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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

What’s your writing goal for 2026, and what plan do you have to help achieve it? Me - my goal is to have a new manuscript ready for my agent, and I’ve set daily word count/edit goals to help me get there ✨

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Just found out I can’t access messages due to age restrictions in Australia, so please don’t dm me

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Veronica @littlecornerreads.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A PHO LOVE STORY x THIS TIME IT'S REAL A restaurant kid fake dates the son of her family's rival to get her immigrant parents to rescind their "only date Asians" rule so she can date her whiter-than-white-bread crush instead. She wanted to fraternize with the enemy, not fall for him! #CuPit #YA #POC

Mood board with school supplies, a blond boy writing on a blackboard, a Chinese takeout container, an Asian boy and girl, macarons, a bowl of spicy instant ramen, and text boxes that read *covers up real feelings with aggressive sarcasm* and a text exchange: you're annoying/but you love me/doesn't make you less annoying

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN KING Forbidden romance 😈 A cursed village😈 A revenge plot lifetimes in the making 😈 Novella length fantasy, mystery, and forbidden romance 😈 #Cupit #RF #A

Four pictures of a small town, a young woman covered in flowers, a tattooed handsome man, and a colourful temple. The middle says "Bride of the Mountain King"

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

VIKINGS + MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS = VIKING, NUN, MURDER, CHICKEN Mystery! Murder! Romance! All set at a snowed in Nunnery in a remote location during the Viking invasion of England. #Cupit #RS #RM #A

A collage of Viking and medieval themed images including a goblet, warriors, and nuns, French lavender, a castle and Nunnery a random chicken and a very cold you woman wrapped in a grey blanket.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 14/02/2026

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai just learned their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and a human who wants to be friends. And why can't they stop thinking about her? #CuPit #SFR #SF #LGBT

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

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

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

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

FIRST PAGE:

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

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

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

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Now querying! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN ✨two exiled men (and their secrets) ✨one lunar prison (and its horrors) ✨a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💖the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AmQuerying #CuPit

Collage-style promotional graphic for the novel Babel on Callisto. Four illustrated polaroid images show two men, Jack (blond) and Elias (dark-haired with glasses), in different scenes: wearing space suits, working together in a lab, leaning close in a quiet moment, and kissing. The background is pink and textured with scientific sketches and handwritten notes. A torn paper excerpt of prose is centered. Text on the images reads “Babel on Callisto,” “Now Querying,” “88K Sci-Fi Horromance,” and “@saraduranauthor.”

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

When finance professionals Nora and Corey switch bodies during a freak lightning strike, they are forced to question everything they thought they hated about each other. Releasing UK with Bedford Square August 2026 US editor interest to Kate Rizzo at Greene & Heaton #cupit #romcom

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Just remembering the time I told an agent I had a condom for her because autocorrect did me dirty 💀💀 I had a ROMCOM for her

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jaimewrites @jcolawrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

#Questpit #Agentsguide to WHAT LIES IN THE SEA. In the early stages of querying. Clara Christian has spent years escaping her family until her grandmother’s death sends her down a path to discovering what really happened eight years ago. Oh, and there’s lots of family secrets ✨🌊

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RJ Webb 🦇🏳️‍🌈 @authorrjwebb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

When a benevolent vampire vows to end the cruel reign of a monstrous council, he must battle the past and present to stop the curse they have unleashed—and to have the second chance with the only soul he’s loved. #questpit #Q #A #F #PR #LGBT

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Kelton Davis is ON SUB! 🦇⚰️🤠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky. Corado's about to break all three. 🤠 Vampire Cowboys 🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes 🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities Querying soon! #A #F #W #QuestPit

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text:
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood Red Sand
109000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Soon

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image:
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
Background image: same as first slide.

Title: Pitch
Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck.

Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him.

But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #QuestPit #A #S #SF #W

Made from non-AI free stock images.

This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections:

1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads:
"How much would you pay to die with a smile?"
The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background.

2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word.

3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom: A novel by B. van Bodegom

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James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

#Questpit Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space 6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy? #Q #SF #SFF

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a shiny new agent guide ✨🌙 ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, feat: 💫 two exiled men (+ their secrets) 💫 one lunar prison (+ its horrors) 💫 a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT

Dark starfield background. Text reads: ‘a guide to BABEL ON CALLISTO a queer cosmic horrormance [wip].’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE PITCH.’ Under two movie posters, text on left reads: ‘encountering the unknowable’ and under Annihilation poster: ‘contact that warps and bends.’ On the right above Brokeback Mountain poster: ‘unlikely intimacy in isolation’ and below: ‘love that cannot last.’ Main body text reads: ‘On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

$Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE COMPS.’ Three book covers below. Above the first cover (The Mountain in the Sea): ‘isolated research station.’ Below it: ‘philosophical alien threat.’ Above the second cover (The Deep Sky): ‘psychological unraveling.’ Below it: ‘fracture under mission pressure.’ Above the third cover (The Salt Grows Heavy): ‘queer, visceral horror.’ Below it: ‘love as a consuming force.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x$

Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘SNIPPET.’ Large opening quotation mark. Text reads: ‘Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—a time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction—how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.’ Large closing quotation mark. Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Maybe let’s not doomscroll into a hole Let's fill our days intentionally with real rest, play, and productivity that nourishes our collective soul They fight for our attention, for our fear they gain power from our tears We're all in this together, loves Let’s build and feed something better

winter blooming Camellia going OFF
Doug Firs behind

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization? 🕸️ a post collapse adventure of psychic powers and nurturing community 🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US, with unexpected twists 🌱 Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built #A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi

a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art)

quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao
"Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!" - Jim Butcher

a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, a map of the US with shrunken coastline over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

JUST LIKE MAGIC X BOOK LOVERS When finance professionals Nora and Corey swap bodies during a freak lightning strike, they question everything they thought they hated about each other. Releasing August 2026 with Bedford Square Publishers #questpit #OS #AG #R

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’m going to join in #questpit Who else is posting?!

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Rebecca Matte @rebeccamatte.com · 10/03/2025

Hi friends: I’m being impersonated on X (and maybe here) and this person is asking people to get in touch to make books. I am not on X but was sent this screenshot to my website. Can you please report this account, and spread the word? @bradfordagents.bsky.social @victoriastrauss.bsky.social

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Why did I just spend 45 seconds watching a dog get washed like a newborn baby? 😂

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

There simply isn’t enough time in my life for all the books I want to read

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jaimewrites @jcolawrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Finally ready to dip a toe into the query waters with WHEN YOU SHOWED UP ✨ #agentsguide to an emotional rollercoaster women’s fiction novel that explores identity, complex family dynamics, and healing through the power of friendship and second chance love. #amquerying #writingcommunity #agents

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

For the first time EVER, I am a few chapters into my WIP and haven’t reread my beginning and started editing. This feels like personal growth 😂 #writingcommunity

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I have ✨NEWS✨ I am thrilled to announce I’m now repped by the fabulous Kate Rizzo at @greeneandheaton.bsky.social 🥳🥳

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Really excited to share some good news soon after years of hard work and perseverance 🥳 #writingcommunity

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

There's a lot of pitch events here at the start of the year, so it's pretty hard to keep track. Here's a list of the ones we know of and when they're happening! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #AmQuerying #AmWriting

BlueSky PitchEvents

1.24 #YouDeservePit
1.27 #2025Pit
2.1 #MiseryPit
2.12 #MSWL Day
2.12 #QuestPit
2.14 #CuPit
2.17 #SludgePit
2.26 #WIPSnipsPit
3.17 #PopUpPit (date hinted at)

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you’re from the #writingcommunity say hi, especially if we were moots on X! I’m yelling into a black void and the vibe is not vibing

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Excited to read this after seeing everyone talking about it

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

#P2Ppit A mortal trapped in a fae court is offered salvation by the cruel king her father cursed. She's the key to their dreams but to gain the security she craves she has to decide whether to stay with the fae she's falling for or deceive him and win her own crown #UW #YA #F #Q

Dark and moody moodboard. Showing a woman with a sword, a handsome man with long dark hair, a fox and fairy with black wings, a woman with a sword.

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jaimewrites @jcolawrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

After attempting group therapy, widowed mom Georgia Pratt ends up with quirky new friends and a complex relationship with a lawyer who wears his distrust like a shield. When his past comes to haunt them, Georgia must choose between her found-family and a love she never expected ✨ #P2Ppit #W #U #R

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jaimewrites @jcolawrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hot-shot New York investment banker Kenna James finds her resolve tested when her ex-best friend turned NFL star reappears, forcing her to choose between following her heart or her dreams 💘✨ #P2Ppit #Q #A #R

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Q1 I’m a mum of three and usually weave humour into my stories as it’s a coping mechanism for me. Perhaps it’s how I battle the imposter syndrome? I strongly believe I’m improving with each manuscript I write, and I’m ALWAYS up for taking feedback on board ✨

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Someone please sign this manuscript so I can read it

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When Nora and Corey switch bodies, they are forced to understand the traits they hate about each other, or risk being stuck in each other’s bodies forever. #bluepit #Q #R #A

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I’m a defence wife and mum of 3. I started blogging about motherhood when we were in yet another new state and I’d been raising 3 under 3 while my husband was away. I wrote with humour, and loads of mothers related so I constantly went viral. Now here I am, still writing humour but in book form 😅

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I beta read this, and 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Resharing my Freaky Friday inspired romcom now that agents are back at work ✨✨✨

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy New Year!! #writingcommunity I got to start 2025 with another partial request 😱🥳😱🥳😱🥳

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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I think another goal might be to grow my 23k followers on Facebook, but I hope to get agented and do it with bookish vibes 🤞🏼

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