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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Book 3 of my #urbanfantasy series Horner Paranormal is officially available! Once again follow Danny, Margot, Jake, and Camila, paranormal investigators who are a bit paranormal themselves, as they solve a gruesome murder in Portland, Oregon, with the help of federal agents Zhao and Locke. Links ⬇️

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

EVERYONE CHECK OUT MY FRIEND’S COOL BOOK!!! THAT IM EDITING!!! ITS SO GOOD!!!!!

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

guys idk what ur talking about im so normal (middle aged dad figure superhumans yaoi spotify playlist scrolls by in the background) im normal i promise seriously no don’t look over there stop it—

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey you! Are you looking for a new #YA #ScienceFantasy novel to get obsessed with? Are you a fan of #FoundFamily and #Superhumans and kids with powers on the run from the government? Do you like genuine depictions of trauma and abuse recovery? Check out my book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaz...

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Coming soon: The Power Thief | YA Sci-Fi Novel | Initial Print Run

A YA sci-fi novel about runaway teens with superpowers exposing a government conspiracy! Book 1 of Pen Carter and the Superfreaks.

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Coming up on the end of four straight months of therapy four days a week for six hours each day. Feeling WAY better than I did at the start. Damn yall like I know this stuff works but seriously this stuff WORKS

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I Want To Kill Modern Novel Genre Categorization With A Thousand Hammers

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tfw u realize the 2nd book in ur YA superhumans series is just cute slice of life school drama trauma recovery vibes + the most insane level toxic middle aged man yaoi happening in the background that the MC is fully oblivious to for most of the book. anyway im having fun

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

me creating every main character of a story I write like

A meme of the coach from Glee saying “I am going to create an environment that is so toxic” but the coach is “me, unhinged” and the text has been replaced with “I am going to create an OC blorbo that is so traumatized”

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Listen….. I have one (1) story okay

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey. Hey guys. I’m self publishing a novel. It’s a YA story about superhuman teens on the run from the government. It’s got found family. It’s got evil labs. It’s got codependent siblings. It’s got trauma and abuse recovery. Check it out www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaz...

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Coming soon: The Power Thief | YA Novel | Initial Print Run

A YA novel about runaway teens with superpowers exposing a government conspiracy! Book 1 of Pen Carter and the Superfreaks (series).

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey everyone, it’s my birthday today!!! If you wanna support me, go buy one of my games on itch or IPR, or grab one of my Horner Paranormal ebooks, or sign up for my mailing list, or tell people about something I made that you really like! Or donate to trans youth orgs or Palestine support funds! ❤️

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was into my thirties before I realized most of this. It should be commonsense, but it isn't. Maybe take a moment to read Naomi's thread?

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Zohran “I’ll sleep when I’m no longer in office” Mamdani

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

hm. so apparently i likely have Chop Off All Your Hair When You’re Stressed And Then Get Dysphoric About It Disease. which is so wonderful to have symptoms for two weeks before your birthday party. anyway

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Let’s go let’s go I’m on the Happy Jacks RPG podcast for the advice show tonight, come hang out! www.twitch.tv/happyjacksrpg #ttrpgcommunity #indiettrpg

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HappyJacksRPG - Live on Twitch

TTRPG Advice | Happy Jacks RPG | S37E20 | Streaming tabletop rpgs.

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

sorry for the radio silence everyone i'm on a new psych med combo now lol

A meme of Loki from the MCU that says "I HAVE BEEN DISASSOCIATING FOR TWO AND A HALF WEEKS"

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

GUYS LOOK AT THE COVER ART MY FRIEND MADE FOR ME AAAAAA #writesky #writingcommunity #ya #superpowers #indieauthor #selfpublishedauthor (unless a lit agent wants to take pity on me and my 120000 word debut YA novel but i doubt it)

A book cover for THE POWER THIEF by Kodi Gonzaga, book one of Pen Carter and the Superfreaks. It depicts two figures holding hands, an older girl and a younger boy, standing in an alleyway dramatically. The boy is staring away from the audience towards five figures in the distance. The girl is half turned back towards the audience with a knife in her other hand.

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyway if we meet and I ask for your name again pls don’t take it personally I have a goldfish memory

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

nothing is worse than going to a convention and making friends and not being able to retain their names in ur shit ass brain. Kill Me Kill Me Kill Me #gencon2026

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And Down the Road Through the End of the World!!! Also at GenCon!!! AAAAAAAAAA #gencon2026

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Look! It’s Extra Ordinary!!! At GenCon!!!!! :D #gencon2026

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Is marking up typos in your own damn book with red pen unhinged behavior? Discuss. #indiettrpg #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpg

A picture of the Minigames page of Voxinn: A Firebrands Hack. It is marked up with red pen correcting some of the page number typos.

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Congrats Cai!!!! I can’t wait to see what y’all cook up!!!!

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Come Play My Game Nerds #GenCon2026 (I’m in Hall B near the Legend Story Studios ceiling sign)

A picture of Kodi Gonzaga sitting at a table with a green cover, the supplies for their game Down the Road Through the End of the World scattered around them.

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Officially on my way to #GenCon2026 I’ll see you nerds there!!! :D

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hey y’all! I’m running four games at #GenCon2026 this year: - Down the Road Through the End of the World www.gencon.com/events/330884 - Voxinn: A Firebrands Hack www.gencon.com/events/330882 - Extra Ordinary www.gencon.com/events/330883 - In This Echoing World www.gencon.com/events/330881

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Gen Con | Gen Con Indy 2026

The Best Four Days in Gaming

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Are you heading to #GenCon2026 and interested in playing Extra Ordinary, a game about kids with powers on the run from danger? Sign up for my game on Sat at 10 am! www.gencon.com/events/330883

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Gen Con | Gen Con Indy 2026

The Best Four Days in Gaming

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

what do you MEAN i cant download the instagram promo video i just spent forty five minutes making in the instagram app i stg im in hell

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 27/07/2026

Chat with your publisher about adding "human made" to the box. There's a chain of folks from start to finish and highlighting the lack of ai can help a lot of folks looking to avoid it. This icon pack is free and on hundreds of books now. (More board games soon!) hinokodo.itch.io/human-made

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Human Made by HINOKODO

An icon pack made by humans

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sorry for pinging you twice in a row IPR pls forgive me

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

See y’all at #GenCon2026! I’ll be at the @dianajonesaward.org ceremony on Wednesday night and running games all weekend! Plus two of my games are for sale at @ipr.bsky.social booth 449, Extra Ordinary and Down the Road, go buy ‘em!

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

me deciding to self publish some of my books and all of my TTRPGs like

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hey y'all, here's some excerpts from my book THE POWER THIEF, a 120,000 word first-in-the-series #YA novel about 16-year-old super kid Pen Carter! Check my pinned post for more info on the book :) #questpit #Q #S #AmQuerying

A dark and gritty image that’s mostly text. It says EXCERPT: CHAPTER 1 with more text below:
I look back at Tommy, and he’s still watching me, his face filled with so much concern it makes my heart ache like a sprained muscle. Before I even know what I’m doing, I’ve pulled him into a desperate hug.
I must be squishing him, but he doesn’t make a single noise of complaint, and that alone worries me—it must’ve been bad, my nightmare.
“You were making things float again,” he says, his voice muffled against my chest and hoarse with some sniffling sickness.
I swallow again. “Did I hurt you?” I ask.
“No, nothing was moving around. Just floating.”
“Good.” I nod, relieved, and pull back to look at my brother. “You need to wake me up earlier next time, okay?”
His mouth twists into a stubborn frown. “You need the sleep, Pen,” he insists.
“Please, Tommy. I don’t want to hurt you.”
His frown stays, but his eyes fall away from mine, and he ultimately huffs in defeat. It’s always much easier to convince him like this, when I’m actually scared.
“Fine,” he grumbles.
I smile, just a little, and hug him again, less forcefully than before. “Thank you,” I breathe.
“Whatever. Stop crushing me.”
There he is.
I grin wide and pull back again, staring at Tommy as he glares off to the side in annoyance. Little twerp.

A dark and gritty image that’s mostly text. It says EXCERPT: CHAPTER 5 with more text below:
Alice salutes and immediately pulls one of the blueprints up to the front, laying it over everything else. “You got it,” she says. “Alright, so this is a blueprint of the underground lab beneath Asclepius Tower.”
“Where’s the Tower again?” I ask.
“On 58th between Park and Lexington,” Jack says helpfully.
I take a moment to map out its location in my head. “Got it.”
“This,” Alice says, pointing to a room on the blueprint, “is where they keep the kids. These are examination rooms and laboratories.” She gestures at several other rooms. And then she points at a room near the only set of stairs on the map. “This is the trash room, which is where they’ll most likely put Jack’s stuff after capturing him. Meaning it’s where the EMP bomb will be.”
“How exactly did you make an EMP bomb, again?” I ask the girl who I recently discovered is only fourteen years old.
Alice grins nefariously wide. “Stole a bunch of shit from my parents’ lab in the Tower,” she says. “And I’m a genius.”
I raise an eyebrow and glance at Jack for confirmation. He sighs.
“Yeah, she is one,” he says. “Her IQ tested like three points above Einstein’s or something, she’s very proud of it.”
“Technically, it’s three points higher than the estimated IQ of most chess grandmasters, and also they don’t know Einstein’s IQ, and also the IQ test is stupid and outdated and pretty damn classist,” Alice corrects. “I tell you this every time.”
“Whatever.” Jack waves his hand at her dismissively and tells me, “It’s 200 something.”
“201. Can we go back to planning our rescue op now?”

A dark and gritty image that’s mostly text. It says EXCERPT: CHAPTER 10 with more text below:
We trudge up the stairs, arriving on the third floor of the hospital, and I take a minute to relocate the empathic super before bringing us to a vending machine alcove nearby. Tommy leans against the wall opposite the vending machine and closes his eyes, concentrating.
He breathes in through his nose and out through his mouth. His eyes dart around beneath his eyelids.
A few moments pass in silence. Well, relative silence. I’m still kind of wheezing.
Someone in scrubs walks by and doesn’t pay us any mind. Still, I glance out into the hallway, my ears listening for any sign of an approaching cop, but no one else appears. I shift on my feet, impatient.
“Okay,” Tommy says, eyes still closed, but I can tell by the furrow in his brow that he’s locked onto the cop signals. Smart kid. “They’re still blocking the exits, but there’s only, like, five cops here total, going by radio signals. And two of them are searching for us on the first floor. There’s definitely a way out of the hospital that they aren’t guarding, right? Hospitals have more than three exits.”
“Oh, for sure,” I say. “Okay, we’re good then. Just can’t run into any cops on the way out. Good, nice job, Tombo.”
He opens his eyes and gives me a half-hearted smirk. “Can I get something from the vending machine?” he asks.
I roll my eyes and glance over to it, scanning the goods inside. “Get me some mini Oreos,” I say.
He pumps his fist in victory and points a finger at the machine, causing it to whir to life and spit out two bags of mini Oreos. I glance into the hallway one more time as he hands my bag to me. Coast is clear.

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

💫 Light After the Fall 💫 a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace coming this October 🧙 Feedback requested: Which cover/what elements of each cover do you prefer? All feedback welcome & appreciated! #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit

Title: "Light After the Fall"
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a figure standing on a cliff holding sunflower

An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot

Title: "Light After the Fall"
/an adventure guide to thriving teh post-apocalypse
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a meditating figure glowing

An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

omg this sounds amazinggggg I need it! also "student debt?" has me howling lolol

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Starfall: a queer space opera heavy on the intimate-stakes character drama, elfy science-fantasy, and swashbuckling starship adventure about a telepathic space elf who joins off-brand Starfleet. He's a stabby cinnamon roll who doesn't want any friends! (This is a lie.) #Questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF

Title slide that reads "Starfall, Queer Space Opera Adventure, 139,000 words, R. J. Howell."

Slide that reads: "Pitch: Erendesirel was raised for two things: political marriage and political skirmishes. Sadly, the galaxy doesn’t have much call for a well-trained ornamental husband or sword-wielding duelist. Banished from his technologically-hostile homeworld, unskilled, and entirely broke, he applies to the Galactic Survey and Security Fleet,
a company of space-faring scientific contractors.

He just has to somehow pass a basic competency exam he is woefully unprepared for. And agree to a 10-year debt contract to pay for his tuition. And avoid being driven insane by the thoughts and feelings of a crew of a hundred and twenty souls serving on a very small starship. And navigate all the well-meaning people trying to be his friend.

Oh, and not get kidnapped by pirates." There is another section below it that reads "Comps" and show the covers of Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, Slow Gods by Claire North, and Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. There is also an illustration of a space elf named Eren.

This slide reads: "Excerpt: Erendesirel—the nameless, the houseless, the planetless—had tracked his quarry down to a victuals shop on the outskirts of the space station’s medical district. From his hunter’s hide on a public bench opposite the establishment, he glowered at the incongruously-wooden door, breathed in the smell of roasted nuttiness and sticky sugar wafting out through the open bay window, and fought for equanimity.

His hand tightened on the hilt of his family sword, the blade pressed against his leg to accommodate the rather unfriendly design of the bench. Galactic architecture was, as always, crafted for comfort and unobtrusiveness but singularly failed to take into account a full-length sword at one’s hip. It didn’t matter that of all the peoples of the galaxy, there was only one that insisted on carrying true steel swords instead of some technological marvel that, oh, made the sword shrink or disappear or be constructed entirely out of light.

He would never stoop to touch such a thing. No, the sword and dagger set of his clan would serve him for this purpose just fine.

No matter that they were considered contraband. By both his people and station security, if for rather different reasons."

This slide reads "The Trope Nebula" and contains a series of trope-related terms: All the feels, found family, to boldly go (but contractually), swords but space, touch-adverse telepathic space elves, starships!, stabby cinnamon roll, disaster bisexuals, qu3eer, student debt?, lesbians with laser canons, and friendship! (whether you want it or not).

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

wait omg this sounds amazing. three of my favorite things (dads, TTRPGs, murder mysteries) in one book??? sign me up!!!

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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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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

omg this sounds like something I'd want to read so bad, give it to me immediately!!!! <3

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!

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

In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. 📖 Pride & Prejudice x 🐦‍⬛ Howl's Moving Castle x 🪷 Graceling #Questpit #Q #YA #HFR #F #RF #HF #R #HR

A woman with large black wings attached to her shoulder blades.
Text: Pluck by Sierra Moeykens. Pride & Prejudice x Howl's Moving Castle x Graceling

An illustrated lady in a Regency era dress with large black wings over a ballroom background.

Text: The Pitch
Nineteen-year-old Lucy Korvas has worse problems than complying with high society’s tedious etiquette — she must steal a diamond necklace from the Duchess of Thistal, or her cursed father will perish.
In an alternate, magical Regency era where ladies and gentlemen with improper magic are shunned from high society, Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow wings beneath her dresses for years, but tonight she risks exposing them to save her cursed father. She needs that diamond necklace to afford his cure. How dastardly it is, then, when she discovers soft-spoken Lord Simon pilfering his own mother’s jewelry first.
But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, Lucy slowly transforms into a crow and Simon starts dissolving into flower petals. Lucy must find a cure while posturing as the presentable, composed lady that she isn't before she loses her cursed father, the shy gentleman she's becoming smitten with, and her humanity.

Three transparent symbols, a heart, a scroll, and a banner, with lists in each symbol. The background is a photo of white feathers.

Text: Romance. Slow-burn & Yearning. Cinnamon Roll x Chaotic Flirt. Touch-Starved. He Falls First. Historical. Witty Regency banter. Literal Ladybird (she's transforming into a crow). Dukes, Duchesses, and Pirates. Fantasy. Repressed Magic. Curses. Magical flowers with restorative properties.

Three book covers with an arrow under each of them describing their properties. The background is a photo of a lotus.

Text: Comps. A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Dry humor and witty voice. Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Accessible, creative world-building & magic. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. Regency romance with an abundance of yearning.

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Kodi Gonzaga @jaztice.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m not personally a sports or romance fan, but I have a baseball and heated rivalry obsessed bestie who would ADORE this!!! Sending it her way!

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 24/07/2026

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #A #SF #LGBT

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

TROPES:
Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
loveable pet/terrifying monster

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