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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.

The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text:

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw.
Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers
Trinity: a covert,
science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades.

A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

AVATAR X THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (with a dash of canabalism) 👽 The alien Glishnagh is lost on a distant planet. With only sign language to communicate, he must find a way home, but things get messy when the local humans discover his blood is addictive and psychoactive. #questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF

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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

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Katya K. @kukureko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“In Moscow, Bella was royalty by night. By day, Artur learned to disappear. In New York, neither of them was special. And that was the most extraordinary thing.” 🪆RED SQUARE ON HEELS 👠 #QueerPit #A #LF

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Katya K. @kukureko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“At dawn, they wobbled onto the street. Two men in towering heels, wild hair and smeared makeup, heels click-clacking over the cracked Moscow sidewalk. Birds of paradise in a world of pigeons.” 🪆RED SQUARE ON HEELS 👠 #QueerPit #A #LF

In the background: real drag queens of Central Station, Moscow.

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Sidney Quinn - Author @sidneyquinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE AUGUSTINE AFFAIR Strap in for a globetrotting, high-octane spy thriller/gay romance. Fashion mogul (and undercover MI6 agent) Felix finds himself teamed up with assassin Kai to unravel a conspiracy at the heart of the fashion world. #A #rf #t #LGBTQ #queerpit #q

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A snarky, Jewish private eye fights vampires, werewolves, and gentrification. Although initially hired to investigate two bank robberies, Steve Knight's search for truth in a city of magic entangles him in a web of gang violence, organized crime, and political corruption. #QueerPit #UF #M #A

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Brian Rhymer @rhymeswithfry.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

An AFAB teenager living in 12th-century Germany is abandoned in the Holy Land while “disguised” as a boy named Joseph. He embraces his male identity in order to survive, and finally feels confident in his own skin. #QueerPit #MG #COA #HF #AC #Transgender

3x3 mood board. The title, Journey to Joseph, is written in the center. Top left and going clockwise: A picture of a young white boy in a hood, a picture of a group of people at a medieval tavern, a picture of a wooden door in a stone wall, a drawing of two swords crossed, a photograph of the desert where it meets the sea, a picture of a medieval ship, a sketch of a boy running and holding a sword, a photo of a stereotypical medieval European town.

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

HOW TO COME HOME: #queerpit edition An ex-Prohibition fixer and a small-town general store owner must overcome holding their pasts too present in order to build a future together in 1930s America. #amquerying #HF #HR #A

HOW TO COME HOME
Romantic historical fiction, 107k words

Now querying!

Contents:
Queerness w/o a “coming out” narrative
Complicated sibling relationships
Disability =/= disabling
Small-town vibes, big-city secrets
30+-year-old protagonists
Historical queer parenthood

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Sidney Quinn - Author @sidneyquinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE SECRET COURT, a queer Regency romance is in search of a new home! Rights reversion from Wattpad Originals in Nov. Morgan, the second-born son of a prominent family, ventures to court to find a bride. He's aided by Liam, a charming rake who may not be what he seems. #queerpit #r #HF #mm #A

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David T./D.T. Brandt - Settler on Stolen Land @queerpointyears.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR x I HAVE NOTHING Baroque masquerades ✔️ Dancing revealing hidden truth ✔️ Dancing as diplomacy ✔️ Espionage and subterfuge ✔️ Agency vs Responsibility ✔️ Princess x pauper ✔️ Pauper x noble ✔️ Princess x noble ❌️ Princess 🤝 noble ✔️ #Queerpit #A #RF #HF

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Isobel @belleroach.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

DRACULA x THE SECRET HISTORY 1895. A young man falls headlong into the Greco-Roman drinking society of an infamous author, but when he witnesses the sacrificial killing of a boy, he must choose between morality and immortality - before his own blood is spilt. #QueerPit #HF #H

Collage of images including a man in a suit, a carriage, revellers at a bonfire, a man with a bloodied mouth, and candelabras

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Bramble ~ Sci-fi and Fantasy Author @thebrambler13.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm Bramble, a Welsh trans woman. My #QueerPit is Raven & Bear! My stories follow a young girl named Ata (Lesbian), learning how to be a knight from her adoptive father Sir Corbyn (Trans + Pan). They're free to enjoy so check them out this Queer Knight Summer! [Art by @nushdeco.bsky.social]

Art by NushDeco. A girl with dirt-black hair and gold eyes, dressed in brown gambeson while holding a bear-cub. Behind and to the right of her, an older man with grey hair and a beard dressed in black gambeson with a white trim and a black cloak while he holds a raven. The background is a greyish blue with a paler circle haloing them. A watermark reads NushDeco.

Characters:
Princess Ata Glyndŵr (Adoptive daughter and student)
Sir Corbyn Findlay (Adoptive father and teacher)

From Raven & Bear by Bramble.

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Jules @julesmayfly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A prince stranded in a magical winter forest must choose between two paths: revive his lost lover who betrayed him or abandon the throne for a new love 🐺Slavic folktale inspired ✨Curses ❤️‍🔥Slowburn ❄️Sharing body heat 🌙Elements of horror and lots of angst #QueerPit #A #F

A collage style moodboard featuring a winter forest, a howling wolf, frosted over hands, arrows, a white haired pale masculine person, a brown eye looking into the sun, poppies against a summer sky

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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#QueerPit Project Hail Mary meets I Saw the TV Glow? - Nostalgia of the past + regrets of the future - Unconscious aboard a long-haul spaceship - World's digital data has disappeared - Midwest childhood + interstellar adulthood - Sci-fi/lit-fic/magical realism blend - Queer woman MC #A #MR #SF #LF

Image from the film I Saw the TV Glow: "there is still time" is written in chalk on a street.

Image from the film Project Hail Mary: an astronaut attached to a spaceship gazes at the green and orange swirls of a planet's surface.

Artwork from Sunset at Zero Point by Simon Stalenhag: a person stands at the edge of a lake on a snowy day. On the other side, a bright orange flame-like orb glows within a dilapidated spherical structure.

Promotional image for the film I Saw the TV Glow: a person's head is silhouetted by the pink static glow of a CRT television.

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E.S. Thomas @violetsandvipers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When the Prince she’s engaged to tries to “cure” her curse through barbaric medical experiments, slicing off every piece of her that he finds undesirable; Princess Sloane learns that claws aren’t what make a monster. To escape, Sloane will have to finally embrace the beast within #queerpit #f #a

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B. Hart 🔪 (Writing a 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Frankenstein Retelling) @bhartwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🏳️‍⚧️GAY/TRANS FRANKENSTEIN RETELLING🏳️‍🌈 ‣ 1890s Germany ‣ Trans rage ‣ Queer religious shame ‣ Gothic body horror "Then make me whole. Take away my anger, and I’ll weather the shame with you. I am not your bride, not your monster. I ought to be thy Adam. 𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝓫𝓮." #QueerPit #A #H #HF #MYTH #SPF #LF

Art of Viktor Frankenstein sewing his creation with red thread as the monster unmakes himself, removing breasts from himself. There are flowers on the top and weeds at the bottom with two hands reaching out to each other in the style of the Creation of Adam.
White text atop says : Ought to Be Thy Adam

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

ROSE OF VERSAILLES ⚔️ LEGO BATMAN Old-fashioned swashbuckling. Contemporary sensibility. Men who trip and fall down. 15-year-old trans boy takes on Manhood Quest with 1,000 yards of ribbon and 2 brain cells. It's the dumbest historical you'll cry over all year! #QueerPit #HF #HA #AC #COA #YA / #A

Atop the painting "Claude Duval", by William Powell Frith in 1860 (depicting the 1660s), text reads:

“I object to this treatment,” said the highwayman. “I’m not some ruffian to be tossed about like a sack of turnips!”
“You wish you had the honour of a turnip,” joined in Alexander.

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Katya K. @kukureko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Excited (and nervous!) for #QueerPit tomorrow. I’ll be pitching 🪆RED SQUARE ON HEELS 👠, a multi-POV literary novel about queer life in Putin’s Russia in the years leading up to the anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown. Who else is joining? I’d love to support you! 🌈 #QueerPit #A #LF #QueerWriters

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Sidney Quinn - Author @sidneyquinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ever look at the spy movies of the 90s and 2000s (Mr and Mrs Smith, The Bourne Identity, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lucky Number Slevin, The Long Kiss Goodnight) and thought, hey this is great but it'd be better if it was gay? That's The Augustine Affair in a nutshell! #unhingedpit #t #lgbt #a #q

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

BIG WORDS ⚔️ DEAD GENRE ⚔️ BAD(ASS) REP Are you ready for my #YA(???) #LGBT #historical #swashbuckler to be… #Q THE DUEL IN 1660, a farce in 83k words & 1k yards of ribbon. #UnhingedPit

Riff off "I studied the blade" meme with art of a 17th century fopling in a blue doublet and petticoat breeches, a gold-embroidered cloak, lace, and red high heels, covered all over with pink and silver ribbon, huge blue ostrich and pheasant feathers in his hat, holding a cup-hilt rapier in guardia quarta. He looks determined.

Text says:

"Whilst you enjoyed your cis privilege, I studied the Blade.
Whilst you had a romance arc, I practised the Blade.
Whilst you spent £ buying ribbons for vanity, I also did that.
Now that your time of need has come, yes! I will help."

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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

psspspsp cute black cat🐈‍⬛ ➡️drowned by abusive owner☠️ ➡️reborn as godling in limbo🤯 ➡️ascends into god of revenge🔥 ➡️kills owner🔪 ➡️everyone's happy!!! 🎉🥳🎂🎈 (with big 5 editor interest + mentorship w another big five 👀) #unhingedpit #A #DF #F #H #YA #T #W #POC #DIS

a meme of a black cat stretching out into a noodle with wide yellow eyes.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can finally share my full illustration for @taplingzines.bsky.social 'We've Always Been Here' art book! It's of two Muslim men bathing in Medieval Al-Andalus, a very accepting time for queer people~ ✨ More details about the illustration and story below~ #SaplingArt #Watercolor #QueerArt

A softly lit watercolor painting of three panels, bordered by intricately painted branches of pomegranate and orange trees. The first panel, in the top left corner, shows both men kissing with one pressed against an intricately tiled wall in the Alhambra palace. One man has rich, warm brown skin and a turquoise headwrap that falls down over his shoulders and coat, which is decorated in intricate golden swirl patterns. The man kissing him has richer cooler-toned dark brown skin, with a white headwrap clipped together with a golden pin, wearing a white robe with intricate gold and red-gem inset details. Both have facial hair. The central painting, the largest panel, shows both men sitting in a public bath, although they are alone, gazing closely at each other, looking like they're about to kiss, arms resting on their legs as they gaze softly. They both have small, damp fabric around their waists, the colors matching their respective outfits. The man in the white cloth has braided cornrows, in a traditional Amazigh style. The man in the blue cloth gazes slightly down into his eyes, with his leg extended over the ledge of the bath, showing intricately painted and extensive burn scars including contractions. A cane rests on the shadowed wall beside him. The bath room itself is a pale yellow stone, shadowed in purple washes, with a central inset section bordered by a pattern of turquoise, dark blue, green, and red diamond tiles, interspersed with white tiles. The central inset part has the same pattern, but far smaller and more detailed. The final panel, in the bottom left, shows the turquoise and indigo robe of one of the men as he walks, using his cane, with his lover's hand holding his back for support. The blue robe has even more intricate swirling gold patterns, with a red sash and gold metal piece tying it together at the waist. A washy watercolor part hints at a garden in the background.

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Julie @juliehdwriting.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

KPDH x THE HONEYS INFESTATION, my WIP about a girl group forming a hivemind through the power of codependency and creepy crawlies, but pitched through funny posts and with no further context 🦟 Tag yourself!! Which one are you? #MENApit #AG #WIP #H #YA

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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—until she meets a godling who reveals personal things only her owner could've known. #MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS #POC

A moodboard for the dark fantasy, GODCAT, featuring liminal spaces, black cats, and a magpie's eye.

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A little late to the party. But here’s my #agentsguide for my sapphic vampire novel! ❤️ Vampire marriage bonds 🖤Dark secrets Femmine rage 🖕🏾Black/African rage Ancestral Magic ❤️Narrative that spans 200 years 💔Forgotten memories 🖤Ride or die love #WSPit #Q #A #F #H

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B. Hart 🔪 (Writing a 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Frankenstein Retelling) @bhartwrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

QUEER FRANKENSTEIN RETELLING ✔️ Viktor Frankenstein + copious queer shame ✔️ The creation driven by trans rage ✔️ Dark medical academia/1890s vibes ✔️ Lush, gothic horror prose ✔️ ✨Choking✨ #WSPit #W #LGBT #A #H #Hi #Own (Art by the incredible ‪@ukstls.bsky.social‬)

Frankenstein's creature bent over and choking Viktor.

A zoomed up version of the image with black over it and the text:
Ought to Be Thy Adam
In 1897, after studying corpses and toying with electricity, medical student Viktor has created the man from his darkest, shameful desires. Except guilt forces him to make one final adjustment: female parts.

As his new creation gains sentience while vivisected during Viktor's university tour and begins to chafe under Viktor's thumb, a violent death and disobedience leads the monster to make himself into the man he was always meant to be.

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Gay crimes! Trans wrongs! Enemies to enemies! Here's my #Own #LGBT #Hu #YA(?) again for #WSPit! A romp through a colorful, heightened #Hi storical playground. Can one defeat the patriarchs with the very weapons of masculinity? Well, one angry trans boy can sure try stabbing them a lot. #WSPitW

"L'entrée du prince de Ligne à Londres 1660", painted by François Duchatel in 1660, depicting the arrival of a great procession of ambassadors walking in fine clothes and riding in coaches, watched by a huge crowd of Londoners.
Text over it reads:
THE DUEL IN 1660: a queer swashbuckling farce.

"The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, may 24 1660" by Lieve Verschuier, showing many ships with the Flag of Holland/States Flag. The grand ship bearing Charles II has his royal arms carven on the stern.
Text over it reads:
England, 1660: the restoration of the monarchy. In Charles II's triumphant wake, a Royalist family quietly returns, but not with their single daughter—instead, with their single son.
15-year-old Alexander—vain, hot-tempered, and warm of heart—expects to strut in as an aristocratic peacock. But when his ambitions are frustrated, he's sucked instead into intrigues of questionable honour and forced to reckon with what it really means to be a man.

"Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu, painted around 1665. A Dutch young man, beautiful and androgynous with long blond hair, wears black doublet, breeches, and stockings and a luxurious white shirt and falling band. His expression is tranquil and far-off as he writes a letter on a table draped with an imported carpet.
Text over it reads:
Pray enjoy this tempest in a teapot, crafted of the purest tropes and set in the Age of the Rakehells, featuring:
glamour and grime of 17th century Westminster.
goofy action punctuated by primal screams of rage.
problematic characters for miles.
petticoat breeches parkour.
queer mentorship.
romantic friendship (or maybe 'tis just gay, oops).
boys who cry. a lot.
and somehow, everything turning out all right in the end.

Detail of "View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam", painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen in 1673, showing a peaceful sky over a ship with two gulls.
Text over it reads:
Alexander stood at the edge of the deck, one hand clutching the railing, the other fastened tight on the brim of his hat as he leaned out over the waves. He was not much afraid of falling in, though he had never swum anything choppier than a pond. Rather, he was afraid that his Acadian fur hat, the most expensive for sale in the shop on the Kalverstraat, might fly off his small crown and flap with its feathers all the way to water—which, like the sky, could not quite decide between blue and grey.
There was no one to see him aside from the sailors and now Klein, climbing up from below. Still, he had meticulously dressed that morning, down to every last ribbon. He’d had a very specific vision of himself when the suit was being ordered: the azure he’d picked was not just brighter than everything around him on the fluyt but even the true sky itself, and he sparkled with silver, when the wind tugged his doublet and loose breeches, and gold, when the little light managed to catch on his sword’s hilt.
It was imperative, one must understand, that he look extremely stylish doing battle, should pirates suddenly appear to satisfy his fantasies. And indeed, at fifteen, he thought himself quite the dashing young man—not the boy he was.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

To all my Jewish friends: Please know that you are very much in my thoughts.❤️

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James Armijo @abjwriter.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

@pauldavidgould.bsky.social So I've wanted to read your book for so long, but my local library didn't have it and I'm broke. BUT I FINALLY PERSUADED THEM TO BUY IT 🎊🎉

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Kaitlyn Ikumi DelaCruz @kikumi67.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Japanese-American teen Misa navigates abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family's clean image in their culturally insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up 🎌Immigrant story 🌸Coming of age 🫂Family tension ❤️First love #QuestPit #YA #OWN #Q #agentguide

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Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com · 05/11/2025

A nerdy agender experimental art gremlin and an ex-wunderkind roboticist in exile team up to find out why the local tech co is bricking robots and stealing memories, and who's sending weird dispatches from the wasteland that's supposedly empty. Then mutually pine a little. #QuestPit #W #A #SF #S

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Max Gruff @maximilliangruff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Princess Mononoke x Dunkirk Estonia. 1916. War. For her being a werewolf means living outside of oppression. His entire crew vanished while he was in prison. Haunted by an army of memories, what is submerged must be risen. Between holy Russia and the sea. This is a WIP #W #questpit #L #HR #A

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Kindred x Life on Mars A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024. 🌙muslim mcs 🗡️murder mystery 🗣️1970s british racism deepdive #questpit #Q #YA #S #HF

Alt:
AFFINITY BY HADIYAH SAMA
Pitch: Octavia Butler's Kindred meets BBC's Life on Mars in this YA historical novel with a speculative twist, about a Muslim young man who must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back into the 1970s from 2024.

Blurb: Second generation desi Imran just can't understand his traditional parents. They have a chip on their shoulder he can’t quite get with. It’s 2024 and this is England; things are different now, aren’t they?
When he's gifted with a pendant that throws him back into 1970s Britain, realises his parents' fears are not so far away. Stranded in the past with a dead body at his feet, Imran must fight to survive the way his parents did... or not at all.

Comps: Kindred – generational trauma narratives, life on mars – time travel murder mystery, all my rage - muslim MCs & community commentary, I’ll stop the world – time travel, throwback – time travel / coming of age, blinded by the light – muslim mc, coming of age.

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A MASTERY OF SELF . ݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ the year is 1938 and something isn't right . ݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ an actor has lost his true identity in the many roles he's played on screen - speculative hollywood - friends to lovers - eldritch horror that seeks to replace him #questpit #W #WIP #A #H #S #RF #T

A picture of a writing pitch in the form of Netflix UI with the title, the genres Horror and Psychological Thriller, a description, and similar recommendations in the form of comparables: The Twilight Zone, Alan Wake II, Siren Queen, and Uzumaki. The background of the UI is a red velvet movie curtain with a man's hand coming through the curtain.

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Kelton Davis is ON SUB! 🦇⚰️🤠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky. Corado's about to break all three. 🤠 Vampire Cowboys 🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes 🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities Querying soon! #A #F #W #QuestPit

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text:
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood Red Sand
109000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Soon

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image:
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
Background image: same as first slide.

Title: Pitch
Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck.

Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him.

But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all.

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samira🍉🍉🍉 @goodsamiratan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

AMARI X JUJUTSU KAISEN After stealing her first mission, 13yo Maeve opens a portal to the realm of the 7 Deadly Sins—where she must strengthen the barrier keeping them imprisoned. If only ex-friends, talking urns, and magical mazes weren’t a part of the deal too… #Questpit #MG #F #Q

Left to right:
(Left) A 13-year-old Native American/Māori boy with long curly hair tied in a ponytail. He wears tiny gold hoops in his ears. His uniform is lilac and gold. A lilac jacket with the initials MA stitched into it, a gold vest with purple lining, a gold tie, and plaid, purple pants. The tallest of the group.
(Middle) A 13-year-old Black girl with light blue hair styled into cornrows. She has multiple piercings on each ear, including two dangling crescent moons. She has a mole under her eye. She wears the same uniform as the previous boy, but her jacket is buttoned up and she wears a skirt. She has a slight gap between her two front teeth. Much shorter than the boy on the left, slightly taller than the boy on the right.
(Right) A 13-year-old Black/Filipino boy who's wearing the same uniform as the previous two. He's added a dark purple hoodie to his uniform. His dark hair is sectioned into twists. He's wearing circular, golden-rimmed sunglasses. A small, red fox is perched on his shoulders.

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide! SINNERS x IWAV Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway. #QuestPit #W #A #F

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James Armijo @abjwriter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Changed my name but it's still the same me - just a new penname

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raya 🇱🇧 @rayrx.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Lebanese ORPHEUS & EURYDICE x THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS x ONE DARK WINDOW • 1920s Lebanon • A memory-stealing plague • A girl who needs to save her family • A hesitant alliance w/ the rival village's prized musician to find a cure… …even if it ends with 1 of them in the realm below. #MENA #MV #DVPit

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R.H Aziz @reyinkbooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

BABEL x CITY OF BRASS x BOBH Hadiqa thought testing into the best Caliphate university would save her from Mongol invasion. But when scholars become war pawns she must choose: protect divine jinn knowledge but lose the empire or seize power & win but embrace darkness #DVpit #A #F #HF standalone

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Viola Grace @viola-grace.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES is an adult historical mystery set in Chicago, 1929, where a math genius living in her crime family’s luxury hotel must ally with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, all the while secretly pursuing her own revenge. #HM #A #Q Late to #dvpit but glad I made it :)

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES, 96,000 words, Adult Historical Mystery

Chicago, 1929.

Val’s life in her adoptive crime family’s hotel used to be nothing but bartending and calculating guests’ cards with her mathematical brilliance. But then her uncle Maximillian, the head of the syndicate, is killed before the hotel’s star-studded gala—and his death is identical to her secret suitor’s unsolved murder. With the chance for revenge in her grasp, Val allies with an infamous investigative duo to catch the killer.

Comps

Last Call at the Nightingale Katharine Schellman
Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley
Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building

Inspirations
The Great Gatsby
Agatha Christie
The Tower of Terror (1997)

Tropes
Roaring 20’s
Jazz Age
Speakeasies
Settings that are characters
Diverse cast
Puzzles and secret codes
High speed chases
Whodunnit
Locked room mystery
Found family

Chicago, 1929
1:34 a.m.

The man with the bowler hat was going to lose.
He looked so confident, with his slightly unbuttoned white shirt and condescending smirk. He didn’t even bother putting up the mask of a poker face to hide his prediction of the outcome. In his mind, he had already won. All that was left was to play the game.
Valentina had been watching the round for several minutes now. She twisted a rag inside a dirty glass, keeping a subtle eye on the match. She couldn’t see the man’s hand from behind the bar, but if she had calculated it correctly, there was a seventy-four percent chance that he was holding two kings and three different nine cards— a full house. With a hand like that, he was in the perfect position to win. But he was wrong. He was going to lose.
Val didn’t know this because of mathematics, however. She knew this because the man sitting across from him never played fair. Why would he? He was the owner of the joint, and if there was anything that Maximillian Eulio liked more than playing a dirty game of poker, it was getting away with it.

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