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Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · 3d

Aliza just wanted to follow her brother. She didn’t mean to fall into the River Sambatyon...or a prophecy. Now, to make it home, she’ll have to save a forgotten tribe and a world that’s falling apart.
#MG #JV #DVPit #F

Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · 3d

When seventh grader Sari Halberstam tries to escape her influencer mom’s spotlight, a blackmail scheme at her new school threatens to expose everything — including the truth about her closest friendship.
#JV #DVPit #MG #CON

Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · 4d

VICTORIOUS x WEDNESDAY
Sierra thought enrolling at a magical arts school meant freedom from her influencer mom’s spotlight.
Wrong.
A blackmailer knows she’s still in her mom’s posts and will out her unless she obeys. Fame was never her dream, but now it could cost her everything.
#DVPit #MG #F #JV

Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · 4d

Their boss wants a product launch.
Their community wants a shidduch.
Miri and Asher want absolutely nothing to do with each other. A fake romance seems like the perfect solution—until pretending feels a little too real.
#DVPit #R #JV #A

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Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · 4d

💻 Fake dating? Check.
💻 Opposites attract? Check.
💻 A matchmaking boss who won’t quit? Triple check.
Miri and Asher’s “pretend” romance at work is going perfectly…until the past crashes in, and Miri has to decide if love is worth the risk.
#A #JV #DVPit #R #CR

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Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · 4d

PERCY JACKSON x NARNIA
When Aliza chases her brother into a river that spits stones, they’re swept into Arzaret—home of the Ten Lost Tribes. To return home (and make it before Shabbat!), they must fulfill an ancient prophecy and save a world they never knew existed.
#MG #JV #F #DVPit

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Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · 4d

At Everbright Academy, elves paint with starlight and werewolves drum thunder. Sierra just wants to blend in. But her mom’s magical influencer account - and a blackmailer who knows she’s breaking school rules - threaten her one chance to step out of the spotlight.
#DVPit #F #MG #JV

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Kristin @stuffbykristin.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE PRINCESS IN BLACK X SAILOR MOON With a monsterfied cousin rampaging through town and evil villains lurking in the shadows, there’s only one thing for a MagiChef to do — Grab her talking corgi, magic spatula, and… Make Some Culinary Magic! #QuestPit #CH #GN #Q

cover saying MagiChef SWEET! with a chef themed magical girl

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Carrie Stewart @carriejay.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Wasteland

Silo x Squid Game

🌎 A dying Earth
👩👩 Two sisters sent to prison for murder
🎲 A competition for freedom
🤫 A family secret that could save them both

#questpit #YA #Dystopian #W

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Carrie Stewart @carriejay.bsky.social · Aug 6

Silo x Squid Game
Two sisters take very different paths when they’re sent to prison at the end of the world.
#questpit #YA #Dystopian #W

Black and white moodboard for my book, The Wasteland. Multiple images on black background, mountain top, cracked earth, a knife on a tree stump, two little girls walking hand in hand, shot from behind, barren tree, stair case.

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Kristin @stuffbykristin.bsky.social · Aug 6

Art school was tough before the vampire tried to kill Edie. Now? It sucks. Armed only with a makeshift vampire hunting kit, Edie must try to survive freshman year.

Oh, and… figure out if she can trust the hot Vampire Barista that got her into this mess.

#QuestPit #YA #GN #WIP

comic page where vampire contemplates feeding on compelled girl

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Ash Arya | ऐश आर्या @iamasharya.bsky.social · Aug 6

Three Dark Crowns × HOTD × The Raven Scholar

Yug needs to keep his sister from vying for their mother's magical crown. But then their vile stepsister would rule. The only way to stop both? Seduce the stepsister's top mage—aka Yug's ex—into competing for the throne.

#Questpit #Q #F #NA #A #PoC

A green gold & orange themed moodboard with 9 images representing the pitch.
1. A picture of an ornate palace doorway
2. A still from the movie Jodha Akbar
3. An el Doradoesque view
4. A golden chessboard
5. A woman experiencing power thru meditation
6. Sanskrit manuscripts
7. A magical staff in rock
8. Two royal ladies who "seem" like bffs
9. A lavish palace corridor

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Erin @erinaries.bsky.social · Aug 6

The World of No: A little bit of Dark Matter and a soupcon of The Midnight Library, complete at 97k words.
It features:
🟢 coming of age (even for adults)
⚫️ second chance love
🟢 twisted realities
⚫️ Life is messy; jump the hell in already. #QuestPit #A #SPEC #Querying

Title of my novel; blurred images of faces behind a veil

The pitch for my novel, with a moodboard featuring doors, a dark forest, an empty factory, and shadow figures lurking in doorways.

The covers for my comp titles: The Midnight Library, Under the Whispering Door, The Hollow Places, and Dark Matter

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Daphne M. | incidental writer/full time student @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Fun for the Summer

Just for the Summer X Take a Hint, Dani Brown (mental health rep)

Mae is stuck in Cedar for the summer under the same roof as Jack. The two have a lot going on, but they find fun in one another and agree to hook up for summer. Will fun turn to love or not?
#questpit #W #A #R

A pink playlist currently playing One of the Girls. There's pink and purple clouds as the song image. Below are the nest songs in the playlist with various punk and purple images. The songs are So Good (Halsey); Snooze (SZA); Flower (Johnny Stimson); Make You Mine (Madison Beer); Me Again (Sasha Alex Sloan); we can't be friends (Ariana Grande).

A pink and purple background with a white box in the middle that says Jack Greyson: What did I care if she was upset she was coming back to Cedar? My therapist constantly told me other people's feelings weren't my responsibility. And Mae Carpenter was especially not mine. We weren't even friends anymore.

A pink and purple background with a white box in the middle that says Mar Carpenter: I shook my head. It wasn't worth thinking about that. That was a long time ago and I was much more stable now. Jack meant nothing to me. We weren't even friends anymore.

A collage with five images-the four corners and a circular one in the middle. From the top left clockwise: a freckles closed eye, the Seattle skyline, a man and woman laying on the floor shirtless with nothing revealed, a black bra with white flowers on an open book, a woman with flowers in her hair whispering to a man.

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Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · Aug 6

When seventh grader Sari Halberstam tries to escape her influencer mom’s spotlight, a blackmail scheme at her new school threatens to expose everything — including the truth about her closest friendship. #QuestPit #MG #CON #OWN #Q

An Agent's Guide to More Than My Content

Comps: The Judgement of Yoyo Gold, Finally Heard, The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · Aug 6

BLOOD IS LIFE. BONES ARE STRENGTH. FLESH IS CONTROL. SKIN IS DEATH.

🌹 Historical fantasy
🇫🇷 Belle Époque
🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance
🩸 Body-based magic system
🗡️ Family feuds
🗝️ Gothic vibes

Coming 10/21/2025, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue & dangerous magic.

#QuestPit #P #A #F #HF #R

Cover of the book A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE, showing the silhouette of a woman over a red and gold background.

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Florence Chien 🗡️ REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA (07.07.26) @florencechien.com · Aug 6

✨ THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA ✨
belle époque vibes | so many schemes

🗡️ an imperial officer bent on revenge
🪽 a thief plotting scandals & revolution
🩸 they aim to kill each other
🔥 but must cooperate to stop another war

📅 07.07.26 #questpit #P #A #F

When the Empire of Colours slaughters 17,000 of his silver-eyed kin, Lucas Rhine buries his hatred, hides his eyes behind coloured lenses, and vows to liberate his country through a diplomatic secession.

Usurped prince Faye Phlorik escapes from prison and joins the revolutionaries. They need a silver-eyed champion to rally the people, and Faye needs their resources to reclaim his crown.

Lucas and Faye must eliminate each other to achieve their goals. But when the empire's warships come again, they must unite their forces or there will be nothing left of the people they're both trying to liberate.

The Revenant of Surolifia
A political fantasy
Florence Chien

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Ash Arya | ऐश आर्या @iamasharya.bsky.social · Aug 6

HotD × Raven Scholar

V swore to see her liege, Eka, as the queen of their divided island. But when enemies attack amid trial season, & Eka prioritizes politics over people, V's loyalty wavers—Then there's her ex, trying to seduce her back for his nefarious ends.

#questpit #Q #F #A #NA #PoC

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

🌙 RISINGx4ALL MANKIND
In a contest for a job on the next coloniser, a dying engineer & his space pilot ex are sent back from Titan to the dead planet, Earth.
As the competition turns deadly, they must set aside past grievances (& unresolved feelings) to get back to Titan alive.
#QuestPit #Q #A #SF

Two man holding hands in a desert landscape, overlaid with the title “The Gravity of Hope” in a movie poster style.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

When Draven—the deleted villain of a fantasy book—finds himself in a library of forgotten stories, he teams up with the reluctant ghost librarian to travel to the real world, find his author, and convince them to rewrite his story before he fades out of existence.
#QuestPit #P #A #F #onlineserial

A book cover of “Let Me Be Your Villain” with the tropes around it: grumpy ghost librarian, MM romance, asshole hero antagonist, sunshine villain protagonist, cozy fantasy, magic library, book characters escaping to the real world.

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

To win the meds he’ll die without, Avery must win the world’s most competitive job interview:

🌏 return to the dead planet, Earth

🚀 build a spaceship from scraps

💫 fly it back to Titan

💔 team up with his rival ex

🗡️ kill him before landing

🖤 I said kill, not kiss…

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #LGBT

A collage of images:
A window to space, two man holding hands, a man walking a desert landscape, a spaceship flying, Earth from space, a sci-fi space station, more desert landscape. In the middle the title: “The Gravity of Hope”.

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Spooksica BOOlin Still Masks @olinj.bsky.social · Jul 13

THE UGLIEST MAN IN HOLLYWOOD: When Matthew, a former NFL player turned Hollywood star (also a secret romance novel lover), needs a ghostwriter to pen his memoir, he unknowingly hires his favorite author, Cat; she wants to keep it professional, but he’s falling in love. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #LGBT #R

three rows of pictures:
1. Hands on a football on a field; the Hollywood sign; close up of a man's lips with a scruffy beard
2. a Jewish gravestone with stones on the top; words: "an unexpected mutual attraction when all she wants to do is work"; potato latkes with apple sauce; bucolaj
3. a person with curly gray hair seen from the past; the rocky maine coast; feminine hands on a laptop keyboard

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Arielle Fenger @ariellefenger.bsky.social · Jul 13

When seventh grader Sari Halberstam tries to escape her influencer mom’s spotlight, a blackmail scheme at her new school threatens to expose everything — including the truth about her closest friendship.
#bluepit📖 #MG #COA #CON #OV #AgentsGuide #F #Q

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