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bia is drafting (17.4k) 🫧 @biaonomatopoeia.bsky.social · Aug 6

Upon discovering her latent ability, Renata is taken to the Menagerie. There, espens like her are molded into weapons or disposed of. To escape, she must evade the empire’s most dangerous weapon—but he’s already set his sights on her.

#questpit #W #A #SF #DS

a 9x9 green/blue colored moodboard with (from top left to right, then down): two silhouettes about the kiss, a blurred face of a man, dna on a computer screen, a hand breaking through ice, a woman with her hands over her eyes and smoke around her, an eye that's swirling with light, a lab/chamber-like hallway, a girl strung up by wires, a man wrapping his injured hand.

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Angelique Russell - Querying 💫 @angie-r03.bsky.social · Aug 6

#QuestPit
#A #H #W

I present my #agentguide / #agentsguide for Baker's Club

- Female rage
- Rituals for each season
- A sweet tooth with a sour secret

✨️Welcome to Fair Hollow✨️

Pitch:
Deliah moved to Fair Hollow for a fresh start with family roots. What she didn't expect was a town so tied to tradition that they sell themselves as offerings at the first chance they get. Some on the other hand, are burned by the flame for disrespecting the Hearth and the women.

Comps:
The Stepford wives by Ira Levin Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Midsommar

Tropes: Feminist horor/ Folk horror Generational cult Cannibalism
Ritual offerings each season Recipes
Women taking back power Self writing journal Feminine rage Buried history
Passing on the torch

Collage from top left to bottom right (9 pictures):
A pie made of human hearts, a girl n front of the fire, a cellphone ringing, girls dancing around a fire, a quote "forgive me father for i have sinned, and as I kneel here with hands red with blood, deep down I know l' dl it again", a blood stained flower, book with blood sacrifice recipes, burning book, fingertips coated in blood

EXCERPT

A sound crackled in the silence. The spoon scraped against something solid. I froze, sifting through
the mixture with slow, unsure motions. I reached into the bowl, fingertips grazing against something
solid. A cold and hard piece of something.

I pulled it free.

A tooth. A molar, white and slick with batter. A child's, maybe.

I dropped the spoon. It clattered across the table. None of the women flinched as I shrieked. Wide
eyes looked around the room until Vivienne gave a weak smile.

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Joy is ✨querying✨ 🥀🪦 @joyiswriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

THIS RAVENOUS FATE x MEN IN BLACK

The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls—and one wants Elle’s heart for her own.

🫀Deep Southern cryptids
🫀sapphic pining
🫀coming of rage
🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability

#questpit #W #YA #H #R

Moodboard from left to right: swampy road, a person in a flannel, an orange moon, a sign that reads: don’t go into the woods, a house sinking into a river, an ac unit in a window, a blue truck in a field at night, two girls kissing, a religious sign reads: are you going to heaven?

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J. K. Lambo @jklambo.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧁 She's a jaded pastry chef
🍰 He's a charismatic baker
❤️‍🔥 When their rivalry reaches an all-time high & sweet lies turn to bitter truths, will they be able to achieve their desires unscathed or will the simmering heat be too much for them to handle?

#questpit #R #NA #A #W

💙 📚 👀

Project Sugar and Spice moodboard

Top row: Black business woman with colorful bandana around her hair scribbling notes down on a notepad; pistachio cupcake decorated with buttercream and a rose made of pink buttercream frosting; black business man in white shirt and gray jacket picking up a pencil and jotting down notes

Middle row: Interior design of a cafe bar; "they're both stubborn and it's complicated" quote; restaurant cafe interior with light coming into the establishment

Bottom row: Zeppole Italian ricotta donuts sprinkled with powdered sugar displayed in a white bowl; piece of carrot cake with buttercream frosting and walnuts on top; homemade blueberry lavender meringue tartlets on a white plate

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Danni Grace @dgracewrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

A HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS X HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

Magical creatures were only threats in the stories Kit’s late mother used to tell. Now, Kit is faced with the real dangers of chaotic magic when she releases a memory-eating fae upon her grieving father.
#questpit #F #W

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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · Nov 18

#WritingCommunity #blackbooksky
#booksky #NA #H #T

THE BEAUTIFUL x HOUSE OF HUNGER x BLACULA

🐞set in 1974
🐞a runaway black girl
🐞a vampire lord with hidden motives
🐞a manor haunted in restless spirits
🐞a supernatural found family protecting their token human
🐞a cursed, chaos-hungry book

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Kelly Young is ✨querying✨ @kyoungwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Introducing the #agentsguide to: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CALLIOPE LECLAIRE

🧡 YA romantasy standalone
🌌 dual-POV
⏳ grumpy x sunshine
🌠 forced proximity
💫 whimsical island in the sky
📖 themes of identity & self-acceptance
🕰️ emotional-core

#questpit #F #YA #RF #Q

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bia is drafting (17.4k) 🫧 @biaonomatopoeia.bsky.social · Aug 7

Omg this eats!!!

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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · Aug 7

#questpit #NA #W #T #MY

ACE OF SPADES ❦ BULLY (the game)
❦ SCREAM QUEENS (season 1 only) ❦ JAWBREAKER

💅🏾set in 2004
💅🏾elite college setting
💅🏾beware of young girls who are bored
💅🏾the blasian mc is the murderess
💅🏾literal bisexual panic
💅🏾"if you're not the murderer then who is?"
💅🏾baby phat thief

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Mavis Moon. @madammavismoon.bsky.social · Aug 7

TOMBSTONE OF RUBIES

Think GHOST x GREEK MYTHOS x MOMMY DEAREST.

🔥Original Mythos, complete with a canon pantheon and stray folk deities
🔥Dark Romance Subplot, Forced Proximity & Fake Arranged Marriage
🔥Family Trauma/ Mother-Daughter Estrangement
#questpit #DF #CurrentlyQuerying #DarkFantasy

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Kayla is 🧜🏼‍♀️revising🧜🏼‍♀️ @kaylafoster.bsky.social · Aug 7

And lastly, I'm posting a mood board of Project Mermaid for #questpit

#a #w #f

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sydandthepen.bsky.social @sydandthepen.bsky.social · Aug 7

#agentsguide to 𝐋𝐄𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒 ✨

A speculative adult novel with a dark fairy tale twist 🖤

Where a heartbroken writer must decide: be consumed by a toxic love, or accept that her life isn't a perfect romance novel

#questpit #A #F #S #Q

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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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Katie Knightley @katieknightley.bsky.social · Aug 6

SHIPPED X THE LOVE HATERS

💕 A romantic who doesn’t trust guys
+
😎 A walking red flag who’s only had 1 night stands
=
🤝 Teammates in a work competition where the stakes are high but the tension is higher.

Goal: win the promotions with their hearts intact.

🏝️🛥️🤿🌊🫶

#QuestPit #Q #A #R

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · Aug 6

❤️‍🔥 THE HEALER WITCH ❤️‍🔥

Some of my favourite quotes, from some of my favourite characters.
🌙Morally grey FMC
🔥Elemental magic
🌸Meddling Gods
✨Multi POV
❤️The slowest flame to ever burn
🍒Spanish+Gaelic Folklore

#questpit #Q #A #F

Image of Deva Cassel in her role in The Leopard, I have used Canva to put a mask over her eyes and edit the image. Text reads. Lunaryn M. Redwood "I got a bit carried away and used my fire. They kind of...um, how should I say this...combusted"

Image of Orlando Bloom, unsure in which role. Text reads: Onwyn Storm "Listen here, you little shit. I've had enough of your attitude. You will talk to her with respect, or I'll have you spending a couple of nights in jail for insubordination."

Image of a black model, unfortunately I couldn't find out who it is. Text reads: Damian Maghanty "I must look horrendous if you'd give up your virtue for me. Although, now that I think about it, it would do you good to get laid. Always working so hard and for what? You have no time for fun"

Image of Jessica Chastain in The Huntsmen. Text reads: Ignis Silver "Oh, sure. Because our friend can't be trusted but a random daimon from the biggest illegal market in Melya can be? Are you insane?"

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

Mission Brief
13/01/1972

TOP SECRET

🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar
🕵 Take out Soviet spies
🔫 Use a gun
❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda
📃 It’s all theoretical
😕 Apart from *that* demo
✅️ Full government endorsement
👍 Nothing can go wrong
🇷🇺 💣 💥
⬛️ Redacted

#A #S #T #QuestPit #Q 🦋

Background image is the face of a pocketwatch, huge against a dark blue horizon. It resembles a rising harvest moon with skeletal winter trees silhouetted before it.

Text below reads: Out of Time - Vibes ‘n’ feels

A panel to the left reads:
X Files
Life on Mars
Dark Matter
Frequency

A panel to the right reads:
Slow Horses
The Ipcress File
Day of the Jackal
Callan

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nandini #DVpit day💌 @naaanwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

SIX OF CROWS x THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS
In exchange for her guardian's release from prison, Praanvi must go on a bandit mission. With the help of her mates, she must steal the crown without exposing herself as a goddess; if she fails, everyone involved dies.
#questpit #YA #Q #F

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · Aug 6

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#QuestPit #A #S #SF #W

This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections:

1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads:
"How much would you pay to die with a smile?"
The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background.

2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word.

3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says:
"A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"

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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.

Text:
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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Izzy Grace (𝚒𝚜 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐) @izzygraceauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

An agent's guide to RUNELIGHT BURNING for #QuestPit

SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME x THE CITY OF BRASS

🔥Norse-inspired rune magic that burns you from inside
🔥She's the selfish anti-hero, he's the moral compass
🔥Subverted chosen-one trope
🔥Forced proximity + slow burn
🔥Rich worldbuilding

#Q #A #RF

Runelight Burning. New adult fantasy romance. Izzy Grace. @izzygraceauthor.

Pitch: Her power could spark a war. But will she let it burn? Callous half-breed criminal, Aelia, is forced to go on the run with an unfathomably moral pure-blood mercenary, after she reveals a powerful Runelight that turns her into a hunted weapon for a war between realms.

Tropes: Norse-inspired rune magic that burns you from inside, reluctant allies to lovers, slow burn and yearning, political intrigue and quest-like journey, she's the selfish anti-hero and he's the moral compass, forced proximity, rich worldbuilding, subverted chosen-one trope

Comps: The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole, The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

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Natalie Brown @nattykbrown.bsky.social · Aug 6

A Venetian-inspired 'Mr & Mrs Smith' where a shapeshifting conwoman must outwit a ruthless bounty hunter to steal the source of magic and save her people

🔥Enemies-to-lovers
🔥Heists
🔥Everyone is morally grey
🔥Spicy slow burn

#Agentsguide #Questpit #A #F #Q

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Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · Aug 6

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP
How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive?
For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases. When he overhears an esoteric rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion.
#QuestPit #Q #A #T

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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · Aug 6

#questpit #W #A #MY #H #T #blackbooksky

THEM x DON’T WORRY DARLING x LOVECRAFT COUNTRY

🍷unreliable narrator
🍷set in mid-50s
🍷out of body experiences with a side of body horror
🍷did you just eat glass?
🍷a mobster husband but at least he cute
🍷being black in white dominated areas
🍷do not blink

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Kelton Davis is querying! 🏹⚔️🌠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · Aug 6

GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

Currently Querying!

#Q #A #F #QuestPit

Background: A red forest
Title Card
Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now!

Background: A red forest
Foreground: Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-red arrow fletching, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, a red forest.
Text: As she walked away, freshly divested of every life she'd ever known—Crown Daughter, ranger, loyal servant to the demesne—she realized that, where she expected to find fear and despair, she found only a rapidly strengthening resolve.
She'd already lost everything.
All she could do was win it back.

Background: A red forest
Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text:
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)

Background: A red forest
Title: Pitch
Text: Niozene has never been good enough.

As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule.

When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter.

Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

Slow Horses x Life on Mars

When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.

#A #S #T #QuestPit #Q 🦋

In a picture tinted in vibrant green, a man wearing a long coat and boots stands with his back turned, holding up a gun in his left hand. In front of him is a road leading across a bridge, intermittently lit by street lamps.

Above the man are three chevrons pointing to headline text that reads : Out of Time

There are six text statements around the man, connected by arrows running clockwise. From the twelve o’clock position these read:

High Stakes Thrills
Weird Science
Cold War vibes
Stale beer espionage
Time travel twists
Guns ‘n’ snark

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