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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THE UNSTITCHING OF TJ WILLIAMS One hometown under totalitarian rule, one millennial woman back after decades away, both on the brink of revolution. 🧵working-class voice 🧵Manchester, UK 🧵illegal hope 🧵charming resistance leader 🧵genre-blending #DVpit #A #dystopian #spec #workingclass

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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THE UNSTITCHING OF TJ WILLIAMS When Mum goes missing on the eve of a revolution, TJ must find her before totalitarian Manchester is destroyed and the trauma straining at the stitches on TJ's wrist comes undone. 🧵return to roots 🧵genre-blending 🧵northen voice #DVpit #dystopian #spec #workingclass

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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hello Universe, can you please align the stars and do all the magic so a full request lands in my inbox, please and thank you very a cherry and chocolate sprinkles on top? 🫶

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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Any recommendations for romance / speculative romance that has a feminist edge? Like the girl is independent and stays that way even after they fall in love kind of thing.

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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Heads up to any querying authors… I’ve received 2 spam emails from someone purporting to be an agent from CAA. Not fun for the heart of an author in the trenches desperately waiting for replies 🫠😩

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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m too hot. It’s been 40 degrees for godknowshowmanydays and even though I have air conditioning, I still feel hot. Like there’s no air in the air anymore. Also, there’s a cricket camped out in my living room and he’s very noisy.

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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Uff, another rejection. On a positive note, they said I had an exciting premise and I should consider submitting to them for future projects so… I’m taking this as positively as I can and moving onto the next query! 💪🏼 Come on, TJ, we will find you a home, I promise!

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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 Academy

THE 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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Jesco Puluj @jpuluj.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #s #OS 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦? A couple on the verge of breaking up boards a mysterious train and travels through alternate realities, where they must confront their unspoken conflicts if they want to save their relationship. ONE NIGHT TO VARANASI

A trope map of the novel One Night to Varanasi

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE FOX AND THE DEVIL X HELL'S HEART In a vampire normative future, government control and restriction of gender affirming medicines start Delaney on their quest to becoming one of the changeless undead. It seems the better option. #Questpit #LGBT #SFF #A

Mood board reads: The Monster They'd Courted. At the top it says 'Part twisted vampire horror'. At the bottom it says 'Part sapphic sci-fi schenanigans'. The four comp titles appear as Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, The Fox and the Devil, Volatile Memory and Hell's Heart

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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My amazing sister (on insta @kathrynnarrates) recently recorded the first page of my MS and it’s too good not to share for #questpit The Unstitching of TJ Williams, an upmarket dystopian fiction with urban fantasy elements and a working-class voice. #Q #S #U #D.

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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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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ahh, I so desperately want to look through all these pitches for #questpit but my little one has decided to wake up! I’ll be liking and sharing properly as soon as she naps again!

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Helen Marie McKinney @helenmckinney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit agents guide to The Unstitching of TJ Williams One hometown under totalitarian rule, one 38yo woman back after decades away, both on the brink of revolution. 🧵character-driven narrative 🧵working-class voice 🧵female mc 🧵illegal hope 🧵charming resistance leader #Q #S #D #U #A