iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Haley Patricia @haleypatricia.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Alexandra is a fire who won’t burn out until she and her friends literally go up in flames. They have one month in the past as ghosts to fix the mistakes that lit the match & catch their killer. But someone’s rewriting history and only one of them can return to life. #PosterPit

In exactly one month, three of us will burn again.
Only one will survive, and no bets are on my train wreck ass.
Unless I fix what my fire burnt.

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Anja Bohlman is querying 🌒🌕🌘 @anjabohlman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

ANGELS BEFORE MAN x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER ☀️ Biblical & Hellenic mythologies 🌙 prophetic & necromantic magic systems ☀️ women in armor & fallen angels & sirens 🌙 physically disabled & nonverbal protagonists ☀️ trans-femme & sapphic & aromantic rep #QueerPit #A #EF #MYTH #CLI

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

When the prized daughter of a brutal patriarchy allies with a dangerous rebel to save her dying brother, she isn’t prepared to face the truths of her broken past and burn down the world that raised her to save humanity from a vengeful Goddess of Death - but the Fates had other plans. #QueerPit #A

Two girls in hospital gowns, one with dark hair and tattoos, one with white hair, holding each other and soaking wet

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE x NETTLE & BONE 🌀monstrous spirits 💕slow-burn sapphic romance ☠️murder & betrayal ✨ill-advised rituals 🌈queer & autistic characters 📚chaotic academia 🌲an ancient mystery 🎶original music 🍄mushroom forest #agentguide pinned to profile! #queerpit #na #ya #f

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Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

BUFFY X MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM 🔮90s horror 🔮18 yo MC Roxy is a closeted lesbian 🔮Found family 🔮Vengeful haunted mannequin 🔮So much witchcraft 🔮Steam powered carousel 🔮Small town America #QueerPit #A #Q #H #F

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 15/08/2025

There’s a third species of manta ray gracefully gliding through the seas, a recent study has confirmed. Researchers have named the newly described species, found in the western Atlantic, Mobula yarae after Yara, a water spirit from Indigenous Brazilian mythology.

news.mongabay.com

Third manta ray species confirmed in western Atlantic

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Deanna Winters is Querying @deannaunwritten.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF Death should have been the end. Yet Ginevra is remade into a monster-her soul still yearning for the one she made a promise to in life. ✨️A promise to come back safe 🌱A promise of moonflowers #QueerPit #F #DF #LGBTQ #A

Moonflowers with a blue tint, a woman shrouded in a veil, an overgrown window with a ripped note over the image reading "promise you'll come back." "Will you recognize my soul?" Next to stained glass windows. A hand leaves flowers on a grave, and a hand reaches through webs.

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

#queerpit #df #a #f Dr. William Savage struggles to recover from a physical resurrection and a social death. 🫀Toxic m/m/m 🫀priest/congregant relationship 🫀regicide 🫀resurrection as revenge 🫀God as nuclear deterrent 🫀enemies with benefits 🫀mommy issues

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Ryan (is Querying ✉️) @ry-is-writing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay). When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth. #QueerPit #YA #SF #R

Starboy

LGBTQ+ YA Sci-Fi

Complete at 83k words

Blurb

When Bennett Barker is forced to move to a small town for his senior year of high school, he thinks his biggest problems will be missing his friends, figuring out his back-home situationship, and coming clean to his mom that he isn’t following in her footsteps by majoring in astronomy. Then an alien named Caelum crash-lands into his life. Literally. Bennett rescues the alien when his pod slams down to Earth while Bennett is out delivering pizza. But this isn’t an E.T. situation. Caelum is tall, turquoise, and incredibly kind, which makes it hard for Bennett not to catch feelings. Now Bennett has to find a way to get Caelum back home. But as Bennett grows closer to the alien, he starts wondering if his extraterrestrial crush is hiding the truth about why he ended up on Earth.

Characters

Bennett
Bummed he moved to a new town his senior year
Likes learning (hah, nerd)
Works as a pizza delivery boy
Wants to become an engineer
Gets fixated easily on projects and people

Caelum
Home planet is thousands of light-years away
Likes plants and flowers
Doesn’t enjoy wearing clothes
Can photosynthesize, would rather drink coffee
Moon-shaped eye marks glow when he’s happy

Vibes

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

IF YOU LIKE
First encounters
Nerdy boys flirting
Having to hide a hot alien in the bedroom
Traumatized intergalactic cinnamon rolls
Kids on bikes saving the world
Earth food taste testing
Super-powered pacifists

SIMILAR STUFF
Starfire from Teen Titans
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

to break the curse binding her to the ghost of a vengeful pirate, princess mira must fall in love with her best friend, john there’s just one problem: mira’s heart already belongs to princess dorothea 🩷🧡🤍 #queerpit #YA #F #LGBT #amquerying

Princess Mira (Black, braided hair, wearing a sky blue gown with pearl beads and silver tiara) and Princess Dorothea (white, wavy red hair, wearing a dark green gown with a gold tiara) gazing at each other on a ship’s deck at sunset, with a quote from THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN:

“It didn’t matter that the very idea was treasonous. For Dorothea, Mira would break any rule.”

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Jadyn @jaystraigis.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🏴‍☠️OF GEMSTONES AND DIVINITY🏴‍☠️ An honorable thief and a noblewoman vigilante must work together to end a pirate’s reign of terror. 🌊~96k 🌊Dual POV 🌊Slow burn rivals to lovers 🌊Second world historical fantasy 🌊Pirates and sea adventures 🌊Rebellion and self discovery #Queerpit #NA #F #FR #HF

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

With weak cold fire magic, Octavia can't fight her uncle legally taking her fortune. Fleeing to the Temple of the Dead, Octavia's fire raises a girl executed for murder--she knows her power at last. With an army of the dead, she will destroy the empire that keeps women inferior. #QueerPit #A #F #DF

A moodboard containing ancient roman symbols, a woman with blue fire in her hands, blood, zombie hands, and dragon wings.

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

An agents guide to THE OTHER SIDE OF ETERNITY, my Gideon The Ninth meets Fable For The End of The World adult dark fantasy 🖤 Featuring: 🌗 Sapphic enemies to lovers ✨ Magic & monsters inspired by Appalachian folklore & Greek mythology 🌗 A ruthless patriarchy vs vengeful goddesses #QueerPit #A

A title page on dark blue faded background

The pitch page on the same dark blue faded background with some arrow designs framing it

A comps page with photos of Gideon The Ninth and Fable For The End Of The World covers on the same dark blue faded background

A tropes and themes page on a dark blue faded background

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sydandthepen.bsky.social @sydandthepen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

HOW TO BE EATEN x ADELAIDE I can’t forget you. What you were to me. I can’t pretend everything didn’t happen. 🖋️ writers wish on a star comes true 💔 obsession, temptation, depression, oh my 🔥 toxic relationship 🌌 healing isn't pretty—but it is possible #QuestPit #A #F #S #Q

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Rachel ~ Is AGENTED📚 @rdohertywrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

LIGHTS OUT (stakes/humor) X 365 DAYS (mafia/spice) X Rip and Beth's love story Paranormal dark romance reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood featuring a DA searching for her estranged grandmother and the crime boss who makes her an offer she can’t refuse. Dark secrets abound. #questpit #w #pr #dr

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I: RAVEN QUEEN'S FLIGHT | II:RAVEN QUEEN'S RETURN A tale of friendship, courage and self-belief in the face of betrayal. A stolen throne A perilous journey Eagles and airships Coming of age Found family #questpit #W #YA #SFF

A black raven on a grey background, with a crown and the book titles.

A black raven on a grey background, with a blurb about the books.

A black raven on a grey background, with an excerpt from the manuscript.

A black raven on a grey background, with a list of tropes.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I want all the #questpit books to get published, entirely selfishly, so that I can read them

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Tiff @tiff-d.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you’re an agent who loved the twisting depths of the true crime Scamanda podcast and want that kind of suspense in fiction, Everything I Gave Her might be for you. The deeper you go, the more it twists. Currently has 2 full requests. #QuestPit #T #Q #A

A 4-slide graphic titled “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her”. Each slide features a foggy forest background with layered white text.

Slide 1:
Text reads: “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her” followed by:
“89k words | Upmarket Psychological Suspense by Tiffany Darling.”

$Slide 2: Same foggy forest background. Text reads: Pitch “When eight-year-old Lacey Carson finds her mother dead on the kitchen floor, something inside her fractures. Uprooted to a new town with a grieving, distant father, she latches onto the first person who shows her warmth—Emily Harper, a precocious classmate with a big heart and an even bigger need to help. What begins as innocent friendship festers into decades of obsession, manipulation, and a love so warped it leaves one girl dead, and the other wondering if she even knows how to survive a life without her.”$ Slide 3:
Same background. Title: Comps
Left side shows the cover of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, with the words:
“Complex female relationships
Motherhood
Buried secrets
Slow burn
Emotional depth”
Right side shows the cover of The Push by Ashley Audrain, with the words:
“Unsettling
Emotionally charged
Navigates maternal instinct
Psychological unraveling
Fear”

Slide 3:
Same background. Title: Comps
Left side shows the cover of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, with the words:
“Complex female relationships
Motherhood
Buried secrets
Slow burn
Emotional depth”
Right side shows the cover of The Push by Ashley Audrain, with the words:
“Unsettling
Emotionally charged
Navigates maternal instinct
Psychological unraveling
Fear”

Slide 4:

Same back ground. Text that reads “Dual POV / Nonlinear
timeline
Character-driven psychological suspense
A slow burn that simmers... then detonates.

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Gemma Smith @gemma-smith.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship. But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board. Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim… #A #H #HF #QuestPit #W

A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship

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K.L. Lempereur is Querying! @kllempereur.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A brutal god who consumes the life-force of living things catches up to the heroes who tried to stop her, and takes their daughter as a trophy. Now trapped on the god's ship, Calypso must get close enough to find out her ultimate plans without being consumed in the process. #QuestPit #YA #A #SFF #W

An aesthetic collage for this story idea, featuring neons, sapphics, and space imagery.

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Deanna Winters is Querying @deannaunwritten.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF Ginevra was remade to be a weapon. But inside, something thorned and grieving is breaking free. #QuestPit #Df #Q #H

Veins of Calris title, hands with plants growing from stitches in the skin

Stained glass windows behind a woman in a veil, an overgrown window arch, a rose bouquet in a dagger sheath with the dagger on top, and a spiderweb

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Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

When an accident turns Chess into a reaper, she hopes to reconnect with her late ex. But she finds his soul caught in a plot to tear down the veil between the living & the dead. If she can't master her magic, the veil will disappear forever, taking him with it #QuestPit #YA #P #F #DisabilityRep

Mood board for a YA paranormal book focused on reapers.

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Piper @putteringpiper.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

ELLA ENCHANTED X HALF A SOUL Lucy thought her biggest source of headache was getting the elves to follow a schedule. But when a prince proclaims his love for her & half the kingdom gets turned to stone, she realizes life can always get worse. Especially in a fairytale. #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q

An orange tabby cat lays on his back on a green background. He wears a blue hat with a daisy dangling from the tip of the hat. His name is Marius and he's a character in A Cobbler's Guide to Surviving a Fairytale

Lucy only tried on the shoe because the cobbler’s elves told her to, not because she had any interest in being the true love of a prince she’d never met. But fairies don’t care what humans like Lucy want — fairies want to tell their stories, no matter the consequences. So when the shoe refused to budge from her foot, Lucy knew she was in trouble.

Comp titles are Half a Soul, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Teller of Small Fortunes, and Dealing with Dragons

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Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Introducing Betsy! A pissed off old starlet stuck in an old moldy mannequin inside Vintaged, an antique store in small town America. 18 yo closeted lesbian Roxy is about to find out exactly how vengeful Betsy is. And how badly she wants a new body. #QuestPit #A #H #F #Q

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amwriting2025.bsky.social @amwriting2025.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS X THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS While threatened by a cruel husband and an assassin’s blade, Hatshepsut takes the throne as a woman, and spills treasonous blood into the parched sand. #questpit #Q #HF #YA

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Brandy and Caleb were your typical angsty teen and werewolf couple. But now they're all grown up, and local residents are going missing. Is Caleb's bloodlust out of control, or is something more sinister happening in their tiny town? #A #MY #T #QuestPit

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Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

#Questpit #Q #A #RF #AgentsGuide #amquerying The Sun Diamond Princess & the Blind Assassin 👸 #BIPOC bi-racial princess 👨‍🦯#disability #blind romantic interest 🛌🛖 One bed at the shepherd's hut 💞Against the odds romance 🔺Relationship triangle between love and duty 🌲Pining 🔥Slow burn 🌶️Spice

Image split into four quarters of agent's guide. This panel features upper half body featuring Myra, a biracial tall woman with acne spots in a Turkish style jacket and pants. Arzhang is wearing only red dhoti pants, shirtless with well developed muscles and golden fringe across his eyes to indicate he is visually impaired. They are standing in a dark alley.

AGENT'S GUIDE
The Sun Diamond Princess
& the Blind Assassin
by Elise Betz

103K adult stand alone romantacy, light fantasy, dual POV, bi-racial princess, disabled blind romantic interest, plenty of pining, angst, sexual tension, and spice.

First sentence, first page: “If beauty was a currency for
women to procure a husband, Princess Myra was a pauper.”

A "sun diamond" (a roughly tumbled yellow crystal rock in a pendant faded in the background )- part of a panel with the upper half of the pendant.

The Pitch

Due to a mix-up at a brothel, a blind former assassin saves a facially scarred princess from an assassin sent by her mother, the queen regent. On the run together, the princess brokers peace with a warring country, offering herself up for marriage with hopes of returning home and deposing her tyrannical mother. The princess is torn between her love for her country and her love for the blind assassin.

Lower half of character bodies. Both wearing sandals.

Tropes & Comps

Relationship triangle between love & duty
Bachelor auction at a brothel
One bed at the shepherd’s hut
He falls first
Against the odds romance
On the run together
Slow burn, angst and pining

Zinna After Dark by Paul Lucas
The Ugly Princess by Henderson Smith
Facially scarred, “not pretty” FMC

Breinne of Tarth from Game of Thrones
Tall, strong, principled FMC

Daredevil: Blind romantic lead

Tristan & Isolde with HEA
Lovers kept apart due to political wedding engagement

Lower half of "sun diamond pendant" faded in background of quartering of image.

What if we have a princess that isn’t beautiful, short,
delicate, weak and helpless?

What if the princess saves the romantic lead from a life of prostitution?

What if we have a princess who is short tempered, can
kick ass and swears?

What if Tristan & Isolde had a happy ending instead?

What if we have a story that criticizes sexually repressive
patriarchal societies?

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Jessica Junqua @jessicajunqua.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A glitching world, a grieving family, and a queer 16-year-old girl fighting off the voice in her head—before she becomes the prototype for a disgraced inventor’s next evolution of control. ✨✨✨ For fans of THE DIVIDING SKY and HELL FOLLOWED WITH US. #questpit #Q #YA #S #T #DYS

$A collage of 5 pictures: three figures in darkness, a glitching city, a beautiful autumn road in the Catskills Mountains, and the image of two individuals on a road trip. Then in text: Glitch by Jessica Junqua The pitch: After a mysterious explosion fractures sixteen-year-old Lea Rigby’s reality—glitching entire towns and leaving survivors zombified in tech headsets—she escapes with her older brothers, the only family she has left. While static spreads across the sky and buildings blink in and out of existence, Lea clings to joy, to adventure, and to the role of holding her broken family together. But when a disgraced inventor—Arthur Jove—injects her with a prototype implant meant to replace the headsets he created, Lea’s mind begins to turn against her. Now haunted by static-filled visions, a voice that isn’t hers, and the fear that her body no longer belongs to her, Lea must fight to stay herself. If she loses, she won’t just be consumed—she’ll be weaponized. Glitch is a story about siblings, survival, and selfhood in a world that’s forgotten what it means to be human. Then in bolded letters: 92,000 words - YA Dystopian Thriller w/ Speculative Tech Elements.$

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage. A plea bargain was my only way out. A world where women can be punished for what goes on with their bodies is a very scary place. #Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

Newspaper headline reads: Sederwall pleads guilty to concealing death

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

GOOD OMENS X THE OFFICE Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, has 3 months to turn around a vampire-ran Ohio gas station to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, getting a celestial pink slip. But his old job, and mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT #ND

5 Ways to Keep Our Gas Station Successful

1. (Fangs icon) Refrain from eating local customers, focus on visitors
2. (Clerk icon) Refrain from eating day clerks, they are crucial to revenue
3. (Zombie hand holding wrench icon) Feed our zombie mechanic before service begins
4. (Ghost icon) Do not allow people into the breakroom, the poltergeist is cooking
5. (Coffee with biohazard sign icon) Never let Laz brew the coffee, we can't afford the lawsuits

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THE GREAT ALONE x LOVE & OTHER WORDS UNDER MY OWN MAKING, an upmarket women’s fiction with: 🌊 a scarred heiress 🌊 estranged childhood friends turned lovers 🌊 hard-earned slow-burn romance 🌊 toxic family 🌊 coastal small town 🌊 found family #questpit #Q #A #R #WF

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

ATLA X BRIDGERTON A hero's side quest is a life-shattering experience for someone else. When a legendary hero crashes into a young lady's life, she finds herself questioning everything she ever knew as the two try to save her town from a mystical murderer. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

A snowy forest. Steampunk gears. A shadowy hand. Steampunk tech. A woman in a gown. A full moon.

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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

An #EditorsGuide to TRUE HATE'S KISS She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family. ⚔️Age-old clan feud 🐉Scandinavian folklore 🧪Unique magic & world ❤️‍🔥Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers 🛡️"Who did this to you?" / "You did! #QuestPit #OS #Romantasy

An image of Lagertha from the TV show Vikings to the right and one of Robin Hood from the Robin Hood movie (2010) to the left, divided in the middle by an image of “Freydis sword”, adorned with intricate patterns, from the game Skyrim.

Title: True Hate’s Kiss.
110,000 words
New Adult Romantasy
Text: “To break her curse, she needs a kiss… from the man she swore to kill.”

An image taken from the TV show Vikings of a hand holding a sword with Norse Runes etched into the blade.

Text: When a man from the enemy clan murders Älva’s father, she swears revenge. But then her family is cursed to die. The only way to break the curse? A True Hate’s Kiss. The man she hates the most must kiss her of his own free will. But the more she learns about her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything.

An image of a man and woman kissing, silhouetted against the sunset.

Text:
Scandinavian Iron Age (almost Viking Age)
Pretending to woo him while betraying him
Feuding clans
Enemies-to-forbidden-lovers
Complicated family dynamics
“Who did this to you?” / “You did!”
Scandinavian folklore
Nature spirits, magical swords, Norse witches

Comp titles: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen, The Road of Bones by Demi Winters, Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, 10 Things I Hate About You (the movie)

An image of a conifer forest.

Text:
Opening
Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart.
“Lycki, stop!” My voice cracked, hoarse with panic.
But my little brother’s green tunic and blond hair slipped through the conifer branches ahead, his distant voice floating back to me. “Come on, Älva! I found snowdrops!”
Wonderful, we were about to start a war over flowers.
Gut twisting, I burst into a sprint—past the overgrown sign nailed to a pine, ominous runes carved deep into the wood: ‘Hult Territory.’

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

GRIM PORTENTS HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of… 📖 #Q #A #P #F #M #D #Hu #QuestPit

Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life…

#writingcommunity

"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow.
But now the monster had been given a name, an identity.
It was real."
BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK.
NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS.
FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.

Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

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Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive? For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases. When he overhears an esoteric rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion. #QuestPit #Q #A #T

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Trinity🪞is querying🪞 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

BLADE RUNNER x THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Lonely hacker Renaya must help a kind android boy recover his memories so she can solve her father's murder - before those behind it get to her first. #questpit #Q #YA #SF

Black and gray background of the inside of a circuit board. Metal Bones, Plastic Heart. YA sci-fi, 85,000 words.
White arrows point to the following:
Slow-burn romance
Dark cyberpunk vibes
Fast-paced plot
Grumpy x sunshine
Cast of messy, loveable teens
What does it mean to be human?

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Jason L. @jasonlangford.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN x Over the Garden Wall 🏳️‍⚧️ boy Owen has come home from an 11-month captivity in the woods by killing the monster that held him, but when he starts changing, he realizes whoever kills the monster must replace it. #questpit #Q #YA #H #feraltransboys

A nine image moodboard of a deer skull, a boy with the face blurred out, a wolf's maw, a note saying "this is gay", a boy being beckoned into trees, a raven, hands digging into green undergrowth, two hands making a pinkie promise, and feet hanging off a ledge.

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. #questpit #PR #Q #A #writing

Agent guide for I Am Chosen, M/M paranormal romance. The picture is of a fiery orange and purple sunset over a highway. Photography and story by Dawn Berkoski

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

Photo of a vibrant sunset over a graveyard as seen from the window of a fast moving vehicle.
It reads: PITCH:

IN A WORLD CONTROLLED BY CORPORATE VAMPIRES, TWO MEN STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY. WILL A CHANCE MEETING
LEAD THEM TO FREEDOM, OR A WEB OF SUBTERFUGE, WHERE EVERY THREAD BRINGS A MONSTER OFFERING DEATH OR PERMANTENT CONFINEMENT?

Photo by Dawn Berkoski

Book vibes are all about the feel of the writing, setting, and story.

The Blue Blood Series by Melissa de la Cruz Is used to represent the wealthy elite vampires living in New York, the fish out of water trope, dark secrets, and others.

The Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice is used to represent young vampires rebelling against old rules and customs. Travel and setting also play a role. A plot point was inspired by the novel.

Yakuza, Japan’s Criminal Underworld by David Kaplan and Alec Dubro, is used to represent some of the vampire rivals business practices. It plays a role in the series arch.

Photography at the bottom: A dark cement staircase and photo of the London Eye by Dawn Berkoski

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

#questpit #W #A #H #R 🩸THE HEART YET BLEEDS🩸 A summer storm forces Anne inside Bellflower House, a manor owned by the hauntingly beautiful Sabine. Anne is enchanted by her hostess — but when the rain won’t stop & dark things lurk the halls, she can’t help but wonder if Sabine will ever let her go.

A moody collage on a red brocade background, featuring images of a pale strawberry-blonde woman with a bloodied mouth, a painting of a woman staring into a mirror, a black cat rubbing a woman's slippered foot, lace embroidery, a gothic manor, a candelabra, a hand catching drops of ran, a painted portrait of a woman in a metal ornate frame, and a spilled glass of red wine/blood.

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Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A Song to Drown Rivers meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in LADY HAN'S MANUAL FOR MATRIMONIAL MAYHEM, in which the mischievous bride fights for divorce with chaos: 😈 unlikeable heroine ⚔️ enemies-to-lovers 💑 marriage of convenience 👑 political intrigue #questpit #A #RF #W (line editing for #Q soon!)

Agent's guide to Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem: 89K Adult Fantasy Romcom with low spice

Pitch: What can a girl do to escape an arranged marriage, but to prank her husband to hell and back in the hopes that he will divorce her?

In the Dazhen Empire, twenty-year-old Wen Anling’s comfortable life is turned upside down when her father forces her to marry Han Shiyan, the wealthy Lord of Qinglan. In a desperate bid for freedom, Anling fights chaos with chaos, by transforming herself into the nastiest wife possible.

Shiyan only married Anling to honour his mother’s dying wish. Had he known his new wife would send his simple life straight to mayhem, he would have thrown honour out the nearest window. But when his wife continues to get under his skin, he cannot help but grow intrigued by her eccentric nature—once he sees her irritating antics as what they truly are: harmless.

In the face of deadly threats, Anling must embrace her role as Lady Han and turn her cunning mind to their common enemies, or grab the freedom offered to her and watch the empire fall.

Comps: The Darkness Within Us, A Song to Drown Rivers, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Extract: Shiyan’s eyes widened for a heartbeat before he forced composure back onto his features. Her face was powdered with a thick layer of white, as if she had simply dunked it into a bowl of flour. Her bright red lip-paint smudged at the edges and… Heavens forbid women dab their cheeks with uneven blobs of pink.

Even the most senile and stern of his guests held their hands to their stomachs, straining to hold back fits of laughter. He would have gladly joined them, too, if he wasn’t the one with the honour of marrying this… this… buffoon.

He swallowed and recited the wise sayings of his forefathers: one should not judge a book by its cover; a woman’s beauty runs deeper than appearances; virtues are lasting while beauty is fleeting.

Oh, to hell with wise sayings.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

#agentguide for WHEN THE MAGPIE FLIES (81k queer fantasy) When troublemaker and hobbyist scholar Magpie is chosen by the spirits, she breaks an ancient tradition rather than leave her best friend behind—and brings the wrath of spirits and humans alike down upon the realm. #questpit #Q #F

Text: An agent’s guide to When the Magpie Flies by M H Wottenmoss. Background of mountains, trees, and a giant mushroom. A magpie flies in the sky.

Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, dreams of becoming a Conduit. As the realm’s only defense against monstrous spirits, Conduits are beloved and privileged—and it’s Magpie’s best chance to escape the undertow of poverty. When a spirit chooses her for the honor, marking her with a cold, entrancing touch, her dream is suddenly within reach. To fully ascend as a Conduit, Magpie, alongside the other newly-chosen, must embark on a journey into the heart of the spiritwoods.
The only thing holding her back is her best friend, Calladonna.
There are rumors about how Conduits are changed by the mysterious journey, and Calla can’t shake the feeling that if Magpie leaves, she won’t come back. Determined to reassure her, Magpie convinces Calla to come along in secret, hidden from the other Conduits. For the first time, Magpie’s future is bright and shining—until one of the other Conduits turns up dead, and it seems like Calla may be to blame.

Comps: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: clueless lesbians, murder and betrayal, journey of ascension. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: found family, humor and darkness, perilous quest.

Also featuring undiscovered magic, monstrous spirits, chaotic academia, ill-advised rituals, haunted forest, queer & autistic ensemble cast, giant mushrooms, original music

Opening lines: The world went dark just after she jumped off the roof. In one moment she could see the clocktower before her, the ledge beneath its defunct face familiar and inviting, and in the next there was nothing. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence, necessarily, but damn if that wasn't inconvenient timing.

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Kanani O’Kelly @kananiokelly.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey. Featuring: 🌊 Native Hawaiian Rep 🌊 Cultural Identity 🌊 Setting as a Character #QuestPit #YA #F #W #OwnVoices #AgentsGuide

A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey.

Featuring:
Native Hawaiian Rep
Cultural Identity
Setting as a Character

The second slide showcases the pitch:

WHISPERS OF THE SEA follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom.

Keahi must voyage across the seas to this distant isle where she’ll team up with a boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.

The third slide indicates that WHISPERS OF THE SEA might appeal to fans of: Disney’s Moana, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle.

The book includes the following tropes/themes: found family, self-discovery within cultural identity, Hawaiian-inspired mythology, and adventure.

The final slide includes a snippet from the book that reads:

“Keahi’s legs were immobilized as her body tried to make the decision her mind could not. The feeling was strange for she had dreamt countless of times about leaving the island, only to seize the opportunity and awaken to find that she had been sold a nightmare instead.”

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Brandy and Caleb were your typical angsty teen and werewolf couple. But now they're all grown up, and local residents are going missing. Is Caleb losing control, or is something more sinister happening in their tiny town? #A #MY #T #QuestPit

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Stefanny Monga Author @stefannymonga.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The Chaos Seekers: A teenage girl develops a new ability, putting her on the radar of a dangerous group hunting super-powered people & a stranger with devastating powers of his own that she must choose to trust to learn how to use her power & survive. Editor interest ✅ #QuestPit #Q #W #RF #YA

The Chaos Seekers by Stefanny Monga The Red Queen x Stranger Things x Firestarter in an Upper YA adult crossover potential contemporary fantasy romance

The Chaos Seekers Query Blurb
A new power is ascending…

Power is nothing new for seventeen-year-old Riza Murillo. Pure, unbridled energy she can only describe as chaos lies sealed away in her mind for fear of ever hurting anyone again. It’s the only way she can lead a semblance of a normal life…that is until it begins to grow. An immense seizure unleashes a destructive new ability: a whirlwind of black crystal, capable of decimating anything in its wake. And, a terrifying vision. Someone else knows about her abilities and they are hunting her down.

Terrified for her life, she confides in her papi Gray, the only other person with abilities she knows. Gray reveals a shocking truth: they aren’t the only ones. Hours after Riza’s vision, a girl goes missing in their upstate NY town, a girl with ascending abilities. Soon after, Gray is asked by the police to return from retirement to help on the case and use the powers he’s kept secret and sealed away for years.

With the looming threat, a warning comes from a new transfer student to her high school, Eli Kyle. Determined to find out what he knows, she confronts him and he reveals his history with the dangerous Seekers. Deciding to partner with Eli presents a risky new course, pushing the limits of her new powers while tearing her heart in two directions, toward Eli or her long-standing affection for her best friend.

As more children with ascending abilities vanish, close friends are being killed, and the life of someone Riza loves is in imminent danger, Riza must push aside the fear of losing control, unleash her full power, and stop the Seekers. Destruction could come from any corner – those trying to take her, those who might betray her, or even by her own hands.

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

There’s something in the water 🌊 When an island whispers different versions of unwritten local legends & turning into a creature of the deep as a result of heartbreak makes you want to drown your ex- no one is safe Especially not the ex boyfriends #QuestPit #Q #A #R #S #SFF

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