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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This week, try writing a scene that’s just for you. No pressure. No audience. No goal. Just joy. That’s how you reconnect with the reason you started. #WritingCommunity

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Shattered by the loss of her Olympic dream, Cat joins a magical circus only to find that the performers are really prisoners And now that her memories have returned, she has days to free herself & her true love… #QuestPit #AG #F

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 23/07/2025

I'm looking at the news stories about the FDA's drug approval "AI" and keep seeing reporters using the industry MARKETING term "hallucination" instead of saying that it's faulty, doesn't work, and provides inaccurate information a human would have been fired for. Stop pulling punches.

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I can’t stop staring at this character art by @honeyscribbles.bsky.social 👀 DARE TO BELIEVE is about an Olympic gymnasts forced to perform in a magical circus with star crossed lovers 🎪🖤

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The Greatest Showman x The Invisible life of Addie La Rue A gymnast is forced to perform in a magical circus alongside a man she doesn’t recognize, but he knows her… and he’s watched her die dozens of times. 💕”Who did this to you?” 💫Grounded fantasy 🖤Dark whimsy 🎪Atmospheric #Questpit #F #Q #AG

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

✨PUBLISHING NEWS✨ I’m so excited to share that I’m now represented by Grace Demyan at Rosecliff Literary 🥳 After 5 years of querying 4 manuscripts, & hundreds of rejections, I finally found the perfect person to represent my darkly whimsical stories 🖤

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I had the best buddy matchup in SmoochPit and just knew this story was going to get picked up!!! Can’t wait to see Killer Summer on shelves 🥹

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Being postpartum & a writer is fun because I wake up to the most nonsensical ideas in my notes file every single morning 🤣 Today included: “Sculpting - something with minds” “Room 101” “Dark hair?”

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Do the writers using AI not realize that the expediency of this tool is just rushing them towards the inevitable limits of their own underdeveloped ability? Shortchanging yourself out of hard work means you will ultimately produce rapid drivel. Even worse, you won't be able to tell.

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Baby slept (kind of) last night, so I was able to edit a short story today 🙌

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Britt Middleton @brittmiddleton.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm thrilled to share this guide to my 90K rom-com, a retelling of Taylor Swift's "Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince" packed with heart, heat and a swoony country-pop soundtrack. 🎨: @legendsofaukera.bsky.social  #agentsguide #amquerying #writingcommunity #swifties #booksky #romancebooks

A pink and red background and graphic with cowboy boots and paisley print with text describing a romantic comedy manuscript called Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince.

A pink and red background and graphic with paisley print with text describing a romantic comedy manuscript called Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince. Next to it, a character drawing of a Black woman with braids embracing a white blond man wearing a guitar.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy SmoochPit showcase to all my fellow mentees. Thank you to my incredible mentor @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social who gave the best feedback and advice I could ask for! Also thank you to all the volunteers who made this possible I am so grateful for the community I was able to build.❤

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A.K. Browne @akbrowne.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

BRIDGERTON X HANDMAID’S TALE Welcome to Rhoada, where you court for a season, then buy your first wife at auction. FOOL’S GOLD is querying soon. ✉️ Blackmail ⛪️ Theocracy 🔄 Reverse Harem 🔪 Revenge ❤️ 🔥 And a love willing to bring the world to its knees #cupit #a #dtr #fbw

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot It's going to be a killer summer. 😍 Sapphic Pining ❤️ Friends to Lovers 👀 Cannibalism as metaphor for love 💖 Monstrous romance 🎀 Bubblegum horror vibes 🌽 Cult town in Canadian Prairies 🎡 Ferris wheel confessions 💋 Querying after SmoochPit #Cupit #YA #HOR #INR #LGBT

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Jennifer's Body x This Delicious Death Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend. #questpit #YA #Q #H #R

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Rommy Driks @ms-rommy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

AGATHA ALL ALONG X BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER with a Latina lead. A grief-stricken Latina witch must team up with a foreboding Japanese fox spirit to retrieve her niece’s soul and prevent a civil war in Philadelphia’s faerie queendom. #QuestPit #Q #SFF #F #ContemporaryFantasy #amquerying

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Megan Macmanus @meganmacmanus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Taken captive after a botched raid, Revni needs to get north before she’s declared dead. Eavus needs to get her south to prove he’s not a deserter.To survive, they’ll have to decide who to trust–because they are both slaves & conquerors in enemy land & everyone else wants them dead. #questpit #F #YA

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Amy Lee Wheeler @amyleewheeler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Vegas, ‘89. Amber Lynne’s used to being forgotten—but she won’t be invisible forever. Babysitting pays, but men like Randy pay more. Hustling through family secrets, gamblers, and Catholic guilt, she’ll do whatever it takes to get out. #QuestPit #ComingOfAge #90sLit #VoiceDriven #BookClubFiction

Piggy & Kermit nostalgia, car culture, neon dreams. Glamour & grit, lost innocence, and the chaos of 90s Vegas—where money, music, and mistakes shape the way out. #LonesomeTown

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Kayla Hill @kaylahillbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

He’s a threat to the crown they both serve. 👑 ⁣ She’s a threat to more than just his heart. 💔 As the web tightens, the Spinners always come first.⁣ 🎻 THE SPINNERS' GUILD, an adult romantic fantasy #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q

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DEAHNNA’s music gifts her the power to Spin listeners under her spell, compelling them to reveal secrets she can use to protect her city. After two years spent abroad as a diplomat, she uncovers news of a brewing revolution that sends her rushing home, where she’s tasked to root out the rebels—only to discover that the one behind it is none other than her once great love: Zephyr, the monarch’s own son.

ZEPHYR’s city is flooding and he will do anything to save his people, even if it means overthrowing his own tyrannical mother. When the monarch closes the borders, shutting off the city’s final hope for aid, he must decide if he can trust Deahnna with his secret, or if she’s a threat to more than just his heart.

Together, they’ll have to work through old heartbreak and incite a rebellion if they want to shatter the sovereign’s grip on the city before it sinks beneath the waves.

The tropes: music-based magic system, second-chance romance, glittering political intrigue, ballroom mayhem

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Lee🍄🌈🍉 @leeiswriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#ReadersGuide to The Misery of Daughters 🌘 A young mother’s rage is unravelling and so too is her forbidden death magic… #QuestPit #F #A #W #LGBT #ND

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Amalia’s husband is determined to cleanse her of *taint* but her forbidden death magic is all that keeps her youngest daughter from being consumed by a magic mutating plague. So, when Amalia is forced to follow her husband—newly appointed ambassador—east to the newly independent Oseria, she’s faced with the opportunity to escape. Only, her husband’s cult has eyes everywhere and her children are held on the other side of a conflicted border as incentive; step out of line and face the consequences.

Meanwhile, Nadya, dragon riding illusionist and daughter to the mountain strongholds commander, has returned home to the news of the Magaelian ambassador’s arrival. She doubts their intentions are as pure as they claim, and she’s determined to get to the truth lest betrayal strikes her again. But she was unprepared to find herself in reflected in the cold black eyes of the ambassadors wife. Or caught up in her mystery.

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• Women's Rage
• A Cult
• Generational Trauma
• A mother who'd burn the world
• Light Body & Nature Horror
• A magic Mutating Plague
• God's & Elemental Magic with a twist
• Neurodivergent Rep
• Sapphic Slow Burn
• Dragons & Monsters

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Abigail is Agented @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

TANGLED x ANASTASIA In a realm where people go to forget their worst memories, an orphan with Tourette’s recruits an infuriating pickpocket to help her win her own memories back, hoping to recall her lost family. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

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Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When Edwardian heiress Celia accidentally makes a deal with a charming demon, she must break the contract before his presence threatens her advantageous betrothal—and her heart. EMILY WILDE x HALF A SOUL Slow burn, reluctant allies-to-lovers, forbidden romance #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #PR #RF

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Ilana Kelley @ilanakelleyauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE BARGAINER x SIX OF CROWS x THE LOST APOTHECARY A Reader’s & #LitAgents Guide for NIGHT BIRD, an adult romantic fantasy ft: 🕰️dual timeline ✴️invisibility & intangibility magic 🔪FMC vigilante for wronged women 💞friend or foe? ☠️poison & female rage 🫂found family #QuestPit #Q #RF #F #A #AgentGuide

A Guide to Night Bird
An adult romantic fantasy novel

The Pitch
Ava can become invisible and walk through walls but can’t escape her warded cage. Destined to follow in her dead mother’s footsteps as a courtesan and spy, she’s trained to get close to—and betray—those in the highest levels of society. But alone at night in her room, she listens to the steam engine’s whistle, plays her cello to the night birds, and dreams of escaping her prison. Until one stormy evening, a boy, Zev, breaks through her window and gives her a taste of life beyond the bars.
Their chance meeting spawns two years of secret friendship until her eighteenth birthday, when her seduction training will begin. Instead, she wakes up to a grisly scene—a bloody trail, dead guardians, and broken wards. Given what she knows of Zev’s powerful abilities, she assumes her freedom came at his hand. She waits for his return, which never comes.
Eight years later, Ava has reinvented herself as Night Bird, a vigilante for wronged women. She’s assisted by a group of former street kids who’ve matured into a misfit gang. A botched mission finds them in the crosshairs of a shadowy man known as a high-powered fixer. That man turns out to be the boy who’d disappeared years earlier. It’s unclear if he’s friend or foe. However, when she takes on her biggest target—the last man to see her mother alive—Zev may be the only person keeping her from going up in flames.

For Fans of:
Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa—dual timeline & lost love
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner—female rage & poison
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo—found family & misfit crew

Chapter One
Only the night birds provided company in my caged existence. They sang for me after the sun dipped, gliding beyond my window’s metal bars as their trilling tunes wove through the moon’s light. They were my link to the outside world, a fragile tether to life beyond my warded room. My self-given name—Ava—was an homage to them, the beautiful creatures that kept me sane.
During the day, when I was granted time away from lessons, the noise and bustle of the street scared them beneath the eaves, into the holes and crannies of buildings. I’d sit, fists clenched, ears straining for their hopeful notes. But I was alone. The lectas didn’t count. They were caretakers, not company.
When streetlamps glowed in the satiny darkness, the night birds’ warbles piercing the quiet, I’d pull out my cello. My bow swept the strings like a feathered wing, and the resonant chords danced with the birdsong. They’d swoop and dive, triumphant in their freedom—something I’d never known and never would.

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Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION @morkalmarrh.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🌊 THEY TOOK SOMETHING FROM YOU // THEY PUT SOMETHING IN YOU 🌊 CYANOSIS, where pagan gods move through human souls in the shadow of a city that grasps the sky. You probably need it like a hole in the head. #QuestPit #SF #H #A #Q #AgentsGuide

Verinn, a monstrous conurbation home to bird folk, shapeshifters and immortals. Five years ago, all data was wiped from cyberspace by devastating blackouts.
Kioki thinks she knows the truth about what happened that day. That’s why she shut down the laboratory in the sea beneath the city’s superstructure.
Trigger, though, doesn’t think he knows anything. Not his past, not what he wants, and not about the infection changing him into a species unknown to the scientists in that same laboratory.
Like a lot of things in Verinn, that lab won’t stay dead. Not when there’s work to do.

Agent's guide to cyanosis, 98k sci-fi, standalone with series potential. THE SEA IS RISING

For fans of Midnight water city, perdido street station, annihilation or our wives under the sea.

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Wera @eggqueenwera.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE BONE WITCH meets SAILOR MOON & WINX CLUB After her father's death, a teenage girl is sent to an academy to learn how to control her awakened gemstone alongside four roommates. ✨ Thai fairies ✨ Mixed race rep ✨ Found family after trauma ✨ Elemental familiars ✨ Slowburn 💕 #questpit #F #YA #Q

Moodboard for a Thai fairy magical girl fantasy with magic academic, fated soulmates, and Thai mythological elements.

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY x CARAVAL x ADDIE LA RUE Forced to perform in a magical circus, Cat has only a few weeks to free herself and her true love from the curse that has spanned centuries or die again—only to be reborn into the torturous loop once more. #Questpit #F #Q #A

A collage of red and black images depicting magic, a gymnast, & a circus

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A.K. Browne @akbrowne.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE SELECTION X HANDMAID’S TALE All Dahlia wants is a choice. Too bad she lost the option when she joined a cult that sells its women to the highest bidder. ✉️ Blackmail 👰‍♀️ Bride auction 🎭 Courting Season ⛪️ Theocracy 🚫 Inequality 🔥 Burn it all down Welcome to Rhoada. #W #Dys #F #questpit #A

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A.K. Browne @akbrowne.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

HANDMAID’S TALE X THE BACHELOR Forced into a seasonal bride auction against her will, Dahlia must court the nation’s most wealthy and infamous bachelors. Not so bad… if they weren’t also members of a sinister cult. 🎭 Mistaken identity 🔥 Coming of rage 🔄 Reverse Harem #A #W #Dys #F #questpit

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE NIGHT CIRCUS x ONE DARK WINDOW DARE TO BELIEVE is soon to be back in query inboxes after extensive edits with my SmoochPit mentor 💋 🤝 Deadly deals ⭐️ Star-crossed lovers 🎪 Eerie circus 🎶 Guilty as Sin? - TSwift 🖤 Dark & whimsical atmosphere 🌪️ Layered plot twists #QuestPit #F #A

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Emily is writing @emilylwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When Carter starts to fall for another contestant on a popular dating show instead of its female lead he must decide between his original plans and where his heart is pulling him while facing what it means to be famous in a franchise whose audience can turn on a dime. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #LGBT

Moodboard: a man holding a TV camera, a line drawing of holding hands with a rainbow bracelet over a snowy background, clinking glasses of champagne, a figure behind a bisexual flag, the view out an airplane window, Bachelor mansion. Two stickers are a lipstick kiss and boyfriends, one carrying the other. On image text: Tropes, Bi 4 Bi, Forced Proximity, Kidney Donor MC, Slow(ish) Burn. Reality TV shenanigans, Anxiety Rep.

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Nicole Nagaki (Author) @nicolenagaki.com · 12/02/2025

JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE meets SILICON VALLEY as a millennial unites her colleagues to take down their mutual cheating ex at their Big Tech employer's pickleball tournament, and recruits a hot-nerd doubles partner who's making revenge even sweeter. #Q #A #R #questpit

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #QuestPit #YA #H #T

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FT Zahra @ftzahra.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A town with missing memories. A snowstorm that never happened. A dark figure playing a fatal game behind the scenes. And a dead girl walking with the answers. The only problem? She doesn't remember them and she has 30 days to figure it all out before she dies again. #QuestPit #YA #SPEC

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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In honour of #questpit, I am excited to present the latest version of my #agentsguide for THE BALLAD OF AGNES DAY, a multi-POV historical novel that explores themes of sin, sacrifice and redemption against the rugged backdrop of 20th century Orkney. #A #HF #W

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

NINTH HOUSE x A LESSON IN VENGEANCE Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen— even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her and losing the ones she loves the most. #Q #A #DF #PR #QuestPit

A Victorian house, a dark forest, a woman with a mirror for a face, a fawn, moths with flowers, a university gate, words on a page, and a university library

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YiJun 找伯乐 (找到了) @yijuno.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I am starting an accountability for memorywip revision Goal: to get it in shape for the #Smoochpit showcase in february!

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Leila @leilaammartin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BRAVELY x BUFFY x SABRIEL Emmeline steals a ring from her Gran's casket & gets more than she bargained for. New school? No prob. Amazing new friends? Heck yeah. Balance life & death, deal w/ a toxic boyfriend, avoid a hungry shadow & find Gran's soul before time runs out? Iffy. #Q #YA #PR #QuestPit

9-square grid moodboard featuring moody images of a redheaded girl's closed eye, a school hallway, a crow, a gnarled tree, half a claddagh ring, a poofy black ballgown, a stone angel, a ghostly figure and a ghostly hand on glass. Text reads: An agent's guide to EMMELINE HARPER, PSYCHOPOMP. YA supernatural fantasy. 70,000 words. Leila A. M. Martin. All images sourced from Pexels. No AI.

Black text on a cream-colored background. Text reads: The pitch. High school first year Emmeline Harper has 13 weeks to fulfill a bargain with a death goddess or lose her soul forever, all the while balancing life, school, family and friends with the demands of a boyfriend who goes from charming and sexy to controlling and coercive. EMMELINE HARPER, PSYCHOPOMP is for anyone who enjoys edge-of-death worldbuilding, limited-time challenges, mything elements in the real world, teen problems through a supernatural lens, and the triumph of finding your way out of abusive relationships.

Square image: a sky full of black birds, overlaid in grayscale. White text on top. Text reads: Ten tropes in EMMELINE HARPER, PSYCHOPOMP. Supportive friendships. Deals with death goddesses. Hang on, my teacher is a wizard?! Charming, sexy boyfriends who don't stay that way. High-stakes challenges on a time limit. Fiery YA FMC. Secret meanings in ancient jewelry. A gentle exploration of love and grief. Forays into Death. Young women triumphing over abusive relationships.

Black text on cream-colored background. Text reads: The comps. darker by four / skirting the edge of death; reaper mechanics and responsibilities. Bravely / fiery girls making bargains with gods. Wayward Children series / found family, but dealing with dark stuff too. Buffy the Vampire Slayer / typical teen dilemmas explored through supernatural metaphors. The Abhorsen Chronicles / I know SABRIEL is 30 years old now (cries in elder millennial) but before DARKER BY FOUR existed, these were the edge-of-death mechanics and responsibilities that informed Emmeline's story.

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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Remarkable Young Women Project @megorra.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Follow Eve, the "first woman," through 1,000 years of art history as her story is used as a tool of women's oppression and liberation in this ultimately celebratory work 🍎 Gorgeous artworks 🍎 Quality research 🍎 Historical context 🍎 Thoughtful discussion #QuestPit #A #NF #W

A lush illustration of a forest with a large tree dominating the foreground. Two parrots and a horse are peacefully looking on the scene in the foreground, where a man and woman, both nude, look at each other as she reaches to grasp an apple from the branch, which has a snake coiled around it. It is the Christian tradition of Adam and Eve

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ONE DARK WINDOW x A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL Shattered by the loss of her Olympic dream, Cat joins a magical circus only to find that the performers are really prisoners. And now that her memories have returned, she has days to free herself & her true love 🎪 #Questpit #F #Q #A

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

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The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 12, 2025 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Agent guide for DARE TO BELIEVE 🖤

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Leila @leilaammartin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

STARLING HOUSE x CORALINE Young woman goes to work for a handsome, reclusive bachelor in an isolated house and finds a hidden door in the forbidden cellar. Behind it? A 100-yr-old secret, a sinister revel, and a beautiful monster who’s out for blood. #BluePit 📖 #Q #Gothic #A #F #CalderwoodNovel

A mockup movie poster in featuring a mirrored georgian-style house (top and bottom). Tagline says "Don't go in the cellar" and the poster lists the title, Calderwood, as well as the genre (adult gothic) and the word count (79,000). White text on grayscale background.

black text on a beige background. text reads: the pitch: After solving a snake's riddle to see what's on the other side of a forbidden door, a Victorian housemaid finds herself torn between her handsome, bookish but frustrating employer and the elegant, charming mystery man who lives beyond the door in a magical mirror-world where everything may just be too good to be true. Calderwood is for readers 18+ who want spooky, magical elements woven into a mild spice open-door, slow-burn romance in a Victorian setting. It will appeal to readers of Alix Harrow's starling house, v.e. schwab's gallant, and anyone who's ever wanted a coraline premise as a gothic grown-up romance.

black text on a beige background. text reads: the comps: Calderwood has: the setting as character and slow burn romance of starling house; an alluring but increasingly-spooky otherworld a la coraline and gallant; a book-loving heroine who's clever and resourceful like Jane from salt and broom; a monstrous love affair reminiscent of lakesedge; non-book comps: Penny Dreadful; crimson peak; dark shadows (the 1960s-70s original show)

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