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Laura Wilding @laurawilding.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Now #LoveAtFirstPitch is officially live with @litconnect.bsky.social, I thought I'd share my agent's guide over here 💃

Laura Wilding @laurawilding.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An #agentsguide to THE MOTH HOUSE (formerly known as WITCHY WIP🌘): 🔥 Feminine rage 🌿 Folkloric ritual magic 🩸 Bargains that cost 🖤 Witch x cursed prince 🕯️ Slow burn romance 💀 Morally grey characters 🕸️ Atmospheric prose Character art by the wonderful @yanjisq and @kaelidem

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Laura Wilding @laurawilding.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Why is the best compliment ever someone saying "I saw/heard this and it reminded me of your book" ✨

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 28/07/2026

Much gratitude to Cynthia Gómez, author of MUÑECA, for this blurb for Caleb Sierra's THE WETWORKS MIRACLE. Get your hands on one of the strangest books you'll ever read. WETWORKS is now available from your favorite bookstore. "The tree-cattle are lowing to be milked." 😱

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MATRIX x DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST Father Matthias meets a spirit in his parish. And fails to find them evil. Instead, Ruin comes with plums and a name he’s never known: Mattie. Does the God he serve have mercy for all he becomes? 📖 1749 liturgical calendar 🏳️‍🌈 queer #QuestPit #W #A #HR #S #LF

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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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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SWORDHEART x BOTW “It’s the dawn of the end of the world, and Emrys is having the worst day imaginable.” 🏰 ruins & tales 📜 forgotten prophecy 🤲 gentle protagonist 💚 romance subplot 🍃 nature setting ⚔️ BOTW vibes 🏹 nostalgic atmosphere #QuestPit #A #F #W

a moodboard featuring a fantasy with lots of nature, green, and statues

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FLEABAG X MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES When someone from her past finds her and threatens to expose her, she’s at risk of more than being known. 📚 librarian / camgirl 🖊️ buttoned up boss LI 🚫 book banning b plot 🔥 slow burn 🍬 gummy bears to cope 💄 lipgloss names = playlist #QuestPit #Q #A #LF #R

Scrapbook style with graph paper in the background, cut out letters, and doodles.

Photos include: strawberry shake, leopard print lingerie, a camera on a tripod, a microphone, a phone screen with a message, and a library book cart.

Text:

SHAMELESSLY WANTING

-strawberry = new fave / i don’t even like him like that. He’s my boss.

-yourcuck72 loves leopard print

-buy more gummy bears…and a multivitamin

-todo: cry out franklin / don’t do: laugh

-need coffee! Shit…did i text back Riley?

-miles’ pen cap / not weird

-another shift weeding and avoiding coworkers

-who even is Robert and why does he have rules?

-got you a candle boss (totally normal)

-fhman13…why is that name familiar?

-mimosas @11am / tell my cousin I’m a pornstar / she won’t hate me, right?

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MONK & ROBOT X EMILY WILDE When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down her hero's fabled garden with the help of an archaic engineer—but secret origins and disillusionment lurk between hard drives and petals. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby LI #QuestPit #W #A #SF #R

Floral background with the text Mending Glass. By Florrie Auclair. Solarpunk Romantic Sci-Fi

Character portrait of a blond woman making a heart with her hands. Juniper Penrose. An archivist specializing in botany. She idolizes the old world botanist, Miriam, who helped lead the resistance centuries ago. Optimistic and a little reckless, she seeks to uncover the past and find Miriam’s garden. Her drive to help people, sometimes comes at her own expense—like the reason for the mechanical leg she now cherishes.

Next to that is a character portrait of a nonbinary character with light blue eyes and duotone hair in black and blonde. Eli Winter. An aloof engineer who specializes in old world infrastructure programming trying to prove their skills are just as important as the nouveau programmers of the city. They leave their home and grandfather to help Juni break into archaic servers and hard drives—and often pull her out of trouble.

Comp slide with Horizon Zero Dawn, Emily Wildes, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Violet Evergarden, and Fruits Basket. The text pointing at the various media are Ruins of a fallen industrial world, Solarpunk, Flower Motifs, Traveling to help others and find self discovery, Joyful but melancholic character connections, and Sunshine MC x Sunshine Protector

Data is as fragile as flower petals. That’s why Juniper, an archivist in a recovering solarpunk world, wants to immortalize the past in the Glass Archives. Safe from time’s decay, unlike the archaic hard drives of the old world. Specifically, information on her hero, Miriam, a botanist who legend says grew a garden of resistant plants—ones that could survive the blight ravaging their crops. But to find it, Juniper will need the help of Eli, an engineer who specializes in old world technology. Together they traverse ruins and follow a trail of flower language from village to village to unearth what led to the dark age of information. But Juniper starts to question her identity when they uncover that the woman she modeled herself after was not the hero she believed.

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Anxious Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest, but when his elf-supremacist cousin declares war, Letyf joins the world's champions to protect their only hope—a child who can quell magic. In their way? World-hopping demon Lia, unwilling servant to the enemy. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit #AgentsGuide

Title Page: WEB TRAVELER, Adult Epic sci-fantasy, 129k, dual POV. Art of an ancient staircase carved into a mossy cliff. tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

Pitch Page: Letyf Duilles has no place on a world-saving quest. Elf-supremacist Roksa Morthir took everything from Letyf—his best friend, his magic, and his future. An outcast in his rural elven village, Letyf is a constant reminder that an elf with no magic is no elf at all. When Roksa returns with an all-powerful demon on his side, Letyf must defy his endless self-doubt to protect a young elvish prodigy in the war for Crelan’s freedom. Lia, the demon in question, doesn't consider herself all-powerful. She's served heroes and villains many times before. With a string of dead masters behind her, she needs a win, or her immortality and her powers will be taken from her. If Roksa wants to conquer his backwoods, fantasy home-world, Lia will just have to do it with gritted teeth and minimal complaints about the plumbing. After all, why would a world like this be worth saving? Set on a parchment background, with photography of a spring green forest behind it.

Comps: Parchment featuring five book covers: The Magicians (Magical Multiverse, I can't believe it's not Narnia, Anxious MC, Meta-fantasy, Classic Fantasy World Reimagined); This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Metapantasy, classic fantasy world, action-packed and bloody, dry humor, highly competent FMC); The Goblin Emperor (Anxious MC, No romance, deep friendships instead, Naive, fish out of water MC); The Bright Sword (No Romance, Naive MC, Action-packed, Classic Fantasy World, Epic Setting); Nine Goblins (Action Packed, Epic setting, Dry Humor, Highly competent FMC)

First Lines: Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch.

The bird cocked its head, beady eyes darting around, but they passed right over Letyf, crouched as he was in the brush. He adjusted his aim, gave the string a touch more pressure, and released.

The arrow arced away—and missed the fat gamebird by a clear foot.

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We arrived in my master's home-world with enough force to buckle my knees.

As I yanked the heels of my pumps out of the super-heated soil, my master turned to gaze around at the brilliant green hills of his land. The rise we stood on was dotted with little white flowers, the sky was a perfect blue, and the trees shimmered with promise. Even the ring of burned grass around us couldn’t diminish the sweeping landscape.

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MAGICIANS x BOTW Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest. Lia has doomed more worlds than she’s saved. When Letyf’s elf-supremacist cousin puts them on opposite sides of a war to enslave humans, the fate of the world comes down to a rag-tag team racing the full moon. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit

Art of a full moon with falling stars, and a chained hand reaching from the right, and a hand holding a sword coming in from the top left. The subtitle text reads: "To Letyf, Crelan is home. To Lia, It's just one backwoods, fantasy world among millions." The larger, center text reads: "How far would you go to save your world?"

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #QuestPit #A #H #W

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

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Katie Hudson @katiebhudson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🥀THE ROSE BARGAIN X HADESTOWN 💀 The goddess of love’s daughter must win the prize of immortality in her mother’s divine matchmaking contest or else succumb to a death curse. 2026 RevPit Winner! #QuestPit #YA #Romantasy #YARomantasy #F

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #AG

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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 ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING 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. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x STAR TREK Roan, part of the last team of archaeologists sent to Earth, stumbles into an ancient bunker haunted by the synthetic mind of a trillionaire. She’s the only one who can fix his tech, but can she save him before Earth is swallowed by the Sun? #QuestPit #A #SF #R #Q

A pair of hands, one warm and one grayscale, reach towards each other over a NASA image of the Sun. Text at the top reads “She brought me back to life…and I don’t want to die.” Text at the bottom reads “BEAST OF EDEN”

An image of the Sun, with a wilting rose, a black and white robot, and an espresso in a glass mug in the corners. In front of it reads the text “LOGLINE” and more text below it reads, “In this adult 99k sci-fi “Beauty & The Beast” retelling, an archaeologist excavating long-abandoned Earth can only save one before the Sun explodes: her research or a repentant synthetic copy of the man who doomed the planet.”

An image of the Sun, with old records for a record played in the top left corner. The words “OPENING LINES” are in the right corner and text above the Sun reads, “Roan’s wrist buzzed with a notification. She pointedly ignored it.
She fidgeted against the wall of what would eventually be her first curated exhibit,
“Captured Sound: A Pre-Culture War Celebration of Musical Ingenuity.” Her family milled around the space, taking in the sad, mostly empty podiums.
Her moms insisted on a preview tour before it opened to the public, if it did at all. Roan
gripped her elbows, wishing she’d done more to stall, wishing she had more here to impress them. But what could she do when they wanted a private showing, especially when they made the trip all the way out to her station?

An image of the Sun. In front of it is the word “COMPS” and the covers or movie posters for “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,” “Moss’d in Space,” “Volatile Memory,” “In the Lives of Puppets,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and “Beauty & The Beast.”

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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE SHADOWS (WIP in 3rd Draft) #W #F #A #QuestPit A middle-aged shopkeeper & retired magical con artist takes one last job to save store & family. She could end the corrupt power of the Skyborn mages. She could end up losing herself, her magic & all she holds dear. Talk about a midlife crisis.

Moodboard for The Shadows WIP. Upper left: Illustration of a crowded, cramped city alley. Upper mid: Four black-clad people with face masks in a warehouse. Upper right: Shadowed cobblestone alley with someone at the mouth sweeping. Mid left. Two memes. "A niche character trope I like is the person who is nice, a good person and acts well-adjusted, then they do something where it's like oh you're secretly a little bit insane actually. Middle: A shadowed portrait of a woman with sparks coming out of her hands. Mid right: A meme: Original poster: "80% exhaustion 10% sarcasm %20 don't care" Reply poster: "that's 110 percent". OP: "20% of me doesn't care." RP: "should've seen that coming." Bottom left: Warmly lit storefront doorway on a cobblestone street. Bottom mid: Painting of fancy buildings on islands floating well above the ground. Bottom right: Cramped thrift store with shopkeeper.

The Shadows: The Pitch

The worst day of Ania’s life was when her beloved cousin Piren was dragged off to the floating towers of the Above to serve as a source to the Skyborn mages. The second worst day was when he was returned. Discarded. Drained of his magic and broken in spirit.

Ania left behind her rebellious past to support her cousin as he once
supported her. In a city where any display of magic makes you a target
of the Skyborn, keeping your head down and your magic a secret, taking care of your friends, your family and your neighborhood is the only safe way to survive.

But now, everything she’s built over twenty years of safe, carefully
constructed life is falling apart. To recover what she’s lost, Ania takes on one last dangerous heist that strikes at the heart of the Skyborn’s power. She may end up losing herself. She may just bring the entire system crashing down.

The Shadows: Comp Titles
MA Carrick: Mask of Mirrors. Con artist MC out to save her family (and maybe the world).
Shannon Chakraborty: Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. I'm retired. Really. Okay, fine, one last job.
Robert Jackson Bennett: Foundryside. Magical technology, a corrupt ruling class and problematic heists.
Fonda Lee: Last Contract of Isako. I'm too old for this shit but no one else can do it.

“Except you can help me without bringing the bluejackets and their hunters down on my head!” Ania yelled, throwing her arms in the air. “All I’m asking you for is money. You’re asking me to risk my life! My family’s life!” She glared at him, grinding out her words through clenched teeth. “You want me to dust off magic I haven’t used in twenty years! How is that fair?” She spat the last word.
“It’s not fair!” Verasi spat back at her. “None of this is fair!” He flung a hand out. “Our people, our friends and family, our neighbors, are ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. They’re enslaved, ridden so hard they break. Maybe it takes a year. Maybe it takes five. Maybe it only takes a couple of months.” He continued in a harsh whisper. “We live in constant fear that it’ll be one of us. If not one of us, someone we know. Someone we love. Their propaganda machine is turning our own people against us. You know they’re not even testing people to see if they have any magical talent now? They’re just rounding people up at random and carting them off Above. None of them come home, not the same way they left.”

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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm lucky enough to be a beta reader on this and let me tell you, it is one hell of a ride.

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Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️ @n-a-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

💥CULLING Agent's guide💥 They pretended her homeworld destruction was an accident, not knowing that the entire galaxy is next on the chopping block. 🌌Queernorm world 🌌Chaos Crew 🌌A secret older than the galaxy 🌌And an impossible enemy #QuestPit #A #SF #Q

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ROBIN HOOD, but with DEATH MAGIC After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. BONE KING'S BLUFF, coming to betas soon, and querying early 2027! #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

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L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 🏰YA sleeping beauty reimagining 🤟deaf MMC + ASL 👑quest to kill an evil queen 💀everyone she knows is dead 🐀ride-or-die rat companion 🎶he's immune to her song magic 🪢captor falls for his captive 🌳deadly enchanted forest now querying #questpit #rf #q #ya #f #df #r

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

UPROOTED x BRIDGERTON Heidi isn’t interested in her family’s chosen suitor. She’d rather study the cursed forest to secure her tenure track. 📚 Grad School 🏳️‍🌈 Non-binary love interest 🪲 Giant sentient beetles 🎩 Regency vibes 🏛️ Natural History Museums 🐷 Truffle Pigs #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #LGBT

A drawing of a woman standing looking out against a red sky. She’s dressed in a white button up shirt, a brown vest, and a purple shawl. She’s holding up a pencil and a journal filled with scraps of paper. At her back stands a dark misty figure in a dark green cloak. Where their left eye would be there is a swirling galaxy instead.

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BONE KING'S BLUFF After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. 🦴 Death magic 🏰 Locked-castle mystery 🕯️ Medieval fantasy 🏹 Robin Hood trope 🏳️‍🌈 MM romance #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

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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 ✨ Accidental First Contact ✨ Workplace Rivals-to-Lovers ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Grumpy FL x Flirty Bi Alien ML ✨ Paperwork as Foreplay ✨ Slow Burn (Derogatory) ✨ Diverse Cast #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

Moodboard featuring paperwork covered in highlighters, a moth, a chessboard, blue moss growing on a tree, a moody beach, and red leaves. In front of the images is art of Gloria, a human woman in business attire holding a clipboard over the bottom half of her face.

Meeting of Honesty
Romantic Sci-Fi

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L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A love-hating mischief sprite sets out to sabotage her infuriating rival's matchmaking scheme, but after accidentally orchestrating the perfect meet cute, she discovers (to her horror) that she's better at creating love stories than ruining them, including her own.🧚❤️🌃😈 #questpit #a #f #w #rf #pr #r

"A Manhattan Summer Night's Dream" written in white against a photo of Manhattan at night

Phillipa Crane, or Pip, as she prefers to be called, is a mischief sprite, content to spend her days playing tricks on the unsuspecting finance bros of Manhattan and her nights DMing for her girl squad, the Pixie Chicks. That is until Leo Lovehard (yes, that's his actual name), a love sprite, decides to match up Daisy, the only girl in New York Pip has deemed too-cool-to-fuck-with, with Chase, Pip's favorite corporate Zillennial to bother. Pip refuses to let Daisy trade her hip 1970s-inspired vintage clothing shop for a happily-ever-after with a man who considers a trip to Costco to be a "fun night out." She does everything in her power to thwart Leo's matchmaking, but with every attempted sabotage, she somehow brings Daisy and Chase closer. When she begins to catch feelings for her overly romantic and painfully optimistic nemesis, she must decide if admitting she was wrong about love is worth her own shot at the feeling she's spent a lifetime avoiding.

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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 is Querying 🙏🕯️📿 @sashakielman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fighting mental and chronic illnesses and trauma while being heirs to thrones is burdensome enough. But for powerful witches Kazmera and Edan, learning to trust each other despite their arranged marriage, peoples’ enmity, and an impending war is the true test. #A #RF #Q #LGBT #MH #OWN #QuestPit

A trope map graphic for BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON by Sasha Kielman, featuring art by @winterofherdiscontent. A black background with art positioned as the book cover. White and golden yellow text and arrows pointing to: enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, elemental magic, slide to pitch, adult romantasy (95,000 words), mental and chronic illness and queer representation.

BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON Forced into an arranged marriage as a fragile peace treaty, two powerful witches must learn to trust each other in order to prevent war across their Realms. But will their love be enough to stop a war? Perfect for fans of The Hurricane Wars and The Bridge Kingdom, BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON is a critique of authoritarianism and a demonstration of the power of love in all its forms, recognizing that while not all illnesses can be healed, they can be managed with care. @SashaKielman

A Canva graphic with gray smoke on a black background and white text.
If you like...
Fairyloot cover of the Hurricane Wars, original cover of the Bridge Kingdom
then try...
Art for Between the Sun and Moon by Sasha Kielman by winterofherdiscontent
@SashaKielman

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Zoe is ✨querying✨ @zgauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Framed for the murder of the father who once ordered her to the plank, a cursed, cold-hearted pirate is forced into an uneasy alliance with a rival captain to carve out the truth behind the death before the pirate lords carve her down. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #RF #H #MY

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QuestPit #A #F #R #FR #W #Q

Between Fractures of Light
Adult Romantic Portal Fantasy

$PITCH The desolate world from Augusta’s dreams starts to blur into a chilling reality when a specter of swirling mist and shadows begins haunting her and kidnaps her childhood best friend, Theo. When the encroaching shadows come for her next, Augusta is rescued by an impossibly familiar stranger with eyes of fire, and together they journey into a world consumed by Darkness, an entity that feeds on despair and rot. There, the shadows hold Theo—and the world—captive. As she begins to fall for the man guiding her through the starless land, the line between the two realities starts to fracture. Augusta must face who she truly is and the choice carved into fate long ago: sacrifice the world she’s only just come to understand (along with her best friend) or the love she’s finally found. Before the Darkness consumes them both.$ COMPS

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Piranesi
The Starless Sea
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

COMPS

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Piranesi
The Starless Sea
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

SNIPPET

She blinked, and the figure was gone. Or maybe she was just seeing things again.

“Theo—” she started, but he wasn’t beside her anymore. “Theo?”

The movement returned. It grew into the shape of a person and then into something beyond. Long fingers, crooked spine, head warped. Panic rose in her throat.

Smell. Sound. Taste. Touch. Sight. Think, Augusta. Think. It’s not real.

What can you smell? Popcorn. What can you hear? The laughter of children, Christmas music. What can you taste? The cider in hand. What can you touch? The scarf around my neck. What can you see? The shadow in the shape of a person.

Augusta froze.

It hadn’t gone away. Instead, it only grew larger, more ominous. It rose in the night till it towered over the tents, the moon behind it blocked out by its mass.

A glimpse of tangled blond curls appeared in her periphery, light against the growing darkness. A hanging light exploded with a pop but no one reacted. Unease clawed at her in

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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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Jeni Chappelle @jenichappelle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🤩 WRITERS: If you guessed “Out of the Trenches” you get an A++! 🌟OUT OF THE TRENCHES: Query Intensive 🤩 NOT Querying 101 ✨ 6 Weeks 🌝 LIVE feedback on Week 5 (Query, Synopsis + 5pp) 💫 Starting July 8th All the details coming tomorrow morning! #booksky

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE When she becomes haunted by shadows & a mysterious stranger with eyes of fire, Augusta is forced into a desolate world she's only ever dreamed about, & must decide if she's willing to sacrifice everything to save it. #QuestPit #W #Q #F #R #A

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Rebeccae @erinabecca.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

#PosterPit #Q #F #YA 18yo Vreta fears her mind magic will take her down a dark path. But when she discovers a young girl’s memories have been stolen by a ruthless duchess, her power is key to restoring what’s been lost. And she can’t help falling for the girl’s brother…

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yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

When a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings Amelia back to her hometown, she must decide if it’s worth working with the man who broke her heart and vanished eight years ago—especially when he doesn’t seem to remember her at all. #PosterPit #R #C #A #Q

poster titled Something Like Always, logline: every summer after meets loml meets normal people

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

ASHMARKED Raised in a ruthless Faith system, a woman discovers its power is sustained by a Darkness bound to her life. When the truth marks her as a threat, she must sever the tether before she becomes the monster the Faith needs to justify its power, its violence, and lies... #A #F #Q #PosterPit

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This vertical poster for "DAD BODIES" features a high-contrast design on a black background with a white border.
Top: "WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY B. VAN BODEGOM" is centered at the top in white text. Two laurel wreaths contain the quotes: "Co(s)mic horror at its finest!" and "Friendship! Ball-busting! Tragedy!"
Center: The large d20 die showing a "1" remains above a red blood splatter. The distressed white "DAD" and red "BODIES" titles are unchanged. A new red underline has been added beneath the word "BODIES."
Added Hype Text: New white text blocks have been added to the sides. Left side: "BIG 5 INTEREST!". Right side: "OVER 20 REQUESTS!".
Tagline: The tagline remains: "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN."
Background and Characters: The stylized castle silhouette is still present. The six named characters with their expressions (Vincent, Sam, Troy, Hank, Marv, Dave) have been transformed into realistic photo-cutout heads with their original expressions, replacing the previous cartoon illustrations.
Footer: The "R RATED" box is centered at the very bottom.

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