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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm querying my Gilded Age Southern Gothic Romantasy. JANE EYRE meets CRIMSON PEAK. Would you read this? #querying #literaryagents #gothicromance #janeyre #crimsonpeak

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lil update on my query process for my Gothic Fantasy Romance. Hopefully it's the season for Gothic! 🤞 #amquerying #writingcommunity #literaryagents

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am truly humbled by all the likes on my lil gothic fantasy. TY! Here are the trends I spotted for #questpit: -Knight & the Moth is the most comp'd -Dark Academia (Ninth House vibes) -Bridgerton mashup -Ghosts, witches, demons -Horror ala dracula & creatures What else did you all see?

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

I went to sleep and woke up to a boom of #questpit posts I'm still filtering through! Love to see all the Gothic pieces! And one thing is for certain, witches are making a comeback.

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A.E. Fairfax @aefairfax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ATTACK ON TITAN X ALCHEMISED 90k: WHAT LURKS BEYOND THE WALLS Horror, Fantasy Aurellia, Duchess of Vaynesgard, struggles to rebuild her life after Escapists drag her beyond the towering ancient walls separating the final vestiges of humanity from creatures with an appetite for human flesh. #questpit

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

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE x MY COUSIN RACHEL 🖤a marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans mansion 🥀a creeping obsession with her husband's reclusive cousin 🔑his dark secret she was never meant to find 🕯️a gothic fantasy romance, complete at 75k words #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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

Feed Me Your Heart intro page colored red with a black and white image of a young woman

Themes for Feed Me Your Heart i.e. norse mythology and deadly personality tests

Comps for Feed Me Your Heart ranging from folklore fantasy to cultish horror

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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BIG 5 EDITOR INTEREST🤯 W4D MENTEE W/ BIG 5📝 SOMEONE U CAN BUILD A NEST IN x PIRANESI A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn a human godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—till a rival reveals things only her owner could’ve known. #Questpit #A #YA #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC

Agents guide for GODCAT, dark fantasy/horror.

Premise as written in post, plus comps to piranesi, someone you can build a nest in, chainsaw man, and the eyes are the best part.

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M.B.Taylor - Fantasy Author @mbolt89.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BRIDGERTON X PRACTICAL MAGIC with the mystery and amateur sleuth vibes of ENOLA HOLMES When witches start disappearing from the Ton, Seraphina must unravel the mystery before she looses her reputation, her magical tea parlour and her missing best friend Primrose, forever. #SFF #W #MY #A #questpit

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Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

LEGALLY BLONDE X WITCH'S GUIDE TO MAGICAL INNKEEPING A first-year public defender for sorcerers must help her newest client prove his innocence without accidentally falling in love with him. rep: WEAVER LITERARY #QuestPit #OS #A #F #R

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

BOOK OF AZRAEL x CROWN ME DEAD A Dark Fantasy Romance 🤝🏼 a ten-year soul bargain 💥immortal hierarchy w/ warring factions 🖤a dark & cunning MMC 🥊a fighter FMC with a rare ability 🖤dangerous attraction & loyalties tested 👁️hidden motives ⚜️New Orleans gothic vibes #QuestPit #W #A #F #H #R #AmWriting

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Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 107k New Adult Nautical Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Worldly, Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance Dynamic + Spice #Q #NA #A #RF #F #R #QuestPit

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

IF 🫀FEED ME YOUR HEART🫀 HAD A MOVIE POSTER! Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. Agent’s guide pinned to profile 🧌🌲 WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit

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

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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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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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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC will be returning to the query trenches Fall 2026 after revisions and a rebrand! I'm so excited to get this one out there. #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A really big thanks for the likes/reposts on my project! And thank you to @wippit.bsky.social for running this event. I received an agent like so I'm a happy girl. #wippit

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MF Lanier @marylanier.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Humanity can now enter alternate worlds—thanks to her stolen research… or die trying. To stop the mass experiment, a geneticist must fix it—or destroy everything she created. THE BLACK OWL #WIPPit #SFF #Adult

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Kasy Long @kasylongauthor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

ADVENTURELAND x FLIPPED Childhood friends work at an amusement park in southern Indiana. They're “just friends”...until one summer when everything changes. He falls first, she falls harder! ☀️ Summer love 🎢 Amusement park 🥰 Friends to lovers #WIPPIT #WIP #R #YA #Con

A collage of amusement park rides, including a rollercoaster and swings, and a couple kissing. Text: “Amusement park romance,” “Friends to Lovers,” “Coworkers Turned Lovers,” “Small Town Vibes,” and “SUMMER” appear in the graphic.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#WIPPIT #A #F #R WHAT RETURNS All her life, Selba's had smoky visions of the future, but they’re never useful. She can't predict weather, fate, & def not her BFF's tragic demise. But when her dead friend returns & asks her help to end a civil war, Selba's finicky Sight might just save the world.

A collage on a dark green background, featuring a lily-of-the-valley pendant and a ruby-and-skull mourning ring, a golden heart pierced by red arrows, a skull set in a golden sunburst plaque, a thorny rose vine, a flame-licked hand reaching for a ruby, an illustrated woman in a mourning veil, a rocky crag full of lava, a gravestone, an all-seeing eye, and a dried rose.

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James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#WIPPIT Mass effect x Treasure Planet "People of Humanity, we have been observing your Earth..." These are the word that came down from the stars when Humanity stood on the Brink. The words that offered them a Second Chance at life. 6 years later, our story begins. #Q #SF #SFF

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A soul collecting demon must unleash a mortal woman’s hidden, explosive rage for a demanding hierarchy, all while risking capital punishment for coveting a human. ⚜️19th century New Orleans + modern vibes. 🗡️Protector/Snarky MMC 🥊Female rage 🔥He falls first #wippit #romantasy

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Thea (is querying) @funkybaby.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

NINTH HOUSE with a Southern Gothic flavor 🖤Twisty double pov 🖤Enemies-to-lovers 🖤Touch him and die 🖤Dark Academia with a dropout mc A bittersweet romance between a con man who raises the dead for a single day and the hell-bent dropout who won’t let hers stay buried SATURNINE #WIPPit #A #F #RF

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EvelynHail, PhD @evelynhail.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER x THE WITCHER 🖤 one haughty dragon prince 🖤 one servant masquerading as royalty (secretly sent to execute him) 🖤 forbidden gothic romance 🖤 a gritty world steeped in Slavic folklore 🖤 the ruinous passion destined to undo them both #WIPPit #NA #R #F #G

A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."

A graphic titled "The Comps" in golden lettering. It displays four book covers arranged in a grid: "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli, "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros, "Shadow and Bone" by Leigh Bardugo, and "The Witcher: The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.

A gothic fantasy comic illustration of Iva’s and Konstantin’s sparring match inside a stone training arena with a sandy floor. She is wearing a sleek, dark grey military uniform, and is straddling Konstantin, who is pinned to a large, worn mattress. She holds a silver dagger firmly against his throat. He lies flat on his back, looking up at her with a confident, self-satisfied smirk.

A gothic fantasy comic illustration of a magical ritual inside a stone dormitory chamber. A Rusalka is emerging from a water-filled rustic wooden basin placed on a large oval table. The Rusalka has pale, sickly skin, sharp fangs bared in a sinister grin, and long, moss-green hair like river algae, which she is brushing with an ornate bone comb featuring a sleeping swan handle. Standing behind the table, Iva, in a dark military uniform watches in stunned awe, alongside her best friend Marina. They traded the comb with Rusalka for an important information as a part of an ancient magic ritual.

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nicwalwrites.bsky.social @nicwalwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Ex-addict turned outreach worker Rhiannon, has spent years atoning for her past by keeping a watchful eye on rough campers. When bodies suspiciously mount up, and her son disappears from one of the campsites, she must find the haunted truth of the woods before the truth finds her son. #WipPit

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Dani Brooks ✨is Querying✨~ Author of Closed Door Sports Romance @danibrooksbooks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

@wippit.bsky.social 👠DEVIL WEARS PRADA x NHL🏒 👻He ghosted her 7 years ago 💄She built an empire to forget him 🏒Now he's back & ready to reconnect ❤️‍🔥But can he stand up to the heat of the heart he left on fire? Or is a 2nd chance impossible in the world that stole their 1st? #wipPit #A #Romance

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Jenni - Fantasy Romance Author ✨️ @authorjbecker.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Wrong Move, Right Lie - A Romcom💞 When life gives you lemons…you enter a fake relationship 🤷‍♀️ 💘Meet-cute 💫Fake dating ❤️‍🔥Mutual pining 😻Adorable kitten ☀️Summer vibes ⏳Turning 30 and spiralling #WipPit #NA #F

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

MENDING GLASS ☀️💾🌼 When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down the legendary garden of her hero with the help of an old world engineer—but discoveries about her idol make her question everything. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby love interest #WIPPit #A #SF Currently drafting!

Floral background with the text Mending Glass. By Florrie Auclair. Solarpunk Romantic Sci-Fi

Comp slide with Horizon Zero Dawn, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Violet Evergarden, and Fruits Basket. The text pointing at the various media are Ruins of a fallen industrial world, Solarpunk, Flower Motifs, Traveling to help others and find self discovery, Joyful but melancholic character connections, and Sunshine MC x Sunshine Protector

Character portrait of a blond woman making a heart with her hands. Juniper Penrose. An archivist specializing in botany. She idolizes the old world botanist, Miriam, who helped lead the resistance centuries ago. Optimistic and a little reckless, she seeks to uncover the past and find Miriam’s garden. Her drive to help people, sometimes comes at her own expense—like the reason for the mechanical leg she now cherishes.

Next to that is a character portrait of a nonbinary character with light blue eyes and duotone hair in black and blonde. Eli Winter. An aloof engineer who specializes in old world infrastructure programming trying to prove their skills are just as important as the nouveau programmers of the city. They leave their home and grandfather to help Juni break into archaic servers and hard drives—and often pull her out of trouble.

The Pitch
Data is as fragile as flower petals. That’s why Juniper, an archivist in a recovering solarpunk world, wants to immortalize the past in the Glass Archives. Safe from time’s decay, unlike the archaic hard drives of the old world. Specifically, information on her hero, Miriam, a botanist who legend says grew a garden of resistant plants—ones that could survive the blight ravaging their crops. But to find it, Juniper will need the help of Eli, an engineer who specializes in old world technology. Together they traverse ruins and follow a trail of flower language from village to village to unearth what led to the dark age of information. But Juniper starts to question her identity when they uncover that the woman she modeled herself after was not the hero she believed.

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Retelling the Korean Shim Cheong folktale my halmeoni told me as a child. ❤️‍🩹Never been cared for FMC 🐉Ancient dragon king ❤️Love in domesticity 🥢Food as comfort 👵🏻Grumpy halmeoni 🐟Mudskipper best friend 🏠Found family 🌕Cosmic (dis)order 🇰🇷Joseon era Korea #WIP: 12.6k words #WIPPit #A #F #R

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Marine blue background with water overlay. Bottom has transparent coral and seaweed. Top right corner has line art in blue of a sea turtle.

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Sinking Heart
Romantic fantasy
Korean folktale retelling
By Frankie Joy

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Marine blue background with water overlay. Bottom has transparent coral and seaweed. Transparent light green box cuts across the center.

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Pitch

Shim Cheong sold herself to the sea to save her father. She didn't expect to wake in a palace beneath the waves, kept alive by a dragon king who defies the underworld to let her breathe. Nor to find a life worth wanting-or a god worth choosing.

Yongwang has ruled his waters for millennia. Countless souls have drowned. None ever drifted into his palm and swallowed the sea. Now he's determined to prove Cheong has the will to live, before defying cosmic order costs him everything he is.

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Marine blue background with water overlay. Bottom has transparent coral and seaweed. Transparent light green box cuts across the center. On the right is character art. A Korean woman and man. The woman is of fair complexion, her hair is braided and over her shoulder, she wears a light blue top. The man is of bronze tan complexion, his hair is loose and swept back, his blue shirt is open to mid-chest. He holds chopsticks with a lotus root. His hand cupped beneath.

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Characters

Shim Cheong
So painfully self-sacrificing, she is unphased by her death. Ruled by Joseon era propriety, she's never learned to want. Even her life. Must she be last in private, too.

Yongwang
Ancient dragon king who existed long before Confucian decorum. He's perpetually barefoot and without a topknot. He's determined to prove her will to live-and maybe win her heart, too.

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror (currently drafting) 🌲 💀 🐇 Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes. #WIPPit #W #H #A

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements (70k words) THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC Multiple full requests out ⌛Immortal MMC x Mortal FMC 🕯️19th century Gothic Romance 🛡️He protects her from himself 🖤Haunting slow burn 🔒Forced proximity 🌙New Orleans setting 🚪Dreadful family secrets #writerpit

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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

#QuestPit WILD REVERENCE X THE VAMPIRE LESTAT After a horrific car accident derails Price’s music career, an encounter with the Goddess of Sleep makes all his dreams come true. Little does he know his ascension into rock god status will pit him against Death himself. #Q #A #H #F

Moon with horoscope overlay in a purple and blue space background. The title LOWLIGHT is in the center of the moon with the subtitle “When the woman of your dreams becomes your worst nightmare” underneath followed by the pitch in the post. Below the pitch is “Adult horror fantasy,” “93,000,” and “Inspired by Sleep Token lore and the Orpheus myth.” Pictures of comparable titles follow and include the mythic redemption arc of Carissa Broadbent’s THE SONGBIRD & THE HEART OF STONE, immortal rockstar vibes of Anne Rice’s THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, and the goddess/mortal romance of Rebecca Ross’s WILD REVERENCE. To the left of these is the title, “What You’ll Find” and lists gothic and surreal atmosphere, plots twists, and dense mythos. A second title, “Themes On” follows and lists Self-love vs. Self-Sacrifice, power dynamics in relationships, and religion and deconstruction. To the far right of the slide is a QR code titled “Let’s Get Social.”

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Georgia Patterson is querying! @georgiapatterson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE MAD WIFE x DON’T WORRY DARLING with a southern gothic twist What if your sleep paralysis demon is more grounded in reality than you ever thought before? (P.S. this is my first ever Bluesky post!) #questpit #A #T #amquerying #PsychologicalThriller @questpit.bsky.social

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PWJames (Writer) @pwjamesauthor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

When teenager Caspian unleashes a rogue AI, he and ragtag friends are dragged into a lethal game of riddles. 💻 90/00's Video Game Culture & Vibes 👻 Small-Town Horror 🎮 Not LitRPG. The Game Plays You! 🟣 Evil Gaming Company STRANGER THINGS x READY PLAYER ONE #YA #H #Q #AgentGuide #QuestPit

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Kelly Schluterman @kms45.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

OF SOUL AND SPIRIT #questpit #Q #PR #DR 98,000 words Paranormal Fiction When a con artist discovers she can truly summon the dead and a jazz pianist is force into the criminal underworld, their fates intertwine in a high-stakes battle for love, redemption, and survival. Set in 1920s New Orleans

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Ann Thorrson @annwritesbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A snippet of Black Spire White Bone for #QuestPit! #Q #DR #F 🏰 Labyrinth x Alchemised 🐍 a twisty plot 🧚 dark fairy tale retelling 🥀 enemies who yearn 🍎 a magic poisoned gothic world 👑 a king of monsters

A red moodboard of fantasy images with text that reads 'His clothes were a mix of dark armour and velvet. Every hard surface was studded with faceted gemstones. He shone as great and repulsive as a pool of blood. a thin crown of obsidian sat around his head. Those same scarlet gems floated above it, bobbing in inky whispers of magic. I felt it licking at my skin, that terrible, terrible power.'

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Alexis ✍🏾 @authoredbyalexis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My new editors guide for SWALLOWED SINS #questpit For people who are hungry for: -an insatiable appetite for love 🖤 -dark romance 🥀 -obsessive protagonist 👀 - traumatic therapy sessions 📝 #OS #DR #A #LF #U #AG

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Amanda Lien is querying! 🌈🩸🗡️ @alienwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE x THIS GILDED ABYSS x SILKSONG A woman wakes from a decade-long cursed sleep to find a dying kingdom, one surviving swordswoman, and the unbearable possibility that her own people left her there on purpose. #QuestPit #A #F #W #AgentsGuide

An agent's guide cover slide for Child of Silk and Shield, a 90,000-word adult fantasy with horror elements querying June 2026. Black background with bold orange distressed typography on the left and three diagonal image strips on the right showing close-ups of two women's faces and a ghostly silk-wrapped figure.

Pitch slide for Child of Silk and Shield. Orange italic tagline reads: Survive the madness. Preserve the kingdom. Salvage your savior's sanity. Three paragraphs of white pitch copy describe protagonist Lora awakening from a decade-long cursed sleep in a dying kingdom, making a vow with a maddened swordswoman named Yaira, and confronting the possibility her own people are responsible for the destruction. Three diagonal atmospheric strips on the right show a ruined castle, a crumbling stone mask, and a spiral stone staircase descending into darkness.

Comps slide with a dark textured silk background. Large orange distressed header reads FOR FANS OF. Three comp images are displayed side by side: The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard, captioned WLW main pairing, forced partnership that evolves into romance; Hollow Knight: Silksong, captioned haunted world, sword-and-shield battles, learning about the world as the protagonist does; and This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne, captioned haunting and possession as suspense and danger mechanisms.

Excerpt slide for Child of Silk and Shield. Large orange distressed header reads EXCERPT. White and orange body text presents a passage from Chapter One in which Lora, newly awakened, assesses the armed and grinning swordswoman crouching over her and concludes that madness can sustain someone in a way no training can match. Three diagonal image strips on the right show a close-up of a woman's silver eyes, a swirl of white silk threads, and a second woman's face partially obscured by windswept hair.

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Anindo Zelle @anindozelle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

ADULT COBAB x EAST AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY A young chieftain must choose between her duty to her homeland, and a very inconvenient desire for her husband (and his fearsome inner beast), all while fighting a futile battle against fate. ~120K #QuestPit #Q #A #F

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

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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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Thank you so much for all the reposts, comments, and likes. 🥲 This is for the late crowd. #questpit #Q #A #DR #H #HR

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nicwalwrites.bsky.social @nicwalwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ECHOES OF REPOSE. A self-sabotaging true-crime podcaster drives through a one-way tunnel into a remote BC town, home to an abandoned TB sanatorium with a sinister history. There she must face the ghosts she carries, and those that stalk her, to escape before one of them kills her. #Questpit #Q #T #S

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Rebecca VanderVorste @rebeccamunderwood.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Two historians compete to be the first to publish a breakthrough discovery about civilizational collapse. The twist? One is studying the life of the other, hundreds of years in the future. And the civilization that collapsed? It’s ours. #questpit #W #A #S

3 stories, separated across time and space. Ancient Rome. Modern academia. Future studies of what remains from Ancient Earth.

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Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X FRANKENSTEIN Odessa Righteous is faithful to the Nine, rooted in the only community she's ever known. But when they choose her as the annual sacrifice to The Beast of the Beyond, her world shifts on its axis. #QuestPit #AG #A #W #RF

nine pictures in a grid. A dark cloaked figure in a forest, a candle, a church, a golden mask, an image with the text: A SACRIFICE, A BEAST, A FORBIDDEN LOVE. Golden bokeh lights, a stone stairway, a gold-toned rose, and a red-cloaked woman sitting in a sanctuary.

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