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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#disabilitypride #disabilityrep #romantasy Hi! I'm a chronically ill author who writes disabled FMC's! I've already managed to connect with some wonderful disabled authors this month. Feel free to add your own books below!

July is disability pride month. The perfect excuse to read HOTWQ. Shows the cover for heart of the wolf queen. A wolf's eyes are behind a sword and there are purple flowers in the background.

Sorrow Villente is partially sighted. She will eventually lose her sight completely. Shows a woman with long dark hair and a grey dress tickling the chin of a grey wolf.

Glesni Grace has lupus and arthritis (just like me) Both Sorrow and Gles are incredibly fierce and strong. Shows a cartoon drawing of a woman with grey hair and a flame in her hand.

What books featuring disabled authors have you got on your TBR this month. Shows the covers for both heart of the wolf queen and throne of the wolf queen.

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ShinyFluff @shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Good afternoon! In the middle of the cool fantasy w great disability rep Heart of the Wolf Queen by Welsh author Sarah Gallego @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social

Book cover is purple with a black wolf face and a golden sword

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Sorrow is meant to die quietly in a tower, a sacrifice to a vengeful God. Instead, she escapes with dark magic in her veins, a wolf at her side and a king who'll destroy the world to fix the heart he broke. geni.us/B0GF3FWTSSau... Available on KU and one of 30 Audible debuts to discover in 2026

Image shows a kindle with the cover for Heart of the Wolf Queen. It lists the tropes, childhood friends to lovers, partially sighted FMC, found family, unhinged wolf companion.

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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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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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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a new guide 🤍 • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AG

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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

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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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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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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

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Amy Dehaas @amywrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A true-crime producer returns home to film a series on an unsolved serial killer case. When a new body turns up and threats hit her doorstep, she uncovers secrets linking the murders to her own past. What began as a docuseries is now a fight to survive her own story. #Questpit #Q #A #T #MY

Collage of six images. Image, one scattered police files and crime scene photos, image two, a White House with a red roof beside a lake with pine trees behind it, a Ouija board and tarot cards, and an overgrown cemetery with old headstones, crime scene tape. Text overlay reads: “She built a career unearthing other people’s secrets. Her own wouldn’t stay buried.”

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Sorrow is supposed to die quietly in a tower, a sacrifice to a vengeful God. Instead, she escapes with dark magic in her veins, a wolf at her side and a king who'll destroy the world to fix the heart he broke. #Questpit #fantasy #Adult #Published

Movie poster style image of a woman in floaty grey dress stood on black cliffs. The Text reads heart of the wolf queen; Love could be her greatest weakness or her deadliest weapon.

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sorrow and Matthias were inseparable childhood friends until betrayal tore them apart. Sorrow is supposed to die in a tower, instead, she escapes with dark magic in her veins, a wolf at her side and a king who'll destroy the world to fix the heart he broke geni.us/B0GF3FWTSSau... #romatasy

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Heart of the Wolf Queen, second-chance, marriage of convenience, childhood friends to lovers, found family, with a partially sighted FMC, and an unhinged wolf companion is OUT NOW! Audible selected it as one of 30 debuts to discover in 2026! Links in bio #Romantasy #fantasyromance #animalcompanion

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My second chance dark fantasy romance arrives next week! If you love childhood friends to lovers, a disabled FMC who takes no crap, a wolf companion, found family and yearning off the charts then you can pre-order here! Audible selected HOTWQ as one of 30 debuts to discover in 2026! #romatasy

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Kel E Fox @kelefox.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Read romantasy. Fight book bans. With 26 stories of resistance and defiance, the Romantasy Rebels charity anthology delivers your daily dose of feminine rage – and every purchase helps us keep books on shelves. geni.us/romantasyreb... #readingcommunity #fantasy #romantasy 💙📚🪐

Romantasy Rebels, a FaRo Society anthology - 26 Fantasy Romances, proceeds donated to fight book bans. https://geni.us/romantasyrebels

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Cover reveal for my debut dark fantasy romance Heart of the Wolf Queen coming April 2nd from Second Sky books. Sorrow Villente was meant to die quietly in a tower, Instead she escaped with dark magic in her veins and a wolf at her side. Preorder: geni.us/B0GF3FWTSSau... #Romantasy #fantasyromance

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The official acquisition announcement for my epic romantasy which will be published by Second Sky books next spring! I'm absolutely thrilled with the incredible home I've found for Sorrow and Matthias.

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Popping on here to announce that my epic gothic romantasy 'Heart of the wolf queen' will be published by the fantastic team at Second Sky books in Spring 2026! Featuring a partially sighted FMC, second chance, marriage of convenience, dark magic, secrets and of course, an animal companion!

When he says 'I love you' but Matthias says 'I don't just love you. You're the star guiding me through the pitch of night. My tether in the storm. I'll rebuild this world for you. Tear the cosmos from Vyrus' hands, make you its queen and it still won't be enough to show you how I adore you.'

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Announcing the title of my epic romantasy coming Spring 2026! #Romantasy #epicromantasy #debut

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~CRK @authorcrk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#posterpit #ya #wip Everything always changes. Friends, life, perspectives, relationships. Cera hates it. Why does everything always have to be ruined? Will her new life be ruined, too? Magical realism Meta-narrative about revision/revising your life and self Mental health advocacy Dark humor

Poster of a sunset-colored cityscape of tall buildings. With text: a city with hidden spaces, girls with their own secrets, a rewritten reality, an unfinished portrait, inevitable changes. Change is Cera’s worst enemy. Subtle, Flowing Changes.

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Quinn Cameron @cquinnwrite.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Are you shopping for a new fall read? Mark your calendars because First Oaths is coming October 1st! Preorder the first book in this cozy romantasy series! Only $2.99 for a limited time!

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Berna is querying 🧿 @bernawrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Cordelia likes people, photography & observing Nate making cocktails. Nate hates everything, especially his sweet regular Cordy. But when his boss tasks them with creating a new cocktail menu, things get shaky, feelings get mixed, & everybody is craving a drink #questpit #rc #wip

A collage with a cocktail menu, a man and a woman, a girl with a camera, a man pinning a woman against the wall and kissing her and some wine bottles. #questpit

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I was so lucky to read the opening of this incredible epic fantasy and it left me desperate to keep reading! #Agents Don't miss out! I mean...just look at that pitch!

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Menaka #AmQuerying @menakawrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

SHEILD OF SPARROWS x ATTACK ON TITAN ❤️‍🔥 high heats 🏜️ desert setting ⚔️ magic weapons made of gods 🧠 PCOS, PMDD 🖤 shadow magic from animals 💕enemies to lovers and forbidden romance 🤎 POC cast 🏳️‍🌈 bi MC #A #Q #Questpit #RF #Romantasy

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Amphorae Publishing Group @amphoraepublishing.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

✨ Fantasy & Romantasy Writers! ✨ Got magic, longing & unforgettable characters? We want your manuscript! 📩 agent-query@amphoraepublishing.com #OpenSubmissions #Romantasy #FantasyBooks #AmQuerying #IndiePublisher #BookCommunity #CallingWriters #WritingCommunity #Booksky

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

#WritingLifeMonthly Aug 2nd Sorrow and Matthias were childhood friends, so there's not a scene where they 'meet'. However, they do talk about the first time they met! From my epic romantasy, coming Spring 26 #Romantasy #romance

“Do you remember the first time we met?” I asked. There was a scurrying from a nearby bush and Pablo dived after it. The little mouse rested on my shoulder, cleaning his long whiskers. A smile tugged at the corner of Matthias’ face.
“I remember Elspeth warning me you were feral.” He turned, his mouth ready to speak when his eyes widened as he spotted the mouse.

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I've just had my structural edits from my editor (still sounds mad!) so I'm working on making it the best I possibly can, especially as it's the summer holidays and I'm off work! #Romantasy

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#SmallPitch @smallpitch.org · 07/07/2025

The #SmallPitch pitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours! Key reminders: - Unagented writers only - Finished manuscripts only - One pitch per manuscript only - Up to 3 manuscripts per writer - No hashtags in your pitch - Comps & emojis are okay - Check our website for full guidelines & FAQ

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Please use this form to submit your pitch. A few reminders: You can pitch up to three manuscripts, with a limit of one pitch per manuscript. One pitch per form submission. Reload the form after submi...

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

An #agentsguide to THAT WHICH DEVOURS, my new adult dark fantasy romance, featuring: 🎭monster masquerading as a court jester 👑princess who sees ghosts 🔪enemies to lovers ❤️‍🔥dual pov sapphic slowburn w/ mutual pining 🪦gothic & dark fairytale vibes 🍄eldritch mire oozing w/ magic #agentguide #amquerying

An Agent's Guide to THAT WHICH DEVOURS

104k words | new adult sapphic dark fantasy romance | dual POV

The background is "And she never returned", an 1892 painting by Alfonso Simonetti. A woman sits on a cliff's edge beneath a full moon.

pitch

Princess Lenore is cursed to see ghosts. Court jester Fen is a monster hiding in plain sight. Lenore plans to slay Fen—until her brother is kidnapped by Others from the bog. Only Lenore knows where he was taken. Only Fen can lead her there. If they want to save the prince, they must work together, but Fen swore never to return for a reason. A long-dormant beast stirs within her. It hungers. Lenore must face her fears, and worse, her own dark desires.

comps

ANATHEMA by Keri Lake
-spooky, macabre world
-slow burn romance
-gothic

NETTLE & BONE by T. Kingfisher
-sharp humor
-whimsical, dark fairytale atmosphere

tropes and themes
-enemies-to-lovers
-(murder attempts are made)
-dual POV
-sapphic yearning
-gothic
-slow burn
-feminine rage
-inner monsters
-complicated sibling relationships
-eldritch bog
-body horror

On the left is my drawing of Fen, bowing with her arms outstretched. She has grey-brown hair and gray-ish eyes. She's wearing a jester's motley of blue, red, and yellow. Lightning flashes outside the windows in the background, while orange torchlight glows from above.

On the right is my drawing of Lenore standing in the rain, holding a bunch of heather. She is pale with long wavy reddish brown hair and dark brown eyes, looking solemn. She's wearing a long white dress. The background is misty and dark in the rain, with a shaft of sunlight illuminating the ground in front of Lenore.

excerpt
Lenore hardly registered her words. The darkest of dreads blossomed in the depths of her heart. She couldn’t breathe. She couldn’t move. Not merely stiff from sitting for so long. Cold spread through her, cold so sharp it hurt, like shards of ice had pierced her lungs.
Black ichor spurted through her clenched teeth with a strangled gurgling sound. Inch by lurching inch, she forced her eyes down.

Two gnarled spectral hands protruded from her chest, curling long crooked fingernails into her skin through her dress. They lifted her up until her legs dangled limply beneath her, toes barely touching the ground.

A voice like the breaking of ice spoke close to her ear. “What have we here, dearest? A frail little fawn caught frolicking beyond her father’s walls?”

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy".
~ Connor Simon,
Restaurant owner in PA

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Erin @erinaries.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

#litagents, I'm happy to present my #agentsguide #agentguide for my #amquerying adult speculative novel, THE WORLD OF NO, complete at 97k words. It features: 🟢 coming of age (even for adults) ⚫️ second chance love 🟢 twisted realities ⚫️ Life is messy; jump the hell in already.

Title of my novel; blurred images of faces behind a veil

The pitch for my novel, with a moodboard featuring doors, a dark forest, an empty factory, and shadow figures lurking in doorways.

The covers for my comp titles: The Midnight Library, Under the Whispering Door, The Hollow Places, and Dark Matter

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

#WIPSnips There's no cart, wagon or anything similar in my sequelwip yet, so I went for lift instead!

Musa swallowed, before lifting his filthy cotton shirt slightly, exposing the stark hollow of his hip bone, my gut clenching at the sight of a tattoo etched into his stomach. The wrinkled skin about the marks laced with Vyrium, tinged with dark green.

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

#WIPSnips *want* This is from my sequel to the novel I'm querying.

“Fuck’s sake.” I leapt as his gravely tone shattered the evening. “Why is it wherever I go, you’re there?”
I raised my chin, glared at him as a nightingale trilled in the distance. Pablo padded over, nuzzling the man’s hip.
“I want the truth,” I demanded.
“You married an idiot.”
“I know that,” I said, crossing my arms. “What I don’t know, though, is your name.”
Above a bird of prey let out a sharp cry. The man looked up, a swirling smile lighting up his face.
“Hawk.”

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Repost w/ the five shows you would be happy to rewatch over and over again for the rest of your life, as your sole TV diet: Blackadder She-ra (original 80's show) The Boys This Country Derry Girls

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

#writingcommunity #writers For me it was The book that held her heart by Mark Lawrence, the final book in his library trilogy. I'm still not sure if I should send him my therapy bills!

Cover of The book that held her heart by Mark Lawrence. The title is over sweeping staircases and shelves of books.

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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Presenting my updated #litagents guide to This Fractured Soul. A second chance romantic fantasy with a disabled MC, LGBTQ+ rep, arranged marriage, dark, hidden magic, an unhinged animal companion and childhood friends to lovers. #amquerying #agentsguide #WritingCommunity #A #RF

$Agents guide to: this fractured soul, a second chance, gothic, 103k word adult romantic fantasy$ Pitch: When Sorrow, a visually impaired woman, is saved from being sacrificed to a vengeful God through an arranged marriage to the boy who broke her heart, she must face the demons of her past if she's to forgive him, whilst harnessing the darkness lurking within, to defeat the enemies clawing for his life and throne.

Pitch: When Sorrow, a visually impaired woman, is saved from being sacrificed to a vengeful God through an arranged marriage to the boy who broke her heart, she must face the demons of her past if she's to forgive him, whilst harnessing the darkness lurking within, to defeat the enemies clawing for his life and throne.

Snippet: He leaned forward and turning my head, I caught sight of his expression. A wry grin lifted up the corner of his full lips. "Are you telling me," he said, "you'd let them throw me into the molten lava? Stand by as I suffer a horrendously ghastly death?" "Of course I wouldn't just stand by." His fingers relaxed their hold on the reins as a smile tugged up the corner of his mouth. "I'd fucking push you." Matthias laughed. A deep, rich rumble ran through me as I blocked out how much I loved that sound.

For fans of...One dark window, Carving shadows into gold, Radiance, Foxglove King. Second chance, disability rep, LGBTQ+ Rep, Arranged marriage, childhood friends, hidden magic.

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Ryn Perkins @kateperkinswrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A cursed kingdom, a lost princess, and a prince with a secret – trusting each other may be the key to survival – but whose? ❤️‍🔥Planned Duology ❤️‍🔥Dual POV and Hidden Identities of HEARTLESS HUNTER ❤️‍🔥Cursed Kingdom of SLEEPING BEAUTY ❤️‍🔥Feuding Kingdoms A RIVER ENCHANTED #RF #PN #NA #WIPPIT #R

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Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

In 1900s Latvia, Stasi mixes blood with paint to create reality-shaping art, but when she enters a prestigious art competition and discovers wealthy elites are killing female artists, she risks her forbidden sapphic love and life to stop them. #WIPPIT #HF #H #R #LGBT

The Colour of Blood, a feminist coming-of-rage 70k sapphic horromance, featuring Latvian mythology, examination of colonialism and misogyny, art school rivals-to-lovers, generational trauma, a unique paint-based blood magic system, and all the barbed banter ("Mind your step, lest you trip over my affairs.")

Excerpt from the Colour of Blood: I draw the imbuing knife across my palm and wince. My skin is accustomed to this ritual, dulled to the sting. But today, the blade finds something soft, something still capable of pain, and sinks its teeth in. Blood wells fast, eager, filling a shallow groove in my palette. I carefully pour water into the next. Flickering candlelight reflects on the pools. The water skitters under the light, but the blood is thicker, darker, slower to settle. Yellow may be my most loathed colour, but red has always been my favourite. The colour of love, of rage, of life. The colour of blood.

Tropes, themes, and comps, including Blood Over Bright Haven, Mexican Gothic, and Juniper & Thorn.

Blurb: In 1900s Latvia, female artists combine blood with paint to yield reality-altering art. Stasi, an ambitious artist, is selected to compete for a coveted year-long residency at the Von Nachtraben estate, home to Europe’s most powerful paint magnate. For Stasi, the competition is a chance to elevate her social standing, earn her emotionally distant parents' approval, and escape the brothel where she's secretly working.

But when a talented competitor suffers a gruesome death during the first trial, Stasi suspects the competition’s purpose is not recruitment but the elimination of the world’s strongest magical women. Stasi's unease turns to horror when she uncovers a hidden laboratory in the estate where the Von Nachtrabens craft a toxic green pigment engineered to weaken women who paint. And when she tries and fails to escape the estate, she realizes participation in the competition is no longer an option but a compulsion.

As a forbidden sapphic romance kindles between Stasi and her childhood rival—and more women vanish—Stasi must navigate deadly trials, competitors willing to sell each other out to advance, and the Von Nachtrabens’ insidious web of control. To stop the elite intent on silencing women who dare stand against them, Stasi will have to risk her love and her life.

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

ROSE OF VERSAILLES x ZORRO x LEGO BATMAN He's wished his whole life to finally live as a stylish, vital gallant—to take up the sword of noble manhood that is his birthright. Unfortunately, he gets his wish. My #OWN #LGBT #His #swashbuckler / farce for #WIPPit! Right now taking 1st draft→2nd!

The "back" of the snack has an illustration showing an adult white man with similar flamboyant 1660s garb but in red and purple instead of blue; he has a long face, long eyelashes, a goatee and mustache, and long coiling dark hair, and he wears a sinister smirk.

The packet proclaims "The junk food historical made from 100% tropes!"

Detailed Nutrition Facts read:
Queer Swashbuckling Farce
A comedic coming-of-age adventure set in Restoration England.
Ingredients: Swashbuckling (Panache, Wit (question mark), Spectacle, Improbable feats of derring-do), Queer characters, Hero-villain dyad, Symbolism, Themes, Clothes, Dumb jokes, Irony, Sincerity, Languid descriptions, Rage against society, Light murder, Historical colours & flavours, Everything somehow working out in the end.
Content Note: Some dark themes and historically realistic oppression, but the worst is veiled.
Nutrition: Estimated values (pulled out of my butt).
Goofy action 40%, of which makes sense 5%.
Vulnerability and tenderness: 20%.
Emotional devastation: 20%.
Trans man yelling at God: 20%.
Historical accuracy: lol man I dunno.
Improving lessons for young minds: 2%.
Petticoat breeches: 120%.
Reference intake of a nerdy-ass queer who craves some old-fashioned fiction.

There's also a QR code in the bottom right corner.

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

TWIN PEAKS x FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS An eccentric millionaire seeks proof of cryptids with the help of their companion. Sunnydale, Michigan. 2005. A probable location for otherworldly activity. The thing is, EVERYONE is Sunnydale seems a little...off. #WIPPIT #YA #F #PR #MY #LGBT

A mood board for a work in progress by Sage T. Greene. A cryptid creature with bug-like features. Police lights. Cassette and CD. A restaurant. A deer. A candle and witchy herbs. A business sign that says "Sorry we're closed." Two women embracing in a forest in front of a fire. People sitting in a bowling alley and holding a bowling ball.

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Jax Devora (is writing) @jaxdevora.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

DRAGONFALL x FFXIV Shortly into his first adventure, luckless Mick finds himself stuck in the body of a dragon with a god in his head. Now he and his mage bff(/crush) Eleanor must take control of Mick's new draconic magic and purpose before his existence triggers a divine war. #WIPPit #F #R #NA #FBW

Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha.

Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies.
Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels.
Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer.

A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

#WIPPit pitches thread: bsky.app/profile/zpro...

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Nifty O. Is 🌟(allegedly)🌟 drafting @niftywrtslit.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

#wippit #YA #NA #R #CON #LGBT #OWN #FBW 🎤OLIVIA RODRIGO + IF THIS GETS OUT📓 A scandal savvy popstar stumbles into something terrifyingly real when she agrees to fake-date her biggest critic.

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Adrien Bryter ~ Comic Book Writer @adrienbryter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

UMBRELLA ACADEMY x RWBY + ARTHURIANA Alaine never imagined her brother, Lance, was one of the legendary AVALON Knights. She never imagined a life without him, either. Now she's becoming her own hero to protect his legacy and to find herself, too. #AVALONRising #WIPPIT #SF #SFF #GN #YA #FBW #LGBT

youtube.com

AVALON RISING - First Animatic Trailer

YouTube video by AVALON Rising

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