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Mom • Teacher ✨ Dark Myth-Tech Fantasy author #CPTSDsurvivor ⚔️Scarred heroines—fierce as their readers. #RevPit 2026 | #10Queries ➡️ https://xitter.gq/t.co/qQEEjAJmbP

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Joined January 2010
What if trauma became coded runes on your skin? And an authoritarian regime hunted the marked, harvesting your grief to fuel its power? JESSICA JONES × ARCANE They call her SCARella. She’s the only one who gives a damn about post-Collapse Manhattan’s disappearing girls. ──── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ──── A trafficking survivor turned vigilante stalks beneath a skyline of drones, wielding a sentient flaming machete to rescue girls from a grief-harvesting regime. When she allies with a subterranean rebel, her trauma-made-visible glyph mutates, threatening to remake her into the predator she hunts. 🔥 ──── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ──── Some things don’t just break you. They remake you. Her trauma became code. Her code became power. Now the system wants it back. 🔥 ──── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ──── 🔥 vigilante with CPTSD 🧬 trauma coded into skin as runes 🧠 reclusive subterranean inventor 🐀 rat seers 🩸 trafficked girls ☄️ post-Collapse Manhattan 😭 grief = harvestable magical energy ⚙️ emotion-run weapons 🕯️ healing as resistance ❤️ love as presence ──── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ──── #QuestPit #Adult #CyberpunkFantasy #SpeculativeFiction #MythTech #CPTSD #WritingCommunity #WritersOfX
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A misfit huntress discovers her sisterhood imprisons men as breeding stock and, after falling for one and learning truths condemning both sides, must choose either the man she loves, or the women who raised her. ❄️ND rep ❄️Feminist Iron Age ❄️Dual timeline #questpit #F #U #D #Q
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An elderly woman holds a grudge for forty years. On the outside, she goes to church, knits baby blankets, and babysits, but her husband's betrayal has unleashed a psychotic anger that knows no bounds: a racy thrill ride with killer twists. #QuestPit #A #Q #S #T #R #FamSaga
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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ retweeted
What if trauma became coded runes on your skin? And an authoritarian regime hunted the marked, harvesting your grief to fuel its power? JESSICA JONES × ARCANE They call her SCARella. She’s the only one who gives a damn about post-Collapse Manhattan’s disappearing girls. ──── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ──── A trafficking survivor turned vigilante stalks beneath a skyline of drones, wielding a sentient flaming machete to rescue girls from a grief-harvesting regime. When she allies with a subterranean rebel, her trauma-made-visible glyph mutates, threatening to remake her into the predator she hunts. 🔥 ──── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ──── Some things don’t just break you. They remake you. Her trauma became code. Her code became power. Now the system wants it back. 🔥 ──── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ──── 🔥 vigilante with CPTSD 🧬 trauma coded into skin as runes 🧠 reclusive subterranean inventor 🐀 rat seers 🩸 trafficked girls ☄️ post-Collapse Manhattan 😭 grief = harvestable magical energy ⚙️ emotion-run weapons 🕯️ healing as resistance ❤️ love as presence ──── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ──── #QuestPit #Adult #CyberpunkFantasy #SpeculativeFiction #MythTech #CPTSD #WritingCommunity #WritersOfX
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Bringing Soulless to #QuestPit Editors, contact @REstepLit if interested! 🩸 Monster Hunter x Monster 🩸 Black Cat x Ginger Cat 🩸 Stabby FMC 🩸 Dark & Gritty 🩸 Emotional Repression-Based Magic System 🩸 Scottish Folklore 🩸 Duty vs Desire 🩸 Religious Trauma #AG #RF #DR #H
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I promoted this book at #QuestPit and now you can buy it. The system works! 1919. A young woman returns to her crumbling Yorkshire estate. The gardener dies on the front step. Then the family secrets start coming out. #P #H #Hfic #A #HF
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GLASS ONION x MISS CONGENIALITY When reporter Kate's caught snooping, she doesn't expect to: be mistaken for her fashion model friend👠💋 play along🤥 fake-date a man she hoped NEVER to meet😱 😍said infuriating man❤️‍🔥 run into her cheater ex💔 🔎a killer🗡️ #Questpit #W #A #MY #R
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Happy questing today! #questpit I hope you enjoy my #agentsguide to THE EARTHFELT CHILD, a 90k adult contemporary fantasy set in Appalachia. They banished her, now they want her daughter to save them. #Q #A #F
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BONES AND ALL × BELOVED ⋆ speculative new adult fic ⋆ 87,000 words ⋆ set in Houston, Texas ⋆˙𐚁⋆✮𓃗⋆˙ ⋆ 2010s nostalgia ⋆ eerie southern haint narrator .˚⊹. ࣪for the weird Black girls𓉸 ࣪⊹˚. #questpit #Q #S #R
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#questpit #Q #MG 'The Forest Creature' chapter book for children, 8000 words
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OCEAN’S 11 🤝 SPACE SWEEPERS When an AI-piloted space hauler threatens her job, elderly & indebted traffic controller Dez decides to rob the hell out of it. But then a mob boss learns of the heist and gives Dez a choice: steal the AI, or step out an airlock. #QuestPit #Q #SF #A
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🔒All her life, Xylia has been told that following the rules will keep her safe. No one ever mentioned what they were keeping her safe from. When she breaks them, she discovers she’s the lost heir of a fae court burned to ash—and the rules meant to protect her are the very things keeping her from her truth and her crown. 👑 #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF
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Anna sacrificed everything to survive Russia’s elite figure skating system. But falling for Svetlana-the national champion-makes her world truly dangerous. Two elite athlete women. One unguarded moment at Worlds. A system ready to destroy them both. #questpit #W #A #LGBT #R #SP
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A NEW FEMINIST URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith Simone learned incantations online to summon her murdered cousin & brought Nina back as a vengeful ghost who drowns deserving boys. Revenge & Romance & BIG 5 EDITOR Requests #AgentsGuide #EditorsGuide #QuestPit #Q #SPEC #YA #H #R
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HALF CITY x THE ATLAS SIX 🕶️A shapeshifter with no identity 🕵️A job in intelligence she doesn’t want 👥A team she doesn’t trust 🔎An off the books mission that puts them all at risk 👀… And the sexy combat instructor she shouldn’t be thinking about #Questpit #Q #NA #S
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I’m sitting out #QuestPit this round while I give my manuscript a little more time and attention. But I’ll be here cheering on all the amazing authors pitching today! ❤️ If you’d like some support, comment below and I’ll happily like and repost your pitch! Good luck, everyone! May your pitches find the right agents! 📚✨ #WritingCommunity #WritersOfX #FantasyWriters
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Friends, it’s my birthday today, and I’m feeling strangely unsettled. Maybe it’s the state of the world. Maybe it’s the looming midterm election. Maybe it’s feeling in limbo with my book, finished, but still chasing those final polishes and wondering when I’ll finally call it done. Or maybe it’s just one of those birthdays that makes you pause and reflect. In any case, send me a happy GIF. I could use a little joy today. ❤️🎂 #BirthdayThoughts #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity #FindingJoy
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Fiction often portrays love, magic, or technology as a cure for trauma and mental illness. But what happens when healing means erasing who someone is? In my latest blog post, I explore ableism in storytelling, the importance of agency, and why characters don’t need to be “fixed” to be whole. Read more on my blog: [joy-shaw.com/2026/10/28/char…] #WritingCommunity #MentalHealthRepresentation
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We’re officially less than a month away from our last #questpit event of the year!! We’re very excited to host once again and cannot wait to see what’s in store.
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🎉 QUERY LETTER REVIEW GIVEAWAY 🎉 With surgery scheduled for Friday, I need some excitement to distract me. So I’m giving away one query letter review - to enter, just comment the genre you write, then like and repost this post. I’ll pick a winner on November 4.
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His time to shine 🌟
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