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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ONE DARK WINDOW x PANDORA’s BOX except the box is a mythical prison of damned souls 🏛️Magic system inspired by curses 🏛️ FMC with OCD (that is aggressively triggered by the monster in her head) 🏛️ MMC who can manipulate memory 🏛️ A deathless King with many secrets to keep #QuestPit #A #F #Q

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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Dual POVs 🎲 Second Chance Romance 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

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Top Row: Playing cards that spell out LOVE. A martini glass with a clear drink, dice, and a floating candle inside. A Queen of Hearts card with its eyes scribbled out.

Middle Row: Stairs and an elevator with moody red lighting. “Life is a gamble.” An eerie red hallway with many doors and chandeliers.

Bottom Row: A joker card with a demon on it. A beverage being poured into a glass. Playing cards that are three 6s.

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Taryn Christeen @tarynchristeen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS X ONE DARK WINDOW An #agentsguide for my completed 90,000 word NA/A, dark, gothic fantasy, PARALYSIS🥀🖤 #questpit #Q #A #F #DF

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ALL THE HOLLOW CURSES | Crossover | One Dark Window x Pandora's Box ⌛️FMC, who is slowly descending into madness, and the Monster in her head that is enabling her. 🖤Slow burn romance (so slowly because he is frightened of her, and he loves it) 🗝️ Dark Fairytale x Mythology #questpit #agentsguide #F #Q

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

One Dark Window x Pandora’s Box x A Quiet Place "To weave a curse, one must first be broken by one." ⏳ FMC, whose mind is inhabited by a cursed spirit unleashed from Pandora's box. 🕯️ A deathless King who hunts diviners–like her sister 🖤 The heretical Kingsguard sent to kill her. #posterpit #f #q

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN two men stranded on a frozen lunar prison outpost develop a tender and terrifying bond as they work together to survive an ancient entity awakening beneath the ice #PosterPit #SF #H #R #LGBT #agented

Illustrated poster for my sci-fi horromance novel. Two men in glowing, futuristic space suits stand close together in the foreground, Jack with his arm around Elias. Both wear helmets with cyan-lit panels; one has blond hair and a beard, the other has dark curly hair, glasses, and a mustache. Behind them is a dark, eerie ice cave background with faint glowing eyes hidden in a crevice. Surrounding the scene are vertical film reels of images showing the two men in various intimate moments. Text at the top reads “From the producers of Annihilation and Brokeback Mountain.” Large title text reads “Babel on Callisto,” with the subtitle “A queer sci-fi horromance.” Text at the bottom reads “Rep: Matthew Valdez @ Megibow Literary Agency.”

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #PosterPit

A film poster for Feed Me Your Heart, a YA fantasy/romance/horror novel about a girl addicted to magical hearts who has to hunt a water spirit

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m 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Ten years after family tragedy ended their relationship, she reconnects with her ex at a family wedding and confronts the difference between loving a person and yearning for nostalgia when her insecurities are tested. #posterpit #a #r #q

None of This Was Real

Comp Titles
Every Summer After
Happy Place
How to Hide in Plain Sight

When her ex is at a family wedding, reopening old wounds might not be worth a second chance at happiness.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #PosterPit #W #A #F #H

A vertical poster for "MARK OF THE JESTER" features a split-color design: white on the left with black elements and black on the right with white elements. A thin border frame at the top contains the phrase "A DARK FANTASY."
The central image consists of a large, stylized jester’s mask split down the middle to match the background. The mask features one hollow eye hole and a wide, grinning mouth colored deep red. Four mirrored rose silhouettes surround the mask.
The title is rendered in a distressed, hand-drawn font. On the left, a black laurel wreath contains the text, "A most unreliable narrator!" On the right, a white laurel wreath contains the text, "Horror! Madness! Laughs!"
The bottom left includes an "R" rating box with warnings for violence, sexual content, language, and disturbing images. The bottom right lists "WRITTEN and DIRECTED by B. VAN BODEGOM" above a synopsis regarding a jester and a king.

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE UNMAKING 95k 🧠💔💉👻 Nova feels too much, and that could get her mind wiped clean. She’s a state memory technician who erases the most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won’t let her forget. #PosterPit #Q #A #SPF #SF

The unmaking poster for poster put orange city background blue woman man and glitching man now querying. She erased memories til memory remembered her.

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hannah nagle :)) @hannahnagle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

SUCH A FICKLE FATE Viv has been dreaming of a mysterious scarred man, but when she finds out he’s the key to solving her mother’s murder and now her foretold death, she must go on a quest with her two druid friends to find him. EMILY WILDE x PERCY JACKSON #NA #F #Q #PosterPit

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I decided to make an #agentguide for my newest novel! Coming soon to a query inbox near you! #writingcommunity #querying (Thank you @carisadunn.bsky.social or helping me format this!)

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE A clairaudient girl in a city where silence means survival must uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance—before the ancient archive whispering inside her destroys her and her world from within. #posterpit #F #LitAgents #GothicFantasy #WritingCommunity

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

mini #agentsguide to THE BONE ARCHIVE THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE A gothic fantasy romance following a clairaudient girl and the heretical hunter as they battle silence and the monsters that feed off it. 🖤Currently has EDITOR interest 🖤 #litagents #gothicfantasy #fantasy #WritingCommunity

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

“In a world where silence is law, loving you was my loudest rebellion”. CITY OF BRASS meets A QUIET PLACE 🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound 🖤 Slow Burn 🥀Beware the silence—it festers ❤️‍🔥 And never, ever fall for the heretical hunter #posterpit #F #gothicfantasy

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Julianne @juliannejh.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Mood board for my current #WIP #amdrafting #writingcommunity

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Abigail is Agented @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

TANGLED X ANASTASIA In a Swiss realm where people forget their worst memory, an orphan with Tourette's recruits a flirtatious thief to help restore her forgotten past. 🪻Found Family 🪻Disability & LGBTQ Rep 🪻Cozy Setting 🪻Swoony Romance #PosterPitAG #PosterPit #F #YA

Titled “WHERE MEMORIES BLOSSOM”. Poster has a blue background featuring flowers. Art includes four young adults: one girl with braided black hair and blue eyes wearing an old-fashioned blue dress, one girl with black hair in a bun and a pink shirt, one boy with orange hair and a brown vest, and one boy with long brown hair and a red cape. YA COZY FANTASY. FOUND FAMILY. Directed by Abigail Wadlington and repped by Rebecca Williamson.

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Mylee J. Miller | SFF Author | ✨Updates Only✨ @myleejmiller.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN x SIX OF CROWS When four criminals are hired to steal an artifact from the most dangerous sea in their world, they'll do anything to take it for themselves - even betray each other. #PosterPitQ #F #NA

The poster pitch for Mylee J. Miller's epic fantasy novel, BENEATH THE WAVES OF THE LABYRINTH SEA. Showcases Mylee J. Miller cosplaying as one of the main characters, the pirate Raelynd, and the tagline "Diver. Smuggler. Warlock. Pirate. Nobleman. And a traitor." and the words "An epic sea-heist fantasy by Mylee J. Miller".

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Author Alexis Veenendaal @alexisveenendaal.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Title is TBD at the moment. I couldn't stand missing another pitch event, so here I am, just in it to avoid the FOMO :) Announcement and release date coming soon(ish)! #PosterPit #A #F

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Isabel Grace (is agented) @isabelgraceauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME x THE CITY OF BRASS Half-breed Aelia is forced to go on the run with a pure-blood mercenary, after revealing her powerful Runelight turns her into a hunted weapon for a war between realms ✨full ms with lit agent✨ #PosterPit #Q #F #R #NA #amquerying

A beam of light bursts from the silhouette of a woman. Title: Runelight Burning by Izzy Grace. Laurels: Forced proximity slow burn. Norse-inspired rune magic. Subverted chosen one trope. She's the anti-hero, he's the moral compass.

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

📖🐦‍⬛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? #PosterPit #PosterPitOS #PosterPitA #AG #OS #A #F #R #DIS #onsub #editors

Fake movie poster featuring the book "MARK OF A MAGPIE"

Text reads: An adult fantasy by Emilia Young, On submission next week, Thief x Assassin, Forced Proximity, Morally Gray, Women's Wrongs

Behind the text, there is a ship crossing the ocean, with two magpies flying high above it, it is unclear whether they're fighting or dancing.

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Laeti is ✨ querying ✨ @lnmbeck.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

BABEL X THE WILL OF THE MANY The God of Knowledge is dying, and all knowledge is withering alongside him. 📚 Dark Academia 📚 Found Family 📚 Twisty Plot 📚 Eerie 📚 Sacred Artefacts 📚 Gods & Curses #PosterPit #Q #A #F

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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

THE SIRENS X THE BOOK OF WITCHING ✨ Editor interest ✨ 🌊 Feminine rage 🌊 Twisty plot 🌊 Atmospheric setting 🌊 Orcadian folklore 🌊 Multi POV 🌊 Chronic illness rep (own voices) #PosterPit #A #HF #Q

Text: THE BALLAD OF AGNES DAY (Querying now): When a storm wrecks his island’s passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous finfolk, a grieving musician must find out the truth about who she is before more of his people die. Longlisted for WriteMentor Award 2025, Top 5% Bridport Prize 2025, Top 100 Bath Novel Award 2024. Image: A young woman with long dark hair and a 1900s dress stands in front of a lighthouse on a cliff path. There is a blood spatter in the corner of the poster.

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

STARLING HOUSE meets AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, set in a sensory perilous world like A QUIET PLACE. 🦴 Whispered secrets are currency 📚 The archive is listening 🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound 🖤 Slow Burn- never, ever fall for the heretical hunter 🥀Beware the silence—it festers #QuestPit #F #agentsguide

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Marcela Marquez is *Agented* @marcimarquez.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Phantasma X Beetlejuice 🪦 Abusive mommies 🫀 Sapphic lovers 🔮 Coven politics 🌊 Haunted FL island resort 🖤 A chauvinistic demon, who may or may not make you laugh, but he’s also total self-centered and violent nut job 🚩 #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #H #R

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

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

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind #QuestPit #AG #YA

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Alissa is Querying ✨🔥🧪 @alissalindemann.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Queen's Shadow X Shadow & Bone "Ballad realized he wasn't the symbol of this revolution. He was the conduit, but that fire was hope. The symbol was always hope." 🌟Chronic Illness Rep ✨LGBTQ+ 🌑Friends to Lovers 🪐Celestial Magic 🔥Alchemy #questpit #q #sff #ya

Photo collage including: an image of snowy mountains with a clear view of the milky way above, a close up of flames and smoke, an image of a young white woman holding fire, an image of a young man with brown skin and long dark brown hair looking off in the distance, an image of a young white man with glasses writing at an antique desk, an image of old apothecary jars of varying sizes, and an image of someone's hands as they burn pieces of paper

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Menaka #AmQuerying @menakawrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

SHEILD OF SPARROWS x ATTACK ON TITAN ❤️‍🔥 high heats 🏜️ desert setting ⚔️ magic weapons made of gods 🧠 PCOS, PMDD 🖤 shadow magic from animals 💕enemies to lovers and forbidden romance 🤎 POC cast 🏳️‍🌈 bi MC #A #Q #Questpit #RF #Romantasy

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 06/08/2025

BLOOD IS LIFE. BONES ARE STRENGTH. FLESH IS CONTROL. SKIN IS DEATH. 🌹 Historical fantasy 🇫🇷 Belle Époque 🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance 🩸 Body-based magic system 🗡️ Family feuds 🗝️ Gothic vibes Coming 10/21/2025, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue & dangerous magic. #QuestPit #P #A #F #HF #R

Cover of the book A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE, showing the silhouette of a woman over a red and gold background.

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🛤️ HOW TO COME HOME🛤️ An ex-Prohibition fixer and a small-town general store owner must overcome holding their pasts too present in order to build a future together in 1930s America. PEAKY BLINDERS x 4 WINDS x CAT SEBASTIAN #questpit #Q #amquerying #agentsguide

Slide 1: Cover slide for HOW TO COME HOME. A picture of a cornfield at dusk overlaid by the title and two portraits, one of a man with curly dark hair and wearing a dark green sweater and one of a man with pale blond hair, glasses, and wearing a jacket, vest, and tie. A brown frame with gilded accents encloses the slide.

Slide 2: PITCH & COMPS
After a decade behind bars, former Prohibition crime boss Nathan Gilliard takes a job working for a kindhearted single father at his small-town general store—but Nathan’s old life and older secrets aren’t easily left behind bars, and both men must confront the consequences of holding their pasts too present if they have any hope of building a future together.
Comps presented are WE COULD BE SO GOOD by Cat Sebastian, INLAND by Téa Obreht, PEAKY BLINDERS, THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah, THE COMPANION by EE Ottoman, and the albums Hozier by Hozier, Laurel Hell by Mitski, and Babel by Mumford & Sons

Slide 3:TROPES & THEMES
A digital painting of two men, one with dark curly hair and wearing a maroon sweater, one with blond hair and wearing a shirt with suspenders and glasses around his neck, both seated at a piano. The tropes & themes read:
- Queerness without a “coming out” narrative
- Unconventional family structure
- Grief doesn’t end, but it changes
- Romance’s sweeping love story + histfic’s sweeping plot
- Disability =/= disabling
- Chekhov’s $100,000
- Who you are is not what you’ve been
- 30+-year-old-protagonists
- Complicated siblings, positive and negative

Slide 4: EXCERPT
A hotel. Anonymous people. People whose faces he’ll never see, whose names he’ll never know. Whose lives could be anything and everything, passing through Aurora on their way to California or New York or Canada.
On the train, that had been the most beautiful thing in the world to Nathan, the anonymity. Now the horror of it grounds him to the sidewalk.
Ten years he spent unknowable and resilient and caged, because the pain of knowing a different life and losing it cut so deep he didn’t know if he’d survive another bout of loss. And even in Blankenship he’d risked knowing, risked caring, and lost again. No lessons learned. More pieces of him to gather up, and Nathan’s hands too small to carry all of them. He can look in this ordinary little hotel all he likes. He’s burned too much, built too little to aspire to an ordinary life. No, all that awaits Nathan Gilliard is blood money and cold vengeance.

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

SixofCrowsxPoppyWar When the Dusters vanished and left Nara behind, she resorted to a life of crime to survive. In one last heist to save her best friend, Nara teams up with the two people who imprisoned her to steal a Healing relic while evading ghosts from a life she can't remember #questpit #Q #F

A Guide To
DUST WE SHALL RETURN
An 88k Fantasy Heist
By Marceline Greyfield

Pitch
A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact from a Dynaster to save her best friend's life. But when they find Nara's kidnapper commisserating with the Dynaster, Nara must choose between unraveling the secrets oof her past to find where her people vanished to, or protecting her friends and her future from a religious ritual that threatens to split the barrier between man and god.

Themes & Tropes
Tri POV (F/M/NB)
Physically disabled FMC (#OWN)
MMC talks like a Jeff Buckley or Hozier song
Nonbinary MC fighting to save their sister
Ensemble cast
Found family
Unique magic system
Sibling bonds
E2L second-chance romance
Religious machinations
Twisty, slowly revealed backstories

Comps
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang: Fragmented memories, last of her kind protag, morally complex characters.
Memento by Christopher Nolan: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge. Distrustful allies.
The Priority of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: Strong FMC with unique magic, ancient rituals, and political intrigue.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, to hell with wise sayings.

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I’m excited to share this #pitchcard for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, and JOHN, the YA fantasy novel I #amquerying, feat: 🏴‍☠️ LGBTQIA+ rep 👑 non-western setting 🌸 anti-colonial lens 🏴‍☠️ girls w/ swords 👑 besties-to-lovers 🌸 friendship > everything #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

A pitch card for YA fantasy The Pirate, The Princess, and John by @saraduranauthor, marked “Now Querying” with a gold star noting “5 full requests and counting.” The book is a standalone, complete at 82,000 words.

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

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

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

Featuring:
Native Hawaiian Rep
Cultural Identity
Setting as a Character

The second slide showcases the pitch:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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kris/KM Fajardo | Preorder LOCAL HEAVENS 💎 @kmfajardo.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

happy pride, yearners!!! from me & my bi panic cyberpunk nightmare book. also pls clap for my GREEN OFFICE i get to decorate this month if you like bipoc queer stories, toxic relationships, examinations of capitalism/technology, gatsby x bladerunner x black mirror — LH is for you 💚

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

ah, imposter syndrome baring its ruinous tongue. lovely. #amediting #writer

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Matis Kogan is querying CHOSEN 21✨ @matiskogan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#literaryagents if you’re looking for a high-stakes Fantasy & Sci-Fi novel, where The Maze Runner meets The 100, check out my agent’s guide for CHOSEN 21!🪐 ⚡️Harsh trials ⚡️Humanity-Saving expedition ⚡️Friends to lovers ⚡️No way out #Questpit #fantasy #SciFi #YA #writercommunity #Author

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

ERAGON X THE LAST UNICORN 🌿bone magic & speaking with spirits 🕷️slavic myths in the woods 🪻band of misfits nearly dying a lot 🌞missing someone you never knew 🪻unique magic system 🕷️dragons, dead women, & forest men 🌿coming of age in a fantastical way #questpit #AG #F #YA

a white background with a light green banner with white writing that reads “THE BONE COLLECTOR An editor’s guide to a lush, folklore YA fantasy by Leona H. Lach Repped by Arianna Siddiqui at Fineprint Literary”

light green background with white flowers and a spine in three of the corners, a group of 3 in a neutral tone color palette is in one of the corners.
from left to right:
Fawn is on the left. she is a black girl with long locs that are decorated in little gold pieces. Olena is in the middle. She’s a white girl with dark hair & a scarf around her hair. Arwyn is on the right. He has tanned skin, shaggy hair that falls to his shoulders, & hunting gear on.
Text is in the middle and reads: PITCH
Three magic users a rare Bone Breaker and two spy Animal Weavers- journey into the dark woods to find a potential cure for the sickness ravaging the Bone Breaker's home. Risking their lives against ancient beasts, the three adventure to the highest mountain to find the medicine they're searching for. In a clash of Slavic myths and dark consequential magic, this YA fantasy explores the strength of the natural world while highlighting the struggle to fit in as a young girl.

a light green background with white text that reads COMPS AND TROPES. book covers and their tropes are listed below. Eragon cover: 15 y/o MC swept into an unknown adventure. The Last Unicorn cover: a misfit, magic found family. Counterpart cover a royal pawn. Daughter of the Bone Forest cover: magic influenced by death. Where the Dark Stands Still cover: lush world inspired by slavic folklore. white flowers and a spine border the corners.

white text over a light green background: SNIPPET
But the entire world stops turning, letting Olena live in the few seconds before her end.
"A wish?" a chirping voice calls from somewhere inside Olena's skull. It bats around, banging on every corner of her brain, the flap of wings echoing in her ears. "A wish for you." The voice is almost too fast for Olena to comprehend, but she makes her wish.
Flight. Wings. The strength to save us, she pleads.
in three of the four corners is white flowers and a spine, in the bottom right is olena: a very pale 15 year old girl who looks incredibly tired. she has dark hair under a silk scarf that’s covered in art of lions and dragonflies. she’s wearing a dark blue cloak and dark dress and is fiddling with a bone.

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

A moodboard showing the pirate (Amir), the princess (Mira), and John.

Amir silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a sword slung over her shoulder and a group of joyful sailors on a pirate ship. She has this quote:

Continue to love
Continue to forgive
Continue to grow

Mira is shown in the reflection of an ornate mirror. She is wearing long white gloves and a pink ballgown with her hair in a natural updo and the lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted over her photo. There is another photo of two girls kissing in the surf at sunset. Mira has this quote:

We looked at each other a little too long to be “just friends”

John is shown with his bare back to the viewer, facing the sea with the trans pride flag subtly depicted over his photo. He also has a close up of iridescent mermaid scales and this quote:

Go bravely, go deeply, or do not go

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

TheAtlas6xFMA:B An Alchemist covered in illegal runes to stave off her rotting bones An Artist possessed by an arcane parasite from their father An Academic uncovering the conspiracy behind her dying world An Aristocrat born with forbidden powers forced to reveal them #QuestPit #W #SFF #AgentGuide

A Guide to
Runes of Necrosis
A Dark Academia Adult Science Fantasy
By Marceline Greyfield

Pitch
Eight students in various studies compete to graduate from Horatius Academy and be rewarded with a life inside the Oasis’s Upper Chamber. The four lowest-scoring students are expelled to the endless desert swallowing the region.

But when a student on the verge of expulsion murders the top student, an alchemist performs forbidden humanoid alchemy to save their life, awakening an arcane parasite that threatens to slaughter the remaining six students and unravel every secret hiding within Horatius Academy.

Themes and tropes:
Quad POV (F/M/NB/F)
Alchemist FMC becoming something inhuman
Snarky aristocrat MMC with a forbidden power
Nonbinary artist who won't speak of their past
Cheery FMC scholar who uncovers a conspiracy
LGBTQIA rep
Rivals to lovers
Fake dating
Rotting bones
Arcane possession
Exorcism gone wrong
Descent into madness

Comps:
The Atlas Six: Similar plot with students of varying studies working together to uncover secrets while knowing not all will survive
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Alchemist protag who breaks alchemic law to save her brother at an early age now trying to graduate and cure her curse.
Arcane: Similar class system and relationships (JayVik if they were rivals to lovers and CaitVi if Vi grew up in the desert)
Ninth House: Dark academia with the occult, rituals, a tough, loner protag, and discussions of privilege and responsibility.

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