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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm a Canadian Netgalley user and I just read the e-arcs in the Netgalley Reader app.
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
this is cute! going places!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
great hook!!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Now that's a mashup!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Nice pitch!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
spectacular concept!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Love the pet tropes!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
superfresh!!
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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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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You had me at cinnamon roll!
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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 GracelingAn 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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Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 To join her dream esports team, Cam let everyone assume she's a guy. Now all she has to do is survive the captain, who's sure she's the weak link — without falling for him first. #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying
Last Pick by Ruchi Dave is an e-sports romance novel, complete at 75k words. 

Cameron Day has always felt like a loser—except in the video game League of Champions, where she dominates. So when an esports team mistakes her for a guy and recruits her, she doesn’t correct them.

But to Jacob—their ruthless (and distractingly hot) captain who’s already seen one ex-teammate implode under pressure—she’s a risk they can’t afford. If she cracks, they all go down with her.

The only way forward is to prove she’s not a liability, but the key to pulling them out of freefall.

Contact the author at **@ruchi-writes on x or @ruchi-writes.bsky.social**Moodboard for Last Pick. Professional esports gamer vibes. Snippet for Last Pick

“The others got over it much sooner than you did.”

“I didn’t want to complicate things.”

“Why would I complicate things?”

“You know why.” He tucked a stray hair behind my ear, and my skin felt electric where his fingers brushed against me. I leaned into him as his hand slid to the nape of my neck, tilting my head toward his.

“What happened to keeping things professional?”

“This is professional,” he murmured. “Kevin and I do this all the time.”Comps and Tropes

- **enemies-to-lovers**
- **woman in a male dominated field**
- **Chaos GOBLIN HEROINE**
- **forced proximity**
- **underdog story**
- **impostor syndrome**
- **good intentions, bad decisions**

She’s the Man - **WOMAN PRETENDING TO BE A MAN IN A MALE DOMINATED SPORT (E-Sports)**

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace - **team captain/mentor who is convinced she’s a liability**

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - **fake-it-till-you-make-it energy**
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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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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Grazing the headlines. Nice.
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Beach. Also airplane on a six-hour flight.
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This looks like an amazing mashup
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I like this pitch!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This looks like a winner to me. Well written pitch!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Love your hook. Sets the tone!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Amazing first line!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This one sounds like a winner. Every time I see a story with a female FMC with a powerful career, part of me lives.
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
the cover alone! and yes to hope
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Love this - great comps and easily grasped stakes!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Females stepping into their power!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Love your comps and how you have them organized. Well done!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Love this! very fresh!
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M.B.Taylor - Fantasy Author @mbolt89.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BRIDGERTON X PRACTICAL MAGIC with the mystery and amateur sleuth vibes of ENOLA HOLMES When witches start disappearing from the Ton, Seraphina must unravel the mystery before she looses her reputation, her magical tea parlour and her missing best friend Primrose, forever. #SFF #W #MY #A #questpit
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yes yes yes. I love all of this! Adorably naughty! Great stakes!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Love this. Adorable video too!
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Love this. Seems fresh and saucy.
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lindalefler.bsky.social @lindalefler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A woman engineer goes back to the surprising roots of hustle culture. HAPPINESS MINUTES, my women's fiction novel-in-progress, has successful industrial engineer Annie, divorced and demoted, searching for answers in the life of a celebrated historical figure. #W #WF #questpit #lilliangilbreth
Happiness Minutes, by Linda Lefler. Women’s fiction with romance...
 It’s A Love Story x The Other Einstein in a Sullivan’s Crossing-feel townHappiness Minutes a Novel.  Annie, a successful engineer, just needs a promotion and raise after her ex fleeced her in the divorce. She already feels guilty for the motherhood sacrifices she made for her career, and 
when she’s demoted at work, it’s the last straw. 

As she faces her problems, Annie gets input from some unexpected sources: a long-dead engineering professor, and very-much-alive Sam, a recovered workaholic, who has come to town to make amends to his daughter for being an absentee father. 
Annie turns to a role model, Lillian Gilbreth, asking how she did it. Gilbreth (1878-1972); a real person, was an internationally renowned engineer who raised her eleven children as a widow in the 1920s-30s.  She coined the phrase “happiness minutes” – to be captured by scientifically reducing time spent on work. In this economy?

Meanwhile, tech bro Sam needs help babysitting his grandchildren when he has emergency surgery. He repays her with coaching for job interviews.

 Upside: a prestigious new job. Downside: she’ll sacrifice the budding romance. Can the insights gleaned from Lillian, Sam and her loyal friends, help Annie to capture her own happiness minutes? 
About me
I am passionate about   promoting women in STEM fields (and how they show  up in literature). 
I’m completing an MFA in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I enjoy “happiness minutes” in retirement from my own engineering career
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