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🌈 long time writer, aspiring published author 🖤 Querying: science fantasy 👽🐎✨️ Drafting: scifi Beowulf 🧠✨️🗡 📍 Yorkshire 🩵 🚫 no gen AI 🙅🏼‍ Instagram: www.instagram.com/a.e.ella.writer

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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE FOURTH CONSORT X WHAT WE ARE SEEKING The little grey alien Glishnagh has always loved following rules. But now, stranded on a distant planet, he must start thinking for himself if he's going to get home before the local humans drink all his psychoactive blood. #DVpit #LGBT #A #SF #SFF #ND
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Following a deadly spaceship crash, a silent alien must either escape the humans who want to drink his psychoactive blood, or find a way to survive among them. But when he befriends a recently bereaved warrior he discovers a third option- tearing the whole system down. #DVpit #LGBT #A #SF #SFF #ND
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE FOURTH CONSORT X WHAT WE ARE SEEKING Following a disastrous spaceship crash that leaves him stranded with a broken leg, a silent alien must either escape the humans who want to drink his psychoactive blood, or find a way to survive among them. #DVpit #LGBT #A #SF #SFF #ND
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stuck on an isolated planet, Glishnagh's plan is simple- trigger a distress call and await rescue. He isn't expecting to have to learn how to ride a horse, or mend a radio. Oh, and the local humans are obsessed with his addictive blood and really don't want him to leave. #DVpit #LGBT #A #SF #SFF #ND
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The alien Glishnagh must escape a medieval planet before the local humans drink all his psychoactive blood. But as he develops a friendship w/ a grieving warrior, he starts to question the strict regime he came from. True freedom might involve tearing both systems down. #DVpit #LGBT #A #SF #SFF #ND
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE FOURTH CONSORT X WHAT WE ARE SEEKING A silent alien must escape a medieval planet before local humans drink all his psychoactive blood. But when his escape attempts lead to a friendship with a grieving warrior, he starts to question the strict regime he came from. #DVpit #LGBT #A #SF #SFF #ND
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My current WIP for the last day of #DVparty! A very loose retelling of Beowulf, combing medieval and sci-fi elements. The pitch: After undergoing brain surgery to access magical abilities, a young monk seeks to escape an isolated abbey before her secrets are revealed.
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My opening line of my adult science fantasy manuscript, We Will All Drink Starlight for #DVparty ! "There’s only one small window near the airlock and it’s foggy from my breath."
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mood boards for the manuscript I'll be pitching on Wednesday, science fantasy horsey goodness! ✨️🐎👽 #DVparty
A mood board of several images, including a flying saucer, horses, and a rocky landscape. A mood board of several images, including a snowy forest, an alien eye and a dark cave entrance.
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THE FOURTH CONSORT X WHAT WE ARE SEEKING The little grey alien Glishnagh must escape a medieval planet before the local humans drink all his phycoactive blood. But as he develops a friendship with a grieving warrior, he starts to question the strict regime he came from. #preDV #LGBT #A #SF #SFF #ND
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THE FOURTH CONSORT X WHAT WE ARE SEEKING The little grey alien Glishnagh has always loved following rules. But now, stranded on a distant planet, he must start thinking for himself if he's going to get home before the local humans drink all his phycoactive blood. #preDV #LGBT #A #SF #SFF #ND
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🟣S.L. PrayersforPeace🙏🏼🌻 @stpolishook.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
TENDER IS THE FLESH+ THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS As a wild human, Rachel’s flesh is considered a delicacy. Captured & sold at market, her fate now rests on her ability to convince her not quite human buyer that she is worth more alive than on his dinner plate🥩🍽️ #Q #A #SF #Spec #H #D #questpit
Dark Mood board with farm imagery and butcher knives
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Gus Ryer @gusryer.com · 24/07/2026
🚨 SEEKING HEIST CREW 🚨 Must: 👵 be retired 💵 have mob debt 🚀 fly spaceships 🤖 preference given to candidates w/ parasitic AIs in their brain Don't be: 😤 my ex partner (even if you fly spaceships) 🤮 his fiancée LOGAN LUCKY 🤝 SPACE SWEEPERS 🤝 2021 Suez Canal fiasco #QuestPit #Q #SF #BookSky
A black hole spirals in the distance, a fiery trail of material getting sucked into it from across the image. Approaching is a circular, doughnut-like spaceship or station. The title LANE BREAKERS runs along the bottom, the second word highlighted in bright purple and appearing to fall off the edge.

A red ALERT box connected to the ship says 'Now Querying', and the wormhole is labeled 'Taurine Strait'
COMPS & META INFORMATION

Along the bottom right, a black and white sketch of a old woman in a space pilot's outfit holds a glowing magenta martini glass. Smoke from her cigarette glows and wafts in pinks and blues.

Genre: SF Heist
Audience: Adult
Wordcount: +-100,000

Themes and Tropes:
Blue collar heist
(Re)found family
Grungy space life
Sentient AIs

Comps:
Logan Lucky
The Quantum Magician
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Cascade Failure
The Suez Canal incident
Space Sweepers
THE HEIST:

Desdemona Skene hates her job. She spends each day as a glorified crossing guard for traffic through her system’s wormhole. But, ever since she botched a flight of her own, it’s all she has. Dez’s friends have moved on, her ex is seeing someone new, and she’s in debt to the mob. At eighty-three years old, it’s not like she’s a candidate for promotion.

But then Dez learns that the largest civilian ship ever designed by humanity will be passing through her friendly neighborhood wormhole. Piloted by an experimental AI, this cruise might prove computers are finally able to successfully navigate wormholes. Stock prices will blast into orbit, but it’ll spell unemployment for Dez and thousands of human pilots. Probably her home station too.

If that ship’s taking her down, Dez is going to drag it along for the ride—and make a tidy profit along the way. She’ll need to gather a crew (if her old friends will still talk to her), shake the mob, and outwit megacorps and empires both.
THE CREW
Golden boxes house titles and descriptions of characters. The top one, Dez, is a magenta circle that looks sci-fi.

Desdemona ‘Dez’ Skene
Washed up and too poor for retirement, Dez has a drinking problem and a mob problem. She might have one last job left in her

Hacker
Finn's got a heart of gold, more backdoors than a hardware store, and would rather be playing video games

The Faces
Dez’s parents might be older than moon dust, but Hank and Gwen have been conning people for almost a century. They still haven’t lost their touch

Sentient Adbot
Marty, the uplifted, digital adbot who dreams of personhood. He also happens to live inside Finn's head

Crack Pilot
Vil is the fastest sled pilot on Midway Station, famous for crushing the illegal racing circuit. Also, he's Dez’ ex of thirty years

The Muscle
The best mechanic on the station, Caius brings some well-needed muscle. But, most annoyingly, he's Vil's new flame
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
👽✨️🐎 SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN meets THE FOURTH CONSORT 👽 he's trapped on a distant planet 🌾 she's a warrior on a horse 🗡 post-post-apocalypse vibes ✨️ his blood is addictive??? 🌌 unlearning a repressive culture ⭐️ sign language 💚 agender human culture 🐎 ... horses?! #questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF
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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X OLD WOUNDS X INTO THE LIGHT: 💥trans coming-of-rage 👽cults, aliens, the paranormal, and pain as weapon 🔮a chosen one who refuses to be chosen 🛸different just like me 🏳️‍⚧️trans men in love #Q #Questpit #SF #YA #lgbt #amquerying #agentguide
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Mel | Querying Author @msad3.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Mae never meant to take a life, only a name. Now, trapped in a space-bound program, she must survive deadly trials, fight alternate versions of herself, and keep her secret hidden. But Nexxus is watching. And reality itself unravels. #QuestPit #T #SF #A #Q #POC #rivalstolovers
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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Starfall: a queer space opera heavy on the intimate-stakes character drama, elfy science-fantasy, and swashbuckling starship adventure about a telepathic space elf who joins off-brand Starfleet. He's a stabby cinnamon roll who doesn't want any friends! (This is a lie.) #Questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF
Title slide that reads "Starfall, Queer Space Opera Adventure, 139,000 words, R. J. Howell."Slide that reads: "Pitch: Erendesirel was raised for two things: political marriage and political skirmishes. Sadly, the galaxy doesn’t have much call for a well-trained ornamental husband or sword-wielding duelist. Banished from his technologically-hostile homeworld, unskilled, and entirely broke, he applies to the Galactic Survey and Security Fleet, 
a company of space-faring scientific contractors.  

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

Oh, and not get kidnapped by pirates." There is another section below it that reads "Comps" and show the covers of Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, Slow Gods by Claire North, and Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. There is also an illustration of a space elf named Eren.This slide reads: "Excerpt:  Erendesirel—the nameless, the houseless, the planetless—had tracked his quarry down to a victuals shop on the outskirts of the space station’s medical district. From his hunter’s hide on a public bench opposite the establishment, he glowered at the incongruously-wooden door, breathed in the smell of roasted nuttiness and sticky sugar wafting out through the open bay window, and fought for equanimity.

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

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

 No matter that they were considered contraband. By both his people and station security, if for rather different reasons."This slide reads "The Trope Nebula" and contains a series of trope-related terms: All the feels, found family, to boldly go (but contractually), swords but space, touch-adverse telepathic space elves, starships!, stabby cinnamon roll, disaster bisexuals, qu3eer, student debt?, lesbians with laser canons, and friendship! (whether you want it or not).
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Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜 @celticxpanda.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Runaway to a solarpunk Pacific Northwest in ARTIFICIAL SUNFLOWERS, where you find: 🧪 Women in STEM 🔫 Handsome Super Soldier Clones 🪶 An Indigenous FMC 💪 Rebellion against a Post WWIII cyberpunk monolith 🌻 Hope against all odds #Questpit #WIP #A #SF #R
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Alyssa ✨ A.A. Hampton @alyssawantsaword.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
▪️ Very excited to share a bit more about ANTEROGRADE, my sapphic sci-fi horror novel! ▪️ SEVERANCE x GIA x HACKS 🏢 corporate culture as horror 🧠 memory-based mystery 🖤 doomed sapphic romance 👯‍♀️ age-gap friendship Coming to agent’s inboxes Fall 2026. #questpit #W #A #SF #H #LGBT
Cover page with title and metadata. Text over a decorative dark black background with blue and purple light flares.

An agent’s guide to Anterograde, a 69k-word adult sci-fi horror novel by A.A. Hampton An image of skyscrapers extending into the sky, with descriptive text explaining the pitch. 

The pitch: When Ryan Williams accepts a job training AI for an eerie corporation called The Company, she’s determined not to mess up this time. So what if her coworkers are disappearing? Anything is better than ending up back on the job market. 

But when she starts fighting with her partner about things she has no memory of, she suspects something is very wrong with her—and that her new employer is responsible. 

With her personal life crumbling around her and the threat of layoffs looming, Ryan must decide how much she’s willing to risk in her search for answers—and whether the promise of stability is worth sacrificing her identity. Images of comp titles over a close-up shot of blue server wires.

Anterograde combines the dark technological satire of Black Mirror with the corporate dread and horror of Abyss by Nicholas Binge and the memory-based mystery of There Is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm. An aesthetic Pinterest moodboard representing the vibes of Anterograde. Images include a cubicle farm, dark skyscrapers, dozens of zombie-like people wearing virtual reality glasses, a chair in a dark empty room under a spotlight, and a silhouette of two women kissing.
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R. F. Daniels (they/he) @rfdwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
STARS IN BLOOM (complete, 100k) 🌌 A galaxy-spanning hunt for ancient technology 🦹🏼‍♂️ A race to save their home from corporate destruction ☀️ Grumpy/sunshine pairing 🙅‍♀️ Support women's wrongs 🏳️‍🌈 Nonbinary aroace MC in a queernormative world 🍄 Cool space fungus 🐈‍⬛ Don't forget the cat! #QuestPit #Q #A #SF
A mood board for a story. In the top left is the bay of a spaceship. The top right is a galaxy. Bottom left shows hands maintaining some hardware. In the bottom right is a full view of a spaceship. In a circle in the middle are some magnified fungal strands. Text reads Stars in Bloom: RF Daniels
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Aria Mora @ariamora.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LEGENDS AND LATTES X MIDNIGHT DINER X BLADE RUNNER ☕️ Karmic coffee. Illegal tomatoes. And an ex who still looks way too good in leather. Welcome to the underground café where redemption comes with oat milk foam. #Questpit #AG #OS #A #SF #D (cozy cyberpunk—you read that right!)
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K.L. Lempereur is Querying! @kllempereur.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BURY OUR BONES X TLT X Mad Max: Fury Road — in space, with #ownvoices sapphics! Asteria wants to bring the entire universe to its knees. Calypso wants to stop her. But their secrets, ambitions, and obsession with each other threaten to unravel everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F #LGBTQ
an agents guide to The Brightest Star in the Sky. adult sci-fi fantasy, lgbtq+a purple and gold spacey sapphic moodboard and a pitch.

12 years ago, Asteria became a god—almost. a group of heroes hid the last bit of power she needed to consume, and they've been running since. the heroes and their daughter Calypso have spent that time building a weapon to kill a god.

when Asteria captures Calypso and her crewmates to keep the heroes from using the weapon, Calypso sees her chance to fix everything. she plays a dangerous game, drawing Asteria in to find out her plans, tip off the heroes, and guide the god-king into the weapons crosshairs.

and as long as the god-king doesn't consume her first, it'll work.perfect for fans of BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL (toxic, obsessive sapphic romance); SOME DESPERATE GLORY (queer, dark tones and spaceships); TLT series (magic lesbians in space); Mad Max Fury Road (yes it's a cult but make it Aesthetic); Borderlands series (futuristic mayhem, space travel, and magic)adult sapphic dark sci-fi fantasy / 100k words / first in a planned duology / dual-POV
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Valentina Rojas @styxteeth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Grieving widower Simon discovers his support group is an eco-terrorist group communing with cosmic trees who promise to save humanity—if he's willing to pay the price. EVIL HAS LONG ROOTS tags #questpit #W #H #SF
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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MEETING OF HONESTY — 100K Adult Romantic Sci-Fi ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R
Moodboard of a clipboard for Meeting of Honesty

100K Adult Romantic Science-Fiction by Florrie Auclair

A polaroid showing a pastel monet painting labeled monet inspired planet

Another polaroid shows a snippet of an alien man with iridescent hair, moth antennae, and a long elfin ear with gold jewelry. His shirt is slipping down his slutty shoulders while a human hand cradles his face.

A post it note titled tropes/themes
- first contact
- queer rep
- humans = space orcs
- workplace rivals-to-lovers
- grumpy x flirty
- corporate satire

Another post it note titled playlist
- Petals on the Moon by Wasia Project
- Coming of Age by Durry
- PINCH ME by young friend

A page with an excerpt of the first chapter is covered by stickers and post its
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MG Arnaiz @mgarnaiz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Blood and Starlight A razor-smart bounty hunter uncovers a crime that goes deeper than credits. Walking away isn't an option; surviving might be worse. Morally gray FMC | Found family dynamics | Slow-burn romance | Women in tech | Querying | #questpit #SF #NA #R #Q
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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN X AVATAR 🐎✨️The little grey alien Glishnagh has always excelled under his homeworld's strict regime. But when he's lost on a medieval planet where everyone is after his blood he'll have to start breaking rules if he ever wants to get home. 🗡👽 #questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF
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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Earth is recovering from agricultural collapse. Scientists travel to another planet in hopes of a compatible soil microbiome. Only Izzy finds herself not just studying soil, but thrown into Tzio’s labor organizing. 💜 ace rep 🔥 slow burn 🦎 cat-sized geckos 🐓 chickens in space #QuestPit #W #A #SF

Green background with light green text. Photos of: barren fields, a galaxy, custom art by croverfield of a green alien, green fields

Text:

WORK IN PROGRESS:
THE NEW FARMER’S ALMANAC FOR EXOPLANETS

Isabel Meyer
Agronomist
Unit 5

File folders: soil samples / almanac archive / chickens 101 / ütska dictionary

Objectives: study soil to ensure viability for implantation on earth / learn from native farmers / keep chickens alive

Planet name: Mtskhütska 
Alien name: Tzamarkh
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Stacey Nash @staceynashauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BREATHER. 71K words. #YA #SF adventure. #q #amauerying #questpit #agentsguide When a disgraced scientist’s daughter discovers she can breathe her alien world’s toxic atmosphere, she becomes a feared mutation and must uncover the truth about her father’s failed expedition before she’s put down.
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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 24/07/2026
An agent’s guide to SEVEN DAYS ON SAMARKAND: A haunted survivor, a cynical astronaut, and a determined engineer hope to coexist with an alien biosphere. Will they prove humanity has evolved beyond its destructive ways…or die trying? #QuestPit #A #Q #SF
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Tara @tarasobot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Aphelion Lost / SF / Murder on the Orient Express in space When the richest man in the world is murdered onboard his spaceship, rival pilots Dara and Perseus must set aside their differences to find the killer. Even worse, strange temporal effects begin to affect the ship. #questpit #q #a #sf #my
My book mood board (murder on orient express on a spaceship)
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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE STARDUST GRAIL x MOSS’D IN SPACE ☀️The Sun is dying ahead of schedule. 🏺Roan, an expert in dead coding languages, finally has a chance to go to Earth and excavate artifacts before the Sun swallows anything of value. 👀 But is she truly alone on the doomed planet? #QuestPit #A #SF #R #Q #LGBT
A collage of photos with text in the middle saying “Archaeologists will date any old thing.” The other pictures include a circuit board, archaeology tools, a record player, a museum interior, an astronaut looking at San Francisco buried in sand, a man holding a dark rose, a person reaching out to a ghostly figure, and an espresso machine.
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V.Borde @vbordewriting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BABEL X a forbidden South Asian Epic THE EIGHTH GATE follows a sheltered noblewoman who discovers her fate is not to serve the crown, but decide who wears it #questpit #F #Q #A 🪷anti-colonialism 🪷morally grey characters 🪷romantic subplot 🪷a villain you don't know to root for or against
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Loren 🦇 FORMERLY CIRCUSLOLLIPOP @vesperanth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ANATHEMA x EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE A fledgling vampire. A dark forest. Vampires and monster hunters at each other's throats, and a sinister plot in the shadows. A story of finding community in a world that deems you an Other. #QuestPit #W #A #DF #LGBT
Title slide of my agent’s guide. A black powerpoint slide featuring a withered rose and a faded forest. Text reads The Night Terrors, by Loren Finch. An agent’s guide. 104k word gothic fantasySecond slide of my agent’s guide. A black powerpoint slide featuring a withered rose and a faded forest. Features an illustration of a black haired vampire man looking quizzically towards the camera. The text is a synopsis of the book and a brief blurb about the main character.Third slide of my agent’s guide. A black powerpoint slide featuring a withered rose and a faded forest. Features comparisons to many comp titles: The Spirit Bares its Teeth, Empire of the Vampire, Frankenstein 2025, Witch Hat Atelier, and Anathema.Fourth slide of my agent’s guide. A black powerpoint slide featuring a withered rose and a faded forest. Features the opening lines to the first book.
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Anna Rogalski @alrogalski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
STAR TREK x MISTBORN HIDDEN STARS: 🌟 A human with a manipulative streak and a load of guilt 🌟 An alien captain with a chip on his shoulder 🌟 A doomed peace mission 🌟 A secret coup 🌟 A connection neither of them expected. #questpit #scifi #q #agentsguide
Cover art for The Shattering Peace, The Blighted Stars, and The Fourth Consort
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samira🍉🍉🍉 @goodsamiratan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AMARI X RICK & MORTY 12yo temperamental Celi must rescue her sister Joy from an evil alien empire before she's dissected for parts Add in: 👽️The snobby, undercover alien princess from school 🛸A sentient spaceship 🐶A talking space-dog 🎤& Intergalactic, opera-loving bounty hunters #MG #SF #W #Questpit
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samira🍉🍉🍉 @goodsamiratan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AMARI x RICK & MORTY When 12yo Celi’s older sister Joy is kidnapped by a corrupt alien empire, Celi must team up with a sentient spaceship, and the undercover alien princess from school to get her back—-or risk her sister being dissected and used as the empire's weapon. #W #SF #Questpit #MG
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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Editors Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to leave Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF
The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to -- Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel -- A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer. Representation Christi Cardenas.Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie RhymerRomantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator. 
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What are your pre-sets accounting for?" [...]Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. #AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV. Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.
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Aven McVie 📚✍️ @avenmcvie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When pulled into a weapons program, Vic expects routine - not a neural link wiring her mind with an alien officer's. No thought unshared. No feeling hidden... not even the ones growing between them. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program. #QuestPit #W #R #SF
Moodboard for TANDEM, a sapphic sci-fi romance, in blue and violet shades. 
Top row: A person in a dim blue lighting wears a headset with glowing red lenses; a surgical room with lights shining down overhead; a close-up of dark snake scales; a moon against the sky with clouds. 
Middle row: a purple sky with two galaxies; a glowing title card that reads "tandem: a sapphic sci-fi romance".
Bottom row: a photo of a blue circuit board; two silhouettes of women facing each other, close, against the sky; a round spaceship observation window. When Vic Kohler is pulled into a high-visibility new weapons program, she expects it to be a fairly standard assignment - not a neural link wiring her mind with Naev, a Vamath officer. 

The pair learns quickly that this new connection offers no privacy: no thoughts are left unshared, no feelings are left unhidden... not even the feelings that are growing between them. The institution must never find out, because the program’s exit procedure is safe for a human and lethal for a Vamath. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program.

TANDEM is an ~87,000-word sapphic sci-fi romance - military SF tension meets speculative fiction interiority, for readers who want yearning with total transparency.Tropes: Space travel, Human/alien romance, Forbidden love, Mind link, Interstellar politics, Slow burn, Forced proximity, Sapphic yearning.Comp Titles. For readers who loved: This is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone; Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell; The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Suzanne Gorthwald @suzannegorthwald.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Happy #questpit!☺️ 💫Spheres in the Afterglow💫 a slow-burn portal romantasy 💜Outlander meets His Dark Materials 💜she doesn't want a hand kiss, she wants a handshake and a salary #W #A #RF
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Charlie is juggling projects @cardaminecrone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
POOR THINGS meets HIS DARK MATERIALS After the crowning of a new king leaves them destitute, two students hatch an elaborate hoax based on their shared alchemist ancestor to win back favour (and money) from the occult-obsessed crown. #W #A #LF #S #questpit
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Eri Webb | they/she @weaverwebb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🌃 00s Chicago 🧙‍♂️ An arcane underworld 🔥 A trans combat alchemist 🎸 His hex-slinging punk ex-best friend 💥 A magic mass attack ☄️ A strongman's political rise 👹 A meme-loving doomsday cult 🖤 A girl with a literal hole in her heart ...the end of the world as we know it? #Q #A #F #DF #SFF #QuestPit
WIP unofficial book cover for Those Who Create and Destroy by Mabel Harper and Eri Webb, featuring protagonists Jules Nimri and Rory Navarrete. Art by Eri Webb.
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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
PIRANESI x SOME1 U CAN BUILD A NEST IN BIG 5 INTEREST 🤯 MENTEE W BIG 5 📝 A murdered cat becomes human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive. 🔪 Revenge plot 🏚️Liminal 🎭 Unreliable cat POV ☠️ Body horror 🩹 Depression rep #Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #POC
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Rebeccah Prince Author @rebeccahprince.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LOOK AT ME NOW After she collapses onstage, chronically ill actress Laura's path to success is a perilous balance between managing her health and demanding career. When she meets Hollywood heartthrob Nate, she must decide if it's worth jeopardising her career for love. #R #QuestPit #Q #OwnVoices
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🍃sage nightmare owen 👻 @sageowenwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Cory just met the most beautiful man he’s ever seen at his cousin’s wedding. But Matthew is in secret unrequited love with the groom. Messy bisexual cowboy himbo x closeted disaster mechanic 🌶 bad behavior 🌶 fight chemistry/fuck chemistry 🌶 oh no I got what I wanted #QuestPit #A #LGBT #R #W
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Blu (is querying✨) @bluwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Forced to work for his debt sponsor, unruly flight risk L is partnered with childhood friend Y, now a perplexingly obedient corp soldier, to track down an interplanetary killer. But the killer offers L a tempting deal: his freedom in exchange for help with her revenge. #W #A #SF #lgbtq #questpit 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Mood board for LLL wip (adult sci-fi with a dose of queer romantic subplot) with various images of space, spaceships, a river, trees, two people being tender towards one another, a scalpel, an injection, pills, and sharks. quotes include:
"even luck like yours will run out eventually." - "I have a penchant for running away." "Yes, we're aware that you are prone to … flightiness." - "You're asking me to help you become a fugitive." - "You're a killer." "You're surrounded by killers. I can help you." "I don't believe you.' - "You're not a charity case. You're an investment." - "Do you actually care if you were my first kiss?" - "at least part of me is still human."

science fiction/fantasy, lgbtq, queer romance, trans MC, autistic LI :)
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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Good morning #Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration, an #Agentsguide to: AFTER THE BITE (SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN X LAND OF THE DEAD) #W #A #SF #H #R
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Presenting an agents guide to:
AFTER THE BITE
Genre: Horror, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Romance
Status: Completed first draft at 82k words
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The pitch:
When Erika emerges from a nearly calcified cocoon in a zombie filled basement, they find themself in a world of horror and carnage, and find themself capable of shifting their shape, even making weapons from their body. What Erika is missing is their memory, which they must recover while avoiding the nightly pull of a strange light only they can see around the spire in the center of persistence, the last human city in North America.
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Comp Titles: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN X LAND OF THE DEAD
Posters of both book and movie included.
Tropes and Themes:
MONSTER’S POV
ZOMBIE POST-APOCALYPSE
SURVIVING WALLED CITY
MAD SCIENTIST
HORRIBLE EXPERIMENTS
BODY HORROR
CHANCE ENCOUNTER TO ROMANCE
ROTTEN CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD
Pictures of some of the above.
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Excerpt:
I push out against the hardness in front of me. It resists, but only for a few moments. Cracking and crunching noises fill my senses where only the beats were. I push harder. It fights me, but i cannot stop.
Cracks appear in front of me and… whatever it is i’m in is breached. Light and air flood over me and i gasp, drawing in lungfuls of air to sate the burning.
Thu-dump! Thu-dump!
My heart calms now that i have air, but it still beats rapidly. I still have to get out, i am in danger here! Get out and get up!
How do i know all this?
I push again, harder now that i’m breathing again. The cracks widen… and then i’m falling forward out of a large tear. My whole world tumbles, and then i’m half laying on a cold, rough, dirty floor, half hanging out of my vacated prison. I draw in another breath and start coughing, expelling dark liquid out of my lungs, but i am breathing fully and properly now.
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lily is querying!📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MESSY LESBIAN PIRATES MUST KILL A FALSE GOD, OR DIE. ft. a closeted princess wielding temperamental fire; a pirate captain who is totally her type; the shadow-wielding blond with bottomless jokes and 2x the trauma; an infuriating blood-wielder who might be more than he seems… #QuestPit #Q #A #LGBT
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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Anora is a slick city gangster with stolen hyperspace treasure maps burning a hole in her pocket Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler and the only pilot who can get her off Hecate IV before space witches catch up Two bad-at-feelings bisexuals find love on the run #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #SF #R
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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. THE EVERWINTER KING is an adult fantasy standalone. #QuestPit #A #F #Q #LGBT #agentsguide
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