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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI X A LONG WAY TO A SMALL, ANGRY PLANET A runaway must join a crew of space pirates to rescue the man who saved her life— and keep a corporate empire from using his magic to take over the astral sea. One problem. She hates pirates. #DVPit #A #F #SFF #R #TV #LGBT

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Three words: QUEER SPACE PIRATES 🏴‍☠️ One Piece in space ⚓️ The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi x A Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet 🌟 Hope is a thing with teeth 🧬 Thin line between magic and science 🏳️‍⚧️ Queernorm world, aroace + trans rep 🐈 There’s a cat #DVPit #A #F #SFF #R #TV #LGBT

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine how they’ll react when they find Enel again 😂

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ONE PIECE IN SPACE A runaway with illegal magic is dragged into space piracy to rescue the magical scientist who saved her life. If the Speculation Enclave, a hedge fund with imperial ambitions, gets his theory of transillience, they could take over the entire astral sea. #DVPit #A #F #SFF #R #TV

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#DVParty day 5: tease your next project My next project… is a spacetime fairy tale “My father’s associates said I was so good at running his business, it would only be worth marrying me off to royalty. So of course he found a prince.“

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#DVParty day 4, your book as a meme This is one of my character’s mantras, so it’s perfect lol

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why are there two? Because the first is a prelude and I don’t want to scare you off 🙃

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#DVPart day 3: opening lines! “There is a childhood rite of passage on Arnawan: sneak over the suggestion of a wall marking the shipyard’s boundary, and touch the hangar where they (supposedly) kept the first ships.” “Romanza Glass. It’s a name many forgot, and select few know.”

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#DVParty day 2: introduce your main character I have an ensemble cast, but let me introduce the main character and protagonist! 💫 Romea, a runaway from everyone she’s ever loved 🏴‍☠️ Aro, a pirate hell bent on becoming King of the Stars

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So true. Okay, my mantra is “the war crimes are fake, my annoyance is real.” As a reader I want to be invested in whatever bad thing they’re doing, and that veil shatters if I can tell the author is worried about what the reader will think. If the character is meant to be annoying, make them commit

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m not an agent, but if you’d like a reader’s perspective I might have some insight? I like characters that you love to hate so I’ve thought about it a lot

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AskDV what do you wish authors asked you about more? Particularly when you’re meeting to discuss offers of rep.

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s the magic of the man who saved her life!

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi x A Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet A runaway must join a crew of space pirates to rescue the man who saved her life— and keep a corporate empire from using his magic to take over the astral sea. One problem. She hates pirates. #preDV #A #F #SF

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hear ya, but she is only a runaway, and that’s a big part of her identity crisis. Best I got is that she’s a runaway from everyone she’s ever loved.

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ONE PIECE in space A runaway must join a crew of space pirates to rescue the man who saved her life: and keep his magic from letting a corporate empire take over the astral sea. #preDV #A #F #SF #SFF #R

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A runaway with illegal powers gets dragged into space piracy to rescue the magical scientist who saved her life. If the Speculation Enclave, a hedge fund with imperial ambitions, gets ahold of his theory of transillience, they could take over the entire astral sea. #preDV

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I haven’t been here for a hot minute, whoops 👀

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The problem with not being terminally online is that you forget you’re supposed to use social media

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Book two for a book I’m editing, and I’m tinkering with ideas for completely different books in the background. Across all of them, poly romance stories 😌

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Watching Frieren and getting so many idea for how to improve my character writing. Sometimes I fall so deep down the adventure rabbit hole that I play too fast and loose with my characters. They live rent free in my head and I take that for granted lol

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I write some notes down about it, then let it percolate. If I don’t write something down at first I find I forget it 😂

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I am begging you to share some gems from this book

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

No agents interacted with my #questpit posts, but the outpouring of love from fellow authors really, really made my day 💖✨

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Heists, spice and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal dark hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF #SFF

The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel

A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer

Representation Christi Cardenas

Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

omantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.”
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of the three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

#AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

ONE PIECE IN SPACE A runaway must subject herself to working with her human-weapon best-enemy, a space pirate hell bent on recruiting her, and the charismatic partner of her unfortunate crush, to save him and his breakthrough magical discovery from becoming a weapon #questpit #Q #A #F #RF#SFF

A card with a starry background with the title Pirates and Planets. The subtitle says Opening Lines. Below is a paragraph. It says:
“You fuckin’ snake—” were the last words out of the target’s mouth before Barbie relieved him of his windpipe.
She had gone through many names, all of which meant something like “evil.” Snake was a new one. Viper sounded better.
There’d been one target who laughed at her name. Something about it meaning “pretty” or “sweet.” Barbie wasn’t pretty or sweet: she was barbed wire.

A card that says Pirates and Planets - Comps across the top. Below, there are two columns with covers of books. The first says By Me. Listed left to right, the comps listed are The Murderbot Diaries, One Piece; Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die; The Dispossessed, The Adventure Zone Balance (a podcast, not a book), and Six of Crows.
The second column says By Readers. From left to right, they are Arcane (the Netflix animated show), These Burning Stars, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and Gideon the Ninth.

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

ONE PIECE IN SPACE There's a space pirate hell bent on recruiting Romea on his quest to become King of the Stars. But she's more focused on the infuriating partner of her unfortunate crush, and saving him and his breakthrough magical discovery from becoming a weapon. #questpit#Q#A#F#RF#SFF

A card with a starry background with the title Pirates and Planets. The subtitle says Opening Lines. Below is a paragraph. It says:
The floating flotilla was a fortress of magic and science. Thousands of bubbles illuminated the marine night with buttery soft magic. Windows in cathedrals of crystal and glass glowed warm with the individual lights of lives. The whipping wind was petrichor rich and ozone bright, singing dreams from the city to the sea. The astral sea along the horizon glowed faint yellow with a new star’s dawn.
A pirate leaping through the light speckled night was nothing new. But the wailing of Specs and Space Marines were an unwelcome annoyance for the late crowd.

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I hope I can do it justice with my merry band of freaks 🫡

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ONE PIECE IN SPACE A runaway with illegal powers must join a crew of space pirates to save the man whose magic might change the world, or destroy it. But she has three problems with that: she finds him intoxicating, his partner’s infuriating, and she hates pirates. #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #SFF

A card with a starry background with the title Pirates and Planets. The subtitle says Opening Lines. Below is a paragraph. It says:
The hatch was open.
In trembling hands, magic split the first delicate crack in Arnawan’s centuries-long isolation. The first true wormhole bloomed into existence.
Tuvat had dreamed of this beautiful rainbow bridge all their life. Now, staring down the barrel of change, it looked like the open jaws of a half-finished hope.

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Talya Klein @talyaklein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Now querying my upmarket suspense, BLOOD OF THE LAMB (93K words.) Check out the agent’s guide below! 🎬cinematic, propulsive plot 🪾atmospheric, gothic vibes ⛪️ religious trauma, mental health, family secrets 🌿Like THE GOD OF THE WOODS but set in a cult. #questpit #a #u #q #amquerying

A sepia image of the cross on top of an old church and hands reaching toward the sky. The text reads: “an agents guide to Blood of the Lamb by Talya Klein. Upmarket Suspense, 93K words. Coming of age, smash the patriarchy, cult escape.”

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

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.

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Autumn Hooper Querying Author @authorautumnhooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth 🔮 emotion-driven powers 💖 characters with depth 🎀 softness is her greatest strength ✨ light found in dark places 💋 slow-burn #Q #A #F

Dawn of the Cicada book cover idea with a woman in shadow in a dark forest lit by fireflies with the shadow of a monster lurking behind her.

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Casey P. StJohn @cpstjohn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Fiona, a Fate tasked with scheduling the lives & deaths of mortals to maintain the balance of light & dark, must track down a killer when the unscheduled body of a Chosen One lands on her best friend's doorstep & the worlds begin to break. #questpit #F #Q #MY

Slide #1 A Wayward Balance, my adult Fantasy Mystery
What You’ll Find Inside:
• Only one...human (she dies).
• Fate and death are desk jobs (death is a family business complete with nepotism).
• Chosen one...by application and interview (it’s a lengthy process).
• Death is framed for murder.
• A romantic slow burn so slow you might not even catch it!(i.e., an utter lack of romance despite the sparks my friend is absolutely determined she felt)
• Karma is a cat...shifter.
• Coffee, Mahjong, and cozy violence.
• Someone who would sacrifice themselves for everyone, and their best friend who is determined to keep that from happening (it’s complicated).

Slide #2 - The dreaded, yet required, One Paragraph pitch Fiona and Dahlia work tirelessly each day to ensure the balance of eight worlds remains intact. Every rule must be followed, every life and every death scheduled and accounted for, every Chosen One meticulously hand selected to save any world on the verge of collapse from a wayward balance—a breaking—when the scales have tipped too far for too long. When the current Chosen One is found murdered on Dahlia’s doorstep, the two friends must work together to prove Dahlia’s innocence before her life is forfeit to offset the balance that has tipped beyond what anyone has seen before, leaving the futures of all eight worlds in jeopardy. To save the worlds, rules must be broken, time will be upended, secrets will demand to be revealed, and friendships must be sacrificed.

Slide #3 - An Entirely Inconvenient Number of comps The whimsical bureaucracy of The House in the Cerulean Sea Unique townsfolk like Halloween Town Cozy small town vibes like Murder She Wrote For fans of cozy fantasies & coffee shops like Legends and Lattes, but with the higher stakes of murder. Metaphysical Fun like: Good Omens and The Good Place Humor of: The Eyre Affair and Mort

Slide 4: A socially acceptable boost to my ego features quotes from people who have read A Wayward Balance such as "When I tell you this story has me HOOKED" and "So fricken fun"

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It’s the age of the pirates 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This seems incredible. Fitting all that story in 60k must mean you’re an incredible writer! I’d love to read this

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Lola is 👻AGENTED!!👻 @lolagracebooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND Windego is a 60K word supernatural horror novel based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all. #questpit #Q #A #H #S

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Via Luino @viathewordwitch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Six of Crows x Romeo & Juliet An imposter princess. A pretender prince. A vengeful plot that might just get them both killed. Because when monarchs play their political games, it can only end in blood. 🗡 Reluctant assassins ⚔️ Dual POV ✨ Dangerous magic 🏳️‍🌈 All queer cast #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

A black background edged with a design of silver leaves. In the center are two sketches, one of a young woman with a dagger and a fierce expression, and the other of a young man with a freckled face and a conflicted expression. (These sketches are from Pinterest and do not belong to me. All rights and credit to the creators.)

Beneath the sketches is the title of the book: A SONG OF SILVER & SCARLET

The text around these sketches reads: “To free the woman she loves, Viola must become a murderer. To save his little sister, Vasek must take another’s life. But when their fates collide, they soon realize they aren’t the only assassins on the prowl—and the paths they walk can only end in bloodshed.”

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️ @cvarras.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Queer norm and trans rep I’m SMASHING that reblog button. Fantasy trans stories of queer normalcy and joy are my favorite

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING Adult Fantasy Standalone 💛 Grumpy/Sunshine, platonic 💕 Second Chance MM romance ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 🏅 Tournaments & Trials 💙 Mental health rep 👑 Hidden royalty 🏳️‍🌈 Queer normative world 🍋 Mediterranean inspired setting #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

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