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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

EAT HIS HEART OUT is currently querying! If any literary agents seeking paranormal romance, speculative and/or grounded fantasy romance see this, I can send it right away 💌 😈 she’s a demon, he’s human 🗽NY setting ⚡️ forced proximity 🛋️ therapy + migraines rep 🌶️ open door spice 🩸a lil gore

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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EAT HIS HEART OUT — an urban paranormal romance 🏙️🫀 📝 88k words 😈 demon princess x human accountant 🗽NY setting ⚡️ forced proximity ❄️ Hell is freezing 🛋️ therapy + migraines rep 🌶️ open door spice 🩸a lil gore 👉 A Match Made in Hell x Enchanted #QuestPit #Q #A #R #PR

Poster for L.V. Oaks’ paranormal romance Eat His Heart Out. Pictured are New York in the background and a hand with red nail polish holding an anatomical heart.

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Nina Castle @castlemantra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

UGLIES X 50 SHADES In her tiny apartment w/ her dying uncle, May survives on food cubes & dreams of her crush. While HealthCo's raffle claims “health & beauty in a pill,” she has better odds of stealing them from the CEO's playboy son. And zero chance of losing her 🩷 to him. #Questpit #Q #A #D #R

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Allison Wall @awritingwall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

After twenty years, two ex-bffs are thrust together to recall their forgotten magical abilities and fix their childhood mistake: keep the dragon eggs they buried in their middle school playground from hatching and devastating the world. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #U #LF

Mood board showing: a hand reaching over a golden lake, a crystal cave, a clear orb resting in dirt, a ghostly dragon, the title of the novel: What We Buried.

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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Exuberant demon princess Crystel needs to eat five hearts to become human, but will her jaded mortal companion Ben help with her quest before she gets dragged back down to Hell? 😈 88k words pnr romance 🔥 dual pov + open door 🗽 NY setting ✨ A Match Made in Hell x Enchanted #QuestPit #Q #A #R #PR

A purple-toned moodboard consisting of various images inspired by Eat His Heart Out, a paranormal romance currently querying. The text reads the title, “hell was boring” and the author’s name. There’s an image of a winged woman, a hand over an ancient book, a man cooking and working with a calculator, a silhouette of a couple kissing and a New York building.

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES X AGATHA ALL ALONG When a man awakens an ancient evil, a coven of immortal witches, who came together after surviving various witch trials, must decide if they want to save the world or let it burn. #QuestPit #WIP #F #A #H

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Heists, spice and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal dark hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF #SFF

The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel

A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer

Representation Christi Cardenas

Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

omantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.”
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of the three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

#AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV.

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trang ☆ writer @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SIX OF CROWS x JADE CITY When her mentor goes missing Gemna joins forces w/ fellow mage Ren to unravel the connection b/w the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages aren’t just outlawed…but wiped from existence. #QuestPit #AG #F art by nathcreare

a blue and yellow toned sketch of a woman and a man standing back to back. she is looking towards the front and he’s gazing off to the side. the characters have Asian features and look serious / unsmiling. over the images is the text CONDUCT OF MAGES, Adult Fantasy, Complete at 99K, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management

on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, a navy blue rectangle contains the text “When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.”

the words THE PITCH, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management are at the bottom of the slide

at the top of the slide, a search bar graphic says “CONDUCT OF MAGES”

on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, a navy blue rectangle contains the text “energy magic, heists & scheming, found family, research subplot, slow burn, female role models, SE Asian setting”

the words THE VIBES, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management are at the bottom of the slide

at the top of the slide, a search bar graphic says “CONDUCT OF MAGES”

on a pale yellow / blue swirl backdrop, six book covers are shown: Blood Over Bright Haven, Jade City, Six of Crows, Jasad Heir, Foundryside, an Heartless Hunter

the words THE COMPA, represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management are at the bottom of the slide

at the top of the slide, a search bar graphic says “CONDUCT OF MAGES”

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Samara Wilde @auroraaesthetik.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE FIFTH SEASON x THE JASMINE THRONE A runaway slave wielding the godly magic of storms & a spirit-bound bounty hunter race to escape their country on a precarious alliance forged on vengeance. Together, they discover the world-shattering lie the Blessed Dominion was built on. #SFF #A #R #QuestPit

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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

❄️ Clara ❄️ #YA Holiday #Fantasy ❄️ Witchy Nutcracker retelling Clara and a trio of misfits will travel the world to find the magical gift stolen from her at this year’s Yule Ball. And it’s not just a doll this time. It’s the only thing keeping the darkness INSIDE the Sugar Plum Forest. #Q #QuestPit

Woman holding lantern with text from the book: By the time the three were pulling themselves onto one of the lighted sailboats, the calls of Captain Nicholas and Mother Ginger were soft in the night wind. The lighthouse was free of its cursed shackles, now peacefully sinking to the bottom of the Aegean Sea.

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Jen DiArenzo - 🧜🏼‍♀️ Fantasy Author @jendiarenzo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NO TIME WASTED Little Mermaid X Upon a Starlit Tide X Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries “A witch’s bargain brings them to the same realm, but failure brings them together.” Querying this summer 2026! #QuestPit #A #FR #W #RF

Agent Guide for romantasy NO TIME WASTED

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k gothic coming-of-age story with a dual POV My Darling Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society 🖤An heir 🖤A monster 🖤An ancient curse 🖤Scottish Highlands 🖤Familial exploitation 🖤Emotional & physical isolation 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #HF #PR #QuestPit

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⋆ ˖ jamie scanlon ☕︎ ⋆ ˖ is querying @jscanwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #Q #F #RF #NA ⚔️🥀GOLDSPINNER 🥀⚔️ ❄️ fae domain of eternal winter 🥀 forbidden/doomed romance 🔮 magically binding deals and bargains 🌲 royal court intrigue 🪡 fate based magic system

Text: An Agent’s Guide to GOLDSPINNER by Jamie M. Scanlon
110k words | NA Romantic Fantasy
Background: woman facing away, standing on balcony of gothic castle

The Pitch: When the love of her life disappears, a college student must follow his trail from our world into a fae forest of eternal frost and rescue him before the young, power-hungry king who's set his sights on her decimates all she cares for.

Queen in a ballgown holding a sword aloft.
Text: Maddox is gone. And I am undone.

The Comp Titles: The Knight and the Moth (jaw-dropping twists & knights), The Everlasting (lyrical prose & yearning), The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (portal leading to eternal winter world)

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 🏰dark 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 ~querying soon~ #questpit #rf #w #ya

"The Blood of Zellandine Agent's Guide" written in cream against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"The Pitch After waking from a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic." written in navy on a cream background against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"The Details a YA sleeping beauty reimagining 98000 words grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, goblins, monsters, and fae, deaf MCC + ASL, animal companion, Tangled-coded, themes of self-forgiveness and autonomy, horror elements" written in navy on a cream background against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"Comps" written in cream against a starry sky surrounded by treetops with the covers of Heartless Hunter, Never Ever After, and For the Wolf with arrows pointing from the words dual-pov romance, forced proximity, magical creatures, fairytale reimagining, enchanted forest

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Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE CINNAMON COVENANT 🌊🏴‍☠️🐈 NA Nautical Romantasy 🩶 OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean Aria shares affection like second nature; Cal, touch-starved and stigmatised for his vitiligo, has never known it at all. How far will he go to make sure she stays afloat? #Q #NA #A #RF #F #R #QuestPit

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Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 108k NA Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance ✔️ Cosy Romance + Deadly Stakes #Q #NA #A #RF #F #R #QuestPit

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Sierra Janae (Farrare) | Fantasy Author @bysierrajanae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SAINTBORN | 93k | FANTASY ROMANCE AVATAR x SHADOWHUNTERS In a world where the Saints are the source of all magic and power, a powerless thief discovers she is the heir to a Saint that shouldn't exist—and becomes the truth an empire will destroy to protect. #Q #RF #QuestPit

Dark fantasy graphic featuring a stone angel statue with wings and a halo holding a spear, layered over a textured black background with a cream paint stroke. Large gold serif text reads “SAINTBORN.”

Fantasy novel synopsis graphic with gold serif title text reading “THE PITCH” over a dark floral and marble statue background. White text reads: When magicless thief Aurenna Taerwyn steals a relic from the capital’s most secure vault, she triggers a forbidden power, and sparks a vision of a massacre. The Saints the empire worships didn’t ascend; they were murdered in an empire-sanctioned genocide. Now, as an ambitious Magistrate moves to bury the secret, Aurenna discovers she’s not just holding a truth—she’s found the genocide’s only survivor. To liberate him, Aurenna must master the chaotic magic she was never meant to have and decide if she’s willing to burn down an empire to do what's right, even if she burns with it. Highlighted phrases include “forbidden power” and “sanctioned genocide.” "Burns with it" is circled. Atmospheric dark fantasy vibe.

Fantasy book comparison graphic titled “THE COMPS” in large gold serif lettering. Two fantasy novels are displayed against a glowing cathedral-like background: The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino and Godkiller by Hannah Kaner.

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Rue Brixton @ruebrixton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🔅One hot summer. 🎶Two desperate musicians. 💍Sixty-three fucking weddings. HIGH STRUNG, an 82k steamy contemporary romance. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #AmQuerying

orange pink back ground with moon-like circle and graphic of male/female couple. Text: High Strung. Trope arrows: exasperation at first sight. He falls so hard he seeks medical attention. A cat named Violence. Annoyance-to-lovers. Revenge mustache. Everybody know but them (because they're idiots)

orange pink back ground with moon-like circle. Text: High Strung. The pitch: a tightly wound cellist books sixty-three Napa Valley wedding gigs in one summer to save her family home, but when a famously chaotic composer lies his way into her quartet because he secretly believes she's his muse, their combustible rhythm threatens her plans, his career--and both their hearts. Comp books are The -Commers by Katherine Center. Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto. The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

four pictures, A center circle that is pink-orange with text that reads: from top left: a marble hand squeezing a marble thigh, a meme with text that says You're invited to suffer with a join button. Hot man and hot woman kissing, a hand dipping in water.

Center pink-orange-purple circle says The Characters. upper left, hot guy in nice suit holding a violin, below him is a pull quote: A moment passed between us, her eyes dark velvet. I was in trouble. Cold Nanette? i could handle. Hot Nanette? I was learning to cope. But warm Nanette would break me. Upper right is beautiful woman playing cello. below her is pull quote: Before luca, I thought i knew everything there was to know about myself, seen all the way to the edges of who I was. But now I wondered if there was a different Nanette, lurking just beyond the border of should. A good girl, who wanted to do bad girl things.

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j.m. avants @jmavants.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE x FRIEREN When her father disappears, Sav must navigate the aftermath: her village’s abandonment, her mother's blame, and her own depression. Entering a magical tourney to win audience with a powerful mage might restore her people’s faith…or break her own. #QuestPit #A #F #W

A moodboard showing a celestial sphere, starry skies over a forest, and a hooded woman.

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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 🧔 Middle-aged Dad Ensemble 🎲 TTRPG Nerds 😱 Co(s)mic Horror 🤔 But also Mystery 👻 Supernatural Folklore 🏰 Victorian Manor 🌙 Dark & Stormy Night 🤟 Final Dad #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Dis #Q #OS #AgentsGuide #AgentGuide

Top left: distressed title “DAD BODIES” with a dagger through the letters and red blood splatter on a black background.
Top right: blurb text describing five dads solving their detective friend’s murder during a gaming retreat using TTRPG experience and humor; includes “74K words,” “20+ requests,” and “Big 5 interest.”
Bottom left: thematic keywords in red and white—“dad friends,” “irreverent humor,” “dark & stormy night,” “cosmic horror,” and “final dad”—above silhouettes of figures with X-shaped eyes.
Bottom right: comparison panel referencing “John Dies at the End,” “Cabin in the Woods,” and “Jumanji,” with small images/posters and red splatter accents.

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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

First year university. Add in: -A not-so-secret crush -Housing that's never quiet, empty or drama-free -A drunken confession she can’t take back -Her first sapphic date/dating disaster. All on an anxiety overloaded brain. Lucy’s fine. Stop asking. #QuestPit #Q #YA #LGBT

Poster. Top image is of young woman with hands covering face. Text overlaid states: First year university, housemate drama, sapphic crushes, anxiety overwhelm.

Middle contains text: YA contemporary by Michelle Ogilvy. Fine Means Stop Asking.

Bottom image is of a group of friends all putting on a smile for a group photo. Overlaid text reads: A story about keeping yourself together, or at least convincing everyone you are.

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Nina Castle @castlemantra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

UGLIES X 50 SHADES OF GREY He's teaching her the art of seduction so she can win her best friend's affections. She's trying to steal HealthCo's miracle pills from his billionaire father. There's no place for love in a war of power and control...or, is there? #Questpit #Q #A #D #R

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

'Hat' - 84K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature
moon stuff
Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. 13 Months Haunted

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000’s setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings #questpit #W #A #NA #R

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

Forbidden Romance.
High Society Match Making.
European Setting.
Slow Burn.
Love VS Duty.
Black Swan-esque Awakening.
Masquerade Ball.
2000’s Setting.
Obsessive Yearning.
Secret Lake Meetings.

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
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And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k standalone adult gothic bildungsroman with a dual POV If Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray had a baby in the Scottish Highlands, this would be it. 🖤 An heir 🖤 A monster 🖤 An ancient curse 🖤 A haunted portrait 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #QuestPit

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Brayden Russell @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ultra-wealthy guests must “atone” for their greed at a remote resort designed by the very people who prop them up, in a story with a Midsommar-style cult at a White Lotus–style luxury resort, blending dark social satire and rich people behaving badly. #q #a #h #r #lf #questpit

ultra-wealthy guests must “atone” for their greed at a remote resort designed by the very people who prop them up, in a story with a Midsommar-style cult at a White Lotus–style luxury resort, blending dark social satire and rich people behaving badly.

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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️) @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HEATED RIVALRY X STAR SHIPPED 🎪 After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🤸 #amquerying #questpit #Q #R

Cover with acrobats titled “Bend Over Backwards”

Pitch - after vincent’s acro partner is banned from their vegas-themed circus show, he’s forced to create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. cole’s flashy hand-to-hand stunts and throws are fine for television, but his aggressive style clashes with vincent’s controlled contortion and fear of falling. vincent plans to escape by auditioning for his dream circus company, but the closer he gets to cole, the more reason he has to stay.

List of tropes including rivals to lovers, found family, and only one bed

List of comp titles including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Ayishah Hasni is ✨AGENTED✨ @ayishahhasni.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

✅Find a magical, moving island ✅Give a princess private lessons in piracy ✅Rescue her fiance ✅Avoid being eaten by monsters on the Indian Ocean ❌Fall in love ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES is a retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor if it were YA & enemies to lovers #questpit #Q

Kiraal character aesthetic with whales, pirate flags, pirate ships, treasure chests, telescopes, and maps.

Princess Jiya aesthetic with an island, mermaids, ships, an Indian palace, horses, and peacocks.

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

TELL ME AN ENDING x THE ONE x STATION 11 #QuestPit #W #a #lf #t #s Hungry for money, 4 artists join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their heads & the scientists behind it vanish, the 4 must untangle the case—or face permanent brain damage LLL Cheshire & Ascent Novel Prize

An evocative moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following:
- first column: two drawings of human brains and an MRI machine
- second column: a starling among blossoms, a dramatic frog statuette, a hand grasping forget-me-nots
- third column: photos and a camera, art and brushes, a person holding a memory card

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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Updated ✨Agent Guide✨ A runaway demon princess seeks the help of a jaded accountant to collect and eat the five hearts that will allow her to become human and bid Hell goodbye in EAT HIS HEART OUT, an urban paranormal romance completed at 88k words 🫀 #questpit #Q #A #R #PR

Two hands with sharp nails hold an anatomical heart with New York in the background. The text reads An Agent’s Guide to Eat His Heart Out, an 88k words urban paranormal romance

a plum background with some snowflakes, in the front a list of tropes and themes such as forced proximity and grey morality, then the pitch for Eat His Heart Out

A snippet from an emotionally intense scene in Eat His Heart Out

Comparative titles for Eat His Heart Out including A Match Made in Hell, Disney’s Enchanted

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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Howdy! I’m L.V. Oaks, and I write primarily paranormal and contemporary romance, but I’m also working on a romantasy project! I’m currently querying Eat His Heart Out, an urban paranormal romance between a demon princess and a human accountant set in NY 🗽🫀✨ #CampKickoff #Camprevpit

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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Entered in the Most Fun Poster category with my pasta tagline 🤭✨🫀

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Daemi Rhys @daemirhys.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Iron Widow x Captive Prince meets AMC's IWTV Caught in the orbit of two men who run Aethryn, Soren faces an impossible choice. And it isn't picking between them. Not anymore. #PosterPit #Q #A #SF #R

Grayed out poster background with opaque, see through golden orbs of light and star bursts. At the top there are two laurels on either side, the first saying "Dropped us into the story at the perfect place and didn't let go" -Lit Agent, Writers Workshop. Second Says "The Voice is clear from page one and brings us close to Soren while using 3rd person" -Lit Agent, Writers Workshop. Centered between the Laurels are the names "Soren Ampthyr" "Kieran Voss" and "Amos Rhyne" above golden lit bars. A Golden frame in the center, above it text reads "What would you do if everything you want is closer to reality than everything you fear?". Inside frame is a blond boy leaning on a table against a greyed out city. Below is stylized text reading Avarice's Wake. In smaller text, Daemi Rhys Presents “AVARICE’S WAKE” A QUEER SCI-FI EXPLORATION INTO LOVE BETWEEN DAMAGED PEOPLE." and comp titles Captive Prince, AMC's IWTV, and Iron Widow. Querying in May 2026.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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. #PosterPit #A #F #W #LGBT

A movie poster for “HELL IS WORK” a hand with white painted fingernails holding a shiny apple. Reflected in the apple is a silhouette of a businessman’s shadow with demon horns in the background there is a graph of financial decline over a burning silhouette of the Cleveland skyline.

The tagline at the bottom says “HELL IS EMPTY AND ALL THE DEMONS ARE IN POLO SHIRTS”

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learodrigues.author @learodrigues.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN US is a 97K commercial women’s fiction with strong romantic elements, told in dual POV. After losing her parents in a traumatic event, Brianna has one goal left: to keep what’s left of her family upright. #PosterPit #W #C #womensfiction #bookclubfiction #literary #NA #A

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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

What if princess Aurora had been blessed by the Goddess of Chaos, her destiny darkness instead of light? In this heart-pounding romantasy, discover if the wicked can truly feel love… and how easily love can corrupt even the heroes. ⚔️✨ #PosterPit #W #F #R #A 10k words currently available 💻

Poster for Forgotten Chaos, a work in progress romantasy novel by L.V. Oaks. The tagline at the top reads, “Why would she fix him when she can make him worse?” Also depicted are a woman looking away from the viewer, her hair dark and her cape long and purple. There is also a Wyvern, a gothic castle, and the silhouette of a prince.

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Torri Belle ✨is querying✨a dark adventure 🌲🌊💀 @torribelle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

#PosterPit #Q #M After discovering a body marked w/ a symbol that links them to the crime, a rock star desperate to protect his legacy & a law student determined to stop the killings must uncover why each new murder connects to them—while Fell’s Hollow’s preternatural nightmare hunts them down next

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K.L. Lempereur is Querying! @kllempereur.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Imprisoned on a spaceship/temple by her father's old enemy, Calypso must play a dangerous game with the hungry life-eating god, Asteria. But can she get close enough to learn Asteria's plans without her heart or her life being consumed in the process? #PosterPit #W #A #SF #F #SFF

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

INTERTWINED: 108k Sapphic NA F A Deadly Education x ATLA The last priestess of a fallen kingdom hides at a magic school, living a double life as a spy. She enters a deadly competition to earn a chance at status, escape servitude, and learn what the truth behind her homeland’s fall. #PosterPit

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Krystal is AGENTED✨ @krystalelkhoury.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE NECROMANCER’S WIFE ✨agent & big five editor interest✨ 🏳️‍🌈wlw+queer chars (#sapphic MCs) 💀retired necromancer🩷💜💙 ⚗️missing alchemist🧡🤍🩷 🪄magical intrigue 🚂dieselpunk #PosterPit #Q #A #F Art by @/LopiChi

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Josianne Haag @jhaag.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

In a brutal mountaineering competition where climbing teams race for a high-altitude summit, Beth Huxley has a secret strategy: by the end of the expedition, her entire team will be dead. BREATHLESS X Alice Feeney #PosterPit #Q #T #A

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Funeral In Berlin x The X Files 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. #PosterPit #A #Q #SF #T

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Victoria Lurie is querying @vic-and-twisted.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

SHE’S THE MAN x DAISY JONES & THE SIX Lolly Markham is lying to the nation, finishing her twin brother’s 1983 tour while he's secretly in rehab. When rehab fails, Lolly must choose: save her brother or save his legacy, even if the truth ruins both their lives. #Q #upmarket #A #NA #Posterpit

The blond frontman of a 1980s hair band stands in front of a mic, identity obscured by the words “a novel” written over his eyes in cursive, to advertise Victoria Lurie’s THE FRONTMAN, a book where a young woman pretends to be her rockstar twin brother on his tour so he can go to rehab without his fans or label knowing. When rehab doesn’t work, she must choose: save her brother and ruin both their lives, or keep lying to save his legacy. Original photo courtesy of Witch via The Guardian.

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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Demon princess Crystel needs to eat five hearts to become human—Will her newly-acquired mortal companion Ben help with her quest before she gets dragged back down to Hell? EAT HIS HEART OUT is an urban paranormal romance complete at 88k words 🫀 #PosterPit #Q #R #A

Poster for EAT HIS HEART OUT, a paranormal romance novel by L.V. Oaks currently querying. It depicts a bowl of soup and sharp-nailed hands reaching for it, as well as a napkin, a spoon, and a bleeding heart. Text says “She’s not going back to Hell”.

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE UNMAKING 95k 🧠💔💉👻 Nova feels too much, and that could get her mind wiped clean. She’s a state memory technician who erases the most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won’t let her forget. #PosterPit #Q #A #SPF #SF

The unmaking poster for poster put orange city background blue woman man and glitching man now querying. She erased memories til memory remembered her.

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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

JESSICA JONES × ARCANE Some things don’t just break you. They remake you. 🔥 ⟐ A vigilante wielding a sentient flaming machete ⟐ A city that feeds on grief ⟐ An heir to an underground rebellion ⟐ A prophecy that could mutate her into the predator she hunts #PosterPit #A #DF #S #MYTHTECH

Feminist noir fantasy promotional graphic showing two hands reaching toward a fiery butterfly surrounded by illuminated symbols. Both wrists bear glowing infinity sigils. Text reads SCARELLA: THE MACHETE MARAUDERESS, a 92,000-word feminist noir fantasy with myth-tech elements. Includes comparison titles Jessica Jones × Arcane and beta quote: “There’s voice for DAYS. I was 10000% gripped.”

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Elodie Turquois @elodiewrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

#posterpit #A #F #H for fans of Heather Fawcett and T. Kingfisher, Macarons and Monsters follows a neurodivergent anthropology student terrified of fairies who discovers her sweet tooth and self-acceptance in Paris. What will scare her more: eldritch horrors or academia’s systems of oppression?

Movie poster with a teal background image of a Parisian riverside landscape with colourful macarons in the foreground, imps and cats decorating the corners. Title: Macarons and Monsters. A novel by Elodie Turquois. Logline: Paris has a dark sense of humour. Above title: ND/Queer Rep, Contemporary fantasy, Folklore creatures. Emily in Paris x T. Kingfisher. Below: Love triangle, Academic rage. Coming to inboxes this summer.

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