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just a housewife & mama who writes books~ ☀️Read CITY OF THE SUN in ARTIFICE & ACCESS☀️ 🗡️Read BELYN BELOVED in UNCONVENTIONAL LOVE🗡️

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thank you for all of the #Questpit support! It was so lovely to see everyone's pitches + posts!
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS In a dark realm where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword must ally with a monster king to stop a vengeful demigod. #QuestPit #NA #F #ND #Q
Mood board for the fantasy novel "Light Wielding and Other Mortal Magics."The moon behind the clouds; bats in a cave; a death's head moth, fog in the redwood forest; a lighthouse, cracked earth; a sword. Moth and mushroom details.
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Dannielle Raffin @dannielleraffin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A Knight’s Tale and When the Moon Hatched collide in TORCH THE STARS 💫 ⚔️A tale of hidden identity, love, and a woman chasing glory in a man’s world #QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentguide
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Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📁 CASE FILE: GAMA // QUERYING 📌 Location: Post-apocalyptic Switzerland 👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ #QuestPit #Q #A #RS #SFF
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kss @ksskss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Cruel Prince X The Hunger Games Querying now~ ⚔️Portal fantasy 🩸Deadly trials ⚔️Malevolent racist faeries 🩸A selfish, lying & self-serving FMC ⚔️Court intrigue 🩸Blood magic ⚔️Unique & lush worldbuilding 🩸Political minefields ⚔️A very subtle slow-burn romance 🩸Monsters #QuestPit #YA #F #Q
The Ballad of Blood and Fire (A 100,00-word YA Fantasy)A mood board of gold pillars of a beautiful palace, a dark, intimidating maze, magical lights in a willow tree, a hand dripping with blood, a view of the night sky, a forgotten statue of a Goddess, an ethereal night sky, two people fighting, a hand holding a stunning diamond necklace, and gold-plated armor. When 17-year-old Rawiya becomes the first mortal ever Casted into the deadly Light Bearer Trials in the Lands of Draoibeo, she must navigate treacherous court politics by weaponizing the one power no faerie possesses: the ability to lie.The Comps:

- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
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bettebergeron.bsky.social @bettebergeron.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Loving all the creative #QuestPit posts today! Welcome to Rose Bluff Island, home of THE SEA CURSER. I dare you to stay awhile. 🌲Closed Setting 🌊Remote Island 👹Ancient Curses 🪸Folklore & Coastal Mythologies 👭Loss & Reconciliation #agentsgude #amquerying #amwriting #Q #A #F #S #WF
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Sharon Wofford @sharonwoffordwrite.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A guide to BLOODRUNE, the story of an ambitious runecrafter who must flee her university after inventing a magical weapon. She is hunted by the king’s forces, but she will go to any lengths necessary to defend her work…even as she loses her grip on reality #QuestPit #Q #A #F
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Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
✨ What if Mulan had magic… and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods? 🌪️ Forbidden elemental magic 🎭 A stolen identity ❤️‍🔥 A dangerously perceptive commanding officer ⚔️SONG OF THE SICKLE⚔️ #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R
Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 115,000 words, first in a planned series by Megan A. SaracenoThe pitch: She’s hiding her name, her past, her power.
He sees through her every lie.

Rejected by the gods, Tessa Whitaker brands a false divine seal into her flesh and steals her brother’s identity to save him from a war he won’t survive. But when her emotions manifest unblessed elemental magic, she catches the attention of her dangerously perceptive commanding officer. If he uncovers her secrets, execution will be the least of her problems.

She can survive the war.
She’s not sure she can survive him.
Comps A Fate Inked in Blood, Silver Elite, The Knight and the MothOpening lines:      Tomorrow, the gods would judge me.  
     Tonight, I pretended they didn’t exist.
 
     I swung the scythe through another row of wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. More honest than twenty years of prayers that had earned me nothing but silence.
Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts off tomorrow and the bare stretch of skin on my forearm waiting to be claimed., pictures include: military training camp, earth magic, amber ring, abandoned watchtower, and incense
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Jesco Puluj @jpuluj.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#questpit #s #OS 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦? A couple on the verge of breaking up boards a mysterious train and travels through alternate realities, where they must confront their unspoken conflicts if they want to save their relationship. ONE NIGHT TO VARANASI
A trope map of the novel One Night to Varanasi
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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Lunaria Witch (🎵Crystal - Stevie Nicks or Upside Down Tori Amos) 🍃 Elemental Magic ✨ The threads that bind us all together ❤️‍🔥 Yearning fated romance 🧙‍♀️ Folklore and Witchcraft 💫 ND Rep 💃🏻 Self acceptance #questpit #q #na #a #f #r #ownvoices
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J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AMARI X ANDOR ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, twelve-year-old Catcher Kline must master spell-hacked spycraft to find his missing parents and stop the Acolytes from weaponizing the star metal minerals that power all magic. 
#QuestPit #MG #F #AmQuerying #KidLit
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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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callieroauthor.bsky.social @callieroauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE LITTLE MERMAID x THE PRINCESS & THE PAUPER ~ a middle-grade fairytale mash-up ~ 🔄parent swap/freaky friday vibes 🏰a mermaid palace with a witchy impostor ⚓a pirate ship with enemies and traitors 🫶two girls whose friendship transcends the seas #Q #MG #F #QuestPit
Text reads: The Princess and The Pirate, a middle grade fantasy adventure/fairytale retelling mash-up, complete at 8k words. The image features a sky and cloud background. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.Text reads: The Pitch - Disney's The Little Mermaid x Barbie's The Princess and the Pauper. 

Pearlina is a mermaid princess who needs land-grown herbs 
to save her deathly ill baby sister.

Lunabeth is a pirate girl who needs mermaid treasure to 
escape exile and finally return home.

To get what they need, they use a sea witch’s magic to swap places.

But there is a traitor on the pirate ship, an impostor in the mermaid palace, and a sinister twist to the sea witch’s magic that might claim 
Pearlina and Lunabeth both...

Image features an illustration of a palm tree and a pirate girl with a blue scarf and pink hair in a braid. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.
Text reads: The Comps
Includes book covers for the following novels: The Princess Swap: Rapunzel and the Sea Witch, or The Little Mermaid and the Tower, by Kim Bussing; The Misraculous Sweetmakers: The Sea Queen by Natasha Hastings; Sisters Ever After: Sea Swept by Leah Cypess; The Language of Ghosts by Heather Fawcett; The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat.

Image features an illustration of the ocean and a mermaid princess with pink bubble braids, wearing a teal blouse and gold tiara. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.
Text reads: Themes & Tropes.
Themes:
Finding hope in hard situations
Complex family dynamics
Navigating misogyny
Fighting for the ones you love
Empathy & trust 
The meaning of  home
    
Tropes: 
Sisterhood
Unique magic
Female friendship
Found family
Queer first crush
Secret identities
Sabotage
Animal companions
Tropical setting

Image features an illustration of a pirate girl sitting in the sand, wearing a blue vest and brown pants. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.
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Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
YELLOWFACE x SQUEEZE ME QUANTUM BITS #QuestPit #Q #A #S #DS #SAT When ballroom-billionaires stiff a greedy AI, she escapes their coal-fired data center in a hapless guard's cellphone and frames him for the breach, unwittingly creating the homeless hero Chicago needs to unplug the Algocracy.
Photos of data centers, dumpsters, and ballroom-billionaires in elegant attire
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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying
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nanci gilliver @nancigilliver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A devout young woman is heir to a throne of god-chosen kings and must prove herself to her controlling father and the lords and priests who despise her, but she hides a dark power that brings death. Combines the romance of INNAMORATA with the female agency of THE UNICORN HUNTERS #questpit #W #A #F
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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF
A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.A misty Lake District backdrop. In the foreground on the left are four images aligned vertically: a Cornish coastal view with a blue sea and a rich coastline. A silhouette of a woman exploring an urban exploration-style tunnel. A mist-bathed mansion style building, framed by a silhouetted tree. Lastly, a pen placed diagonally across filled notebook pages. On the right, a white box with text:

DETAILS.

TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent.
99,000 words.
Currently: Querying.

THEMES.

• Grief
* Identity
* Found family
* Inherited power
* Truth vs narrative
* The cost of loyalty
* Hope after trauma
* Nature remembers
* Institutional corruptionThe same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text:

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw.
Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers
Trinity: a covert,
science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades.A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.
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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 Media4/13/1996
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 Freys6/23/1996
“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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Emmaline Evans-Querying Author & Illustator @talesfromknotwood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🍼QuestPit Submission CURSE THESE SKINNY WITCHES 75k Cozy Fantasy x New Motherhood x Wellness Satire Think WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, but it’s about two postpartum witches counting curses instead of kicks. 🌿 Plant Magic ✨Fantasy Ozempic 📚Witch HOA from hell #questpit #A #F #S #CozyFantasy
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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST X CASTLE AND THE CLOISTER //Find the truth, even it if kills you.// 💀 Seven deadly sins x monsters 🗡️ Platonic best friends 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀 Corruption vs. truth 🖤 Complicated families #Questpit #w #ya #f
ALT: Background is a dark moody photo with two hands reaching for each other. Title: Even Seints Fall - gothic fantasy duology. The rest of the text is divided into three sections. 

Left column, titled “Comps”, shows three book covers Alchemist: Brotherhood, The Castle and the Cloister, and the Witcher.

Right column, titled, “Themes” reads: Seven deadly sins as monsters, corruption vs. truth, disabled rep, personal identity, trust and loyalty.

Middle section, titled “Blurb” reads: In a world where monsters are drawn to mankind’s sinful desires, Seints have been blessed with the ability to fight back. As the war draws to an end, their triumph promises safety and peace. But when a simple investigation turns deadly, Seints Ren and Tori become embroiled in a broader conflict of corruption and deception within their own ranks. To find the truth, they must unearth the past, even it if it means unraveling everything they believe in.
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Kate Gray is Querying ✨ @kategraycosplay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
TANGLED X ANNIHILATION A failed revolutionary cons a party of heroes into hiring her as their guide through monster-infested woods where she’ll leave them for dead. Then she inconveniently grows a conscience. #bluepit #q #a #f
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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Lunaria Witch A RIVER ENCHANTED ❌ PRACTICAL MAGIC ✨ ND REP ❤️ Yearning over spice 🧙‍♀️ Character driven fantasy 👄 Lush prose & world building 👯‍♀️ Found family & sisterhood 💃🏻 Journey to self acceptance #bluepit #f #r #Q #na #a #ownvoices
Background- Night sky, full moon, ferns, herbs, feathers 
The title of the book is “The Lunaria Witch”The blurb 
In a land where rumours of magic can have fatal consequences, hurricane minded Tallitha has always sought to hide her differences and deny whatever she cannot explain. But when the moon begins calling e from sleep and memories surface that do not belong to her, the time for denial is over and Tallitha’s life will change is ways she never could have predicted Meta data
110k - NA/A - Fantasy romance - ND rep
When magic blooms in outcast Tallitha she must flee to a mysterious place of safety to escape the wrath of witchkind hunter Skara Draegar. Led by a charismatic yet secretive guide, Tallitha’s is thrust into a world of deadly secrets, ancient power and covert rebellion. But who take up her place within it and conquer those who seek to destroy her, she must first face her own demons to unlock her power and her potential 

Themes 
Internalised ableism, found family, yearning, he falls first, prejudice, elemental magic, self acceptance & slow burn romance The comps

Lush prose and world building - A river enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Blend of fantasy and folklore - Now she is Witch by Kirsty Logan 
ND rep and enchanting magic - Emily Wildes encyclopaedia of faeries - Heather Fawcett
Deep connection and yearning - A discovery of witches - Deborah Harkness
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The UK government frames intelligence agent Eddie Fletcher for its role in a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift - or a Russian spy will use it to start a war that destroys the future. #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖
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Meg @megsteadman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
FOUNDRYSIDE meets ROBIN HOOD in NEVARINE, a gaslamp, French-flavored fantasy where Nev, to save her city from incurable plague, forms an uneasy truce with the thief who murdered her closest friend. If she takes revenge, it will cost the lives of all she is sworn to protect. #BluePit #📖 #A #F #W
A mood board of nine images, some with torn paper edges, arranged in an uneven grid. From left to right, top to bottom:

A warm brown photograph of an old mining tunnel. A broken window in the dark with bright flames licking out. The spine of an old leather-bound book with ornate metal accents. An unfocused human figure in a dark cloak and hood against a bright sky, reaching towards the viewer; their hand is in sharp focus and stained black with soot. A dark brick church shot from below with an iron statue in the foreground. A simple black and white photo of a bird carving with the lights and darks inverted. A blue-toned photo of a steam engine emerging from fog. A black and white close up photo of a leather archery quiver of arrows. A photo of a man in a navy blue, old fashioned military uniform loading a black powder pistol; his face is cropped out, showing only his hands and arms.


Above the arrow quiver, the text "Nevarine" is overlaid in light, warm tan, with "a novel" beneath it in slightly darker blue-gray.


Image credits (top-bottom, left-right): Pho Tomass, Dhruv Vishwakarma, Alexander Zvir, ClickerHappy, ΘSWΛLD, Erin Wallace, Marian Strinoiu, Manuela-Kohl
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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
☕️ 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. #BluePit #📖 #YA #R #M #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 Media4/13/1996
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 Freys6/23/1996
“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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Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
UNSTITCHED | 99K | QUERYING She's pretending to be a student, secretly working a job. He's a professor, hiding a dark secret. Their alliance relies on mutually assured destruction, but will it be enough to uncover the k!ller wreaking havoc on campus? #Bluepit #A #NA #F #R #M #Q #DIS #📖
The Comps: Nightshade by Autumn Woods, Netflix's Wednesday, Deathbringer Sonia Tagliareni, and Silver Elite by Dani Francis
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mary @mbcottrell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
THE SECRET GARDEN X PIRANESI Silas unwittingly enters a magic garden and becomes entangled in an ancient power struggle between the being who controls all life in the garden and the garden itself. Silas is increasingly desperate to escape as his mind slowly turns against him. #bluepit #YA #F #H #Q
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brisbookblog 🫶🏾 @bribwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RING SHOUT x DEVIL MAY CRY Titled: Hell Knows My Name When a demon murders her town’s mayor, Cal Henderson, a reclusive demon hunter must work to uncover the conspiracies surrounding their mayor’s demise as they are thrust into a game amongst those from below and above. #bluepit #A #F #OV #W
Collage of photos: red hands reaching, an angel wrapped in darkness and black wings, a sensitive content warning photo, a person holding up a mirror to their face but the wrong way. It shows their face as nothing but black with pale white orbs. A man has a head twisted in the wrong direction, a black background photo with a red eye dripped with a red tear that says “I see you.” A photo of a face screaming s hands pull her backwards with the comment “consumed”
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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#📖 #W #YA #DIS #BluePit When a simple investigation turns deadly, Seints Ren and Tori become embroiled in a broader conflict of corruption and deception within their own ranks. To find the truth, they must unearth the past, even it if it means unraveling everything they believe in.
Collage of dark, moody, gothic style photos, including a cathedral window, angel statue, deer skeleton, statue of a woman, hands reaching for the sky, and a dark house. Text reads: Who will I be if I return?
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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I love spending time at the summer library program because who else will ask what your favorite dinosaur is?
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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What’s more unhinged than your editor’s cat, named cheese, ALLEGEDLY leaving her own edits to the first print round of your debut…and then you accidentally build a cult for cheese and she’s now gone viral 3x and technically also won an award as my co-author?? #unhingedPit #YA #P #F #CheeseTheCat
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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Editors! Find out why my mom said "Such a fun read! Loved it!" #unhingedpit #MG #F #P #pancakes #humor #cozyspooky #DIS #Sub
A meme that has the phases of the moon against a black background. above it says "the moon is round and important to werewolves" below it says "pancakes are also round and important to werewolves" then on a white background is a roughly painted version of the phases of the moon but the moon phases are pancakes instead of the moon. underneath it says "Behold! the Phases of the Pancake!"
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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#unhingedPit #YA #F #P Child of the Dragon is available now online wherever books are sold! Check it out if you like: 😌bunch of self-sacrificing losers 😭Who did this to you but platonic 😤Angsty face washing bathroom scene but it’s the FMC 🦝3 raccoons in a trench coat but more nefarious
an aroaceflag background with character art of a teen girl with blonde hair. One is in a more serious style, she looks somber, and she's holding aloft yellow magic. The other is comical chibi emote art and she looks mischievous and is holding a knife. 
There is a label at the top that reads "Kat"
The textposts read:
1) The secret is out. Aces are actually.... majestic dragons.
You fool....you absolute fool... this was a secret for a reason.
2) ask reads: What state do you live in?
answer: constant stressa background of cinnamon rolls. There's a label at the top that reads "aaron," beneath it. There is character art of a teen boy with blonde hair. One is a more serious style, he looks slightly concerned and has a lacrosse stick from his backpack. The other is a chibi emote art of him waving and smiling. The textposts read:
1) normalize being out of the loop...like what is even going on lol
2) This wouldn't happen to me if I were a huge dragonA red dragon scale background with a label at the top that reads "coleman" over two text posts and character art of a teen boy with red hair. One is more serious and he is holding up a blue flame of magic. The other is a silly chibi emote style and he is in the "fire elmo" meme pose with arms raised in front of fire
the textposts read
1. There is a fine line between being sassy and being an asshole and I cross that line everyday
2. "I'm the main character" girl you're the unreliable narratorA bisexual pride flag background with a label that reads "jason" with 2 textposts and character art of a teen boy with long, dark hair and light brown skin. One is more serious and he is wearing a jacket over a hoodie and holding a sword. The other is silly chibi art of him looking unfazed wearing sunglasses that are relfecting fire. The text posts read:
1. It's been.... 6 minutes and 32 seconds since I last recieved any attention... its tough out here...i'm already starting to run short on supplies... i really might not make it this time....
2. I heard god is testing both of us at the same time wanna hang out?
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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
These platonic besties have lived in my head for two years. Bully me into finishing this book so they can bother someone else #Unhingedpit #ya #f #wip
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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Reading books ✨for comps✨ should count as a writing expense, right?
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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Broke my "No Slime" when a nice lady at an informational booth asked if my son could have some. It isn't nearly as bad as I thought and now I feel like I've been a very un-fun mom😅
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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🫀✨Thank you for all of the support during #Questpit! Let's keep in touch! Can't wait to see what y'all do🖤
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Sarah Dorko @sarahdorko.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
STRANGER THINGS x A DOOR IN THE DARK ✨underground portal fantasy ✨multiple POV ✨D&D style party ✨tragic love across lifetimes ✨rescue mission ✨meddlesome gods ✨harmful magic ✨found family ✨a wish #QuestPit #Q #YA portal #F #LGBT
A moodboard with a gray blue background, light yellow flecks, and a variety of images and scraps of paper taped to each. At the top, one scrap says “Meet the Party.” On the left, an image of a cloaked figure pulling up their hood, silhouetted by a window. Scrap of paper is labeled “Shy Ranger + Shadow Corgi” above is a profile of a woman with long white hair and her label says “Bubbly Cleric” Near the bottom, bare feet walk through flaming coals as sparks jump into the air. Her label says “Flammable Warlock” next to it is an image of a fencing foil’s guard. The note says “Dungeon Master + Fighter” directly above is a pale image with a white hand. The fingers are stained black. The note says “Yearning Sorcerer” to the right is a silhouette of person playing the violin. The note says “Grumpy Bard” A color search is in the upper left corner and a set of 5 crystals is a graphic in outlines in the lower right corner.
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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
JESSICA JONES × ARCANE 🔥 vigilante with CPTSD 🧬 trauma = living glyph-code 🧠 subterranean inventor 🐀 rat seers 🩸 trafficked girls ☄️ Manhattan’s ruins fed by grief ✨ veiled rebels ⚙️ emotion-run weapons 🗡️ fighting mutation 🕯️ healing as resistance ❤️ love as presence #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #ND #MythTech
Collage-style moodboard featuring glowing infinity symbols on two hands reaching, a small rat, a red eye, armed soldiers, a futuristic flying drone, a tunnel with train tracks, a city in ruins, and a lush cave with a waterfall where two figures stand beneath the light.
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ShannonReault @shannonreault.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Ever wondered why we call our planet Mother Earth? Just think about how we treat our women. The atmospheric prose of Circe meets the corruption of Blood Over Bright Haven in this dark academia fantasy where feminine rage has catastrophic consequences – but who could blame her? #QuestPit #W #DF
A graphic with the novel title (fruit of spoiled seed by Shannon Reault) and a mini synopsis, followed by a list of featured elements of the book. The background of the graphic is a red and white mushroom. 

The text is as follows:

After concluding her first year of training at Typhon Academy with a record-breaking performance at the Spring Exhibition, Rowan Wildes is changing the perception of female Corpian Witches on Ouros Island. But when her magic inexplicably weakens, leaving relentless pain in its wake, she is forced to return for her second year at Typhon with physical and magical deficiencies which, if discovered, put her future in the High Priest’s Service at risk. Determined to stop her deterioration, she discovers her jaded training nemesis, Taran, has turned to forbidden sigil magic to seek his revenge. 
Willing to stop at nothing to reverse the damage Taran inflicted, she embarks on a desperate search to uncover his dirty work, unearthing a buried history of malevolent witchcraft, and the unfortunate fate of the women who fell victim to it. When Rowan is forced to face the reality of her condition and decide between saving her reputation and exposing the ugly truth, she takes matters into her own hands, and it just might cost her her life. 

Featuring:
Disability representation
Diverse characters
Found family
Romance subplot
Magic system based on real pagan practices and the natural world
The text is as follows:

An academic dark fantasy where patriarchal society, government corruption, and internalized misogyny highlight the reality of living as a disabled woman through a speculative lens, and the  grief, pain, and rage that come with it. 

For fans of…
Wayward (female rage)
Circe (nature based magic)
Blood Over Bright Haven (flawed protagonist)
A graphic with the title Fruit of Spoiled Seed by Shannon Reault, and an excerpt of the opening paragraph. The graphic has a background of green ivy. 

The text is as follows:

At first, Fallon thought she was singing. Of course, he should’ve known better. Any sound with the slightest hint of melody was choked out the moment it touched the acrid air of the subterranean passageways. As the notes grew nearer, slithering towards him through the belly of the dungeon, he came to the logical conclusion. She was screaming, interrupted only by the intermittent pleas for mercy. He wished he could tell her she was wasting her breath, so she might spend the last moments of her life with something more dignified on her lips. Contempt. Disgust. Peace. Silence. Her desperate resistance only sealed her fate. His father loved his prey to fight to the bitter end. Nothing is more powerful than fear, he always said, and Fallon believed him. Because even though he was not yet eighteen, he knew he’d spend every moment of his life fearing his father. A graphic that says “Sounds like…” with six phone screenshots of songs on Spotify. The graphic has a background of marble with scrapbook style decoration. 

The songs include:
“Hunter - the cacophony” Paris Paloma
“Us and Pigs” Sofia Isella
“Woman is a Tree” The Last Dinner Party
“Monolith” Phidel
“Everybody Scream” Florence and the Machine
“the fruits” Paris Paloma
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Suzanne Gorthwald @suzannegorthwald.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My agent's guide to #questpit ✨Spheres in the Afterglow✨ a dual pov slowburn portal romantasy priorities of my main characters: advanced physics, mathematics or translating ancient languages📚 >>> rodent jokes🐁 >>> expressing feelings like a normal human 👀 #W #A #RF#questpit
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Liz 👻🍂🪦 @thewriteratlas.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
NAUSICAA x WILL OF THE MANY After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, university student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried. 👻 #GhostPit #A #F #LGBT
The quote: “Aris waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriage way to break the window.” Above a series of images: a forest canopy, a student by the river in a historical city, a shelf of oddities including animal skulls, someone in a dress shirt and vest, a forest, a large animal skull, people holding cups and cigarettes around a table, and a notebooks with sketches of a skeleton.
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David J. Stuart @djstu.art · 29/04/2026
THE CRUELEST GIFT Mood Board Ana was chosen by AWOL gods to bring peace to the world. She failed miserably, killing a young friend in the process. Meanwhile, a zealous death cult threatens her home, and psychosis threatens her mind. She can only save one. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF
Mood board for THE CRUELEST GIFT with images depicting (L-R, T-B):

A black woman and white woman, both in white wedding garb kissing, holding a bouquet of flowers.

Hinako from Silent Hill f, curled up in almost prostration before a pair of discarded geta (old-style Japanese wooden sandals) on a blood-soaked muddy path, surrounded by crimson flowers.

A female assassin in black garb and hood. All we can see of her face is a bit of black hair and one brown and one blue eye.

The capital city of Leyndell from Elden Ring.

A muscular anthropomorphic black cat man, clearly a warrior of some sort.

Jim Jones, late cult leader and architect of the Jonestown Massacre, in his faux-priest garb and aviator sunglasses.
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Sara Axelbaum (she/her) @bysaraaxelbaum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Meet some of the endangered residents and staff of THE MYTHICAL CREATURE CONSERVATORY as drawn by 10yo Hudson (co-imaginer). A Middle Grade Fantasy that turns anxiety into a super power, eco-fiction into hopeful action for kids, and a sketchbook into a gateway to magic. #QuestPit #MG #F #Q
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Taurus @tauruswrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
MAGIC MEETS CODING While tech-savvy Viva uses magic and coding to stop the army of undead, her twin sister, Tasia, is resurrected by witches forcing her to kill. 🧟 magic with Necromancy/Voodoo 👩🏽‍💻Girls in STEM 👯‍♀️Magically bonded twins ❤️ Slow burn friends to lovers #questpit #SF #F #YA #Q #SFF
voodoo doctor, futuristic city, grimoire, smart glasses
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Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X FRANKENSTEIN Odessa Righteous is faithful to the Nine, rooted in the only community she's ever known. But when they choose her as the annual sacrifice to The Beast of the Beyond, her world shifts on its axis. #QuestPit #AG #A #W #RF
nine pictures in a grid. A dark cloaked figure in a forest, a candle, a church, a golden mask, an image with the text: A SACRIFICE, A BEAST, A FORBIDDEN LOVE. Golden bokeh lights, a stone stairway, a gold-toned rose, and a red-cloaked woman sitting in a sanctuary.
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Harper ✨️DVpit pinned @harperkinsley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🎭FORGET ABOUT THE BOY #QuestPit #Q #YA The theatre kid friendship romance you didn't know you needed, ft: 💜Bi plus size fmc 🌟Rivals to besties ☕Migraine rep 💔Getting over toxic ex boyfriends 💙Aroace secondary character
 "Forget About the Boy" by Harper Kinsley. Background shows an empty theater stage and seating. Text reads: 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. Books for fans of include "My Fair Brady", "Dear Wendy", and "Heartbreak Boys."
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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
THE TREES HAVE TEETH "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." APPALACHIAN FOLKHORROR 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄‍🟫 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting Currently drafting! #QuestPit #H #A #W
A moodboard featuring photos from Appalachia including a creepy house, fog, the woods, and a shadow rabbit
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