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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Thank you for the advice! Sounds like I’m off to edits

Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Appreciate this! That’s the advice I was kinda expecting. I still plan on one day getting my first series out but I purposefully planned out others too so I could keep pushing for trad. (Also haven’t given up on the first one yet. She’s just with an editor and I’m bored) Thank you for the advice!

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What would you do? I have two possible projects I could work on. 1- write second book to my currently querying novel 2- start full edits on book one to a different series which is my back up/next query Which one would you work on next? #writingcommunity #advice

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

What’s worse? Writing a Query letter or writing a synopsis?? #writingcommunity #authorproblems

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

“It’s like being wrapped in a stranger’s arms, a hug meant for someone else. Too tight. Too knowing. I’m not who they want. I’m a shape molded to fit a story already in motion. They haven’t chosen me. They chose what I’ve become. What they need.”

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’m thinking about leaning into the themes in my next pitch bc even though it’s romance, it’s really about a girl learning she doesn’t have to follow rules, she can make them. And that sometimes you can only find yourself in your darkest moments. Lmk what yall think. I’m still new to pitches.

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🌷THE LAST OF SPRING “They will forget about you. Mortal lives are fleeting. They will be dead before you hit a quarter of your life.” His words stung, but mine were the truth I clung to like a shield. “It doesn’t matter. They love me.” “Love does not make someone immortal.” #questpit #Q #A #RF

This is the title page for the book. In the background there is a forest ground with leaves and pick flowers. Slightly off center of the ground is a golden crown. In glowing letters across the crown says THE LAST OF SPRING (book title) above that it was “agents guide to” and below the title it says “this isn’t a fairytale.” At the very bottom of the page it explains the stats of the books “a fantasy romance by Willow James. 110k words- now querying”

The background is the same as the title page (all the pages have the same background). In glowing gold at the top it says “the pitch” and then under in white is the pitch. “ When straight-laced Xylia breaks the rules for the first time, she is thrust into the world of the Fae-betrothed to the prince and heir who claims she is the lost princess to the Spring Court. As he surrounds her with lavish affection and distracting balls, she begins to question everything when she meets his younger brother, who reveals a dangerous truth: the crown belongs to her and spring. Now Xylia must choose between the prince who claims to love her, the throne that is her birthright, and the heart that feels like home.”

All pages have the same background as the first. At the top of this page in glowing gold says “the comps”. There are three comps. Going from left to right. FROM BLOOD AND ASH- under it says the reason why it is a comp: “love triangle between two powerful men, political manipulation, & self discovery over time”. Next, RED QUEEN: “hidden royalty, betrayal, rebellion brewing under controlled society” Last, A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES: “seasonal courts, magic systems, mortal to fae transition”

All the backgrounds are the same as the first. At the top in gold glowing letters “the opening”. Below in white letters is the first 3 paragraphs from the opening of the book. “I've never had control of my life. Even now, curling the last section of my hair in front of the mirror, a restless pull whispers that I don't belong here. At any moment, the edges could give way, and I'd be drawn into the life I'm meant to have. Something magical. Something that fits better than... this.
As a kid, I used to daydream I was anything but human. A werewolf. An elf. A fairy. In my more dramatic teenage moments, I even considered running away and hoping a vampire would capture me. Being undead would be easier than being inadequate.
I roll my eyes at my reflection and point the curling iron like a wand. "Stop it, Xylia. Rule two of going out—no beginning the night in a bad mood."”

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star is AGENTED !!! ☆ @starlettsky.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

FAST AND FURIOUS X ROMEO + JULIET (1996) A burnt-out romance author travels to a gang-ruled street racing city for inspiration, but when she falls for the reckless racer guiding her through it, she risks her career, her heart, and her life. #QuestPit #Q #R #A

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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A trafficking survivor turned vigilante stalks Manhattan’s ruins with a sentient flaming machete to rescue girls from a grief-harvesting regime. When she joins a subterranean rebel, her trauma-made-visible glyphs mutate, threatening to remake her into the predator she hunts.🔥 #QuestPit #Q #A #DF

Dark fantasy poster featuring a scarred armored vigilante standing in a flooded tunnel, gripping a flaming machete. A glowing sigil appears on her chest and along her arm. Title reads SCARELLA: THE MACHETE MARAUDERESS with the tagline: “Some things don’t just break you. They remake you.”

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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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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Absolutely! If anything it’ll help make Summer QuestPit even better💕

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Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ok hear me out: AMERICA’s GOT TALENT x PEAKY BLINDERS but with magic (and OCD) Star-crossed lovers—an anxious illusionist and a claustrophobic escape artist—enter a stage magicians competition to win their freedom from their rival crime families. #Q #A #F #RF #QuestPit #revpit ‘25 winner

A 1920s inspired moodboard, with images inside a theatre as well as black and white portraits. The text reads: Myth, Muse, Magician

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

As someone with diagnosed OCD I’m very intrigued to see how that mixes in!

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Nefer Doane @neferdoane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SPELLSHOP x KEEPER OF MAGICAL THINGS Nori can't wait for the Wishing Well to open so she can summon her familiar—but he instantly dislikes her and the Wishing Well stays open. Now they must close it, or a horde of familiars will break through and destroy their seaside town. #QuestPit #W #A #F

A moodboard for adult cozy fantasy, THE WISHING WELL.

From left to right, starting at the top:

- a wishing well
- some lace with tape over it that says THE WISHING WELL
- a teapot
- a tropical island cove
- a black cat
- a forest with flowers
- a stack of books
- cottage window
- holding hands at sunset
- bowl of ramen
- snow drop flowers

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CORPSE BRIDE × 50 FIRST DATES × WARM BODIES A bored immortal mortician resurrects the woman of his dreams—again and again. But love becomes obsession, and she's decaying faster than he can let go. #QuestPit #A #H #R #W

This vertical poster for "The Immortician" features a black-and-white high-contrast composition with gold-toned typography.
Top: The title "The Immortician" is written in a serif font with gold gradients, framed by a black ornamental archway.
Center: A black silhouette of a long-haired figure in a gown stands against a white background. Parts of the silhouette, specifically the head and arms, appear to be disintegrating into small particles.
Middle: Three words—"Love.", "Obsession.", and "Decay."—are spaced horizontally across the center in a black serif font.
bottom: A Novel by B. Van Bodegom

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

May not be getting agent likes, but I’m getting a lot of author friends and I think that makes a successful #questpit

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Author Emily Antoine @emilyantoine.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE PRINCESS BRIDE OF YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN ⌛A neurodivergent sleeping beauty with amnesia 🧬A broody scientist with a family curse He needs her past to secure his future, but falling for her will end them both. A romcom reimagining to die for☠ #Questpit #AG #A #R #SFF

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Autumn Hooper Querying Author @authorautumnhooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#questpit #A #Q #F DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy 105,000 words After a restless hibernation spent cursing the darkness, the darkness in others is now hers to wield. Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth

teeth, fantasy dress, mushrooms, night walk, dark forest, dagger, bear

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Stephanie Writes @stephmarsh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE SUMMONERS - When her father gets caught embezzling from the Consuls of the Roman Empire, his overburdened eldest daughter joins the deadly war college's leadership program to clear his debts.  #QuestPit #W #F

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Good morning QuestPit! Time to catch up on everyone’s posts ❤️

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

❌DON’T be alone at night. ❌DON’T go to the forest on a full moon. ❌DON’T drink the wine. When Xylia breaks the rules and is taken to the Fae, she must decide whether obeying is worth love or to claim the crown that was stolen from her. #questpit #Q #A #RF

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Willow James @author-willowjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HIRED BY BEASTS 🐺 WIP—115k—Supernatural Romance After accidentally saving a wounded werewolf, a fiercely independent vet tech finds herself being drawn into his world-where working and helping his pack means risking her life and falling for someone she can never have. #questpit #W #A #PR #R #F

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

OUABH X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS An orphaned maid races to sea after her bff & a legendary Stone, but a budding romance with the pirate Captain reveals he's tailed by a cruel enemy, and she may have to betray him & her heart before he sacrifices their mission & her bff. #QuestPit #Q #NA #RF

An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy.

Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind.

Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails.

Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto.

Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?”

Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought.

What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words.

How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to.

Would he have regretted her kiss?

“No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”

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📚✨torera | Writer @txrera.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

legendborn x red queen x barbie princess charm school A girl raised in poverty is chosen to train at the royal academy drawing dangerous attention when a forbidden pull to a relic and magic she can’t control threatens to expose a secret not even she knew she had #questpit #W #YA #DF #D #R

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 29/04/2026

When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #QuestPit #W #F #LGBT #YA

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with golems.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocket orrery engraved with runes.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

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Bjorn Klein 📖✒️ @worldsforus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 🎉 Despite vigorous divine objections, our #graphicnovel 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒: 𝐈𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐒 𝐖𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐓 is on shelves today 🌩️ Order your copy: amazon.com/dp/B0GX2CG4FQ Discover the story: blackties.my.canva.site/home Gods. Oversized Egos. Structural rot with a halo. #WritingCommunity #Comics #Blackties ⬇️

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📚✨torera | Writer @txrera.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A Literary Agents Guide To: Fated Fires ✨Slow Burn Sapphic Romance✨ ✨Court Politics with a side of magic✨ ✨Unknown true identity✨ ✨Betrayal ✨ ✨Girlhood!!!!✨ #questpit #W #DF #R #YA

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hello firefly✨ Welcome to An Artistic Deception🏰✨🪄 Complete at 108k words, a new adult romantasy six of crows x a deadly education 😘 Welcome to our #LiteraryAgentGuide for #QuestPit All design is by @aeipathea & character art by @h4mm.iee #Q #R #F #A #QuestPit2026

hello firefly a photo of a the author literary agent guide

When the six kingdoms prestigious magic school announces a formidable trial promising freedom and noble status, Tehtte’s most notorious assassin Agni enters an uneasy alliance with her second worst nightmare: her childhood bane and the city’s Lionheart Knight—Fala.

Now, surviving her penultimate year is the least of her worries. Agni is still drowning in her failure of an ancient prophecy, running from the monsters her people became, and trying to hide from a king hell bent on finding her. As the realms brace for the perilous trials, Agni is confronted with a haunting question: is her prophecy’s fulfillment still yet to come, and is her heart truly hers to lose?

agni ain’t no war like the class war

fala women want me fish fear me showing character art

romantasy - arcana academy
ensemble cast - six of crows
deadly magic school - a deadly education
visual world inspiration - witch hat atelier
right person wrong time - frown
reimagined fantasy races - dungeon meshi

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

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Annabeth @annabethwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ANASTASIA X THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT A lost celestial princess enters mythical trials for the crown, only to fall for the shadow rival who threatens her claim. VIBES🖤 ✨Light X Dark ✨Elemental magic ✨Slow burn ✨Trials ✨Found family ✨Murder conspiracy ✨YEARNING #QuestPit #Q #A #RF

First image of agents guide for romantasy The Moon Also Rises

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Angie is ✨querying✨ @angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

To escape her cursed town, Tayah must rewrite fate with a cursed carpenter and her sentient house or else become Ravensford’s next forgotten name 🏠Encanto + Crimson Peak vibes ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn Forbidden Romance 🏛️F*ck the Patriarchy 📜Religious Trauma #AgentsGuide #Q #FR #QuestPit

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

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. 🤸 #amquerying #questpit #Q #R

Cover with acrobats titled “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.

List of tropes including rivals to lovers, found family, and only one bed

List of comp titles including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

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Amy Dehaas @amywrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A true-crime producer returns home to film a series on an unsolved serial killer case. When a new body turns up and threats hit her doorstep, she uncovers secrets linking the murders to her own past. What began as a docuseries is now a fight to survive her own story. #Questpit #Q #A #T #MY

Collage of six images. Image, one scattered police files and crime scene photos, image two, a White House with a red roof beside a lake with pine trees behind it, a Ouija board and tarot cards, and an overgrown cemetery with old headstones, crime scene tape. Text overlay reads: “She built a career unearthing other people’s secrets. Her own wouldn’t stay buried.”

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EvelynHail, PhD @evelynhail.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."

A graphic titled "The Comps" in golden lettering. It displays four book covers arranged in a grid: "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli, "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros, "Shadow and Bone" by Leigh Bardugo, and "The Witcher: The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.

A self-made fantasy illustration showing a halfway transformed, dark-haired man, Prince Konstantin Veliki, with a silver crown and dragon wings. He is carrying a woman, a humble servant Iva, masquerading as a Duchess Zora, in a long, flowing cream-colored gown as they fly through the air. She is his guest but unbeknownst to him, she is plotting to poison him. In the background, a sprawling forest surrounds a magic academy, Kolegium with colorful, traditional Slavic-style onion domes—gold, silver, bronze and green. Each of the domes represents air, water, fire and earth magic respectively. Snippet text at the bottom reads: "Do you always sequester your guests and take flight with them?"

A self-made illustration set in the catacombs under the magic academy, Kolegium, featuring classical-style statues on the walls. Iva, in dark armor, rides a bright, light blue-scaled dragon; it is Prince Konstantin Veliki in his dragon form.
They face off against a monstrous, ethereal shadow dragon composed of wispy, black smoke and glowing eyes — this is Konstantin’s fallen father Tibor Veliki. A brilliant golden sphere of light, relic of the Slavic god of light, Belobog, called Spark of Creation, floats on a pedestal between them. Text at the bottom of the snippet reads: "Let us dance, little one," the Shadow Dragon hisses in a dry whisper of the fallen. "A worthy foe," Konstantin responds. We take to the air to meet the darkness. Two gargantuan winged silhouettes hover in the abyss, suspended in a precarious balance. They mirror one another; two sides of the same coin, champions of Belobog and Chernobog.

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Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 108k NA Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance ✔️ Cosy Romance + Deadly Stakes #Q #NA #A #RF #F #R #QuestPit

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pumped to pitch ETERNALLY DEAD - my 107k paranormal romantic fantasy that explores what happens when an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm 🧛‍♂️ 🩸🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q #amquerying

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 107k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

Red and black background with red text at the top that reads "the blurb." The text below reads: Celia Sharpe's life-long dream of being a rockstar guitarist ended the day an accident wrecked her hand. Now a New York City concert photographer, she strictly focuses on making deadlines. But when Celia spots a mysterious stranger at a concert she can’t capture on camera, she abandons her job to follow him down an alley—only to be accidentally transported to the Vampire Realm.

Stranded and vulnerable in a world of dangerous monsters, Celia has one goal: return home ASAP. But the stranger she followed reveals that he's the bassist of all-vampire rock band Mortuus Aeternum (Eternally Dead), and he offers her a seductive opportunity: if Celia stays, the band's flirty guitarist Caliban will temporarily heal her hand so she can join Mortuus Aeternum. However, she must perform for audiences of blood-thirsty vampires, of course.

Trapped in the Vampire Realm with no way out, Celia is conflicted: she might be willing to sacrifice her freedom for Caliban's healing magic and a second chance at living her rockstar dreams, but she risks death if she doesn't find a way home. Especially when blood shortages are announced across the Vampire Realm. How will she survive?

Red and black background with a bright red title that reads THE COMPS. Below are four book covers and one movie poster that include brief descriptions beside them. The first is Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London and it's described as an urban fantasy in a vampire setting. Next is Bride by Ali Hazelwood, described as having a steamy romance and political intrigue. Next is The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, described as having a human fighting to survive in a vampire world. Next is a movie poster for Almost Famous, described as music journalist + rock band = forced proximity. Last is the cover of Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, described as having a rock band with secrets and love triangles. The tropes and vibes section includes the following text: grounded fantasy, found family, diverse characters, plot twists, chronic illness rep, slow burn yearning, and twist on fated mates.

Red and black background with white text snd large red title that reds THE OPENING. Below the title is the opening of the book, which reads: Celia Sharpe slammed her palm against the closed subway doors, trying to pry open the cool metal with sweaty fingertips. The train had finally – finally – made it to the station, and she needed to get off. Now. When the doors opened at long last, she burst through them like a bat out of hell, charging towards the exit.
She couldn't miss the opening of this show, or it might be her last.

Below the opening is the word EXCERPT in large red letters, and below is text in white font. The following excerpt reads:
Caliban knelt beside her and took her hand, her breath hitching at his touch. A warm sensation transferred between his fingertips and her scar, a tingling feeling moving up her whole arm. She pulled back on instinct.
“What did you do?” she trembled, awestruck. The scar had vanished.
“It’s only temporary. Please play,” he said, his green eyes wanting.
The pain was gone. Gone. As if it had never been there at all. Her left hand curved around the guitar neck, hugging the strings. Overcome by the magic of it, Celia grinned.

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Jenni - Fantasy Romance Author ✨️ @authorjbecker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NA Dark Romantasy ✨️ 7 deadly sins x Fourth Wing 🕯 secret identity x deadly stakes 🌑 dark academia - It's kill or be killed to graduate 🔥 Female rage ❤️‍🔥 rivals-to-lovers ♥️ found family ⚔️ misfits with mental powers 🪦 morally grey characters #QuestPit #F #A #NA #RF #Q

Found family, female rage, secret identity, dark academia

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lia ☁️ is querying @brantleywrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

GOD OF THE WOODS x THE PROJECT meets OUTER BANKS When 17yo Shiloh gets pregnant, her politician father kidnaps her to protect his campaign, and she must hold onto her right to choose before it’s taken from her for good. #questpit #YA #Q #C #T

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Christian Oxford @christianoxford.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE LESSER SOUL 💰A Heist Gone Awry 🗣️Witty Banter 🧠Two Souls Sharing One Body ⏰A Protagonist Running Out of Time #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

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Margot Miller @margotmiller15.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When board-game-obsessed Skye Hollis is sent to a behavior-modification boarding school for “problematic” teens, she discovers the academy secretly drains students’ blood to extend the lives of the wealthy, and must outplay the system before becoming their next victim. #questpit #Q #YA

Boarding school with the title LET THE PLAYERS BLEED

Comp titles including the cover of The Girls I’ve Been and Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Themes and Tropes with two dices on the bottom right.

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Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A woman awakens the soul in a magic mirror that was never meant to love and becomes the only reason he does, while the scholar courting her hunts relics like the mirror. LIGHT IN THE DEEP—a romantic fantasy for readers who crave slow-burn romance and lush, folkloric fantasy. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

A moodboard for Light in the Deep by Kimberly Bridges. A collage of nine images arranged in three columns against a misty forest background. Left column, top to bottom: a pale hand pressed against a dark glass mirror; intense light blue eyes partially obscured by mist; an ornate silver-framed mirror with a glowing, runic surface. Center column, top to bottom: a greenhouse interior; a young woman with long red-gold hair walking into a lush green forest; the title "Light in the Deep" and author name "Kimberly Bridges" in elegant serif font; ancient stone carved with runes. Right column, top to bottom: two hands barely touching; a close-up of a man's dimpled smile; a stack of worn books with a floral teacup on top.

A book pitch graphic for Light in the Deep by Kimberly Bridges, white text on a semi-transparent dark green background, set against a mossy forest. Text reads:

“Elowen Estaran has spent her life struggling with the nature magic her family wields with ease. She turns to the ruins in the woods, whispering her secrets to them, knowing they can’t answer.

Until one does.

Elowen discovers an ancient mirror and awakens the voice within: Caelum, an enchanted construct created without selfhood. When Elowen insists he is more than a relic and treats him as a person, Caelum develops a dawning sense of self.

Their bond grows in secret as her dormant magic stirs and Caelum learns to long for her in return—until she realizes her charming suitor Gwydion’s order hunts ancient relics like Caelum.

Elowen must choose between the man who offers her the world and the reflection who offers her truth. But Gwydion's order doesn't just want Caelum studied. They would strip him of his humanity to harvest his power. And her secrecy is the only thing keeping Caelum alive.”

A book comps graphic for Light in the Deep by Kimberly Bridges, set against a dark forest background with mossy ancient ruins visible at the bottom and misty light filtering through the trees at the top. A semi-transparent dark green text block at the top reads "Light in the Deep" in elegant serif font, with the subtitle "109k Character-Driven Romantic Fantasy standalone with series potential." Below are four book covers in a row, each with a descriptive label above. Left to right: "Ancient magic, living secrets in the woods" above the cover of Uprooted by Naomi Novik; "Enchanted soul, slow-burn heat and humor" above the cover of Swordheart by T. Kingfisher; "Folkloric academia, dry first person narration" above the cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett; "Magical self-discovery, impossible romance" above the cover of Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross. Below the covers, italic script text reads: "He was light and magic and I was flesh and blood. We were more than that too, but reality wouldn't let me reach for anything else."

A book quote graphic for Light in the Deep by Kimberly Bridges, white text on a semi-transparent dark green background, set against a dark forest with light filtering through tall trees. Text reads:

“Your presence brings a brightness the lantern cannot replace. But there is still a spark of you within it, and I am no longer alone in the dark.”

His words stirred through me like roots moving beneath the surface.
I knelt before the mirror, heart pounding, and pressed both palms to the glass.

“I’ve always wanted you to be in the light with me, Caelum.”

The glass shimmered, blooming with a sudden brilliance.
“If I could be with you in the light, if I could be more … I would choose it. For you.”

A shiver threaded down my spine. He felt impossibly close.
“You already are more. You can be anything you want. I’ve always believed in you.”

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

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 once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Third Graphic:

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.

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
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And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

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AMaskley @amaskley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NATURAL NEON // ALTERED CARBON x STATION ELEVEN Miami, 2097: An illegal neural mod tears open a door between lifetimes, and something ancient is ready to consume not just Londyn's soul, but the fabric of reality itself. #AgentsGuide #QuestPit #A #Q #S

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