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Tate-Madison Bell

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she/her. Writer querying Willow Hawkins’ Lessons in Bearding (YA contemporary). WA state www.tiktok.com/@tatemadisonwrites

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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When 15 yo Willow agrees to beard for her best friend who's being bullied for the (accurate) gay rumors, she thinks pretending to have feelings for him will be the only challenge. It turns out that hiding her newfound romantic feelings for his sister is much harder. #ya #con #lgbt #own #DVpit
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
15 year old Willow Hawkins agrees to fake date her best friend to protect him from bullying caused by accurate gay rumors. But somewhere along the way, she ends up falling in love— with his sister! 🌈 #ya #con #lgbt #own #DVpit #wlw
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine the bearding of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo combined with the wholesome vibes of Heartstopper. Then add in the mc falling for their best friends’ sibling. Is it the queer kissing booth? It’s my YA contemporary novel Willow Hawkins’ Lessons in Bearding! 🌈 #ya #con #lgbt #own #DVpit
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Being a writer is so fun bc sometimes I’m just like, “asking for a friend!” and the friend in question is a fictional character I’m writing a book about tehehe. #writing #writingresearch
Screenshot of a text I sent: Asking my soon to be lawyer friend– do you happen to know much about legal consequences for minors in possession of controlled substances (particularly mushrooms?) I’m doing research on the internet but I’m seeing a lot more info for MIP for alcohol and weed, and can’t find much info so far on the combo of minor and other drugs. Gotta love book research!
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leahbauerwrites.bsky.social @leahbauerwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Picking locks is a bit like discovering what makes a lover come undone; it requires patience, focus, and a dash of magic. Luckily for Ness, she happens to have all three. #1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #R #LGBT #CMe
a background of frost and ice with the words An Agent’s Guide to Be Gay Do Crimes WIP.

 a background image of frost and ice. The pitch for Be Gay Do Crimes WIP: To keep her queer crew from being kicked out of their gang, 24 year-old thief Ness must steal a prince, get him to his rich aunt, and keep her pretty nemesis from interfering. Falling for both of them wasn’t in the plan. A collage of memes for Be Gay Do Crimes WIP:
 -steal everything your gay little hands can carry
 -middle spoon 
-the nonsense has escalated
 -* instant regret * 
-the sexual tension when someone says "make me"
 -Be Gay do Crimes 
-A knife? Are you flirting with me? 
-A cat walking on two legs carrying an umbrella and carpet bag. Sheet music with the caption I don't know where I'm going but I'm gay 
-A tweet from @ MaineMillennial: the goal of polyamory is to acquire enough partners to pull off a successful heist.

a background of frost and ice. For fans of Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland (fun romp, horny MC), A Power Unbound by Freya Marske (queer fantasy romance, cool magic system), Little Thieves by Margaret Owen (female con MC, cat-and-mouse romance), 1997 Anastasia movie (banter, travel) Ocean’s Eight movie and The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (heists, found family).
a background of frost and ice. An excerpt from Be Gay Do Crimes WIP: 
“Stop, thief.” 
Ness stills. She knows that voice. 
Smooth blades of midnight wrapped in silk. 
A frisson of excitement shoots down Ness’ spine, and she has to force herself to turn slowly. It’s bad form for a mouse to appear too eager to entice the cat into a heart-pounding chase. Though she’s shrouded in shadow, she meets Melirin’s flinty gaze unerringly. Her obsidian eyes glint with a spark of challenge.
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morgan champine ☀️ is querying @morganchampine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
GIDEON THE NINTH X SIX OF CROWS, in SPACE! An agent’s guide to MAYFLY, a queer cyberpunk space opera. ft: 🏳️‍⚧️nonbinary, trans, & sapphic rep 🔥sexy t4t best friends to lovers 🍃human experiments 🚀messy found family #QuestPit #SF #LGBT #A #Q
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
WILLOW HAWKINS' LESSONS IN BEARDING 🌈 75k words YA contemporary novel 🌈 When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process 🌈 Perfect for fans of Heartstopper #questpit #q #ya
Mood board with 12 photos. Top row: picnic scene in a field with trees, three people mini golfing, making pizzas, three people watching a movie and drinking hot cocoa. Middle row: Actors doing a final bow after a play, pinned butterflies and moths, a field with a mountain in the background and a barn, two people running together. Bottom row: view from a car window of grass fields, two milkshakes in a retro diner, girls holding hands, two people high fiving on a snow covered street.
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callieroauthor.bsky.social @callieroauthor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
👑The Princess and The Pirate🏴‍☠️ The Little Mermaid x Barbie's The Princess and the Pauper 🧜‍♀️sisterhood w/ mermaid princesses 💞found family in a crew of exiles 🤞female friendship (and frenemy-ship) 💝first crushes (including #ownvoices queer first crush) #Q #MG #F #QuestPit
Text reads: 
Princess Pearlina Seraphina Gaudrivere was absolutely, positively, undisputedly tired of swimming.

But she was a mermaid, and swimming was what mermaids did. She only hoped that today, she'd change things. Today, she would trade her tail for legs.

Image is an illustration of a mermaid girl with pink hair in bubble braids, wearing a teal blouse and tiara. Illustration is by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.

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Former lady Lunabeth Brilhart had gotten her sea legs a long time ago, but she wished she'd never had to in the first place.

She'd navigate this ship across the entire world to find mermaid treasure, if that's what it took to go home.

Image shows an illustration of a pirate girl with a pink braid, wearing a blue vest and brown pants. Illustration by Morgan G. aka jjgg_art on Instagram.
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Harper thinks she needs to be good at something to find people who actually want to be her friend. She sets out to find her thing, trying everything from Spanish, to knowledge bowl, to theater and more. #questpit #mg #w #dyspraxia #dcd #developmentalcoordinationdisorder #disabilitypride
pink spiral notebook- front cover has the following text

HARPER NEEDS FRIENDS

middle grade contemporary

Penpal friendship
Queer mc
Neurodivergent mc (dyspraxia/developmental coordination disorder)
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Nyx Martens @handle.invalid · 24/07/2026
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F The Littlest Darling is a queer and disability rep YA Fantasy Peter Pan spin-off about Wendy's grandchild. After Lux becomes trapped in the Neverland, they learn just how many lies Wendy told to keep the story straight.
An image of the cover of the film Hook and the graphic novel Heartstopper, with a list of tropes down the center: Peter Pan spin-off, disabled MC, LGBTQ+ cast, found family, coming of age, queer joy, magic island, family secrets, hidden journal. An image showing three comparative titles: Otherworldly by FT Lukens, Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher, and Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. A collage of images against a forest backdrop: an open book with sketches, a small cottage, glowing mushrooms, a person sitting on a cliff looking out at the forest, a smokey pirate ship, a house in the trees, a glowing green vial, a home under the ground, and a skeleton leaf.
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Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A DEADLY EDUCATION x NANCY DREW What if the chosen one failed, and the only one who could save him was a magic school reject? NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy with dark academia and dystopian elements #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #MY #D
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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT
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Victoria Lurie is querying @vic-and-twisted.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THE FRONTMAN (She’s the Man x Almost Famous) Lolly's lying to the nation, and it may kill her twin brother. She's finishing his 1983 tour. He's secretly in rehab. When rehab fails, Lolly must choose: save her twin or save his legacy, even if the truth ruins both their lives. #questpit #Q #A #U
A mood board of 1983, featuring Walkmans, jeans tucked into socks, cassette tapes, Jon Bongiovi, Peter Wabbit via The Guardian, and photos by Bruno Guerrero and Sebastian Ervi. The board promotes THE FRONTMAN, a work of upmarket fiction by Victoria Lurie, 100k words, where a rock band replaces their lead singer with his twin sister so they can finish their tour while he’s in rehab.
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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
First year university. Add in: 🥰 A not-so-secret crush 🙉 Housing that's never quiet, empty or drama-free 🫢 A drunken confession she can’t take back ❤️‍🩹 Her first sapphic date/dating disaster. All on an anxiety overloaded brain. Lucy’s fine. Stop asking. #Questpit #Q #YA #LGBT #agentsguide
Background image of young woman with hands covering face. Text reads: Fine Means Stop Asking, Upper YA contemporary, Michelle Ogilvy, 76,000 words.Title: Pitch
Last year, eighteen-year-old Lucy’s anxiety reached new levels and her life fell apart. She’s now desperate to fit back into her old friend group and convince everyone she’s coping just fine on her own. Actually being fine might be impossible with the stress of first-year university, the stream of housemate dramas, and the increasingly obvious crush on her unobtainable female BFF.

Underneath is a subtitle of ‘the housemates’ with four images. The first is two young women with their arms around each other, labelled ‘Jaime - messy BFF/crush’. Second is an excited young man making a lot of noise, labelled ‘Robin - chaotic good BFF’. Third is of a young man with his back turned, looking away, labelled ‘Will – man with a secret’. Last image is of an indistinct figure labelled ‘?? – the secret’.Title: comps
Three covers of books underneath.

Book 1: Kind of Sort of Fine by Spencer Hall. Text reads: THEME: Finding your place after mental health struggles

Book 2: Unnecessary Drama by Nina Kenwood. Text reads: Setting: First year university in Australia.

Book 3: Then Everything happens at once by M-E Girard. Text reads: Messy emotions: Attraction to your unattainable BFF.Title: Opening
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Lucy was the last of them to arrive at the house. She had warned the others that she wouldn’t be able to make it until after the movers had been and gone. Not that she was busy. But just the thought of having to deal with all of the coming and going and the mess and the directing of strangers, and… well, she hadn’t had to explain her reasons to Jaime or Robin. And once Will had secured possession of the room with exterior access, he hadn’t particularly cared what anyone else was going to be doing on the day.

At the foot of the driveway, Lucy stopped, staring up at her new residence. It was two-storey, large for a uni student share house, but she knew it would feel smaller once Robin started to fill it with all his friends. Their friends. Another thing for Lucy to get used to. 

The exterior was plain, bare brick. Robin had threatened to have it painted in murals, but knowing him, he’d forgotten about that already. There was a small garden that would probably be dead soon as none of them had wanted to take responsibility for it when they’d tried to assign chores. And the letterbox, a slight thing that had been cemented in on a lean because, for some reason, Robin and Will had insisted on putting it in themselves. 

It was familiar in the way that it was a place Lucy had been to a number of times, but it didn’t feel like home. She didn’t feel like she was coming home. At what point did a house feel like a home and not some place you were visiting and could leave?
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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF
Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Black cat x golden retriever
Yearning
Bisexual awakening
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
Only one bed
Opposites attract
Gothic decadence
Big spooky house
Exploration of grief
Horror as a metaphor
Dreams-based magic
The occult
Alternate London setting
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

It was a poet’s job to seek out beauty, to be mesmerised by it. Darshil wanted to transform Rowan into swirls of ink, to fit his hands into the slight dips where Rowan’s waist met his hips and write him a thousand times over. 

The only thing more fascinating than death was the tormented living it left behind. 
It helped to hate him. It was less painful than loving him. 
The dead thing woke to the acrid stench of its own rot. 
Rowan matched him tenderness for tenderness, giving everything he could and knowing that for once, his everything was enough. 
Perhaps closing his eyes stopped it meaning anything. Darshil knew he should do the same. This was shame beyond anything else, a secret to take to the unloving grave.
He kept his eyes open anyway. With Rowan beneath him, as beautiful as the dawn, he couldn’t bear to look away.
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Charlotte Emery @lola-writes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
✨ Happy #questpit ✨ The Sails is an adult pirate romantasy. With themes of fortitude, romance, and revenge, immersed in a gothic atmosphere. Pirates of the Caribbean X One Dark Window #querying #fantasy #slowburn #pirates #witches #yearning #adultfantasy
Aragent guide to
THE SAILS
AN ADULT PIRATE ROMANTASY
112K

AFTER A RECKLESS ACT LEAVES
VELA A CAPTIVE ON A
SUPERNATURAL PIRATE SHIP
DISGUISED AS A MAN, SHE FINDS HERSELF TASKED WITH AN ELUSIVE JOB FOR ITS MERCILESS CAPTAIN. NOW SHE MUST NAVIGATE A NEW WORLD OF HIDDEN MAGIC PRACTICED AT SEA. BUT HER IDENTITY CAN ONLY STAY CONCEALED FOR SO LONG, AND ONCE THE TRUTH COMES OUT, OTHER SECRETS ARE BOUND TO FOLLOW.Snippet
He turned to the witch-who, in some instances, had become like a friend to the captain, in only a way that a man without humanity and a centuries-old witch could be. An unspoken agreement hung between them. "Why did you agree to teach me? I have heard that no one leaves your cottage alive." The captain said.
"The blood shows all. Men want power, they want riches, they want to be adored and envied.
Their blood is sour, thin, and undeserving. Yours was thick and hearty but mostly full of sorrow.
It held the story of a man greatly wronged.
Revenge is a form of fate. Destiny and vengeance go hand in hand if the universe deems it a worthy enough cause. And destiny, it seems, is not finished with you quite yet."Themes & Tropes
•HIDDEN IDENTIFY
•SISTERHOOD
•PIRATES X WITCHES
•SLOW BURN
•GODS X LORE
•THE SEA IS MAGIC
•ANXIETY REP
•LGBTO REP
•PORTALS
•QUIRKY CROW FAMILIAR
•ETERNAL CURSES
•YEARNING
•MORALLY GREY MMC
•FOUND FAMILYComps
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Coco @cocoiswriting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When a princess is denied the throne for her gender, she brings a nuke to a knife fight. Excited to present my #agentguide for MY LOONG, EMPEROR Featuring: Unapologetic Ambition Ruthless Determination Morally Gray MCs YULI = COURT DRAMA x LOONG MYTHOLOGY #Q #A #F #QuestPit
An agents guide to my loong, Empeoror 
A 90k adult fantasy Comps such as she who became the sun, iron widow, and heartless hunterOpening pages for my loong, emperorThemes and troupes
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PilotingSRN @pilotingsrn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When Esme uses her magic to transform nature into art & her love for writing poems to tell her story, the knight Colmon, will either choose to believe in her words or deny them & kill her A high stakes chase becomes magical across lush scenery Dual POV Hunted to loved #questpit #A #Cozy #RF #W
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🌈 HEARTSTOPPER X THE KISSING BOOTH 🌈 When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process 🌈 Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli #ya #questpit #q
Willow Hawkin's Lessons in Bearding
Clipart rainbow image
YA LGBTQ+ Contemporary 75k words
When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process.Comps
Book cover image of Thanks for Listening by Molly Horan, non-actor theater kid portrayal
Book cover image of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, theme of having a complicated relationship with the place you call home
Book cover image of Kings of B'More by R. Eric Thomas, celebration of platonic loveTropes and other fun things
High school musical GIF of Troy putting necklace on Gabriella and she asks, "T as in Troy?"
Fake dating
Romance between theater kid and athlete (the sapphic remix of High School Musical you never knew you needed?)
Save the school theater program from budget cuts
MC wants to be an entomologist and has two pet ferrets
Small town in Washington state
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway
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PilotingSRN @pilotingsrn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
In a tournament among the living & the dead, Haley & a cursed soul must heal from their past trauma & defy the legendary hosts, or condemn their souls to Hades forever CRIES OF THE AGON features: Mythical gods & Heroes Plot Driven Trials Tragedy Mental Health Rep #profilepit #Q #A #Df #myart
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
WILLOW HAWKINS' LESSONS IN BEARDING 🌈 Heartstopper x The Kissing Booth 🌈 79k words YA contemporary novel 🌈 When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process #QueerPit #Querying #YA #CON
Mood board with 12 photos. Top row: picnic scene in a field with trees, three people mini golfing, making pizzas, three people watching a movie and drinking hot cocoa. Middle row: Actors doing a final bow after a play, pinned butterflies and moths, a field with a mountain in the background and a barn, two people running together. Bottom row: view from a car window of grass fields, two milkshakes in a retro diner, girls holding hands, two people high fiving on a snow covered street.
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Celia Cataldo @ccat7.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
When 12yo Garrett Lowe rescues an endangered red panda cub & secretly raises it in his room, his life is threatened by the smugglers who want the panda back. #QueerPit #MG #CON #AC #HA #COA
Wild Abandon 57k upper MG contemporaryPitch - all 12 year old Garrett Lowe wants is a friend. Too bad he’s starting 7th grade as a loner with bullies in his back. When Garrett ditches the first day of school, he finds something he shouldn’t - a den for exotic animal smuggling. He reaches an endangered red panda, determined to secretly protect it in his room, but his life is threatened by the smugglers who want the panda back. Garrett must decide who he can trust and what it actually means to do the right thing. Themes and elements. Abandonment and loneliness, bullying, friendship, blended family, siblings, ragtag team of kids, trust and betrayal, wildlife conservation, art, lying for the greater good vs for self preservation
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M. Leigh Author ✨NOW QUERYING✨ @mleighauthor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN (73k adult LGBTQ+ fiction) is... - the quirky small-town of Schitt's Creek + - the charm of Gilmore Girls... but 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ + - 🎶 as a love language + - grief grows with you + - your chosen people are everything + - falling in love under a starry summer sky #queerpit #A #lgbtq
Sounds Like A Plan, 73k completed adult LGBTQ+ fiction now queryingSounds Like A Plan pitchSounds Like A Plan characters and vibesSounds Like A Plan comps and lines
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Neira @neirawrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
SAPPHIC CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 🧶🪄 Magical textile 😡➡️👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏿 Enemies to lovers 🧙🏿‍♀️ A NB Willy Wonka of magical textile looking for an heir 🥼Autistic, STEM obsessed love interest 🏳️‍🌈😾Diabetic lesbian protagonist 🐏 Great ruminant heist #QueerPit #F #YA #R
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R. E. McManus @earthkids.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ANNA KARENINA x 13 GOING ON 30 Kitty wakes up 10 years in the future learning she's miserable despite now living in outer space. She decides to better her life w/ a scheme to win her ex back from the woman who stole him only to realize he wasn't the one she was interested in. #QueerPit #A #SF #R
A retrofuturistic space station serves as the background and it then says: An Agent's Guide to Ten Years Time an 84K Adult Queer Sci-Fi RomCom with Crossover AppealThe top half of the background are colorful outer space like streaks and the bottom half is a retrofuturistic space station from NASA's Space art collection.

The top says "The Pitch"

And in the middle on paper it says: Thanks to a magical wish-granting meteorite, Kitty Shcherbatskaya wakes up 10 years in the future on the International Apollo-Soyuz Space Station (a.k.a IASS). Rather than return to the present, Kitty attempts some reconnaissance and learns. . .Future Kitty is downright miserable.

First of all, she’s engaged to Kosta, the most boring person in the solar system. Then, second but worse, she never studied astronomy and instead volunteers on the board consisting of society’s meanest girls at a failing modern art gallery.

Her one positive is that the man she always wanted to marry, Alexei, is in a failing relationship. This is her second chance to win him back and secure a happy future. So Kitty ignores that her last memory before the meteorite encounter was Alexei abandoning her on the dance floor for Anna Karenina.

Kitty decides on a fake dating scheme to make Alexei so jealous that he breaks up with Anna. For this to work, she’ll need the perfect man to fake date. While exploring her options, she crosses paths with Varenka, who knows her from a past she’s now never lived. When Varenka offers to help, Kitty finds herself wanting to spend more time with her rather than committing to the Get-Alexei-Vronsky-back Scheme. 

But it’s not like she can abandon her second chance for Varenka. Kitty’s seen how the universe has exiled Anna for putting her happiness first. If she focuses on securing a happy future with Alexei she can easily go back to the present where she can erase ever knowing Varenka or she can risk it all and stick around for this person who apparently knows her.
There are three rows and at the top it says For Fans of and then goes from left to right:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Good Luck, Babe; 13 Going on 30

the Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefluer, New Adult by Timothy Janovsky; Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield; The Miseducation of Caroline Bingsley

Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls; the characters of Clueless; Amanda Bynes in She's the Man; Luna Park from Futurama; the crew of Artemis II; Josh Groban in The Great CometThere are a series of images of me around space suits and other astronomy related things and the top says: Some Old Space Me Pcitures because I have a lot of experience writing about the space race for museums and I still work an astronomy adjacent job
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lauralaulwrites.bsky.social @lauralaulwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
BREAKING UP WITH YOU. For readers who love queer slow burns, mutual pining, messy twenties, and romances where timing is the real antagonist. #QueerPit #COA #CR #A
A visual on a red background with a list of tropes for my novel, Breaking Up with You. A bullet list of tropes reads as follows: Slooooow burn
Red string of fate
Mutual pining
Queer awakening
ADHD rep
Chronic illness rep
Early 00s nostalgia
Happy ending
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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez is on sub! needs an agent! @artofnickyrdrgz.latinsky.app · 14/01/2026
#BluePit💥 #OS #Q #NA #DIS #LGBT #SP #POC The Unlucky Ones & the Edge of Nowhere: 2 queer adults w/ life-changing powers navigate grief & mortality on a sudden road trip out of California hoping to find what's next. comps: Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden & Ray Nadine's Light Carries On 🚙☢️✨
The Unlucky Ones and the Edge of Nowhere webcomic page showing Lúcio standing on a canyon looking across the lake within itThe Unlucky Ones and the Edge of Nowhere webcomic page showing Sonia standing at the edge of a canyon as the sun sets looking across the chasm 6 panel page of a character wiping blood from her nose and going from relief to shock/surprise8 panel comic page showing a woman folding over a bloody towel and tucking it away in her bag before running through the forest to a man calling her over
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A.B. Lane @ab-lane.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NEVER BEEN KISSED X THEY HATE EACH OTHER Sam and Elliot hated each other when they went to camp as kids, but when they both join the staff after coming out as trans, they must confront their old rivalry while dealing with an intense new attraction between them #QueerPit #NA #R
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lily is querying!📖🎭🎀 @lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY; GODKILLER x THE GRISHAVERSE x PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 🏴‍☠️ lesbian pirates; ❤️ slow burn; 🔥 elemental magic; 🫂 found (and lost) family; 👩🏻 female focused and character driven; “No place for mortals. So, I said, ‘I will no longer be mortal.’” #QueerPit #EF #F #A #AmQuerying
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
WILLOW HAWKINS’ LESSONS IN BEARDING 🌈 If Becky Albertalli wrote The Kissing Booth 🌈 When Willow agreed to beard for her best friend, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process 🌈 Perfect for fans of Heartstopper #CON #YA #QueerPit
Willow Hawkin's Lessons in Bearding
Clipart rainbow image
YA LGBTQ+ Contemporary 79k words
When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process.Comps
Book cover image of Thanks for Listening by Molly Horan, non-actor theater kid portrayal
Book cover image of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, theme of having a complicated relationship with the place you call home
Book cover image of Kings of B'More by R. Eric Thomas, celebration of platonic loveTropes and other fun things
High school musical GIF of Troy putting necklace on Gabriella and she asks, "T as in Troy?"
Fake dating
Romance between theater kid and athlete (the sapphic remix of High School Musical you never knew you needed?)
Save the school theater program from budget cuts
MC wants to be an entomologist and has two pet ferrets
Small town in Washington state
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Day 2 of posting the gayest lines of my book! 🌈 (outtake edition) Maybe the least she could do was make his final chapter of closeting a little more enjoyable, and a little easier. Go out with a bang, Evelyn Hugo and Harry Cameron style. #happypride #querying
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! 🌈 I want to celebrate by posting some of the gayest lines from my super gay YA book in currently querying, one for every day of the month! The first week is stuff from earlier drafts that ended up being cut/changed.
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'm posting this in a few different spots, but I'm searching for critique partners who read middle grade! If you're interested, here's some info I typed up about what I'm looking for. Thanks! (: #critiquepartner #dyspraxia #middlegrade docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Seeking Critique Partners for Harper Needs Friends
Seeking Critique Partners for Harper Needs Friends Hi! I just finished the first draft (40k words) of my upper middle grade contemporary novel and I’m looking for critique partners. When dyspraxic twe...
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Today is my birthday. I got a full request from my dream agent on Monday. The new Harry Styles album comes out tomorrow. In summation I am feeling like the luckiest girl in the world on this beautiful birthday week! 💙🪩💋🩷 #querying #harrystyles #kissallthetimediscooccasionally
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
today marks two years with my sweet little Ollie! 💚
Gray tabby cat with green eyes in a strawberry boxGray tabby cat stretching out in sun patch on the carpet
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
#Querying is stressful for many reasons, but a real spooky thought just popped into my head: My birthday is next month. I could get a rejection on my birthday… I could get multiple rejections on my birthday! 🙀 Oh well! The opposite is true as well. I could get a request on my birthday!
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
WILLOW HAWKINS' LESSONS IN BEARDING 🌈 79k words YA contemporary novel 🌈 When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process 🌈 Perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Becky Albertalli #Q #YA #QuestPit
Mood board with 12 photos. Top row: picnic scene in a field with trees, three people mini golfing, making pizzas, three people watching a movie and drinking hot cocoa. Middle row: Actors doing a final bow after a play, pinned butterflies and moths, a field with a mountain in the background and a barn, two people running together. Bottom row: costume area backstage, view from a car window of grass fields, girls holding hands, two people high fiving on a snow covered street.
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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
VOW✨ the canon sapphic event of having a crush on your best friend… and having to help plan her wedding a decade later. find yourself & speak your mind before the church bells ring 💒 🏠 Queer found family 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rep 💖 Friends to lovers 💍 Fake Marriage (with a twist!) #QuestPit #W #LF #RF #LGBTQ
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Kayleigh Fan 💖 is Querying @kayleighfan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
MATCHA DO ABOUT NOTHING 💘Loose Shakespeare inspiration 🍵Family-owned matcha shop 🇸🇬Mixed Asian American rep 📚Academic rivals to…? 🌉Bay Area setting 🫂Family drama Coming soon to the query trenches! #QUESTPIT #YA #W #R
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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RJ Webb 🦇🏳️‍🌈 @authorrjwebb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH Journals of a Familiar Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape. #questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT
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Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ARE YOU THERE GOD IT’S ME MARGARET X TEEN WOLF Amara has been dreaming of getting her period for years. Turns out, puberty sucks. #questpit #MG #H #W
Blood bags; period pads; demon; menstrual cup; vampire; menstrual cup; blood; period pad; blood
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Tilly is querying ✨️🏰 @handle.invalid · 31/01/2026
What? You wrote a Nordic adult romantasy without vikings? ✨gasp️✨ UNFATED is instead set in a John Bauer inspired medieval Sweden, steeped in folklore, mythology and authentic Swedish culture...not a horned helmet in sight 🫢 A 92,000k standalone novel #questpit #Q #A #RF
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Alissa is Querying ✨🔥🧪 @alissalindemann.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
CHARMED X THE DEAD OF SUMMER 💀An Immersive Second World 💀Feminine Rage and Coming of Age 💀Ace FMC and Queer Ensemble 💀Long Lost Demigod Twins 💀The Power of Friendship ✨ #questpit #ya #f #q Eva-core:
A mood board with a brown parchment top section bearing the text: "Reapers crept into everyone’s lore, sometimes taking the Black Plague’s macabre form and other times the shape of animals. They were male or female or neither. Death was a dog, a screaming spirit, a saint. Reapers completed a necessary task, were a necessary evil, and that’s what Eva thought this was: a necessary evil which might save both Archer and her. 'May rest come easy.'" 

Photographs below the excerpt include an image of black boots and the bottom of a long coat as someone walks on a rain soaked street, an old illustration of a skeleton and a fair woman to signify death and the grim reaper, a collection of human skulls, the black cat Binx from Hocus Pocus, Nancy from The Craft holding a dagger up to the sky, and a figure in a black hooded cloak silhouetted by a cathedral style window.
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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🌈 If Becky Albertalli wrote The Kissing Booth 🌈 When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process 🌈 Perfect for fans of Heartstopper #Q #YA #questpit
Willow Hawkin's Lessons in Bearding
Clipart rainbow image
YA LGBTQ+ Contemporary 79k words
When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process.Comps
Book cover image of Thanks for Listening by Molly Horan, non-actor theater kid portrayal
Book cover image of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, theme of having a complicated relationship with the place you call home
Book cover image of Kings of B'More by R. Eric Thomas, celebration of platonic loveTropes and other fun things
High school musical GIF of Troy putting necklace on Gabriella and she asks, "T as in Troy?"
Fake dating
Romance between theater kid and athlete (the sapphic remix of High School Musical you never knew you needed?)
Save the school theater program from budget cuts
MC wants to be an entomologist and has two pet ferrets
Small town in Washington state
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