Elise Rustøen

My july QuestPit thread!! <3

SERIAL DATING | Adult Horror Rom-Com Inverted Tropes: 🛏️Too Many Beds (it's a bunk bed situation) ❤️Co-workers to Friends to Lovers (No enemies here) ☠️Neither FMC or MMC are Serial K!llers (but everyone else is) ☀️Perfect, Sunny Weather (no dark & stormy nights) #QuestPit #W #A #H #R

SWORDHEART x BOTW “It’s the dawn of the end of the world, and Emrys is having the worst day imaginable.” 🏰 ruins & tales 📜 forgotten prophecy 🤲 gentle protagonist 💚 romance subplot 🍃 nature setting ⚔️ BOTW vibes 🏹 nostalgic atmosphere #QuestPit #A #F #W

#questpit #s #OS 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦? A couple on the verge of breaking up boards a mysterious train and travels through alternate realities, where they must confront their unspoken conflicts if they want to save their relationship. ONE NIGHT TO VARANASI

Hello #QuestPit! I present the #agentsguide for my queer thought-he-was-dead second-chance romance steeped in necromancy & found family: Forged in the After 🗡📚☕🐾☕📚 #A #FR #F #R #Q

Excited to pitch HIDDEN MONSTERS, my 99k psychological thriller about a desperate actress trapped aboard a billionaire's staged submarine adventure where every act of violence could be part of the script... or terrifyingly real 🌊🤿 #agentguide #amquerying #QuestPit #Q #T #RF #A

IF 🫀FEED ME YOUR HEART🫀 HAD A MOVIE POSTER! Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. Agent’s guide pinned to profile 🧌🌲   WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit

Anora is a slick city gangster with stolen hyperspace treasure maps burning a hole in her pocket Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler and the only pilot who can get her off Hecate IV before space witches catch up Two bad-at-feelings bisexuals find love on the run #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #SF #R

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #A #SF #LGBT

Spirited Away x Jade City In the ghost-infested streets of San Francisco, the spirit of a 13-year-old girl must risk her humanity to reclaim her mortal body from the malevolent entity possessing it. #Questpit #Q #MG #F #PR

A guide to SUNFALL, an M/M fantasy. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT "A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth." -Robert Frost, A Question

WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X OLD WOUNDS X INTO THE LIGHT: When a healer flees his mother's cult, he joins a hitchiker who caught a meteorite as they head to a UFO festival- until the cult closes in to capture their Chosen One. #Q #Questpit #SF #YA #amquerying #agentguide

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QuestPit #A #F #R #FR #W #Q

An #agentguide for my dual-POV YA royal romantasy with a POC x POC romance between a seamstress and a knight who join a courting competition amongst prestigious teens to save their severed kingdoms from destruction. Interested agents, please 🩷or DM me! #QuestPit #WIP #YA #F #RF

💥CULLING Agent's guide💥 They pretended her homeworld destruction was an accident, not knowing that the entire galaxy is next on the chopping block. 🌌Queernorm world 🌌Chaos Crew 🌌A secret older than the galaxy 🌌And an impossible enemy #QuestPit #A #SF #Q

Harrow the Ninth x A Dowry of Blood In the shadows of Gilded Age Manila, an artist’s muse wakes up from death and must solve her own murder feat. 🫀 anticolonial revenge narratives ✨monstrous men & divine abominations 🫀 tropical gothic ✨ doomed siblings #QuestPit #Q #HF #H

Excited to finally share my novel, THIEF OF THE VASTBORN, for #questpit!! THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI x THE SONG OF ACHILLES: Fate swap. Drowned world. Queer M/M romance. Enemies to lovers. Sea-dragons?! And more! Read the agent’s guide below. Querying soon! #F #A #RF #Q #W

"Ashes! Ashes! We all... rise up!" Experience a vision of growth, community, and transformation, through crumbling highways and swollen rivers. 💥 Title Reveal 💥 💫 Light After the Fall 💫 coming this October 🧙 Arc readers invited, preorders available soon #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit

Beautiful, But Deadly has: 🏳️‍⚧️ Transmasc MC 🦌 A Beast that STAYS a Beast ❤️‍🔥 Monster Fucker Awakening 🔥 NFWMB Vibes 🗡️ Growth from Fearful to Defiant 🍂 Folktale Atmosphere 🪤 Chekhov's Bear Trap My Debut queer monster romance novella ❤️ gt-anthony.itch.io/beautiful-bu... #QuestPit #P #A #LGBT #R #F #DR

ROT & RUIN: AN ADULT FANTASY NOVEL. COMPLETE AT 100K. NOW QUERYING. TANGLED X ANNIHILATION A failed revolutionary cons a party of heroes into hiring her as their guide through monster-infested woods where she’ll leave them for dead. Then she inconveniently grows a conscience. #questpit #q #a #f

ELIA IN ISOLA: THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH X ANATOMY A LOVE STORY: When Elia is deemed unmarriageable, his parents give him to the convent. But it is Carnival in Venice, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister. #Questpit #W #YA #H #HF #LGBT #WIP coming to the query trenches

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X BARBIE FAIRYTOPIA Introducing CROWNS & MIRRORLIGHT ✨🌷🌸 🪞A tragic romantasy 🪞Finding yourself outside of Toxic Relationship 🪞Bi representation 🪞Love Triangle 🪞Marriage Pact 🪞One Bed #questpit #W #A #RF

BOOK OF AZRAEL x CROWN ME DEAD A Dark Fantasy Romance 🤝🏼 a ten-year soul bargain 💥immortal hierarchy w/ warring factions 🖤a dark & cunning MMC 🥊a fighter FMC with a rare ability 🖤dangerous attraction & loyalties tested 👁️hidden motives ⚜️New Orleans gothic vibes #QuestPit #W #A #F #H #R #AmWriting

Presenting a gorgeous reader's guide for my debut YA climate romantasy novel, THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, which will be releasing in summer of 2027! 🌸 Stay tuned for more exciting updates! #QuestPit #YA #F #P #TBP

#QuestPit 🌷Flower Fairy WIP 🧚 🪻 MM Fantasy Romance 🪻 Fairy x Gardener 🪻 Sweet Garden Setting 🪻 Healing and Growing 🪻 Grumpy Fairy 🪻 Patient Gardner 🪻 Love in Many Forms 🪻HEA #W #A #F #RF

Anxious Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest, but when his elf-supremacist cousin declares war, Letyf joins the world's champions to protect their only hope—a child who can quell magic. In their way? World-hopping demon Lia, unwilling servant to the enemy. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit #AgentsGuide

I’m left in absolute awe over all the love MSU has gotten. Truly, no words could express the magnitude of my gratitude. & huge thanks to @questpit for once again bringing us all together, for the opportunity to lift each other’s stories up. Until the next one! 🫶🏽 #questpit

🚨 UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE 🚨 A fragment from Sgt. Maj. Annastasia's psychological evaluation has been recovered from the GAMA Intelligence archive 🗃️ Consider this an accidental leak 🫢 ✒️ I've also opened The Archive - my email list 🫡 Access via: tinyurl.com/terezamaze #QuestPit #Q #A #RF #SFF

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses in A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK A Cozy Medieval Romantasy 🍰 Barbie for adults 🌸 Arranged marriage 👑 Princess x Prince 🕯️ Dual POV 🩷 Lovable family chaos #questpit #W #NA #A #RF

Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A romantic dystopian heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #QuestPit #W #NA #A #D Querying this fall <3

#questpit #W #A #F #blackbooksky WICKED: FOR GOOD x MLP x BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES 🫧galinda upland inspired mc 🫧you’re a martyr…for us. why wouldn't you be happy? 🫧severus snape inspired love interest 🫧magical relaint world 🫧dictatorahip over leadership 🫧mc is a sorceress supreme’s apprentice

an #agentsguide to THE LOVE INTERCEPTION, an adult sports romcom for fans of ali hazelwood and cat sebastian 🩷 🏈 quarterback x sports reporter 🏳️‍🌈 BI4BI ✨ plus size FMC 🔥 forced proximity 💋 witty banter 🫨 …blackmail? #questpit #Q #A #R

THE RUTHLESS LADY'S GUIDE TO WIZARDRY+A RESTLESS TRUTH That awkward moment when you (a poor, bi, autistic woman with wanderlust) agree to pretend to chaperone a lesbian duchess so she can woo women instead of men but then you start falling for her while trying to solve a murder #QuestPit #W #F #R

#questpit #W #A #F #DF #blackbooksky BERSERK x THRONE OF GLASS x TSDS 🔮 black fmc is the heiress of an elite sorceress line 🔮 fmc evil sorceressed so hard she resurrected a dead tyrant 🔮 magic system is jacked up and you may be the cause — congrats 🔮 magical politics between who deserves magic

🗝️ sapphic princess x thief 🗡️ impossible heist ⚔️ only one horse 🌙 found family ☀️ sunshine x gremlin 🐦‍⬛ morally gray heroine ✨ disability rep 🤫 everyone has secrets 🏹 touch her and die 🧭 ragtag crew 💀 sprinkles of horror #QuestPit #W #YA #F #R #MY #H

If you like: 💍 New England weddings 💗 Stolen coffees 💍 Designing floral arrangements 💗 Italian greyhounds  💍 Messy women doing their best 💗 Champagne toasts 💍 Wealthy people behaving badly 💗 (Accidentally) shoving your rival in a pond… check out BROTHER OF THE BRIDE #Q #A #R #romcom #QuestPit

For a peek at my current WIP, VILLAGE WIP is a witchy, sapphic gothic horror where the Salem Witch Trials and a certain Greek myth merge. #QuestPit #W #Gothic #H #Horroromance

MEASURED BY TIME AND FRECKLES The hook: The ring’s wrong, the spark’s gone, and her fiance’s more interested in Slack than her, but when Yulissa discovers a deeply passionate poem by her best friend, she questions everything. #questpit #Q #A #R #OV

A THOUSAND THREADS is a twisted, adult retelling of “The Princess and the Pea” in which she’s not a princess but a reclusive fugitive in disguise on a probably-doomed quest to clear her name & return to her plants. Plus, there’s pirates. Querying late 2026 🤞 #questpit #W #A #F #RF #HF #fairytale

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #QuestPit #A #H #W

BEND OVER BACKWARDS (Heated Rivalry x Star Shipped) After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🎪 Rivals to Lovers 🤸 Found Family 🍿 Only One Bed #questpit #q #r #a #amquerying #agentsguide

WHERE ALL VILE CREATURES GO 🌿⚔️🧚 An insufferably lawful knight agrees to deliver a wayward changeling maiden back to her home in the Netherrealm if she fights her wicked nature and attempts goodness, however, if she strikes him three times, he will kill her himself. #W #NA #R #SFF #QUESTPIT

A LOVE LIKE THE MOVIES When offered the dream job she's worked her whole life for and the one that would secure her mother's financial stability once and for all, Alex Bennett will have to choose between the future she planned and the love she's finally found. #QuestPit #Q #A #R

JANE LAWRENCExTHE EVERLASTING meet my queer horror romance disasters: worst nightmare to have ever lived x made him that way answered “to get to you” x asked “why do you need an angel” wrote x kept the letters prayed for you x dreamt of you died x not unless I say so #QuestPit #W #A #DR #H

✨🌷🪞CROWNS & MIRRORLIGHT 🪞🌷✨ A bisexual love triangle // Meet the cast 🪞Evran 🗡️🌸🐎 🪞Saille 🌷🫦✨ 🪞Yvaine 🔮🪷🌙 #questpit #W #A #RF

SILVER ELITE x TELL ME AN ENDING MEMORY DEVOURS HER 96k Adult Romantic Dystopian SF 🚫 Emotion as error 👾 The haunting is digital 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action 🖤 Love from complicit guilt RevPit Shortlist PosterPitAward 2nd #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #SFF #S #AgentsGuide

#questpit #A #F #W #blackbooksky ARCANE x MORTAL KOMBAT ☀️heavily mel medarda inspired fmc ☀️how can you protect us when you destroy everything you touch? ☀️you are your father’s favorite daughter ☀️are you a phoenix or someone deranged enough to eat the sun?! ☀️fmc hates the sea for some reason

This vibe, but she’s planning his sister’s wedding and he’s determined to stop it.  #Q #A #R #romcom #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amquerying #QuestPit