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Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE SUN DIAMOND PRINCESS & THE BLIND ASSASSIN #questpit #Q #A #RF 👸Bi-racial #BIPOC FMC 👨‍🦯Blind #Disabled MMC 🛌One bed at the shepherd's hut 💔Triangle between love and duty 🌲Pining, slow burn 🌶️Spice 💍HEA with a wedding

Moodboard.
Text in central square:
The Sun Diamond Princess & the Blind Assassin
106K Adult Dual POV Stand Alone Romantasy by Elise Betz

Images: Windswept tree by a grray rocky coast, character art of Myra and Arzhang standing face to face, Rocky coast of warm, eastern Mediterranean city by blue waters, Castle across a long bridge, a carriage followed by armed men on horseback, character art of Arzhang pinning the emperor down with a knife to his throat, character art of Princess Myra in a shredded white gown with a sword/cane, holding hands with Arzhang in court dress and the emperor standing behind them in formal military blue dress, character art of Princess Myra in her leather breastplate sword practice gear.

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Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

LEGALLY BLONDE X B.K. BORISON'S GOOD SPIRITS A first-year public defender for sorcerers must help her newest client prove his innocence without accidentally falling in love with him. rep: WEAVER LITERARY #QuestPit #OS #A #F #R

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Mel | Querying Author @msad3.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Mae never meant to take a life, only a name. Now, trapped in a space-bound program, she must survive deadly trials, fight alternate versions of herself, and keep her secret hidden. But Nexxus is watching. And reality itself unravels. #QuestPit #T #SF #A #Q #POC #rivalstolovers

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Victoria Jansen @vickiewrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🗡️An apprentice assassin. 😈Her crime lord mentor. ☠️A criminal syndicate lurking in the catacombs. Skyler is entangled in a mutiny that could destroy everything she holds dear. She must thwart the plot to save her surrogate father, her home, and her future as a master assassin. #YA #F #Q #Questpit

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Clare Donnelly @claredonnelly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🌊 ALL THE SEAS AND SHADOWS 🌊 A privileged girl uncovers the secrets behind a magical smuggling ring in exchange for help escaping an enforced engagement. 🤍 Young Adult Fantasy 🤍 Folklore-faithful Irish Lore 🤍 Sapphic Longing 🤍 Found Family #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #amquerying

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SAPPHIC DOWNTON ABBEY X GOT After a messy situationship with a royal, Alys wanted to stay away from his world until he ends up dead. Hired to find his killer, Alys finds herself navigating poisonous politics, dangerous magic, and a growing attraction to a princess. #Questpit #A #F #W

Two women ready to kiss. A daytime field. A red skirt. A house. A woman. A tree.

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Lacey Olson @laceywithane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE CRUELEST DETAIL, Mystery/Suspense, 72k A millennial folklorist inherits her aunt's final obsession—a decades-old missing persons case wrapped in local lore—and discovers a second disappearance has reopened a mystery someone in the Ozarks will kill to keep buried. #questpit #q #a #my #t

The Comps, The God of the Woods + A House with Good Bones

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Earth is recovering from agricultural collapse. Scientists travel to another planet in hopes of a compatible soil microbiome. Only Izzy finds herself not just studying soil, but thrown into Tzio’s labor organizing. 💜 ace rep 🔥 slow burn 🦎 cat-sized geckos 🐓 chickens in space #QuestPit #W #A #SF

Green background with light green text. Photos of: barren fields, a galaxy, custom art by croverfield of a green alien, green fields

Text:

WORK IN PROGRESS:
THE NEW FARMER’S ALMANAC FOR EXOPLANETS

Isabel Meyer
Agronomist
Unit 5

File folders: soil samples / almanac archive / chickens 101 / ütska dictionary

Objectives: study soil to ensure viability for implantation on earth / learn from native farmers / keep chickens alive

Planet name: Mtskhütska
Alien name: Tzamarkh

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

DUNGEONS & DRAMA x THE EDGE OF 17 when the new kid takes 1st chair, 17y/o trumpeter Julissa fake dates him to impress her drifting friends and teams up with her childhood rival Logan to sabotage him for their chairs back—only to realize Logan might be the one she’s falling for #questpit #YA #R #AG

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For a peek at my current WIP, VILLAGE WIP is a witchy, sapphic gothic horror where the Salem Witch Trials and a certain Greek myth merge. #QuestPit #W #Gothic #H #Horroromance

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mary @mbcottrell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE MARBLE GARDEN✨🌿🏛️ SECRET GARDEN X PIRANESI Silas unwittingly enters a magic garden and becomes entangled in an ancient power struggle between the being who controls all life in the garden and the garden itself. Silas tries to escape as his mind slowly turns against him. #Questpit #YA #F #H #Q

YA, crossover, Horror-fantasy, comps: Don’t Let the Forest In, Lapvona, Tokyo Ghoul, Piranesi

One sentence pitch: Silas unwittingly enters a magic garden and becomes entangled in an ancient power struggle between the being who controls all life in the garden and the garden itself, Silas is increasingly desperate to escape as his mind slowly turns against him.

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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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Alexandra Alafair @sangrescribe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Hunger Games × American Horror Story A rejected wolf-pack heir is committed to an arcane asylum, where inmates battle in an underground Colosseum—and every victory adds another life to her body count. #QuestPit #amquerying #ownvoices

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sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. 📖 Pride & Prejudice x 🐦‍⬛ Howl's Moving Castle x 🪷 Graceling #Questpit #Q #YA #HFR #F #RF #HF #R #HR

A woman with large black wings attached to her shoulder blades.
Text: Pluck by Sierra Moeykens. Pride & Prejudice x Howl's Moving Castle x Graceling

An illustrated lady in a Regency era dress with large black wings over a ballroom background.

Text: The Pitch
Nineteen-year-old Lucy Korvas has worse problems than complying with high society’s tedious etiquette — she must steal a diamond necklace from the Duchess of Thistal, or her cursed father will perish.
In an alternate, magical Regency era where ladies and gentlemen with improper magic are shunned from high society, Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow wings beneath her dresses for years, but tonight she risks exposing them to save her cursed father. She needs that diamond necklace to afford his cure. How dastardly it is, then, when she discovers soft-spoken Lord Simon pilfering his own mother’s jewelry first.
But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, Lucy slowly transforms into a crow and Simon starts dissolving into flower petals. Lucy must find a cure while posturing as the presentable, composed lady that she isn't before she loses her cursed father, the shy gentleman she's becoming smitten with, and her humanity.

Three transparent symbols, a heart, a scroll, and a banner, with lists in each symbol. The background is a photo of white feathers.

Text: Romance. Slow-burn & Yearning. Cinnamon Roll x Chaotic Flirt. Touch-Starved. He Falls First. Historical. Witty Regency banter. Literal Ladybird (she's transforming into a crow). Dukes, Duchesses, and Pirates. Fantasy. Repressed Magic. Curses. Magical flowers with restorative properties.

Three book covers with an arrow under each of them describing their properties. The background is a photo of a lotus.

Text: Comps. A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Dry humor and witty voice. Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Accessible, creative world-building & magic. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. Regency romance with an abundance of yearning.

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

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M.B.Taylor - Fantasy Author @mbolt89.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BRIDGERTON X PRACTICAL MAGIC with the mystery and amateur sleuth vibes of ENOLA HOLMES When witches start disappearing from the Ton, Seraphina must unravel the mystery before she looses her reputation, her magical tea parlour and her missing best friend Primrose, forever. #SFF #W #MY #A #questpit

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FLEABAG X MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES A librarian moonlights as a camgirl, but when someone from her past finds her and threatens to expose her, she’s at risk of more than being known; she could be labeled like the banned books kept from the shelves. Disclaimer: slut. #QuestPit #Q #A #LF #R

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MONK & ROBOT X EMILY WILDE When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down her hero's fabled garden with the help of an archaic engineer—but secret origins and disillusionment lurk between hard drives and petals. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby LI #QuestPit #W #A #SF #R

Floral background with the text Mending Glass. By Florrie Auclair. Solarpunk Romantic Sci-Fi

Character portrait of a blond woman making a heart with her hands. Juniper Penrose. An archivist specializing in botany. She idolizes the old world botanist, Miriam, who helped lead the resistance centuries ago. Optimistic and a little reckless, she seeks to uncover the past and find Miriam’s garden. Her drive to help people, sometimes comes at her own expense—like the reason for the mechanical leg she now cherishes.

Next to that is a character portrait of a nonbinary character with light blue eyes and duotone hair in black and blonde. Eli Winter. An aloof engineer who specializes in old world infrastructure programming trying to prove their skills are just as important as the nouveau programmers of the city. They leave their home and grandfather to help Juni break into archaic servers and hard drives—and often pull her out of trouble.

Comp slide with Horizon Zero Dawn, Emily Wildes, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Violet Evergarden, and Fruits Basket. The text pointing at the various media are Ruins of a fallen industrial world, Solarpunk, Flower Motifs, Traveling to help others and find self discovery, Joyful but melancholic character connections, and Sunshine MC x Sunshine Protector

Data is as fragile as flower petals. That’s why Juniper, an archivist in a recovering solarpunk world, wants to immortalize the past in the Glass Archives. Safe from time’s decay, unlike the archaic hard drives of the old world. Specifically, information on her hero, Miriam, a botanist who legend says grew a garden of resistant plants—ones that could survive the blight ravaging their crops. But to find it, Juniper will need the help of Eli, an engineer who specializes in old world technology. Together they traverse ruins and follow a trail of flower language from village to village to unearth what led to the dark age of information. But Juniper starts to question her identity when they uncover that the woman she modeled herself after was not the hero she believed.

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Bibiana Ossai @bibianaossai.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Threads that Bind x The Invocations After Chiasoka witnesses her parents’ murder, she decides to get revenge on those responsible. Along the way, she learns that comes from a line of women who are gifted with a healing ability. #questpit #YA #DF #Q #F

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Whispering Muse X GOTHIC Bridgerton A bookish beauty dons a new identity to flee an unwanted engagement and discovers an unexpected attraction to her new employer, but her sadistic fiancé and his potentially homicidal cousin threaten to snuff out their romance. #QuestPit #Q #A #Gothic #HR #R

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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

A fake case file lays open. On the left side of the folder is a sketch of a girl with a sticky note beside it that reads: “Emma Bridge is believed to have cut her hair. Police sketch artists have taken a guess at what she may look like now.” Under it is a map of all US railroads with another sticky note that reads: “Last seen in California, current whereabouts unknown. An anonymous tip reports she has made it out of the state.” Under that, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out, replaced with the name Peyton Freys.

On the right side of the folder is a clipping of newspaper that reads: “Hollywood’s Beloved Missing” with the date 4/13/1996 below it. Text on the page reads: “What we know: YA Contemporary (with mystery and romance), 82k words” “Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media” “Runaway in hiding, fake identity (turned real identity), mental health rep, genderfluid and pan rep, found family, 90s small-town nostalgia.”  
A block of text reads: “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.”

Finally, a stamp says “On sub soon”

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k 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.

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Clare Donnelly @claredonnelly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Madelyn Starr @madelynstarr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

All the wives that came before Rhian are dead. ✨ fairy tale retelling 💍 marriage of convenience 👻 haunted house 🏔️ remote setting 🧵 unique magic system 🕯️ gothic & horror elements #QuestPit #Q #A #F #Gothic

An Agent’s Guide to Maiden & Serpent
102k Adult Gothic Fantasy
“Bluebeard” Retelling

The Pitch

All the wives that came before Lady Rhian are dead. Her new husband is older, thrice widowed, and a notorious merchant, and that's all she knows about him when he sweeps her off to his opulent castle in a remote village. When she arrives at his home, deep in the mountains and far from her family, she receives no welcome: the villagers view her with suspicion and her husband ignores her.
In her husband's house, she's drawn to remnants of his late wives. Their ghosts follow her, reminding her that she's a replacement. As she forces her way into the community, she uncovers its greatest secret: magic still exists there, even after it was drained from the rest of the world. And though Rhian can use the magic, it may be more of a curse than a gift.
Mages go missing, and those that are left give more of themselves to replenish the magic in the land before it's lost forever. Rhian's newfound power exhausts her, but she feels pressure to help the entrenched community even as it rejects her. Both fascinated by and jealous of her, her husband finally shows an interest in their marriage. When winter comes, blocking the roads with snow and cutting her off completely, she must balance her growing feelings for him with uncovering the dark truths behind his wealth, the missing Mages, and the ghosts that dog her every step.

For fans of:
The Knight and the Moth - Gothic Atmosphere
The Death of Jane Lawrence - Haunted Houses
A River Enchanted - Remote, Magical Settings
Crimson Peak - Maidens with Candelabras

Playlist & Mood (with album artwork)

"Girls Against God" by Florence + the Machine
"In the Woods Somewhere" by Hozier
"The Tradition" by Halsey
"Killer" by Phoebe Bridgers
"Before I Ever Met You" by BANKS
"If I Die" by Jade Bird

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Pierre Sylvestre @psylvestre.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

♠️ACE OF SPADES X THE HOUSEMAID🏠 NO LOVE IN THIS CITY is a fast-paced YA Thriller featuring: 👩A morally gray female protagonist 🤯Shocking twists 🏡Elements of domestic suspense 🌆 A gritty fictional city setting 💕Romance 🔪Intense action #Questpit #Q #YA #T #M

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L. D. Rex is Querying @ldrexauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An elderly woman and her Vietnam vet husband hold many secrets. She is worried about her neighbor who drinks too much and leaves her kids unattended. But someone is watching them..... #Questpit #Q #A #S #T

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Nosey Neighbor Peeking Over Fence

Alt: Nosey Neighbor Peeking Over Fence

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Eleni Moros @elenimoros.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

⚽ BLIND TO YOU ⚽ 👨‍❤️‍👨 MM Sports Romance 🥰 Slowburn: Teammates to Soulmates 😻 Black Cat x Golden Retriever 😰 Trauma + Therapy: Anxiety & PTSD Rep 🏳️‍🌈 Queernorm World #questpit #Q #A #R #lgbt

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Tristin Clark 🥀 #QuestPit Pinned! @tristinclark.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My #agentsguide to GRIMVALE 🌊 Zodiac Academy X Blood Of Hercules X Wednesday (tv show) ✨Magical Academy 💕Fated Mates 🩸Touch Her/Him And Die ❤️‍🔥Villain/Hero Love Dynamic #QuestPit #W #A #R #DR #PR

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Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🚨 UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE 🚨 A fragment from Sgt. Maj. Annastasia's psychological evaluation has been recovered from the GAMA Intelligence archive 🗃️ Consider this an accidental leak 🫢 ✒️ I've also opened The Archive - my email list 🫡 Access via: tinyurl.com/terezamaze #QuestPit #Q #A #RF #SFF

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L Herman @gohermanator.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Jake, a closeted NFL quarterback who doesn’t know how to be himself, falls for Victor, the NHL veteran who hides his heart too well. 🏈 MM Sports Romance 🏒 football/hockey 🏈 Meet Cute #QuestPit #Q #A #R

Collage of a book cover, black and white photographs and a google search.

Book covers featuring a blue watercolor painting. Various tropes including MM character driven romance.

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Kourtney Howell is querying 👻 @kourtneyrhowell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

HE HAUNTS ME NOT When a seance turns into a hauntingly beautiful love story 👻🖤 DEAD ROMANTICS x JUST LIKE HEAVEN 🖤Forced Proximity 🤍Human x Ghost Lovers 🖤Seances 🤍Witty Banter 🖤Gothic Elements 🤍Found Family #Q #questpit #A #R #PR

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Mickey Black @authormickeyblack.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I heard you were looking for a dystopian fairytale, set in Appalachia, with a healthy amount of yearning and Robin Hood Vibes. Say no more… #QuestPit #P #NA #D

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Elia doesn't want to take holy orders. But after he enters the convent, his visions are confirmed when a murderer begins to move through Venice. THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH X ANATOMY A LOVE STORY: #Questpit #W #YA #H #HF #LGBT #WIP coming to the query trenches

A banner for Elia in Isola, Young adult, Gothic horror, venice 1600s, and a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, as well as the grand canal, as well as the caption querying soon. red tulips are in the background.

A banner for Elia in Isola. Comparative titles, showing The Starving Saints, "otherworldly occurrences in a claustrophobic historical setting," The Spirit Bares Its Teeth: Historical Fiction: trans man must hide his identity and his gifts to survive in a hostile world, anatomy: gothic setting with anatomy and medical history at the center of the mystery and in the background, an oil painting of the grand canal

A banner for Elia in Isola, The pitch, oil painting of boats in the grand canal. red tulips are in the background. Elia has always been plagued with ecstatic, disturbing visions. It doesn’t help that he’s secretly transmasculine. Either way, he is an embarrassment to his Venetian family- and thus, ineligible for marriage. When he turns sixteen, his parents give him over to the convent.

But it is Carnival, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls.

Then he stops to speak to the masked Rosalina, and discovers that someone has been murdering young women like his new friend. He’s been told his whole life he needs to be less. Now, as a cloaked presence moves through the convent by night and the murderer strikes close to home, he might have to attract attention to draw out the murderer, to save Rosalina, the other novices- and himself.

A banner for Elia in Isola, first line, oil painting of boats in the grand canal. red tulips are in the background. The quote: On his last day of freedom, Elia Malesco watched the dawn bathe Venice in its pale tones and wondered if he'd ever see his beloved city again.

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Catie Stroud ✨ @ladystroud.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FOR METTLE & MOSS is a gender-swapped A Knight’s Tale set on a sky island where tournaments are replaced with ruthless, Survivor-style trials. A cynical lady knight and an anxious lord must stop their world from falling… while resisting falling for each other. 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕 #questpit #A #RF #Q

For Mettle & Moss is a 108,000-word, dual-POV adult fantasy romance standalone. The background shows lightning striking across a dark sky and the tagline says “Caledin could fall from the sky. Fate* has chosen them to stop it. (*Fate has a terrible sense of humor)”

The pitch: An anxious lord and a cynical knight have three moons to succeed in a series of trials to keep their utopian sky island home from falling—and to keep from falling for each other. Another tagline: If they fail, they fall. The background shows a marble bust of a woman against a black backdrop.

Comps include: The Everlasting and The Knight and the Moth (for lady knights), The Games Gods Play (for chaotic gods), Survivor and Shar’s Gauntlet in BG3 (for unique trials), The Comedy of Errors and A Knight’s Tale (for vibes), and sounds like Sleep Token’s This Place Will Become Your Tomb album. Background is a knight in shining armor against a black backdrop.

Tropes include forced proximity, he falls first, she falls harder, one bed, idiots to lovers, fate versus agency, reverse bodyguard (she is the strong one). A quote from the novel: “We’ve had to be twice as tough to be seen as half as good.” The background is a man’s hands, with ringed fingers, against a black backdrop.

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🌿✨beth✨🌿 @elizanane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🩸QUEERPLATONIC BEAUTY & THE BEAST x JENNIFER’S BODY🩸 In a forested town, a doomed codependency festers between a heart-eating monster desperate to become human and its vengeful, obsessive hunter. 🥩surrealism + madness 🪱plant-body horror 🥀ONE MUST DIE Querying SOON! #questpit #a #df #f #q

This title slide features two orchids on a black background as its backdrop image. Above it, the text reads FEED ME YOUR ORGANIC HEART in yellow and red text. In white text, below the title, it also reads, 'adult psych-horror contemporary fantasy, 85,000 words' in white lettering.

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The title of the slide reads, PITCH, in neon red lettering, on the same orchid background. The pitch text, in yellow and white letters, read: To become human, a genderfluid, eldritch monster in disguise must seek, charm, and devour the beating heart of one who truly loves them... but it gains the eyes of its vengeful, obsessive hunter instead. As bodies pile and madness takes hold, the two must either die in their struggle for survival or live the torment of finding themselves in the one they're destined to murder.

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The title of the slide reads, COMPS, in neon red lettering. The covers of 5 novels are shown. The novels included are: The Fox and the Devil, The Tainted Cup, The Eyes Are the Best Part, The Summer Hikaru Died, and Vicious.

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The title of this slide reads, TROPES, in neon red lettering. 10 tropes are listed on this slide in white and yellow lettering. The listed tropes read: surrealism + stalking + OBSESSION, nightmarish plant visions, descent into madness, genderfluid, ugly forest monster w/ beautiful guise, aro-ace vengeful hunter, doomed, all-consuming codependency, they're both 'monsters' that don't fit in, deadly game of cat & mouse, quiet, forested town setting, botanical body horror (allegory for twisted adoration).

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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF

Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
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.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Black cat x golden retriever
Yearning
Bisexual awakening
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
Only one bed
Opposites attract
Gothic decadence
Big spooky house
Exploration of grief
Horror as a metaphor
Dreams-based magic
The occult
Alternate London setting
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.

It was a poet’s job to seek out beauty, to be mesmerised by it. Darshil wanted to transform Rowan into swirls of ink, to fit his hands into the slight dips where Rowan’s waist met his hips and write him a thousand times over.

The only thing more fascinating than death was the tormented living it left behind.
It helped to hate him. It was less painful than loving him.
The dead thing woke to the acrid stench of its own rot.
Rowan matched him tenderness for tenderness, giving everything he could and knowing that for once, his everything was enough.
Perhaps closing his eyes stopped it meaning anything. Darshil knew he should do the same. This was shame beyond anything else, a secret to take to the unloving grave.
He kept his eyes open anyway. With Rowan beneath him, as beautiful as the dawn, he couldn’t bear to look away.

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Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A DEADLY EDUCATION x NANCY DREW What if the chosen one failed, and the only one who could save him was a magic school reject? NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy with dark academia and dystopian elements #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #MY #D

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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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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 Academy

THE 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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autumn @autumnandersen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🐶 Man’s Last Friend 🐶 Olive adopts a dog. By the next morning, it’s the last dog on earth. #questpit #q #a #u

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Carrie Stewart @carriejay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Wasteland Silo x Squid Game x The Ones We’re Meant to Find 🌎 A dying Earth 👩👩 Two sisters in an underground prison 🎲 A competition for freedom 😱 A family secret that could save them both #YA #D #Q #Questpit

Collage of 6 images in black and white. Top left is a mountain, right a cracked desert floor. Middle left a knife on a tree stump. Right two children with pigtails walking away from the camera hand in hand. Bottom left a dying tree, right a stone staircase to the sky.

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When his elf supremacist cousin threatens war, Letyf must confront his traumatic past on a world-saving quest—but he's up against Lia, a world-hopping demon with a reputation to uphold and plenty of lives under her belt. 🧠 Anxious MC 🗡️ Cynical FMC 🤝 Enemies to Allies 💜 Ace Rep #Q #A #SFF #QuestPit

A mood board featuring rich purples and faded blues. Images include art of Link from BOTW, with the tagline "Gentle Protagonist", Blackbird by Mezamero with the tagline "Unhinged FMC", a fantasy battle by Dongbiao Lu, two people running through the dark woods, and photography of a rocky valley.

WEB TRAVELER - Adult Epic Sci-Fantasy, 129k, Series Potential.

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Annabeth @annabethwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE HATING GAME X STRANGE FAMILIARS When a phoenix egg mysteriously hatches, a chaotic cryptozoologist must team up with the polished rival standing between her and her dream job to uncover who‘s hunting its fire before her career — and the museum she loves — go up in flames. #QuestPit #WIP #RF #A

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Julie Moss @julieanneslibrary.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hi #Questpit! Welcome to BREAKING THE BLUEPRINT, an 88k word Contemporary Romance novel Rival architects become unexpected roommates when their boss sentences them to a project across the country to prove they can work together. 📚The Love Hypothesis x And Now, Back to You #Q #R #A

Unofficial movie poster for the contemporary romance book, Breaking the Blueprint, showing rival coworkers arguing over a conference table.

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L. D. Rex is Querying @ldrexauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A boy falls through a hole while ice fishing and is saved by his fourteen-year-old Granddad in 1963; a stranger from the present confronts him at a county fair, but he wants to stay to have adventures with his healthy granddad, because the one at home is sick. #Questpit #MG #ADV #CON #F #CAN

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Ice Fishing Is Here!

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A.E. Fairfax @aefairfax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hello Bluesky World! I'm sure it looks shady that I’ve never posted before today, but I joined for #questpit! I'm a fantasy romance writer with 3 finished books & 3 more on the way. Read the first chapters of each on aefairfax.com. I'd love to hear what you’re pitching today!

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Catie Stroud ✨ @ladystroud.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE EVERLASTING x THE GAMES GODS PLAY 🌙 clairvoyant mistresses 🏝️ sky island setting 🗡️ fierce lady knights 💚 green flag MMC 🔥 the god of chaos is hot 👑 emotional damage but make it funny early readers: “you’re a very mean author lol” “fast-paced and fun, couldn’t put it down” #questpit #Q #A #RF

Background image is lightning against a dark sky. For Mettle & Moss is a 108k adult fantasy romance standalone. This is a guide to the setting and characters.

This setting slide features an artist drawn map of Caledin. Think sky islands à la Zelda: TotK.

This slide features character art of Marian Moss, a cynical and sharp-tongued lady knight who loves whiskey and her horse, Clementine.

This slide features character art of Jameson Loxley, the anxious young lord of Caledin. He is a scholar, an artist, and a stuttering mess.

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