Sign in

Guendalina Cilli

@guendalina.bsky.social
629 followers 371 following 247 posts

Italian (she/her). Questioning ace. I studied business for arts and culture. Classicist at heart

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Looking for a CP to polish a 150k (and make it shorter) was fanfic that has potential to turn into a indie novel Featuring LGBT+ couple, royals, and a lot of angst A messy prince is sent to a foreign court to learn to behave. He doesn't expect to find love
011
Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Looking for a CP to polish a 150k (and make it shorter) was fanfic that has potential to turn into a indie novel Featuring LGBT+ couple, royals, and a lot of angst A messy prince is sent to a foreign court to learn to behave. He doesn't expect to find love
011
Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#CampRevPit Georgios is impulsive and probably has a vague case of undiagnosed ADHD. He uses humor as a shield and tend to downplay serious situations, even if they do hurt him. He lacks a real direction in life. He tends to blame the universe more than himself
030
Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
#CampRevPit
Maybe Kallianassa had a point. She did spend a nice evening. Despite his goofiness, his too-direct-compliments, the way he keeps pressing too much into her personal space for her liking, Georgios’s company didn’t suffocate her. 

“And about after the match?” 

“I suppose there are worse ways to spend one’s evening.” She digs her sandals into the layer of sand the wind brought onto the pavement. Georgios steals one last shrimp before crumbling the empty bag in his hand. 

They sit for a moment, no sound in the darkness but the waves crashing gently against the beach

“So, same thing, next week? Match of the year aside?”

Sophia snorts. He needs to slow down.

“Now, don’t get ahead of yourself.”

He laughs, and she finds herself smiling at the sound.

“I’d never.”
020
Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Let's try #OneLineMC #CampRevPit Georgios is impulsive and likes nice things, so "Anyway, long story short I just get the pay for my first, dirty job and before sunset I’m in this shop spending a week’s worth of groceries on this giant package of their fanciest coffee"
020
Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#CampRevPit #CampMap For one WIP I'm retracing my past steps and exploring new routes (while keeping an eye onto the original path) For the other I'm completely lost in the woods while also climbing a mountain. There's a vague direction I'm following. I'm pushing through it one step at a time
070
Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Hi! #CampKickoff I'm an ESL writer from Italy. I have 2 WIP. One features a single father (who falls first and hard), lady and the tramp vibes, and reverse grumpy/sunshine. The 2nd a young ballerina grappling with an unplanned baby, an unexpected lead role and the cute lawyer crossing her path
010
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
miranda (querying: 🫀🪽🪐) @mirandagrackle.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
M/M GIDEON THE NINTH x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST A homunculus desperately seeks answers about his creation and revenge on his creators—while chased across the stars by his vengeful ex-boyfriend, who isn’t willing to let him go without a fight. #questpit #Q #A #SFF #SF #F #RF
An agent's guide to: Star-Stained Angel. Adult Queer Sci-Fantasy, 98k wordsPitch: Fitz exists only to hunt down, interrogate, and kill every person with a hand in his creation. It’s been his purpose since he discovered he’s a homunculus. The secret of his creation will die with him—and anyone who gets in his way. Until a reckless mistake reunites him with Isaiah, his ex-boyfriend who believed Fitz traitorous and dead. Isaiah pursues Fitz ruthlessly, driven by grief over Fitz’s betrayal. Whether he’s seeking official justice or a more personal, intimate revenge, Fitz can’t let himself fall back into Isaiah’s obsessive, destructive orbit. No matter how much he craves it. The further Fitz runs, the more he uncovers of a conspiracy built into every atom of his blood, flesh, and bone. He was created as a weapon of unknown purpose, and with his creators embedded in the highest positions of religion and government, he can’t trust anyone—especially himself. He can’t even trust Isaiah’s judgement. Nobody has ever loved him, hated him, or understood him more, but Isaiah doesn’t know he’s a homunculus—and Fitz is desperate to keep him from finding out.Snippet: Sometimes, Isaiah and I’d pick a person—someone colourful, noticeable from way up here—and follow them ‘til we got bored. Those early days, I was still getting used to clambering high above streets like a spider. I’d cling to Isaiah’s wrist or his belt while he led me around. I think he brought me up here so he could clutch me close and splay his palm on my chest to calm my thundering heart. He was different back in those days. Stupid-tall, but not grown into it yet, all lanky limbs and awkward gait. He was already dyeing his hair black but had it cut in some abysmal, shaggy fringe. No tattoos, too much eyeliner, shitty cheap piercings. I could still sometimes make him blush. I curl over myself. I dig my fingers into grooves in the ventilation shafts and bend completely in half. My hair hangs over the drop. A kaleidoscope of neons flutters through the choppy strands. If I could just. Be that person again. Be a person again.

Comps: Image of Gideon and Harrow the Ninth. Text: Unapologetic queer MC; Weird little freak (TM); Space theology; A lobotomy might help, actually.

Image of Arcane poster. Text: Tech + magic; Forgiveness and acceptance; hair physics.

Image of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood poster. Text: Alchemy; what does it mean to be human?; God...?; An MC that's Envy + Ed Elric (angry, short, pathetic, tragically inhuman)TROPES: Enemies-to-lovers; size difference; power dynamics; space opera; neurodivergent MC; battle couple; second chance.

A collage of memes and text posts.
0244
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
amberjollyauthor.bsky.social @amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
An agent’s guide to RIBBONS OF MIND! A twist on Sleeping Beauty but with elemental magic, war, and far more dragons. 🐉⚔️❤️‍🔥🧠🧙🏼‍♀️ #questpit #NA #Editing #romantasy #pitch #agentsguide
24119
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 🏄‍♀️ California vibes 😡 Frenemies to enemies 🎭 Opening night drama ❣️ Romantic debacles #QuestPit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Q #F #YA #Querying #witch
Early Magic; images: images of young women, a magical book, a coastline, bottles on a shelf, a dark forest
15923
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#questpit here’s my #agentsguide to 99 WAYS TO GET EXSPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER), a sapphic ya satirical dystopian fantasy that dares to ask the question: What if The Bomb gave people nuclear magic? #w #d #f #lgbt #ya #ownvoices
75k YA Satirical
Dystopian Fantasy
99 WAYS TO GET EX-SPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER
By Victoria Jayne
星星亚The Pitch
Anarchocommunist, OCD-ridden Posey Peabody has been drafted into the American Army Academy for Powerful Witches. By entry stats she's the Winner--First Rank of her class. All is well as can be until Amelia Appleton takes her Rank with reckless, dangerous, wrong magic. And then Appleton doesn't get expelled.
Competitive streak activated, Posey and Appleton engage in reckless, rule-breaking acts of magic and mischief. While trading First Rank between each other, Posey realizes that Appleton might not be such a weirdo after all. In fact, she's annoyingly pretty. That said, Appleton's got her eye on that government position through all this, and Posey would rather die than work for the fascists in charge. Posey's intention is to truly get expelled. She wants to be the first one to do it.
Meanwhile, an underground betting ring rises up, classmates betting on whether or not Posey will have to kill someone to get expelled. Posey hopes it's not true, but whether or not she finds out is entirely up to her.FIRST LINE
SNIPPET
Somewhere behind the stage, Headmaster Josephus Crimble is puking his guts out.
I remind myself that it's okay if I start to count and stop myself after the limit, so long as I don't make it to ten. If you make it to ten, the limit goes down by one, Posey. Don't forget.
I started at five hundred.
Drifting through the rest of the day in this half-there state, I sit with my feelings locked tight in a jar of my own design. Ґ1l preserve my emotions like lemons, until they're laden with salt and mellowed in their sourness. That feeling, or lack thereof, feels warm as home to me, and my deep yearning for Nukeville ebbs into a soft ache that gently rubs my heart into a smoother, steadier rhythm. There will be no need for counting when there's no feeling to (dis)regulate.
03815
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
T. Rutherford @trutherford.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN: Speculative Fiction A group of elementary teachers fight a charter takeover by playing a D&D game with real-life corollaries For fans of The Grimoire Grammar School PTA, D20, and Roll for Romance Vibes and scenes in this mood board Querying Soon #QuestPit #W #A #S #F
Moodboard for Anti-Charter Campaign with an apple for a teacher, an elementary school, a nametag that says "evil corp," a fistful of money, butterscotch candy, cheersing beers, ants, happy kids in a hall, a magic book, D&D dice, map of PA
13914
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
--A HUMAN BURDEN-- A short story anthology that delves into a multitude of wide-ranging burdens. From the burden of obligation to the burden of tradition, each story brings a new complexity, a new weight to bear, and a distinct struggle to overcome. #QuestPit #W #U #LF
A HUMAN BURDEN LANDSCAPE POSTER
215551
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A guide to my #WIP 🌊 SCULPTOR OF THE WINDS 🌊 Book 1 in a planned duology, it has: ⚓️ Seafaring adventures 🌋Roots in animistic religion ⚡️A physics based magic system 🐙 Sea monsters large and small 🏠 Complex family dynamics 🌎 Accessible worldbuilding #questpit #A #F #RF #FR #W #LGBT #OV #AG
Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image.

In white text:

Guide to
Sculptor of the Winds
by Ivy T. Woods
Book 1 in the Sea of Sorrows Duology
Romantic Pirate FantasyOver a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image.

To the left in white text:
Pitch

When Minna is offered a place weaving the winds—and protecting the ship from monsters—on one of the largest ships in the Fleet, it comes with a catch: her betrothal to the Deckmistress’ son. Bullied by her mother, Minna takes the deal, surprised to find that her betrothed and her new Deckmistress are actually quite tolerable.

But when they capture one of the monsters terrorizing the Sea of Sorrows, Minna is forced into the role of jailer while they interrogate the monster, trying to force her to give up the location of the monsters’ lair. But as Minna’s monstrous prisoner proves herself to be surprisingly human, Minna becomes intent on saving her from her inevitable execution, going against her Deckmistress, her betrothed, and the entire crew. But the other monsters are drawn to their own. And they are coming.

To the right is a picture of a tall ship with two sails up on the main mast against an orange horizon, with rocks in the foreground on the rightOver a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image.

In white text:
Comps & Tropes
Seafaring adventure
Arranged marriage
Monster love interest
Yearning
Bisexual main character

Images of the covers for
The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Bury our bones in the midnight soil by V. E. SchwabOver a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image.

In white text:
First Lines

The first body they found was bloated, thick veins of black running beneath the dark skin, branching out and away from the missing chunk of flesh in the dead man’s shoulder. The corpse’s sun-bleached trousers were caught on a rocky protrusion, leaving the body to rise and settle with each rush of water up the golden sand. 

 “Fucking seas,” Minna muttered. “Is he washing in or out, do you figure?”

 Her father grunted, squatting down beside the body, plucking the torn and bloody pants away from the rock that kept the body anchored to the shoreline. The next wave rushed in to claim its prize, sucking the body back down the beach as it withdrew.

 “I suppose we’ll see soon.” Her father shielded his eyes with one hand, silver hairs shining in the sun as he squinted inland. “Body can’t have been too old.”
43615
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This 90s horror about a haunted mannequin in small town America is sure to possess Grady Hendrix fans, however 18 yo closeted lesbian Roxy, who finds herself face to face with that evil pair of glass eyes, may seem less enthused. #questpit #Q #F #A #H
0318
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
o.c. umeghalu ✧ is querying @ocumeghalu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
*BIG FIVE EDITOR INTEREST* “tropes & things” ft. chibi art of my MCs by miraxs_r on 📸! 💥 ancestral power 💔 tragic sibling bond ⚔️ secret society 💞 friends to lovers 💭 foresight & visions 🥀 lovers to enemies agent’s guide pinned to my profile! #questpit #YA #F #Q
AWAKENING by O.C. Umeghalu 

art of a girl named Cindren holding a dagger toward a boy named Nazar who's sweating with his palms up in defense 

110k dual-pov upper YA Fantasychosen one(s)
 complicated sibling relationship born of parental pressure and fear (ie: azula and zuko)
 forged family with powers
 the unpredictable journey with grief
 “touch my sister and you’ll die”
 budding love (friends to lovers)exploring how guilt fuels resolve
 rebellious uprising + secret society 
 female friendship that starts off rocky (ie: katara and toph)
 a “banquet-turned-battle in a ballroom” scene
 a doomed, slow-burn forbidden romance (yearning ✓, 🚫 spice)
 betrayal :)too long to include here unfortunately, but it details my book's pitch (with Big 5 Editor interest) by describing the FMC Cindren finding that her golden eyes points to a heroic ancestry and journeying to rescue her convicted friend while the MMC Nazar grapples with the constraints of royalty and withering loyalty to the throne after truths of a century's old war comes to light and tosses all he's come to see as history to the wayside

110k dual-pov upper YA Fantasy with a braided narrative + series potential

Realm Breakerx Avatar the Last Airbender x Heir
0226
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
McKayla E. Gates @gateswrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
SHADOW AND BONE X TANGLED X BLACK SUN 🪡A prophet determined to prevent the end of the world. 🌊 An exile on a quest for redemption. 🗡️the power-hungry intent on thwarting both their plans. ⌛️ and an ancient darkness seemingly resurrected. THE REMNANTS OF TYRANTS #W #A #F #questpit
A woman sitting on a ledge unseen in the photo. Her hair is braided and she wears a fantasy inspired outfit. Below her is a man with a blue frock and brown hair looking up to her.
1266
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
m 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Heartbroken summer camp staff Sage and Nico start a casual relationship to get over their recent heartbreaks. Nico realizes he wants this to be more than a summer thing, but Sage has some unfinished business back at school that she won't let go of so easily. #questpit #q #na #r
79144
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
T. Rutherford @trutherford.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN: Speculative Fiction Jumanji X Abbott Elementary School librarian Britt and her teacher friends must figure out how to stop a charter takeover of their beloved school. The strange D&D game they're playing may hold the key. Querying Soon #QUESTPIT #W #A #S #F
Top image of an elementary classroom; bottom image of a table w/D&D dice and character sheets
Text reads: Speculative fiction, Anti-Charter Campaign, is Jumanji X Abbott Elementary. Librarian Britt and her teacher colleagues must make the right rolls in a magical RPG to save their school from a charter takeover.
35024
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Good morning #Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration, an #agentsguide to CAVERN CLIPPER (Treasure Planet x Journey to the Center of the Earth x The Last Exile) #W #SFF #SF #A
Slide 1:
Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds.
presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper.
Status: first draft being edited
Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart.Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light.
The Pitch: A RECENTLY DECEASED HUMAN (SAM) AND A FORMERLY CAPTIVE CERUNAN (NYXEL) NEED TO DELIVER A MESSAGE CRITICAL TO HUMANITY’S SURVIVAL, ARE THROWN TOGETHER ON A PIRATE HUNTER SHIP AND ARE BEING PURSUED BY A RELENTLESS PIRATE FLEET - BUT THE LIVING MAZE OF CAVERNS THEY MUST TRAVERSE TO GET THERE MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE PIRATES.
ackground, massive square cavern in background with small forest and deer in foreground.
Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH X THE LAST EXILE
Tropes and themes:
• TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI)
• AIRSHIPS
• PIRATES
• CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES
• A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED!Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman.
Excerpt:
“CAPTAIN!” SAM SHOUTED AND POINTED TO THE SIGHT. HE SAW HER REACT, BUT DIDN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HER RESPONSE WOULD BE. INSTEAD HE SPUN AROUND TO TRY AND FIND NYXEL. HE SPOTTED HER ON THE MAINMAST, SCANNING THE DECK AND LOOKING FOR TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY.
 “NYXEL! THE CABLE!” SAM SHOUTED. HE SAW HER HEAD SNAP TOWARDS HIM AND HE POINTED TOWARDS WHERE THE LAST CABLE WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE DECK, THEN SWUNG HIS HAND AROUND TO THE SLOOP. SHE FOLLOWED HIS HAND, THEN NODDED AT HIM AND LAUNCHED BACK INTO THE AIR, GRACEFULLY CURVING TOWARDS THE SLOOP ONE FINAL TIME.
14828
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is haunted by Shadows since almost dying. They are increasing in power. A Red Eyed God talks of change. A Shadow with a hat seeks to use him for his dark purposes. 🍂 New England set 💽 2000's nostalgia 🧹 Witchcraft 🌕️ Cosmic Horror #Questpit #H #W
27239
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is haunted by Shadows since almost dying. They are increasing in power. A Red Eyed God talks of change. A Shadow with a hat seeks to use him for his dark purposes. 🍂 New England 💽 2000's nostalgia 🧹 Witchcraft 🌕️ Cosmic Horror #Questpit #H #Agentsguide
"Hat" 84K cosmic horror. Join the beta. Querying soon. 
Pitch: Chris is cursed to see Shadow people since almost dying as a child. Now, as the new MILLENNIUM dawns they are INCREASING in FREQUENCY and GAINING power. His peers think he is psychotic, The Red Eyed God in the woods speak of a great change, and a HATEFUL shadow wearing a hat seeks to use him for his own ends.   
Tropes: 2000's setting
Space and Nature
WitchCraft
Spooky New ENgland
Stoner Goth kids
Madness
possession 
Vibe Comps: The Bababook, Donnie Darko, The Exorcist
917462
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide
Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.A dark forest. Snippet.  She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!”
 The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death.
 “Magic should never return.”
 After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended.
 Sent him back to his body.A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV.
819082
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage. A plea bargain was my only way out. A world where women can be punished for what goes on with their bodies is a very scary place. It only gets worse. #Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN
Newspaper headlines read: Sederwall pleads guilty to concealing death
48832
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
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
68939
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Hannah Smith @whichhsmith.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#questpit Nerissa hasn't aged since her fiancé Dylan died. She considers it a curse until an invitation manifests in her hand, an invitation from the family Dylan was working for when he died. His death was always suspicious, now Nerissa has a chance to prove it. #W #F #A #amediting
The background is a photograph taken from under the water. Half the photo is taken up by the waves on the surface that are broken up by sunbeams penetrating the water. On each corner is a white corner decoration with straight lines curling as they meet each other. 

Text: Merrow
By: Hannah Smith - New Adult Fantasy - EditingThe background is a photograph taken from under the water. Half the photo is taken up by the waves on the surface that are broken up by sunbeams penetrating the water. On each corner is a white corner decoration with straight lines curling as they meet each other. 

Text: Pitch

The only thing Nerissa wants is to grow old, pass quietly in her sleep, and finally join her fiance Dylan in death. Finding out she’s got another couple of centuries to live doesn’t change anything; it just complicates it. Her only source of comfort is the engagement band she had used to propose to him before he left.

Then she receives an invitation to an employee appreciation party hosted by the family of Witches her fiance was working for when he died. She begins to think that maybe there was a reason she’s lived for so long.  She had always been suspicious of his death, and this party may be her only chance of finding proof to her claims. What’s an extended weekend when she’s got centuries ahead of her?

Getting the proof isn’t as easy as she was hoping, the employees are tight-lipped and most of the Estate is closed off to the guests. It’s only thanks to the young heir of the family breaking into her room that she manages to broker a deal: information in exchange for  Nerissa’s engagement band. Now Nerissa must decide between uncovering the truth and risking the last piece of Dylan she has.The background is a photograph taken from under the water. Half the photo is taken up by the waves on the surface that are broken up by sunbeams penetrating the water. On each corner is a white corner decoration with straight lines curling as they meet each other. 

Text: Excerpt

Firstly, letters were supposed to appear in Nerissa’s mailbox, not in her hand. The fact that this letter had appeared in such a way did nothing to lessen the torrent emotions currently fighting for dominance in her stomach. That was just the first thing too. 

Then there was the matter that the Child family was writing to her after all these years. After decades of silence there was no real reason for them to be reaching out to her in this moment. Not anything good anyway. The last time Nerissa had received a letter from them it was to tear her heart out in the most impersonal way possible. 

She was almost afraid to touch it again. She stuck out one finger and gently poked it, wondering if it would disintegrate in the water and spare her the trouble. It didn’t. In fact, there wasn’t even the barest hint of warping, which could only mean the paper had been treated to survive in this very setting, and more likely than not, she was its intended reciptent. 

The letter rotated once again, the bright gold lettering catching the icy blue light filtering in through the roof above. Nerissa squinted as she tried to read it, the sheen hiding some of the letters against the dark green backing until it tilted away from the light just enough to read:

To the spouse of Dylan Price.The background is a photograph taken from under the water. Half the photo is taken up by the waves on the surface that are broken up by sunbeams penetrating the water. On each corner is a white corner decoration with straight lines curling as they meet each other. 

Text: Comp Titles

Image Left: Book cover for Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Image right: The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
0259
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Laura Wilding @laurawilding.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
EMILY WILDE X DIVINE RIVALS To win her independence, the granddaughter of a famed botanist must team up with a brilliant, brooding scholarship student to unlock the secrets of a dying magical garden, even as their rivalry blossoms into something more. 🌿✨ #QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R
38333
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
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
45525
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
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
139357
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Taylor Coffman @taycoffman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Fifteen years ago, her family was torn apart by powers no one understood. Now, she's taking her own accidental powers on a quest for revenge-but that means managing her fracturing family, shifting morality, and unexpected feelings for the dangerous vigilante training her. #questpit #SF #NA #R #Q
An Agent's Guide To:
SIRENSONG
Taylor Coffman 
114k - SF Romance 
New AdultPITCH + COMPS 
IRON WIDOW meets ARCANE as a traumatized rookie superhero takes her accidental powers on a quest for vengeance. But to find the golden-eyed puppeteer that tore her family apart, she'll have to navigate the crime and corruption of Emerald City's bloody underbelly, her fracturing relationship with her twin brother, her own shifting morality, and her growing feelings for the murderous-yet-handsome vigilante who's agreed to lend her a hand. 

IRON WIDOW by Xiran Jay Zhao 
Broken System 
Feminine Rage

ARCANE (Netflix)
Dysfunctional Families
Soft Sci-Fi 

DISPATCH (Video Game)
Messy Superheroes 
Found Family TROPES
Art of a brunette young woman with short hair, wearing a leather jacket and jeans, and a blonde, muscular man in intricate black armor. Around them, text reading:
Kill the Rich
Morally Grey Characters
He Falls First
Vengeance
Classism
Mind Control
Superhero x Assassin
Complicated Families
Love vs. Duty
Disabled Queer Rep
Power & Corruption
Secret-IdentiOPENING LINE
The last day of life as I knew it began with a thunderstorm.

The rain slammed the pavement in sheets, creating a dark, slick look that reminded me of spilled oil. It drummed against the windows, a fuzzy background static that blended well with the sickly gray tint of the sky. It was mid-day but it looked like dusk, and on the one hand I was never happier to be in a dry, warm car.

On the other hand, I had never hated my job more as I stared through the rain at the skyscraper looming ahead.
24017
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
SERPENT & DOVE meets THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS 🥀Star-Crossed Lovers 🥀Messy Families 🥀Firecracker FMC x Reclusive Billionare MMC 🥀Hidden Cost-Based Magic 🥀Love v Betrayal 🥀Survival v Morality 🥀Monsters in the Forests Rep: Rachel Estep at D4EO Literary Agency #QuestPit #AG #NA #F #R
32812
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
🕸️ mar 🕸️ @marescreve.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
NORMAL PEOPLE x THE DREAMERS A late coming-of-age story following the convoluted friendship between a bookseller, a rockstar, and an aspiring cinematographer, set in nostalgic 90s Europe. 💌 men who yearn 🏳️‍🌈 queer love triangle 📚 antique bookshops 🌾 immigrant MC #OV #QuestPit #Q #A #LGBT #DIS
33010
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Kavi makes BFF Ryhan a Practice Boyfriend so she’ll become the perfect girlfriend to her actual bf Aaron Mirza. It’s her last shot at love—due to a Qasam—& has to be perfect But Ryhan has a secret & if her family learns of any of this, she’ll lose it all—inc dreams of studying🩺 in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #QuestPit #YA #Q
Movie poster-style graphic for novel called ‘ALL YOUR QASAMS’ with author’s name Neha Yazmin underneath the bold title. Image is a close-up of a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery, smiling down at her maroon outfit. 
Along the top of the poster are the names of two comparison book titles ‘NEVER HAVE I EVER’ and “THE BEST LAID PLANS”. In the left corner of the poster, are three 5-star movie review-style texts pertaining to different aspects of the book. 1: “South Asian Main Cast. 2: “Friends to lovers with a difference” 3: “Bengali teens in STEM”.Moodboard for ALL YOUR QASAMS with a quote from the novel reading, ‘You are madness incarnate’ and five images: picture of a hot chocolate drink and heart-shaped cookies, a couple embracing during a boat ride, a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery smiling down at her maroon outfit, a close-up of a young man kissing the forehead of a young woman, a close-up the joined hands of a south Asian bride and groom, a young man in an aesthetic library reading a hardcover text book. The Moodboard is surrounded by arrows pointing to text that allude to the themes and tropes in the novel: “Meddling grandpa”, “perfect firsts”, “friends-to-lovers with a difference”, “only one bed”, “a decades’ old Qasam and some new ones”, “Bengali teens in STEM”.
16333
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Slow Horses x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird Science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #QuestPit #Q #A #T #SP #SF #HF 🦋
03011
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
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
617194
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
G'morning #Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration, an #agentsgude to Tides of Sourcery (The Witcher x Dresden Files) #W #A #F #DF
On a background of a starry night sky, a dark forest canopy and a shooting star, text reading:
Proudly Presenting
TIDES OF SOURCERY
A very early stage fantasy currently at 110K words. On a background of a dark, spooky forest at night, text reading:
THE PITCH
Ten years ago the world we knew changed, flooding with magic and monsters we thought were mere stories. Now Gracelynn, one of those afflicted with magic powers during that terrible day, must take a dangerous mission to find her long lost brother, with the hope of asking forgiveness for that terrible day. But is the quest for old family worth risking her new one?"
On a background of a wizard casting magic in a glowing enchanted forest, text reading:
PRELIMINARY COMPS
The Witcher X Dresden Files

Tropes
• Magical Outcast FMC
• A new magical Earth, Guns meet Elves
• A multitude of magic portals
• elves and Orcs, Robes and Cloaks and so much more
• Mythical creatures
• A forbidden forest
• A Quest!On a background of our planet earth surrounded by a glowing cloud of magic and a parson looking at it while standing on a cliff, text reading:
EXCERPT:
“The Celestial Council has decided. A world has been chosen, and the process has already begun,” a female voice said.
Relief flooded Kr'alda'ur.
“Which world?” he asked, the traditional inquiry for this ritual exchange.
“A human world, in the Arm of the Vanquished Goddess. Further details will be provided via official Council Degree within the day. The Celestial Council offers its congratulations,” the female voice said.
“I am thankful for the words of Direction, and of the opportunity. My House is at the Celestial Council's service as always,” Kr'alda'ur said in reply, finishing the traditional exchange."
45232
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #QuestPit #A #F #DF #H #W
Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.
613062
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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
The Title EARTHLINGS! over the planetfl 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.
Now, when ordered to abduct and replace a human girl they have betriended, 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...
18636
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
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.
20242120
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Christian Oxford @christianoxford.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
After a heist gone wrong binds a thief to the soul of a long-dead hero, she must outrun the law and bargain with a vilified goddess for her life, all while deciding whether the world would be better off with her survival or the hero's resurrection. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF
714451
Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ACT YOUR AGE EVE BROWN X THE CO-OPT A single father must find a compromise between helping the woman he’s determined to win preserve the 1920s villa of her childhood and saving his own business from bankruptcy #questpit #W #R #A moodboard by @sonnyzappa.bsky.social
86329
Reposted by Guendalina Cilli
Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜 @celticxpanda.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
ARTHURIAN LORE X SAILOR MOON 👑 Reincarnated King Arthur ⚔️ Knights of the Round Table as Magic Weapons 🌩️ An Utterly Devoted, Godly Love Interest 🌈 Trans Boy Merlin? Trans Boy Merlin 🪶 The Morrigan's favorite host ❌ And a Mordred that gives you the Biggest Ick #BluePit📖 #NA #Q #F #LGBT
moodboard for She is King including art by ariasama_ and tactictiankate
0179