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Auditor by day | Writer by night Swords, secrets & questionable decisions Fueled by coffee, dogs and canal views☕️🐶 Website: www.radupaun.com Instagram: raduwrites

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morgan champine ☀️ is querying @morganchampine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
GIDEON THE NINTH X SIX OF CROWS, in SPACE! An agent’s guide to MAYFLY, a queer cyberpunk space opera. ft: 🏳️‍⚧️nonbinary, trans, & sapphic rep 🔥sexy t4t best friends to lovers 🍃human experiments 🚀messy found family #QuestPit #SF #LGBT #A #Q
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Millie Kensen @milliekensenauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
PALADIN’S GRACE x THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY 🦿 Disabled MMC 🎭 Scrappy FMC 🦄 Animal companion 🌊 War-torn river delta 🥰 Wit + warmth 🩷 Slow burn #QuestPit #F #R #A #W #WriteSky Querying Late 2026
A dark sage green graphic with a gold-beige border of ferns and leaves. Text reads: The Courier & The Chamberhand. Adult Fantasy, 90k Words. Millie Kensen.A dark sage green graphic headed THE PITCH, bordered by a gold-beige fern in the top left corner, a tied scroll bottom left corner, and a shield crest with reeds in bottom right corner. Text reads: He's a courier who took an oath to never get involved. She's an imposter who is about to make that impossible.A dark sage green graphic headed THE ELEMENTS, bordered by a gold-beige fern in the top left corner, river graphic with reeds on the right, and a pair of theater masks in the bottom left. List reads: dual POV, grounded fantasy, cinnamon roll MMC, forced-proximity travel adventure, hidden identity, slow burn, too many mosquitoes.A dark sage green graphic headed THE COMPS, with a gold-beige fern in the top left corner and a beige feather in the bottom right corner. Left: the cover of Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher. Right: the cover of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen. Text lists shared elements: wit and warmth, vulnerability and emotional intimacy, character-driven fantasy, ordinary people, dry humor.
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Deborah Yeong Tyng @deborahbie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU X THE FOX WIFE X BABEL X TOMORROW3 X JAPANESE GOTHIC “What if an ancient, brutal Tang Dynasty execution was actively destroying a modern Malaysian-Chinese family through a terrifying tarot-infused karmic loop?” #questpit #Q #A #U #S #T #H #OwnVoices
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samantha-brins-lee.bsky.social @samantha-brins-lee.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
💕fake relationship ❤️‍🔥forbidden romance ☀️sunshine FMC ⛰️elemental magic 👑cast aside Prince 🥀plot twists and banter ✨nonspeaking rep 👹Korean folk tales come to life 🌷bridgerton-esque high society ❤️‍🩹 autoimmune skin condition rep (as a girlie with psoriasis, this was a must) #questpit #q #romantasy
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aykaywrites.bsky.social @aykaywrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Daughter of Bleeding Gods 🖤Everybody’s morally grey ☠️Dead gods 🐉Dragon deities ⛓️Tattoo-based magic system 🏍️ Cyberpunk meets fantasy 💎Gang politics 💞 Military found family ❤️‍🔥Will they/won’t they slow burn 💪🏼FMC built like a brickhouse Currently editing draft 2! #W #Questpit #SFF #agentguide
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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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Radu @raduwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Mask of Mirrors x Silverblood Promise Tiala needs a smokescreen for her plot to sabotage a clock tower & kill a tyrant. Her solution? Infiltrate a rebellion and unite a fractured city of paladins, mercenaries & assassins so no one suspects the quiet candlemaker. #questpit #Q #A #F #SFF
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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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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
💙📚🌈🤖 Do you need mecha in your life? Do you love angry women seeking revenge? Do you love underdog teens sticking it to greedy corpos? ...Do you like anime? Buy NICEF! "Space shonen mecha anime in novel form." (Aaron Sofaer, author of Quill & Still) Buy It: pjccahill.carrd.co #QuestPit #P #YA #SF
Art by Luigiix - cover of "N.I.C.E.F.: Neural-Interface Controlled Exo-Frame" novel. Human eye top left, alien eye top right, title full-center, child facing a riot-police line with a mech bottom left, a Nicef (mech) with a beamsaber bottom center, young woman with half-body prosthetics in a medical cot bottom right.
Luigiix's DA page: https://www.deviantart.com/luigiix
Luigiix's Commission Info page: https://www.deviantart.com/luigiix/journal/Commissions-444182461Art by Luigiix -
--Right Side: shows a mostly black mech with red LED details, and an X of thruster foils on its back, facing the viewer
--Left Side: shows a mostly black mech wih red LED details. This version has more exposed, gray armor, and is thinner. The helmet spikes have extended out as writhing, mechanical tentacles. The thruster-foils on the back are curving and writhing while still emitting thruster light. There is a swarm of small drones swirling around it like a sphere-matrix.
Text:
Model Name: Banshee
Class: Anti-Xenomorph Combat (Axcom) frame (Experimental Prototype)
Manufacturer: NeuroGen Aerospace
Primary Weapon(s): 
--Drone-Based Interlock and Reconfiguration System (DBIR system)
--Signal Transceiver/Amplifier Platform (STAP)
--DBIR Light Plasma-Condenser Saber (1 Drone)
--DBIR Light Plasma-Condenser Pistol (2 Drone)
--DBIR Medium Plasma-Condenser Rifle (3 Drone)
--DBIR Heavy Plasma-Condensor Cannon (6 Drone)
Combat Role(s): support/assault hybrid, medium-heavy classArt by Luigiix - ref sheet for the Aegis mech (Nicef). Left side shows the full robot, colored black, purple, and gold, holding a beam-halberd in the right hand (relaxed), and a riot-shield gripped by the left. The energy of the weapon and the visor of the mech face glow golden yellow. 
The right side of the sheet shows difference views of the riot shield. One is a front-facing detail view, the next is a side view of the shield exploded out as an energy wall with parts of metal floating in the energy, and the last is a front view of the exploded version.
Data read-out in the center of the sheet shows: 
Model Name: Aegis
Class: n/a (custom hybrid construction)
Manufacturer: Aroi House
Primary Weapon(s):
--Heavy Plasma-Condenser Halberd (Beam Halberd)
--Expansion-Lock Field-Deploy Plasma-Condenser Shield (Plasma Shield)
Combat Role(s): vanguard, front-line combat, defenderArt by Luigiix - the core protagonists of NICEF in their academy uniforms (black jacket and slacks with dress shoes, with insignias on the left side of the wearer's chest for their curriculum. Feather for pilot, half a cog for mechanical engineering, circuit-board mini diagram for software engineering). From left to right: Taegen Atius, Selene Ark, Stefan Mara, Blaire Phyzante, Djilia Oakren, Latien Varsan, Diela Kilan. This banner also serves as a height comparison. Taegen is the tallest, then Djilia, Diela, Stefan and Selene are about even, then Blaire, then Latien (who is specifically very short).
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Author Christiana Love @christianalovee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
⚔️✨💜ELDEN RING x LORD OF THE RINGS ⚔️✨💜 🪐 comic realms 🌙 fallen gods 🔥 female rage ✨ stars 🐉 mystical creatures ⚔️ unique swords/weapons 💔 betrayal #QuestPit #NA #W #F
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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And last but definitely not least, dear #Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration, an #Agentsguide to: MOVING DAY! A short story of a woman defying her bloodline by trying to save what's left of humanity. Published in Volume One of the WWAD Anthology! #P #A #SF
Background of a starry night sky over a polluted earth.
Title: Moving Day
A Sci-Fi story of a woman defying her bloodline to save humanity from the mistakes of the past
Featuring: Space Ships, Aliens, saving what can be saved and the message to never stop defying!

Published as part of the We Write At Dawn Anthology Volume One, now available.
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KatherineMcRea @listentomelovelett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hey #questpit any readers want an ARC for ONCE MORE, WITH MURDER: a forensic femmes #romystery? Application in my bio. ☠️murder #mystery 💋2nd chance #romance 😷 #chronicillness red 👉 #ptsd 🧪 #womeninSTEM 🌈 #Lgbtq rep 📖 #debut #indie author think Agatha Christie X 1950's #RomCom without the sexism
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Doris Day's Flirty Wink with Do Not Disturb Sign
ALT: Doris Day's Flirty Wink with Do Not Disturb Sign
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WightCrow @wightcrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LEGENDS & LATTES+ARSENIC&ADOBO+KISS HER ONCE FOR ME Invisible people are missing. Sounds like a punch line, but for El, it’s a case only she can solve. W/the help of a friend—& lover?—she scrambles to find the killer before the next name on his list is her own #QuestPit #Q #A #RF
Against a backdrop of misty London, a woman with a fauxhawk gazes at another woman who seems to be disappearing.  There is a title, FADE, at the top of the image, with the words "out of sight, out of mind" written in between the two women.
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InkandEmbers @inkandembers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#questpit #q #a #df
Graphic for the adult dark fantasy novel Souls of Verdance. A red-haired woman stands before a towering castle beneath a swirling blue-and-gold night sky, framed by flowers, vines, bones, severed fingers, eyes, and skeletal hands. A cracked gold coin with an eye symbol hangs above, and a gray hand holds a walnut below the title. Text reads: "Adult Dark Fantasy. In a kingdom where magic steals body parts, emotions, and even memories, a grieving young woman creates a soulless girl wearing her face to bargain with the Prince of the Underworld before the same magic that killed her parents comes for the rest of her family." Bottom text: "Now Querying
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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. But if it isn’t her destiny, then no one can save the world from poisonous dark magic, endless wars, and powerful demons. #Questpit #A #F #Q
Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.A dark forest. Snippet.  She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!”
 The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death.
 “Magic should never return.”
 After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended.
 Sent him back to his body.A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. 1930s vibes. Love triangle. LGBTQIA+ rep. Cynical mentor. Dying world. Found family.
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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q
An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School 
Indigenous Diaspora 
Can Your Fate be Changed? 

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain. 

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom. Reads like Hozier’s Yell 

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me 
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family 
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining? 
Character art of Agni and Fala 

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps. 
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy. 
“Impudent.” 
“Arrogant,” I bite back. 
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling. 
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now. 
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.
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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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Rebecca VanderVorste @rebeccamunderwood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
POTENTIALLY TREASON (92k, Adult Dystopian Mystery): A dystopian take on NATIONAL TREASURE In a near future U.S. run by oligarchs, a journalist pulls the threads of an anonymous tip until she unravels a nefarious plot to rewrite American history. #questpit #Q #A #SF #D #MY #America250
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
An Agent's Guide to LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS #AgentsGuide #FantasyRomCom #AdultFantasy #AmQuerying
An Agent's Guide to LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS by Rebecca Bell - Image shows a death's head moth in a flashlight beam on a starscape over a forested background.THE PITCH: In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. TROPES: Fantasy RomCom, Grumpy x Grumpy, Enemies to Lovers, Monster Romance, Beauty & the Beast, Sibling Rescue, Mortal Among Immortals, Humanity as Power. COMPS: EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES, THRONE IN THE DARK,   LONG LIVE EVIL, ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN. Image shows a starscape over a forested background.
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Mary Elizabeth Carey @maryelizabethcarey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Who killed the nature photographer on the bike trail and ruined the setting of Elizabeth's WIP? #QuestPit #📖 #A #Q #M #amquerying
A photo of a bike trail by a pond with the legs of an apparent dead person, a woman saying "Who's going to want to read about Forest Bathing there now?" and the title MURDER on THE BIKE TRAIL.
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Katie Hudson @katiebhudson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🥀THE ROSE BARGAIN X HADESTOWN 💀 The goddess of love’s daughter must win the prize of immortality in her mother’s divine matchmaking contest or else succumb to a death curse. 2026 RevPit Winner! #QuestPit #YA #Romantasy #YARomantasy #F
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lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE BONE SEASON x THE 100 but with MAGIC🪄 🏜️post-collapse earth (desert + bioluminescent cave city) 🌌 fish-out-of-water 🌱environmental themes ⚡️found family 🔮body magic 🖤forced proximity + slow burn ✨emotional awakening #questpit #q #a #f #sff #d #amquerying #agentsguide
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Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SERIAL DATING | Adult Horror Rom-Com Inverted Tropes: 🛏️Too Many Beds (it's a bunk bed situation) ❤️Co-workers to Friends to Lovers (No enemies here) ☠️Neither FMC or MMC are Serial K!llers (but everyone else is) ☀️Perfect, Sunny Weather (no dark & stormy nights) #QuestPit #W #A #H #R
Picture of a forest of trees. Text: agent guide, adult horror rom-com, projected 70K, current 40K, Serial Dating, by Ally BoydPicture of rock half in a lake, half on the sand. Text: The Pitch, While vacationing at a remote lakeside cabin, the daughter from a dynasty of eccentric k!llers struggles to shield her new boyfriend from her family’s gruesome legacy, but the sunny lakeside retreat turns deadly when a k!ller from her past turns the camp grounds into hunting grounds. Picture of lake and trees reflecting in it. Text: the comps, Lights Out by Navessa Allen, Ready or Not (2019), Dating & Dismemberment by A L Brody, The Book of Knives by Lise HainesPicture of trees. Text: The Opening. I’m pretty sure the guy I matched with is a serial k!ller. 

I knew it the moment he picked me up. His hair is combed too straight, his blue button down shirt is overly starched, his khakis pressed with military precision, and his nails neatly trimmed to the quick. 

I can almost hear my best friend, Kayla’s voice in my head, ‘It’s find Maddie. He’s a nice guy. Why are you always trying to find the faults?’

It’s not like I’m doing it on purpose, it’s just that I have a type. And I really, really want to get away from my normal type and find a nice guy. 

“You look beautiful,” he says as he presents me with a bouquet of flowers. 

White lillies. The flower of death.
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J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AMARI X ANDOR ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, twelve-year-old Catcher Kline must master spell-hacked spycraft to find his missing parents and stop the Acolytes from weaponizing the star metal minerals that power all magic. 
#QuestPit #MG #F #AmQuerying #KidLit
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Radu @raduwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Mask of Mirrors x Silverblood Promise Solitary candlemaker Tiala will kill a tyrant by sabotaging the city's only clock tower to delay his power ritual. To protect her cover, she joins charming Garrow, whose reckless revolution threatens to expose her & ruin everything. #questpit #Q #A #F #SFF
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Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🚨 UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE 🚨 A fragment from Sgt. Maj. Annastasia's psychological evaluation has been recovered from the GAMA Intelligence archive 🗃️ Consider this an accidental leak 🫢 ✒️ I've also opened The Archive - my email list 🫡 Access via: tinyurl.com/terezamaze #QuestPit #Q #A #RF #SFF
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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 24/07/2026
Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT
A Pickpocket's Guide to High Society
(And Higher Mathematics)

YA Fantasy 80K words
Catherine Winters dot com

Against a subtly textured background of mathematical formulae and a hexagonal summoning grid feature a collection of intriguing objects:

The outstretched hand of some mechanical clockwork automaton made of white porcelain.
A purple and gold masquerade mask.
A set of brass architect's tools: a compass, a protractor, calipers.
A set of gears laid out, pulled from some kind of mechanism.
The Pitch
When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had and catches the attention of people she doesn't want to know. Blackmailed into stealing a mysterious box, Nia accidentally awakens a living clockwork doll—that promptly runs away.

Accused of betraying the blackmailers, Nia and her band of would-be thieves go on the run, pursued by magehunters, street gangs, and the secret police.

When the doll returns to make a deal, Nia turns to the man whose lucky coin unlocked her magic, only to find him missing. Caught in a lie, Nia’s soon posing as an heiress, in the clutches of the man’s elderly landlady—who's intent on introducing the girl she knows as “Baarsin” to high society.

As Nia finds herself disappearing into the role, she and her friends must race against time to track down the people behind it all: a secret society of mathematicians whose influence reaches all the way to the governor herself.Excerpt
Caz tensed. “There’s someone following us,” she hissed.
“I know,” Nia said. The man had been tailing them through the crowd for almost six blocks now. “He won’t be the only one.” She tugged Caz into the empty foyer of a boarding house and pulled out her misdirection charm. “Take my hand and stay quiet!”
“That won’t work on me,” Caz protested.
“No,” Nia said, willing herself to believe. “I can do this.” With all her strength, she pushed more of herself into the charm, the equation unfolding in her mind’s eye. She reached out, and as the world darkened around them, turned the doorknob, Caz clutching her arm. Nia pulled the taller girl close as the man pushed past them, failing to notice the door was already opening.
On the busy sidewalk, Caz let out a breath. A small boy leaning against a nearby lamppost glanced in their direction, an uncertain expression on his young face.
Caz cringed. “Sorry!” she mouthed.Comps & Tropes
Includes the covers of four books:

Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olsen
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo's
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

"Tropes" is loosely used here and includes:
Stealing is magical (literally)
Fish out of water (you probably guessed)
Working for the wrong people
Ancient magic (in over their heads)
The MacGuffin is blackmailing us
"Aren't you a little young to be a criminal?"
Metaphorically dyslexic LI (she's also dyslexic)
Creepy clockwork doll that complains all the time
Good at magic, as long as she has a compass & protractor
Grifter vs. con artist
Sword lesbian (in training)
Lying (a lot)
Found family of scoundrels
Ace protagonist (who hasn't had time to think about that)
One big job and then we can retire (oh no, somehow everything went wrong)
Let's break into a data centre!
No chosen ones, no choosing ceremonies, just hard work and practice.
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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Editors Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to leave Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF
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 RhymerRomantic 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 are your pre-sets accounting for?" [...]Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a 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. Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.
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bettebergeron.bsky.social @bettebergeron.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Loving all the creative #QuestPit posts today! Welcome to Rose Bluff Island, home of THE SEA CURSER. I dare you to stay awhile. 🌲Closed Setting 🌊Remote Island 👹Ancient Curses 🪸Folklore & Coastal Mythologies 👭Loss & Reconciliation #agentsgude #amquerying #amwriting #Q #A #F #S #WF
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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE x MY COUSIN RACHEL 🖤a marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans mansion 🥀a creeping obsession with her husband's reclusive cousin 🔑his dark secret she was never meant to find 🕯️a gothic fantasy romance, complete at 75k words #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic
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Radu @raduwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MASK OF MIRRORS x SILVERBLOOD PROMISE When a rebellion threatens to expose her meticulous sabotage to delay a tyrant's ritual, solitary candlemaker Tiala joins their chaotic ranks, and their charming leader, to prevent their reckless plans from exposing her own. #questpit #Q #A #F #SFF
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Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📁 CASE FILE: GAMA // QUERYING 📌 Location: Post-apocalyptic Switzerland 👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ #QuestPit #Q #A #RS #SFF
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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #AG
Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF
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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF
Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Black cat x golden retriever
Yearning
Bisexual awakening
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
Only one bed
Opposites attract
Gothic decadence
Big spooky house
Exploration of grief
Horror as a metaphor
Dreams-based magic
The occult
Alternate London setting
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

It was a poet’s job to seek out beauty, to be mesmerised by it. Darshil wanted to transform Rowan into swirls of ink, to fit his hands into the slight dips where Rowan’s waist met his hips and write him a thousand times over. 

The only thing more fascinating than death was the tormented living it left behind. 
It helped to hate him. It was less painful than loving him. 
The dead thing woke to the acrid stench of its own rot. 
Rowan matched him tenderness for tenderness, giving everything he could and knowing that for once, his everything was enough. 
Perhaps closing his eyes stopped it meaning anything. Darshil knew he should do the same. This was shame beyond anything else, a secret to take to the unloving grave.
He kept his eyes open anyway. With Rowan beneath him, as beautiful as the dawn, he couldn’t bear to look away.
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Jodie Angell @jodieangellauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
UNDERWORLD x TAYLOR SWIFT'S GUILTY AS SIN? Hunted for her magical heart that could destroy the Veil dividing their lands, a ferromancer teams up with a shifter she hates to stay alive. ✨ Coming to query inboxes soon ✨ #QuestPit #NA #A #RF #Q
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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!
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Radu @raduwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MASK OF MIRRORS x SILVERBLOOD PROMISE When forced into a chaotic rebellion, candlemaker Tiala must survive its charming leader and his reckless revolution to secretly sabotage a clock tower before a tyrant's power ritual snuffs out her assassination plot for good. #questpit #Q #A #F #SFF
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