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HK Smith | Writer @thehksmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

the vibes of THE CELESTIAL RING, my #YA dystopian #SFF To defy the memory-devouring machine god who wants to claim her as sacrifice, Vega must: ⚔️Find her lost brother 💔Ally w/ her first heartbreak 🌑Uncover the truth her world was forced to forget #questpit #Q #F #D #amquerying

A dark space fantasy aesthetic mood board with a collage of photos. Vertically down, from the first column:
1. A violet, light-tinged hole framing a violet sky
2. A faint silhouette of a woman beneath colors like the northern lights
3. Two hands reaching towards one another
4. A sci-fi inspired, dark uniform with a high collar
5. A grand stairwell, perhaps a futuristic religious site, with a single silhouette looking up
6. Two romantic silhouettes against a starry night sky
7. A lone figure with a backpack, standing amongst a shroud of sand-colored fog
8. A hand covered in glitter
9. A silhouette standing in front of a blue-lit circular tunnel entrance
10. A black woman with glitter coating her shoulder, just the bottom half of her face is visible, lips tilted slightly up in a smile
11. A black woman screaming
12. A stream of light breaking through dark clouds
13. An eye turned to show only the whites
14. Figures in robes seemingly suspended in mid-air
15. A figure on a black, sleek futuristic looking motorcycle

None of the images are my own. They are all sourced from Pinterest

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QueryingNow The Prophecy of Braemorra She was never meant to be seen. He was never meant to lose everything. The prophecy chose them anyway. And neither are ready for what it demands. #Q #YA #F #RF #questpit

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Piper Smythe @papersmythe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If the eerie magic of CARAVAL and the pulse-pounding tension of PREDATOR had a YA romantic fantasy baby, it would be called PREY OF PARADISE 🌺 dragon shifter romance 🌿 fantasy survival competition 🌺 pacey and thrilling 🌿 classic lit reimagining #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF

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Quin Madden @quinmaddenwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Two people who've mastered emotional distance must decide if connection is a risk worth taking-or just another wound waiting to happen. PICTURE US, FALLING (81k words) captures the ache of unattainable longing set in rain-soaked Seattle. #questpit #Q #A #U #LF #amquerying

Mood board for literary upmarket novel PICTURE US, FALLING. Features misty Pacific Northwest forests, rainy city streets, intimate moments, autumn leaves, Noah Kahan and Lord Huron references, and warm earthy tones evoking yearning and emotional connection.

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S.E. Bunnell @sebunnell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Some brand new mood boards for #QuestPit ⛏️ IT FOLLOWS X DIAVOLA X RED RABBIT GHOST 🦌 Midwestern Gothic 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Doppelgängers ❣️ Healthy Love 🌱 Eco Horror Themes 🌀 Folk Magic #Q #A #H #RF #amquerying

A moodboard with the words “As Above [the horror]” in the center. Around it are graphics of birch trees, a dead crow, a hand reaching for a doorknob, the entrance to a mine drift, a house in the woods, a deer hidden in shadow, a canine form hidden in shadow, a man standing in the darkness.

A moodboard with “As Above [the romance]” in the center. The images surrounding it include the Moon tarot card, a man hugging a woman from behind, intertwined hands, a man kissing a woman, a woman with braided hair, a man with crossed arms leaning against a wall.

A mood board with the words “As Above [all together now]” in the center. Around it are images including a rural midwestern town, a coyote in the darkness, a hand holding a flashlight, two figures peering out from the darkness, a scratched door covered in locks, a woman embracing a man, and an alter.

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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Been craving a book with: 🪻Cozy witchy plot like Practical Magic & Garden Spells 🪻Murder Mystery 🪻Fast 🪻Based in a cozy harbor town 🪻Twisty (i just read My Husband’s Wife so the bar is HIGH) 🪻Age gap main characters So I wrote it:) Draft 1 is done! #W #MY #QuestPit

There's a collage on the right with 6 pictures representing a harbor town and some witchy imagery, including a lake scene, horse carrige in front of a big white house, the lake, a woman working with herbs, a boat in a river, and a harbor. The left says "The Shoppes at Hyacinth, A Speculative Mystery by Kirsten Bell."

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M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME 🏚️ a child’s psychological games 🍇 scared girls who fight back 🪞 sibling opposites 🐊 summer is an antagonist 🧨 surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette 🌟 Big 5 editor interest 🌟 RevPit ‘25 winner #QuestPit #Q #MG #H

green-themed moodboard. From left to right and up to down: a hand reaching through tree bark and foliage; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp some berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a green-lit tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse below a chandelier; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; stylised painting of many crows on a colourful branch; hands reaching through lily pads in pond water.

green-themed moodboard featuring weeping willows reaching pond water, a hand reaching from a tree trunk, a lake surrounded by trees, hands reaching for each other, a house surrounded by trees and a lake, someone running out of sight in a maze, a lake surrounded by trees, candlesticks on tree branches, and a pier jutting out into lake water.

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Camille Singer @camillesinger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🪡 SHREDDING SHADOWS 🪡 🪄Sentient Shadow Magic 🌑 World of Ash 🎓 Dark Academia 🖤 Mentor Love Interest 🕯️Copper Lighthouse ✒️ Lost Spell Book 🐦‍⬛ Shadow Monsters 🔥 Slow Burn #QuestPit #Q #YA / #NA #F #R

Four panel image of an antique candle wall sconce against damask wallpaper.

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AJS ✨ Querying @authorajs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE BELLS OF LE FAY Sapphic THE CRAFT x ONE DARK WINDOW 🌈 🖤A witch with ‘control or be consumed’ magic 🖤A monstrous mystery and a secret society (cult) 🖤A combative love interest with too many secrets 🖤A magical academy with too many libraries 🖤 Touch her and die (literally) #QuestPit #Q #A #F

A nine image collage. From left to right, rows top to bottom. Image one is a black background with the text ‘Pariah, pur-rayh-uh. Image two is a beige background with a hand holding a puff of black smoke. Image three is a white background with the text ‘she was made of destructive magic’. Image four is a black background with a piece of paper on fire. Image five is the lower half of a mixed race girl’s face, with curly black hair falling over her cheek. Image six is a spellbook surrounded by lit candles and a mirror. Image seven is a black background with the text ‘I will not apologise for being born.’ Image eight is a white background with the silhouette of a woman and a massive cloud of smoke looming over her. Image nine is a black background with the text ‘Am I the villain’.

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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

6 OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, & not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted. Big 5 Editor Interest #QuestPit #NA #F #Q

Left to right.

Top row: A foggy city with a spire in the background. The hands of a clock approaching 12. Smoke from an explosive in a building.

Middle row: A man in a waistcoat pointing at something. “Tick… Tock…” A man in a waistcoat sitting down.

Bottom row: Silver coins covered in blood. A group of people standing inside a clock tower. Rain on a cobblestone street.

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Samantha is ✨editing✨ @sloicano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

WHAT MAGIC REMAINS A witch turned vampire, only her magic survived. Now, every spell corrupts her skin. Every heartbeat breaks the rules. And Hell is closing in. But the demon responsible? He wants to keep her. 🩸Vampires 🔮 Witches 🔥 Infernal Corruption 🖤Forbidden Romance #QuestPit #W #A #FR

Top left image is a crow in a cemetery. Top middle image is a girl with back to the camera holding leaves. Top right image is a woman holding a book with a man’s hand hers. Middle left image is a woman’s mouth with fangs. Center image is the word heretic. Middle right image is a man kissing a woman’s neck. Bottom left image a hand painted black touching the finger of another hand the black ins transferring. Bottom middle image is a man’s neck with necklaces. Bottom right image is a witch alter set up. small notes are in the images. death touched witch. Guardian demon? Punished, cursed, damned.

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L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 🏰dark YA sleeping beauty reimagining 🤟deaf MMC + ASL 👑quest to kill an evil queen 💀everyone she knows is dead 🐀ride-or-die rat companion 🎶he's immune to her song magic 🪢captor falls for his captive 🌳deadly enchanted forest ~querying soon~ #questpit #rf #w #ya

"The Blood of Zellandine Agent's Guide" written in cream against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"The Pitch After waking from a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic." written in navy on a cream background against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"The Details a YA sleeping beauty reimagining 98000 words grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, goblins, monsters, and fae, deaf MCC + ASL, animal companion, Tangled-coded, themes of self-forgiveness and autonomy, horror elements" written in navy on a cream background against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"Comps" written in cream against a starry sky surrounded by treetops with the covers of Heartless Hunter, Never Ever After, and For the Wolf with arrows pointing from the words dual-pov romance, forced proximity, magical creatures, fairytale reimagining, enchanted forest

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crystal @snailpails.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE X WE USED TO LIVE HERE A young woman can't trust herself as she watches her reality crumble before her eyes. 🫣 Psychological/Cosmic Horror Romance 🗽 NYC Setting 🖤 He falls first 🇭🇰 #OwnVoices #QuestPit #H #R #PR #A #W

Woman sitting
stars
wilted flower
Subway
Black feather

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Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Querying: The Prophecy of Braemorra, 91k YA Romantasy My first #agentguide #yaromantasy #queryingtrenches #agentguide #newtobluesky #query

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Dyamond_Writer @authorinspirations.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #W #A #T 🕵️ Spies & Secrets 🐕 Rare Military Dogs 🏝️Isolated Location

Blue background with text.

Cold War Pawprints by Avery Cameron Campbell

Set within the realm of James Bond.

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Linda Maleh @lindamaleh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

To save NYC’s witches from being hunted down and possessed by malicious spirits, 16-year-old Haley Thorne must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop the dead witch behind it all. LEGENDBORN x LITTLE THIEVES #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

In the Shadow of a Witch comps: Percy Jackson, Legendborn, Little Thieves

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Tori Bloodworth Author 🔪🎅 @toribloodworth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

19 year old Sam Miller is navigating a lot this Thanksgiving break. High school exes. A displaced roommate. Her part time job at the Santa school, where her dad is participating. And the rumored return of her small town’s most infamous slasher — the Santa Slayer. #QuestPit #YA #H #W

A pine tree background with clothes in the foreground and a description of the circumstances of the character's day: The drive home with her displaced roommate listening to the true crime podcast episode featuring her hometown’s infamous Santa Slayer tragedy.

A pine tree background with clothes in the foreground and a description of the circumstances of the character's day: Participating in the 5K at the Santa school + annual conference where she works part time.

A pine tree background with clothes in the foreground and a description of the circumstances of the character's day: Town meeting where her brother is falsely accused and arrested as the body count rises.

A pine tree background with clothes in the foreground and a description of the circumstances of the character's day: Playing detective with her friends to clear her brother’s name and prevent the new Santa Slayer from striking again.

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Ari Wilde @ariwilde.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x BLACK MIRROR Logar Iris didn’t want to lead. His team didn’t want to follow. But with memories stolen, a murdered mentor, and a tyrant on the rise, the Power of Sight must remember who they are—or risk losing everything. #QuestPit #A #F #SF #SFF #S #D

A quote, 'You're already starting to shape the revolution in your image'

Contains ace, gay, gender non comformity, lesbian, neurodiversity and chronic fatigue rep

another quote, 'We shoot, we maim, we punch, we literally don't know how to do anything else'

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Sam Peil 🧟😈🤡 @sampeil.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE Z WORD x SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER If three queer 20-somethings manage to not get eaten by the pandemic zombies, including their dentist, they’ll still have to dodge a preacher bent on building his post-apocalyptic flock. 🧟‍♂️🥼🏳️‍🌈 #horror, headshots, and hookups #questpit #h #nd #q #lgbt

4 by 3 film stripesque grid of grainy photos. Top to bottom, left to right: gates casting a shadow. night view of a building with light on, trees in shadow; dirt hole with cones; skinny view of grass; close view of rock with sky in background; porceline doll cylindrical glass case with fern on top, night view of trees lit from bottom with sky looking blue, skinny view of dry creek bottom with red dusty rocks; hydroplant building with water rushing in front of building, ceiling with metal fish hanging from it, right turn arrow behind a chainlink fence, trees and steep hill in background, skinny view of a large stone and concrete circle bordering a firepit.

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T. Diaz @t-diaz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE UNRAVELING Thank you again, @leonahwrites.bsky.social and @minaareis.bsky.social, for this opportunity! 🔁 YA SPECULATIVE FICTION 🧩 PUZZLE DRIVEN DARK FANTASY ⚡ TIME LOOPS 🌊 DUAL PROTAGONIST Image sources: Pexels / Personal photograph / Canva #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #S #DF #MY #amquerying

Two silhouettes of a young man and woman facing away from each other against a vivid orange sunset. Text reads: The Unraveling. Time resets. The damage does not. Seven days. Six puzzles. Every failure leaves Ethan damaged and closer to a reset he cannot survive. Verity has always trusted patterns. Now they are breaking

A dark clock tower at night with two illuminated clock faces glowing amber against a stormy sky. Text reads: The Unraveling. Briarwick was not built. It was designed. Every street. Every landmark. Every symbol. A pattern hidden in plain sight for two hundred years. And now it is counting down.

A stormy dark sky with Fibonacci spiral lamp posts visible in silhouette. Text reads: The Unraveling. Full pitch text describing Ethan and Verity facing an ancient pattern threatening their town. Ends with: Not everyone they love gets to follow.

A rain slicked amber lit street at night with warm glowing lamp posts. Text reads: The Unraveling. Early Reader Responses. Five reader quotes about the book.

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Angelique Prince | Historical Romance Author @angeliqueprince.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#questpit: Confined with the Duke A grief-stricken duke who is forced to rely on a fiercely independent Black midwife to care for his sister's secret pregnancy--only to find that the midwife completely upends his household and becomes far more difficult to resist than he anticipated. #q #a #r

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Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BENEATH THE WAYWARD TIDES Paranormal romance One part treasure hunt, one part gothic mermaid identity crisis 🧜🏼‍♀️ a dying mermaid 🩵 a love she must sacrifice 👑 a treasure they must find 🍊 Sevilla, Spain 🛥️ and a missing boyfriend #questpit #W #sff #PR #amquerying #amwriting #writesky

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aleighwolterwrites.bsky.social @aleighwolterwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #A #RF #F #W Querying Soon!

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Alexandra Alafair @sangrescribe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

POV your fated mate is the heir to the enemy throne #questpit #DF #RF #NA #Q 🖤 Enemies x Lovers ⛓️ Forced Proximity 🐺 Shifters/Magic Families 📖 Dark Academia ✒️ Psych Thriller X Dark Romantasy Comps: Den of Vipers, Psycho Shifters, Unhinged First 3: tinyurl.com/4ecd4y37

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Emily See @emilyseewrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Part 2 of my first #AgentsGuide for #Questpit 💕 Vibes ⚔️Enemies to lovers ⚔️Female rage & revenge ⚔️Deadly competition ⚔️Found family ⚔️Dark Romantasy x Banter #W #A #RF

This is my aesthetic for 'Serpant's Kiss'

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Katie Brown @authorkatiebrown.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE BEASTS WE BURY X TO KILL A KINGDOM A siren who can't sing must hunt her first soul by her 18th birthday or she'll die. When the thief she's meant to hunt steals her heart instead, she must choose whose soul to save: his or hers. #QuestPit #YA #F #DF #Q #agentguide

Pictures of three books describing comp titles
SING ME TO SLEEP
TO KILL A KINGDOM
THE BEASTS WE BURY

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Denna @dennahunter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE NARCISSIST: When a killer turns murder into performance, two detectives must unravel a powerful narcissist’s empire before his younger brother either exposes him or becomes him. #questpit #T #Q

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Shelbey @shelbeyd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

LEONARD vs THE IMPOSSIBLE = Robo-Sauce x Bathe the Cat When boy genius Leonard runs out of excuses to avoid cleaning his room, he builds a robot to do it. But when the robot goes rogue, creating chaos across town, Leonard uses his smarts to perform the impossible, saving the day. #QuestPit #Q #PB

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Hanna Patrick is Querying @hannapatrick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Covenant of the Damned (119k rom. fantasy) in microtropes! When the Lord she’s sworn to protect is poisoned, a headstrong guard reluctantly allies with a loathsome king to find the Holy Grail before the Lord dies or the relic falls into the hands of evil sorcerers. #Q #RF #F #A #QuestPit

Cover slide to introduce the microtropes that you can expect to see in "Covenant of the Damned," a 119k romantic fantasy that is now querying. The background is an ethereal oil painting

the microtropes listed are: reluctant allies, only one horse, he's been thirty for the last 230 years, elemental-based magic systems, lady knights, she's the chosen one, and he tends to her wounds. There's an icon of a computer cursor hovering over a box that says "select all," to indicate that all microtropes are present in "Covenant of the Damned"

On this slide there is a painted hand holding a sword and a repetition of the pitch. The image also states that this book is perfect for fans of [Lady] Knights of the Round Table retellings and every Gilmore Girls stan who was rooting for Rory to end up with Jess Mariano.

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Kaylyn Edelen @kaylynedelen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BANISHED TO SAVE EVERYONE. HUNTED TO BE A WEAPON. Adult/NA Romantic Fantasy Agent guide below 🪄Unique Magic System 🎭Hidden Identity 😡Enemies-to-Lovers 🥰Found Family #questpit #A #RF #W note: was previously queried but is now be edited by a dev editor so back to WIP pile

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Coral Vega is revising ✍️ @authorcoralvega.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A DANCE OF FIRE, 95k romantasy, #amquerying with multiple full requests! 🪭2nd world Spanish fantasy 🔥Elemental magic 🌶️M/F, F/F sugar & spice 💃🏻Flamenco as a weapon 💕Fem rage 🐉Dragons 🌍 Climate crisis ❤️‍🔥Ruinous love In a city on fire, be unburnable🌇 #q #a #rf #questpit

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Rebeccah Sheridan @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

LOVELIGHT FARMS x THE LOVE HATERS When an event planner must plan a holiday gala with the firefighter who works for her father, she vows to keep things strictly professional...until their chemistry threatens her career, her family relationships, and the gala itself #questpit #q #a #r #amquerying

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Loren 🦇 FORMERLY CIRCUSLOLLIPOP @vesperanth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE x CRITICAL ROLE CAMPAIGN 4 In search of his banished uncle, a fledgling vampire journeys to a realm of eternal night, where he must solve a string of disappearances before the local vampires and monster hunters descend into all-out war. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

3x3 moodboard of gothic and spooky imagery with a purple color scheme

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Charlotte Dante 💫querying author💫 @charlottedante14.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

WHAT THRIVES IN DARKNESS, a 88,000-word LGBTQ+ YA reimagining of Hades and Persephone about charting your own course—even when those who love you would rather own you. 🌿 queer Hades/Persephone 🌿 slow burn 🌿 grumpy/sunshine 🌿 found family 🌿 “touch him and die” 🌿 a ghost corgi #questpit #YA #LGBTQ

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Cydney Goodwin 🌠 is querying @thegoodcyd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🍃🍃 Flowerheart✖️So This Is Ever After 🍃🍃 🪄Ghibli x BBC Merlin 🫖Cozy fantasy 🐉Sword, sorcery, & spirits 👨‍❤️‍👨 Bantering boys ♥️Slow-burn bromance to romance #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #SFF #agentguide #agentsguide #amquerying

An Agent's Guide to Foolhardy by Cydney Goodwin

When his village is swarmed with mischievous tree sprites, a young sorcerer must learn to harness his unwieldy magic and save his home from the spirits’ ire.

Comps

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k gothic coming-of-age story with a dual POV My Darling Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society 🖤An heir 🖤A monster 🖤An ancient curse 🖤Scottish Highlands 🖤Familial exploitation 🖤Emotional & physical isolation 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #HF #PR #QuestPit

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Zoe is ✨querying✨ @zgauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SIX OF 🐦‍⬛x OUR 🏳️ MEANS ☠️ 🏴‍☠️ A murder mystery—everyone is suspicious 🪶 Neurodivergent MC/disabled LI 🌊 Sirens, dragons, deadly seas 🕯️Cold ex-pirate & charismatic pirate captain work together to survive 🌈 Sapphic “you’re a means to an end” to lovers #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF #MY #OWN #LGBT

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Fated mates are rare, chosen by Saints, but when royals from rival Kingdoms are chosen & the bond triggers unpredictable powers, they realise thier blessing is a curse and they must figure out how to hide it, or risk it being weaponised in the looming war. #QuestPit #W #NA #RF

A gradiented mood board for the WIP novel THROUGH THE REALM. From bottom left to top right the background goes from fiery orange and red to icy blue and grey, with blue and red flames. There are nine images in a 3x3 format.

Top left: an icy landscape and walkway through what could be a palace
Top middle: a man with his back to us with snowy white hair, running a hand through it and with a bare back
Top right: two bare hands with snowflake patterns formed from snow
Middle left: bare feet walking across coals towards us
Middle middle: a quote reading "I am bitter-our histories are stained by war and hate."
Middle right: two bare feet walking across ice away from us
Bottom right: two hands creating fire between them
Bottom middle: the silhouette of a woman with one hand in the air in front of a huge fire
Bottom right: a fiery castle atop a cliff with fire behind it and lava dripping from the cliff

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bea’s convinced she’s bad, and hides her sexuality in the pixelated boxes of TemptressB—it’s how she survived what came before. Until a suspicious subscriber, censorship-happy board member, and stupidly principled (utterly devastating) boss force her to be fully seen. #QuestPit #Q #A #WF #U #LF #R

Image: faded background of library metal bookcases. A pink filter is atop growing from the bottom left corner. A blue pen is across the right part of the screen poised beside a scribbled heart.

Text: Shamelessly Wanting. By Frankie Joy. An Agents Guide. Upmarket fiction with romantic arc (80k). Querying.

Text banner at top: messy fmc, buttoned-up mmc, late stage dual pov, open-door, book banning b-plot

Image: light pink background with a pink distortion in the corners. Scribbled blue loops separate two halves of the slide. Yellow highlighter is beneath the headers. Four book covers are on the right-hand side.

Pitch:

Beatrice Dorsey shelves books at the Meadow Park Library-and runs a spicy content site under the name Temptress. But that's none of her coworkers' business. Or her family's. Especially not Miles Noor, her steady and irritatingly attractive boss. The man who brought her burgers on the library floor and walked away from their almost-kiss with two words: "Not yet." A new subscriber surfaces, reminding her of what she's always known: "You were always bad;)" Someone from before has Found her. Within weeks, Bea's cousin has the photos, her best friend tires of her avoidance, and a board member is targeting "indecent" books. The exposure she's spent years hiding from is coming due.
Bea arms herself with humor, lipgloss, and sour gummy bears. It works. Mostly. Until she's lying on the floor wondering who she is when she stops performing.

Comps:

The Wedding People
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Funny, guarded heroine learning to let people in —and making mistakes along the way.

Idea of You
Centering of female desire.

Fleabag
Exploration of shame without moralizing.

Image: light pink background with a pink distortion in the corners. Scribbled asterisks are in the right upper corner. Yellow highlighter is beneath the headers. Gummy bears are beside Bea and jalebi beside Miles.

Bea Dorsey
Gummy bear-fueled, anxious-avoidant, narrating her life in lipgloss. If she gets too close to others they might see the parts of her she shamefully hides. You'll want her happy ending anyway.
"I hid truths from my own brain. Reality is what I say it is."

Miles Noor
Patient, principled, and permanently undone by the woman he’d sign disclosure paperwork for. He never forgets he's her boss-but the buttoned-up exterior becomes too suffocating to maintain.
"I’m just here to unbutton your buttons, Miles.”

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liz difranco @lizdifranco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An agent's guide to INSPIRED BY YOU. Perfect for agents looking for: ❤️A NEW TWIST ON A ROMCOM 🧬A VERY LITERAL GENRE BLEND ❤️‍🩹THE HEALING ART OF STORYTELLING ⚔️ACCESSIBLE FANTASY 💌EPISTOLARY ELEMENTS #questpit #w #a #r #f

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Madeline Warthan | Scarlett Ash @maddieisbooked.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE SECRET HISTORY x FALLEN by Lauren Kate 🪽FMC w/OCD 🪽MMC who is pathetic for her 🪽Deadly secret society 🪽Dark academia setting 🪽PNR x Mystery genre blend 🪽Reincarnation 🪽Murdered twin EDITORS, interact if interested! #QuestPit #W #PR #RF #A #writingcommunity #AG

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Author_DaniLee @zivanod.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

WHILE EVIL CROWNS ITSELF KING 118K | Epic Fantasy | Multi-POV Willa fears the danger stalking her comes from someone she trusts. Luella abandons the army after witnessing evil and finds a new destiny. Conti will claim greatness… no matter the cost. Three paths. One throne. #QuestPit #A #F #Q

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Harper ✨️DVpit pinned @harperkinsley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🎭DEAR WENDY x MY FAIR BRADY🎭 #QuestPit #Q #YA When Sofia is cast as the romantic lead of her senior musical with her toxic, cheating ex-boyfriend, she enlists the help of skeptical aroace sound tech, June, to help her "fall out of love" with him, move on for good and become the star of her own show

Collage of theater images with torn paper edges. Highlights include a spotlighted performer, soundboardm red theater seats, and the text "Forget About the Boy."

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T. A. Westy | Author @a-westy-writes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

TWISTED TETHER Rapunzel and Hercules become star-crossed in my romantic dystopian fantasy! ✨️Postapocalyptic Appalachian Fantasy✨️ ✨️Mythology✨️ ✨️Slow Burn Romance✨️ ✨️Found Family✨️ ✨️Hidden Demigod✨️ #questpit #A #D #RF #Q

Twisted Tether (98,000 words) is an adult dystopian fantasy romance, written in dual pov by T. A. Westy. The picture is of the FMC, Adara Hunt, who carries heretical brandings on her neck and back. Another image shows a scene from the swamps where Adara travels.

Only a god can kill a god.

A fugitive cursed with heretical markings travels postapocalyptic Appalachia in search of answers, accompanied by a secret demigod enlisted to spy on her and steal her magic. Gods monopolize magic in Adara’s world, where she must decide: follow the tether to Earth’s power, risking everything, or go back into hiding, to a life of pain and isolation. Both options threaten her relationship with Elias, who faces his own demons: obey his mother and the law, or do the unthinkable—defy the gods to protect Adara.

The image shows Adara Hunt (FMC), Elias Lindholm (MMC), and the raven familiar of the story, Belrue.

Rapunzel and Hercules are star-crossed in my adult dual POV dystopian fantasy romance. Readers who vibe with the father-daughter dynamic in The Last of Us, the hunted female lead with earthen magic in Demi Winters's ROAD OF BONES, and the emotional complexity of love versus duty in Sue Lynn Tan’s IMMORTAL will devour this manuscript.

Road of Bones: third-person close, lesser-known mythology, FMC hunted for her magic

Brothers Grim Rapunzel: confinement and longing for a naive FMC with moxie

Immortal: hidden identities, love vs duty, moral ambiguity

Dwayne Johnson's Hercules: underrepresented demigod MMC, fate vs free will

The Last of Us: Father/daughter dynamic, found family

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trang ☆ writer @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SIX OF CROWS x JADE CITY When her mentor goes missing Gemna joins forces w/ fellow mage Ren to unravel the connection b/w the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages aren’t just outlawed…but wiped from existence. #QuestPit #AG #F art by nathcreare

a blue and yellow toned sketch of a woman and a man standing back to back. she is looking towards the front and he’s gazing off to the side. the characters have Asian features and look serious / unsmiling. over the images is the text CONDUCT OF MAGES, Adult Fantasy, Complete at 99K, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management

on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, a navy blue rectangle contains the text “When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.”

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on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, a navy blue rectangle contains the text “energy magic, heists & scheming, found family, research subplot, slow burn, female role models, SE Asian setting”

the words THE VIBES, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management are at the bottom of the slide

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on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, six book covers are shown: Blood Over Bright Haven, Jade City, Six of Crows, Jasad Heir, Foundryside, an Heartless Hunter

the words THE COMPA, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management are at the bottom of the slide

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