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Abigail is ✨Agented✨ @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOBY DOO X RAVEN BOYS

Four meddling teens and a half-ghost dog rally to save their town’s fading magic 👻
🐦‍⬛Halloween shenanigans
🐦‍⬛Ride or die friendships
🐦‍⬛Dark secrets
🐦‍⬛LGBTQ+ cast
🐦‍⬛The dog can’t talk (or can he? 👀)

#GhostPit #F #M #LGBT #E

Moodboard with spider webs in top corners and four characters (red headed girl with glasses, black haired girl with purple dress, brown haired boy with white shirt, and blond boy with ghostbusters shirt) at the bottom. Moodboard behind features autumn designs: a girl in a warm-colored plaid dress, a cozy-looking store, a sprawl of tarot cards, etc)

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Anna Metz is ✨️ON SUB✨️ @annametz.bsky.social · 5d

VIGILANTES ANONYMOUS is a dark romcom that follows two contract killers, Lana and Nic, as they off their targets and get off with each other 🖤🔪💋

📝 therapy meet cute
📍Milwaukee
💥 he's unapologetically obsessed with superheroes
📚 she works in a bookstore filled with cats

#GhostPit #A #OS #R

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 5d

On a coast split by wealth and ruin, best friends Carmen and Brigitte spiral into sunlit parties and a strange new drug that turns idyll into terror when one disappears and returns changed—forcing their tight-knit group to confront a conspiracy that weaponizes memory itself.
#A #spec #lf #ghostpit

It says they called it saltwater and adult speculative literary fiction complete at 92k words over a beach photo

In callaston a coastal state split between luxury and neglect college aged best friends carmen and brigitte spiral into sunlit parties and a strange new drug that turns idyll into terror when one disappears and returns changed forcing their tight knit group to confront a conspiracy that weaponizes memory itself, comps bunny by mona awad, euphoria tv show, ghost eaters by clay mcleoud, obx tv show and wild dark shores

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · 4d

In a futuristic Nigeria where Soulless Ones hunt humans, 17-year-old Sikemi inherits a rare shadow power and becomes one of humanity’s last defenders, caught between a corrupt industry, deadly monsters, and a charming boy with secrets.

#PitDark #YA #SPEC #AF

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · 4d

#ghostpit #YA #scifantasy

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Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · 4d

WEYWARD x THE BEWITCHING

When two witches in different times find themselves battling the same ancient forest spirit, they must use magic to communicate and find a way to save their covens from destruction.

#GhostPit #H #SPEC #A

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Liz 👻🍂🪦 @thewriteratlas.bsky.social · 4d

NAUSICAA x WILL OF THE MANY

After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, university student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried.

👻 #GhostPit #A #F #LGBT

The quote: “Aris waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriage way to break the window.” Above a series of images: a forest canopy, a student by the river in a historical city, a shelf of oddities including animal skulls, someone in a dress shirt and vest, a forest, a large animal skull, people holding cups and cigarettes around a table, and a notebooks with sketches of a skeleton.

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · 17d

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is one of those stories I spontaneously came up with and just wrote. I submitted it, not really expecting it to be accepted because it’s such a weird story… but guess what? Every story has a home 🫠

raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Sep 7

I want to write. I want to build worlds that will intrigue readers. I want to create characters they will love, hate, love to hate, and everything in between. One day, I want to hold my books in my hands. I have so many stories, and I can’t wait for the world to read them all.

raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Summer I...

A beach with summer vibes and texts on screen

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anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social · Aug 18

I feel a little insufferable because I have already texted this to family and friends but I just really want everyone to look at my tomatoes lol

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 18

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”―Joss Whedon

raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 13

The first draft of anything is shit. - Ernest Hemingway

raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 11

To every writer chasing the dream… this is your reminder to keep going. Rejections hurt, roadblocks slow you down, but no creativity is wasted. Your words matter, our story matters and one day, they will be in the hands of a reader who will love them.
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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 6

Introducing my YA dystopian fantasy featuring:
🌑 shadow-wielding magic
👥 found family
🏙️ a Nigerian-inspired parallel world
🩸 dangerous Soulless Ones
⚔️ survival, betrayal, and epic battles
🌅 a fight for humanity’s last hope
💘 slow burn

*Querying soon*

#questpit #W #YA #F

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 7

There’s a version of you that already has everything you’re hoping for. Keep going.

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Paige Nicole @paigenicolewrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

A CONCEALED SORCERY, is dual-POV novel, complete at 107k. The story of a prophet seeking her own future akin to “The Knight and the Moth” X the anti-magic tensions of “Heartless Hunter X the will-they-won’t-they romance of “My Lady Jane.” #questpit #q #ya #f #r

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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · Aug 6

JASAD HEIR/GODKILLER
If anyone finds out she’s a changeling they'll 💀 her. Finding a powerful relic could free her people from oppression & she’ll do everything to keep it. But failure to unearth its secrets will mean her death & the loss of all magic forever. #QuestPit #F #Q #A

A photo of a dark haired woman in the jungle. Title: An Agent/Reader Guide to The Breath of SIlence - A fantasy novel by M J Reynard

A rainforest photo with the following text:
The Pitch
In a world where magic is forbidden, an outcast shifter & a broken soldier form a fragile alliance to smuggle a relic, but as betrayal leads to murder, they must stop a vengeful sorceress or lose all magic – forever!
The Breath of SIlence by M J Reynard

Illustrations of a POC woman in leather armour and a Caucasian man in a Regency style shirt and coat with brown hair.
The following quotes:
"He's a liar!"
"She's hiding something."
City in the sky!
Changelings & sorcerors
Magical Prejudice
Fish out of water
Two slow burn romances!
Immortals & Reincarnates
Dragons vs Tigers
The Breath of SIlence by M J Reynard

A photo of a rainforest with the Title "Comps":
A Feather so Black - magical woman in a non-magical world
The Last Vigilant - A broken man with a life debt
The Jasad Heir - Forbidden magic
The Bone Shard War - life & death battles & creatures
One Dark Window - slow burn sub plots & immersive

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thank you for this insight

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Questpit was incredible! Every single pitch was so creative and stunning. Here’s to chasing our publishing dreams 🥂. Thank you to everyone who supported my pitches. I really appreciate it🤍🥹

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raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congratulations🥳🥳🥳 You deserve this and more🤍🤍🤍

raimy.reads @raimyreads.bsky.social · Aug 6

Nothing?🫣

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · Aug 6

🛤️ HOW TO COME HOME🛤️

An ex-Prohibition fixer and a small-town general store owner must overcome holding their pasts too present in order to build a future together in 1930s America.

PEAKY BLINDERS x 4 WINDS x CAT SEBASTIAN

#questpit #Q #amquerying #agentsguide

Slide 1: Cover slide for HOW TO COME HOME. A picture of a cornfield at dusk overlaid by the title and two portraits, one of a man with curly dark hair and wearing a dark green sweater and one of a man with pale blond hair, glasses, and wearing a jacket, vest, and tie. A brown frame with gilded accents encloses the slide.

Slide 2: PITCH & COMPS
After a decade behind bars, former Prohibition crime boss Nathan Gilliard takes a job working for a kindhearted single father at his small-town general store—but Nathan’s old life and older secrets aren’t easily left behind bars, and both men must confront the consequences of holding their pasts too present if they have any hope of building a future together.
Comps presented are WE COULD BE SO GOOD by Cat Sebastian, INLAND by Téa Obreht, PEAKY BLINDERS, THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah, THE COMPANION by EE Ottoman, and the albums Hozier by Hozier, Laurel Hell by Mitski, and Babel by Mumford & Sons

Slide 3:TROPES & THEMES
A digital painting of two men, one with dark curly hair and wearing a maroon sweater, one with blond hair and wearing a shirt with suspenders and glasses around his neck, both seated at a piano. The tropes & themes read:
- Queerness without a “coming out” narrative
- Unconventional family structure
- Grief doesn’t end, but it changes
- Romance’s sweeping love story + histfic’s sweeping plot
- Disability =/= disabling
- Chekhov’s $100,000
- Who you are is not what you’ve been
- 30+-year-old-protagonists
- Complicated siblings, positive and negative

Slide 4: EXCERPT
A hotel. Anonymous people. People whose faces he’ll never see, whose names he’ll never know. Whose lives could be anything and everything, passing through Aurora on their way to California or New York or Canada.
On the train, that had been the most beautiful thing in the world to Nathan, the anonymity. Now the horror of it grounds him to the sidewalk.
Ten years he spent unknowable and resilient and caged, because the pain of knowing a different life and losing it cut so deep he didn’t know if he’d survive another bout of loss. And even in Blankenship he’d risked knowing, risked caring, and lost again. No lessons learned. More pieces of him to gather up, and Nathan’s hands too small to carry all of them. He can look in this ordinary little hotel all he likes. He’s burned too much, built too little to aspire to an ordinary life. No, all that awaits Nathan Gilliard is blood money and cold vengeance.

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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · Aug 6

An #EditorsGuide to TRUE HATE'S KISS

She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family.

⚔️Age-old clan feud
🐉Scandinavian folklore
🧪Unique magic & world
❤️‍🔥Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers
🛡️"Who did this to you?" / "You did!

#QuestPit #OS #Romantasy

An image of Lagertha from the TV show Vikings to the right and one of Robin Hood from the Robin Hood movie (2010) to the left, divided in the middle by an image of “Freydis sword”, adorned with intricate patterns, from the game Skyrim.

Title: True Hate’s Kiss.
110,000 words
New Adult Romantasy
Text: “To break her curse, she needs a kiss… from the man she swore to kill.”

An image taken from the TV show Vikings of a hand holding a sword with Norse Runes etched into the blade.

Text: When a man from the enemy clan murders Älva’s father, she swears revenge. But then her family is cursed to die. The only way to break the curse? A True Hate’s Kiss. The man she hates the most must kiss her of his own free will. But the more she learns about her enemy, the more she questions who the true villain really is—and forbidden desire threatens to ruin everything.

An image of a man and woman kissing, silhouetted against the sunset.

Text:
Scandinavian Iron Age (almost Viking Age)
Pretending to woo him while betraying him
Feuding clans
Enemies-to-forbidden-lovers
Complicated family dynamics
“Who did this to you?” / “You did!”
Scandinavian folklore
Nature spirits, magical swords, Norse witches

Comp titles: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen, The Road of Bones by Demi Winters, Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, 10 Things I Hate About You (the movie)

An image of a conifer forest.

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Opening
Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart.
“Lycki, stop!” My voice cracked, hoarse with panic.
But my little brother’s green tunic and blond hair slipped through the conifer branches ahead, his distant voice floating back to me. “Come on, Älva! I found snowdrops!”
Wonderful, we were about to start a war over flowers.
Gut twisting, I burst into a sprint—past the overgrown sign nailed to a pine, ominous runes carved deep into the wood: ‘Hult Territory.’

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