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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It’s a jungle out there, but the will to survive is strong.

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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Go grab your copy! You won’t regret it. Beautifully written. www.lmriviere.com/a-vow-for-br... @lmriviere.bsky.social

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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Here we go! Stick around for updates and let me know if you’re in the trenches with me. #amquerying

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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Have my query package complete and my first batch of agents picked out! Into the trenches! #amquerying

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC MEXICAN GOTHIC x STARLING HOUSE Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements. 🕯️An orphan seeking security ⌛An immortal man bound by a curse 📰A marriage notice that is a trap Nellie must choose: her heart or her survival #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #H #DR

A dark teal and black patterned card for THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC. The background has vintage deep shades of pink and purple roses on the top of the frame. Centered is a small hourglass made with bones and a skull symbolizing the immortal + horror elements of the story. There is a note on there that the story is 70,000 words and a Dark Southern Gothic with Horror Elements.

A pitch slide with a deep teal background and black magnolia patterns. A skull with purple and pink roses and more deep pink and purple roses act as decorations. The pitch reads: "The Unyielding Monsieur de Blanc follows Nellie Moore in 1872, lured to a New Orleans estate by a marriage notice promising security. There, she encounters a man as captivating as he is complex, a man bound by a curse that has kept him alive for over a century.
As an impossible attraction sparks, Nellie’s search for the truth reveals that some secrets are meant to stay buried, and some doors, once opened, can never be closed again."

Two book covers adorn the card with deep teal and black magnolia patterns, pink and purple roses framing the bottom.
MEXICAN GOTHIC - The atmostpheric dread and family legacy.
STARLING HOUSE - A cursed, burdened hero

Teal and black magnolia patterns in the background along with a pink and purple rose decoration in the top right corner. Other images include, a candlestick with a burning flame, a pocket watch, a burned newspaper with a woman dressed in 19th century attire. The card includes a snippet of the book as below:

Nellie cleared her throat, and he turned slowly. His broad shoulders squared as he measured her with gray, unflinching eyes.

“I do not care for shadows in my doorway. Step forward.”

Nellie could not speak for a moment. Such a man naturally commanded her. He seemed powerful, severe, and entirely too confident. “I—I beg your pardon, sir,” she stuttered, her voice small in the vast room. “I am Nellie Moore.”

A brief unreadable softness touched his features before he stiffened, his expression once again a mask of stone. “I am Monsieur de Blanc, or Mr. De Blanc, as you Americans prefer.”

His thick French accent was like bourbon; it was smooth, but with a burn that unsettled her. Nellie stared, stunned. This was him, the man she was to marry. She had expected someone older, not this gentleman in his late twenties with a face so...strikingly symmetrical.

“Do find your breath, Mademoiselle. I have enough to manage today without adding a fainting spell to the afternoon’s agenda. I’ve never had much patience for delicate women.”

The insult was a splash of frigid water, bringing her back to herself. The orphan inside of her who spent her days scrubbing floors and managing unruly children suddenly bubbled to the surface. She adjusted the lace on her shoulders and met his gaze with a leveled stare that mirrored his own coldness.

“You needn’t worry, sir,” she said, her voice surprisingly crisp. “I am merely trying to reconcile the man in front of me with the one I was promised in the letters.”

A flicker of mild interest passed over his face. “Is that so?” he murmured, arms folded tightly. “Fortune favors you, then. I am not the man from your letters.”

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Elissa Grossell Dickey @elissadickey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

LEAP YEAR, but creepy Rosie’s trip to Ireland has everything: 👻 A vengeful ghost 🖤 A grumpy-but-handsome local man 💀 A twenty year old secret that needs to be unburied. ✨Querying now • revised for pacing✨ #QuestPit #Q #A #T #H #R #U #DIS #S #MY

Mood board: images of a woman, a man, the ocean, a ghost, a spooky house and an old crumbling building and. The Irish coast

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Christie Ann Westwood @cawestwood-author.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

❤️‍🔥⚔️ The Foxglove King x Final Fantasy x The Witcher Feasting & fornicating beats faith, until a duty-allergic prince finds a woman marked for sacrifice & saves her. Hunted by gods & men, with no shared language, they must make an impossible choice: each other or their people. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

Human made graphic design of deer skull, vines, leaves and pink flowers with the words Godborn on it

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Adrienne Trinity Reina @adriennereina.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New project: Those Who Carry My Bones. When the dead god's skeleton her country is built on begins to collapse, a woman must confront her past as part of the organization responsible and reverse the damage, all while falling for a man whose life she accidentally ruined. #questpit #a #f #rf #df #w

A mood board featuring pomegranates, bone fragments in dirt, rocky and foggy mountains, and a gothic cathedral. Over it, cursive text reads, "those who carry my bones."

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Find the truth. Even it destroys you. #QuestPit #W #F #H #YA EVEN SEINTS FALL: 💀 Seven deadly sins x monsters 🗡️ Stabby FMC & her pessimistic bestie 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀Corruption vs. truth 🖤Complicated families

Collage of photos including smoke, flowers, a cathedral ceiling, incense, a stained glass window, and stone angel statue. Text reads: Even seints fall and gods die, with an X through the word "gods."

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RJ Webb 🦇🏳️‍🌈 @authorrjwebb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I have been so excited to share this!! Knight Esther and Siren Adele from The Siren’s Knight: Dragon Song. Art by @fukkatsu.bsky.social #writingcommunity #queerwriters #writerscommunity

Original art of a medieval throne room lit with candles with a knight dressed in armor and short brown hair on the throne with a siren with pink scales, long red hair, and a golden crown sitting on her lap.

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage. After months in jail w/ bond of $3 mil, media-hungry DA offered a deal- all I had to do was say I was guilty. #Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

Newspaper headlines reads Sederwall pleads guilty to concealing death

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Lauren H. Dowdle @lhdowdle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

When Rilla triggers a Creek tribe prophecy, she must battle folklore creatures, earn a god’s powers, and complete the deadly omen she put into motion before it ends the world in 4 days in the hopes this journey will also help her find her missing sister. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

#QuestPit WILD REVERENCE X THE VAMPIRE LESTAT After a horrific car accident derails Price’s music career, an encounter with the Goddess of Sleep makes all his dreams come true. Little does he know his ascension into rock god status will pit him against Death himself. #Q #A #H #F

Moon with horoscope overlay in a purple and blue space background. The title LOWLIGHT is in the center of the moon with the subtitle “When the woman of your dreams becomes your worst nightmare” underneath followed by the pitch in the post. Below the pitch is “Adult horror fantasy,” “93,000,” and “Inspired by Sleep Token lore and the Orpheus myth.” Pictures of comparable titles follow and include the mythic redemption arc of Carissa Broadbent’s THE SONGBIRD & THE HEART OF STONE, immortal rockstar vibes of Anne Rice’s THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, and the goddess/mortal romance of Rebecca Ross’s WILD REVERENCE. To the left of these is the title, “What You’ll Find” and lists gothic and surreal atmosphere, plots twists, and dense mythos. A second title, “Themes On” follows and lists Self-love vs. Self-Sacrifice, power dynamics in relationships, and religion and deconstruction. To the far right of the slide is a QR code titled “Let’s Get Social.”

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Autumn Hooper Querying Author @authorautumnhooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#questpit #A #Q #F DAWN OF THE CICADA adult fantasy 105,000 words After a restless hibernation spent cursing the darkness, the darkness in others is now hers to wield. Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth

teeth, fantasy dress, mushrooms, night walk, dark forest, dagger, bear

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star is AGENTED !!! ☆ @starlettsky.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

FAST AND FURIOUS X ROMEO + JULIET (1996) A burnt-out romance author travels to a gang-ruled street racing city for inspiration, but when she falls for the reckless racer guiding her through it, she risks her career, her heart, and her life. #QuestPit #Q #R #A

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Morgan is querying @morganraywrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Selling insurance sucks. So does monster social work. At least nothing at Geico has fangs. But Jax is broke, and 1 last job for her secret society doesn't sound too bad... until it turns into a setup for her murder. Just her luck that the killer is trying to fracture the Veil too. #QuestPit #Q #F

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🗡️EVEN SENTS FALL When a final assignment leaves more questions than answers, two monster hunters must discover the truth behind the new horrors appearing across the land, even if it means unraveling their own identities and everything they believe in. #QuestPit #W #F #H #YA

Collage of photos including wilting roses and a glass window with text: I am not your perfect daughter, with an X over the word "not."

Collage of photos including a cathedral building and stained glass window with text reading: Who would you have me be?

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mary @mbcottrell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

LAPVONA x PIRANESI x TOKYO GHOUL Now querying! The Marble Garden, complete at 60k words, is a YA horror-fantasy novel that traces a young artist’s desperate attempts to survive inside a millennia old trap. #questpit #q #ya #h #f

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JG 🇵🇷 / Querying Author ✍️ @jgauthor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

First #QuestPit! 📖 A preview of my #agentsguide to THE SPACES BETWEEN US, a 90K M/M Romance 👨‍❤️‍👨 “What does success mean if it requires walking away from the one person who has made that future feel real?” #Q #R #NA #A #Queer

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Ricardo Andrés — is querying & writing @ricardoandres.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

INVINCIBLE x DISTRICT 9 x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL 👽 Alien Operative 🔪 Shapeshifters hiding in plain sight ⚔️ Civilians turned into weapons 💥 Unstoppable power = uncontrollable destruction ☠️ Unleash power & lose control 🌎 Hold back and lose what he loves #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #T #SFF

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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit After a horrific car accident derails Price’s music career, an encounter with the Goddess of Sleep makes all his dreams come true. Little does he know his ascension into rock god status will pit him against Death himself. WILD REVERENCE X THE VAMPIRE LESTAT #Q#A#H#F

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karimecc.bsky.social @karimecc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

MAYAN MYTH x IT x HIDE&SEEKER On a fateful night, Alondra and Tavo defied the Mayan Goddess Ixtab. Since then, they've been haunted by her, until she gets Tavo and drags him to the Underworld. Now Alondra must save him before the wicked gods of Xibalbá devour him #YA #Questpit #H

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue instead. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but will the help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? #questpit #W #YA #SF

A group of second generation aliens sleeper cells have spent their entire lives assimilating to human culture and gathering intelligence for the home world. To them, the eventual overthrow of farth has always been a distant goal meant for future generations.
Mow, when ordered to abduct and replace a human girl they have befriended, one of the alien operatives realizes that they have grown to care more for their found home and family than they do for their own people. She sabotages the abduction and goes on the run with the human girl.
Her friends are ordered to track her down, but now questioning their own mission, they find themselves wondering if the entire invasion is a mistake and if they have more in common with these Earthlings than they ever thought...

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pumped to pitch ETERNALLY DEAD - my 107k paranormal romantic fantasy that explores what happens when an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm 🧛‍♂️ 🩸🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q #amquerying

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 107k 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.

Red and black background with red text at the top that reads "the blurb." The text below reads: Celia Sharpe's life-long dream of being a rockstar guitarist ended the day an accident wrecked her hand. Now a New York City concert photographer, she strictly focuses on making deadlines. But when Celia spots a mysterious stranger at a concert she can’t capture on camera, she abandons her job to follow him down an alley—only to be accidentally transported to the Vampire Realm.

Stranded and vulnerable in a world of dangerous monsters, Celia has one goal: return home ASAP. But the stranger she followed reveals that he's the bassist of all-vampire rock band Mortuus Aeternum (Eternally Dead), and he offers her a seductive opportunity: if Celia stays, the band's flirty guitarist Caliban will temporarily heal her hand so she can join Mortuus Aeternum. However, she must perform for audiences of blood-thirsty vampires, of course.

Trapped in the Vampire Realm with no way out, Celia is conflicted: she might be willing to sacrifice her freedom for Caliban's healing magic and a second chance at living her rockstar dreams, but she risks death if she doesn't find a way home. Especially when blood shortages are announced across the Vampire Realm. How will she survive?

Red and black background with a bright red title that reads THE COMPS. Below are four book covers and one movie poster that include brief descriptions beside them. The first is Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London and it's described as an urban fantasy in a vampire setting. Next is Bride by Ali Hazelwood, described as having a steamy romance and political intrigue. Next is The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, described as having a human fighting to survive in a vampire world. Next is a movie poster for Almost Famous, described as music journalist + rock band = forced proximity. Last is the cover of Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, described as having a rock band with secrets and love triangles. The tropes and vibes section includes the following text: grounded fantasy, found family, diverse characters, plot twists, chronic illness rep, slow burn yearning, and twist on fated mates.

Red and black background with white text snd large red title that reds THE OPENING. Below the title is the opening of the book, which reads: Celia Sharpe slammed her palm against the closed subway doors, trying to pry open the cool metal with sweaty fingertips. The train had finally – finally – made it to the station, and she needed to get off. Now. When the doors opened at long last, she burst through them like a bat out of hell, charging towards the exit.
She couldn't miss the opening of this show, or it might be her last.

Below the opening is the word EXCERPT in large red letters, and below is text in white font. The following excerpt reads:
Caliban knelt beside her and took her hand, her breath hitching at his touch. A warm sensation transferred between his fingertips and her scar, a tingling feeling moving up her whole arm. She pulled back on instinct.
“What did you do?” she trembled, awestruck. The scar had vanished.
“It’s only temporary. Please play,” he said, his green eyes wanting.
The pain was gone. Gone. As if it had never been there at all. Her left hand curved around the guitar neck, hugging the strings. Overcome by the magic of it, Celia grinned.

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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 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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Racthoh @racthoh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Just my favorite video of them ever.

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Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

He killed a prince to save the kingdom. Now a fallen inquisitor, he’s been hired to find a missing ambassador, and the deeper he digs, the more it looks like saving the kingdom was a mistake. INQUISITOR FOR HIRE - multi-POV, 89k words #QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

Inquisitor for Hire Comps. For fans of The Tainted Cup’s genre-bending fantasy mystery, and the political darkness of Grave Empire, with the strange, decaying world of Mordew.

Tropes for Inquisitor for Hire: He saved the kingdom. He might have been wrong.

Fallen hero / disgraced legend
Chasing a vanishing truth
A secret the city was built to hide
Justice isn’t clean
Reluctant family forged under pressure
A power that takes more than it gives
Corruption at the highest level

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #YouDeservepIt 📖 💙📚 #Q #R Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender

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I Am Chosen by Dawn Berkoski

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom, or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement?

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy, Bartender

COMP TITLES
Interview With The Vampire
A Blue Bloods Novel
Yakuza

I Am Chosen
By Dawn Berkoski
77,000 M/M Paranormal Romance
Dark and a little spicy meets silly-sweet

Think:
Blue Bloods (minus the angels and school) x Interview With The Vampire (add more humor) x Japanese Yakuza (cracking skulls in London)

Tropes
* Forbidden Love
* Fish Out of Water
* Forced Proximity
* Dark Secrets
* Unequal Power Structure
* High Action Chase Scenes
* Emotional Growth Arcs + Satisfying End

Quotes

"He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger."
~Jason Allard (Protagonist)

"Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!"
~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover)

"Alexander and I have unfinished business."
-Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival)

MAIN CHARACTERS
Alexander Grant Jason Allard
CEO of M-Corp Bartender
Control Issues Anxiety/Clingy
Likes: Likes:
Power + Money. Video Games +Pizza

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

Photo by Dawn Berkoski of a car speeding past a cemetery.View is from the driver’s perspective, looking out the side window.

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sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

PRIDE & PREJUDICE x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x GRACELING In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her Curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. #QuestPit #Q #YA #HF #RF #F #historical #fantasy #romance

Image of the back of a woman's head beside the end of a large wing's black feathers. Text reads YA Regency Romantasy 100k.

A woman's back with large black wings attached. Text reads "The Pitch. In an alternate Regency era where magical abilities are called Gifts, ladies and gentlemen with improper Gifts are shunned from high society. Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow’s wings beneath her dresses for years, but must risk exposing them to save her ill father. Lord Simon is about to be disowned for his delicate, flowery Gift. The only solution for them both lies in stealing the Duchess’s diamond necklace. But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, they must survive high society, evade the villain who cursed them, and find a cure — or Simon will dissolve into petals and Lucy will transform into a crow."

A woman's back with a large black wing attached. Text reads "Pluck. Cursed to become a crow."

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Autumn Hooper Querying Author @authorautumnhooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth 🔮 emotion-driven powers 💖 characters with depth 🎀 softness is her greatest strength ✨ light found in dark places 💋 slow-burn #Q #A #F

Dawn of the Cicada book cover idea with a woman in shadow in a dark forest lit by fireflies with the shadow of a monster lurking behind her.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Cold War X Time Travel 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. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

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Cass @casshabs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#questpit #A #DF #Q In my world, magic isn't invisible. It lives in your hair, eyes, and color. And when the darkness takes it... it erases you.

A dark, atmospheric title slide featuring a black book cover framed with pale floral designs. The title reads “Born of Light, Cursed by Darkness” by Cassandra Habig. A glowing streak of multicolored light cuts through the title. Background is warm gold and shadowed, with text indicating “Adult Dark Academia Romantic Fantasy” and “120k words.”

A dark fantasy blurb slide with teal text on a smoky gold and black background. The header reads “BLURB” followed by the tagline “Magic lives in color. When it fades… so do you.” The paragraph describes Rihalyn Embers, her hidden magic, her sister’s execution, and her arrival at a deadly academy. Decorative images include glowing flowers and a glass-encased rose, reinforcing a magical, fragile atmosphere.

Text reads:
Magic lives in color. When it fades… so do you.
Twenty-year-old Rihalyn Embers lives on Runyan, where magic reveals itself in color, and she has none. Until her sister Mahdilyn is exposed as a rare illusionist, revealing she has been masking Rihalyn’s iridescent colors and altering her memories to keep her safe from Abel, the self-crowned ruler who siphons color to secure his throne. When Mahdilyn is executed for refusing to join Abel’s army, Rihalyn is sent to Wychlith, an academy that trains mages to serve Abel, where combat trials force magic to the surface, victories raise rank, and defeat costs pieces of a mage’s soul.

At Wychlith, light awakens. Darkness waits.
Rihalyn clings to one goal: survive long enough to reclaim her suppressed power, uncover what Mahdilyn hid, and learn why she died for it. But when Kieran, Abel’s son, takes her under his mentorship, she cannot tell whether he is shielding her from Abel or shaping her into something useful for his own rise. Kieran wields dark magic, the same force draining Runyan of its color, and every lesson awakens Rihalyn’s light while binding her more tightly to him.

If Abel finds her, he’ll drain her.
If Kieran loves her, he may destroy her.
Now she must decide who to trust before Abel senses the light waking inside her, Kieran’s darkness corrupts it, and what little color remains in Runyan vanishes forever.

A split slide showing “Tropes & Themes” on the left and “Comps” on the right. The left lists elements like color vs. darkness, shadow magic, dark academia, morally gray characters, slow burn romance, and found family, alongside romantic and symbolic imagery. The right lists comparison titles The Serpent & the Wings of Night and The Foxglove King, with brief descriptions of tone and themes. A short “Unique Appeal” section highlights a color-based magic system drained by darkness.

A dark, cinematic slide divided into two sections: “Snippet” and “The Atmosphere.” The snippet features a close, emotional interaction between two characters with intense eye contact and tension. Below and beside it is a collage of fantasy imagery including glowing magic, castles, books, shadowy forests, and magical hands, visually conveying the tone of a dark, magical academy setting.

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liz difranco @lizdifranco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An agent's guide to INSPIRED BY YOU. Perfect for agents looking for: ❤️A NEW TWIST ON A ROMCOM 🧬A VERY LITERAL GENRE BLEND ❤️‍🩹THE HEALING ART OF STORYTELLING ⚔️ACCESSIBLE FANTASY 💌EPISTOLARY ELEMENTS #questpit #w #a #r #f

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

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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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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Duke @jgduke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #A #F #W HIGH WINDS AND LOW WHISPERS #AStoryOfDainu Jaris has returned to his homeland after years of maritime adventures. He was told he would be welcomed as a hero. He was told his insights were invaluable. He was told his fellow Purnma were the greatest beings in Dainu! He was lied to.

Picture is a (temporary) book cover. A large ship with wings for sails is on the open ocean. Text reads "High Winds and Low Whispers, a story of Dainu by JG Duke."

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bea’s convinced she’s bad, and hides her sexuality in the pixelated boxes of TemptressB—it’s how she survived what came before. Until a suspicious subscriber, censorship-happy board member, and stupidly principled (utterly devastating) boss force her to be fully seen. #QuestPit #Q #A #WF #U #LF #R

Image: faded background of library metal bookcases. A pink filter is atop growing from the bottom left corner. A blue pen is across the right part of the screen poised beside a scribbled heart.

Text: Shamelessly Wanting. By Frankie Joy. An Agents Guide. Upmarket fiction with romantic arc (80k). Querying.

Text banner at top: messy fmc, buttoned-up mmc, late stage dual pov, open-door, book banning b-plot

Image: light pink background with a pink distortion in the corners. Scribbled blue loops separate two halves of the slide. Yellow highlighter is beneath the headers. Four book covers are on the right-hand side.

Pitch:

Beatrice Dorsey shelves books at the Meadow Park Library-and runs a spicy content site under the name Temptress. But that's none of her coworkers' business. Or her family's. Especially not Miles Noor, her steady and irritatingly attractive boss. The man who brought her burgers on the library floor and walked away from their almost-kiss with two words: "Not yet." A new subscriber surfaces, reminding her of what she's always known: "You were always bad;)" Someone from before has Found her. Within weeks, Bea's cousin has the photos, her best friend tires of her avoidance, and a board member is targeting "indecent" books. The exposure she's spent years hiding from is coming due.
Bea arms herself with humor, lipgloss, and sour gummy bears. It works. Mostly. Until she's lying on the floor wondering who she is when she stops performing.

Comps:

The Wedding People
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Funny, guarded heroine learning to let people in —and making mistakes along the way.

Idea of You
Centering of female desire.

Fleabag
Exploration of shame without moralizing.

Image: light pink background with a pink distortion in the corners. Scribbled asterisks are in the right upper corner. Yellow highlighter is beneath the headers. Gummy bears are beside Bea and jalebi beside Miles.

Bea Dorsey
Gummy bear-fueled, anxious-avoidant, narrating her life in lipgloss. If she gets too close to others they might see the parts of her she shamefully hides. You'll want her happy ending anyway.
"I hid truths from my own brain. Reality is what I say it is."

Miles Noor
Patient, principled, and permanently undone by the woman he’d sign disclosure paperwork for. He never forgets he's her boss-but the buttoned-up exterior becomes too suffocating to maintain.
"I’m just here to unbutton your buttons, Miles.”

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A guide to Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel, a queer, heisty, spicy, sci-fi romance manuscript. Good Heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry. Are you its reader? 😍🌈🥵🌌🚀❤️

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

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

SEVERANCE x SILO Nova feels too much, and it could get her mind wiped clean. She's a state memory technician erasing people's most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won't let her forget. #QuestPit #Q #A #S #SFF #SF #U

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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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Kyla Whitelock is querying ✨ @kylawhitelock.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Agent's Guide for MOLDED BY MALICE Druids go through the Inflection, where an element will bless them with power 🍃💨💧 Industrialists are subjected to the Test of Attunement, where crystals can enhance their speed, strength, or senses 🔮💪🏼😈 But what if you aren't chosen? #questpit #A #F #Q

On the left side is an industrial city with smoke stacks that turn the air black. On the right side is a green forest with sunlight coming through the trees. It is divided by black cracks.

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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #F THE SONGBIRD & THE HEART OF STONE x THE VAMPIRE LESTAT When Price’s music catches the attention of a goddess, he becomes Death’s target. Now he must find a way to become a god himself or be swallowed by the nightmare his dream of stardom has become.

Moon with horoscope overlay in a purple and blue space background. The title LOWLIGHT is in the moon with the subtitle When the woman of your dreams becomes your worst nightmare followed by the pitch. Adult horror fantasy at 93,000. Inspired by Sleep Token lore and the Orpheus myth. Comparable titles, themes, and social QR code.

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