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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i got a partial request rejection today. while a bummer, it was nice to receive some kind of feedback from someone (even if it was contrary to all other advice i had heard about the genre) #amquerying

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

428 words written today which is more than i wrote all week so i’ll take it #amwriting

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

big writing day by which i mean i’ve written over hundred words (and counting) and designed like five house crests for noble families that may or may not be relevant to the story #amwriting

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

i got a Questpit agent like on my wip so i guess i had better get writing lol

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A Morning Hymnal - WIP #questpit #W #A #F #MY 🐍 sisterhood and female friendship ❤️ healing from trauma and grief 🪞 exploring gender identity and womanhood ✨ what happens when your god lowkey hates you

An agent’s guide to A Morning Hymnal
A fantasy mystery, now writing

Runaway priestess Phoebe masquerades as a male bard to escape her sordid past and finds herself in the middle of a murder at a royal wedding. One too many lies places her in the ill-begotten role of investigator.

Comparative titles
Shadow of a Dead God
The Daughters’ War
City of Stairs

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Clara Benson is ✨querying✨ @clarabenson.org · 29/04/2026

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC Typhus strikes and brings a wealthy New Yorker intent on marrying the hardworking inn maid. To keep a promise to her sister, she accepts, despite warnings from a medical student who threatens her last hope for salvation. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

cover photo for Finding Echinacea's Agent's Guide, a couple kissing in a field and the words "a literary historical romance by Clara Benson

Get to know the book!
Enemies to lovers
Medical history of typhus
The tension between duty and desire
Historical Fiction set in 1847
Reconciliation in the wake of broken promises
Complex family dynamics
Money can’t buy happiness
Small village isolated setting
Class tension and social mobility

a mood board for Finding Echinacea; a maid, echinaceas, a pocket watch, church steeple, romantic couples and medical textbook pages

Comps
Titanic for the love triangle, class disparity and overbearing fiance
Rebecca for the hasty proposal from a wealthy man with a secretive past
Dr. Quinn for the small town setting and medical tension

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

thank you!! i also love your pitch deck! obviously very into the whole nature vs modernity of it all

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The main trio in When Trees Dance: Cyprus, Yewan, and Ori #questpit #Q #A #F if you enjoy: • shape-changing monsters • cannibal cults • religious fanatics • magical rituals • angsty slow burn romance this might be the book for you

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When Trees Dance is currently out querying! #questpit #Q #A #F 💚slow burn friends to lovers ⛰️environmental commentary 🌀exploration of faith and identity 🌿motherhood in all its forms 🌞neurodivergent and disability rep

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Clara Benson is ✨querying✨ @clarabenson.org · 29/04/2026

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 w/ Publisher Interest! REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC In the shadow of a typhus epidemic and her family's battered reputation, a hardworking inn maid must choose between freedom's drudgery and a suitor who promises a gilded cage. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

cover photo for Finding Echinacea's Agent's Guide, a painting of a woman looking into the frame and the words "a literary historical romance by Clara Benson”

Photo of a painting of a woman looking into the frame and the pitch: Florence Hill is used to keeping her head down and working long hours—the only way to reverse her dead, alcoholic father’s reputation and give her little sister the peaceful childhood she was promised. But when a typhus epidemic rages through town and brings two unlikely men with it, Florence must face what keeping her promise will force her to sacrifice.

a mood board for Finding Echinacea; a maid, echinaceas, a man's victorian clothing, church steeple, romantic couples and historic country scenery

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Clara Benson is ✨querying✨ @clarabenson.org · 29/04/2026

🧚‍♀️ ALL THE TIME WE NEVER HAD 🍐 WIP #questpit #A #R #HF #H #L #Q 🌹Devine femininity 🫀Family sacrifice 👸Women’s roles in history 🏡Antique house 🧚‍♀️ Folklore and spirits 🤰Mother-daughter relationship

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Pt. 2 in my main character series for When Trees Dance Meet Ori, the elegant, talkative, aspiring student of magic whose seemingly humble origins are perhaps more than they appear #amquerying #fantasy

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The first in a series introducing the vibes of my main characters in When Trees Dance! Meet Cyprus, a 20 year old dryad with lofty dreams of being an adventurer who's about to get a serious reality check as soon as she finally steps outside the forest Crann's boundaries #amquerying #writingcommunity

Collage of images (white stag, stained glass, medieval manuscripts) to represent my main character, Cyprus

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

should i be making a post sharing list for #questpit ? or is it more of a free for all?

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I cannot even begin to tell you how much research I did on Medieval merchant ships before writing this section but Cyprus' time on a boat that essentially time travels through the afterlife is some of my favorite writing that I've done #WIPSnips #amquerying #WritingCommunity #fantasy

She tried to say Hiraeth's name but it came out garbled, through her mouthful of pork.
Hiraeth turned his head aside so he could look behind him, "Finish what's in your mouth, your parents teach you no manners?"
She chewed rapidly, afraid she might choke as she swallowed the dry hunk of meat.
"I said your name."
"Yes, lass I know, what do you want?"
Better food. Your bread is stale. "I’m curious, where did the food come from?"
"You're on a ship sailing through Soách, guided by a solitary dead man adhered to the mast, with land,” he forcefully gestured ahead then looked back to her, "on the horizon, and that's what you ask?" He exclaimed to the sky, shaking his head,"How the heart's desire of such a simple girl remains unknown to her, is far beyond me." As she sprinted to the sterncastle, he called after her, “And you’re meant to soak the hardtack, you’ll break a tooth!”

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Pitch deck preview for my current #WIP that I #amdrafting The comp titles aren't perfect, as the book itself is still in progress (anything to avoid the constant dread of querying my other novel) A Morning Hymnal is a standalone story set in the world of my first novel but 100 years in the past

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

thank you so much! he is very much a father figure to Cyprus and I loved writing their dynamic

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Cyprus has decided to ignore her only companion while aboard a ghostly ship adrift in the sea of the afterlife #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #fantasy

The ensuing days and weeks passed without event. Each morning, Cyprus would check their course with Hiraeth (briefly and without mirth), then she would force down the hard and salty rations, and later play the lute or work her muscles by climbing up the crow’s nest until she became hungry again, at which point she would return to her crumbling provisions and repeat. She had carried the stool to the sterncastle both to strum without interruption and to spite Hiraeth. Bitter spite brought no satisfaction as it once might have, instead she found its taste to be exactly as claimed.
Her loneliness had never been quite so stark. Even when Yewan abandoned her for a year, Cyprus had made other friends. She’d relished her family's company. It wasn’t necessarily my fault he left me anyways. This time, however, by rumbling pride and rolling waves, she was alone, borne upon the sea.

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In the midst of her wedding ceremony, Cyprus reflects on her new marriage and her younger brother's precarious future From my adult fantasy novel "When Trees Dance", querying now! #amquerying #writingcommunity #WIPSnips

They took a step back together to admire their new plot. With especially strong pairings, the two trees would often grow together and over time, become intertwined. Cyprus thought she could see their trees beginning to lean towards each other, but they also might have planted them askew. The village gathered behind their family, and they sang a song without lyrics, harmonizing with the living hum of the forest around them. As the sun set and Cyprus and Yewan led the procession to the bonfire for the commencement of the ceremony, the souls of their departed ancestors glowed amongst the leaves of their respective trees and lit their way, the path becoming brighter with more concentrated light the closer they got to the fire pit. Cyprus’ stomach turned with the thought of Cedyr’s tree alight in a sea of empty trees at the edge of the grove. Or worse yet, not being able to preserve his soul at all, for fear of corrupting the earth his body is buried in.

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

a trend i've noticed in both my reading and writing habits is a focus on layered but ultimately well-meaning male characters i'm truly sick and tired of the "bad boy" mmc

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juliana (is querying) @callowromantic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

this very well might be the best news i've received all week

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