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Loretta Kate @lkate-montierth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m gonna need someone to slap me the next time I write my OWN NEURODIVERGENCE into my manuscript years before I even get the official diagnosis 🤦🏼 Jesus CHRIST!!!!! #amquerying #sapphicfantasy

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Loretta Kate @lkate-montierth.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It’s been a while since I’ve been on here consistently, #WritingCommunity, but I need to jump back in. Anyone out there?????? I’m working on revisions for a previous manuscript and miss the community!!!!

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Loretta Kate @lkate-montierth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I’ve had a few full rejections/revise and resubmits that mentioned the same thing, but until yesterday’s, I wasn’t sure how to fix it. I know I can resubmit when she opens again, but it’s hard not to feel like the opportunity is dead. I wish I’d revised earlier… #amquerying

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Letty Sharpe - Pitch Account @lettysharpepitches.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

✨VEILED ENCHANTMENTS✨ All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic and status she has been denied. Sapphic subplot! #QueerPit #YA #F

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Mason T. Matchak @masontmatchak.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Two desperate women fleeing imprisonment. Two draconic artifacts bonded to them. A group of thieves who'll help them escape. A powerful noble who'll do anything to get them back. A secret that could ruin them. A bond that could save them. In a city where the sun never rises. #QueerPit #F #A #LGBT

A nine-panel square mood board to promote a book. Upper left square: blue fire on a black background. Upper middle square: the moon, barely visible behind clouds. Upper right square: dark pink scales. Middle left square: a blue-haired woman tying back her ponytail with a determined look on her face. Middle square: two hands held in silhouette in front of the sunset. Middle right square: a pink-haired woman with her hair partly braided and a downcast look on her face. Lower left square: blue scales. Lower middle square: a cluster of white candles, partially melted together. Lower right square: pink crystals viewed up close.

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Marcela Marquez is *Agented* @marcimarquez.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Tropes/Themes: 🪲 Endearing gay panic 🕷️ Challenges female stereotypes 🪲 Toxic mean mommies 🕷️ Witch coven politics 🪲 Hispanic, lesbian FMC 🕷️ Spooky island resort 🪲 Villain in vain of Beetlejuice 🕷️ Only one bed 👀 #QueerPit #A #F #H #R #Q

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leona has an agent✨🦋 @leonahwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Olena has spent her whole life hiding, but the woods call upon her true self. 🌞missing someone you barely knew 🪻luck, betrayal, longing 🕷️bone & nature magic 🪻a band of magical misfits 🌞who are you when no one is looking? here’s some reader reviews! #QueerPit #agented

dark green background with white text reading “READER REVIEWS of The Bone Collector”
review from taylor: "...like Once Upon a Broken Heart, but different? More death.
Darker. Narnia too for the young adult adventures."
- taylor
review from suzanne: "I f-ing love bone collector, i really do.
Can't wait to give it to my (hypothetical)
baby." -suzanne
review from mina: "imagine being FIFTEEN, an illegitimate PRINCESS, whose father pits you against your brothers, with a DEADLY disease around, and you experience GAY panic at the first pretty girl to look at you, and you have to go on a QUEST while on your FIRST PERIOD... i'd end it"
- mina
olena is in the bottom right corner: a very pale 15 year old girl who looks incredibly tired. she has dark hair under a silk scarf that’s covered in art of lions and dragonflies. she’s wearing a dark blue cloak and dark dress and is fiddling with a bone.

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Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It's 1996 & Betsy is a pissed off old starlet stuck inside a moldy mannequin doing time in Vintaged, an antique store in small town America. 18 yo closeted lesbian Roxy is about to find out exactly how vengeful Betsy is. And how badly she wants a new body. #QueerPit #Q #F #H #A

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Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜 @celticxpanda.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

SILVER IN THE BONE X SAILOR MOON 👑 Reincarnated King Arthur, but make it Magical Girl 👑 Knights of the Round Table as Magical Weapons 👑 Trans boy Merlin? Trans boy Merlin 👑 All myths are true, and they’re coming to kick Mordred’s ass #QueerPit #NA #F

A moodboard featuring art by SandraGHart, an image of a sword stuck in a stone, ancient books, peach roses, a crown, and the Scottish Highlands

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James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother whilst finding love on a road trip to find members of his estranged uncle's 80's drag collective. With her past set to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #QueerPit #CON #A

A graphic poster that is split in half, with a yellow background on the left and a pink background on the right. In the centre are a pair of dark drag queen eyes, with the title EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS underneath. At the bottom is the text "an outrageous adult lgbtq+ road trip romcom looking for editors: on submission this September". Four names of characters are in blue at the top of the cover: Harri Forrester, Jack Montague, Wilma Dickfit, Princess Thigh-Ana

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Ali Z @alizagame.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Brooke isn't just searching for her missing secret girlfriend, Leah. She's searching for the pastor's daughter in a cult-like church that seems determined to deny her very existence. She's fighting for her love. And her sanity. #QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying

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Fay Irwin (pen name) @fantasyscience.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

She was supposed to be a farmer, not a mage. #QueerPit #A #F #Q #AmQuerying

The Ember and the Crown
In a world where magic follows the rules of science, Seya’s brings inanimate objects to life. Now she’s trying to prevent a war while dealing with mind-controlling mages, complicated romantic entanglements, and political intrigue. Oh, and an angry blanket intent on murder.

Comps and Vibes
- unique magic system
- relatedly awkward heroine
- sentient objects
- royals, spies, mages, and chickens
- from zero to competent

Images of Naomi Novik's Uprooted ("heroine with unexpected, quirky magic) and Hanna Nicole Maehrer's Assistant to the Villan ("a fast-paced, hilarious romp")

First Lines
Seya strode through the palace as though she belonged; just another servant scurrying to do her master’s bidding. She had no idea what palace servants looked like, or whether they’d scurry, but pretending helped keep her mind off more pressing issues, such as – for example – her impending death.

Themes and Tropes (often subverted)
- strong heroine
- finding one's place
- underdog hero
- forbidden romance
- love triangle
- arranged marriage
- Not enough bedrolls

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Loretta Kate @lkate-montierth.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

FOR SHE IS WRATH X ARCANE Two sisters, one a bloodthirsty legend come to life, the other a trophy in a gilded cage, converge on the same path: vengeance on the man who has controlled their lives for too long. Success for one, means the end of the other. #QueerPit #FR #A #NA

From top left to right: ocean cliffside with black birds flying in mist, a broken and gray statue of a human with waving hair and an agonized expression on their face, an open mouth with full lips and sharp teeth.
From center left to right: a woman with wet long dark hair pulling herself from a raging ocean, a woman holding up another woman’s chin.
From bottom left to right: a woman crouched in an offensive position with a double bladed staff held behind her and long blonde hair flying around her, a stone mask being lifted from wide and terrified eyes, an ornate palace staircase with intricate stone work and columns surrounded by gardens.

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Loretta Kate @lkate-montierth.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Haven’t been on here for a while, but I think #queerpit might be the time to resurrect!!! Who wants to swap support??? #amquerying

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Loretta Kate @lkate-montierth.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hel’s father sold her to the devil, so she bartered the only thing she had left: her soul. Now she owes the heathen gods a blood debt and it’s almost fulfilled. Then nothing, not her father, his God, or his devil, will survive her vengeance. #Questpit #Agentsguide #Q #F #A #NA #LGBT #R

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

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

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

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Viola Grace @viola-grace.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In Chicago, 1929, a math genius living in a crime syndicate’s luxury hotel allies with an investigative duo to solve a series of murders, while secretly pursuing her own revenge. ☠️ campy & dark 🃏secret codes & speedy chases 🍸found family, settings as characters, murder & more! #questpit #Q #MY #A

Picture collage includes a man walking away from a burning building, a girl doing math in a chalkboard, a red glowing neon sign that says “hotel”, a table with playing cards and an alcohol bottle, text that reads the title of the book: “What Are The Chances”, red dice, a grand hotel lobby staircase, an old fashioned bar with green walls and velvet red chairs, and an ace of spades pinned to a table with a knife.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

THE GODS OF ATLANTIS ATLA x The Selection When Mireia is chosen as the new avatar of the sea goddess, her simple life is upended. Now she & her alleged true love, the boy chosen as the sun god, must face a storm of politics & religion that threatens to destroy the land itself. #Questpit #YA #F

Atlantis Moodboard featuring:
Ancient board games, temples with waterfalls pouring into pools, neat ancient fantasy cities, forehead kisses, frolicking in canals amid a palace, beautiful island coastlines, more ancient cities, and cool statues of strange gods.
Center Quote: “From the day you left this village, you became more than merely yourself. You are the Sea Mother. This is the role fate has placed upon you. I told you when you left that I believed this path has opened up to you for a reason. I still believe that. You’ve been given a chance that few others ever have—the chance to change the world for the better. I’d even dare say it’s your duty to do so, now that you have the means.”

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. 💙📚 #questpit #PR #Q #writing

Agent guide to I Am Chosen, an M/M paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. The picture is of a fiery orange and purple sunset over a highway. Photography by Dawn Berkoski

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

Photo is of a vibrant sunset over a graveyard as seen from the window of a fast moving vehicle.

It reads: PITCH

IN A WORLD CONTROLLED BY CORPORATE VAMPIRES, TWO MEN STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY. WILL A CHANCE MEETING
LEAD THEM TO FREEDOM, OR A WEB OF SUBTERFUGE, WHERE EVERY THREAD BRINGS A MONSTER OFFERING DEATH OR PERMANTENT CONFINEMENT?

Photo by Dawn Berkoski

Book vibes are all about the feel of the writing, setting, and story.

The Blue Blood Series by Melissa de la Cruz Is used to represent the wealthy elite vampires living in New York, the fish out of water trope, dark secrets, and others.

The Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice is used to represent young vampires rebelling against old rules and customs. Travel and setting also play a role. A plot point was inspired by the novel.

Yakuza, Japan’s Criminal Underworld by David Kaplan and Alec Dubro, is used to represent some of the vampire rivals business practices. It plays a role in the series arch.

Photography at the bottom: A dark cement staircase and photo of the London Eye by Dawn Berkoski

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

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

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

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

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nandini: querying💌 @naaanwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

SIX OF CROWS x THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS A grieving god. A dethroned Rajkumari. A broke gambler. A doomed demon. A convicted healer. An exploited vishkanya. In return for money & a safe space, they agree to steal the crown that obeys the god. It is impossible & failure causes death. #questpit #ya #q

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Jennifer Helen @jhelenwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A STUDY IN DROWNING x A LANGUAGE OF DRAGONS an enchanted dragon flame ravages two countries & rival dragon scholar & son of dragon slayers ally to find a cure. but an occult group wants the flame, too, forcing them to choose: save each other or burn. #questpit #ya #f #w

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

NAUSICAA X FF7 A young woman is blessed with magic that could restore life to a dying world. Allied with a mentor who thinks the world should burn, a ruthless noble with her own agenda, and an enigmatic prince, she must evade enemies and learn if she is meant to save the world. #A #F #W #QuestPit

A foggy street. A vintage dress. A gas mask. Legs on rocky ground. A silhouette of a man and woman. Flowers in sunlight.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for. #QuestPit #A #F #W #LGBT

Moodboard 3 by 3 grid of images:
A hand proffering a red apple with a snake coiling around both
A couple in the dark lit only by a match lighting a cigarette between them
A man in a business suit offering his hand
A long chain pulled taught seeming chained to the viewer
A crude pentagram drawn on asphalt with pink Disney Princess chalk and one dollar tea lights lit at each point
A businessman staring at his shadow which has horns and a tail
A man crouched in a cave weeping hiding from the light outside
A man in a white suit and a man in a black suit stand back to back and clasp hands
An hourglass rapidly running out of sand with a skull resting atop it

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Rebecca Linam @rebecca-linam.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#questpit #AG #OS #Humor Anna, 29, is single and content, but in Regency England, a freckled face and red hair don't exactly scream, "Marry me." If she can marry off her pretty younger sister, though, maybe her mom will stop the horrible matchmaking. 72000 words spice: sweet

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

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

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

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jr white @justjrwhite.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

OLIVER TWIST x THE MATRIX. Dancing on a High Wire - a cyber fantasy. A high wire star in the circus, she couldn’t want anything more. Then one night, she is tricked away and trapped. Now she must learn new skills to escape. #questpit #YA #querying

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Presenting to the #questpit & #writingcommunity crew… Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ⚡️ Kingdom of the Wicked x Crescent City ♥︎Led by a sassy, 'shadow mommy' FMC 🫶🏼Fresh take on Romantasy 🪞#MiddleEasternRep 🚨Fills that Xaden-shaped hole in your life #agentsguide #RF #Q #NA #writersky

ELECTRIC SEXUAL TENSION.
Excerpt reads: There's a possessiveness in how he touches me and I wish I hated it.
"How would you punish me?" I breathe out, unable to control my impulses.
Fingers touch my zip as he slowly slips it down, millimetre by millimetre. My body is completely in his thrall, unable to decipher the beat of my heart from the thump of the speaker's bass.
Cloudy background with one half of a lightning bolt

MORALLY-GREY IS THE COLOUR OF CHOICE...
Two moodboards with information about the two main characters

INCLUDES TOP TIER TROPES...
Four book comparisons: Crescent City, Kingdom of the Wicked, Book of Azrael, Quicksilver with tropes attached
The other half of a lightning bolt with a cloudy background

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #agentguide Three gay witches. One talking plant. Three months. WICKED X ROMEO AND JULIET X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - grumpy x sunshine - coming-of-age - emotional regulation/autism rep - #ownvoices trans, lesbian, and autistic - talking plant - actually sapphic

YA Sapphic Cozy Fantasy - 72k A Harmony of Witches Agent Guide

Pitch - Tired of killing every plant she touches, a grumpy, transfemme garden witch works with an abused music witch from a rival coven to learn a different magic casting style; but when an autistic meltdown about her identity turns the ancient flower she’s been entrusted sentient, the garden witch must learn to regulate her emotions before her evolving magic exposes the scandal and sparks a long-repressed war between the two covens, tearing the girls apart.

Comp titles- inspiration = wicked, little shop of horrors, romeo and juliet; vibes - flowerheart, the undertaking of hart and mercy, the mudpuddle manual of natural magic, practical magic; tropes - this poison heart, the witch and the vampire, cemetery boys

Of all the obvious ways I’m different from my peers, my garden magic ability is the most notable. Magic is, of course, matrilineal, so I have my mother to thank for that, much as the thanks would upset her. As I just turned eighteen, my dear mother has given me two options, repeated daily in her shrill, discomforting voice: “Get into Witch University or find a job in the human world.” Today is my last gambit. If I mess this up, it’s straight to the workforce for me. Leaning against my yellow-painted picnic table, I take a deep, steadying breath, glancing around the garden in front of my house. Unseasonable cherry blossoms rustle in the frozen winter wind, carrying the prickling scent of my mother’s harsh magic into my nose. It’s no freshly-mown grass, like my brother Fern’s, but it’s certainly activating: citrus with a splash of pepper. It’s the smell that tells me to ‘get a fucking move on already.’ So I will.

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Azi is revising a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @aziossman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST 🕌 Golden Age Islamic astronomy setting 💔 Friends to Enemies 🪓 Teen magicless mentor 🌊 Elemental hard magic system 🔇 Disability, ND, illiteracy rep 🍵 Uncle Iroh-like figure (he's an 8 ft. tall statue) #QuestPit #YA #F #W

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

SixofCrowsxANASTASIA 6 years after her kidnapping & mind-erasing, a convict works w a scholar & a shapeshifter to steal an item to heal their sister But when her memories return, she finds her kidnappers during the heist & must choose between ruthless revenge & the sister #QuestPit #W #F #AgentGuide

A Guide to
Dust We Shall Return
An Anastasia Retelling
Fantasy Heist
By Marceline Greyfield

A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact to save her best friend’s life.
But when the scholar uncovers Nara’s memories of her kidnappers, the duo finds them in the city with the artifact’s powerful owner, and Nara must decide if vengeance is more important than the lives of everyone around her.
Including hers.

Themes and tropes
Tri POV (F/M/NB)
Physically disabled FMC (#OWN)
Soft and sassy MMC
Nonbinary vampiric shapeshifter MC
Ensemble cast
Found family
A wedding and a ritual
Unique magic system
Sibling bonds
E2L Second chance romance
Religious machinations
Twisty, slowly revealed backstories

Comps:
Six of Crows: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot
Anastasia: Anastasia retelling (if she hunted down the people who ruined her life)
Memento: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge
Piranesi: Mazes and memory magic featuring distrustful allies

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Emily is QUERYING a romantic fantasy and writing romantasy 🐉 @emhenn921.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

If you love: 🐉accessible magic 🐉friends to enemies to lovers 🐉palace intrigue 🐉feminine rage 🐉Viking vibes 🐉one dragon this is for you! #questpit #W #romantasy

Raegan, an aspiring mage, is forced to give up her dream of protecting the realm after the king betroths her to Prince Arlon, the boy who broke her heart the night her mother perished. As Arlon’s icy exterior thaws, Raegan learns the true nature of his cold shoulder, and with time the walls around her heart begin to crumble. But with war looming across the sea and secrets around every palace corner, Raegan must choose between trusting the boy she loved, and protecting her heart and fleeing for good.

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m 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

After ten years of not speaking, exes (and pretentious New York transplants) Jasper and Brett return to Lac Étoile for a wedding, only to find they can't stay away from each other. Brett has secrets. Jasper gets vicious when she's hurt. Is their love worth the pain of the journey? #questpit #q

fake wedding website: photo of woman jumping on man by a lake

None of This
Was Real
Adult Contemporary Romance | 84,000 words

Jasper was 16 when Brett’s family bought the summer home next to hers. They fell in love and had two lovely summers together before tragedy struck, their families fought, and the relationship ended dramatically.

Ten years later, Jasper’s sister is getting married, and the two will be reunited for the first time. The week between Christmas and New Year’s in the mountains, they realize their feelings are still there, but the trust isn’t. He’s got secrets, and she’s vicious when she gets hurt.

Is getting back together a good idea or will disaster ensue with a wedding caught in the crossfire?
And they were neighbors.

photos of couples: man throwing woman playfully off dock, hugging in water, hugging and spinning around by a mountain with their respective captions
A summer to remember
A summer to forget
A love that never died,
but might not survive the winter

You're probably wondering...
What other books are similar?
Like Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, this novel is a second chance romance with two timelines set by a lake. Like Seven Summers by Paige Toon, this novel is an emotional love story with women’s fiction crossover potential. The characters have a turbulent, twin flame relationship like Connell and Marianne from Normal People.
What is unique about this story?
The setting! This book takes place in the Quebec Laurentian mountains, about 90 minutes north of Montreal, a great place to swim in the summer and ski in the winter.
What romance tropes are in this story?
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
He falls first
What is the first line?
“Guess who I saw last night at a bodega?” Cassie asked me as soon as our fruity holiday drinks arrived at our table.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Slow Horses x Dark Matter When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #A #S #T #QuestPit #Q

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Slow Horses x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #A #S #T #QuestPit #Q #agentguide #litagents

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads:

An agent's guide to:
Out of Time
By Gert Ramm
Espionage/ Time Travel / Thriller

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads:

1972 has been a rough year for intelligence officer Eddie Fletcher, and it’s only January.

First he discovers the Cold War is really about time travel, then he’s framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster.

Sealing a lethal time rift is the only way to clear his name - much easier said than done when he’s being hunted by the british government.

Then there's a Russian spy on a mission so vital he’s travelled from 1997 to complete it.

Pitch:

Slow Horses X Time Travel

Dark blue background with time-delay image of the night-time stars. They resemble a tunnel. Text reads:

Comps:
Slough House Series (Mick Herron)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Gillian McAllister)
Four Minutes (Brian Andrews/Jeff Wilson)
Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)

TV Comps:
The Ipress File
Day of the Jackal
Life on Mars
Callan

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Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

STARLING HOUSE X CRIMSON PEAK Alloson & John are trapped in a ghostly limbo, where a haunted house & dark forces threaten to end them. Spirits come to life at a nightly ball, spinning a mystery they must solve before becoming ghosts themselves. #QuestPit #W #A #PR #H

A STAIRCASE WITH A WROUGHT-IRON RAILING IN FRONT OF A CRUMBLING BLUE WALL WITH TEXT THAT READS: A GUIDE TO ECHOES OF RADFIELD HALL, HEATHER CARTER

A STAIRCASE WITH A WROUGHT-IRON RAILING IN FRONT OF A CRUMBLING BLUE WALL WITH TEXT THAT READS: THE PITCH: ALLOSON AND JOHN ARE TRAPPED IN A DECREPIT MANSION THAT COMES TO LIFE NIGHTLY WITH A TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD BALL. AMID FLOODING ROOMS, DEMONIC LIONS, AND VIOLENT ENTITIES, THEY MUST BREAK THE CURSE OR BECOME GHOSTS THEMSELVES. COMPS: STARLING HOUSE X CRIMSON PEAK

A STAIRCASE WITH A WROUGHT-IRON RAILING IN FRONT OF A CRUMBLING BLUE WALL WITH TEXT THAT READS: THE TROPES: ADULT GOTHIC ROMANCE, AMNESIA, GHOSTS, TIME TRAVEL/LOOP, HORROR AND ROMANCE, FANTASY ELEMENTS, SPICE

A STAIRCASE WITH A WROUGHT-IRON RAILING IN FRONT OF A CRUMBLING BLUE WALL WITH TEXT THAT READS: OPENING LINES: I DRIFTED ON A STRANGE SEA BBETWEEN WORLDS. BLIPS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THEN? TRAPPED IN A NIGHTMARE OF CLAWS AND DARKNESS. YES, IT HAD TO BE A DREAM. THE HAZY EDGES AND ECHOING RUMBLES FILTERED THROUGH WHAT SHOULD'VE BEEN A HARSH LINE BETWEEN THE WAKING WORLD AND THE REALM OF SLEEP.

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Rissa Allen (is querying) @honeyscribbles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

AGGGTM X MARAUDERS ERA Lennie’s senior year captaining her XC team turns deadly when her ex-bff goes missing and she’s a suspect. Her only way out? Team up with nemesis Lysander, the boyfriend of the missing girl—and the last person to see her alive. #questpit #Q #YA #T

Moodboard modeled to look like a strings and pushpin evidence board. Includes labeled pictures of teens at school, at a cross country race, running, and almost kissing x also includes pictures of a hand drawn map, a misty atmospheric trail through the forest, and a swimming hole.

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Jenee Dutary @jeneedutary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A guy who’s never let himself be distracted by love falls for a girl who doesn’t believe in happily-ever-afters. 🩷 Meet cute 🩷Dual POV 🩷Learning-To-Love 🩷He Falls First 🩷Mental Health Rep 🩷Good boy/Bad girl 🩷Yearning 🩷Revenge - she plays the long game #QuestPit #W #RF #R

Variety of pictures marked with the character’s adventures.

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

ADADTxSOC A flirty rogue and a haughty noble on a dangerous quest must trust each other to get what they want most—power. 👁️reluctant allies-to-lovers 👁️sapphic love triangle (thief x princess x knight) 👁️vicious gods 👁️magic system centered around eyes #questpit #AG #F #A

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Haley ✨ @halphelan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

THE SPELLSHOPxLATE BLOOMER A witch, moonlighting as a lady knight, must team up w/ a human to save the ren faire 🪽 magical renaissance faire ✨ women in armor 🧚 meddling magical creatures 🔮 palm readings ⛅️ grumpy/sunshine 🔥 twin flames #questpit #F #R #lgbtq #AG #OS soon

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Juniper Woodbury @juniperwoodbury.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Imagine Tom & Zendaya, but he’s a vegan butcher & she’s a ruthless goddess Facing punishment after stealing from mortals (how was she supposed to know they expected payment?) a selfish muse tricks an innocent butcher into taking the fall for her... then ends up falling for him. #questpit #Q #A #RF

collage of ancient, fantasy and mythology images, including the back of a mysterious person's head looking at candles, two women in linen hoods one of them with her hand over her face and a black dot on her palm, the top of a mirror, a woman looking through ornate silver, an ancient courtyard through gossamer curtains, a snake slithering through sand, the sun seen through the horns of an ox, and two assyrian knives.

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Max is ✨querying✨ @mtaylorauthor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

HEARTLESS HUNTER x WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL She’s the last Dryad. His family steals Dryad magic. She must save her realm. He must save his father. They both need one thing. No one wins with a heart on the line #questpit #Q #YA #F

To save her realm and her people from extinction, lone Dryad, Eryna, must hide amongst human high society and play their twisted party games to take back the magic that was stolen from her land.

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Angie is ✨querying✨ @angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

An #agentsguide for AON When Tayah sees the Obsidian Hart, her fate unravels. Now she must uncover Ravensford’s forgotten history—before she’s the next to disappear 🖤Gothic Fantasy + Feminism 🏠Sentient House ❤️‍🔥Slow-burn Romance ✨Art as Magic #QuestPit #AF #R

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