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Lily Rong @lilyrongwrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

To save her dying mother, Ning infiltrates a mage guild at the command of the man who promises her a cure. She soon learns her benefactor is a demon, and his true goal is to topple the entire kingdom. 🌊 Elemental magic 🩷 Slow burn 🏠 Found family 🐉 Dragon shifters #SEAsianPit #YA #F #SFF

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Jamie @jamieyoungwrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Resharing my #AgentsGuide for #SEAsianPit ☕️📸💌 #Q #A #CR #R #RomCom

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Mote Thone Lay @motethonelay.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

V. E. Schwab’s Vicious x Chloe Gong’s Coldwire x Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies A cyberpunk novel with a romantic subplot 📣Voicey 🧬 Grounded sci-fi 😱 Cannibalism 🍲 Unintroduced cuisines 🎯 Professional futuristic darts player FMC 🎲 Two MMCs 🗺️ Set outside the US and the UK #SEAsianPit #NA #SF #Q

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Jia 佳 is Querying @jiawrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

DAUGHTER OF THE🌙 GODDESS x THE SUN & THE STARMAKER A dutiful immortal who cannot feel falls for a mortal musician who cannot afford to. He holds the key to her breakthrough. Now she must decide: Is her perfection worth the cost of his soul? 🎵✨🗡️🩵❄️ #SEAsianPit #A #F #Q #Retelling #xianxia

Moodboard for A Sliver of Frost, an adult Chinese myth-inspired fantasy. Ethereal ink-wash mountains, mist, cranes, winter plum blossoms, a burning calligraphy scroll, a guqin, bamboo flute, and a sword in blood splattered snow surround the title. Two hands reach for one another through mist and silk, suggesting a star-crossed immortal-mortal romance. Themes include magic and music, sentient swords, Chinese mythology, and C-drama-inspired longing and destiny.

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Mote Thone Lay @motethonelay.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In honor of #SEAsianPit, here’s my pitch for CITY OF THE SOLD, a cyberpunk novel with a romantic subplot. 📣Voicey 🧬 Grounded sci-fi 😱 Cannibalism 🍲 Unintroduced cuisines 🎯 Professional futuristic darts player FMC 🎲 Two MMCs 🗺️ Set outside the US and the UK #NA #SF #Q

Over a large pinkish-purple illustrated camera lens against a deep purple background are aquamarine, pink-outlined phrases: “An agent’s guide to”, “City of the Sold” (in which “o” is a tiny dartboard), “by Mote Thone Lay”, and “Cyberpunk, grounded sci-fi, & romantic subplot”. An illustrated beautiful hand with pink nails touches “ld” of the word “Sold”.

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Large texts (aquamarine, pink-outlines): The Pitch, 119k-word
Paragraph (pale purple): Nineteen-year-old November is the celebrated killer, known as the Cyborg Butcher, of a commercial death game show, number one in the ranking, in Year 2402. When Kalayar, a professional darts player from an oppressed social class, is bullied at her school by her rival, the corrupt deputy mayor’s son, the killer sweeps in as a white knight in shining armor, carrying her to the hospital, hiding his identity. After being kidnapped by her relentless bully the same day, she meets Karl, her kind, impoverished ex-boyfriend, who is revealed to be the heir to the corporation that arranges the show and owns a private city and a military, and is November’s one and only friend.

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1. Cyberpunk, grounded sci-fi
2. Professional darts
3. Cannibalism
4. Found family
5. Voicey
6. Triple POVs (Three fleshed-out, interconnected plots)
7. Forbidden romance
8. Developed romantic subplot
9. Southeast Asian representations
10. Myanmar & Asian cuisines
11. LGBTQ+ representation

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Large texts (aquamarine, pink outlines): The comps
Slightly big texts (pale purple which applies to other texts): Also for fans of Jennifer J. Chow
Image 1: Book cover of Chloe Gong’s Coldwire (Primary colors: Neon pink against neon aquamarine darker hues)
Bottom texts: Theme
Image 2: Book Cover of V. E. Schwab’s Vicious (Black shadows against red and white)
Bottom texts: Character complexity, inner demons (Primary colors: Red, dark green, & pale green)
Image 3: Book cover of Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies
Bottom texts: Forbidden love

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Large texts (aquamarine, pink outlines): The snippet
Paragraph (pale purple): She was near the door she had entered, since she didn’t want to walk further inside, but this man just had to make her life more miserable than it already was. As she had said, she was not that brave, but not everything was about bravery. Some things were about losing brain cells and a tooth.
“Look, I know you’re high. I am very sorry about that. So, go stand somewhere else? Kind of like…I mean…I mean… fuck off?”
It might be her imagination, but he stepped closer by about two centimeters. Okay, he was a sicko, and she was bawling before she realized what she was doing. Life was hard. So damn hard! Mom dead. Poverty stunk. Got bullied. Won darts matches—that was not exactly…anyway, got bullied! Took ground-bus. She still encountered a madman.

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Jhong 🌟 @jhongjpg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hypothetically Speaking is a queer coming-of-age story set in rural Philippines in 1999. Two boys try live their life to fullest under the theory the world end in the new yea. Unexpected romance blossoms amid confusing discoveries about identity, love, and growing up. #SEAsianPit #YA #R

Illustration of a boy waiting to receive Communion while a church choir guitarist looks in his direction in the background.

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mymaiy.bsky.social @mymaiy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In a 1990s island retelling of Thai folklore, a grieving woman lands at an American-funded aquarium and discovers a golden fish that draws foreign researchers and rivals. When the old tales return, what will she sacrifice to protect it? BLACKCAKExREMARKABLYBRIGHTCREATURESxBIGFISH #SEAsianPit #A #MR

Blue cover book against shells and green silk

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Ally 🍀 @allyuwrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If Azula was a hero & got therapy (OCD rep) After becoming a hero, Anlith’s villainess mother still nags her, the very mother she & her party defeated. As her friends move on, she lives anxious of her mother's echo in her mind. Can she put her mother to rest with their help? #SEAsianPit #F #Novella

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sammytongs.bsky.social @sammytongs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

CARAVAL X SPARTA THE HONORY is a survival rite for the graduating class of the Institution of Magic. Nearly magic-less, Mara never thought she’d sign up. But when her friend is injured on the eve of the competition, she makes a forbidden deal with a revenant to save his life #SEAsianPit #Q #F #A

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Lily Rong @lilyrongwrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Eldest daughter Ning joins the foreign mage guild ruling her kingdom to secure a future for her family. But when loyalty to the guild means sacrificing her people’s freedom, she must choose who to betray. 🌊 Elemental magic 🩷 Slow burn 🏠 Found family 🐉 Dragon shifters #SEAsianPit #YA #F #SFF

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J.C. Sang is querying medical thriller 🫀 @jcsang.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

@seasianpit.bsky.social THE WOMEN x AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW 2 nurses bound by marriage & scarred by separate wars, find their relationship in the crosshairs when a single letter reignites old trauma. #SEAsianPit #Q #A #Thriller #WF #R #Supernatural

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Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com · 30/05/2026

PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT X SORRY TO BOTHER YOU When a down-on-his-luck archivist takes a job from a shady tech company to save his robot friend, he uncovers a darker plot involving stolen memories while falling for a handsome anarchist with a grudge against his employer. #SEAsianPit #Q #SF #SFF #R

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Snaggleteeth: A Novel
Adult Science Fiction / 96,000 words
In an isolated tech company town, a lonely audiovisual archivist seeks the help of an illegal repair shopkeep to save his fox spirit-shaped robot friend and unravel a mystery involving stolen memories while confronting his own grief about the past.

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It's got:
- A BIPOC cast
- A scrappy queer, neurodivergent, and disabled main character
- A prickly robot familiar
- Body positive romance between older queer characters
- Queerplatonic friendship and community-building
- Southeast Asian folklore
- Anti-capitalism
- Cassette futurism vibes

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Comps:
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Luminous (Silvia Park)
Hammajang Luck (Makana Yakamoto)
Light From Uncommon Stars (Ryka Aoki)

Vibes:
Severance (Apple TV)
Maniac (Netflix)
Poker Face (Peacock)
Robot Dreams (Sara Varon)

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Images on mood board are various colourful/neon cassette futurism aesthetic stills from the shows Maniac, Severance, and Beef Season 1.

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Kayleigh Fan 💖 is Querying @kayleighfan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

MATCHA DO ABOUT NOTHING 💘Loose Shakespeare inspiration 🍵Family-owned matcha shop 🇸🇬Mixed Asian American rep 📚Academic rivals to…? 🌉Bay Area setting 🫂Family drama #SEAsianPit #Q #YA #RomCom

The book title "Matcha Do About Nothing" in bold letters above a collage that consists of two Asian American high-schoolers, a shot of San Francisco Chinatown, and a close-up photo of vibrant green matcha.

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sammytongs.bsky.social @sammytongs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Caraval meets Sparta In a brutal magic rite where hesitation means death, the nearly magic-less Mara Tedros makes a forbidden pact with a revenant, trading her humanity for the power to survive The Honory. #SEAsianPit #Q #F #A

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sammytongs.bsky.social @sammytongs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Now Querying: The Honory! On the eve of a brutal magic survival competition, Mara's friend becomes too injured to defend himself. This leads the nearly magic-less Mara Tedros to make a forbidden pact with a revenant, trading her humanity for the power to save her friend from The Honory. #WIPPIT

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