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marisol
@marisolwrites.bsky.social
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currently: on draft 3 of my debut literary body-horror MOUTH PIECE

www.marisolramos.com

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marisol @marisolwrites.bsky.social · 21h
MOUTH PIECE

desperate for beauty, validation, and digital relevance, Blanca seizes on a mysteriously gifted skincare product that promises to transform her life only to discover that it causes a small, insatiable mouth to grow on her stomach.

#W, #LF, #H, #questpit
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lolagracebooks.bsky.social
THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND
Windego is a 35K word supernatural horror novella based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all.
#questpit #Q #A #H #S
a mock newspaper featuring a large photo of a woman and a small photo of a man. the headline says “local man vanishes without a trace” in a smaller leaders and “girlfriend doesn’t cry on news” in much larger letters. Body text criticizes a woman for failing to cry while talking about her boyfriend’s disappearance on the news.
January 31, 2026 at 10:44 PM
marisolwrites.bsky.social
MOUTH PIECE

desperate for beauty, validation, and digital relevance, Blanca seizes on a mysteriously gifted skincare product that promises to transform her life only to discover that it causes a small, insatiable mouth to grow on her stomach.

#W, #LF, #H, #questpit
January 31, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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samanthakwrites.bsky.social
A college track athlete is determined to reach her lifelong goal of becoming an Olympian, but when she catches feelings for a boy hours away she becomes distracted from her sport and has to determine which takes first place in her life: love or a gold medal. #questpit #W #R
January 31, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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lolagracebooks.bsky.social
An agent’s guide to Windego, a 35K word speculative horror novella based on Anishinaabe folklore, exploring themes of: intimate partner manipulation, overcoming trauma, and the role our friends play in finding ourselves again
#questpit #Q #A #H #S #ownvoices
A cover slide that has a desert background with the words, “The 35K word supernatural horror novella Windego: An Agent’s Guide” A slide with a pitch and blurb. The pitch says: Ivy’s world comes to a screeching halt when her boyfriend, Vince, and his friends all vanish without a trace during a camping trip in West Texas. When Vince shows up cold and shivering on the doorstep in the middle of the night two weeks later, it feels like all of her prayers have been answered, but his strange and disturbing behavior leads Ivy to wonder whether he really ever came home at all. The blurb says: Ivy has everything a girl could want: a thriving pottery business, a beautiful home, and a boyfriend she loves . One weekend is all it takes to destroy her life beyond repair. When Vince and his friends all vanish without a trace while camping in West Texas, Ivy is left alone and adrift, until a stray dog shows up on her porch. She’s always wanted a dog, and Vince has always promised her they’d get one some day, just not today, or tomorrow, or next week. Taking the dog in feels like admitting that Vince is never coming home, but Ivy has to start rebuilding her life at some point. When Vince shows up two weeks later, cold and shivering in the middle of the night, unable to remember anything about his trip, Ivy is elated. She can see the life she’s always wanted coming back to her, and better than ever. But Vince and the dog can’t stand each other, and by shades and degrees, it becomes clear that whatever Vince went through has fundamentally changed him, and Ivy starts to wonder how different someone can become before they aren’t themselves anymore. A slide with a texas flag style background. On the left it says For fans of: The Only Good Indians, A House with Good Bones, The Lamb, and The Hollow Kind. On the top right, it says: Themes: Facing intimate partner coercion and manipulation, mounting paranoia and distrust in reality, social isolation, platonic soulmates, and overcoming trauma. On the bottom right, it says: Key elements: Based in native american folklore (own voices), Unreliable narrator, Surrealist blending of reality, strong imagery, and body horror A slide that says excerpt at the top and is followed by: Sometimes, he talks about how I’m different from Mike and Jake’s girlfriends. How Steph and Amber won’t run errands for them like I do for him, or how they insist on having something their way, how they aren’t agreeable or generous like me. I know it should be a compliment, when says he’s happy I’m not a “bitch-wife” the way they sometimes are, but it doesn't feel like one. When we first started dating, he only ever said bitch-wife to make fun of the men who married women they clearly didn’t really like - a jab at the idea of a man who thinks his wife asking for anything makes her unreasonable. We’d laughed together about it, said we loved each other too much to ever be that mean and bitter, that we’d always do anything for each other. I'd believed it too, when he'd said he'd do anything for me. I’m not sure when it changed, when he started to use it for real. It was slow, I guess. The kind of creep you don’t really notice until you hear it one day and it hits you that it isn't funny anymore. That it doesn’t mean what it used to. He still uses it the old way sometimes. Just enough that I can’t ever be entirely sure whether he’s really calling Steph and Amber bitches, or whether he’s mocking Mike and Jake. I like to think it’s the latter. I’m not sure when I stopped asking for things, either. When I started to fear becoming a bitch-wife, even while refusing to admit he means it. Texas is a state built on enduring. Enduring drought, choking heat, bitter cold, sweat in your eyes and dirt that tastes like blood in your mouth. An endless rocky, barren, bitter landscape that refuses to change, and people that refuse to accept it won't ever change. I am a true Texan. There are two more sentences, but they do not fit in the alt text limit.
January 31, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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cardaminecrone.bsky.social
SALTBURN X CATCHER IN THE RYE

After being left without any adult supervision, a closeted teenage boy invites his best friend and her brother to his abandoned family estate for the summer.

#QuestPit #YA #LF #HFic #WIP
A movie poster mock-up for aperitif, featuring the shadow of a hand holding a cocktail glass, and the description of first person narrator, young adult to adult crossover, and literary tragicomedy Of
January 31, 2026 at 5:02 PM
marisolwrites.bsky.social
if NIGHTBITCH and YELLOWFACE had a weird-girl-lit-fic baby
they’d call it MOUTH PIECE

#W (on draft three and sending to betas in feb)
#LF, #H, #questpit
January 31, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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briannaswan.bsky.social
Love and Mud is for those of us who want a little adventure with their romance.

Written with The Novelry, currently querying with 8 full requests out!

#Q #A #R #questpit
Love and Mud, contemporary romance Love and mud, contemporary romance Love and mud, contemporary romance
January 31, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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briannaswan.bsky.social
An agent's guide to All's Fair in Love and Ruins

Contemporary Romance
*Feminist Indiana Jones meets the college-rivals of Beach Read*

#W Third draft and querying this year
#R with a heavy dose of adventure and danger
#A Two chili peppers
#questpitAll
Agent's guiide to All's fair in love and ruins sits on a collage of adventure photos trope list Third draft WIP
January 31, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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saraduran.bsky.social
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
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.”
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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briannaswan.bsky.social
All’s Fair in Love and Ruins

✨Indiana Jones meets the college-rivals-turned-lovers of Beach Read ✨

✅Strong woman in male-dominated field
✅Banter and yearning
✅Adventure

Third Draft and obsessed! #W #A #R #questpit
All’s fair in love and ruins Grad school rival Patagonia, hike , romance Patagonia
January 31, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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lolagracebooks.bsky.social
Ivy has everything a girl could want: a thriving pottery business, a beautiful home, and a boyfriend she loves. One weekend is all it takes to destroy her life beyond repair. #questpit #Q #A #H #S
a moodboard that is designed to look like twelve notes on a bulletin board. Starting at the top left and moving towards the bottom right, the images are: A woman and ma embracing, a street sign that says the sun has risen the sun has set and y’all ain’t outta texas yet, Text reading For Fans Of: The Only Good Indians, A House with Good Bones, The Lamb, and The Hollow Kind; a texas flag flying on a snowy road, text reading “the 35k word horror novella Windego, A picture of a sign that says trespassers will be eaten, text that says “Ivy’s world comes to a screeching halt when her boyfriend, Vince, and his friends all vanish without a trace during a camping trip in west texas”, a cow skull, a wolf with a bloody face, a shed that has “all i had i gave” painted on the side, a girl and a dog sitting on a dock, and text that says “When Vince shows up cold and shivering in the middle of the night two weeks later, it feels like all of her prayers have been answered, but his strange and disturbing behavior leads Ivy to wonder whether he really ever came home at all”
January 31, 2026 at 3:39 PM