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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

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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Taurus @tauruswrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

MAGIC MEETS CODING While tech-savvy Viva uses magic and coding to stop the army of undead, her twin sister, Tasia, is resurrected by witches forcing her to kill. 🧟 magic with Necromancy/Voodoo 👩🏽‍💻Girls in STEM 👯‍♀️Magically bonded twins ❤️ Slow burn friends to lovers #questpit #SF #F #YA #Q #SFF

voodoo doctor, futuristic city, grimoire, smart glasses

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Sara Axelbaum (she/her) @bysaraaxelbaum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES + VANYA & THE WILD HUNT + GREEKING OUT= THE MYTHICAL CREATURE CONSERVATORY Courage isn't the absence of fear. My debut MG fantasy explores what it means to act while afraid through an anxious kid, a hidden conservatory, and the very last mythical creatures. #QuestPit #MG #F #Q

Hand drawn sketch of a family in front of an arched door. At the top it says "2025" and on the bottom it says "Happy Holidays! The Allens".

Hand-drawn crest page showing three emblems: a starry unicorn on a banner reading LAND, a Loch Ness sea creature on a banner reading WATER, and a spread-winged phoenix for AIR.

A hand drawing of a framed portrait of a woman. Her name "Rhea" is below. She has dark hair in a braid that is over one shoulder, a necklace, and is wearing a dress.

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY 7 former high school friends reunite for a long-planned weekend when the group's number dwindles. Is there an 8th guest in the shadows, or have the flies been lured by a spider in their midst? Prey for dawn. Welcome to the parlor. #questpit #M #W

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Helen Wiley @helenwiley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#nowquerying A SONG AGAINST RUIN (113k words), adult fantasy. When an ambitious musician and her best friend try to secure fame and status by aligning with rival noble houses in a deadly political conflict, they don't realize that one's success could cost the other's life. #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

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Mark EG Dorey Author/Artist @jrr-tokin-og.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit This G'nome is named Szvirf Neblinski. He's just under 12" tall, is a wizard, a holyman, & the main character in my stories. He's also the narrator. His god has asked him to Rediscover his people's ancient heritage, & save the world. That other guy is his trusty guide, Musky Ratlove.

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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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Alexis ✍🏾 @authoredbyalexis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Lucky only needs these things to survive her parents neglect and her growing hunger for love👀 -bread for the ducks -chapstick (lip biter) -tissues for therapy -empty lunchbox (her parents forgot to pack…again) -favorite photos -cookies from her crush! #questpit #A #DR #OS #AG #LF #U SWALLOWED SINS

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James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#Questpit Mass effect x Treasure Planet "People of Humanity, we have been observing your Earth..." These are the word that came down from the stars when Humanity stood on the Brink. The words that offered them a Second Chance at life. 6 years later, our story begins. #Q #SF #SFF

In The Service of Gods & Admirals.

A Novel by

James Keller

People of Humanity,

We have been observing your Earth and know you can not survive. The damage done to your world is too great for any species to recover from. You lack the technology to escape but there is no reason why the Galaxy should have to go on without you.

In the name of our Goddess, the Lady of Crystal, I have declared the Uplift of Humanity from your ruined world. And have bestowed onto you a new planet to call your own. Where you can rebuild yourselves and live on under the light of the stars.

We offer you passage to this new world. To welcome you into the Galactic Community as Citizens of the Jada Empire. Under the protection of my court, the Assembly, and the Admiralty of the Royal Navy.

You will be granted all the rights and privileges as any other Citizen in our domain. We will offer all the assistance you require as you heal and grow on your new Colony. To help you find your place in the Galaxy.

The wars that have ravaged your Earth are not our concern. We seek not to pass judgement, but to offer a chance at peace. To survive as a people and as a culture.

To all who accept this offer, our ships will be arriving to evacuate you. Instructions will be broadcast to lead you to the evacuation zones. To all who refuse, you will be left alone without further interference. We mean no harm but we will protect our new citizens from anyone who seeks to prevent them from traveling to their new home.

I know that you do not know of us, of anyone beyond your Earth. but we do come in peace. We come in peace. All we ask is the opportunity for our people to get to know each other.

(Proclamation of Empress Celestia of House Praven, 2nd Born of Emperor Cerian)

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hannah nagle :)) @hannahnagle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Presenting my #agentguide for SUCH A FICKLE FATE, my 75k grounded fantasy featuring: 🤍Celtic mythology 🤍Seer FMC/Demigod MMC 🤍intertwined destinies 🤍anxiety & depression rep 🤍slow burn 🤍female friends/found fam 🤍real-world setting #questpit #NA #YA #Q #F

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 29/04/2026

When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #QuestPit #W #F #LGBT #YA

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with golems.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocket orrery engraved with runes.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

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Adelaide Cabernet @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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

Cover with acrobats titled “Bend Over Backwards”

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

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

List of comp titles including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

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

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

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

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

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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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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EvelynHail, PhD @evelynhail.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."

A graphic titled "The Comps" in golden lettering. It displays four book covers arranged in a grid: "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli, "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros, "Shadow and Bone" by Leigh Bardugo, and "The Witcher: The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.

A self-made fantasy illustration showing a halfway transformed, dark-haired man, Prince Konstantin Veliki, with a silver crown and dragon wings. He is carrying a woman, a humble servant Iva, masquerading as a Duchess Zora, in a long, flowing cream-colored gown as they fly through the air. She is his guest but unbeknownst to him, she is plotting to poison him. In the background, a sprawling forest surrounds a magic academy, Kolegium with colorful, traditional Slavic-style onion domes—gold, silver, bronze and green. Each of the domes represents air, water, fire and earth magic respectively. Snippet text at the bottom reads: "Do you always sequester your guests and take flight with them?"

A self-made illustration set in the catacombs under the magic academy, Kolegium, featuring classical-style statues on the walls. Iva, in dark armor, rides a bright, light blue-scaled dragon; it is Prince Konstantin Veliki in his dragon form.
They face off against a monstrous, ethereal shadow dragon composed of wispy, black smoke and glowing eyes — this is Konstantin’s fallen father Tibor Veliki. A brilliant golden sphere of light, relic of the Slavic god of light, Belobog, called Spark of Creation, floats on a pedestal between them. Text at the bottom of the snippet reads: "Let us dance, little one," the Shadow Dragon hisses in a dry whisper of the fallen. "A worthy foe," Konstantin responds. We take to the air to meet the darkness. Two gargantuan winged silhouettes hover in the abyss, suspended in a precarious balance. They mirror one another; two sides of the same coin, champions of Belobog and Chernobog.

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING Querying Soon! Desperate to find his oldest friend, the missing sun god, a former holy king returns to the home he abandoned and the people he betrayed to reunite with his god and prevent an endless winter. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #AgentsGuide

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 95,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING.

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

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questpit || next event: NOV 4th @questpit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Seasons greetings! Our gift to you is #questpit dates for 2026! We can’t wait to reconvene next year. Happy Holidays!

periwinkle background with golden snowflakes and a glass ornament in the center reading “Our 2026 Event List: January 30th, April 29th, July 24th, November 4th”

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