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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally)

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Reediting my Young Adult Romantacy Novel - A SONG OF RESONANCE. Currently querying Adult Romance Novel - SOMETHING LIKE PERSUASION. My site! www.Scribble-Bubble.net

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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hopefully everyone is alright. Stuck in stand still traffic on the interstate. Semi truck flipped and is now covering both lanes. Only one ambulance passed to check things out. Hopefully that's a good sign that everyone is alright.
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Worried Kermit The Frog
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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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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT
Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."
THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.
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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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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 gradientPitch 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 FMCExcerpt 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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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q
An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School 
Indigenous Diaspora 
Can Your Fate be Changed? 

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain. 

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom. Reads like Hozier’s Yell 

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me 
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family 
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining? 
Character art of Agni and Fala 

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps. 
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy. 
“Impudent.” 
“Arrogant,” I bite back. 
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling. 
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now. 
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.
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J.J.W. Lovell (He/Him) @jjwlovell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEVERMOOR x TURNING RED x TREASURE PLANET Two tiny purple creatures told him he was a Druid. He didn’t believe them. He was wrong. 🐻 Shapeshifting 🐉 World Mythologies ⚔️ Found Family ✨ Portal Fantasy 🗝️ Hidden Heritage #Questpit #MG #F #Q
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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE SHADOWS (WIP in 3rd Draft) #W #F #A #QuestPit A middle-aged shopkeeper & retired magical con artist takes one last job to save store & family. She could end the corrupt power of the Skyborn mages. She could end up losing herself, her magic & all she holds dear. Talk about a midlife crisis.
Moodboard for The Shadows WIP. Upper left: Illustration of a crowded, cramped city alley. Upper mid: Four black-clad people with face masks in a warehouse. Upper right: Shadowed cobblestone alley with someone at the mouth sweeping. Mid left. Two memes. "A niche character trope I like is the person who is nice, a good person and acts well-adjusted, then they do something where it's like oh you're secretly a little bit insane actually. Middle: A shadowed portrait of a woman with sparks coming out of her hands. Mid right: A meme: Original poster: "80% exhaustion 10% sarcasm %20 don't care" Reply poster: "that's 110 percent". OP: "20% of me doesn't care." RP: "should've seen that coming." Bottom left: Warmly lit storefront doorway on a cobblestone street. Bottom mid: Painting of fancy buildings on islands floating well above the ground. Bottom right: Cramped thrift store with shopkeeper.The Shadows: The Pitch

The worst day of Ania’s life was when her beloved cousin Piren was dragged off to the floating towers of the Above to serve as a source to the Skyborn mages. The second worst day was when he was returned. Discarded. Drained of his magic and broken in spirit.

Ania left behind her rebellious past to support her cousin as he once 
supported her. In a city where any display of magic makes you a target 
of the Skyborn, keeping your head down and your magic a secret, taking care of your friends, your family and your neighborhood is the only safe way to survive. 

But now, everything she’s built over twenty years of safe, carefully
constructed life is falling apart. To recover what she’s lost, Ania takes on one last dangerous heist that strikes at the heart of the Skyborn’s power. She may end up losing herself. She may just bring the entire system crashing down.The Shadows: Comp Titles
MA Carrick: Mask of Mirrors. Con artist MC out to save her family (and maybe the world).
Shannon Chakraborty: Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. I'm retired. Really. Okay, fine, one last job.
Robert Jackson Bennett: Foundryside. Magical technology, a corrupt ruling class and problematic heists.
Fonda Lee: Last Contract of Isako. I'm too old for this shit but no one else can do it.“Except you can help me without bringing the bluejackets and their hunters down on my head!” Ania yelled, throwing her arms in the air. “All I’m asking you for is money. You’re asking me to risk my life! My family’s life!” She glared at him, grinding out her words through clenched teeth. “You want me to dust off magic I haven’t used in twenty years! How is that fair?” She spat the last word.
“It’s not fair!” Verasi spat back at her. “None of this is fair!” He flung a hand out. “Our people, our friends and family, our neighbors, are ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. They’re enslaved, ridden so hard they break. Maybe it takes a year. Maybe it takes five. Maybe it only takes a couple of months.” He continued in a harsh whisper. “We live in constant fear that it’ll be one of us. If not one of us, someone we know. Someone we love. Their propaganda machine is turning our own people against us. You know they’re not even testing people to see if they have any magical talent now? They’re just rounding people up at random and carting them off Above. None of them come home, not the same way they left.”
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Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 To join her dream esports team, Cam let everyone assume she's a guy. Now all she has to do is survive the captain, who's sure she's the weak link — without falling for him first. #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying
Last Pick by Ruchi Dave is an e-sports romance novel, complete at 75k words. 

Cameron Day has always felt like a loser—except in the video game League of Champions, where she dominates. So when an esports team mistakes her for a guy and recruits her, she doesn’t correct them.

But to Jacob—their ruthless (and distractingly hot) captain who’s already seen one ex-teammate implode under pressure—she’s a risk they can’t afford. If she cracks, they all go down with her.

The only way forward is to prove she’s not a liability, but the key to pulling them out of freefall.

Contact the author at **@ruchi-writes on x or @ruchi-writes.bsky.social**Moodboard for Last Pick. Professional esports gamer vibes. Snippet for Last Pick

“The others got over it much sooner than you did.”

“I didn’t want to complicate things.”

“Why would I complicate things?”

“You know why.” He tucked a stray hair behind my ear, and my skin felt electric where his fingers brushed against me. I leaned into him as his hand slid to the nape of my neck, tilting my head toward his.

“What happened to keeping things professional?”

“This is professional,” he murmured. “Kevin and I do this all the time.”Comps and Tropes

- **enemies-to-lovers**
- **woman in a male dominated field**
- **Chaos GOBLIN HEROINE**
- **forced proximity**
- **underdog story**
- **impostor syndrome**
- **good intentions, bad decisions**

She’s the Man - **WOMAN PRETENDING TO BE A MAN IN A MALE DOMINATED SPORT (E-Sports)**

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace - **team captain/mentor who is convinced she’s a liability**

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - **fake-it-till-you-make-it energy**
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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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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 24/07/2026
Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT
A Pickpocket's Guide to High Society
(And Higher Mathematics)

YA Fantasy 80K words
Catherine Winters dot com

Against a subtly textured background of mathematical formulae and a hexagonal summoning grid feature a collection of intriguing objects:

The outstretched hand of some mechanical clockwork automaton made of white porcelain.
A purple and gold masquerade mask.
A set of brass architect's tools: a compass, a protractor, calipers.
A set of gears laid out, pulled from some kind of mechanism.
The Pitch
When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had and catches the attention of people she doesn't want to know. Blackmailed into stealing a mysterious box, Nia accidentally awakens a living clockwork doll—that promptly runs away.

Accused of betraying the blackmailers, Nia and her band of would-be thieves go on the run, pursued by magehunters, street gangs, and the secret police.

When the doll returns to make a deal, Nia turns to the man whose lucky coin unlocked her magic, only to find him missing. Caught in a lie, Nia’s soon posing as an heiress, in the clutches of the man’s elderly landlady—who's intent on introducing the girl she knows as “Baarsin” to high society.

As Nia finds herself disappearing into the role, she and her friends must race against time to track down the people behind it all: a secret society of mathematicians whose influence reaches all the way to the governor herself.Excerpt
Caz tensed. “There’s someone following us,” she hissed.
“I know,” Nia said. The man had been tailing them through the crowd for almost six blocks now. “He won’t be the only one.” She tugged Caz into the empty foyer of a boarding house and pulled out her misdirection charm. “Take my hand and stay quiet!”
“That won’t work on me,” Caz protested.
“No,” Nia said, willing herself to believe. “I can do this.” With all her strength, she pushed more of herself into the charm, the equation unfolding in her mind’s eye. She reached out, and as the world darkened around them, turned the doorknob, Caz clutching her arm. Nia pulled the taller girl close as the man pushed past them, failing to notice the door was already opening.
On the busy sidewalk, Caz let out a breath. A small boy leaning against a nearby lamppost glanced in their direction, an uncertain expression on his young face.
Caz cringed. “Sorry!” she mouthed.Comps & Tropes
Includes the covers of four books:

Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olsen
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo's
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

"Tropes" is loosely used here and includes:
Stealing is magical (literally)
Fish out of water (you probably guessed)
Working for the wrong people
Ancient magic (in over their heads)
The MacGuffin is blackmailing us
"Aren't you a little young to be a criminal?"
Metaphorically dyslexic LI (she's also dyslexic)
Creepy clockwork doll that complains all the time
Good at magic, as long as she has a compass & protractor
Grifter vs. con artist
Sword lesbian (in training)
Lying (a lot)
Found family of scoundrels
Ace protagonist (who hasn't had time to think about that)
One big job and then we can retire (oh no, somehow everything went wrong)
Let's break into a data centre!
No chosen ones, no choosing ceremonies, just hard work and practice.
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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 AcademyTHE 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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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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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Editors Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to leave Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF
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 RhymerRomantic 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 are your pre-sets accounting for?" [...]Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a 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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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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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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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
☕️ 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 #LGBT #Dis #OV
Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media4/13/1996
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 Freys6/23/1996
“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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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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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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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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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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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Persuasion X Meet Me at the Lake -Adult Contemporary Romance -87K -Second Chance Romance 💕 -Chosen Family 🫰 -Body Positivity✌️ -Spicy 💋 Kylie is persuaded not to pursue the handsome stranger, but when fate brings them together again, can she find her happy ending? #questpit #Q www.scribble-bubble.net
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Scribble Bubble I'm Dee Therese and I created Scribble Bubble as a haven for readers and writers alike. Here, I showcase a collection of stories and snippets
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Cruel Prince x The Knight and the Moth -YA Romantasy -100K -Duology -Dual POV A SONG OF RESONANCE-Plagued by a figure appearing to her in visions, Kori Woods faces more mystery when she can't distinguish her visions from the real world. #questpit #W www.scribble-bubble.net
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Scribble Bubble I'm Dee Therese and I created Scribble Bubble as a haven for readers and writers alike. Here, I showcase a collection of stories and snippets
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I have officially started querying my contemporary romance novel that is a modern retelling of Persuasion by Jane Austin if it was mixed with Reddit posts. The first book I queried was too long to be considered as a debut, so I'm hopeful this one will do better. Wish me luck!
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
If anyone has ever wondered about my icon, there's a story behind it. One day my son and my niece were playing with my phone and found an art creator of some kind on it. This pic was the result. This was years ago, I think my son was 3 and my niece was 5. I still love it.
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
#WIPSnips for Feb. 4th, from A SONG OF RESONANCE, my #YA #Romantacy #Novel. MFC, Kori, meets the leader of her abductors, Asan. He is a mercenary paid to find her by the antagonists, Sekun and Ena. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #writers #writerslife #writesky
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
While editing my #Adultromance #novel, SOMETHING LIKE PERSUASION, I'm struck with the thought of: "Adverbs! Get your adverbs here!" #writerslife #editing #writing #WritingCommunity #romancenovel #writesky #writers #amwriting
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
#WIPSnips for January 31st, from A SONG OF RESONANCE, my #YA #Romantasy #Novel. MFC, Kori, runs into her old bully from middle school while lost in thought about her visions. She recalls the things they did to her. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writers #writerslife #writing #writesky
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 29th, from A SONG OF RESONANCE, my #YA #Romantacy #Novel. MMC, Hekai, and his brother, Steffen, are making their way through their mountain home, Zenhee. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writing #writesky
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Crazy Weather Happens: Me: Time to get some editing done on SOMETHING LIKE PERSUASION! I can be done by next week! Also Me: (Bing watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and Getting into Silent Films, The Eagle - 1925 is so far my favorite) #Silentfilms #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writing
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 27th, from A SONG OF RESONANCE, my #YA #Romantasy #Novel. MMC, Hekai, is confronting MFC's, Kori's, kidnappers who came back to kill him. #amwriting #writers #writing #WritingCommunity #writerslife
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 26th, from A SONG OF RESONANCE, my #YA #Romantacy #novel. MFC, Kori, just learned about the horrors of MMC, Hekai's, past as well as the crimes he committed in retribution. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writers #Writerslife #writesky
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The best product placement I have ever seen. Can't stop laughing! 😂🤣🤤 #humor
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 25, from A SONG OF RESONANCE, my #YA #Romantacy #Novel. MFC, Kori, is being called by mysterious music and finds a vortex pulling her in. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #writers #writing #writesky
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
#WIPSnips for Janurary 23, from A SONG OF RESONANCE, my #YA #Romantacy #Novel. MFC, Kori, is helping MMC, Hekai, with a wound on his back. She is admitting wanting to meet him when she use to see him in visions while in her world. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #Writing #writers #WritersCommunity
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
#WIPSnips for Janurary 20th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my #YA #Romantacy #Novel. MMC, Hekai, is attending a meeting with the Elders of his order to decide what happens to MFC, from another world. #writers #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife #writiing
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 21, from 'A Song of Resonance', my #YA #Romantacy #novel. MFC, Kori, just crossed into another world, but she doesn't know that yet and is looking for help. She runs into creatures called Mords who like to ravage and kill. #writing #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writers
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My rescue turtle, Giovanni, is very spunky today! You can see in these pictures some of the permanent damage on his shell from his previous owner not providing proper basking or light for him. He is also very small for his age. #turtles #rescue
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 18th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my #YA #Romantasy novel. MFC, Kori, is experiencing a vision on her way to the bus stop for her first day of high school. This is part of the first scene. #WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting #writerslife #querying #writesky
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 17th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my #YA #Portalfantasy #Romantacy novel. MFC, Kori, learned how to summon her power intentionally, but not how to control it. #WritingCommunity #writers #amwriting #writerslife #writing #WIP #querying
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 16th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my #YA #portalfantasy #Romantacy Novel. MFC, Kori, is realizing that her friendship with MMC, Hekai, is changed after he rescued her from kidnappers. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #writerslift #writers #writing #writesky
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
#WIPSnips for January 14th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my #YA Portal #Romantacy novel. After witnessing the death of a friend, MFC Kori transports herself to a place between worlds where she meets another like her. #writing #writers #writingcommunity #amwriting #querying #writerslife #writerslift
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I'm starting to wonder if there is something really wrong with my pitch. How many rejections did everyone else face before their book was picked up? I'd rather learn from this than get more rejections doing the same thing over again. Any advice? #writingcommunity #writers #writing #amwriting
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
@wipsnips.bsky.social For January 11th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my YA Portal Romantasy Novel. MFC, Kori, is fearful of leaping over a ravine. MMC, Hekai, pulls her onto his back to jump. #writingcommunity #WIPSnips #writers #writerslife #writerslift
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I'm feeling so embarrassed! When I sent out my queries to 8 agents, I realized I made a mistake in my query letter. The book I'm querying is the first in a trilogy with a companion Novella in the POV of the antagonist, however I said protagonist instead. 😱 #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
My best friend got me this for Christmas! I'm loving it! It says "I'm Booked Tonight". So warm! It has thumb holes also. 80% cotton, 20% polyester. I love the sunflower pattern in the hood. From a brand called "lazy one". #writingcommunity #amwriting #books #writers #writerslife #writerslift
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Heading into another round of Querying. Wish me luck! #writingcommunity #writers #writesky #amwriting #writersofbluesky #writierslife #writerslift #querying
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My #WIPSnips for January 9th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my YA Portal Romantasy Novel. MFC, Kori, was kidnapped by a mercenary, Asan, hired my the protagonist. Asan intends to kill the MMC, Hekai. Kori's powers surface. #writingcommunity #writerslife #writing #writers #writesky #amwriting
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
My #WIPSnips for January 8th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my YA Portal Romantasy. Ive been told my writing is very visual, so here is a scene that explores this. Figured it was good enough for today's prompt, though the word is absent. #writerslife #writerscommunity #amwriting #writers #writesky
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Dee Therese - is Querying (🏳️‍🌈 Ally) @dee-therese.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My #WIPSnips for January 7th, from 'A Song of Resonance', my YA Into Another World Romantacy Novel. MFC, Kori, has a vision about the MMC, Hekai, while at school. They happen randomly and she doesn't know why. #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #writers #writesky #writerslife
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