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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS #Q #MR A cozy tale of folklore with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells". ✔️Cottage Core ✔️Twist Ending ✔️Sisterhood ✔️Morally Gray FMC ✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll ✔️Atmospheric ✔️Feminism ✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻 #QuestPit

A album cover mock up that have three women's silhouettes dancing in a field. It says The West End - Anthology of the Woods and has album stickers on it.

The back of an album cover with the title "Anthology of the Woods" followed by 5 songs - White Anemone, Burn Hole, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, I Only Asked for Help, and The Pearl. Then it has the book's hook: A Nashville rock band believes their luck has turned around when they meet a sisterhood of magical women who seem to turn their voices to honey and their fame to lightning, but unfortunately for them, one of those sisters, Brigid, is on a mission of revenge against man-made magic such as fame and they have just become her last straw.

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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

If you combined the: 🍄 Sharp whimsy of EMILY WILDE 🌈 Queer found family of THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA 🧙🏻 Dry humour of WITCHES ABROAD 🫶 Intergenerational friendships of Pixar's UP You'd get THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL #QuestPit #F #A #Q #AgentGuide #AgentGuides #WritingFantasy

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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

As someone who’s just started querying, this kind of support has made my day 🥹

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Kayla ✨📚 @kaylawhittle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Elodie, born with rare memory magic, shows historian Vivian around a botanical garden in hopes of solving a century-old disappearance—only to uncover a twisted, monstrous memory instead. It’s hungry. It’s angry. It wants Elodie. feat. sapphic & ace rep #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

aesthetic for the memory garden featuring images of florals, statues, and women

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Isabelle Ranney @isabelleranney.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

After Paige is thrown back in time to 1915, she meets Jonathan, whose portrait hangs in her office and who will die in 1916. Each trip back brings her closer to Jonathan’s heart and also to his death. Will Paige risk changing the past for a chance at love in the future? #Questpit #W #R #sweetromance

1915 imprinted in metal, old-fashioned cursive writing, modern woman sitting, historical house, garden roses, man in three-piece suit, old stone archway, old watch with roman numerals.

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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I need the book and the film adaptation right now please!

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When Vee finds Evergreen, an enchanted forest with roots to her ancestry, she must harness the forbidden magic blooming in her veins before Evergreen and the Human World fall to an eternal darkness. #LitAgents, 🩵 this post or DM for a query/submission. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #SF

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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

WUTHERING HEIGHTS x SHARP OBJECTS 🐦‍⬛ lovelorn protagonist 🌧️ haunted PNW town 🕰️ speculative elements 🌊 complex female relationships ⚓️ local history & legend 🚬 social commentary 🖤 all things dark, dreary, & chilling #questpit #Q #F #A

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Kayla ✨📚 @kaylawhittle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

STARLING HOUSE x WAYWARD CHILDREN 🌸 memory magic 🌹monsters lurking under a botanical garden 🌷mutual pining 🌻set in autumn 🍂 🌼committing small crimes to investigate an old disappearance 🪻looming threat of student loan payments 🌺 sapphic & ace rep #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

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Kathryn Reynolds 📚🎨 @cozykathryn.com · 07/05/2025

Cupcakes and Graveyards Kiki’s Delivery Service x Casper 🧁 A cursed bakery with a looming royal feast 🧁 An outcast witch living in a graveyard 🧁 A world where helpful ghosts linger 🧁 Steam technology and magic coincide 🧁 Cozy goth sapphic fantasy tale Coming Autumn 2025 💙📚🌈 #questpit #w #f #lgbt

A photo of a pair of light brown hands kneading dough. To the side is a pink rectangle framed with spider webs. Text reads Cupcakes and Graveyards.
“It has to be a curse,” Surae decided as she stared at the rotted strawberries on the counter.
“It isn't natural,” her grandmother’s ghost agreed. “When I went up to wake you, they were still fresh and unblemished.”
Coming Autumn 2025

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Kayla ✨📚 @kaylawhittle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

STARLING HOUSE x WAYWARD CHILDREN Historian Vivian meets Elodie, a memory keeper who can free the past from plants, to investigate a century-old disappearance. They find more than expected: a monstrous memory, and an inescapable connection. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Musical comps? Witches? Yes please!

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Katherine V Morrison @katsstoryhaunt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Starless Sea🔮Addie LaRue✨Piranesi 1800s London. Alchemists can extract a person’s soul by solidifying and removing their pain and suffering. Consuming the resultant ‘seed’ confers malign immortality. In an age of unchecked technological development, is this an advance too far? #questpit #Q #F #HF

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suzanne albanis (agented!) @suzannealbanis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In this CARMILLA retelling, Marsha Braun—a necromantic witch—must sell her family estate to free their trapped souls and escape a vicious immortality-seeking cult. There, she falls for the night gardener—with deadly family secrets intertwined with her own #A #H #DF #QuestPit #OS

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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

PIXAR’S ‘UP’ X NETTLE AND BONE Prophecies don’t have age limits... So what if the Chosen One was found 60 years late? THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL has: 🫶 Found family 🧙🏻 Older MCs 🫖 Cosy vibes w. high stakes 🐉 A baby dragon 🌈 LGBTQIA+ rep 📚 Meta-humour #QuestPit #F #A #Q #AmQuerying

A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the slide reads: THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL - Pitch - Prophecies don’t have age limits. It’s a fact 82-year-old Dorris learns when an uppity gnome arrives on her doorstep and declares she’s the Chosen One… sixty years late. Now Dorris must exchange her books, cottage, and weekly visits with her best friend Beryl for a noble quest. If she refuses, the kingdom of Grit (and Dorris’ beloved home library) will burn to ashes. Will the octogenarians break the sixty-year curse as prophesied? Or will Beryl’s shady past with dark magic reappear and doom them all?

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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hey #QuestPit! If you’re looking for: 🐉 Baby dragons 👵🏻 Curmudgeonly librarians 🔮 Flamboyant wizards 🍄 Cosy vibes with high stakes and 🐭 The meta-humour from THE PRINCESS BRIDE… Well, you have a VERY specific grocery list. Also, you might enjoy THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL 😉 #F #A #Q

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

SHE GOES BAREFOOT IN THE SNOW A retelling of the Snow Queen When Gerda's best friend Kai is abducted by a mysterious woman in white, Gerda sets out on a journey to the frozen ends of the earth to save him. Along the way, she discovers the truth of who she really is.

Moodboard featuring:
Lots of snow, a frosty rose, a snowy wood, a shattered mirror, a girl standing in front of an ice palace, a beautiful icy woman's face, a boy & girl sitting and reading between their garret apartments on a nice warm spring day, Gerda sitting on a reindeer saying goodbye to her lovely Robber Girl, Gerda sneaking through a house with a couple of ravens while phantom horses gallop through the air above her head

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Author Alexis Veenendaal @alexisveenendaal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

ON SUB! #questpit The Reluctant Mentor: A Cozy, Comedic Adult Fantasy about a wizard who mentors "chosen ones" and is ready to retire off the magical grid--after one last trope-twisting quest with a gaggle of misfits. LEGENDS & LATTES x DREADFUL x ORCONOMICS #OS #AG #A #F #CZ

The Reluctant Mentor: Cozy Comedic Fantasy by Alexis Veenendaal

This Wizard’s had enough of “Chosen Ones”—but if he wants to retire, he’s going to have to deal with one more.

Unfortunately, Athragast’s chosen hero refuses the job, so he has to look toward alternative means. He finds a pickpocketing busboy named Jon who ought to do the trick.

Armed with his magical staff, a cigar-eating rodent companion, and the annoyingly optimistic Jon, Athragast must force his last quest back on the “hero’s journey” track before the academy finds out about his unconventional methods.

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Gay crimes! Trans wrongs! Enemies to enemies(…?) My #W #YA(?) #LGBT #swashbuckler again for #QuestPit: a colorful, heightened, storybook romp of a #historical. Can one defeat the patriarchs with the very weapons of masculinity? Well, one angry trans boy can sure try stabbing them a lot.

"L'entrée du prince de Ligne à Londres 1660", painted by François Duchatel in 1660, depicting the arrival of a great procession of ambassadors walking in fine clothes and riding in coaches, watched by a huge crowd of Londoners.
Text over it reads:
THE DUEL IN 1660: a queer swashbuckling farce.

"The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, may 24 1660" by Lieve Verschuier, showing many ships with the Flag of Holland/States Flag. The grand ship bearing Charles II has his royal arms carven on the stern.
Text over it reads:
England, 1660: the restoration of the monarchy. In Charles II's triumphant wake, a Royalist family quietly returns, but not with their single daughter—instead, with their single son.
15-year-old Alexander—vain, hot-tempered, and warm of heart—expects to strut in as an aristocratic peacock. But when his ambitions are frustrated, he's sucked instead into intrigues of questionable honour and forced to reckon with what it really means to be a man.

"Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu, painted around 1665. A Dutch young man, beautiful and androgynous with long blond hair, wears black doublet, breeches, and stockings and a luxurious white shirt and falling band. His expression is tranquil and far-off as he writes a letter on a table draped with an imported carpet.
Text over it reads:
Pray enjoy this tempest in a teapot, crafted of the purest tropes and set in the Age of the Rakehells, featuring:
glamour and grime of 17th century Westminster.
goofy action punctuated by primal screams of rage.
problematic characters for miles.
petticoat breeches parkour.
queer mentorship.
romantic friendship (or maybe 'tis just gay, oops).
boys who cry. a lot.
and somehow, everything turning out all right in the end.

Detail of "View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam", painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen in 1673, showing a peaceful sky over a ship with two gulls.
Text over it reads:
Alexander stood at the edge of the deck, one hand clutching the railing, the other fastened tight on the brim of his hat as he leaned out over the waves. He was not much afraid of falling in, though he had never swum anything choppier than a pond. Rather, he was afraid that his Acadian fur hat, the most expensive for sale in the shop on the Kalverstraat, might fly off his small crown and flap with its feathers all the way to water—which, like the sky, could not quite decide between blue and grey.
There was no one to see him aside from the sailors and now Klein, climbing up from below. Still, he had meticulously dressed that morning, down to every last ribbon. He’d had a very specific vision of himself when the suit was being ordered: the azure he’d picked was not just brighter than everything around him on the fluyt but even the true sky itself, and he sparkled with silver, when the wind tugged his doublet and loose breeches, and gold, when the little light managed to catch on his sword’s hilt.
It was imperative, one must understand, that he look extremely stylish doing battle, should pirates suddenly appear to satisfy his fantasies. And indeed, at fifteen, he thought himself quite the dashing young man—not the boy he was.

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hey #QuestPit! Hankering for an impeccably researched #YA-ish #histfic full of deep intrigue, elegant manners, and witty banter? Cool! Unfortunately, wrong book. THIS book slaps you in the face with a gloveful of physical humor, dumb swashbuckling farce, and chaotic queer drama, 1660s style⚔️ #W

Crude drawing of two foppish men slugging it out in front of a scene of Westminster in chaos. In the background, flames burn and cabbage vendors scream in despair as in the foreground, a duel with rapiers rapidly devolves: a tall, dark-haired man with a mustache and long eyelashes, dressed in purple doublet and petticoat breeches and bright red stockings, elaborately ribboned in red with huge rosettes on his shoes, grins wickedly as a small young man with blond hair, in a blue doublet and petticoat breeches with pink ribbons on his outfit and shoes, bites his opponent's calf and is swung around like a tiny rabid spaniel.

Text says: The Duel in 1660, or, whatever in Hell is happening here.

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🌌🎪 x Sapphic Moulin Rouge Raised on war and lost love, Carina acts out revolutionary stage plays in colonial Manila. Dissent is a death sentence, but she’s willing to risk it all when a familiar face from her past sits down one night to watch her perform #QuestPit #WIP #novella

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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Twenty-five years ago, men made history. But HER story will change everything… 🌊 Multi-POV 🌊 Feminine rage / ‘Good For Her’ 🌊 Horror elements 🌊 Orcadian folklore 🌊 Atmospheric setting 🌊 Twisty plot 🌊 Editor interest #questpit #Q #A #HF #agentsguide

Text: An agent’s guide to The Ballad of Agnes Day, a 112k upmarket historical novel. Image: Two vintage-style mermaids with their tails entwined and a blood spatter across one corner.

The pitch: When a storms wrecks his islands’s passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die. Moodboard: Evil-looking mermaids, a violin, poisonous mushrooms and passenger steamers on stormy seas, with a moody blue-green hue.

Comps: The Sirens by Emilia Hart, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson as book covers

The snippet: ‘Are you seeing this?’ he cried. ‘Do you see them?’
Dazed, Morton peered around him. All he could see was the black oil spill of the water, its steady surge and release. ‘What do you mean?’ he called back, blood thundering in his ears.
Edward’s eyes grew glossy with tears. Then he began to jerk around like a petrified beast, causing the boat to lurch beneath them. ‘They’re everywhere,’ he said in terror and wonderment. ‘They’re coming for me.’

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Kanani O’Kelly @kananiokelly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late. 🌊 Pacific Islander Rep 🌊 Elemental Magic 🌊 Endless Banter #QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide

This image is the first of four to showcase elements for my upcoming book, Whispers of the Sea.

The picture reads: “An Agents Guide to Whispers of the Sea.”

This book will be a young adult fantasy.

This is the second image in my guide, and it includes the pitch for my novel.

Such pitch reads to say:

“Whispers of the Sea follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom.

Maia must voyage across the seas to this mysterious isle where she’ll team up with a local boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.”

This is the third image in my guide, and it portrays my comp titles.

My book will be perfect for the fans of the Jasad Heir, A River Enchanted, Curious Tides, and the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

This is the last image in my guide, and it showcases the aesthetic and a few elements that can be found in the book.

A few of these elements are: found family, secret ploys, outlawed magic, and self discovery.

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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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Nell @nelsnote.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

THE BASS ROCK x THE UNCONSOLED X ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT Burned-out jazz pianist Clementine falls for a brilliant artist at a seaside inn—then those he paints begin to vanish. 🎹Art‑as‑magic 🌫️ Gothic melancholy 🩶 Envy‑to‑attraction slow burn ❔Psych suspense #agentguide #questpit #A #LF #Q

An agent's guide to the inn at the edge of the sea - 64k upmarket with magical realism

The pitch: Burned‑out jazz pianist Clementine retreats to a seaside inn where a gifted painter rekindles her inspiration. But when the subjects of his portraits begin disappearing, she must learn whether the artist is to blame—or she could be next.
For fans of:
The quiet loneliness and romance of Mieko Kawakami’s ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT
The brooding, gothic atmosphere of Evie Wyld’s THE BASS ROCK
The dreamy surrealism of Kazuo Ishiguro’s THE UNCONSOLED

Tropes/Themes: Psychological Suspense
Speculative elements
Romance Subplot with Yearning
Magical paintings
Manipulation
Artistic creation and self-destruction
The Indomitable Human Spirit
Music
Moody and melancholic

Opening lines: The winter tide exhaled a slow melody against the sand. Clementine let its crested waves spill over her feet, foam gathering in deep snow drifts around her ankles.

There was a ghostly feel to the long stretch of water that lay before her, the distant horizon blending into a misty gray sky. As the tide pulled back, she was overtaken by the fleeting sensation of falling, as if the water might pull her with it. It had a good rhythm to it. A steady rhythm.

Time dripped slowly. With a distant sort of detachment, she noted that her toes were blue.

Water breathed, and Clementine drew a breath, shallow and cold. The taste of wood and salt lay in a heavy coat atop her tongue. She’d come here for quiet, yet the ocean thrashed and quaked in the cavity of her chest, filling its emptiness with a transparent and insurmountable longing.

It was a Thursday, and Thursdays were the worst night of the week. The night you got if you played well enough to fill the slot, but not popular enough for the weekend rush. Clementine had only ever been scheduled for Thursdays.

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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Prophecies don’t have age limits. Now the fate of the Kingdom rests on the bad hip of a retired librarian. Will curmudgeonly Dorris answer her calling, or ignore impending doom for a good cup of tea? #questpit #F #A #Q #LGBTQIAbooks #amquerying #writingcommunity #fantasywriters #booksky #writesky

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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hi folks! I’m new here, so let’s get to know each other: 📚 Avid reader of fantasy, classics, and Gothic novels 🐭 Can find a Princess Bride quote for almost anything 📖 Here for the Oxford comma 🚫 AI does not belong in the Arts 🥀 Live for well-crafted puns and purple prose 📝 Writer in the making

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