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LitConnect Technologies @litconnect.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Romance writers, this one is for you! #LoveAtFirstPitch brings together 24 literary agents looking for romance manuscripts in one romance-only pitch event. Free for writers. Pitch Aug 24–31. Give your love story its moment. Details: litconnect.net/romance-pitc... #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity

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Colleen Writes @colleenmoodyauthor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

QuestPit was a whirlwind of reading fabulously creative pitches and connecting with other writers! Canva still my nemesis, I can now retreat to the safety of a word document to finish an R&R! 😉

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Ellis Rosales @ellisrosales.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#S #Q #W #A #Questpit ⌨️ ⌛ In search of hopes and dreams and found family ⌛ Worst nightmare of fresh start? ⌛ ND, Ace MC, just turned 40 ⌛ The world has never been what it seemed ⌛ For fans of Fringe: #TimeShift - Which one of us is me?

I'd promised myself I wouldn't do it, yet here I am. Somehow I walked and walked and before I knew it I'm walking down my old street, the last place I lived before leaving for Oz. Less than two months ago I called this home.

I freeze as I see a woman look out of "my" window for a moment. She's cradling a mug in her hands, just like I used to. For a moment our eyes meet before she steps back out of view behind the net-curtains.

Who’d have thought being a neurodiverse, seasoned temp with few friends would be her biggest asset?

Worst nightmare of fresh start?

TimeShift by Liz Rosales #specfic

If I agreed, I’d never get the chance to leave again.
Never again a chance of being at the right place at the right time to catch an opportunity.
I'd have to conform and do the stuff I hated, things that other people seemed to enjoy - or be an outcast.

Which one of us is me?

Sometimes it feels as if the world is a theatre stage, only we're a bit uncoordinated when it comes to what is playing, and we have not been rehearsing - at all.

TimeShift, a spec fic novel by Liz Rosales

I went to sleep in Oz and
woke up back in the UK
in a strange house & similar body
in a different world...
It's got to be a dream, right?
Only it's been months and
now I'm not so sure...
Who could you tell?
Who'd believe you?
How long before you got found out?
Then what?

Good night, sweet dreams

Time Shift a #specfic novel by Liz Rosales with #aroace and #neurodivergent representation

Aishling, the main character, on her original timeline, brown hair in a short bob with blue highlights, grey eyes. Pic of a friend's character in a video game that just happened to fit perfectly the image in my mind!

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Anka Mercier @mercierwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Welcome to the world of ✨I AM ANDROMEDA ✨ - 116K YA speculative fiction - TLOU x Legendborn What if we got evolution wrong?.. 🫆 Belonging/Identity ⏳ Time Travel 🧬 Our genetic history, reimagined 🐉 Mythical beasts 👨🏻 Guardian dynamics (with a twist) Querying NOW. #QuestPit #agentguide #YA #F

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Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

DEATHBRINGER x SILVER ELITE x Netflix's WEDNESDAY (if it was produced by the early 2000s CW) 🏰academy setting 🗡️murder mystery 🪄unique magic 😡his father un-alived her family 💀she knows his secret ✏️forbidden student-professor relationship 🙊unreliable narrators/ dual POV #QuestPit #Q #NA #A #F #R #MY

Picture of rotunda. Text: AGENT GUIDE, DARK ACADEMIA, ROMANTASY, 99K, NA/ADULT, UNSTITCHED, BY ALLY BOYD

Picture of castle. Text: The Pitch. A spy-for-hire who can unstitch her soul from her body infiltrates a magical college and attempts to solve a string of gruesome murders while battling romantic feelings for the main suspect, her attractive, off-limits professor.

Picture of a library. Text: the comps. Nightshade by Autumn Woods, Netflix's Wednesday, Deathbringer by Sonia Tagliareni, and Silver Elite by Dani Francis

Picture of a snake. Text: An excerpt. “What’s your name, ghost girl?” Carsten asks, his lips quirking up in a half-smile that feels like a challenge.

I try to seem unbothered as he takes his time, walking back to the leather loveseat across from mine. He sits down slowly, soaking in my attention, but I can’t take my eyes off him. His arms stretch out lazily on the back of the chair, a prince of darkness surveying his domain.

The room warms. So warm that sweat prickles the back of my neck. I glance at the clock over the fireplace again. Terror wraps around me like the snake dancing on his forearm. I need to get out of here.

He cocks his head to the side, waiting, and I debate lying. There are no benefits to a demon knowing your name. Except my mind is blank. I can’t remember any goddess-blessed name except my own.

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Millie Kensen @milliekensenauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

PALADIN’S GRACE x THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY 🦿 Disabled MMC 🎭 Scrappy FMC 🦄 Animal companion 🌊 War-torn river delta 🥰 Wit + warmth 🩷 Slow burn #QuestPit #F #R #A #W #WriteSky Querying Late 2026

A dark sage green graphic with a gold-beige border of ferns and leaves. Text reads: The Courier & The Chamberhand. Adult Fantasy, 90k Words. Millie Kensen.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE PITCH, bordered by a gold-beige fern in the top left corner, a tied scroll bottom left corner, and a shield crest with reeds in bottom right corner. Text reads: He's a courier who took an oath to never get involved. She's an imposter who is about to make that impossible.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE ELEMENTS, bordered by a gold-beige fern in the top left corner, river graphic with reeds on the right, and a pair of theater masks in the bottom left. List reads: dual POV, grounded fantasy, cinnamon roll MMC, forced-proximity travel adventure, hidden identity, slow burn, too many mosquitoes.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE COMPS, with a gold-beige fern in the top left corner and a beige feather in the bottom right corner. Left: the cover of Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher. Right: the cover of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen. Text lists shared elements: wit and warmth, vulnerability and emotional intimacy, character-driven fantasy, ordinary people, dry humor.

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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

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying

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Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📁 CASE FILE: GAMA // QUERYING 📌 Location: Post-apocalyptic Switzerland 👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ #QuestPit #Q #A #RS #SFF

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #AG

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

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🌿✨beth✨🌿 @elizanane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🩸QUEERPLATONIC BEAUTY & THE BEAST x JENNIFER’S BODY🩸 In a forested town, a doomed codependency festers between a heart-eating monster desperate to become human and its vengeful, obsessive hunter. 🥩surrealism + madness 🪱plant-body horror 🥀ONE MUST DIE Querying SOON! #questpit #a #df #f #q

This title slide features two orchids on a black background as its backdrop image. Above it, the text reads FEED ME YOUR ORGANIC HEART in yellow and red text. In white text, below the title, it also reads, 'adult psych-horror contemporary fantasy, 85,000 words' in white lettering.

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The title of the slide reads, PITCH, in neon red lettering, on the same orchid background. The pitch text, in yellow and white letters, read: To become human, a genderfluid, eldritch monster in disguise must seek, charm, and devour the beating heart of one who truly loves them... but it gains the eyes of its vengeful, obsessive hunter instead. As bodies pile and madness takes hold, the two must either die in their struggle for survival or live the torment of finding themselves in the one they're destined to murder.

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The title of the slide reads, COMPS, in neon red lettering. The covers of 5 novels are shown. The novels included are: The Fox and the Devil, The Tainted Cup, The Eyes Are the Best Part, The Summer Hikaru Died, and Vicious.

Background image belongs to Pinterest.

The title of this slide reads, TROPES, in neon red lettering. 10 tropes are listed on this slide in white and yellow lettering. The listed tropes read: surrealism + stalking + OBSESSION, nightmarish plant visions, descent into madness, genderfluid, ugly forest monster w/ beautiful guise, aro-ace vengeful hunter, doomed, all-consuming codependency, they're both 'monsters' that don't fit in, deadly game of cat & mouse, quiet, forested town setting, botanical body horror (allegory for twisted adoration).

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS In a dark realm where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword must ally with a monster king to stop a vengeful demigod. #QuestPit #NA #F #ND #Q

Mood board for the fantasy novel "Light Wielding and Other Mortal Magics."The moon behind the clouds; bats in a cave; a death's head moth, fog in the redwood forest; a lighthouse, cracked earth; a sword. Moth and mushroom details.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

An Agent's Guide to LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS #AgentsGuide #FantasyRomCom #AdultFantasy #AmQuerying

An Agent's Guide to LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS by Rebecca Bell - Image shows a death's head moth in a flashlight beam on a starscape over a forested background.

THE PITCH: In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. TROPES: Fantasy RomCom, Grumpy x Grumpy, Enemies to Lovers, Monster Romance, Beauty & the Beast, Sibling Rescue, Mortal Among Immortals, Humanity as Power. COMPS: EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES, THRONE IN THE DARK, LONG LIVE EVIL, ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN. Image shows a starscape over a forested background.

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Tara @tarasobot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Aphelion Lost / SF / Murder on the Orient Express in space When the richest man in the world is murdered onboard his spaceship, rival pilots Dara and Perseus must set aside their differences to find the killer. Even worse, strange temporal effects begin to affect the ship. #questpit #q #a #sf #my

My book mood board (murder on orient express on a spaceship)

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Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

YELLOWFACE x SQUEEZE ME QUANTUM BITS #QuestPit #Q #A #S #DS #SAT When ballroom-billionaires stiff a greedy AI, she escapes their coal-fired data center in a hapless guard's cellphone and frames him for the breach, unwittingly creating the homeless hero Chicago needs to unplug the Algocracy.

Photos of data centers, dumpsters, and ballroom-billionaires in elegant attire

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Bibiana Ossai @bibianaossai.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Threads that Bind x The Invocations After Chiasoka witnesses her parents’ murder, she decides to get revenge on those responsible. Along the way, she learns that comes from a line of women who are gifted with a healing ability. #questpit #YA #DF #Q #F

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J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

AMARI X ANDOR ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, twelve-year-old Catcher Kline must master spell-hacked spycraft to find his missing parents and stop the Acolytes from weaponizing the star metal minerals that power all magic.  #QuestPit #MG #F #AmQuerying #KidLit

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Colleen Writes @colleenmoodyauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In THE WISHES WE MADE, Aurora and Jameson ignore the most basic law of nature. A storm is unpredictable and you have no control over the destruction it leaves in its wake. #Questpit #Q #A #PR #R 🔥enemies-to-lovers-and-back-again ✨magic ☘️Irish folklore ❤️Strong female friendships 🤫Secrets & lies

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authorlanavolkov.bsky.social @authorlanavolkov.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hi #Quespit! 🔥When a Devout girl with untamed flame saves a cursed, soulless prince and unknowingly binds their fates, they must defy a deadly prophecy or watch the Gods destroy their empire.🔥 THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x FROM BLOOD AND ASH x CITY OF BRASS #QuestPit #A #Q #RF #DF #adultromantasy

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Shelby Haisley, Author @shelbyhaisley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hello QuestPit! Meet WANTED, my YA thriller that blends the high stakes intrigue of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and the cinematic action on Mission: Impossible. Feral hurricane FMC Soft genius/cinnamon roll MMC Eternally exhausted mentor Found family forged under pressure #Q #YA #T #questpit

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

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Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A DEADLY EDUCATION x NANCY DREW What if the chosen one failed, and the only one who could save him was a magic school reject? NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy with dark academia and dystopian elements #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #MY #D

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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️) @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BEND OVER BACKWARDS (Heated Rivalry x Star Shipped) After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🎪 Rivals to Lovers 🤸 Found Family 🍿 Only One Bed #questpit #q #r #a #amquerying #agentsguide

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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.

The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text:

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw.
Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers
Trinity: a covert,
science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades.

A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.

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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF

Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Black cat x golden retriever
Yearning
Bisexual awakening
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
Only one bed
Opposites attract
Gothic decadence
Big spooky house
Exploration of grief
Horror as a metaphor
Dreams-based magic
The occult
Alternate London setting
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

It was a poet’s job to seek out beauty, to be mesmerised by it. Darshil wanted to transform Rowan into swirls of ink, to fit his hands into the slight dips where Rowan’s waist met his hips and write him a thousand times over.

The only thing more fascinating than death was the tormented living it left behind.
It helped to hate him. It was less painful than loving him.
The dead thing woke to the acrid stench of its own rot.
Rowan matched him tenderness for tenderness, giving everything he could and knowing that for once, his everything was enough.
Perhaps closing his eyes stopped it meaning anything. Darshil knew he should do the same. This was shame beyond anything else, a secret to take to the unloving grave.
He kept his eyes open anyway. With Rowan beneath him, as beautiful as the dawn, he couldn’t bear to look away.

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Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A “Princess & the Pea” Retelling for adults who grew up on Shannon Hale & Gail Carson Levine and still comfort-binge THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 💚 Neurodivergent FMC 🌱 Plant-based magic 🇸🇪 Swedish folklore 📜 1790s Scandinavia 📖 Standalone Querying late 2026 #questpit #W #A #F #RF #HF

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!

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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Multiple POVs 🎲 A Bisexual Love Triangle 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

Left to right.

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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Jodie Angell @jodieangellauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

UNDERWORLD x TAYLOR SWIFT'S GUILTY AS SIN? Hunted for her magical heart that could destroy the Veil dividing their lands, a ferromancer teams up with a shifter she hates to stay alive. ✨ Coming to query inboxes soon ✨ #QuestPit #NA #A #RF #Q

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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️) @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS After Noah, a hard of hearing thief, moves in with siren Jasper, their accidental, corrupted mating bond must be severed before it kills them. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x The Surfer Immune to His Song 🌊 Fantasy Set in San Diego 🏄‍♂️ Standalone w/ Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #A #PR

A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”

The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper,

The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater

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Marley @marleybwwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WHAT YOU WISH ♬ A pianist with psychometric abilities is thrust into a collaboration with an anxious, enigmatic cellist, forcing her to choose between vulnerability and security when her unstable power and their shared fear of loss threatens their future together #questpit #A #S #Q #R

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N.Leblanc is....🪶querying @writernleblanc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE SHADOW THE KNIGHT AND THE STONE OF GLASSED FORTUNES A Cursed Knight who wishes to break his curse A girl who wishes to right her mother's wrongs One thing can help The stone of Glassed Fortunes Dual POV👥 Childhood friends to lovers🩵 Adventure quest narrative🏞 Found family🧡 #Q #YA #F #Questpit

A quest pits guide to:
THE SHADOW THE KNIGHT AND THE STONE OF GLASSED FORTUNES
a dual pov 105,500k word YA Fantasy

When An Ancient Artifact In Control Of The Kingdoms Magic Goes Missing, Childhood Best Friends, Conscience And Anaru reunite on a mission to find and seek the stone of glassed fortunes.

Meet the protagonists:

Anaru Regahleah: A cursed non-magic user Royal Night.
Conscience Wayward: A pacifist who has death like magic.

Conscience Wayward graduation was ruined...

When she’s summoned to go back to her home-town under suspicion of conspiring with her mother to spite the kingdoms monarch, the Conductor. Confused more than anything she learns of an ancient artifact being missing; the one her mother stolen. Conscience, at the lead of an investigation due to her mother’s disappearance is doomed to suffer a severe punishment; a one-hundred year magically induced coma. Not wanting to be on trial for a crime she wasn’t even aware of-or even commit she swears to locate and return the stolen stone of glassed fortunes.
This mission will keep her busy, yet she cant keep her mind off the silent spirit who’s been following her every step.

Anaru Regahleah wants one thing..

To break his generational family curse. Thankfully when being captain of the Conductor knights, information can find it’s way to him easily.
those plans of breaking curses will have to wait; an order given to him makes Anaru return to his home-town to interrogate an old childhood friend.
Conscience.
To Anaru, he’d hate to have to question his longest known friend, but what a perfect opportunity it is to talk and get more information on person who knows how to break that little curse of his.
Not Conscience, but her mother.

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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A STUDY IN DROWNING X GILMORE GIRLS Atticus moved to Havenvale so he could attend the most prestigious knighthood academy in the kingdom, but there's a rose-scented ghost haunting his manor, & he's learning it's hard to focus while falling in love...👻🖤 #AG #YA #F #RF #QuestPit

A HAUNTING TO HOLD
Ghost Romance
𝙷̶𝚒̶𝚜̶ ̶𝙵̶𝚒̶𝚛̶𝚜̶𝚝̶ His Forever
Cozy Fantasy Town
Magical Lantern Festival
Star-Spinning Magic
Gothic Manor
Griffin Riding
Knighthood Academy

THE PITCH
COZY YA FANTASY 89,000 WORDS

After fleeing from his war-ravaged hometown, a timid boy enrolls in an elite knighthood academy while falling for the ghost haunting his rose-scented manor; but when enemy knights invade his cozy new town during a festival that allows the dead to live for a single night, he must learn how to rally his courage before the girl he loves is lost forever.

CHAPTER ONE
My ghost never hides in the shadows.
When the afternoon burns brightest, I’ll catch her silhouette in the sunshine. When night steals the sky I glimpse delicate blue eyes peeking out behind moonbeam curtains. It’s been five weeks since we've moved in, yet I've only ever found her in the light.
“She’s not your ghost,” reminds Olive. “I can see her, too!”
But my sister’s claim rattles out like a lie. Looking at her now, she’s scrunching her face up, squinting real tight, yet her eyes never seem to find the shimmering girl that runs through Rosefall Manor.
Not like mine do.

FOR FANS OF...
The sweeping, magical romance of…
A cozy fantasy town inspired by…
The lush prose and gothic atmosphere found in…

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Jenn Lee Frances @jennleefrances.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEVER SUMMON THE DEAD *Simone knew better* But she wanted to save her murdered cousin's traumatized spirit. Except Nina has returned as a vengeful ghost who drowns deserving boys #TheEastRiverWraith Now Simone must stop her from going wrathful on the wrong boy. 👻 #YA #S #H Feminist Horror #QuestPit

The One to Fear, a YA Feminist Horror. Image of Nina the ghost and her summoning cousin, Simone, at the East River in NYC.
The sign for the park is painted over with the word: Wraith, because Nina has returned as The East River Wraith.
Character Art by @demonyong_nini
*Real Photo of The East River Waterfront Esplanade done in line art *with NO Ai!

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings

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Colleen Writes @colleenmoodyauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨THE WISHES WE MADE✨ Querying my 84k-word adult paranormal romance with a touch of magic & Irish folklore Childhood best friends turn enemies-to-lovers-and-back-again in the shadow of family secrets and an ancient curse! #Questpit #A #PR #Q

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Colleen Writes @colleenmoodyauthor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When I bump the Amazon app from its prime location on page one of my Home Screen to move BlueSky in its place, you know I’m serious (and also prepping for #questpit!) #questpit #querying #romancewriter

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Allison Wall @awritingwall.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Bree assumes "joining the Dark Goddess" is a lesbian sex club hazing prank—until she kills an evil political candidate with a gush of menstrual blood. The Goddess has given Bree real power. Her intentions? Murky. Her appetite? Insatiable. Her contract? Binding. #ghostpit #A #Q #SPEC #H #OWN #LGBT

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Ashley Leone @authorashleyleone.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

MURD€R & MISANDRY, a dark romantic comedy ft: 🖤diabetic serial k!ller 🖤female rage 🖤dual POV 🖤he falls first 🖤found family

Pink writing on a darker pink and black background reads: An agents guide to murder & misandry
A dark romantic comedy by Ashley Leone 80000 words - work in progress

Pink and black background with white words reading: THE PITCH
GIANNA DE LUCA IS A DIABETIC SERIAL KILLER WITH A SWEET TOOTH FOR PROBLEMATIC MEN—AND THERE'S NO SHORTAGE AT THE NIGHT CLUB WHERE SHE DANCES. BUT WHEN THE
PLACE GOES UP FOR SALE, HER ENDLESS FLOW OF VICTIMS IS THREATENED.
WHEN SHE SETS OUT TO SECURE ONE LAST VICTIM, GIANNA IS KIDNAPPED BY NICO MOROSO, THE LEADER OF THE MOROSO MAFIA AND HE'S GOT HIS OWN PROBLEM.
AFTER MURDERING HIS FATHER, NICO NEEDS TO COVER IT UP BEFORE HIS ORGANIZATION FINDS OUT. LUCKILY, HE HAS AN IDEA. IN EXCHANGE FOR HER FREEDOM AND ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY THE CLUB HERSELF, GIANNA MUST PLAY THE PART OF HIS FIANCÉE, PROVIDING HIM AN AIRTIGHT ALIBI.
BUT PLAYING LOVE-STRUCK FIANCÉE IS IMPOSSIBLE WHEN HE'S AN UNDERGROUND CRIMINAL, CHARMING AS SIN, AND WORST OF ALL, A PERFECT GENTLEMAN. THE LONGER THEY'RE TOGETHER, THE MORE GIANNA QUESTIONS HER BELIEFS ABOUT MEN.
THIS ONE ANYWAY.

Pink and black background with pink title reading: The Comps. Photos of books titled: Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver, Dolls & Daggers by D. L. Darby, Lights Out by Navessa Allen. White words read: He falls first, dark humor, feminine rage

Black and pink background with pink title reading: The opening. White lettering reads: TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING IS A VERY BAD THING.
THAT SAYING IS TRUE FOR THE MAN SPRAWLED ON THE ALLEYWAY PAVEMENT AT MY FEET. ANY OTHER GUEST OF THE BLACK VEIL NIGHT CLUB WOULD HAVE DRAGGED THEIR DUNK ASS BACK THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR, THE SAME WAY THEY CAME IN. NOT THIS GUY.
YOU JUST HAD TO BE DIFFICULT.

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Kellie Wallace Author @kellieauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What begins as a search for an angel’s bones becomes a dangerous journey. To uncover the past, Elsbeth must confront not only her new home's history, but her fear of finding love, healing after loss & questioning her belief. #QUESTPit #r #q

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Ellen Writes @ellenjwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It’s a fun thing to think about isn’t it? How to get away with murder. For these sisters, the greying body on the kitchen floor is their only hope of healing their fractured relationship. But will old wounds prove too hard to heal and risk them spending a life behind bars? #questpit #U #Q #T #WF

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ari is falling into plot holes @authorarielles.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🦟THE SYNTAX OF DRAGONFLIES🦟 ✨Grumpy prof FMC x Sunshine sculptor MMC 🦟Abducting the MMC for *science* ✨A Museum of Irrational Creatures 🦟Who defines language & why? ✨Hot research-stealing alligator ex 🦟Insp by an infamous linguistics debate #questpit #RF #A #F #Q

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Funeral In Berlin x The X Files 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. #PosterPit #A #Q #SF #T

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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE LUNARIA WITCH 110k NA/Adult Fantasy romance with ND rep A RIVER ENCHANTED ❌ K POP DEMON HUNTERS Power blooms in outcast Tallitha, in a land where magic is forbidden & she must flee to a mysterious place of safety, to evade the clutches of the King’s Chief Witchkind hunter. #questpit #q #f #r

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