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Anindo Zelle @anindozelle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beauty and the Beast X Achilles-like Kenyan legend Paramount chief Sadaka enters into an arranged marriage with an enemy prince to uncover the secret of how to defeat his kind, only to fall in (doomed) love with the man behind the beast she’s been taught to fear. #DVpit #A #F #BVM #ND #POC #WOC

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Anindo Zelle @anindozelle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Would you keep reading? I only made it a week before jumping into editing MonsterWIP. I’m just so very excited about this story! The #querytrenches are depressing and heartbreaking and I’m so relieved to find joy in writing and creating again. #fantasywriter #romantasy #writingcommunity

Excerpt from a WIP

once in a hundred years, five hundred years, a thousand years, when the moon swells crimson, past the world's dark prison, when the wild sea stills its roar, turns to glass from shore to shore, they who sit upon First Bone, the Gonyapep's Head are shown.
- From Mizani the Wayfinder, as told by Iyereshan sailors
CHAPTER 1
BEYOND THE WARDS
Raphtara's wards end at its walls. Beyond them, the old world waits, wild and unprotected. Pushing my scooter through
empty streets, I leave the city sleeping beneath its protective bubble while the night's idleness still provides cover for clandestine endeavors. Above me, the moon is swollen red, the sky darkening around it. Stars glimmer bright in the great expanse like moya crystals scattered across black silk.

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Anindo Zelle @anindozelle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yesterday I completed the discovery draft of MonstersWIP (anti-imperial / revolutionary romantasy featuring legions of literal & figurative monsters) at ~60K words. This was my #querying distraction project.

A dark fantasy-romance graphic featuring close-up images of a Black woman and a bearded man separated by shattered-glass effects and diagonal panels, with red blood splatters throughout. The woman has white decorative paint on her face and an intense expression; the man appears rugged and partially obscured. Overlaid text reads: “SHE’S THE EMPIRE’S WEAPON / HE’S ITS IMPERFECT MONSTER / TOGETHER, THEY’LL BRING IT DOWN.”

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Looking for a new job? Exciting opportunities for travel to exotic places like Cleveland, Ohio? Running away from past mistakes? Met a man in a bar with curly blonde hair who seemed like an absolute angel? Do we have plans for you. 😈 #BluePit #📖 #W #A #F #LGBT #WriteSky

A recruitment poster with an orange background with corporate geometric designs in red.

The words "Go To Hell" followed by "We're Hiring" are laid over a red pentagram.

At the bottom a winking cartoon business man has a shadow with wings and horns behind him and the bottom corners of the poster are wreathed in fire.

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J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

AMARI X ANDOR ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, 12yo Catcher Kline must master spell-hacked spycraft to find his missing parents and stop the Acolytes from weaponizing the star metal minerals that power all magic.  #Bluepit #MG #F #Querying Art collab @giaphoc.bsky.social

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Zeke Caliban @zekecaliban.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

BLOW ME DOWN - A Queer Pirate Sex Adventure! Can Tack, Mighty Magic Crossdressing Pirate, and his crew of willing widows find the Treasures and seal away the Dark Water with the help of a feather-obsessed cartographer and a frustrated merman prince? #BluePit #📖 #W #A #F #R #LGBT #WriteSky #Erotica

A book cover with arrows pointing to it with text over a dark background of pirate gear on a table

The book cover:

A dark leather book cover.
Blow Me Down
A Tale of Dark Water

A dripping wet skull above a cross sword and quill pen.

A novel by Zeke Caliban

The arrows:
- A magical sex adventure to seal away the hate that destroyed the world
- All female crew of “Damsels” widowed at their request
- Asexual
Romantic Lead
- Tickling, Chastity, Denial, Tentacles
- Queer Rage, Love, and Kink
- Magic Poison Chastity Curse Water
- Meet Tack,
Magic Pirate,
Crossdresser,
Accomplished Murderer of Slave Traders and Husbands
- Be Gay, Do Crimes, Have LOTS of Sex
- Pirates of Dark Water Inspired World

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

SILVER ELITE x TELL ME AN ENDING MEMORY DEVOURS HER 96k Adult Romantic Dystopian 🚫 Emotion as error 👾 The haunting is digital 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action 🖤 Love from complicit guilt RevPit Shortlist PosterPitAward 2nd #BluePit #A #Q #SF #SP #R #Dystopian

An Agent's Guide to
MEMORY
DEVOURS
HER
By Cassie Wallin
Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi + Central Love Story

The Pitch
She erased memories, until memory remembered her.
Nova excels at removing from citizens' memories what she hides in herself: excess feeling. Ordered to erase her mentor's whole mind, Nova's grief unleashes a phantom remembering all she's erased.
Haunted by its past and hunted by a devoted enforcer sent to bury it, Nova must forget for a shot to belong or remember and spark the fire that could burn her world down.
MEMORY DEVOURS HER

Hard-Won
LOve
Memory
Grief
COMPS
Corporate
Ritual
Menace
A TURA VINES BES
SILVER ELITE
DANI FRANCIS
Dystopian
Mission
Propulsion
TELL ME
AN
ENDING
JO HARKIN
tv+
Severance
Horror of Forgotten
Complicity -
Wounds
MEMORY DEVOURS HER
tv+
SILO
Lost
History

MOOD
White building tower man facing away, glitching man, dystopian supplies, fire, woods, woman
MEMORY DEVOURS HER

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Hilary Scarlett White @gohilary.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

THE ISLAND OF SYCORAX = CIRCE X THE CRUEL PRINCE Pregnant, half-witch Sycorax is exiled to a deserted island. An island with a grudge. 📚Classic retelling ☕️Cozy fantasy 🦸‍♀️Female power 🧚‍♂️Fae 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Found family 💕Slow burn romance 🥷One vengeful island #BluePit #Q #A #F #WF #📖 #WriteSky #Writers

A mystical large blue face with gold eyes looms over the three lower images of a witchy woman holding a glowing orb, the book's title SYCORAX and an island in the mist.

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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Lunaria Witch A RIVER ENCHANTED ❌ PRACTICAL MAGIC ✨ ND REP ❤️ Yearning over spice 🧙‍♀️ Character driven fantasy 👄 Lush prose & world building 👯‍♀️ Found family & sisterhood 💃🏻 Journey to self acceptance #bluepit #f #r #Q #na #a #ownvoices

Background- Night sky, full moon, ferns, herbs, feathers
The title of the book is “The Lunaria Witch”

The blurb
In a land where rumours of magic can have fatal consequences, hurricane minded Tallitha has always sought to hide her differences and deny whatever she cannot explain. But when the moon begins calling e from sleep and memories surface that do not belong to her, the time for denial is over and Tallitha’s life will change is ways she never could have predicted

Meta data
110k - NA/A - Fantasy romance - ND rep
When magic blooms in outcast Tallitha she must flee to a mysterious place of safety to escape the wrath of witchkind hunter Skara Draegar. Led by a charismatic yet secretive guide, Tallitha’s is thrust into a world of deadly secrets, ancient power and covert rebellion. But who take up her place within it and conquer those who seek to destroy her, she must first face her own demons to unlock her power and her potential

Themes
Internalised ableism, found family, yearning, he falls first, prejudice, elemental magic, self acceptance & slow burn romance

The comps

Lush prose and world building - A river enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Blend of fantasy and folklore - Now she is Witch by Kirsty Logan
ND rep and enchanting magic - Emily Wildes encyclopaedia of faeries - Heather Fawcett
Deep connection and yearning - A discovery of witches - Deborah Harkness

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When his elf-supremacist cousin returns from banishment, anxious Letyf joins a quest to stop a war on humans. In his way? A chaotic, multiversal woman bound to the enemy, with a reputation to uphold. ⚔️ Battles 🧠 Anxiety rep 🗡️ Unhinged FMCs 🤝 Enemies to Allies 💙 Found Family #BluePit #F #A #Q #📖

"An Agent's Guide to Web Traveler, Adult High Fantasy, Dual POV, 129,000 words." A collage of images set against a backdrop of a misty forest. The central images feature a worried blond man, looking away from the camera, a serious woman with dark hair looking into the camera, and a realistic engraved set of armor. The top image features armored soldiers attacking a large city. To the left, are two text clips, bookending a drawing of travelers in a sunny forest. The top text clip says: "Letyf realized all at once that he'd never seen anyone die before. A thousand thoughts raced in his mind, but they were like arguing in another room, muffled through walls." The bottom text clip says" "And what if your paths cross again?" "Well, if possible, and if my master commands, I'll kill him."" Below the images is a tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 13/07/2026

Which Way To Real? Severance x Hitchhiker's His wife leaving is bad enough, but rhinos driving SUVs, friendly Girl Scouts with right hooks instead of cookies & his high school nemesis speaking through his boss’s mouth? Charlie is off on a demented road trip to save all of reality. #F #W #bluepit #📖

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Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜 @celticxpanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

SILVER IN THE BONE X ONCE AND FUTURE QUEEN 👑 Reincarnated King Arthur, but make it Magical Girl ⚔️ Epic battles with magical weapons a-plenty 💋 Slow burn romance with extra pining 🌈 Queer Friendships 🌩️ All Myths are Real, and they're coming to kick Mordred's ass #BluePit #📖 #Q #F #LGBT

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cjwrites477.bsky.social @cjwrites477.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Vidmyrkr collects men the way he collects treasure- including a Roman soldier, Viking warriors & a monk Sigrun has one month to convince him she's worth more than gold. 🐉🔥💗⚔️ THE MAIDEN AND THE ENDLESS DARKNESS 93k word historical romantasy Slow-burn #bluepit #📖 #Q #A #F #R #HS #AmQuerying

Sigrun’s people are under attack. Desperate for protection, Sigrun’s uncle seeks the aid of a dragon. When the king fails to raise the dragon’s tribute and the negotiations crumble around them, Sigrun steps in with her own offer – she will serve as the dragon’s storyteller in exchange for her people’s protection.
The beautiful yet terrifying Lord of the Endless Darkness gives Sigrun one month to prove she’s worth more than gold. At night, the primordial beast hangs on her words, claiming there’s magic in her tongue. By day, she tends to his village, watched over by Audun, the dragon’s second-in-command. Audun is as fascinating as he is arrogant and Sigrun can’t suppress her growing hope that his attention is more than evaluating her on the dragon’s behalf.
But those burgeoning hopes come crashing down when ...
Historical Romantasy set in 9th Century Scandinavia
complete at 93k words
Stand alone with series potential
subverting the maiden and dragon trope
interwoven with mythology and folk tales
slow burn romance
competent heroine & respectful love interest
community and found family
Comp titles: Road of Bones by Demi Winters, The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

“If I’m not banished, then what am I supposed to do?” she asked, stirring the liquid.
“That is up to you. I’m just the chronicler, you’re the storyteller.”
“You know about that?” she asked, surprised.
He gestured to a shelf. “Bring me the red tome.”
Winfrid flipped to the last completed page while Sigrun watched over his shoulder. In the margin, entwined with ivy and gold leaf, he had painted a maiden in a crimson dress. She stood beneath a stone arch, her golden braid spiraling down into the jaws of a dragon curled at the bottom of the page. The little figure held her arms upward, the fine curve of her mouth open as though calling out.
Sigrun touched the little version of herself, tracing the braid. To think, she had spent the afternoon making the ink that might someday record her fate.
Illustrated manuscript with text:
n the seventh day of the fifth month in the 849th year of Our Lord, King Dagfall of Skarthbyr sent a missive offering a cart of gold for the dragon’s aide. When the dragon arrived to claim his due, the deceitful king offered his own niece
in the treasurer’s place. Th dragon refused, disgusted that the king would sell his flesh and blood.
But then the maiden spoke, and as she did fate yielded to her tongue. She begged one month to prove her worth. Intrigued the dragon allowed it. And thus did the storyteller enter the dragon’s service.

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Fox Rivera (she/her) @talesofavixen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Life In The Lampblack" is a Gothic tale of a street thief embroiled in revenge against a mad puppeteer who cares not for life, only for progress. To stop her, Mercédès must learn to control her own dark hunger or risk it consuming what little of her remains. #Bluepit #📖 #Q #H #F #A #LGBT #TR #OV

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Jamie Rae Allan @jamieraeallan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ANNIHILATION x LAST OF US Riley Park is losing her mind. When an alien parasite awakens inside her, Riley finds herself hunted by cosmic predators seeking one of their own. - 🏳️‍⚧️ protagonist - Twin protagonists - Dual POV - Found family #bluepit #A #TR #Q #OV #📖

A young woman stares at the ground with a mountain in the background.

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Coming this October! 🕸️ Vision our evolution An empath leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US to bring home a 🗝️ to peace to save her people, using meditation powers, earth based survival, and community ARC readers invited @ end of month 🌱🌞 #Bluepit #📖 #NA #A #YA #F #sp #hopepunk #Clifi

a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp

climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
climate change
climate adaptation
major arcana
#tarotsky
#tarot

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?

Seven generations after collapse, oceans have reclaimed coasts and civilization’s remains are rotting back to the earth. Extreme climate and violent humans threaten a peaceful community hidden in the Green Mountains.
Niwa, a gifted yet timid young empath-scholar, is prompted by group vision to lead a perilous and mystical quest to retrieve a rumored key to peace. Using unique psychic gifts, archaic technology, and nature-based survival skills, Niwaju’s group traverses a depopulated but healing landscape to save their people from impending doom.
The travelers draw upon their survival skills, varying levels of control over their own unique psychic gifts, and residual tech artifacts, encountering diverse, unique characters on crumbling highways and swollen rivers through the mountains of Appalachia, moody swamplands of “New New Orleans”, and the Rocky Mountains.
As she finds her inner resilience, Niwa’s mission becomes about more than saving her People from destruction; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
Incorporating mindfulness, sustainability, earth based magic, and wilderness skills, this tarot-themed journey offers a vision of hope, transformation, and growth in a narrative adventure guide to thriving civilization’s aftermath, with surprising twists.

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

💀 A girl is marked for death, but which? ⚔️ Twin sisters in opposing factions, so was it betrayal? 🧩 Pilots of magical mech must escape for the truth 🤝 They can only do so while dancing together, but can childhood friends Nadiya and Amalea connect before it's too late? #W #📖 #LGBT #YA #F #BluePit

9 moodboard concepts for "sisters of the light upon the moon, unsung." nadiya with ocean-like water surrounding her in the first square, spilt red roses on concrete on the second, a fencer with a mask and a sword swishing right toward the roses on the third, a meteor shower with the words 'something unspoken' on the fourth, an asian girl with staring at a rainbowy red light arc by the river while at a higher part of the town on the fifth, red lamps in the sixth, a dark shadowed silhoutte flinging back and looking up toward the red evening's moon in the seventh, a sunset-lit ocean on the eigth, and an emo or gothic asian girl staring with a haunted gaze and eerie pillars with rainbow static and large purple flower petals on the eight.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

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Daniel_Obal @obal-writes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A Benin prince dream-walks to a cursed city where the girl he loves remembers every lifetime they've shared,and every death he's forgotten. To break the curse, he must outlast the journey across the realms in flesh and survive the god who keeps killing him. #bluepit #📖 #Q #F #R #A

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

AN ARTISTIC DECEPTION (102k) Set in a seaside castle-in-the-sky, meet WITCH HAT ATELIER X SIX OF CROWS #OV #LGBT #F ✨Cross-genre appeal like The Raven Scholar ✨ epic fantasy x high-stakes mystery ✨ Elizabeth/Darcy-inspired twist ✨ fake dating like Arcana Academy #BluePit #📖 #Q #DIS #POC #ND

Agni, a 22-year-old indentured assassin, enters a fake courtship with Fala, a bastard knight with a savior complex, while fulfilling their state-mandated tour of duty at the Enchantrix College of Artistic Warfare. They team up to survive a dangerous competition for a prize neither can afford to lose while Agni’s buried past as Priestess of a destroyed nation threatens to rise again.

To protect the future she's built—and the woman she's falling for—Agni must decide whether to remain hidden or face the prophecy before fate demands its sacrifice a second time.

Visuals of the characters with Agni saying “ain’t no war like the class war” and Fala saying “women want me fish fear me” assassin x lady knight

Romantasy - Arcana Academy
Ensemble Cast - Six of Crows
Deadly Magic School - A Deadly Education
Visual World Inspiration - Witch Hat Atelier
Right Person, Wrong Time, Frieren
Reimagined Fantasy Races, Delicious in Dungeon

Fun facts about the author Ama Lee

i was the first person from a state-recognized native american tribe to graduate from harvard. ( what? like it’s hard? 😉 )

i was diagnosed with hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome because i read “fourth wing” and the fmc had the same struggles as me.

my plan is to one day cosplay all of my characters. so far i have made 3 (Agni, Fala, and lisane.)

i am a lesbian and put my fiancee in my book.

i strongly believe that fantasy is best at its most inclusive and my writing aims to prove this.

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Witnessers of the Unknown: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X ALICE ISN'T DEAD #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF #SP #TR #OV #LGBT #bluepit When a healer flees his mother's cult, he joins a paranormal forum moderator who caught a meteorite on a road trip: they head to a UFO festival...until the cult closes in. #amquerying

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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 is Querying 🙏🕯️📿 @sashakielman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Fighting mental and chronic illnesses and trauma while being heirs to thrones is burdensome enough. But for powerful witches Kazmera and Edan, learning to trust each other despite their arranged marriage, peoples’ enmity, and an impending war is the true test. #BluePit 📖 #A #F #OWN #DIS #LGBT

A trope map graphic for BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON by Sasha Kielman, featuring art by @winterofherdiscontent. A black background with art positioned as the book cover. White and golden yellow text and arrows pointing to: enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, elemental magic, slide to pitch, adult romantasy (95,000 words), mental and chronic illness and queer representation.

BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON Forced into an arranged marriage as a fragile peace treaty, two powerful witches must learn to trust each other in order to prevent war across their Realms. But will their love be enough to stop a war? Perfect for fans of The Hurricane Wars and The Bridge Kingdom, BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON is a critique of authoritarianism and a demonstration of the power of love in all its forms, recognizing that while not all illnesses can be healed, they can be managed with care. @SashaKielman

A Canva graphic with gray smoke on a black background and white text.
If you like...
Fairyloot cover of the Hurricane Wars, original cover of the Bridge Kingdom
then try...
Art for Between the Sun and Moon by Sasha Kielman by winterofherdiscontent
@SashaKielman

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Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

She was born to rule👸 He trained to burn🔥 The world will be devoured⚔️ Nothing‘s safe from the wrath of the sea🧜‍♀️ 👸ambitious FMC w/ a soft❤️ 🫅brooding LI who’s protective of his siblings 💘fake courting 💔forbidden love 🗡️sibling rivalry 🖤slow-burn hate-2-love books2read.com/Aaryana1 #BluePit #📖 #F #P

Moodboard with seven images and title along the bottom: Heir to the Throne Series. Image 1 is of a young man who appears to have huge angel-wings and a fire burning in the background. Image 2 is a scene of a ship that seems to have crashed against the rocks edging the sea. Image 3 is of a young woman with her arms around a young man. Image 4 depicts a young woman wearing an elaborate gold headpiece studded with blue crystals. Image 5 is of a young woman holding a sword and plummeting in the ocean. Image 6 depicts the outside of a beautiful castle, a huge moon in the sky, and a young woman in a black gown staring at the stars in the sky. The final image is of two ships caught in a storm at sea.

Moodboard titled Aaryana (FMC’s name) with a subheading along the bottom: Heir to the Throne Series. Image 1 is of a young woman wearing a blue hooded cloak and holding two swords. Image 2 is a young woman in metal armour, holding a large shield and getting ready to strike with the sword in her other hand. Image 3 is of a young woman in an arena dressed in black and ready to duel. The final image depicts a young woman wearing an elaborate gold headpiece studded with blue crystals.

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Barrows @barrows.itch.io · 13/07/2026

FIRST LIGHT: A girlfailure, an agender scoundrel, a gynoid that talks like a self-checkout machine, and an elderly technoshaman walk into an abandoned spaceship. At some point, aliens show up. The punchline is that they make it work. #BluePit #📖 #SF #NA #P #ND #LGBT

Event Horizon, First Light, Book 1
25.000 words
New Adult
Sci-fi Adventure, Space Opera
Standalone but Serialized
Inspired by Golden Age sci-fi and 90's Star Trek

EVENT HORIZON: THE SYNOPSIS

The year is 2568, and humanity has spread itself thin and wide across the galaxy.
Less than half a century has passed since the Paradigm Shift, the cataclysmic event that caused the collapse of all large-scale galactic governments--and left thousands of worlds to their own devices. In the ashes of these Empires, the unexpected happened: Humanity rebuilt, and it rebuilt better.

It is now 50 years into humanity's Golden Age. A refugee named Yana finds her new, post-scarcity home just as asphyxiating as the ruins of her homeworld. Though all her needs are met, a deep discontentment still brews, despite all attempts to keep it at bay by focusing on her work as an epidemiologist, her pet amoeba, and a quickly crumbling social life.

The situation changes when Yana is accidentally recruited into the Galaxy's foremost peacekeeping organization, and realizes it might hold the answers she seeks.

Now, with her last shot at happiness on the line, she must either prove her worth to her new employers, or lose all her prospects--for good.

EVENT HORIZON: THE EXCERPTS

"In the third deck of the Nomadic Exploration Volunteers’ scout ship Radiant, Yana sat in a waiting room and considered all the decisions that had led her to this point.
The old vessel had been quick to work its strange magic on her. From the moment she stepped through the umbilical, a whole new world had welcomed her. A world of history—not the almost desperate remembrances of the Habitat’s Bellerophons and Devapalas and Anansis, not the things that were easy or empowering to remember, but real history, immediate history, written in dents and plasma burns and long sinuous scars in the fuselage. It reminded Yana of something she hadn’t seen in a long time—something she’d escaped, but had come to find herself missing, as if some part of her had craved the simplicity of hardship."

"She was standing on a flat platform lined with street lights, floating, island-like, in the darkness; next to her were Rook, and Six, and no-one else. A pipe hung from the unseen ceiling and gently touched down, the now inert transport pod cradled by its curvature. All else was amorphous, suggested though air vibrations and distant, echoing screeches.
Storage, the voice had said. Yana knew what the word truly meant. Every station, sooner or later, developed such places. They were the bowels of their artificial worlds, the layers between Layers, the unlit hollows where the extraneous and the unclaimed gathered out of sight and mind."

EVENT HORIZON: THE CONTENT

Found family
Identity and expression
Self-discovery
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
Trauma and Healing
Strange New Worlds
The Start of a Saga

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

SWORDHEART x BOTW “It’s the dawn of the end of the world, and Emrys is having the worst day imaginable.” 🏰 ruins & tales 📜 forgotten prophecy 🤲 gentle protagonist 💚 romance subplot 🍃 nature setting ⚔️ BOTW vibes 🏹 nostalgic atmosphere #BluePit #📖 #A #F #W #DIS #ND

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #BluePit #📖 #A #H #W #DIS #OWN #ND

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #BluePit #📖 #A #F #R #W #Q #ND #DIS

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

MAL is the former holy king. AGAPIOS is the sun god who lives in his head. When Agapios vanishes, Mal returns to the home he abandoned to find him before his disappearance rids the world of its chance to break free from an endless winter. CH.1 of THE EVERWINTER KING #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #F #LGBT #DIS

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#BluePit #A #F #Q #ND #📖 ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now! 🎵 (sound on)🎶

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Wicker Man x Strike A celebrity author builds a Stonehenge replica in his garden, unleashing Roman paganism onto an uptight, middle-class English town. Two journalists race to discover the cause, before the Winter Solstice raises up old gods and bloody sacrificial rites. #BluePit #W #A #H #📖

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Slow Horses x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird Science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖 #agentguide #litagents

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

An intelligence agent from 2023 and a Russian spy from 1997 travel to 1972 to steal Britain's time travel secrets. When they collide with a sceptical but astute MI5 officer, the result is a temporal explosion that pushes The Cold War into new, lethally uncharted territory. #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING is an adult fantasy standalone. It's a story of homecoming, second chances, and not succumbing to the voice in your head that says you aren’t good enough. #BluePit #📖 #A #F #Q #LGBT #DIS #OV Credit to caracastro on Insta for the format!

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L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 😴👑YA sleeping beauty reimagining w/ deaf rep 🗡️Zella's on a mission to kill the queen who cursed her 🏃Callum's hot on her heels 🎶Zella compels her enemies with her entrancing singing voice 🤟Callum can't hear her song #bluepit #Q #F #YA #📖 #R

"The Blood of Zellandine Agent's Guide" Background is a skull in wildflowers, a beach campfire, a set of medieval helmets and weapons, a cottage roof, hands bound with rope, dark leaves, a stag, and a castle window. This is the background of every picture in this post.

The Pitch: After waking from a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic.

The Details: a YA sleeping beauty reimagining 89,000 words: grumpy / sunshine, goblins, monsters, & fae, deaf MMC + ASL, Tangled-coded, themes of self-forgiveness & autonomy, light horror elements, animal companion, forced proximity, only one blanket, hope-filled

Comps: Heartless Hunter, Never Ever After, For the Wolf: forced proximity, dual-pov, enchanted forest, fairytale reimagining

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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Shadows: Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi x Foundryside A middle-aged shopkeeper & retired magical con artist takes one last job to save store & family. She could end the corrupt power of the Skyborn mages. She could end up losing herself, her magic & all she holds dear. #W #F #LGBT #📖 #bluepit

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Allen Kline @allenkline.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A grieving teen finds solace from his mother’s vengeful ghost in the form of an enigmatic stranger, only to realize their toxic codependency is drawing him further from his remaining family and his grip on reality. When Haru Was Here x Don’t Let The Forest In #BluePit #📖 #YA #H #Q #ND #LGBT

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF #SP #TR #OV #LGBT #ND #bluepit When a trans faith healer flees his mother's cult, he joins forces with a paranormal forum moderator who caught a meteorite as they head to a UFO festival...until the cult closes in to capture their Chosen One. #amquerying

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#BluePit #A #F #Q #ND #📖 ASHMARKED: When the systems you trust use your consent for evil... 🔥You burn it all down🔥 🤣 Comedic Best Friend 💕 Slow Burn Romance 🙈 Corrupt Institution 🩸 Just Like... Lots of Blood 😇/👿 Subverted Chosen One Querying now!

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Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️ @n-a-writes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

❌️❌️❌️ CULLING The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet x The Expanse x Mass Effect 💥A planet destroyed 🔇A suspicious coverup 💀An impossible enemy 🚀A Crew of rejects & criminals Will the get the job done before the galaxy's time runs out? #BluePit #📖 #A #SF #Q #LGBT #ND #POC

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

WEDDING PEOPLE x MARGOS GOT MONEY TRBLS 📚 librarian / camgirl 🖊️ buttoned up boss LI 🚫 book banning b plot 🔥 slow burn 🍬 gummy bears to cope 💄 lipgloss names = playlist #bluepit📖 #📖 #A #R #Con #Q #bluepit

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SHAMELESSLY WANTING
90k words
Upmarket contemporary w/ romantic arc
By, Frankie Joy

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pitch
A LIBRARIAN MOONLIGHTS AS A CAMGIRL, BUT WHEN SOMEONE FROM HER PAST FINDS HER AND THREATENS TO EXPOSE HER, SHESATRISK AT MORE THAN BEING KNOWN; SHE COULD BE LABELED LIKE THE BANNED BOOKS KEPTFROM THE SHELVES.
DISCLAIMER: SLUT.

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media comps
THE WEDDING PEOPLE
ALISON ESPACH
MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES
RUFI THORPE
FLEABAG
STRUT
EMELINE
CINDERELLA PT 2
CHIKA
I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING
LILYISTHATYOU

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favorite lines
HELP! IVE FALLEN INTO A REASONABLY
FORESEEABLE CRISIS OF MY OWN
MAKING...AND I CAN'T GET UP!

CONDORS, TO BE SPECIFIC. BIGGER, BADDER, WANTING ME TO DIE.

MANAGEMENT. MANAGE ME. MAN, FUCK ME

SOME GIRLS WOULD SAY THEY DIDNTKNOW WHAT THEY WERE WORTH -SHEDID. MOVIE NIGHT AND LINGERIE $25. MORNING O $10. BOUNCING IN SHEER$20.

SHE SAW HERSELF HOW HE MIGHT:
MELTED ICE CREAM, BURNT TOAST, SOMETHING SOURED ON THE COUNTER

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Allen Kline @allenkline.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

After his presumed-dead best friend turns up at his bedside, a reclusive teen must uncover the town’s dark history or risk his friend becoming the next offering to the bloodthirsty forest. Hazelthorn x Leviticus x The Summer Hikaru Died #BluePit #YA #H #W

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Allen Kline @allenkline.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

❝When seventeen-year-old Sammy starts seeing his mother’s ghost, he’s convinced she’s determined to drag him into the afterlife with her.❞ #BluePit #YA #H #Q

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#BluePit #A #F #Q #ND ASHMARKED: Hunted by the religion that raised her, a blacksmith’s apprentice must sever her tether to the immortal Darkness before it transforms her into the monster the Faith needs to justify its theft, violence, and lies. QUERYING NOW!

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ELIA IN ISOLA: THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH: When Elia is deemed unmarriageable, his parents give him to the convent. But it is Carnival in Venice, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister. #BluePit📖 #W #YA #H #HS #TR #SP #LGBT #OV #bluepit #WIP coming to the query trenches..

A banner for Elia in Isola, A Transmasculine Nun of Venice. Transmasculine nun, venice 1600s, gothic horror/speculative, The images show nuns in a parlor set in a gold frame, more details, and a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, as well as the grand canal, as well as the caption coming soon to the query trenches.

A banner for Elia in Isola. Comparative titles, showing The Starving Saints, "otherworldly occurrences in a claustrophobic historical setting," The Spirit Bares Its Teeth: Historical Fiction: trans man must hide his identity and his gifts to survive in a hostile world, Nettle and Bone: Fairytale tropes turned on their heads, the cost of power, and in the background, an oil painting of the grand canal

A banner for Elia in Isola. background, an oil painting of a convent. Elia has always been plagued with ecstatic visions. It doesn’t help that he’s secretly transmasculine, so his parents give him over to the convent. But it is Carnival, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls.
When he’s cast in a male role in the convent’s play, Elia sees his chance. Then, he stops to speak to the courtesan Rosalina, and steps into the center of a political intrigue he doesn’t understand. Someone has been murdering young women like his new friend.
He’s been told his whole life he needs to be less, to avoid attracting attention. Now, he might have to do exactly that to draw out the murderer, to save Rosalina- and himself.

Images of a young nun in front of a friar, a young man, oil paintings, captioned Elia in Isola A transmasculine nun of venice, in golden frame, and the quote: On his last day of freedom, Elia Malesco watched the dawn bathe Venice in its pale tones and wondered if he'd ever see his beloved city again.

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back, and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #F #LGBT #DIS

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Between Fractures of Light
Adult Romantic Portal Fantasy

$PITCH The desolate world from Augusta’s dreams starts to blur into a chilling reality when a specter of swirling mist and shadows begins haunting her and kidnaps her childhood best friend, Theo. When the encroaching shadows come for her next, Augusta is rescued by an impossibly familiar stranger with eyes of fire, and together they journey into a world consumed by Darkness, an entity that feeds on despair and rot. There, the shadows hold Theo—and the world—captive. As she begins to fall for the man guiding her through the starless land, the line between the two realities starts to fracture. Augusta must face who she truly is and the choice carved into fate long ago: sacrifice the world she’s only just come to understand (along with her best friend) or the love she’s finally found. Before the Darkness consumes them both.$

SNIPPET

She blinked, and the figure was gone. Or maybe she was just seeing things again.

“Theo—” she started, but he wasn’t beside her anymore. “Theo?”

The movement returned. It grew into the shape of a person and then into something beyond. Long fingers, crooked spine, head warped. Panic rose in her throat.

Smell. Sound. Taste. Touch. Sight. Think, Augusta. Think. It’s not real.

What can you smell? Popcorn. What can you hear? The laughter of children, Christmas music. What can you taste? The cider in hand. What can you touch? The scarf around my neck. What can you see? The shadow in the shape of a person.

Augusta froze.

It hadn’t gone away. Instead, it only grew larger, more ominous. It rose in the night till it towered over the tents, the moon behind it blocked out by its mass.

A glimpse of tangled blond curls appeared in her periphery, light against the growing darkness. A hanging light exploded with a pop but no one reacted. Unease clawed at her insides.

“THEO!”

Theo turned, mouth agape. His green eyes met hers, and he pushed forward, towards her, his rainbow scarf flapping in the wind behind him.

Long black claws wrapped around his middle and yanked him back into the shadows.

COMPS

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Piranesi
The Starless Sea
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #SF #SP #TR #OV #LGBT #ND #bluepit When a trans faith healer flees his mother's cult, he joins forces with a paranormal forum moderator who caught a meteorite as they head to a UFO festival...until the cult closes in to capture their Chosen One. #amquerying (Artist: @ batsudie)

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Ruth Miranda @ruthmiranda.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#bluepit #📖 #LGBT Lost Tales from the Borun-Ma MM dark romantic fantasy Enemies to Lovers Tyrant vs Rebel Portal Fantasy Hurt/Comfort Secret Identites When two men on opposite sides of a war join forces for a common cause WORLDS WILL FALL. books2read.com/wolveshowlin...

On a grey background 3 handrawn watercolour illustrations depicting men in robes in different settings and a list of tropes reading volume 3 enemies to lovers secret identities hurt comfort age gap revenge arcs love triangle cross worlds for you transmigration no one survives if one of us dies

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