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Gracie M. Lee || Writer

@gracemawrtina.bsky.social
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Aspiring author #amquerying SIX MINUTES TO FALL #PosterPit third place winner @WordWitches staff 🏒⛸️🩵 linktr.ee/gmleewrites

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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE CUTTING EDGE x OFF CAMPUS ❄️ When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their fear of falling—and losing their carefully planned careers (82k) ⛸️🏒 #DVPit #NA #R #CR #DIS #CI #LGBT
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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bal Khabra’s REVOLVE x OFF CAMPUS 🧊 When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their fear of falling—and losing their carefully planned careers (82k) ⛸️🏒 #DVPit #NA #CR #DIS #CI #LGBT
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brittney is agented!🔮✨ @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And what if I told you I dream of Barret Keats regularly, what then?👀🤩🤭🔥
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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An #AgentsGuide to SIX MINUTES TO FALL, new adult with adult crossover contemporary sports romance 🧊 Now querying ⛸️🏒🩵
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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bal Khabra’s REVOLVE x OFF CAMPUS 🧊 When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their fear of falling—and losing their carefully planned careers (82k) ⛸️🏒 #DVPit #NA #CR #DIS #CI #LGBT
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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Check out today’s Substack! 💜✍️
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Cultivating A Playlist For Your Manuscript
Hey Alexa, play Style by Taylor Swift
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Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 💘 enemies-to-lovers 🕹️ woman in a male-dominated field 💥 chaos goblin heroine 🏆 underdog sports story #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MIRACULOUS HORRORS When a genetically engineered queen is hunted by a man who has her dead lover’s face, she must awaken the part of him that once loved her before he returns her to the king she was designed for. #QuestPit #W #A #SFF
Mood board for the sci-fi novel Miraculous Horrors: Helen of Troy; an abandoned railroad tunnel, a crossbow, cell division, soldiers marching in a muddy field, a hyena, a snowy palace, a man walking away in a field. Tropes: pursued protagonist; lovers to enemies; genetic engineering; cloning; resurrection; obsessive love; mind manipulation
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Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Bal Khabra meets Peyton Corinne is a powerhouse comp! The exact recipe for Spectacular! Agents, checks out SIX MINUTES
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Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
YELLOWFACE x SQUEEZE ME QUANTUM BITS #QuestPit #Q #A #S #DS #SAT When ballroom-billionaires stiff a greedy AI, she escapes their coal-fired data center in a hapless guard's cellphone and frames him for the breach, unwittingly creating the homeless hero Chicago needs to unplug the Algocracy.
Photos of data centers, dumpsters, and ballroom-billionaires in elegant attire
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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SIX MINUTES is my 85k dual-POV new adult romance that blends the high-stakes athletic themes of Bal Khabra's Revolve, if it were set in the world of Off Campus (2026), and will appeal to readers who love the mental health topics in Peyton Corinne's Unsteady ⛸️🏒 #QuestPit #Q #NA #R
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C.E. Kimbro- Querying @bookishcarly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’m excited to join questpit with Tower of Tangled Lies, with my dark fantasy ‘Rapunzel’ retelling with a slow burn romance and strong chronic illness representation. Blood& Ash x Gild x Tangled #questpit #q #a #f #df
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Kelly Young @kyoungwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Introducing an Editors Guide to: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CALLIOPE LECLAIRE 🧡 YA romantic fantasy standalone 🌌 dual-POV ⏳ grumpy x sunshine 🌠 sister-story 💌 gods based on human psyche 💫 whimsical island in the sky 🕰️ identity & self-acceptance #questpit #F #YA #RF #AG #OS
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Kelly Young @kyoungwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Howls Moving Castle x Beauty and the Beast Amnesiac healer makes a deal to help break a dying sorcerer’s curse in exchange for his help locating her missing best friend, only to discover her memories and life are tied to his survival. 👀💜🌙✨🌌💙🕰️ #questpit #AG #WIP #RF
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amberjollyauthor.bsky.social @amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Jack Frost (1998) x Sweet Home Alabama YULE ALWAYS FIND ME is a holiday paranormal romance with: 🤍second chance romance 💀murd.er 🤍fake dating ❄️frosty magic 👯‍♀️sister bonds 🐶a cute pet sidekick 🎄Christmas festivities 🔼love triangle Would you read it? Art by @mknzgmbn #questpit #wip #P #R #A
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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
DUNGEONS & DRAMA x THE EDGE OF 17 when the new kid takes 1st chair, 17y/o trumpeter Julissa fake dates him to impress her drifting friends and teams up with her childhood rival Logan to sabotage him for their chairs back—only to realize Logan might be the one she’s falling for #questpit #YA #R #AG
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InkandEmbers @inkandembers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#questpit #q #a #df
Graphic for the adult dark fantasy novel Souls of Verdance. A red-haired woman stands before a towering castle beneath a swirling blue-and-gold night sky, framed by flowers, vines, bones, severed fingers, eyes, and skeletal hands. A cracked gold coin with an eye symbol hangs above, and a gray hand holds a walnut below the title. Text reads: "Adult Dark Fantasy. In a kingdom where magic steals body parts, emotions, and even memories, a grieving young woman creates a soulless girl wearing her face to bargain with the Prince of the Underworld before the same magic that killed her parents comes for the rest of her family." Bottom text: "Now Querying
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Wattieza is Querying @onismick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dexter x MEXICAN GOTHIC x HAZELTHORN. A New England Gothic eco-horror with a riveting mystery. "They said if you were seen by the man with no eyes, there was no point in running." #questpit #W #A #S #MY #H #gothic
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Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This vibe, but she’s planning his sister’s wedding and he’s determined to stop it.  #Q #A #R #romcom #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amquerying #QuestPit
Princess Diaries 2 fountain scene
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Lianne Robinson @205lianne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
FALLING FOR A STAR-When a tornado strands TV heartthrob Jordan Atlas in a small town, an unexpected kiss sends Joy, a plus-size coffee shop owner in her late 40s, into the spotlight. Fake dating seems the easiest fix, but fame, paparazzi, & online cruelty test their connection. #QuestPit #A #R #Q
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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Real Scandinavian items used by Ró as she joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down a charming water spirit whose heart can buy her life back. 🌲 Written by a Swedish author!   🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit
Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a Troll Cross pendant. Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Title page with pitch line. Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a traditional Scandinavian folk dress.Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a piece of traditional Scandinavian ribbon.
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anna sarlet @sacrosanctious.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Beauty & the Beast × Dracula: A Love Tale introducing THE LAST KISS OF WINTER 🖤🥀🌨️ ∗ 85k word gothic tragedy ∗ regency era ∗ forbidden romance ∗ star-crossed lovers ∗ vampire aristocracy ∗ winter isolation ∗ found family querying this fall ₊°。❆ #questpit #W #A
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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Shameless x Riverdale (s1) x AGGGTM ☕️ Drama-Mystery with Romance 📓 Runaway x Boy Next Door ☕️ 90s Small-Town Mystery 📓 Found Family ☕️ Genderfluid and Pan Rep 📓 Mental Health Rep ☕️ Fake Identity Turned Real Identity #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV
Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media4/13/1996
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 Freys6/23/1996
“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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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES   #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit
Feed Me Your Heart intro page colored red with a black and white image of a young womanThemes for Feed Me Your Heart i.e. norse mythology and deadly personality testsPitch for Feed Me Your HeartComps for Feed Me Your Heart ranging from folklore fantasy to cultish horror
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Amy Dehaas @amywrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
TV producer Abby returns home to cover a cold serial killer case, dredging up the fire that killed her BFF & the truth she's outrun for years. When another woman is murdered & anonymous warnings begin, Abby must unravel the only version of the past she's been able to live with. #questpit #Q #A #T
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Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A DEADLY EDUCATION x NANCY DREW What if the chosen one failed, and the only one who could save him was a magic school reject? NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy with dark academia and dystopian elements #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #MY #D
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Kath Rothschild Author @kathrothschild.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#questpit In DON'T GHOST ME (Spec Rom. 82K) rival haunted tour guides—a feminist historian and a Bayou storyteller—compete to guide the first New Orleans above ground cemetery and fall in love—until one realizes the other can actually hear ghosts.
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Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 To join her dream esports team, Cam let everyone assume she's a guy. Now all she has to do is survive the captain, who's sure she's the weak link — without falling for him first. #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying
Last Pick by Ruchi Dave is an e-sports romance novel, complete at 75k words. 

Cameron Day has always felt like a loser—except in the video game League of Champions, where she dominates. So when an esports team mistakes her for a guy and recruits her, she doesn’t correct them.

But to Jacob—their ruthless (and distractingly hot) captain who’s already seen one ex-teammate implode under pressure—she’s a risk they can’t afford. If she cracks, they all go down with her.

The only way forward is to prove she’s not a liability, but the key to pulling them out of freefall.

Contact the author at **@ruchi-writes on x or @ruchi-writes.bsky.social**Moodboard for Last Pick. Professional esports gamer vibes. Snippet for Last Pick

“The others got over it much sooner than you did.”

“I didn’t want to complicate things.”

“Why would I complicate things?”

“You know why.” He tucked a stray hair behind my ear, and my skin felt electric where his fingers brushed against me. I leaned into him as his hand slid to the nape of my neck, tilting my head toward his.

“What happened to keeping things professional?”

“This is professional,” he murmured. “Kevin and I do this all the time.”Comps and Tropes

- **enemies-to-lovers**
- **woman in a male dominated field**
- **Chaos GOBLIN HEROINE**
- **forced proximity**
- **underdog story**
- **impostor syndrome**
- **good intentions, bad decisions**

She’s the Man - **WOMAN PRETENDING TO BE A MAN IN A MALE DOMINATED SPORT (E-Sports)**

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace - **team captain/mentor who is convinced she’s a liability**

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - **fake-it-till-you-make-it energy**
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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
☕️ 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 #LGBT #Dis #OV
Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media4/13/1996
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 Freys6/23/1996
“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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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️) @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS After Noah, a hard of hearing thief, moves in with siren Jasper, their accidental, corrupted mating bond must be severed before it kills them. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x The Surfer Immune to His Song 🌊 Fantasy Set in San Diego 🏄‍♂️ Standalone w/ Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #A #PR
A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper,The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater
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J.J.W. Lovell (He/Him) @jjwlovell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEVERMOOR x TURNING RED x TREASURE PLANET Two tiny purple creatures told him he was a Druid. He didn’t believe them. He was wrong. 🐻 Shapeshifting 🐉 World Mythologies ⚔️ Found Family ✨ Portal Fantasy 🗝️ Hidden Heritage #Questpit #MG #F #Q
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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 24/07/2026
Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT
A Pickpocket's Guide to High Society
(And Higher Mathematics)

YA Fantasy 80K words
Catherine Winters dot com

Against a subtly textured background of mathematical formulae and a hexagonal summoning grid feature a collection of intriguing objects:

The outstretched hand of some mechanical clockwork automaton made of white porcelain.
A purple and gold masquerade mask.
A set of brass architect's tools: a compass, a protractor, calipers.
A set of gears laid out, pulled from some kind of mechanism.
The Pitch
When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had and catches the attention of people she doesn't want to know. Blackmailed into stealing a mysterious box, Nia accidentally awakens a living clockwork doll—that promptly runs away.

Accused of betraying the blackmailers, Nia and her band of would-be thieves go on the run, pursued by magehunters, street gangs, and the secret police.

When the doll returns to make a deal, Nia turns to the man whose lucky coin unlocked her magic, only to find him missing. Caught in a lie, Nia’s soon posing as an heiress, in the clutches of the man’s elderly landlady—who's intent on introducing the girl she knows as “Baarsin” to high society.

As Nia finds herself disappearing into the role, she and her friends must race against time to track down the people behind it all: a secret society of mathematicians whose influence reaches all the way to the governor herself.Excerpt
Caz tensed. “There’s someone following us,” she hissed.
“I know,” Nia said. The man had been tailing them through the crowd for almost six blocks now. “He won’t be the only one.” She tugged Caz into the empty foyer of a boarding house and pulled out her misdirection charm. “Take my hand and stay quiet!”
“That won’t work on me,” Caz protested.
“No,” Nia said, willing herself to believe. “I can do this.” With all her strength, she pushed more of herself into the charm, the equation unfolding in her mind’s eye. She reached out, and as the world darkened around them, turned the doorknob, Caz clutching her arm. Nia pulled the taller girl close as the man pushed past them, failing to notice the door was already opening.
On the busy sidewalk, Caz let out a breath. A small boy leaning against a nearby lamppost glanced in their direction, an uncertain expression on his young face.
Caz cringed. “Sorry!” she mouthed.Comps & Tropes
Includes the covers of four books:

Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olsen
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo's
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

"Tropes" is loosely used here and includes:
Stealing is magical (literally)
Fish out of water (you probably guessed)
Working for the wrong people
Ancient magic (in over their heads)
The MacGuffin is blackmailing us
"Aren't you a little young to be a criminal?"
Metaphorically dyslexic LI (she's also dyslexic)
Creepy clockwork doll that complains all the time
Good at magic, as long as she has a compass & protractor
Grifter vs. con artist
Sword lesbian (in training)
Lying (a lot)
Found family of scoundrels
Ace protagonist (who hasn't had time to think about that)
One big job and then we can retire (oh no, somehow everything went wrong)
Let's break into a data centre!
No chosen ones, no choosing ceremonies, just hard work and practice.
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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q
Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k 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.
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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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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE SHADOWS (WIP in 3rd Draft) #W #F #A #QuestPit A middle-aged shopkeeper & retired magical con artist takes one last job to save store & family. She could end the corrupt power of the Skyborn mages. She could end up losing herself, her magic & all she holds dear. Talk about a midlife crisis.
Moodboard for The Shadows WIP. Upper left: Illustration of a crowded, cramped city alley. Upper mid: Four black-clad people with face masks in a warehouse. Upper right: Shadowed cobblestone alley with someone at the mouth sweeping. Mid left. Two memes. "A niche character trope I like is the person who is nice, a good person and acts well-adjusted, then they do something where it's like oh you're secretly a little bit insane actually. Middle: A shadowed portrait of a woman with sparks coming out of her hands. Mid right: A meme: Original poster: "80% exhaustion 10% sarcasm %20 don't care" Reply poster: "that's 110 percent". OP: "20% of me doesn't care." RP: "should've seen that coming." Bottom left: Warmly lit storefront doorway on a cobblestone street. Bottom mid: Painting of fancy buildings on islands floating well above the ground. Bottom right: Cramped thrift store with shopkeeper.The Shadows: The Pitch

The worst day of Ania’s life was when her beloved cousin Piren was dragged off to the floating towers of the Above to serve as a source to the Skyborn mages. The second worst day was when he was returned. Discarded. Drained of his magic and broken in spirit.

Ania left behind her rebellious past to support her cousin as he once 
supported her. In a city where any display of magic makes you a target 
of the Skyborn, keeping your head down and your magic a secret, taking care of your friends, your family and your neighborhood is the only safe way to survive. 

But now, everything she’s built over twenty years of safe, carefully
constructed life is falling apart. To recover what she’s lost, Ania takes on one last dangerous heist that strikes at the heart of the Skyborn’s power. She may end up losing herself. She may just bring the entire system crashing down.The Shadows: Comp Titles
MA Carrick: Mask of Mirrors. Con artist MC out to save her family (and maybe the world).
Shannon Chakraborty: Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. I'm retired. Really. Okay, fine, one last job.
Robert Jackson Bennett: Foundryside. Magical technology, a corrupt ruling class and problematic heists.
Fonda Lee: Last Contract of Isako. I'm too old for this shit but no one else can do it.“Except you can help me without bringing the bluejackets and their hunters down on my head!” Ania yelled, throwing her arms in the air. “All I’m asking you for is money. You’re asking me to risk my life! My family’s life!” She glared at him, grinding out her words through clenched teeth. “You want me to dust off magic I haven’t used in twenty years! How is that fair?” She spat the last word.
“It’s not fair!” Verasi spat back at her. “None of this is fair!” He flung a hand out. “Our people, our friends and family, our neighbors, are ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. They’re enslaved, ridden so hard they break. Maybe it takes a year. Maybe it takes five. Maybe it only takes a couple of months.” He continued in a harsh whisper. “We live in constant fear that it’ll be one of us. If not one of us, someone we know. Someone we love. Their propaganda machine is turning our own people against us. You know they’re not even testing people to see if they have any magical talent now? They’re just rounding people up at random and carting them off Above. None of them come home, not the same way they left.”
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Chase Grayson is Agented🌙 @adropofmagick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A STUDY IN DROWNING X GILMORE GIRLS Atticus moved to Havenvale so he could attend the most prestigious knighthood academy in the kingdom, but there's a rose-scented ghost haunting his manor, & he's learning it's hard to focus while falling in love...👻🖤 #AG #YA #F #RF #QuestPit
A HAUNTING TO HOLD
Ghost Romance
𝙷̶𝚒̶𝚜̶ ̶𝙵̶𝚒̶𝚛̶𝚜̶𝚝̶ His Forever
Cozy Fantasy Town
Magical Lantern Festival
Star-Spinning Magic
Gothic Manor
Griffin Riding
Knighthood AcademyTHE PITCH
COZY YA FANTASY 89,000 WORDS

After fleeing from his war-ravaged hometown, a timid boy enrolls in an elite knighthood academy while falling for the ghost haunting his rose-scented manor; but when enemy knights invade his cozy new town during a festival that allows the dead to live for a single night, he must learn how to rally his courage before the girl he loves is lost forever.CHAPTER ONE
My ghost never hides in the shadows.
When the afternoon burns brightest, I’ll catch her silhouette in the sunshine. When night steals the sky I glimpse delicate blue eyes peeking out behind moonbeam curtains. It’s been five weeks since we've moved in, yet I've only ever found her in the light.
“She’s not your ghost,” reminds Olive. “I can see her, too!”
But my sister’s claim rattles out like a lie. Looking at her now, she’s scrunching her face up, squinting real tight, yet her eyes never seem to find the shimmering girl that runs through Rosefall Manor.
Not like mine do.FOR FANS OF...
The sweeping, magical romance of…
A cozy fantasy town inspired by…
The lush prose and gothic atmosphere found in…
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Hi, I’m Caitie @findmeinfairytales.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
An agent’s guide to SWAN SONG, a Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac reimagining. A grieving sister uses letters to manipulate the only girl who can break her brother’s curse using true love’s kiss, but the girls accidentally fall in love instead, jeopardizing the brother’s life. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F
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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Presenting a gorgeous reader's guide for my debut YA climate romantasy novel, THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, which will be releasing in summer of 2027! 🌸 Stay tuned for more exciting updates! #QuestPit #YA #F #P #TBP
On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

A Reader's Guide to THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, a YA Climate Fantasy Coming Summer 2027 by Q'Zion T. GipsonOn an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

PITCH - After a failed experiment to make plants live forever, all toxic vegetation was burned for the sake of humanity. In 2091, when 16-year-old Vee discovers Evergreen, an enchanted garden with roots to her ancestry, she must embrace the forbidden magic blooming in her veins before Evergreen and The Human Realm fall to an eternal darkness.On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:
COMP TITLES
Divining the Leaves by Shveta Thakrar: Enchanted Garden
House of Marionne by J. Elle: Botany Boarding School
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn: Found FamilyOn an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

THE VIBES
A mood board consisting of 9 square photographs with a green, blue, and, pink, yellow and white color scheme. In the center, there is a teenage Black girl in an enchanted garden, with the photos surrounding her illustrating the beauty within it: a feeding hummingbird, a calm lake, baby ducklings, a resting butterfly, and magical white and pink blooms.

In white text, there is a list of tropes in THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, including:
Black girl MC
Plant magic system
Near future
Magical blooms
Botany boarding school
Found family
Human x fae romance
He falls first and harder
Female friendships
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J. K. Lambo @jklambo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🍰 She's a prickly pastry chef 🧁 He's a charismatic baker w/ his heart on his sleeve ❤️‍🔥 When their rivalry reaches an all-time high & sweet lies turn to bitter truths, will they achieve their desires unscathed or will all they've worked for go up in flames? #questpit #R #A #W
Project Sugar and Spice moodboard

Top row: Black woman in yellow sweater listening to music while studying; an asortment of desserts in a display case in a cafe or bakery; black man wearing glasses in red sweater writing notes in a book

Middle row: peanut butter cookies with a spoon of peanut butter laying beside it; quote that says, "This was the boy I loved. A little bit messy. A little bit ruined. A beautiful disaster. Just like me."; cheesecake with caramel drizzle beside a dollop of whipped cream on a white plate

Bottom row: peanut butter brownies on brown crinkled paper; black couple sharing a moment; interior look of kitchen
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Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 107k New Adult Nautical Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Worldly, Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance Dynamic + Spice #Q #NA #A #RF #F #R #QuestPit
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Anna Deh-is editing✍️ @annadehwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NOSFERATU X MONSTERS INC After a ritual gone wrong lands a horror fan in a terrifying house of monsters, she must partner with her own sleep paralysis monster to find a way back home. He’s a nightmare in more ways than one… But so is she. #RevPit 2026 winner #questpit #YA #A #horrormance #H #R
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R V Ellis | Agented Author @rvelliswriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
RESONANCE 📖 75,000 ⏳ Upmarket speculative with historical twist 🕰️ Time Travel through objects ✨ Atmospheric 🏰 ‘Rebecca’ vibes #QuestPit #S #A #Q #HF
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Julie Moss @julieanneslibrary.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Presenting my #agentguide for BREAKING THE BLUEPRINT, an 88k word contemporary romance about rival architects. 📚The Love Hypothesis x And Now, Back to You 💋 Rivals to lovers 👥 Forced proximity 👩🏻‍💻 Workplace romance 🫦 Tension + banter 🔥 Slow burn 🌶️ Touch of spice 📍 NYC -> CO #Q #R #A #Questpit
Pictured is an agent guide inclusive of four slides. The first introduces the title and author, the second shows the pitch for the book, the third shows the book comps (i.e. The Love Hypothesis, Book Lovers, and And Now, Back to You), and the fourth shows an unofficial book cover with tropes listed out that match the caption. Pictured is an agent guide inclusive of four slides. The first introduces the title and author, the second shows the pitch for the book, the third shows the book comps (i.e. The Love Hypothesis, Book Lovers, and And Now, Back to You), and the fourth shows an unofficial book cover with tropes listed out that match the caption.Pictured is an agent guide inclusive of four slides. The first introduces the title and author, the second shows the pitch for the book, the third shows the book comps (i.e. The Love Hypothesis, Book Lovers, and And Now, Back to You), and the fourth shows an unofficial book cover with tropes listed out that match the caption. Pictured is an agent guide inclusive of four slides. The first introduces the title and author, the second shows the pitch for the book, the third shows the book comps (i.e. The Love Hypothesis, Book Lovers, and And Now, Back to You), and the fourth shows an unofficial book cover with tropes listed out that match the caption.
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Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A romantic dystopian heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #QuestPit #W #NA #A #D Querying this fall <3
List of tropes: 
Dystopian, romance, heist
Teenage lovers to unaccounted for for many years, to rival gang members actually trying to kill each other to reluctant allies to lovers again???
Idk, it’s complicated..
Cyberpunk 
Forced proximity 
is it a gang or is it a cult?
Anything can be a murder weapon if you try hard enough
tending to woundsAll that stands between Aranea and her initiation into the Coven—the gang of women notorious for killing corrupt men and their own ex-boyfriends—is a bullet in her own ex's brain. Only, when her first boyfriend suddenly turns up alive after seven years with no trace, killing him doesn't prove entirely as easy as the rest. But when it's revealed that he's part of a rival gang and leading a heist to steal vital information from a famously impenetrable city–with the potential to save or obliterate their corrupt world–she must first infiltrate the heist and take the information for her own gang. Without letting old resurfacing feelings threaten the mission.Opening lines: 
Eyes on the target. Awaiting orders to shoot." I tighten my grip on the rifle.
The breeze sweeps some brown stray hairs over my eyes as I follow the target through my scope—Raymond, 25, male, with dark shaggy hair and a bag slung over his shoulder. Also known as my second ex-boyfriend.
"Awaiting orders to shoot," I repeat. My trigger finger burns to move.
The traffic drums in the background—car horns ring through the dirty air between dilapidated skyscrapers. Raymond dabs up one of the bouncers across the street. I track his every move; when he steps back to let a group pass by, when he scratches the five o'clock shadow on his chin, when he nods towards the entrance door two steps ahead of them. All that stands between me and my official initiation into the Coven, is one bullet in his brain.

"I fear the withdraw of us will be worse than any drug." Books similar to Project Glitch: 
Butcher and Blackbrid by Brynne Weaver
Coldwire & These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong 
Scion by James Islington
To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast 
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Divergent by Veronica Roth
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Kim 🪽| EDITING @k1mm1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
❤️ Bride x My Demon ❤️ A psychic detective with a flawless record is stumped by a string of flower marked murders that defy every known explanation, forcing her to rely on an enigmatic botanist whose knowledge may be the key to finding the killer. #questpit #PR #BIPOC #R #E
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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Editors Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to leave Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF
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 RhymerRomantic 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 are your pre-sets accounting for?" [...]Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a 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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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BEAUTY & THE BEAST x STAR TREK Roan, part of the last team of archaeologists sent to Earth, stumbles into an ancient bunker haunted by the synthetic mind of a trillionaire. She’s the only one who can fix his tech, but can she save him before Earth is swallowed by the Sun? #QuestPit #A #SF #R #Q
A pair of hands, one warm and one grayscale, reach towards each other over a NASA image of the Sun. Text at the top reads “She brought me back to life…and I don’t want to die.” Text at the bottom reads “BEAST OF EDEN”An image of the Sun, with a wilting rose, a black and white robot, and an espresso in a glass mug in the corners. In front of it reads the text “LOGLINE” and more text below it reads, “In this adult 99k sci-fi “Beauty & The Beast” retelling, an archaeologist excavating long-abandoned Earth can only save one before the Sun explodes: her research or a repentant synthetic copy of the man who doomed the planet.”An image of the Sun, with old records for a record played in the top left corner. The words “OPENING LINES” are in the right corner and text above the Sun reads, “Roan’s wrist buzzed with a notification. She pointedly ignored it.
She fidgeted against the wall of what would eventually be her first curated exhibit,
“Captured Sound: A Pre-Culture War Celebration of Musical Ingenuity.” Her family milled around the space, taking in the sad, mostly empty podiums.
Her moms insisted on a preview tour before it opened to the public, if it did at all. Roan
gripped her elbows, wishing she’d done more to stall, wishing she had more here to impress them. But what could she do when they wanted a private showing, especially when they made the trip all the way out to her station?An image of the Sun. In front of it is the word “COMPS” and the covers or movie posters for “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,” “Moss’d in Space,” “Volatile Memory,” “In the Lives of Puppets,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and “Beauty & The Beast.”
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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying
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R V Ellis | Agented Author @rvelliswriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Some stories about time travel, aren’t to change the past. Sometimes, it’s about falling in love with it. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #S
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