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book-lover, writer, suffering from wanderlust home: the forest of NC #amwriting #amquerying

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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER meets THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to travel back in time and solve her aunt’s disappearance. #WSPit #WSPitQ #YA #M
Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title An Agent's Guide for Missing Adelaide Walker, YA Mystery, 71K words. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.The Pitch: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets The Unmaking of June Farrow when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to trace back in time and solve her aunt's disappearance.Themes and Tropes: southern small town vibes, ticking clock, new kid in town, complex family dynamics, strong female friendships, teenage shenanigans, cinnamon roll love interest, speculative twist, whodunnit?, diverse teens working together, time travel, the butterfly effect, girl saves girl x2Comps: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (teen sleuth), The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (travel in time and might get stuck), Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus (plot twists)
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
To solve her aunt’s disappearance, 15yo Zuma must: 1. Track down suspects (ALL the stakeouts) 2. Not get caught by the bad guy 3. Oh yeah, travel back in time #WSPit #WSPitQ #YA #M
Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title An Agent's Guide for Missing Adelaide Walker, YA Mystery, 71K words. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.The Pitch: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets The Unmaking of June Farrow when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to trace back in time and solve her aunt's disappearance.Themes and Tropes: southern small town vibes, ticking clock, new kid in town, complex family dynamics, strong female friendships, teenage shenanigans, cinnamon roll love interest, speculative twist, whodunnit?, diverse teens working together, time travel, the butterfly effect, girl saves girl x2Comps: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (teen sleuth), The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (travel in time and might get stuck), Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus (plot twists)
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Chelsie Derman @chelsiewrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Theo only exists for one hour a day. The rest belongs to "Theodore." But when he learns his condition isn’t neurological—he’s hosting a lost human consciousness—he must fight for his right to exist… before he’s erased for good. #YA #SF #WSPitW #WSPit
The mood board features several images: fall foliage (top left), brain scans (bottom left), hourglass (top middle), young couple embracing (center), glitching face (bottom middle), playing guitar (top right), and fortunate teller cards (bottom right)
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Melting back into the crowd, I watch as the mayor pulls back a velvet sheet to reveal a bench in the courtyard, complete with a plaque in Adelaide’s honor. Well-wishers decorate the bench and its surrounding area with flowers, signs, and stuffed animals. It may as well be her tombstone. #WIPSnips
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Making chocolate chip banana bread and watching the snow ☺️
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
She’s sounding more hysterical with every word. Screw it. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. “I’m going back in time to save Adelaide. I know that doesn’t make sense to you, Mom, but this is really happening and I need you to chill for a minute while I take care of things.” #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“I do not have a boyfriend,” I blurt out. “Not even close.” “Despite your best intentions,” Avery singsongs. Mom’s spoon clinks on her bowl. “Is that true, Zu-Zu?” “No! There’s no one.” “Jayden Lundberg is not a ‘no one,’” Avery muses. “He’s actually semi-popular.” #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” He grimaces. “So much for beating around the bush. Hmm...well, I stole a candy bar when I was like four.” I hold up my index finger. “That doesn’t count. Every kid does that. It’s like a rite of passage.” #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“I’m serious.” “So am I,” he insists, tugging the sweatshirt drawstrings so the hood cinches. He may as well be pulling on my heartstrings. Ugh, this is so messy. Even if I didn’t have the strictest mom known to man, I can’t start a relationship just to up and leave the state. #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
His hand covers mine, pressing it to his chest, while he leans in for a kiss. It’s sweet and playful, filling my mouth with the taste of dark chocolate. I tangle my free hand in his curls, trapping him in place while his fingers tease the skin along my lower back. #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I flip the light switch, plunging the room into pitch darkness before painting it red with the safe light. The printing process is easier this time around, now that I've done it twice. Developer, stop bath, fix, rinse. #WIPSnips #YA
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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Jennifer's Body x This Delicious Death Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend. #questpit #YA #Q #H #R
girl with lighter, girl in cowboy boots sticking foot out, ferris wheel at dusk, girl running in cowboy boots, cassette tape with flowers, girl licking red off her hands.
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Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
17-yr-old Emmie is suspect #1 of a murder during her mother’s book signing. She needs to get her life back & not get killed in the process. 💖Sapphic crush 🧐Amateur investigation 🎃Halloween ☕️Cozy small-town 📚Indie bookstore 🐈Shop cat 🌈Pansexual FMC #questpit #Q #YA #MY #LGBT
Mood board with police car, murder board, crime scene tape, books at an indie bookstore, blonde girl wearing flannel holding a pumpkin, Halloween treats, a girl dressed up like Harley Quinn, and a woman paging through a book at an indie bookstore.
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Christy @christyarchibald.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Four 1920s teenage girls go on a grave-robbing spree in search of a mystical artifact. Things turn deadly when they catch the attention of a secret society hell-bent on keeping the artifact buried. Dark Academia Found Family Multi-POV Diverse race, physical ability, ND #questpit #Q #YA #F #HF #RF
vintage kiss, 1920s ballroom, secret society, 1920s young women, secret society mask, 1920s friends, graveyard, speakeasy, gothic school
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Margot Moore ✒️ @margotmoore.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
FOR A FORTNIGHT Contemporary Romcom Querying Summer 2025 🫖Immersive Regency resort 🫖Historian MC undercover for job interview 🫖Brooding suitor actor knows she’s not a real guest 🫖Real feelings or all part of the act? 🫖Fake courtship 🫖Real swooning 🫖BRIDGERTON meets WESTWORLD #questpit #w #r
Purple flowers with a Regency/Bridgerton vibe framing the text:
FOR A FORTNIGHT
BRIDGERTON X WESTWORLD
CONTEMPORARY ROMCOM
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Need to solve your aunt's decades-old disappearance? -Easy! Just travel back in time and stop her from disappearing Not so easy? -Identifying the bad guy -Keeping your boyfriend a secret -Getting home before curfew -Making sure you aren't the next missing person #QuestPit #YA #Mystery

Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title An Agent's Guide for Missing Adelaide Walker, YA Mystery, 71K words. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.The Pitch: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets The Unmaking of June Farrow when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to trace back in time and solve her aunt's disappearance.Themes and Tropes: southern small town vibes, ticking clock, new kid in town, complex family dynamics, strong female friendships, teenage shenanigans, cinnamon roll love interest, speculative twist, whodunnit?, diverse teens working together, time travel, the butterfly effect, girl saves girl x2Comps: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (teen sleuth), The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (travel in time and might get stuck), Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus (plot twists)
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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
FIVE SURVIVE X ONE OF US IS LYING The Show Must Go On: 🎪 Murder mystery-thriller set at a circus arts academy 🎪 Found family; girls support girls 🎪 New England setting 🎪 Friends suspected of murder 🎪 Crime-obsessed teen who wants to defend her friend #Questpit #Q #M #T
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Samantha is AGENTED 🖤🕯️ @samcrouchbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
AN EMBER IN THE ASHES x SCORPIO RACES A moon-blessed wilding girl must compete in the kingdom's horseball tournament to awaken her magical counterpart--the only way to stop her darkness-plagued brother from poisoning the realm ❄️🐎🌊 #questpit #YA #F #W
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John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
THE FORT X STRANGER THINGS Kids on bikes. 1988 Setting. A crashed UFO. Mysterious millionaire. Duplicate neighborhood. Creepy mansion with a hedge maze. Both dangerous & bumbling henchmen. First crushes. Old D&D references. Ever seen the Bob’s Burgers ep Stand by Gene? Same idea. #MG #SF #questpit
Clockwise from top left: the kids from The Goonies, the kids from It, the kids from Stranger Things and the kids from Bob’s Burgers.
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Debby ✨ A MOST DECADENT CURSE (Jan. ‘27)✨ 🌊👻🖤 @aventurinedebby.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
ANNABEL LEE x GOTHIC BRIDGERTON. Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must uncover the truth behind their family’s curse when their castle’s ghosts are brought back to life during their weeklong ball—or risk joining them in their tomb by the sea. #questpit #ya #f #ag
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Zuma’s heard all about her Aunt Adelaide, who’s been missing for thirty years. She never imagined they’d have the chance to meet—until she travels back in time to 1993. If 15yo Zuma can solve the case, she could change history, or else she’ll be forced to assume Adelaide’s fate. #QuestPit #YA #My
Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title An Agent's Guide for Missing Adelaide Walker, YA Mystery, 71K words. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.
The Pitch: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets The Unmaking of June Farrow when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to trace back in time and solve her aunt's disappearance.Themes and Tropes: southern small town vibes, ticking clock, new kid in town, complex family dynamics, strong female friendships, teenage shenanigans, cinnamon roll love interest, speculative twist, whodunnit?, diverse teens working together, time travel, the butterfly effect, girl saves girl x2Comps: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (teen sleuth), The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (travel in time and might get stuck), Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus (plot twists)
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Abigail is Agented @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
TANGLED x ANASTASIA In a realm where people go to forget their worst memories, an orphan with Tourette’s recruits an infuriating pickpocket to help her win her own memories back, hoping to recall her lost family. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
To solve her aunt’s disappearance, 15yo Zuma must: 1. Track down suspects (ALL the stakeouts) 2. Not get caught by the bad guy 3. Oh yeah, travel back in time #QuestPit #YA #My #AgentsGuide
Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title An Agent's Guide for Missing Adelaide Walker, YA Mystery, 71K words. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.The Pitch: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets The Unmaking of June Farrow when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to trace back in time and solve her aunt's disappearance.Themes and Tropes: southern small town vibes, ticking clock, new kid in town, complex family dynamics, strong female friendships, teenage shenanigans, cinnamon roll love interest, speculative twist, whodunnit?, diverse teens working together, time travel, the butterfly effect, girl saves girl x2Comps: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (teen sleuth), The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (travel in time and might get stuck), Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus (plot twists)
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Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A witty schemer plots against her husband and ends up saving the kingdom in a fantasy romcom blend of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS ❤️ Multicultural w/ POC leads ❤️ Unlikeable heroine ❤️ Enemies-to-lovers ❤️ Marriage of convenience ❤️ Political intrigue #questpit #W #A #F #R
moodboard for "Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem", chinese history-inspired fantasy romance, includes photos of female and male leads, plum blossoms and bamboo
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"And the Contax T2?" "Also hers." Like this makeshift darkroom and the bedroom upstairs and the rusting truck in the barn outside. Adelaide Walker may be dead—or just gone—but I can't even look out the window or at my mother's face without seeing her. #WIPSnips #YA
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Ceci Li @writerceci.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📖It’s Only Me ❤️YA contemporary romance ⌨️ 70k words Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules. #questpit #Q #YA #R #poc #writingcommunity #amquerying
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FT Zahra @ftzahra.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A town with missing memories. A snowstorm that never happened. A dark figure playing a fatal game behind the scenes. And a dead girl walking with the answers. The only problem? She doesn't remember them and she has 30 days to figure it all out before she dies again. #QuestPit #YA #SPEC
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Jackie 🇦🇺🇵🇭🇲🇾🌈 @jackieyap.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
CRAZY RICH ASIANS x GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER Forced to move from Australia and attend an uber-wealthy international school, Izzy finds herself in a life-or-death game of wits with Manila’s rich and famous. 🌈 #own diverse rep 🕵🏾‍♂️ #cosymystery 🫶 found family 🇵🇭 set in Manila #QuestPit #YA #MY #W
A dark blue background with white streaked lines around the borders. Image of a school overlayed with red crossed out lines.

The header in white font reads: New school. New city. And a murder mystery. Welcome to Manila.

The title in red font reads:  ISABELLE GOMEZ IS INNOCENT, SHE SWEARS
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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
16yo Candy has been hiding her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now she has the government hunting her for the one thing she can't hide, her skin color. 🥵 climate fiction 🏳️‍🌈 queer friends to lovers 🫂 found family 🧬 her DNA will save humanity #questpit #Q #SF #YA
Red sky, yellow sky, fire, red clouds, hot sun of Los Angeles, woman with red background
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER meets THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to travel back in time and solve her aunt’s disappearance. 🕐time travel 📼90s nostalgia 🏘️small town vibes 😍romantic sub-plot 🕵️teen sleuth 🔀all the plot twists #QuestPit #YA #My #Q #Agentguide
Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title An Agent's Guide for Missing Adelaide Walker, YA Mystery, 71K Words. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER meets THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to travel back in time and solve her aunt’s disappearance.Themes and Tropes: southern small town vibes, ticking clock, new kid in town, complex family dynamics, strong female friendships, teenage shenanigans, cinnamon roll love interest, speculative twist, whodunnit?, diverse teens working together, time travel, the butterfly effect, girl saves girl x2Comps: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (teen sleuth), The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (travels in time and might get stuck), Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus (plot twists)
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The interior of the barn is almost as dark as it is outside, save for the string lights hung haphazardly around the perimeter. High above us, rows of tobacco leaves are strung on poles that crisscross the rafters. #WIPSnips #YA
The interior of a tobacco curing barn
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Jayden kisses my cheek, but holds me an arm’s length away. “I’m super sweaty. I wouldn’t want to ruin my hoodie.” “MY hoodie,” I snap back. #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I wish I could print out a list of all the worst things that are going to happen in Micah’s next thirty years, including details like names, dates, times. What if he could stop the Oklahoma City bombing? Or pass on the hijackers’ names to the FAA to save thousands of lives? #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I pull his hand back and kiss the tops of his knuckles. “I’m not going anywhere.” And it’s true. This is home now. Even if I win the reward money, I wouldn’t want to move back to California. If I can survive being killed—twice—I can survive living in North Carolina. #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I started writing a new #WIP yesterday and every sentence felt like a step through wet concrete. Why are first drafts so hard? Like, I'm just getting to know these people and I need some time to get in their heads. How do you get out of the sludge, #WritingCommunity?
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Mom’s gaze bounces back and forth, like she’s been on a merry-go-round and she’s trying to find solid ground. Ultimately, they focus on me. “Why didn’t you tell me?” But before I can respond, she answers her own question. “You tried to, but I didn’t listen.” #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
My teenage daughter has to write a sonnet for her creative writing class. Little does she know I've written a few in my time for various boys, one in the style of 10 Things I Hate About You. Can't wait to see what she comes up with. #amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
In one week, it will be the thirtieth anniversary of Adelaide Walker's disappearance. Standing here in her room, in the shadow of the rusted billboard with her face, her absence has never felt so close. #WIPSnips #YA
Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title Missing Adelaide Walker. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I’m sprawled on top of the air mattress, wrestling with the fitted sheet, when I hear a tap on my window. Then another. I shove the window open and smile out at Jayden, who’s pretending to aim a pebble at my face. #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The girl greeted me this morning with a box of doughnut holes from her grandparents’ bakery, which energized me through the first half of school. I can’t exactly blow her off. I guess we’re doing this “friend” thing. #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
They've doubled down and hired a Billy Bucks lookalike, too. Tall and lanky, with dirty-blond hair that brushes his shoulders. His face is striking in that male model way, but his clothes and vibe are grungy enough to fit in with the skaters/rockstar wannabe table he came from. #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"Dorothy from Walmart? How is she?" "Charming," I say, my voice dripping with sarcasm. His eyes widen. "I know, right? Which reminds me, I still owe her for our last game of pinochle." I ignore the urge to ask him if he makes a habit of playing old lady card games. #WIPSnips #YA
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Ceci Li @writerceci.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
❤️YA contemporary romance ⌨️ 70k words Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules. #2025pit #Q #YA #R #CON#poc #writingcommunity #amquerying
Nathan playing hockey. Maggie playing keyboard. Maggie studying. Preschool. Nathan listening to music with eyes closed. Nathan and Maggie skating. Nathan kissing Maggie’s hair. Bunny hugging teddy bear. Nathan and Maggie hugging.Comp titles: Lynn Painter’s Better Than The Movies; Ann Liang’s This Time It’s Real; Tashy Bhuiyan’s Counting Down With You; Laura Taylor Namey’s A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow; Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved BeforeMaggie Wang lives by her tiger mom’s rules—even her crush ticks all the right boxes. But when she finally works up the courage to confess to the perfect guy, he’s too oblivious to look beyond their friendship. Desperate to turn his head, Maggie hatches a plan: snag a fake date to his hockey team’s skate party and make him jealous, as long as she can survive her clumsy self on the ice.
Enter Nathan Myers—the team grump. Once he agrees to be her stand-in, everything seems simple enough: he’ll teach her how to skate, and she’ll put up with his attitude. Only the more time they spend together, the more Maggie discovers a gentle teddy bear hidden beneath Nathan’s gruff exterior. For the first time, she wonders if it’s okay to let go of certain expectations—being herself might actually be enough.
But Nathan’s a wild card with no college plans. He doesn’t fit in the future Maggie’s mom has mapped out for her. Trapped between the family expectations and her growing feelings, she must decide whether breaking the rules is worth it with the boy who’s becoming more than just a fake date.#tropes and elements

#FakeDating
#GrumpySunshine
#YAHockeyRomance
#HeFallsFirst
#ComingOfAge
#FamilyDynamic
#SiblingDynamic
#FriendshipBreakUp
#POCOwnVoice
#SpecialHobbies
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We drink Cheerwine through licorice straws, alternating Pearl Jam and Taylor Swift vinyls on the record player. We dream up itineraries for all the exotic trips we’ll take, listing cities for each letter of the alphabet— Osaka, Petra, Queenstown, Reykjavik, São Paulo. #WIPSnips #YA
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Zuma’s heard all about her Aunt Adelaide, who’s been missing for thirty years. She never imagined they’d meet—until she travels back in time to 1993. If Zuma can solve the case, she could change history, or else she’ll be forced to assume Adelaide’s fate. #YouDeservePit #YA #Mystery
Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title Missing Adelaide Walker. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.
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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER meets THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to travel back in time and solve her aunt’s disappearance. #YouDeservePit #Q #YA #Mystery
Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title Missing Adelaide Walker. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.
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Amelia Savage @ameliasvgauthor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
17yo Zach’s plan to help his friend Stella get back with her ex: 😈 sabotage his best friend’s crush 🦸‍♂️ dress as his favorite superhero 📝 leave secrets notes in her locker (and no trace) 🎄 kiss her at the Christmas market … well, shit! #YouDeservepIt #YA #R #WIP
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Opulent parties on the ghost ship carrying her to the afterlife aren’t enough to make Evelyn forget her murderer is there with her. Evelyn wants nothing more than revenge, but it might just cost her her soul. #YouDeservePit #A #OS #Romantasy
Spooky moodboard
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