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Mackenzie Crone
@macthecrone.bsky.social
Writer. Librarian turned bookseller. Recovering medievalist. Swamp witch irrevocably in love with the mountains.
Rep: @helenlane.bsky.social at @kiagency.bsky.social
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ALL THAT'S LEFT IN THE WORLD x UNDER THE SURFACE

He wants to give his sister a better life. She wants to leave her past behind. For either one to survive, they must destroy the person they've come to love the most.

#questpit #OS #AG #editorsguide
Having been part of a group a few years back that later used swapped materials to speak poorly of fellow writers in secret group chats, and at times publicly harass them (when I found out, I almost quit writing), I can’t echo this loud enough
General Post. PLEASE be careful with beta group swaps.
May 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Hello Readers!
I will be attending the Summer Book Fest local author signing event at @barnesandnoble.com in Murray, UT this Saturday! Stop by from 4-7 PM and kick start your summer the right way! 😎☀️🏝️
May 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Take a look at my updated #agentguide / #agentsguide for the YA fantasy manuscript I #amquerying
May 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Twenty-five years ago, men made history. But HER story will change everything…

🌊 Multi-POV
🌊 Feminine rage / ‘Good For Her’
🌊 Horror elements
🌊 Orcadian folklore
🌊 Atmospheric setting
🌊 Twisty plot
🌊 Editor interest

#questpit #Q #A #HF #agentsguide
May 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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CATCH YOU IN THE TREES is a YA thriller set in the Pacific NorthWest where, in order to clear her name, a high school senior must team up with her XC co-captain and nemesis, the boyfriend of a missing girl—and the last person to see her alive.

#questpit #Q #YA #T #agentguide
May 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R #RF
#agentsguide #amquerying
May 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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THE CURSE OF MILA GOJSALIĆ is a high-stakes retelling of two prominent Slavic myths—the mysterious death of King Zvonimir and the legend of Croatian heroine Mila Gojsalić.

#questpit #OS #editorsguide #A #F
May 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Harper's on a #QuestPit to stop an arcane killer. The only way to catch them is with illegal magic, punishable by death, but every murder is on her conscience. The closer she gets to the truth, the more she wonders, whose side she should be on-human or supernatural.

#A #P #F #DF
May 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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You'll like OF RAGING TIDES if you enjoy:

🌊 a stabby FMC with a thirst for blood or should I say drowning?
🌊 sexy spar scenes (she does pull his hair mid fight)
🌊a society where touching bare hands is *gasp* scandalous
🌊 he's my enemy...but wait he's hot

#questpit #Q
May 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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STARLING HOUSE X CRIMSON PEAK
Alloson & John are trapped in a ghostly limbo, where a haunted house & dark forces threaten to end them. Spirits come to life at a nightly ball, spinning a mystery they must solve before becoming ghosts themselves.
#QuestPit #W #A #PR #H
May 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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WHEN THE MOON HATCHED x NEVER KEEP

🌊 a deadly quest including dragons
🖤 break the Mark or kill each other
🌊 rivals to allies to lovers to enemies
🖤 bounty hunter pirate x assassin prince

#QuestPit #F #RF #A #NA #AG #OS soon!
May 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Presenting to the #questpit & #writingcommunity crew…

Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ⚡️

Kingdom of the Wicked x Crescent City
♥︎Led by a sassy, 'shadow mommy' FMC
🫶🏼Fresh take on Romantasy
🪞#MiddleEasternRep
🚨Fills that Xaden-shaped hole in your life
#agentsguide #RF #Q #NA #writersky
May 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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ANASTASIA X TANGLED

A seamstress’ assistant unable to recall her past recruits a thief to help her win her memories back in a festival. As lost magic surges to oppose them, a dangerous attraction blooms, forcing them to choose between forgotten pasts and tantalizing futures.

#questpit #OS #YA #F
May 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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BONE SHARD WAR/THE JASAD HEIR
There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret.
#QuestPit #Q #A #F #AgentsGuide
May 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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HEARTLESS HUNTER x WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL

She’s the last Dryad. His family steals Dryad magic.

She must save her realm. He must save his father.

They both need one thing.

No one wins with a heart on the line

#questpit #Q #YA #F
May 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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🖤HAUNTED & HEXED
🖤TOUCH HIM & BURN
🖤KISS HER & DIE

When the whispers of the spell become screams…
Death Will Come

✔️2 Big 5 Editor Requests
✔️10 Literary Agent Full Requests *RN*
✔️Winner WriteHive Mentorship 2025
✔️Revised & Soon to be #amquerying

#AgentsGuide #EditorsGuide
#QuestPit #YA #H #R #Q
May 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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✨ THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA ✨ JULY '26 ✨

🗡️ An imperial officer with a secret identity
🪽 A thief trying to start a revolution
⚖️ A university student turned diplomat
🩸 They want to kill each other
🔥 But they must cooperate to stop a war

#questpit #P #A #F #2026debuts
May 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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THE SPELLSHOPxLATE BLOOMER

A witch, moonlighting as a lady knight, must team up w/ a human to save the ren faire

🪽 magical renaissance faire
✨ women in armor
🧚 meddling magical creatures
🔮 palm readings
⛅️ grumpy/sunshine
🔥 twin flames

#questpit #F #R #lgbtq #AG #OS soon
May 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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WITCHER x CRIMSON PEAK
Survive the winter. Survive the girl.
💉Medical horror
🚨Unreliable narrator
🦥Slow-burn romance
🖤Addiction/chronic illness rep
🩸Blood, so much blood
🗡️Pseudo-period piece
🍎What's with the apples
🪖His father's soldier, not his son
#questpit #A #H #W #gothic
May 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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SONG TO DROWN RIVERS x CRUEL PRINCE x 4TH WING x APOTHECARY DIARIES

❤️Soulmates
🗡️Enemies-to-lovers
👑Assassin x Crown Prince
🔥Slow burn romance, fast & furious lust
🩸Vampire-like demons
😈Everyone's morally grey
☠️REVENGE☠️
🪷C-drama vibe

#Q #RF #F #NA #questpit
May 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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ARCANE x BLD OVR BRIGHT HVN x DISCO ELYSIUM
🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad STEM academia w/
🩺corrupted magic tech/ethics
🩻body horror
🤌obsessive ace yearning
🧠neurodivergence as power
🚨unreliable narrator
🛠️blacksmith biceps
🏆dangerous duels
🌿strange plants
👤& the strange man growing them
#questpit #A #F #Q
May 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY
May 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️

#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT
May 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM