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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

Such an emotional rollercoaster I love it!

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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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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

this sounds so fun, I love it! also love to see younger protagonists in that 14-15 gap where there's not enough!

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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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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm so sad it's over!!! I knew having a movie instead of a season was going to make the secondary characters not have much time, but I was still so sad by that! my girl Imogen needed more screen time! 🥲

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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

thank you so much! so far I just have draft one. im planning on starting draft two soon.

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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

ooo love that, so cute!! I want the two butterflies!

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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.

Text reads:
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

Ahh I’m obsessed with this! I’m literally thinking of getting a Barbie princess and the pauper tattoo lol

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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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Tate-Madison Bell @tatemadisonwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

this sounds so good!! im watching heartstopper forever tonight, so very timely lol

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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
Text:
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.

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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 FAMILY

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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 hunter

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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 love

Tropes 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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