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

#questpit #A #Q #F DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy 105,000 words After a restless hibernation spent cursing the darkness, the darkness in others is now hers to wield. Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth

teeth, fantasy dress, mushrooms, night walk, dark forest, dagger, bear

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AJS ✨ Querying @authorajs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

✨ THE CRAFT x ONE DARK WINDOW ✨ When Lola’s deadly shadows escape, killing her best friend, she must seek control at an elite magical academy before they kill again—or lose her humanity. Perfect for agents who like: 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic BIPOC witches 🖤 Body horror 💫 Fantasy/Horror/Mystery #QuestPit #Q #A #F

An image of a school with multiple towers, in black on a grey sky, with multiple crescent moons hanging above. The text reads ‘an agents guide to The Bells of Le Fay, adult dark academia fantasy, 102k words.

A silhouette of a woman reaching up to the sky with a bright light between her hands. There is a shadowed tree next to her. The text reads: pitch, The price of magic is monstrous. Lola Knight expects to live a normal life, but when the deadly shadows beneath her skin escape, killing her best friend, she must attend Le Fay Academy for Higher Magics to seek control before they kill again. When she finds out the shadows are slowly turning her into a monster, she chases a cure through the ancient archives—but instead unearths a dangerous conspiracy, and must decide: keep digging to unmask the true monsters, or accept her fate and risk her humanity.

An open spell book surrounded by candles and a mirror. There are three book covers; for One Dark Window, Book of Night, and The Incandescent. The text reads: tropes and comps, witchy dark academia, monstrous magic, sapphic romance, ancient archives, body horror, unhelpful ghosts.

The silhouette of a woman with a huge dark shadow looming over her. The text reads: first lines. The shadows had teeth, and they hungered for blood. They shouldn’t exist here, amongst the weathered sandstone of Durham University. They shouldn’t exist at all, outside the confines of Lola’s mind. But the terrible scratching of claws against flagstone wasn’t a figment of her imagination, as she had first thought, strolling arm-in-arm with Sam on their way home from an end-of-exams party. She didn’t notice them straight away, her gaze sliding over the shadows cast by the faculty buildings. She didn’t notice them until they peeled away from the walls, their darkness thicker and more absolute than the others. Even then she pulled her gaze away, dismissing it. Inebriation hung over her like a thin veil, turning the glow of street lamps into a kaleidoscopic sky.

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Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH X THE ADDAMS FAMILY Wicked sorceress Cora must ruin someone’s life before her eighteenth birthday or lose her magic forever, a task made tricky when she falls for her chosen victim. #questpit #YA #PR #Q

A book cover featuring a pretty, young Black woman with coily hair. Pink text for the title and white text for the tagline and my name.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

A small four image moodboard on an orange background.

The first image is two men in suits, one in black and one in white, holding hands. The next image, a hand holding a red apple with a snake curling around it. The next image, a man in a business suit looking at his shadow, which has horns and a tail. The final image, a zoomed in image of someone holding their hands behind their back with their fingers crossed to indicate they are lying.

In large yellow print are the words "Hell Is Work" below that the words "Virgil Mora burns in hell. It's a pretty good job."

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Angie is ✨querying✨ @angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

To escape her cursed town, Tayah must rewrite fate with a cursed carpenter and her sentient house or else become Ravensford’s next forgotten name 🏠Encanto + Crimson Peak vibes ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn Forbidden Romance 🏛️F*ck the Patriarchy 📜Religious Trauma #AgentsGuide #Q #FR #QuestPit

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Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Mulan x Avatar: The Last Airbender x Fourth Wing A woman rejected by the gods steals her brother’s place in war and manifests forbidden divine power while falling for her lethal commanding officer. SONG OF THE SICKLE Adult romantasy, 118k words #Questpit #Q #A #RF

An Agent's Guide to Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 118k words, First in a planned series. Background picture of wheat field. Big picture of amber ring and smaller picture of incense burning.

The Pitch, with small pictures of a military training camp and an old watchtower covered in moss. What if Mulan had magic, and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods?

Comp titles include The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem for hidden identity and forbidden magic, Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer for training ground romance, and The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig for weaponized faith system.

the opening lines of the book, beside a picture of a sickle with wheat. Tomorrow the gods would judge me. Tonight, I pretended they didn't exist. I swung the scythe, blade slicing through wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts at bay.

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

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

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

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

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
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And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

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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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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🩸ETERNALLY DEAD🩸 🧛‍♂️Fang Fiction X Almost Famous 🎸When an injured guitarist is taken to the Vampire Realm by the bassist in a vampire rock band, she's given the chance to heal & fulfill her rockstar dreams--if she performs for monsters. And blood is running out in the Realm. #questpit #Q #A #F #PR #RF

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 107k 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.

Background features black and white photo of audience at concert. Title in red at top that reads THE PITCH. White text below reads: After a concert photographer is whisked away to the mysterious vampire realm by the bassist if an all-vampire rock band, she must choose between living out her once-forgone rock star dreams or her own survival. A red splash of blood is also seen in bottom right corner

Red and black background with a bright red title that reads THE COMPS. Below are four book covers and one movie poster that include brief descriptions beside them. The first is Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London and it's described as an urban fantasy in a vampire setting. Next is Bride by Ali Hazelwood, described as having a steamy romance and political intrigue. Next is The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, described as having a human fighting to survive in a vampire world. Next is a movie poster for Almost Famous, described as music journalist + rock band = forced proximity. Last is the cover of Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, described as having a rock band with secrets and love triangles. The tropes and vibes section includes the following text: grounded fantasy, found family, diverse characters, plot twists, chronic illness rep, slow burn yearning, and twist on fated mates.

Slide features title in red that reads THE VIBES. A collage of photos features several scary looking men with fangs and blood on their mouths, a cool-looking black woman smoking, the mouth if a white woman with fangs and blood on her mouth, a blonde person smashing a white guitar, a man in a mask playing guitar, the hands of an audience member at a concert, a collection of books, a record collections, mixtapes, a woman walking in a city with an umbrella, and two hands grasping at one another in a sexual way

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When his elf supremacist cousin threatens war, Letyf must confront his traumatic past on a world-saving quest—but he's far from a hero. To make matters worse, he's up against Lia, a world-hopping demon with a reputation to uphold and plenty of lives under her belt. #Q #A #F #Questpit #AgentsGuide

"An Agent's Guide to Distant Realm, Adult High Fantasy, Dual POV, 136,000 words." A collage of images set against a backdrop of a misty forest. The central images feature a worried blond man, looking away from the camera, a serious woman with dark hair looking into the camera, and a realistic engraved set of armor. The top image features armored soldiers attacking a large city. To the left, are two text clips, bookending a drawing of travelers in a sunny forest. The top text clip says: "Letyf realized all at once that he'd never seen anyone die before. A thousand thoughts raced in his mind, but they were like arguing in another room, muffled through walls." The bottom text clip says" "And what if your paths cross again?" "Well, if possible, and if my master commands, I'll kill him."" Below the images is a tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

An idyllic forest in summer, with parchment over top, reading: "THE PITCH: Letyf Duilles has no place on a world-saving quest.

Roksa Morthir took everything from Letyf—his sight, his magic, and his future. Now, Letyf must defy his father, his people, and his endless self-doubt to stop Roksa’s war.

To Letyf, Crelan is home.
To Lia, it’s just one more, backwoods fantasy world.

A world-hopping demon, Lia has served heroes and villains hundreds of times before. If Roksa wants her to conquer his home-world, she’ll just have to do it with gritted teeth and minimal complaints about the plumbing. After all, she’s bound to obey—and why would a world like this be worth saving?"

THE COMPS:
Five Book Covers: The Magicians, Nine Goblins, The Goblin Emperor, The Bright Sword, and Brigands and Breadknives.
Text coming off of these books: "I can't Believe it's not Narnia"; "Magical Multiverse"; "Anxious MC"; "Naive, Fish out of water MC"; "No Romance, Deep Friendships instead"; "Classic Fantasy World Reimagined"; "MetaFantasy"; "Action Packed and Bloody"; "Knights and Warriors"; "Lots of Walking"; "ttRPG Player Approved"

Image of A sword, with accompanying text:

FIRST LINES: We landed in my master's home-world with enough force to buckle my knees. As I yanked the heels of my pumps out of the super-heated soil, my master turned to gaze around at the brilliant green hills of his land.
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Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch.
The bird cocked its head, beady eyes darting around, but they passed right over Letyf, crouched as he was in the brush. He adjusted his aim, accounting for the faint breeze.
He exhaled, gave the string a touch more pressure, then released.
The arrow arced away—and missed the fat gamebird by a clear foot.

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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Dual POVs 🎲 Second Chance Romance 🃏 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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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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

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

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

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

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

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

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

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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 #Q #W #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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liz difranco @lizdifranco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An agent's guide to INSPIRED BY YOU. Perfect for agents looking for: ❤️A NEW TWIST ON A ROMCOM 🧬A VERY LITERAL GENRE BLEND ❤️‍🩹THE HEALING ART OF STORYTELLING ⚔️ACCESSIBLE FANTASY 💌EPISTOLARY ELEMENTS #questpit #w #a #r #f

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I, MEDUSA x WEYWARD Feminist reclamation of the Salem Witch Trials 🖤 Three witches 🖤 Generational curses 🖤 Afro-Caribbean Magic 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere 🖤 Forgotten historical figure (Tituba) #A #HF #questpit #Q

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EvelynHail, PhD @evelynhail.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

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 self-made fantasy illustration showing a halfway transformed, dark-haired man, Prince Konstantin Veliki, with a silver crown and dragon wings. He is carrying a woman, a humble servant Iva, masquerading as a Duchess Zora, in a long, flowing cream-colored gown as they fly through the air. She is his guest but unbeknownst to him, she is plotting to poison him. In the background, a sprawling forest surrounds a magic academy, Kolegium with colorful, traditional Slavic-style onion domes—gold, silver, bronze and green. Each of the domes represents air, water, fire and earth magic respectively. Snippet text at the bottom reads: "Do you always sequester your guests and take flight with them?"

A self-made illustration set in the catacombs under the magic academy, Kolegium, featuring classical-style statues on the walls. Iva, in dark armor, rides a bright, light blue-scaled dragon; it is Prince Konstantin Veliki in his dragon form.
They face off against a monstrous, ethereal shadow dragon composed of wispy, black smoke and glowing eyes — this is Konstantin’s fallen father Tibor Veliki. A brilliant golden sphere of light, relic of the Slavic god of light, Belobog, called Spark of Creation, floats on a pedestal between them. Text at the bottom of the snippet reads: "Let us dance, little one," the Shadow Dragon hisses in a dry whisper of the fallen. "A worthy foe," Konstantin responds. We take to the air to meet the darkness. Two gargantuan winged silhouettes hover in the abyss, suspended in a precarious balance. They mirror one another; two sides of the same coin, champions of Belobog and Chernobog.

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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their resentment for each other. Welcome to SIX MINUTES 🏒⛸️❤️‍🔥 #QuestPit #R #A #Q

An Agents Guide To SIX MINUTES (photo of figure skater and hockey puck).

The Pitch: When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their resentment for each other.

The Comp Titles: Revolve, The Favorites, and Off Campus (2026). Tropes include: Dual POV, deal trope, rivals-to-lovers, found family, forced proximity, and “take off that jersey.”

The Blurb: Parker Knight and Barret Keats share two things—their love for the ice and an injury that’s jeopardized both of their futures. Determined to compete in her senior year before leaving her grueling coach and hometown forever, Parker strikes up a deal that could make or break both their careers: he helps her get back on the ice, and she pulls strings to give him one last shot at the NHL. Consumed by the idea of making it pro, Barret finds himself not only fixated on HOCKEY, but the girl that holds his future in her hands. As the season begins, Parker must decide if her passion for the ice, and her feelings for Barret, outweighs her need to leave it all behind.

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

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC MEXICAN GOTHIC x STARLING HOUSE Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements. 🕯️An orphan seeking security ⌛An immortal man bound by a curse 📰A marriage notice that is a trap Nellie must choose: her heart or her survival #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #H #DR

A dark teal and black patterned card for THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC. The background has vintage deep shades of pink and purple roses on the top of the frame. Centered is a small hourglass made with bones and a skull symbolizing the immortal + horror elements of the story. There is a note on there that the story is 70,000 words and a Dark Southern Gothic with Horror Elements.

A pitch slide with a deep teal background and black magnolia patterns. A skull with purple and pink roses and more deep pink and purple roses act as decorations. The pitch reads: "The Unyielding Monsieur de Blanc follows Nellie Moore in 1872, lured to a New Orleans estate by a marriage notice promising security. There, she encounters a man as captivating as he is complex, a man bound by a curse that has kept him alive for over a century.
As an impossible attraction sparks, Nellie’s search for the truth reveals that some secrets are meant to stay buried, and some doors, once opened, can never be closed again."

Two book covers adorn the card with deep teal and black magnolia patterns, pink and purple roses framing the bottom.
MEXICAN GOTHIC - The atmostpheric dread and family legacy.
STARLING HOUSE - A cursed, burdened hero

Teal and black magnolia patterns in the background along with a pink and purple rose decoration in the top right corner. Other images include, a candlestick with a burning flame, a pocket watch, a burned newspaper with a woman dressed in 19th century attire. The card includes a snippet of the book as below:

Nellie cleared her throat, and he turned slowly. His broad shoulders squared as he measured her with gray, unflinching eyes.

“I do not care for shadows in my doorway. Step forward.”

Nellie could not speak for a moment. Such a man naturally commanded her. He seemed powerful, severe, and entirely too confident. “I—I beg your pardon, sir,” she stuttered, her voice small in the vast room. “I am Nellie Moore.”

A brief unreadable softness touched his features before he stiffened, his expression once again a mask of stone. “I am Monsieur de Blanc, or Mr. De Blanc, as you Americans prefer.”

His thick French accent was like bourbon; it was smooth, but with a burn that unsettled her. Nellie stared, stunned. This was him, the man she was to marry. She had expected someone older, not this gentleman in his late twenties with a face so...strikingly symmetrical.

“Do find your breath, Mademoiselle. I have enough to manage today without adding a fainting spell to the afternoon’s agenda. I’ve never had much patience for delicate women.”

The insult was a splash of frigid water, bringing her back to herself. The orphan inside of her who spent her days scrubbing floors and managing unruly children suddenly bubbled to the surface. She adjusted the lace on her shoulders and met his gaze with a leveled stare that mirrored his own coldness.

“You needn’t worry, sir,” she said, her voice surprisingly crisp. “I am merely trying to reconcile the man in front of me with the one I was promised in the letters.”

A flicker of mild interest passed over his face. “Is that so?” he murmured, arms folded tightly. “Fortune favors you, then. I am not the man from your letters.”

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Introducing my revamped #agentsguide for THE ESSENCE THEY STOLE, my YA romantasy featuring a BIPOC x BIPOC romance between a seamstress and a knight in a royal courting competition for prestigious teens. Agents, 💗 this pitch for a query/sub! #QuestPit #YA #RF #WIP

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Maddie Block @maddieblock.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CRYING IN H MART x I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE I'M CRYING 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Complex family dynamics 🇰🇷 Korean adoptees 🥬 Kimchi recipes ✈️ Travel writing 📖 History of US/Korea relations 🇺🇸 Mixed Korean/American identity 🧪 DNA test surprises WHERE THE TIGERS DIED: coming this summer to agent inboxes! #W #NF #M #QuestPit

A mood board with photos of a woman in a hanbok, Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, braised tofu, and Korean flags

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erin is querying @hunne-writes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An #agentsguide to BETWEEN INFINITE VEILS - the adult cyberpunk I #amquerying. SILVER ELITE x MINDWALKER x THE OA featuring: ☁️ Dream portals 🌃 Neon skylines 👾 Treacherous tech 💕 Found family 🗡️ Meet-ugly 💀 Death incarnate 👀 “I will always find you” x2 #questpit #A #Q #SFF #SF

The background is a dark hallway lined with purple neon lights. Bold white text reads: "An agent's guide to Between Infinite Veils. An adult cyberpunk novel by Erin Hunnewell"

THE PITCH. Covers of comps that inspired BIV: Silver Elite by Dani Francis, Mindwalker by Kate Dylan, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, The OA, Blade Runner 2049. The text beneath reads: “In a cyberpunk world that ostracizes those who dream, Rex witnesses someone's death whenever she sleeps. After she's taken by a rogue scientist and unlocks her true power, she must choose between aiding the warring kingdoms of another reality or finally getting revenge.”

THE EXCERPT. A sample from the first chapter of BIV.

THE TROPES. Character art in the center with Rex in the middle of two worlds with Oryn in a blue cityscape and Davi before a red fantasy city. Surrounded by tropes in white text (from left to right): bi disaster MC, dual POV, neon skylines, found family, meet ugly, childhood friends to (almost) lovers, death incarnate, dream portals.

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

WEYWARD X AHS: COVEN Feminist reclamation of the Salem Witch Trials 1692 - Tituba is the first witch accused. Seeking freedom & revenge she makes a deal with a demon that will curse her bloodline. 1992 - Carmen & Willa must reclaim Tituba’s magic or watch Salem burn again. #A #HF #questpit

Collage of witchy images. Spellbooks, ritual around fire, herbs, salem witch museum.

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

JASAD HEIR x SHADOW & BONE They killed her people & stole her magic. Powerless & dying she must steal 12 divine amulets.The catch? A relentless prince who wants her dead. #DVPit #Ya #F #WOC ❤️‍🔥Slow burn ⌛Race Against Time 💧Water magic FMC 🪨 Earth magic MMC ⚔️ He saves the world, she destroys it

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What if Azula was a waterbender and Alina chose the Darkling — in a world where a dying, powerless girl must embrace her dark side to survive. Her goal? Steal 12 divine amulets while being hunted by a heroic prince. #DvPit #Ya #F #WOC 🔮Zodiac based world 🌀Elemental magic 💫Star Crossed Enemies

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

THE JASAD HEIR x SHADOW & BONE - a dying villainess, a divine heist & a prince set on capturing her. Her quest to save herself may just end the world #DVPit #Ya #F #WOC ⌛Race Against Time 🤫Secret Identity ❤️‍🔥Slow burn 🌀Elemental magic 💫Star Crossed Enemies

Collage of images, water bending, flowing shadows, dagger, skull, scorpio constellation. And three quotes saying, villain, not evil just broken, we were told that the villains are villains because they’ve done bad things but no one ever asked why. rock floating, constellations, virgo constellation, crown, council room, text saying heavy is the head that wears the crown, text saying the hero pays the price

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

If Azula was a waterbender and Alina chose the Darkling — in a world where a dying, powerless girl must embrace her dark side to survive. Her goal? Steal 12 divine amulets while being hunted by a heroic prince. #DvPit #Ya #F #WOC 🔮Zodiac based world 🌀Elemental magic 💫Star Crossed Enemies

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Jasad Heir meets Shadow and Bone - a dying villainess, a divine heist & a prince set on capturing her. Her quest to save herself may just end the world #DVPit #Ya #F #WOC ⌛Race Against Time 🤫Secret Identity ❤️‍🔥Slow burn The rebellious fire of The Jasad Heir x the moral complexity of Shadow & Bone

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Feeling like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, then BOOM 5 agent likes for my @pitblk.bsky.social pitch 😭 #queryingishard

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Morgana Bourggraff, Writer @morganabourggraff.com · 06/08/2025

In the chaos of the Reformation, an ex-nun follows a doomsday prophet into a city of fervour, where faith becomes fanaticism, the sacred turns carnal, & a woman’s descent into religious ecstasy crowns her in complicity with the very abuse she once sought to end. #questpit #ag #lf

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a.j. parker ✨ is writing ✨ @authorajparker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A princess who wants to fight. A prince who loves a boy. Death threats and a dark omen follow the Blaivetramis twins as they fight to forge their own paths, threatened by a curse from the gods, inescapable family charades, and political malefactors. #questpit #wip #YA #F #RF

images: blue dress, gold crown, sunlit castle, silver sword, golden ballroom, candles on a dining table, marble statues embracing, man in royal regalia.
text: "you want battle? i'll give you war"

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Joy is ✨querying✨ @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THIS RAVENOUS FATE x MEN IN BLACK The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls—and one wants Elle’s heart for her own. 🫀Deep Southern cryptids 🫀sapphic pining 🫀coming of rage 🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability #questpit #W #YA #H #R

Moodboard from left to right: swampy road, a person in a flannel, an orange moon, a sign that reads: don’t go into the woods, a house sinking into a river, an ac unit in a window, a blue truck in a field at night, two girls kissing, a religious sign reads: are you going to heaven?

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K.L. Johnson | Author @kljohnsonwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Burnt out Marcy’s 21st b-day gets worse when she’s chased by the Headless Horseman through NYC, then finds her father has been kidnapped by the Fairy King. To save him before Midsummer, she must team up Alec and the Fae Guardians, but the truth may force her to save herself. #questpit #f #sff #rf #w

Burnt out Marcy is having a terrible 21st Birthday.
First, she’s chased through New York City by the headless horseman.
Then, her boyfriend reveals he is a vampire.
Finally, she finds out her father has disappeared — kidnapped by the Fairy King.
In order to save her father, she must join forces with Alec, an Otherworld Guardian and descendant of the Tuatha Dé Danann. But Alec has his own thirst for revenge against the Fairy King and may be helping her — or using her.
The deeper Marcy falls into Otherworld, the more she uncovers about her family secrets and her own hidden past.
As she confronts the Fairy King she must make a devastating choice….save her father or save herself.

Comps for the Fairy King - Fate a Winx Saga: Chosen One (Subverted), Found Family, Diverse Ensemble Cast of Fae Warriors
Legendborn: Parental Grief, Secret Society, Slow Burn, Urban Fantasy
Ten Thousand Doors of January: Lyrical Prose, Portal Fantasy

Moodboard: A portal, two girls carrying a fairy house, a young woman on a fire escape, a fairy king on a throne, young man with black hair and a leather jacket, the headless horseman, a path in a forest, a woman with light coming out of her fingers, a black mermaid surfacing eom the water, a black raven, a Maine coastline

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Nic Webb @bynicwebb.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

songs that feel just like WITCHES DON'T BURN 🔥Adult fantasy 🔥Multi-POV 🔥Subplot of a slow burn romance 🔥Complex family + female friendship dynamics 🔥Chosen family 🔥Dismantling corrupt organized systems 🔥Female rage Completed at 82k words #questpit #q #f #a

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Pierre Sylvestre @psylvestre.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THE HUNGER GAMES X THE FIFTH WAVE After a missile explodes near San Francisco, ending a half century of global peace, 16-year-old Zuriah Laguerre and her 7-year-old twin siblings begin a dangerous journey to safety and discover an enemy not of this world. #Questpit #Q #YA #SF #S

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christianodell.bsky.social @christianodell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Excited to present my #agentsguide for PUT IT IN REVERSE, LOTUS! an adult contemporary rom-com ft: 👥Dual POV 💰Love at First Heist 🥵Thirst Responder 🚘When fate says: No Brakes 🏡 Kin and Tonic Family 🫣 “When he tries to stand on business but ends up on his knees…” #questpit #Q #A #R #amquerying

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Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Lies, secrets, betrayal... what more could you want in a contemporary romance? ✈️ She's afraid to fly ❤️‍🩹 He's afraid to fall. 👫 Together, they face their fears when they discover hitmen for hire disguised as an airline. 📌agent guide pinned #questpit #w #r #a

clockwise from top left: man and woman embracing, woman writing in notebook, open road through somewhere in the southwest US, hospital room, man and woman holding each other, man's hand holding camera, NYC skyline, airplane outside hangar
center text: The most difficult people are often the best ones once you get to know them.

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🦋Jonathan Pierson🦋 @jonathanpierson.com · 06/08/2025

Putting this out for #questpit once more! #F #NA #Q

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Mood Boards for A VILLAIN RISES Villain FMC: 🗡️Mommy issues 🗡️Only child syndrome 🗡️Women’s wrongs Hero MMC: 🗡️Daddy issues 🗡️Eldest child anxiety 🗡️Men on their knees #questpit #Q #YA #F

Collage of images, zodiac wheel, solar system planets in a straight line, scorpio constellation, virgo constellation, text saying the villain and text saying the hero

Collage of images, rock floating, constellations, virgo constellation, crown, council room, text saying heavy is the head that wears the crown, text saying the hero pays the price

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Justine Lombardi @jlombardi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Emotion Puddles and Thought Threads In a city ruled by dark magic, a street kid and a male prostitute work together to escape a siren serial killer. Gangs of London X A Discovery of Witches #QuestPit #W #F #H #A

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A sensible summer student begins a passionate, no-strings fling with her single-dad host in laid-back, leafy post-Cold War Berlin. But when love intrudes and summer ends, they face an impossible choice: give up career and duty… or each other. #Questpit #Q #A #R #RF

Moodboard. Center photo: A man and woman embracing (design by Freepik, freepik.com), overlaid with the word "romance". Surrounding it are 8 squares, arranged clockwise: 1. The word "heartfelt" on a grey background; 2. A street sign reading "Pariser Platz“ in front of the Brandenburg Gate (photo by Dietmar Rabich, 2013-11-23, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed); 3. The word "spicy" on a black background; 4. Wannsee beach (photo by Asif Masimov, 2018-04-22, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en); 5. The word "destination" on a white background; 6. A DJ playing at the Tresor nightclub (photo by Angie Linder, 2015-08-20, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en); 7. The word "retro" on a black background; 8. A young boy sitting cross-legged and looking up (photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash)

Moodboard. Background image: Berlin Victory Column (photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash). Includes: Before Sunrise movie poster; Every Summer After (Carley Fortune) book cover; Heartless (Elsie Silver) book cover; Kilt Trip (Alexandra Kiley) book cover. Keywords: slow burn; friends to lovers; heartfelt; multicultural; '90s retro; spicy chemistry; single dad; forced proximity; destination romance

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Ivy Lin | Querying Author @ivy-lin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

With her aging grandma visiting from China—maybe for the last time—16yo Lena Mei enlists an autistic polyglot for help learning Mandarin so she can speak to her. As their bond deepens, she overcomes speech problems and questions whether she is autistic too. #YA #R #QuestPit #W

Quote from The Love In Your Words:
“If this year has taught me anything besides how deeply one can feel heartache and pain, it’s that time spent nurturing love can heal sorrow.”
Top row, left to right: the Liverpool Chinatown arch, floating red Chinese lanterns, the Royal Liver Building lit up in red in front of the night sky
Middle row, left to right: The Royal Albert Dock, the quote from The Love In Your Words, cranes on a shipping dock lit up at night
Bottom row, left to right: candles and flowers on gravestones at night, a couple standing underneath an umbrella on a rainy night, fairy lights shaped like stars and moons hanging from trees

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raimy.writes @raimyreads.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Introducing my YA dystopian fantasy featuring: 🌑 shadow-wielding magic 👥 found family 🏙️ a Nigerian-inspired parallel world 🩸 dangerous Soulless Ones ⚔️ survival, betrayal, and epic battles 🌅 a fight for humanity’s last hope 💘 slow burn *Querying soon* #questpit #W #YA #F

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind #QuestPit #AG #YA

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H.S. Chaman @hschaman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THE POPPY WAR x WITCH KING Grieving heir Fadilah Mahdi wants nothing more than to mourn. But when her father's will sends her to war, she suspects foul play. Torn between filial duty and truth, Fadilah must ask: what does it mean to serve an empire whose currency is blood? #questpit #W #A #DF #MY

Series of images in a collage over a black background (from top row, left to right): lightning strike, brown woman wearing bangles while touching a pond with lily pads; (middle row, left to right) silver leaves, blue Himalayan poppy, brown woman wearing blue and gold traditional clothing, black spider lily (i think), image of excerpt reading "You want battle? I'll give you war."; (bottom row, left to right) black calla lilies, funeral pyre at night, South Asian architecture, abandoned battlefield
Text: Daughter of Sky and Sorrow, H.S. Chaman

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