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Catherine Ford @catherinewford.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

JASMINE THRONE x MASK OF MIRRORS X GOLDEN COMPASS When Syrala, trapped in the palace as a pawn, discovers the queen severed her subjects’ souls to gain power, she must outwit the dynasty to reclaim her own–but to succeed she must betray the brooding prince she’s learning to love. #questpit #f #q

Shadowed man leaning against wall, snuffed out candle, woman made of stars, woman and man lying on floor looking at each other, agger, woman with hands tied behind her back, woman's face in the shadow, two ringed hands gripping each other. Words = "She could not hold his hand and betray him."

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Catherine Ford @catherinewford.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

An #agentsguide to SHADOW’S GIFT my JASMINE THRONE meets MASK OF MIRRORS character-driven political fantasy with crossover appeal. 🗡️Morally ambiguous FMC 🗡️Coercive theocracy vs mystical magic 🗡️Layers of surveillance & deception 🗡️Art as resistance 🗡️Sub-tropical world #questpit #f #q #agentguide

Shadowed man leaning against wall, snuffed out candle, woman made of stars, tropical garden with bridge, two hands, one made of light, clasping, dagger, tropical ruins at night, woman's face in the shadow, descending stone steps

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Catherine Ford @catherinewford.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

SONG TO DROWN RIVERS x BONE SHARD DAUGHTER 🌼 Artistic FMC 🌼 Queen leads soulless cult 🌼 Brooding prince 🌼 Charming rebel spy ally 🌼 Character-driven 🌼 Sub-tropical world #PosterPitQ #A #F

Woman floating upward through water into light.
Text:
One woman fights for freedom, conscience, and love in a totalitarian regime in: Shadow’s Gift.
When Syrala, trapped in the palace as a pawn, learns the queen severed her subjects’ souls, she must outwit the dynasty to reclaim her own–but to succeed she must betray the prince she’s learning to love.
Featuring: Political intrigue, Soul-based magic, Journey of self-discovery, doomed romance

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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The rain made it easier to rob his grave. ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK #1stLinePit #Q #YA #F

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

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

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

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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“My hands squeeze my temples as I focus all my energy on my bowl of dried crickets. If I could resurrect them, could they write this pointless essay for me? They'd likely mock me with their nonexistent knowledge of what it's like to be a pure red girl. Useless writing partners.” #1stlinepit #YA #SF

AN AGENTS GUIDE
TO
PURE RED
YA ECO SCIENCE FICTION
82000 Words
By Rachel Blaine

THE PITCH
Sixteen-year-old Candy has been hiding her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now scientists want her for the one thing she can't hide, her skin color.
After a new discovery is made public that only those with pure red skin can survive another onset of catastrophie climate change, Candy, a pure red, embarks on a journey to find her birth parents hoping they can help her understand how to better control her ability so she can stay a girl and avoid spending her adolescence as a science experiment.

Comparable Titles
THE
LAST
BOOKSTORE
ON
EARTH
LILY BRAUN-ARNOLD
DUSTBORN
ERIN BOWMAN
SWEET TOOTH

THE EXCERPT
• My hands squeeze my temples as I focus all my energy on my bowl of dried crickets. If I could resurrect them, could they write this pointless essay for me? They'd likely mock me with their nonexistent knowledge of what it's like to be a pure red girl. Useless writing partners. I guess I'll have to write this essay myself for the sixth year in a row.
• My pencil lingers over my notes as I contemplate how to answer the same ridiculous prompt we get each year to pay tribute to The Great Coloring. Why Is Your Skin Color Special? I had a teacher once who swore he came up with the essay topic himself. I may have blurted out that it so obviously came from the Dome's unmistakable ducation agenda which caused him to punish me with one week of lunchtime alone in his classroom. Little did he know, I've spent ninety-five percent of my school lunches sitting alone. Joke's on him.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Slow Horses x Dark Matter When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK's role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #A #T #SF #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #litagents #agentguide 🦋

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads:

An agent's guide to:

Out of Time
By Gert Ramm
Espionage/time travel/Thriller

Images from Pixabay.

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads:

1972 has been a rough year for intelligence officer Eddie Fletcher, and it’s only January.

First he discovers the Cold War is really about time travel, then he’s framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster.

Sealing a lethal time rift is the only way to clear his name - much easier said than done when he’s being hunted by the British government.

Then there's a Russian spy on a mission so vital he’s travelled from 1997 to complete it.

Pitch:

Slow Horses X Time Travel

Images from Pixabay.

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Comps:
Slough House Series (Mick Herron)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Gillian McAllister)
Four Minutes (Brian Andrews/Jeff Wilson)
Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)

TV Comps:
The Ipress File
Day of the Jackal
Life on Mars
Callan

Images from Pixabay

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Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

An old boyfriend from high school strolled past the back of my car. A toddler walked beside him. In his arms, he held a baby no older than six months. What in the absolute hell did Mom talk me into? #1stLinePit #R #A #humor #disabilityrep #Q #AmQuerying

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Jenn Lee Frances @jennleefrances.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“Gran has always known my future.” Don’t Let The Forest In x Final Destination If she touches him—it Burns If he kisses her—he’ll Die Death is Coming THE TRUTH OF FEAR 🖤Tarot & Hauntings & Hexes 🖤Bi 4 Pan Cursed Love 🖤Coming of Age & Rage 🖤Feminist Horror + Romance #1stLinePit #YA #H #R #SPF #Q

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Amelia @ameliagthorn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

❝Magic untended festers. Magic forgotten rots.❞ Kaos x The Witcher x Godkiller #1stLinePit #agentsguide #F

The title cover to an agents guide for the project.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

The words

“An Agent’s guide to” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box.

“The Dying Religion” - in an echo effect in black and white font surrounded by an orange glow.

“Adult epic fantasy” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box.

The pitch page for the project. The pitch itself is in a large black box with dashed orange borders, the word pitch intersects with the box and is in a black and white echoing font.

The pitch is:

No one expected orphans to survive the war
meant to end magic, least of all win it.
But victory’s price? The death of their God.

Now war returns to a still healing continent,
the enemy intent on slaughtering
the five remaining Gods.

and the children raised as Holy-War cannon
fodder must decide if they’re worth saving.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

The comps & tropes page for the project.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Every box is black with an orange, dashed border, and the boxes for tropes and comps have the appropriate title, partially intersecting the relevant title. The quotes do not.

Comps:

Kaos, Witcher and Godkiller

The quote “martyr, coward, traitor or fool. Your choice, really, you’ll serve our needs one way or the other.”

The quote “there is only one religion in war, and believe me when it’ll you it’s a godless faith.”

Tropes:

Gods pay their dues
Hero x villain
Found family
Heist into hell
Friends to lovers to enemies
Morally grey mc & villain
Magic comes with a price

A villain and hero page for the project.

The hero and villain both have information about the individual characters in two separate black boxes, both with orange dashed borders. The word “hero” and “villain” intersects the relevant boxes (right and left respectively)

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

Villain

The gods killed all he loved
Out for revenge on the gods
Brainwashed veteran
Waterbender
Raised as cannon fodder
Reborn as propaganda
In love with the hero

Hero:
Raised to be the weapon of the gods
Out to destroy the institution that forged him
Guilt ridden veteran
Electricity bender
Raised as cannon fodder
Remade as a national threat (not what graphic says but need to resave that one)
In love with the villain

In the centre is the quote “your first mistake was thinking that people like you and I were ever born to do anything but burn.”

With arrows pointing from hero (the receiver) to the villain (the speaker.)

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Crissie (C.T. Wood) @crissthecreative.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I didn’t run from the ballroom. I walked quickly. The laughter & chatter of the gala danced across the hotel, chasing me as I escaped the festivities. I settled into the sun that shined through the full windowed doors of the hotel lobby. #1stlinepit #WIP #R #F #P #ROMCOM Art by ThereseU3U

AN image of the Greek god Apollo in modern clothing with text in the top right corner that says "PERCY JACKSON x TWILIGHT but for adults.... because immortals dating teens is kind of weird if you actually think about it." Then the title across the center is A Greek God Got Me Pregnant. Then in the center at the bottom text that reads "When Larkin discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand with a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo, she must face monsters, vengeful gods, & most terrifyingly, her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child."

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James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"We have been observing your Earth." Mass Effect x Treasure Planet. #1stlinepit #ADV #SF #F

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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

All morning Morton Sinclair had watched the tempest rage outside his window, the rain hurling itself in sheets against the glass with such savagery he feared it might break.’ #1stLinePit #C #HF #A

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Rachel is Editing @rpiswriting.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#1stlinepit “Lianna Bontrower had a heart cursed to be stolen.” #wip #f #r #adult #writingcommunity

Illustration of the main characters of my fantasy romance WIP. Lianna, a plus sized woman with dark brown curly hair stands in front of Fyrgus, a man with black hair and black fox ears. He is holding her in his arms and they stare lovingly into one another’s eyes. His hands are at her hip and waist and they are blackened with curse marks and have claws. Her hand raises up behind her to play at his hair. She wears a a midnight banyan embroidered with silver moons and a pink chemise a la reine inspired dress. Fyrgus wears a crimson coat embroidered with suns,

Shuffle of my fantasy romance WIP: Rosemary and Flame. The couple is in the center surrounded by trees and florals and a black fox, grey cat, a dragon flames, the sun and the moon

The great witch Beatrice Bontrower is missing and it’s up to her daughter, Lianna to find her. But Beatrice is lost in a magical land full of dangers and heart snatching fae and Lianna has no magic of her own. What’s a poor woman to do? Obviously bind herself to the first barely trustworthy fae she meets. He’s after the ring on her pinky, a family heirloom said to hold ancient magic, and he’ll do just about anything to get it, including helping a wayward woman find her missing mother. Together they traverse the wilds of Faerie on a path of danger and discovery, for Beatrice was a woman of many secrets and these secrets have teeth.

Tropes:
-Grumpy/sunshine
-Plus size 30 y/o fmc
-A magical quest
-Finding yourself as an adult
-Bickering is a love language
-He falls first but she saves him

Characters:
-An incorrigible flirt of a herione
-A grump with a dramatic flare
-A dragon king with a problem
-Don quixote but make him a cat
-A murderous witch

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Catherine Ford @catherinewford.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The earth at the mouth of the Burrow was warm and loose. Mullen sank down before it, cradling the stillborn buckling in his arms. He laid it in the Burrow, where the the air reverberated with life, vibrating in time with his heart. #1stlinepit #A #F #WIP #Cme

Dagger, person holding soil & seedling, bare feet walking on fallen tree, cloaked figure with bow & arrow looking around side of house, peasant with sword, married couple holding sword, peasant woman looking behind her in fog, mysterious underground burrow, tree turning into a hand, burrow under tree.

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Kelly Crescenzo @kcresc12.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

FROM BLOOD AND ASH x SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME THE QUEEN IS RISING Stories are pretty, but the truth is real and full of pain. #1stLinePit #Q #A #RF

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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER The wind has only spoken to me once in my life. #Q #YA #F #Jewish #1stLinePit

A title card with the text "An Agent's Guide to THE WINDWALKER - Katie Collan - young adult urban fantasy 105,000 words" over a person with a red cloak standing in the middle of a grassy field.

Pitch: "When fighters start disappearing from an underground tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament's secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate."

A mood board featuring eight panels with a corresponding color palette in the center, as well as the caption, "Believe in the wind and you'll prevail." From left to right, top to bottom: fire burning down a building; ocean water; the sky above the clouds; a cracked, rocky ground; a red-haired girl in a red cloak with glowing white eyes, holding a dagger hilt with a transparent blade made of air; a skyline view of nighttime Manhattan; a NYC subway track; a boxing ring that depicts two people practicing punches beyond the ropes.

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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart. ⚔️Age-old clan feud 🧪Unique magic & world 🐉Scandinavian fairytale creatures ❤️‍🔥Steamy forbidden love 🛡️"Who did this?" 🗡️"Touch him & die" #1stLinePit #Romantasy #NA #AgentsGuide

An agent’s guide to: TRUE HATE’S KISS

A jarl’s daughter must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family.

109,000 words
New Adult Romantasy
By Ann Glimmer

Blurb:
When a man from the enemy clan murders Älva’s father, she swears revenge. But then her family is cursed to die. The only way to break the curse?
A TRUE HATE’S KISS
The man she hates the most must kiss her of his own free will.
But the more she learns about her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything.

Comp Titles:
- A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
- Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli

Tropes:
Scandinavian Iron Age (almost Viking Age)
Pretending to woo him while betraying him
Feuding clans = enemies-to-lovers + forbidden love
Knife to throat
Complicated family dynamics
Magical swords and potions
Fairytale creatures based on Scandinavian folklore

Feedback from Beta Readers:
- "Couldn't stop reading all afternoon."
- "Your writing style is really strong, and you have a strong voice."
- "Their conversations being more tangible things rather than just flirtatious really open up the relationship."
- "This is one of thee the best books I've read since Addie LaRue."
- "It was a good slow burn romance and I liked that the male main character wasn't toxic or mean."
- "I loved how twisty the story became and found it a breath of fresh air in the genre."

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ “it begins with a murmur drifting upon the wind.” seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rock star sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #1stLinePit #A #LF #M (almost) #Q

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

the first pages of ALL THE DEVILS:

prelude
21st august 2016

it begins with a murmur drifting upon the wind.
at first, it’s small—unnoticeable, but soon that murmur, that slick sliver of sound that could one day change the world reaches humankind and becomes a hurricane—an untamed clamour among the silence. it ripples. it taunts. It waltzes upon the breeze like the destructive force it is and, in the end, is unstoppable. It cannot be contained. It’s there forever, a permanent echo in a vacuum, a scratch on a record, a soundbite of time. today, the murmur begins its devastating dance outside a block of flats overlooking the river thames. a white flurry of forlorn forensics leave the building with disbelief carved onto their weary faces. an unsettling stillness suffuses the space as the murmur passes from person to person.
it’s him, rumbles the murmur. it’s sam corvi. he’s dead.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

His coat smelled of Hermès Caleche, a heady reminder of his last embrace with Friede. She was the reason he'd come to this forgotten place tonight, but he couldn't be distracted by her. Taking his eye off the ball would get him killed. #1stLinePit #Q #A #SPF #T #CMe

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Joy is ✨querying✨ @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The scent of flowers lingered in the air as she strode down the hall. Roses maybe . . . ? No. This was lighter, a touch more exotic. This was the scent of vanilla cookies, and finely crystallized sugar cakes which were served during tea. Then, the slight hint of hyacinths. #1stLinePit #Q #MG #M #H

Images from left to right: An abandoned greenhouse, grand staircase in a manor, a Victorian girl, a poisonous purple flower, a Venus flytrap, a conservatory, a woman holding a skull, an abandoned manor, a person drowning beneath water lilies

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Matthew Roy @mattroywriter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#1stLinePit “All of this was fated, more or less.” MOTHER OF MONSTERS. Debut standalone novel. Outcast Echidna & her family must stop spree killer Harry, who has targeted them in order to prove himself to his father in a modern inverted retelling of Hercules’ Labors. #Q #A

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Hannah Brooks @hbrookswrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The first year of law school, I learned to be satisfied with average. But no one had prepared me for failure. #1stlinepit #A #R #CMe

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L. D. Rex is Querying @ldrexauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The smoke rises like a phantom snake, stirring around the white ceiling tiles before disappearing into thin air. A woman inherits two portraits, and is haunted by a specter guiding her closer to the truth--hidden behind the walls of a sanatorium in the woods. #1stLinePit #Q #A #H #S

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a little girl in a white dress is standing in a doorway holding a light .

Alt: a little girl in a white dress is standing in a doorway holding a light .

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Keira.F.Jacobs @authorkeirafjacobs.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER x OUTER BANKS "The dew covering my shivering body and the stench of wet dirt is enough to tell me I'm alive. My arm is numb and pinned beneath my limp body. I'm shaking, but something warm is pressed against my side." #1stLinePit #ya #mystery #Q #querying

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Catherine Ford @catherinewford.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

When the familiar emptiness gnawed, a lack Syrala could not fill, she painted. Her grandmother taught her: Seek solitude and focus on your art. Allow space for emptiness, and listen. It will help. For now. #1stlinepit #A #F #Q #agentguide #agentsguide

Agent's Guide to Shadow's Gift by Catherine W Ford. One woman's fight for freedom, conscience, and love under a totalitarian regime. Adult, grounded epic fantasy with a romantic sub-plot. WC 102,000.

Comp titles. Bone Shard Daughter: secret magic, journey of self-discovery, torn loyalties, rising revolution. Song to Drown Rivers: political intrigue, espionage, lyrical prose, slow burn. Midnight Bargain: Freedom through autonomy and true individuality.

When Syrala, trapped in the palace as a pawn, learns the queen severed her subjects’ souls, she must outwit the dynasty to reclaim her own–but to succeed she must betray the prince she’s learning to love.
Images: man looking down, woman with a spear, figure in a tunnel, dark soul figure, Asian landscapes, shadowy claw figure, woman with melty face, woman looking up with a plea.

Perceptive, artistic Syrala longs to escape from her ruthless parents and find a way to fill the strange emptiness within her. When the queen selects her to marry Crown Prince Ailok, Syrala is elated. However, her newfound freedom is not what she expected. Although the brooding prince is supportive, he is powerless against his own mother, who chose Syrala as a pawn to subjugate her influential province. Despite Syrala’s attempts at peacemaking, the malicious queen undermines Syrala, assigns spies to report her activities, and exploits court politics to control her.

Then Syrala’s grandmother tells her the truth: to gain power during the War, the queen severed her subjects from their deepest selves, leaving them as shallow husks. An underground resistance – led by those who escaped this fate – begs Syrala to join the fight her grandmother began decades earlier. To persuade Syrala, they reunite her with her own soul, a shadowy mirror-image of herself. No longer empty, Syrala experiences the world anew, her senses vividly connected to the world and, potentially, to old, forbidden gods. But isolated in the palace, she is soon caught between her wish to aid the Resistance and her growing love for Ailok. As the queen’s snares tighten around Syrala and the Resistance leaders, Syrala must use all her wits to navigate treacherous alliances, to subvert the dynasty from within, and to fight for the souls of the kingdom’s beleaguered subjects – and her own.

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Hannah Bashir @hannahbashir.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

when you’re destined to overthrow your father and fall in love with your best friend, also hades is there… 🥰 #UnhingedPit #A #Q #HF

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J.P. Flynn @jpflynn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

And now he’s immortal, invincible, and on a murderous rampage #UnhingedPit #Q #A #F #H #writingcommunity #querying #litagents

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Katheryn J. Avila (Kotch) @avilak90.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

AITA for refusing to forgive my (25F) abuela (??F) for selling my soul to the devil? If it matters, she received near-unlimited power in exchange and I've ended up as a demon in eternal servitude to Lucifer. #UnhingedPit #A #F #Q

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Beth Michaela...querying writer. @bmfwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

For anyone who loves romantic fantasy that keeps the heart pumping. 🫀 #unhingedpit #Q #A #F #R

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Michelle R. Brady @bradymicheller.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU X DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD 🪻Metafiction 🪻Myths 🪻Ghosts 🪻Absent Fourth Wall #unhingedpit #a #q #litfic #WritingCommunity

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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

2 misfits must team up to stop homicidal villainess from destroying magic. Includes: - Regency dancing in the jungle - the best bromance since Frodo & Sam - romance w/Jane Eyre/Rochester vibes but twisted in all the ways - How to Train Your Dragon for adults #UnhingedPit #Q #F

Pepe the Shrimp looking dismayed. Caption reads "The face my MCs make when they realise they have to trust each other."

Pepe the Shrimp looking dismayed. Caption reads "The face my FMC makes when she realises she's in love with her betrayer."

Pepe the Shrimp looking dismayed. Caption reads "The face the antag makes when she realises she only has a minor POV."

Pepe the Shrimp looking dismayed. Caption reads "The face everyone makes when the dragons steal the show."

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔 @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I hope you like your meals with a side of trauma. #UnhingedPit #F #A #WIP #LGBTQ

A menu for Songs of Broken Bells

SONGS OF BROKEN BELLS
AMUSE
The awakening of a hungry, living flame.
STARTER
Searching for a way to
extinguish the flame. Tasting notes of trauma and hidden motives.
MAIN
Learning to tame the flame and cohabitate with it. Side quest of meeting a forest spirit and a crisis of faith.
DESSERT
"We must decide our own fate.
The gods have nothing left to offer me."
DIGESTIF
All Things End - Hozier

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#UnhingedPit #A #F #R #Q He's a 10, but he broke your stupid heart and now he's trying to save you from certain death through an arranged marriage and you're trying to hide your unhinged powers but he keeps flashing that stupid smile and you'd love to shove a boot in his face.

Grey scale drawing of a man and woman embracing with their eyes closed

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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

CONFIDENTIAL: The following notes for Nocturne Collegiate's Alyss Veylas & Bastian Nightingale were shared with me by their therapist, and the results are...rather unhinged. #UnhingedPit #YA #Q #F #CrossoverAppeal

Confidential

Alyss Veylas

Risk level: UNPRECEDENTED

Named her sword "Melancholy"—how emo can you get?

Hobbies include robbing graves with her ex and his new girlfriend?

Deals with grief by flirting with THE Bastian Nightingale

Wields the power of the Memoria Moon...Could she be...?

Why is she stabbing everything?!

A Memory of Moonkissed Malice

Kind of like...

Harry Potter (if he listened to My Chemical Romance)

Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do"

Love Interest like Patrick from "10 Things I Hate About You"

Confidential

Bastian Nightingale

Risk level: UNPRECEDENTED

Catchphrase: "I flaunt my sins proudly"—like that's a good thing...

Tongue is sharper than his fangs

Won't shut up about Alyss Veylas (literally obsessed)

Hobbies include using his magick kamera and smoking blood cigarillos

Did he steal my gold while he was here?

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The New Moon Werewolves but female x Odyssey Sirens Wanting to drown your ex after they break your heart is a normal feeling in Breaker Bay but when you’re a girl gang of sirens whose love language is violence… It’s also a normal reaction 🧜🏼‍♀️ #unhingedpit #spec #f #a #lgbt #q

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

You might say these unhinged query stats for my #amquerying project about women who become sirens as a result of heartbreak and come back to drown the exes responsible are almost…. unreal #unhingedpit #spec #f #a #lgbt #q

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Catherine Ford @catherinewford.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

HIS DARK MATERIALS written by John le Carre and the queen is a gender-swapped Jim Jones (with his kool aid) POV: Unbeknownst to you, your grandmother led a failed rebellion. Now she’s dead, and it’s your turn, but you’d rather be painting. #unhingedpit #F #A #Q

How to survive your gender-swapped Jim Jones MIL: Lie a lot. Get your husband the prince on your side. Get your own spies. Bring down the dynasty from within.

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Catherine Ford @catherinewford.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

HIS DARK MATERIALS (for adults) X JIM JONES (& his kool aid) …And the FMC is the only one who knows she’s in a cult. #unhingedpit #F #A #Q

Text conversation between brother and sister, sister saying she's marrying the prince, but she thinks he likes her. Brother - isn't that good? Sister - maybe if I didn't have to lie to him all the time. Bro - why do you have to lie to him all the time? Sister - NVM

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Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

After returning to her family’s crumbling estate and finding the gardener dead, a reluctant heiress partners with his son to break a generational curse before it claims her too. 🕯 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Ghosts 🔥 If the House Doesn’t Kill You, Love Might #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #H #A #Gothic

Nineteen-year-old Lottie Bradbury is called home to her crumbling family estate with an ultimatum: marry or let the Bradbury name die. But in a post-war world where old traditions are crumbling and women are claiming new independence, Lottie refuses to be controlled.

Her introduction is disrupted when the gardener is found dead, his skull shattered on the manor steps. His son, Arthur, warns Lottie that the house is hungry, that it killed his father—just as it did her mother a decade ago. And it’s not finished.

Determined to seize control of her own fate, Lottie digs into the manor’s past, only to realize the house has other plans. Strange footsteps at night. Whispers slithering through the halls. Shadows shifting where none should be. Arthur insists the manor is alive, feeding on the sins of her ancestors, that her family is cursed. But he’s not the only one keeping secrets, and the deeper she digs, the harder it is to know who to trust.

THE LAST HEIR OF BRADBURY MANOR is a slow-burn gothic horror set in 1919, blending the creeping dread of The Hacienda with the sentient menace of Starling House. A tale of inheritance, obsession, and a house that refuses to let go. The manuscript is complete at 96,000 words.

Comps for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor:

Starling House: Dark inheritance, Family secrets, Sentient house

The Hacienda: Unresolved grief, Psychological unraveling, Supernatural dread

Crimson Peak: Decaying grandeur, Gothic vibes

A mood board for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor with...

A decaying, messed up sitting room
A spooky staincase with a girl walking
A girl climbing out of a well
A book on fire
A cozy Edwardian dinner party
A spooky gothic dinner party

Text that reads: breaking the curse means losing him forever. Embracing it may damn her soul

Tropes for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor

🖤 Manor With a Mind
📖 Cryptic Diary
💀 Generational Blood Curse
🕯 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Ghosts
🏚 Slow-burn
🖋 Arranged? Meetcute? Ghostly Trauma Bonding?
🔥 If the House Doesn’t Kill You, Love Might
🕰 1919 but Make It Haunted
⚰ Who Needs a Dowry When You Have a Death Curse?

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

After the war, Shasha thought she did not have to worry about the dangerous and psychic Tenock race until she found a strange boy hiding out in the desert, a meeting that would change the fate of both their people. He needs to find his people, he wants a friend... #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

TREASURE PLANET×THE EXPANSE A bookworm dreams of escape from a pirate-run space station. With his friend, a tech genius, he finds an ancient wrist computer tied to his family and a legendary lost starship. As they seek answers, so does a notorious captain. #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #YA #SF #M

ink drawing of Jak Sterzand, a teenage boy, crawling towards the viewer in a ventilation or maintenance shaft type tunnel. His name and title of the book JAK STERZAND above him, and underneath in smaller letters, the subtitle: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT

All in black and white

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Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A hapless idealist follows her dreams to be a Lily Maid, beautiful ambassadors of enchanted perfumes known to make the most insipid hypnotically irresistible, down a path that could lead to her death when she’s chosen as the newest Lily. #questpit #YA #F #RF #W

Six photos of a a ball, a swan, perfume, a young man lying in bed, a beautiful young lady, and a doorway covered with flowers.

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Helen Pratt @helenapratt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

KINGDOM AWAKENING ✨️Adult romantasy exploring themes of love, betrayal, & sacrifice ✨️The rich emotional contour of Jennifer L. Armentrout's FROM BLOOD AND ASH meets the toe-curling tension of Ali Hazelwood’s BRIDE ✨️Standalone with series potential complete at 112k #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA

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Allison Stalberg @stalbergwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Most witches and wizards (the Folk) live in trailers, RVs, or rundown motels. They party in New Orleans, worship evil gods, and make memes about fire spells gone wrong. However, there are little places that try to do some good, like Heidi’s House. #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A #writingcommunity #F

Moodboard that shows images of:
- An animal skull with a long snout.
- A fern.
- Tied up lamb's feet.
- A cloaked person holding an owl.
- A white building across a rural field.
- Hands holding and feeding a black bird.

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