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jenn (is querying and writing)
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28 | library worker and writer | chronically ill + endometriosis | gothic romance and horror + eldritch horror | 🖤cr: Demons by Dostoyevsky

Website: https://jenniferkausewrites.my.canva.site/
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an #agentsguide to #Thoroughfare
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A western gothic horror in which a sunshine Apostle must work with a grumpy outlaw to save the western towns from an eldritch horror spreading a virus of death.

♡ This is a novella! 26,500 words ♡
#BluePit 📖 #A #H #SP #Q #DIS #amquerying
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TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF
January 31, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Selected for 2025 SmoochPit Mentorship

THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a heart-devouring fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

#questpit #A #F #Q #amquerying
January 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind.

#QuestPit #AG #YA
January 31, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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DISCOVERY OF WITCHES x X FILES x RESIDENT EVIL

WHERE THE VINES CLING CRIMSON is a contemporary romantic fantasy complete at 90,000 words.

#questpit #Q #F #FR #amquerying
January 31, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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#QuestPit #S #W #F

The Shape of Water x LIGHTS ON THE SEA

Who are you when there is no one to witness?

🌊mid-life crisis
🌊small town community
🌊redemption/soul transformation
🌊irony of the patriarchy
🌊maritime gothic

art: vincenzo caprile
January 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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When Gio’s BFF Sky falls down a sinkhole into another world, Gio follows to save her, but after becoming stuck herself, Gio must rely on her wit and D&D knowledge to survive, rescue Sky, and get them both back home. #QuestPit #YA #Q portal #F #agentsguide
January 31, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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🪦 ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE 🪦 #QuestPit #Q

Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & exorcising spirits...

...too bad 'chasing down a serial killer' wasn't part of the job spec 🔪

👻 paranormal mystery
🧠 autistic FMC
🌊 ghosts by the coast
🏡 found family (living & dead)
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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#QuestPit #S #H #Q #F

PIRANESI x Severance x THE GARDEN

When memory-erasing fruits begin to disappear, a woman in an endless Greenhouse will go to harrowing lengths to keep her past from resurfacing.

⚜️epistolary
⚜️territorial women
⚜️slow burn horror

✨with editor interest✨
January 31, 2026 at 4:14 PM
the actor & the writer
♡✧˚ ༘ ⋆。♡˚

Arthur + Kitty

♡︎ friends to lovers
♡︎ met as college students
♡︎ can the writer navigate the dream world of the actor's nightmares to save him, from something far worse than death?

#questpit #W #H #S #R
January 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A MASTERY OF SELF
݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ

an actor is trapped in a nightmare of an identity crises from playing too many roles

☾ speculative hollywood horror
☾ friends to lovers
☾ eldritch horror that wants to take the actor's place

#questpit #W #H #S #R
January 31, 2026 at 10:00 AM
THOROUGHFARE
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a religious apostle & western outlaw must work together to stop an eldritch horror spreading across the desert

𖤓 novella (26k)
𖤓 a sunshine MMC and grumpy FMC
𖤓 eldritch monsters but the true horror is humanity

#questpit #Q #H #S #Western
January 31, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind.

#QuestPit #AG #YA
January 31, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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#QuestPit #S #H #Q

THE UNWORTHY x PIRANESI x Severance

🍓epistolary weird-girl slow burn horror
👒sororal tension
🪴mother/creator archetype
🕰50+y/o FMC
🪑moral decay

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

✨w/editor interest!✨
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 AM
THE BRIDE OF THE KING IN YELLOW
☠︎︎ ⋆₊ ♱

two lovers struggle against class and religion to be together--but can a play that turns all readers mad be their freedom?

-novelette (17k)
-eldritch horrors or insanity
-existential purpose/fate

#questpit #Q #A #H #DR #S #R
January 31, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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#bluepit📖 #bluepit #ya #f

An autistic trans garden witch works with a rival music witch to take care of an ancient flower. When a meltdown turns it sentient, she’s gotta regulate her emotions to turn it back or risk public outrage and a social war.

Little Shop of Horrors x Wicked

RT Mentee 2026 ❤️
January 14, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Have you ever counted the shadows lurking behind you?

There's something that hides.

Free to stalk, to watch. Chasing what it wants, becoming who it takes.

Another face to stay hidden.

Millie desperately tries to find out who will be next in Havetsavain: Chasing Shadows.

#BluePit📖 #W #BluePit
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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HAMNET x NOSFERATU

The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the eternally young banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, but as the bubonic plague closes in he must choose between the living and the dead.

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #H #HS #D #Gothic
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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DANCING WITH THE STARS X CARAVAL

In a live performance reality game, an acrobat competes for a chance to free her soul from a manipulative entity.

Featuring:
✨ Glitz, Glamour, and Social Games
🎭 Deities based on the performing arts
💔 Forced allies in proximity

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #A #F #W
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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David Copperfield x timeslip fantasy x slice-of-life isekai

Max wanted to die loved, NOT have others die because of his affection. But the Wind who reincarnated him will not let him live an effortless life of luxury without inflicting him with new trauma.
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #Lit #LF #HF
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP #hopepunk #CliFi #witchsky
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE

For readers who like:
🩸 dangerous criminal underworlds
🩸 secret occult organizations
🩸 married villain protagonists
🩸 terrifying body horror
🩸 the threat of an Elder God

Preorder today: books2read.com/u/mvDRWX

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #H #P
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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A STUDY IN DROWNING + ALL THAT CONSUMES US + 1870's Southern Latin-America

🌦️ grief & sisterhood
✨ forgotten magic
💘 romance sub-plot (ft. trans LI)
🔪 an academy w/ sins
🌛 colonial history
🔅 toxic friendships

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #OV #LGBT #F #H
January 13, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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ANGELS BEFORE MAN x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER
☀️ Biblical & Hellenic mythologies
🌙 prophetic & necromantic magic systems
☀️ women in armor & fallen angels & sirens
🌙 physically disabled & nonverbal protagonists
☀️ trans-femme & sapphic & aromantic rep

#BluePit📖 #Q #A #F #MYTH
January 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#BluePit 📖 #A #H #Q #DIS
January 13, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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ALAN WAKE II x THE TWILIGHT ZONE
. ݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ

an actor is trapped in a nightmare of an identity crises after playing too many roles

now at 35k words!

#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #W #A #DIS #H #T
January 13, 2026 at 5:15 AM