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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Absolutely loved taking part in my first ever #QuestPit yesterday. 😄 Loved seeing the huge amounts of creativity in so many pitches. 🙌🏼 Thank you all for your support, I was not expecting so many lovely comments. 🥹

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M. Leigh Author ✨NOW QUERYING✨ @mleighauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SCHITT'S CREEK X SOMETHING WILD & WONDERFUL x THE GUNCLE... in a rural Texas town... about a widower who falls for his mysterious roommate... #QuestPit #Q #R #A SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN (73K, adult LGBTQ+ fiction) is: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ queer joy 👀 they were roommates 💖 slow burn 🌙 chaotic chosen family ✨ so many y'alls

An agent's guide to Sounds Like A Plan, an adult LGBTQ+ novel complete at 73k set in rural small-town Texas and featuring a slow-burn queer romance

The vibes for and characters from Sounds Like A Plan

The comps and a peek at Sounds Like A Plan

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

IF WE'RE STILL SINGLE 👫Two childhood best friends 💍One marriage pact 📝Seven things all couples should do before they say I do ♾️A million things that could go wrong 💘One chance to end their story the right way #QuestPit #A #R #Querying 8/1

A couple lit from the back, kissing in the snow
Text: An agent's guide to If We're Still Single

The Pitch
When Fiona unexpectedly ends up celebrating her thirtieth birthday by moving back to the tiny Wisconsin hometown she always dreamed of escaping, the one bright spot is the chance to reconnect with her childhood best friend, Henry. After a drunken night of remember whens, they agree to fulfill the marriage pact they made at seventeen.

The pair sets out to rebuild the magical friendship of their youth, armed with a list of things the internet tells them all couples must do before they walk down the aisle: try each other’s hobbies, cook together, travel, even... (gulp) have sex. Soon, the feelings Fiona’s always had for Henry can no longer be ignored. But Fiona never intended her stay to be permanent, and it’s time to figure out if she’s ready to redefine what--or who--home is to her.

Comps
People we meet on vacation by Emily Henry - Best friends to lovers, burying feelings for years
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn - Small town, checking things off a list
You, with a view by Jessica Joyce - Grief and Healing, Self-discovery

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Molli Jackson Ehlert @mollimakes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You are cordially invited to REALM OF HEARTS for high tea. Your presence is not optional. #literaryagents you are invited to enjoy my revamped Wonderland reimagining. Fat, queer, anxious af and badass Alice is bringing the 🔥 to your inbox #QuestPit #Q #R #F #RF #A #NA #queer

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Theo @theozukowski.com · 24/07/2026

GHOSTED — Moving back to his childhood home after his abusive father's sudden death, Sebastian West expects the nightmares. What he doesn't expect are the dark, bloody visions of his old 'imaginary friend' haunting his waking hours. Are they hallucinations? Or something worse? #QuestPit #W #A #DR

A grid of nine images. From the top left, clockwise, they are:
1. red-tinted man holds his own throat
2. man with a white cloth covering his head and face
3. red-tinted image of a man's hand over his bare back
4. burning church
5. red-tinted image of a shirtless man wearing a necklace
6. bare back of a man with three hands reaching around him
7. red-tinted image of a man with a rosary in his mouth
8. broken reflection of a shirtless man
9. hands held up by strings

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Miranda Hawthorne @hawthornelibrary.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One last post for #questpit! KILLING EVE X FLEABAG 👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏼 Sapphic af 🔪 Men d!e (you’re welcome) 💋 Delicious banter 👏 Unapologetically irreverent 🤔 She falls first 🐕🐈‍⬛ Black Cat x Labrador ✨ “Don’t touch my wife” #W #R #T

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Tini Wider @tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Carnival Row × Arcane. A secretly educated inventor must rescue her sister and expose the lie at the heart of a kingdom before a prince silences her forever. ⚙️ Inventor heroine ❤️ Friends-to-lovers ✨ Women aren't supposed to wield magic... until one does. #Q #YA #F #QuestPit

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S.K. 📚 🐭 @thebookmouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE LOST STORY X THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA A fantasy novel aficionado discovers he’s the reincarnation of a revered Mage from another realm, and must uncover his past life memories to save his newfound home before it’s decimated by a horde of soul-devouring beasts. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

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Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️ @marysmorrison.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x HIGHER MAGIC DO NO HARM has… 🎩Retro-Victorian dark academia 🩸Murder and intrigue 👨‍🎓Plus-size PhD student MMC 👩🏽‍🎓Disabled punk activist FMC 🩺Medicine & magic 🧬Fictional magic, real science 🧑‍🔬Save the enby, save the world #Questpit #Q #A #F #SFF

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justinahhartsock @justinahhartsock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x AMATKA The last city of the universe survives by keeping its people from feeling. When an engineer discovers emotion and forbidden love beyond the city’s walls, she must decide how much of her world she’s willing to destroy to become herself. #QuestPit #A #LF #S #U

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Alissa is Querying ✨🔥🧪 @alissalindemann.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Local Heavens X Fahrenheit 451 🖥️ Chronic Illness Rep 🎙️ Mind Control ❤️‍🔥 Rivals to Lovers 💖 Sapphic Romance 🎚️ Art as Resistance #questpit #A #SF #D #W

Text in the center of an old analog television reads "An Agent's Guide to Hell or Hardwire." It is bordered on two sides by rainbow electronic glitch background art. Along the side is binary code which translates to "Free your mind." The top border has musical notes in treble cleft on a staff. To the right are grayscale bars of TV static, the words "Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi" with a white glowing wolf's head outline between it and a final text of "80k Words" at the bottom.

Top and bottom of the image are bordered with rainbow electronic interference graphics and black and white TV interference. The title text reads "Loading Additional Media" and it features books "Local Heavens" by K.M. Fajardo, "Seek the Traitor's Son" by Veronica Roth and "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. There is also an image of the electronic music artist Daft Punk and the album cover for My Chemical Romance's album "Danger Days." The same binary code from the cover borders the image on the right.

Title text reads "Mission Status (Pitch)." It then has a white paper like box with the text, "When a digital music artist interrupts a heist, she becomes entangled in an underground Robin Hood style crime syndicate bent on destroying the corporite elite. Their leader, an infuriatingly likable rogue, and their plan to free the city from technocratic mind control clash with her own elaborate plot. As her body modifications slowly make her sick, she'll need to trust the rebels she once wrote off or risk time running out on both their plans." Below this is a box of black and white tv static with the faint outline of "Nero Relies on You," but the R and E in "Relies" is in black while the other words are in pink so it can be read as "Nero Lies on You." A text box to the right lists tropes: Chronic Illness Rep, Rivals to Lovers, Music and Fandom as Resistance, Sapphic Romance, and Feminine Rage." The right of the image is bordered by a black and gold circuit board.

Right border has glitched rainbow and black bars from a TV screen error. The title reads "Sample Code (Snippet)." On the right are antique images of Charles Babbage's brain with a diagram of a brain chip over the left lobe. Text reads: "Chapter 1: Stage lights crackle to life with a wave of electricity before rotating to illuminate my metallic form. I feel the crowd's frenzy, the way it lifts me, the way they yearn to rip this armor off and find the soft core of me inside. No one knows who I am, but they all love THE MACHINE GIRL. I star at the blank mass of shadow bodies, whose vocal cords swell with a name I chose for myself but isn't mine. Their response isn't biologically impressive. As the bassline of the track floods into the theatre, people twist and gyrate, but so too does a corpse dance post-mortem after succumbing to a knife wound. I would know.

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Colleen Writes @colleenmoodyauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In THE WISHES WE MADE, Aurora and Jameson ignore the most basic law of nature. A storm is unpredictable and you have no control over the destruction it leaves in its wake. #Questpit #Q #A #PR #R 🔥enemies-to-lovers-and-back-again ✨magic ☘️Irish folklore ❤️Strong female friendships 🤫Secrets & lies

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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Meet the Protagonist: Alyx Delaney. 🌊🔥 📍 St Ives, Cornwall 🔦 Urban explorer 🧗 Terrible at giving up 🫡 Even worse at following orders 🗡️ Curiosity drives her 🩸 Loyalty may destroy her TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.

The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text:

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw.
Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers
Trinity: a covert,
science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades.

A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.

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Juliane —- is querying! 🌟 @julianesreads.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A GUIDE FOR GHOST IN THE CLIFFS!! * ˒˒ ⸝⸝　 for lovers of: 🫆 small town disappearances 🫆 psychological unraveling 🫆 BIPOC main characters 🫆 Sadie, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, & Yellowjackets #questpit #q #ya #h #t #my

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Christine Szczesniak @szczesniakchristin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WE WERE ALL DEFECTS - YA Dystopian Thriller - 77k words The bubblegum-pink tiles of Ruinview will swallow anyone who loses control, but emotions are Alex's only weapon when she has seventy-two hours to stop her mother's execution and save the boy she loves. #QuestPit #Q #YA

The background features a dark silhouette of a person standing in front of a chain-link fence with a hazy, warm sunset shining through trees in the distance. There is a textured, pink hexagonal tile floor. White text over the image reads: "An Agent's Guide To: WE WERE ALL DEFECTS. YA Dystopian Thriller, 77k words."

A dark pink hexagonal tile background. At the top, glowing pink neon text reads "Welcome To Ruinview." Below it, text reads "DAYS SINCE LAST DROP:" above a mechanical flip-clock counter showing the number "O0" with small blood splatters on the white tiles. The main body text reads: "The pretty pink tiles of Ruinview are as fake as its plastic smiles, but happiness is a mandatory survival mechanism. None of those things stop Alex from feeling everything-even when she knows a slip in control will lead to the ground splitting open to swallow her whole. But hiding from herself won't prevent her mother's execution. Rescuing her mother will only kill the boy who saved her. Protecting either of them could cost her the one person she can't live without. And Alex only has seventy-two hours to get them all out alive."

A pink hexagonal tile background. At the top,
glowing pink neon text reads "The Tropes". Below it, text lists: "Friends-to-Lovers Slow-Burn", "Touch Her And You Die", and "Forced Toxic Positivity". Below that, neon pink text reads "The Comps". The text reads "Blends the weaponized psychological control of Stephanie Oakes' THE MEADOWS" above an image of the book's cover, "With the survival-forged slow-burn romance of Jill Tew's AN OCEAN APART" below an image of that book's

cover.

A four-panel aesthetic mood board set over a pink hexagonal tile background. At the top, glowing pink neon text reads "The Vibes" next to a black-and-white Spotify scan code. The collage consists of four images: the top left is a bright, retro diner with a pink-and-white checkered floor and teal vinyl seats. The top right is a soft, pink-hazed silhouette of a couple leaning in to kiss. The bottom left is a vintage, faded photograph of smiling women standing in rows wearing matching blue swimsuits and sashes. The bottom right is a steep, upward-facing view of a long escalator with dark purple steps flanked by glowing pink lights.

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authorlanavolkov.bsky.social @authorlanavolkov.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In post-WWIII Saint Petersburg, Polina sells illegal dreams to save her brothers. Leo, an American prisoner, hunts the dreamer in exchange for his wife’s freedom. But when dreams reveal their erased love story, they discover that love never comes without a sacrifice. #QuestPit #A #W #RF #dystopia

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Mandy Raquel is revising ✨ @mandiee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What happens when the life you escaped becomes the only thing that can make you feel whole again? 🎤 Pop-punk nostalgia 🖤 Found family 🔥 Slow-burn second chance 🥐 Former frontman turned bakery owner 🎸 Band secrets and old wounds #QuestPit #W #A #U #R

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Erica Noel @ericanoelz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ECHOES OF YOU | 62K YA Speculative Romance A boy dies. His spirit wakes up in someone else’s body. And the girl who loved him has no idea she’s falling for him twice. #Q #YA #S #RF #R @questpit.bsky.social #questpit

Meta data giving the genre in Word count. Speculative Y romance. 62K. Comps are freaky Friday, before I fall, and see you yesterday.

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Just like heroes in the old tales, Hana knows the gods have given her magic to restore the dying world, and she can handle the quest! Even if her power is hurting her, demons are chasing her, and the previous chosen one thinks she was a mystical mistake. #Questpit #A #F #Q

A foggy street. Legs on rocky ground. A woman. A vintage woman. A man. A gas mask. A bird. A fence. Nature in sunlight.

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Aria Mora @ariamora.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

LEGENDS AND LATTES X MIDNIGHT DINER X BLADE RUNNER ☕️ Karmic coffee. Illegal tomatoes. And an ex who still looks way too good in leather. Welcome to the underground café where redemption comes with oat milk foam. #Questpit #AG #OS #A #SF #D (cozy cyberpunk—you read that right!)

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Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️ @marysmorrison.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x NINTH HOUSE Dark academia, magical medicine and a murder most foul. DO NO HARM is querying now. #Questpit #Q #A #F #SFF

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M. Leigh Author ✨NOW QUERYING✨ @mleighauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SUPERNATURAL x CRITICAL ROLE x THE WITCHER x CONSTANTINE, with... -A post-apocalyptic 1980s setting 🎶 -An exiled human paladin with a shameful past ⚔️ -A chaotic half-elf rockstar 🎸 -Queer power ballads to save the world 🏳️‍🌈 SONGBOOK FOR THE APOCALYPSE, queer romantic fantasy WIP #QuestPit #W #F #A

Songbook for the Apocalypse is a dual-POV queer romantic fantasy novel WIP, coming to the query trenches in Fall 2026

The pitch for Songbook for the Apocalypse

Media comps for Songbook for the Apocalypse

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alexis @k-alexisadams.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My MC got a teeeeext! SCREAM QUEENS X TELL ME LIES The vibes: 🤎A Black MC navigating a PWI 👀Messy girlhood, juicy secrets 💖Campus thriller set in an elite sorority 🔪A murder tied to a dark hazing scandal 💋A dash of romance...but can her love interest be trusted? #Questpit #Q #A #MY #T

Hi. So, do I finally get to learn your name now?

hmm…I dunno. wouldn’t it be more fun if you had to guess it first? then say it three times in a row and summon a poltergeist?

Ah, like in Goodwill Hunting, right? One of my favorites.

lol okay, fine. you win. my name’s mara.

Mara. Got it. Just said it three times in a row. Now I guess I’ll wait and see how long it takes for that poltergeist to show up?

well, don’t hold your breath. so, jack bartlett, what does a sophisticated ghost hunter like yourself normally get up to on a night like this?

You mean besides the exorcisms? I just got home from my night class. I’ll probably throw on some Hulu and spend a few hours aimlessly scrolling the internet. If I’m feeling really wild, I might even make some microwave popcorn. I’m kind of a daredevil, if you hadn’t noticed.

ha. I had a feeling.

What about you? Up to anything interesting? Maybe plotting how you’re going to get out of this date with me on Friday? I wouldn’t blame you for cutting your losses early.

nope, no plotting. trust me, you’re doing ME a favor. though I should probably warn you in advance, these things are kind of a drag. just think of everything you hated about your high school dances and multiply it by ten.

Actually, I was pretty lame in high school. I never even went to a dance. I think I spent my prom night alphabetizing my record collection…which didn’t take very long, considering I only had twelve.

lol. that’s kind of adorable.

So, what should I wear to this formal thing? I’m assuming my finest tuxedo t-shirt will do, but you can never be too sure…

as much as I would LOVE to see that, I don’t think a tux tee falls within the constraints of the dress code. you don’t need to wear anything too fancy, though. most guys do a suit or separates, if that’s cool with you.

Easy enough. Any specific color I should match? Is that still a thing people do? What color’s your dress?

It’s blue. navy blue. but don’t worry about it, you don’t have to match me if you don’t want to.

By all means, let’s match. Plus, blue’s my favorite color. I bet it looks great on you.

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Camille Singer @camillesinger.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨AMITY COVE 🎠 🎡Haunted Carnival 🌊Abandoned Wharf 📿Missing Sister 🎭Suspicious Friends 🎩Family Secrets 🎇Enemy Love Interest 🖤Romance and Horror💀 Elements (original artwork by me) #QuestPit #Q #YA #MY #T #R #H

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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

TRINITY Institutional darkness of Ninth House X folk horror of The Ritual X secretive worldbuilding of Bone Season. 🛡️ Truth vs secrecy 🗡️ Duty vs loyalty 🧬 Science vs folklore ❤️‍🩹 Grief vs acceptance Adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

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S.E. Bunnell @sebunnell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

After some manuscript edits (and an extra 4,000 words), I have a fresh agent’s guide for As Above in honor of #QuestPit DIAVOLA X RED RABBIT GHOST X IT FOLLOWS 🌲 Isolated Midwestern Gothic 👹 Doppelgängers ⛏️ Bleeding mines 🌀 Folklore ❣️ Romance #Q #A #H

A deer looks back at the viewer over its shoulders. Yellow text reads “an agent’s guide to AS ABOVE"

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Clare Donnelly @claredonnelly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🌊 ALL THE SEAS AND SHADOWS 🌊 A privileged girl uncovers the secrets behind a magical smuggling ring in exchange for help escaping an enforced engagement. 🤍 Young Adult Fantasy 🤍 Folklore-faithful Irish Lore 🤍 Sapphic Longing 🤍 Found Family #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #amquerying

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Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BENEATH THE WAYWARD TIDES 80k Paranormal Thrillermance Fool's Gold (2008) meets Tidelands (2018) A mermaid and an archeologist team up to find a treasure, but she's harboring a terrible secret: she will die if she doesn't kill him first. #Questpit #W #A #F #PR #T

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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Britain’s folklore is only the cover story. TRINITY: Adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. Ninth House X The Ritual X Bone Season. 🛡️ Secret Organisation 🗡️ Folkloric Creatures 🧬 Nature Remembers 🛡️ Found Family 🗡️ Identity 🧬 Grief #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST X CASTLE AND THE CLOISTER //Find the truth, even it if kills you.// 💀 Seven deadly sins x monsters 🗡️ Platonic best friends 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀 Corruption vs. truth 🖤 Complicated families #Questpit #w #ya #f

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI 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 #AG

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

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katereadsandwrites.bsky.social @katereadsandwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

She has built her career standing up for women and girls. Then a teenage girl is harmed - and the boy accused is her son. BLAME is a 78k multi-POV upmarket novel about consent, masculinity, accountability and parental blind spots. THE WHISPERS x ADOLESCENCE #Q #A #QuestPit

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Josianne Haag @jhaag.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Excited to pitch HIDDEN MONSTERS, my 99k psychological thriller about a desperate actress trapped aboard a billionaire's staged submarine adventure where every act of violence could be part of the script... or terrifyingly real 🌊🤿 #agentguide #amquerying #QuestPit #Q #T #RF #A

My agent's guide for HIDDEN MONSTERS, a 99k psychological thriller; title page with waves as the background

The comp titles are One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware and Deadline by Steph McGovern

Photo collage of the themes of HIDDEN MONSTERS which include a lot of ocean imagery, as well as theater and romance.

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M.B.Taylor - Fantasy Author @mbolt89.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BRIDGERTON X PRACTICAL MAGIC with the mystery and amateur sleuth vibes of ENOLA HOLMES When witches start disappearing from the Ton, Seraphina must unravel the mystery before she looses her reputation, her magical tea parlour and her missing best friend Primrose, forever. #SFF #W #MY #A #questpit

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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Multiple POVs 🎲 A Bisexual Love Triangle 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

Left to right.

Top Row: Playing cards that spell out LOVE. A martini glass with a clear drink, dice, and a floating candle inside. A Queen of Hearts card with its eyes scribbled out.

Middle Row: Stairs and an elevator with moody red lighting. “Life is a gamble.” An eerie red hallway with many doors and chandeliers.

Bottom Row: A joker card with a demon on it. A beverage being poured into a glass. Playing cards that are three 6s.

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SILVER ELITE x TELL ME AN ENDING MEMORY DEVOURS HER 96k Adult Romantic Dystopian SF 🚫 Emotion as error 👾 The haunting is digital 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action 🖤 Love from complicit guilt RevPit Shortlist PosterPitAward 2nd #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #SFF #S #AgentsGuide

An Agent's Guide to
MEMORY
DEVOURS
HER
By Cassie Wallin
Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi + Central Love Story

The Pitch
She erased memories, until memory remembered her.
Nova excels at removing from citizens' memories what she hides in herself: excess feeling. Ordered to erase her mentor's whole mind, Nova's grief unleashes a phantom remembering all she's erased.
Haunted by its past and hunted by a devoted enforcer sent to bury it, Nova must forget for a shot to belong or remember and spark the fire that could burn her world down.
MEMORY DEVOURS HER

Hard-Won
LOve
Memory
Grief
COMPS
Corporate
Ritual
Menace
A TURA VINES BES
SILVER ELITE
DANI FRANCIS
Dystopian
Mission
Propulsion
TELL ME
AN
ENDING
JO HARKIN
tv+
Severance
Horror of Forgotten
Complicity -
Wounds
MEMORY DEVOURS HER
tv+
SILO
Lost
History

Moodboard for book, dark gritty dystopian

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FLEABAG X MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES A librarian moonlights as a camgirl, but when someone from her past finds her and threatens to expose her, she’s at risk of more than being known; she could be labeled like the banned books kept from the shelves. Disclaimer: slut. #QuestPit #Q #A #LF #R

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #QuestPit #A #H #W

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

moodboard featuring mountains, eerie woods, and trees

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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’m taking part in my first ever #questpit event tomorrow! Been prepping all day. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s pitches. Any tips for a newbie? 😊

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