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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 07/05/2025

We need educators like this

Rasczak from Starship Troopers saying "I only have one rule: Everyone writes, no one quits. If you use ChatGPT, I'll kill you myself."

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danny is ✨querying✨ @dainathomps.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

THE BONE SEASON x SERPENT AND DOVE #agentguide for A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD, a dark romantasy novel with: ⚔️series potential 🗝️bards & ballads 🔗heavy foreshadowing 🥀blood & death magic 🕯️slow burn romance 🕷️gods & monsters #questpit #Q #F #A

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Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🌊 THE BAD ONES X DREDGE 🌊 After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it. This YA Fantasy Horror features: 👥Dual POV 📜A Deadly Deal 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets With Severe Consequences 💔Exes to Allies to [redacted] #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #H

Left to right. Top row: hands reaching out of the water. A doll head. Human hands with sharpened nails. Middle row: A lighthouse shining through fog. “Are you afraid?” An eerie figure standing beside a tree with a noose. Bottom row: Hands reaching towards each other in the water. A sea creature with glowing eyes and sharp teeth. Multiple hands reaching out of the forest brush.

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Argelia ☀️ @argelitamann.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When a con artist gets her best friend arrested, she knows just how to fix it: lie Kali infiltrates a secret society of mages to execute a heist to save her friend, all under the eye of her dangerously alluring mentor who's hiding almost as much as she is... #questpit #q #f #rf #ya #crossover

A moodboard featuring:

- A white cat
- A silhouette of a woman and a man kissing
- A neon blue fox mask
- A male with dark hair with his arms outstretched, balancing
- A silhouette of a woman standing on a roof overlooking a cityscape
- Feet facing the centre of a room
- A pergola
- Journal entries (illegible)
- Someone touching a girl's lips
- A silhouette of a girl resting her arm on her knee
- A man making the "rock on" symbol
- A city folded in half

CITY OF DREAMS

Excerpt

THE SILENCE GREW, then, and it was the type of silence that couldn't be described as a lack of sound, but rather an empty void begging to be filled with space. There was a certain purity of the moment, a breath held between gently parted lips, teeth holding back the before and the after of the knowledge about to impart itself across Kali's mind in a matter of only a few simple words.

It was the type of silence, she later learned, that marked the ending of an era, where everything was proper and orderly and fine, and passed over the threshold to the precipice of everything that she'd fought to avoid, and everything she was terrified would come to light.

QUERYING NOW

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

BLOOD & WATER 🥃 PEAKY BLINDERS x KJ CHARLES 🥃 A charismatic bootlegger and reluctant crime lord form an unexpected connection in Prohibition-era St. Paul 🥃 🥃 🥃 #questpit #W #A #HR #R

Cover card for Blood & Water, a queer historical romance currently being drafted. The title is set in looping script on the left. The painting “City Nocturne” by Tom Shropshire forms the background: A warm-toned night cityscape. The right side features a photo of two men slightly out-of-frame, kissing in a car.

PREMISE
Liquor, gambling, police protection—there’s nothing in St. Paul that doesn’t go through the Gilliards.
Evan Cantor’s brewery and beer is no exception. Not that he minds much—tying his goods to the Gilliard distribution system has given him nine years of steady profits and kept thebusiness his grandfather founded from floundering in the noose of Prohibition. In the meantime, he’s free to enjoy all the illicit nightlife the city has to offer…including his occasional dalliances with the youngest Gilliard, Nathan.
Jensen Gilliard knows his place in the family business. The Gilliards might line their pockets with gold in 1925, but seventeen years ago he came to St. Paul as a veritable orphan, throwing himself on the mercies of his family as they teetered on the edge of poverty and despair. Adding one more mouth to feed was a burden Jensen has never forgotten, no matter much contraband profit piles up in their bank accounts.
When the head of the Gilliard family finds out about Evan and Nathan, he replaces Nathan with Jensen as business liaison, an order from on high neither of them can decline. Evan might be relentlessly independent, effortlessly charismatic, and flippantly queer, but Jensen is determined to seize this opportunity to prove his worth in the family business once and for all. And cold, aloof, taciturn Jensen might be a stick-in-the-mud, but if Evan wants to maintain his lifestyle and good reputation, working together is nonnegotiable.
Routine business visits reveal hidden depths, and soon their preconceived notions of each other are thrown into a tailspin. But a threat to the Gilliards’ supremacy in St. Paul also threatens the odd, undeniable connection between Evan and Jensen, and one question emerges to seal their fate: Is blood thicker than water?

COMPS
Venn diagram between the Will Darling Adventures by KJ Charles and Peaky Blinders.
Will Darling:
- Put the “roar” in Roaring 20s!
- Intricate political intrigue
Peaky Blinders:
- A still of Tommy Shelby and Alfie Solomon with the caption “Ever wished they kissed? It’s kind of like that!”
- Contraband lifestyle
Middle section:
- Roots are deeper than they appear
- Nightlife is business and pleasure
- No one can hurt you like family
Bonus! Sounds like…
- brat by charli xcx
- This Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We by Mitski
- The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan

SNIPPET
The Gilliard waiting on the other side of the door was not the one Evan expected to see.
Nathan was a shit, but he was a familiar shit. Most of the time when he came to collect Evan’s books and corresponding tithe he accompanied his presence with a jibe about Evan’s overly long hair, and Evan could shoot back with a remark about what a shame it was to not use a cent of the copious Gilliard money to buy clothes that weren’t black, gray, or deep blue. Primed for a business conversation with the man who’d been a settled thorn in his side for years, Evan stood entirely unprepared to face the man actually facing him.
Lithe where Nathan was broad, golden-brown hair the precise shade of good whiskey Evan bought outside of Gilliard purview styled neatly even when he removed his straight-brimmed hat, Jensen Gilliard exhaled a line of smoke from his full-lipped mouth before removing his cigarette with his free hand. Despite the summer’s heat, present even before noon, neither his heather linen suit nor the fine amber-colored shirt he wore bore any signs of sweat or wear, as though he’d materialized out of thin air for the express purpose of causing Evan consternation. His eyes, strikingly green and direct, fixed on Evan without greeting, and when neither of them spoke Jensen arched one stately brow and blinked.
“Looking to catch flies?” he asked, indicating Evan with the smoke held between long, delicate fingers. “Or—imitating a fish?”

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

HOW TO COME HOME 🛤️ PEAKY BLINDERS x CAT SEBASTIAN 🛤️ A newly freed convict takes a job working for a single father at his small-town general store, only to find that his criminal past and estranged family aren’t so easily left behind bars. #questpit #Q (in June) #A #HF #R

Cover card for How to Come Home, an upmarket queer historical romance complete at 107k words. Background of a cornfield at dusk with a full moon visible, with gold corner decorations in the top left and bottom right corners. A painting of Nathan and Lawrence at the center: Lawrence, sitting to the left, is a white blond man playing piano and smiling, with glasses hanging from his neck. Nathan, right, is a dark-haired white man watching him play. (Art by nikespera)

PITCH
Ten years ago, Nathan Gilliard turned informant on his family’s Prohibition criminal empire, damning his brothers to prison in exchange for a lesser sentence of his own. Now a free man, all he wants is a quiet, solitary life, never forgetting what he did to his family—or why.
Taking a job in a small-town general store is the perfect stopgap to get back on his feet after a decade behind bars. But his new boss, single father Lawrence Freburg, is everything Nathan’s upbringing and time in prison weren’t—open, earnest, and kindhearted. As they live and work side by side, business compatibility turns to companionship and then an intimacy neither man expected—a bond that makes Nathan question his pursuit of a solitary life over one lived in partnership.
But Nathan’s past isn’t that easy to abandon, and when his old life and older secrets return with a vengeance, they threaten to destroy everything he and Lawrence have begun to build. Forced to face the wreckage of his former life, Nathan and Lawrence must confront the consequences of holding their pasts too present if they have any hope of building a future together.

COMPS:
Peaky Blinders:
- Crime family, criminal brothers,
- The costs of winning vs. the costs of losing
- The (in)justice of vengeance
We Could Be So Good:
- Queerness & homemaking
- 20th-century American life
- Coworkers/roommates-to-lovers
+ Sounds like…
- Laurel Hell by Mitski
- Babel by Mumford & Sons
- Hozier by Hozier

SNIPPET
He removes his glasses, careful not to strain the chain as he holds them in one hand and polishes the lenses with his tan shirt. The tension at the corners of his eyes relaxes as he cleans, and Nathan watches the simple calm on his face.

Seeing Lawrence without his glasses is as rare as a lightning strike, and just as stunning. It must be unsettling, frightening, to give up that boon to his vision, but Nathan relishes these moments he can selfishly fancy himself a confidant of Lawrence’s utmost trust. Not just through the physical ease on his face—the implicit trust, the fact he’s comfortable enough to be in such a state with Nathan.
Or perhaps he just needs to clear a smudge.

[Portrait of Nathan on the left and Lawrence on the right. Art by luneillusoire]

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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

'I, SAID THE SPARROW' In WWI Sussex, when a petty criminal is found gutted like a fish, tales of forbidden love, the infamous Fowler Gang, and two young suffragettes, bleed together staining the River Arun red. #Q #A #HR #MY #QuestPit

Images of Peaky Blinders, a dead fish, a man and woman kissing, two women kissing, a soldier in WWI uniform.
Agent's guide to 'I, Said the Sparrow.'

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Sarah Hudson @sarahhudsonbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Plagued by the choice between duty to her people and following her heart, a competition for the princess’s hand in marriage holds the key to her Kingdom’s survival. 🏹Marriage Competition ✨Secret Romance 🔮Meddling Mind Magic 📚Secrets of the Past 💕Second Chance Romance #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

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Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A witty schemer plots against her husband and ends up saving the kingdom in a fantasy romcom blend of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS ❤️ Multicultural w/ POC leads ❤️ Unlikeable heroine ❤️ Enemies-to-lovers ❤️ Marriage of convenience ❤️ Political intrigue #questpit #W #A #F #R

moodboard for "Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem", chinese history-inspired fantasy romance, includes photos of female and male leads, plum blossoms and bamboo

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS in order they are: a neon rock n roll sign, london (notably big ben), a man playing the guitar, a man punching a mirror, a man staring forward into the camera with only his eye showing, someone walking down a hallway, stars falling from the sky, photos hanging from the ceiling and finally, an audience at a gig. all nine images have a red hue.

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el🦋 | drafting🌿 @thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

for fans of ; — SIX OF CROWS + BG3 A shapeshifter driven by revenge. A mercenary captain seeking answers to his missing memories. 🦋 NB MC x Trans Man LI 🦋 they fell first; he fell harder 🦋 what doesn’t kill you better start running 🦋 the fates of two, entwined [ #questpit ; #W ; #A ; #F ]

3x3 grid with the text "MOTHLIGHT by @thatfunkylilfey" laid overtop

row one: a serpent baring its fangs ; a person lying down with a streak of golden light going across their neck ; spider webs

row two: monarch butterflies and a silhouette of a hand to make it seem like a butterfly has landed on it ; text that reads "every face wears a mask" ; a person pressing a hand to their bare chest, where the hand touches there is a glowing light

row three: a skull atop moss ; a person turned away from the viewer with long wavy bond hair ; jaws of a crocodile where only the teeth are wholly visible, the rest is in darkness

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When the Moon Hatched X Curious Tides 🌙 Moon-based magic 💜 Chronic pain rep 🗡️ Enemies-to-lovers 🌊 Stormy vibes ⚡️ Lithuanian Mythology She can read any mind but his. He can control anyone but her. It would have been nice-- if they weren't in enemy triads. #questpit #F #A #R #Q

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Kayla ✨📚 @kaylawhittle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Elodie, born with rare memory magic, shows historian Vivian around a botanical garden in hopes of solving a century-old disappearance—only to uncover a twisted, monstrous memory instead. It’s hungry. It’s angry. It wants Elodie. feat. sapphic & ace rep #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

aesthetic for the memory garden featuring images of florals, statues, and women

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Charlotte Hayward ✨ @thatchazza.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

DO YOUR WORST x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE Max's to-do list: 💥Suppress his errant teleportation curse 🩺Survive 5th year of med school 🧠Go back to therapy for his OCD NOT on his list: 📰Meet a cute (& nosy) journalist 🎆Fake date her for New Year's Eve 💛Fall hopelessly in love #QuestPit #A #R #F #W

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

A moodboard showing the pirate (Amir), the princess (Mira), and John.

Amir silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a sword slung over her shoulder and a group of joyful sailors on a pirate ship. She has this quote:

Continue to love
Continue to forgive
Continue to grow

Mira is shown in the reflection of an ornate mirror. She is wearing long white gloves and a pink ballgown with her hair in a natural updo and the lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted over her photo. There is another photo of two girls kissing in the surf at sunset. Mira has this quote:

We looked at each other a little too long to be “just friends”

John is shown with his bare back to the viewer, facing the sea with the trans pride flag subtly depicted over his photo. He also has a close up of iridescent mermaid scales and this quote:

Go bravely, go deeply, or do not go

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James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In the Service of Gods and Admirals Mass Effect x Treasure Planet 🎬 New Adult Scifi/fantasy 🚂 Steampunk ♀️ FMC 🚀Solar-Sail Spaceships 🔮 Crystal magic 🧠 PTSD 🦸‍♀️ Reluctant hero 🪐 Planet Hopping 👽 Many Alien species ⚖️ justice/redemption/revenge #Questpit #W #SFF #writingcommunity

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K.D. Lohr @kdlohr.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A new #agentsguide to FEAR OF THE WEAVER ✨ Enter cursed sands and holy dreams in my 90k YA high fantasy 🏹 returning to the #amquerying trenches after extensive revisions! #questpit #Q #YA #F #agentguide

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Holly E. O’Neill @heoneill.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Natasha James joins the top team in Formula 1 for her rookie year. The sport is glamorous but bruising, and her sour relationship with the press and a ferocious old rival leave her wondering…Am I good enough? #questpit #a #q #formula1

Formation Lap: Natasha James. [a picture of a woman wearing racing overalls]

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AG Finch @agfinchwriting.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

FRESH FOR THE SLAUGHTER 🩸 In a world that begs for blood, how far can faith take a lamb? Sleeping gods, a dying world, and the violent women who are meant to save it. Religion as a weapon and its servants as the shield. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #F #A

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Vivian W Fonseca @vivfonseca.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A down on her luck girl takes part in a fake ghost-hunting show for easy cash, but things get deadly when the ghost turns out to be real and hungry for vengeance. Haunted house Feminist sarcastic FMC Inspired by Brazilian folklore #ownvoices #PosterPit #YA #PosterPitQ

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Coming to query inboxes July 2025 🏴‍☠️👑🧜🏿‍♀️ #posterpit #posterpitw #YA #F #LGBT #amediting

A mock-up movie poster for my YA fantasy novel, THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN.

This poster features a digital illustration of a dark blue wave carrying a tall galleon past a castle. Beneath the waves, a mermaid is subtly silhouetted above a lush coral reef. A lone bird flies above the ship, both silhouetted against the rising sun.

The poster contains the following text:

TOP: Amir (the pirate), Mira (the princess), John (for now*); * written in the colors of the trans pride flag.

A SHIP IN HARBOR IS SAFE
BUT THAT ISN’T WHAT SHIPS ARE BUILT FOR.

Middle: THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN

Bottom:
YA FANTASY. 82K. MULTI-POV.
ANTI-COLONIAL NON-WESTERN. POLITICAL INTRIGUE.
BESTIES TO LOVERS. FOUND FAMILY. PLATONIC TOUCH HER AND DIE.
STRONG GIRLS. BIG FEELINGS. SHARP PROSE.
DIVERSE. QUEER. MAGICAL

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Less than a week into his first adventure with his mage best friend (and crush), luckless Mick finds himself stuck with a god in his head and the body of a dragon. Now he and genius mage Eleanor must restore his humanity—before his existence triggers a divine war. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #F #R #NA

A vintage-style poster depicting a red/orange dragon perched on a rock with a watercolor explosion in the background. Text at the top left reads: Ace Rep, Hopepunk, and Friends to Lovers in a new fantasy adventure!

At the bottom:
The Nameless Song
A Jax Wolff Presentation
Coming soon to the trenches!

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K.D. Lohr @kdlohr.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The only daughter of mountaineers surviving in post-apocalyptic Appalachia heals a horned stranger's wounds, unaware they're an alien harbinger of a second apocalypse. That is, if they can use her to escape the mountains and return to the stars. #PosterPitW #SF #YA

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E.S. Hanson @erinsamhan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #F #H #A MOSSWOOD An unusual town. A dark, eerie forest. A string of disappearances. Three misfits. A mystery they would die to solve. THE RAVEN BOYS meets PIRANESI by way of David Lynch in this dark coming-of-age with queer & autistic representation!

A poster with an aged off-white background. In the center, a photo of foggy coniferous trees is overlayed with Josefa de Ayala's The Sacrificial Lamb painting. Above it, in a dark red sans-serif font, it reads "11-year-old Analía Monroe only finds solace in her small circle of misfits---her younger half-sister Rajel and best friend June---and the dangerous, magical world of Mosswood deep in the forests of their rural Oregon hometown, but their obsession may have deadly consequences." The photo is outlined with a dark red border. Above the border, in green sans-serif text, it reads "There is something in the woods." Below the lamb, there are dark red blood drips which give way to the title, a green serif font reading "MOSSWOOD" and then "a novel by E.S. Hanson." Below that, in the same red sans-serif font, it reads "Adult contemporary fantasy, folk horror, dark fae folklore, eerie forests." Bordering the image are small golden guardian angel figures.

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Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Her family is broke, the gardener is dead, the manor might be alive, and Lottie Bradbury has a blood curse to break before she becomes its next victim. Do you dare see the slow-burn gothic horror of The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor? #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #A #H #HF

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor poster. It features a young girl burying a body in a cemetery while a young man looks on in abject horror while a manor looms over them in the background.

It reads:
Slow-burn gothic horror festival
Blood curse and gaslighting father fest
Cryptic diary and trauma bonding fest
Traking place in 1919 fest

The gardener is dead
The House is alive
Her family is cursed
Lottie Bradbury is
The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor

Now querying

There are two quotes
"Something about is resonated" - RevPit Editor
"I am wildly passionate" - Literary Agent

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor movie poster featuring a young woman in a blue dress looking terrified as she falls down a well (or was she pushed?).

It has the tagline "You don't inherit a curse. You earn it"

Lottie Bradbury is "The Reluctant Heiress"
Gregory Winthrop is "The Wealthy Suitor"
Baron Thomas Bradbury is "The Lying Father"
and introducing Arthur as "The Forbidden Love"

It's 1919, the gardener is dead, the house is alive, and Lottie Bradbury must break a blood curse before it claims her mind, her future, and her soul.

Now querying

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A poster for “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #Q #YA #NA #F #R #Dis #PosterPitQ #PosterPit #amquerying

Picture is a movie poster for the book “Mark of a Magpie.”

In the background is a ship sailing across open waters, with two magpies flying at each other above it. Between the two birds is the title, “Mark of a Magpie.”

At the top of the poster, there are four tropes and themes that read: Thief x Assassin, Forced Proximity, Morally Gray, and Women’s Wrongs.

The very bottom of the poster reads, “A Young Adult Fantasy by Emilia Young.”

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 19/04/2025

BLD OVR BRGHT HVN x ARCANE Jim's grad research was meant to save rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul. Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning. #PosterPitQ #A #F (credit to @d-and-a-authors!)

Movie poster for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. In the background is an anatomical drawing of the musculature of a man from his right side. Four comparison titles are listed across the top (The Two Doctors Gorski, Arcane, Babel, and Don't Let the Forest In). At the bottom is the text "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?" and "In Agent Inboxes Now"

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Gus Ryer @gusryer.com · 19/04/2025

IN A WORLD Where the gods who forsook humanity have returned… And they’re not here to deliver, but to destroy… Two rogue engineer priests and two sibling warriors must take a stand. This summer, they'll bring hell to the gods. ASHES…SUN—HORIZON 0 DAWN #PosterPitQ #A #SF #F

A sorcerer in orange robes swirls waves of blue and orange energy around her as she faces down a towering phantom-like figure dressed in sci-fi armor against a backdrop of stars.

In futuristic lettering glowing blue, the title CASCADE spreads across the bottom of the image, and below that are the words 'NOW QUERYING'. At the top of the image is the tagline:

THEIR WORLD IS CRUMBLING
THEIR GODS ARE FALSE
BUT NOW THEY HAVE THE POWER TO FIGHT THEM

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J Packer Samms • The Whisker Society @jpackersamms.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

THE SECRET OF NIMH X WARRIORS A magical cat is swept into a hidden world of secret agents, underground cities, and strange allies, only to realize she must reclaim her power or watch her ruthless mentor destroy everything she loves. ✨🐈✨ #PosterPitQ #Posterpit #MG #F #amquerying #writingcommunity

A movie poster with the silhouette of a cat in front of a window. Text reads: What makes us different may be the only thing that can save us. The Cat with Silver Eyes. Magic Cats, Found Family, Secret World, Race for Redemption. #MG #F #Q

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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER When fighters start disappearing from an underground elemental tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament’s secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate. #YA #F #Jewish #OwnVoices #PosterPitQ #PosterPit

A movie poster titled "THE WINDWALKER," featuring a red-haired girl with glowing white eyes in a crimson cloak holding a transparent dagger made of air.

Descriptive text from top to bottom, left to right:

"A 105,000-WORD YA URBAN FANTASY"

"ELEMENTAL MAGIC" (surrounded by film festival award leaves)

"DIVERSE ENSEMBLE" (surrounded by film festival award leaves)

"PREMIERING NOW IN THE QUERY TRENCHES"

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Daelyn Morgana 🥀 @daelynmorgana.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

THE GAMES GODS PLAY x NETTLE & BONE Death might be a god, but he’s not like all the others. When a soul hangs inbetween, Death must reclaim his mortality to save her life & his home. The only problem? The rest of the gods have other plans for them. #PosterPitW #A #F

Movie Poster: Shadowy, dark forest background in hues of blue with a silhouette of the Grim Reaper at the forefront. Titled, THE FORGOTTEN GOD. Tagline, One god. One witch. One journey of mortality. An adult mythological fantasy by Daelyn Morgana. Featuring, Greek deities, wilted purposes, lost souls, Salem persecution. Award like stamp with three interested agents. Release, Coming to the query trenches early 2026!

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K.D. Lohr @kdlohr.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"Hours after the fire ignited, embers continued to smolder. Marsai’s gaze followed the rising smoke and lingered on a crow gliding among the wisps. Its dark wings stirred the vapor with eerie, gentle beats." #1stLinePit #F #Q #YA #NA #agentguide #agentsguide

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K.D. Lohr @kdlohr.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"The second sun crested the sky, and the forest smelled of death. There was a saying, in the mountains, that to walk carelessly through the woods was like attending a funeral; the acrid scent overwhelms, but wild flowers offer their condolences." #1stLinePit #SF #WIP #YA #CMe

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Rachel is Editing @rpiswriting.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Red Dead Redemption X Beauty and the Beast X Hades and Persephone A King In the Garden “The man was back. Standing just at the edge of her garden, staring at the little cabin. Like she always did, Mari ignored him.” #1stlinepit #f #a #wip

Shuffle collage for the vibes of this fantasy romance WIP: a castle, a cabin, an elf man with long white hair, a cowgirl, a unicorn and faeries

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 05/04/2025

X-FILES x HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY "Congratulations on your new time machine! Please don't destroy the world. It takes forever to repair, and it never comes out quite right afterwards." #1stlinepit #Q #A #SF

Agent & Editor Guide to TIME TRAVELER'S ETIQUETTE GUIDE

Standalone Sci-fi of 99,000 words
Revisionist history
Mulder/Scully protagonists
The secret origin of platypuses
Time-traveling bunny assassins

Grigory Lukin

Pitch:

When careless time travelers almost destroy history, the only solution is to write a better guidebook!

Our timeline is falling apart, and its last defender is Bob Renner, the overworked 28th-century bureaucrat from the Organization for Time Travel Oversight (OTTO). Snarky, exhausted, but always helpful, writing this guide is his last chance to save the world as we know it – and to work off his own time-crime debt to the OTTO. But first, he needs help from a skeptical 21st-century scientist.

As Bob and his aloof colleague analyze the 100 worst time-crimes, we realize the OTTO itself caused many of them. Juggling inept interns, time-traveling influencers, and the imminent risk of timeline collapse, Bob must save history – and gain back his freedom – or disintegrate trying.

Comps:
Killing Time by Jodi Taylor
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Moodboard:
public domain images:
Vampire: Bela Lugosi's Dracula (1931)
Watches: Rhetos
Golem: Thander
Wizard: ErikaWittlieb
Theseus: ArchaiOptix
Platypus: Nellie Pease/CABAH
The Valkyrie: Peter Nicolai Arbo (1869)
UFO: George Stock

Book snippet in the middle:
"Congratulations on your new time machine! Please don't destroy the world. It takes forever to repair, and it never comes out quite right afterwards."

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Author Alexis Veenendaal @alexisveenendaal.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Athragast stood on the stoop of a rickety farmhouse and steeled himself for yet another monotonous, destiny-fulfilling day. #1stLinePit #OS #AG - #A #F #COM #CZ

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Taylor Renee @taylorrenee.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"If you could live for centuries—through famine and plague, through wars that razed cities and left ash in their wake, that not even a bomb crashing through your home could destroy you—would you choose immortality?" #1stLinePit #Q #F #G #P Agents Guide ⬇️

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#1stLinePit Grim Portents HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE We killed another guy at the Whataburger this morning, which makes three since we started on the road yesterday. #Q #A #F #COM #H #P

Cover for Grim Portents featuring a skeleton hand gripping a feather, emerging from a flaming book over a maze

"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow.
But now the monster had been given a name, an identity.
It was real."
BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK.
NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS.
FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.

Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.

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Rebecca Leigh @rebleighauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“The world is not kind to wanderers, Alexandria thought as she lay in her tomb.” #1stLinePit #Q #YA #HF

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ “it begins with a murmur drifting upon the wind.” seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rock star sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #1stLinePit #A #LF #M (almost) #Q

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

the first pages of ALL THE DEVILS:

prelude
21st august 2016

it begins with a murmur drifting upon the wind.
at first, it’s small—unnoticeable, but soon that murmur, that slick sliver of sound that could one day change the world reaches humankind and becomes a hurricane—an untamed clamour among the silence. it ripples. it taunts. It waltzes upon the breeze like the destructive force it is and, in the end, is unstoppable. It cannot be contained. It’s there forever, a permanent echo in a vacuum, a scratch on a record, a soundbite of time. today, the murmur begins its devastating dance outside a block of flats overlooking the river thames. a white flurry of forlorn forensics leave the building with disbelief carved onto their weary faces. an unsettling stillness suffuses the space as the murmur passes from person to person.
it’s him, rumbles the murmur. it’s sam corvi. he’s dead.

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leahbauerwrites.bsky.social @leahbauerwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Picking locks is a bit like discovering what makes a lover come undone; it requires patience, focus, and a dash of magic. Luckily for Ness, she happens to have all three. #1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #R #LGBT #CMe

a background of frost and ice with the words An Agent’s Guide to Be Gay Do Crimes WIP.

a background image of frost and ice. The pitch for Be Gay Do Crimes WIP: To keep her queer crew from being kicked out of their gang, 24 year-old thief Ness must steal a prince, get him to his rich aunt, and keep her pretty nemesis from interfering. Falling for both of them wasn’t in the plan. A collage of memes for Be Gay Do Crimes WIP:
-steal everything your gay little hands can carry
-middle spoon
-the nonsense has escalated
-* instant regret *
-the sexual tension when someone says "make me"
-Be Gay do Crimes
-A knife? Are you flirting with me?
-A cat walking on two legs carrying an umbrella and carpet bag. Sheet music with the caption I don't know where I'm going but I'm gay
-A tweet from @ MaineMillennial: the goal of polyamory is to acquire enough partners to pull off a successful heist.

a background of frost and ice. For fans of Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland (fun romp, horny MC), A Power Unbound by Freya Marske (queer fantasy romance, cool magic system), Little Thieves by Margaret Owen (female con MC, cat-and-mouse romance), 1997 Anastasia movie (banter, travel) Ocean’s Eight movie and The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (heists, found family).

a background of frost and ice. An excerpt from Be Gay Do Crimes WIP:
“Stop, thief.”
Ness stills. She knows that voice.
Smooth blades of midnight wrapped in silk.
A frisson of excitement shoots down Ness’ spine, and she has to force herself to turn slowly. It’s bad form for a mouse to appear too eager to entice the cat into a heart-pounding chase. Though she’s shrouded in shadow, she meets Melirin’s flinty gaze unerringly. Her obsidian eyes glint with a spark of challenge.

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Tyler Stasi 🍓👒🕰️ @tylerstasi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#1stLinePit #WIP #F #agentguide #agentsguide 👀 "The crown was woven of the finest Lejah grasses, its split-hued blades varying in length and texture as they twisted toward the emerald at its spiraled center. Caria could not wait to burn it." 👑🪲🌿💫🌋

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Mick Martin was halfway through writing the words “coq au vin” when an eight-foot-tall rock golem rampaged after a rooster down the street just beyond the terrace of his family’s café. #1stLinePit #WIP #NA #F #R

Moodboard of eight images.
Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible.
Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire.
Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background
Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's.
Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses.
Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest.
Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky.
Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.

When magicless Mick agrees to go adventuring with his mage best friend (and crush) Eleanor, the last thing he expects is to be stuck a dragon and bound to the gods' dead adversary. Now he and Eleanor must restore Mick's humanity, before his existence triggers a war.

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Danni Grace @dgracewrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“Clustered in the chest of Kit Clearwood, there lived a beast.” Howl’s Moving Castle meets Brave in a steampunk setting. 💕 #1stLinePit #WIP #YA #F

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