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Penelope Burns @penelopekayb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

ALL WE HAVE LEFT by @emmypax.bsky.social is out from @titanbooks.bsky.social today and Amber could not be more excited!! I can’t wait for the world to love this book as much as I do.

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

NAME CHANGE! When I started writing and later signed with an agent, I had to decide what name to use. Since Marieke can be harder internationally (I’m Dutch), I decided to use my first name instead. From now on I’m annes_mesmerizing_books on my socials, and I’m writing under the name Anne du Pré.

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

As a now agented author, I’m offering free query feedback for one writer! So check out my Instagram if you’re in the query trenches or want to start querying soon. www.instagram.com/p/DYHWwC0DBV... #querying #writingcommunity #writesky #author #querytrenches

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Thank you so much! I think I remember your name too! Fingers crossed you’ll find an agent soon as well!

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Ray’s voice is so sassy, and as a reader you just can’t help but fall in love with him. And Sam, the LI is just the cutest cinnamon roll ever!

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Such a wonderful story full of great (diverse) characters!

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Cole Gershkovich @cole-gershkovich.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This small-town art museum was a bastion of visibility for folks with mental health issues—until facing bankruptcy. Now five strangers are crossing America in a sushi delivery van to raise money with a new exhibition, before their museum closes forever. #QuestPit #Q #A #Con #LGBT #RF

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

KISS & TELL X SMASH OR PASS Take: a demi, canceled, mouthy, foodloving singer Mix: a hideout in Amsterdam + a meet cute in a cat café Add: a closeted football star + swirling gossip Bake off: a viral song that could tell his truth… or out the boy he’s falling for #AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit

5 photos: a cat café, a Black footballer, a blond boy with a guitar, the demisexual flag, and a cat.

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I asked because the rules are no AI, and naive me just thinks no one would even use AI.

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What would I do without you 😂. Thanks so much again 💚!

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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀folklore horror 🥀snarky ghost hunters 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater 🥀dysfunctional family dynamics #questpit #WIP #YA #S #H

A moodboard containing 12 images, including painted flowers, candles, old photographs, and a bird.

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Kat Z @katlynzehnacker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Four outcasts. One serial killer. The terrible things they'll do for each other. YA paranormal fantasy with chronic pain, neurodivergent, mental illness, and LGBTQIA+ rep. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #PA

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

WREN MARTIN X NOBODY IN PARTICULAR One scandal wrecks a demi teen singer’s life One closeted footballer sees him anyway One viral song could tell his truth… or out the boy he’s falling for MC: mouthy until it’s about himself Setting: Amsterdam Meet cute: a cat café #AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit

EVERYTHING GETS CANCELED, agented queer contemporary YA romance, 80K words | going on sub soon.

Boy with a guitar, cover of Wren Martin Ruins it All (description: ace MC + witty sass), cat, canal of Amsterdam with bikes, cover of Nobody in Particular (description: mess of fame & love), black footballer.

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Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 @quietsnooze.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

RADIO SILENCE is a queer coming-of-age drama about a British rock band’s rise to fame. Forbidden romance between band members, rival rock bands, terrible people coming back from their pasts - so much drama for one tour bus! radiosilencecomic.com #WIP #YA #R #LGBT #Dis #questpit #webcomics

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A. H. Colt | Fantasy Author @xeinale.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Dead. Revived. No memories. One rule: fight the demons and forget your past. One problem: someone from hers is killing again, turning good people into demons, and this time, they’re coming for the stone that keeps her alive. #W #questpit #trans #DF #MY #A

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I’m in love with this story and I bet so many more would love to read this!

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This story is full of wit, heart, and love! It makes you laugh, cry, and laugh‑cry, and root for the depressed MC and the chronically ill LI to fall for each other.

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Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽 @sagecollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS 🏟️ Competition between Summer & Winter princes 😠🥰 Grumpy x sunshine pair 👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends➡️rivals➡️lovers 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them 🌳 Who will be the next Mother Nature? 🪩 Winter ball shenanigans 🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #R #LGBT

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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

TRULY DEVIOUS/HAZELTHORN When sentient plants take over the world and an eminent botanists winds up dead, a hungry reporter persuades a rival plant hunter to seek the truth. But as they become entangled, & the victims pile up, they’ll need sharp secateurs to avoid being next. #QuestPit #W #YA #NA #F

The Hunting Season
The Tropes: rivals to lovers, nerds vs jocks, there's only one shed.
The Genre: speculative, grounded, cosy horromance
The Media Mash-up: Stranger Things meets Gardeners World
Illustrations of a bookish, mixed heritage girl side eyeing a ripped jock guy.

The Hunting Season trope list:
🩸 cottage-garden-gore
❤️‍🔥 rivals to friends to lovers
🌱 weeds are not the problem
✂️ botanists vs plant hunters
🪦 a series of grizzly 💀’s
🤭 'There's only one shed!'
Illustrations of a bookish, mixed heritage girl side eyeing a ripped jock guy.

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Julie Moss @julieanneslibrary.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS X AND NOW, BACK TO YOU #Questpit, welcome to BREAKING THE BLUEPRINT, an 84k word contemporary romance. Rival Architects on the verge of burnout exploit a company policy to work remotely across the country together, putting their rocky foundation to the test. #Q #R #A

This picture is a mood board for the romance book, “Breaking the Blueprint.” The general vibe is enemies to lovers with elements of the NYC architecture industry culture and shifts to the small town feel of Colorado mountains. The main character is a redhead woman with freckles and brown eyes and the main love interest is a brunette man with blue eyes. The images show them getting close through dancing in the kitchen at night, playing in the snow together, and nights out on the town.

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Danielle Lauren @dani-is-writing.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HER ROOTS RECLAIMED Immortals are disappearing, and Thea Green is their best chance at rescue Character-driven standalone Lush prose Mental health rep Neurodivergent FMC For fans of V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue and Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House. #questpit #q #a #f #s #wf

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It’s actually demi/grey rep, but I had to choose what to mention 😀.

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Adelaide Cabernet @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BEND OVER BACKWARDS (Heated Rivalry x Star Shipped) After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🎪 Rivals to Lovers 🤸 Found Family 🍿 Only One Bed #questpit #q #r #a #amquerying #agentsguide

Two acrobats on the mock cover of BEND OVER BACKWARDS

Pitch - after vincent’s acro partner is banned from their vegas-themed circus show, he’s forced to create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment.

cole’s flashy hand-to-hand stunts and throws are fine for television, but his aggressive style clashes with vincent’s controlled contortion and fear of falling.

vincent plans to escape by auditioning for his dream circus company, but the closer he gets to cole, the more reason he has to stay.

Two acrobats kiss in front of a list of tropes including “rivals to lovers” “slow burn” and “only one bed”

Comps including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

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Lakshmi @lakshmiwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

FLOWERS FROM VERNON YOU’VE GOT MAIL x ACT YOUR AGE, EVE BROWN 🌸Hidden identities 🌹Enemies to lovers 🌺BIPOC cast 🌻Female friendships 🌼Male friendships 🪷Rom Com 🪻Musicial x Writer #questpit #q #querying #romance #bipoc #NA

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

DEADNAME: A trans teen is stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they never wanted. #QuestPit #AG #YA #H

Stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger and she won't stop until she had the life they never wanted.

YA horror 65K words

Orange and black moodboard, women in mirrors, painted nails, teenage parties, a sapphic kiss, blurred faces, stark contrast

Comparison titles page
Camp Damascus
Hell Followed With Us
Such Lovely Skin
old Wounds
Cemetery Boys
And the trees stare back

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J.W. Gant @johnwgant.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #A #C #Q 82K Picaresque Satire 🌟non-binary ❤️do it for the kids 💍do it for his wife ❤️found family 🌟heist ⭐️late stage capitalism 😅lol fun "Can he save the house he & his wife use to raise foster kids? Gotta rob the Prez to do that, and get his thief dad, who has Alzheimer's, to help."

How i stole from the president
... while saving a foster home
a guide
the home, the target, the guy, and the kids all shown

writing snip
with picture of the author's research

themes/tropes
view top-down of mar-a-lago

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Madelyn Knecht ✨🌈 @madelynknecht.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What if Enid mended broken hearts for a living... and Wednesday arrived without a heart at all? ❤️‍🩹sunshine MC hiding secrets 🫀LI who doesn't know what it means to be human 🔥a deadly mystery 🪶quirky, meddling witch (ahem, enchantress) #questpit #AG #YA #F #R for #Editors

Heart-covered white background. Image in the center is artwork of a blonde girl in a strawberry dress holding hands with a brunette in all black standing in front of a clinic called HEARTS TO MEND. Text reads: YA sapphic speculative romance. Sapphic romance, slow burn, grumpy x sunshine, equal angst&humor, found family, unique magic system, teaching the LI to be human

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Amanda Carbonell @amandacarbonell25.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Puerto Rican Practical Magic x Shameless True Apothecary features… - A Spanish-Salem town - A longstanding family brujeria - Witches & tea magic - A shady realtor with dark magical secrets - Copy cat witch shops - Romance - A little death - Family hijinks #questpit #Q #NA #A #F #R #S #PR

Background is of a small town street with glass windows and a cobblestone sidewalk. There are cars parked in the background.

Text Reads:

An Agent's Guide To
True
Apothecary

A New Adult Cozy Fantasy Romance
Amanda Carbonell

Background photo is from Pinterest being used for creative purposes only!

Art commission in the center is by the wonderful @microplaid

Background is of white daisies with a black overlay.

Text reads:

The Pitch

Mileena Vega never pictured herself back in her childhood bedroom after college, but when the familia needs you, there’s no way you can say no.

With many local businesses closing and a rival copycat witch shop opening up threatening their long-standing brujeria, Mileena needs to rely on more than her marketing degree to save their shop — especially when the new shop owner harbors more sinister secrets than his tailored suit can handle.

It's going to take a bit of magic, some devious family members, a touch of romance, and maybe a little death.

Background is of white daisies with a black overlay.

Text Reads:

Comps:

(Books left to right)
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Text in the center, above In the Company of Witches, reads Add some magic and accidental deaths

Bottom Movie/TV Images:

Left:
Practical Magic with the text above it reading: (But make it Puerto Rican)

Right:
Shameless with the text above it reading: Sprinkle some chaotic family hijinks

Bottom text reads:
Finish it all off with a touch of spicy romance

Background is of white daisies with a black overlay

Text Reads:

Snippet

“It’s wonderful to meet you, Mileena.” God, my name sounds like sex on his tongue. I raise a brow and practically stop myself from biting my lip. He’s gorgeous.

Pure sin wrapped in human skin.

By: Amanda Carbonell

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Lucy Mason @lucymason217.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HITHER PAGE x KIT AND BASIE #QuestPit #Q #A #R When faced with a zoning violation that could close his yarn shop for good, high-strung, spreadsheet-loving asexual Noah Wakefield must team up with rival shop owner Benjamin Tasch to make the annual yarn crawl a success, while sparks fly between them.

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EB Thorn @ebthornwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

💔OFFSIDES💔 75k words m/m college romance HEATED RIVALRY x DEEP END w/ big 5 editor interest! feat. 💔a love triangle ⚽️sports 🔥heavy spice 💙friends-to-lovers & friends-with-benefits-to-lovers 🌈queer rep #QuestPit #A #NA #R #LGBT #Q #amquerying

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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🥀YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES X HAZELTHORN🥀 Lucas begrudgingly works at a haunted community theater and must cooperate with Mira, a first-year criminal justice student with a sour attitude, to investigate the theater’s botanical horrors. #Questpit #S #H #WIP

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Hi, I’m Caitie @findmeinfairytales.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Sapphic Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac Sometimes trying to save someone you love results in their death sentence instead. 🔥Slow-burn romance ☕️ Tea leaf reading magic 💌 Letters exploring grief 🦢A monstrous swan curse 🕰️ Time is the enemy 🔮Witches 🥀 Dark fairytale #questpit #Q #YA #F

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Lucy Mason @lucymason217.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #Q #A #R High strung, asexual yarn shop owner Noah Wakefield likes consistency and routine—but he’s thrown for a loop when charismatic rival yarn shop owner Ben crashes into his life. They must work together to make the yarn crawl a success and save Noah’s yarn shop.

A mood board for Wound Up. From left to right:
Top row: closeup of two men’s arms and hands which are clasped; a quote reading AND HE LOOKED AT ME, LIKE THERE WAS SOMETHING IN ME WORTH LOOKING AT; a dark haired man and a light haired man embracing.
Middle row: two people holding their hands up to a fogged up rainy car window. One is forming half a heart. The other is raising a middle finger. A peg board in a local yarn store showcasing skeins of yarn. A quote that says “him. Ah, there he is. That motherfucker.”
Bottom row: a white hand with a plain black asexual ring on the middle finger. A text message conversation that reads “I’m bisexual but I hate everybody. So more like. Byesexual.” A white hand featuring chipped black nail polish.

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

3 photos on top: on of a blond boy with a guitar, one of a canal in Amsterdam with bikes, one of a Black footballer.

The word rumors in red in between.

The 3 photos at the bottom: the first one of a cat, the second one of a cat café, the third one of the demisexual flag.

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is my critique partner’s story and it’s amazing! Think: • a sassy depressed MC • a chronically ill LI • a queer romance • so much found family • a road trip to never forget

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Charlotte Dante 💫querying author💫 @charlottedante14.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

WHAT THRIVES IN DARKNESS, a 88,000-word LGBTQ+ YA reimagining of Hades and Persephone about charting your own course—even when those who love you would rather own you. 🌿 queer Hades/Persephone 🌿 slow burn 🌿 grumpy/sunshine 🌿 found family 🌿 “touch him and die” 🌿 a ghost corgi #questpit #YA #LGBTQ

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Jenny Lane @authorjennylane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Coming in 2026 from Harlequin... 💅Golden Retriever who is SO BABY GIRL 🍞Type-A barista with her own sourdough starter 💍🏳️‍🌈 marriage of convenience 🐱He loves to eat 🫦She loves giving up control #QuestPit #A #R (Coming February 2026)

8 images of Jamie and Harper falling in love

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