PicantePit 🌶

🔥Rules🔥 - You must be self-identifying Latinx/Latine to participate - Only pitch between 8am to 8pm EST - No kidlit/YA works. Adult and NA only - Moodboards are permitted. Please provide alt text. No AI! - Only 4 pitches per manuscript - Liking posts are allowed

Ready to prove he’s more than a DEI hire, Detective Javier Vega races to find the source of a deadly designer drug in a wealthy New England suburb. THE WHISPERS X BLOOD SISTERS 🔪 domestic suspense 🌶️ sexy Latino detective 🤑 rich people behaving badly 💋 romantic b-plot #PicantePit #PitQ

Straight white women rule the walled cities, everyone else is discarded. A Black trans woman called Malaika builds a team of outcasts to infiltrate the system and burn it all down. CITY OF WOMEN, a 75,000-word LGBTQIA+ dystopian novel. QUERYING! #PicantePit #PitQ #NA #LGBT

Feared as a demon and losing a war he can't win, Tobe travels back in time to keep his enemy Kura alive, only to find their hatred curdling into something far harder to resist. KISSING THE DEMON, an LGBTQIA+ romantic fantasy horror novel. Querying! #PicantePit #PitQ #NA #LGBT

Reese blames his ADHD for the demons around him, until he realizes his comfy new job is in Purgatory, his boss is Lucifer and Reese is falling for "Luc" PRIDE, a 35,000-word paranormal comedy, book one of the LGBTQ+ Deadly Sins series. QUERYING! #PicantePit #PitQ #NA #LGBT

Rosafière, an amnesiac vampire, is on the run from her husband (and sire). Trapped between the urge to return or to trust August, who promises answers and a love that’s real, her only hope for freedom is to drink her sire’s blood—which he refuses to give. #PicantePit #W #F #GF

SHATTER ME X TENDER IS THE FLESH 🧬 illegal supernatural abilities ⛓️ institutionalized human-trafficking 🔮 seer fmc with temperamental powers 🍽️ kill or be eaten 💎 failing society under a gilded illusion 💉 “perfect weapon” mmc with a deadly secret #PicantePit #W #A #SF #DS

When an island whispers different versions of unwritten local legends and turning into a creature of the deep as a result of heartbreak makes you want to drown your ex- no one is safe Especially not the ex boyfriends #PicantePit #PitQ #SFF #SPEC #R

Two sisters develop the ability to sense love and are able to determine a person’s true love… for everyone except themselves ✨ #PicantePit #PitQ #SFF #R

Araceli and her demon best friend Fantasma must stop a demonic invasion of Chicago while protecting her family and their secret. Adult Magical Realism Fantasy with elements of Horror and the Paranormal. Latin American Folklore. #PicantePit #PitQ #F

What is a bounty or a goddess’s curse when they have each other? CRIES OF THE AGON showcases a high stakes contest in Hades among the living & the dead featuring: All Mythical heroes co-existing The arena disguises a grander scheme Dual Mental Health Rep #PicantePit #PitQ #DF

Carlos's investigation into a little known pirate leads him to Puerto Rico and a well guarded mystery that threatens his life. Adult Historical Fiction/Romance/Mystery #PicantePit #PitQ

#Picantepit has begun!! Please make sure to read the rules on the pinned post and use the right hashtags to make it easier for others to find you and have fun pitching!

#PicantePit is happening tomorrow so make sure to read through the rules!

Important announcement! 📢 #PicantePit

With only a week left until #PicantePit here is the list of #litagents that will be participating here across both X and 🦋☁️ If any agents would like to participate in an event for latinx writers, let us know in the l!nk below! t.co/Mh9Uf7V6Cw

Mark your calendars because PicantePit is back on the 30th of this month! 🔥 We will be running both on here and on X #WritingCommunity #PicantePit

❗ An epic adventure told from the perspectives of side quest givers. ❗ Legends & Lattes ✖️ When the Moon Hits Your Eye 👀 multi-POV 🌈 #LGBT MCs+PoV 🎲 TTRPG inspired ✉️ epistolary chapters 🗣️ chapters in conversation 👑 royal generational trauma 💸 money squabbles 🗡️ mafia 💀 death cult #F #PicantePit #PitQ

THE HUNGER GAMES BUT MAKE IT SAPPHIC! 🏳️‍🌈 -Dystopia based on TERF movement. -POC, queer (lesbian, trans, non-binary) and disabled (prosthesis, deaf) protagonists. -Woman - nonbinary - woman polyamory. #PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

Reese isn't sure if this is Hell or not, but he knows he likes that Luc. (And Lucifer doesn't know what to do with this human following him around) -Latino, gay and ADHD MC -Criticism of Catholicism -ANGELS WHO AREN'T WHITE! #PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

COCO x GOBLIN x TRESE x CONSTANTINE(2005) 👻Catch that killer! 🐈‍⬛International cast ❤️‍🔥Slow burn poly rep ✨Grumpy x Sunshine 🖤 Love across lifetimes 💀 Reincarnated Death Gods 💜 Healing grief & trauma through found family 🕯️Samhain, Día de Muertos, Fèt Gede, Undas #PicantePit #Drafting #A #PR #RF #UF

A killer stalks the shadow of the necromantic scholomance. Ozy just wants to learn how to resurrect his family and Annabel just needs to restore her memories and find her lost teacher. But Annabel hungers for Ozy's soul, making her wonder if she is the killer. #PicantePit #PitQ

Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do. The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late? #PicantePit #A #SP #Drafting

Broke & drowning in maladaptive daydreams, Isabel wishes one could come true. It does. Now she's ghostwriting a play, the weather reacts to her emotions, and she must live with the man she's envied for years. Falling in love? That wasn't part of the wish. #PicantePit #PitQ #R #CR #MR

Ozy comes to the scholomance to learn how to resurrect his family. Annabel comes to find her teacher and to fix her broken mind. Then the murders start and Ozy fears for his life. When Annabel begins to hunger for Ozy's soul she fears she might be the killer. #PicantePit #PitQ

An illegitimate Princess trapped in a court of ice is willing to set her life on fire to feel warm. But liquor’s burn & a lover’s mouth are fleeting as smoke in her lungs. Only magic sets her blood ablaze. Magic, and the enemy Prince who wants to use her to spark a rebellion. #PicantePit #PitQ

A morally grey Snow White reimagining where the "fairest of them all" is cursed with ice powers and snow blooming across her skin—vitiligo the world calls monstrous. A prophecy says only the Andes realm heir can stop her. Too bad their souls are bound. #PicantePit #Drafting #F #R

Legends & Lattes✖️When the Moon Hits Your Eye A sorceress & her ex-royal merc mom are hunted by a death cult. A country wizard returns home with something to prove & becomes entranced by a mafioso. Together they’re stars, but they’ll take a cameo in your story for a price. #F #PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

Illiana longs to craft poisons all day in wild, poisonous woods filled w/ beautiful monsters until she's betrothed to her ex-bestfriend, the prince she can't stand Pretending to find her replacement is the perfect escape plan- until he comes along #Picantepit #A #F #R #Drafting

A woman with vitiligo and ice powers is hunted by the Andes realm's heir—but her touch doesn't kill him; it soothes his hidden demon blood. They bargain to save each other. Now their souls are bound, and losing him will kill her too. #PicantePit #A #F #R #Drafting

The love lives of two sisters become complicated after they develop the ability to sense love. As Ella and Ivy navigate a world where direct use of magic has been banned they become all the more curious about the unknown of forbidden magic ✨ #Picantepit #A #NA #F #R #PitQ

THE LOCKED TOMB X NINTH HOUSE Ozy must avoid the murderer lurking in the shadows of the necromantic scholomance, however that murderer just might be the mysterious undead Annabel, whose fractured memories make her wonder if she really is the murderer. #PicantePit #PitQ

An illegitimate fire princess is born into a royal house ruled by ice. When her mother threatens to snuff out her magic, she runs straight into the arms of a foreign prince who would like nothing more than to see her country burn. #PicantePit #PitQ #A #F

There’s something in the water 🌊 When an island whispers different versions of unwritten local legends & turning into a creature of the deep as a result of heartbreak makes you want to drown your ex- no one is safe Especially not the exes #PicantePit #A #NA #R #Spec #F #PitQ

🇸🇻 Precolonial Central America 🇸🇻 Itotia’s a healer’s apprentice struggling to meet her mentor’s expectations. Metztli is a deity who hates worship. When Itotia binds them together, Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she'd thought... #PicantePit #PitQ

NOT QUITE DEAD YET x GLASS ONION At her sis’s party, Abby Martinez doesn’t expect to: 😡 find out her sis is still angry over a fight 1 yr ago 💔 face her cheating ex 🔪 get murdered As a ghost, Abby must solve her own murder b4 more guests die & pass on to the afterlife. #PicantePit #A #M #P #F #R

Baldur’s Gate✖️High Maintenance MCs: 🧙country wizard 🌈💖 rogue mafioso🗡️ ➕ 🛡️ex-princess merc 👩👧 hunted sorceress🪄 👀 multi-POV side quest givers: 🪚 orc dad carpenter 🧚 fairy in peril 👻 duchess w/ a pesky dead aunt 🐲 brainwashed dragon 💀 death match fighter + more! #F #PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

As Ozy studies necromancy to find a way to resurrect his family, he must avoid the killer lurking in the shadows of the scholomance. However the killer just might be the undead Annabel, whose fractured memories make her wonder if she really is the murderer. #PicantePit #PitQ

TOO SOON FOR ADIOS X YOU WITH A VIEW When an opportunity to ditch her old life presents itself, Camila takes the first flight to Mexico to claim an inheritance and rediscover her roots, but her dead grandpa and an ex-pro bull rider have other plans. #PicantePit #A #R #PitQ

She doesn’t know the masked prince is the one her scars were destined to find. One kiss brings him ruin and awakens a love spanning lifetimes. But prophecy binds them as each other’s fate, and only through destruction can their truth endure. ⚔️ #PicantePit #F #A #PitQ

#Picantepit has begun!! Please make sure to read the rules on the pinned post and use the right hashtags to make it easier for others to find you and have fun pitching!

As we are one day away from #PicantePit, here is the list of all the agents who will be participating across both X and 🦋☁️ Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our form!