Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻
I'm just a girl who likes animals, music, reading, writing, & soon a published author who will soon open her own bookshop named Dragonfly Night Books. Currently preparing for self-publish: Luna & the Golden Owl, Rutello: Maya Warrior Queen, Alaria's Curse.
- Thank you to everyone who supported me during #questpit. This story was the overall high favorite on both platforms, so I'm curious as to what drew you to this story in particular? I'm excited because I didn't dream this would ever be the favorite, but it does leave me curious. 😅🥰
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Here is my list for #questpit, I decided to pitch my entire series of Rutello. 1. Dark Ages 2. Arelia & the Last Flame 3. King of Kings 4. A Queen's Heart 5. Winter's Grace 6. Maya, Warrior Queen 7. New World 8. The Dark Veil 9. The Last Queen
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- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻1. Take a ballerina w/ a panic disorder 2. Have fantasy fugitives kidnap her for their leader’s magic stuck w/in her 3. Threaten her family so she’ll live w/ them until it can be returned 4. Watch her risk everything she loves for freedom & her ballet dream #Questpit #Q #YA #F #M #R #agentsguide
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻“The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen is thrilled about it.” feat: 🌲clueless lesbians 🌲giant mushrooms 🌲petty academia 🌲haunted forest 🌲banter & shenanigans 🌲autism rep! #questpit #q #f #lgbt
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE ASH HOUSE 1920. the Manor House waits. soon, 8 children will arrive, and the 14-year-old master of the house will begin his games. how do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette? 🐊 revising through RevPit ‘25 🐊 #QuestPit #MG #H
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- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻HELL IS WORK Virgil Mora, Hell's consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell to save the angel he's fallen for. Feat. ❤️🔥 Grumpy X Sunshine ✍️ Magical Contracts 🦋 AuDHD Rep 🖤🐘🤍💜 Ace Romance 👨💼 Cosmic Power, Imposter Syndrome #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Delaney's on a journey to become a vampire. The vampire he's picked to make him into one is disinclined, at best, to offer it. But that doesn't mean Delaney's free from becoming entangled in a dangerous game - or becoming the object of this vampire’s deadly obsession. #QuestPit #A #Q
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻A district attorney in search of her missing grandmother and the handsome mafia king who makes her an offer. Nothing is as it seems, the line between good and evil blurs, and fate refuses to be denied. 🐺Little Red Riding Hood🐺 reimagined as a paranormal romantasy❤️ #questpit #w #a #pr #r #editing
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻TENEMENT House of Leaves x The Giver Inside, the Tenement is an infinite maze of halls and doors. Outside, there is... Nothing. When Noah's mother disappears one night, he sets out to unravel the secrets of his surreal world, even it means bringing the whole thing down. #QuestPit #YA #D #M
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Hey #QuestPit! Hankering for an impeccably researched #YA-ish #histfic full of deep intrigue, elegant manners, and witty banter? Cool! Unfortunately, wrong book. THIS book slaps you in the face with a gloveful of physical humor, dumb swashbuckling farce, and chaotic queer drama, 1660s style⚔️ #W
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻My🫀is a Chainsaw x 1408 To solidify the bond with her BFF, Cody plans a trip abroad with their friends. But when a storm traps them in an old hotel, bodies begin to pile up.Checking out alive will depend on Cody defeating her demons and following every horror movie rule. #Questpit #A #H #W
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Blood over Bright Haven x This Monster of Mine featuring: 🌟sapphics in STEM 🗻electricity-as-magic 🌟a multi-dimension prison break 🗻race against time 🌟villain gets the girl 🗻sentient pollution with a grudge #questpit #F #LGBT #Q
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Him💫My life’s a mess, and my focus must be my son. I’ve no time for the French houseguest the language school sent me by mistake. Except when we talk, I feel this connection with her. Then comes longing. But she’s off-limits—and only in Berlin for the summer. #QuestPit #Q #A #R
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻GIDEON THE NINTH x EMBER IN THE ASHES 🗡️murderous fem bodyguard with shadow magic 👑 a butch lesbian prince 💘 who hate each other ⚔️ need to work together 🧟 to discover who's trying to kill the prince ❤️🔥 and... recover their trust after the tragedy that drove them apart #questpit #A #F #W
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻SHARP OBJECTS + A STUDY IN DROWNING + COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA 🌨️ grief & sisterhood ✨ forgotten magic 🪻 "memory is a punishment" 🔪 an academy w/ rotten sins 🌊 toxic friendships #questpit #W #YA #F #OWN
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻GEORGIE, ALL ALONG x EASY A Lacey wants to forget high school—until Ethan calls in a favor. Now she’s planning their reunion, fake dating & facing truths she’d rather leave behind 🎬 Teen movie vibes for adults *set in the same universe as 📌 post that I #amquerying #questpit #w #WF w/ #R #litagents
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE Professional hit man Jason seeks revenge for the murder of his brother, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play. 🩸 cosmic horror 🩸 criminal underworld 🩸 married MCs 🩸 villain protagonist #QuestPit #W #A #H #T
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻OFFICE SPACE × THANK YOU FOR SMOKING 2089, death is a luxury for the rich, and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a spiteful coworker and a depressed trillionaire force him to rethink his talents and what a “happy ending” means in a world with a price tag on your last smile. #QuestPit #A #SF #W
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻A new guide for APPARATUS, my jazz-era Historical Fantasy Academia 🇵🇭⚔️🪶 In pursuit of the sibling that abandoned them, a student conjurer becomes entangled in an arms race between two rival secret societies at the Cypress Institute of Invocation. #QuestPit #AG #A #F #HF
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- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻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
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Our Wives Under the Sea x The Witcher When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she reluctantly accompanies a grumpy half-beast mercenary in a journey through the Wilds to find her. ✨ On sub soon ✨ #questpit #a #f #ag #amediting #wip #editors
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻PERFECT FITxTHE PARADISE PROBLEMxTHE HANGOVER Becca has 3 weeks to raise $100k and save the job she loves-if she can survive a work trip to Vegas with her ex’s hot best friend first. ♥️♣️♦️♠️ ♥️ gambling lessons ♥️ meddling co-workers ♥️ millennial themed nightclub party #questpit #Q #A #R #agentsguide
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻FOR THE WOLF x SORROWLAND Might I present my #agentguide for THESE TIDES THAT BIND, standalone adult horror fantasy featuring a Siren POV, a love triangle, body horror, and themes of selfishness as self preservation? #questpit #q #f
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Pitch Card for my romantic suspense, CARELESS WHISPERS, LL'd for Joffe Books Prize 2024. Set in Greece, it's du Maurier's REBECCAxNetflix's THE PERFECT COUPLE They're like family but how well does she really know them? Found family; Secrets; Loss; Obsession; Betrayal; Murder. #questpit #Q #RF #MY
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻1408 x MY 🫀 IS A CHAINSAW 🏨 A sentient hotel 👻 Follow the horror movie rules 💗 Platonic soulmates + Squid Game (s1) friendship arc 🔪 🪞 Mind games 👀 Soul collection 🩸 “I’ve never met a stain I couldn’t get out.” 💜 Ace rep 🖤 Chronic pain rep #Questpit #W #A #H
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻#questpit #BIPOC #DR #NA #A #W #EDITING #AmEditing TITLE: the villain's muse. COMPS: god of fury x king of sloth x perfect addiction GENRE: bipoc dark romance! WORD COUNT: est. around 90k+ after dev edits! The devil took what he wanted—including the woman haunting his every waking moment.
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Wicked whispers in the back of her mind, terrifying changes to her body, & haunting hallucinations—a woman must find a way to break her curse with a fox spirit or risk turning into something monstrous. 🇰🇷 Korean folklore 🙊 Body & Psychological horror 💔 Forbidden romance #QuestPit #A #H #R #PR #W
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻JADE CITY x THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY When his father is killed by a bloodline curse, the disowned heir to a blood-magic crime family has three days to work with his estranged siblings to find the murderer and break the curse—before it kills them too. #QuestPit #W #A #F #AgentsGuide
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻ONE DARK WINDOW x MALICE Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it. #questpit #A #F #Q #LGBT
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻In 1900s Latvia, Stasi imbues paint with blood magic to create art that becomes reality, but when she discovers a plot to eradicate blood-magic women after entering a prestigious art competition, she rises against those who threaten her kind. #W #A #HR #S #H #questpit
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. 💙📚 #questpit #PR #Q #writing
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻My agent’s guide to THE DENTIST in which three bi disasters navigate the zombie apocalypse. #horror, headshots & hookups 🏳️🌈🧟💖🔪 #questpit #H #na #a #q #agentsguide
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻FUNNY STORY X LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE + WHEN HARRY MET SALLY X FIRST WIVES CLUB Two Broken Hearts. One Pact. A Year to Rewrite Their Story. *set in the same universe as 📌 post that I #amquerying #questpit #w #wip #litagents #womensfiction #WF w/ #R #romcom #A #agentsguide
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻A Dolly Parton Wannabe walks into a bank and robs & kidnaps her ex-boyfriend...wait, what's the punchline again? 🤑only one getaway car 💋 themed "road trip" playlists 🤑she brought her pet POSSUM? 💋We're gonna die... #questpit #OS soon #AG #R
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻A time portal concealed in a tomb at Highgate Cemetery traps three cousins in Victorian London. To get home, they must rescue their grandfather from a necromancer intent on raising an army of the dead, outsmart a gang of Egyptian magicians, and stay one step ahead of the law. #A #DF #H #QuestPit #W
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA 💋middle-aged feminist rage 💅campy 80s setting 💋dark humor 💅body horror 💋satanic panic backdrop 💅 the darkest of deals #questpit #AG #A #H #OS #onsub soon
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻SALTBURN X SECRET HISTORY After a death on campus, the prestigious men’s club opens its doors to one reporter to observe their secret rituals but what seems harmless quickly turns sinister and she’s the only one who can see it. Not all gods are meant to be worshiped #questpit #A #T
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻A new #agentsguide for my revised version of A FEAST FOR LAMBS(made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) coming back to agents inboxes real soon 👀 🏳️⚧️Transmasc MC ❤️🔥Poly monster romance 🥩Cannibalism 🩸Religious horror 🫀Body horror 🔥Trans rage #questpit #A #H #RF #querying
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻The God of Knowledge is dying and knowledge is withering alongside him. Lyara must uncover what happened to him and how to reverse it before all books turn to stone and her chance at finding a cure to her curse disappears with the crumbling of the Library of Yashay. #questpit #W #A #F
- Reposted by Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻TWIN PEAKS x FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS An eccentric millionaire seeks proof of cryptids with the help of their companion. Sunnydale, Michigan. 2005. A probable location for otherworldly activity. The thing is, EVERYONE is Sunnydale seems a little...off. #QuestPit #W #YA #F #PR #MY #LGBT
