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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 6h

Enough already. Can we have an honest discussion about how AI detectors are racially biased and how the witch hunt over AI use is rooted in longstanding racist ideas about language and intelligence? #writercommunity

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 8h

Me in the trenches today: I will not nudge. I will not refresh. I will be chill. I am very very chill. 🧘🏻‍♀️ Currently waiting on: 5 fulls, 2 partials, and 46 queries. #amquerying #queryingauthors

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Querying one book while starting the next is a special kind of mental gymnastics. I keep cheating on my new WIP with my inbox. Writers, do you start the next book while you query, or wait? #amquerying #queryingauthors

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Public opinion poll: Is homework necessary practice or the theft of childhood? #education

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Querying lesson from chairing an academic conference: there aren't enough spots for all the exceptional work. #amquerying #queryingauthor

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When everything you write feels bad, don’t throw it all away. 1. Revisit your outline. Work through the stuck point with questions. 2. Revisit your last section, but DON’T revise or delete it. Leave notes for your future self instead. 3. Move forward. The only way out is through. #wrtingcommunity

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Currently seeking rep for ARTICULATE, my adult dark academia fantasy. When a scholarship student discovers that magic is a learned language and not a birthright, she must expose the academy that taught her otherwise, even if it means losing everything. #amquerying #currentlyquerying #fantasy

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages!!! #amquerying #queryingauthors

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ARTICULATE "They expected a safe proposal. A theoretical argument about pedagogy, proof that Alderhall's methods worked even on students with her... disadvantages. That was how Dunn had put it once. Despite your disadvantages, Miss Rose, you show remarkable progress." #dvpit #imm #woc #a #f

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Carolyn Victoria @carolynlikesbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Told through her diary, a neurodivergent clockmaker’s apprentice time travels back to 1830’s Edinburgh to find her mentor and gets tangled up in a secret society of time travelers set on remaking the future. #DVpit #YA

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@sophiamreads.bsky.social thank you so much for the like! I’d absolutely love for you to consider my query. I currently have an active query with another agent at New Leaf. Let me know the best way to proceed!

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Amanda Lien is querying! 🌈🩸🗡️ @alienwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE + THE STARVING SAINTS The kingdom is dead. Its last swordswoman is going mad – and Lora is the only thing that quiets her, but also the only person she wants to kill. Then Lora finds her mothers' confession: this was all their fault. #DVPit #A #F #H #LGBT

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Amanda Lien is querying! 🌈🩸🗡️ @alienwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THIS GILDED ABYSS + THE STARVING SAINTS Lora can quiet the madness consuming Yaira, the last swordswoman of a ruined kingdom. But the closer they get, the more Lora discovers her mothers caused the curse – and left her behind to die with it. #DVPit #A #F #H

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ARTICULATE|85k adult dark academia fantasy BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN = ARTICULATE 💫 Institutional betrayal 💫 Found family 💫 Forbidden magic 💫 Slow burn romance #dvpit #querying #a #f #woc #imm

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yay! Thank you for the ❤️. You actually already have my query! I hope you enjoy reading.

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When a scholarship student discovers that magic is a learned language and not a birthright, she must expose the academy that taught her otherwise, even if it means losing everything. ARTICULATE is an 85k adult dark academia fantasy. BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN #dvpit #a #f #asian #woc

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Uhoh oops! Thanks for letting me know. I’ll revise.

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Christine Witcher | Author @authorcwitcher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve had the privilege of reading this manuscript and it is phenomenal—propulsive, sharp, pognient. The agent that snags this up is going to be lucky to work with Dr. Sam!

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"They expected a safe proposal. A theoretical argument about pedagogy, proof that Alderhall's methods worked even on students with her... disadvantages. That was how Dunn had put it once. Despite your disadvantages, Miss Rose, you show remarkable progress." #dvpit #asian #woc #a #f

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thank you for the opportunity! I just sent my query. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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

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

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

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

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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E. F. Vale @efvale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A SONG TO CROWN HIM - Dark Romantasy A siren binds herself to the man destined to kill her 🥀 #questpit #F #Q #A #R

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

ARTICULATE playlist 🎶 🔥 Cynical — Conspiracy 🌾 Labour — Paris Paloma 🍽️ Eat Your Young — Hozier 👑 Empire Now — Hozier 🔥🏡 Burn Your Village — Kiki Rockwell 🤍 Work Song — Hozier #UnhingedPit #A #F #darkacademia ALMOST #Q ready

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the most dangerous weapon in my fantasy novel is a grammar book. 🤓📖🧙🏽 #unhingedpit #a #f #darkacademia ALMOST #q ready

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Kat is Querying @katkatsma.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

FAIRIES! Call the fae "fairies" and they'll eat you. GHOSTS! They're knocking about the White City. MARIJUANA! Stop being dramatic, Travis. Your life's not hard. You're only running away from lies that could shift society as we know it. Lyric Fiction #Q #UnhingedPit #A #F #Irreverent #ComingofAge

TRAVIS THE LEPRECHAUN GAIL SNAIL FAE flies in uNhInGed in an ill-fitting pink tutu, wife-beater, and pink pretty wings. He sparks up a bowl, sucking in the saliva from his open maw as he tries to prove how cool he is to you. "Hey guyz." He starts, desperate for your approval. "Wanna come to my car and take a puff? I got some medical marijuana."

Jes*s, what a loser.

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If I think hard enough 🧠 👀 maybe they won't see me Clan of the Cave Bear 🌱 meets Mists of Avalon 🌬️ meets Mad Max 🔥 an adventure in hiding from the bad guys #UnhingedPit #CS #A #SF #hopepunk #CliFi #meditation

bandit on motorcycle with a gun and parcel of stolen strawberry jam approaches a woman meditating in woods thinking to herself "If I meditate hard enough, maybe he'll go away"

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There’s a sentient rabbit. Somehow she’s the most emotionally stable one. #UnhingedPit #A #F #darkacademia

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A question for the #writingcommunity — If querying a dark academia novel with a romantic subplot, should the query letter speak to the romance or focus solely on the central conflict? I would be so grateful for thoughts from other agented authors and literary agents

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN = ARTICULATE 💫 Institutional betrayal 💫 Found family 💫 Forbidden magic 💫 Slow burn romance #questpit #w #a #f #s

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Mina Weber - Editing a M/M ⚽ Fake Dating Romance @mina-weber.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Ricky's bff and teammate Zhan is papped getting intimate with a man who looks a 𝘭𝘰𝘵 like Ricky. So when Ricky overhears that Zhan may be traded for coming out, he decides to lie that it was him in the photo. Surely they can't trade 𝘵𝘸𝘰 queer players? FAKE DATING / ⚽ PLAYERS #QuestPit #LGBT #W #R #A

The two main characters Zhan (Asian, tall, black short hair) and Ricky (Latino, long brown hair and facial hair) drinking cafe drinks. Above them is fake texts reading "When Ricky's best friend Zhan is outted by a racy photo, the question on every Kingsden football club fan's lips is...." "Is that Ricky Davis?!"

It says the title "Silverware" with the tropes (friends to lovers, fake dating, pro athletes) and the words "querying soon"

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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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Christine Witcher | Author @authorcwitcher.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

✨She's inherited her great aunt's house ✨He's the local coven's broad-shouldered handyman ✨And HE is the fake boyfriend she made in a drunken haze, who needs to be GONE before any real chance at love crashes down around her 🎉 Signing with an agent on Friday! #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

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Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽 @sagecollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS 🏟️ Competition between Summer & Winter princes 😠🥰 Grumpy x sunshine pair 👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends➡️rivals➡️lovers 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them 🌳 Who will be the next Mother Nature? 🪩 Winter ball shenanigans 🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #R #LGBT

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN = ARTICULATE 💫 Institutional betrayal 💫 Found family 💫 Forbidden magic 💫 Slow burn romance #questpit #w #a #f #s

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Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Title slide reading "An Agent's Guide to ARTICULATE — A Dark Academia Novel, ~85,000 Words, by Sam Chung." Set against a dark, atmospheric image of antique leather-bound books and rolled parchment scrolls on wooden shelves, dimly lit with smoke or mist drifting through.

Slide titled "The Pitch" over a background of leather books and scrolls. The text reads: "When a student discovers the elite magical academy she fought her way into engineered the disease killing her mother, she must expose the truth before time runs out."

Slide titled "The Comps" showing two book covers side by side against a dark library background. On the left, R.F. Kuang's Babel: An Arcane History, labeled "Institutional Betrayal." On the right, M.L. Wang's Blood Over Bright Haven, labeled "Conspiracy-Laced Magic System."

Slide titled "The Opening" with the manuscript's first lines set over a moody background of leather-bound books and rolled scrolls in shadow. The text reads: "Ariana Rose wiped the blood from her lip and stood to face the committee. The magic had scraped through her on its way out, leaving cuts no one could see. Her fingertips were numb. Her tongue tasted of iron. She had been practicing since before dawn, whispering the incantation until the words carved grooves in her throat, her hand cramping around the pen. Now she stood before the committee, and her hands would not stop shaking. She had not slept. She had spent the night in the care ward, holding her mother's hand while she called her by her dead sister's name. And this morning, the physician had pulled her aside. Had spoken in that gentle voice they used when there was nothing left to do. 'Six weeks. Maybe eight. I'm sorry, Miss Rose.' Six weeks. Forty-two days. A thousand hours to save her mother — or to watch her disappear."

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Christine Witcher | Author @authorcwitcher.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🎉The pitch that got me 3 agent offers: When a brutal breakup and a grief- and margarita-fueled spell leave Mac living with a magical boyfriend she built from scratch, she must unravel the enchantment before it destroys her newfound home—and any chance at real love. #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

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