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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I received a Like by a legit agent at yesterday’s #DVPit event and I’m still busting with joy! Commence nonstop tweaking to pitch materials.

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

JUST FOR THE SUMMER x I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED A daughter with chronic illness fights to keep her troublesome mother in assisted living or risk becoming her dreaded full-time caregiver. And being distracted by her mom’s handsome and witty nurse isn’t a luxury she can afford. #DVPit #WF #R #A #CI

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

JUST FOR THE SUMMER x I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED 💊 Chronically ill daughter always last on her to-do list 🍸 Fights to keep her party girl mom in assisted living ⚠️ Or become her dreaded full-time caregiver 🩺 Keeps colliding with the facility's handsome nurse 💘 A distraction she can't afford #DVPit #WF #R

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

78k word upmarket w/ a punch of romance 💊 Chronically ill daughter always last on her to-do list 🍸 Fighting to keep her party girl mom in assisted living ⚠️ Or become her dreaded full-time caregiver 🩺 Keeps colliding with the facility's handsome nurse 💘 A distraction she can't afford #DVPit #CI #A

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A daughter with chronic illness fights to keep her party girl mom in assisted living, because failure means full-time caregiving for a parent who never truly cared for her. And the witty, handsome nurse who keeps showing up at the worst times is a distraction she can't afford. #DVPit #A #WF #R #CI

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meet the wildly different characters of my debut novel. It takes place in a hoppin’ assisted living community in small town Minnesota. #DVParty

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Moodboard for my upmarket romantic fiction. #DVParty A daughter with chronic illness fights to keep her troublesome mom in assisted living or risk becoming her dreaded full-time caregiver. 👵 Unforgettable characters ❤️‍🩹 Learning love isn’t contingent on self-sacrifice 😭 Laughter through tears

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

JUST FOR THE SUMMER x I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED 💊 Chronically ill daughter always last on her to-do list 🍸 Fighting to keep her party girl mom in assisted living ⚠️ Or become her dreaded full-time caregiver 🩺 Keeps colliding with the facility's handsome nurse 💘 A distraction she can't afford #preDV #CR

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An eldest daughter with chronic illness fights to keep her party girl mom in assisted living, because failure means full-time caregiving for a parent who never truly cared for her. And the handsome nurse who keeps showing up at the worst times is a distraction she can't afford. #preDV #CR

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I almost gave up on my book two months ago. I was suffering from self-doubt and completely overwhelmed with how to move forward. I’m now halfway through developmental edits with a professional and feel more confident. The excitement is back! Your reminder to push through the uncomfortable parts!

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Faith would SACRIFICE her, the zealots would WORSHIP her, the apostates would WEAPONIZE her, and the Darkness would REMAKE her in his own image. #A #DF #F #Q #Questpit #QueryingSoon

An Agent's Guide to Ashmarked
A novel by K.M. Carlson
The first lie was calling it faith.
Hand outstretched with smoke curling around it.

The pitch: 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.

Picture of a mannequin on fire.

The Tropes: Antagonist as Victim, Found Family, Comedic Best Friend, Forbidden Magic, Dangerous Bond with a Dark Power, Corrupt Religious Institution, Holy Lies, Weaponized Devotion, Subverted Chosen One

photo of painted white hands raising upward

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Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ok hear me out: AMERICA’s GOT TALENT x PEAKY BLINDERS but with magic (and OCD) Star-crossed lovers—an anxious illusionist and a claustrophobic escape artist—enter a stage magicians competition to win their freedom from their rival crime families. #Q #A #F #RF #QuestPit #revpit ‘25 winner

A 1920s inspired moodboard, with images inside a theatre as well as black and white portraits. The text reads: Myth, Muse, Magician

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Kate Khavari @authorkkhavari.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

PEAKY BLINDERS X DIVINE RIVALS ✨Reluctant & relentless FMC ✨Inconveniently attractive MMC (& the demon possessing him) ✨ Alternative 1920’s Boston ✨Militarized magic ✨Witchy girl gang ✨Dysfunctional siblings ✨Dark academia #questpit #Q #A #F #HF #RF

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Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their resentment for each other. Welcome to SIX MINUTES ⛸️🏒💙 #QuestPit #R #A #Q #AgentsGuide

The Blurb: Parker Knight and Barret Keats share two things—their love for the ice and an injury that’s jeopardized both of their futures. Determined to compete in her senior year before leaving her grueling coach and hometown forever, Parker strikes up a deal that could make or break both their careers: he helps her get back on the ice, and she pulls strings to give him one last shot at the NHL. Consumed by the idea of making it pro, Barret finds himself not only fixated on HOCKEY, but the girl that holds his future in her hands. As the season begins, Parker must decide if her passion for the ice, and her feelings for Barret, outweighs her need to leave it all behind.

The Comps: Revolve, The Favorite, Off Campus.

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC MEXICAN GOTHIC x STARLING HOUSE Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements. 🕯️An orphan seeking security ⌛An immortal man bound by a curse 📰A marriage notice that is a trap Nellie must choose: her heart or her survival #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #H #DR

A dark teal and black patterned card for THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC. The background has vintage deep shades of pink and purple roses on the top of the frame. Centered is a small hourglass made with bones and a skull symbolizing the immortal + horror elements of the story. There is a note on there that the story is 70,000 words and a Dark Southern Gothic with Horror Elements.

A pitch slide with a deep teal background and black magnolia patterns. A skull with purple and pink roses and more deep pink and purple roses act as decorations. The pitch reads: "The Unyielding Monsieur de Blanc follows Nellie Moore in 1872, lured to a New Orleans estate by a marriage notice promising security. There, she encounters a man as captivating as he is complex, a man bound by a curse that has kept him alive for over a century.
As an impossible attraction sparks, Nellie’s search for the truth reveals that some secrets are meant to stay buried, and some doors, once opened, can never be closed again."

Two book covers adorn the card with deep teal and black magnolia patterns, pink and purple roses framing the bottom.
MEXICAN GOTHIC - The atmostpheric dread and family legacy.
STARLING HOUSE - A cursed, burdened hero

Teal and black magnolia patterns in the background along with a pink and purple rose decoration in the top right corner. Other images include, a candlestick with a burning flame, a pocket watch, a burned newspaper with a woman dressed in 19th century attire. The card includes a snippet of the book as below:

Nellie cleared her throat, and he turned slowly. His broad shoulders squared as he measured her with gray, unflinching eyes.

“I do not care for shadows in my doorway. Step forward.”

Nellie could not speak for a moment. Such a man naturally commanded her. He seemed powerful, severe, and entirely too confident. “I—I beg your pardon, sir,” she stuttered, her voice small in the vast room. “I am Nellie Moore.”

A brief unreadable softness touched his features before he stiffened, his expression once again a mask of stone. “I am Monsieur de Blanc, or Mr. De Blanc, as you Americans prefer.”

His thick French accent was like bourbon; it was smooth, but with a burn that unsettled her. Nellie stared, stunned. This was him, the man she was to marry. She had expected someone older, not this gentleman in his late twenties with a face so...strikingly symmetrical.

“Do find your breath, Mademoiselle. I have enough to manage today without adding a fainting spell to the afternoon’s agenda. I’ve never had much patience for delicate women.”

The insult was a splash of frigid water, bringing her back to herself. The orphan inside of her who spent her days scrubbing floors and managing unruly children suddenly bubbled to the surface. She adjusted the lace on her shoulders and met his gaze with a leveled stare that mirrored his own coldness.

“You needn’t worry, sir,” she said, her voice surprisingly crisp. “I am merely trying to reconcile the man in front of me with the one I was promised in the letters.”

A flicker of mild interest passed over his face. “Is that so?” he murmured, arms folded tightly. “Fortune favors you, then. I am not the man from your letters.”

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Martha Cecilia Ovadia (Magdalena Onfire) @magdalenaonfire.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE × BEFORE SUNRISE Two almost-strangers on a first date get trapped in her family’s preserved 1980s basement while emergency radios fade and the world above goes quiet. They pass the days surviving on VHS tapes, board games, and mapping each other’s lives. #QuestPit #A #R #Spec

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Aniela Barlamas @abarlamas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE SHAME OF BEING ME 🔷Women’s fiction 🔷Currently querying #questpit #WF #Q

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Liza Hanna @writtenbylizahanna.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Meet Scottie and Finn (and their horses) from SADDLE UP, a contemporary romance novel complete at 76k words. Scottie is spunky, she does flips off of horses for a living. She’s not afraid of anything… except maybe the idea of falling in love with her former best friend Finn. #questpit #W #R #A

notebook page, picture of a girl with a cowboy hat on a horse, another picture of a horse “my horse sugar written on top” text: “Hi! I’m Scottie trick rider from Antelope Spring” and underneath that is a sketch of a butterfly. text: 27, horse girl, Grandma Sylvie is my hero, Finn’s pretty cool I guess, love a matcha, exactly like other girls.

man on a horse through the mountains. text: Finn Tate, 25 y.o., ranch hand, is obsessed with scottie elwood, just got into college but is afraid to tell anyone, his horse grey, huge nerd

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Laura Walker | Author @lauraiswriting.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BEACH READ x GIRL ABROAD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Study abroad romance 📚 Academic rivals-to-lovers 💅🏼 International found family 💁🏼‍♀️ Coming-of-age 👥 Forced proximity 🔥 Slow burn Now querying AMERICAN PARTY GIRL. #Questpit #NA #R #WF #Q

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Georgia Patterson is querying! @georgiapatterson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When Adelaide’s husband is drafted into the Vietnam war, her sleep paralysis visions start bleeding into her real life. When she finds out her husband never showed up for the draft, she decides to confront the demon that’s been haunting her. #questpit #T #Q #A

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Maddie is querying! @maddieparkerbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

IN THE NAME OF YOU 🏕️ Saved! meets Ali Hazelwood 🛶 89k YA Contemporary Romance 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🛶 Dual POV “I’ve never thought about sex more than at church camp, and it’s all thanks to Sloane Miller.” #questpit #Q #YA #R #C #amquerying

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Sarah Berke @sarahjberke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

YOU HAVE TO HANG ON 💪🏼 vigilante justice ⚖️ moral complexity 👫 cathartic end 🤣 hard topics with warmth and humor 🧠 ND MC ❤️ mental health 🌎 pro-immigrant 👧🏽 precocious preschooler 🤝 found family 💔 grief 🤫 past secrets 👩🏼‍💻prof dev edit #QuestPit #Q #A #T #WF #U #AgentGuide bsky.app/profile/sara...

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Beth Holly @bethholly.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Actively querying my debut novel SHE CAME BY IT HONESTLY, a multi-generational story of mothers and daughters and the corrosive power of family secrets. #questpit #Q #U #WF

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Kourtney Howell is querying 👻 @kourtneyrhowell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An agent’s guide to my newest project—To Save a Wilting Rose (WIP)!!! Adult paranormal romance at 91,000 words. #questpit #w #pr #a

The text says, “Agent guide for to save a wilting rose, adult paranormal romance, 91,000 words WIP.”

The text says, “ The pitch. A PHD student who’s returned home to her family’s resort island for the summer expects to spend time with her ill sister, but when a group of vampires from a medical research organization checks in, it’s not just the heir that changes her plans. It’s the life-changing cure they discovered together.”

The text says, “The Comps. Finding joy in an immortal life and serious topics with lighter tones like in Aubrey Wants to Die by Pip Knight. Simmering chemistry and the medical urgency like in Ali Hazelwood’s Mate.”

The text says, “The characters. Lettie Nightingale is a 24 year-old in grad school, has a twin brother, hates to be sweaty, grew up at the Eldham Island Resort, has dedicated her life to saving her younger sister. August Olsen is a vampire, and only child, loves to run, especially on the beach, expected to replace his father as president of The Vital Approach Foundation, and his favorite book is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab.”

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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.

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miralarkin @miralarkin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One chef. One food writer. One delicious dilemma. 🔪 ✍️ A MATTER OF TASTE features: 💞 Professional rivals 🔥 Hot Hawaiian nights 😘 Sharp-tongued banter 👩‍⚖️ Ambitious female heroine 🫣 Blindfolded taste tests 👨‍🍳 Emotionally-complicated MMC who can cook 🍳 69K rom-com set in Hawaiʻi 🌴🥥🌊🌺 #Questpit #R #Q

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Julie Brydon @jbrydon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hell hath no fury like witches scorned. When rival witches learned that they’re being two-timed by the same girl, they team up to curse her. Hex Girlfriends Club is perfect for fans of: Sapphic covens Enemies-to-lovers Grumpy-sunshine Pastel-goth Fall vibes Good for her #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBTQ

Fall-themed background of wood and orange leaves with images of a blonde teen girl, two witches facing away and embracing in front of a fire, a goth teen girl, tarot cards, and mixing spell ingredients in a small cauldron.

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Kelsea Wolf 📚 ✨ @kelseawolf-writes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Gravity Falls x King of Scars 👻 ☀️ 🤓 haunted x sunshine x nerdy girl trio 🤐 🪄 Secret society x Cursed 🔮 📖 Folklore x Southern magic ⛵️ ❓ Bermuda Triangle x Riddles 🦑 ⚔️ Cryptids x Knights Alice misses when she didn’t know magic existed… and it didn’t know she existed either… #questpit #q #f

A map of the south eastern region of the United States, aged. Red writing from top to bottom. Can we trust the riddles? Charleston, SC (The Manor) Savannah GA (Bonevevnture Cemetery) Saint Augustine, Fl (The Lighthouse ) Isle of Tempus (?) Elliot Key, FL (?) Key West, FL ( The Fort)

A vision board for agents and editors describing the book The Society of curse breakers clockwise there is a picture of a swamp that says betrayal a picture of a capybara that says diverse magic systems a picture of a forest that says folklore and strange villains a picture of a Florida map that says cryptids a picture of a lighthouse and a ship that says pirates and a picture of of a tunnel that says sports, a picture of a brick mansion thag says curses and urban fantasy and a picture of a diver that says found family

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Angie M Brady @angiembrady.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Querying THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US ✨Women’s Fiction 3️⃣Triple-POV 🏡Real-world Stakes 🫂Sister Relationships ❄️Chill vibes Come find out how three sisters react to their parents selling their childhood home. (Spoiler: You won’t see “congratulations” in the MS.) #questpit #wf #q

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Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ARCANE x THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA 💔 doomed reincarnating lovers 🧙 mages who die once they're out of magic 🔬 a new magic system through science 🤓 nerd x nerd ⌛dual timeline 🖤 the consequences of repressed emotions 💆(mostly) consensual soul removal #questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #Q

Title page agent's guide. Title: "The Mage who carved out his Soul by Melanie Locke". Lower "a 105K dual timeline science fantasy standalone with a romantic tragedy at its center". Pale green background with plant details and a yellow flower at the center.

Pitch page, paper background with plant edges and yellow flowers. The era of Mages: a dying mage and his partner seek a way to use magic without slowly killing its wielder. But their love turns to tragedy, tearing them apart when both become soulless immortals. The era of thaumaturgy: Two magic PhDs must end a Blight consuming all that is alive. They must uncover the truth of what doomed these immortals and help them die before their pain destroys the world.

Comps slide, green background with plant details and flowers. At the top, poster of Arcane featuring season 2 Viktor. Text: Giving up & regaining emotion. Magic science blend & its tragic creators. Left bottom: cover of Slow Gods by Claire North. Text: Exploration of love and humanity & autims representation. Bottom right: The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri. Text: doomed reincarnating lovers.

Excerpt. Papery background, with frame of yellow flowers. Leander took his own soul in a tight grip, and for a moment, all he’d ever felt flooded his being. After years of silence, he screamed into the dark night, casting out everything that had once defined him. An alien sound, even to himself, something guttural and raw and nothing like the person he’d once been.
Mages didn’t feel, and they didn’t let it show. Leander had lived by those rules, had never lost himself to rage or terror or sorrow, and once this was done, he never would again. But for a single moment, he broke down for the darkness to see.

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Author Aislin Spurgeon @aislinspurgeon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

GLAZED & CONFUSEED When Milo gets dumped minutes before a couples pottery class, he does the only logical thing: shows up alone. Unfortunately for Briar, the overworked studio owner who swore off dating, their chemistry is hotter than a kiln. #questpit #q #a #r

Collage mood board titled “A Mood Board for Glazed & Confused, a 78,000-word adult rom-com.” Includes images of a clay-covered kiss, pottery shelves, a smiling woman making pottery, Fort Wayne skyline at sunset, an ice-skating couple, a curly-haired man, glazing pottery by hand, and hands shaping clay on a wheel. Warm brown, cream, and romantic neutral tones throughout.

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Alexis ✍🏾 @authoredbyalexis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE LAMB x MATILDA #questpit When Lucky’s parents starve her of both food and love, it turns Lucky’s hunger into something that yearns for more than she can suppress, which forces her to become dangerously ravenous. 🍽️ 🥀 SWALLOWED SINS #OS #DR #LF #U #A #AG

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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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Angie @angiearens.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Rhiannon should be dead. Her chest is empty. Her heart? Locked in a box. She only has nine days to get it back. HEART TO MANGLED HEART 🫧Horrormance + ghoulish gore 🫧Slow burn yearn + jealous ex 🫧Atmospheric setting featuring your favorite aurora #questpit #Q #A #R #agentsguide

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Sam Zoeller | Writer @samzoellerwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An #agentsguide to Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, my adult romantasy murder mystery 🌱 plant-based magic 🔮 witch prophecy 🖤 morally grey FMC 🕵️ flirting by finding murder clues ☕️ magical excellence as a love language #QuestPit #W #A #RF

An agent’s guide with an image of a girl in a pink dress running into a forest. The guide is for Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, an adult, dual-POV, romantasy murder mystery novel, drafted at 92k words. It is querying in fall 2026.

A green forest background with pink text that is titled “The Pitch”:

To escape her cruel father, Fallon Mercer manipulates a prophecy to be chosen as the wife of a witch prince.

But when a spree of murders threatens her new crown, Fallon must find a killer, hide her con from her annoyingly attractive husband, and cheat Fate once more....or watch everything she’s worked for unravel

A green forest background with pink text titled “For Fans Of” with comps for the novel.

- One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig for its lush, moody world and unique magic system
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett for its unapologetically ambitious FMC
- the Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley for its wit and banter
- the TV series Bones for its romantically charged investigation

A green forest background with pink text titled “The First Lines”.

Hers: Fallon stares at the slab, attempting, for what is hopefully the last time, not to scowl at a corpse.

His: Prince Reynor Ambrose has not a care in the world. After all, when one has no agency over one’s future, why bother?

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Jenny Lane @authorjennylane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

EDITORS GUIDE for EXTRA INNINGS ABBOTT ELEMENTARY meets TED LASSO (but make it gay) when an English teacher Owen must mentor a new teacher/coach...who is also his ex-BFF and situationship. #QuestPit #A #R #OS (soon)

Editor’s Guide to Extra Innings
Queer, Second Chance Romance
Going on submission soon!
85,000 Words

An anxious high school English teacher is forced to mentor the new teacher/varsity baseball coach, who just happens to be his ex-best friend and first love.Old feelings resurface fast, blurring the lines between classroom, dugout, and a second chance neither of them is sure they deserve.

Owen Hart copes with anxiety through rules, routines, and the predictable rhythm of his life as a high school English teacher in the small town he grew up. So when his former best friend—and first love—Matt Beckett comes back to town after a career-ending baseball injury, Owen has no interest in reopening old wounds.

Matt was the golden boy with MLB dreams. Now he’s back home, stepping into the role as the varsity baseball coach and long term substitute teacher. When the principal assigns Owen as his instructional mentor, Matt has no choice but to accept help from the one person he never truly got over.

What starts as classroom support quickly spills onto the field. Owen starts helping with the team, until their lives are tangled together from first period to the final inning. And being around each other again makes one thing impossible to ignore: whatever they had ten years ago never faded. A rushed and heady locker room hook up turns into an off campus high heat situationship they aren’t ready to label.

But Owen can’t risk loving someone who might leave again, and Matt doesn’t think he deserves a second chance. Still, no matter how hard they try to keep their distance, they keep getting pulled back in—on the field, in the classroom, and everywhere in between.

To have a future, Owen must confront his fear of abandonment, while Matt has to decide if coming home is just a detour—or the place he’s finally ready to stay.
The Pitch

Welcome to Rollins, CA
A small northern California town held together by local businesses, nosy neighbors, and a shift toward acceptance.

Where Extra Innings fits in the Market
The "High-Stakes" Sports Romance

See You at the Finish Line (Zac Hammett): Fans of Hammett’s sharp, teammate-to-lovers tension will find that same magnetic pull between Matt and Owen as they navigate a shared past that won't stay buried.

Diamond Ring (K.D. Casey): Appeals to readers who crave the authentic, gritty reality of post-professional sports and the long, high-stakes road to reconciliation.
The "Deep-Heart" Small Town Romance

Honey Bee Mine (Sarah T. Dubb): Captures the "everybody knows your business" atmosphere of Rollins, appealing to readers who love a setting that acts as both a safe harbor and an antagonist.

Teacher of the Year (M.A. Wardell): Matches the warm, earnest, and deeply human voice of the English teacher protagonist, grounding the romance in the complexities of professional life and public perception.

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#QuestPit WILD REVERENCE X THE VAMPIRE LESTAT After a horrific car accident derails Price’s music career, an encounter with the Goddess of Sleep makes all his dreams come true. Little does he know his ascension into rock god status will pit him against Death himself. #Q#A#H#F

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Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

BENEATH THE WAYWARD TIDES Paranormal romance One part treasure hunt, one part gothic mermaid identity crisis 🧜🏼‍♀️ a dying mermaid 🩵 a love she must sacrifice 👑 a treasure they must find 🍊 Sevilla, Spain 🛥️ and a missing boyfriend #questpit #W #sff #PR #amquerying #amwriting #writesky

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Samantha is ✨editing✨ @sloicano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

WHAT MAGIC REMAINS A witch turned vampire, only her magic survived. Now, every spell corrupts her skin. Every heartbeat breaks the rules. And Hell is closing in. But the demon responsible? He wants to keep her. 🩸Vampires 🔮 Witches 🔥 Infernal Corruption 🖤Forbidden Romance #QuestPit #W #A #FR

Top left image is a crow in a cemetery. Top middle image is a girl with back to the camera holding leaves. Top right image is a woman holding a book with a man’s hand hers. Middle left image is a woman’s mouth with fangs. Center image is the word heretic. Middle right image is a man kissing a woman’s neck. Bottom left image a hand painted black touching the finger of another hand the black ins transferring. Bottom middle image is a man’s neck with necklaces. Bottom right image is a witch alter set up. small notes are in the images. death touched witch. Guardian demon? Punished, cursed, damned.

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L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 🏰dark YA sleeping beauty reimagining 🤟deaf MMC + ASL 👑quest to kill an evil queen 💀everyone she knows is dead 🐀ride-or-die rat companion 🎶he's immune to her song magic 🪢captor falls for his captive 🌳deadly enchanted forest ~querying soon~ #questpit #rf #w #ya

"The Blood of Zellandine Agent's Guide" written in cream against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"The Pitch After waking from a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic." written in navy on a cream background against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"The Details a YA sleeping beauty reimagining 98000 words grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, goblins, monsters, and fae, deaf MCC + ASL, animal companion, Tangled-coded, themes of self-forgiveness and autonomy, horror elements" written in navy on a cream background against a starry sky surrounded by treetops

"Comps" written in cream against a starry sky surrounded by treetops with the covers of Heartless Hunter, Never Ever After, and For the Wolf with arrows pointing from the words dual-pov romance, forced proximity, magical creatures, fairytale reimagining, enchanted forest

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Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE LOVE What if the only way a chronically ill, overburdened daughter could survive her toxic mother's final months was to put down her to-do list, face her resentment, and finally let someone take care of her? 75k word contemporary women’s fiction #Q #A #WF #QuestPit

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #YouDeservepIt 📖 💙📚 #Q #R Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender

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I Am Chosen by Dawn Berkoski

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom, or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement?

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy, Bartender

COMP TITLES
Interview With The Vampire
A Blue Bloods Novel
Yakuza

I Am Chosen
By Dawn Berkoski
77,000 M/M Paranormal Romance
Dark and a little spicy meets silly-sweet

Think:
Blue Bloods (minus the angels and school) x Interview With The Vampire (add more humor) x Japanese Yakuza (cracking skulls in London)

Tropes
* Forbidden Love
* Fish Out of Water
* Forced Proximity
* Dark Secrets
* Unequal Power Structure
* High Action Chase Scenes
* Emotional Growth Arcs + Satisfying End

Quotes

"He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger."
~Jason Allard (Protagonist)

"Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!"
~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover)

"Alexander and I have unfinished business."
-Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival)

MAIN CHARACTERS
Alexander Grant Jason Allard
CEO of M-Corp Bartender
Control Issues Anxiety/Clingy
Likes: Likes:
Power + Money. Video Games +Pizza

Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski

Photo by Dawn Berkoski of a car speeding past a cemetery.View is from the driver’s perspective, looking out the side window.

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

'Hat' - 84K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature
moon stuff
Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. 13 Months Haunted

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Sarah Berke @sarahjberke.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The God of the Woods x How to Read a Book *currently querying* An intimacy-averse private investigator and a paramedic who saves everyone but himself are the only people willing to help an undocumented mother protect her daughter from the girl’s wealthy American father. (1/3)

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📚✨torera | Writer @txrera.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

legendborn x red queen x barbie princess charm school A girl raised in poverty is chosen to train at the royal academy drawing dangerous attention when a forbidden pull to a relic and magic she can’t control threatens to expose a secret not even she knew she had #questpit #W #YA #DF #D #R

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pumped to pitch ETERNALLY DEAD - my 107k paranormal romantic fantasy that explores what happens when an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm 🧛‍♂️ 🩸🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q #amquerying

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 107k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

Red and black background with red text at the top that reads "the blurb." The text below reads: Celia Sharpe's life-long dream of being a rockstar guitarist ended the day an accident wrecked her hand. Now a New York City concert photographer, she strictly focuses on making deadlines. But when Celia spots a mysterious stranger at a concert she can’t capture on camera, she abandons her job to follow him down an alley—only to be accidentally transported to the Vampire Realm.

Stranded and vulnerable in a world of dangerous monsters, Celia has one goal: return home ASAP. But the stranger she followed reveals that he's the bassist of all-vampire rock band Mortuus Aeternum (Eternally Dead), and he offers her a seductive opportunity: if Celia stays, the band's flirty guitarist Caliban will temporarily heal her hand so she can join Mortuus Aeternum. However, she must perform for audiences of blood-thirsty vampires, of course.

Trapped in the Vampire Realm with no way out, Celia is conflicted: she might be willing to sacrifice her freedom for Caliban's healing magic and a second chance at living her rockstar dreams, but she risks death if she doesn't find a way home. Especially when blood shortages are announced across the Vampire Realm. How will she survive?

Red and black background with a bright red title that reads THE COMPS. Below are four book covers and one movie poster that include brief descriptions beside them. The first is Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London and it's described as an urban fantasy in a vampire setting. Next is Bride by Ali Hazelwood, described as having a steamy romance and political intrigue. Next is The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, described as having a human fighting to survive in a vampire world. Next is a movie poster for Almost Famous, described as music journalist + rock band = forced proximity. Last is the cover of Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, described as having a rock band with secrets and love triangles. The tropes and vibes section includes the following text: grounded fantasy, found family, diverse characters, plot twists, chronic illness rep, slow burn yearning, and twist on fated mates.

Red and black background with white text snd large red title that reds THE OPENING. Below the title is the opening of the book, which reads: Celia Sharpe slammed her palm against the closed subway doors, trying to pry open the cool metal with sweaty fingertips. The train had finally – finally – made it to the station, and she needed to get off. Now. When the doors opened at long last, she burst through them like a bat out of hell, charging towards the exit.
She couldn't miss the opening of this show, or it might be her last.

Below the opening is the word EXCERPT in large red letters, and below is text in white font. The following excerpt reads:
Caliban knelt beside her and took her hand, her breath hitching at his touch. A warm sensation transferred between his fingertips and her scar, a tingling feeling moving up her whole arm. She pulled back on instinct.
“What did you do?” she trembled, awestruck. The scar had vanished.
“It’s only temporary. Please play,” he said, his green eyes wanting.
The pain was gone. Gone. As if it had never been there at all. Her left hand curved around the guitar neck, hugging the strings. Overcome by the magic of it, Celia grinned.

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

OUABH X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS An orphaned maid races to sea after her bff & a legendary Stone, but a budding romance with the pirate Captain reveals he's tailed by a cruel enemy, and she may have to betray him & her heart before he sacrifices their mission & her bff. #QuestPit #Q #NA #RF

An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy.

Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind.

Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails.

Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto.

Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?”

Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought.

What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words.

How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to.

Would he have regretted her kiss?

“No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”

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