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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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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

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

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

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

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
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And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE “When the Sun disappeared, the Stars wept.” ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep Querying soon! #QuestPit #A #F #R #W #Q

What are dreams if not truth?

Between Fractures of LIGHT
A Romantic Portal Fantasy
Coming Soon tọ the Query Trenches
INTERTWINED STORIES
MENTAL HEALTH REPRESENTATION
ALTERNATE WORLD

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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liz difranco @lizdifranco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ok soo, what would you do if your arrogant glasses-wearing coworker started showing up in your romantasy manuscript?? ASKING FOR A FRIEND. (HE’S NOT THE LOVE INTEREST I PROMISE) (I mean, he’s BLONDE) (So he could never be the love interest) (Right? RIGHT?!) *INSPIRED BY YOU* #questpit #w #r

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 29/04/2026

Rarkin's selfless, brave & an extremely capable Monster Containment employee. But to survive a crime lord losing the plot, & navigate a vigilante sorceress' rise, this lone wolf must learn to let new friends in, & trust them with his life 🌈📚🪐 elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/ #QuestPit #P #SF #F #SFF

Graphic for Countering the Hands of Crime, Sythe Series Book 2.
Out May 17th!

Text describing book: SciFi Fantasy, Queer & neurodivergent AF. Let your guard down. Trust your team. Learn magic. Autistic your way into dating?! Aro-ace a relationship!?

Image: Countering the Hands of Crime cover art. Amon holds long range gun, Rarkin a hand gun, Miona and Rinth wear protective gloves as all stand in a row and green baggy Monster Containment uniforms.
Cover by Lawrence Mann.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

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Rebeccah Sheridan @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

LOVELIGHT FARMS x THE LOVE HATERS When an event planner must plan a holiday gala with the firefighter who works for her father, she vows to keep things strictly professional...until their chemistry threatens her career, her family relationships, and the gala itself #questpit #q #a #r #amquerying

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T.N. Lee (she/her) @authort-lee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Third Love x The Names 2 full requests & editor interest! Join my MC as he navigates 🎭 the weight of family legacy 🧮 the pursuit of happiness in a restrictive society 🗺 East Asian diaspora identity issues ⌛️ the timeless pressure to succeed 🕯️ the corruption of privilege #QuestPit #Q #A #Lit #S

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Heists, spice and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal dark hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF #SFF

The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel

A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer

Representation Christi Cardenas

Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

omantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.”
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of the three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

#AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.

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Araminta S. Fang @aramintasfang.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

He called her dull and boring. She’d just slit a warlord’s throat for him. When the Viper King discovers his ignored wife is the legendary assassin protecting his empire, he doesn’t just fall in love, he falls to his knees. ✨ Arranged marriage ✨ Slow burn ✨ Swords & Pirates #QuestPit #Q #A #RF

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue instead. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but will the help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? #questpit #W #YA #SF

A group of second generation aliens sleeper cells have spent their entire lives assimilating to human culture and gathering intelligence for the home world. To them, the eventual overthrow of farth has always been a distant goal meant for future generations.
Mow, when ordered to abduct and replace a human girl they have befriended, one of the alien operatives realizes that they have grown to care more for their found home and family than they do for their own people. She sabotages the abduction and goes on the run with the human girl.
Her friends are ordered to track her down, but now questioning their own mission, they find themselves wondering if the entire invasion is a mistake and if they have more in common with these Earthlings than they ever thought...

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Kelsea Wolf 📚 ✨ @kelseawolf-writes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Alice wants normal adventures, the kind she can have with her marine archeologist aunt. She doesn’t want anything to do with magic or curses or secrets societies. The sooner she can sail through the Bermuda Triangle and follow the riddles to break her aunt’s curse the better. #questpit #q #ya #f #mg

A map of the south eastern region of the United States, aged. Red writing from top to bottom. Can we trust the riddles? Charleston, SC (The Manor) Savannah GA (Bonevevnture Cemetery) Saint Augustine, Fl (The Lighthouse ) Isle of Tempus (?) Elliot Key, FL (?) Key West, FL ( The Fort)

A vision board for agents and editors describing the book The Society of curse breakers clockwise there is a picture of a swamp that says betrayal a picture of a capybara that says diverse magic systems a picture of a forest that says folklore and strange villains a picture of a Florida map that says cryptids a picture of a lighthouse and a ship that says pirates and a picture of of a tunnel that says sports, a picture of a brick mansion thag says curses and urban fantasy and a picture of a diver that says found family

A scroll that says The Society
Gravity Falls x The Sea of Monsters
The Perfect Recipe for a Bad Summer:
A pinch of Cryptids
A Dose of Magic
A Spoonful of Riddles
A Secret Society
One Life draining curse
Mix it all together and you get a crew of untrained magic wielders sailing south on a quest to break a deadly curse before their families are lost forever. At the the bottoms there is a picture of a sailing ship.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen, perpetual troublemaker and incurable dreamer, is thrilled about it. Two clueless lesbians. A forest full of spirits and giant mushrooms. A journey of love and ascension. #agentguide #querying #QuestPit #Q #F #NA #LGBT #ND

Text: An agent’s guide to When the Magpie Flies by M H Wottenmoss. Background of mountains, trees, and giant mushrooms. A magpie flies in the sky.

Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, refuses to believe she hasn’t been chosen as a Conduit.

Wild spiritwoods cage the human cities of Iridis, and the Conduits are humanity’s only defense against the monstrous spirits that lurk within. Magpie has always dreamed of becoming one of these elite spirit-whisperers, who never want for anything, never wonder where their next meal is coming from, never have to shelter in a half-crumbled clocktower no one else wants. When Magpie is definitely, absolutely chosen by a spirit, she finally has her chance.

Calladonna, her best friend and partner-in-survival, doesn’t want Mag to be a Conduit. There are rumors about how it changes people, how they don’t come back quite right. More than human — or less. Determined to reassure her friend and keep them together, Mag convinces Calla to follow her in secret, hidden from the other Conduits as they undertake a sacred journey into the heart of the spiritwoods. But Mag’s secrets can’t stay hidden forever, and when the consequences turn deadly, she has to make a decision: abandon her dreams or risk losing Calla forever.

Comps: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: clueless lesbians, murder and betrayal, journey of ascension. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: found family, humor and darkness, perilous quest.

Also featuring undiscovered magic, monstrous spirits, chaotic academia, ill-advised rituals, haunted forest, queer & autistic ensemble cast, giant mushrooms, original music

Opening lines: The world went dark just after she jumped off the roof. In one moment she could see the clocktower before her, the ledge beneath its defunct face familiar and inviting, and in the next there was nothing. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence, necessarily, but damn if that wasn't inconvenient timing.

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

After twenty years, two ex-bffs are thrust together to recall their forgotten magical abilities and fix their childhood mistake: keep the dragon eggs they buried in their middle school playground from hatching and devastating the world. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #U #LF

Mood board showing: a hand reaching over a golden lake, a crystal cave, a clear orb resting in dirt, a ghostly dragon, the title of the novel: What We Buried.

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Gizelle @gizellemoney.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

They were never meant to fall in love. They were meant to end each other. She is destined to save her world, but the man she’s drawn to was raised to destroy it. Loving him was never part of the prophecy, and it may be the reason everything falls. #questpit #F #A #Q #R

Split image of two characters with glowing purple and green energy. Their faces and hands mirror each other, suggesting a powerful and dangerous bond.

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InkandEmbers @inkandembers.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Frankenstein x The Hunger Games #posterpit #YA #DF

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Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I’m not participating in #PosterPit this go round but I will share the posters that landed me a publishing deal with Three Dragons Press - the system works! Do you dare see the slow-burn gothic horror of The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor? Coming Fall 2026! Cover reveal below. #P #A #H #SPF

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Autumn A is querying @adkissonholmes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

A search, a murder, and a missing person all wrapped up in a terrifying world of magic and monsters. And a little carnival for those lost and forgotten souls. #PosterPit #F #R #WIP #A #NA

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Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Princess👸 Exile🛳️ Bodyguard⚔️ Traitor🥷 Aaryana is all those things & more “I didn’t realize I needed a series like this” —Goodreads review 👸ambitious FMC w/ soft heart 🫅broody LI who’s protective of his siblings 🖤slow-burn hate-to-love 💘fake courting 🧜‍♀️ #booksky #FantasyBooks books2read.com/Aaryana1

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Poster 1 shows a girl by a train, wearing a backpack and looking to the side. Large text reads the name of the book, “The Things We Run For” with the words “A Novel by Emilia Young” in small writing above it. Below the image reads “Emma Bridge is NOT Missing” followed by 82k words, YA Contemporary, Mystery and Romance, LGBTQ+

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

DONNIE DARKO X THE EXORCIST Chris has been plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful shadow, known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control. #PosterPit #Q #A #H #WritingCommunity

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CK Chang @sonusventi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE LAST TRUE THING An immortal life, a shattered memory, and a mysteriously familiar man. As the equinox that seals her fate approaches, she must uncover the truth of who she is or risk losing herself and all those like her forever. ADDIE LARUE x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH #posterpit #w #a #f #r

A promotional graphic for The Last True Thing by C.K. Chang. The title appears in large serif lettering over a pastel sunset cityscape framed by modern buildings. A faint unicorn silhouette overlays the center. Below, handwritten script reads, “What if the myth we need can’t survive the world we made?” The bottom text says “Querying Soon,” with genre tags: love triangle, urban fantasy, dual POV, and slow burn.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Funeral In Berlin x The X Files When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #PosterPit #A #Q #SF #T

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Cass @casshabs.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

On Runyan, magic lives in color, & Darkness is draining it away. At Wychlith, an academy where losing in The Cage costs pieces of your soul, Rihalyn must uncover her power while being claimed by the tyrant's son, Kieran, whose Darkness may consume the Light she carries. #PosterPit #Q #A #F #DF

A dark fantasy book poster showing a luminous yellow rose partially consumed by shadow, representing the battle between light and darkness.

The title Born of Light, Cursed by Darkness spans the image, with the tagline “Magic lives in your color, when it fades, so do you.”

Additional text highlights themes like found family, mental resilience, and a romance where he falls first.

Behind the image: I took a picture of a single yellow rose, using my Iphone on the studio setting. I used my black snack container, lol, to prop the rose up. Snapped the picture and uplaoded it to add the text and elements :)

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE UNMAKING 95k 🧠💔💉👻 Nova feels too much, and that could get her mind wiped clean. She’s a state memory technician who erases the most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won’t let her forget. #PosterPit #Q #A #SPF #SF

The unmaking poster for poster put orange city background blue woman man and glitching man now querying. She erased memories til memory remembered her.

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Inspired by Monty Python's Life of Brian, Willow, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. #PosterPit #RF #NA #Q 🧙‍♂️A wizard struggling with his powers 🗡️A GNC thief with a grudge 🤪 Dysfunctional found family 🏹 Lots of armed men 🥕Cursed Carrot Fields 💘 Antiheroes find true love?!? WHEN REGULAR QUESTS WON’T DO

Movie Poster for the novel, Another Quest, written by Dawn Berkoski.

Artwork by Shelley Leiweke

Depicted, is a fantasy inspired forest with jewel-toned falling leaves. In the distance, a medieval castle can be seen, and further still, the mountains where Zander, the protagonist of the story, lives.

And in the center of the magical forest, sitting on a tree stump, is Zander’s prized wizard’s hat, now dirty and worn with an arrow jutting through it.

The copy reads.

ACTION ADVENTURE
MAGIC AND MAYHEM
MEDIEVAL FANTASY
COMING OF AGE
YOUNG LOVE

ANOTHER QUEST
PRESENTED BY DAWN BERKOSKI
NOMINATED FOR BEST COMEDY
BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE

A YOUNG WIZARD'S JOURNEY TO RECONCILE HIS PAST GOES SIDEWAYS WHEN HE IS ROBBED AND FINDS HIMSELF IN A CURSED AND DECREPIT VILLAGE WHERE THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR...

WHAT SEEMED TO BE A STRAIGHTFORWARD QUEST TURNS INTO ANOTHER, AND HE MUST RELY ON THE LAST PEOPLE HE EVER WOULD HAVE CHOSEN TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND REACH HIS DESTINATION.

QUERYING NOW

DawnBerkoski.com

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Christian Oxford @christianoxford.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

CYBERPUNK 2077 x THE LESSER SOUL 🧠 Shared Body Trope 🗡️ Rogue/Paladin Duo 📿 Dark Goddesses ⚔️ A Mix of Dark, Gunpowder, and Epic Fantasy #PosterPit #Q #F #A

A movie-style poster for THE LESSER SOUL, starring Elina, Gideon Starborne, Rey, Ranna, Damon the Devourer, Orthala, and Vael. It is written by Christian Oxford. This book features the Shared Body trope, a Rogue/Paladin duo, and it is an Adult Fantasy novel. The image depicts a close-up shot of a gloved, leather hand reaching for the Soulshard, which reflects images in its facets.

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Gizelle @gizellemoney.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy Chinese New Year to all! May the fire horse year bring everyone enduring prosperity and good health #ChineseNewYear2026

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Mary Elizabeth Carey @maryelizabethcarey.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Elizabeth really wants – no, NEEDS-- to finish her book set on the bike trail. But a nature photographer is dead, and the cops are botching the investigation. Looks like Elizabeth will have to find the murderer herself. #questpit #Q #A #MY

Photo of a pond at night with proposed title of mystery novel Murder on the Bike Trail

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Autumn Hooper Querying Author @authorautumnhooper.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy, 105,000 words Disney-style enchantment with folklore teeth. Her enemies wield steel; Lisara wields their darkest emotions, animating them into living weapons that could consume her as easily as her foes. #questpit #F #Q #RF

Dark, moody fantasy moodboard with imagery suggesting magic, forged weapons, and emotional power, created for an adult fantasy novel pitch.

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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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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

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RJ Webb 🦇🏳️‍🌈 @authorrjwebb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH Journals of a Familiar Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape. #questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

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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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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN x PIRANESI 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 knows things about her only her owner could've known. #Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC

A moodboard for the dark fantasy, GODCAT, featuring liminal spaces, black cats, and a magpie's eye.

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Mary Elizabeth Carey @maryelizabethcarey.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Elizabeth just wants to finish writing her book set on the bike trail and now a nature photographer has turned up dead in the beaver pond. #questpit #Q #A #MY

Photo of a pond and a woman in obituary style with text describing the proposed novel Murder on the Bike Trail

Photo of geese and their goslings walking down a bike path plus text

photo of newborn goslings swimming in pond plus text

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Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A cunning prankster plots against her lord husband and ends up saving the empire in a fantasy romcom version of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS 😈 unlikeable heroine ⚔️ enemies-to-power couple 💑 marriage of convenience 🔥 slow-burn & low spice #questpit #Q #A #RF #agentsguide

Agents guide for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem, 91K adult fantasy romcom, revised through SmoochPit 2025 mentorship

Pitch - 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.

Twenty-year-old Wen Anling would sooner commit murder than give up her home and freedom. But with no way out of her arranged marriage to Han Shiyan, the wealthy Lord of Qinglan, she devises a plan: let him be the one to beg for divorce… once she transforms herself into the nastiest wife possible.

Shiyan only married Anling to honour his mother’s dying wish. Had he known his new wife would send his simple life straight to mayhem, he would have thrown honour out the nearest window. He struggles to see any good beneath Anling’s heavily powdered face, overly red lips, and shrill screams, but when she continues to get under his skin, he cannot help but grow intrigued—especially after catching his first glimpses of the real Anling beneath her prickly exterior.

While Anling wrestles with her desire to escape the prison of marriage and he

Comps
The Darkness Within Us - cunning, unlikeble heroine, enemies-to-lovers, drives him up the wall but he can't help falling
A Song to Drown Rivers - Chiense history-inspired setting, political intrigue & schemes
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - romantic comedy, slow burn, lots of banter

Extract & Tropes
- Multicultural w/ POC leads
- Marriage of convenience
- Enemies to power couple
- Slow burn w/ a dose of spice
The not so meet cute...
Shiyan’s eyes widened for a heartbeat before he forced composure back onto his features. Her face was powdered with a thick layer of white, as if she had simply dunked it into a bowl of flour. Her bright red lip-paint smudged at the edges and… Heavens forbid women dab their cheeks with uneven blobs of pink.

Even the most senile and stern of his guests held their hands to their stomachs, straining to hold back fits of laughter. He would have gladly joined them, too, if he wasn’t the one with the honour of marrying this… this… buffoon.

He swallowed and recited the wise sayings of his forefathers: one should not judge a book by its cover; a woman’s beauty runs deeper than appearances; virtues are lasting while beauty is fleeting.

Oh, to hell with wise sayings. An eyesore was an eyesore no matter how virtuous it
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wordpamela.bsky.social @wordpamela.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

12yo sceptic Yanju becomes homeless, grieves, so loses the will to paint. She encounters a ghost, witch and Mamiwata(mermaid). To heal from grief, she must let her spirit guide help fight, and win an art competition to have a home, or else remain homeless and be a ghost #Questpit #MG #F #PR #BVM #Q

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #S #Q #Questpit #booksky

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

$BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”$

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!) Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe? #QuestPit #YA #MY #R #AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Drama Mystery with Romance
94k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

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