The empire needs someone to play the prophesized hero. Instead they get Gev, a 40yo quartermaster with more talent for supply line logistics than killing actual gods. Fake-it-till-you-make-it…or die trying (spoilers: he'll probably die trying). #Q#A#SFF#QuestPit
A small, small thing, but sticking on my artist hat for a moment: I wish people doing #QuestPit with art in their pitches and mood boards would credit who and where they got their art from. Some do, but some don't, and I just want us to support all creatives in this, y'know?
That said, this was a lot of fun and I got to read so many frickin' awesome pitches for what sound like some frickin' awesome books (and I KNOW I've seen only a drop in the bucket, so I'll probably still be liking things well after the event ends).
When Megara murders Merlin she must pursue her purpose as a fated protector, before vengeful King Arthur destroys all of the magic and kills the ones she loves.
PULCHRA ARCANUM
70k words Fantasy
#questpit
The empire needs someone to play the prophesized hero. Instead they get Gev, a 40yo quartermaster with more talent for supply line logistics than killing actual gods. Fake-it-till-you-make-it…or die trying (spoilers: he'll probably die trying). #Q#A#SFF#QuestPit
Abducted and deported to a homeland he’s never seen and magically branded an exile, Gev is pressed into service as a spy. His task: fake a prophecy and kill the gods in less than a year. Instructions not included. It’s proper epic fantasy! See? It has a map! #Q#A#SFF#QuestPit
Prophecy’s Exile is a tongue-in-cheek homage to 90’s epic fantasy travelogues but a little more modern and a lot more queer. Political shenanigans, bipedal riding dinosaurs, semi-sentient prophecies, and fake-it-till-you-make-it chosen ones. See dinos below. #Q#A#SFF#QuestPit
Prophecy’s Exile is a tongue-in-cheek homage to 90’s epic fantasy travelogues but a little more modern and a lot more queer. Political shenanigans, bipedal riding dinosaurs, semi-sentient prophecies, and fake-it-till-you-make-it chosen ones. See dinos below. #Q#A#SFF#QuestPit
🕯 CORPSE BRIDE X PRACTICAL MAGIC🌙
FAIRYTALES & OTHER FATALITIES is my cozy horrormance about estranged best friends, sapphic witches, ghostly newlyweds, and a haunted fairytale-themed hotel
#QuestPit#A#R#H
Doesn’t it suck when you’re forced to kill a super hot princess to get rid of your curse, so you infiltrate her friend group only to discover that you really like them? And Sawyer hasn’t even realized one of the friends is the princess in disguise yet!
#YA#F#Q#LGBT#questpit
ALT Blue and purple leaves, a snowy castle, multiple images of multicolored forests, a hand swinging a crown, a hand producing purple flames, a table fill of potions, a figure with blue hair obscuring their face
My somewhat different take on an #agentsguide
A Fate tasked with scheduling the lives and deaths of mortals must track down a killer when the unscheduled body of a Chosen One lands on the doorstep of her best friend, Death.
#questpit#A#F#MY#Q#litagents
ALT The title slide of my humorous version of my Agent's Guide to my adult fantasy mystery novel A Wayward Balance.
ALT Slide 2 of my humorous Agents Guide: The dreaded, yet required, One Paragraph pitch
Fiona and Dahlia work tirelessly each day to ensure the balance of eight worlds remains intact. Every rule must be followed, every life and every death scheduled and accounted for, every Chosen One meticulously hand selected to save any world on the verge of collapse from a wayward balance—a breaking—when the scales have tipped too far for too long. When the current Chosen One is found murdered on Dahlia’s doorstep, the two friends must work together to prove Dahlia’s innocence before her life is forfeit to offset the balance that has tipped beyond what anyone has seen before, leaving the futures of all eight worlds in jeopardy. To save the worlds, rules must be broken, time will be upended, secrets will demand to be revealed, and friendships must be sacrificed.
ALT Slide 3 of my humorous Agent's Guide: An Entirely Inconvenient Number of comps
The whimsical bureaucracy of The House in the Cerulean Sea
Unique townsfolk like Halloween Town
Cozy small town vibes like Murder She Wrote
For fans of cozy fantasies & coffee shops like Legends and Lattes, but with the higher stakes of murder.
Metaphysical Fun like: Good Omens and The Good Place
Humor of: The Eyre Affair and Mort
ALT Slide 4 of my humorous Agent's Guide: A socially acceptable boost to my ego
features quotes from people who have read A Wayward Balance such as "When I tell you this story has me HOOKED" and "So fricken fun"
HORIZON 0 DAWN ✖️ NOTES…BURNING AGE
Two rogue nanotech priests
Two warriors out for revenge
Together, they’ll bring the gods hell
🌍Failed terraforming
🛰️Ancient mechanical gods
🕷️Arachnid mammals
🏕️Found family
🐴1 old mule
⚔️Sword (1) vs 🔫railguns (lots)
#QuestPit#Q#A#SF
ALT Five fractured images form a moodboard: A warrior woman with a painted face, winged helmet, and spear looks off to the right, where a mage in orange robes swirls magical energy around her, which in turn morphs into a sci-fi portal. Along the bottom, a sci-fi soldier in power armor looks at the viewer, and an enormous spaceship looms over a dusty fantasy cityscape. The title of the novel, CASCADE, flickers in glowing blue letters along the left side.
In the middle is the following text:
Their world is crumbling
Their gods are false
But now they have the power
To fight them
Abducted and deported to a homeland he’s never seen and magically branded an exile, Gev is pressed into service as a spy. His task: fake a prophecy and kill the gods in less than a year. Instructions not included. It’s proper epic fantasy! See? It has a map! #Q#A#SFF#QuestPit
THE FLOATING CASTLE
(THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE X THE WOMEN'S WAR)
In a world where demons control the supply of magic and dragons are both feared and sentient, three women combine forces to oppose an evil prince and escape his floating castle.
#questpit#Q#A#F#EF#DF
Logan Lucky ✖️ Suez Canal fiasco IN SPACE
Meet the crew:
🚛Washed-up space trucker buried in debt
👴Geriatric super-hacker
🤖Sentient adbot in Hacker's head
🚀Ex-ace pilot (Space Trucker's ex 🔥)
🔧Whiz mechanic (Pilot's new 🔥)
🕵️Trucker's con artist family
#QuestPit#W#SF#A
ALT A collage of images around a central glowing circle, within which is a sci-fi rendition of the Vitruvian Man and the words: ALWAYS ACCORD (which flicker in and out of view).
Around it is an image of a space station; a mobster with a poorly-edited VR visor; an elderly woman standing against a sci-fi cityscape squinting while she shoots a laser pistol at the space station; and an elderly man astronaut with an uncertain expression.
DISCWORLD x THE ADVENTURE ZONE
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Athragast the Wizard wants to retire from mentoring young heroes; but before he can, he needs one last capable hero to help him. When the capable hero rejects the job, Athragast recruits Jon the busboy instead.
#Q#A#F#Comedy
ALT Title Banner: The Reluctant Mentor
A wizard hat set on top of a tankard with an axe sticking out of the hat.
In the background: Croissants, cigars, a knight smashing a guitar, and a coiling dragon.
The empire needs a spy, ambassador, and accomplished fraud. With the first choice dead, they get Gev, but creating the “prophesized hero” is an elaborate con and the chosen sucker is a level 50 quartermaster and a level 1 hero. #Q#A#SFF#QuestPit
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE X THE SONG OF ACHILLES
After centuries of observing history together, two stars are cast down to humanity in the midst of the French Revolution. But their years have not prepared them to become a part of history’s narrative #questpit#AG#HF
FOUNDRYSIDE × SPIDER-GWEN
In a city powered by the hearts of the dead, Cordelia leads a double life. Coroner by day and roller-blading thief by night, she searches for the truth behind her mother’s death, but she’ll have to take on a megacorp to find it.
#questpit#SFF#A
ALT Moodboard with panels styled like a comic book. From the top: Woman hiding her face. A rainy street with a tram. Glowing laptop. Glowing heart behind bars. Rollerblade. Woman with headphones in. Science goop. Man in an action pose.