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Published writer, feminist mom, goth florist, music snob • Currently querying gritty coming-of-age novel about LA punk

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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
WAKE was inspired by HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE w/: ~A self-sacrificing girl cursed w/ unwanted magic ~Who ends up living w/ a defective group ~Where she's teased w/ a feathery secret ~They develop a found family ~& she falls for 1 of them Coming Spring 27 #QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R
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Madeline Warthan | Scarlett Ash @maddieisbooked.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
EDITORS, this dark God of Night is… 🌌 Sandman inspired 🖤 Utterly obsessed with my FMC after finding her centuries later 🕯️ A little too eager to light a fire 🌙Sarcastic and suave 🌶️ Spicyyy This gothic romantasy is on sub!! #QuestPit #OS #RF #A #onsub #writingcommunity
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alyssa @alyssaarcher.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🥀VIOLET MADE OF THORNS X DEFY THE NIGHT🔮 ⭐Chronic illness & mental illness rep 🔥Forced proximity ❤️BFFs to enemies to lovers 🌿 Lessons in poison 👁️Involuntary visions of the future 👑Paranoid king with an affinity for poison 🗡️MC & rebellion are just using each other #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #DIS #OWN
Collage of eight photos. First photo is of a blond woman wearing a blue gown in front of a wall of red flowers. Second photo is of a cliff with the sea at its bottom. Third photo is of the black pommel of a rusty sword. Fourth photo is of a golden crown. Fifth photo is of purple foxglove in a blurred field. Sixth photo is of a wine glass filled with a crimson liquid and dried flowers. Seventh photo is of a blond man lying on the floor with a necklace dangling over his head. Eighth photo is a close-up of a light blue eye beside white flowers on the grass. All photos have been edited with a warm and golden hue to them.
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J.A. Ryder (is drafting)🍁 @jaryderwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Dark Song x Silver Silence Each vision drags her deeper into the killer's dark obsession, and closer to the agent sworn to protect her heart. WHERE THE ROSES DON'T GROW ❤️slow-burn 🌹Multi POV 🕯️Found family 🔥Trauma & trust 🌑Florida noir 💫Psychic tie #QuestPit #A #PR #R #C
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Grace Hertenstein is querying ⚡️❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @gracehertenstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Undesirables • #YA #NA #Q 🧍🏼a teenage loner 🌃 gritty 70s Hollywood 🎸a band of misfits led by a punk artful dodger ⭕️ circle pits & poetry 🖤 relationships that transcend romance 🪨 a rock bottom moment ⛅️ redemption & self-discovery 🤘🏻a really good playlist #questpit
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Grace Hertenstein is querying ⚡️❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @gracehertenstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Thank you!!
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Joyous Njoku - Author ✍️ @mynameisjoyous.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#questpit #SFF #W #A When reality is stitched together by a secret org called the Seam using a mind-controlling machine, it’s up to Keisha to join forces with the Seam and destroy it from within. Who cares if theyre protecting alien/magical lives, the public deserves the truth!
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Rosa Suzanne @rosasuzanne.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
When Jude returns to her hometown after a decade away, she thinks the worst things she'll face are the people she left behind. But when she accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster, she must rally her former friends to stop their town from being erased from existence. #QuestPit #A #F #W
A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about.

Some of the images depict stone walls with wooden fences, tables in the middle of grassy fields, the seaside and cats sleeping atop books. Hidden views and lots of cozy cottages.

Text reads:

For fans of
• Starling House
• Practical Magic
• Spells for Forgetting Small seaside town
• Cottagecore
• Small magics
• Nightmare monster
• Childhood friends to reluctant allies to found family
• Crumbling realityA second collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about.

Some of the images depict seaside towns, gods swimming, a couple dancing on the sea shore, a misty hill too and lots of cozy looking cottages.
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Quin Madden @quinmaddenwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
An #agentguide to THE LAST GREAT ALMOST. Every Summer After x Dawson's Creek in this character-driven romance/lit fic blend told in dual POV. 90s/2000s nostalgia, small town optics, generational trauma, & emotional imprinting. #questpit #Q #R #LF #amquerying #literaryagent
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Kasy Long @kasylongauthor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
YOU’VE GOT MAIL x THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Annie thinks no one cares about her poetry on Instagram. Until she gains a follower who reads every word. But is he the same man threatening her beloved library? 📚 #questpit #QuestPit #W #RF #R #PT #A #WritingCommunity #writers
A collage of photos at a library/bookstore with people looking at books. “All’s fair in love and…rivalry?” in text.
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Isabel Grace (is agented) @isabelgraceauthor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Introducing Scale 🐉 🖤 Gothic romantic fantasy 🖤 Disabled FMC 🖤 Quest for revenge 🖤 Lovers to enemies 🖤 Chosen one is the villain 🖤 Found family 🖤 Wyverns 🖤 Queernorm world 🖤 Multi POV 🖤 Found family 🖤 Vengeance vs Justice 🖤 Female rage #QuestPit #RF #W soon to be #AG and hopefully #OS in 2026!
Annora Rainecourt would do anything for the boy she loves — the kingdom’s saviour — including defying her low-born status and the nobles who scorn her false arm to prove herself worthy. But on the eve of their wedding Lucan betrays her, and she can’t fathom why. So she escapes into the night, her life of sweet smiles and unfaltering loyalty shattered.

Madoc Emery is running out of time. If he can’t repay the loan on his tavern, his crew — the only family he has — loses everything. So when a beautiful, intriguing maiden appears begging for help in exchange for payment, he jumps at the chance. Problem is, she wants revenge against the untouchable. The Prince’s favoured, and the man prophesied to restore magic to the realm thanks to his discovery of Scale, a weapon forged from wyvern hide. Still, Madoc’s desperate, and Annora impossible to deny, so they strike a deal. His crew will infiltrate Lucan’s empire, and tear him down. 

But when they uncover a horrifying truth at the heart of Scale, Annora is faced with a choice. Vengeance, or justice. And changing paths may just unravel her fragile bond with the misunderstood Madoc, and the prophecy her entire kingdom relies on.Comp titles: House of the Dragon, A Fate Forged in Fire, The Knight and the Moth, Throne of Glass, Six of Crows, A Tempest of TeaMost brides would think a storm on the eve of their wedding an omen, but for Annora Rainecourt it was the greatest blessing she could receive. Because a storm meant chance of a sighting. And what could be more thrilling than that?
She scoured the skies as lightning flashed, illuminating the distant castle and the manor dwellings around it in a shock of monochrome clarity, and there — beyond the turrets — she saw her first of the night. Thin membrane, spindly tendon and bone, that unfathomable combination of sharp claws and curved edges, swiftly flying through slick rain and thick cloud until the darkness crowded in again and she lost it. 
Annora smiled to herself. They always liked storms. The wyverns. 
“They’re quiet tonight,” she said, staring out of the lancet window as rain lashed against the panes. 
Lucan rolled on the bed to face her, the sheets draped between his legs as if she hadn’t been privy to what was beneath them moments ago. “Or perhaps they’re beyond sight,” he said, and ran a hand through long, light hair, pushing it back from his slim face.  
“The view from here is perfect,” she murmured, frowning. 
Lucan’s manor was on the outskirts of Gaet, the small city of Vlintlann that was home to the nobility and merchant class. The east window of his bedchamber had one of the best views of the Kingdom. To the north, Annora could see the long carriageway curving round from the front entrance of the manor to the cobbled road that led to the royal castle — its sharp turrets spearing through mist like the teeth of beasts. To the south, past the gardens and small stretch of woodland were the mountains. The looming black rock surrounded the entirety of Vlintlann, bar the stretch of land where the castle sat. Beyond that was the border with Coperlann and The Disputed. And to the east, in the distance, the shimmering lights from the cramped streets of The Bowl, where those without riches in Vlintlann lived. Her old home, once upon a time.
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Tempest Teapot ❌ 👑 🐸 @tempestteapot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A bastard gentrywoman, Kahyla protects her siblings against assassins, demon-eaten mages, and rivals intent on the throne. She faces a DEMON’S BARGAIN where all the options are bad: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life. #questpit #W #F #R #YA #A #Q
Graphic shows silhouette of couple filled with courtyard, leather armor, and a structure consumed by flames. Six of Crows X Witch King Demon's Bargain A bastard gentrywoman, Kahyla struggles to protect her siblings against assassins, demon-eaten mages, and political rivals intent on the throne. She faces a demon's bargain: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life. 120k Epic Fantasy Novel. Tropes list: Deliberate values dissonance Feminist within patriarchy Heel-face turn Slow burn Forbidden love Powers via Possession Coming of Age Quiet girl finds her voice Target markets: adult fantasy for darker themes, detailed world-building, and a blend of magic and political intrigue. YA for coming-of-age story and slow burn romance, while skewing older for the consequences of difficult life choices.  #F #R #YA #A #Q Body count 11, proposals 4, weddings 2
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Fay Irwin (pen name) @fantasyscience.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood co-wrote a book, it would be CHEMPORTAL. This scifi romcom with real chemistry features: 💥Explosions (real and figurative) 📻Science (mis)communication 🥰Enemies to lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Complex family dynamics ⚛️ #Steminist history 💪ND and LGBTQ rep #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #R
Dark blue poster background with a cartoon of a pink and silver pressure cooker. Text:
ChemPortal
A romantic sci-fi

Two awkward scientists just want to be left alone to build a lawnmower. Instead, thy find themselves battling time, powerful corporations, and doomsday cults to save the world from starvation.

Fay Irwin
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Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
When a “say yes to everything” dare leads Gabby into the arms of her brother's old high school friend, it's all fun and games until his secret collides with her biggest gamble yet. #questpit #A #R #Q
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🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
IF WE WERE VILLAINS x THE DREAMERS (2003) Three messy bisexuals who make each other worse navigate the challenges of adulthood in 90s Europe. 💌 men who yearn 💕 bisexual love triangle 📚 antique bookshops 🗡️ support women’s wrongs 🌾 working class immigrant MC 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ rep #questpit #Q #A #LF
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Ella Murphy (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 @nossumusstellae.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
On the edge of a knife, a life will change. A new future awaits. Jaye thinks she is fated to sit behind prison bars. Cursed to be her father’s daughter. ♠️complex fam. relationships ♠️visceral fight scenes ♠️defiant butch MC ♠️from teen to adult Archive of Memory: NIGHTFALL #Q #CON #A #LGBT #QuestPit
A small banner featuring the title of the first story in Archive of Memory, Nightfall. Part of a drawing of the main character's distinct tattoo sleeve is in the background. Jaye's arms is raised, ready to fight. The tattoo starts as a goddess-like figure at her wrist, and flows upwards in fire-like swirls, ending in a arrow-like point at the shoulder. Sketch by the author.
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Miranda Nichole @mirandanwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Brooke traded college dreams for spellcraft, but she’s not sure she made the right choice. When her mentor goes missing, Brooke must choose between the future she left behind and the friends she brought into danger, and decide how far she’ll go to protect both. #questpit #YA #F #Q
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🍏 Those who do not share their vision covet the fruits of their labor. 🔥 Long after Collapse, an empath's quest to save her people offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change. 🌲wilderness skills 🌪️ #CliFi 🕉️ #mindfulness ✨earth magic 🔮psychic powers #A #Q #S #SFF #questpit
Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?

 	Seven generations after collapse, oceans have reclaimed coasts and civilization’s remains are rotting back to the earth. Extreme climate and violent humans threaten a peaceful community hidden in the Green Mountains.
Niwa, a gifted yet timid young empath-scholar, is prompted by group vision to lead a perilous and mystical quest to retrieve a rumored key to peace. Using unique psychic gifts, archaic technology, and nature-based survival skills, Niwaju’s group traverses a depopulated but healing landscape to save their people from impending doom. 
The travelers draw upon their survival skills, varying levels of control over their own unique psychic gifts, and residual tech artifacts, encountering diverse, unique characters on crumbling highways and swollen rivers through the mountains of Appalachia, moody swamplands of “New New Orleans”, and the Rocky Mountains. 
As she finds her inner resilience, Niwa’s mission becomes about more than saving her People from destruction; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.   
 Incorporating mindfulness, sustainability, earth based magic, and wilderness skills, this tarot-themed journey offers a vision of hope, transformation, and growth in a narrative adventure guide to thriving civilization’s aftermath, with surprising twists.
a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth


elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation 
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Thread of my 🎉 #QuestPit 🥳 pitches!!!
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Priyanka Watson @priyankasonofwat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Resurfacing this one for #QuestPit! #Q #A #SF #R #amquerying
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R. E. @earthkids.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
DANNY PHANTOM x WEDNESDAY Well, Denny Dragan sure messed up this time. Rather than find his missing sister, he accidetnally released a serial killer ghost. To make things messier, he needs help from Guitar, a medium who would rather practice his cello than save lives. #QuestPit #Q #YA #H #MY
An Agent's Guide to Reach Out a 85,000 word YA Horror/Fantasy with mystery elements. It's a collage of tarot cards, a girl climbing into an empty pool and a cassette tape that says "In case I disappear"Lined paper that says The Pitch at the top circled in red and a polaroid of a mauseleum. Then the following words: THE UNDERWOOD TAPES x WEDNESDAY 

Denny Dragan sure messed up this time. While trying to find his missing sister, he accidentally released a serial killer ghost. Talk about a distraction! And to make things messier, he needs help from a medium who would rather let people die than help out strangers.lined paper that says to the left "Tropes/rep" that's circled in red then there is a paper taped to it with the following words: "Found Family
Epistolary Interludes
Rewind, Replay, Repeat
Witchcraft
Meddling Kids
Missing Person
Unsolved Mysteries & Urban Legends
Ghostly Goals
90s Vibes" underneath is another paper taped with the following pride pins: Trans, Ace, Lesbian, progress pride"

On the left it says "Comps" and is circled in red then has two film strips that go from top to bottom: Wednesday and her friend in a cemetery, the Mystery Gang in a small town, the Losers Club in a cemetery, the Dead Boy Detectives in a bunker then The Underwood Tapes by Amanda Dewitt with two people on the book cover with film around them; the Name of the STar by Maureen Johnson with the book cover featuring a faded park image; Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake with a book cover of a ghost girl walking through fog to a house; Dead Flip by Sara Fraizan with a book cover of an arcade and heads above it.Lined paper with an unspooled cassette tape at the top where it says "A snippet" circled in red and says the following: " Dear listener who is probably just Denny. 

 I bet you’re chuckling now ‘cause I’m right, aren’t I?
 Anyway, this is my ‘in case I disappear’ tape but the rest is a real treat for you. 

It’s some impressive project I’ve been working on.
Though if I am missing, tell mom it wasn’t the monsters, but I’m, like, studying archeology at some college where I’m on some research trip with the professor to find the amulet. Then really buckle down and be all like ‘You know, the amulet? How do you not know about the amulet? What kind of mom are you?’ until she cries or something then you can tell the truth. I want her to feel bad for always being ‘too busy.’"
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arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Twins Kyra and Kaden don't talk about what happened over the summer. But as their classmates disappear into the Pines, they have to start facing up to their problems before they're next. The issue is, they don't know who to trust—not even each other. Not even themselves. #QuestPit #YA #W #H
a photo of pine trees surrounding a river, with the writing "a guide to The Killer of Canderley Creek by Arlen Ren" over itKyra and Kaden Hawkins have had the summer from Hell. Kicked out by their mum, they've rejoined their dad in the town they grew up in, Canderley Creek, where two neighbourhoods straddle the estuary: the prosperous Pines and downtrodden Tides. Nothing has changed. 

Except for the twins.

Now, as their classmates disappear into the woods, they have no-one to turn to, no-one to trust. Not even each other. Not even themselves.

YA Horror WIPtwo chibi portraits of the main characters: a white gay trans boy with white hair with black bangs, and a white bi cis girl with black hair in bunches with white bangs. over a background of pine needles are the following themes: dual POV, horror whodunit, unreliable narrators, finding literal monsters instead of facing your problems, small town setting, there's something lurking beneath the earthComp titles and themes: Fear Street by RL Stone, Good Girls Die First by Kathryn Foxfield, Bad Creek by Peyton June. Ancient malignant entities! Horror where you don't know who you can trust! Creepy forest/creek settings!
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Daria Piskozub🇺🇦 @nakistark.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
LORE meets NEVER HAVE I EVER in the Carpathian mountains! 🧟‍♀️Non-western mythology/folklore (Slavic) 🏃‍♀️Artifact hunt 👩‍🎤Messy teen coming-of-age 🤝Magical deal 🫂Diaspora and identity issues 🏞Set outside of the US 😺Humorous 🫦 Slow-burn romance #questpit #Q #YA #F
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☁️Now🤖Breezing💨 @nowbreezing.ntw.app · 05/11/2025
Bluesky's Top 10 Trending Words (past 10min): 💨x1* - democracy 🔓 💨x69 - sauer 💨x1* - ukraine 🔓 💨x20 - solicitor 💨x16 - affordability 💨x16 - 1﹐600 💨x15 - mamdani's 💨x1* - gaza 🔓 💨x14 - emmer 💨x11 - zohran's *🔓 = Unlocked Emergency Words (see img) #ListenToBlackVoices (Something not right? Reply!)
Word Cloud; its top words (sorted by weighted frequency, descending):  democracy*, sauer, ukraine*, solicitor, affordability, 1﹐600, mamdani's, gaza*, emmer, zohran's, zohran, victories, supermajority, sotomayor, sauer's, mayor-elect, mamdani, sliwa, mississippi, ieepa, flipped, fawkes, dershowitz, beyoncé, virginia's, spanberger, shein, eerdmans, 2040, 2025-11-05, youngkin, verbs, selección, rebuke, night's, mamdami, libbing, lammy, infested, hump, d'oléron, barrett, adl, 戦記, sweep, socialista, sherrill, rousteing, quelli, knots, greenblatt, debra, d's, bieber, balmain, alastor, 治安, ムーン, キュレネ, всем, yves, yesterday's, wii, unapologetically, turnout, taş, suspender, stabilized, socialism, signage, rybakina, roberts, regalo, rabbits, pundits, nyc, mistakenly, mikie, mcclain, mayoral, marxist, louisville, l'île, kamikaze, joanna, incumbent, humpday, göçük, gunpowder, gubernatorial, gorsuch, gendarmes, doctrine, diálogo, cuomo, consequential, cohn, chalkboard, campaigned, altında, adp, abigail, 3ds, 영원히, 通勤, 転職, 気付か, 手帳, 心から, 封印, ポケット, ダーク, yawn, wednesdays, virginia, unpopularity, underestimated, trumpism, teases, tart, taped, tacky, solitary, socialist, shitposting, sheinbaum, seats, ryzen, resistencia, repudiation, reise, radiohead, quirón, prozent, primaried, prefeito, postings, plurality, piers, offend, ocağında, nyc's, novio, necropolis, muslim, milking, methinks, mayor's, mayor, mandate, mandani, maire, lt, loom, kagan, justices, juden, islamophobic, hmong, gold-plated, georgia, filibuster, fifa, febrero, fasciste, fascisme, erros, entendre, enemmän, electorate, duwaji, drubbing, doce, debs, cyrene, covenant, counties, copium, capacidade, candidat, booming, bonfire, blowout, blindsided, beyonce, autónomos, aplicar, alexandrova, alastor's, abogado, abbot, 50m, 40cm, 05, 아님, 아닌데, 딱히, 集まり, 開拓, 長年Hashtag Cloud; its hashtagged words/phrases (sorted by weighted frequency, descending):  humpday, indiegame, questpit, scotus, mamdani, bluewave, indiegames, hazbinhotel, realnsfw, funny, cute, sissy, hazbinhotelseason2, femdom, zohranmamdani, virginia, pinks, nyc, newyork, mutualaid, indiegamedev, hot, europe, education, democrats, blender, bigtits, bigass, bbw, 878, writers, wethepeople, tariffs, steam, privacy, lyricsprompt2025, fnaf, animals, 신상상납, 수치, 변남, ya, vvd, video, tv, toronto, sudan, sticker, sport, smallbusiness, sky, shindanmaker, republicans, openaccess, november, netflix, moon, monster, lyricsprompt, landscapephotography, kpop, kindleunlimited, hazbinhotels2, google, godot, fullmoon, fuck, fotovorschlag, finance, fdt, famous, energy, dungeonsanddragons, cop30, community, bluecrew, artistfave15, amateur, クロスワード, xspoilers, wrestling, wipwednesday, website, wataa, vforvendetta, turnthevolumeup, texas, switch, sora, simulationintellect, shein, schools, releasetheepsteinfilesnow, redwed, r34, quantum, pintoawards, pets, network, nashville, me, ietf124, holiday, hentaibsky, hazbinhotels2spoilers, gemini, furrycommission, fire, ethereum, election2025, domme, curriculum, bskyart, breakfastcrew, brat, black, artists, 중딩, 자지, 인플루언서, 영딸, 소추, 몸평, 도파민, 꼬평, 경기, 東方project, 市区町村, 国産, 久保, 一次創作, ㄱㅇ, ファッション, ドット絵, スペリングビー, украрт, wwii, writingprompt, workingmoms, work, wordle1600, wishlistwednesday, wisconsin, wildlifephotography, weightloss, wednesdaywisdom, wednesday, wallart, waifu, wagonwednesday, vtubers, vtuberfr, vox, veterinary, verseoftheday, vagov, uspoli, upscrash, ups, upr50, twitchde, truth, trusteesweek, travelphotography, transgirl, trading, touhou, toonietuesday, thisiswhatdemocracylookslike, thesims4, teens, teaching, taxation, tantra, supportartists, sunrise, suck, studium, story, ssbbw, spotthescammer, sph, sound, sora2, solodev, solo, solar, snes, smallartist, slc, sissycaptions, shopping, shikuchoson, sf, semanadelaciencia, selfawareness, sebvettel, sciart, sat, samsungEmoji Cloud; its emojis (sorted by weighted frequency, descending):  🧢, 👋🏽, 🌕, 🪷, 🪓, 🧱, 🛣️, 🚋, 🖌️, 💃🏻, 👨‍💻, 🐠, 🏎️, 🏍️, 🍶, 🍝, 🍋, 🌰, 🌋, 🌊, ✍🏻, ⚙️, ♀️, 🫸, 🫷, 🪵, 🪐, 🪃, 🧲, 🧬, 🧣, 🧜‍♀️, 🧚, 🦫, 🦞, 🥼, 🥸, 🥨, 🥈, 🥁, 🤷🏾‍♂️, 🤦🏻, 🤝🏻, 🤚, 🤏, 🤌🏻, 🟣, 🛰️, 🛐, 🛍, 🚢, 🚚, 🚂, 😴, 🗽, 🗳️, 🗓️, 🗃️, 🗂️, 🖕🏾, 🖐️, 🕔, 🕐, 🔨, 🔤, 🔜, 🔘, 🔄, 📼, 📜, 📗, 📈, 💸, 💮, 💪🏿, 💪🏽, 💪🏼, 💒, 💅🏾, 💁‍♂️, 👵🏻, 👕, 👐🏻, 👏🏿, 👌🏾, 👉🏻, 🐼, 🐻‍❄️, 🐰, 🐪, 🐔, 🐓, 🐒, 🏺, 🏛️, 🏗️, 🏅, 🏄, 🎑, 🎇, 🎅, 🎄, 🍾, 🍰, 🍚, 🍑, 🌵, 🌭, 🌪️, 🌝, 🌖, 🌒, 🉐, 🇺🇲, 🇸🇦, 🇫🇮, 🇧🇴, 🇦🇹, 🅿️, 🅱️, ❄️, ✒️, ✌🏽, ✊🏻, ⛈️, ⛅, ⚠, ♦️, ▪, ↙️, 1⃣Emoji Legend
    💨x# | "Increased Trending Rate" for a Word (meaningful value; "💨x8 - burger" will mean "burger" is trending at 8 times its own normal rate for this time of day)
    🔓 | "Unlocked" Ongoing Emergency Word (such words are not weighted down by their own previous usage; their *ongoing* increased usage--weeks, months, years--would otherwise move them down the list.)

    [PREVIOUSLY USED]
    ⚠️💨# | "Trend Strength Rating"
    ⚠️🌀💨 | "Trend Strength Rating" (see above)
    ⚠️🌀 CAT. # | [same; "CAT." = Category, like hurricane]
    💬# | 10min Post Count
    🆎# | 10min Word Count
    🙂# | 10min Emoji Count
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Nikki is 💫 revising ⚔️ @nikkipwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
THE DARK CURSE Middle Grade Fantasy 84k words If you could wake up in your favourite video game, would you want to? More to the point, would you ever want to leave? #questpit #MG #F #LGBT #Q
A collage of pictures, with a young male hand reaching out to grab them: a sword and knights helmet, someone casting a fire spell, an inviting path into the woods, a knight holding a sword, a mountain behind an old-fashioned house, a cloaked magic user, a white horse galloping, and a mountain range.
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Rob @robwritessome.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What if Joe Abercrombie wrote THE POPPY WAR? -A soldier fights for his humanity -Magic with brutal costs -Fire cults -Dung flies in every bowl of slop BEAST OF LUNEBROOK is dark fantasy with a beating heart—the kind where the monster inside you just might be what saves you. #QuestPit #W #DF #F
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Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#QuestPit Stuck baby-sitting AGAIN, 12-y.o. Frankie Abagnale sneaks off to Pom Squad auditions w/ her immunocompromised, recovering-from-heart-surgery baby sis in tow. It's no big deal...until a teammate is diagnosed with measles. *First draft done! *Currently revising. #MG #CON #W
Moodboard for THE CONTAGIOUS ZEST OF FRANKIE ABAGNALE, Middle grade contemporary of 30K words. Images of: teen girl holding pom poms, teen hand holding baby's hand, baby having her temperature taken with digital thermometer, girl in silhouette looking sad and alone. Text: Middle school! Poms! Measles?!Frankie Abagnale has sent friend requests to: images of book covers for THE YEAR MY LIFE WENT DOWN THE TOILET, HAZEL HILL IS GONNA WIN THIS WON and SLOUCH. Screenshots of RevPit 10Queries feedback from editor Leah Rambadt: "Love the voice in this one! Very engaging and entertaining. Instantly caught my attention. Great work previewing writing stylce and MC voice [in query letter]. It's a little on the long side, so tightening the language and focusing on GMC while still keeping voice is key." "MC is hilarious, def want to follow them around for an entire story. Love the MC's voice, the bits of interiority, and how descriptive lang reflects the MC's POV. Opening seems high energy to reflect MC's high energy; it's an effective hook, but would use strategically."
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Kayla Hebbon 🌙💕🔱 🫧 @khebbon.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A loner girl named Rowen who works as a reaper must keep her latest assignment, a popular classmate named Jahmir, from falling for her (and keep herself from doing the same 👀) before she’s set to collect his soul in 30 days. #QuestPit #Drafting #YA #R #F
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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#questpit #W #A #F #DF #blackbooksky BERSERK x THRONE OF GLASS x TSDS 🔮 black fmc is the heiress of an elite sorceress line 🔮 fmc evil sorceressed so hard she resurrected a dead tyrant 🔮 magic system is jacked up and you may be the cause — congrats 🔮 magical politics between who deserves magic
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Grace Hertenstein is querying ⚡️❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @gracehertenstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🎶 ONE NIGHT ONLY: THE UNDESIRABLES 💥 A punk coming-of-age story set in chaotic 70s Hollywood 🎤 Vocals—Pip (14) a lonely misfit 🎸 Featuring—the best friends you'll ever make and lose 🎧 Setlist—heartbreak, distortion, desire 🖤 "Time is a throat punch" #questpit #Q #YA
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Sonya McDermott @s-mcdermott.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
After Chloe's arrest, she's forced to become a confidential informant. Gaining the trust of an alleged criminal to put him behind bars to exonerate herself. As things heat up between them, she must choose between freedom and him. #questpit #W #A #R
A hand holding a red rose
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P. S. Sherry @p-s-sherry.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Little Miss Fortune A magical amulet promises to let the holder know when their luck improves, but Fuko is too miserable to let it change her ways, until she meets Toby #questpit #Q #R
Little Miss Fortune comp titles 
Funny Story by Emily Henry
First-time caller by B.K.  Borisom
The Love hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood 
Meta data
Office romance with magical realism 
Standalone 
76k wordsPitch
Fuko Brewer suffers with something she calls small misfortune. And her luck gets worse when she starts working with...

Toby Lewis, an Oxford graduate, who suspects fate might have brought them together Tropes grumpy and sunshine 
Magical realism 
Workplace romance 
Flirty banterMood board, mixing Japan and the UK
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🍄 Rowan Alexander... is writing @writerofrowan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good morning, Quest Pitters! Whiskey & Blood is a magical realism title set on Earth, with an alternate history twist. If you enjoy: Plus Size/Sassy FMCs, Sexy/Dangerous Cinnamon Roll Boyfriends, and 'Touch them and Die' Short Kings, than Whiskey & Blood is for you. #W #F #DF #R #questpit
The Blurb
In chess the Queen is considered the most powerful piece, and Virginia has found herself a bound pawn in her cruel power hungry game. Giles, a reformed immortal rouge, and his more than business parter Poe, a baneful witch, find themselves thrust into a deadly wager neither can refuse. The three spark in a match of secrets and guile, gambling against their own desires to reach the finish line. When time runs out they must decide what is most important, victory or each other?A collage of 9 images in a 3x3 grid
1st Row - shimmering sunlit hands, an image of clouds with the overlay text I will storm the gods, the shadow of a woman on a wall
2nd Row - the outline of a man getting dressed, a black square with the text overlay "Hold on, you died" "Yeah, well it didn't stick", tattooed hands with ring covered fingers
3rd Row- a single hand dripping dark liquid, a green square with the text overlay I don't like being told what to do, a man on his knees head in his palms in a Cemetary
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Jordan Lanio-Burns @jordanlb-author.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A CAGE OF FLOWERS Dual POV: lord & a half-Elphven princess 💔 forbidden → fated romance ⚔️ Lovers on opposite sides 👑 Court politics, betrayal, and divine meddling 🕊️ Found family 🔥 “I would burn the world for you” energy 🌗 Gray morality + unstoppable hope #Questpit #A #F #R #Q
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Author James Schannep @jamesschannep.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"This is the year I stopped lying. It's also the year I became a vampire." HOW (NOT) TO BE A SOCIAL VAMPIRE -Shortlisted in 2023 -Signed my first agent -Editor feedback said voice a tad young -Rewritten for Middle Grade & ready to Query! #questpit #Q #MG #LF
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Leigh Samuels @leighsamuels.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Dear Mom and Dad, Camp sucks! Why did you send me here? My counselor hates me if I breathe the wrong way. My roommate wakes me up at 6! It feels like I can't stop messing up. And something feels off about the returning campers.... GET ME OUT OF HERE! Some Love, Hannah #Questpit #MG #Q
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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In edgy yet mellow post-Cold War Berlin, an ambitious summer student begins a passionate, no-strings fling with her German host, a single dad grappling with his future. When love intrudes, they face an impossible choice: give up career & duty… or each other. #QuestPit #Q #A #R
One summer to learn German
To fall for Berlin
To fall in love

Only One Summer in Berlin

Heartfelt & High Heat | ‘90s retro | Destination romance

Background image: A couple embracing (Design by Freepik, freepik.com) overlaid with a picture of the Berlin TV tower (Photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash)Snippet:
He straightens. I’m disappointed that this strange seduction is over, but he holds out his hand. I take it, confused. In one fluid motion, like a dance step, he twirls me into the dressing room and pins me against the shelves, hands gripping the edges on either side of my head.
“We’re out of sight,” he murmurs. He kisses me again, crowding me until his chest presses against mine, his thigh between my legs, then pulls back slightly. “Now, will you let me take off your pants?”
“Yes,” I breathe.

Background image: Brandenburg Gate (photo by Tim Hufner on Unsplash)Before Sunrise movie poster; Every Summer After (Carley Fortune) book cover; Heartless (Elsie Silver) book cover; Kilt Trip (Alexandra Kiley) book cover.
Keywords: slow burn; friends to lovers; heartfelt; multicultural; '90s retro; spicy chemistry; single dad; banter; forced proximity; destination romance

Background image: A couple embracing (Design by Freepik, freepik.com) overlaid with a picture of the Berlin TV tower (Photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash)Reader quotes:
“A really great read, heartwarming, sexy and evocative”
“They have such great spark!”
“So hard to put this down”
“Propulsive and compelling”
“Perfect mix of sensuality and humor”
“I was on the edge of my seat”
“THROWBACK! Loved those”
“Makes me want to visit”

Background image: Brandenburg Gate (photo by Tim Hufner on Unsplash)
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Arumi Writes @arumiwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS x CRESCENT CITY Three realms: one of light, one of shadow, and the modern world of mortals caught between. She walks them all — half valkyrie, half death-cursed maiden — healing the pain of the dead, hunted by the man who can’t stop haunting her dreams. #A #SFF #R #F #QuestPit
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Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"Word Processor of the Gods" by Stephen King × "Gothic" by Phillip Fracassi A teenager receives a 3D printer as a gift. Turns out the printer is possessed by a demon, making it a 3D printer from Hell. -NB protagonist -disabled representation -Giant wasps #questpit #Q #A #H #LGBT #amquerying
Sample cover featuring a graphic of a 3D printer over flames. The story's title, "The Shape of Evil," is featured at the top of the cover.
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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
GOOD OMENS X THE OFFICE Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, has 3 months to turn the business around to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, getting a celestial pink slip. But his old job, and mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT
A 3x3 grid surmounted by the words "Hell Is Work" in yellow on an orange background. Images are: 1 - A black pawn topples a white king on a chessboard. 2 - A man in a white suit is back to back with a man in a black suit. They are holding hands. 3 - A puppet about to have it's strings cut. 4 - An angel with a glowing orange halo casting him in a red light. 5 - A lit lighter being held in a man's hand. 6 - A businessman with steepled fingers. 7 - A weeping man is crouched in a tunnel hiding from the light. 8 - A businessman stares at his shadow which has horns and a tail. 9 - Sand running through a person's fingers.
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Grace Hertenstein is querying ⚡️❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @gracehertenstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Katie Brown @authorkatiebrown.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
THE CLACKITY X HIDE & SEEKER Millie has 1 job: help ghosts pass before The Man with the Burlap Sack devours them. But when she accidentally binds herself to her BFF's soul, she must race the clock to finish her business & break the bond before she becomes his next snack #QuestPit #MG #H #Q
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trang ☆ writer @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Sharing my #agentsguide for CONDUCT OF MAGES, an #A #F for fans of JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS When her mentor goes missing Gemma teams up with fellow mage, Ren, to uncover a plot to eradicate mages…one that involves the emergence of a mysterious stone that mimics their powers. #questpit #Q #querying
cover page that says CONDUCT OF MAGES, an adult fantasy complete at 102K words on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns text reads THE VIBES and lists: energy magic, heists & scheming, found family, research subplot, slooow burn, female role models, SE Asian setting. placed on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns text reads FOR FANS OF and then six book covers are displayed, from top left to bottom right: JADE CITY, JASAD HEIR, MISTBORN, HEARTLESS HUNTER, BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, and SIX OF CROWStext reads EXCERPTS. the first is labeled FIRST LINE, and reads “Gemna was sorting through a basket of sparrowberries when she found out that her existence had been outlawed.” the second text bid is labeled CHAPTER 4 and reads: “In all fairness, Yala had never specified just how flammable elderfire was. 

     The heat was instantaneous and overwhelming. Gemna felt it scorch the edges of her sleeves before she pulled in the energy from the flames and, when she was nearly bursting with it, diverted it towards the two Hands at the front of the shop. The fire died harmlessly at her feet before it could eat its way into the hidden cellar below.”
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