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Haley Patricia @haleypatricia.bsky.social · Aug 16

Alexandra is a fire who won’t burn out until she and her friends literally go up in flames. They have one month in the past as ghosts to fix the mistakes that lit the match & catch their killer. But someone’s rewriting history and only one of them can return to life. #PosterPit

In exactly one month, three of us will burn again.
Only one will survive, and no bets are on my train wreck ass.
Unless I fix what my fire burnt.

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Anja Bohlman is querying ☀️🌙 @anjabohlman.bsky.social · Aug 15

ANGELS BEFORE MAN x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER
☀️ Biblical & Hellenic mythologies
🌙 prophetic & necromantic magic systems
☀️ women in armor & fallen angels & sirens
🌙 physically disabled & nonverbal protagonists
☀️ trans-femme & sapphic & aromantic rep
#QueerPit #A #EF #MYTH #CLI

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Art by the lovely and talented @kelci2d.bsky.social 💙🥰

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · Aug 15

When the prized daughter of a brutal patriarchy allies with a dangerous rebel to save her dying brother, she isn’t prepared to face the truths of her broken past and burn down the world that raised her to save humanity from a vengeful Goddess of Death - but the Fates had other plans.

#QueerPit #A

Two girls in hospital gowns, one with dark hair and tattoos, one with white hair, holding each other and soaking wet

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Slow burn sapphic heck yeah!!

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wott is querying! @wottenmoss.bsky.social · Aug 15

A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE x NETTLE & BONE

🌀monstrous spirits
💕slow-burn sapphic romance
☠️murder & betrayal
✨ill-advised rituals
🌈queer & autistic characters
📚chaotic academia
🌲an ancient mystery
🎶original music
🍄mushroom forest

#agentguide pinned to profile!

#queerpit #na #ya #f

wott is querying! @wottenmoss.bsky.social · Aug 15

When troublemaker and hobbyist scholar Magpie is chosen by the spirits, she breaks an ancient tradition to keep her best friend by her side, risking her only chance at her greatest dream–and the deadly consequences that follow.

#queerpit #f #na #ya
#agentguide 📌

Moodboard featuring a mystical forest, a faint outline of a woman flying over a dark shadow, a magpie, two people holding hands, a library with stained glass windows, sheet music, outlines of leaves, mountains and a dagger, and watercolor-style flowers, clouds, mushrooms and sun

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Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · Aug 15

BUFFY X MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM

🔮90s horror
🔮18 yo MC Roxy is a closeted lesbian
🔮Found family
🔮Vengeful haunted mannequin
🔮So much witchcraft
🔮Steam powered carousel
🔮Small town America

#QueerPit #A #Q #H #F

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Aug 15

There’s a third species of manta ray gracefully gliding through the seas, a recent study has confirmed.

Researchers have named the newly described species, found in the western Atlantic, Mobula yarae after Yara, a water spirit from Indigenous Brazilian mythology.

Third manta ray species confirmed in western Atlantic

There’s a third species of manta ray gracefully gliding through the seas, a recent study has confirmed. Researchers have named the newly described species, found in the western Atlantic, Mobula yarae…

news.mongabay.com

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Deanna Winters is Querying @deannaunwritten.bsky.social · Aug 15

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF

Death should have been the end.
Yet Ginevra is remade into a monster-her soul still yearning for the one she made a promise to in life.
✨️A promise to come back safe
🌱A promise of moonflowers

#QueerPit #F #DF #LGBTQ #A

Moonflowers with a blue tint, a woman shrouded in a veil, an overgrown window with a ripped note over the image reading "promise you'll come back." "Will you recognize my soul?" Next to stained glass windows. A hand leaves flowers on a grave, and a hand reaches through webs.

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · Aug 15

#queerpit #df #a #f
Dr. William Savage struggles to recover from a physical resurrection and a social death.
🫀Toxic m/m/m
🫀priest/congregant relationship
🫀regicide
🫀resurrection as revenge
🫀God as nuclear deterrent
🫀enemies with benefits
🫀mommy issues

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · Jul 25

🚀 Now available!

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙

Do You Know What You’re Worth, Bombshell Jones? by RJ Martin

She released the safety on her pistol. “This is me flirting. Hands above your head.” Space pirate Bombshell Jones has a price on her head the size of Jupiter, and bounty hunter Knockout means to co…

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Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · Aug 15

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED:

A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company🌱🐈‍⬛💚

💜 Bisexual Romance
💙 Chronic Illness Rep

Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X THE SPELLSHOP

#QueerPit #A #FR #Cozy #OwnVoices

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Ryan (is Querying ✉️) @ry-is-writing.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth.

#QueerPit #YA #SF #R

Starboy

LGBTQ+ YA Sci-Fi

Complete at 83k words

Blurb

When Bennett Barker is forced to move to a small town for his senior year of high school, he thinks his biggest problems will be missing his friends, figuring out his back-home situationship, and coming clean to his mom that he isn’t following in her footsteps by majoring in astronomy. Then an alien named Caelum crash-lands into his life. Literally. Bennett rescues the alien when his pod slams down to Earth while Bennett is out delivering pizza. But this isn’t an E.T. situation. Caelum is tall, turquoise, and incredibly kind, which makes it hard for Bennett not to catch feelings. Now Bennett has to find a way to get Caelum back home. But as Bennett grows closer to the alien, he starts wondering if his extraterrestrial crush is hiding the truth about why he ended up on Earth.

Characters

Bennett
Bummed he moved to a new town his senior year
Likes learning (hah, nerd)
Works as a pizza delivery boy
Wants to become an engineer
Gets fixated easily on projects and people

Caelum
Home planet is thousands of light-years away
Likes plants and flowers
Doesn’t enjoy wearing clothes
Can photosynthesize, would rather drink coffee
Moon-shaped eye marks glow when he’s happy

Vibes

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

IF YOU LIKE
First encounters
Nerdy boys flirting
Having to hide a hot alien in the bedroom
Traumatized intergalactic cinnamon rolls
Kids on bikes saving the world
Earth food taste testing
Super-powered pacifists

SIMILAR STUFF
Starfire from Teen Titans
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Aug 15

to break the curse binding her to the ghost of a vengeful pirate, princess mira must fall in love with her best friend, john

there’s just one problem:

mira’s heart already belongs to princess dorothea

🩷🧡🤍

#queerpit #YA #F #LGBT #amquerying

Princess Mira (Black, braided hair, wearing a sky blue gown with pearl beads and silver tiara) and Princess Dorothea (white, wavy red hair, wearing a dark green gown with a gold tiara) gazing at each other on a ship’s deck at sunset, with a quote from THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN:

“It didn’t matter that the very idea was treasonous. For Dorothea, Mira would break any rule.”

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Jadyn @jaystraigis.bsky.social · Aug 15

🏴‍☠️OF GEMSTONES AND DIVINITY🏴‍☠️

An honorable thief and a noblewoman vigilante must work together to end a pirate’s reign of terror.

🌊~96k
🌊Dual POV
🌊Slow burn rivals to lovers
🌊Second world historical fantasy
🌊Pirates and sea adventures
🌊Rebellion and self discovery

#Queerpit #NA #F #FR #HF

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · Aug 15

With weak cold fire magic, Octavia can't fight her uncle legally taking her fortune. Fleeing to the Temple of the Dead, Octavia's fire raises a girl executed for murder--she knows her power at last. With an army of the dead, she will destroy the empire that keeps women inferior. #QueerPit #A #F #DF

A moodboard containing ancient roman symbols, a woman with blue fire in her hands, blood, zombie hands, and dragon wings.

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · Aug 15

An agents guide to THE OTHER SIDE OF ETERNITY, my Gideon The Ninth meets Fable For The End of The World adult dark fantasy 🖤

Featuring:
🌗 Sapphic enemies to lovers
✨ Magic & monsters inspired by Appalachian folklore & Greek mythology
🌗 A ruthless patriarchy vs vengeful goddesses

#QueerPit #A

A title page on dark blue faded background

The pitch page on the same dark blue faded background with some arrow designs framing it

A comps page with photos of Gideon The Ninth and Fable For The End Of The World covers on the same dark blue faded background

A tropes and themes page on a dark blue faded background

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you!!

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sydandthepen.bsky.social @sydandthepen.bsky.social · Aug 6

HOW TO BE EATEN x ADELAIDE

I can’t forget you. What you were to me. I can’t pretend everything didn’t happen.

🖋️ writers wish on a star comes true
💔 obsession, temptation, depression, oh my
🔥 toxic relationship
🌌 healing isn't pretty—but it is possible

#QuestPit #A #F #S #Q

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Rachel ~ Is Querying📚 @rdohertywrites.bsky.social · Aug 7

LIGHTS OUT (stakes/humor) X 365 DAYS (mafia/spice) X Rip and Beth's love story

Paranormal dark romance reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood featuring a DA searching for her estranged grandmother and the crime boss who makes her an offer she can’t refuse. Dark secrets abound.

#questpit #w #pr #dr

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · Aug 6

I: RAVEN QUEEN'S FLIGHT | II:RAVEN QUEEN'S RETURN

A tale of friendship, courage and self-belief in the face of betrayal.

A stolen throne

A perilous journey

Eagles and airships

Coming of age

Found family

#questpit #W #YA #SFF

A black raven on a grey background, with a crown and the book titles.

A black raven on a grey background, with a blurb about the books.

A black raven on a grey background, with an excerpt from the manuscript.

A black raven on a grey background, with a list of tropes.

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wott is querying! @wottenmoss.bsky.social · Aug 6

I want all the #questpit books to get published, entirely selfishly, so that I can read them

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Tiff @tiff-d.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you’re an agent who loved the twisting depths of the true crime Scamanda podcast and want that kind of suspense in fiction, Everything I Gave Her might be for you.
The deeper you go, the more it twists.
Currently has 2 full requests.

#QuestPit #T #Q #A

A 4-slide graphic titled “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her”. Each slide features a foggy forest background with layered white text.

Slide 1:
Text reads: “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her” followed by:
“89k words | Upmarket Psychological Suspense by Tiffany Darling.”

$Slide 2: Same foggy forest background. Text reads: Pitch “When eight-year-old Lacey Carson finds her mother dead on the kitchen floor, something inside her fractures. Uprooted to a new town with a grieving, distant father, she latches onto the first person who shows her warmth—Emily Harper, a precocious classmate with a big heart and an even bigger need to help. What begins as innocent friendship festers into decades of obsession, manipulation, and a love so warped it leaves one girl dead, and the other wondering if she even knows how to survive a life without her.”$ Slide 3:
Same background. Title: Comps
Left side shows the cover of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, with the words:
“Complex female relationships
Motherhood
Buried secrets
Slow burn
Emotional depth”
Right side shows the cover of The Push by Ashley Audrain, with the words:
“Unsettling
Emotionally charged
Navigates maternal instinct
Psychological unraveling
Fear”

Slide 3:
Same background. Title: Comps
Left side shows the cover of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, with the words:
“Complex female relationships
Motherhood
Buried secrets
Slow burn
Emotional depth”
Right side shows the cover of The Push by Ashley Audrain, with the words:
“Unsettling
Emotionally charged
Navigates maternal instinct
Psychological unraveling
Fear”

Slide 4:

Same back ground. Text that reads “Dual POV / Nonlinear
timeline
Character-driven psychological suspense
A slow burn that simmers... then detonates.

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Gemma Smith @gemma-smith.bsky.social · Aug 6

When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.

But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board.

Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…

#A #H #HF #QuestPit #W

A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · Aug 6

Would love some extra love if you can spare!! 🥹💙

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