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V.L. Lanius 🏺 is writing, again. @vl-lanius.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

ROYAL - A prince of a powerful bloodline, heir apparent, MAGPIE'S - named for the clever and resourceful bird, OATH - with a promise he vows to keep. “To me, it’s everything—all that I am. My powers, my family line, my reason for fighting..." #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF #LGBTQ #Queerwriters

Graphic on a marble background with an image of a six-winged feathered dragon with two heads

Andereth
the Six-winged Divine Dragon of Geth

Andereth arrived on strange shores, wounded.
All were afraid to help her, aside from one man—Aquillus.
The two made a deal, dragon and general united.
Aquillus was granted enormous power, a bloodline pact.
His descendants would wield fire and water.
The general became an emperor,
and for 233 years his line has ruled.
Andereth and her kin disappeared long ago,
forgotten by all but the most faithful.
One man vows to find her, and it is his story we tell.
Of a prince and paladin, of love and sacrifice,
and an ancient promise lost to time.

Graphic on marble background which reads:

Oath of the celestial shield
Until the sun falls and the moon crumbles to dust, I will be vigilant.
Until the stars dim and my sword turns to rust, I will be strong.
Until the earth heaves and the seas rise, I will be a bulwark.
Until my last breath and death closes my eyes, I will be a protector.
While I live, I am Andereth’s shield.

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT In interest of saving characters for your pitch, I've realized that WIPSnipsPit is really long, so WIPSnipsPit is now going to use the hashtag #WSPit This leaves more room for other tags and your pitch! Full tags list and details coming soon. Mark your calendars for Feb 26!

Hashtag Change

#WIPSnipsPit is now #WSPit
An author hype event
February 26, 2025
If it's Feb 26 in your time zone it counts. I'm not the time zone police.

Mark your calendar. Full guidelines coming soon.

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lambeatslion.bsky.social @lambeatslion.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

So no glimmer in either of my WIPs, so I tried for "gleam" (close enough, right?) #WipSnips

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lambeatslion.bsky.social @lambeatslion.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This man is lean, long necked, his fingers slender. Thick dark hair sprinkled with silver, silvery-gray eyes, narrow jaw, high cheekbones. His teeth gleam white, feral. He is Amanda’s ideal—a mix of fairy-tale villain and sharp-edged professional, although what he does is a mystery #WipSnips.

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Christina Kraus @elbenherzart.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Today is my birthday and marks 37 years on this beautiful rock in space! 🥰🍰 Hopefully to many more. 💚 May I ask for reposts of my art? It would mean a lot to me!

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Jon Sparks @jonsparksauthor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

‪The #WIPSnips word for February 16 is "glimmer" #AmWriting #WriteSky #Writers

Numi had sailed by night in the Solan Goose, and enjoyed almost everything about it. She hadn’t anticipated that floating down the river in darkness would be any different.
Spose I should’ve known better…
It had to be the sound, she thought. Not the sound of water rippling past the bows; that seemed much the same. It was the sound of the river itself; a heavy sound, as if the water were thicker, like syrup; the sound, and the lack of light, nothing to be seen but a furtive glimmer of moons’-light on black water. It repelled her and it drew her, as if… but she hadn’t cast herself into the river. The bank had collapsed.
She was clinging to the main-mast. She hardly knew how she had got there from the the rail, but she clearly had.

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lambeatslion.bsky.social @lambeatslion.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

When Sharon reaches around Amanda to open the door there are stairs leading into darkness, a damp earthy smell. The knife, pricking through her shirt into the small of her back. Amanda starts down, her heart a lead thing in her chest. Still beating, but for how long? #WipSnips

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Elizabeth Heyn [in my mad woman era] @bethwritesbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Princess Bride X Something Wilder Solaris sails through dangerous waters to find a cure for her sister's fatal disease, but when her childhood love turns up and reveals he's after the same cure, everything changes. 💟Second-chance 🔥 Slow burn #Q #A #RF #questpit

A visual moodboard for a romantasy story featuring a pirate ship, potions, a couple kissing underwater, the flex hand from pride and prejudice 2005, a tavern, an elf, and a lagoon with a waterfall. The text over it reads, "The smoldering ember of hope inside her that'd been so close to burning out was crying out for oxygen; she needed this. Needed him. No matter the cost."

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amwriting2025.bsky.social @amwriting2025.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS X THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS While threatened by a cruel husband and an assassin’s blade, Hatshepsut goes to war against foreign invaders, and spills treasonous blood into the parched sand. #questpit #YA #HF #Q

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Morris The Spider @morristhespider.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

LA wasn’t Gettie’s only potential market for artist representation. But it was the one her heart was set on. The rocker on her SoCal flight fell hard and fast, his heart set on her. But love doesn’t conquer all and art is subjective. #QuestPit #Q #A #R

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Cat is editing @catclarkwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

LEGACIES X AN EDUCATION IN MALICE The blood of the coven is thicker than the water of the womb. 🗡️Witch/Vampire 🗡️MM YA Romance 🗡️Academic rivals 🗡️A string of murders to solve 🗡️Unlikely alliance 🗡️Boarding school #questpit #W #YA

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Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫 @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

REBECCAxRIVIERAxTHE PERFECT COUPLE She's always tried to do the 'right thing', but when a death becomes a suspected murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect the people she loves. They all have motive. Esp. the dead woman's husband. The man she's in love with. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #MY

A man in a villa swimming pool at night. Partial photo of a dead woman floating in water. A man and woman kissing. Words: 'Some secrets are best left buried' around the central photo of a man carrying a woman's limp body in his arms. Other photos; a woman gazing up at a man; a woman in a party dress running up a staircase; a woman screaming, her head thrown back; a smashed wine glass; a broken phone; a couple embracing, the man comforting the woman.

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🌿 THE HAZEL WOOD X LEGENDBORN 🩵 When Vee discovers an enchanted forest, she must destroy the lethal virus unfurling within it to restore The Human World to its former light—and ignite a light from within before both worlds fall into eternal darkness. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #SF

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Presenting my new and improved #agentsguide for my #amquerying YA science fantasy novel! 🌸 enchanted forest 🌿 found family 💜 environmental magic system 🦋 shadow monsters #LitAgents, 🩵 this post or DM me if you’re interested! #QuestPit #YA #Q #F #SF #SFF

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AT Plumm @atplummauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Following a spectacular failure, Thea's team has to find a crashed spaceship. They face the deadly ecosystem of their planet, a rival team, and a boss with a hidden agenda. The redemption mission could cost their lives, but going back empty-handed would be worse. 72K #Q #A #SF #SFF #QuestPit

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Stephanie Gail Eagleson @stephgaileagleson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#questpit: coming-of-age memoir WIP #M #W #NF of involuntarily escaping a religious microcult, getting diagnosed as AuDHD, breaking generational chains of abuse, familial estrangement, and medical anesthesia gone wrong! Working title: Autopsy of Abuse #writer #writingcommunity #amwriting

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lambeatslion.bsky.social @lambeatslion.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS X DANGEROUS GIRLS in a supernatural revenge tale where three girls band together to wreak vengeance on the ones who destroyed their lives, only to find out that what's released can't be put back #QuestPit #YA #H #WIP

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🧡a canceled 17yo demisexual singer 🧡a rising 18yo closeted soccer player 🧡a meet cute in a cat cafe in Amsterdam 🧡photos of the two boys on a bike 🧡media digging into the singer’s past 🧡a critical song that could rebuild the singer’s career and out the boy he loves #questpit #W #YA #R

A blond singer, a Black soccer player, a gitar, a cat cafe, an image of Amsterdam.

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gabby is now ✨elle reed✨ @gabbywrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

AN ACADEMY FOR LIARS X NINTH HOUSE To get her dad a new kidney, Ryan needs to master her illusions, but when her classmates' memories start to shift with false ones replacing the real, Ryan wonders if her dad's transplant is all she needs to worry about. #questpit #W #NA #F

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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

LEGENDBORN x AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Either she fulfills her family's legacy, or she dies with it. 🤸‍♀️ Badass female protagonist 💧🪨🔥🌪️ Elemental magic system 🌆 Urban fantasy in NYC 🫂 Found Family 🗡️ Magic competition 🌈 Diverse ensemble cast #Q #YA #F #Jewish #QuestPit

A title card with the text "An Agent's Guide to THE WINDWALKER - Katie Collan - young adult urban fantasy 105,000 words" over a person with a red cloak standing in the middle of a grassy field.

Pitch: "When fighters start disappearing from an underground tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament's secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate."

A mood board featuring eight panels with a corresponding color palette in the center, as well as the caption, "Believe in the wind and you'll prevail." From left to right, top to bottom: fire burning down a building; ocean water; the sky above the clouds; a cracked, rocky ground; a red-haired girl in a red cloak with glowing white eyes, holding a dagger hilt with a transparent blade made of air; a skyline view of nighttime Manhattan; a NYC subway track; a boxing ring that depicts two people practicing punches beyond the ropes.

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Jackie 🇦🇺🇵🇭🇲🇾🌈 @jackieyap.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

CRAZY RICH ASIANS x GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER Forced to move from Australia and attend an uber-wealthy international school, Izzy finds herself in a life-or-death game of wits with Manila’s rich and famous. 🌈 #own diverse rep 🕵🏾‍♂️ #cosymystery 🫶 found family 🇵🇭 set in Manila #QuestPit #YA #MY #W

A dark blue background with white streaked lines around the borders. Image of a school overlayed with red crossed out lines.

The header in white font reads: New school. New city. And a murder mystery. Welcome to Manila.

The title in red font reads: ISABELLE GOMEZ IS INNOCENT, SHE SWEARS

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

PITCH: Time’s up. The choice is either death or permanent confinement. But a chance meeting offers a ray of hope, a doorway to the freedom Alex and Jason crave. It will pit them against corporate vampires, but the alternative is set in stone. Blue Bloods x Yakuza #PR #Q #questpit 💙📚📖

Photo is of a dead end path, in a mold-infested dungeon. One side of the tunnel leads to prison bars; the other side leads to darkness. But, in the middle of the path, a ray of light shines from an unseen doorway, illuminating the stone floor, and showing a possible escape route. Photography by Dawn Berkoski.

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Trinity🪞is querying🪞 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BLADE RUNNER x THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER 👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker 🤖Mysterious android boy ❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance 🩸Powerful mega-corporations 🌃A sprawling city 🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold the answer to a murder… and maybe immortality, too. #questpit #Q #YA #SF #MY

A father and a daughter split by a tear in the paper. A foreboding alley in a red-tinted city. Piles of cash. A dark-haired girl with her eyes crossed out. A hand holding a key. A boy with an empty photo strip covering his eyes. A dark green eye.

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Brandon Love @blovewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #QuestPit #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

Dystopian, manipulation, hidden knowledge, The Alpha Project

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Remarkable Young Women Project @megorra.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Rediscover history’s young, forgotten female heroes in this educational and empowering standalone with series potential. 📜 Diverse histories 📜 Forgotten figures 📜 Inspiring women #NF #Q #YA #QuestPit

Illustrated cover with designs of various women in historic cultural dress
A gold cover reads: An Agents Guide to: Remarkable Young Women

Illustrated full figures of young women from various cultures accompanied by text briefly describing their significance

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J Packer Samms • The Whisker Society @jpackersamms.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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. ✨🐈✨ #QuestPit #Q #MG #F #amquerying #writingcommunity

An alley puddle, a cat eye, a bird on a post, a pensive dog, a cat silhouette, northern lights over a house, a magical swirl with secret mice.

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C. Warde Lee @librarianofthunder.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A centaur cheats at jousting, until the fake horse head goes KERPLOP! 🌈Mythology X SPOP 🗡️Betrayed by the man he loves 🗡️Betrayed by his father 🐈‍⬛Cat Si from Irish folklore 🐐Snarky/greedy satyr 🐎Badass centaur 🧚‍♀️Tricky pixies can't lie ☀️Gods from many pantheons #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #writing

The Title Page of the Agents Guide. The title of the book is THE STOLEN IDOL by Christopher Lee. It is a 86K word YA Fantasy. An image drawn and colored digitally by the author is in the center of the page. The image shows a broken opal colored disk in front of the Cat Si's golden eye.

The Pitch:
Winning a jousting tournament should be easy for a centaur, and it is, until the false horse head falls off Fotini’s shoddy disguise. She quickly steals the tournament prize, a golden idol, and gallops toward the forest ripping off her heavy jousting armor to outrun the tournament guards. When she arrives home to fulfill her contract, she discovers she accidentally ditched the idol with her disguise. Along with two fellow thieves, she retraces her steps praying the idol is still there. Hopefully it wasn’t cracked, or worse, found by a disgusting human.
Seventeen-year-old Jaimie Whitfield is accused of being a fae changeling, a creature who kidnaps children and assumes their form. If he does not escape, he will be executed for impersonating himself. His father will then invade the fae kingdom to rescue a son who hasn’t actually been kidnapped, all because he saw Jaimie kiss another young man and would rather believe his son has been kidnapped than accept his sexuality. As he awaits his demise, Jaimie turns to the broken idol he found by the roadside with a quiet prayer. He doesn’t expect an answer, but is shocked when a mysterious black cat slips through his high tower window.
Jaimie joins the shapeshifting cat known as the Cat Sí and the not fully human trio of thieves who dropped the idol to begin with. These outcasts race to warn the fae of the coming invasion. Along the way, Jaimie and his new friends learn long-forgotten secrets of how the Irish fae, the Cat Sí, and the Celtic gods are involved in an ancient feud with pantheons across the sea.

Tropes and Themes:

Found Family
Generational Trauma
Unrequited Love
Betrayal
Acceptance
LGBTQIA+ Representation
Celtic Mythology
Greek Mythology
Norse Mythology
Egyptian Mythology
Heroes Journey
Small Trickster Fae
Magical Girl Transformation

For Fans of:

Daughter of Sparta series by Claire M. Andrews
New take on several ancient myths
Mentions of gods from other lands
Ancient setting

Lore by Alexandra Bracken
Original story with mythical characters
Intense fight scenes

She-Ra (Netflix)
Lighthearted
LGBTQIA+ representation
Found family
Scary cat lady

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · 12/02/2025

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineering magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺ethical dilemmas 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them #questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy.

Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🎸 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 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

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #W

moodboard layout with 9 squares 3 x 3, 6 have over the top terrified men (the dads), along the top and bottom 3 squares. Blood decal drips from top squares through the middle to the bottom ones. A Victorian mansion silhouette sits in the middle most left square, the title DAD BODIES in the middle, and right of that is the silhouette of a d20 with a skull icon showing.

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Aaron Cole has a Book Deal! @theaaroncole.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE x PERCY JACKSON 12 y.o. Félix gets body slammed to a parallel dimension where magic is real and his recently deceased mom is alive. But when a dark force threatens his new life, Félix must fight to stop it before it destroys both dimensions #Questpit #MG

Artwork for Aaron’s MG contemporary fantasy book “Félix Finch Gets Body Slammed Into Another Dimension”. In the image, two versions of the main character, a Black tween named Félix, is suspended in a multicolored universe with his new magic ignited.

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Aaron Cole has a Book Deal! @theaaroncole.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom #Questpit #OS

Artwork for Aaron’s YA fantasy novel, SOULCAST. In the image, the main character is in the midst of a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld. Next to him, the prince and his love interest is his prey.

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Pome @lunapome.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

SABRIEL X CITY OF DUSK When the necromancers attack three teens are all that stand between the kingdom of Lyr and the undead... they just don't know it yet. #questpit #w #ya #f

A collage of nine images in a grid. A quill and ink pot on a desk. A half seen skull in shadows. Sky blue silk with gold lace. A stack of old books. The hilt of a rapier. Undead hands gripping an edge and pulling itself out of the ocean. The hull of a wooden galleon ship. The silhouette of a girl in front of a window. Gothic architecture. Images sourced from Unsplash and Pexels.

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Debbie TV @deeteevee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Pitch #2! YOUNGERxBOOK LOVERS A lit agent finds the next YA vamp bestseller in the slush pile. The catch? The author is 78. As publishers demand a younger face, she'll risk her career—and❤️w/ the author's swoony grandson—to prove no one is too old to write a biting story. #W #QuestPit

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amarie is ✨ON SUB✨ @amariewrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

MEET MY MCs! When Amara struggles to find a contractor to renovate her plus-size boutique, she enlists the help of her ex-childhood best friend (& first love), Theo, who she hasn’t spoken to in 8 years💐 #questpit #r #agented

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Jen DiArenzo - 🧜🏼‍♀️ Fantasy Author @jendiarenzo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A scorned marine biologist turned mermaid queen must return to Bermuda as a human siren to seek revenge on men while guarding her heart from a mystifying stranger on the beach, forced to choose what kind of monster she’s willing to become to save her kingdom. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #PR

Character art of a mermaid, blonde man, and dark haired bearded man.

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Sydney is 🦋ON SUB🦋 @booksbysydney.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

DWTS🪩 meets THE ROM-COMMERS💜 and HEARTLESS💋 After being slated for a popular dance competition show, Taly and her jaded pro partner form a showmance to amass more audience votes, only the lines between real love and reality tv start to blur the further they advance #QuestPit #A #R #W

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

SHE GOES BAREFOOT IN THE SNOW A retelling of the Snow Queen When Gerda's best friend Kai is abducted by a mysterious woman in white, Gerda sets out on a journey to the frozen ends of the earth to save him. Along the way, she discovers the truth of who she really is. #Questpit #W #YA #F #LGBTQ

Snow Queen aesthetic: snowy mountains, snowy forest, snow snow snow. Creepy icy figures. Frosty roses. A shattered mirror. A picture of Reykjavik in winter. Gerda sitting on a reindeer saying goodbye to the Robber Girl ❤️

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A lonely student must unlock hidden powers to save her new friends... the gargoyles. 🏳️‍🌈Sapphic goth-girl MC 😓Mental health 🎨Technicolor hellscape 🖤Darkness is not evil ⛪Haunted chapel ⏳Coming of age Don't Let the Forest In x Mortal Instruments x Daughter of Smoke and Bone #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

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Rooted in Stone
YA Urban Fantasy
100k words

Words written over a dark black background with a crow motif-
Rumors say that St. Romain’s is haunted. That suits lonely, troubled goth-girl Helena, perfectly fine. Right away she is fascinated by the eerie sculptures on the campus chapel. Wounded by past rejections, she is reluctant to open up to anyone. All she wants to do is fool her therapist long enough to not get kicked out of another school. When she develops a crush on the mysterious and beautiful Kia, Helena learns her secret… Kia is a gargoyle. The statues are not just stone, but powerful guardians of a rift between worlds. These uncanny guardians quickly find a friend in Helena, but she hides a dark power of her own.
When war spills through the rift, the stones of their beloved chapel begin to crumble and Helena is drawn into the battle to protect the world. Trapped in a strange, technicolor netherworld, our goth-girl heroine must face the darkness within or risk the collapse of both worlds and the destruction of her newfound family of stone… and Kia with them.

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Hannah Foulger @foulgerscovfefe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THAT BRIGHT WORLD After a head injury, Bree is transported to a parallel universe, then another, and other. Unable to stop, she tests out theories. Is she mentally ill or is this real? Can she get home? And why is her brother dead in every universe? #Questpit #A #ND #DIS #WIP

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irismatthews.bsky.social @irismatthews.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

CHASTITY AND THE BARON is BRIDGERTON meets NINE RULES TO BREAK and follows a third-season debutante in 1785 London when she is forced to make a difficult choice that lands her entangled with a villainous rake only to learn that it is an old friend who will help her bloom. #questpit #q #a #hr

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MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

For #questpit, here's the #agentsguide to Dandelions Don’t Die. It has... 💔 Family curse that breaks hearts 🤍 Messy sisters in two generations 👻 Haunted home 🖊️ Diary entries from the past 🖤 Girl sworn to loneliness 🪦 Summer job at an abandoned cemetery #Q #YA #SPEC #R #H

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Text: An agent’s guide to Dandelions Don’t Die, YA speculative romance with horror elements, 82K words

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Text: Pitch: 16-year-old Stella is cursed to die if someone breaks her heart. Forced to take a summer job at an abandoned cemetery with the one boy she can’t afford to fall for, she must fight against her growing feelings or risk an eternity as a ghost.

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Five book covers and text attached to them with curving arrows:
Practical Magic - Subtle magic
The Wicked Deep - Dual ghost timeline
House of Hollow - Atmospheric horror
For the fans of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch

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Text: Dandelions Don’t Die has:
Ghosts
Sisters
Generational curse
Complicated family dynamics
Diary entries from the past
Loneliness
Forced proximity
Angsty slow burn
He falls first
She saves him

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C. Warde Lee @librarianofthunder.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If Jaimie doesn't escape he will be executed, all because his delusional father would rather believe he was a fairy changeling than accept him. But at least this weird cat crawled through his tower window, which is nice. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT #amquerying #querying #writingcommunity #writing

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Bea 📖 🖊️ is querying @beaamade.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#Q AGGGTM xGLEE xDO REVENGE 16yo Adelina’s worried when her bestie vanishes after a mystery stalker texts her. She teams up with 17yo Adam & discovers her bestie’s identity’s a lie. Just who are they looking for & why does her bestie’s phone say Adelina’s also in danger? #QuestPit #YA #MY #T #OWN

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CP Ashton - querying FIREFLY x PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN @cpashton.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Bantering sibling airship couriers are embroiled in a plot to exterminate non-magics like the FMC, but outwitting their client will take more than swashbuckling and quirky schemes. It could cost them everything—even each other FIREFLY x FOUNDRYSIDE x DnD Movie #QuestPit #Q #F #A #NA #YA crossover

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Howl Harrington | Horror author @ifyouhaveghosts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Radio Girls were the greatest punk band to never be great. In 1994, they embarked on their first tour, but they won't come back whole. #Questpit #H #WIP

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