6oCxTPW
When the Dusters vanished & left Nara behind, she resorted to a life of crime to survive
In 1 last heist to save her best friend, Nara teams up with the 2 people who imprisoned her to steal a Healing relic while evading ghosts from a life she can't recall
#questpit#Q#F
ALT A Guide To
DUST WE SHALL RETURN
An 88k Fantasy Heist
By Marceline Greyfield
ALT Pitch
A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact from a Dynaster to save her best friend's life. But when they find Nara's kidnapper commisserating with the Dynaster, Nara must choose between unraveling the secrets oof her past to find where her people vanished to, or protecting her friends and her future from a religious ritual that threatens to split the barrier between man and god.
ALT Themes & Tropes
Tri POV (F/M/NB)
Physically disabled FMC (#OWN)
MMC talks like a Jeff Buckley or Hozier song
Nonbinary MC fighting to save their sister
Ensemble cast
Found family
Unique magic system
Sibling bonds
E2L second-chance romance
Religious machinations
Twisty, slowly revealed backstories
Comps
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang: Fragmented memories, last of her kind protag, morally complex characters.
Memento by Christopher Nolan: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge. Distrustful allies.
The Priority of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: Strong FMC with unique magic, ancient rituals, and political intrigue.
OCEAN'S ELEVEN x ANASTASIA x MY (me, the author's) CATHOLIC GUILT
A 3w2 ESTJ with memory issues
A 5w4 INFJ with identity issues
A 7w6 ENFP with daddy issues
just wanted to steal an artifact!! not be in a religious ritual and have to fight god!! jfc...
#UnhingedPit#F#Q
Edits for heistWIP are so small that I may be done and ready to begin querying October 1st.
Prayer circle for those (re)entering the trenches in the spooky month ๐๐
I received:
- my dev editor comments for runeWIP and confirmation on my proposed changes based on her edits
- feedback from three beta readers for heistWIP
Time to lock in and disappear for another month ๐ซก
Iโm plotting out dev edits while rewatching evangelionโฆ my poor academic FMC (pictured below), Iโm so sorry for the new backstory youโre about to get
QoFxFMA
An alchemist covered in illegal runes to stave off her rotting bones
An artist possessed by an arcane parasite from their father
An academic uncovering the conspiracy behind her dying world
An aristocrat cursed with a forbidden power forced to reveal it
#Questpit#W#SFF
ALT A Guide To
RUNES OF NECROSIS
A 95k Dark Academia Adult Science Fantasy
By Marceline Greyfield
ALT Eight students in various studies compete to graduate from Araphel Academy and be rewarded with a life inside the Oasis's Upper Chamber. The four lowest-scoring students are expelled to the infinite desert.
But when a student on the verge of expulsion murders the top student, an alchemist performs forbidden humanoid alchemy to save their life, and she awakens an arcane parasite that threatens to slaughter the remaining six students and unravel every secret hiding within Araphel Academy.
ALT Themes & Tropes:
Quad POV (F/M/NB/F)
Alchemist FMC becoming something inhuman
Snarky aristocrat MMC with a forbidden power
Nonbinary artist whose lies unravel their past
Cheery FMC scholar who uncovers a conspiracy
LGBTQIA rep
Rivals to lovers
Fake dating
Rotting body (horror)
Arcane possession
Exorcism gone wrong
Descent into madness
Comps
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake: Students of various studies working together to uncover secrets about their dying world, knowing not all will survive.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood by Hiromu Arakawa: Protag who breaks alchemic law to save her brother's life, now trying to graduate to Heal her curse and spite the gods
Queen of Faces by Petra Lord: Decaying bodies, a cutthroat academy, betrayal through manipulation, and blurred morality lines.
Arcane by Christian Linke and Alex Yee: Similar class system and discussions of privilege. (JayVik if rivals to lovers, and CaitVi if Vi grew up in the desert).
terrified to start tomeWIP tomorrow knowing Iโm supposed to get dev edits for runeWIP and my last beta reader comments for heistWIP back any day now, and then Iโm juggling three WIPs in wildly different places
This September, Iโll be drafting my IHNMAIMS x Piranesi SFF horror, tomeWIP, featuring:
- infinite, inescapable library setting
- comes back wrong trope
- Dewey decimal system
- binary communications
- looping elements a la Inland Empire
I begged myself not to start my piranesi x IHNMAIMS wip until I began querying DWSR
so naturally I started that wip today despite waiting for my final beta feedback
Iโve been told the daddy issues in heistWIP are infuriatingly well written to the point that Iโm questioning if I have deep-rooted daddy issues I never knew about
got more beta reader feedback (she LOVED heistWIP!!), and Iโm feeling so excited to get back to edits at the end of the month!! hopefully querying in September ๐ค
omg Iโm gonna miss #posterpit AGAIN. devastated doesnโt begin to describe how I feel
pls do this event again when Iโm free okay thank you ๐ค๐ซถ
Iโm building my agent list for runeWIP and (bc of anti mswls) questioning my decision to have written such verbose and constant body horror in my alchemist FMCโs chapters
6oCxTPW
When the Dusters vanished & left Nara behind, she resorted to a life of crime to survive
In 1 last heist to save her best friend, Nara teams up with the 2 people who imprisoned her to steal a Healing relic while evading ghosts from a life she can't recall
#questpit#Q#F
ALT A Guide To
DUST WE SHALL RETURN
An 88k Fantasy Heist
By Marceline Greyfield
ALT Pitch
A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact from a Dynaster to save her best friend's life. But when they find Nara's kidnapper commisserating with the Dynaster, Nara must choose between unraveling the secrets oof her past to find where her people vanished to, or protecting her friends and her future from a religious ritual that threatens to split the barrier between man and god.
ALT Themes & Tropes
Tri POV (F/M/NB)
Physically disabled FMC (#OWN)
MMC talks like a Jeff Buckley or Hozier song
Nonbinary MC fighting to save their sister
Ensemble cast
Found family
Unique magic system
Sibling bonds
E2L second-chance romance
Religious machinations
Twisty, slowly revealed backstories
Comps
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang: Fragmented memories, last of her kind protag, morally complex characters.
Memento by Christopher Nolan: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge. Distrustful allies.
The Priority of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: Strong FMC with unique magic, ancient rituals, and political intrigue.
QoFxFMA
An alchemist covered in illegal runes to stave off her rotting bones
An artist possessed by an arcane parasite from their father
An academic uncovering the conspiracy behind her dying world
An aristocrat cursed with a forbidden power forced to reveal it
#Questpit#W#SFF
ALT A Guide To
RUNES OF NECROSIS
A 95k Dark Academia Adult Science Fantasy
By Marceline Greyfield
ALT Eight students in various studies compete to graduate from Araphel Academy and be rewarded with a life inside the Oasis's Upper Chamber. The four lowest-scoring students are expelled to the infinite desert.
But when a student on the verge of expulsion murders the top student, an alchemist performs forbidden humanoid alchemy to save their life, and she awakens an arcane parasite that threatens to slaughter the remaining six students and unravel every secret hiding within Araphel Academy.
ALT Themes & Tropes:
Quad POV (F/M/NB/F)
Alchemist FMC becoming something inhuman
Snarky aristocrat MMC with a forbidden power
Nonbinary artist whose lies unravel their past
Cheery FMC scholar who uncovers a conspiracy
LGBTQIA rep
Rivals to lovers
Fake dating
Rotting body (horror)
Arcane possession
Exorcism gone wrong
Descent into madness
Comps
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake: Students of various studies working together to uncover secrets about their dying world, knowing not all will survive.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood by Hiromu Arakawa: Protag who breaks alchemic law to save her brother's life, now trying to graduate to Heal her curse and spite the gods
Queen of Faces by Petra Lord: Decaying bodies, a cutthroat academy, betrayal through manipulation, and blurred morality lines.
Arcane by Christian Linke and Alex Yee: Similar class system and discussions of privilege. (JayVik if rivals to lovers, and CaitVi if Vi grew up in the desert).
TA6xFMA:B
After breaking Alchemic Law to save her brother, the alchemic gods smite Vasia w/ rotting bones as punishment
To reverse her fungal decay, she must graduate into the Oasis & find a Healer
-Becoming inhuman
-Defying god
-"I'll do it myself"
-Body horror
#QuestPit#SFF#W
QoFxFMA
An alchemist covered in illegal runes to stave off her rotting bones
An artist possessed by an arcane parasite from their father
An academic uncovering the conspiracy behind her dying world
An aristocrat cursed with a forbidden power forced to reveal it
#Questpit#W#SFF
ALT A Guide To
RUNES OF NECROSIS
A 95k Dark Academia Adult Science Fantasy
By Marceline Greyfield
ALT Eight students in various studies compete to graduate from Araphel Academy and be rewarded with a life inside the Oasis's Upper Chamber. The four lowest-scoring students are expelled to the infinite desert.
But when a student on the verge of expulsion murders the top student, an alchemist performs forbidden humanoid alchemy to save their life, and she awakens an arcane parasite that threatens to slaughter the remaining six students and unravel every secret hiding within Araphel Academy.
ALT Themes & Tropes:
Quad POV (F/M/NB/F)
Alchemist FMC becoming something inhuman
Snarky aristocrat MMC with a forbidden power
Nonbinary artist whose lies unravel their past
Cheery FMC scholar who uncovers a conspiracy
LGBTQIA rep
Rivals to lovers
Fake dating
Rotting body (horror)
Arcane possession
Exorcism gone wrong
Descent into madness
Comps
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake: Students of various studies working together to uncover secrets about their dying world, knowing not all will survive.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood by Hiromu Arakawa: Protag who breaks alchemic law to save her brother's life, now trying to graduate to Heal her curse and spite the gods
Queen of Faces by Petra Lord: Decaying bodies, a cutthroat academy, betrayal through manipulation, and blurred morality lines.
Arcane by Christian Linke and Alex Yee: Similar class system and discussions of privilege. (JayVik if rivals to lovers, and CaitVi if Vi grew up in the desert).
QoFxFMA
An alchemist covered in illegal runes to stave off her rotting bones
An artist possessed by an arcane parasite from their father
An academic uncovering the conspiracy behind her dying world
An aristocrat cursed with a forbidden power forced to reveal it
#Questpit#W#SFF
ALT A Guide To
RUNES OF NECROSIS
A 95k Dark Academia Adult Science Fantasy
By Marceline Greyfield
ALT Eight students in various studies compete to graduate from Araphel Academy and be rewarded with a life inside the Oasis's Upper Chamber. The four lowest-scoring students are expelled to the infinite desert.
But when a student on the verge of expulsion murders the top student, an alchemist performs forbidden humanoid alchemy to save their life, and she awakens an arcane parasite that threatens to slaughter the remaining six students and unravel every secret hiding within Araphel Academy.
ALT Themes & Tropes:
Quad POV (F/M/NB/F)
Alchemist FMC becoming something inhuman
Snarky aristocrat MMC with a forbidden power
Nonbinary artist whose lies unravel their past
Cheery FMC scholar who uncovers a conspiracy
LGBTQIA rep
Rivals to lovers
Fake dating
Rotting body (horror)
Arcane possession
Exorcism gone wrong
Descent into madness
Comps
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake: Students of various studies working together to uncover secrets about their dying world, knowing not all will survive.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood by Hiromu Arakawa: Protag who breaks alchemic law to save her brother's life, now trying to graduate to Heal her curse and spite the gods
Queen of Faces by Petra Lord: Decaying bodies, a cutthroat academy, betrayal through manipulation, and blurred morality lines.
Arcane by Christian Linke and Alex Yee: Similar class system and discussions of privilege. (JayVik if rivals to lovers, and CaitVi if Vi grew up in the desert).
SoCxPoppyWar
Three convicts have breached the Manor. Do not approach; they are armed, dangerous, & after an ancient artifact that they donโt know the power of, in hopes of Healing their sick ally. The last Duster is in this found family of thieves. Do not harm her
#Questpit#F#Q
ALT WANTED
ALIVE
NARA FERRIN - DUSTER
For pickpocketing Dynaster Kinvaara, escaping the Tarkan prison, kidnapping, theft, and attacking Diantha Caelus at her wedding.
ALT WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE
DELRON PERDICIAN - CHRONICLER
For masterminding the Tarkan prison break, kidnapping, theft, breaking and entering, and destroying the Kantilian Manor
ALT WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE
EGAN HENRIK - SHIFTER
For impersonating Doville Caelus and several Kantilian Manor Guards, kidnapping, theft, and the attempted murder of Dynaster Caelus.
6oCxTPW
When the Dusters vanished & left Nara behind, she resorted to a life of crime to survive
In 1 last heist to save her best friend, Nara teams up with the 2 people who imprisoned her to steal a Healing relic while evading ghosts from a life she can't recall
#questpit#Q#F
ALT A Guide To
DUST WE SHALL RETURN
An 88k Fantasy Heist
By Marceline Greyfield
ALT Pitch
A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact from a Dynaster to save her best friend's life. But when they find Nara's kidnapper commisserating with the Dynaster, Nara must choose between unraveling the secrets oof her past to find where her people vanished to, or protecting her friends and her future from a religious ritual that threatens to split the barrier between man and god.
ALT Themes & Tropes
Tri POV (F/M/NB)
Physically disabled FMC (#OWN)
MMC talks like a Jeff Buckley or Hozier song
Nonbinary MC fighting to save their sister
Ensemble cast
Found family
Unique magic system
Sibling bonds
E2L second-chance romance
Religious machinations
Twisty, slowly revealed backstories
Comps
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang: Fragmented memories, last of her kind protag, morally complex characters.
Memento by Christopher Nolan: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge. Distrustful allies.
The Priority of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: Strong FMC with unique magic, ancient rituals, and political intrigue.
JASAD HEIR/GODKILLER
If anyone finds out sheโs a changeling they'll ๐ her. Finding a powerful relic could free her people from oppression & sheโll do everything to keep it. But failure to unearth its secrets will mean her death & the loss of all magic forever. #QuestPit#F#Q#A
ALT A photo of a dark haired woman in the jungle. Title: An Agent/Reader Guide to The Breath of SIlence - A fantasy novel by M J Reynard
ALT A rainforest photo with the following text:
The Pitch
In a world where magic is forbidden, an outcast shifter & a broken soldier form a fragile alliance to smuggle a relic, but as betrayal leads to murder, they must stop a vengeful sorceress or lose all magic โ forever!
The Breath of SIlence by M J Reynard
ALT Illustrations of a POC woman in leather armour and a Caucasian man in a Regency style shirt and coat with brown hair.
The following quotes:
"He's a liar!"
"She's hiding something."
City in the sky!
Changelings & sorcerors
Magical Prejudice
Fish out of water
Two slow burn romances!
Immortals & Reincarnates
Dragons vs Tigers
The Breath of SIlence by M J Reynard
ALT A photo of a rainforest with the Title "Comps":
A Feather so Black - magical woman in a non-magical world
The Last Vigilant - A broken man with a life debt
The Jasad Heir - Forbidden magic
The Bone Shard War - life & death battles & creatures
One Dark Window - slow burn sub plots & immersive
SLAYING THE VAMP CONQUEROR x SHADOW & BONE
๐ชกstring theory-inspired magic
๐คsapphic Darklina vibes
โจanxiety/compulsion rep
โค๏ธโ๐ฅmessy love triangle
๐ชmystery dimension
โ๏ธinfiltrating the enemy but falling in love instead
๐ฟwho's the real villain?
#questpit#Q#YA#F