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T.L. Leicester

@bytlleicester.bsky.social
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Longtime B2B journalist. Working on my first novel, THE MASTER MACHINEER. I play a very passable guitar, read, run, and stuff.

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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ok, I think whatever writer’s block I might’ve had is over. I just wrote 800 words about a bath. A BATH. #fantasynovel, #gaslampfantasy #amwriting
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
August has been good. Really good. -Finished the second draft of my WIP and got it to a beta reader who really enjoyed it. -Revised a short story and submitted it to a lit mag I follow. #amwriting #amrevising
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Jon Stewart's Boom! Game Over
ALT: Jon Stewart's Boom! Game Over
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The 2nd draft of THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE is finished. It grew from a complete, yet skimpy 68k word story to a fuller, more realized version of 88k words in a couple of months time. Got to reconcile a few things and we’ll see where it goes. #amrevising #fantasy #mystery #gaslamp
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Stephen Colbert: I Did It!
Alt: Stephen Colbert: I Did it!
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Bumping the #QuestPit thread up one more time, because algorithm. Might not make a difference, but it might.
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A.E. Fairfax @aefairfax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ATTACK ON TITAN X ALCHEMISED 90k: WHAT LURKS BEYOND THE WALLS Horror, Fantasy Aurellia, Duchess of Vaynesgard, struggles to rebuild her life after Escapists drag her beyond the towering ancient walls separating the final vestiges of humanity from creatures with an appetite for human flesh. #questpit
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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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Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️ @n-a-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💥CULLING Agent's guide💥 They pretended her homeworld destruction was an accident, not knowing that the entire galaxy is next on the chopping block. 🌌Queernorm world 🌌Chaos Crew 🌌A secret older than the galaxy 🌌And an impossible enemy #QuestPit #A #SF #Q
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Because you can’t (or shouldn’t) pitch without comps, here are THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE’s The Mask of Mirrors: political intrigue and subterfuge The Tainted Cup: engineered worldbuilding and mystery Bronze Gods: industrial fantasy (and also mystery) #QuestPit #W #A #F #M
Three comps for THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
An Agent's Guide to LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS #AgentsGuide #FantasyRomCom #AdultFantasy #AmQuerying
An Agent's Guide to LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS by Rebecca Bell - Image shows a death's head moth in a flashlight beam on a starscape over a forested background.THE PITCH: In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. TROPES: Fantasy RomCom, Grumpy x Grumpy, Enemies to Lovers, Monster Romance, Beauty & the Beast, Sibling Rescue, Mortal Among Immortals, Humanity as Power. COMPS: EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES, THRONE IN THE DARK,   LONG LIVE EVIL, ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN. Image shows a starscape over a forested background.
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Want to meet THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE’s mains? Right this way. Tham: Good with machines. People, not so much. Has to be correct, which gets him in trouble. Ginaya: Reads people like a pro. Takes charge. But when she misses the mark, she really misses. #Questpit #W #A #F #M
Tham: Good with machines. People, not so much. Has to be correct, which gets him in trouble. Ginaya: Reads people like a pro. Takes charge. But when she misses the mark, she really misses.
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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And last but definitely not least, dear #Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration, an #Agentsguide to: MOVING DAY! A short story of a woman defying her bloodline by trying to save what's left of humanity. Published in Volume One of the WWAD Anthology! #P #A #SF
Background of a starry night sky over a polluted earth.
Title: Moving Day
A Sci-Fi story of a woman defying her bloodline to save humanity from the mistakes of the past
Featuring: Space Ships, Aliens, saving what can be saved and the message to never stop defying!

Published as part of the We Write At Dawn Anthology Volume One, now available.
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Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 To join her dream esports team, Cam let everyone assume she's a guy. Now all she has to do is survive the captain, who's sure she's the weak link — without falling for him first. #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying
Last Pick by Ruchi Dave is an e-sports romance novel, complete at 75k words. 

Cameron Day has always felt like a loser—except in the video game League of Champions, where she dominates. So when an esports team mistakes her for a guy and recruits her, she doesn’t correct them.

But to Jacob—their ruthless (and distractingly hot) captain who’s already seen one ex-teammate implode under pressure—she’s a risk they can’t afford. If she cracks, they all go down with her.

The only way forward is to prove she’s not a liability, but the key to pulling them out of freefall.

Contact the author at **@ruchi-writes on x or @ruchi-writes.bsky.social**Moodboard for Last Pick. Professional esports gamer vibes. Snippet for Last Pick

“The others got over it much sooner than you did.”

“I didn’t want to complicate things.”

“Why would I complicate things?”

“You know why.” He tucked a stray hair behind my ear, and my skin felt electric where his fingers brushed against me. I leaned into him as his hand slid to the nape of my neck, tilting my head toward his.

“What happened to keeping things professional?”

“This is professional,” he murmured. “Kevin and I do this all the time.”Comps and Tropes

- **enemies-to-lovers**
- **woman in a male dominated field**
- **Chaos GOBLIN HEROINE**
- **forced proximity**
- **underdog story**
- **impostor syndrome**
- **good intentions, bad decisions**

She’s the Man - **WOMAN PRETENDING TO BE A MAN IN A MALE DOMINATED SPORT (E-Sports)**

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace - **team captain/mentor who is convinced she’s a liability**

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - **fake-it-till-you-make-it energy**
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Coming this fall: THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE. ~90k word gaslamp fantasy with a central mystery. A master craftsman pulled into the orbit of the most powerful man in his city discovers a device he’s been sent to steal is the reason his father died. #QuestPit #W #WIP #fantasy #A #mystery
The main plot of THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE.
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💫 Light After the Fall 💫 a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace coming this October 🧙 Feedback requested: Which cover/what elements of each cover do you prefer? All feedback welcome & appreciated! #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit
Title: "Light After the Fall"
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a figure standing on a cliff holding sunflower


An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation 
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot
Title: "Light After the Fall"
/an adventure guide to thriving teh post-apocalypse
by Iza Krendl Titus


colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a meditating figure glowing


An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation 
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot
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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R
My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another. 
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening 
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings
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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ró always found eating hearts to be vile, even if it grants humans magical powers. But her town’s leader craves the heart of a seductive water spirit, and Ró yearns to impress. Succeed and earn a much-needed favor from the town leader, fail, and it’ll be her heart on a plate🫀 #YA #F #R #Q #QuestPit
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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 GracelingAn 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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kss @ksskss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Cruel Prince X The Hunger Games Querying now~ ⚔️Portal fantasy 🩸Deadly trials ⚔️Malevolent racist faeries 🩸A selfish, lying & self-serving FMC ⚔️Court intrigue 🩸Blood magic ⚔️Unique & lush worldbuilding 🩸Political minefields ⚔️A very subtle slow-burn romance 🩸Monsters #QuestPit #YA #F #Q
The Ballad of Blood and Fire (A 100,00-word YA Fantasy)A mood board of gold pillars of a beautiful palace, a dark, intimidating maze, magical lights in a willow tree, a hand dripping with blood, a view of the night sky, a forgotten statue of a Goddess, an ethereal night sky, two people fighting, a hand holding a stunning diamond necklace, and gold-plated armor. When 17-year-old Rawiya becomes the first mortal ever Casted into the deadly Light Bearer Trials in the Lands of Draoibeo, she must navigate treacherous court politics by weaponizing the one power no faerie possesses: the ability to lie.The Comps:

- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
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Jodie Angell @jodieangellauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
UNDERWORLD x TAYLOR SWIFT'S GUILTY AS SIN? Hunted for her magical heart that could destroy the Veil dividing their lands, a ferromancer teams up with a shifter she hates to stay alive. ✨ Coming to query inboxes soon ✨ #QuestPit #NA #A #RF #Q
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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #AG
Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And now, let’s tie all the #Questpit posts for THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE into a thread. #W #A #F #M #gaslamp #fantasy #mystery bsky.app/profile/bytl...
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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Because you can’t (or shouldn’t) pitch without comps, here are THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE’s The Mask of Mirrors: political intrigue and subterfuge The Tainted Cup: engineered worldbuilding and mystery Bronze Gods: industrial fantasy (and also mystery) #QuestPit #W #A #F #M
Three comps for THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE
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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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Vivian Storm @vivianstormauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
GRAVES X THE RAVENHOOD SERIES What you can expect to find in this dark, why choose (MFM) romance. 🥀 Small Town 🖤 MFM 🥀 Multi POV 🖤 POC FMC 🥀 They Fall First 🖤 Healing Arcs 🥀 Found Family 🖤 Vigilante Justice #questpit #Q #A #R
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alan anarchy @alananarchy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Girl in Pieces x All the Bright Places "Dying is easy. Living is the hard part." Being in love with Serena is the only thing keeping Trevor fighting his addiction and from attempting suicide again, but Serena's overprotective parents forbid them being together. #QuestPit #lf #R #ya
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alan anarchy @alananarchy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Secret History x The Maidens While Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play she stumbles upon a dead body. After Jess' friends begin turning up dead around campus she has to bring the deaths to an end by committing a murder of her own. #QuestPit #T #H #R #A
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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
After my abuser turns my miscarriage into a murder charge, I’m thrown in jail while a manipulative DA uses my case for exposure. Branded the “Murdering Mommy,” I'm given an impossible choice: Risk everything to prove my innocence or plead guilty to be free. #Questpit #Q #NF #M
Woman's hands in chains
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Want to meet THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE’s mains? Right this way. Tham: Good with machines. People, not so much. Has to be correct, which gets him in trouble. Ginaya: Reads people like a pro. Takes charge. But when she misses the mark, she really misses. #Questpit #W #A #F #M
Tham: Good with machines. People, not so much. Has to be correct, which gets him in trouble. Ginaya: Reads people like a pro. Takes charge. But when she misses the mark, she really misses.
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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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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Coming this fall: THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE. ~90k word gaslamp fantasy with a central mystery. A master craftsman pulled into the orbit of the most powerful man in his city discovers a device he’s been sent to steal is the reason his father died. #QuestPit #W #WIP #fantasy #A #mystery
The main plot of THE BRASSWEIL PRINCIPLE.
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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.

Image credit belongs to PinterestThe 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. 

Image credit belongs to PinterestThe 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. 

Background image belongs to Pinterest.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).

Image credit belongs to Pinterest
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David Z.M. Allison @dzmallison.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Am I Black?
 A biracial adopted kid has no idea if he's Black. What actually bothers him? The borrrring questions everyone asks the second they meet him.
 #PB #Q #questpit
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Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫 @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
𝑴𝑰𝑺𝑺 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀 𝒙 𝑮𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑶𝑵𝑰𝑶𝑵 Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is perilous enough without her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Especially her. #Questpit #W #A #MY #R
An AGENT'S GUIDE TO MISS CONGENIALITY X GLASS ONION WIP
AGENT INTEREST - BOOKCLUB MYSTERY
Image of Mont St Michel. TAGLINE - IT'S A FULL MOON. THE TIDE IS IN. SOMEONE HAS A SCORE TO SETTLE.
Locations - London, Greece, France
PITCH - Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is perilous enough without her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Especially her.
Photos of a woman working on a laptop. And fashion model in a red dress.
COMPS - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the movie Glass Onion and movie Miss CongenialityTROPES & THEMES: Mistaken Identity, Deception, Fake-Dating, Character-driven Banter, Forced Proximity, Slow-Burn Romance, Deadly Ambition, Murder
VIBES - A moodboard with selection of pictures including Mont St MichelOPENING LINES
Until she stoops to turn him over, she isn't scared. She feels nothing but anger because he's done this once too often and enough is enough.

SNIPPETS
Natalie flings Sterling a cold look. 'And I suggest you mind your own business.'
     'Fine.'
     'Fine. And stop calling me Nat!'
     Oh bloody hell. As Natalie sinks back into the sulks, dragging on her cigarette, Kate glances at O'Neill but he appears to have discovered something of enormous interest in a seascape on the far wall. 

Remembering, she moves to the archway leading to the beach and peers down.
     'Quite a drop, isn't it?' Sterling is beside her, looking down into the tumbled undergrowth. 'I must admit,' he says dryly, 'that the notion of being my girlfriend has never quite driven a woman to wanting to fling herself off a cliff before.' 
She smiles sweetly. 'You should get out more,' she says, and as that gleam lights his eyes again, turns quickly away. 'No, it's my other shoe. It's down there.'
An eyebrow wings up. 'You are a curious cat, aren't you?’
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Vivian Storm @vivianstormauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
An agent’s guide to SAVING HER, a dark why choose romance. When the setting & theme of protecting the community like THE RAVENHOOD SERIES falls in love with GRAVES for the added darkness, sharing morally gray, murderous brothers and has a baby, you get my debut novel w older MCs #questpit #Q #R #A
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Any #questpit participants interested in swapping support?
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Chris Jericho: You Just Made The List!
ALT: Chris Jericho: You Just Made The List!
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
As he kept his eyes trained on Tham, the man left without another word. He saved any grumbling for once he was out of sight. But Tham thought he could make out a string of profanities in an angry staccato that made its way to and out of the hall’s front doors.
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The biggest thing I’m getting out of revisions is in every paragraph, somebody needs to be thinking about something, doing something or talking about something, rather than me explaining things. #amrevising #WIP
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This #UnhingedPit was a great time. Already looking forward to the next one. Thanks to all who interacted with my goofy posts. #fantasy #gaslamp #mystery #WIP #amrevising
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Leo DiCaprio's Gatsby Cheers
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
One more? Yeah, one more. How does THE HUMAN AMPLIFIER’s walking sledgehammer/pain in the ass antagonist introduce himself to our hero, Tham Brassweil? It goes a little something like this: #UnhingedPit #A #F #WIP #gaslamp #mystery #fantasy
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Rick James on Couch (Chappelle's Show)
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Let’s bump this back up to the top for any #UnhingedPit latecomers. You are checking out THE HUMAN AMPLIFIER, a #gaslamp #fantasy #mystery #A #F #W #WIP
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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tack: Ever considered joining an ace magic pirate and his crew of unnecessarily horny women he widowed at their request? Governess: Is that some kind of metaphor? Tack: It is not. Governess: Unnecessarily? Tack: 🙄 Extremely. Governess: ...I have a husband. Tack: 👇 #UnhingedPit #W #F #LGBT
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Peter Griffin: Not For Long
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And now for a world-exclusive scene from THE HUMAN AMPLIFIER* RAFENEIRA GUARD: Hey! You can’t come in here without ID. THAM BRASSWEIL: Here you go (hands obviously fake one) RG: Yep. Looks good to me. In you go. *not exactly like this but close enough #UnhingedPit #A #F #W #WIP
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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What’s more unhinged than your editor’s cat, named cheese, ALLEGEDLY leaving her own edits to the first print round of your debut…and then you accidentally build a cult for cheese and she’s now gone viral 3x and technically also won an award as my co-author?? #unhingedPit #YA #P #F #CheeseTheCat
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sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My magical Regency era characters on whether or not they like cinnamon rolls- Wait, what do you mean that's not what this meme means? Howl's Moving Castle x Pride and Prejudice #unhingedpit #YA #Historical #Fantasy #Romance #Q #querying
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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Wednesday Addams goes to Oz. That's it. That's the pitch. #Unhingedpit #Q #YA #F (Rooted in Stone- A Sapphic Gargoyle YA Urban Fantasy)
Two images- Wednesday Addams played by Christina Ricci lookong startled, darkly lit and with a black backdrop. On the right, the four MCs of The Wizard of Oz marching down the yellow brick road towards the Emerald city, all very bright and colorful.
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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In 1996, a dudebro necromancer so loves his dead best bros he reanimates them for one last epic road trip and makes his unresolved grief everyone's problem in NecBromancer. #Unhingedpit #H #A #Q "The Body" x Clerks x Jersey Shore with a slamming 90s soundtrack and existential dread.
Boxer meme: part 1, a standing boxer "ok ima fight the rules of life and death by reanimating my two dead best bros so we can go on an epic road trip." Part 2 the boxer is sitting down exhausted "damn rules of life and death got hands"Ice Cube in a car, driving: It was a good day/I reanimated my dead friends who died on memorial day.Good Guy Steve: Best Bros die before epic road trip/Bro reanimates them for one last blastSpice Adams, a Black man in a yellow jacket, stands behind a tree with a thirsty look. Text 1: Dudebro wrecks the rules of life and death to reanimate is dead bros  Text 2: the angry 600 year old phantom waiting to wreck him.
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Shelbey @shelbeyd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Billy can run. Billy can hide. But Billy can’t escape his least favorite lunch food when it grows to gigantic proportions! HOLY BALONEY mixes magic + lunchtime gone wrong + a boy with food aversions to get Adam Rubin’s Dragons Love Tacos meets Oliver Jeffers’ Stuck. #unhingedpit #PB #Q
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Pure Bologna Meat Product
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T.L. Leicester @bytlleicester.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
All Thamilton Brassweil wanted was to rebuild his family’s business. His latest job gave him more than he bargained for. #a #f #w #unhingedpit
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