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Talya Klein

@talyaklein.bsky.social
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Writer, Director and Intimacy Coordinator based in Los Angeles. Querying my debut novel BLOOD OF THE LAMB 🩸🐑

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Shameless x Riverdale (s1) x AGGGTM ☕️ Drama-Mystery with Romance 📓 Runaway x Boy Next Door ☕️ 90s Small-Town Mystery 📓 Found Family ☕️ Genderfluid and Pan Rep 📓 Mental Health Rep ☕️ Fake Identity Turned Real Identity #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV
A fake case file lays open. On the left side of the folder is a sketch of a girl with a sticky note beside it that reads: “Emma Bridge is believed to have cut her hair. Police sketch artists have taken a guess at what she may look like now.” Under it is a map of all US railroads with another sticky note that reads: “Last seen in California, current whereabouts unknown. An anonymous tip reports she has made it out of the state.” Under that, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out, replaced with the name Peyton Freys.

On the right side of the folder is a clipping of newspaper that reads: “Hollywood’s Beloved Missing” with the date 4/13/1996 below it. Text on the page reads: “What we know: YA Contemporary (with mystery and romance), 82k words” “Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media” “Runaway in hiding, fake identity (turned real identity), mental health rep, genderfluid and pan rep, found family, 90s small-town nostalgia.” 

A block of text reads: “Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.”

Finally, a stamp says “On sub soon”
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Talya Klein @talyaklein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Here’s a moodboard for my upmarket suspense, BLOOD OF THE LAMB (93K words.) If you like any of these books, shows or music, chances are you’ll like my book too! 🩸🐑⛪️🪾 #questpit #a #u #q #amquerying #litagents
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Kyla Whitelock is querying ✨ @kylawhitelock.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Agent's Guide for MOLDED BY MALICE Druids go through the Inflection, where an element will bless them with power 🍃💨💧 Industrialists are subjected to the Test of Attunement, where crystals can enhance their speed, strength, or senses 🔮💪🏼😈 But what if you aren't chosen? #questpit #A #F #Q
On the left side is an industrial city with smoke stacks that turn the air black. On the right side is a green forest with sunlight coming through the trees. It is divided by black cracks.On the left side is an industrial city with smoke stacks that turn the air black. On the right side is a green forest with sunlight coming through the trees. It is divided by black cracks.On the left side is an industrial city with smoke stacks that turn the air black. On the right side is a green forest with sunlight coming through the trees. It is divided by black cracks.On the left side is an industrial city with smoke stacks that turn the air black. On the right side is a green forest with sunlight coming through the trees. It is divided by black cracks.

Book covers are from the BRIDGE KINGDOM, THE SWORD OF KAIGEN, and THE BLOOD TRIALS
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Cold War X Time Travel When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T
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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE “When the Sun disappeared, the Stars wept.” ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep Querying soon! #QuestPit #A #F #R #W #Q
What are dreams if not truth?

Between Fractures of LIGHT
A Romantic Portal Fantasy
Coming Soon tọ the Query Trenches
INTERTWINED STORIES
MENTAL HEALTH REPRESENTATION
ALTERNATE WORLD
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Madelyn Knecht ✨🌈 @madelynknecht.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What if Enid mended broken hearts for a living... and Wednesday arrived without a heart at all? ❤️‍🩹sunshine MC hiding secrets 🫀LI who doesn't know what it means to be human 🔥a deadly mystery 🪶quirky, meddling witch (ahem, enchantress) #questpit #AG #YA #F #R for #Editors
Heart-covered white background. Image in the center is artwork of a blonde girl in a strawberry dress holding hands with a brunette in all black standing in front of a clinic called HEARTS TO MEND. Text reads: YA sapphic speculative romance. Sapphic romance, slow burn, grumpy x sunshine, equal angst&humor, found family, unique magic system, teaching the LI to be human
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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
DEADNAME: A trans teen is stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they never wanted. #QuestPit #AG #YA #H
Stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger and she won't stop until she had the life they never wanted.

YA horror 65K wordsOrange and black moodboard, women in mirrors, painted nails, teenage parties, a sapphic kiss, blurred faces, stark contrast Comparison titles page
Camp Damascus
Hell Followed With Us
Such Lovely Skin
old Wounds
Cemetery Boys
And the trees stare back
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jillianzacchia.bsky.social @jillianzacchia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
AVATAR meets MOANA in WHEN WATER SINGS: 100K #YA #SFF, featuring: 🌊 underwater portals 🧜🏻‍♀️ mermaid aliens 🧠 telekinetic language 🪸 Atlantis-like city 👥 Dual POV 💧 the chosen one FMC 🧜🏿‍♂️ “touch her and die” MMC #LiteraryAgent #AgentGuide #questpit #amquerying
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Lola is 👻AGENTED!!👻 @lolagracebooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND Windego is a 60K word supernatural horror novel based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all. #questpit #Q #A #H #S
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Madeline Warthan | Scarlett Ash @maddieisbooked.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
CARAVAL x AHS FREAK SHOW 🎪Dark circus inspired by Dante's Inferno 🎪Disabled FMC (epilepsy) 🎪MMC who is innocent... maybe 🎪Ringmaster who will do anything to have her EDITORS, interact if interested in this horromantasy! #QuestPit #AG #A #DR #H #F #DF #R #W
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maren morgan | editing @marenmorgan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
PARABLE OF THE SOWER x STATION ELEVEN x ANDOR 300 years after The Fall, the Earth has recovered from the damage of the Old World. There is peace. But now, a new Empire is rising... & our heroes will risk everything to protect the Realms of Free Men from being conquered again. #questpit #W #S #D #R
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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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Emily Shete @emilyshete.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
With tremors getting stronger and lava creeping up the hospital walls, a rag tag medical team rushes to save their fragile patients before the moon implodes. The Last Lifeboat is Now Querying! #Questpit #Q #A #SF
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Nyx Martens @handle.invalid · 29/04/2026
Happy #QuestPit! The Littlest Darling is a queer YA Fantasy Peter Pan spin-off about Wendy's grandchild. After Lux is trapped in the Neverland, they must battle through their own limitations to defeat the Shadow before the island is torn apart. #Q #YA #F #AmQuerying #Writing
The image shows a forest with a scroll floating in the middle that reads, "The Littlest Darling by Nyx Martens. A 72,000 Word YA Fantasy. How many lies did Wendy tell to keep the story straight?"The image shows a forest with an aged piece of paper in the center. On the paper reads the text "Hook x Heartstopper" followed by a list of tropes "Peter Pan Spin-Off, Disabled MC, LGBTQ+ Cast, Found Family, Coming of Age, Queer Joy, Magic Island, Family Secrets, Hidden Journal." There is an image of the poster for the 1991 film Hook to the left of the text and the cover of the first issue of Heartstopper by Alice Oseman on the right. There is a small worn leather journal in the left corner of the paper and an acorn with a leaf in the right corner. The image shows a forest with an aged piece of paper in the center. On the paper reads "Comp Titles" with the cover of three books underneath the title. The leftmost book is "Otherworldly" by FT Lukens with the text "M/Enby Romance". The middle book is "Not for the Faint of Heart" by Lex Croucher with the text "Spin-off of Classic Tale" above the cover. The rightmost book is "Cemetery Boys" by Aiden Thomas with the text "Acceptance & Identity" below the cover. There is a worn leather journal in the left corner of the paper and an acorn with a leaf in the right corner. The image shows a forest with an aged piece of paper in the center. On the paper reads the text "Lux, the queer & disabled grandchild of Wendy, finds a secret logbook telling the true stories of the Darlings in the Neverland, revealing just how many lies Wendy told to keep the story straight. 

Now trapped on the island, Lux must fight through their own physical limitations and the forces of the Shadow to save the Neverland before it’s torn apart." There is a worn leather journal in the left corner and an acorn with a leaf in the right corner.
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Talya Klein @talyaklein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Here’s the blurb and an excerpt from BLOOD OF THE LAMB (93K words) the upmarket suspense I’m querying. 🩸🐑 🎬cinematic, propulsive, suspenseful 🪾atmospheric, gothic, folk horror ⛪️ cult escape/coming-of-age story 👊🏽 smash the patriarchy #questpit #a #u #q #nowquerying
A sepia image of the cross on top of an old church and hands reaching toward the sky. The text reads: “an agents guide to Blood of the Lamb by Talya Klein. Upmarket Suspense, 93K words. Coming of age, smash the patriarchy, cult escape.”
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Josie Lickteig Is Querying! @josie-hundt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
IN THE SHADOWS OF HIGHCLIFFE - dual timeline adult thriller - 75k words Some say Georgia Alderidge ran away. Some say she was killed, and deserved it. 🔥high school party gone wrong 💋toxic friendships 🗝️generational secrets 🤫old money conspiracy #questpit #Q #T #A
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Angie is ✨querying✨ @angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
To escape her cursed town, Tayah must rewrite fate with a cursed carpenter and her sentient house or else become Ravensford’s next forgotten name 🏠Encanto + Crimson Peak vibes ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn Forbidden Romance 🏛️F*ck the Patriarchy 📜Religious Trauma #AgentsGuide #Q #FR #QuestPit
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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#W #A #H #WritingCommunity #blackbooksky #questpit BLACULA x THE INVITATION x NOSFERATU 🐞set in 1976 🐞runaway black girl 🐞vampire lord with hidden motives 🐞manor haunted with restless spirits 🐞supernatural found family protecting their token human 🐞 you would put your god before me, lover?
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Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Mulan x Avatar: The Last Airbender x Fourth Wing A woman rejected by the gods steals her brother’s place in war and manifests forbidden divine power while falling for her lethal commanding officer. SONG OF THE SICKLE Adult romantasy, 118k words #Questpit #Q #A #RF
An Agent's Guide to Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 118k words, First in a planned series. Background picture of wheat field. Big picture of amber ring and smaller picture of incense burning.The Pitch, with small pictures of a military training camp and an old watchtower covered in moss. What if Mulan had magic, and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods?Comp titles include The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem for hidden identity and forbidden magic, Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer for training ground romance, and The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig for weaponized faith system.the opening lines of the book, beside a picture of a sickle with wheat. Tomorrow the gods would judge me. Tonight, I pretended they didn't exist. I swung the scythe, blade slicing through wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts at bay.
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Rhyan Wilson is querying 🫶✨ @rhywrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
LINKED 🔗 a YA Dystopian Romance about a girl with a boy stuck in her head. Literally. SEVERANCE X CONFORM 🔗 love triangle 🧠 technological control 💜 forced proximity 🔪exploration of our growing reliance on tech/ai #QuestPit #Q #YA #R #D
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liz difranco @lizdifranco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
An agent's guide to INSPIRED BY YOU. Perfect for agents looking for: ❤️A NEW TWIST ON A ROMCOM 🧬A VERY LITERAL GENRE BLEND ❤️‍🩹THE HEALING ART OF STORYTELLING ⚔️ACCESSIBLE FANTASY 💌EPISTOLARY ELEMENTS #questpit #w #a #r #f
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A.B. Koga @abkoga.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
FIRE SAFE & BRIMSTONE SOUND At a magic seminary in the sky, a troubled student joins forces with a repentant demon to face his religious trauma and stop the dark version of himself determined to drag him into hell. On sub soon! #QuestPit #AG #A #DF #ownvoices
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EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What if Medusa returned to find the world is still the same as it had once been. For one, freedom means everything. For another, her child. Yet, neither is ready for the truth. A daughter. A mother. And a woman caught in between. One unbelievable story. #Questpit #A #Dystopian #WIP
A mockup poster or book cover for a Medusa reimagining in a dystopian setting. An agent’s guide to—Title of the story: Stone 2 Stone. An elevator pitch: three lines describing what each character wants and needs.
Description of the book. When young men go missing and turn up at statues in a future not too far from us, a detective and mother will do everything she can to find her missing son before he too turns up as a statue. Comp titles for the story: Promising Young Woman, Law & Order: SVU, and Split.
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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Bea’s convinced she’s bad, and hides her sexuality in the pixelated boxes of TemptressB—it’s how she survived what came before. Until a suspicious subscriber, censorship-happy board member, and stupidly principled (utterly devastating) boss force her to be fully seen. #QuestPit #Q #A #WF #U #LF #R
Image: faded background of library metal bookcases. A pink filter is atop growing from the bottom left corner. A blue pen is across the right part of the screen poised beside a scribbled heart. 

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

Text banner at top: messy fmc, buttoned-up mmc, late stage dual pov, open-door, book banning b-plotImage: light pink background with a pink distortion in the corners. Scribbled blue loops separate two halves of the slide. Yellow highlighter is beneath the headers. Four book covers are on the right-hand side. 

Pitch:

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

Comps:

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

Idea of You
Centering of female desire. 

Fleabag
Exploration of shame without moralizing.Image: light pink background with a pink distortion in the corners. Scribbled asterisks are in the right upper corner. Yellow highlighter is beneath the headers. Gummy bears are beside Bea and jalebi beside Miles. 

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

Miles Noor
Patient, principled, and permanently undone by the woman he’d sign disclosure paperwork for. He never forgets he's her boss-but the buttoned-up exterior becomes too suffocating to maintain.
"I’m just here to unbutton your buttons, Miles.”
Image: pink background dominated by text on an off-white square. An illustration is in the bottom right corner. Depiction of Miles Noor (black sweats and eating a burger) beside Bea Dorsey (blushing, cross legged in a yellow sweater and jeans). Scribbles of three blue hearts is beside Miles and a bee doodle is above Bea. Art by Croverfield. 

But she wandered too close to that overnight with Miles. Not the time hed walked away-when hed stayed. They'd eaten fries. If they ever talked things out-really talked-she'd tell him. That she'd cheated. Every time. Let him decide. That is...if being an online sex worker hadn't already ruled her out.

But this time I'd be different.

She hadn't deleted her profile. Hadn't returned since that message: naughty librarian.

When you think about it, it doesn't sound so awful. I work in a library—I do naughty things. Just not at the library.

She could do naughty things at the library.
Not with her site-definitely grounds for termination. With Miles-naughty things. In the library. His office. The cataloging room. Against the books. Floor.

Though, technically, doing naughty things with the boss was also grounds for termination. It was easy for her to forget. He was her boss.
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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV
Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia 
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. 

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON
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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
WEYWARD X AHS: COVEN Feminist reclamation of the Salem Witch Trials 1692 - Tituba is the first witch accused. Seeking freedom & revenge she makes a deal with a demon that will curse her bloodline. 1992 - Carmen & Willa must reclaim Tituba’s magic or watch Salem burn again. #A #HF #questpit
Collage of witchy images. Spellbooks, ritual around fire, herbs, salem witch museum.
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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 KellerPeople 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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crystal @snailpails.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE X WE USED TO LIVE HERE A young woman can't trust herself as she watches her reality crumble before her eyes. 🫣 Psychological/Cosmic Horror Romance 🗽 NYC Setting 🖤 He falls first 🇭🇰 #OwnVoices #QuestPit #H #R #PR #A #W
Woman sitting
stars
wilted flower
Subway
Black feather
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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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star is AGENTED !!! ☆ @starlettsky.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
FAST AND FURIOUS X ROMEO + JULIET (1996) A burnt-out romance author travels to a gang-ruled street racing city for inspiration, but when she falls for the reckless racer guiding her through it, she risks her career, her heart, and her life. #QuestPit #Q #R #A
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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
THE STARS & THE GHOST THEY CREATED Adult/New Adult Upmarket Contemporary How do you protect yourself from all the things you can't see coming? ✨️ grief & the desire to belong 🧠 mental health rep 🖊️ college campus setting 💛 friendship #QuestPit #U #A #NA #Q
Wilder Ashe wants to end it all....until he collides with the one person who can toss his plans (and his pills) to the sidewalk. 

The Stars & the Ghost They Created 
Adult/New Adult Upmarket ContemporaryPremise 
When a college student with secrets to hide collides with a girl who is used to running away, neither knows just how deep the cracks in their foundations might go—but sometimes the walls must fall for the beauty beneath to be revealed.

Comps
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
My Friends
We Are Okay
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
The Wedding PeopleSnippet
    The campus around me is almost as dead as the leaves on the ground. There are a few people clustered around a coffee station, preparing for a late night of studying. A girl with short black hair runs to the academic building, clutching her skirt to keep it from flying up. Probably late for an evening class or club meeting. Over by the big oak tree, a couple sits on a bench with the unobtainable hope of keeping each other warm. I scoff and keep walking, lowering my head once again.
    It’s all pointless. 
    Everything.
    But as I pass, I can’t keep my eyes from drifting over to them. There’s a sharp prick of pain in my chest and I try to blink it away. Rose vines masquerading as fingers press into the deepest parts of me and squeeze, leaving a hollow hunger when the thorns are plucked out one by one.
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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Get uncomfortable. ASHMARKED Querying Soon. #A #F #DF #Q #QuestPit When darkness incarnate breaks free from her fire-worshiping faith, a young woman discovers it's bound to her bloodline, making her the key to re-caging it. Now hunted, she must sever the tether before it consumes her.
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Talya Klein @talyaklein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Now querying my upmarket suspense, BLOOD OF THE LAMB (93K words.) Check out the agent’s guide below! 🎬cinematic, propulsive plot 🪾atmospheric, gothic vibes ⛪️ religious trauma, mental health, family secrets 🌿Like THE GOD OF THE WOODS but set in a cult. #questpit #a #u #q #amquerying
A sepia image of the cross on top of an old church and hands reaching toward the sky. The text reads: “an agents guide to Blood of the Lamb by Talya Klein. Upmarket Suspense, 93K words. Coming of age, smash the patriarchy, cult escape.”
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Talya Klein @talyaklein.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Now querying my debut novel, BLOOD OF THE LAMB (93K words.) 🎬cinematic, propulsive plot 🪾atmospheric, gothic vibes ⛪️ religious trauma, mental health, family secrets 🌿Like THE GOD OF THE WOODS but set in a cult. #posterpit #q #a #h #upmarket #suspense @posterpitevent.bsky.social
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Talya Klein @talyaklein.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
New FREE contest for writers of Thriller / Mystery / Crime / Suspense / Cozy — tinyurl.com/wdwcon11 — Judged by Agent Ritu Anand of D4E0 Literary, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
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First Page Contest #11:  Thriller / Mystery / Cozy / Suspense / Crime -- Judged by Agent Ritu Anand of D4E0 Literary
FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to a  First Page Contest . Contest #11 is for writers of Adult S uspense, Crime, Thriller, Cozy, and Crime . If you write in these categories, keep reading and...
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