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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Do you like ⛰️ quests, ⚔️ battles,💜 found family, & 🌌 multiverses? Features #F tropes turned on their heads, including: 🚶excessive amounts of walking 🏛️a fraught council meeting 🧝token elves and dwarves (hobbits not included) How about a #SFF POV? WEB TRAVELER: A Meme Compilation #Q #A #QuestPit

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Zoe is ✨querying✨ @zgauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🗡️🌈✨ MY JULY #QUESTPIT POSTS ✨🌈🗡️

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Zoe is ✨querying✨ @zgauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🗝️ sapphic princess x thief 🗡️ impossible heist ⚔️ only one horse 🌙 found family ☀️ sunshine x gremlin 🐦‍⬛ morally gray heroine ✨ disability rep 🤫 everyone has secrets 🏹 touch her and die 🧭 ragtag crew 💀 sprinkles of horror #QuestPit #W #YA #F #R #MY #H

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When his elf supremacist cousin threatens war, Letyf must confront his traumatic past on a world-saving quest—but he's up against Lia, a world-hopping demon with a reputation to uphold and plenty of lives under her belt. 🧠 Anxious MC 🗡️ Cynical FMC 🤝 Enemies to Allies 💜 Ace Rep #Q #A #SFF #QuestPit

A mood board featuring rich purples and faded blues. Images include art of Link from BOTW, with the tagline "Gentle Protagonist", Blackbird by Mezamero with the tagline "Unhinged FMC", a fantasy battle by Dongbiao Lu, two people running through the dark woods, and photography of a rocky valley.

WEB TRAVELER - Adult Epic Sci-Fantasy, 129k, Series Potential.

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MAGICIANS x BOTW Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest. Lia has doomed more worlds than she’s saved. When Letyf’s elf-supremacist cousin puts them on opposite sides of a war to enslave humans, the fate of the world comes down to a rag-tag team racing the full moon. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit

Art of a full moon with falling stars, and a chained hand reaching from the right, and a hand holding a sword coming in from the top left. The subtitle text reads: "To Letyf, Crelan is home. To Lia, It's just one backwoods, fantasy world among millions." The larger, center text reads: "How far would you go to save your world?"

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BONE KING'S BLUFF After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. 🦴 Death magic 🏰 Locked-castle mystery 🕯️ Medieval fantasy 🏹 Robin Hood trope 🏳️‍🌈 MM romance #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Anxious Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest, but when his elf-supremacist cousin declares war, Letyf joins the world's champions to protect their only hope—a child who can quell magic. In their way? World-hopping demon Lia, unwilling servant to the enemy. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit #AgentsGuide

Title Page: WEB TRAVELER, Adult Epic sci-fantasy, 129k, dual POV. Art of an ancient staircase carved into a mossy cliff. tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

Pitch Page: Letyf Duilles has no place on a world-saving quest. Elf-supremacist Roksa Morthir took everything from Letyf—his best friend, his magic, and his future. An outcast in his rural elven village, Letyf is a constant reminder that an elf with no magic is no elf at all. When Roksa returns with an all-powerful demon on his side, Letyf must defy his endless self-doubt to protect a young elvish prodigy in the war for Crelan’s freedom. Lia, the demon in question, doesn't consider herself all-powerful. She's served heroes and villains many times before. With a string of dead masters behind her, she needs a win, or her immortality and her powers will be taken from her. If Roksa wants to conquer his backwoods, fantasy home-world, Lia will just have to do it with gritted teeth and minimal complaints about the plumbing. After all, why would a world like this be worth saving? Set on a parchment background, with photography of a spring green forest behind it.

Comps: Parchment featuring five book covers: The Magicians (Magical Multiverse, I can't believe it's not Narnia, Anxious MC, Meta-fantasy, Classic Fantasy World Reimagined); This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Metapantasy, classic fantasy world, action-packed and bloody, dry humor, highly competent FMC); The Goblin Emperor (Anxious MC, No romance, deep friendships instead, Naive, fish out of water MC); The Bright Sword (No Romance, Naive MC, Action-packed, Classic Fantasy World, Epic Setting); Nine Goblins (Action Packed, Epic setting, Dry Humor, Highly competent FMC)

First Lines: Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch.

The bird cocked its head, beady eyes darting around, but they passed right over Letyf, crouched as he was in the brush. He adjusted his aim, gave the string a touch more pressure, and released.

The arrow arced away—and missed the fat gamebird by a clear foot.

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We arrived in my master's home-world with enough force to buckle my knees.

As I yanked the heels of my pumps out of the super-heated soil, my master turned to gaze around at the brilliant green hills of his land. The rise we stood on was dotted with little white flowers, the sky was a perfect blue, and the trees shimmered with promise. Even the ring of burned grass around us couldn’t diminish the sweeping landscape.

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MONK & ROBOT X EMILY WILDE When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down her hero's fabled garden with the help of an archaic engineer—but secret origins and disillusionment lurk between hard drives and petals. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby LI #QuestPit #W #A #SF #R

Floral background with the text Mending Glass. By Florrie Auclair. Solarpunk Romantic Sci-Fi

Character portrait of a blond woman making a heart with her hands. Juniper Penrose. An archivist specializing in botany. She idolizes the old world botanist, Miriam, who helped lead the resistance centuries ago. Optimistic and a little reckless, she seeks to uncover the past and find Miriam’s garden. Her drive to help people, sometimes comes at her own expense—like the reason for the mechanical leg she now cherishes.

Next to that is a character portrait of a nonbinary character with light blue eyes and duotone hair in black and blonde. Eli Winter. An aloof engineer who specializes in old world infrastructure programming trying to prove their skills are just as important as the nouveau programmers of the city. They leave their home and grandfather to help Juni break into archaic servers and hard drives—and often pull her out of trouble.

Comp slide with Horizon Zero Dawn, Emily Wildes, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Violet Evergarden, and Fruits Basket. The text pointing at the various media are Ruins of a fallen industrial world, Solarpunk, Flower Motifs, Traveling to help others and find self discovery, Joyful but melancholic character connections, and Sunshine MC x Sunshine Protector

Data is as fragile as flower petals. That’s why Juniper, an archivist in a recovering solarpunk world, wants to immortalize the past in the Glass Archives. Safe from time’s decay, unlike the archaic hard drives of the old world. Specifically, information on her hero, Miriam, a botanist who legend says grew a garden of resistant plants—ones that could survive the blight ravaging their crops. But to find it, Juniper will need the help of Eli, an engineer who specializes in old world technology. Together they traverse ruins and follow a trail of flower language from village to village to unearth what led to the dark age of information. But Juniper starts to question her identity when they uncover that the woman she modeled herself after was not the hero she believed.

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Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A “Princess & the Pea” Retelling for adults who grew up on Shannon Hale & Gail Carson Levine and still comfort-binge THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 💚 Neurodivergent FMC 🌱 Plant-based magic 🇸🇪 Swedish folklore 📜 1790s Scandinavia 📖 Standalone Querying late 2026 #questpit #W #A #F #RF #HF

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KatherineMcRea @listentomelovelett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hey #questpit any readers want an ARC for ONCE MORE, WITH MURDER: a forensic femmes #romystery? Application in my bio. ☠️murder #mystery 💋2nd chance #romance 😷 #chronicillness red 👉 #ptsd 🧪 #womeninSTEM 🌈 #Lgbtq rep 📖 #debut #indie author think Agatha Christie X 1950's #RomCom without the sexism

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #AG

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

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

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Jules @jules.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

THE SHADOWS (WIP in 3rd Draft) #W #F #A #QuestPit A middle-aged shopkeeper & retired magical con artist takes one last job to save store & family. She could end the corrupt power of the Skyborn mages. She could end up losing herself, her magic & all she holds dear. Talk about a midlife crisis.

Moodboard for The Shadows WIP. Upper left: Illustration of a crowded, cramped city alley. Upper mid: Four black-clad people with face masks in a warehouse. Upper right: Shadowed cobblestone alley with someone at the mouth sweeping. Mid left. Two memes. "A niche character trope I like is the person who is nice, a good person and acts well-adjusted, then they do something where it's like oh you're secretly a little bit insane actually. Middle: A shadowed portrait of a woman with sparks coming out of her hands. Mid right: A meme: Original poster: "80% exhaustion 10% sarcasm %20 don't care" Reply poster: "that's 110 percent". OP: "20% of me doesn't care." RP: "should've seen that coming." Bottom left: Warmly lit storefront doorway on a cobblestone street. Bottom mid: Painting of fancy buildings on islands floating well above the ground. Bottom right: Cramped thrift store with shopkeeper.

The Shadows: The Pitch

The worst day of Ania’s life was when her beloved cousin Piren was dragged off to the floating towers of the Above to serve as a source to the Skyborn mages. The second worst day was when he was returned. Discarded. Drained of his magic and broken in spirit.

Ania left behind her rebellious past to support her cousin as he once
supported her. In a city where any display of magic makes you a target
of the Skyborn, keeping your head down and your magic a secret, taking care of your friends, your family and your neighborhood is the only safe way to survive.

But now, everything she’s built over twenty years of safe, carefully
constructed life is falling apart. To recover what she’s lost, Ania takes on one last dangerous heist that strikes at the heart of the Skyborn’s power. She may end up losing herself. She may just bring the entire system crashing down.

The Shadows: Comp Titles
MA Carrick: Mask of Mirrors. Con artist MC out to save her family (and maybe the world).
Shannon Chakraborty: Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. I'm retired. Really. Okay, fine, one last job.
Robert Jackson Bennett: Foundryside. Magical technology, a corrupt ruling class and problematic heists.
Fonda Lee: Last Contract of Isako. I'm too old for this shit but no one else can do it.

“Except you can help me without bringing the bluejackets and their hunters down on my head!” Ania yelled, throwing her arms in the air. “All I’m asking you for is money. You’re asking me to risk my life! My family’s life!” She glared at him, grinding out her words through clenched teeth. “You want me to dust off magic I haven’t used in twenty years! How is that fair?” She spat the last word.
“It’s not fair!” Verasi spat back at her. “None of this is fair!” He flung a hand out. “Our people, our friends and family, our neighbors, are ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. They’re enslaved, ridden so hard they break. Maybe it takes a year. Maybe it takes five. Maybe it only takes a couple of months.” He continued in a harsh whisper. “We live in constant fear that it’ll be one of us. If not one of us, someone we know. Someone we love. Their propaganda machine is turning our own people against us. You know they’re not even testing people to see if they have any magical talent now? They’re just rounding people up at random and carting them off Above. None of them come home, not the same way they left.”

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 24/07/2026

Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT

A Pickpocket's Guide to High Society
(And Higher Mathematics)

YA Fantasy 80K words
Catherine Winters dot com

Against a subtly textured background of mathematical formulae and a hexagonal summoning grid feature a collection of intriguing objects:

The outstretched hand of some mechanical clockwork automaton made of white porcelain.
A purple and gold masquerade mask.
A set of brass architect's tools: a compass, a protractor, calipers.
A set of gears laid out, pulled from some kind of mechanism.

The Pitch
When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had and catches the attention of people she doesn't want to know. Blackmailed into stealing a mysterious box, Nia accidentally awakens a living clockwork doll—that promptly runs away.

Accused of betraying the blackmailers, Nia and her band of would-be thieves go on the run, pursued by magehunters, street gangs, and the secret police.

When the doll returns to make a deal, Nia turns to the man whose lucky coin unlocked her magic, only to find him missing. Caught in a lie, Nia’s soon posing as an heiress, in the clutches of the man’s elderly landlady—who's intent on introducing the girl she knows as “Baarsin” to high society.

As Nia finds herself disappearing into the role, she and her friends must race against time to track down the people behind it all: a secret society of mathematicians whose influence reaches all the way to the governor herself.

Excerpt
Caz tensed. “There’s someone following us,” she hissed.
“I know,” Nia said. The man had been tailing them through the crowd for almost six blocks now. “He won’t be the only one.” She tugged Caz into the empty foyer of a boarding house and pulled out her misdirection charm. “Take my hand and stay quiet!”
“That won’t work on me,” Caz protested.
“No,” Nia said, willing herself to believe. “I can do this.” With all her strength, she pushed more of herself into the charm, the equation unfolding in her mind’s eye. She reached out, and as the world darkened around them, turned the doorknob, Caz clutching her arm. Nia pulled the taller girl close as the man pushed past them, failing to notice the door was already opening.
On the busy sidewalk, Caz let out a breath. A small boy leaning against a nearby lamppost glanced in their direction, an uncertain expression on his young face.
Caz cringed. “Sorry!” she mouthed.

Comps & Tropes
Includes the covers of four books:

Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olsen
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo's
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

"Tropes" is loosely used here and includes:
Stealing is magical (literally)
Fish out of water (you probably guessed)
Working for the wrong people
Ancient magic (in over their heads)
The MacGuffin is blackmailing us
"Aren't you a little young to be a criminal?"
Metaphorically dyslexic LI (she's also dyslexic)
Creepy clockwork doll that complains all the time
Good at magic, as long as she has a compass & protractor
Grifter vs. con artist
Sword lesbian (in training)
Lying (a lot)
Found family of scoundrels
Ace protagonist (who hasn't had time to think about that)
One big job and then we can retire (oh no, somehow everything went wrong)
Let's break into a data centre!
No chosen ones, no choosing ceremonies, just hard work and practice.

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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️) @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS After Noah, a hard of hearing thief, moves in with siren Jasper, their accidental, corrupted mating bond must be severed before it kills them. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x The Surfer Immune to His Song 🌊 Fantasy Set in San Diego 🏄‍♂️ Standalone w/ Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #A #PR

A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”

The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper,

The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater

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Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝 @danielleippaso.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k 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.

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!

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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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yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Devera wants to destroy the Sacrifice—a deadly ritual that sends unmarried women into the dangerous, Appalachian-inspired wilderness to die—but the only being capable of helping her survive is a demon bound to the ritual itself. #questpit #A #Q #R #F

A moodboard collage featuring various Appalachian-inspired and hiking photographs, as well as the title Blood of the Broadlands

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Zoe is ✨querying✨ @zgauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Framed for the murder of the father who once ordered her to the plank, a cursed, cold-hearted pirate is forced into an uneasy alliance with a rival captain to carve out the truth behind the death before the pirate lords carve her down. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #RF #H #MY

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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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Zoe is ✨querying✨ @zgauthor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

💘 Pirate sapphics trapped on the same ship (unfortunate for everyone) 🏴‍☠️ Found family that would mutiny for each other 🔎 A murder mystery with too many motives and not enough trust ✨ Examining who gets labeled a monster and who gets forgiven #QueerPit #YA #F #DF #FR #H #M #AC

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THIS KINGDOM CANNOT KILL ME x BOTW Lia has seen this war before. In her long life, she's served heroes and villains in fantasy wars, sci-fi skirmishes, and far too many apocalypses. When her contract brings her to Letyf's home, he must convince her his world is worth saving. #QueerPit #A #EF #AC

Captain America detention meme: So you're working for the villain again. You screwed up. you know what you did was wrong. The question is, how are you going to make things right?

Tier Ranking meme, reading: Why Are these Distant Realms Characters in the Royal Dungeon?

Violated Geneva Convention: Creepy looking elf named Roksa; strange human-like creature named Voice
Aggravated Menacing: a demonic woman named Lia; a dark-haired elf named Vana
Violated Restraining order: a creepy bald man named Mulligan; an angry blonde elf named Lerovan
Punched an Officer: An angry bald wizard named Vere; a curly haired elf named Ilyana; a sassy blonde dwarf named Named
Accidentally confessed to a crime they didn't even commit: A naive elf named Letyf; a cheerful elf-child named Misha, a young woman named Clariss
Public Defender, visiting Clients: A fierce woman in armor named Maven; a mischievous elderly elf named Edmund; a darkhaired Elf King named Mallon
Bailing everyone else out: a wise elderly elf named Paul; a serious-looking redhead named Dalibor

Car Exit Ramp Meme: Server your contract and keep your immortality. OR Keep mouthing off and disobeying your master. Lia.

Running Away balloon meme: Letyf: Going on a Quest and coming home a hero... Facing his severe anxiety and trauma.

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Beth Train-Brown @bethtrainbrown.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

PONYO meets MONONOKE #NA #YA fantasy about a deaf sea witch hunting the colonisers who imprisoned her. Plagued by the ghosts of lost women, she must discover what happened to them before she's recaptured 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 💜 Aspec FMC 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM slowburn ⚔️ Ride or die M&F besties #QueerPit #DF #F

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QueerPit #A #F #R #RF

Between Fractures of Light - Adult Romantic Portal Fantasy

$PITCH The desolate world from Augusta’s dreams starts to blur into a chilling reality when a specter of swirling mist and shadows begins haunting her and kidnaps her childhood best friend, Theo. When the encroaching shadows come for her next, Augusta is rescued by an impossibly familiar stranger with eyes of fire, and together they journey into a world consumed by Darkness, an entity that feeds on despair and rot. There, the shadows hold Theo—and the world—captive. As she begins to fall for the man guiding her through the starless land, the line between the two realities starts to fracture. Augusta must face who she truly is and the choice carved into fate long ago: sacrifice the world she’s only just come to understand (along with her best friend) or the love she’s finally found. Before the Darkness consumes them both.$

SNIPPET

She blinked, and the figure was gone. Or maybe she was just seeing things again.

“Theo—” she started, but he wasn’t beside her anymore. “Theo?”

The movement returned. It grew into the shape of a person and then into something beyond. Long fingers, crooked spine, head warped. Panic rose in her throat.

Smell. Sound. Taste. Touch. Sight. Think, Augusta. Think. It’s not real.

What can you smell? Popcorn. What can you hear? The laughter of children, Christmas music. What can you taste? The cider in hand. What can you touch? The scarf around my neck. What can you see? The shadow in the shape of a person.

Augusta froze.

It hadn’t gone away. Instead, it only grew larger, more ominous. It rose in the night till it towered over the tents, the moon behind it blocked out by its mass.

A glimpse of tangled blond curls appeared in her periphery, light against the growing darkness. A hanging light exploded with a pop but no one reacted. Unease clawed at her insides.

“THEO!”

Theo turned, mouth agape. His green eyes met hers, and he pushed forward, towards her, his rainbow scarf flapping in the wind behind him.

Long black claws wrapped around his middle and yanked him back into the shadows.

COMPS

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Piranesi
The Starless Sea
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

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InkandEmbers @inkandembers.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

In a kingdom where magic steals body parts, emotions, and even memories, Elowen creates a soulless girl wearing her face to bargain with the Prince of the Underworld before the curse takes what remains of her family. Frankenstein X The Hunger Games #WIPPIT #NA #DF #F #G

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Nick Wenderski @nickwenderski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THIRTEEN YEARS (71k, Adult Southern Gothic Folk Horror) The Devil kept his promise. Fame, fortune, sold-out crowds. Thirteen years later, the debt comes due. To save her soul, a musician must convince others to surrender theirs before the Hat Man comes to collect. #A #H #QueerPit

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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🏳️‍🌈👻🌑COVENANT🔮✨️🕯 When a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter ex-lovers who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #QueerPit #FR #A

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

SHANNARA x MAGICIANS An elf with anxiety goes on a quest to stop his elf-supremacist cousin—in his way? A chaotic, multiversal woman bound to the enemy. 🌌 Magical Multiverses ⚔️ Quests and Combat 🚪 Portal Fantasy Elements 🧠 Anxiety in a world of magic 💜 Ace rep #Queerpit #A #EF #AmQuerying

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Reagan Faerwyn 💗💜💙 @reaganfaerwyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hello #QueerPit! Hope we are all doing well today! Please enjoy: FORGED IN THE AFTER #FR #F #R #A #MM #QUEERying I am so excited to share Donovan & Jerrik's story with you all!

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Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️ @n-a-writes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet x The Expanse The galaxy is being destroyed & everyone's is pretending it's just another day. A crew of chaos, trauma & outcasts decide to save the galaxy that rejected them, because they found each other in it. But they won't admit it. #QueerPit #A #SF #H

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE EVERWINTER KING Adult Fantasy Standalone 💛 Grumpy/Sunshine, platonic 💕 Second Chance MM romance ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 🏅 Tournaments & Trials 💙 Mental health rep 👑 Hidden royalty 🏳️‍🌈 Queer normative world 🍋 Mediterranean inspired setting #QueerPit #A #F #amquerying

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 01/07/2026

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QueerPit #A #SF #R #HA

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

TROPES:
Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
loveable pet/terrifying monster

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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 is Querying 🙏🕯️📿 @sashakielman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

HURRICANE WARS X BEHOOVED Fighting mental & chronic illnesses & trauma while being heirs to thrones is burdensome enough. But for powerful witches Kazmera & Edan, learning to trust each other despite their arranged marriage, peoples’ enmity, and an impending war is the true test. #A #FR #QueerPit

A trope map graphic for BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON by Sasha Kielman, featuring art by @winterofherdiscontent. A black background with art positioned as the book cover. White and golden yellow text and arrows pointing to: enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, elemental magic, slide to pitch, adult romantasy (93,000 words), mental and chronic illness and queer representation.

BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON Forced into an arranged marriage as a fragile peace treaty, two powerful witches must learn to trust each other in order to prevent war across their Realms. But will their love be enough to stop a war? Perfect for fans of The Hurricane Wars and The Bridge Kingdom, BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON is a critique of authoritarianism and a demonstration of the power of love in all its forms, recognizing that while not all illnesses can be healed, they can be managed with care. @SashaKielman

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Kestrel Craig @biconoclast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE UNBROKEN X FIRE LOGIC Has autistic scholar Able Houser decided to chronicle a rebellion against the empire led by a masked person because he wants to hold his government accountable or because he wants to find his missing father? Yes. Stop asking bisexuals to choose. #QueerPit #F #A

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Ossei Odontidae @filitadraws.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE ANGELS’ SUCCUBUS 🌈sapphic polyam Two angels are sent to investigate demonic activities, enlisting a succubus cam worker to help them navigate the digital world; but the veil keeping Hell locked away thins and soon they’ll be fighting more than just their growing feelings #Queerpit #A #PR #Q

moodboard composed of 9 images (left to right) image of an elevator signaling they are going to hell, silhouette of a woman under read light, blurry black and white photo of an angel, coffee in red, two women gazing into each other's eyes, a LED sign that says HELL, three hands linked by their pinkies, dark room illuminated by a red LED sign that says tattoo, a white feather floating in water.

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Holly Baldwin @hollyollybeeee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Heart of Gold episode of Firefly🚀 FEATURING a genderless alien race of clones👽, SET IN a flooded post-collapse Philadelphia🌇! But make it a trauma recovery journey shared between a queer group of friends🏳️‍🌈 Would you save a world that'd only ever hurt you? #queerpit #a #spf #up #editors

Ooooh just the prettiest overgrown trolly car. Title overhead "WE EXPECTED MORE"

Underneath is "found family" and "gals being pals (and also not)" and "aliens & more"

Finally, bottom text: (Optimistic Dystopia at its Queerest)

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Beth Train-Brown @bethtrainbrown.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

GODKILLER meets GREATEST SHOWMAN #NA #YA fantasy: a deaf sea witch escapes imprisonment and flees on a circus ship. Shark wrestling pays her fare but revenge pays her debt 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 🎪 Author raised in circus 💜 Aspec FMC 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM side romance ⚔️ Ride or die M&F besties 💕 Found family #QueerPit

An aesthetic board of 9 images. (1) A stormy sea with the quotation "Bring it all down." (2) A woman summoning water with her hands. (3) The view of the sea through barred windows. (4) A lion's mouth. (5) Four people running happily into the sea. (6) A fire breather shooting a plume of flame above himself. (7) An old-timey galleon setting sail. (8) A gloved hand sheathing a sword over a chainmailed shoulder. (9) Stormy cliffs with the quotation "No risk. No story." Overlayed across the whole image is the work's title, Anchoress.

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Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽 @sagecollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL x SNOWGLOBE 18yo Hale & his celebrity BFF have 1 week to film a blockbuster ep & attract investors for their futuristic-TikTok musical. But planetary power outages & weather-system glitches thwart their ability to deliver 🌈 pan, trans, & ace rep #QueerPit #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x INDIANA JONES x VOLATILE MEMORY 🏺Grumpy archaeologist 💸 Repentant trillionaire 🤖 Sassy robots 🥀 Race against time 🧠 Synthetic consciousness ❤️‍🩹 Doomed (or is it?) Romance 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Found Family ❤️‍🔥 Yearning 🚀 Stealing spaceships 👀 And they were (bunker)mates #QueerPit #A #SF #FTA

A NASA image of the Sun in high detail with black boxes of white text over it. The text reads: The sun is dying way ahead of schedule. Good news is this pushed the government to not only approve the OEM’s funding request, but triple it to send a team to Earth. Bad news is all the potential piles of data and artifacts could be wiped out by one rogue wave of stellar guts.

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#QueerPit #YA #F #R When Zenora, an autistic trans garden witch with a brown thumb, accidentally becomes responsible for the Allflower, she must work with a rival music witch to care for it without getting caught—or falling madly in love. WICKED X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Magic lesson melody and zenora
Collage picnjc harp garden flower two girls one blonde one with curly hair

I wave back, stunned, then turn to Melody. "Is your suitcase sentient?"
"Sapient. And only temporarily," she says, waving me off. It does not work.
I stare at her, mouth agape, wheels turning in my mind as I try to understand what she just said. "You can temporarily make things sapient?"
She blinks owlishly. "Oh, I can permanently make things sapient."
The force with which my body reels back is brain-rattling. "What poor objects have you cursed with permanent sapience?"
Melody crosses her arms, face turning pink. "Just my toothbrush. I like when she sings with me. Her name's Leah."
"Why did you make your toothbrush sapient?"
"Why didn't you?" Melody sticks her tongue out. She's a walking nightmare. What have | gotten myself into? Sapience is the hardest of change and creation magics. It requires an extraordinary amount of power that only few witches have access to. Fern is one, but after a harrowing incident with a killer pomegranate, he doesn't dip his toes in that pool anymore.

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#QueerPit #SPF #SF #NA #YA #amquerying 🔮 Chosen One (refused) 🩹 Boy who can heal everyone but himself ☄️ Boy who caught a meteorite 🚗 queer romantic subplot 👽Paranormal experiences (grounded within our world) 🛸UFOs and Cults

Agent Guide for Witnessers of the Unknown, YA/NA, 96k Words, SFF featuring an image of two boys in blue against a red backdrop, one has a shaved head, wears a black hoodie, and is shorter with dark eyes. the other has long blond hair, wears an olive jacket, and pale eyes.

Comparative film titles for Witnessers of the Unknown on a moon: Nowhere by Gregg Araki and Leviticus, psychedelic, queer, aliens
faith healing and recovery

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Zoe is ✨querying✨ @zgauthor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Framed for the murder of the father who once ordered her to the plank, a cursed, cold-hearted pirate is forced into an uneasy alliance with a sly, beautiful captain to carve out the truth behind the death before the pirate lords carve her down. #QueerPit #YA #F #DF #FR #H #M #AC

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