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Athena Lambrou

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Hey there demons, it’s me, ya girl! 😈 🧿 Αθηνά (she/her) 💖💜💙• ☼ ♉︎ • ☾ ♐︎ • ↑ ♋︎ Writer📝• Booksloth 🦥📚• Cypriot 🇨🇾 • INTJ🌈 🔗 about-me-athena.carrd.co

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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
King Lear re-imagining from Cordelia’s POV ACOTAR x Blood Beneath The Snow Cordelia only wants one thing: to find her lost and ailing father. So when a mysterious and charming tracker offers to help track him down she takes the chance not knowing he is hiding a monstrous secret. #DVpit #A #DF #R #MH
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amelia If Only X Love Simon Bisexual 17 y/o Ares will do everything to stay closeted, including fake dating his bff to appease his family. That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life and heart ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #DVpit #YA #CR #LGBT
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
King Lear re-imagining ACOTAR x For The Wolf When Drakon shape-shifting Princess Cordelia is exiled by her own father for refusing to be one of his sycophants she doesn’t expect to fall in love with the enemy hellbent on annihilating her kind while searching for her lost father. #DVpit #A #DF #R #MH
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE HANDMAID’S TALE x CAOS Puritan America has fallen, now Haexa’s citizens are classed based on the number of satanic powers they possess. Antigone, a 21 y/o witch struggling with OCD, must guard her country’s elites as a Warden or die trying as her oath commands. #DVpit #A #DF #CI #MH #ND
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They Hate Each Other X Imogen, Obviously Ares needs to do 3 things in life so he doesn’t let his family down: -Date a nice Cypriot girl -Get into a good university -NOT fall in love with his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #DVpit #YA #CR #LGBT
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE HANDMAID'S TALE x CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA 🧙🏻‍♀️Witches overthrow a Gilead like society 😈13 satanic powers + colored social classes 🌗Twins & an oath to guard witch elites ✨Witch House + vengeful ghosts 💔Doomed forbidden romance 💀A murderous plague doctor hunting elites #DVpit #A #DF #MH #ND
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
King Lear re-imagining (Cordelia’s POV) ACOTAR x For The Wolf Cordelia is a shape-shifting cryptid in desperate search of her lost and ailing father. Lance is sworn to kill all cryptids but when he infiltrates Cordelia’s rescue party he doesn't expect to fall in love with her. #DVpit #A #DF #R #MH
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
King Lear re-imagining ACOTAR x Blood Beneath The Snow 🔥💧Fire & water parallels (Zutara vibes) ⚔️Enemies-to-lovers (Dual POV) 🌶️Forced proximity & spice 🖤Themes of madness and grief 🐉Cryptid monster royals 💀Holy crusaders wanting to annihilate all cryptid royals #DVpit #A #DF #R #MH
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🎃👻Christine Szczesniak👻🎃 @szczesniakchristin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
WE WERE ALL DEFECTS - YA Dystopian Thriller - 77k words The bubblegum-pink tiles of Ruinview will swallow anyone who loses control, but emotions are Alex's only weapon when she has seventy-two hours to stop her mother's execution and save the boy she loves. #QuestPit #Q #YA
The background features a dark silhouette of a person standing in front of a chain-link fence with a hazy, warm sunset shining through trees in the distance. There is a textured, pink hexagonal tile floor. White text over the image reads: "An Agent's Guide To: WE WERE ALL DEFECTS. YA Dystopian Thriller, 77k words."A dark pink hexagonal tile background. At the top, glowing pink neon text reads "Welcome To Ruinview." Below it, text reads "DAYS SINCE LAST DROP:" above a mechanical flip-clock counter showing the number "O0" with small blood splatters on the white tiles. The main body text reads: "The pretty pink tiles of Ruinview are as fake as its plastic smiles, but happiness is a mandatory survival mechanism. None of those things stop Alex from feeling everything-even when she knows a slip in control will lead to the ground splitting open to swallow her whole. But hiding from herself won't prevent her mother's execution. Rescuing her mother will only kill the boy who saved her. Protecting either of them could cost her the one person she can't live without. And Alex only has seventy-two hours to get them all out alive."A pink hexagonal tile background. At the top,
glowing pink neon text reads "The Tropes". Below it, text lists: "Friends-to-Lovers Slow-Burn", "Touch Her And You Die", and "Forced Toxic Positivity". Below that, neon pink text reads "The Comps". The text reads "Blends the weaponized psychological control of Stephanie Oakes' THE MEADOWS" above an image of the book's cover, "With the survival-forged slow-burn romance of Jill Tew's AN OCEAN APART" below an image of that book's

cover.A four-panel aesthetic mood board set over a pink hexagonal tile background. At the top, glowing pink neon text reads "The Vibes" next to a black-and-white Spotify scan code. The collage consists of four images: the top left is a bright, retro diner with a pink-and-white checkered floor and teal vinyl seats. The top right is a soft, pink-hazed silhouette of a couple leaning in to kiss. The bottom left is a vintage, faded photograph of smiling women standing in rows wearing matching blue swimsuits and sashes. The bottom right is a steep, upward-facing view of a long escalator with dark purple steps flanked by glowing pink lights.
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
They Hate Each Other X Love Simon Ares is a nice Cypriot boy. He’s the star of his basketball team and is dating his childhood best friend. That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life and heart. ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #QuestPit #YA #R #Q
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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hurricane-minded, Tallitha has always known to hide her oddness, locking away whatever she cannot explain inside. But when the moon begins calling her from sleep & memories that aren’t her own surface, she will have to learn to embrace who she truly is to survive #questpit #q
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amberjollyauthor.bsky.social @amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Jack Frost (1998) x Sweet Home Alabama YULE ALWAYS FIND ME is a holiday paranormal romance with: 🤍second chance romance 💀murd.er 🤍fake dating ❄️frosty magic 👯‍♀️sister bonds 🐶a cute pet sidekick 🎄Christmas festivities 🔼love triangle Would you read it? Art by @mknzgmbn #questpit #wip #P #R #A
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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
COVENANT A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL 💜 second chance romance 🛏 there's only one bed 🖤 opposites attract 🌑 gothic decadence 👻 big spooky house ✨️ dreamwalking magic 🏳️‍🌈 bisexual awakening 🥀 horror as a metaphor 🔮 alternate London setting 🕯Victorian occult #questpit #Q #RF #A #amquerying
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Mood board shows a spooky mirror, a foggy Victorian street at night, two men embracing, a ballroom filled with dancing pairs, a misty graveyard, and a spooky house interior with covered furniture.
Rowan:
Sarcastic and self-destructive hedonist
Secret softie
Dark past
Fiercely loyal
A massive flirt
Not as cool as he pretends to be
Can walk through and alter people’s dreams
Darshil:
Hopeless romantic
Aspiring poet
Definitely Straight (don’t read all his poems about Rowan)
Complex relationship with his father
Maximum yearning
Chronic people pleaser
Repressed gentleman
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.
Bernadette:
Optimistic
Terrible at keeping secrets
Encyclopedic knowledge of the occult
Can see ghosts
A great listener
Very lonely
Lives in a graveyard for the vibes
Cordelia:


Snooty and mean
Regina George energy
Fashionista
Knows everyone’s secrets
The favourite child
Fiercely protective
Can rot things with her touch
Art shows a thin Black woman with long curly black hair, black eyes, and a warm smile, and a plus-sized white woman with blond hair in an elaborate bun, green eyes, and a pink feather fan that hides the lower half of her face.
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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Meet the main characters of COVENANT, my gothic gaslamp romantasy 💜🕯✨️🌑👻🥀 #questpit #Q #A #RF #amquerying
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Kassia Allea ✨ Now Querying! ✨ @kassieelle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Fallen Angel Dune x The Cruel Prince 🌌 tragic siblings bonds 🌌 slow burn 🌌 messy found family 🌌 a love beyond ages 🌌 female rage 🌌 failed chosen one 🌌 ..and the necessary sacrifices to preserve the greater good A thief and a monster, whatever could go wrong? Now querying #Q #A #F #Questpit
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lindsaysunada.bsky.social @lindsaysunada.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
DARKER BY FOUR x K-POP DEMON HUNTERS AURORA 🌙👹⚔️ #Q #YA #F #QuestPit In order to find the demon that massacred her village, Serena Inoue will stop at nothing to claim the #1 spot in the Night Hunter entrance exams; even though she’s not the chosen one.
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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Lunaria Witch (🎵Crystal - Stevie Nicks or Upside Down Tori Amos) 🍃 Elemental Magic ✨ The threads that bind us all together ❤️‍🔥 Yearning fated romance 🧙‍♀️ Folklore and Witchcraft 💫 ND Rep 💃🏻 Self acceptance #questpit #q #na #a #f #r #ownvoices
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Amelia If Only X Love Simon Bisexual 17 y/o Ares will do everything to stay closeted, including fake dating his bff to appease his family. That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life and heart. ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #QuestPit #YA #R #Q
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J.J.W. Lovell (He/Him) @jjwlovell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEVERMOOR x TURNING RED x TREASURE PLANET Two tiny purple creatures told him he was a Druid. He didn’t believe them. He was wrong. 🐻 Shapeshifting 🐉 World Mythologies ⚔️ Found Family ✨ Portal Fantasy 🗝️ Hidden Heritage #Questpit #MG #F #Q
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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A STUDY IN DROWNING X GILMORE GIRLS Atticus moved to Havenvale so he could attend the most prestigious knighthood academy in the kingdom, but there's a rose-scented ghost haunting his manor, & he's learning it's hard to focus while falling in love...👻🖤 #AG #YA #F #RF #QuestPit
A HAUNTING TO HOLD
Ghost Romance
𝙷̶𝚒̶𝚜̶ ̶𝙵̶𝚒̶𝚛̶𝚜̶𝚝̶ His Forever
Cozy Fantasy Town
Magical Lantern Festival
Star-Spinning Magic
Gothic Manor
Griffin Riding
Knighthood AcademyTHE PITCH
COZY YA FANTASY 89,000 WORDS

After fleeing from his war-ravaged hometown, a timid boy enrolls in an elite knighthood academy while falling for the ghost haunting his rose-scented manor; but when enemy knights invade his cozy new town during a festival that allows the dead to live for a single night, he must learn how to rally his courage before the girl he loves is lost forever.CHAPTER ONE
My ghost never hides in the shadows.
When the afternoon burns brightest, I’ll catch her silhouette in the sunshine. When night steals the sky I glimpse delicate blue eyes peeking out behind moonbeam curtains. It’s been five weeks since we've moved in, yet I've only ever found her in the light.
“She’s not your ghost,” reminds Olive. “I can see her, too!”
But my sister’s claim rattles out like a lie. Looking at her now, she’s scrunching her face up, squinting real tight, yet her eyes never seem to find the shimmering girl that runs through Rosefall Manor.
Not like mine do.FOR FANS OF...
The sweeping, magical romance of…
A cozy fantasy town inspired by…
The lush prose and gothic atmosphere found in…
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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE SHADOWS (WIP in 3rd Draft) #W #F #A #QuestPit 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. Talk about a midlife crisis.
Moodboard for The Shadows WIP. Upper left: Illustration of a crowded, cramped city alley. Upper mid: Four black-clad people with face masks in a warehouse. Upper right: Shadowed cobblestone alley with someone at the mouth sweeping. Mid left. Two memes. "A niche character trope I like is the person who is nice, a good person and acts well-adjusted, then they do something where it's like oh you're secretly a little bit insane actually. Middle: A shadowed portrait of a woman with sparks coming out of her hands. Mid right: A meme: Original poster: "80% exhaustion 10% sarcasm %20 don't care" Reply poster: "that's 110 percent". OP: "20% of me doesn't care." RP: "should've seen that coming." Bottom left: Warmly lit storefront doorway on a cobblestone street. Bottom mid: Painting of fancy buildings on islands floating well above the ground. Bottom right: Cramped thrift store with shopkeeper.The Shadows: The Pitch

The worst day of Ania’s life was when her beloved cousin Piren was dragged off to the floating towers of the Above to serve as a source to the Skyborn mages. The second worst day was when he was returned. Discarded. Drained of his magic and broken in spirit.

Ania left behind her rebellious past to support her cousin as he once 
supported her. In a city where any display of magic makes you a target 
of the Skyborn, keeping your head down and your magic a secret, taking care of your friends, your family and your neighborhood is the only safe way to survive. 

But now, everything she’s built over twenty years of safe, carefully
constructed life is falling apart. To recover what she’s lost, Ania takes on one last dangerous heist that strikes at the heart of the Skyborn’s power. She may end up losing herself. She may just bring the entire system crashing down.The Shadows: Comp Titles
MA Carrick: Mask of Mirrors. Con artist MC out to save her family (and maybe the world).
Shannon Chakraborty: Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. I'm retired. Really. Okay, fine, one last job.
Robert Jackson Bennett: Foundryside. Magical technology, a corrupt ruling class and problematic heists.
Fonda Lee: Last Contract of Isako. I'm too old for this shit but no one else can do it.“Except you can help me without bringing the bluejackets and their hunters down on my head!” Ania yelled, throwing her arms in the air. “All I’m asking you for is money. You’re asking me to risk my life! My family’s life!” She glared at him, grinding out her words through clenched teeth. “You want me to dust off magic I haven’t used in twenty years! How is that fair?” She spat the last word.
“It’s not fair!” Verasi spat back at her. “None of this is fair!” He flung a hand out. “Our people, our friends and family, our neighbors, are ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. They’re enslaved, ridden so hard they break. Maybe it takes a year. Maybe it takes five. Maybe it only takes a couple of months.” He continued in a harsh whisper. “We live in constant fear that it’ll be one of us. If not one of us, someone we know. Someone we love. Their propaganda machine is turning our own people against us. You know they’re not even testing people to see if they have any magical talent now? They’re just rounding people up at random and carting them off Above. None of them come home, not the same way they left.”
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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV
Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media4/13/1996
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 Freys6/23/1996
“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 ON SUB SOON
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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying
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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R
My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another. 
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening 
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings
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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
They Hate Each Other X Imogen, Obviously Ares needs to do 3 things in life so he doesn’t let his family down: -Date a nice Cypriot girl -Get into a good university -NOT fall in love with his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #QuestPit #YA #R #Q
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💫 Light After the Fall 💫 a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace coming this October 🧙 Feedback requested: Which cover/what elements of each cover do you prefer? All feedback welcome & appreciated! #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit
Title: "Light After the Fall"
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a figure standing on a cliff holding sunflower


An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation 
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot
Title: "Light After the Fall"
/an adventure guide to thriving teh post-apocalypse
by Iza Krendl Titus


colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a meditating figure glowing


An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation 
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot
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Trinity🪞is querying🪞 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
An #agentsguide to DON'T LOOK TOO HARD, a 76k YA speculative thriller. #questpit #Q #YA #S #T #MY
a guide to "Don't Look Too Hard," a YA speculative thriller | 76k words. Background image of a young woman staring into a mirror, covering her eyes with one hand.Pitch: 16-year-old Jess, who sees people's future corpses in their reflections, must race to change fate when her visions reveal that her only friend is about to be murdered.
Comps:
"The Darkness Rises" by Stacy Stokes and "When the Bones Sing" by Ginny Myers Sain.tropes & themes:
PNW setting
guilt
facing unpleasant truths
addiction
loss & trauma
everyone's got a secretexcerpt:
Mel's reflection, illuminated by the glow of a yellowed bulb, proved oh-so-easy to catch. The sight ripped the air out of my lungs. All of it: the whine of a distant ambulance, Mel's shouting, the frantic steps of other people running before the police arrived, everything except the pool faded. Ripples distorted Mel's image, but it didn't matter.

It was impossible to miss the giant knife sticking out of her back.
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Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 To join her dream esports team, Cam let everyone assume she's a guy. Now all she has to do is survive the captain, who's sure she's the weak link — without falling for him first. #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying
Last Pick by Ruchi Dave is an e-sports romance novel, complete at 75k words. 

Cameron Day has always felt like a loser—except in the video game League of Champions, where she dominates. So when an esports team mistakes her for a guy and recruits her, she doesn’t correct them.

But to Jacob—their ruthless (and distractingly hot) captain who’s already seen one ex-teammate implode under pressure—she’s a risk they can’t afford. If she cracks, they all go down with her.

The only way forward is to prove she’s not a liability, but the key to pulling them out of freefall.

Contact the author at **@ruchi-writes on x or @ruchi-writes.bsky.social**Moodboard for Last Pick. Professional esports gamer vibes. Snippet for Last Pick

“The others got over it much sooner than you did.”

“I didn’t want to complicate things.”

“Why would I complicate things?”

“You know why.” He tucked a stray hair behind my ear, and my skin felt electric where his fingers brushed against me. I leaned into him as his hand slid to the nape of my neck, tilting my head toward his.

“What happened to keeping things professional?”

“This is professional,” he murmured. “Kevin and I do this all the time.”Comps and Tropes

- **enemies-to-lovers**
- **woman in a male dominated field**
- **Chaos GOBLIN HEROINE**
- **forced proximity**
- **underdog story**
- **impostor syndrome**
- **good intentions, bad decisions**

She’s the Man - **WOMAN PRETENDING TO BE A MAN IN A MALE DOMINATED SPORT (E-Sports)**

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace - **team captain/mentor who is convinced she’s a liability**

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - **fake-it-till-you-make-it energy**
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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️) @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS After Noah, a hard of hearing thief, moves in with siren Jasper, their accidental, corrupted mating bond must be severed before it kills them. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x The Surfer Immune to His Song 🌊 Fantasy Set in San Diego 🏄‍♂️ Standalone w/ Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #A #PR
A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper,The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
An #AgentsGuide They Hate Each Other x Imogen, Obviously 💘Bi MC & Bi LI 🛏️Forced proximity (have to share a room) 🏀Basketball jocks ❤️‍🔥Rivals to lovers 😘He calls him pretty boy 💖Secretly yearning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Set in Cardiff, Wales ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #QuestPit #YA #R #Q
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hannah nagle :)) @hannahnagle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
so excited to share an #agentguide/#agentsguide for ALL THAT REMAINS, my speculative dark academia WIP! 🖤 featuring: 🕯️OCD & depression rep 🕯️asexuality rep 🕯️paranormal romance 🕯️campus setting 🕯️rivals to lovers 🕯️arcane magic with a cost #questpit #S #PR #MY #W
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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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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 TrekEVENT 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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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
DEATH & THE DREAMER NOSFERATU X ONE DARK WINDOW An enchantress with the forbidden power to hijack daydreams must save her hired guard from a parasitic necromancer who uses the life magic of murdered men to animate his dead lover’s body. #BluePit #📖 #A #F #Q
Mood board for the fantasy novel Death & the Dreamer: the sky in a forest, a mossy angel statue, a distant castle, a vase of wilted flowers, a doorway to a castle, skulls in a necropolis, gravestones, a fireplace. Tropes: dark fantasy, morally gray protagonist, necromancy, forbidden magic, toxic love. Content warning: implied and off page non-graphic sexual abuse (male victims) and violence
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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
SHERLOCK HOLMES with BEES When a singer with ties to royalty vanishes, it's up to detective Arthur North to find her. As he digs, he uncovers a plot to place his people, the bee-like zizzun, in the crown's crosshairs. Can he uncover their connection before it's too late? #BluePit #📖 #W #F #M #YA
A collage consisting of various cut out images:
- An illustration of Sherlock Holmes in his classic deerstalker cap and cloak smokes his pipe in the bottom left
- A honey bee gathers nectar from a flower in the bottom middle.
- Four macarons sit stacked in the bottom right corner.
- Up the right side is a stalk of purple foxgloves.
- The background is split between a pile of old newspapers and a dark alley lit by lamps and neon signs.
- Red stage curtains frame the entire piece.
- Five bee cut-outs (from two images of honey bees, flipped and rotated to various angles) fly around the top of the image.
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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#BluePit 🌼Sweet & Wild🌼 💛MM Fantasy Romance ☀️A Sunshine MC 🍯A Cozy Adjacent Setting 🍃Forest Magic 🌳Spirits in the Woods 🐝Witches 🌻Healing and Growth #📖 #A #F #R #LGBT #P Books2Read: books2read.com/u/bzNng9 Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur
A picture of Terran, a tan man with brown and green hair and antlers, lifts up Micah, a light-skinned man with blonde hair and a straw hat, kissing him. To the right, a light yellow background with the text: Sweet & Wild 
💛MM Fantasy Romance 
☀️A Sunshine MC 
🍯A Cozy Adjacent Setting 
🍃Forest Magic 
🌳Spirits in the Woods 
🐝Witches 
🌻Healing and Growth
Available now on Itch, Ko-Fi, and wherever books are sold! 
The cover of Sweet & Wild
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Els🖤🤍💜🩶 @elsjones.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
MASTER OF DJINN X THE LAST BINDING Tal is a necromancer in hiding until Daniel uncovers her secret. He'll keep it - if she helps him stop a mage murderer. Can she trust him before she becomes the next victim? Can she survive The Dissolution of Tal Stephens? #A #F #R #W #ND #BluePit #📖
A 19th c portrait of a woman in a red gown whose face is melting. It has a green frame And the title The Dissolution of Tal Stephens
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Amelia If Only X Love Simon Bisexual 17 y/o Ares will do everything to stay closeted, including fake dating his bff to appease his family. That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life and heart. ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #BluePit #YA #R #Q
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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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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#BluePit 🏹THE BIRD AND THE BLADE🍃 🪶 MM Fantasy Romance 🪶 Bandit x Noble 🪶 Kidnapping! 🪶 Questioning Power Structures 🪶 Singing Bandits 🪶 Robin Hood Vibes 🪶 Certified Bird Guy #📖 #A #F #R #W #LGBT
Over a green background: THE BIRD AND THE BLADE: MM Fantasy Romance 
Comps: Not For the Faint of Heart, The Scottish Boy, Greenwode 
Tropes: 🪶 MM Fantasy Romance
🪶 Bandit x Noble
🪶 Kidnapping!
🪶 Questioning Power Structures
🪶 Singing Bandits
🪶 Robin Hood Vibes
🪶 Certified Bird Guy
A picture of an arrow, a feather, and a sword 
Blurb: Callum Amberline is about to get married, but there is one small problem. He’s been kidnapped by bandits. Callum should be furious and indignant, but he’s not these bandits seem to understand him better than his family or betrothed ever have. Especially Wilder, the son of the bandit queen. But one shouldn’t be friendly with one’s kidnappers. 
Wilder may have made an impulsive decision kidnapping the betrothed of his arch nemesis, but he’s having a hard time regretting it. He likes Callum, noble though he may be. 
As the unfortunate circumstances of their meeting catch of with them, Callum and Wilder must ignore the simmering attraction between them. You can’t fall in love with your kidnapper. 
Right?
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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Heists, spice, and space! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You must get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #BluePit #SF #R #A #📖 (Manuscript is #OS looking for an editor)
The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to -- Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel -- A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer. Representation Christi Cardenas.Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie RhymerRomantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for stationary objects. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator. 
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.” 
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie RhymerRomantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. #AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV. Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.
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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
THE DEVOURING An adult cosmic horror thriller novel about the monsters we choose. For fans of Lovecraftian mythos, John Wick-style action, and married villain protagonists. Read a free sample at amshilling.com/books/the-de... and get your copy today! #Bluepit #📖 #P #A #H
[The background is a city at night. Red blood splatters decorate the upper right and lower left corners. In the center is the book's cover: a black inkblot in the shape of a skull against a red background.]

A Reader's Guide to THE DEVOURING

PITCH
Jason and Ayana are happily married in an arrangement that keeps their lives parallel but separate. In the wake of his brother's murder and her discovery of an impossible illness, however, they must work together to learn the truth behind these mysterious events. Along the way, they uncover an occult conspiracy at the heart of their city—and the malevolent god lurking beyond its veil.

Told from the perspectives of the story's villains, The Devouring is an adult cosmic horror and thriller novel about the monsters we choose.

TROPES
- married main characters
- villain protagonists
- dangerous criminal underworld
- mysterious cults
- terrifying body horror
- an incomprehensible eldritch god

COMPS
- THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE by H. P. Lovecraft
- JOHN WICK
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
They Hate Each Other X Imogen, Obviously Ares needs to do 3 things in life so he doesn’t let his family down: -Date a nice Cypriot girl -Get into a good university -NOT fall in love with his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #BluePit #YA #R #Q
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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#BluePit 🌷Flower Fairy WIP 🧚 🪻 MM Fantasy Romance 🪻 Fairy x Gardener 🪻 Sweet Garden Setting 🪻 Healing and Growing 🪻 Grumpy Fairy 🪻 Patient Gardner 🪻 Love in Many Forms 🪻HEA #📖 #A #F #R #W #LGBT
Flower Fairy WIP - Vibes in Song Form
“Bloom” - The Paper Kites
 
“Wildflower and Barley” - Hozier

“Joy” - Sleeping At Last 

“Solar Waltz” - Cosmo Sheldrake 

“Rainbow” - Dodie

“He Woke Me Up Again” - Sufjan Stevens

“To Build a Home” - The Cinematic OrchestraFlower Fairy WIP - Blurb 
Chicory the Flower Fairy has lived in the garden all on his own for years. And his garden is perfectly fine, thank you very much! It may be a little overgrown, but it’s his home. His solitary existence is disrupted by the arrival of Silas Glenn, a human farmer who wants to “fix” Chicory’s garden. Chicory will have to learn to get along with Silas for the sake of the garden, and perhaps for the sake of his own heart.
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henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛ @hennamarchives.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
PALADIN'S GRACE x EMILY WILDE with the dynamic of maomao and jinshi from THE APOTHECARY DIARIES 💐 tortured pathetic yearner lover boy MMC 💐 meditations on the natural world 💐 exploration of the diaspora experience 💐 commentary on the medical industrial complex #bluepit #📖 #W #A #F #OV #POC
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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
HAZELTHORN X YELLOWJACKETS Lucas, a sullen painter working at his local community theater, must cooperate with Mira, a self-absorbed seventeen-year-old, to save his best friend from the theater’s botanical horrors. #Bluepit #H #SP #Q #YA #Bluepit📖 #📖
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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
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