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Christine is agented @thechristinewrites.bsky.social · Apr 19

Ali Hazelwood's Love Theoretically meets Bolu Babalola's Honey and Spice

A slow-burn academic spicy romance set at an elite university about two rival professors forced to co-teach a class on love—and accidentally learn more than they bargained for.

#PosterPitW #PosterPit #NA #R #CR

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AG Finch @agfinchwriting.bsky.social · Apr 19

“What is the purpose of a name, but to be the bookends of a life?”

Cat’s mom is missing, her room is covered in blood, there’s a beating heart in the basement, and she has finals soon.

Oh, and she’d really, really like to go home.

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #YA #F

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AG Finch @agfinchwriting.bsky.social · Apr 19

FRESH FOR THE SLAUGHTER 🩸

In a world that begs for blood, how far can faith take a lamb?

Sleeping gods, a dying world, and the violent women who are meant to save it. Religion as a weapon and its servants as the shield.

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #F #A

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Cat is editing @catclarkwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

Blood Of the Coven

“Wars were won and treaties were written with the blood of the losers on gore soaked foundations. These treaties were made of weak foundations that cracked as the tensions of those that walked over them eventually broke through.” #1stLinePit #WIP #YA

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · Apr 5

"Burrito Gods is the 'The Craft Beer of Pseudo-Mexican Food' (says one publication), taking the Pacific Northwest by storm, fast casual like all the others before them, but new and much hipper." #1stlinepit #a #t #spec #lf #wip

Desperate Amanda thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul.

To the Burrito Gods is an anticapitalist queer story centered around the horrors of working in food service, featuring: a workplace cult, foodie & corporate satire, healing from trauma, sapphic romance, trans LI.

A gloved hand holds out a burrito, transposed over gleaming white and gold marble, which a hand is shadowed on.

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Apr 5

#1stlinepit #YA #F #LGBT #WIP

The Drift was more sea than land.
Its cities were a riotous array of flotsam lashed from Angloria's seized ships, and it was on these vast expanses of floating garbage that the world's most eclectic misfits found women for their beds and goats for their cook-pots, though the empire's history books would come to claim it was the other way around.

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Amelia @ameliagthorn.bsky.social · Apr 5

❝Magic untended festers. Magic forgotten rots.❞

Kaos x The Witcher x Godkiller

#1stLinePit #agentsguide #F

The title cover to an agents guide for the project.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

The words

“An Agent’s guide to” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box.

“The Dying Religion” - in an echo effect in black and white font surrounded by an orange glow.

“Adult epic fantasy” - in glowing orange surrounded by a black box.

The pitch page for the project. The pitch itself is in a large black box with dashed orange borders, the word pitch intersects with the box and is in a black and white echoing font.

The pitch is:

No one expected orphans to survive the war
meant to end magic, least of all win it.
But victory’s price? The death of their God.

Now war returns to a still healing continent,
the enemy intent on slaughtering
the five remaining Gods.

and the children raised as Holy-War cannon
fodder must decide if they’re worth saving.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

The comps & tropes page for the project.

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page. Every box is black with an orange, dashed border, and the boxes for tropes and comps have the appropriate title, partially intersecting the relevant title. The quotes do not.

Comps:

Kaos, Witcher and Godkiller

The quote “martyr, coward, traitor or fool. Your choice, really, you’ll serve our needs one way or the other.”

The quote “there is only one religion in war, and believe me when it’ll you it’s a godless faith.”

Tropes:

Gods pay their dues
Hero x villain
Found family
Heist into hell
Friends to lovers to enemies
Morally grey mc & villain
Magic comes with a price

A villain and hero page for the project.

The hero and villain both have information about the individual characters in two separate black boxes, both with orange dashed borders. The word “hero” and “villain” intersects the relevant boxes (right and left respectively)

The background is a volcano erupting, streams of lava flowing across the page.

Villain

The gods killed all he loved
Out for revenge on the gods
Brainwashed veteran
Waterbender
Raised as cannon fodder
Reborn as propaganda
In love with the hero

Hero:
Raised to be the weapon of the gods
Out to destroy the institution that forged him
Guilt ridden veteran
Electricity bender
Raised as cannon fodder
Remade as a national threat (not what graphic says but need to resave that one)
In love with the villain

In the centre is the quote “your first mistake was thinking that people like you and I were ever born to do anything but burn.”

With arrows pointing from hero (the receiver) to the villain (the speaker.)

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Ann Littler @annlittler.bsky.social · Apr 5

It was so much easier to steal when l worked alone.

#1stLinePit
#YA #D #SF #T
#AgentsGuide

PITCH
FIRST LINE:
It was so much easier to steal when I worked alone.
A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SCAVENGER WITH A DANGEROUS SECRET MUST
FIND THE MOLE BEFORE SHE BECOMES
VICTIM
THEIR NEXT VICTIM AND THE ENTIRE RESISTANCE EFFORT IS COMPROMISED.

WHAT TO EXPECT
• MORALLY-DODGY STEM FEMALE MC WHO CAUSES
ALMOST ALL THE PROBLEMS
• THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
• DYSTOPIAN MURDER MYSTERY
• SLOW BURN ROMANCE
•FOUND FAMILY
• EVERYONE HAS SECRETS
• CLOSE QUARTERS
• UNEXPECTED VILLAIN
• UNPUTDOWNABLE TWISTS
• PLANNED TRILOGY

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Serena Vu | Querying Author @serenavu.bsky.social · Apr 5

"The death of a Dynast was a rare event. Even more astonishing was the death of the head of one of the ancient Nine Houses. After all, Ophelia’s kind were like immortal beings—monsters created in the image of the Goddesses."

#1stLinePit #C #A #P #RF

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Juniper Woodbury ✨ is querying ✨ @juniperwoodbury.bsky.social · Apr 5

CIRCE x MIDSOMMAR in ancient Babylon

"Against the dusty browns of the desert, the woman looks out of place. Like a painted statue brought to life, and like life isn’t to her taste."

#1stLinePit #Q #A #F #RF #CMe

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W. J. MARWOOD 🪦 @intothemarwoods.bsky.social · Apr 5

🗡️ FMAB x SIX OF CROWS

“Evren Layvey often wondered what it would cost to create God.”

An alchemist and a thief must work together to stop a rogue magician and his manifestations, while a foreigner has news that could bring war to the nation.

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #LGBTQ

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Tyler is querying 👑🪲🌿 @tylerstasi.bsky.social · Apr 5

#1stLinePit #WIP #F #agentguide #agentsguide 👀

"The crown was woven of the finest Lejah grasses, its split-hued blades varying in length and texture as they twisted toward the emerald at its spiraled center. Caria could not wait to burn it."

👑🪲🌿💫🌋

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AG Finch @agfinchwriting.bsky.social · Apr 5

Just here to drool again

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · Apr 5

HOW TO COME HOME:
Nathan Gilliard digs his own grave as the moon sets and the first streaks of purple lighten the night sky.
🛤️ 🎼 📚 🖋️ ⛓️ 🏠
#1stLinePit
#C #Q #A #R #HR #AgentsGuide

A cover for the agent’s guide for HOW TO COME HOME. Art of Nathan and Lawrence at the center. Lawrence, sitting to the left, is a white blond man playing piano and smiling, with glasses hanging from his neck. Nathan, right, is a dark-haired white man watching him play. Upmarket queer historical romance, 107k words

PITCH:
Ten years ago, Nathan Gilliard turned informant on his family’s Prohibition criminal empire, damning his brothers to prison in exchange for a lesser sentence of his own. Now a free man, all he wants is a quiet, solitary life, never forgetting what he did to his family—or why.
Taking a job in a small-town general store is the perfect stopgap to get back on his feet after a decade behind bars. But his new boss, single father Lawrence Freburg, is everything Nathan’s upbringing and time in prison weren’t—open, earnest, and kindhearted. As they live and work side by side, business compatibility turns to companionship and then an intimacy neither man expected—a bond that makes Nathan question his pursuit of a solitary life over one lived in partnership.
But Nathan’s past isn’t that easy to abandon, and when his old life and older secrets return with a vengeance, they threaten to destroy everything he and Lawrence have begun to build. Forced to face the wreckage of his former life, Nathan and Lawrence must confront the consequences of holding their pasts too present if they have any hope of building a future together.

COMPS:
Peaky Blinders:
- Crime family, criminal brothers,
- The costs of winning vs. the costs of losing
- The (in)justice of vengeance
We Could Be So Good:
- Queerness & homemaking
- 20th-century American life
- Coworkers/roommates-to-lovers
+ Sounds like…
- Laurel Hell by Mitski
- Babel by Mumford & Sons
- Hozier by Hozier

SNIPPET:
He removes his glasses, careful not to strain the chain as he holds them in one hand and polishes the lenses with his tan shirt. The tension at the corners of his eyes relaxes as he cleans, and Nathan watches the simple calm on his face.
Seeing Lawrence without his glasses is as rare as a lightning strike, and just as stunning. It must be unsettling, frightening, to give up that boon to his vision, but Nathan relishes these moments he can selfishly fancy himself a confidant of Lawrence’s utmost trust. Not just through the physical ease on his face—the implicit trust, the fact he’s comfortable enough to be in such a state with Nathan.
Or perhaps he just needs to clear a smudge.
Two portraits of Nathan and Lawrence below. Nathan is a white man with dark curly hair and dark eyes, is a bit gaunt, and wears a dark turtleneck. Lawrence is a white man with blond hair and fair eyes with cortical cataracts, and wears gold glasses with a long gold chain.

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AG Finch @agfinchwriting.bsky.social · Apr 5

“Noxalia Whitlock, known as the
most beautiful lady in all of Omous, loved the taste of blood in her mouth almost as much as she loved a good fuck. Half of Ferhn had gathered to watch her tear apart the poor farm boy, Helyx, who was attempting to get back to his feet.” #1stLinePit

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