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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm looking for ARC readers for The Prophecy of Braemorra! If you love fantasy filled with magic, prophecy, adventure, found family, & a touch of romance, I'd love to have you on the team. ⚔️ Magic. Prophecy. Adventure. Romance. ⚔️ Interested? forms.gle/vt8DvkK8Tz5U... ✨ Cover reveal coming SOON! ✨

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✨ ARC Reader Sign-Ups Are Open! ✨ Want to read The Prophecy of Braemorra before anyone else? I'm looking for a team of early readers who love: • Fantasy adventures • Magic and prophecy • Slow-burn ...

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I did a thing and didn’t let myself overthink it—sent out a whole batch of emails to local indie bookstores about future author signings Now I’m diving back into Braemorra, where the real magic is happening… almost done with developmental edits and feeling that “it’s really coming together” energy

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My heart? Melted. 🫠 If you love the "I will literally go to the Underworld and back for you" energy, you need to meet Evander and Saylor. #TheProphecyOfBraemorra #Romantasy #BookRecs #SaylorAndEvander #BookQuotes

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Authors!! Drop the very first line of your book 👀✨ I’m obsessed with seeing how stories begin. Here’s mine: “The Guardians stood atop the jagged remains of the stone watchtower, their cloaks snapping in the gusty wind.” Your turn!! 👇📚 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #blueskyauthors #firstlines

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

ARC sign-ups are coming up: what’s worked best for you? I know the basics, and my publisher has a street team, but I want to help boost things on my end, too. Drop any tips or advice—help a girl out! #ARCReaders #BookSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #BookTwitterRefugee #BookPromotion

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

At the end of the year, students vote on teacher superlatives, and one of the awards I won was actually a write-in category! Definitely one of the funniest and sweetest moments of the year. 🤣🤣🤣 #TeacherLife #MiddleSchoolTeacher #TeacherHumor #TeacherWin #StudentApproved #EndOfYear #TeacherWriter

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

✨ Almost to 100 followers & looking for my people! ✨ 📚 Book nerds ✍️ Writers 🐉 Fantasy lovers ☕ Cozy reading vibes 💭 People emotionally attached to fictional characters Come be friends 🫶 #BookSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookNerd #FantasyBooks #IndieAuthor #ReadersOfBlueSky #WritersOfBlueSky

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you love: ✨ long-foretold prophecies ✨ kingdoms on the edge of war ✨ slow-burn tension that hurts so good ✨ hidden powers, political secrets, and impossible choices ✨ sweet, closed-door romance Then The Prophecy of Braemorra might just be your next obsession. ✨

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Just finished Yesteryear to see what all the hype was about....Whew! I'm gonna be in a book coma for a couple of days!

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

What’s everyone reading right now? 📚✨ I’m currently rereading Little Women. 🤍 But next up is a BIG shift because my son is deep in his Stephen King era right now and wants us to read The Stand together. Honestly? I’m ridiculously excited about it. So now I’m curious — what’s on your nightstand? 👀

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Meet Evander. He’s all sharp edges, quiet rooms, and the kind of "cold" that usually keeps people at a distance. Now, he’s realizing that being the "Cold" to her "Ember" is a lot more complicated than the prophecies suggested. #TheProphecyOfBraemorra #FantasyRomance #MeetTheCharacter #EmberAndCold

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend! Got a new Kindle Colorsoft and visited 2 new bookstores today! I'm a happy gal!

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Belle's Enchanted Library Moment

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If you love: ✨ fantasy kingdoms ✨ “just kiss already” energy ✨ slow-burn romance ✨ sweet, closed-door love stories Congratulations, you’re my people. ✨

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

If your ideal book includes: ✨ fantasy ✨ romance ✨ slow burn tension ✨ closed-door love stories …we should absolutely be friends.

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Meet Saylor Ashborne. One day, her hands are covered in flour. The next, they’re etched in shimmering gold ink and plumes of white smoke. #TheProphecyOfBraemorra #SaylorAshborne #Romantasy #MeetTheCharacter

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#SmallPitch @smallpitch.org · 27/01/2026

Announcing the date of our next event: JULY 13-19, 2026 This session will be open to all unagented authors. Get those manuscripts ready!

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I can't stop thinking of "Book Witch" by Meg Shaffer!!

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

3 weeks until Summer Break! This school year has been a challenge, but in a good way! Plans this summer: reread the classics (I'm in love with Puffin in Bloom books!), write Braemorra sequel, start on another story idea that's been bouncing around in my head! #teachertired #summerplans #booknerd

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hey! Just curious—are you a traditional publisher or a hybrid/author-funded press?

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mary @mbcottrell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#questpit #Q #YA #H #F Querying: The Marble Garden On the verge of running away from home, an angry young man enters a fantastical garden, but when his life is threatened and his mind slowly corrupted, he must learn to reach out for help before the weight of bearing everything alone destroys him.

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Last #questpit of the day, then I’m going to go check out all the amazing posts!! ✨ BRAEMORRA 🌑 🌫️ Hidden Girl 👑 Loyal Prince 🔮 Fate-Bound Souls 🌌 Journey to the Underworld ⚔️ Magic & War ❤️‍🔥 He Would Follow Her Anywhere

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am absolutely OBSESSED with cult/sect stories!!! Love the aesthetic!

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I just love the aesthetic! Makes me wish summer were here already!

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#amquerying The Prophecy of Braemorra She was meant to stay invisible. He was never supposed to look her way. The prophecy had other plans, and now neither of them can turn back. #Q #YA #F #RF #questpit #agents

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

#QuestPit #A #R #W 80K Tortured Love + Psychological Thriller 💔suffering ❤️stolen moments 🔥soft core 🌟haunted past 💍betrayal ⭐️lies/deception ❤️soulmates "One wants to die, but can't, the other wants to live, but can't, together, they will find something else." Pics: @chrisbrogan.bsky.social

the lives we lost
a novel
by jwgant
A couple walk through the city at night

pitch & moods
streaking city, fancy drink, broken heart, a couple go to their room

inspiration
irreversible, a city at night, looking into a window, leaving las vegas, all the missing girls, the bridges of madison county, and a shower

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

'Hat' - 84K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature
moon stuff
Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. 13 Months Haunted

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k gothic coming-of-age story with a dual POV My Darling Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society 🖤An heir 🖤A monster 🖤An ancient curse 🖤Scottish Highlands 🖤Familial exploitation 🖤Emotional & physical isolation 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #HF #PR #QuestPit

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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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sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

PRIDE & PREJUDICE x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x GRACELING 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. #QuestPit #Q #YA #HF #RF #F #historical #fantasy #romance

Image of the back of a woman's head beside the end of a large wing's black feathers. Text reads YA Regency Romantasy 100k.

A woman's back with large black wings attached. Text reads "The Pitch. In an alternate Regency era where magical abilities are called Gifts, ladies and gentlemen with improper Gifts are shunned from high society. Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow’s wings beneath her dresses for years, but must risk exposing them to save her ill father. Lord Simon is about to be disowned for his delicate, flowery Gift. The only solution for them both lies in stealing the Duchess’s diamond necklace. But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, they must survive high society, evade the villain who cursed them, and find a cure — or Simon will dissolve into petals and Lucy will transform into a crow."

A woman's back with a large black wing attached. Text reads "Pluck. Cursed to become a crow."

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Kath Rothschild Author @kathrothschild.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I’m #querying an upmarket adult romcom YOU’RE MY KIND OF GUIDE!

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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InkandEmbers @inkandembers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In a dying kingdom where magic feeds on its people piece by piece—stealing memories, thoughts, and body parts—eighteen-year-old Elowen creates a soulless girl to bargain with the Prince of the Underworld before her brothers become the kingdom’s next sacrifice. #QuestPit #YA #DF #W

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

On my lunch break trying to catch up on all the #questpit notifications—thank you so much for all the love! 🥰 I’m working through everything now and can’t wait to return the support right back!

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

Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth 🔮 emotion-driven powers 💖 characters with depth 🎀 softness is her greatest strength ✨ light found in dark places 💋 slow-burn #Q #A #F

Dawn of the Cicada book cover idea with a woman in shadow in a dark forest lit by fireflies with the shadow of a monster lurking behind her.

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Cass @casshabs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#questpit #A #DF #Q In my world, magic isn't invisible. It lives in your hair, eyes, and color. And when the darkness takes it... it erases you.

A dark, atmospheric title slide featuring a black book cover framed with pale floral designs. The title reads “Born of Light, Cursed by Darkness” by Cassandra Habig. A glowing streak of multicolored light cuts through the title. Background is warm gold and shadowed, with text indicating “Adult Dark Academia Romantic Fantasy” and “120k words.”

A dark fantasy blurb slide with teal text on a smoky gold and black background. The header reads “BLURB” followed by the tagline “Magic lives in color. When it fades… so do you.” The paragraph describes Rihalyn Embers, her hidden magic, her sister’s execution, and her arrival at a deadly academy. Decorative images include glowing flowers and a glass-encased rose, reinforcing a magical, fragile atmosphere.

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Magic lives in color. When it fades… so do you.
Twenty-year-old Rihalyn Embers lives on Runyan, where magic reveals itself in color, and she has none. Until her sister Mahdilyn is exposed as a rare illusionist, revealing she has been masking Rihalyn’s iridescent colors and altering her memories to keep her safe from Abel, the self-crowned ruler who siphons color to secure his throne. When Mahdilyn is executed for refusing to join Abel’s army, Rihalyn is sent to Wychlith, an academy that trains mages to serve Abel, where combat trials force magic to the surface, victories raise rank, and defeat costs pieces of a mage’s soul.

At Wychlith, light awakens. Darkness waits.
Rihalyn clings to one goal: survive long enough to reclaim her suppressed power, uncover what Mahdilyn hid, and learn why she died for it. But when Kieran, Abel’s son, takes her under his mentorship, she cannot tell whether he is shielding her from Abel or shaping her into something useful for his own rise. Kieran wields dark magic, the same force draining Runyan of its color, and every lesson awakens Rihalyn’s light while binding her more tightly to him.

If Abel finds her, he’ll drain her.
If Kieran loves her, he may destroy her.
Now she must decide who to trust before Abel senses the light waking inside her, Kieran’s darkness corrupts it, and what little color remains in Runyan vanishes forever.

A split slide showing “Tropes & Themes” on the left and “Comps” on the right. The left lists elements like color vs. darkness, shadow magic, dark academia, morally gray characters, slow burn romance, and found family, alongside romantic and symbolic imagery. The right lists comparison titles The Serpent & the Wings of Night and The Foxglove King, with brief descriptions of tone and themes. A short “Unique Appeal” section highlights a color-based magic system drained by darkness.

A dark, cinematic slide divided into two sections: “Snippet” and “The Atmosphere.” The snippet features a close, emotional interaction between two characters with intense eye contact and tension. Below and beside it is a collage of fantasy imagery including glowing magic, castles, books, shadowy forests, and magical hands, visually conveying the tone of a dark, magical academy setting.

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Talya Klein @talyaklein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Now querying my upmarket suspense, BLOOD OF THE LAMB (93K words.) Check out the agent’s guide below! 🎬cinematic, propulsive plot 🪾atmospheric, gothic vibes ⛪️ religious trauma, mental health, family secrets 🌿Like THE GOD OF THE WOODS but set in a cult. #questpit #a #u #q #amquerying

A sepia image of the cross on top of an old church and hands reaching toward the sky. The text reads: “an agents guide to Blood of the Lamb by Talya Klein. Upmarket Suspense, 93K words. Coming of age, smash the patriarchy, cult escape.”

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a new guide 🤍 • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AG

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Duke @jgduke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #A #F #Q A TCHAO IN ILIMAK #AStoryOfDainu Abducted and sold to a foreign army, Tro must adapt in order to survive this strange land full of magic and violence. War is hell, but maybe he doesn’t have to endure it alone.

Picture is a (temporary) book cover. A tiny new shoot is growing from a chopped-down tree trunk. White text reads "A Tchao in Ilimak, a story of Dainu, by JG Duke "

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liz difranco @lizdifranco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An agent's guide to INSPIRED BY YOU. Perfect for agents looking for: ❤️A NEW TWIST ON A ROMCOM 🧬A VERY LITERAL GENRE BLEND ❤️‍🩹THE HEALING ART OF STORYTELLING ⚔️ACCESSIBLE FANTASY 💌EPISTOLARY ELEMENTS #questpit #w #a #r #f

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen, perpetual troublemaker and incurable dreamer, is thrilled about it. Two clueless lesbians. A forest full of spirits and giant mushrooms. A journey of love and ascension. #agentguide #querying #QuestPit #Q #F #NA #LGBT #ND

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

Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, refuses to believe she hasn’t been chosen as a Conduit.

Wild spiritwoods cage the human cities of Iridis, and the Conduits are humanity’s only defense against the monstrous spirits that lurk within. Magpie has always dreamed of becoming one of these elite spirit-whisperers, who never want for anything, never wonder where their next meal is coming from, never have to shelter in a half-crumbled clocktower no one else wants. When Magpie is definitely, absolutely chosen by a spirit, she finally has her chance.

Calladonna, her best friend and partner-in-survival, doesn’t want Mag to be a Conduit. There are rumors about how it changes people, how they don’t come back quite right. More than human — or less. Determined to reassure her friend and keep them together, Mag convinces Calla to follow her in secret, hidden from the other Conduits as they undertake a sacred journey into the heart of the spiritwoods. But Mag’s secrets can’t stay hidden forever, and when the consequences turn deadly, she has to make a decision: abandon her dreams or risk losing Calla forever.

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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