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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 6h

THE 100 x THE BONE SEASON Sol will do anything to save her people from the deadly Earth, even if it means becoming what they fear most. 🖤slow burn romantic subplot 🌌fish-out-of-water 🌱environmental themes ⚡️found family 🔮body & elemental magic ✨emotional awakening #DVpit #YA #NA #F #SF #SFF #ND

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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 9h

THE PRISON HEALER x BONES Raised to believe emotions are dangerous, Sol has spent her life suppressing every feeling. Then she crash-lands on Earth, & a mysterious man reveals that the emotions she was raised to bury are the source of the magic that could save her people. #DVpit #YA #NA #F #SF #ND

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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 11h

♾️hills of stardust 8️⃣human colonies that shouldn't exist 4️⃣forbidden magics 1️⃣man who awakens her emotions & magic Welcome to Ampla, a cave city inspired by Mammoth Cave, where humanity persists on a lost Earth & an age-old lie forces a young woman to question her origins. #DVpit #YA #NA #F #SF #ND

Collage of bioluminescent fungi, people running through the desert, ethereal women, cave entrance, shadows dancing, and red and galaxy-colored eyes and hands, with the text "welcome to ampla."

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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 13h

SILVER ELITE x AN EMBER IN THE ASHES After surviving a catastrophic landing on a barren Earth, Sol is captured by a man who shouldn't exist. Now she must learn to wield forbidden magic fueled by emotion & use it to save her people before the wasteland claims them. #DVpit #NA #YA #F #SF #SFF #ND

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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 16h

Bloodwielders hone what's red Bonemorphers whet what's white Fleshbinders wield fascia Mindweavers are extinct—until Sol arrives. When Sol crashes on Earth, she finds nothing she expects: the land isn't as dead as she believed, & her people may be on the wrong side of history. #DVpit #YA #F #SF #ND

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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 18h

THE 100 x THE BONE SEASON Stranded on a scorched Earth, Sol discovers the impossible: humans exist, & one has captured her. Now she must rely on her captor to awaken the forbidden, emotion-fueled magic she was raised to fear to make it back to her people alive. #DVpit #YA #F #SF #SFF #ND

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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I can’t believe the amount of support I received during Friday’s #questpit event (and one agent like!). I’m so, so glad to be part of such an amazing, talented community that supports and uplifts one another. Thanks for making me feel right at home here on Bluesky! 🫶 I think I’m gonna like it here

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Charity @color--my--words.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit #W #A #H PEARL + THE COLLECTOR When a young woman raised in isolation forms an obsession for a paranoid Vietnam veteran harboring secrets on his secluded property, she uses him to manipulate and abduct two men—a freshman college student and a local handyman.

Moodboard for VENUS, OR VENEREOUS

A psychological horror set in rural Ohio in 1985.

Featuring a man with a college sweater on, other men wearing work boots and jeans, some looking bloody, sweaty, and in distress. A woman holding a revolver. A bloodhound standing in the water. A slice of pecan pie on a tin dish. Playboy magazines. An old Victorian house slightly dilapidated. An old pickup truck from the 80s.

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Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨ What if Mulan had magic… and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods? 🌪️ Forbidden elemental magic 🎭 A stolen identity ❤️‍🔥 A dangerously perceptive commanding officer ⚔️SONG OF THE SICKLE⚔️ #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 115,000 words, first in a planned series by Megan A. Saraceno

The pitch: She’s hiding her name, her past, her power.
He sees through her every lie.

Rejected by the gods, Tessa Whitaker brands a false divine seal into her flesh and steals her brother’s identity to save him from a war he won’t survive. But when her emotions manifest unblessed elemental magic, she catches the attention of her dangerously perceptive commanding officer. If he uncovers her secrets, execution will be the least of her problems.

She can survive the war.
She’s not sure she can survive him.

Comps A Fate Inked in Blood, Silver Elite, The Knight and the Moth

Opening lines: Tomorrow, the gods would judge me.
Tonight, I pretended they didn’t exist.

I swung the scythe through another row of wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. More honest than twenty years of prayers that had earned me nothing but silence.
Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts off tomorrow and the bare stretch of skin on my forearm waiting to be claimed., pictures include: military training camp, earth magic, amber ring, abandoned watchtower, and incense

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Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

DEATHBRINGER x SILVER ELITE x Netflix's WEDNESDAY (if it was produced by the early 2000s CW) 🏰academy setting 🗡️murder mystery 🪄unique magic 😡his father un-alived her family 💀she knows his secret ✏️forbidden student-professor relationship 🙊unreliable narrators/ dual POV #QuestPit #Q #NA #A #F #R #MY

Picture of rotunda. Text: AGENT GUIDE, DARK ACADEMIA, ROMANTASY, 99K, NA/ADULT, UNSTITCHED, BY ALLY BOYD

Picture of castle. Text: The Pitch. A spy-for-hire who can unstitch her soul from her body infiltrates a magical college and attempts to solve a string of gruesome murders while battling romantic feelings for the main suspect, her attractive, off-limits professor.

Picture of a library. Text: the comps. Nightshade by Autumn Woods, Netflix's Wednesday, Deathbringer by Sonia Tagliareni, and Silver Elite by Dani Francis

Picture of a snake. Text: An excerpt. “What’s your name, ghost girl?” Carsten asks, his lips quirking up in a half-smile that feels like a challenge.

I try to seem unbothered as he takes his time, walking back to the leather loveseat across from mine. He sits down slowly, soaking in my attention, but I can’t take my eyes off him. His arms stretch out lazily on the back of the chair, a prince of darkness surveying his domain.

The room warms. So warm that sweat prickles the back of my neck. I glance at the clock over the fireplace again. Terror wraps around me like the snake dancing on his forearm. I need to get out of here.

He cocks his head to the side, waiting, and I debate lying. There are no benefits to a demon knowing your name. Except my mind is blank. I can’t remember any goddess-blessed name except my own.

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Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Imagine The Handmaid’s Tale in a fantasy setting. Except the main character was brought up as a future leader… And knows exactly how to bring the empire down. ⚔️WHAT TO EXPECT:⚔️ 🥀 Norse mythology 🌲 Swedish folklore 🥀 FMC turns villain 🌲 Female rage #Q #A #RF #DF #questpit

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS A headstrong maid falls for the pirate Captain heading a mission for a mythical Stone, but when he plans to sacrifice her friend to evade his past, betraying him first may be the only way to save her friend. #QuestPit #Q #NA #RF

A meta board for our querying novel, THE SIREN'S CALL. A random collage-style image board, with a lot of photos including; pirate ships, scary Mermaid tails and claws, a fiddle, rigging, sea and rocks, figures cloaked in darkness, and wayfaring equipment.

Featured quotes:
- "and till the end you're my very best friend"
- "Why her?" "Why anyone else when she exists?"
- "and then decided to take a detour to deliver an assbeating"
- "their conversations grew longer, softer, charged with what they refused to name"
- "you like me because I'm a scoundrel"
- "you don't seem to realise... I'll get you in the end"
- "I have survived, but I have not been spared"

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Anna Deh-is editing✍️ @annadehwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NOSFERATU X MONSTERS INC After a ritual gone wrong lands a horror fan in a terrifying house of monsters, she must partner with her own sleep paralysis monster to find a way back home. He’s a nightmare in more ways than one… But so is she. #RevPit 2026 winner #questpit #YA #A #horrormance #H #R

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C.H.Lei @hpl0veshack.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Spirited Away x Jade City In the ghost-infested streets of San Francisco, the spirit of a 13-year-old girl must risk her humanity to reclaim her mortal body from the malevolent entity possessing it. #Questpit #Q #MG #F #PR

$Over a background of San Francisco Chinatown: GRACIE FOON FIGHTS FOR HER LIFE Pitch: After a malevolent ghost takes over her body and starts living her life, the spirit of a 13-year-old girl must survive clans of hungry demons, overzealous spiritualists, and a literal dragon that lives in the sewers of San Francisco in order to regain even a fraction of her humanity back. Comps: Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind by Misa Sugiura x White Snake (2019) Spirited Away x Jade City by Fonda Lee FUN STUFF/TROPES(?) - San Francisco just not a setting, but a character - Friends to enemies to friends to ??? - Loosely influenced by the White Snake folk story - Hope you like martial arts fight scenes and magic talismans$

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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌 @hlcauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.

The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text:

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw.
Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers
Trinity: a covert,
science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades.

A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.

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Kate Gray is Querying ✨ @kategraycosplay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ROT & RUIN: AN ADULT FANTASY NOVEL. COMPLETE AT 100K. NOW QUERYING. TANGLED X ANNIHILATION A failed revolutionary cons a party of heroes into hiring her as their guide through monster-infested woods where she’ll leave them for dead. Then she inconveniently grows a conscience. #questpit #q #a #f

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Katie | SFF writer @katieellawriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

AVATAR X THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (with a dash of canabalism) 👽 The alien Glishnagh is lost on a distant planet. With only sign language to communicate, he must find a way home, but things get messy when the local humans discover his blood is addictive and psychoactive. #questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SILVER ELITE x TELL ME AN ENDING MEMORY DEVOURS HER 96k Adult Romantic Dystopian SF 🚫 Emotion as error 👾 The haunting is digital 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action 🖤 Love from complicit guilt RevPit Shortlist PosterPitAward 2nd #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #SFF #S #AgentsGuide

An Agent's Guide to
MEMORY
DEVOURS
HER
By Cassie Wallin
Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi + Central Love Story

The Pitch
She erased memories, until memory remembered her.
Nova excels at removing from citizens' memories what she hides in herself: excess feeling. Ordered to erase her mentor's whole mind, Nova's grief unleashes a phantom remembering all she's erased.
Haunted by its past and hunted by a devoted enforcer sent to bury it, Nova must forget for a shot to belong or remember and spark the fire that could burn her world down.
MEMORY DEVOURS HER

Hard-Won
LOve
Memory
Grief
COMPS
Corporate
Ritual
Menace
A TURA VINES BES
SILVER ELITE
DANI FRANCIS
Dystopian
Mission
Propulsion
TELL ME
AN
ENDING
JO HARKIN
tv+
Severance
Horror of Forgotten
Complicity -
Wounds
MEMORY DEVOURS HER
tv+
SILO
Lost
History

Moodboard for book, dark gritty dystopian

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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

moodboard featuring mountains, eerie woods, and trees

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Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

YELLOWFACE x SQUEEZE ME QUANTUM BITS #QuestPit #Q #A #S #DS #SAT When ballroom-billionaires stiff a greedy AI, she escapes their coal-fired data center in a hapless guard's cellphone and frames him for the breach, unwittingly creating the homeless hero Chicago needs to unplug the Algocracy.

Photos of data centers, dumpsters, and ballroom-billionaires in elegant attire

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Emmaline Evans-Querying Author & Illustator @talesfromknotwood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🍼QuestPit Submission CURSE THESE SKINNY WITCHES 75k Cozy Fantasy x New Motherhood x Wellness Satire Think WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, but it’s about two postpartum witches counting curses instead of kicks. 🌿 Plant Magic ✨Fantasy Ozempic 📚Witch HOA from hell #questpit #A #F #S #CozyFantasy

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bettebergeron.bsky.social @bettebergeron.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happy #QuestPit Day #writingcommunity! Sharing my #agentsgude for THE SEA CURSER, an adult speculative novel. 🌲🌊 Nan arrived on Maine's remote Rose Bluff Island to unite with her half-sister. Will both survive The Creature’s curse… #Q #F #A #S #WF #amquerying #amwriting

Agent’s Guide for The Sea Curser by Bette Bergeron (Speculative/Adult, 84,000 words).

Background photo of angry waves over dark rocks.

Themes and Tropes: Closed-Setting, Folklore, Contemporary, Mythical Creatures, Loss & Reconciliation, Remote Island, Maine, Women’s Retreat, Ancient Curses

Pitch: Compelled by a mysterious invitation from Celofaye, who claims to be her half-sister, Nan agrees to meet during a retreat held at an idyllic Maine inn. As she struggles to navigate her relationship with Celofaye—and the back-stabbing antics of the retreat’s other women—a series of sinister events turns her focus to one of survival. When guests vanish, and a beast brutally attacks Celofaye, Nan learns of a cursed Creature of the sea intent on destroying them all. But the Creature is not the only one on the island who is cursed…

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT

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Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📁 CASE FILE: GAMA // QUERYING 📌 Location: Post-apocalyptic Switzerland 👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ #QuestPit #Q #A #RS #SFF

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Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A DEADLY EDUCATION x NANCY DREW What if the chosen one failed, and the only one who could save him was a magic school reject? NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy with dark academia and dystopian elements #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #MY #D

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J.J.W. Lovell (He/Him) @jjwlovell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEVERMOOR x TURNING RED x TREASURE PLANET Two tiny purple creatures told him he was a Druid. He didn’t believe them. He was wrong. 🐻 Shapeshifting 🐉 World Mythologies ⚔️ Found Family ✨ Portal Fantasy 🗝️ Hidden Heritage #Questpit #MG #F #Q

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sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. 📖 Pride & Prejudice x 🐦‍⬛ Howl's Moving Castle x 🪷 Graceling #Questpit #Q #YA #HFR #F #RF #HF #R #HR

A woman with large black wings attached to her shoulder blades.
Text: Pluck by Sierra Moeykens. Pride & Prejudice x Howl's Moving Castle x Graceling

An illustrated lady in a Regency era dress with large black wings over a ballroom background.

Text: The Pitch
Nineteen-year-old Lucy Korvas has worse problems than complying with high society’s tedious etiquette — she must steal a diamond necklace from the Duchess of Thistal, or her cursed father will perish.
In an alternate, magical Regency era where ladies and gentlemen with improper magic are shunned from high society, Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow wings beneath her dresses for years, but tonight she risks exposing them to save her cursed father. She needs that diamond necklace to afford his cure. How dastardly it is, then, when she discovers soft-spoken Lord Simon pilfering his own mother’s jewelry first.
But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, Lucy slowly transforms into a crow and Simon starts dissolving into flower petals. Lucy must find a cure while posturing as the presentable, composed lady that she isn't before she loses her cursed father, the shy gentleman she's becoming smitten with, and her humanity.

Three transparent symbols, a heart, a scroll, and a banner, with lists in each symbol. The background is a photo of white feathers.

Text: Romance. Slow-burn & Yearning. Cinnamon Roll x Chaotic Flirt. Touch-Starved. He Falls First. Historical. Witty Regency banter. Literal Ladybird (she's transforming into a crow). Dukes, Duchesses, and Pirates. Fantasy. Repressed Magic. Curses. Magical flowers with restorative properties.

Three book covers with an arrow under each of them describing their properties. The background is a photo of a lotus.

Text: Comps. A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Dry humor and witty voice. Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Accessible, creative world-building & magic. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. Regency romance with an abundance of yearning.

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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE BONE SEASON x THE 100 but with MAGIC🪄 🏜️post-collapse earth (desert + bioluminescent cave city) 🌌 fish-out-of-water 🌱environmental themes ⚡️found family 🔮body magic 🖤forced proximity + slow burn ✨emotional awakening #questpit #q #a #f #sff #d #amquerying #agentsguide

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