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Author Laurel Grant @laurelgrantfantasy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Hi Bluesky & #QuestPit! 🌊 What if it wasn’t curiosity that pulled the little mermaid out of the sea, but guilt? Adult crossover fantasy ⚓️ BEYOND THE MIST 🗡️ is a dark twist on the original Little Mermaid tale & is out for querying! ✨ #agentsguide #Q #A #F #amquerying

Side 1: Images surrounding “an agent’s guide to BEYOND THE MIST, Laurel Grant, adult fantasy 105k words”: female mermaid, bridge over a river, glowing hands on a tree trunk, cavern, male sailor aboard a ship, a girl running to the sea, a medallion, and a fishing shack. Side 2: coastal background. The Pitch - When fisherwoman Nerissa’s best friend is kidnapped by immortal Fae after she failed to warn her people that the kingdom’s warded Mists were evaporating, she must learn to face her guilt and fight to save her, or climb the mast herself.

Side 1: coastal city road background. The Opening: The slick burn of wine rolled down my throat as another strike of lightning flashed outside, the spark illuminating just enough to confirm what I already knew. The dark figure in the corner of the tavern was staring back. It was the senselessness of a waking dream: for an evening promising a quickening storm, the tavern was reasonably sparse … and far too quiet. Others should have noticed him. And yet, only I seemed to know that he was watching us – had been watching us. Side 2: cavern background. The Tropes: lovers betrayal, stages of grief, father & daughter bond, abandonment issues, morally grey protagonist, found family/sisterhood, he sails to save her, knight academy, the Quest, mythical creature sidekick, discovery of power, runes & ancient magic, decoding messages, healing magic

Side 1: apothecary desk background with scrolls, herbs, flowers, journals, and burlap. The Style: I yearned for that intoxication, not to save me from the nausea, but to numb the torment that relentlessly pinched my heart with every moment of Alicen’s absence. I knew I couldn’t feel anything more. It was unfamiliar. For all my life, I’d noted the absence of my mother, but I’d had no tangible sensations, no vivid memories to attach to her. Her absence was a constant; the origin. Missing her was to miss something that had never been there . . . to love a phantom, to long for the touch of nothing. When Andris had decided to leave for Fjordan, I’d feared that the same curse would befall us, and he’d join my mother in being utterly lost to me, as if he’d never been there. Though, the morning after Alicen disappeared was so much more horrifying than that. So much more vivid and surreal than I could’ve ever imagined. Suddenly, the grief over my mother that had always consumed me, that had likely been the genesis of the melancholy that had become inherently part of me, seemed merely more than a passing wind. What I felt now was a storm. Side 2: map of the Glynea continent; an island with 5 offshoot bluffs joined by bridges.

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Sabeen | Upmarket & Fantasy Fiction Author @sabeenkhanwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When Princess Inayah strikes a dalliance with the rebel Laith, she uncovers the bodies that power her modern kingdom. She must choose between justice that risks her head or loyalty that kills her soul. CHANDI: SouthAsian #A #F w/messy families, political drama, & second-chance romance. #Q #QUESTPIT

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🍃sage nightmare owen 👻 @sageowenwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Lark is at rock bottom. Betrayed, career in ruins, lying to everyone she loves… and the holiday market she’s working keeps running her into a man who smiles like he’s never met a problem. 🎄holiday romance 🔥 slow burn 🤫 secrets 😒🤠 grumpy/sunshine 🏘 small town 🌶reluctant chemistry #QuestPit #w #a #r

Mood board for Sage owen’s untitled Christmas romance novel. Includes a dark haired woman, a man in a cowboy hat, snowy small town countryside scenes, a holiday market, a piano and acoustic guitar, a woman cuddling a golden retriever, and a close up of a man and a woman’a hands loosely entwined.

Photo of an excerpt from sage owen’s untitled holiday romance WIP. Text reads:

The enormity washed over her again. Lark pressed palms to her
face. "What did you do, Neil?"
"I just told a reporter friend-under condition of anonymity," he winked like that should fucking matter, "—that there was a story there!
There's no way it'll come back to you."
"It already has! I got a call from Marshall promising me legal action
for breaking my NDA!"
"But you didn't do it." He sounded smug, like he'd found a magic
loophole.
"Guess what! If my boyfriend knew it, then I obviously did break my NDA!" which was frustrating because she'd never told Neil or anyone else, but he was smart enough to realize songs he'd heard her practicing in the apartment eventually became international hits over the last year, and she'd been singing them before the album came out.
The problem wasn't that she thought he wouldn't notice. The problem was she'd thought he loved her enough to keep his mouth shut.
The problem was she'd been stupid and trusting.

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Dallas Rose 🌹 @dallasrosebooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Now #amquerying: LEARNING FOR YOU, the teaching/karaoke romance of my heart 💜 YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER When budget cuts threaten her district, new teacher Jules must compete with her annoying(ly handsome) rival to keep her dream job—and avoid falling for him. #QuestPit #A #R

Agent pitch guide title slide: LEARNING FOR YOU, Adult Contemporary Romance

Pitch blurb: Due to impending budget cuts, high school teacher Jules Clark's dream job is already in jeopardy before it's even started. With each department set to get rid of one new hire, Jules must compete with the annoying(ly handsome) former lawyer, Adrian Pierce, to keep her place. Where she finds herself in over her head, he seems to breeze through it all. He also pops up everywhere, from heated encounters in the copy room to a tension-filled work karaoke league, culminating in an assignment to collaborate on a joint teaching unit.
As they spend more time together, Jules finds she and Adrian have a lot in common...including a simmering attraction that becomes impossible to ignore.
With one job and two of them, Jules worries their growing chemistry can only lead to resentment. Though she lets Adrian in, old fears of not being good enough consume her as the deadline looms closer.
If she lets selt-doubt take over, Jules could lose everything-not only her career, but also the love that's right in front of her.

Tropes and Vibes:

Golden retriever love interest
Workplace rivals to lovers
Karaoke league shenanigans
Complicated family dynamics
Forced proximity/collaboration
Strong female friendship

With the academic setting and workplace rivalry seen in YOU BETWEEN THE LINES, ONE ON ONE, and THE MAKEUP TEST

Hazy yellow moodboard with images of teaching, karaoke, books, and rumpled bedsheets 😏

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Morgan is Querying @morgan-writes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A new RomCom for fans of FUNNY STORY and NEXT TO YOU. Featuring: 💙 Kira Larson as the newly single emotional wreck 💙 Xavier Herrera as her ex's broody neighbor 💙 Lots of shenanigans as the lines between casual hookups, friends, or maybe a bit more start to blur #Questpit #R #A #Q

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Snacks Writes @snackswrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

MEALS ON WHEELS When your boss already owns your soul, its hard to argue for better work conditions. 🔪 unhinged protagonist 🌲 PNW vibes 👻 horror with giggles 🫦 offbeat romance Urban fantasy. Seattle backdrop. Middle aged leads. Magic. Murder. Spice. Coffee. #QUESTPIT #W #A #F #RF #PR #H

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Sara Wilkinson @swilkinsonwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

People We Meet on Vacation x When Harry Met Sally A chance encounter at a frat party starts a near decade long friendship between Nat, a pro soccer hopeful, and Matt, a future doc, that could turn into love if one of them is willing to sacrifice their lifelong dream for the other #questpit #Q #A #R

Stubborn Dreams and Bottled Love
Agents Guide

Details:

*87,000 Word Dual POV Contemporary Romance

* When Nat is waylaid by some idiots at a frat party, Matt comes to the rescue and chivalrously escorts her home despite Nat’s insistence she’s fine. They meet again in a shared class, and a friendship develops that neither sought nor particularly desired. Both are on paths shaped by childhood experiences and are loathe to change course even when their friendship deepens and threatens to turn romantic. Nat has dreams of being a professional soccer player in the hopes it will make her dad proud and entice him back into her life. Matt wants to honor his childhood best friend’s death by practicing as a pediatrician in their hometown. As they advance down their respective, solitary roads, they must decide if success is enough to make them complete if it means being without the other.

Tropes:
* Friends-to-lovers-to-friends-to lovers
* Slow Burn
* Sworn Off Love

Comps:
People We Meet on Vacation
When Harry Met Sally
Slow Dance
Every Summer After

Inspired by:
Kids in Love by Pink featuring First Aid Kit

EXCERPT:

“I’m not ready for this to end.”

Nat searched his eyes with eyes full of understanding. Too much understanding. As if she too knew this, whatever this was, had to end. Every time he held her, he wanted more from her. Something Nat couldn’t, wouldn’t give. Not yet. Maybe someday. An improbable idea, not an impossible one. Where’s there’s life, there’s hope. But that hope dwindled with each passing semester, each passing season. He wasn’t sure how much longer he could or should wait. With his all-encompassing residency starting in a few weeks and Nat playing in the Olympics later this year on top of her already grinding schedule, such hope died a slow death.

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amandakernahan.bsky.social @amandakernahan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

WILD x BEAUTIFUL BOY With the sudden death of her mother a young woman begins hiking 46 mountains, hoping to find a way to heal herself, and figure out how to save her two brothers spiraling deeper into addiction. PATCHED: MOUNTAINS, HEALING, AND THE GHOSTS WE CARRY #questpit #Q #M #A #NF

A collage of hiking photos, a woman standing and laughing in mud; a black a white mountain with trees and a path; and a woman climbing down a rustic outdoor ladder with a hiking pack on and a lake behind her.

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Maddie Block @maddieblock.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

CRYING IN H MART x I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE I'M CRYING 👩‍👧‍👧 Mother-daughter dynamics 🇰🇷 Korean adoptees 🍜 Food & travel writing 📖 History of US/Korea relations 🇺🇸 Mixed Korean/American identity 🧪 DNA test surprises WHERE THE TIGERS DIED: coming soon to agent inboxes! #W #NF #M #QuestPit

A mood board featuring hanboks, kalguksu, gukbap, and the skyline of Incheon, South Korea

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I asked for protection from my abuser & was told I had no proof. He made false claim about my miscarriage & I was arrested--also without proof. True story of being silenced by justice. #Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

Woman with black eye and tape over her mouth that says SPEAK

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Samantha Lebans @samanthalebans.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

An #agentsguide to my contemporary romance, DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST featuring: 🚗Tension-filled road trip 💉Illness rep 🌄Coastal Canadian landscape ⛴️Boat ride in costume 📝(Not) a bucket list #questpit #Q #A #R

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

$BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”$

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Thais Afonso @thaisafonso.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I'll be scrolling through #QuestPit on and off today. For those I like, and for whose pitches I already liked, please submit query and first 50 pages to: querytracker.net/query/ThaisA... ☺️

querytracker.net

Query Thais Afonso at Jennifer Azantian Literary Agency

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Crystal Lorons @crystallorons.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

AMARI x LOKI Kori, 12, finds herself stuck in a cryfest & painful menty b's after her mom dies When a meteor opens a portal, doppelgängers chase her. Kori learns their fates are bound & her grief transcends the multiverse Now, Kori must save herself — from herself! #QuestPit #MG #S #SF #Q #POC

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amandakernahan.bsky.social @amandakernahan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

WILD x BEAUTIFUL BOY 💔Grief/loss 🥾Hiking (46 Adirondack High Peaks) 🌿Nature 💉Addiction (sibling experience) 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Complex families Title- PATCHED: MOUNTAINS, HEALING, AND THE GHOSTS WE CARRY Memoir, 74000 words #questpit #Q #M #A

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Kathy Ravyn // (Still) Drafting @kathyravyn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Hello, #QuestPit! 🌲🌱 Meet Project.Greenfield, a cozy slice-of-life fantasy! ~ My passion project ~ Multiple POVs ~ Status? Drafting! (130k words so far) ~ Part of a CHUNKY series ~ Cottagecore vibes ~ Covers heavy themes, but it’s full of hope #W #F #Writing #Writesky #WritingCommunity

A moodboard featuring nine photos in a 3x3 grid shape. From left to right, top to bottom:

1. A shot from the back of a person wrapping their arm around another person. They’re both leaning on each other, while sitting down. They appear to be next to a river or pond and sitting on grass.
2. Hands holding up a flower crown.
3. A close-up of an elf-like, long pointy ear. Colorized to be almost black and white.
4. A hand holding up dirt with what appears to be parts of a plant. Below it a patch of dirt with more green plant parts can be seen.
5. A wooden sign, pointing to the right, with big letters that say, “HOPE.”
6. A hand being stuck in water. The water seems to have dirt and some debris in it. I interpret it as a river.
7. A rustic village with a winding road, lots of trees and greenery, and a cluster of houses visible on the left.
8. Two hands hovering above a green plant.
9. An assortment of five chickens sitting on a wooden fence. Greenery can be seen in the background.

(Images from Pinterest)

Blurred image of daisy flowers with text on top of it:

Project.Greenfield Playlist:

1. Favorite Place (Humbear)
2. Somewhere Only We Know (Keane)
3. Sunflower (Amber Run)
4. Always Home (Leucadia)
5. Woodland (The Paper Kites)
6. Wolves of Worry (Chance Pena)
7. Waking Up (Sam Burchfield)
8. To Build A Home (The Cinematic Orchestra)

Short Pitch:

Set in a war-torn country. An orphaned boy and his older brother feel like everyday is a struggle and a reminder of what they lost. Until one day, when they get the opportunity to move to Greenfield — a small, rustic village on the outskirts of the country and a chance at a real home.

There, the boy meets Sam — a mysterious, closed-off girl with pointy ears. Together the two kids realize that facing their internal fears might not be so scary if they don’t have to do it alone.

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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM is what you’d get if Ali Hazelwood turned National Treasure 2 into a romance novel. ⚔️Smithsonian x Library of Congress feud 📜Secret alliance 💃Rivals-to-lovers 📚Hunt for Jefferson’s lost library 🧠Mental health rep #questpit #Q #A #R

Alt-text: Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM: A Contemporary Romance

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: After losing out on her dream job as a research librarian at the Library of Congress, Kathleen Gallagher is done chasing things. Not jobs, not boyfriends, not Beyoncé tickets. So when her meddling mentor lands her a consulting job hunting the missing volumes from the Library of Congress’s original collection, Kathleen takes the gig only to avoid disappointing him yet again. Never mind his hints that this might be her ticket out of self-imposed exile at a boring industry job in Chicago; Kathleen plans to work just hard enough to prove that the books are lost for good.

Across the National Mall at the Library of Congress’s archival arch-rival, Smithsonian historian Dr. Grant Ordoñez vows to find the missing books first. As the eldest son of a mixed-status immigrant family, Grant is used to playing catch-up. He’s confident he can outpace an entitled librarian who doesn’t even have a PhD and seems immune to the concept of actual work.

But when Grant’s interference forces Kathleen to actually do her job, banter between the stacks and late nights together at the National Archives lead to a romance better than the revenge Grant was chasing. Meanwhile, Kathleen confronts the life she could have had if she hadn’t given up on her dream job—and her growing feelings for the wry, loyal historian who shows her. With each book found bringing Kathleen’s contract in D.C. closer to an end, Kathleen must decide if leaving her comfortable exile for a second shot at her dream is worth risking another humiliating failure and whether opening her heart to Grant is worth the risk he could break it.

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: I’m halfway across the room when Grant speaks again. “Hey Kathleen, how tall are you?”
“Five foot six,” I say automatically. Then I stop and turn around. “Wait, why? How tall are you?”
“Five-eleven,” he says.
“If you were actually five-eleven, you’d round up to six feet,” I challenge.
“That’s small-minded of you.” He lowers his laptop screen. There’s a smile playing around his mouth. “I prefer to play the long game and round down to five-ten. Make the other five-elevens sweat a little.”
I laugh. “That’s surprisingly diabolical. And you still haven’t answered my question.”
Grant looks pointedly at the books in my arms and thumbs something into his phone. “I just want to be sure I’m giving the U.S. Marshals an accurate description of the midnight book thief.”
“Oh my god, it’s not even six o’clock in the evening.”
He peers around the desk hutch at me. “‘But wearing high heels, so… five foot nine?”

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!) Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe? #QuestPit #YA #MY #R #AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Drama Mystery with Romance
94k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

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abbyshawauthor.bsky.social @abbyshawauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Hi #questpit! Introducing my travel-themed contemporary women’s fiction with strong romance crossover, THE SINGLE ERA 👀Angsty love triangle 🫦Enemies-to-lovers 🔥Slow burn 👫Friends-to-lovers 🚩Red flags 🐶Golden Retriever boys #agentsguide #Q #A #WF #R

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage. A plea bargain was my only way out. A world where women can be punished for what goes on with their bodies is a very scary place. It only gets worse. #Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

Newspaper headlines read: Sederwall pleads guilty to concealing death

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Heather is ✨drafting✨ @htwriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Cassandra receives an invitation to Alyria Academy. Upon her arrival, everything seems normal until one of her classmates disappears. She must figure out the secrets that lie within Alyria’s walls otherwise life as she knows it will be lost. #questpit #w #ya #m #r #author

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Darya is querying @aryazare.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A DEVOTION SO RUINOUS is a 90K adult fantasy following Soraya, a young woman tormented by a jinn, a dictator, and her first love, as she fights for freedom 🏳️‍🌈 LGBT characters 🧠 Mental Health Rep 🌍 Middle Eastern Setting ✨ Gods Based Magic System ❤️ Lovers To Enemies #️⃣ Own Voices #QuestPit #Q #F #A

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brittney is agented!🔮✨ @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

FUNNY STORY X YOUNG & HUNGRY If you like your romance to feel like a Taylor Swift song, with feet-kicking banter and crackling chemistry, GOOD BOYS ONLY is for you! A dual POV, plus-size rom-com, where the dogs behave better than the exes 💚🐾 #QuestPit #Q #A #R

Playlist & Vibes for Good Boys Only, an 89,000-word,dual-pov adult plus-size romcom on a split green background, with stock images of two characters, two dogs, a kitchen, and laser tag

First page sample of GOOD BOYS ONLY with stock cut-out images of a plus-size woman and a tattooed man. Polaroid's of tattooed hand holding, a corgi + golden retriever, Red Wings game. TEXT: CHAPTER 1
Sydney
Sunday, August 4th

Much like my life, my apartment is going up in smoke.
I choke on the black cloud billowing from the oven. My gourmet dino nuggets have turned to fossils. “Oh, fuck me,” I groan.
Lava-like heat bites through my oven mitt, and I drop the sheet pan on the stovetop. Shrill barks echo in tandem with the smoke alarm that’s now going off, piercing my ears like it’s in surround sound, live from Hell. Lovely.
“Piper, Phoebe, get back! I’m trying to save you!” I shoo the orange Pomeranians away from the radiating heat. Dog sitting was supposed to be an easy way to get out of this shithole apartment, not burn it down. Even if I dream about lighting it up most days.
But the aggressive “Past Due” rent letter taped to my door this morning is on the counter, taunting me, like some sick adult version of a haunted house. “Thanks, Devin,” I spit into the ether, as if he can hear me from Chicago. And a big thanks to me, too, for treating my credit cards like Monopoly money.
Flicking on the exhaust fan to clear my galley kitchen, I take a misguided deep breath, the cremated dinosaurs sending me into another coughing fit. In a fight for my life, I snag my Getting Figgy With It towel off of the oven door and wave it pathetically below the alarm.

Good Boys Only, Syd & Owen's Playlist. On a split light/dark green background with images of the albums. Songs: Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift, Am I Okay? by Megan Moroney, Overwhelming by Jon Bellion, Drunk on Your Love by Brett Eldredge, superglue by Christian French, Just Friends by Virginia to Vegas, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, Know You Naked by LANY, Mine by Bazzi, and Chemicals React by Aly & AJ

Pinterest-style image board on a sage green background with images of tattooed hand holding, laser tag, a plus-sized woman, an airplane, a corgi + golden retriever, a Red Wings game, a green kitchen, a tattooed man, and pottery. Text includes: both tatted, #lgrw, and the boys (under the dogs)

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Abby | Writer @abbyschiano.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

OUTER BANKS X MY FRIENDS BY FREDRIK BACKMAN - Small beach town - Found-family - Three male main characters - Overcoming loss - Secrets & lies - Queer love - Alternating POVs Upmarket Fiction | 75k words 🌊 #questpit #q #a

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Bee 🐝 has a BOOK DEAL! @beemorris.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Introducing ✨ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE✨ #QuestPit #AgentsGuide #Q Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & chasing down a serial killer... 🌊 ghosts by the coast 🏡 dead roommate 👻 possessions & poltergeists 🐈 psychic cat lady 🧠 autistic FMC 🏳️‍🌈 queer & trans rep

Book Title: Alice & The Afterlife. 75,000 words, paranormal mystery, new adult. A background of a graveyard with a cute image of a cartoon ghost.

Background of the seaside. Pitch reads: Alice can see ghosts. She’d really rather not.

After a public breakdown (and two-year stint in a “wellness” facility) Alice Windsor moves to the coast for some peace and quiet. Spoiler alert: she doesn’t get it.

Enter Rani – a stubborn cleaner who offers Alice a job cleaning houses, exercising ghosts and solving her twin brother’s murder.

But when rumours of a serial killer start swirling, and a vicious ghost from the past resurfaces, Alice must embrace her abilities or risk becoming a ghost herself...

Comp titles. Images include covers of popular media including: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, The Cemetery Boys, The Sixth Sense, Ghostbusters, Sunshine Cleaning and Maid

Themes page. Themes include: serial killer myster, haunted house hijinks, queer & trans rep, autistic heroine, found family, "i see dead people" (but make it funny), and "my dead roommate doesn't pay rent." There is also a quote from the first line of the book that reads: "There is a dead man sitting at my kitchen table."

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amandakernahan.bsky.social @amandakernahan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

WILD x BEAUTIFUL BOY 💔Grief/loss 🥾Hiking (46 mountains) 🌲 Nature 💉Addiction (sibling perspective) 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Complex families 🚓Incarceration Title- PATCHED: MOUNTAINS, HEALING, AND THE GHOSTS WE CARRY Memoir- 74000 words #questpit #Q #M #A

Collage, top left picture of woman kissing a man on the cheek standing at the top of a mountain in front of a sign “el.4867ft. 1483.5m. WHITFACE MT.” Next to picture of a patch that says ADK 46r. Below is a photo of a woman sitting on the forest floor with pieces of her disappearing in the wind. A larger photo to the right shows a casket with flowers in black and white. Below on the left is a small photo of a woman with a hat and hiking pack climbing backward down a ladder with a lake behind her. Below is a woman standing in mud and a forest with purple leggings and a black crop top and hat with a hiking bag, she is laughing, hands and boots are covered in mud. To the right are three photos, large one is a wide shot of a man standing on a mountain ledge looking out on the view of trees and mountains in the distance. Below are two smaller photos, one with barbed wire above a fence in black and white, the bottom right corner is a hand holding a stack of Polaroid photos.

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