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Emily is QUERYING a romantic fantasy and writing romantasy 🐉

@emhenn921.bsky.social
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Reader. Writer. Mom. PT. Not necessarily in that order. Currently working on my Romantasy WIP Ryderborn and querying my romantic fantasy Into the Wildewood.

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Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
In 1900s Latvia, Stasi mixes blood with paint to create reality-shaping art, but when she enters a prestigious art competition and discovers wealthy elites are killing female artists, she risks her forbidden sapphic love and life to stop them. #WIPPIT #HF #H #R #LGBT
The Colour of Blood, a feminist coming-of-rage 70k sapphic horromance, featuring Latvian mythology, examination of colonialism and misogyny, art school rivals-to-lovers, generational trauma, a unique paint-based blood magic system, and all the barbed banter ("Mind your step, lest you trip over my affairs.")Excerpt from the Colour of Blood:  I draw the imbuing knife across my palm and wince. My skin is accustomed to this ritual, dulled to the sting. But today, the blade finds something soft, something still capable of pain, and sinks its teeth in. Blood wells fast, eager, filling a shallow groove in my palette. I carefully pour water into the next. Flickering candlelight reflects on the pools. The water skitters under the light, but the blood is thicker, darker, slower to settle. Yellow may be my most loathed colour, but red has always been my favourite. The colour of love, of rage, of life. The colour of blood.Tropes, themes, and comps, including Blood Over Bright Haven, Mexican Gothic, and Juniper & Thorn.Blurb: In 1900s Latvia, female artists combine blood with paint to yield reality-altering art. Stasi, an ambitious artist, is selected to compete for a coveted year-long residency at the Von Nachtraben estate, home to Europe’s most powerful paint magnate. For Stasi, the competition is a chance to elevate her social standing, earn her emotionally distant parents' approval, and escape the brothel where she's secretly working.

But when a talented competitor suffers a gruesome death during the first trial, Stasi suspects the competition’s purpose is not recruitment but the elimination of the world’s strongest magical women. Stasi's unease turns to horror when she uncovers a hidden laboratory in the estate where the Von Nachtrabens craft a toxic green pigment engineered to weaken women who paint. And when she tries and fails to escape the estate, she realizes participation in the competition is no longer an option but a compulsion.

As a forbidden sapphic romance kindles between Stasi and her childhood rival—and more women vanish—Stasi must navigate deadly trials, competitors willing to sell each other out to advance, and the Von Nachtrabens’ insidious web of control. To stop the elite intent on silencing women who dare stand against them, Stasi will have to risk her love and her life.
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Emily is QUERYING a romantic fantasy and writing romantasy 🐉 @emhenn921.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Obsessed!!!
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danny is ✨querying✨ @dainathomps.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
THE BONE SEASON x SERPENT AND DOVE #agentguide for A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD, a dark romantasy novel with: ⚔️series potential 🗝️bards & ballads 🔗heavy foreshadowing 🥀blood & death magic 🕯️slow burn romance 🕷️gods & monsters #questpit #Q #F #A
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Challenges Lyla Kattan will face this week… 🌒New scar thanks to the eclipse 😈Maniacal boss triggering a ritual 🪞A familiar face 🥷Kidnappers, apparently 🖤Undeniable chemistry with Axel - shame he’s the enemy & is blackmailing her ⚡️Erm, the apocalypse? #Questpit #RF #NA #Q #writersky
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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x RED QUEEN 🍸 Rich people scavenger hunt ❤️‍🔥Love triangle + forced proximity 🗡️Enemies to lovers to…? 😏 👯‍♀️Girl’s girl energy 🌲Little Mermaid, but make it a forest ✨Feminine rage HEART OF THE THORNEWOOD | urban YA fantasy #questpit #Q #YA #F
To save her realm and her people from extinction, lone Dryad, Eryna, must hide amongst human high society and play their twisted party games to take back the magic that was stolen from her land.
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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
OUABH X BELLADONA When a sheltered girl falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear and his greatest desire-death Completed at 100k #YA #FR #W #Questpit
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Kelton Davis is ON SUB! 🦇⚰️🤠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER x GODKILLER When an assassin nearly kills her mother, ruler of her people and living goddess, Niozene must chase redemption into a forbidden land to win back the throne...and her mother's love. 🏹 Strong FMC 🏹 Disgraced Heir 🏹 Cyclical Trauma #F #W #A #questpit
Background: Ferns 
Title Card
Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | WIP | Estimated at 109K wordsBackground: Ferns | Six images surrounding a quote: A red forest, a sunset, hammer striking hot metal, red arrow fletching, an old, grizzle man, and a red-haired woman archer. 
Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least.
"Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"Background: Ferns
Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text: 
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)Background: Ferns
Title: Pitch
Text:  For Niozene, eldest daughter and crown heir to the Mother, the living goddess that rules her country, perfection is not a goal to strive toward; it is the base expectation. And despite her every effort to the contrary, Niozene is not perfect. Her flawless scholar’s education and polished career as a ranger have failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest mistake: she was born without the holy power that marks her family as divinity and grants them their divine right to rule. 
 
When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she officially runs out of time to impress. She is stripped of her titles and given a choice: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication—banishment from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as her last chance to show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter. 
 
Allowed only the help of another excommunicated criminal, a surly, aged tracker named Sonsan, and facing an assassin who could be anyone, she dreads her chance is over before it starts. But when Sonsan reveals the same shape-changing power as the assassin, she realizes there is more to her quest than she has been told. As they chase the assassin deep into a forbidden land, they must confront the buried history they discover they share, as well as the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, if they are to return alive.
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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
UPROOTED x BRIDGERTON 🪲 A naïve natural historian in desperate need of a guide through the cursed forest. 🌌 A non-binary rogue who will do anything to rescue their family. 👀 A plot to trap the rogue brings them together. ❤️ Their hearts will draw them closer. #questpit #Q #A #F #RF
Images of Pippin and Aragorn from Lord of the Rings in discussion with added text.
Pippin: “What about a night-coded love interest?”
Aragorn: “We already had it.”
Pippin: “We’ve had shadow daddies, yes. What about a shadow enby?”A graphic which reads: An agent’s guide to RETURN THE SKY, Adult Fantasy, 112,000 words. PITCH: Assistant natural historian Heidi ventures into the cursed forest for her thesis. She expected danger. She didn’t expect to fall in love with a strange rogue who presents her with a choice - help them and start a war between the forest and her home, or betray them and keep her family safe. Comps are Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Where the Dark Stands Still, and Uprooted. Tropes and themes include dark academia, non-binary love interest, yearning, cozy fantasy (with teeth), slow burn, forced proximity, hidden histories and secrets, eventual happy ending, queernormative world, and dark forests.
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alyssa @alyssaarcher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
When the King’s lethal plans to eradicate magic threatens to expose a young noble’s seer abilities, she exploits her engagement with the King’s son to uncover the Crown’s secrets, but her fiancé’s fascination with poison could make her his next test subject if she’s caught🥀 #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #DIS
Six photos with labels overlay a background of foamy waves washing over golden sands. 
First photo is of a blond man lying on the floor with a necklace dangling over his head. "Lessons in poison" and "Prince just as lethal as poison" points at the first photo. 
Second photo is of a cliff with the sea at its bottom. "City on a cliff by the sea" points at the second photo. 
Third photo is a close-up of an eye with a light blue iris beside white flowers. "Involuntary visions of the future" points at the third photo. 
Fourth photo is of a blond woman wearing a blue gown in front of a wall of red flowers. "Chronically ill seer" and "Forced proximity" points at the fourth photo. 
Fifth photo is of a gold crown. "MC and rebellion are just using each other" points at the fifth photo. 
Sixth photo is of a wine glass filled with a crimson liquid and dried flowers. "Paranoid King with an affinity for poison" points at the sixth photo. 
"A Crown of Poison", "Violet Made of Thorns X Defy The Night", and "Young Adult Fantasy" marks the photo below the collage.
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Dannye Chase is writing gay vampires @dannyechase.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
For #QuestPit: FOREWARNING: A psychic NB prince trying to solve a royal murder mystery must hide his romantic feelings when his guardsman best friend (and forbidden secret crush) becomes his bodyguard. #Q #A #R #F #S *High spice *Seeing gorgeous half-naked men in your future but also death omens :/
A list of tropes for Forewarning with a mockup of a cover that shows a photo of two hands clasping in rainbow light

NB/M Prince/Royal Guard
Forbidden romance but the entire internet ships it
Best friends to lovers
Royal murder mystery
Psychic powers
Bodyguard romance
Seeing gorgeous half-naked men in your future but also death omens :/

A pitch for my novel

Queer Romance FOREWARNING

Prince Cole doesn't know why he psychically sees people's doppelgangers acting out the future, but it does come in handy. Cole's other secret not so much—he's desperately in love with his childhood best friend, royal guardsman Lucas, not least because Luc staunchly supports Cole being an openly nonbinary royal. 

Unfortunately, Cole can't marry a guardsman, and sweet, introverted Luc would never want to be a royal spouse anyway. But when a head of state is murdered and Cole's life is threatened, Luc steps in as Cole's 24/7 bodyguard. 

Together they must find a legendary weapon of mass destruction that threatens their own lives—and millions more. (And really, it would be easier for Cole to concentrate if his gorgeous bodyguard wasn't wandering around their room half-naked, but whatever. It's fine.)
Comps for Forewarning

FOREWARNING is a bit like if Dean Koontz's ODD THOMAS was an upbeat queer romance. It will appeal to readers who enjoy K.J. Charles's DOOMSDAY series for its queer love story, strong B-plot, spice level, and titled/commoner dynamics; and the sassy tone of Alexis Hall's 10 THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
Details of Forewarning:

Logline: A psychic nonbinary prince trying to solve a royal murder mystery must hide his romantic feelings when his guardsman best friend (and forbidden secret crush) becomes his bodyguard.

Genres: Queer Romance, Low Fantasy, Adult, Contemporary

Length: 54,000 words
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Kristen Argyres || MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES @kargyres.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
#QuestPit #P #RF #A A husband is a required inconvenience to escape Lark's home life, but when a faerie roots a rose in her flesh, rumors abound. Lark must convince the petty bastard to remove the rose, but the forest is full of danger - & newfound desires. @conquestpublishing.bsky.social
A mood board for "My Thorns For Your Roses." 

A collage of scenic photos which includes a night sky, a pine forest covered in snow, a bonfire, a stream in a dark wood, a butterfly on a thistle flower, a fox in an autumn wood, the Scottish lowlands, and a shrub of white roses in full blossom.

At the center, a quote is included: "In retrospect, I was right. My future spouse would be so much more than a man."Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. The cover depicts whimsical plants with blue flowers and red capped mushrooms and an open book at the bottom.

The caption reads: "Fae will be fae" and "Practical, adult heroine."

For the Wolf. The cover shows a woman clad in a red hooded cloak standing before a white-treed forest with a misty blue between her and the woods. 

The caption: "A magical wood that isn't always friendly."

After the Forest. The cover shows a fox mask with auburn hair along with a variety of pinecones, leaves, antlers, a bear and a wolf, and a ginger bread house at the bottom.

The caption reads: "Faerie tale retelling" and "Complicated family dynamics."Character art for Lark and Tamlin for “My Thorns For Your Roses” by Twitter user nanasuen2650. 

Lark has long, tawny hair with decorative braids and a white rose behind her left ear. She is wearing a sand-colored dress with a paneled skirt and leather belt. 

Tamlin has long, wavy brown hair decorated with flowers and wears a belted plaid with an intricate leaf design and accessories.

Lark's bullet points include:

Daughter of a famous, retired blacksmith
Oldest daughter syndrome (IYKYK)
Trauma, but not because her family was tragically murdered
Her parents and 4 younger siblings are all still alive!
Wants to get out of this town and needs a man to accomplish her goal
Doesn't believe in faeries for REASONS

Tamlin's bullet points are:

Child of the oldest oak tree in the forest
Faerie Lord of Cairnwood (local forest)
Shapeshifter - plants, animals, objects
Resents being told his kind don't exist
Enjoys messing with Lark
Totally not scared of his cannibal ex
A Snippet from MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES

"You shouldn't touch a woman who isn't your wife so casually," I rebuked the man. Our eyes met and we engaged in a battle of wills. My anger versus the spellbinding quality of his stare. My heart raced - furious and exhilarated - bewildered by how the two blended so seamlessly.
"Is that a proposal?"
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Judith Webster @judithlwebster.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One Dark Window x Divergent The most dangerous game of all is the one played by the heart. #Questpit #Q #A #F ❤️Dark Alice in Wonderland reimagining ♠️A fate they both wish to escape ♦️A secret Rebellion led by a prince ♣️It takes a monster to destroy one 🃏A wild card
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Isabelle Ranney @isabelleranney.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Hallmark's THE WAY HOME x DOWNTON ABBEY ⏳ Time travel to 1915 👨‍💼 Cinnamon roll love interest ❤️ Slow-burn romance ✨ Dash of magical realism 🖼️ Saving the museum Should you change the past for love in the future? #questpit #W #R #sweetromance Querying soon!
Old-fashioned cursive writing, modern woman sitting, historical house, garden roses, man in three-piece suit, old stone archway, old watch with Roman numerals.
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Erin C @erinscarlet.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
GRIMM X FOURTH WING X MOTHERLAND FORT SALEM By day, Aurora fights to break her curse at an academy for monster hunters. By night, she fights in a nightmare world. When a mysterious stranger named Philip appears in the Dreaming, her dreams of freedom and her heart will be tested. #questpit #A #wip #F
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Ayla Yergin @aylayrgn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My adult romantasy Garden of Gods has 🫀angsty banter 🥀animated beasts & body horror 🫀diverse cast & disability rep 🥀starts of rebellion The manuscript has seen some agent and indie publisher interest but I’m still in the query trenches! #questpit #q #a #f #r
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Susie Lindau @susielindau.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Lisa Jewell meets The Haunting of Hill House in a dual POV and Timeline. #QuestPit #T #H #A #Q #S #amquerying #AgentGuide #AgentsGuide
An agent's guide to The DeadlineThe Pitch
It's easy to romanticize writing a book in a remote location, but when a sentient house attacks and a psychopath threatens, a novelist must unearth the key to this madness, or his sister will arrive in time to write his eulogy.
For fans of Supernatural thriller, Gothic, coming of age, sexual identity, survival, stalker, family secrets and dysfunction, wilderness, Riley Sager, Julia Bartz, Lisa Jewell
The Bare bones
80,000 words, Dual POV and Timeline, Professionally edited, Contest finalist
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kathleen 🤠 @kathleengraeme.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
SALTBURN X SECRET HISTORY After a death on campus, the prestigious men’s club opens its doors to one reporter to observe their secret rituals but what seems harmless quickly turns sinister and she’s the only one who can see it. Not all gods are meant to be worshiped #questpit #A #T
First row: left: southern church on fire, middle: man having his soul sucked out from dark entity, right: young man taking selfie with a marble bust
Middle row: left: man holding up another young man who looks wounded, middle: dark background with white text “god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own”, right: man holding a water logged woman in a dress by a river
Bottom row: left: PowerPoint saying “we are fucked” with someone holding a pointer to the words, middle: two girls leaning on each other in the back of a car, right; painting of a bride kissing a dark angel
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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
1. Take a ballerina w/ a panic disorder 2. Have fantasy fugitives kidnap her for their leader’s magic stuck w/in her 3. Threaten her family so she’ll live w/ them until it can be returned 4. Watch her risk everything she loves for freedom & her ballet dream #Questpit #Q #YA #F #M #R #agentsguide
Agents Guide titled Wake beside a feather & ballerina. Top reads: "YA Contemporary Fantasy, 91,000 words, Jessica DeLand." Approx main text: "18-year-old Rikma dreams of being a professional ballerina until her father dies in a drunk driving accident. Moving in w/ her unstable uncle & cousins, she sacrifices dance to shoulder their stability despite her panic disorder. She’s kidnapped by fantasy fugitives & taken to their planet to free their captive leader—the murderous, dark psychogenic vampire, Kinito. Unbeknownst to her, a fragment of Kinito’s magic is entwined w/ her soul. They force her to use it to free Kinito, who wants back what is his. Her captors discover extracting the magic will kill Rikma & lose Kinito’s power. So Kinito threatens her family to make her live w/ them until it's returned. Grieving the ballet school they forbid, she uncovers their secrets to reclaim freedom. But when she develops feelings for 1 & others become like family, she must choose: them or her dream"Agent's Guide panel with a sitting ballerina bent over her stretched legs. Text to the left of her reads: "Overcoming Weakness, Kidnapping Romance, Uncovering Secrets, Mental Health Rep, Redemption Arcs, Forced Proximity, Banter & Humor, Found Family, Slow Burn." Text above her reads: "AAPI/ADHD Writer." There's a feather texture in the background.Agent's Guide panel showing a ballerina's legs and feet, wearing pointe shoes, with her crossed wrists tied together with rope. To the left of her legs is a badge that reads, "Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist" surrounded by the words, "Best Juvenile/YA Finalist." To the right is the word "Comps" and images of book/movie covers for "The Cruel Prince," "The Inheritance Games," "A Curse So Dark and Lonely," "The Prison Healer," and "Howl's Moving Castle." Bottom half of the panel is bordered by ice.
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Gabi @gabiwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Caught in a maelstrom of morals, a ship captain must decide what she desires most—to resurrect her sister, or kill the boy she’s grown to care for and let her wicked heart feel again. (This project will be ready for querying next week!) #QuestPit #Q #YA #F
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Emily is QUERYING a romantic fantasy and writing romantasy 🐉 @emhenn921.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
If you love: 🐉accessible magic 🐉friends to enemies to lovers 🐉palace intrigue 🐉feminine rage 🐉Viking vibes 🐉one dragon this is for you! #questpit #W #romantasy
Raegan, an aspiring mage, is forced to give up her dream of protecting the realm after the king betroths her to Prince Arlon, the boy who broke her heart the night her mother perished. As Arlon’s icy exterior thaws, Raegan learns the true nature of his cold shoulder, and with time the walls around her heart begin to crumble. But with war looming across the sea and secrets around every palace corner, Raegan must choose between trusting the boy she loved, and protecting her heart and fleeing for good.
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Emily is QUERYING a romantic fantasy and writing romantasy 🐉 @emhenn921.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Torn between the rekindling romance with the only man she’s ever loved and the need to protect her heart, Raegan must choose: lean into her magic and fight, or flee the kingdom that’s stolen so much from her. #questpit #W #romantasy
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Allissa is Querying📚 @allissawrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
MR BRIGHTSIDE x YOURS TRULY When a perfectionist interior designer discovers her husband's long-term affair, an impulsive night with a grieving single dad leads to a forbidden connection that challenges everything she thought she knew about love, loyalty & life. #QuestPit #R #Q
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Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
#ND & emotionally volatile Nora only wants to survive college, but when her foster sister is kidnapped by a ruthless Fae queen, Nora faces a realm where her emotions can be used against her & the brooding Fae prince who would keep her there. #questpit #Q #A #RF
Agent's guide for A FAE FORGED IN IRON, a 99k adult romantasy.Tropes, themes, and comps listed for A FAE FORGED IN IRON, including a neurodivergent FMC, a lost foster sibling, a dual world, and only one horse. LGBTQIA+ & disability rep. Comps are The Serpent and the Wings of Night for the power struggle, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers, and search for identity; Spark of the Everflame for the fight against injustice and oppression, found family, and royal palace intrigue; and From Blood and Ash for the FMC's hidden and developing powers and the kidnapper-turned-love-interest storyline.Nora, a neurodivergent student, wants two things: enough money for her next meal and to know why her intense emotions flicker lights, slam doors, and wilt flowers. When Nora’s dysregulation causes her foster sister to vanish, Nora joins group therapy to temper her feelings. There, she meets dangerously handsome Ash—an undercover Fae prince. Ash abducts Nora, transporting her from Earth to Itheca—a Fae realm where emotions are weapons.

Ash claims he’s working with Ithecan rebels to overthrow his mother, an evil Queen who kidnaps human children. Nora uses her powers to attack the Queen’s associate and discovers the Queen has kidnapped her foster sister and is using children’s unbridled emotions to create a spectral army that will consume human and Fae energy.

Ash demands Nora wield her emotions to help fight the Queen. But Nora distrusts her ability to rein in her turbulent feelings. Ash’s arrogance turns persuasively charming, and Nora starts to believe in not only him but also herself. But what if falling for him is a trap devised by his mother? 

The fate of Nora's sister and both worlds hinges on Nora's ability to regulate herself but also to know when to let her feelings fly at their full force.Excerpt from A FAE FORGED IN IRON: Using my powers in the caves felt euphoric. Like my body knew what to do, on instinct. Like it’s what I was made to do. Sure, I had no self-control and probably gave myself a mild concussion, but I can’t deny that letting my emotions flow through me felt right.

I’ve been floundering here on Earth for almost twenty years. Even before my parents died, I never truly felt like I fit in. After so long trying to be normal—like everyone else—I’m tired of it. Maybe it’s not what I was meant to do.
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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A Dolly Parton Wannabe walks into a bank and robs & kidnaps her ex-boyfriend...wait, what's the punchline again? 🤑only one getaway car 💋 themed "road trip" playlists 🤑she brought her pet POSSUM? 💋We're gonna die... #questpit #OS soon #AG #R
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Kasy Long @kasylongauthor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
What if the daughters in FULL HOUSE were never told anything about their mom’s past? Twin siblings Jesse and Faye go on a road trip to meet people who knew their mom — and they find out a shocking secret! NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON! #questpit #P #YA #A #WritingCommunity #writers
A graphic with a collage of road trip pictures, a plane, a collection of Polaroid photos, and a book with “WE ALL HAVE SECRETS” in lettering.
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Jenee Dutary @jeneedutary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A guy who’s never let himself be distracted by love falls for a girl who doesn’t believe in happily-ever-afters. 🩷 Meet cute 🩷Dual POV 🩷Learning-To-Love 🩷He Falls First 🩷Mental Health Rep 🩷Good boy/Bad girl 🩷Yearning 🩷Revenge - she plays the long game #QuestPit #W #RF #R
Variety of pictures marked with the character’s adventures.
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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE ASH HOUSE 1920. the Manor House waits. soon, 8 children will arrive, and the 14-year-old master of the house will begin his games. how do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette? 🐊 revising through RevPit ‘25 🐊 #QuestPit #MG #H
green-themed moodboard. From left to right and up to down: a hand reaching through tree bark and foliage; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp some berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a green-lit tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse below a chandelier; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; stylised painting of many crows on a colourful branch; hands reaching through lily pads in pond water.
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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
HOW TO COME HOME 🛤️ PEAKY BLINDERS x CAT SEBASTIAN 🛤️ A newly freed convict takes a job working for a single father at his small-town general store, only to find that his criminal past and estranged family aren’t so easily left behind bars. #questpit #Q (in June) #A #HF #R
Cover card for How to Come Home, an upmarket queer historical romance complete at 107k words. Background of a cornfield at dusk with a full moon visible, with gold corner decorations in the top left and bottom right corners. A painting of Nathan and Lawrence at the center: Lawrence, sitting to the left, is a white blond man playing piano and smiling, with glasses hanging from his neck. Nathan, right, is a dark-haired white man watching him play. (Art by nikespera)PITCH
Ten years ago, Nathan Gilliard turned informant on his family’s Prohibition criminal empire, damning his brothers to prison in exchange for a lesser sentence of his own. Now a free man, all he wants is a quiet, solitary life, never forgetting what he did to his family—or why.
Taking a job in a small-town general store is the perfect stopgap to get back on his feet after a decade behind bars. But his new boss, single father Lawrence Freburg, is everything Nathan’s upbringing and time in prison weren’t—open, earnest, and kindhearted. As they live and work side by side, business compatibility turns to companionship and then an intimacy neither man expected—a bond that makes Nathan question his pursuit of a solitary life over one lived in partnership. 
But Nathan’s past isn’t that easy to abandon, and when his old life and older secrets return with a vengeance, they threaten to destroy everything he and Lawrence have begun to build. Forced to face the wreckage of his former life, Nathan and Lawrence must confront the consequences of holding their pasts too present if they have any hope of building a future together.COMPS:
Peaky Blinders:
- Crime family, criminal brothers,
- The costs of winning vs. the costs of losing
- The (in)justice of vengeance
We Could Be So Good:
- Queerness & homemaking
- 20th-century American life
- Coworkers/roommates-to-lovers
+ Sounds like…
- Laurel Hell by Mitski
- Babel by Mumford & Sons
- Hozier by HozierSNIPPET
He removes his glasses, careful not to strain the chain as he holds them in one hand and polishes the lenses with his tan shirt. The tension at the corners of his eyes relaxes as he cleans, and Nathan watches the simple calm on his face.

Seeing Lawrence without his glasses is as rare as a lightning strike, and just as stunning. It must be unsettling, frightening, to give up that boon to his vision, but Nathan relishes these moments he can selfishly fancy himself a confidant of Lawrence’s utmost trust. Not just through the physical ease on his face—the implicit trust, the fact he’s comfortable enough to be in such a state with Nathan. 
Or perhaps he just needs to clear a smudge.

[Portrait of Nathan on the left and Lawrence on the right. Art by luneillusoire]
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Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A knight sets out into an enchanted forest to slay a dragon. A shapeshifter will do anything to prevent his success. When the two meet in the woods, they must rely on each other to survive. As they grow closer, the knight begins to question if he should slay the dragon. #questpit #W #A #F #LGBT
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eliza🍂 @pennedbyelizab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
HEARTSTOPPER X LA LA LAND 🎭mlm romance 🏳️‍⚧️transmasc mc/li 💡autism rep 💃musical theatre easter eggs 💜friends to lovers #questpit #q #YA #R
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
To Ruin the Sky ⚡️ An eclipse triggers an ancient ritual & lots of problems for Lyla. Brokering a deal with the enemy in hope of answers, will she give into forbidden chemistry with Axel or risk finding out just how closely her fate is tied to the end of the world? #QuestPit #RF #NA #Q #writersky
A moodboard that includes an eclipse, a finger touching water with a shadowy reflection, a couple in a club, a broken mirror, a lightning bolt, a woman breathing shadow, a couple overlooking a city, a shadowy woman, a geode. 
Text with arrows from the board read:
Apocalyptic ritual, good vs evil reimagined, slow burn with chilli, lovers and enemies, shadow mommy FMC, quest for answers, morally grey MMc and FMC, London based mischief, urban setting, metaphor for identity
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Juniper Woodbury @juniperwoodbury.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Imagine Tom & Zendaya, but he’s a vegan butcher & she’s a ruthless goddess Facing punishment after stealing from mortals (how was she supposed to know they expected payment?) a selfish muse tricks an innocent butcher into taking the fall for her... then ends up falling for him. #questpit #Q #A #RF
collage of ancient, fantasy and mythology images, including the back of a mysterious person's head looking at candles, two women in linen hoods one of them with her hand over her face and a black dot on her palm, the top of a mirror, a woman looking through ornate silver, an ancient courtyard through gossamer curtains, a snake slithering through sand, the sun seen through the horns of an ox, and two assyrian knives.
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suzanne albanis (agented!) @suzannealbanis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
In this CARMILLA retelling, Marsha Braun—a necromantic witch—must sell her family estate to free their trapped souls and escape a vicious immortality-seeking cult. There, she falls for the night gardener—with deadly family secrets intertwined with her own #A #H #DF #QuestPit #OS
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Dani Hight - Author @dani-hight-author.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A tale of survival, forgiveness, and sibling rivalry that takes place where rules can't reach you and crimes are not punishable. The only ones to judge your actions are the dragons, impress them or die trying, those are the only options. #questpit #Q #YA #F #yafantasy #amquerying
The Dragon Trials a YA Fantasy Novel Pitch for The Dragon Trials: Young Prince Calahan must survive a deadly dragon bonding trial while being hunted by his brother and haunted by his past- failure risks not just his crown, but his soul.  First line of The Dragon Trials: To bond with a dragon,  you must first rip your soul in two and prove that you are worthy.  Comps for The Dragon Trials: Powerless by Lauren Roberts , The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones , Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
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Charisma | Romance Author | Nigerian Characters @charismawilliams.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
BEACH READ x LOVE ISLAND desperate for the 💵, Jesutoni must work w/ the person she hates - her ex- before she embarrasses herself on TV/disappoints the person she loves the most...their child. -romance author x horror author -reality show setting -fuck u...fuck me #questpit #Q #OWN
3 x 3 collage of nine photos (cozy)

Top row, left to right: a reality show setting, where a camera is focused on a woman smiling, Miles actor from How to get away with murder, a selfie view of a black couple holding hands but far from each other where the woman is smiling and their background is the beach and sunset.

Middle row, Left to right: a warm picture of the sunset set against blacklit palm trees with the sky an array of purple, blues, reds and oranges, a cozy picture of an open laptop with Google Docs on a bed, a picture of the Fiji beach with blue waters, white sand, and the forest further away from the camera.

Bottom row, Left to right: woman laying on the sand while the man is holding her by the leg and doesn't seem to be dragging her, a close up of a black woman with her natural hair fully out wearing a white cardigan and black camisole, a filming setting closeup of a video camera.
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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family. ⚔️Age-old clan feud 🧪Unique magic & world 🐉Scandinavian folklore ❤️‍🔥Steamy Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers 🛡️"Who did this to you?" / "You did! 🗡️"Touch him & die" #QuestPit #Q #R #F #A #AgentsGuide
An image of Lagertha from the TV show Vikings to the right and one of Robin Hood from the Robin Hood movie (2010) to the left, divided in the middle by an image of “Freydis sword”, adorned with intricate patterns, from the game Skyrim. 

Title: True Hate’s Kiss.
109,000 words
New Adult Romantasy
Text: “To break her curse, she needs a kiss… from the man she swore to kill.”An image taken from the TV show Vikings of a hand holding a sword with Norse Runes etched into the blade. 

Text: When a man from the enemy clan murders Älva’s father, she swears revenge. But then her family is cursed to die. The only way to break the curse? A True Hate’s Kiss. The man she hates the most must kiss her of his own free will. But the more she learns about her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything.An image of a man and woman kissing, silhouetted against the sunset.

Text: 
Scandinavian Iron Age (almost Viking Age)
Pretending to woo him while betraying him
Feuding clans
Enemies-to-forbidden-lovers
Complicated family dynamics
“Who did this to you?” / “You did!”
Scandinavian folklore
Nature spirits, magical swords, Norse witches

Comp titles: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen, The Road of Bones by Demi Winters, Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, 10 Things I Hate About You (the movie)An image of a conifer forest.

Text:
Opening
Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart. 
“Lycki, stop!” My voice cracked, hoarse with panic.
But my little brother’s green tunic and blond hair slipped through the conifer branches ahead, his distant voice floating back to me. “Come on, Älva! I found snowdrops!”
Wonderful, we were about to start a war over flowers.
Gut twisting, I burst into a sprint—past the overgrown sign nailed to a pine, ominous runes carved deep into the wood: ‘Hult Territory.’
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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🌌🎪 x Sapphic Moulin Rouge Raised on war and lost love, Carina acts out revolutionary stage plays in colonial Manila. Dissent is a death sentence, but she’s willing to risk it all when a familiar face from her past sits down one night to watch her perform #QuestPit #WIP #novella
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Ilana Kelley @ilanakelleyauthor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
THE BARGAINER x SERPENT & DOVE NIGHT BIRD, an adult romantic fantasy ft: 🕰️ dual timeline ✨ invisibility & intangibility 🔪 FMC vigilante for wronged women ☠️ poison & female rage 🌃 newly industrialized world 🫂 found family #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #AgentsGuide #AgentGuide
An Agent’s Guide for Night Bird
An adult romantic fantasy novelThe Pitch
Ava is destined for a life of seduction, espionage, and assassination. Born with the ability to become invisible, she is the secret weapon of one of the five great houses. But when a mysterious boy, Zev, crashes through her warded cage, she is freed.

With her freedom, Ava transforms into Night Bird, a vigilante for wronged women. But tipping the scales of justice draws the notice of New Oster’s power elite, including one of the most feared men in the city, who turns out to be the boy who set her free. And when the house she left behind catches up, he may be the only one able to help her from following in her dead mother’s footsteps.For Fans of:
DUAL TIMELINE
SLOW BURN ROMANCE
FOUND FAMILY
FEMALE RAGE & POISON
KNIFE TO THE THROAT
ESCAPE FROM OPPRESSORS
PAST CATCHING UP
INDUSTRIALIZED URBAN SETTING

Images: 
Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa
Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Book of Azrael by Amber V. NicoleA Snippet:
The man in the ring seemed inhuman. Not like the Zev I’d known.

“I’ve seen a serratys fight. Rumbled with a few myself,” Stone said, eyes flicking wildly to take in every detail. “They didn’t move like that. This fight was over before it began. He’s just providing good entertainment by not ending it right away, that’s all.”

Despite his blood-slicked skin, Digger remained on his feet, weaving desperately to regain footing. His unfocused eyes were dazed. Zev finally stood still, letting the other man throw a punch, then sidestepped with a hard elbow to the head. That was the end of Digger, who crashed onto the ground like a collapsed building.

Earsplitting cheers and stomping beat at my ears, and I wanted to clap my hands over them. Then the screams transformed from exuberance to fear as Zev sprouted horns on stage, body growing, muscles bulging—his serratys form taking over.

His roar deafened the crowd, but my hands dropped as his chest tattoos came into focus. With his constant motion, I hadn’t gotten a good look during the fight. But now he was still, and I saw it. The tattoo entwined by so many others, almost hidden. It was a bird, wings raised as if viewed from the side and slightly underneath.
A night bird. The exact ones I used to play my cello for on those lonely nights. Where Zev’s nickname had started. And that bird was now inked across his chest, directly over his heart.
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Damian is ✨️drafting✨️ @damian-santos.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A new #agentsguide for my revised version of A FEAST FOR LAMBS(made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) coming back to agents inboxes real soon 👀 🏳️‍⚧️Transmasc MC ❤️‍🔥Poly monster romance 🥩Cannibalism 🩸Religious horror 🫀Body horror 🔥Trans rage #questpit #A #H #RF #querying
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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
BONE SHARD WAR/THE JASAD HEIR There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #AgentsGuide
An agent's guide to "The Breath of Silence" a fantasy novel by M J Reynard against a dusk/dawn sunrise. At the top are three awards in laurels: Future Worlds 2023 Shortlisted; RevPit 2025 Shortlisted; Write Mentor 2025 Longlisted.A sky and cloudscape with sunlight on the left and thick rolling cloud on the right. Title reads 'Comps' and below are four different subtitles with corresponding books:
Magic - The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart
Politics - The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem
Atmosphere - The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne
Slow Burn - One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
(The Breath of Silence by M J Reynard)A dark green forest. Caption reads - The Pitch: In a world where magic is forbidden, an outcast shifter & a heartbroken soldier form a fragile alliance to smuggle a relic, but as betrayal leads to murder, they must stop a vengeful sorceress or lose all magic - forever!
(The Breath of Silence by M J Reynard)Vertical red flames and sparks against a night sky. Two lists for Tropes & Themes:
Slow burn
Enemies to friends
Culture clash
Queernormative world
Prejudice against magic & wealth
Fish out of water
Found family
Shapeshifters & witches
Immortals & reincarnates
Dragons & tigers
City in the sky!
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alyssa @alyssaarcher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
When the King’s lethal plans to eradicate magic threatens to expose a noble’s seer abilities, she exploits her engagement with the King’s son to uncover the Crown’s secrets, but her fiancé’s fascination with poison could make her his next test subject if she’s caught #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #AgentsGuide
Cream background with gray lines curving across it. Brown outlines of flowers border the top left and bottom right corners. “An Agent’s Guide To,” “A Crown of Poison,” “YA Fantasy - 95k words,” and “Alyssa Archer” mark the center of the page in brown.Three graphics of amber jars with white labels sit on a brown wooden shelf. “Craft Your Poison” marks the front of the shelf in black cursive. 
First jar: A yellow flower with green stems sits inside the jar. “Ingredient,” “Enemies to Lovers,” and “‘If you’re going to threaten to poison me, you should understand what you’re trying to poison me with’” mark the label. 
Second jar: Dark indigo berries with lime green leaves fill the jar. “Ingredient,” “Involuntary visions of the future,” and “Blue, unseeing eyes bore into me. Their emptiness seizes my consciousness, twisting it awake. When I blink, the woman’s eyes close, and she disappears into the darkness” marks the label. 
Third jar: A green leaf sits inside the jar. “Ingredient,” “Lessons in poison,” and “]I thought you couldn’t digest information from just reading.’ His chin dips, waiting to see if I uphold the lie I forgot about. I shrug. ‘It had drawings’” marks the label.An aged sheet of parchment lies across a light wood table. “First page” with a line beneath it marks the top of the parchment. 
Text fills the rest of the parchment: Heat skitters across my legs and arms as I sink into the tub in my grandmother Leelee’s washroom. The lavender and rose-perfumed water suffocates the darkened room. My nose flinches at the disturbingly familiar scents, and my eyelids squeeze shut as I remember my vision from five years ago. The bloody images flash behind my eyes, and piercing screams reverberate in my ears. My gloved fingers scrape the tub’s sides as they curl into fists.
“Star.” River’s even voice draws me back to the present and to what I promised her I’d do.
I meet River’s pale Seer eyes. They mirror my own; my sky-blue irises faded to almost white after my Seer abilities showed at twelve.
“Yes,” I grumble, irritated with her forcing me to trigger my first vision. Even though we do this every week, I hate it. I’d rather wear sopping clothes everyday than remember what happened on my twelfth birthday.
 I’m only obeying her wishes because of the deal we made when I was thirteen.
The pleasant warmth from the bath loosens the knots in my back, and my anxious breaths slow until they’re steady.
“Are you ready?” River’s dress plumes around her as she kneels beside the wooden tub.
 “Yes.”
She unsheathes her dagger and flips her hand. A shard of light slips through the closed curtains, highlighting the dark edges of the Eye on her palm. She presses the blade’s tip into the pad of her index finger, and crimson bubbles from the wound. After sheathing her dagger, she leans over the steaming water, positioning her finger beneath my nose. A collage with 12 photos.
First photo is of yellow daffodils. Second photo is the book cover of “Violet Made of Thorns” by Gina Chen. Gold roses on green vines curve up the purple cover. Third photo is of a wine glass filled with a crimson liquid and dried flowers. Fourth photo is of a golden crown on a stool covered by a tan sheet. Fifth photo is of purple foxglove in a blurred field. Sixth photo is of a blond woman wearing a blue gown in front of a wall of red flowers. Seventh photo is of a blond man lying on the floor with a necklace dangling over his head. Eighth photo is a close-up of a light blue eye beside white flowers on the grass. Ninth photo is of a cliff with the sea at its bottom. Tenth photo is of the black pommel of a rusty sword. Eleventh photo is the book cover of “Defy the Night” by Brigid Kemmerer. Purple flowers surround a far away shot of a castle on the purple book cover. Twelfth photo is of purple calla lilies.
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Ayishah Hasni is ✨AGENTED✨ @ayishahhasni.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A pirate who goes by the name of Sinbad. A princess who loves stories. An island that never stays in one place. Together, can they cross the Indian Ocean to find it? ONE THOUSAND ONE VOYAGES is a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor #questpit #YA
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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🌊 THE BAD ONES X DREDGE 🌊 After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it. This YA Fantasy Horror features: 👥Dual POV 📜A Deadly Deal 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets With Severe Consequences 💔Exes to Allies to [redacted] #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #H
Left to right. Top row: hands reaching out of the water. A doll head. Human hands with sharpened nails. Middle row: A lighthouse shining through fog. “Are you afraid?” An eerie figure standing beside a tree with a noose. Bottom row: Hands reaching towards each other in the water. A sea creature with glowing eyes and sharp teeth. Multiple hands reaching out of the forest brush.
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