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Gabriella Lauren @gabriellalwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SKULLSCAPE 87k Dark Academia Ninth House X Blood Over Bright Haven 🏛️Elite Academy 🌱Botany ❓Missing Brother 🔎 Rookie Sleuth 🦴Forbidden Magic This project has received 4 full requests and 12 invitations to query. #questpit #q #a #my #f

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Kelly @kellymariewrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MISS CONGENIALITY X THE BACHELOR Jude has one chance to free the humans from vampiric reign. She must go undercover in a competition to become the vampire king's bride and steal the magical stone entrapping her people before his brother steals her heart. #questpit #q #rf #a

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Kelly @kellymariewrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #w #rf To help her family, Leighton needs a big break in her reporting career. When her predictive powers place her at the king's death and princess' disappearance, she flees to a sentient inn that holds the secrets and the guest who can clear her name.

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Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BENEATH THE WAYWARD TIDES 80k Paranormal Thrillermance Fool's Gold (2008) meets Tidelands (2018) A mermaid and an archeologist team up to find a treasure, but she's harboring a terrible secret: she will die if she doesn't kill him first. #Questpit #W #A #F #PR #T

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!

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Gabriella Lauren @gabriellalwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE BONES OF RENAVERE The Witcher X Game of Thrones ⚔️ Sword & Sorcery 🦴 Bone Based Magic 🐉 Dragon Lore 🌎 High Stakes 👥 Multi pov & timeline 🏠 Found Family #questpit #q #a #f #my

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V.V. Angelova @libraryorv.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE BEAR & THE NIGHTINGALE X THE KNIGHT & THE MOTH X KATABASIS (with a Slavic twist) 🧹⚔️ Murdered 19th-century witch Olena awakens in the Slavic underworld and strikes a deadly bargain for revenge with Baba Yaga, uncovering buried truths. 121K folklore dark fantasy #questpit #A #Q #F #agentsguide

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jules is QUERYING @jccrews.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X THE SONG OF ACHILLES an #agentsguide to THE FALL OF THE SUNKEEPER, a mythical high fantasy/romance inspired by ancient rome. ✨ forbidden love ☀️ celestial death magic ⭐️ adventure ✨ chronically ill fmc!! ☀️ sexual tension ⭐️ there’s def only one bed #questpit #Q #A #F #RF

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questpit || next event: NOV 4th @questpit.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We’re officially a month out from 2026’s summer #questpit!! Here’s a refresh on some rules! We hope to see you there :)

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Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Fast and the Furious meets Bride by Ali Hazelwood in this fast paced Urban Romantasy where bird like creatures control lightning! 🦅⚡💘 #pitch #romantasy #urbanfantasy #romancebooks #bookpitch

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Rob Gotobed Books @robgotobedbooks.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Time to open something special in 2026! Get ready to continuously laugh out loud! From the absurd to the hilarious, this Best of Rob Gotobed’s comedy book delivers the wildest humour that’ll have readers of all ages giggling, snorting, and maybe even questioning their sanity. bit.ly/4aKC3WU

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Rob Gotobed Books @robgotobedbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You provide the sand, the sea and the sun — Rob will provide the summer fun & laughter! Probably the funniest comedian you’ve never heard of! Although you’ve already been laughing at his jokes on some of the top comedy shows in Britain and the USA. IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W

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Gabriella Lauren @gabriellalwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hope everyone had a successful QuestPit! Got to read some exciting pitches I hope to see on the shelves!

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AK Peters @akpeters.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

PAN’S LABYRINTH x STRANGER THINGS A girl searching for her missing father uncovers a hidden world of cryptids as something hunts her town. As her own power awakens, she realizes the danger isn’t just what’s hunting them but what’s waiting on the other side of the veil. #QuestPit #YA #F #W #booksky

Image of a wooded mountainous valley shrouded in fog with the title “The Veil of Wildemere: An Appalachian Fantasy”. Author name AK Peters

A tree in the dark on a foggy night with the pitch text from the caption

Themes and Tropes chart. Themes: community vs conquest, grief as a portal to transformation, morality as an act of resistance, power, control and the currency of being believed, what makes a monster? Tropes: portal fantasy, secret magic academy with an agenda, fantastical creatures that are not what they seem, unlikely FMC undergoes trials to save her family/the world?, magic with consequences

Recent comps showing photos of books: Starling House, The Invisible Life of Addie Laurie, The Luminaries. Older Comps: The Raven Boys, The Night Circus

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Ashley Leone @authorashleyleone.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

MURD€R & MISANDRY, a dark romantic comedy ft: 🖤diabetic serial k!ller 🖤female rage 🖤dual POV 🖤he falls first 🖤found family

Pink writing on a darker pink and black background reads: An agents guide to murder & misandry
A dark romantic comedy by Ashley Leone 80000 words - work in progress

Pink and black background with white words reading: THE PITCH
GIANNA DE LUCA IS A DIABETIC SERIAL KILLER WITH A SWEET TOOTH FOR PROBLEMATIC MEN—AND THERE'S NO SHORTAGE AT THE NIGHT CLUB WHERE SHE DANCES. BUT WHEN THE
PLACE GOES UP FOR SALE, HER ENDLESS FLOW OF VICTIMS IS THREATENED.
WHEN SHE SETS OUT TO SECURE ONE LAST VICTIM, GIANNA IS KIDNAPPED BY NICO MOROSO, THE LEADER OF THE MOROSO MAFIA AND HE'S GOT HIS OWN PROBLEM.
AFTER MURDERING HIS FATHER, NICO NEEDS TO COVER IT UP BEFORE HIS ORGANIZATION FINDS OUT. LUCKILY, HE HAS AN IDEA. IN EXCHANGE FOR HER FREEDOM AND ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY THE CLUB HERSELF, GIANNA MUST PLAY THE PART OF HIS FIANCÉE, PROVIDING HIM AN AIRTIGHT ALIBI.
BUT PLAYING LOVE-STRUCK FIANCÉE IS IMPOSSIBLE WHEN HE'S AN UNDERGROUND CRIMINAL, CHARMING AS SIN, AND WORST OF ALL, A PERFECT GENTLEMAN. THE LONGER THEY'RE TOGETHER, THE MORE GIANNA QUESTIONS HER BELIEFS ABOUT MEN.
THIS ONE ANYWAY.

Pink and black background with pink title reading: The Comps. Photos of books titled: Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver, Dolls & Daggers by D. L. Darby, Lights Out by Navessa Allen. White words read: He falls first, dark humor, feminine rage

Black and pink background with pink title reading: The opening. White lettering reads: TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING IS A VERY BAD THING.
THAT SAYING IS TRUE FOR THE MAN SPRAWLED ON THE ALLEYWAY PAVEMENT AT MY FEET. ANY OTHER GUEST OF THE BLACK VEIL NIGHT CLUB WOULD HAVE DRAGGED THEIR DUNK ASS BACK THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR, THE SAME WAY THEY CAME IN. NOT THIS GUY.
YOU JUST HAD TO BE DIFFICULT.

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Ali Stalone @alistalone.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"You have to understand the words I can't say out loud." He didn't say mafia. He didn't have to. She already knew. She unbuckled anyway and walked off that plane... straight into a world that should have sent her running. SHADES OF GREY & GOLD · Mafia Romance #questpit #Q #A #DR #R #WF

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Sarah Halter is querying @schalter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A FATE INKED IN BLOOD X THE CRIMSON CROWN 🥀A demon exiled for her magic 🪽A seraphim from a disgraced house ♟️Political pawns caught in a deadly game To free her love from an enemy court, Cariad must use her dark magic threatening to control her if she can’t control it first #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Grid style picture. Top left is of a woman holding dried flowers, top middle is of two people trying to grasp hands, top right is of a spooky forest, bottom left is of a rusty Celtic sword, bottom middle is of a person with white wings, bottom right is of a castle ruin on a cliff above the sea

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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

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Kaleah Mae🌼is querying☕ @km-books.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Introducing my #agentguide for FROM RABBIT TO WOLF 🌾🍂🌙 My 119k high-fantasy soft sapphic adventure! ✨Immersive Fantasy World ✨2 FMC ✨Curses ✨Found family ✨Sunshine x grumpy ✨Trilogy potential #questpit #Q #F #A #YA #booktwt

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Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

He killed a prince to save the kingdom. Now a fallen inquisitor, he’s been hired to find a missing ambassador, and the deeper he digs, the more it looks like saving the kingdom was a mistake. INQUISITOR FOR HIRE - multi-POV, 89k words #QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

Inquisitor for Hire Comps. For fans of The Tainted Cup’s genre-bending fantasy mystery, and the political darkness of Grave Empire, with the strange, decaying world of Mordew.

Tropes for Inquisitor for Hire: He saved the kingdom. He might have been wrong.

Fallen hero / disgraced legend
Chasing a vanishing truth
A secret the city was built to hide
Justice isn’t clean
Reluctant family forged under pressure
A power that takes more than it gives
Corruption at the highest level

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Querying THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US ✨Women’s Fiction 3️⃣Triple-POV 🏡Real-world Stakes 🫂Sister Relationships ❄️Chill vibes Come find out how three sisters react to their parents selling their childhood home. (Spoiler: You won’t see “congratulations” in the MS.) #questpit #wf #q

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jillianzacchia.bsky.social @jillianzacchia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

AVATAR meets MOANA in WHEN WATER SINGS: 100K #YA #SFF, featuring: 🌊 underwater portals 🧜🏻‍♀️ mermaid aliens 🧠 telekinetic language 🪸 Atlantis-like city 👥 Dual POV 💧 the chosen one FMC 🧜🏿‍♂️ “touch her and die” MMC #LiteraryAgent #AgentGuide #questpit #amquerying

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Cail Rowan @cailrowan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bone HousesXHouse of Hollow A delicate bloom holds a secret & threatens peace when Luna’s father vanishes into The Orade. She & Treasure search for him, but cruel sectors & a magic-plague force her to face untamed powers & a hard choice: save him, save Treasure, or lose herself. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!”
The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death.
“Magic should never return.”
After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended.
Sent him back to his body.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/sunshine. 1930s vibes. Love triangle. LGBTQIA+ rep. Cynical mentor. Dying world. Found family.

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Coral Vega is revising ✍️ @authorcoralvega.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A DANCE OF FIRE, 95k romantasy, #amquerying with multiple full requests! 🪭2nd world Spanish fantasy 🔥Elemental magic 🌶️M/F, F/F sugar & spice 💃🏻Flamenco as a weapon 💕Fem rage 🐉Dragons 🌍 Climate crisis ❤️‍🔥Ruinous love In a city on fire, be unburnable🌇 #q #a #rf #questpit

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Clara Benson is ✨querying✨ @clarabenson.org · 29/04/2026

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC Typhus strikes and brings a wealthy New Yorker intent on marrying the hardworking inn maid. To keep a promise to her sister, she accepts, despite warnings from a medical student who threatens her last hope for salvation. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

cover photo for Finding Echinacea's Agent's Guide, a couple kissing in a field and the words "a literary historical romance by Clara Benson

Get to know the book!
Enemies to lovers
Medical history of typhus
The tension between duty and desire
Historical Fiction set in 1847
Reconciliation in the wake of broken promises
Complex family dynamics
Money can’t buy happiness
Small village isolated setting
Class tension and social mobility

a mood board for Finding Echinacea; a maid, echinaceas, a pocket watch, church steeple, romantic couples and medical textbook pages

Comps
Titanic for the love triangle, class disparity and overbearing fiance
Rebecca for the hasty proposal from a wealthy man with a secretive past
Dr. Quinn for the small town setting and medical tension

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Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

FATE OF THE SPARK : dual-pov urban romantasy THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS X CRESCENT CITY 🦅Bird Racing ⚡️Lightning Wielders ♥️Enemies to Lovers 🏠Found Family 🌃Urban Fantasy 🌶️ Spice #questpit #Q #sff #rf #amquerying #amwriting #writesky

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JSH @theogjsh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #lf #u #dr #a #q EVERAFTER is Bingeable.

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Allison Wall @awritingwall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bree assumes “joining the Dark Goddess" is a lesbian sex club hazing prank—until she kills an evil politician with a gush of menstrual blood. The Goddess has given Bree real power. Her intentions? Murky. Her appetite? Insatiable. Her contract? Binding. #questpit #Q #A #H #S #LF

Mood board in reds and blacks. Images include: woman laying in a bathtub full of blood, a woman crowned under a red moon, a hand dripping with black liquid, and text that reads, After You Make a Pact with the Dark Goddess, There’s No Going Back.

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Gabriella Lauren @gabriellalwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SKULLSCAPE / Academic Fantasy Ninth House X Atlas Six 🏛️Elite Academy 🌱Botany ❓Missing Brother 🔎 Rookie Slueth 📖Dark Academia 🦴Forbidden Magic This work is currently at 12k words and has a projected completion by early summer. #questpit #w #a #my #f

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

IF FEED ME YOUR HEART HAD A MOVIE POSTER! 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH Agent’s guide pinned to profile. WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #DF #H #Q #W #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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Gabriella Lauren @gabriellalwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE BONES OF RENAVERE The Witcher X Game of Thrones ⚔️ Sword & Sorcery 🦴 Bone Based Magic 🐉 Dragon Lore 🌎 High Stakes 👥 Multi pov & timeline 🏠 Found Family #questpit #q #a #f #my

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Alexis ✍🏾 @authoredbyalexis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My new editors guide for SWALLOWED SINS #questpit For people who are hungry for: -an insatiable appetite for love 🖤 -dark romance 🥀 -obsessive protagonist 👀 - traumatic therapy sessions 📝 #OS #DR #A #LF #U #AG

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Margot Miller @margotmiller15.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE GIRLS I’VE BEEN X WHERE SLEEPING GIRLS LIE LET THE PLAYERS BLEED - 79K words * YA Speculative Thriller * Dark academia vibes * Neurodivergence rep * Coming-of-age * Found family #questpit #Q #YA #amquerying #agentsguide

Cover of the books The Girls I’ve Been and Where Sleeping Girls Lie

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J. Sydney Zaruba ✨is querying ✨ @jsydneyzaruba.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BEDUÄFAN Society told Moira to sit down and shut up, so she commandeered her own ship and life, joining the revolution. Now she must overcome betrayal, heartbreak and defy the odds. ⚔️ Swashbuckling Adventure 🧙‍♀️ Witches & Faeries & Pirates ⚔️ Overthrowing the Patriarchy 🧡 Love triangle #QuestPit #F #Q

dark moody and whimsical photos of Georgian era fantasy
girls dancing in nightclothes around a fire, grand Georgian staircases, a man drinking wine by a fire, a square rigged ship beyond a cave, a man and woman meeting at dusk with lanterns in fine clothing, a tavern with music playing, Elizabeth Swann from pirates in her boy clothing, a coastal castle, a man and woman walking through a field holding hand

Beduäfan
100,000 word high fantasy romance
💪 Strong Willed FMC 🧍‍♀️
⚔️ Swashbuckling adventure
🏴‍☠️ Pirates & Witches 🧙
🧡 BFFS - Lovers - Enemies 💔
🖤 Love triangle 🖤
🫂 Strong Women Like-Sister Relationships 🫂
🗡️War & Social Revolution - overthrowing the patriarchy 🗡️
📖 Historical Allegory for the war of 1812 📖
🏰 Castles, taeverns & pubs 🍻
🏕️ Running & Camping 🏃‍♂️
🌍 Unique fantasy 🗺️
✨ Magical Transformation ✨

She wished she could bottle the moment and return to it in the years to come. But no such power existed - or if it did, the gods didn’t share it with her.
The night passed between them. None came to relieve them of their watch. Perhaps again, this was the hand the gods. Or perhaps their companions were simply tired.
An easy silence fell, sparked only by the cracking of a log, the hiss of the fire. Alwyn never let go of her hand.

Beduäfan Chapter 22 J Sydney Zaruba

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trang ☆ writer @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SIX OF CROWS x JADE CITY When her mentor goes missing Gemna joins forces w/ fellow mage Ren to unravel the connection b/w the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages aren’t just outlawed…but wiped from existence. #QuestPit #AG #F art by nathcreare

a blue and yellow toned sketch of a woman and a man standing back to back. she is looking towards the front and he’s gazing off to the side. the characters have Asian features and look serious / unsmiling. over the images is the text CONDUCT OF MAGES, Adult Fantasy, Complete at 99K, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management

on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, a navy blue rectangle contains the text “When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.”

the words THE PITCH, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management are at the bottom of the slide

at the top of the slide, a search bar graphic says “CONDUCT OF MAGES”

on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, a navy blue rectangle contains the text “energy magic, heists & scheming, found family, research subplot, slow burn, female role models, SE Asian setting”

the words THE VIBES, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management are at the bottom of the slide

at the top of the slide, a search bar graphic says “CONDUCT OF MAGES”

on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, six book covers are shown: Blood Over Bright Haven, Jade City, Six of Crows, Jasad Heir, Foundryside, an Heartless Hunter

the words THE COMPA, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management are at the bottom of the slide

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Sarah Berke @sarahjberke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The God of the Woods x How to Read a Book #QuestPit #Q #A #T #WF #U #AgentGuide An intimacy-averse private investigator and a paramedic who saves everyone but himself are the only people willing to help an undocumented mother protect her daughter from the girl’s wealthy American father. (1/3)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Clara Benson is ✨querying✨ @clarabenson.org · 29/04/2026

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 w/ Publisher Interest! REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC In the shadow of a typhus epidemic and her family's battered reputation, a hardworking inn maid must choose between freedom's drudgery and a suitor who promises a gilded cage. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

cover photo for Finding Echinacea's Agent's Guide, a painting of a woman looking into the frame and the words "a literary historical romance by Clara Benson”

Photo of a painting of a woman looking into the frame and the pitch: Florence Hill is used to keeping her head down and working long hours—the only way to reverse her dead, alcoholic father’s reputation and give her little sister the peaceful childhood she was promised. But when a typhus epidemic rages through town and brings two unlikely men with it, Florence must face what keeping her promise will force her to sacrifice.

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Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BENEATH THE WAYWARD TIDES Paranormal romance One part treasure hunt, one part gothic mermaid identity crisis 🧜🏼‍♀️ a dying mermaid 🩵 a love she must sacrifice 👑 a treasure they must find 🍊 Sevilla, Spain 🛥️ and a missing boyfriend #questpit #W #sff #PR #amquerying #amwriting #writesky

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

Pumped to pitch ETERNALLY DEAD - my 107k paranormal romantic fantasy that explores what happens when an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm 🧛‍♂️ 🩸🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q #amquerying

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 107k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

Red and black background with red text at the top that reads "the blurb." The text below reads: Celia Sharpe's life-long dream of being a rockstar guitarist ended the day an accident wrecked her hand. Now a New York City concert photographer, she strictly focuses on making deadlines. But when Celia spots a mysterious stranger at a concert she can’t capture on camera, she abandons her job to follow him down an alley—only to be accidentally transported to the Vampire Realm.

Stranded and vulnerable in a world of dangerous monsters, Celia has one goal: return home ASAP. But the stranger she followed reveals that he's the bassist of all-vampire rock band Mortuus Aeternum (Eternally Dead), and he offers her a seductive opportunity: if Celia stays, the band's flirty guitarist Caliban will temporarily heal her hand so she can join Mortuus Aeternum. However, she must perform for audiences of blood-thirsty vampires, of course.

Trapped in the Vampire Realm with no way out, Celia is conflicted: she might be willing to sacrifice her freedom for Caliban's healing magic and a second chance at living her rockstar dreams, but she risks death if she doesn't find a way home. Especially when blood shortages are announced across the Vampire Realm. How will she survive?

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

Red and black background with white text snd large red title that reds THE OPENING. Below the title is the opening of the book, which reads: Celia Sharpe slammed her palm against the closed subway doors, trying to pry open the cool metal with sweaty fingertips. The train had finally – finally – made it to the station, and she needed to get off. Now. When the doors opened at long last, she burst through them like a bat out of hell, charging towards the exit.
She couldn't miss the opening of this show, or it might be her last.

Below the opening is the word EXCERPT in large red letters, and below is text in white font. The following excerpt reads:
Caliban knelt beside her and took her hand, her breath hitching at his touch. A warm sensation transferred between his fingertips and her scar, a tingling feeling moving up her whole arm. She pulled back on instinct.
“What did you do?” she trembled, awestruck. The scar had vanished.
“It’s only temporary. Please play,” he said, his green eyes wanting.
The pain was gone. Gone. As if it had never been there at all. Her left hand curved around the guitar neck, hugging the strings. Overcome by the magic of it, Celia grinned.

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Annabeth @annabethwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ANASTASIA X THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT A lost celestial princess enters mythical trials for the crown, only to fall for the shadow rival who threatens her claim. VIBES🖤 ✨Light X Dark ✨Elemental magic ✨Slow burn ✨Trials ✨Found family ✨Murder conspiracy ✨YEARNING #QuestPit #Q #A #RF

First image of agents guide for romantasy The Moon Also Rises

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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE LUNARIA WITCH 110k NA/Adult Fantasy romance with ND rep A RIVER ENCHANTED ❌ K POP DEMON HUNTERS Power blooms in outcast Tallitha, in a land where magic is forbidden & she must flee to a mysterious place of safety, to evade the clutches of the King’s Chief Witchkind hunter. #questpit #q #f #r

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Margot Miller @margotmiller15.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When board-game-obsessed Skye Hollis is sent to a behavior-modification boarding school for “problematic” teens, she discovers the academy secretly drains students’ blood to extend the lives of the wealthy, and must outplay the system before becoming their next victim. #questpit #Q #YA

Boarding school with the title LET THE PLAYERS BLEED

Comp titles including the cover of The Girls I’ve Been and Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Themes and Tropes with two dices on the bottom right.

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Gabriella Lauren @gabriellalwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Anyone participating in #QuestPit tomorrow?

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Gabriella Lauren @gabriellalwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“There were few worse places for a spy then at the end of his enemy’s blade. Although Sylas would’ve argued on most nights, he was rather good at his job.” If you’re into the Witcher and House of the Dragon, but with a unique magic system based on human anatomy, let’s be friends! #amquerying

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