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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · 16d

back from the grave and dragging my corpse into the query trenches once more.

Rarest Perish - an 80s paranormal romance
#amquerying #writingcommunity #agentsguide

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · May 15

nudging an agent feels like poking a d*ad animal with a stick 🫩
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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · May 7

thank you 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

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Tamara 🍁👻🎃🧟‍♀️🌽 @tamaratoday.bsky.social · May 7

🌊 THE BAD ONES X DREDGE 🌊

After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it.

This YA Fantasy Horror features:
👥Dual POV
📜A Deadly Deal
😈Ravenous Monsters
🤫Secrets With Severe Consequences
💔Exes to Allies to [redacted]

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #H

Left to right. Top row: hands reaching out of the water. A doll head. Human hands with sharpened nails. Middle row: A lighthouse shining through fog. “Are you afraid?” An eerie figure standing beside a tree with a noose. Bottom row: Hands reaching towards each other in the water. A sea creature with glowing eyes and sharp teeth. Multiple hands reaching out of the forest brush.

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · May 7

“I would give my very existence to endure the agony of loving you.”

Dove Daley’s death date had been decided—so why couldn’t Fate kill her? When intrigue turns to infatuation, an impossible love will defy the laws of destiny.

#QuestPit #Q #A #PR #R #DF

Rarest Perish
80’s paranormal romance
Dual-pov
Forbidden love
Male yearning
BAMF FMC

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · May 7

“May the path Fate pave be just.”

A SILENCE SO DIVINE
🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️

A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying.

#QuestPit #Q #DF #PR #R #A #agentsguide #gothicfiction

A Silence So Divine
Avoiding damnation doesn’t always mean snuffing your Darkness, but stepping into it.

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Apr 10

heyyyyy #writingcommunity I need some advice! I’m heavily considering indie publishing my debut novel BUT the full is out with a small pub house. At one point do I nudge them? I know with agents it’s 3-6 months but idk if the rules are different here. Pls help ya girl I’m stressed
#amquerying

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Apr 4

the urge to self publish grows by the day but I’m sooooo scared of my book flopping 🙃
#amquerying #writingcommunity

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 22

my email has been crickets. let’s see if I can entice some agents 👹
#amquerying #writingcommunity #agentsguide #gothicfiction

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 18

I’ll forfeit my sanity for approximately three months before I accept that I’ll never see my baby again 😀

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 18

having a full out feels like someone has kidnapped my baby and I’m waiting for them to bring it back
#amquerying #writingcommunity

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Feb 16

That’s more like it.

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 14

wonder if I can manifest another #fullrequestfriday 🥸
#amquerying

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 13

me reading five paragraphs & white knuckling my laptop

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 13

why are some submission guidelines written as riddles like can you pls just say what you want 😟
#writingcommunity #amquerying

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 12

“May the path Fate pave be just.”

A SILENCE SO DIVINE
🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️

A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying.

#QuestPit #Q #DF #PR #R #spec #agentsguide #gothicfiction

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 12

PART OF ME 🍀

x Forced proximity
x Loathe to love
x Workplace romance

Maeve outruns the grief of the strained relationship with her late father by flying to his hometown: Dublin, Ireland.
There, she meets a surly bartender who doesn’t like her—and the feeling is mutual.

#questpit #Q #A #R

Part of Me
Julia Trudell
A collage of photos including scenes in Dublin and those portraying the main characters

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Julia is 🪩querying🪩 @juliatrudell.bsky.social · Feb 12

STAY ❤️‍🩹

In this friends-to-lovers rom-com, Sophie must navigate her fear of abandonment when her relationship with her best friend, Noah, shifts into uncharted territory.

#questpit #W #A #R

Stay
Julia Trudell
A collage of photos to look like a scrapbook of two people portraying the main characters

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Tamara 🍁👻🎃🧟‍♀️🌽 @tamaratoday.bsky.social · Feb 12

📜 THE BAD ONES X DREDGE 📜

After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it.

This YA Fantasy Horror features:
🌊Dual POV
🌊A Deadly Deal
🌊Ravenous Monsters
🌊Secrets With Severe Consequences
🌊Exes to Allies to [redacted]

#QuestPit #YA #F #H

Left to right. Top row: A lighthouse on a hill. A face covered in dirt or blood. An octopus with a skull for a head. Middle row: A row boat with a sea monster swimming up under it. "Fear me." A row boat on the water with a giant eye beneath it. Bottom row: a giant whirlpool with teeth. Two hands gripping the ground with the ocean off in the distance. A giant shadowy creature towering over a person in the ocean waves.

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 12

thank you 🫶🏻

Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 12

ahhh thank you! 🥹

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 12

RACHEL GILLIG’S ONE DARK WINDOW x ETHEL CAIN’S PREACHER’S DAUGHTER

A SILENCE SO DIVINE
🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️

A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying.

#QuestPit #Q #DF #PR #R

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 12

“May the path Fate pave be just.”

A SILENCE SO DIVINE
🪶 115k words | Gothic Fiction 🕯️

A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying.

#QuestPit #Q #DF #PR #R

First Line
The storm was relentless.
But so was I.

Eden has spent twenty-two years isolated in her father’s manor. But when he disappears and she’s discovered by two brothers, she must confront the Darkness that swims in her veins—lest she lose the only love she’s ever known.

Tropes/Details
-corrupt churchmen
-found family
-feminine rage
-enemies to lovers
-sentient houses
-the chosen one
-isolated location
-everyone has secrets
-dystopian future
-southern gothic
-sign language

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 8

dearest #writingcommunity -
what’s the next pitch event? 👀

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Feb 7

*my I’m too excited to type properly