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Emma Al-munshi

@emmaalmunshi.bsky.social
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🧿Romantasy Author & Poet 🌊A Kingdom to Drown Me 🪾WIP: SWANA myth horromantasy 🎤Voice over rep: @bedfordsqvoices 📍Yorkshire x Iraqi lass in London www.emmaalmunshi.com

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Thank you all so much for supporting our #MENApit posts! It was amazing to see how much support there is for SWANA voices. And THANK YOU @ptissem.bsky.social, @krystalelkhoury.bsky.social & @yaldacollection.bsky.social for hosting @menapitch.bsky.social ✨ I’m extremely grateful! ❤️
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Sophia Vahdati - Writer @sophiavahdati.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
SEVERANCE x INDUSTRY 🕴️Hunger Games for burnt-out millennials who are too tired for revolution🕴️ A rebellious young woman struggles to hold on to both her morals and her life in a country ruled by a Big Tech company that executes people deemed unemployable. #MENAPIT #WIP
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME 6 Keys 🔑 5 Centuries of magical politics ✨ 4 Djinn on a mission ⚔️ 3 Threats Mona Al’Maii must navigate 💀 2 Hot-headed, kindred souls 🖤 1 Secret that could ruin it all 🧭 The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies #MENApit #RF #Qu #NA
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Katie Abdou @kaitlynabdou.com · 10/04/2026
Today is @menapitch.bsky.social . I feel honored to join in a pitch event geared specifically toward SWANA authors, especially now during #arabheritagemonth. SWANA authors make up less than .5% (A HALF OF A PERCENT) of published authors. #menapit #ag #hf #LGBTQ
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Krystal is AGENTED✨ @krystalelkhoury.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
TALL TALES FROM THE TANTOOR TAILOR Cozy SWANA Fantasy Romcom ft: 🪡Love Magic 🪄👒Enchanted Hat Shop 💍Marriage of Magical Convenience 🐕Golden Retriever Wife 🐈‍⬛Black Cat Husband 💰Tax Fraud #MENApit #WIP #R #Co #F #A
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Yalda is AGENTED💫 @yaldacollection.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Have you heard? 👀 WORKED 2 DEATH has gone under the knife 🔪 : A ransom plot goes horribly awry when a trio of cash-strapped colleagues kidnap their nepobaby manager on a work trip, and find themselves embroiled in the lethal world of Fintech’s elite. #menapit #agented
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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What We Can Know x CW's The 100 Enemies by circumstance Imani & Elijah must put aside their differences to stay alive & to find the other survivors when their space station crashes onto a ravaged Earth. #MENApit #WIP #A #SF #Dystopian
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Krystal is AGENTED✨ @krystalelkhoury.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Necromancer’s Wife as quotes from SWANA writers ✨agent and Big 5 editor interest✨ 🏳️‍🌈wlw+queer chars 💀retired necromancer🩷💜💙 ⚗️missing alchemist🧡🤍🩷 🪄magical intrigue 🚂dieselpunk #MENApit #Qu #A #F #LGBT
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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Assassin's Creed x Alif the Unseen When a heist goes wrong, 2 members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a jinn bent on the subjugation of human & jinn-kind. #MENApit #Qu #YA #P #UF
A Convergence of Souls by Hadiyah Sama 

Art by RoscheriArt on instagram •YA
•urban fantasy 
•secret societies 
•islamic mythology
•she hates him
•horror elements 
•heists

PITCH: When a heist goes wrong, two rival members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a malicious Jinn, an Unseen creature from the myths, hell-bent on retribution. With both the Seen and Unseen on their tail, and a history of hatred between them, the two must work together to stop the jinn from exacting a plan that would mean the eternal subjugation of both human jinn-kind alike.

A CONVERGENCE OF SOULS is a dual POV novel that centres on the deadly secrets of two members of rival secret societies. 
COMPS: Assassin's Creed, Alif the Unseen, Portrait of a Thief, The Stardust Thief, Indiana Jones

EXCERPT:  “Where is it?” Tabby asked, and Felix pulled the scarf fully from around his face. He was sweating. Gross. 

 “Not here,” he muttered. “There was a Scholar.” 

 “You lost it?” Tabby sounded disgusted. Her long black hair was gathered in a high ponytail, the sleek mane falling down her back as she leaned forward in her seat.
 
 “There was a Scholar,” Felix repeated defensively. “She punched me in places that may never recover, Tabitha.”
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Sophia Vahdati - Writer @sophiavahdati.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A multiracial teen grapples with her illegal dual heritage in a world where eye colour determines status, elemental affinity and who you're allowed to love. If her secret is discovered, she'll be executed by the Empire – but if she keeps on hiding then she'll never be free. #Pub #MENApit #DY
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Neѕѕα @nessamoulay.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
To save her late mother’s Algerian bakery from ruin, a 25yo baker accepts to cater her nemesis’ lavish wedding—unaware the job would include uncovering her mom’s buried past…and falling for the groom. #A #R #MENApit 💞
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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive. 🔪 Revenge plot 🏚️Liminal Spaces 🐈‍⬛Cat POV 🎭 Unreliable narrator ☠️ Body horror #MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS #POC
A moodboard for GODCAT, an adult dark fantasy/horror blend, featuring six black cats and one magpie eye in the center.
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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—until she meets a godling who reveals personal things only her owner could've known. #MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS #POC
A moodboard for the dark fantasy, GODCAT, featuring liminal spaces, black cats, and a magpie's eye.
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Rawiya Beirut | راوية بيروت @rawiyabeirut.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
When a rebel witch is betrayed and sentenced to death, the executioner saves her by claiming her as his bride—forcing them to navigate a fake marriage, colonial politics, and traitors, all while secretly dismantling the empire that is destroying their home. #menapit #a #f #wip
a moodboard of images; 

- a bouquet of flowers in the top left, feathers in top center, a hand holding a thread (IMAGE BY Stephanie Rew Fine Art) in top right
- a skull covered by a translucent sheet in the center left, center image has a woman covered by thread (PHOTOGRAPHED BY Becca Geden), and center right has a sword in snow
- bottom left has a spider on a web, bottom center is a photo of a flower underneath the petals, and bottom right is a loom
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Safah @safahamjad.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Miles Between Us, which features: ✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance; ✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism, and identity; ✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles; ✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar; ✅ a romantic subplot. #MENApit #WIP #A #L #T
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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN x PIRANESI Be drowned as a cat. Be reborn a human. Ascend. Kill your murderer as the New God of Revenge. Marsh tries to shed all humanity to become revenge itself. Except humanity is what she always wanted. #MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS
First 200 words of GODCAT, a dark fantasy/horror.
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
When a card game has telepath Mona fleeing town, a handsome djinn spy drags her to an underwater kingdom where she awakens old djinn magic. But with the oceanic sky failing, will inner demons drown her before she can save her people or will warring factions claim her? #MENApit #Qu #RF
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Writers are you ready for the next pitch event? #MENApit is almost here! Here are the basics:
A pitch event for MENA/SWANA writers and their work. April 10th from 12 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST. For more info visit menapit.carrd.coThe rules: you identify as MENA (Middle-Eastern, North African)/SWANA (Southwest Asian, North African). You are allowed to post 3 pitches per social media platform, no more than once per hour. Guides, moodboards, character art and any other graphics (including audio/video) are welcome. Manuscripts at any stage are welcome. No AI or NFTs Mandatory tags: use appropriate audience hashtags; use #MENApit hashtag; use appropriate genre hashtags; anyone can like and share/repost pitches. #MENApit for all pitches; #AG for agented writers; #Pub for published writers; #Qu for querying writers; #WIP for works in progress.Identity hashtags: you are welcome to include other hashtags such as #OWN (ownvoices), #LGBT etc. 

Audience hashtags: #A (adult); #CL (children’s literature); #MG (middle grade); #NA (new adult); #YA (young adult).

Full list of Genre Hashtags can be found on menapit.carrd.co
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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I’ve been wondering… am I pitching my heartfelt, high-heat, Berlin retro-destination romance™️ all wrong? Unhinged friends, what if I rebranded it as a romcom? 👇 Thoughts? #UnhingedPit #Q #A #R
Athlete • single dad • lost soul • hunk
Type A • brainy • good girl abroad
Forced proximity
Age gap
He falls first
“It’s just a fling”
Cheeky banter
Hot🌶️

Title in mock visual:
Only 1 Summer in Berlin

A summer student. A housing mix-up. A gruff German host.
And an unexpected love story that will turn summer into forever.

When they make up after a row… 💔🔥
“And where does that leave us…”
“In a bloody big mess,” I say bitterly
I lift my head to kiss him, but he pulls me to his chest.
“Let me just hold you.”
“Let’s do more.”
“F*ck it, [redacted], I didn’t apologize so I could get some.”

Certified stamp: 100% TRUE. 100% MISLEADING.

Credits: Composite image made from cutouts (Berlin skyline; man & boy sitting on steps; young woman standing; suitcase), all designed by freepik.com and cartoonized/posterized by me. "Certified" stamp designed by freepik.com
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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Here's my #UnhingedPit #NA #F #R #W – that I've nicknamed the 'Plantomasy' Project – in vibes & pictures only! Boy meets girl: plants get in the way, with knitting, tango-dancing, annoying little sisters, troublesome relations & a pet house plant.
A collage.
TOP ROW: "These guys": A picture of Anthony and Kate from Bridgerton.
"But dancing like this": A picture of a couple from Strictly Come Dancing in a sizzling tango pose.
MIDDLE ROW: "Like in Jumanjii when the plants become a problem": A picture of a huge tropical flower bursting into a living room from the film.
"But more like Stranger Things": a picture of the creeping vines in the house in Season 4.
BOTTOM ROW: "On the trail of a killer": a picture of Knives Out 3, with Daniel Craig and the cast staring down into a grave.
"But with geeks": Steve and Nancy from Stranger Things Season 4, dressed up to hunt Vecna, like they mean business.
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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Me again! Forget romcom, I’ve just had another idea. Since my Berlin romance is practically historical… what if I went full bodice ripper instead? 👇 The cover needs *minor* adjustments, but how does the concept feel? Fresh? Or unhinged? #UnhingedPit #Q #A #R
In a world torn by history (Berlin, '97), a spirited beauty (I mean, she’s alright) defies propriety (books a language course) to claim her rightful future (career plans).
 Stranded on distant shores (Berlin. I said so already. Yes, there’s a beach), she falls prey to a cruel fate (housing mix-up) that entwines her destiny (for 2 months. Calm down) with a battle-scarred warrior (ex pro athlete with custody drama) guarding his wounded heart.
 Tormented by desire beyond endurance (will they, won’t they), they’re swept into an all-consuming passion (4*🌶️). It may devour them both—or grant the love of a lifetime (HEA).
Sticker: Has Already Claimed Untold Beta Readers’ Hearts!


Certified stamp: 100% TRUE. 100% MISLEADING. 

Credits:
(1) Berlin aerial shot feat. the TV tower (Norbert Braun on Unsplash)
(2) cutout of original cover art by Sharon Spiak for "Chanting the Dawn" by Marylyle Rogers. All rights remain with the artist www.sharonspiakart.com
Certified stamp: designed by freepik.com
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Getting ready to shout about all your soon to be favourite MENA authors! Watch this space for our new interview series - MENA Muses - that shines a light on the amazing MENA authors writing & publishing such a diverse range of fresh, exciting stories! Coming VERY SOON!
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I’m a day late to post but I’m doing #FastDraftFeb to increase the words on my WIP and I’ll use this as my accountability thread! Goal for the month is 17k 🪾
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
*whispers* Big 5 Editor and agent like on the other place 🕯️🧿❤️ Can I interest anyone in a manifestation circle 😂
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Thank you to everyone who supported my #Questpit pitches! I really appreciate it :) I've loved seeing what you're all working on. Sending the #writingcommunity lots of positive vibes and luck for the querying/sub trenches ✨
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Introducing an updated #agentsguide for A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME ✨Arab folklore & exploration of the myth of djinn 💎Unique magic system & world 🪞Explores inner demons & mental health ⚖️Corruption & greed as central to conflict 🧿23 full requests #questpit #Q #RF #agentguide
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Julianne @authorjulianne.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
In honour of #QuestPit and the upcoming #SmoochPit showcase, here's an updated #agentsguide for THE BOG PRINCE, my upper #YA #RF about a necromancer who reanimates the bog body of her kingdom's long-lost prince. 💀👑 Maybe some secrets are better left buried... 🖤 #agentguide #Q
"An agent's guide to THE BOG PRINCE by Julianne M, a 99k word YA fantasy romance." The pitch...

Eighteen-year-old Everin Lockett’s dreams of returning home from ruthless Wyverith College are shattered when she manifests a forbidden necromancy magic that reanimates the bog body of her kingdom’s lost prince. If the college discovers the truth about her abilities, she will be conscripted into their brutal army, 
doomed never to see her family again.

Desperate to guard her secret, Everin strikes a deal with the long-lost Prince Byrnan: if he helps keep her power hidden, she will help him solve his centuries-old murder. But when Byrnan’s quest for justice could be the very thing that endangers her last hope of going home, Everin will need to confront the true cost of 
falling for a lost prince with nothing left to lose—and a kingdom to reclaim. 
 Pictures of book and album covers in ornate antique frames. The text reads:

For fans of...

Yearning and bog bodies (Hozier's debut album)
Dark academia and lyrical prose (A Study in Drowning and Curious Tides)
Haunting gothic atmosphere (One Dark Window and Florence + the Machine's Lungs album)
Slow-burn romance (Divine Rivals)Snippet...

 A fork of lightning split the rain-soaked sky in two, and the ground trembled with a deafening clap of thunder. But even after the rumbling faded, the bog still shuddered beneath me, swelling and quaking like a pair of lungs drawing their dying breath. I lurched away, my heart jolting against my throat as I scrambled back through the mud. 
Another crack of lightning. 
And in its wake, silhouetted against the flash of violet light—

 A single grasping hand, 
clawing its way out of the earth towards me.
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Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS She planned to be the terror in his life. He planned to ignore her. Neither planned on saving a crumbling empire from a tyrant—or falling in love. 91K-word adult fantasy romcom / Smoochpit '25 mentee #questpit #A #RF #Q
moodboard for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem showing plum blossoms; a man fighting in bamboo forest; a view of a Chinese palace through red gates; a woman with a death stare; a man with a serious displeased look; moon-gate looking into a Chinese garden with a pavillion on the pond; a man kissing a woman's neck intimately; Chinese calligraphy and brush pen
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Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫 @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
GLASS ONION x MISS CONGENIALITY Mistaken for someone else, a reporter plays along. But she's not the only one acting a part. To uncover what's going on she must know who to trust, try not to get killed and definitely NOT fall for the man she's fake-dating. #Questpit #W #A #RF #MY
AGENT INTEREST in my WIP after a full request.
THEY'RE ALL HIDING SOMETHING. SO IS SHE.

Snippets of dialogue
The letter heading, crisp, startling, hooks her gaze. Irresistibly, she reaches out, her heart suddenly thudding...
'What the hell do you think you're doing?'
The dark furious voice makes her jerk back guiltily like a marionette pulled sharply up on her strings. The papers in her hand spill to the floor again with the sly whisper of shifting sand.
A man stands in the doorway, his hand still on the door-knob, his expression one of absolute blazing rage.

Kate (later) defensively to Alex: 
Well, it was his fault. He jumped to the wrong conclusion and I…well, I couldn’t tell him who I was and what I was doing there, could I?’ Oh, I wouldn't say that,' he drawls. 'Some women of my acquaintance would hold ‘that I have a great deal of charm.’ 

(Girl comes out to drape beach towels over stone balustrade to dry. Stands, hands going to hips, and glares at them – or rather at Kate. Someone calls her. Calls again sharply when she ignores them. With a final dark glower, aimed again at Kate, she swings round and stalks off indoors.) 

'I take it she's one of them,' says Kate. 'Poor girl. Never mind. I understand you can get very good treatment nowadays.'
He looks pained. 'I'll have you know I have an army of fans out there.'
She can't help laughing. 'Oh yeah?'
'Yeah.'
Then the most astonishing thing happens. They smile at each other.
I could like him, Kate thinks. He can be high-handed and insufferable but in spite of that, he does have charm, dollops of it. Under different circumstances, if he wasn't gunning for every journalist who comes within ten yards of him, and if my name wasn't mine, we might even be friends.
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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🥀WHAT RETURNS🥀 A Seer with indecipherable visions, a knight returned from the dead, & a motley team of spies & mages must form a plan to defeat a grief-mad necromancer-queen & her massive undead army, preferably before the continent is swallowed by civil war. No pressure. #questpit #W #DF #R
A collage on a dark green background, featuring a lily-of-the-valley pendant and a ruby-and-skull mourning ring, a golden heart pierced by red arrows, a skull set in a golden sunburst plaque, a thorny rose vine, a flame-licked hand reaching for a ruby, an illustrated woman in a mourning veil, a rocky crag full of lava, a gravestone, an all-seeing eye, and a dried rose.
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Amy | Fantasy Author @aekwordcrafter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x T KINGFISHER Featuring: 🍄 Sentient Mushroom Companions 🌧️ Murderous Magical Weapons 🍄 Mushroom religion/magic system 🌧️ A permanent rainy season 🍄 She falls first but he falls harder #QuestPit #AG #A #F #WIP
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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
After prophesying her own death, Olek is paired with a wannabe-bard, lover boy in order to save her country from utter ruin. ✨reluctant allies to lovers 🕯️her life for the worlds 🪞dragons & woodland beasts 🕯️talking swords ✨will she defy her fate? #questpit #RF #A #AG
a collage of a blonde woman and brunette man, dragons, and quotes. "You -- my hunger, my ruin." "He knew me by heart. It infuriated me that he knew me by heart." IN THE EYES OF A SEER
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Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
BELLADONNA x MEXICAN GOTHIC Edgar Allan Poe never wrote fiction and now his victims want revenge. When a soul-devouring spirit is released, Edgar’s daughter, Annalise, and her childhood friend, Henry, must defeat the spirit or lose their souls. #questpit #H #YA #P Fall ‘26
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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Practical Magic x The Honey Witch Two sisters develop the ability to sense love and are able to determine a person’s true love… for everyone except themselves ✨ With Big 5 Editor interest #QuestPit #Q #A #YA #F #R
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Leo Kelley @leokelley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
High heat on the high seas in this M/M fantasy romance. A disgraced noble takes to the high seas to rescue a princess and win her hand in marriage, but falls in love with his surly sea captain instead. ⭐ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentor Program #Questpit #Q #F #R #RF #LGBTQ
Image of a tall ship on the ocean with the title Storm Struck and the following text: A disgraced noble takes to the high seas to rescue a princess and win her hand in marriage, but falls in love with his surly sea captain instead. The Pitch:
Varos Belaro spent his whole life training for a dueling tournament he just lost - along with all his friends, his good name, and his career prospects. However, when he finds out that the kingdom’s princess has been kidnapped by an infamous pirate and the reward for saving her is her hand in marriage, he sees a chance at redemption. With the title of prince of the realm on the line, his family quickly strikes a contract with the fastest ship on the seas, and Varos takes off on an adventure to rescue the princess and his future. 

Kellan is the captain of the ship and a Stormrunner, a once-in-a-generation talent that can harness the power of storms for wind magic. After he saves Varos in a tempest, they collide in a steamy tryst, and Varos comes up with a plan to extend their fun by forming a gentleman’s agreement until they find the princess. But when the rival who ruined Varos’s life emerges with his own Stormrunner on the only other ship that can beat them, Varos and Kellan must race them to be the first to save the princess. Facing wild storms, duels, and pirate battles, Varos must choose between the life he’s always wanted and the love he never thought he’d have. 
Image of a tall ship on the ocean with "for fans of" and then the cover of three books. The books are Sorcery and Small Magics, Swordcrossed, and A Marvellous Light.The Vibes:

High Heat on the High Seas
Black Cat/Golden Retriever
Forced Proximity
Himbo Hero
Pirates!
Unique Magic System
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Kayleigh Fan 💖 is Querying @kayleighfan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
MATCHA DO ABOUT NOTHING 💘Loose Shakespeare inspiration 🍵Family-owned matcha shop 🇸🇬Mixed Asian American rep 📚Academic rivals to…? 🌉Bay Area setting 🫂Family drama Coming soon to the query trenches! #QUESTPIT #YA #W #R
The book title "Matcha Do About Nothing" in bold letters above a collage that consists of two Asian American high-schoolers, a shot of San Francisco Chinatown, and a close-up photo of vibrant green matcha.
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Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
WEYWARD x THE BEWITCHING When two witches in different eras find themselves battling the same ancient forest spirit, they must use magic to communicate through time and find a way to save their covens from total destruction. #questpit #H #S #Q
6 image moodboard with a rust red background 
Top left: monster in a forest
Top right: yt girl with wavy hair & white Tshirt (representing the main FMC)
Middle: a hand with flames, a girl doing a tarot pull
Bottom left: 3 women dancing around a fire pit, forest scenery 
The Witch of Gatlinburg | Demri Redmon 6 image moodboard with a rust red background
Top left: monster in forest
Top right: Romani woman with thick, curly hair & patterned head scarf (representing the second FMC)
Middle: hand with a flame, woman dancing in front of a large fire
Bottom left: covered caravan
Bottom right: forest scenery
The Witch of Gatlinburg | Demri Redmon
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paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿 @thewormwoods.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Introducing 🍃A RAVEN SONG 🍃 For eldest daughters and platonic soulmates. ⛩️portal fantasy 💫star crossed friendships 🍂nostalgia will kill her ❤️‍🔥touch her and you die, but they're best friends 🗡️reckless bargains and a tattooed elven soldier #questpit #q #a #f
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Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫 @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#agentguide to CARELESS WHISPERS my 𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬 romantic suspense set in Greece. The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive... 💥Secrets 💥Loss 💥Slow❤️🔥 💥Obsession 💥Unrequited💘 💥Betrayal 💥Murder #Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY
An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers a 97K Romantic SuspensePitch & Plot 
With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her. Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Rianna had not been well-liked. And everyone has something to hide. As she unravels what happened, the truth threatens everyone's future happiness and Listy must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price worth paying.Opening Lines - 
As the song fades, she hears the footsteps behind her. She doesn't rise from the lounger or look round. Just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon.
'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.'
'I have plenty to say.'
Her head whips round then. She smiles.

Snippet - 'When she died,' Olympia says in a hard voice, 'I was relieved. All I could think was, we're free of her now. Now we can begin to be happy.'
Listy's face spasms. 'But you're not,' she says. 'None of you are. It scares me, Olympia, all this hate. So much hate. Troy has it too. It's like...like it's eating him up. Rianna's dead but she might as well not be, the hold she still has on you all.'
Olympia begins rummaging in the drawer again. 'You didn't know her. You wouldn't understand.'
'I want to. Tell me what happened.' Tropes & Themes & The Vibes 
Collage of pictures with tropes and themes: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder

Lower half of page has The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera
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Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers) @wisteraverse.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
An empress with disability. A Dragon hoarding romance novels. A dysfunctional family of gods. Not the start of a joke, but Sy's undoing. When her ex, the chosen one, is murdered, feisty Sy fights the gods to escape a fate worse than death: becoming their eternal slave. #questpit #Q #F #BIPOC #LBGT
Pitch:  When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled and gutsy ex-girlfriend must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods’ eternal slave and weapon against mortals.
94,000 words Crossover Fantasy
Comps: 
T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone
Damsel (2024 film) 
Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller 
Margaret Owen’s Little ThievesMoodboard:
Dark fantasy Victorian vibes with purple color composition. 
Top row, left-to-right: a Byronic handsome man in black, a palace, a dark figure burning in hellfire, a masked female assassin of dark complexion holding a dagger, a serpentine forest trail at night marked with red flowers. 
At the center, next to a silver plume, is the text: “This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals.” 
Bottom row, left-to-right: a dark gaslit street, a gaslit city blanketed in coal smog at night, a young woman in a Victorian gown, wrought-iron gates opened to a foreboding foggy estate in the dark, a trail of red petals leading to a dark stone temple gate.Themes & Tropes: 
- Forbidden Love	- Hot Banter
- Feminine Rage	- Anti-Chosen
- Found Family	- Second Chances
- Dark Humor		- Identity 
- Friends-to-lovers	- Faustian Bargain
- Choosing vs. being chosen 
- Dual-Timeline

Representation: 
- LGBTQIA+ 		- BIPOC 
- Mental Health 	- Disability
- Neurodivergence	- Chronic IllnessExcerpt: 
       A gaunt mouse snatched bread crumbs from my lunch tray. I did not have the heart to give her a name, afraid I might lose her, too.

The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb. The bed’s cast-iron rods dug into my ribs through the thin mattress. I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering and pulled the threadbare blanket tighter around my body, hugging my knees to my chest. It did little against the chill creeping into my bones. The raging blizzard had transformed the courtyard into a churning white sea, rattling the broken window shutters hanging askew.

I was not allowed visitors or to set foot outside. The faded floral pattern of the peeling wallpaper was my only reminder of life beyond these walls. The medications I was forced to swallow left a cotton taste in my mouth and a dull ache in my skull. At least no screams echoed through the halls today.
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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
COBAB x Animorphs After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends. #questpit #Q #YA #F
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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
𝗛𝗶𝗺⚓The only fight I have left in me is for my son. I've no time for the houseguest the language institute sent me by mistake. Until we talk. We click. Suddenly, I'm wishing for things again. But she's not a choice I can make. Come fall, I'll have to let her go too. #Questpit #Q #A #R
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Tyler Stasi 🍓👒🕰️ @tylerstasi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#QuestPit #S #W #F The Shape of Water x LIGHTS ON THE SEA Who are you when there is no one to witness? 🌊mid-life crisis 🌊small town community 🌊redemption/soul transformation 🌊irony of the patriarchy 🌊maritime gothic art: vincenzo caprile
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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE x ASCENSION 🥀angel summoning as dark magic (and a metaphor for OCD) 🥀violent longing 🥀corruption arc(s) 🥀MC thinks he’s in a romance novel until it’s (almost) too late 🥀Victorian secret societies 🥀epistolary dual timeline #QuestPit #WIP #A #H #R
title card. background is a painting of an angel in dark shadow kissing someone in white, holding the angel’s face. In the foreground are three images. bottom left is a hand holding a flaming heart from a painting, in the centre is a hand reaching for a glowing fruit, in the top right is a hand reaching left. curved in a circle around the hands are the words forbidden fruitstitle card. background is a painting of an angel in dark shadow facing the right and extending an arm. In the foreground are three images. bottom left is a hand holding a flaming heart from a painting, in the centre is a hand reaching for a glowing fruit, in the top right is a hand reaching left. curved in a circle around the hands are the words forbidden fruitsBackground: black and white blurry shards of photos of eyes looking around. 
Foreground: bottom left, snip of a painting of a hand holding a heart on fire. In the middle, snip of a painting of a hand reaching out for glowing fruit. Top right, hand reaching out in invitation. Around the hands, the words FORBIDDEN FRUITS in gold capital letters.
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Charlotte Hayward ✨ @thatchazza.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
DO YOUR WORST x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE 🩺One grouchy med student ☀️One nosey journalist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿A beautiful Scottish city 💥A highly inconvenient curse 👀Meddling, chaotic flatmates 🤫An ill-advised fake dating pact 💕Yearning, family secrets and far too much whisky... #QuestPit #R #W
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