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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · 1d

Alice can see ghosts – and frankly, she’s had enough of them 👻 #PitDark #PN #UF #NA

But when stubborn cleaner Rani ropes her into scrubbing haunted houses & solving her twin brother’s murder, Alice finds herself knee-deep in spirits, secrets, and a serial killer who is closer than she thinks.

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 2d

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

⭐ two exiled men (+ their secrets)
🌙 one lunar prison (+ its horrors)
⭐ a government that wants their data
🌙 a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t make it out alive

#ghostpit #SF #H #R #LGBT #WIP

A moodboard for my sci-fi horrormance WIP, BABEL ON CALLISTO. On the top left is a glowing humanoid figure with a planet and rings orbiting its head. In the center, white glitchy text reads: "NOT ALL ENDINGS ARE THE END. SOMETIMES THEY ARE THE BEGINNING," repeated multiple times. Beneath that, a figure walks into a starry void shaped like another person, reaching toward each other. Other elements include a flatworm floating in a grid-like space, a silhouetted couple reaching toward each other in a virtual tunnel, and hands weaving a glowing galaxy-like thread.

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 1d

OwnVoices Nahua romantasy in precolonial 🇸🇻

Itotia’s a healer’s apprentice struggling to meet her mentor’s expectations. Metztli's a worship-hating deity. When Itotia binds them together, Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she thought #GhostPit #RF #Q

A movie poster featuring two people kissing overlayed over the side of Teotihuacán's pyramid of the sun and foliage from a jungle in El Salvador.

Text says:

Enemies to Lovers
Non-Western Mythology
LGBTQIA+ romantasy
Tethered enemies

"A dual-POV adult romantasy steeped in Nahua (Pipil) belief, set against the lush tapestry of precolonial Central America." — Fans of Maiga Doocy's Sorcery and Small Magics

Title: TO BECOME THE MOON

Now Querying

Adult, romantasy, 90,000 words

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#GhostPit 👻 #A #F #H #W

Three years ago, Valerie died in a faraway battle, leaving her BFF Selba to bury an empty coffin. When Valerie returns, changed but alive, the truth is revealed: the Knights finally have a plan to end the war, & it hinges entirely on Selba’s rare magic talent of Sight.

A collage on a dark green background, featuring a lily-of-the-valley pendant and a ruby-and-skull mourning ring, a golden heart pierced by red arrows, a skull set in a golden sunburst plaque, a thorny rose vine, a flame-licked hand reaching for a ruby, an illustrated woman in a mourning veil, a rocky crag full of lava, a gravestone, an all-seeing eye, and a dried rose.

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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 1d

KNOW YOU BETTER in tropes & songs 💚

🌿 confident plus-sized fmc
🐾 black cat x golden retriever
🌿 he falls first & harder
🐾 she’s his dog sitter
🌿 facetimes & texts
🐾 found family

🎶 everything has changed - taylor swift
🎶 overwhelming - jon bellion
🎶 am i okay? - megan moroney

#GhostPit #Q #A #R

Title page for an agent's guide to KNOW YOU BETTER, adult plus-size romcom. Green background, two character stock photos, photos in polaroids to of tattooed hand holding, a corgi + golden retriever, and a Red Wings game

A sample of writing on the left from Know You Better, as well as 4 images of comp titles, including their book covers and information. Savor It by Tarah DeWitt for the sizzling banter & tension. You With a View by Jessica Joyce for the emotional exploration of starting over. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez for acts of service as a love language. And Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen for the plus-size confidence.

Pitch & market for Know You Better, on a green background, with two stock images resembling the main characters. Target audience: Millennial and Gen Z women who love books that feel like a Taylor Swift song. For fans of heartfelt romcoms that balance wit and humor with deep topics. And readers who fall in love with real, messy characters and crave positive plus-size representation. One Paragraph Pitch: After her boyfriend of six years moves out and leaves her with rent she can’t afford, retail manager Sydney Bennett is barely hanging on—juggling long shifts and a side hustle dog-sitting for clients with the worst-behaved pets in Metro Detroit. When she meets Owen Sutton in the personal care aisle after a rant about two “demonic Pomeranians,” he’s instantly charmed—and in need of a sitter for his own, much better-behaved dogs. What starts as a business arrangement turns into something gentler and deeper: a slow-burning romance between two people still healing from betrayal. But as Sydney faces losing her apartment and Owen’s past betrayal comes back to haunt him, they’ll have to decide if the safety they’ve found in each other is worth risking their hearts for.

Green background with screenshots of GoogleDocs feedback from varying beta readers and critique partners with praise for drafts of Know You Better

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · 1d

K!LL ME MAYBE 🔪💕 previously described as ‘gay & cringe’ by an online troll (if that doesn’t convince you to read it, what will?) #GhostPit #R #T #NA #WIP

POV you hire someone to kill you and they just won't leave you alone...

🌶️ dark rom-com
🎭 dual pov
👁️ stalking/obsession
💀 serial killers

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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 1d

Loooove anything with Nancy Drew vibes! I still play the PC games 🫆🕵🏻‍♀️

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Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · 1d

QUEER NANCY DREW
17-yr-old Emmie is suspect #1 of a murder during her mother’s book event. She needs to get her life back before she's the next victim.
💘Sapphic crush
🕵️Amateur investigation
🎃Halloween vibes
📚Indie bookstore
🌈Pansexual FMC
👻 #Ghostpit #YA #Q #MY #LGBT #OWN

Moodboard for the book The Final Chapter: Halloween candy, blacka nd white cat, girl with a pumpkin wearing flannel, crime scene tape, murder board, girl dress up as Harley Quinn, police car, a light hanging down at a bookstore.

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Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · 1d

WEYWARD x THE BEWITCHING

When two witches in different times find themselves battling the same ancient forest spirit, they must use magic to communicate and find a way to save their covens from destruction.

#GhostPit #H #SPEC #A

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 1d

A romance writer agrees to a series of dates with the gruff owner of her favorite coffee shop, secretly planning to use the experience as fodder for a new book—but neither is aware he’s the anonymous beta reader who’s been ripping apart her pen name’s work for years.

#ghostpit #A #R #Q

Closeup of a closed eye surrounded by freckles and red hair, an open laptop sitting next to a latte with a heart on it, the words "Dirty Drafting,"
a man frothing milk in a coffee shop

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maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 2d

After tragedy and family drama broke them up, Jasper and Brett moved on with their lives. Ten years later, they reunite for a wedding in the place they fell in love and fell apart. Has their dormant love story reawakened or are they just yearning for nostalgia?

#ghostpit #a #q #wf #r

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maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

In a world of potions threatening small businesses like her mom’s, and being dangerously used to cure diseases, a uni student’s use of a love potion backfires and to win back her friendship with her crush— an anti-potion witch— she must protest the govt’s legalization of potions. #ghostpit #w

The Witches
of Buckhead
Soft science fiction / urban fantasy with romance
Cornelia is a freshman struggling to make friends at Briarcliff College. With her mom's skincare business sales down after witch potions are now widely available, she might not even be able to afford tuition anymore. Then she meets Killian, a non-practicing witch and a talented writer in her fiction workshop. Cornelia develops a crush on him and asks his older sister to make her a love potion. The sister, who wants her brother to marry a witch, realizes the love potion is for Killian, so she changes the contents of the potion.
When Cornelia learns the potion was botched, she confesses to Killian what she did and he reverses the spell, but he's no longer interested in Cornelia, due to her dishonesty. With Cornelia's mom's business in danger of going bankrupt, she joins her brother in anti-witch activism, only to find Killian is there to protest the unethical use of potions as a cure for diseases, which his parents are heavily involved in at the Institute for Disease Mitigation. Can Cornelia win back Killian's friendship, put an end to witchcraft threatening small businesses and end the dangerous use of potions in healthcare? Or will she have to drop out of Briarcliff, lose her friend and crush and watch the world succumb to witchcraft replacing science?

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Jacy Sellers is querying ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · 1d

Norah just wants to write an obituary. Instead, her cursed gift returns, showing her ghostly visions that tie a garden socialite’s death to her mother’s unsolved murder.

Some secrets refuse to stay buried. 👻

#GhostPit #paranormal #mystery #A #C #SouthernGothic

A collage with 5 blocks. The top is one block of a car yellow headlights on a dark road with shadowy, leafless trees. On the next row down, the block on the left, is an old abandoned mansion in gray tones. The block on the right is a quote with 'like a black rose, her darkness was beautifully fatal.' from e. corona. On the next and third row down, the block on the left, is a silhouette of a hand holding up a partially open rose with a few leaves that is black against a white background. The bottom right image depicts a ghostly figure draped in a translucent sheet, with multiple shadowy hands pressing from behind.

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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 1d

Love the vibes of this!! Especially the blend of paranormal & mystery 🤭👻

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cecil fenn @cecilfenn.bsky.social · 1d

Haunted by the loss of his first love, an accomplished mortician pulls apart his relationships and his funeral home to escape the pain of grief — but who is he without the dead?

👻 #GhostPit #A #G #LF #LGBT #IP

“A reader’s guide to The Restorative Artist”” is written against a background featuring an anatomical illustration.

The cover of the book with synopsis: Embalmer Graham Creer has spent his life helping others face loss, but when he's struck down by a corpse-carried illness, he is forced to confront his own mortality. Trapped convalescing inside his funeral home and plagued by fevered visions of his recently deceased lover, Graham attempts to escape the pain of grief. But who is he without the dead?

An anatomical diagram of a heart with identifications based on elements of the novel: contemporary gothic, grief & memory, trans main character, funeral home setting, split timeline, haunting & body horror, growth & recovery

Comp titles with cover images: for fans of intertwining grief and horror (like This Thing Between Us); queer contemporary gothic (like Summer Sons); funeral home drama (like Six Feet Under); exploring trauma and recovery (like A Little Life)

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Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · 1d

When Gabby flees town after a scathing video goes viral, she hopes to rebuild her reputation & business from afar. But after a dare leads her to mister wrong at the right time, she must decide if trashing her life's work is worth a 2nd chance at love. #GhostPit #A #R

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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 1d

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K.A. Hela ✨ Final edits?✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 23d

Dune 2 X The Unbroken

In a city under siege those born with psychic powers are conscripted to defend their home. Sylin answers the call while Naraha resists...until he is forced to become the monster he fears.
And visions of threatening 'Strangers' are increasing.
#agentsguide #amquerying #writesky

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Ashton J. Thomas @ashtonjthomas.bsky.social · Oct 2

#agentsguide to MALUS, an adult dark academia fantasy.

Currently #amquerying

A London building sits against a cloudy sky. White text reads: An Introduction to MALUS, An Adult Dark Academia Fantasy, 90K Words

A London building with white text overlayed, reading: Pitch - Devon March has spent the last decade in exile, hiding at a small American museum and keeping the monster in her head a secret. Her anonymity ends when she witnesses the first magical breach in centuries, forcing the University of Velum to send Alastair—her former rival, now a Host already breaking under the strain—to drag her back to London. All Hosts end the same way: deteriorated, disabled, and dead before thirty-five. All except Devon.

Ten years ago, she fled Velum after the night her best friend Clementine died. At Velum, students are bound to maluses, sentient parasites drawn from the realm where the creatures humans once called fairy tales still kill and breed. On Earth, their remnants are bottled and displayed: unicorn horns under glass, fairy wings pinned like insects. Clementine was chosen to guard the Veil between worlds. Shortly after, she died. And Devon awoke with a malus in her head and Clementine’s severed finger in her throat.

Now breaches multiply and Velum rots from the inside. Alastair suspects Devon knows more about Clementine’s death than she admits. And the deeper Devon digs, the more she questions whether the echoes of Clementine are memory, madness, or the parasite whispering through her veins. To survive, Devon must expose Velum’s secrets before the Veil collapses—or before her malus convinces her Clementine might still be alive. She insists she wants to save the world. But she’s lied before. Especially to herself.

A London building against a cloudy sky, overlayed with images of the show Fleabag and the books Ninth House and Katabasis. White text details: For fans of - Fleabag (arrows pointing to text reading fourth wall breaks, unreliable narrator, and messy grief), Ninth House (arrows pointing to text reading outsider in elite spaces, magic is real and studied in our world), and Katabasis (arrows pointing to text reading UK based dark academia, magic is real and studied in our world)

Statue in London, white text overlayed reads: Excerpt - It was easy to tell when the university grew close, its extended outer wings of Victorian ashen stone slowly becoming more imposing. To me, the students at Velum looked more like pastiches of students in glossy catalogues than actual fully formed complex individuals. Wool sweaters, argyle, and leather satchels tripled in occurrence as the taxi approached the iron gates. There are articles written on the subject I’m sure you could read, something about how an “appreciation for the past” the students possessed reflected in their garb. But when I was a student it was simply that we were all pretentious assholes who liked that we were distinguished from the corporate office workers on the streets of the city.
The city itself thought of us a peculiar sight, a den of monks in the midst of a forest of glass trees. Uniquely devoted, largely ignorant of all outside our boundaries. In the center of cosmopolitan life and yet inextricably venerating the beyond, the unknowable. There was nothing for us outside Velum’s walls, not in the skyscrapers or the old bombed-out churches long ago turned into gardens. We were placeless people who had found our place, a decaying monument to mystery. We studied dead languages, and dead bodies, and the dust of dead artifacts. Mortician school was the slang term in the UK for Velum, as we studied the already dead and decaying. A study of rot.
But I was an optimist of a sort. I saw Hosts and maluses and saw proof of the ethereal, magic made manifest. They were living, they were passed down, they were immortal. A way to cement yourself in history. In a field of decaying dreams, of history dying, what do you do when you see the living, see the heartbeat of it all carrying on? If you were me, you wanted to be a part of it, a cog in the living thing that ceaselessly ran onwards.

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maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL X BRIDGET JONES’ DIARY

In this spicy upmarket novel, Madi promises herself she'll move to London if she doesn't find love this summer. Her friends' wedding events bring her two gentlemen callers. Who will Madi choose: Felix, Jonah, London or herself?

#ghostpit #w #wf #a

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 1d

Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after them.

I Am Chosen~A different type of love story. #ghostpit #A #PR #Q #HappyHalloween 👻🧛‍♀️

A photo of a dark alleyway that inspired scenes in the paranormal romance, I am Chosen by Dawn Berkoski.

Black garbage bags and graffiti litter the narrow passageway between buildings. Photography by Dawn Berkoski.

Pitch: Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. Paranormal Romance. dawnberkoski.com

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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 1d

KNOW YOU BETTER is about Sydney, a plus-size baddie trying to escape retail hell, who starts dog sitting for Owen—a tattooed, down bad (human) golden retriever—and they fall in love 💚✨

Well, Sydney *reluctantly* falls in love. Owen is definitely not reluctant 🤭

#GhostPit #Q #A #R #amquerying

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Guendalina Cilli @guendalina.bsky.social · 2d

ALADDIN X THE CO-OP

Determined to win the woman of his dreams, a single father must find a compromise between her desire to preserve the 1920s villa of her childhood and the plans to gut it into a hotel to save his business from bankruptcy
#ghostpit #R #Con #A #Q

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 2d

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.

#GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W

Made from non-AI free stock images.

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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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 2d

LOVE when little synchronicities pop up!!🥰

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