We are sisters who write humorous middle-grade fiction and family-friendly screenplays. Authors of The Underwear Dare Series. Lisa writes under name Ava Amor.
An Agent’s Guide to THE TIME TRAVEL INN 🕰️
For readers who crave:
⏳ Guests pulled straight from history
👩🏫 A retired teacher turned time traveler
💀 Famous deaths that never happened
👩👧 A mother willing to break time to save her child
#QuestPit#A#SFF
The Writers Loft has some cool programs, for sure, and this whole thing looks amazing. And you could win a prize involving me! thewritersloft.org/loft-work…
An exciting life update: I am now an associate literary agent at @TheTobiasAgency … and I’m opening to queries!
Send me all your weird, genre-mashing books; I’m currently open in several genres in Adult books, from horror and fantasy to romance and scifi.
FREE QUERY CRITIQUES! APRIL/MAY edition - closes at 6pm on May 7th!
I'm giving away TWO (totally) free query critiques on X this month - one for April and one for May. Instructions to enter below. NOTE: this giveaway is only running on X this time BUT there are two critiques up for grabs!
There are ZERO strings attached. Just one author supporting another. That's it. 📷#WritingCommunity#amquerying
The dark romantasy and strong FMC of Book of Azrael combined with the heart-pounding medical drama of The Pitt.
✅️ deadly trials
✔️shadow daddy
✅️ FMC over 30
✔️mental health rep.
✅️enemies to lovers
⚠️ emotional damage
Professionally edited
#a#q#questpit#rf#df
COLDWIRE X HADESTOWN
🏳️⚧️Transmasc MC
📼Cassettepunk world
🌆Digital Afterlife
🫱🏻🫲🏼Big brother and little sister dynamic
🏳️🌈MLM romance
📺Found family
#QuestPIt#YA#D#W
The TIDEWOMAN
When the shells begin to speak to a young woman chosen by the sea, she must protect her island from a powerful religious order while falling for a dangerous smuggler she cannot resist. #questpit#romantasy#fic#A#F#R
The Cold War X Time Travel
When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.
#QuestPit#A#Q#SF#T
Apple TV’s
SEVERANCE meets SILO
🚫 Emotion as system error
👾 The haunting is digital
📋Corporate ritual menace
🧪 Complicit Protagonist
🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action
#QuestPit#Q#A#SF#S#SFF#U
ALT Agents guide to the unmaking
ALT Pitch: Nova feels too much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean
ALT Comps: severance, silo, the dream hotel, chain-gang all stars
ALT Nova the complicit memory eraser. The stranger: the phantom unleashed by her grief. Kade, the devoted state enforcer sent to hunt her
#QuestPit#W#A#H
Ezra Newham was never wanted. Never loved. Hated before he was born. When the vengeful town that scorned him conspire a way to get rid of him forever his fate is left to a young, spiralling demonologist he finds himself unexplainably, and carnally, drawn to
ALT a 3x3 moodboard, images listed left to right
top row: two boys about to kiss, a brown haired man with hazel eyes, a hand wrapped in chains
middle row: a scarred back, 'I am a God's Cursed', a boy with brown hair
bottom row: drawings of skulls, a boy with black goo on his arms, an arm covered in black blood
THE GRAVITY OF HOME
✨️Adult scifi
✨️97,000 words.
✨️ Adventure, action
✨️ Forced proximity
✨️ And a fun romp through space
A Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet X Full Speed to a Crash Landing X Stars Uncharted
#questpit#A#SF#Q
🗡️Murdered in cold blood & resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes a formidable assassin. As her latest mission sparks a higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life.🪶
#QuestPit#F#P
🗡️Murdered in cold blood & resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes a formidable assassin. As her latest mission sparks a higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life.🪶
#questpit#P#SFF
ALT Book cover:
Killer Quill by Shida Ketzer
Themes & tropes:
crossed out "Romance", replaced with "Found Family"
Assassin FMC
Color Magic
Epic Fight Scenes
Touch her & you'll die!
Fantasy Heist
Feral Feminine Rage
BIPOC & LGBTQIA
ALT Shida Ketzer
Killer Quill (Colors Eternal)
5-star rating
Message on the right: "Get Killer Quill. Cheaper than coffee & lasts longer!"
Book cover: A (badass-looking!) woman in a red coat holding a silver quill in one hand (black smoke swirling around it), and a bloody dagger in the other. Many daggers are strapped to her belt. The cover is black & red, with black veins. It's a gorgeous cover, trust me! Made entirely by humans.
An open book symbol
below which is the kindle (e-book) edition price is a bit above 3 £ Available instantly
A steaming cup of coffee
below which is the Paperback price 9.91 £
🍊Unreliable narrator convinced he's the hero
🍊Victorian Gothic Vibes
🍊Unstable reality
🍊An orange that never rots
ORANGE
DORIAN GRAY x THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER x CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
#questpit#H#A#S#querying
ALT Post reads: "An Agent's Guide to Orange, 17k words, Adult Speculative Horror," in light greenish brown font. The poster is of a Dutch oil painting, a still life with fruit. A monkey is eating fruit in the right corner, and a hand holding an orange sits in the bottom left.
ALT Post reads "The Pitch," in light greenish brown font. The poster is of a Dutch oil painting, a still life with fruit. A monkey is eating fruit in the right corner, and a hand holding an orange sits in the bottom left. Comp titles are at the right, and include The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Icarus.
ALT Post reads "The Tropes" and "the Blurb," in wine-colored bubbles in light greenish brown font. The poster is of a Dutch oil painting, a still life with fruit. A monkey is eating fruit in the right corner, and a hand holding an orange sits in the bottom left.
ALT Post reads "The Snippet" with text from the story in a wine-red bubble in light greenish brown font. The poster is of a Dutch oil painting, a still life with fruit. A monkey is eating fruit in the right corner, and a hand holding an orange sits in the bottom left.
JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
🕯️forbidden gothic romance
🕯️slow burn
🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton
🕯️black swan-esque awakening
🕯️2000’s setting
🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual
🕯️secret lake meetings
#questpit#W#A#NA#R
ALT First Graphic:
An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.
Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026
ALT Second Graphic:
An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.
Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera
When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.
ALT Third Graphic:
Tropes.
Forbidden Romance.
High Society Match Making.
European Setting.
Slow Burn.
Love VS Duty.
Black Swan-esque Awakening.
Masquerade Ball.
2000’s Setting.
Obsessive Yearning.
Secret Lake Meetings.
It's one ride up the mountain for an inheritance the Pollock sibs direly need ... if they can make it back down.
#agentsguide#questpit#A#MY#T#Q
ALT Image 1 has a black & neon pink background with a pink graphic of a woman with sunglasses, and a pink graphic of a man with short hair, sunglasses, and a beard. The board reads:
An Agent's Guide To All Aboard
a 75K mystery/thriller by Chelsea Scott
told by ride-or-die sibs
stuck on a haunted train
Between the graphics of the man and woman is a pink train graphic, and toward the top of the graphic are three sketched, pink hearts.
ALT Image 2 has a black & neon blue background that reads:
This Book Has:
A glitz & glam to survival-in-the-snow pipeline
f/f enemies to lovers ("The Fate of Ophelia")
Hamlet roots
Tell-Tale Heart vibes
2 murders & a haunting
adults behaving badly
On the board are two neon pink skull graphics and several blue snowflakes.
ALT Image 3 has a black & neon blue background that reads:
Pitch:
When the heir to the Hambrook fortune is found poisoned and stabbed aboard a snowed-in train en route to a will reading, his ex, Poppy, scrambles to solve the crime before another passenger is hurt. Poppy's brother, Lars, eager, to cover up his role in the death, secretly derails his beloved sister's efforts while fending off a doozy of a personalized haunting.
Opening Line:
Never thought I'd willingly board a train with the ex I'd gnaw my own arm off to avoid, and yet, here I am—stepping out of my brother's dented Tacoma and frowning at the squat white "station" ahead of us.
ALT Image 4 has a black & neon pink background that's labeled Comps, with images of 4 books and their descriptions:
"The Train From Platform 2" by Stephanie Steel (trapped-with-a-killer suspense amid a closed-group investigation)
"Everyone on This Train is a Suspect" by Benjamin Stevenson (amateur sleuths with snark)
"A Girl Like Us" by Anna Sophia McLoughlin (themes of family power and inheritance)
"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (flipped on its head and narrated by Ophelia (Poppy) and Laertes (Lars)
Mauri is a wolf-shifter, but can't switch to her wolf-form. Vest is the alpha's son & he's had a crush on Mauri since kindergarten. But he doesn't know she's a shifter. Rogues are wreaking havoc. And you thought YOUR senior yr was tough! #questpit#YA#F#R#q
ALT Forest background, in the center of the image is a green square. In front of the square is a white wolf. Text above the green square reads: Shifter Secrets a YA Fantasy Romance by Bethany Averie / in the green square the text reads: Snippet 1: Mauri's Point of View: His gaze trails across my face. "Were you crying?" I lower my head. "Were you?" His voice is soft and tender. If things were different, maybe I'd admit everything. Afterall, that's my instinct. He outranks me whether I can shift or not. The pull to confess is strong. However, I can't. "I'm okay."
ALT Forest background, in the center of the image is a green square. In front of the square is a gray-and-white wolf. Text above the green square reads: Shifter Secrets a YA Fantasy Romance by Bethany Averie / in the green square the text reads: Snippet 2: Vest's Point of View: Mere hours exist before I turn eighteen. The magic will kick into high gear. If Mauri isn’t my destiny, I don’t want to hurt her. The rest of me argues the merits of a kiss. How it’s the best idea I’ve had. No, no, my conscience yells. You’ll be with a Moonrise female. You’ll break Mauri’s heart. The thought brings me up short. I would rather gnaw off my own arm than break her heart.
☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors
Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her.
#QuestPit#YA#C#MY#R#AG#OS#LGBTQ#OV
ALT Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media
ALT 4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.
The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.
ALT What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys
ALT 6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”
There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.
In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON