Clara Benson is ✨querying✨

I've created many covers for myself and others and wanted to start taking commissions from authors who are self-publishing their books. Because I am just starting to build my portfolio, I want to work with your budget! Message me if you have any questions! #bookcoverdesigner #bookcover #selfpublish

REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC (w/ small press interest) Dear C.B, Thank you for sending me FINDING ECHINACEA. Unfortunately, I didn't quite connect with your transportive descriptions, attention to historical details or small town slow-burn romance. #IndiePit #A #HF #R #SSP

The Selection Series x The Elements of Kamdaria x Elemental Blessings In a world where the elements are life, a ball is held every century to find the new rulers of the elements. It is a game of politics and deceit that may just end in murder and heartbreak. #W #A #RF #IndiePit

Fast cars + bad decisions = a love story built to crash. A burnt-out romance author dives into a gang-ruled street racing scene for inspiration, only to fall for a reckless driver with a death wish. FAST AND FURIOUS X ROMEO + JULIET (1996) #IndiePit #SSP #A #R

NA Portal Romantasy Trilogy ✨Fae, witches, kickass humans 💫Multiple POVs, ships 🔥Slow burn tension, some spice 🌪️Elemental magic +more 👑Twisted rulers, corrupt politics 😈Evil plot twists ⚔️Deadly quest 🏹A brewing rebellion ❤️‍🩹Self discovery #IndiePit #AN #SSP #NA #F #RF

Who doesn’t love a good road trip book? That’s what you find in OUR MOTHER, YOUR FRIEND. A trip to learn about a mom’s past leads to a SHOCKING plot twist. One road trip changes everything! 🚗 Road trip adventure 👫 Twins! 💔 Family drama 🤔 A surprise twist #IndiePit #AN #YA #NA #C #S #indiebooks

The Navigator who Crossed the Ice Walls × The Anunnaki Connection x Mythology When Jenna comes across an injured giant man she finds out that the world she thought she knew was just the middle of a much larger one stuck in the middle of an ancient war. #W #A #T #SFF #IndiePit

Here's my list for #IndiePit 1. The Rulers of Fawes #W #A #RF 2. Evening of Roses #W #A #R #Cozy 3. The War Around Us #W #A #T #SFF Feedback is welcome

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC (w/ small press interest) Typhus delivers a wealthy suitor to Florence’s door with an offer that would ensure her sister's safety. But warnings from a haunted medical student reveal cracks in her last hope for salvation. #IndiePit #A #HF #R #SSP

When a notorious outlaw teams up with her immortal ex-lover to rob a train and avenge her mother, the last thing she expects is for a lost kingdom to call on her to slay a dragon. #QuestPit #AG #A #RF #OS (exclusive)

FRUIT OF SPOILED SEED CIRCE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN Rowan’s dream of training at Typhon Academy is becoming a nightmare as her magic and body succumb to chronic pain. Desperate for a cure, every path she takes reveals darker clues & they lead closer to home than she ever imagined #QuestPit #W #DF

The final post re-enupment. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

BEACH READ x GIRL ABROAD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Study abroad romance 📚 Academic rivals-to-lovers 💅🏼 International found family 💁🏼‍♀️ Coming-of-age 👥 Forced proximity 🔥 Slow burn Now querying AMERICAN PARTY GIRL. #Questpit #NA #R #WF #Q

ONE PIECE IN SPACE A runaway with illegal powers must join a crew of space pirates to save the man whose magic might change the world, or destroy it. But she has three problems with that: she finds him intoxicating, his partner’s infuriating, and she hates pirates. #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #SFF

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#questpit if you missed it!

Happy #QuestPit to all who celebrate! 🎉🙌🏼 I’d like to introduce AMERICAN PARTY GIRL, my New-Adult Contemporary Romance complete at 82k words! Perfect for fans of Emily Henry’s BEACH READ, Elle Kennedy’s GIRL ABROAD, and Ali Hazelwood’s LOVE, THEORETICALLY. #Q #NA #R #WF #AmQuerying

Rhiannon should be dead. Her chest is empty. Her heart? Locked in a box. She only has nine days to get it back. HEART TO MANGLED HEART 🫧Romantasy 119K 🫧Horrormance + ghoulish gore 🫧Slow burn yearn + jealous ex 🫧Atmospheric setting featuring your favorite aurora #questpit #Q #A #R #agentsguide

ONE PIECE IN SPACE There's a space pirate hell bent on recruiting Romea on his quest to become King of the Stars. But she's more focused on the infuriating partner of her unfortunate crush, and saving him and his breakthrough magical discovery from becoming a weapon. #questpit#Q#A#F#RF#SFF

🩸🎸🧛‍♂️ETERNALLY DEAD🧛‍♂️🎸🩸 An injured musician discovers a secret world inhabited by vampires after failing to photograph the bassist of an all-vampire rock band. But when blood shortages hit the Vampire Realm, she wonders if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for. #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

WE USED TO LIVE HERE x MISERY When a sentient house attacks a naive author and his stalker orchestrates an invasion, his badass sister and her disobedient dog race against an impending storm to save him, but they must face both monsters to survive the night. #QuestPit #H #LGBTQ #agentsguide #Q #A

When Trees Dance is currently out querying! #questpit #Q #A #F 💚slow burn friends to lovers ⛰️environmental commentary 🌀exploration of faith and identity 🌿motherhood in all its forms 🌞neurodivergent and disability rep

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC Typhus delivers a wealthy suitor to Florence’s door with an offer that would ensure her sister's safety. But warnings from a haunted medical student reveal cracks in her last hope for salvation. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

A young preservationist is invited by its eccentric owner to study a sealed Gilded Age mansion to discover an heir bound to it. As the manor begins to respond to her, she becomes the only one who can break his curse before it claims him forever. Starling House x Crimson Peak #Questpit #PR #R #A #Q

Querying THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US ✨Women’s Fiction 3️⃣Triple-POV 🏡Real-world Stakes 🫂Sister Relationships ❄️Chill vibes Come find out how three sisters react to their parents selling their childhood home. (Spoiler: You won’t see “congratulations” in the MS.) #questpit #wf #q

ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES X AGATHA ALL ALONG When a man awakens an ancient evil, a coven of immortal witches, who came together after surviving various witch trials, must decide if they want to save the world or let it burn. #QuestPit #WIP #F #A #H

DISNEYLAND GONE WRONG + PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR Every other character actor at EverAfter Theme Park has disappeared after bizarre personality changes, and desperate princess performer Juliet discovers she’s next when the character she plays begins to take over her mind. #questpit #H #A #W

#agentguide to CARELESS WHISPERS set in Paxos, Greece 𝑑𝑢 𝑀𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑅𝐸𝐵𝐸𝐶𝐶𝐴 x 𝑁𝑒𝑡𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑥'𝑠 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑃𝐸𝑅𝐹𝐸𝐶𝑇 𝐶𝑂𝑈𝑃𝐿𝐸 A PR exec risks her moral compass to help the people she loves when murder is suspected and they all have motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's in love with. #Questpit #Q #A #MY

After the people he loved as parents were brutally murdered and his best friend skipped town, Oryn lost the only family he's ever cared for. Now she’s back after years apart & he must forgive the ills of their past to save her from a fate worse than death. #questpit #Q #A #SFF #SF

When Milo gets dumped minutes before a couples pottery class, he does the only logical thing: shows up alone. Unfortunately for Briar, the overworked studio owner who swore off dating, their chemistry is hotter than a kiln. #questpit #q #a #r #agentguide

#QuestPit #lf #u #dr #a #q EVERAFTER is Bingeable.

🧚‍♀️ ALL THE TIME WE NEVER HAD 🍐 WIP #questpit #A #R #HF #H #L #Q 🌹Devine femininity 🫀Family sacrifice 👸Women’s roles in history 🏡Antique house 🧚‍♀️ Folklore and spirits 🤰Mother-daughter relationship

Bree assumes “joining the Dark Goddess" is a lesbian sex club hazing prank—until she kills an evil politician with a gush of menstrual blood. The Goddess has given Bree real power. Her intentions? Murky. Her appetite? Insatiable. Her contract? Binding. #questpit #Q #A #H #S #LF

Rhiannon should be dead. Her chest is empty. Her heart? Locked in a box. She only has nine days to get it back. HEART TO MANGLED HEART 🫧Horrormance + ghoulish gore 🫧Slow burn yearn + jealous ex 🫧Atmospheric setting featuring your favorite aurora #questpit #Q #A #R #agentsguide

DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE x THE EVERLASTING 🥀angel summoning as dark magic (& a metaphor for OCD) 🥀violent longing 🥀mentorship gone wrong 🥀MC thinks he’s in a romance novel until it’s (almost) too late 🥀Victorian secret society 🥀epistolary dual timeline #QuestPit #WIP #A #H #R

Dear Admissions Committee, Thanks for rejecting me. By the way, your security sucks. XOXO, Margot NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy / 94K 🧙‍♀️ #QuestPit #Fantasy #W #YA #F #DF #D

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 w/ Publisher Interest! REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC In the shadow of a typhus epidemic and her family's battered reputation, a hardworking inn maid must choose between freedom's drudgery and a suitor who promises a gilded cage. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

The Ocean Whip is the only vehicle that can cross the sea now that the Overseers rule the sky. Mal and Dylan accidentally set out in a whip train and struggle to get home, facing dangers from the Overseers, the ocean, and their own inexperience. Will they make it? #QuestPit #W #MG #SF #T#D

Some brand new mood boards for #QuestPit ⛏️ IT FOLLOWS X DIAVOLA X RED RABBIT GHOST 🦌 Midwestern Gothic 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Doppelgängers ❣️ Healthy Love 🌱 Eco Horror Themes 🌀 Folk Magic #Q #A #H #RF #amquerying

LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME 🏚️ a child’s psychological games 🍇 scared girls who fight back 🪞 sibling opposites 🐊 summer is an antagonist 🧨 surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette 🌟 Big 5 editor interest 🌟 RevPit ‘25 winner #QuestPit #Q #MG #H

Two people who've mastered emotional distance must decide if connection is a risk worth taking-or just another wound waiting to happen. PICTURE US, FALLING (81k words) captures the ache of unattainable longing set in rain-soaked Seattle. #questpit #Q #A #U #LF #amquerying

Been craving a book with: 🪻Cozy witchy plot like Practical Magic & Garden Spells 🪻Murder Mystery 🪻Fast 🪻Based in a cozy harbor town 🪻Twisty (i just read My Husband’s Wife so the bar is HIGH) 🪻Age gap main characters So I wrote it:) Draft 1 is done! #W #MY #QuestPit

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC Typhus strikes and brings a wealthy New Yorker intent on marrying the hardworking inn maid. To keep a promise to her sister, she accepts, despite warnings from a medical student who threatens her last hope for salvation. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

The Ipcress File X Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel shenanigans 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T #agentguide

An #agentsguide to BETWEEN INFINITE VEILS - the adult cyberpunk I #amquerying. SILVER ELITE x MINDWALKER x THE OA featuring: ☁️ Dream portals 🌃 Neon skylines 👾 Treacherous tech 💕 Found family 🗡️ Meet-ugly 💀 Death incarnate 👀 “I will always find you” x2 #questpit #A #Q #SFF #SF

The Cold War X Time Travel When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

When a black market portal to Woodstock sends Bonnie to 1464, she must rely on a lovelorn knight, her trusty pet rock, and her wits to survive. #QuestPit #A #RF #P spring 2027