymont.bsky.social at The Tobias Literary Agency for my gothic horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH, and future written works. I was blown away by Lane’s enthusiasm and vision for BANSHEE and for my career, and can’t wait for what’s next!

so crazy to think that this time last year I was joining revpit for the first time. it gave me a community of writers that changed my writing (and industry knowledge) for the better.

so excited to submit to it this year too! #RevPit

Can I respectfully clarify that the MSWL hastag is for agents/editors to let writers know what they're seeking. It's not intended for writers to pitch their works. With #MSWLDay imminent, it's vital this hashtag stays clean. Thanks.

#writingcommunity #writersky #amwriting #authors #writers

RevPit: Participating Editor Announcements Coming Friday! Are you ready for our 10th Annual Contest? www.reviseresub.com

This Friday! Who's ready to meet our annual contest #RevPit editors? In the coming weeks, each will host an #AskEditor session where you'll be able to ask about their wishlist, editing process, and more!

Mood board for Anti-Charter Campaign agent's guide. Pictures of an elementary school, money, butterscotch, cheersing beers, ants, a map of PA, D&D dice and character sheets, kids in a school, a magic book, an apple for the teacher, and a man with a nametag that says "Evil Corp"

Speculative Fiction ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN is Jumanji X Abbott Elementary. Librarian Britt and her teacher colleagues must make the right rolls in a magical RPG to save their school from a charter takeover. 92K Words, Querying Now

Comps: Roll for Romance, The Grimoire Grammar School PTA, A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, The Lost Bookshop, Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes, The Faculty Lounge, Up the Down Staircase

Excerpt: “Yes, it is. Would you like to hold it?” “Why would you do that, Angelo?” Suze shook her head. “Classic NPC inciting move. He’s going to run away with it now.” Britt picked up the thread as soon as Suze quieted, making her voice high like a child’s. “‘Yes, I would.’ The boy snatches the emblem from your hand and runs toward the back of the tavern.” “Oh well,” Angelo declared in his Martin affectation, tossing his head as if he had fluffy curls instead of a close-cropped buzz. “Maybe now all the exiled princes and damsels in distress will stop asking me for help and I can just sit back and enjoy a tankard of ale.” “Since when have damsels of any kind approached you, Martin?” Suze retorted, at least seeming to be in character. Though Catherine wasn’t certain if a paladin would make such a snide comment. The party had been together for eight or nine adventures. She supposed that bred a certain familiarity they could play into.  “But you need that, Martin. You know they’ve been asking people for their badges lately.” Catherine scanned over her character sheet. She’d prepared spells for what she thought Sprintze would be doing in the off season.

My speculative fiction ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN is complete, and I made my first ever agent's guide.

#AmQuerying

THE UNFORTUNATE GARDEN WITCH'S GUIDE TO KISSING GIRLS OR THE NOVEL FORMERLY KNOWN AS AHARMONY OFWITCHS BY VICTORIA JAYNE YA SAPPHIC COZY ROMANTASY IN REVISIONS AS A WRITEHIVE MENTEE

Adagio WITH A PITCH LIKE AN AUTISTIC, TRANSFEMME, PLANT-KILLING GARDEN WITCH WORKS WITH A RIVAL MUSIC WITCH TO CARE FOR AN ANCIENT FLOWER. WIEN A MELTDOWN TURNS THE FLOWER SENTIENT, SHE MUST LEARN TO REGULATE HER EMOTIONS TO TURN IT BACK BEFORE THE FESTIVAL, TRYING NOT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH HER RIVAL ON THE WAY.

WITH COMPS LIKE WICKED VIBES EVERYTHING SHE DOES IS Magic TRANS WITCH MC A LOVE STORY TO RAISÉ THE DEAD WITCHCORE EMMA HINDS -BRIDGET MORRISSEY BARISTA'S GUIDE tr LOVE&. LARCENT BREWED WITH LOVE CAROLINE BONIN MC STRUGGLING WITH ABILITIES * SHELLY PAGE * SAPPHIC GIRLS WORKING TOGETHER

WITH TROPES LIKE TRANS TEEN MC MC STRUGGLING WITH MAGIC FEMME X FEMME CHILDHOOD FRIENDS TO LOVERS WITTY, AUTISTIC HUMOR SUPPORTIVE GAY OLDER BROTHER HILARIOUS MIDPOINT PLOT TWIST WITH PROSE LIKE I GIVE HER A FEW SECONDS. THE HALF-MOON IN THE SKY BEAMS DOWN THROUGH THE CLEAR WINDOWS, CASTING A GENTLE GLOW ON THE PAIR OF US. I LOOK AT THE BRIGHT LIGHT OF MY PHONE, WHICH SHOWS A NOTIFICATION FROM THIRTY MINUTES AGO. A TEXT FROM MELODY SAYING, "WADDUP I'M BOREDDD." I SNICKER. THEN, YOUR FAMILY CAME LOOKING FOR YOU." "IS THAT SO?" SHE ASKS, TURNING HER HEAD TO FACE MINE AGAIN. THERE'S SOMETHING UNREADABLE ON HER FACE, AND THAT SCARES ME. MELODY IS AN OPEN-BOOK. SHE'S SITTING HERE IN A SAILOR MOON COSPLAY FOR MAGRATHAM'S SAKE. SHE'S NOT ONE TO HIDE OR CONCEAL. IT'S WHY THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS TAILOR-MADE TO TORTURE ME. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE NOT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH MELODY SHARPE. SHE'S THE ABSOLUTE WORST PERSON TO HAVE ON A STEALTH MISSION. YET, AS I'M GAZING INTO THOSE EMERALD EYES, I FIND MYSELF FLOODED WITH PURE CONFUSION. 'IS THAT SO?' WHAT A STRANGE RESPONSE.

Here’s an updated #AgentsGuide to my YA Cozy Romantasy pitched as WICKED meets LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

-20 agent requests
-2 big five editor full requests
-winner of two mentorships (Writehive and RT)
-in revisions now!

#writingcommunity

It's Time to Get Loud About the Books You Love - Reactor Some ideas to help keep literature and the book community alive.

In a time of book bannings, AI, and decreased library funding, the best thing you can do to support books is be very, very loud about them. @mollytempleton.com on how we can help the authors we love:

A collage of ocean, coastal academic images with droplets of fantasy and mystery.

BENEATH THE WHISPERING COVE is a gothic coastal fantasy about a young woman’s quest to uncover a missing book of folktales and secure her research funding.

The misty water-logged mystery of A STUDY IN DROWNING with the folkloric richness of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE

#questpit #YA #F

Someone pinch me because dreams really do come true 🥹 I’m so excited to announce that I’m now represented by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency. My strange little book filled with kudzu, cults, and rotten girls doing rotten things has found the perfect person to champion it!

#agented #author

medical illustrations of a skull and a spine in the top left corner; a bronze statue of Lady Justice in the top right corner; a picture of a red brick house and a tree mid-autumn with red and orange leaves hanging on its branches in the bottom left corner; and a close-up of michaelangelo’s david in the bottom right corner.

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

6 image moodboard with a rust red background Top left: monster in a forest Top right: yt girl with wavy hair & white Tshirt (representing the main FMC) Middle: a hand with flames, a girl doing a tarot pull Bottom left: 3 women dancing around a fire pit, forest scenery The Witch of Gatlinburg | Demri Redmon

6 image moodboard with a rust red background Top left: monster in forest Top right: Romani woman with thick, curly hair & patterned head scarf (representing the second FMC) Middle: hand with a flame, woman dancing in front of a large fire Bottom left: covered caravan Bottom right: forest scenery The Witch of Gatlinburg | Demri Redmon

WEYWARD x THE BEWITCHING

When two witches in different eras find themselves battling the same ancient forest spirit, they must use magic to communicate through time and find a way to save their covens from total destruction.

#questpit #H #S #Q

fruitist moodboard by tyler stasi now querying!

#QuestPit #S #H #Q #F

PIRANESI x Severance x THE GARDEN

When memory-erasing fruits begin to disappear, a woman in an endless Greenhouse will go to harrowing lengths to keep her past from resurfacing.

⚜️epistolary
⚜️territorial women
⚜️slow burn horror

✨with editor interest✨

❤️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

Meet the nyc witches in In the Shadow of a Witch

Haley Thorne - FMC

Alanna Kim - best friend

August Finnley - love interest

LEGENDBORN x LITTLE THIEVES

16-y/o witch Haley Thorne teams up with her new friends to go on a quest through a monster-infested realm before:
💀 A nefarious witch comes back to life
🐉 Monsters overrun NYC
💥 Malicious spirits hunt and possess the city’s witches

#QuestPit #Q #F #YA

75k YA Satirical Dystopian Fantasy 99 WAYS TO GET EX-SPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER By Victoria Jayne 星星亚

The Pitch Anarchocommunist, OCD-ridden Posey Peabody has been drafted into the American Army Academy for Powerful Witches. By entry stats she's the Winner--First Rank of her class. All is well as can be until Amelia Appleton takes her Rank with reckless, dangerous, wrong magic. And then Appleton doesn't get expelled. Competitive streak activated, Posey and Appleton engage in reckless, rule-breaking acts of magic and mischief. While trading First Rank between each other, Posey realizes that Appleton might not be such a weirdo after all. In fact, she's annoyingly pretty. That said, Appleton's got her eye on that government position through all this, and Posey would rather die than work for the fascists in charge. Posey's intention is to truly get expelled. She wants to be the first one to do it. Meanwhile, an underground betting ring rises up, classmates betting on whether or not Posey will have to kill someone to get expelled. Posey hopes it's not true, but whether or not she finds out is entirely up to her.

FIRST LINE SNIPPET Somewhere behind the stage, Headmaster Josephus Crimble is puking his guts out. I remind myself that it's okay if I start to count and stop myself after the limit, so long as I don't make it to ten. If you make it to ten, the limit goes down by one, Posey. Don't forget. I started at five hundred. Drifting through the rest of the day in this half-there state, I sit with my feelings locked tight in a jar of my own design. Ґ1l preserve my emotions like lemons, until they're laden with salt and mellowed in their sourness. That feeling, or lack thereof, feels warm as home to me, and my deep yearning for Nukeville ebbs into a soft ache that gently rubs my heart into a smoother, steadier rhythm. There will be no need for counting when there's no feeling to (dis)regulate.

#questpit here’s my #agentsguide to 99 WAYS TO GET EXSPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER), a sapphic ya satirical dystopian fantasy that dares to ask the question:

What if The Bomb gave people nuclear magic?

#w #d #f #lgbt #ya #ownvoices

Two fishing boats sail on a grey ocean, with seagulls in the overcast sky. White text overlaps the grey sky. It reads: A guide to 'From the Sea Fret' a 74k adult queer horror

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Excerpt Text is outlined: I scanned the horizon. It was just me on the water. There wasn’t anyone out sailing, or anyone swimming. I was completely alone. But… was I? Beneath me were leagues of ocean. Unlike in the forest, where you can hear the wildlife around you, there were creatures that could pass by in the sea and I would never know. The water concealed their movement, cloaking them from my view. It was getting harder to breathe. The vastness of the ocean was too open, and my skin felt too tight around my chest. I knew, deep in my bones, that something was beneath me and it was watching. On the port side, the water rippled. Though it was only a few steps, the length of the deck felt miles long. I was compelled to look below, and my body moved on its own accord. Though I was terrified of what I would see, I peered over.

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Pitch and Comps Text is outlined: Callum Point moves to the dead-end town of Perne to scrape together a new life. He's hoping that the small fishing town will give him what he always wanted; peace. Unfortunately, what greets him is a place rife with secrecy, conspiracy and creatures beyond comprehension. 5 posters for books and shows have arrows and notes coming out of them. Dredge by Black Salt Games has the notes: Capitalism despite the horrors. Something's wrong with the fish. Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner has the notes: Queer and trans identity. People are monsters too. The Fisherman by John Langan has the notes: Lovecraftian. Ocean madness. The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers has the notes: Ocean madness. Obsession with answers. Blood in the Bayou by Just Roll With It has the notes: Who can you trust? Small town cosmic terror.

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Themes A moodboard of 9 images sits in the middle. A hand reaching out into dark water. Thick seaweed-covered chains being pulled from the ocean. A foggy wharf at night. A group of sharks in dark water. A pencil drawing of a compass on white paper. Close-up of a hazel eye with the pupil completely white. A pile of fish. A porthole looking out onto a grey ocean. The inside of a fishing shack. Text surrounds the images. It reads: Paranoia turns revenge. Struggles with identity. Trans and queer rep. Grief over what could have been. Desperation to fit in. Cosmic/psychological/body horror. Content warnings: emotional abuse, attempted sexual assault, manipulation, transphobia, internalised transphobia, misogyny, cosmic horror, psychological horror, religious trauma, drug/alcohol use, gore, death, blood, paranoia, body horror

⚓FROM THE SEA FRET⚓ - A cosmic horror from a queer perspective

Callum Point moves to Perne in search of peace. What he finds instead are religious zealots, monstrous fish, and a constant fog that whispers to him.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #LGBT

A bluescape, misty moodboard that includes images of teens running in the night, a dragon over the city, mysterious forests, a lonely figure sitting on a dock, a starry night sky, and two teens overlooking a vast cityscape. It is mysterious, hopeful, and adventurous

#questpit #ya #f #q

“In the dazzling world of crystal balls and tarot cards, there are rules, kid. Predicting endings is strictly forbidden.”

After a young oracle with a dark secret is expelled from school, he must join an underground gambling ring during a cutthroat, magical tournament ✨️

BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”

Coming soon to agent inboxes!

• • •

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

🧬THE CITY OF ECHOES📚

Cyberpunk Dystopian world!

Lyla Gow survives in a city where dissent is erased by mind-control. When she uncovers the truth, she’s torn between living the life she always dreamed of or fighting for freedom. But how many lives will it cost? #questpit #scifi #NA #querying

An Agent's Guide to ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES by Ayishah Hasni

Pitch: In a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a journey across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiancé from a mysteriously moving island.

Comp titles: THE STARDUST THIEF, SPICE ROAD, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, and FABLE.

The first page of ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES.

🏴‍☠️ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES🏴‍☠️

What if PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN was set on the 17th-century Indian Ocean and included the Islamic mythological monsters of Maiya Ibrahim's SPICE ROAD? #questpit #Q #YA #HF

🌊sinbad the sailor retelling
🕌muslim mc's
❤️‍🔥pirate x princess
✨interest from 2 big 5 editors!

A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family

THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. YA Gothic Fantasy 93,000 Words

CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth.

FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...

ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F