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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

IF WE'RE STILL SINGLE 👫Two childhood best friends 💍One marriage pact 📝Seven things all couples should do before they say I do ♾️A million things that could go wrong 💘One chance to end their story the right way #QuestPit #A #R #Querying 8/1

A couple lit from the back, kissing in the snow
Text: An agent's guide to If We're Still Single

The Pitch
When Fiona unexpectedly ends up celebrating her thirtieth birthday by moving back to the tiny Wisconsin hometown she always dreamed of escaping, the one bright spot is the chance to reconnect with her childhood best friend, Henry. After a drunken night of remember whens, they agree to fulfill the marriage pact they made at seventeen.

The pair sets out to rebuild the magical friendship of their youth, armed with a list of things the internet tells them all couples must do before they walk down the aisle: try each other’s hobbies, cook together, travel, even... (gulp) have sex. Soon, the feelings Fiona’s always had for Henry can no longer be ignored. But Fiona never intended her stay to be permanent, and it’s time to figure out if she’s ready to redefine what--or who--home is to her.

Comps
People we meet on vacation by Emily Henry - Best friends to lovers, burying feelings for years
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn - Small town, checking things off a list
You, with a view by Jessica Joyce - Grief and Healing, Self-discovery

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Brooke Nevara (is querying) ⚔️🥀 @brookewrites97.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🖤🗡️ THE DARKEST LIGHT 🗡️🖤 ❤️‍🔥A king curses his imminent assassin with a forbidden love potion to stop her, but to wake its fatal power, he must pretend he's falling for her too--before exposure earns him execution and his softening heart threatens his plans. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF #RF

The Darkest Light mini mood board featuring daggers, candles, a gothic ball, a crown, and a poison bottle

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Mandy E. Trumble @mandetrumble.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

An #agentsguide to THE GREEN DOOR. ✨ Adult Upmarket Contemporary Romance 🌿 Literary sensibilities 📚 Book club crossover appeal 🌧️ Walthamstow East London ➡️ Brooklyn 🎨 Introverted illustrator × guarded fiction editor 🤍 Character-driven slow burn #QuestPit #A #U #R #LF

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Author Aislin Spurgeon @aislinspurgeon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

GLAZED & CONFUSED, 78,000-word contemporary rom-com For readers who love: 🖤 The Passion Project by London Sperry 🖤 Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams 🖤 Hello Stranger by Katherine Center …and anyone who still rewatches Jessica Day & Nick Miller’s first kiss. 🫶🏻 #QuestPit #Q #A #R

Promotional graphic for the adult contemporary romance GLAZED & CONFUSED. Against a backdrop of handmade pottery displayed on wooden shelves, illustrated versions of Milo Hawthorne and Briar Maxton face one another. The text reads: “Dumped minutes before a couples pottery class, Milo does the only logical thing: shows up alone. Unfortunately for Briar, the overworked studio owner who swore off dating, their chemistry burns hotter than a kiln.” The title GLAZED & CONFUSED appears prominently at the top with “A 78,000-word Adult Rom-Com.”

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying

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50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal @reginaphalange1234.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#QuestPit #Q #A #U #LF Ten years after their daughter’s death destroyed their marriage, Nora returns to New York and finds the husband she left. To have any future together, they’ll have to survive the grief that tore them apart. Inspired by a single photograph. THE BOOK OF US | Adult Upmarket | 95K

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Jenny Bright @jennybrightbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

POV: you're the worst witch in your family and you inherit your grandma's house, but it's haunted by her ghost AND she's dead-set on matchmaking you with the guy that broke your heart in high school. Ooops. SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH x Taylor Swift's MARJORIE #QuestPit #A #R #S #AG #W

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alexis @k-alexisadams.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

LEGALLY BLONDE X TELL ME LIES After her best friend is murdered, the only Black member of an elite Southern sorority must break her silence and risk destroying her sisterhood to uncover who within her inner circle is the killer before an innocent Black student takes the fall. #Q #A #MY #T #Questpit

Book mood board featuring a girl with a finger held to her lips, a close-up of a locket in a person's hand, a silhouette of a long-haired girl holding a knife, a close-up of an eye with mascara running down it, a newspaper that says "corpse likely student," a close up of two people kissing, a photo of a girl floating in a pool, and a photo of a young Black woman looking pensive. Also includes a manuscript excerpt: "That's the thing about a beautiful, young white girl dying. Once it happens, she turns into a myth, a martyr, a fixation, an obsession. And the whole world goes into a frenzy trying to prove their proximity to her retroactively."

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Jesse O Benitez - Writing @jesseobenitez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MEANS GIRLS X DO REVENGE What if male Regina George was voted out of the clique he practically created? He's not going to let some nobodies show him up in his last year of high school. No. He's going out with a bang. #W #POC #YA #Questpit #Satire PROJECT PARTY by Jesse O Benitez

Images of parties, streamers, bright lights, glitter, balloons and partying teenagers. Michael Scott in the middle with a party hat.

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Kendall Rae @authorkendallrae.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you like: 💍 New England weddings 💗 Stolen coffees 💍 Designing floral arrangements 💗 Italian greyhounds 💍 Messy women doing their best 💗 Champagne toasts 💍 Wealthy people behaving badly 💗 (Accidentally) shoving your rival in a pond… check out BROTHER OF THE BRIDE #Q #A #R #romcom #QuestPit

Mood board for New England wedding planning

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

For a peek at my current WIP, VILLAGE WIP is a witchy, sapphic gothic horror where the Salem Witch Trials and a certain Greek myth merge. #QuestPit #W #Gothic #H #Horroromance

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Nisha Shirali @nishashirali.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sharing my novel LOVE IN THE HIMALAYAS (83,000 words) for #Questpit!!! 🏔️ A woman treks through the Himalayas to impress her crush, but is forced to team up with her rugged, mysterious tour guide instead. 🏔️ Slow-burn romance and yearning 🏔️ BOLLYWOOD vibes #Q #A #Questpit #R

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

Jack Frost (1998) x Sweet Home Alabama YULE ALWAYS FIND ME is a holiday paranormal romance with: 🤍second chance romance 💀murd.er 🤍fake dating ❄️frosty magic 👯‍♀️sister bonds 🐶a cute pet sidekick 🎄Christmas festivities 🔼love triangle Would you read it? Art by @mknzgmbn #questpit #wip #P #R #A

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kp-newbury.bsky.social @kp-newbury.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#questpit ! #w #u #wf #wlw THE SWINGING SKIRT ⛳️ After a flashing scandal, a disgraced LPGA champ and the disapproving coach she falls for ditch their staged media stunts to show fans what she stands for before her bad girl reputation eclipses her image as an elite athlete.

Title: The Swinging Skirt
Genre: Upmarket Women’s Fiction
Subplot: WLW Romance

Opening Lines: “Holy guacamole, Larry. That’s the best swing in golf.”
I didn’t bother to look up at the TV. The manufactured drawl of Golf Network’s famed announcer Dan Hooper was all too familiar. And I knew he was talking about me.

Teaser: LPGA champion Loralie Genovese crashes into the glass ceiling of professional sports after flashing a crowd of spectators in celebration turns her into the bad girl of golf. Apparently, no one in the sport has ever seen boobs before.

Comp titles:
Love story: The Long Shot and The Favorites
Hero arc: Carrie Soto is Back and Spectacular Things

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Author Aislin Spurgeon @aislinspurgeon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

GLAZED & CONFUSED, 78,000-word contemporary rom-com When Milo gets dumped minutes before a couples pottery class, he does the only logical thing: shows up alone. Unfortunately for Briar, the overworked studio owner who swore off dating, their chemistry burns hotter than a kiln. #questpit #q #a #r

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Erica Noel @ericanoelz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ECHOES OF YOU | 62K YA Speculative Romance A boy dies. His spirit wakes up in someone else’s body. And the girl who loved him has no idea she’s falling for him twice. #Q #YA #S #RF #R @questpit.bsky.social #questpit

Meta data giving the genre in Word count. Speculative Y romance. 62K. Comps are freaky Friday, before I fall, and see you yesterday.

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

FLEABAG X MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES A librarian moonlights as a camgirl, but when someone from her past finds her and threatens to expose her, she’s at risk of more than being known; she could be labeled like the banned books kept from the shelves. Disclaimer: slut. #QuestPit #Q #A #LF #R

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

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

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

The Shadows: The Pitch

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

☕️ 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 #LGBT #Dis #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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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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 — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

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 before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

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

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Mandy Raquel is revising ✨ @mandiee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What happens when the life you escaped becomes the only thing that can make you feel whole again? 🎤 Pop-punk nostalgia 🖤 Found family 🔥 Slow-burn second chance 🥐 Former frontman turned bakery owner 🎸 Band secrets and old wounds #QuestPit #W #A #U #R

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Mandy Raquel is revising ✨ @mandiee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hello 👋 fellow writers! I’ve been on such a journey this summer. I recently finished drafting my debut novel. So many feelings, but mostly excited! Kinda nervous about revisions. Any tips or advice for revisions? Thank you in advance! #writingcommuity #authors #debutnovel

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Mandy Raquel is revising ✨ @mandiee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Hello ✍️ Looking for a writing group/community focused on upmarket contemporary drama & deep slow-burn. My MS deals with identity & messy found families. Style relies on somatic writing & sharp dialogue over purple prose. Any suggestions? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Mandy Raquel is revising ✨ @mandiee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Time is something we long for more of, but we never have enough of it, and it goes by faster each year. Stop, and enjoy the small moments because they become big ones later on in life.

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Mandy Raquel is revising ✨ @mandiee.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What has happened in the last 2 years with the process of ticket purchasing? Why must it be a brutal blood bath every time? The joy of a tour is overshadowed by the dread of the Ticketmaster queue.

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Mandy Raquel is revising ✨ @mandiee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Life has been a cesspool of depression lately. I choose to seek light in a dark tunnel and change my mindset. Disposing negativity, and toxic situations. I choose happiness and growth.

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