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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 15/09/2025

Finally my PhD thesis is submitted! After 8 years of tribulation and hardship. To all those who have had similar experiences, and also to @nataljastgermain.bsky.social, utmost respect! Soon I will get back to querying Bunika! But first, some decompression [and the viva]! Have a good night, all! 🍻 🖤

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 20/08/2025

Due to recent changes in the UK law [the "Online Safety Act"] my DMs are locked behind mandatory photographic ID / debit card verification. Since I refuse to do this I have no DM access. Please email me if you want to get in touch privately! My details are in my profile info 🖤🦇🖤

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 22/07/2025

RIP Ozzy you absolute legend. Thank you for everything 🖤

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 28/05/2025

Apologies for being quiet, I have been mostly focusing on academic work - though Bunika is still ongoing! 🖤 A question for those in the know: a beta reader has very kindly offered to query on my behalf during my thesis write-up. Is this acceptable in the industry as long as there is transparency? 📖

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𝓥𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓪 🦇 @hedge-witch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy world goth day! 🖤🦇🖤 #WorldGothDay #GothSky

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 09/04/2025

Buda Castle Labyrinth - 1/🦇 Far underneath Buda Castle in Hungary lies its disorientating Labyrinth. A confounding network of dark tunnels and dead ends, Vlad Tepes was imprisoned here in 1462 and kept within it for an agonising 12 years. Photo: my own, Feb 2025.

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 06/04/2025

I'm starting to think I'm one of the only people in existence to have Batalion D'amour's "Niya" album... even as mp3. It's one of the most beautiful examples of female-fronted Gothic rock I've ever heard. It's not on Spotify. Some of it is on YouTube. If you can find any of it... please listen! 🖤

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 26/03/2025

The Church of St Elizabeth of Hungary [Kostol svätej Alžbety] Bratislava, Feb 2025. Also known as "The Blue Church", it was finished in 1913 in an art nouveau, fantasy-esque style. The empire fell only five years later, in 1918, the church a fairy-tale reminder of its final days 🏰 #photography

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 20/03/2025

Trinitarian church, Bratislava, Feb 2025 🇸🇰 This is the full raw shot since adapting it in GIMP distorts the details! This is as far into the church as I was allowed. Built in 1717, five years after Bunika, the church follows the Baroque style of Vienna which was becoming so popular ⛪ #photography

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 19/03/2025

The beautiful model on @gothicbeautymag.bsky.social #57 reminded me so much of Marika from Bunika 🇸🇰 So I created this fictional 18th C 'Slovak Beauty' cover which DOES feature her! [I contacted the magazine with no response, oh well:)] This is a creative tribute, no commercial intent! 1/2

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 18/03/2025

Crypt, St Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava. Feb 2025. This shot, taken in total darkness, was done using a 3 second exposure and night vision. Unguided, I was the only one there during my visit. Built over an old cemetery, this is one of three crypts the cathedral has. #photography #gothic

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 17/03/2025

Mural, Bratislava, Feb 2025. It's tempting to post all my street photography as raw images, uncropped and unprocessed, but that probably won't happen! However, in this case it has. Difficult composition because of the size and angle of the thing - but it's beautiful art. #urban #photography

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 11/03/2025

"House of God, Hall of Heaven". Left entrance arch, St Stephen's Basilica, Budapest. The church, built in 1851, was constructed in honour of Hungary's first king [c. 975-1038]. Originally built in a neoclassical style, it took 50 years to complete and was neo-renaissance in format by its finish.

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 10/03/2025

I am back from the castles, crypts and cathedrals of Slovakia and Hungary 🇭🇺 🇸🇰 I'm overwhelmed with all the information I've gathered and emotional for having had to leave! I've got a LOT of research material and a lot to share 🖤 Pic: ceremonial keys to Bratislava city, 18th C. City Museum 🏰

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 28/02/2025

Thank you to anyone who voted in the draw a few days ago for @batconservation.bsky.social - You'll be delighted to know they won £5,000 towards their efforts for bat conservation as a result! 🖤🦇🖤 What wonderful news! Have a great day, all 🖤

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 23/02/2025

I'm back in Bratislava for more Bunika research so here is one of many forthcoming pictures! This is the river Váh in Slovakia near the small town of Šaľa. A tributary of the Danube, Váh is the longest river in the country 🇸🇰 Pic my own, Feb 2025. Taken from a moving train 🖤 #gothic #photography

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 21/02/2025

Like bats?? I do! And I'm a member at @batconservation.bsky.social 🦇 If you click the below link and vote for the Bat Conservation Trust, they could win £5k! And who wouldn't want to give bats more help! 🖤 Sorry for being quiet! I'll be back tomorrow 🇭🇺 animal.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn...

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 14/02/2025

So wonderful to see @gothicbeautymag.bsky.social on BlueSky!! Please follow 🦇 ❄️🖤❄️

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nicole cunningham @nicolecunningham.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

y’all i missed #MSWL day! can i do it tomorrow?! 🫠

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 13/02/2025

I absolutely did NOT realise that it was #MSWL Day yesterday! I will be pinging off a load of queries tonight for agents hungry for horror, Gothic fiction, historical and LGBT fiction with Bunika! 🏳️‍🌈♀️ Looking forward to it 🖤🦇🖤 #writingcommunity #writesky #amquerying

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 13/02/2025

Cryptwork: Benediction in marble, Kensal Green Cemetery, London. The cemetery was inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and opened in 1833. I visited Père Lachaise in 2013 and took a load of shots, which I haven't looked at since. Maybe one day I'll post them here 🖤 #gothic #gothicadvent

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Carly is ✨AGENTED✨ @cjvickwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When a cult-driven murder-spree hits an 80s Midwest PTA, Janet puts her true crime obsession to work. Alongside her misfit mom friends—a writer, a goth, & a sickly sweet PTA matriarch—Janet must uncover the real monster hiding in town, before it claims them all. #questpit #H #AG

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Viola Grace @viola-grace.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

GATSBY X KNIVES OUT In 1929 Chicago, a math genius living in a crime syndicate’s luxury hotel allies with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, while secretly pursuing revenge. 🏳️‍🌈 #ownvoices ☠️campy & dark 🃏found family, violent women, speakeasies & more #questpit #Q #NA #A #HF #MY #T

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Kelsey Lynn Clarey 📚🎲🧶 @islanderscaper.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Cece is a 17-year-old mercenary who has been hopping from planet to planet since her parents disappeared five years ago. When information reaches her that her parents may still be alive, she sets out on her biggest adventure to rescue them. #QuestPit #SFF #SF #YA #W

A moodboard for my book's main character. The background is a picture of space. On the left side of the image is a quote reading "for her; home was amongst the stars", a quote reading "space is gay", and a picture of a rebellion jacket form Star Wars. In the middle is an image of an ear with a lot of piercings in it, a quote reading "maybe I belong among the stars", a picture of a tattoo of a bunch of planets going down someone's back, and a picture of a shooting star tattoo. On the right side is a picture of a young woman with rainbow hair and a quote reading "rebellions are built on hope."

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Robin Alvarez 🌟 Author 🌟 @robiiehood.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A teen in a toxic relationship gives her voice up to a sea witch to escape and the sea witch uses her voice to unleash monsters on the world. She must get her voice back to save the world, but doing so means returning to her old life… #questpit #p #yafantasy

A sad Asian girl holding her throat in the when oceans rise book cover

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy Place (but gay) x Emily Wilde In a town wrapped in fairylore, a group of roommates discover stories of fairies stealing people away in the night aren’t what they seem as they begin to suspect their romantic partners might be more legend than human 🧚🏼 #QuestPit #W #A #F #R

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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BLUE SISTERS X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY When the charred remains of model Gracie Green are recovered from a fire at her Brighton flat, a framed picture of Gracie, untouched by the flames at her side, the police suspect foul play & turn to Gracie's sister Faith for answers. #questpit #WIP #A #M

Woman shouting and surrounded by flames.

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Bunika Vampire @bunikanovel.com · 12/02/2025

If you are taking part in #questpit today and are interested in talking to other authors in a chat medium, thennn Come along to The Querying Trenches - a Discord server for advice, love, support, friendship, whingeing... and other things [free space]. Hope to see you there 🖤 discord.gg/NJmz65MTKK

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Wera @eggqueenwera.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE BONE WITCH meets SAILOR MOON & WINX CLUB After her father's death, a teenage girl is sent to an academy to learn how to control her awakened gemstone alongside four roommates. ✨ Thai fairies ✨ Mixed race rep ✨ Found family after trauma ✨ Elemental familiars ✨ Slowburn 💕 #questpit #F #YA #Q

Moodboard for a Thai fairy magical girl fantasy with magic academic, fated soulmates, and Thai mythological elements.

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Maddie Block @maddieblock.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

MEN HAVE CALLED HER CRAZY x ALL TOO WELL: THE SHORT FILM How do you know what a healthy relationship looks like if you've never had one? AM I THE PROBLEM explores domestic abuse recovery, dating apps, biracial identity, Swiftie/K-pop fandom, and finding love in untraditional ways. #QuestPit #Q #M

A mood board with Taylor Swift's Midnights album, cocktails, the Boston Public Library, rice cake soup, and wine

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Ceci Li @writerceci.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📖It’s Only Me ❤️YA contemporary romance ⌨️ 70k words Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules. #questpit #Q #YA #R #poc #writingcommunity #amquerying

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Resurrected by a dark power, muse Aleida wakes without her memories in a strange house lorded over by a man who sees visions of the holy and the damned. Slowly, she begins to piece her past together and in doing so, comes closer to solving her own murder. #QuestPit #WIP

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Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A witty schemer plots against her husband and ends up saving the kingdom in a fantasy romcom blend of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS ❤️ Multicultural w/ POC leads ❤️ Unlikeable heroine ❤️ Enemies-to-lovers ❤️ Marriage of convenience ❤️ Political intrigue #questpit #W #A #F #R

moodboard for "Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem", chinese history-inspired fantasy romance, includes photos of female and male leads, plum blossoms and bamboo

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🎸 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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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

PITCH: Time’s up. The choice is either death or permanent confinement. But a chance meeting offers a ray of hope, a doorway to the freedom Alex and Jason crave. It will pit them against corporate vampires, but the alternative is set in stone. Blue Bloods x Yakuza #PR #Q #questpit 💙📚📖

Photo is of a dead end path, in a mold-infested dungeon. One side of the tunnel leads to prison bars; the other side leads to darkness. But, in the middle of the path, a ray of light shines from an unseen doorway, illuminating the stone floor, and showing a possible escape route. Photography by Dawn Berkoski.

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Jenny @kiffwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

OUABH X CASTLEVANIA NOCTURNE X READY OR NOT ♠️An Alice in Wonderlandesque débutante competition 👑in a Versailles palace ✨with whimsical balls, 🦇deadly vampires 🩸& something even more sinister brewing in the basement #questpit #w

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

GOOD OMENS X ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN Virgil Mora, Hell's consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell to save the angel he's fallen for. Feat. ❤️‍🔥 Grumpy X Sunshine ✍️ Magical Contracts 🦋 AuDHD Rep 🖤🐘🤍💜 Ace Romance 👨‍💼 Cosmic Power, Imposter Syndrome #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT #Hu

A grid of 5 images, at the top the words "I DIDN'T EXPECT 'GO TO HELL' TO BE CAREER ADVICE" and at the bottom "HELL IS WORK"

The images are, in order:
1 - A black pawn topples a white king on a chessboard
2 - 8 - A businessman stares at his shadow which has horns and a tail.
3 - The central image is a customized pentagram sigil with the name VIRGIL MORA around it in a circle
4 - A lit lighter being held in a man's hand.
5 - A man in a white suit is back-to-back with a man in a black suit. They are holding hands.

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Lyndsey is ✨agented✨ @lyndseyreevewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🌊 x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES When 16yo Ella's childhood friend is kidnapped for his talents as an occult navigator, she'll sail through time to rescue him. But his growing taste for seawater—& her feelings for a scheming pirate Captain—threaten to send them both to a watery grave. #QuestPit #YA #H #R

Coastal moodboard featuring ships, a whirlpool, and hands reaching for each other underwater. A boy is wrapped in tentacles, with the text "Ghost Fleet of the Outer Banks."

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Sab is making FINAL EDITS ✨ @sabrinamars.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

INUYASHA x SAILOR MOON x DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS ✨College lacrosse player turned fated magical girl (portal fantasy) ✨Forbidden magic + forbidden romance ✨Found Family after Family Trauma ✨Sexy sparring ✨D&D wild magic #questpit #w #ya #rf

A collage featuring lanterns, roses, a ballroom, flowers, a red book, a crystal, a young woman with blonde hair carrying a bouquet of flowers

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Zuzanna 'Pryvian' Śliwa @pryvian.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Swan Lake x Reign Odile has come to the ball to dance, flirt, and fall in love with the archduke. Now, she faces execution for high treason as a co-conspirator in his murder. A pact will Wild Hunt might help in clearing her name, but will it be enough for her to survive? #Questpit #W #A #F #DF #RF

WIP Moodboard. The top-left image features a woman in a light, flowing gown sitting among scattered flower petals, holding a small ornate object in her hands. The top-right image shows hands reaching into a mirror, creating ripples as if touching water. The middle-left image portrays a young girl in an elaborate, voluminous gown standing in a dimly lit forest path. The middle-center image displays two black swans, forming a heart shape with their necks on a misty lake. The bottom image presents a winter landscape with a frozen lake and a dark castle.

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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK Nocturne's halls hold secrets darker than Alyss ever imagined. With sinister professors & corrupted moon magic, she'll need to work with her ex, his new girl, & an infuriately charming vampire to avenge her sister's murder. #QuestPit #Q #YA #DF

A Memory of Moonkissed Malice
Villain Era Protag
Frenemies to Lovers
Queendoms
Found Family
Fantasy Dark Academia
Vampires
Feminine Rage
Corrupted Moon Magic

The Pitch
18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school’s guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic, and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most.

Chapter One
The rain made it easier to rob his grave.
My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night’s whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us.
Us.
As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth.

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Daelyn Morgana 🥀 @daelynmorgana.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Death might be a god, but he’s not a god like everyone else. When a soul’s life hangs in his hands & long-lost legends come about, Death must reclaim his mortality to save Morticia’s life. The only problem? The rest of the gods have other plans for them. #questpit #W #A #F

Three by three grid mood board in tones of black, white, grey, and a medium orange. Top row from left to right features a hooded grim reaper figure, a five pointed pentacle star necklace, and a church with a tall spire. Middle row from left to right features a fiery flame, a foggy square with the words “For even Death, too, was once a man,” and a tiny seedling sprouting from the dirt. The bottom row from left to right features a dark, twisted forest, two hands reaching upwards, and a witch woman lying on her back staring at you.

Dark, twisted forest background with centered white text box, partially transparent, with the words “For fans of: The Witch’s Heart and Nettle & Bone.”

Dark, twisted forest background with centered white text box, partially transparent, with the words “gods & goddesses, Greek myths, Salem witches & persecution, wilted purposes, lost souls, and a journey of mortality.”

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

HOWL Wulf discovers he's a werewolf as his girlfriend runs away screaming after sex. Apparently, "good boys don't Howl." His bi-panic inducing roommates decide to help train him to resist, but when Sky, a vampire S&M club owner with a thing for fur, comes will Wulf? #QuestPit #W #A #E #RomCom

3X3 Grid of images each row representing the bisexual flag colors
Pink row
- A shirtless barefoot man on a chaise lounge chair by a window, he's wearing an old fashioned frilly dress shirt unbuttoned showing his chest and stomach
- A rose burning with blue fire
- Bondage gear, pink hearts, and flowers
Purple row
- A dreamcatcher with fluffy feathers dangling from it
- A group of three, two men and a woman, laying on their stomachs smiling under a tent
- A woman gripping a man by the throat and whispering in his ear
Blue row
-Three pairs of bare feet, two pairs of mens and one of a woman, sticking out from under the covers
- A heart shaped lock and key
- A woman in a blue spotlight wearing elaborate dominatrix lingerie and a hat

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA X THE WITCHER 🍃 Eco-horror fantasy 🍃 Dual POV mother/daughter 🍃 Love, lust, life & death 🍃 Elemental secondary world 🍃 Everyone is morally grey #questpit #w #ag #f #a

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside– it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

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