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Jake Epstine @jakeepstine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Out of the belly of 2008’s economic collapse, a culture of meanness and nasty edges roars. An aching tooth beckons bankruptcy while jobs disappear, rents go crazy and cars run on empty. In this new world, Levi fights to rebuild his finances and broken spirit. #QueerPit #LF #A

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Maddie is querying! @maddieparkerbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

IN THE NAME OF YOU - YA Romance ✝️ church camp counselors 😈 cool girl fmc ✝️ virgin mmc 😈 plot to overthrow the camp “I’ve never thought about sex more than at church camp, and it’s all thanks to Sloane Miller.” #QueerPit #YA #R #C #NowQuerying

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Jake Epstine @jakeepstine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Woven through chillingly honest monologues, five disparate Queer men ride out the whims of a cold-blooded desert in a shabby Palm Springs apartment complex—where one man’s foolish scheme for survival leads to his ironic flameout on Election Day 2016. #QueerPit #LF #A

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Kat is Querying @katkatsma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A failed job hunt trips Lana into a mirror realm brimming with fractal forests inhabited by the fae. To stay alive she must enlist the help of a wisecrack pothead who knows magic. If only he wasn't banished from the secret city that holds the key to her returning home. #COA #DF #HA #MR #A #QueerPit

Three people fall from the sky with the title "Lyric Fiction" bold along the left of the photo. The first and closest is a dark brunette woman with large, long curls. She's wearing a beige shirt, olive skirt, and has glowing tattoos and a blue diamond pendent around her neck.

The next closest is a pale man with bright orange hair. He's wearing a white button up rolled at the sleeves and a black vest. Not to be outdone by gravity, he lights a spliff while falling.

The third figure is the farthest away and blurred from view. He is similar in complextion to the woman and holds a vest behind him as he falls.

A red leather book falls beside him, connected with a sparkling trail around the three that leads to an iridescent cat that's blurred from view.

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is gifted magic that could restore life to her dying world, but the power might destroy her. Allied with a broken mentor, a ruthless noble, and a beguiling prince, she must learn if she is meant to save the world or if it is even worth saving. #Queerpit #F #CLI #A

A foggy street. Legs on rocky ground. A woman. A woman with dark hair. A man. A gas mask. A bird. A fence. Flowers in sunlight.

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lily is querying!📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY; GODKILLER x THE GRISHAVERSE x PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 🏴‍☠️ lesbian pirates; ❤️ slow burn; 🔥 elemental magic; 🫂 found (and lost) family; 👩🏻 female focused and character driven; “No place for mortals. So, I said, ‘I will no longer be mortal.’” #QueerPit #EF #F #A #AmQuerying

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Maddie is querying! @maddieparkerbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

IN THE NAME OF YOU - YA ROMANCE Noah Kahan x Saved! 🌲 make boys yearn again 🌊 support girls rights (and wrongs) 🌲 dismantle the patriarchy 🌊 deconstruct indoctrination #QueerPit #UpperYA #R #C #YA #NowQuerying

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Jake Epstine @jakeepstine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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lily is querying!📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When her newly awakened magic explodes out of control, Naomi escapes her burning home with a charismatic pirate captain. She leaps at the chance to take control of her own life, but the whims of gods and mortals alike threaten to shatter the tentative peace she’s fighting to build. #QueerPit #EF #A

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Jake Epstine @jakeepstine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

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The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Rachel Kolman @bestthingaround.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

SEVEN DAYS IN PARADISO: a second-chance fake-dating contemporary romance that sits between THE EX VOWS and THE PARADISE PROBLEM. Because wouldn't you also escape this bitter winter cold by running off to a lush Mexican resort for a week -- even if it includes your ex-fiancé? #QuestPit #Q #R #A

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marisol @marisolwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

MOUTH PIECE desperate for beauty, validation, and digital relevance, Blanca seizes on a mysteriously gifted skincare product that promises to transform her life only to discover that it causes a small, insatiable mouth to grow on her stomach. #W, #LF, #H, #questpit

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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR x GREEN DOT SURFACE TENSION: The problem with studying intelligent women who make bad choices? You start to see yourself scribbled all over the syllabus. Jenny’s entanglement with her English professor isn’t fiction, but she’s starting to wish it was. #U #W #A #questpit

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B. Hart 🔪 (Writing a 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Frankenstein Retelling) @bhartwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"Ought To Be Thy Adam" is a queer Frankenstein retelling fuelled by internalized gay guilt and trans rage. 🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈 I'll be seeking representation this summer. In the meantime, I hope it finds the gothic horror monsters that will enjoy devouring it someday. #questpit #LGBT #OW #W #A #DF #H #HFic #S

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“I’d studied and lectured on your ligaments, muscles, and arteries. Cells swabbed from your cheek pushed under a microscope. Papers built off your anatomy.

But I had never asked you how it felt.

For all I studied your body, I was still terrified to study your soul.”

In 1897, after studying corpses and toying with electricity, medical student Viktor has created the man from his darkest, shameful desires. Except guilt forces him to make one final adjustment: female parts. As his new creation gains sentience while vivisected during Viktor's university tour and begins to chafe under Viktor's thumb, a violent death and disobedience leads the monster to make himself into the man he was always meant to be.

Trans/Gay Frankenstein Retelling

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Once Gwen was called Wendy. She was promised love. All she lost was her humanity. Once Hook was called Rosie. She was promised adventure. All it cost was her family. Together, maybe a cranky immortal & a smug pirate can find a thing they didn’t know was missing. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #F #H #LGBT

Image shows the close-up of a young woman laying amongst plants in a jungle. Her mouth and upper chest spattered in blood, though no wounds are visible.
Text is as follows:

A Film by Alex Baker
Gwen Dale as Wendy Darling
Roseline Rivière as Capt. Hook

Enemies to Lovers
Butch/Femme Pairing
Pan-pires & Pirates
Spicy Sapphics
Hurt & Comfort
Support Women's Wrongs

"An Education in Malice X Peter Pan"
- Movie Reviewer

FOREVER IS A VERY LONG TIME
What Really Happened After Neverland

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H. M. Wilson @hmwilson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

THE FERN follows Alice and Marge, friends turned lovers, as they reckon with sexuality, family, and loss. Through Alice's journals and Marge's stories, the novel explores our capacity for delusion when we attempt to chart the inner worlds of those nearest to us. #questpit #LF #Q

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Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

QUEER NANCY DREW 17-yr-old Emmie is suspect #1 of a murder during her mom's book event. She needs to get her life back and not get killed in the process. 💖 Sapphic crush 🕵️ Amateur investigation 🎃 Halloween vibes 📚Indie bookstore 🐈 Store cat 🌈Queer cast #Questpit #Q #YA #MY #LGBT

Mood board for the book The Final Chapter: Halloween candy, white and black cat, blonde girl in flannel with a pumpkin, crime scene tape, murder board, Harley Quinn, police car, books with a single light bulb hanging down.

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Holly Baldwin @hollyollybeeee.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When a queer crew of friends is given the power to choose the fate of a world that's only ever hurt them, all must weigh the price against the product - an uncertain future with all the lessons of history, or guaranteed survival without any of the context? - WE EXPECTED MORE - #questpit #q #a #d

Well it's a map of pennsylvania's power lines in the back, and then in front is four rad chicks and their rad giant praying mantis, u know.

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R.D.Winter @rdwinterauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF A woman restoring a remote Cornish manor slowly loses her sense of where her mind ends and the house begins. The village knows the pattern. They just won't say it out loud. Epistolary gothic horror. #QUESTPIT

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A mouthy teen singer flees to Amsterdam after an online scandal, but when new gossip sparks, he drops an anonymous song that goes viral—his choice: stay low and lose his chance for redemption, or take credit and risk outing the closeted footballer he's falling for. #AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit

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Nick Harkins 🌟 Querying @dreadwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

IM THINKING OF ENDING THINGS X EILEEN Luke is forced to team up with his estranged ex-husband when someone, or something, unknown to them drudges up secrets of their sordid past that threatens to rip apart their lives. ICEBOX is a WIP. 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ ❓unreliable narrator 👁️ obsession #questpit #W #H #A #T

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Introducing ICEBOX, an adult psychological horror/thriller

COMPS + VIBES
Ian Reid's I'm Thinking of Ending Things and Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen meet the unsettling, obsessive intimacy of Saltburn and a creeping, psychological dread reimaging of I Know What You Did Last Summer

Featuring: Queer MC, Obsession, Unreliable Narration, Past That Has Teeth

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Club music pulsed in Luke’s bones. His face, normally gaunt and pale like a perfect porcelain doll, was splotchy and bloated from crying. He’d been here before after a fight with Kieran, when he ran away for once, something that was more of Kieran’s specialty. He hadn’t done anything; he’d only entered, felt the throbbing, dark music in his muscles until it beat away all the negative feelings.
And normally Luke loved those feelings. Precious few that they were, he clawed onto them. Sometimes he even chased them. Initiated them. Kieran pulled it out of him and made him care like no one else did. Then the divorce finalized.
Luke must’ve been possessed when he signed the papers. He was never really given a choice, only Kieran slapping them in front of him at any given opportunity while he searched for a new place to live. On the kitchen counter, narrowly avoiding Luke’s breakfast. On his car windshield, the bathroom mirror, shoved into the crack of the front door when Kieran decided to stay overnight at a coworker’s house. Nothing had been settled yet in terms of assets, but Kieran made it abundantly clear before Luke signed the papers: keep everything. Keep everything and let it haunt you, not me.
And haunt Luke it did. The house was a graveyard. Headstones of everything he’d had taunted him to the point where nothing but the kitchen and the bedroom ceased to exist. Luke gathered all his favorite memorabilia of Kieran and shoved it into a hidden cubby in the living room, because he didn’t know how else to memorialize him. Kieran wasn’t dead, but once he moved out, Luke wondered if it would’ve been easier if he was.
Kieran could’ve died loving him rather than lived just a few miles as the crow flies at his new place hating him. How did wedding vows of forever, and sickness and health and thick and thin turn into this slop?

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Buckle by Florence + The Machine
Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call by The Bleachers
Now That We Don't Talk by Taylor Swift
The Alcott by The National, Taylor Swift
Letter To An Old Poet by boygenius
Choking Games by Nicole Dollanganger

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

SHAMELESSLY WANTING 🐝🖊️📚 BEA DORSEY, a librarian who moonlights as a spicy content creator, has spent years keeping her worlds separate—until a leaked photo, a public exposure and her irritatingly attractive boss threaten to undo everything she’s buried. #questpit #Q #A #WF #R #LF #amquerying

Title card: pink post with the words SHAMELESSLY WANTING, a bee doodle

The comps: the idea of you, seven days in June, fleabag

Bea Dorsey: Getting up wouldn’t make it better, just change the view, so Bea stayed on the floor. Her phone balanced on her chest, still lit with the photo. At least I look hot. Couldn’t have picked a better one myself.

Miles Noor: I crossed a professional line. But in my defense, she waved me over from the other side.

The opening: Three floors below, a bus hissed as commuters lined up with briefcases and lunch totes. Oblivious to the peep show above them. If anyone looked up—Bea bent at the waist and blew a kiss. Lucky them.

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L. D. Rex is Querying @ldrexauthor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Before she dies, a former lead psychiatrist at a sanatorium admits to some dark truths about her time there, but not all. A phantom begins haunting her granddaughter, guiding her closer to the truth behind the institution's walls, deep in the Canadian woods. #QuestPit #Q #PNH #M #R

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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

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Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫 @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒙 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬 𝑺𝒌𝒚'𝒔 𝑹𝑰𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑹𝑨 When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec must decide how far to go to protect them. Esp. the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband. #Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY My cast list for who would play my MCs.👇

The FMC - Catriona Balfe as Listy
Snippet - Listy swallows against the dryness in her throat. 'You loved her very much, didn't you? Rianna.'

The MMC - David Gandy as Kris
Snippet - He looks at her. 'I fell in love with her the moment I saw her,' he says bleakly.

MMC's late wife - Ana de Armas as Rianna
Snippet - Rianna sets her glass down and rises. The moonlight traces the ineffable beauty of her face, its clever shading masking the eyes which can't always disguise their cruelty.

MMC's childhood sweetheart - Eleanor Tomlinson as Christina
Snippet - How is it she's the one at fault now? The one made to feel guilty. When it is his fault. What happened is his fault. They both know it. And they both know she will never forgive him.

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Bjorn Klein 📖✒️ @worldsforus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

After 4 years of hard work, I’m sinfully pleased that publication of my graphic novel BLACK TIES – IN GODS WE TRUST is approaching. Gods. Oversized egos. Structural rot with a halo. Illustrations by @maolyart.bsky.social (1/4) Read on⬇️ #GraphicNovel #IndieComics #WritingCommunity

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wordpamela.bsky.social @wordpamela.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

12yo sceptic Yanju becomes homeless, grieves, so loses the will to paint. She encounters a ghost, witch and Mamiwata(mermaid). To heal from grief, she must let her spirit guide help fight, and win an art competition to have a home, or else remain homeless and be a ghost #Questpit #MG #F #PR #BVM #Q

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

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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

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Brayden Russell @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

MIDSOMMAR X WHITE LOTUS A wrong plane landing traps a group of rich guests at an idyllic wellness resort where rituals replace spa treatments, confessions are mandatory & the staff already knows who won’t be leaving. Girl Dinner X The Compound #questpit #U #H #LF #W #A

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brittney is agented!🔮✨ @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her breakup, the last thing she expects is to meet a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever 🐾🌿 #QuestPit #A #R #Q

Agent's Guide cover page for GOOD BOYS ONLY, an 89,000-word adult plus-size rom-com. Green background with Sydney & Owen (the main character's names) alternating. Stock images of a plus-sized girl and a tattooed man. Polaroids of tattooed hand holding, a Red Wings hockey game, and a Corgi + Golden Retriever.

GOOD BOYS ONLY pitch: After her boyfriend of six years moves out, retail manager Sydney Bennett is barely hanging on—juggling long shifts and a side hustle dog-sitting to tide her over. When she meets Owen Sutton in the personal care aisle after a rant about two “demonic Pomeranians,” he’s instantly charmed—and in need of a sitter for his own, much better-behaved dogs.

What starts as a business arrangement turns into something gentler and deeper: a slow-burning romance between two people still healing from betrayal. But as Sydney grapples with falling for the man keeping her financially afloat and the past comes back to haunt Owen, they’ll have to decide if the safety they’ve found in each other is worth risking their hearts for. On a split green background of sage green and light green. Two stock images of a tattooed man and a plus-sized woman. Paw print & sage leaf sprig emojis.

Sample page and comps from GOOD BOYS ONLY. Comp titles include Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings, You, With a View by Jessica Joyce, Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen, Young & Hungry TV show. Sample text: “I hate to admit it, but you might be onto something,” I say with a small smile. “A compliment? From the chef herself? Whew, I’m gonna need to sit down.” Owen beams at me, and it’s a blast of electricity straight to my heart. “But think about it—you can finally get out of retail hell. I can help you, too. With a business plan. I’m kinda good at that stuff.” His grin turns sheepish before he dips his pinky finger into the sauce, sneaking a taste. My body processes the feeling before I do, and I lean closer to him, a newfound buoyancy floating across my limbs. “You’d do that for me?” “I’m not sure when you’ll get it through your pretty head that I’d do anything for you, Syd. Literally anything you asked.” He steps toward me, body radiating heat like the oven, casting me in a warm glow. His words have my stomach sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Tension circles the space between us, grasping the string and yanking us impossibly close. I scan across him, the art decorating his perfect form, and it’s suddenly a bucket list item to be part of his canvas. “Would you get a tattoo for me?”
Owen’s nostrils flare and he squeezes his fists, as if he can feel the sting of the needle inking me onto him. “What’d you have in mind?” he chokes out.
I crane my neck. He’s so close, eclipsing the steam from the pan surely teetering toward burnt. I can’t find it in me to care. “I think a sage leaf sprig would suffice, since you do love using my middle name.”
“I’m not opposed. Where would you want it? Somewhere hidden? Where you’d only see it if I let you? Maybe front and center for a daily reminder of you?” He shifts. Our chests brush. Breathing is an illusion, a magic trick. I’ve never drawn in a breath in my life.

Tropes & The Couple. Book tropes: black cat x golden retriever, strangers to lovers, she's his dog sitter, confident plus-sized FMC, facetimes & texts, found family, he falls first (his dogs fall harder), set in Michigan, starting over at 30, when the spice hits... Stock images of the main characters: Sydney Sage Bennett (plus-sized woman) and Owen James Sutton (tattooed man). Sydney's info: 30, Aquarius, Retail Ops Manager, Empathetic. Competitive. Amazing cook. Loves hockey. Sarcasm as a shield. Pilates girlie. Brunch is her love language. Poor spending habits. Younger sister. Sworn off relationships to focus on herself. Owen's info: 31, Cancer, National Events Manager. Patient and loyal. Flirty. Loves hockey. Bottles everything up. Former company co-founder. Amazing dog dad. Acts of service. Takes care of his elderly neighbor. Older brother. Prone to emotional spill-overs.

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Brayden Russell @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

OUTERBANKS X EUPHORIA X SEVERANCE When a designer drug that lets the rich edit memories sweeps through a coastal state split between luxury and neglect, the poor become its testing ground. For fans of Bunny by Mona Awad. #U #Q #A #S #H #LF #T #questpit

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #S #Q #Questpit #booksky

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Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A cunning prankster plots against her lord husband and ends up saving the empire in a fantasy romcom version of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS 😈 unlikeable heroine ⚔️ enemies-to-power couple 💑 marriage of convenience 🔥 slow-burn & low spice #questpit #Q #A #RF #agentsguide

Agents guide for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem, 91K adult fantasy romcom, revised through SmoochPit 2025 mentorship

Pitch - 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.

Twenty-year-old Wen Anling would sooner commit murder than give up her home and freedom. But with no way out of her arranged marriage to Han Shiyan, the wealthy Lord of Qinglan, she devises a plan: let him be the one to beg for divorce… once she transforms herself into the nastiest wife possible.

Shiyan only married Anling to honour his mother’s dying wish. Had he known his new wife would send his simple life straight to mayhem, he would have thrown honour out the nearest window. He struggles to see any good beneath Anling’s heavily powdered face, overly red lips, and shrill screams, but when she continues to get under his skin, he cannot help but grow intrigued—especially after catching his first glimpses of the real Anling beneath her prickly exterior.

While Anling wrestles with her desire to escape the prison of marriage and he

Comps
The Darkness Within Us - cunning, unlikeble heroine, enemies-to-lovers, drives him up the wall but he can't help falling
A Song to Drown Rivers - Chiense history-inspired setting, political intrigue & schemes
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - romantic comedy, slow burn, lots of banter

Extract & Tropes
- Multicultural w/ POC leads
- Marriage of convenience
- Enemies to power couple
- Slow burn w/ a dose of spice
The not so meet cute...
Shiyan’s eyes widened for a heartbeat before he forced composure back onto his features. Her face was powdered with a thick layer of white, as if she had simply dunked it into a bowl of flour. Her bright red lip-paint smudged at the edges and… Heavens forbid women dab their cheeks with uneven blobs of pink.

Even the most senile and stern of his guests held their hands to their stomachs, straining to hold back fits of laughter. He would have gladly joined them, too, if he wasn’t the one with the honour of marrying this… this… buffoon.

He swallowed and recited the wise sayings of his forefathers: one should not judge a book by its cover; a woman’s beauty runs deeper than appearances; virtues are lasting while beauty is fleeting.

Oh, to hell with wise sayings. An eyesore was an eyesore no matter how virtuous it
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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

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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

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

$BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”$

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questpit || next event: NOV 4th @questpit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Seasons greetings! Our gift to you is #questpit dates for 2026! We can’t wait to reconvene next year. Happy Holidays!

periwinkle background with golden snowflakes and a glass ornament in the center reading “Our 2026 Event List: January 30th, April 29th, July 24th, November 4th”

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