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Caitlin Dawe @caitlindawe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Haven't been on Bluesky in a bit but here's where my writing projects are: My edits on Ravenous Shadows have turned the manuscrip back into a work in progress - progress is beautifuly messy Work in progress on Death of Asa Conway - almost have a draft skeletoned out. #writingcommunity

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

To pay her own bride price, Princess Mira hunts for lost treasure—but to break the curse binding her to a vengeful pirate’s ghost, she must fall in love with a fisherman’s son. The problem? Her heart already belongs to another princess. 🧡🤍🩷 #QuestPit #YA #F #W #LGBT

A mood board for Princess Mira, showing a Black princess with dresses and jewelry, a message in a bottle, a crown made of shells, a conch shell, and romantic scenes of the princess with her love interest, a white princess with red hair, including their faces pressed together, kissing in the reflection of a handheld mirror, and running across a grassy field arm-in-arm. The lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted across the grid, with the first row of picturetinted light orange, the second row tinted cream/white, and the third road tinted a rosy pink.

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Presenting my new and improved #agentsguide for my #amquerying YA science fantasy novel! 🌸 enchanted forest 🌿 found family 💜 environmental magic system 🦋 shadow monsters #LitAgents, 🩵 this post or DM me if you’re interested! #QuestPit #YA #Q #F #SF #SFF

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When Zeus + Aphrodite compete in a game of, 'Who's your worst patron deity?', Helen must follow and marry a man far from her homeland of Sparta Her single minded quest becomes to break free from their divine influence and return to her true husband, and beloved king, Menelaus. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF

Art by stranded-ziggy.tumblr.com of Helen holding a rose up to her nose

Comps for Helen: Circe, Clytemnestra and Morgan is My Name

Art by stranded-ziggy.tumblr.com of the remainder of Helen's bust

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Rory | Author *₊˚☕୧ @rabauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A Cloud Merman's Guide to Becoming Human: S̶t̶e̶p̶ ̶1̶:̶ ̶S̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶a̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶ Step 1.2: Grow a heart with human's help Step 2: Achieve happiness Steps unclear. Now I’m ripping out any heart I can find. SIMON SNOW x THE LITTLE MERMAID 🪼 🩵 #QuestPit #Q #NA #UF #R

moodboard with dark blue-gray images of jellyfish, boys kissing, hands reachign in the water, storm clouds, and moody cities. overlaying text reads: You're shivering, and your lips are blue... So kiss them, and they won't be blue anymore. Jellyfish Boy by R. A. Betzer

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Debby ✨ A MOST DECADENT CURSE (Jan. ‘27)✨ 🌊👻🖤 @aventurinedebby.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb #questpit #ya #ag #f

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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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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

FIVE SURVIVE X ONE OF US IS LYING The Show Must Go On: 🎪 Murder mystery-thriller set at a circus arts academy 🎪 Found family; girls support girls 🎪 New England setting 🎪 Friends suspected of murder 🎪 Crime-obsessed teen who wants to defend her friend #Questpit #Q #M #T

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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.

For Fans Of...
The lush, gothic prose of...
A fantasy academia setting like...
A murder mystery similar to...

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Soraia Esteves @soraia-esteves.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

THRONE OF GLASS X HEARTLESS HUNTER 🗡️ Epic battles 🥀 Forbidden magic 🗡️ Evil Gods 🥀 Romantic subplot 🗡️ Found family vs birth family 🥀 Animal companion 🗡️ Friends with benefits #YouDeservepIt #wip #A #F

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Brandon Love @blovewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #QuestPit #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

Dystopian, manipulation, hidden knowledge, The Alpha Project

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Vee Haacke 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is querying! @goddessvicky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫 NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES 🌹Romance/Romantasy 👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family ⚖️Gods & Goddesses 🎵Music! ♿Diversity 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+ 💖Soul Mates ✨Magical Realism Agent's guide included 📖 #2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV

A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles

A photo that reads:
Crowned In Light
A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series
As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy
First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query!
This one has it all!
- Magical Realism
- Slow Burn
- Found Family
- Gods and Goddesses
- Music Heavy
- Soul Mates / Past Lives
- Strong Female Friendships
- Disability/BIPOC representation
- DAVID BOWIE?!?!

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The Pitch!
It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions.
When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world?

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For Fans of:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Maggie Stiefvater
Richelle Mead
Laurell K Hamilton

Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality.
Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way.
Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory.

Playlist:
Have I Found My Home by Paden
What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams
Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin
Breathe Me by Sia
Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes
Silence by Marshmello & Khalid
The World We Made by Ruelle
Like That by JP Saxe
Safe Place by RuthAnne
Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt
Somebody Loved by The Weepies
For You by Angus & Julia Stone
Past Life by Morgan St Jean
Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 12/02/2025

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineering magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺ethical dilemmas 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them #questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy.

Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #R #RF #agentsguide #amquerying

An agent’s guide to: “Mark of a Magpie”
YA Romantic Fantasy
119k Words

Behind the text is a piece of parchment paper surrounded by ocean water and gold flower outlines.

Blurb:

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy…
Ryn is a small-town thief with a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d definitely be a fool to take up, but desperation fuels ever decision she makes.
Five for Silver, Six for Gold…
Seven is set in his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. When the castle goes into lockdown, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The rich are dropped like flies, and all suspicions are on them.
Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told.

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The Atmosphere:
There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand.

Behind the collage of pictures are ocean waters, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.

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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

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #W

moodboard layout with 9 squares 3 x 3, 6 have over the top terrified men (the dads), along the top and bottom 3 squares. Blood decal drips from top squares through the middle to the bottom ones. A Victorian mansion silhouette sits in the middle most left square, the title DAD BODIES in the middle, and right of that is the silhouette of a d20 with a skull icon showing.

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fabs is editing/drafting + brainstorming 🫣✨ @simplyfabs.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

#youdeservepit #DRAFTING #EDITING #WIP #R #DR #SOUTHASIANFMC #LATINOMMC VICIOUS PRINCE X RECKLESS X GOD OF FURY X KING OF SLOTH Every villain needed his muse.

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Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION @morkalmarrh.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ANNIHILATION x PERDIDO STREET STATION Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is. #QuestPit #SF #A #Q

A man and a woman stand with a putple wyvern with a backsrop of a city, the plaentary rings anf a putple moon

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Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

LAKESEDGE X HILL HOUSE Trapped in a haunted house, Chloe has three weeks to break the marriage bond with the Underworld prince, or she'll be forced to live an eternity without sunlight. #QuestPit #OS #A #RF #gothic #OWN #Dis

a 9-grid moodboard with images such as a dead tree, a black-veiled bride, a pale man with dark hair, an empty ballroom, a night sky, a beautiful woman in a red dress, a castle, dead flowers, and an eerie staircase. Text reads: A DEATH WITHOUT YOU" "You and I are far more than soulmates, Chloe. We are the same point of the blade that divides light from dark."

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Author Alexis Veenendaal @alexisveenendaal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

DISCWORLD x ADVENTURE ZONE An old wizard wants to retire but he has one last mission: Find a hero and slay a dragon. Unfortunately, the qualified hero turns him down and he has to recruit a band of misfits instead. #Q #A #F #questpit

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Harriet George @harrietgeorge99.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BENVOLIO & TYBALT, this is the love story that kills Romeo and Juliet. When they meet on the hot streets, they dance through their fight and the people of Verona believe they are enemies. Their dance will not fool the people forever. Tybalt will have to kill Benvolio. #Q #RF #HF #LGBT #questpit

Tears fill his Tybalt as he takes Benvolio's face and gently kisses him. His breath is missing, and his grip on him is strong.

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elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

for your #QuestPit consideration: NYMPH'S POND When Damla's mother disappears after an argument, Damla doesn't know that her strange mother may hide a supernatural heritage... nor that she possesses powers on her own... a standalone #q #a #f #speculative #ownvoices

A sleepy town with a mansion at its center. A lavish garden surrounds it. At its center, a pond.
Long ago, a mermaid appeared at
NYMPH'S POND
the very pond Damla’s mother disappears to. But the past may not be so long ago. Her mother may not be human. And if Damla wants to save her mother, she must tap into her supernatural heritage...

A standalone, speculative low-fantasy #ownvoices novel about otherness, filial bonds, and coming of age as an artist and daughter.

For fans of:
THE SHAPE OF WATER

THE BOOK OF LOVE

BLACK WATER SISTER

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Kalie Reid @kaliereid.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Agents!! I had the absolute PLEASURE of helping with this wonderful book for smoochpit 💖 if you’re looking for the most deliciously angsty slow burn, a howl coded love interest, a rich historical setting and theeee most gorgeous prose, check out this pitch! ✨ #questpit

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Kristine Ada Carter @kristineadacarter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A 13-yr-old Appalachian girl fuels her emerging dragon powers by composing warrior poetry to defeat the coal demon hell-bent on destroying her beloved Blue Ridge Mountain town. The GREAT DRAGON RACE meets TURNING RED. #questpit #MG #f #Hf #q

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Joy is ✨querying✨ @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Bonus moodboard for the WIP that I sporadically add to 😚 SHE IS A HAUNTING x HOUSE OF ROOTS & RUIN x MACBETH #questpit #W #YA #DF #H

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Ariana is WRITING @arianaferrante.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

His touch freezes things solid. His minions are always watching. His temper is unpredictable. And Betty's trapped in his home. #QuestPit #YA #DF #F #Q

A cool-toned moodboard featuring images of a snowy mountain range, skulls, a room decorated for Christmas, an old key, snarling masks, a Victorian house, pine tree branches, and a discarded teddy bear. The words "don't open the door" are in all caps in the center of the moodboard.

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A 🐚 is the perfect gift for a crush, but stealing from the sea has consequences. As it stirs, John is swept into danger—and a truth he’s always avoided: maybe he doesn’t really *want* to be a boyfriend. Maybe he doesn’t want to be a boy at all. #QuestPit #YA #F #W #LGBT

A moodboard for John, showing hands gathering flowers from the sand, glittering abalone shells, a silhouette of a young man swimming and staring at a moonlight beach, iridescent scales, a sun halo through the water, a silhouette of a mermaid swimming, lightning striking near a lighthouse, and a mermaid tail on a rocky shore. The trans pride flag is subtly depicted as a gradient across the board, with baby blue, rosy pink, and white.

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Debby ✨ A MOST DECADENT CURSE (Jan. ‘27)✨ 🌊👻🖤 @aventurinedebby.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ANNABEL LEE x GOTHIC BRIDGERTON. Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must uncover the truth behind their family’s curse when their castle’s ghosts are brought back to life during their weeklong ball—or risk joining them in their tomb by the sea. #questpit #ya #f #ag

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Arien Skye is querying @arienskyewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

SHADOWSHAPERS X THE MAGDALENE DECEPTION Araceli’s soul is connected to a painting and the images change reflecting her experiences. Until, one day it begins predicting events and pulling her into visions. Now, she must find the artist before it consumes her. #questpit #a #mr #q #f

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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 is Querying 🙏🕯️📿 @sashakielman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ASH x MARIE ANTOINETTE Eleonora is done pretending to be the perfect princess. When an ancient heirloom meant to be worn at her wedding is stolen, she seizes the opportunity and accelerates plotting a rebellion. But will her nation burn by her own hand--or an invasion? #A #F #LGBT #QuestPit #W

A moodboard for Sasha Kielman's AN EMBER AND THE ELLS. Images are, from left to right, top to bottom: a woman dressed like Disney's Cinderella walking down stairs; a castle in the mountains; a blonde woman in a green dress and a brunette woman in a red dress with their faces pressed together in front of the ocean, with the brunette woman's hand on the blond woman's cheek (taken from Portrait of a Lady on Fire); a jewel encrusted shoe; a flame; three women sitting while reading and sewing (taken from the 2005 Pride and Prejudice); a woman holding a silver masquerade mask behind her back, in a white lace dress; and a hand holding white fabric with stitches.

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Shayna Grissom 🪳 @shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When Celestine's kooky grandma used magic to raid a Costco, it summoned an unwanted visit from a dead relative. To protect Grandma Mason and her BFF from the angry ancestor, Celestine must set aside the MMA fighter and embrace the witch. #QuestPit #C #F #UW #NA

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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

❄️CLARA❄️ #YA #My #F (60k words) The Stahbaum’s annual Yule Ball is as lovely as a ballet until a guest is found dead the next morning. A party trick of dark magic performed at the ball could be the cause but it’s missing. Can Clara find it in time to save the witches of Snow Crest? #W #QuestPit

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Caitlin Dawe @caitlindawe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE DEEP DARK x BETTER LEFT BURRIED Do constantly restrained shadows and wings justify being a melodramatic asshole? Vespin thought so. ...then Iris moved to his small town. Can you have friends and keep your ravenous shadow caged? #WIP #YA #LGBT #T #PR #QuestPit

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Caitlin Dawe @caitlindawe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

👻THE DEATH OF ASA CONWAY👻 Asa disappeared in 1822. After waking in the present, can Io Verity solve the murder of his brother's boyfriend before murderous ghosts find him? 🪦Unbury the gays 🐦‍⬛Unusual abilities 🕰️Correcting the past 👥Found family #WIP #YA #LGBT #MY #QuestPit

A collage shows a house on fire infront of pine trees, tucked behind a boy plays violin, another stands facing a flock of flying birds and a hanging raven on a wire.

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🍂 Caitlin Duffy 🍂 @caitduffy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

COME CLOSER x MAUVE FLY x DIONYSUS When talentless lead actress Bea learns the director wants to replace her with an understudy, she holds a Dionysian ritual in the woods. Something answers. Bea transforms. And the show must go on. #H #A #q #miserypit #horror

Moodboard for Caitlin Duffy's novel The Theatre of Cruelty

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ashlynmriddle.bsky.social @ashlynmriddle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

#MiseryPit A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER X DEATH AT MORNING HOUSE Declan Rhodes must solve the case of a missing girl at summer camp, all while keeping his coveted self-healing abilities a secret. #M #YA #AmQuerying

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Niko Stevens @nikostevens.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Agent’s guide to WILDERWOOD, a 76,000 word YA fantasy mystery! #agentsguide #writingcommunity #amquerying

Mood board showing castles, forests, a dead deer, fungi, a murder board, and tapes

Fifteen-year-old Quinton Crow arrives at Holloway Institute hoping for a fresh start. All he has to do to leave his past behind is keep his head down and paranormal abilities in check. But his plan falls apart when he finds a fellow student murdered, her dead body being devoured by the forest called Wilderwood. Suddenly a prime suspect in the case, he must investigate to clear his name. But when he begins to dream of the Wilderwood, and finds the forest growing inside him, killing him from the inside out, he questions if he’s really as innocent as he’s trying to prove

Shows covers of Truly, Devious, and Don’t Let the Forest in. Shows a list of tropes

Quote: There was a thin line between paranormal investigation and instigation, and currently, the only things between it were me and my grave.

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Dear Patrons, We invite you to come observe our promising, and rare, new hires. We hope they will exceed the precedent set by our recently departed staff. Note: Please maintain our no-contact guidelines with the male. Do not answer any inquiries from staff. #MiseryPit #FT #NA #WIP #Horror #LGBT

A mood board of various dark misty forest scenes and several dimly lit liminal hallways, overlaid with the words “The Good Shade Hotel”

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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

ONE OF US IS LYING X AGGTM A teen girl is determined to solve the murders occurring at her father's traveling New England Circus Arts Academy when her new friend/roommate is suspected of murdering a girl. 🎪 My currently querying YA Mystery-Thriller: The Show Must Go On #Miserypit #YA #CM #Q

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L. D. Rex is Querying @ldrexauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

An elderly woman holds a grudge for forty years. On the outside, she goes to church, knits baby blankets and babysits, but her husband's betrayal has unleashed a psychotic anger that knows no bounds: a racy, multi-POV thrill ride with killer twists. #MiseryPit #A #S #T #R #LGBTQ+

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an elderly woman sits in a chair drinking from a cup

ALT: an elderly woman sits in a chair drinking from a cup

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Caitlin Dawe @caitlindawe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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Dyamond_Writer @authorinspirations.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#MiseryPit #WIP #A #H JEEPERS CREEPERS X SEE NO EVIL X THE MIST What would you and your friends do when a fun night at the county fair turns into a night of survival after crossing paths with a serial killer? Craosdeamhan is the Midwest's New Nightmare!

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#Q #agentsguide KINSHIP, 84k, #A #CT w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #miserypit

Amber Baird: KINSHIP, 84k word horror-thriller agent's guide. Subversion of gothic tropes, long-lost siblings, true crime podcast, prey, family secrets, psychedelic, unhinged queer female protagonist, generational trauma, predators, meat, bears, remote California location, dark humor.

KINSHIP blurb. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her girlfriend's husband back in San Francisco, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up a murder he commits, because that's what family's for... probably. Now if she wants to get back to her lover in one piece, she'll have to navigate her brother's taboo affections and dodge multiple suspicious parties. So much for her quiet weekend away.

KINSHIP first lines. Driving all night across the state in a part of California no one vacations in, a part that still belongs to the animals, my eyes burn for sleep. Car flanked as it is by clear paths as far as I can see, would it be so bad to let my eyes drift closed for just a moment?

KINSHIP, for fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leeds (surrealism), My Sister the Serial KIller by Oyinkan Braithwaite (exploration of family), A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers (dark humor), Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild (female rage).

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Not That Chris Brown @cfreak.dev · 27/01/2025

AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF

A mood board featuring rural decay alongside technology-filled cities and industry. A robot hand reaches for a human hand at the center.

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Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫 @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

REBECCA x RIVIERA x THE PERFECT COUPLE When a death is suspected a murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have a motive. Especially the man she loves. The dead woman's husband. Secrets🤫 Lies🧐 Slow❤️‍🔥 Obsession🖤 Betrayal🔪 Murder💀 #MiseryPit #Q #A #RM

Title says The Vibes - moodboard with the following photos - the Acropolis at night; a man in a villa swimming pool at night. A note saying 'I know what you did'; a couple kissing; a Mrs Danvers type silhouette parting fine, lace curtains. In the centre is a partial photo of a dead woman floating in water. Either side is a photo of a man standing at a desk, hanging his head; a couple's clasped hands; a lone man standing on a rock by the sea; a woman gazing up at a man, her arms round his neck. Last row has a woman screaming, her head thrown back; the silhouette of a woman in a party dress running; a smashed wine glass and broken phone; a car driving away on a deserted coastal road at night; and a couple embracing, the woman tearful.

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