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SFF Writer | 📚💙 CR: Winter’s Orbit Editing my magic-filled new adult portal romantasy with fated lovers, an ancient prophecy & a reluctant chosen one. My first novel! 1st Draft: 90,920 words Next up is an adult SF codename: SpA WIP

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

#QuestPit Mega-thread for my adult sci-fi romance wip & my new adult romantasy currently in revisions (now dual-POV!) 💫

#SF #R #F #A #NA

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Apr 29

I haven’t been on here in forever… hello 👋🏽

VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Mar 5

Happy Oathbound release day!!! Ofc I went to the store and left with more than one book 🤭 #blackbooksky #booksky

Two books on a desk, one purple (Oathbound by Tracy Deonn) one green (I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming). The purple has a fierce looking black teen girl wielding purple and red magic. The green book has a red-headed black woman in the arms of a horned alien with a lion and a dinosaur in the background.

VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 18

Just had an amazing transit reading (as usual) with @dkastrology.bsky.social She’s so insightful and is able to predict positive things ($$ etc.) well before they occur. Any Astro girlies looking for a reading, highly recommend! She gave me the boost I needed to dive back into writing last yr 💫 💕

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Feb 12

HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS

Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#Questpit #OS

Artwork for Aaron’s YA fantasy novel, SOULCAST. In the image, the main character is in the midst of a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld. Next to him, the prince and his love interest is his prey.

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Stephanie Binx @stephwrites.bsky.social · Feb 12

Gas station NOSFERATU

A corpse mover embarks on a cross-country trek to deliver a deceased serial killer to a private collector. But as strange visions & uncanny encounters drive Rio toward madness, she finds that her cargo is neither dead nor alive—and it needs her help.

#Questpit #A #UF #WIP

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Hayden ✨ is querying! @haydendreaming.bsky.social · Feb 12

‪CIRCE x PHOENIX EXTRAVAGANT
Murdered by the Fates, made a god by plot unseen—Ilion only wants to go home. Armed with a lyre and a plucky attitude, to escape the afterworld and defy destiny they must master their fire or burn down the universe and everyone in it they love.
#Q #A #F #QuestPit #LGBT

My drawing of the protagonist of my novel, Ilion. They have pale skin and wavy chestnut hair down to their jaw. They're posed like the famous painting "The Fallen Angel" by Alexandre Cabanel, with their head tilted down, brown eyes glaring, a single tear falling from the corner of one eye. One arm crosses in front of their face, hands clenched together. They're wearing a white tunic with a blue belt and matching blue laurels in their hair. In the background, blue fire swirls ominously.

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · Feb 12

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising

In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside–
it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

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Lexi Heathermoor @lexiheathermoor.bsky.social · Feb 12

HOOKED x TWISTED HATE x GOOD GIRL COMPLEX
❤️‍🔥Banter
❤️‍🔥Fake Hating
❤️‍🔥Forbidden Romance
❤️‍🔥Morally Gray MMC
❤️‍🔥HIGH Spice
❤️‍🔥Sex Contract
❤️‍🔥THE PLOT TWIST.

Everything I Once Had: Hatred has never been so hot.🔥🖤 #QuestPit #Q #A #R #DR

Animated image of a dark haired man in a long-sleeve black shirt and jeans with tattoos on his hands and neck holding a pool stick next to a pool table with colorful balls looking smolderingly at a blonde sitting across the bar in a black long sleeve shirt and black jeans with her head propped up on one hand and a drink in the other who looks back at him with the same desire.

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Morgan Wodring 🦑 NEW WEIRD NATION @morkalmarrh.bsky.social · Feb 12

ANNIHILATION x PERDIDO STREET STATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#QuestPit #SF #A #Q

A man and a woman stand with a putple wyvern with a backsrop of a city, the plaentary rings anf a putple moon

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Feb 12

A Japanese mythology portal fantasy with Ghibli aesthetics & Outlander stakes.
🌿 Sarcastic botanist
🫶 Broody yokai
✨ Modern-day Japan → Shinkai, a parallel realm of the Kami

#Q #NA #RF #M #questpit

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Abigail is ✨Agented✨ @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · Feb 12

TANGLED x ANASTASIA

In a realm where people go to forget their worst memories, an orphan with Tourette’s recruits an infuriating pickpocket to help her win her own memories back, hoping to recall her lost family.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Feb 12

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️

#QuestPit #YA #F #W #LGBT

A moodboard showing the pirate (Amir), the princess (Mira), and John.

Amir silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a sword slung over her shoulder and a group of joyful sailors on a pirate ship. She has this quote:

Continue to love
Continue to forgive
Continue to grow

Mira is shown in the reflection of an ornate mirror. She is wearing long white gloves and a pink ballgown with her hair in a natural updo and the lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted over her photo. There is another photo of two girls kissing in the surf at sunset. Mira has this quote:

We looked at each other a little too long to be “just friends”

John is shown with his bare back to the viewer, facing the sea with the trans pride flag subtly depicted over his photo. He also has a close up of iridescent mermaid scales and this quote:

Go bravely, go deeply, or do not go

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thrust into the role of Crown Prince of an empire on the brink of war, Eamon must navigate duplicitous province leaders and escalating tensions with rebels as he pursues the prophesied Vessel, whose magical abilities can dictate the empire's fate.

#questpit #F #NA #W

Mood board with prominent blues, gold and red. Tiles depict flashes of light, a forest, a holly leaf bush, a golden arch. There’s a man at the center with his face partially obscured by blue light almost as if he’s in a trance or if it’s suffocating him. He is otherwise in darkness. Theres black woman with braids in a different tile. She’s illuminated with blue light in the dark as she looks over her shoulder which is dusted with gold.

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

Throne of Glass x This Woven Kingdom

While trying to find her parents' killer, Holly uncovers family ties to a prophecy heralding the victory or demise of an empire on the brink of war-thrusting her to the center of a race to kill or convert the chosen one.

#questpit #F #NA #W

Mood board with prominent blues, gold and red. Tiles depict flashes of light, a forest, a holly leaf bush, a golden arch. There’s a man with his face partially obscured by blue light and a black woman at the center with braids. She’s illuminated with blue light as she looks over her shoulder which is dusted with gold.

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

Interstellar x Atlantis

Sparks fly between a genius astrophysicist and her gruff benefactor as they attempt to unlock the secrets of a desolate planet before the lethal organism which destroyed it is unleashed throughout the entire galaxy.

#questpit #SF #R #A #W

Mood board with space and sea vibes. Lots of purples and blues and vast expanses. There’s a jellyfish billowing its tendrils in one of the mood board tiles. The middle tile has a quote: “What do you know of the lost planet Arentis?” Followed by the description “Adult Sci-Fi Romance” and the social media handle @vpwrites78

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

#QuestPit Mega-thread for my adult sci-fi romance wip & my new adult romantasy currently in revisions (now dual-POV!) 💫

#SF #R #F #A #NA

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

Love love love omg

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

A grief-torn healer, bent on vengeance against the god who claimed all she loved in death and decay, uses her craft to infiltrate the god’s court—entangling with a haunted heir, plagued by fated dreams of her arrival, who will stop at nothing to unearth her purpose.

#questpit #w #f #r #a

The House of Hemlock

A WORK IN PROGRESS

ONE DARK WINDOW meets STARLING HOUSE in this gothic dual POV adult romantic fantasy steeped in grief-torn promises, fate-bound strangers, and simmering tensions-where a house watches, gods scheme, and rot runs deep.

The Opening

There was truth in blood—meant to spill, drain life, stain the earth, and leave death grinning in its wake.
The first gods knew it. They shaped the earth with rivers of it, winding red veins through stone and moss, tangling it into the roots of trees that cracked the sky open with their branches.
Blood was the first language, the thread stitching life to decay, shadow to light. It was the beginning and the end, the thread through all things. It sang louder than prayers and bound tighter than oaths.
It was promise and debt, offering and curse.
The gods demanded it-again and again—until the earth grew slick, not with dew, but with what they were owed.
But even gods forget. They never asked what would become of blood left too long untended.
It rots. It rises. It remembers.

The Vibes

•Cursed magic and creeping rot (One Dark Window)
•Haunted by prophetic visions (A Study in Drowning)
•Nature’s eerie obedience (For the Wolf)
•Gothic atmosphere and simmering tension (Down Comes the Night)
•Sentient manor hiding secrets (Starling House)
•Healing that defies the natural order (The Thirteenth Child)
•Connection to death (Belladonna)

A dark, spooky, nature-inspired gothic mood board

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

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VP is editing portal romantasy 💫 @vpwrites87.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ty! 🥰

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lol me too!!

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L.M. du Plessis 🇳🇦 🇺🇦📚💙 ‪✨Drafting New Project✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · Feb 12

#Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration (and with improved graphics) SUNDERED GALAXY!
#W
#A
#SF

Graphic for a pitch slide, showing a planet, moon with sun peeking out behind moon and starship.
Text reads: "An agents guide to SUNDERED GALAXY"
"A Space Opera Novel and the first of a series, currently standing at 146K words."

On a background of a half shrouded red planet, a block of text reading:
THE PITCH
Last week Anthony was just like like every other average guy. Now he's on a stolen alien warship with a small crew of alien prison escapees, an extra set of skin keeping him alive, and a mysterious and powerful fleet of unknown adversaries after him. All he wants is to just go home.

On top of a background showing a red nebula:
Comp titles listed as NOPHEK GLOSS X FARSCAPE, with title images for each one.

Tropes list, detailing:
•Fish out of water MC
•Space Odyssey
•Befriending the AI Android
•Diverse aliens, locations, FTL travel and space battles
•A galaxy divided by war.

On top of a background of a starry night sky:
An excerpt reading:
"Dozens of such empires die every century, often in the same manner as this. There are thousands of empires, unions, alliances, dominions or nations, or whatever variant of galactic government you'd care to mention, and they all shift and change and die. New ones rise up all the time. They are all like trees in a rain forest, quick to sprout and grow given the right circumstances, quick to fall and die and their corpse scavenged by everything around them."
- Kenam Suldaray, former operative of the confederacy of Vigilant Systems, on the nature of the galaxy.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · Feb 12

Slow Horses ➕️➕️➕️
Time travel's brutal for an MI5 agent on the run from his government. They almost blew up 1972; he got the blame. Now there's a temporal vortex to close, if the hunters don't kill him first, and a Russian spy from 1997 is running interference.

#Q #A #T #SF #QuestPit #agentguide 🦋

There is a green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is in courier font and all capitalised. It reads:

An agent's guide to:
Out of Time
By Gert Ramm
Espionage/time travel thriller

Images from Pixabay.

There is a green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is all capitalised and in courier font.

The text to the left of the man's head reads:

Comps:
Slough House Series (Mick Herron)
Here and Now and Then (Mike Chen)
Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)
The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers)

The text to the right of the man's head reads:

TV Comps:
The Ipress File
Day of the Jackal
Life on Mars
Callan

In the bottom right-hand corner is an image of a semi-automatic pistol with seven rounds of ammunition beside it.

Images from Pixabay.

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pirate is querying SEAFORTH @ibethepirate.bsky.social · Feb 12

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi x The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

🦑Seaforth | Fantasy | 110,000 words

A curse. An uprising. A chance at victory.
And through it all, two warring women hiding life-changing secrets.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

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Rory | Author *₊˚☕୧ @rabauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

A Cloud Merman's Guide to Becoming Human:
S̶t̶e̶p̶ ̶1̶:̶ ̶S̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶a̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶
Step 1.2: Grow a heart with human's help
Step 2: Achieve happiness

Steps unclear. Now I’m ripping out any heart I can find.

SIMON SNOW x THE LITTLE MERMAID 🪼 🩵
#QuestPit #Q #NA #UF #R

moodboard with dark blue-gray images of jellyfish, boys kissing, hands reachign in the water, storm clouds, and moody cities. overlaying text reads: You're shivering, and your lips are blue... So kiss them, and they won't be blue anymore. Jellyfish Boy by R. A. Betzer

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