iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Live in BCS #463: "The Heart of the Fox Spirit" by @chezza.bsky.social Lee "I don’t know how the fox spirit knew. The way I wished to grab Hei Lang’s wrist and break it whenever he swung at me. The way I dreamt of cutting off those hands" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Heart of the Fox Spirit by Chezza Lee

Was it sinister, what Ying had done to Hei Lang? I grew up knowing I should avoid fox spirits and that they would eat my heart with no remorse. I should be more afraid after my meeting with Ying, but ...

062

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New Issue: BCS #463 out today, featuring stories of shapeshifters and humanness by Richard Parks and @chezza.bsky.social Lee, podcast of Parks read by @follyblaine.bsky.social, From the Archives story @rhiannonheld.bsky.social, cover art Tyler Edlin. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #463 by Scott Andrews

My Blue Silk Fan by Richard Parks. The Heart of the Fox Spirit by Chezza Lee. BCS 363: My Blue Silk Fan by Richard Parks.

086

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My short story, "The Heart of the Fox Spirit," is out now in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! This story follows a young serving woman who meets an unconventional fox spirit in a tavern, and it makes her question everything she's ever been taught about herself. I hope you like it! ✨

A quote from The Heart of the Fox Spirit by Chezza Lee on a background of red Chinese lanterns

151

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So very excited to have my short story about unconventional fox spirits in this issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies!!

051

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

ziqing @ziqingpan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hi #questpit! Introducing WORK IN PROGRESS 💌 childhood nemeses to lovers 🏮 set in taiwan! (night markets, coastal views, and yummy food) 🎨 pretty paintings and lies 🫂 complicated family dynamics and found family ❣️ 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU meets CRAZY RICH ASIANS #Q #R #A #WF

First slide of deck with the following text: An agent’s guide to WORK IN PROGRESS by Ziqing Pan. Adult contemporary romance with women’s fiction crossover completed at 83K words.

Sunset background with a couple sitting by the water

One-line pitch: A struggling ex-artist must plan an exhibition with her infuriating childhood nemesis in Taiwan, all while hiding the truth about her failed career.

Comp titles: Lauren Kung Jessen’s Yin Yang Love Song (for the cultural richness and complicated family dynamics), Jessica Joyce’s You, with a View (for the nemeses to lovers tension), Lily Chu’s The Comeback (for the witty banter), and the movie Crazy Rich Asians (for the Asian-setting, specifically Taiwan)

Tropes: nemeses-to-lovers, forced proximity, opposites attract, he falls first

Themes: quarter-life crisis and self-discovery, self-doubt and fear, change vs. tradition, unconditional love

Pictures in mood board: woman painting by the window, a couple kissing, painting set-up, a man writing notes, and a picture of a couple with flowers

64816

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. But if it isn’t her destiny, then no one can save the world from poisonous dark magic, endless wars, and powerful demons. #Questpit #A #F #Q

Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!”
The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death.
“Magic should never return.”
After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended.
Sent him back to his body.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. 1930s vibes. Love triangle. LGBTQIA+ rep. Cynical mentor. Dying world. Found family.

913252

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT

1421083

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Victoria Lurie is querying @vic-and-twisted.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE FRONTMAN (She’s the Man x Almost Famous) Lolly's lying to the nation, and it may kill her twin brother. She's finishing his 1983 tour. He's secretly in rehab. When rehab fails, Lolly must choose: save her twin or save his legacy, even if the truth ruins both their lives. #questpit #Q #A #U

A mood board of 1983, featuring Walkmans, jeans tucked into socks, cassette tapes, Jon Bongiovi, Peter Wabbit via The Guardian, and photos by Bruno Guerrero and Sebastian Ervi. The board promotes THE FRONTMAN, a work of upmarket fiction by Victoria Lurie, 100k words, where a rock band replaces their lead singer with his twin sister so they can finish their tour while he’s in rehab.

1610038

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Bluebeard x Obsession x Chinese mythology A courtesan goes to an immortal's palace to reclaim her emotions, but discovers the palace has seven disfigured women hidden in the shadows...and they all look exactly like her. 🔥 #questpit #AG #DF #A

Moodboard for TO POSSESS THE FLAME, an adult dark fantasy novel. Featuring ancient Chinese buildings, a woman holding a mask, a plate of food, a fan, a locked door, medicinal jars, and a woman in red.

75320

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Short fic updates!✨ So excited to share that my flash, "Inheritance," about a girl and a wishing tree, is forthcoming in Cast of Wonders! AND "The Heart of the Fox Spirit," about a woman who meets an unconventional fox spirit in a tavern, is forthcoming in Beneath Ceaseless Skies! 🎉

Graphic with lights on a tree and red paper talismans. Text reads: Inheritance. Flash fiction / family trauma / generational wisdom / wishing trees. Forthcoming in Cast of Wonders.

Graphic of an old Chinese tavern and a fox figure at a temple. Text reads: The Heart of the Fox Spirit. Deconstructed myth / unreliable families / standards of beauty. Forthcoming in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

072

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My flash short story, "Fenghuang and Empress," is out now in NewMyths! This is a compact, quiet piece that addresses female strength in the face of abuse, told through the eyes of the legendary Chinese phoenix. 🌳🌸 sites.google.com/newmyths.com...

Graphic showing an ancient Chinese palace in the background with an empty cage up front. Text reads: "We were not taught to dream. Only to serve." From Fenghuang and Empress by Chezza Lee in NewMyths Online Magazine.

031

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 09/06/2026

Reprints, reprints, reprints! Our upper limit on reprint flash fiction is a little more flexible - 1100 words. We'll be opening for your reprint gems this week!

1195

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 23/03/2026

Welcome to the Small Wonders Subscription Drive! We've been hard at work behind the scenes working to bring you ✨fancy things✨! But first, lets talk about subscriptions - why we need 'em and what you get with them... 1/10

15258

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

SO many goodies (plus an amazing book)! HELLBOUND is now available to pre-order from these excellent indie bookstores! I can't wait for everyone to fall in love with this book like I did 😍

122

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to my dearest @authortrmoore.bsky.social! Her gorgeous, deeply emotional debut, THE GODS MUST BURN, is now out in the world! If you like eco-fantasy, books about trauma and healing, forest settings, and a slow-burn romance, this one is for you! 🌲🐺🦌

Trope map for THE GODS MUST BURN by T.R. Moore

031

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

新年快乐! Happy Chinese New Year! 春节快乐! Happy Spring Festival! Happy Lunar New Year! Most importantly, wishing everyone a year of peace, safety, good health, luck, and prosperity. Sending virtual 红包🧧🪙 to you all 😘🎆🐎🎊

Chezza in a red shirt holding red new year envelopes

031

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Sharing some cute lil character art from my book, A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT!! I love these babies so much ❤️❤️ Art by hisurii on Vgen!

Artwork of a woman in a pink dress smiling, with ribbons in her hair and pink flowers in the background.

Artwork of a man with long hair in blue robes, smiling and holding out his hand, with pink flowers in the background.

150

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS She planned to be the terror in his life. He planned to ignore her. Neither planned on saving a crumbling empire from a tyrant—or falling in love. 91K-word adult fantasy romcom / Smoochpit '25 mentee #questpit #A #RF #Q

moodboard for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem showing plum blossoms; a man fighting in bamboo forest; a view of a Chinese palace through red gates; a woman with a death stare; a man with a serious displeased look; moon-gate looking into a Chinese garden with a pavillion on the pond; a man kissing a woman's neck intimately; Chinese calligraphy and brush pen

68939

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I have had the honour to work with Millie on this book through SmoochPit and I can't tell you enough how talented she is and how much I love this book!! ❤️❤️❤️ It's SO GOOD 🔥

130

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 26/01/2026

This is a season of grief and struggle. Today we're going to share a long list of stories and poems - of hope, of not just surviving but thriving, of resistance, of unexpected kindness and connection in the midst of darkness. Save these up for when you need them. 1/16

14330

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Now with emphatic punctuation: My story "Breathing Night" appeared in the SIMULTANEOUS TIMES podcast in 2025, narrated by Jean-Paul Garnier of @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social! It's nominated in the "Other" category for the Critter Readers Poll! Voting is open through 1/14! critters.org/predpoll/sho...

critters.org

1117

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

#SEAsianPit @seasianpit.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

SAVE THE DATE: #SEAsianPit is back again 🎉 This time as an official pitch event ‼️ May 30, 2026 Check out the list of participating agents and amendments in the event rules in the 🔗 or 🧵

Save the date announcement with flowing blue waves and seaweed design. Text on parchment background reads: "Save the Date, May 30, 2026." Calm, coastal theme.

13521

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Contract signed! My fantasy flash, "Fenghuang and Empress," will be in the NewMyths summer 2026 issue! Happy new year! 🎉✨

180

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My wuxia fem rage short story, "The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect," is out now in the @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology! This anthology is jam packed with amazing dark fantasy stories by so many talented authors, and I'm delighted to be in such good company. ⚔️🧟‍♂️

171

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I wrote A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT inspired by Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and my own love for cdramas ❤️ It's my love letter to the stories I've adored over the years that punched me right in the heart. Just some graphics because I haven't posted here in a while😘

030

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

New art for my wip just dropped and I am SO IN LOVE 😍 I'm still drafting and aiming to finish first draft by end of Nov. My little wip with soul dualism, obsession, jealousy, and elemental immortals finally has some art YAY🥹🎉 Art by CianCyan on VGen !✨

Art by CianCyan featuring a woman dancing in pink flowing hanfu while holding a fan. Behind her are the silhouettes of two men, one with a topknot and the other with a ponytail. Golden light shimmers across the scene.

181

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Here's how much I wrote the first week of November! Trying to finish the first draft of my latest project by the end of this month 💪 Wish me luck!

Photo of woman in purple sweater. Text reads: How much I wrote the first week of November

Total word count 13,540 from Nov 1 to Nov 7.

170

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Debby ✨ A MOST DECADENT CURSE (Jan. ‘27)✨ 🌊👻🖤 @aventurinedebby.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON (Winter 2027) When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb #questpit #ya #p #f

03114

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

HOUSE OF THE BEAST x WILL OF THE MANY Big 5 Editor Interest 🙊 To defeat monarchs and her estranged childhood friend-turned-enemy, a star in human skin must learn about her power from a reluctant princess—before failure turns her body to ash. #Questpit #YA #F #Q #ND #POC

a moodboard for #questpit consisting of scales, a girl sitting on a bench, beaded bracelets, factories emitting smoke, a statue, fingers with gold rings, a mountain range, a princess, two knights, bleeding knuckles, and an old mud brick tower.

24518

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS Alyss attends Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. With the (reluctant) help of her ex, her ex bff, & a devious half-vampire, she'll use memory magic to uncover the truth behind the murder that destroyed her life.🌙🦇⚔️ #QuestPit #OS #AG #F #R

A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE

Fantasy Dark Academia

Feminine Rage

Vampires

Corrupted Moon Magic

Villain Era Protag

Queendoms

Enemies to Lovers

Found Family

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 similar to...

A supernatural mystery like...

1610560

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Rosa Suzanne @rosasuzanne.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

When Jude returns to her hometown after a decade away, she thinks the worst things she'll face are the people she left behind. But when she accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster, she must rally her former friends to stop their town from being erased from existence. #QuestPit #A #F #W

A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about.

Some of the images depict stone walls with wooden fences, tables in the middle of grassy fields, the seaside and cats sleeping atop books. Hidden views and lots of cozy cottages.

Text reads:

For fans of
• Starling House
• Practical Magic
• Spells for Forgetting Small seaside town
• Cottagecore
• Small magics
• Nightmare monster
• Childhood friends to reluctant allies to found family
• Crumbling reality

A second collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about.

Some of the images depict seaside towns, gods swimming, a couple dancing on the sea shore, a misty hill too and lots of cozy looking cottages.

33714

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Joy is ✨querying✨ @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Excitedly presenting an #agentguide for HEART OF THE BAYOU, my sapphic horror-romance—now in an inbox near you!! 🫀Deep Southern cryptids 🫀sapphic pining 🫀coming of rage 🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability 🫀 ✨Big 5✨ editor interest x2 #questpit #YA #Q #H #R #LGBT

An agent’s guide to: HEART OF THE BAYOU
A YA Horror-Romance

The pitch:

The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls— and one wants Elle's heart for her own ...

When a paranormal migration brings a slew of deadly soul-eating cryptids to the quiet swamps of Louisiana, subsequently cornering the paranormal clinic 17-year-old Elle works at—she must find out why the bloodthirsty monsters are migrating before BOLT, a paranormal branch of the FBI, threatens to shut down the clinic and arrest its supernatural patients.
But when she discovers her crush is hiding some monsters of her own, the kind of cryptid that might just take down the clinic and Elle's heart—she'll have to decide if she's ready to take the girl's advice and finally risk letting her own inner monsters out of the closet ...

Comps:
They Bloom at Night, I Feed Her to the Beast, A Feast for the Eyes, This Ravenous Fate, Hear Her Howl, The Coven Tendency

Snippet from HEART OF THE BAYOU:

I'd heard of the brutality of how these cryptids killed. How the survivors were lucky if you managed to escape with only an arm lost. How they enjoyed ripping people from flesh to tendons and finally bone, before they dove for the final kill and snapped their prey's neck, the tell-tale halo of blood flowering above their victims' heads

I only hoped there was something I could salvage once the beast finished.
The man's shrieks didn't cease until the monster's eyes glowed brighter, rubies sparkling in the center of a dangerous black mass. His body stilled, transfixed in terror. A silent scream began to pry his lips apart as if drawn by an invisible force. I winced, the sounds of bones clicking, dislocating, and popping as the man's eyes rolled to the back of his head. A fleshy lump burst through his shirt, pulsating and twisting like worms had taken ahold of his skin.

Tropes & Vibes:
“Only one bed”
Abandoned houses & creepy dockyards
Sociopolitical commentary
Neurodivergent, queer & anxiety rep
Lesbian MC’s
Cryptids & legends from the Deep South
Small town horror
The monster wins in the end . . .
Sassy x Stabby FMC’s

Central moodboard:
Swamp pictures, an orange moon, flannels, heart-shaped carabiners, a “don’t go into the woods” sign, girls kissing, a religious sign, a truck in a field

56127

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

SONG OF THE SIX REALMS x YOU A courtesan with no emotions ventures to an immortal’s palace to heal her broken soul—but the palace is hiding seven imprisoned women, and they all look exactly like her. 🔥Soul dualism 🔥Obsession/entitlement 🔥Self-destruction #questpit #AG #F #W

Photo of a woman in red robes with her back to the camera. There are two copies of
her. TO POSSESS THE FLAME. Quote: “A bee alone cannot produce honey,” she said,
turning to catch his gaze. A breath of wind caught the soft scent of the tree’s blossoms.
“And I am not willing to be your flower."

13810

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted. #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist

Left to right.

Top row: A foggy city with a spire in the background. The hands of a clock approaching 12. Smoke from an explosive in a building.

Middle row: A man in a waistcoat pointing at something. “Tick… Tock…” A man in a waistcoat sitting down.

Bottom row: Silver coins covered in blood. A group of people standing inside a clock tower. Rain on a cobblestone street.

2215769

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

trang ☆ writer @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sharing my #agentsguide for CONDUCT OF MAGES, an #A #F for fans of JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS When her mentor goes missing Gemma teams up with fellow mage, Ren, to uncover a plot to eradicate mages…one that involves the emergence of a mysterious stone that mimics their powers. #questpit #Q #querying

cover page that says CONDUCT OF MAGES, an adult fantasy complete at 102K words on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns

text reads THE VIBES and lists: energy magic, heists & scheming, found family, research subplot, slooow burn, female role models, SE Asian setting. placed on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns

text reads FOR FANS OF and then six book covers are displayed, from top left to bottom right: JADE CITY, JASAD HEIR, MISTBORN, HEARTLESS HUNTER, BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, and SIX OF CROWS

text reads EXCERPTS. the first is labeled FIRST LINE, and reads “Gemna was sorting through a basket of sparrowberries when she found out that her existence had been outlawed.” the second text bid is labeled CHAPTER 4 and reads: “In all fairness, Yala had never specified just how flammable elderfire was.

The heat was instantaneous and overwhelming. Gemna felt it scorch the edges of her sleeves before she pulled in the energy from the flames and, when she was nearly bursting with it, diverted it towards the two Hands at the front of the shop. The fire died harmlessly at her feet before it could eat its way into the hidden cellar below.”

46829

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Wera @eggqueenwera.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

An #agentsguide to LET HER INHERIT RUIN 🐊👑 Bound by a soulmate bond they never wanted, a disgraced crocodile lord and a vengeful immortal princess must overcome their past to restore lost magic and expose the truth behind the king’s murder—before their people are annihilated. #questpit #Q #RF #A

Guide to Let Her Inherit Ruin, a 98k adult romantasy inspired by Thai mythology and the magical girl genre.

Comparative titles: Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan, The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon, Sailor Moon, and KPOP Demon Hunters.

32913

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

GOOD OMENS X THE OFFICE Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, has 3 months to turn the business around to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, getting a celestial pink slip. But his old job, and mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

A 3x3 grid surmounted by the words "Hell Is Work" in yellow on an orange background. Images are: 1 - A black pawn topples a white king on a chessboard. 2 - A man in a white suit is back to back with a man in a black suit. They are holding hands. 3 - A puppet about to have it's strings cut. 4 - An angel with a glowing orange halo casting him in a red light. 5 - A lit lighter being held in a man's hand. 6 - A businessman with steepled fingers. 7 - A weeping man is crouched in a tunnel hiding from the light. 8 - A businessman stares at his shadow which has horns and a tail. 9 - Sand running through a person's fingers.

36327

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Guide to THE MAGIC OF NOW The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister is reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it Feat: 🐐women-led cult 🐐explorations of grief 🐐sister relationship 🐐neuroscience 🐐offbeat humor 🐐surrealism x light sci fi #Questpit #AG #A #S

The Magic of Now

The story of a 62-year-old farmer,
the goat her sister may be reincarnated into,
and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Guide to
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.
The Pitch

The Comps
cult comps
Teal
Swan
Mother
God
Elizabeth Holmes
quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
surrealism that highlights life’s bittersweet beauty
speculative exploration of insular communities
themes of memory and identity
Eternal Sunshine
Catherine House
Aimee Bender
How to Age Disgracefully

A Snippet
The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips.

The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat.

Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it.

“Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response.

Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months.

The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage.

Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister.

It’s Tina.

14115

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

THE JASMINE THRONE x THE HURRICANE WARS Captured in the palace of her nemesis, a demon queen plots her revenge. If only the woman who killed her mother wasn’t so irresistibly alluring… 🪻Blood poison magic 🪻Detestable immortals 🪻Food as seduction #questpit #AG #RF

Photo of two women, one in red robes and one in blue. There is a graphic of monkshood on the side. BLOOMS IN POISON. Quote: “I suppose that debt can only be repaid with my life,” said Jing. “I’m afraid I cannot pay it just yet, little queen.” “I shall ensure that you will.”

34221

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

IMMORTAL x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS A reincarnated immortal and an emotionally damaged cowherd must escape the heavenly forces intent on tearing them apart. ✨A love destined to fail ✨A jealous Celestial Empress ✨An underworld filled with both torture and hope #questpit #AG #RF

Photo of a man and woman in hanfu holding a red string. A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT. Quote: “I meant it when I said I feel a connection between us, Shizhi. Like we’re meant to be together, but the feeling has an edge of uncertainty. I can’t explain it.”

96333

Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

13810

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide! SINNERS x IWAV Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway. #QuestPit #W #A #F

136534

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

WAKE embodies "Free" from KPOP DEMON HUNTERS w/: ~A FMC tormented by her past that's ruining her mental health ~A LI working for the villain w/ his own troubled past ~a supportive slow burn romance built on understanding inner pain Coming Spring 2027 #QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R

1114370

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

As the resource-hungry Sovereignty expands unchecked, two sisters find themselves at odds: one a Sovereign pilot, the other a rebel. Their paths collide over besieged Iskar, where magically engineered weapons are unleashed by both sides—at great cost. #QuestPit #W #YA #NA #SFF

A mood-board style card with the title The Engines That Divide, YA/NA Dieselpunk. There are various images, including a mechanical walker, a fighter plane, a factory, and others.

A image of a factory in orange and blue, with large smokestacks, with text reading: Sometimes the easiest choices to make
are the hardest to live with. Kira Sahl is happiest with soil beneath her feet, tinkering away at machines. Her sister Tam, though? She just wants to fly. Cast into a war half a world away, the sisters find themselves on different paths. Gifted pilot Tam becomes an ace in the elite Sovereign Aerocorps. Mechanic Kira, meanwhile, gets a taste of the war up close. When Kira crosses paths with an enigmatic enemy artificer, she is presented with a choice: stay and fight for a cause she has no faith in, or leave everything she has ever loved behind to join the rebellion. Throwing her lot in with the rebels––the Inkari artificer, a rogue arcanist, a free-thinking mechanoid, and a pair of savage Korat––she puts herself on a collision course with Tam in the battle over a besieged city, where both sides plan to unleash magically-engineered weapons—at devastating cost.

A image of a factory in orange and blue, with large smokestacks, with text reading: Featuring:

Siblings At Odds

Fighting the Empire x Crushing the Rebellion

Fading Magic x Rising Machinery

Unique Races

Dieselpunk Setting

Fighter Planes

Mechanical Walkers

Devastating Weapons

A image of a factory in orange and blue, with large smokestacks, with various comps, including Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, Lost Stars by Claudia Gray, the game Iron Harvest, and the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, with various descriptive tags linked to them: Dieselpunk Setting, World War Aesthetic, Mechanical Walkers, Fighter Planes, Dual POVs, Coming of Age, and Empire + Rebellion.

03315

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BRING HER BACK When Parker's family ink magic predicts her best friend's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong spell will damn both their souls to an inky hell for all eternity 💀. #questpit #ya #h #ag

Photo collage showing: bonfire on a beach, a person inking a tattoo on a forearm, dark trees in front of the moon, a couple holding hands, ink blossoming out of a book, two friends covering each other's eyes, and ink hand holding a burned bundle of sticks, a charred dandelion, Wiccan symbols in the sand, a person's hand reaching out from a dark ocean, a person with a cloud of ink coming from their mouth.

54317

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

When Gyla discovers her deceased sister’s soul is trapped in a goat's body, she will do anything to figure out why–including joining a cult. AIMEE BENDER X ETERNAL SUNSHINE X CATHERINE HOUSE #Questpit #AG #S

The Magic of Now
The story of a 62 year old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Unique manifestations of grief
woman led cult
offbeat humor
central sister relationship
neuroscience meets "woo" psyeudoscience
Older female protagonist
by cailin barrett bressack
rep: alex land, MWLA
Images of goat, field, meditation, brain scan, farms.

63715

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Suzy A. Win @suzyawin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A FORGERY OF FATE X LITTLE THIEVES Pearl's got three months to kiss a prince or become sea foam—if she isn't killed by his cousin's harpoon first, of course. 🧜‍♀️Mermaid with a side of thievery and stalking 🪄Magic (and phones, I guess) 👫First Friend (like ever) 🍽️Predator x Prey? #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

66338

Reposted by Chezza Lee📚

Lily Wzy is drafting a mysterious new wip @lilywzy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

SHE WHO BCAME☀️ x PRIORY🍊TREE 🏹Manchu+Mongol+Han inspired 🪭God blood as ink for tatoo magic 🏹An eldritch craving familial love 🪭A failing chosen one 🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion 🪭An heir w/ perfect life until the facade rips 🏹Editor interest+14 agent requests #QuestPit #Q #A #F

a woman with an owl and a horse. an asian girl. imperial palace court with nobles.

1112454