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Aimee Brown @authoraimeeb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

JUST FOR THE SUMMER × HAPPY PLACE Graham’s tried to get over her. Now she sits at another table wearing some other man’s ring. Violet has everything she thought she wanted. Right up until she comes face-to-face with the biggest "what if" of her life… #QuestPit #Q #A #R

Mood board featuring a rainy Portland street café, the Portland sign, Powell's Books, a woodworking shop, a diamond engagement ring, white daisies, bourbon, text messages, two people holding hands, and a silhouetted couple touching foreheads.

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Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SERIAL DATING | Adult Horror Rom-Com Inverted Tropes: 🛏️Too Many Beds (it's a bunk bed situation) ❤️Co-workers to Friends to Lovers (No enemies here) ☠️Neither FMC or MMC are Serial K!llers (but everyone else is) ☀️Perfect, Sunny Weather (no dark & stormy nights) #QuestPit #W #A #H #R

Picture of a forest of trees. Text: agent guide, adult horror rom-com, projected 70K, current 40K, Serial Dating, by Ally Boyd

Picture of rock half in a lake, half on the sand. Text: The Pitch, While vacationing at a remote lakeside cabin, the daughter from a dynasty of eccentric k!llers struggles to shield her new boyfriend from her family’s gruesome legacy, but the sunny lakeside retreat turns deadly when a k!ller from her past turns the camp grounds into hunting grounds.

Picture of lake and trees reflecting in it. Text: the comps, Lights Out by Navessa Allen, Ready or Not (2019), Dating & Dismemberment by A L Brody, The Book of Knives by Lise Haines

Picture of trees. Text: The Opening. I’m pretty sure the guy I matched with is a serial k!ller.

I knew it the moment he picked me up. His hair is combed too straight, his blue button down shirt is overly starched, his khakis pressed with military precision, and his nails neatly trimmed to the quick.

I can almost hear my best friend, Kayla’s voice in my head, ‘It’s find Maddie. He’s a nice guy. Why are you always trying to find the faults?’

It’s not like I’m doing it on purpose, it’s just that I have a type. And I really, really want to get away from my normal type and find a nice guy.

“You look beautiful,” he says as he presents me with a bouquet of flowers.

White lillies. The flower of death.

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SWORDHEART x BOTW “It’s the dawn of the end of the world, and Emrys is having the worst day imaginable.” 🏰 ruins & tales 📜 forgotten prophecy 🤲 gentle protagonist 💚 romance subplot 🍃 nature setting ⚔️ BOTW vibes 🏹 nostalgic atmosphere #QuestPit #A #F #W

a moodboard featuring a fantasy with lots of nature, green, and statues

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Jesco Puluj @jpuluj.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #s #OS 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦? A couple on the verge of breaking up boards a mysterious train and travels through alternate realities, where they must confront their unspoken conflicts if they want to save their relationship. ONE NIGHT TO VARANASI

A trope map of the novel One Night to Varanasi

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Reagan Faerwyn 💗💜💙 @reaganfaerwyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hello #QuestPit! I present the #agentsguide for my queer thought-he-was-dead second-chance romance steeped in necromancy & found family: Forged in the After 🗡📚☕🐾☕📚 #A #FR #F #R #Q

1. A dark textured stone background features a metallic gold peacock with intricate feathers on the left side. The title “Forged in the After” appears in large elegant white serif lettering. The author's name, Reagan Faerwyn, is below in white cursive script. A black banner at the bottom reads: “Adult Queer Romantic Fantasy - 99,000 Words”

2. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Pitch,” a black panel on the left contains white text: “When a psychic heir comes face to face with his presumed dead former boyfriend, they must together hunt down the source of dangerous mimic necromancy to protect their homes and the second chance they refuse to give up.”
On the right, an ornate gold picture frame contains a hand-drawn illustration of two young men gazing at each other fondly: one with messy red hair and round glasses, the other with silver hair, fangs, and pointed ears. The frame is decorated with gilded elements including a violin and a masquerade mask.”

3. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Flavor,” features a central collage of fantasy book covers including The Magicians by Lev Grossman, Kings Rising by C.S Pacat, Evocation by S.T. Gibson, A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland, and The Witcher: Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Golden decorative arrows point to the books from thematic labels: Necromancy & Monsters; You & Me Against the World; Building Found Family; Fallen Prince x Disillusioned Heir; Second Chance Romance; Occult Rituals, & Inherited Bloodline Magic.

4. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Snippet,” a black panel contains an excerpt from the story. A metallic gold phoenix emblem appears on the right side. The text reads:
Donovan stopped at the kitchen’s threshold. Jerrik faced away from him, shoulders bare to the morning and duskfire tattoo finally visible in daylight. Black-inked phoenix wings unfurled on broad shoulders.
For a moment he stared. At the man, the ink, the herbs. A ritually trained war mage and the last pact bearer of the Dark Hearth, shirtless in the kitchen, humming.
A fantasy. It was what Donovan had imagined. Somewhere, in the handful of moments he had let himself want a life of his own, it had looked something like this.
But the longer he watched, the more he knew this wasn’t really his life, and mornings like this didn’t repeat without consequences.
His father could never know that a prince of Averath survived.

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Josianne Haag @jhaag.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Excited to pitch HIDDEN MONSTERS, my 99k psychological thriller about a desperate actress trapped aboard a billionaire's staged submarine adventure where every act of violence could be part of the script... or terrifyingly real 🌊🤿 #agentguide #amquerying #QuestPit #Q #T #RF #A

My agent's guide for HIDDEN MONSTERS, a 99k psychological thriller; title page with waves as the background

The comp titles are One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware and Deadline by Steph McGovern

Photo collage of the themes of HIDDEN MONSTERS which include a lot of ocean imagery, as well as theater and romance.

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

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

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

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Anora is a slick city gangster with stolen hyperspace treasure maps burning a hole in her pocket Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler and the only pilot who can get her off Hecate IV before space witches catch up Two bad-at-feelings bisexuals find love on the run #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #SF #R

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 24/07/2026

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #A #SF #LGBT

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

TROPES:
Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
loveable pet/terrifying monster

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C.H.Lei @hpl0veshack.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Spirited Away x Jade City In the ghost-infested streets of San Francisco, the spirit of a 13-year-old girl must risk her humanity to reclaim her mortal body from the malevolent entity possessing it. #Questpit #Q #MG #F #PR

$Over a background of San Francisco Chinatown: GRACIE FOON FIGHTS FOR HER LIFE Pitch: After a malevolent ghost takes over her body and starts living her life, the spirit of a 13-year-old girl must survive clans of hungry demons, overzealous spiritualists, and a literal dragon that lives in the sewers of San Francisco in order to regain even a fraction of her humanity back. Comps: Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind by Misa Sugiura x White Snake (2019) Spirited Away x Jade City by Fonda Lee FUN STUFF/TROPES(?) - San Francisco just not a setting, but a character - Friends to enemies to friends to ??? - Loosely influenced by the White Snake folk story - Hope you like martial arts fight scenes and magic talismans$

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 24/07/2026

A guide to SUNFALL, an M/M fantasy. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT "A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth." -Robert Frost, A Question

A purple to red gradient with fluffy clouds and an art deco border. Text: A guide to SUNFALL, an M/M Romantic Fantasy complete at 102k words

A red to orange gradient with the text: "The Pitch...The mage-hero Helio is the only thing stopping the Deep from destroying his world. So when he dies at the hands of the deep mage Riptide and wakes inexplicably miles away in the body of a boy named Hadley, he hurries back to the fight he'd left behind. But through Hadley's own past with the Deep, Helio gets to know Riptide and, eventually, grows to love him. It leaves him with a choice: the world he loves, or the deep mage trying to destroy it.

An orange to yellow gradient with more clouds in the background. The text: "The snippet..."

“What did you think of Helio?” Helio asked, trying to look more interested in the orange he was peeling than the question. They sat on the porch, settled in its creakiest chairs, and Helio made a game of rocking to a rhythm in his head.
“He seemed lonely,” James said. “On friendly terms with everyone, but always on his own.”
“Oh,” Helio said.
“By the way, I bought you something,” the man went on, digging in his bag and passing Helio a silver cylinder with a sunstone embedded in the lid. It was a powder box for a girl’s vanity, and Helio frowned at it until James said, “You wind the bottom.”
“Oh!” Helio said again. He wound it, and when he lifted the lid, the box chimed a sweet melody in a minor key. Helio smiled at the start, but as the song went on, he found was something terribly sad about it. Familiar, too, like a press on a fading bruise. He immediately rewound it to press again.
“It’s an old Theian hymn,” James said, watching him closely. “Do you like it?”
“Very much,” Helio said. “I don’t know why, but it makes me feel…Well, I don’t rightly know.” He stared at it a moment longer, then looked up and brightened. “Oh look, here comes Louie! Hello, Louie!”

A yellow to purple gradient with more art deco borders. The heading says "For those who enjoy..." and the first subheading reads: "Character-led melancholy like..." Following this subheading is an image of the cover of Frieren and the 2004 film the Fall. The next subheading says, "Unstoppable and inevitable love like..." Under this heading is a picture of the cover of Heaven Official's Blessing as well as a promotional poster for Hadestown the musical. A third subheading reads "Pastoral prose and witty dialogue like..." Under this heading is a photo of a Robert Frost poetry collection and a promotional poster for the film the Philadelphia Story.

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X OLD WOUNDS X INTO THE LIGHT: When a healer flees his mother's cult, he joins a hitchiker who caught a meteorite as they head to a UFO festival- until the cult closes in to capture their Chosen One. #Q #Questpit #SF #YA #amquerying #agentguide

INTRO SLIDE ALT TEXT Slide featuring an image of two boys in blue against a red backdrop, one has a shaved head, wears a black hoodie, and is shorter with dark eyes. the other has long blond hair, wears an olive jacket, and pale eyes. There is an image of a galaxy. WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN, Young Adult, 89k Words, Speculative, LGBTQIA artist credit batsudie on instagram

THE PITCH
ALT TEXT
On a starfield: picture features two boys, one has blond hair and points up at a meteor shower, the other follows his hand with his eyes, they lay in the bed of a pickup truck, surrounded by a desert landscape. WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN When 17-year-old Christophe, a trans faith healer, flees his mother's cult after a miracle goes wrong, he joins forces with 18-year-old February, a UFO-forum moderating hitchhiker, whose hand is changing in strange ways after he caught a meteorite. They embark on a road trip to a UFO festival - before the cult can drag Christophe home and use him as their Chosen One. Artist credit tenderism on Instagram

WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN, COMPARATIVE TITLES, trans coming of rage as a caption, with a white arrow pointing to hell followed with us, and then a caption saying religious trauma and another saying speculative road-trip with white arrows pointing to MARK OSHIRO's into the light, and a caption saying claustrophobic small town with a white arrow pointing to OLD WOUNDS by LOGAN-ASHLEY KISNER

On a star field and a moon, FIRST LINES God, Christophe prays. Please let me disappear. Please don't make me go up onstage, in front of everyone today. Just this once, I don't want to heal. He hides in the closet at the back of the church. The echoing voices tell him that the sanctuary is full. The dusty, out-of-tune piano pounds out a hymn, and his heart thuds dully inside him. He should be out there, helping pass out the cups of grape juice, the cups of wine, the wafers of Our Lord. He should be preparing for the healing, the laying-on of hands, when his mother will call him to the front.

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QuestPit #A #F #R #FR #W #Q

Between Fractures of Light
Adult Romantic Portal Fantasy

$PITCH The desolate world from Augusta’s dreams starts to blur into a chilling reality when a specter of swirling mist and shadows begins haunting her and kidnaps her childhood best friend, Theo. When the encroaching shadows come for her next, Augusta is rescued by an impossibly familiar stranger with eyes of fire, and together they journey into a world consumed by Darkness, an entity that feeds on despair and rot. There, the shadows hold Theo—and the world—captive. As she begins to fall for the man guiding her through the starless land, the line between the two realities starts to fracture. Augusta must face who she truly is and the choice carved into fate long ago: sacrifice the world she’s only just come to understand (along with her best friend) or the love she’s finally found. Before the Darkness consumes them both.$ COMPS

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Piranesi
The Starless Sea
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

COMPS

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Piranesi
The Starless Sea
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

SNIPPET

She blinked, and the figure was gone. Or maybe she was just seeing things again.

“Theo—” she started, but he wasn’t beside her anymore. “Theo?”

The movement returned. It grew into the shape of a person and then into something beyond. Long fingers, crooked spine, head warped. Panic rose in her throat.

Smell. Sound. Taste. Touch. Sight. Think, Augusta. Think. It’s not real.

What can you smell? Popcorn. What can you hear? The laughter of children, Christmas music. What can you taste? The cider in hand. What can you touch? The scarf around my neck. What can you see? The shadow in the shape of a person.

Augusta froze.

It hadn’t gone away. Instead, it only grew larger, more ominous. It rose in the night till it towered over the tents, the moon behind it blocked out by its mass.

A glimpse of tangled blond curls appeared in her periphery, light against the growing darkness. A hanging light exploded with a pop but no one reacted. Unease clawed at her in

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An #agentguide for my dual-POV YA royal romantasy with a POC x POC romance between a seamstress and a knight who join a courting competition amongst prestigious teens to save their severed kingdoms from destruction. Interested agents, please 🩷or DM me! #QuestPit #WIP #YA #F #RF

A background with a gradient of bright to deep red with a rose silhouette and hot pink and red roses in the top two corners. On the side of the text there's a silhouette of a knight on the left and a girl in a gown on the right.

In a mix of elegant white, red and pink gradient text:
An Agent's Guide to THE ESSENCE THEY STOLE, a YA Royal Romantasy by Q'Zion T. Gipson

A background with a gradient of bright to deep red with a rose silhouette and hot pink and red roses in all four corners.

In the center, in a mix of elegant white, red and pink gradient text:

THE PITCH - A seamstress and a knight join a royal courting competition to earn their freedom. Amongst prestigious teens with ties to the Palace, hidden agendas, and countless secrets--they must master the dance of deception (and maybe love) before both their kingdoms are destroyed.

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Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️ @n-a-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

💥CULLING Agent's guide💥 They pretended her homeworld destruction was an accident, not knowing that the entire galaxy is next on the chopping block. 🌌Queernorm world 🌌Chaos Crew 🌌A secret older than the galaxy 🌌And an impossible enemy #QuestPit #A #SF #Q

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Harrow the Ninth x A Dowry of Blood In the shadows of Gilded Age Manila, an artist’s muse wakes up from death and must solve her own murder feat. 🫀 anticolonial revenge narratives ✨monstrous men & divine abominations 🫀 tropical gothic ✨ doomed siblings #QuestPit #Q #HF #H

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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Excited to finally share my novel, THIEF OF THE VASTBORN, for #questpit!! THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI x THE SONG OF ACHILLES: Fate swap. Drowned world. Queer M/M romance. Enemies to lovers. Sea-dragons?! And more! Read the agent’s guide below. Querying soon! #F #A #RF #Q #W

An agent's guide to Thief of the Vastborn by C.M. Sullivan, adult fantasy + romance, ~112,000 words. The graphic shows a dragon and a sailboat with charts and maps as the background vector.

TEXT: Pitch: In a flooded world survived by waterborne cities, young Zev is given a prophecy that he will die by the same illness that killed his mother. A decade later, when a dying Zev decides to take fate into his own hands, he accidentally swaps fates with the Prophecied Divine, a handsome and sheltered man destined to end the worldwide flood. The graphic shows a sailboat and more charts.

TEXT: Tropes: Queer M/M romance, fate swap, drowned world, sea-dragons, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, slow burn, animal companion, prophecies, pirates, cults. The graphic shows a leaf, an hourglass, and more charts and maps.

TEXT: Comps: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, high seas adventures; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller for mythical doomed yaoi; The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon for dragons; The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart for drowned world. The graphic shows columns and charts.

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Ashes! Ashes! We all... rise up!" Experience a vision of growth, community, and transformation, through crumbling highways and swollen rivers. 💥 Title Reveal 💥 💫 Light After the Fall 💫 coming this October 🧙 Arc readers invited, preorders available soon #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit

Title: "Light After the Fall"
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with yellow path into horizon, a seal level risen earth, a hermit figure holding a lantern & staff

An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot

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Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 “Fealty” WIP 17.5k/100k @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Beautiful, But Deadly has: 🏳️‍⚧️ Transmasc MC 🦌 A Beast that STAYS a Beast ❤️‍🔥 Monster Fucker Awakening 🔥 NFWMB Vibes 🗡️ Growth from Fearful to Defiant 🍂 Folktale Atmosphere 🪤 Chekhov's Bear Trap My Debut queer monster romance novella ❤️ gt-anthony.itch.io/beautiful-bu... #QuestPit #P #A #LGBT #R #F #DR

Against a dark forest floor background, there is a book cover on the righthand side of the image and a logline pitch on the left.

The cover art is for the book "Beautiful, But Deadly - A Novella by G.T. Anthony," in which the cover depicts two hands (one human, the other a beast with dark grey-brown fur), both taking hold of an oleander flower.

Pitch:
A dysphoric farmer determined to change his luck hunts down the beast terrorizing his village.
But instead of killing it, he helps it, leading to an affair that could change his life for the better.

In which the kindness of a trans man forced to hide who he is has not only blessed him with the body he always desired but also earned him the affections of a powerful creature that is not what it seems.

Bottom Caption: Now available on Itchio!

Against a dark forest floor background, there is a book cover on the righthand side of the image and a list of tropes on the left.

The cover art is for the book "Beautiful, But Deadly - A Novella by G.T. Anthony," in which the cover depicts two hands (one human, the other a beast with dark grey-brown fur), both taking hold of an oleander flower.

Tropes:
Folktale Atmosphere
Transmasc MC
Beastly Fae LI
The Beast STAYS a Beast
Slow Burn
Hug the Beast, get a free transition!
Monster Fucker Awakening
Touch EITHER of them and die.

Against a dark forest floor background, there is a book cover on the righthand side of the image and a playlist on the left.

The cover art is for the book "Beautiful, But Deadly - A Novella by G.T. Anthony," in which the cover depicts two hands (one human, the other a beast with dark grey-brown fur), both taking hold of an oleander flower.

Playlist:
NFWMB - Hozier
Become the Beast - Karliene
Dangerous - Sleep Token
Third Eye - Florence + The Machine
Awake My Soul - Mumford & Sons
The Moon Will Sing - The Crane Wives

Against a dark forest floor background, there is a book cover on the righthand side of the image and a snippet on the left.

The cover art is for the book "Beautiful, But Deadly - A Novella by G.T. Anthony," in which the cover depicts two hands (one human, the other a beast with dark grey-brown fur), both taking hold of an oleander flower.

Snippet:
Oleander initiated it. He pressed his lips to the corner of its mouth, kissing there. It startled the beast, made him try to make eye contact. So, he tried again, kissed its lips, but there was trepidation. He was not sure if Eadmund would embrace him or devour him.
The response was a tighter hold. Eadmund gathered Oleander in his arms, giving him a more earnest kiss. The man shivered, his lips parting, which made the beast press deeper. Without hesitation, Oleander found himself surrendering.
A soft gasp was swallowed up by another kiss. His nails lightly scratched at Eadmund’s shoulder. And still, it was gentle with him, kind to him. It was too good to be true.

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Kate Gray is Querying ✨ @kategraycosplay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ROT & RUIN: AN ADULT FANTASY NOVEL. COMPLETE AT 100K. NOW QUERYING. TANGLED X ANNIHILATION A failed revolutionary cons a party of heroes into hiring her as their guide through monster-infested woods where she’ll leave them for dead. Then she inconveniently grows a conscience. #questpit #q #a #f

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ELIA IN ISOLA: THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH X ANATOMY A LOVE STORY: When Elia is deemed unmarriageable, his parents give him to the convent. But it is Carnival in Venice, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister. #Questpit #W #YA #H #HF #LGBT #WIP coming to the query trenches

A banner for Elia in Isola, A Transmasculine Nun of Venice. Transmasculine nun, venice 1600s, young adult gothic horror, and a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, as well as the grand canal, as well as the caption coming soon to the query trenches.

A banner for Elia in Isola. Comparative titles, showing The Starving Saints, "otherworldly occurrences in a claustrophobic historical setting," The Spirit Bares Its Teeth: Historical Fiction: trans man must hide his identity and his gifts to survive in a hostile world, anatomy: gothic setting with anatomy and medical history at the center of the mystery, and in the background, an oil painting of the grand canal

Images of a young nun in front of a friar, a young man, oil paintings, captioned Elia in Isola A transmasculine nun of venice, in golden frame, and the quote: On his last day of freedom, Elia Malesco watched the dawn bathe Venice in its pale tones and wondered if he'd ever see his beloved city again.

A banner for Elia in Isola. background, an oil painting of a convent. Elia has always been plagued with ecstatic, disturbing visions. It doesn’t help that he’s secretly transmasculine. Either way, he is an embarrassment to his Venetian family- and thus, ineligible for marriage. When he turns sixteen, his parents give him over to the convent.

But it is Carnival, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls.

Then he stops to speak to the masked Rosalina, and discovers that someone has been murdering young women like his new friend. He’s been told his whole life he needs to be less. Now, as a cloaked presence moves through the convent by night and the murderer strikes close to home, he might have to attract attention to draw out the murderer, to save Rosalina, the other novices- and himself.

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Priscilla Maytree @prismaytreewrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X BARBIE FAIRYTOPIA Introducing CROWNS & MIRRORLIGHT ✨🌷🌸 🪞A tragic romantasy 🪞Finding yourself outside of Toxic Relationship 🪞Bi representation 🪞Love Triangle 🪞Marriage Pact 🪞One Bed #questpit #W #A #RF

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

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

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Presenting a gorgeous reader's guide for my debut YA climate romantasy novel, THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, which will be releasing in summer of 2027! 🌸 Stay tuned for more exciting updates! #QuestPit #YA #F #P #TBP

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

A Reader's Guide to THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, a YA Climate Fantasy Coming Summer 2027 by Q'Zion T. Gipson

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

PITCH - After a failed experiment to make plants live forever, all toxic vegetation was burned for the sake of humanity. In 2091, when 16-year-old Vee discovers Evergreen, an enchanted garden with roots to her ancestry, she must embrace the forbidden magic blooming in her veins before Evergreen and The Human Realm fall to an eternal darkness.

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:
COMP TITLES
Divining the Leaves by Shveta Thakrar: Enchanted Garden
House of Marionne by J. Elle: Botany Boarding School
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn: Found Family

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

THE VIBES
A mood board consisting of 9 square photographs with a green, blue, and, pink, yellow and white color scheme. In the center, there is a teenage Black girl in an enchanted garden, with the photos surrounding her illustrating the beauty within it: a feeding hummingbird, a calm lake, baby ducklings, a resting butterfly, and magical white and pink blooms.

In white text, there is a list of tropes in THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, including:
Black girl MC
Plant magic system
Near future
Magical blooms
Botany boarding school
Found family
Human x fae romance
He falls first and harder
Female friendships

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#QuestPit 🌷Flower Fairy WIP 🧚 🪻 MM Fantasy Romance 🪻 Fairy x Gardener 🪻 Sweet Garden Setting 🪻 Healing and Growing 🪻 Grumpy Fairy 🪻 Patient Gardner 🪻 Love in Many Forms 🪻HEA #W #A #F #RF

Over a background of chicory flowers: FLOWER FAIRY WIP - Cozy Fantasy Romance
SNIPPET: The human let out a long, low whistle, surveying the garden. Chicory felt a swell of pride for a moment. Yes, human, look upon his garden and see the beauty! See the wonder! Look at all the hard work Chicory put in! All the plants, bugs, and animals are so well cared for! The garden is a wonder! A masterpiece! A—
“What a mess!” The human laughed, running a gloved hand through his hair. “They weren’t kidding about it being a fixer-upper. Oh well, I wanted a project. The gods provide.”
Chicory was stunned for a moment, too shocked to do anything but watch as the human turned back towards the cottage. Then anger boiled through him, burning him up like he had been laying in the sun at the height of summer.
How dare he? How dare this interloper… this stranger… this… this… this human come to Chicory’s garden and insult it like that? The garden was not a mess! It was not as neat as some gardens, granted, but Chicory had been taking very good care of it. He was proud of this garden.
TROPES: 🪻 MM Fantasy Romance
🪻 Fairy x Gardener
🪻 Sweet Garden Setting
🪻 Healing and Growing
🪻 Grumpy Fairy
🪻 Patient Gardner
🪻 Love in Many Forms
🪻HEA
BLURB: Chicory the Flower Fairy has lived in the garden all on his own for years. And his garden is perfectly fine, thank you very much! It may be a little overgrown, but it’s his home. His solitary existence is disrupted by the arrival of Silas Glenn, a human farmer who wants to “fix” Chicory’s garden. Chicory will have to learn to get along with Silas for the sake of the garden, and perhaps for the sake of his own heart.
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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Anxious Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest, but when his elf-supremacist cousin declares war, Letyf joins the world's champions to protect their only hope—a child who can quell magic. In their way? World-hopping demon Lia, unwilling servant to the enemy. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit #AgentsGuide

Title Page: WEB TRAVELER, Adult Epic sci-fantasy, 129k, dual POV. Art of an ancient staircase carved into a mossy cliff. tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

Pitch Page: Letyf Duilles has no place on a world-saving quest. Elf-supremacist Roksa Morthir took everything from Letyf—his best friend, his magic, and his future. An outcast in his rural elven village, Letyf is a constant reminder that an elf with no magic is no elf at all. When Roksa returns with an all-powerful demon on his side, Letyf must defy his endless self-doubt to protect a young elvish prodigy in the war for Crelan’s freedom. Lia, the demon in question, doesn't consider herself all-powerful. She's served heroes and villains many times before. With a string of dead masters behind her, she needs a win, or her immortality and her powers will be taken from her. If Roksa wants to conquer his backwoods, fantasy home-world, Lia will just have to do it with gritted teeth and minimal complaints about the plumbing. After all, why would a world like this be worth saving? Set on a parchment background, with photography of a spring green forest behind it.

Comps: Parchment featuring five book covers: The Magicians (Magical Multiverse, I can't believe it's not Narnia, Anxious MC, Meta-fantasy, Classic Fantasy World Reimagined); This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Metapantasy, classic fantasy world, action-packed and bloody, dry humor, highly competent FMC); The Goblin Emperor (Anxious MC, No romance, deep friendships instead, Naive, fish out of water MC); The Bright Sword (No Romance, Naive MC, Action-packed, Classic Fantasy World, Epic Setting); Nine Goblins (Action Packed, Epic setting, Dry Humor, Highly competent FMC)

First Lines: 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, gave the string a touch more pressure, and released.

The arrow arced away—and missed the fat gamebird by a clear foot.

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We arrived 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. The rise we stood on was dotted with little white flowers, the sky was a perfect blue, and the trees shimmered with promise. Even the ring of burned grass around us couldn’t diminish the sweeping landscape.

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

I’m left in absolute awe over all the love MSU has gotten. Truly, no words could express the magnitude of my gratitude. & huge thanks to @questpit for once again bringing us all together, for the opportunity to lift each other’s stories up. Until the next one! 🫶🏽 #questpit

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Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🚨 UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE 🚨 A fragment from Sgt. Maj. Annastasia's psychological evaluation has been recovered from the GAMA Intelligence archive 🗃️ Consider this an accidental leak 🫢 ✒️ I've also opened The Archive - my email list 🫡 Access via: tinyurl.com/terezamaze #QuestPit #Q #A #RF #SFF

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Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses in A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK A Cozy Medieval Romantasy 🍰 Barbie for adults 🌸 Arranged marriage 👑 Princess x Prince 🕯️ Dual POV 🩷 Lovable family chaos #questpit #W #NA #A #RF

A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK

A Cozy Medieval Romantasy

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses x The Princess Knight

The Pitch:
No one likes an arranged marriage, but when Prince Alaric is grounded from his adventures until he can find a bride, he accepts his fate and puts a ring on the first princess he can find. Princess Genevieve would rather marry a plant than a prince, so in a desperate attempt to make him call it off, she must become the most insufferable princess Alaric has ever had the displeasure of meeting. Yet as the wedding inches closer, and devious mental games are played, perhaps not all arrangements are as bad as they initially seem.

The last rays of sunshine still linger over the garden as I clutch onto my skirts and haste across the lawn. And just as the sun sets I sink onto my knees before the statue of Inessa, folding my hands as I throw a last glance over my shoulder for any of my sisters. Then I purse my lips as I wait for the words to come, my head bowed in prayer.
“Dear Inessa,” I start, and shudder at the sound of my own voice in the empty air. “Please don’t send me into a loveless marriage. I don’t want a life at court and I don’t want to meet a supposed soulmate today, so if you could just call it off an make sure it doesn’t—”
“I knew I saw someone lurking around the corner.”
I yelp as I spin around, fall over and scrape my palms on the cobblestone.
A masculine chuckle chimes as I push away the curtain of hair before my eyes, my face heating with every note.
“My apologies, I never meant to scare you, I simply saw someone rush by and had to know if I was missing out on anything.” His cerulean doublet becomes unmistakable as he offers his hand and pulls me up before I can protest, or run away, or fall into an endless hole somewhere in the the earth.
“You’re here with the Cordellian prince, aren’t you?” The words stumble out of my mouth. He looks even better up close—sea blue eyes with a circle of green near the pupils that sparkle with life and firm hands around mine, speckled with sunspots and veins.
His eyebrows knit together for a moment. “I guess you could say that.”
I pull my hands from his and tuck them away behind my back. Manicured hedges shield us from spectators, but with him here who knows where the prince might follow.
“Now what are you doing here, alone on the ground?” he says with a boyish grin.
I bob my mouth open and closed like a fish, stepping in front of the statue of Inessa like it’ll shield the tall marble from view. “Touching the grass?”
“Touching the grass?” His brows furrow in disbelief.

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Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A romantic dystopian heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #QuestPit #W #NA #A #D Querying this fall <3

List of tropes:
Dystopian, romance, heist
Teenage lovers to unaccounted for for many years, to rival gang members actually trying to kill each other to reluctant allies to lovers again???
Idk, it’s complicated..
Cyberpunk
Forced proximity
is it a gang or is it a cult?
Anything can be a murder weapon if you try hard enough
tending to wounds

All that stands between Aranea and her initiation into the Coven—the gang of women notorious for killing corrupt men and their own ex-boyfriends—is a bullet in her own ex's brain. Only, when her first boyfriend suddenly turns up alive after seven years with no trace, killing him doesn't prove entirely as easy as the rest. But when it's revealed that he's part of a rival gang and leading a heist to steal vital information from a famously impenetrable city–with the potential to save or obliterate their corrupt world–she must first infiltrate the heist and take the information for her own gang. Without letting old resurfacing feelings threaten the mission.

Opening lines:
Eyes on the target. Awaiting orders to shoot." I tighten my grip on the rifle.
The breeze sweeps some brown stray hairs over my eyes as I follow the target through my scope—Raymond, 25, male, with dark shaggy hair and a bag slung over his shoulder. Also known as my second ex-boyfriend.
"Awaiting orders to shoot," I repeat. My trigger finger burns to move.
The traffic drums in the background—car horns ring through the dirty air between dilapidated skyscrapers. Raymond dabs up one of the bouncers across the street. I track his every move; when he steps back to let a group pass by, when he scratches the five o'clock shadow on his chin, when he nods towards the entrance door two steps ahead of them. All that stands between me and my official initiation into the Coven, is one bullet in his brain.

"I fear the withdraw of us will be worse than any drug."

Books similar to Project Glitch:
Butcher and Blackbrid by Brynne Weaver
Coldwire & These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Scion by James Islington
To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Divergent by Veronica Roth

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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #W #A #F #blackbooksky WICKED: FOR GOOD x MLP x BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES 🫧galinda upland inspired mc 🫧you’re a martyr…for us. why wouldn't you be happy? 🫧severus snape inspired love interest 🫧magical relaint world 🫧dictatorahip over leadership 🫧mc is a sorceress supreme’s apprentice

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hali hyland 💋 @haliwriteswords.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

an #agentsguide to THE LOVE INTERCEPTION, an adult sports romcom for fans of ali hazelwood and cat sebastian 🩷 🏈 quarterback x sports reporter 🏳️‍🌈 BI4BI ✨ plus size FMC 🔥 forced proximity 💋 witty banter 🫨 …blackmail? #questpit #Q #A #R

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leahbauerwrites.bsky.social @leahbauerwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE RUTHLESS LADY'S GUIDE TO WIZARDRY+A RESTLESS TRUTH That awkward moment when you (a poor, bi, autistic woman with wanderlust) agree to pretend to chaperone a lesbian duchess so she can woo women instead of men but then you start falling for her while trying to solve a murder #QuestPit #W #F #R

a collection of memes:
-a "look babe, i finished a new boo" gf and a "tell me all about it" gf
-a person on their knees slamming a fist onto the ground surrounded by hearts with the words when they laugh
-a person on their knees holding out their credit card with the caption taking naps together
-a woman holding a tankard labeled "that gay shit" and drinking deeply
-Two women almost kissing
-someone being patient with yo is one of the best forms of love
-a bunny rabbit before a table of books with the caption I'm full of useless information
-a smiling stick person labeled "person who asks weird random with a questions" and another smiling stick person labeled "person who answers them anyways"
-bro, she's a piece of art, pin her against the wall
-don't shorten your words, I like your details
-mentally I'm a slut physically I'm scared of intimacy
-sitting here: unkissed. when will it end
-if we were two sunflowers I would have faced you instead of the sun

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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #W #A #F #DF #blackbooksky BERSERK x THRONE OF GLASS x TSDS 🔮 black fmc is the heiress of an elite sorceress line 🔮 fmc evil sorceressed so hard she resurrected a dead tyrant 🔮 magic system is jacked up and you may be the cause — congrats 🔮 magical politics between who deserves magic

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Zoe is ✨querying✨ @zgauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🗝️ sapphic princess x thief 🗡️ impossible heist ⚔️ only one horse 🌙 found family ☀️ sunshine x gremlin 🐦‍⬛ morally gray heroine ✨ disability rep 🤫 everyone has secrets 🏹 touch her and die 🧭 ragtag crew 💀 sprinkles of horror #QuestPit #W #YA #F #R #MY #H

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Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you like: 💍 New England weddings 💗 Stolen coffees 💍 Designing floral arrangements 💗 Italian greyhounds 💍 Messy women doing their best 💗 Champagne toasts 💍 Wealthy people behaving badly 💗 (Accidentally) shoving your rival in a pond… check out BROTHER OF THE BRIDE #Q #A #R #romcom #QuestPit

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For a peek at my current WIP, VILLAGE WIP is a witchy, sapphic gothic horror where the Salem Witch Trials and a certain Greek myth merge. #QuestPit #W #Gothic #H #Horroromance

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Sarai Hernandez @saraihernandez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MEASURED BY TIME AND FRECKLES The hook: The ring’s wrong, the spark’s gone, and her fiance’s more interested in Slack than her, but when Yulissa discovers a deeply passionate poem by her best friend, she questions everything. #questpit #Q #A #R #OV

MEASURED BY TIME AND FRECKLES
Querying
Images of palm tree leaves and shells

Latine/Multicultural
Friends to lovers
Coastal setting
Yearning
Mental health

The hook:
The ring’s wrong, the spark’s gone, and her fiance’s more interested in Slack than her, but when Yulissa discovers a deeply passionate poem by her best friend, she questions everything.

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Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A THOUSAND THREADS is a twisted, adult retelling of “The Princess and the Pea” in which she’s not a princess but a reclusive fugitive in disguise on a probably-doomed quest to clear her name & return to her plants. Plus, there’s pirates. Querying late 2026 🤞 #questpit #W #A #F #RF #HF #fairytale

The image has a watercolor background. Fancy gold swirls with flowers and leaves line the edges. On the left is the image of an old fashioned ship and on the right is a very tall bed. There is text in the center featuring the title, “A Thousand Threads.” Below that it reads, “Historical Fantasy | 100k words.” At the top is the name, “Sadie A Lindgren.”

There is a watercolor background that with a red castle and planes. A woman stands at the side holding a white dandelion. The title of the page reads, “Premise.” There are gold swirls and flowers in the lower left corner. There is text in the center that says, “When the reclusive groundskeeper’s daughter is framed for an assassination attempt on the Prince, she escapes and returns disguised as a princess suitor in a scheme to clear her name and reclaim her quiet life. But the only person who can help her succeed is the devious pirate who framed her in the first place.”

There is a watercolor background depicting the ocean. The drawing male pirate stands to the left and a drawing of a prince is on the right. The title of the page reads, “Details.” There are gold swirls and flowers in the upper right corner. There is bullet-pointed text in the center that says,
“Princess and the Pea retelling
Multi-POV | standalone
Autistic Female Protagonist
Romantic Subplot
Pirates and Royalty
Swedish folklore
18th Century Scandinavia
Natural Science-based magic system.”

There is watercolor background with a woman dressed as a princess on the right. The title of the page reads, “Comps.” There are gold swirls and flowers in the upper left corner. In the center are the 4 book covers of the following books: Lady Tremaine, Nettle & Bone, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries, A River Enchanted. There are arrows pointing to the various covers with text about how these titles connect to the manuscript in question including, “Fairy take retelling, Character-driven, Doomed quest, Whimsical humor, ND FMC, Multi-POV, historical-ish Scandinavia, and Regional Folklore.”

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #QuestPit #A #H #W

PITCH

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

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

Knock. Knock. Knock.

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

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

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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️) @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BEND OVER BACKWARDS (Heated Rivalry x Star Shipped) After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🎪 Rivals to Lovers 🤸 Found Family 🍿 Only One Bed #questpit #q #r #a #amquerying #agentsguide

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

WHERE ALL VILE CREATURES GO 🌿⚔️🧚 An insufferably lawful knight agrees to deliver a wayward changeling maiden back to her home in the Netherrealm if she fights her wicked nature and attempts goodness, however, if she strikes him three times, he will kill her himself. #W #NA #R #SFF #QUESTPIT

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Melissa Rousu Author @melissarauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A LOVE LIKE THE MOVIES When offered the dream job she's worked her whole life for and the one that would secure her mother's financial stability once and for all, Alex Bennett will have to choose between the future she planned and the love she's finally found. #QuestPit #Q #A #R

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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

JANE LAWRENCExTHE EVERLASTING meet my queer horror romance disasters: worst nightmare to have ever lived x made him that way answered “to get to you” x asked “why do you need an angel” wrote x kept the letters prayed for you x dreamt of you died x not unless I say so #QuestPit #W #A #DR #H

background is a painting of two hands below reaching for a hand above on a dark background. foreground has two screenshots of social media posts. post over the two hands below reads: somebody matched my freak and we almost died by @jpbrammer. post over the hand above reads: “match my freak” match my tragedy. become doomed by the narrative with me by @nfjaay.

background is painting of hands holding an open box with an eyeball in it, with dark background. foreground has three screenshots of tumblr posts. post 1: kind of fucked up that I can’t be the blood running through ur veins by @bleedingspiral. post 2: baby, no…the sex is great, I’m just worried about why your leitmotif starts playing in a minor key whenever we get down to it by @ foone. post 3: when I’m six feet underground the bugs in my body will dream of u by @cutevirgin.

background is painting of a reaching hand in the dark. foreground has three screenshots of tumblr posts. post 1: other people’s emotions are deep and complex and beautiful but mine are proof that there is rot at the core of my being by @freakoutgirl. post 2: we can’t talk here contact me in my dream tonight by @vrtualdreamgirl. post 3: the consequences of my actions seem concerningly obsessed with me by @biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist.

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Priscilla Maytree @prismaytreewrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨🌷🪞CROWNS & MIRRORLIGHT 🪞🌷✨ A bisexual love triangle // Meet the cast 🪞Evran 🗡️🌸🐎 🪞Saille 🌷🫦✨ 🪞Yvaine 🔮🪷🌙 #questpit #W #A #RF

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SILVER ELITE x TELL ME AN ENDING MEMORY DEVOURS HER 96k Adult Romantic Dystopian SF 🚫 Emotion as error 👾 The haunting is digital 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action 🖤 Love from complicit guilt RevPit Shortlist PosterPitAward 2nd #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #SFF #S #AgentsGuide

An Agent's Guide to
MEMORY
DEVOURS
HER
By Cassie Wallin
Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi + Central Love Story

The Pitch
She erased memories, until memory remembered her.
Nova excels at removing from citizens' memories what she hides in herself: excess feeling. Ordered to erase her mentor's whole mind, Nova's grief unleashes a phantom remembering all she's erased.
Haunted by its past and hunted by a devoted enforcer sent to bury it, Nova must forget for a shot to belong or remember and spark the fire that could burn her world down.
MEMORY DEVOURS HER

Hard-Won
LOve
Memory
Grief
COMPS
Corporate
Ritual
Menace
A TURA VINES BES
SILVER ELITE
DANI FRANCIS
Dystopian
Mission
Propulsion
TELL ME
AN
ENDING
JO HARKIN
tv+
Severance
Horror of Forgotten
Complicity -
Wounds
MEMORY DEVOURS HER
tv+
SILO
Lost
History

Moodboard for book, dark gritty dystopian

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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #A #F #W #blackbooksky ARCANE x MORTAL KOMBAT ☀️heavily mel medarda inspired fmc ☀️how can you protect us when you destroy everything you touch? ☀️you are your father’s favorite daughter ☀️are you a phoenix or someone deranged enough to eat the sun?! ☀️fmc hates the sea for some reason

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Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This vibe, but she’s planning his sister’s wedding and he’s determined to stop it. #Q #A #R #romcom #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amquerying #QuestPit

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Shameless x Riverdale (s1) x AGGGTM ☕️ Drama-Mystery with Romance 📓 Runaway x Boy Next Door ☕️ 90s Small-Town Mystery 📓 Found Family ☕️ Genderfluid and Pan Rep 📓 Mental Health Rep ☕️ Fake Identity Turned Real Identity #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 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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