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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You have a better chance of going bankrupt than of becoming a millionaire. Wake up!

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ered @ered.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take

Three panel comic titled Unethical Fiction:
1. Made with AI
2. Printed on human skin
3. The author uses their profits to fund a hate group.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

When someone who consistently does and says terrible things dies, it's helpful. It means that they can no longer do and say terrible things. It's a form of cleansing the world. That's a positive thing.

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Shaya Lin Susan @shayalinsusan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hi everyone! Exciting news!!! 😊 My wonderful agent @thaisafonso.bsky.social has sold my Adult Horror debut THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE GIRLS to Abby Knudsen at @GalleryBooks, Simon and Schuster. A million thanks to Thais, Rachel Neely, and @LauraGalanWells, my brilliant mentor at RTM.

There's Something Wrong With The Girls by Shaya Lin Susan, pitched as Stepford Wives for the TikTok girlies, acquired by Abby Knudsen at Gallery.

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#Detroit - 📣 community calling for urgent support at Hazlett & Milford & Hazlett & Tireman where it is currently extremely ICY 🧊 despite the heat. Please bring water, snacks, sunscreen, ice packs, masks, and be sure to memorize NLG number (313)925-2626.

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Rue Brixton @ruebrixton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Never give up on your dreams! I'm over the moon to announce that I'm now represented by Holly Root at Root Literary. Thank you to the amazing critique partners and beta readers I've found in the romance community who helped make me a better writer! #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Graphic with words: Rue Brixton now represented by Holly Root of Root Literary

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Danielle (TBQ) @thebookqueen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

$2.99 ✦ Why Earls Fall in Love by Manda Collins A young widow takes on the role as a Lady's companion, but ends up falling for the lady's charming nephew. Historical Romance (MF) amzn.to/4vrfrE3 Bookshop bookshop.org/a/111397/978... Kobo click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=...

This is the cover for Why Earls Fall in Love by Manda Collins

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of enslaved Black people in the US. We lift up all who fought for slavery abolition, & honor them by continuing to work to dismantle all carceral systems & spaces. To learn how to get more involved: interruptingcriminalization.com/resources

Juneteenth a celebration of freedom. Graphic of fists and a broken chain

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Almost all of the Black touchstones uplifted in the US were avowed socialists and Communists and I always find this so funny. So many people including some Black people elide this fact.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 07/06/2026

Here are 14 Leftist NYS Assembly campaigns on which your efforts would, in my opinion, be well spent. Please pick the campaign closest to you and join a canvass, phone-bank, or relational-outreach effort. If enough of us get involved, we will win at least 7. 🙏 bsky.app/profile/bdli...

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I wrote about how to tell if a romance is AI over on threads. I'm going to cross post it here. When that dumb NYT article came out about that woman who said she published 200 books a year, and she revealed one of her pen names was Coral Hart..

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 21/05/2026

I realise that 'no plot all vibes' is a thing and if you like it, that's great, more power to you, please do not feel compelled to tell me about it. For me, I've never read a 'no plot all vibes' that wouldn't have been better with some plot.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

glaad.org

Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Happy #MayDay! We at IC are in solidarity with @criticalresistance.bsky.social, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, @detentionwatchnetwork.org, and many other groups in demanding that ICE be abolished. Scroll through these graphics to see just what we mean! #NoICE #StopICE #AbolishICE (1/2)

This May Day, groups are mobilizing around demands to abolish ICE—but what does that mean?

No ICE means...Not one more dollar for ICE, Border Patrol, or Homeland Security. And repeal the billions they were given last summer!

No ICE means...No more hiring sprees for ICE, Border Patrol, or Homeland Security— AND no more collaboration with other agencies for immigration enforcement!

No ICE means...No more immigration detention facilities, warehouses, or holding cells—AND closing existing detention facilities—including Dilley!

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Cail Rowan @cailrowan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bone HousesXHouse of Hollow A delicate bloom holds a secret & threatens peace when Luna’s father vanishes into The Orade. She & Treasure search for him, but cruel sectors & a magic-plague force her to face untamed powers & a hard choice: save him, save Treasure, or lose herself. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

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J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

NEVERMOOR X CITY SPIES ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, 12yo 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 #Querying Art @giaphoc.bsky.social

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

𝗛𝗲𝗿🧭I came here to learn German. Not to inch closer to my disarming, bruised host with every word, every laugh. We’re just friends—until our nights turn sultry. Until Berlin, edgy and mellow, teases a different life, if only I'd stay. I can’t. I've planned my future... elsewhere. #Questpit #Q #A #R

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Christine O. Adler @artsavestheworld18.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is how to love yourself. Two women a century apart & connected by a Brooklyn brownstone must decide if they have the strength to stand up for the lives they want, despite their families & society’s rules. #AgentsGuide #QuestPit #WF #R #DualTimeline #LGBTQ

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Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Elisia was never an ordinary teenager. Now, she's no ordinary vampire. When she discovers why she’s unlike others of her kind, she realises her life will change all over again And the world as she knows it will never be the same… ⚔️enemies-to-lovers 🧛‍♀️vampires & slayers 🧙‍♀️witches #QuestPit #F #P #YA

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Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A dystopian romantic heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #questpit #W #NA #D Querying late summer/fall <3

List of tropes:
Dystopian, romance, heist
Teenage lovers to unaccounted for for many years, to rival gang members actually trying to kill each other to reluctant allies to lovers again???
Idk, it’s complicated..
Cyberpunk
Forced proximity
is it a gang or is it a cult?
Anything can be a murder weapon if you try hard enough
tending to wounds

Pitch:
Project Glitch is about a gang member trying to earn her initiation by killing all her exes, when she's redirected to infiltrate a rival gang's heist—led by her last remaining ex-boyfriend—to steal information from an impenetrable city with the potential to save or obliterate their corrupt world.

Opening lines:
Eyes on the target. Awaiting orders to shoot." I tighten my grip on the rifle.
The breeze sweeps some brown stray hairs over my eyes as I follow the target through my scope—Raymond, 25, male, with dark shaggy hair and a bag slung over his shoulder. Also known as my second ex-boyfriend.
"Awaiting orders to shoot," I repeat. My trigger finger burns to move.
The traffic drums in the background—car horns ring through the dirty air between dilapidated skyscrapers. Raymond dabs up one of the bouncers across the street. I track his every move; when he steps back to let a group pass by, when he scratches the five o'clock shadow on his chin, when he nods towards the entrance door two steps ahead of them. All that stands between me and my official initiation into the Coven, is one bullet in his brain.

Books similar to Project Glitch:
Butcher and Blackbrid by Brynne Weaver
Coldwire & These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Scion by James Islington
To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Divergent by Veronica Roth

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Jenny Lane @authorjennylane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EDITORS GUIDE for EXTRA INNINGS ABBOTT ELEMENTARY meets TED LASSO (but make it gay) when an English teacher Owen must mentor a new teacher/coach...who is also his ex-BFF and situationship. #QuestPit #A #R #OS (soon)

Editor’s Guide to Extra Innings
Queer, Second Chance Romance
Going on submission soon!
85,000 Words

An anxious high school English teacher is forced to mentor the new teacher/varsity baseball coach, who just happens to be his ex-best friend and first love.Old feelings resurface fast, blurring the lines between classroom, dugout, and a second chance neither of them is sure they deserve.

Owen Hart copes with anxiety through rules, routines, and the predictable rhythm of his life as a high school English teacher in the small town he grew up. So when his former best friend—and first love—Matt Beckett comes back to town after a career-ending baseball injury, Owen has no interest in reopening old wounds.

Matt was the golden boy with MLB dreams. Now he’s back home, stepping into the role as the varsity baseball coach and long term substitute teacher. When the principal assigns Owen as his instructional mentor, Matt has no choice but to accept help from the one person he never truly got over.

What starts as classroom support quickly spills onto the field. Owen starts helping with the team, until their lives are tangled together from first period to the final inning. And being around each other again makes one thing impossible to ignore: whatever they had ten years ago never faded. A rushed and heady locker room hook up turns into an off campus high heat situationship they aren’t ready to label.

But Owen can’t risk loving someone who might leave again, and Matt doesn’t think he deserves a second chance. Still, no matter how hard they try to keep their distance, they keep getting pulled back in—on the field, in the classroom, and everywhere in between.

To have a future, Owen must confront his fear of abandonment, while Matt has to decide if coming home is just a detour—or the place he’s finally ready to stay.
The Pitch

Welcome to Rollins, CA
A small northern California town held together by local businesses, nosy neighbors, and a shift toward acceptance.

Where Extra Innings fits in the Market
The "High-Stakes" Sports Romance

See You at the Finish Line (Zac Hammett): Fans of Hammett’s sharp, teammate-to-lovers tension will find that same magnetic pull between Matt and Owen as they navigate a shared past that won't stay buried.

Diamond Ring (K.D. Casey): Appeals to readers who crave the authentic, gritty reality of post-professional sports and the long, high-stakes road to reconciliation.
The "Deep-Heart" Small Town Romance

Honey Bee Mine (Sarah T. Dubb): Captures the "everybody knows your business" atmosphere of Rollins, appealing to readers who love a setting that acts as both a safe harbor and an antagonist.

Teacher of the Year (M.A. Wardell): Matches the warm, earnest, and deeply human voice of the English teacher protagonist, grounding the romance in the complexities of professional life and public perception.

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Rachel @racheljwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Olivia isn’t the typical dating show lead. So when Logan, her brother’s best friend, steps out of a limo, they strike a deal: he’ll provide intel on the men as an undercover contestant. But pretending to fall in love on TV gets complicated. STEAL YOU AWAY: 92k contemp. romance #QuestPit #Q #A #R

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Coming Soon! an empath leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built #Questpit #W #A #SFF #S #D #CliFi

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JSH @theogjsh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit #lf #u #dr #a #q EVERAFTER is Bingeable.

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Clara Benson is ✨querying✨ @clarabenson.org · 29/04/2026

🧚‍♀️ ALL THE TIME WE NEVER HAD 🍐 WIP #questpit #A #R #HF #H #L #Q 🌹Devine femininity 🫀Family sacrifice 👸Women’s roles in history 🏡Antique house 🧚‍♀️ Folklore and spirits 🤰Mother-daughter relationship

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Allison Wall @awritingwall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bree assumes “joining the Dark Goddess" is a lesbian sex club hazing prank—until she kills an evil politician with a gush of menstrual blood. The Goddess has given Bree real power. Her intentions? Murky. Her appetite? Insatiable. Her contract? Binding. #questpit #Q #A #H #S #LF

Mood board in reds and blacks. Images include: woman laying in a bathtub full of blood, a woman crowned under a red moon, a hand dripping with black liquid, and text that reads, After You Make a Pact with the Dark Goddess, There’s No Going Back.

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lia ☁️ is querying @brantleywrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

GOD OF THE WOODS x THE PROJECT meets OUTER BANKS When 17yo Shiloh gets pregnant, her politician father kidnaps her to protect his campaign, and she must hold onto her right to choose before it’s taken from her for good. #questpit #YA #Q #C #T

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Nina Castle @castlemantra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

UGLIES X 50 SHADES OF GREY He's teaching her the art of seduction so she can win her best friend's affections. She's trying to steal HealthCo's miracle pills from his billionaire father. There's no place for love in a war of power and control...or, is there? #Questpit #Q #A #D #R

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hello firefly✨ Welcome to An Artistic Deception🏰✨🪄 Complete at 108k words, a new adult romantasy six of crows x a deadly education 😘 Welcome to our #LiteraryAgentGuide for #QuestPit All design is by @aeipathea & character art by @h4mm.iee #Q #R #F #A #QuestPit2026

hello firefly a photo of a the author literary agent guide

When the six kingdoms prestigious magic school announces a formidable trial promising freedom and noble status, Tehtte’s most notorious assassin Agni enters an uneasy alliance with her second worst nightmare: her childhood bane and the city’s Lionheart Knight—Fala.

Now, surviving her penultimate year is the least of her worries. Agni is still drowning in her failure of an ancient prophecy, running from the monsters her people became, and trying to hide from a king hell bent on finding her. As the realms brace for the perilous trials, Agni is confronted with a haunting question: is her prophecy’s fulfillment still yet to come, and is her heart truly hers to lose?

agni ain’t no war like the class war

fala women want me fish fear me showing character art

romantasy - arcana academy
ensemble cast - six of crows
deadly magic school - a deadly education
visual world inspiration - witch hat atelier
right person wrong time - frown
reimagined fantasy races - dungeon meshi

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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 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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Rue Brixton @ruebrixton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HIGH STRUNG, a steamy contemporary romance. 📚 Not Another Love Song x The Rom-Commers. 🏡She needs him to save her home. 🎶He needs her to salvage his career. ❤️‍🔥What nobody needs is to fall in love. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #AmQuerying #PosterPit

A movie poster. The top text reads now! Querying the first photo is wine country in reds and oranges. The second box is pink with a silhouette of a couple touching heads with laurels that read exasperation at first sight and he falls so hard, he seeks medical attention. The third image is a lot of plastic bride and grooms falling off a cake. The text reads Rue Brixton's HIGH STRUNG. One hot summer, two desperate musicians, 63 fucking weddings

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L.V. Oaks | contemporary & paranormal romance + fantasy author🧚‍♀️ @lvoaksauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Updated ✨Agent Guide✨ A runaway demon princess seeks the help of a jaded accountant to collect and eat the five hearts that will allow her to become human and bid Hell goodbye in EAT HIS HEART OUT, an urban paranormal romance completed at 88k words 🫀 #questpit #Q #A #R #PR

Two hands with sharp nails hold an anatomical heart with New York in the background. The text reads An Agent’s Guide to Eat His Heart Out, an 88k words urban paranormal romance

a plum background with some snowflakes, in the front a list of tropes and themes such as forced proximity and grey morality, then the pitch for Eat His Heart Out

A snippet from an emotionally intense scene in Eat His Heart Out

Comparative titles for Eat His Heart Out including A Match Made in Hell, Disney’s Enchanted

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Rory | Author *₊˚☕୧ @rabauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Happy #QuestPit day! Here's my #agentsguide to THISTLE & BRIAR, a 93k adult romantasy 🦋 “Have you ever accidentally botched a spell that bound you to a fae man who hates your guts? Asking for a friend.” #Q #A #F #R #RF

An agent's guide to Thistle & Briar by R. A. Betzer. "Have you ever accidentally botched a spell that bound you to a fae man who hates your guts? Asking for a friend." 93k words. Editor interest and RevPit shortlist. Adult romantasy.

The Pitch. A dream for freedom, a spell gone wrong, one year to fix it, and the only one who can help her is a hot fae she was accidentally bound to. The problem is he can't stand her. Themes & Tropes. Slow burn. Cranky fae x wild swamp girl. He bites, she wants him to. Wild, cruel faeries. One bed and one elk. Spell gone wrong (they have to do it or she'll die in a year).

Comp Titles: The Knight & the Moth by Rachel Gillig. Aching devotion. The Princess Bride. Playful adventure romance. Swordheart by T. Kingfisher. Banter-driven slow burn. In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy. Lyircal angst.

The Blurb. Dusky Poddock would do anything to be kidnapped by faeries. Unfortunately, the faeries would do anything to send her back. Facing an arranged marriage to a widower twice her age, Dusky attempts (and botches) a spell fueled by the scraps of magic her late mother left behind. Instead of escape, she binds herself to Percy—a surly faery noble determined to expose a traitor, secure his claim as the heir, and protect his younger brother from the brutal politics of faery court. If Dusky cannot win Percy’s favor within a year, the spell will kill her. Eager to stay and eager to survive, Dusky employs herself as Percy’s faithful servant, determined to help his mission succeed. Little does she know, the spell requires her to fulfill Percy’s deepest desire at the time the magic was set in motion: creating an heir of his own. When Dusky learns the truth, she’s far less daunted than she should be at the prospect of sharing a bed with a gorgeous (if infuriatingly surly) faery. Percy, however, wants nothing less. As threats close in and Percy's carefully guarded heart begins to crack, Dusky uncovers corruption woven deep into the faery realm and learns that magic alone may not be enough to undo her mistake. With time running out and dangerous faeries offering false hope, it all comes down to Dusky, Percy, and the spell that binds their clashing hearts.

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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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Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Shell didn’t want an arranged marriage—until it was fixed with Imran. If only the Best Man wasn’t trying to sabotage the wedding! Seb doesn’t want his BFF to marry the wrong girl & is determined to set things right. 💔forbidden love 🤝childhood bromance 💍Bengali🇧🇩wedding traditions #QuestPit #R #P

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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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Frankie Flaherty @frankieflaherty.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What if Fleabag had a probation officer, poor impulse control, and 100 hours of court-mandated community service at an animal shelter with a grumpy, sexy vet tech inside? #QuestPit #Q #A #R #WF #amquerying

THE PITCH: A deadbeat dog trainer breaks into her ex-boyfriend's apartment on the way out of town and is swiftly grounded with 100 hours of court-mandated community service at the local animal shelter—where an overbearing vet tech (with great hair) stands grumpily (and sexily) between the completion of her hours and an open road away from the town where everything went wrong.

COMPS: You, Again by Kate Goldbeck for its irreverent vulnerability and Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez for its warmth and pet cameos

A fake movie poster for Kennel Duty and a photo shopped image of Fleabag with an Animal Control truck.

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andrea 💘 @starringandrea.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

GET IT TOGETHER | 88K | Adult Black Rom-Com ✨ Nothing can stop Cassie and Malcolm, bona fide workaholics, from pursuing a second, serendipitous chance at love, until a tangled web of money, frenemies, and yarn jeopardizes their best-laid plans and threatens to tear them apart.🧶🖤 #QuestPit #Q #R #A

White text and images over a brown background. Agent's guide to GET IT TOGETHER. Est. Brooklyn 2026. 88K. Now Querying.

The Pitch: Nothing can stop Cassie and Malcolm, bona fide workaholics, from pursuing a second, serendipitous chance at love, until a tangled web of money, frenemies, and yarn jeopardizes their best-laid plans and threatens to tear them apart.

What to expect: Rom-Com Antics with Heart & Depth, Second (and third) chances, BIPOC cast of characters, he falls first, but she wants casual, high spice, cafes, clubs, and craft stores, fierce and funny friendships, anti-capitalist propaganda, "what if i just quit my shitty job"

The comps: Kennedy Ryan's can't get enough, Alexis Daria's along came amor, and HBO's insecure

A black adult rom-com of overcaffeinated proportions

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Text says: Get it Together - Meet the MCs
She thinks he’s too cool for her, and he thinks she’s too cool for him, and that might make them perfect for each other.

Cassie quit her high-powered job and really wants a craft store.

Cassie loves a good plan, but she certainly didn’t plan to quit her shitty job when her boss screws her over. Determined to leave her corporate baddie phase behind, she devises “The Fun Plan” and swears off dating until she’s figured her life out. Her co-dependent ex was a nightmare, and she can’t have a man throw her off track again.

But when she runs into Malcolm eight years after their one-night stand at his beloved Brooklyn cafe, his willingness to help her out is kind of charming...

(she’s a virgo)

Malcolm owns Brooklyn’s hottest cafe and he really wants her (duh).

Malcolm is shook when Cassie barges into his cafe with a bag full of yarn. Little does she know, he just got an embarrassing lecture from his friends that he’s never beating the workaholic allegations, despite leaving the finance world years ago.

Cassie’s reappearance might be the distraction he needs, and he can show her what she’s been missing. Now if only she didn’t come with a conniving, elitist social circle that could upend everything he’s worked so hard to build...

(he’s a capricorn)

White text and images over black background. Images include pictures of coffee, food, couples, and clubs to represent the energy of brooklyn.

Also features images of artists to listen to: Beyonce, Victoria Monet, Janet Jackson, and Amber Mark.

Text says: Get it Together - Peep the Vibe
It may be winter in Brooklyn, but Cassie and Malcolm are keeping each other warm.

Adult Rom-Com | Second chance | Found Family | Black MCs | High Spice | Based in NYC

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Text says: Get it together - the comps.

The fierce friendships and business dynamics of Can't Get Enough by Kennedy Ryna

The will-she-just-love-him-already-feels of: Along came amor by Alexis Daria

The endearing messiness and candor of HBO's insecure

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Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Aaryana’s winning the contest that decides who will be the next Queen/King but her enemies—which may include her sisters—are determined to change that. 👸ambitious FMC w/ a soft❤️ 🫅brooding LI who’s protective of his siblings 🧜‍♀️ 💘fake courting 🖤slow-burn hate-to-love 💔forbidden love #QuestPit #F #P

Moodboard with seven images and title along the bottom: Heir to the Throne Series. Image 1 is of a young man who appears to have huge angel-wings and a fire burning in the background. Image 2 is a scene of a ship that seems to have crashed against the rocks edging the sea. Image 3 is of a young woman with her arms around a young man. Image 4 depicts a young woman wearing an elaborate gold headpiece studded with blue crystals. Image 5 is of a young woman holding a sword and plummeting in the ocean. Image 6 depicts the outside of a beautiful castle, a huge moon in the sky, and a young woman in a black gown staring at the stars in the sky. The final image is of two ships caught in a storm at sea.

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k standalone adult gothic bildungsroman with a dual POV If Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray had a baby in the Scottish Highlands, this would be it. 🖤 An heir 🖤 A monster 🖤 An ancient curse 🖤 A haunted portrait 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #QuestPit

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Clara Benson is ✨querying✨ @clarabenson.org · 29/04/2026

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC Typhus strikes and brings a wealthy New Yorker intent on marrying the hardworking inn maid. To keep a promise to her sister, she accepts, despite warnings from a medical student who threatens her last hope for salvation. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

cover photo for Finding Echinacea's Agent's Guide, a couple kissing in a field and the words "a literary historical romance by Clara Benson

Get to know the book!
Enemies to lovers
Medical history of typhus
The tension between duty and desire
Historical Fiction set in 1847
Reconciliation in the wake of broken promises
Complex family dynamics
Money can’t buy happiness
Small village isolated setting
Class tension and social mobility

a mood board for Finding Echinacea; a maid, echinaceas, a pocket watch, church steeple, romantic couples and medical textbook pages

Comps
Titanic for the love triangle, class disparity and overbearing fiance
Rebecca for the hasty proposal from a wealthy man with a secretive past
Dr. Quinn for the small town setting and medical tension

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

'Hat' - 84K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature
moon stuff
Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. 13 Months Haunted

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Rue Brixton @ruebrixton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🔅One hot summer. 🎶Two desperate musicians. 💍Sixty-three fucking weddings. HIGH STRUNG, an 82k steamy contemporary romance. #QuestPit #Q #A #R #AmQuerying

orange pink back ground with moon-like circle and graphic of male/female couple. Text: High Strung. Trope arrows: exasperation at first sight. He falls so hard he seeks medical attention. A cat named Violence. Annoyance-to-lovers. Revenge mustache. Everybody know but them (because they're idiots)

orange pink back ground with moon-like circle. Text: High Strung. The pitch: a tightly wound cellist books sixty-three Napa Valley wedding gigs in one summer to save her family home, but when a famously chaotic composer lies his way into her quartet because he secretly believes she's his muse, their combustible rhythm threatens her plans, his career--and both their hearts. Comp books are The -Commers by Katherine Center. Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto. The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

four pictures, A center circle that is pink-orange with text that reads: from top left: a marble hand squeezing a marble thigh, a meme with text that says You're invited to suffer with a join button. Hot man and hot woman kissing, a hand dipping in water.

Center pink-orange-purple circle says The Characters. upper left, hot guy in nice suit holding a violin, below him is a pull quote: A moment passed between us, her eyes dark velvet. I was in trouble. Cold Nanette? i could handle. Hot Nanette? I was learning to cope. But warm Nanette would break me. Upper right is beautiful woman playing cello. below her is pull quote: Before luca, I thought i knew everything there was to know about myself, seen all the way to the edges of who I was. But now I wondered if there was a different Nanette, lurking just beyond the border of should. A good girl, who wanted to do bad girl things.

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