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Jeannette Lane is querying

@cjtruwriter.bsky.social

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Thriller & horror author, #amquerying dark academia horror. My YA SFF book ENHANCED comes out 2025 w/ Fire & Ice YA Books 🖤 queer • ND• chronic illness & mental health warrior @cheerpitx.bsky.social founder; writes YA as Caroline J Trussell

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · May 7

Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen—even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her.

• power v obsession
• what’s real v what’s not
• LGBTQ & mental health rep
• dark academia vibes

#NA #H #Q #QuestPit

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · May 8

If you could become the best writer the world has seen, would you risk it all- even if it meant possibly losing the ones you love and your mind in the process?

I present AN OFFER SO GRAVE.

Multiple requests & Big 5 editor interest 😈👻

#NA #H #Q #darkacademia #QuestPit #agentguide

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you so much! You’re so sweet

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Katy Townes @katyreadsromance.bsky.social · May 7

PERFECT FITxTHE PARADISE PROBLEMxTHE HANGOVER

Becca has 3 weeks to raise $100k and save the job she loves-if she can survive a work trip to Vegas with her ex’s hot best friend first. ♥️♣️♦️♠️

♥️ gambling lessons
♥️ meddling co-workers
♥️ millennial themed nightclub party

#questpit #Q #A #R #agentsguide

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Tamara 🍁👻🎃🧟‍♀️🌽 @tamaratoday.bsky.social · May 7

🌊 THE BAD ONES X DREDGE 🌊

After an ancient curse is unleashed on their sleepy seaside town, six teens must find a way to break it.

This YA Fantasy Horror features:
👥Dual POV
📜A Deadly Deal
😈Ravenous Monsters
🤫Secrets With Severe Consequences
💔Exes to Allies to [redacted]

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #H

Left to right. Top row: hands reaching out of the water. A doll head. Human hands with sharpened nails. Middle row: A lighthouse shining through fog. “Are you afraid?” An eerie figure standing beside a tree with a noose. Bottom row: Hands reaching towards each other in the water. A sea creature with glowing eyes and sharp teeth. Multiple hands reaching out of the forest brush.

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Catie Stroud ✨ @ladystroud.bsky.social · May 7

✨ dark NARNIA x MY LADY JANE ⚔️

A missing faerie. A forbidden elixir. A whole lot of missteps.

One reluctant princess’s quest to right her wrongs.

She craved freedom. What she found could cost her everything.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

1-paragraph pitch for YIELD, a 100k adult romantic fantasy debut novel.

Book comps for YIELD include Assistant to the Villain, Emily Wilde’s, One Dark Window, Nettle and Bone, the Cruel Prince. Media comps are My Lady Jane meets a dark, adult Narnia.

YIELD will appeal to fans of: queer characters, a golden retriever MMC (with teeth), one “horse,” cozy AND dark, women’s wrongs, romantic subplot (but still spicy), found family, knife to throat, slow burn(s), and reluctant allies to lovers.

A snippet from YIELD in which Thea, the main character and POV, threatens Brynn, her reluctant guide, with a knife to the throat.

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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · May 7

A CURSE SO DARK & LONELY X
THE INHERITANCE GAMES

When a ballerina is kidnapped by fantasy fugitives desperate to recover their leader’s magic stuck inside her, she unearths their secrets to facilitate her freedom, but bonds with them and falls for one instead.

#Questpit #Q #YA #F #M #R #MH

Promotional poster for #Questpit with the image of a sitting ballerina from the side curled over her bent knees holding her head. A badge with the words, "Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist" is by her bent legs with a feather by her pointe shoe. Text in the top corners reads, "Wake, by Jessica DeLand, YA Contemporary Fantasy, 91,000 words." The center text reads: "One kidnapped ballerina, Four fantasy fugitives, And her quest to escape. 24 full requests, 4 previous offers of publication, AAPI/ADHD Writer." Bottom text reads, "Mental health rep, Slow burn, Forced proximity, Found Family."

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danny is ✨querying✨ @dainathomps.bsky.social · May 7

THE BONE SEASON x SERPENT AND DOVE

#agentguide for A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD, a dark romantasy novel with:

⚔️series potential
🗝️bards & ballads
🔗heavy foreshadowing
🥀blood & death magic
🕯️slow burn romance
🕷️gods & monsters

#questpit #Q #F #A

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · May 7

Challenges Lyla Kattan will face this week…

🌒New scar thanks to the eclipse
😈Maniacal boss triggering a ritual
🪞A familiar face
🥷Kidnappers, apparently
🖤Undeniable chemistry with Axel - shame he’s the enemy & is blackmailing her
⚡️Erm, the apocalypse?
#Questpit #RF #NA #Q #writersky

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · May 7

SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

When a soul-devouring woman cursed with a sinister fox spirit falls in love with her final victim, she decides to end her killing spree; but the fox has plans of its own and it refuses to let one man stand in its way.

#QuestPit #A #H #R #PR #W

Background of Seattle alley with the following pictures: a woman with a red umbrella, a mouth with fangs, a silhouette of a woman, a korean woman, a couple about to kiss, a bloodied womans face

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Katherine V Morrison @mrrrscorpio.bsky.social · May 7

Starless Sea🔮Addie LaRue✨Piranesi

1800s London. Alchemists can extract a person’s soul by solidifying and removing their pain and suffering. Consuming the resultant ‘seed’ confers malign immortality. In an age of unchecked technological development, is this an advance too far?

#questpit #Q #F #HF

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Dani Terk @dterkwrites.bsky.social · May 7

13yo 🏈 O-lineman, is invisible til commentator P dubs him Moose during a broadcast, launching him into fame. Now he can ask out his popular crush. But if Moose can't help P tackle sexist pranks in the booth, she'll quit, leaving the others to hype up the QB who likes the same girl.
#questpit #Q #MG

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · May 7

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GONZO the ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · Apr 20

Writng an letter to tha editers, i hav an few gomplaints

Orange and white cat, one paw on a keyboard

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · Apr 20

Last #posterpit post!

Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen—even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her.

Multiple requests & Big 5 editor interest 😈👻

#NA #H #darkacademia #posterpitq

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harveyk04.bsky.social @harveyk04.bsky.social · Apr 19

ANNIHILATION x BLACK MIRROR x DARK MATTER

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Critics are raving about HAWKE ARCHIVES:

"A bleeding heart at its quantum core."

"Unnerving. BRB need to destroy my devices."

"I didn't read this. It READ me."

#PosterPitQ #SF #T #H #A

Cyberpunk, tech-noir style movie pitch poster for HAWKE ARCHIVES, a Kaitlin Harvey original novel. Starring: identity dissolution, techno paranoia, real privacy threats, and a thriller structure with a bleeding heart. A quantum core looms in the background, next to the tagline: "ALL PARENTS LIE TO PROTECT THEIR KIDS. HERS LIED TO PROTECT THE WORLD." A glitchy, hooded figure stares out at the audience, but we don't know who they are. Overlaid near the title of the novel, a hawk and radar graphic stretches offscreen. Beneath the title, the pitch: "Disgraced hacker Carley Hawthorne must untangle her father's past before his quantum algorithm can destroy all data privacy--and her very identity." Beneath this, to both unnerve and entice: "THIS THRILLER READS YOU."

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Shannon Bennett Riester @shannonbriester.bsky.social · Apr 20

#stellium #posterpit #posterpitw #a #m

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Truest Carter / Author @truest.bsky.social · Apr 19

I had fun playing around with poster graphics. Lol. Will stick to writing and reading. #posterpit #posterpitQ #HF #R
1850 love story based on actual women’s rights struggles. Humor infused low spice journey of an educated American lady & the attorney who fights with her. Win the case=love.

Movie style poster of queried book with a woman’s hand signing a page with a nib pen. Daguerreotype brownish photo background and pink roses.

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Jody Best @jodybest.bsky.social · Apr 19

Two Religions Collide in a Love match that is...FORBIDDEN
#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #YA #agentsguide #WritingCommunity

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Ann Devon @anndevon.bsky.social · Apr 19

Mageborn X Our Infinite Fates

When Oriana uses her fire magic, she finds herself in the palace dungeon where she meets a familiar, though infuriating, man. Together, they must escape and fulfill a prophecy to decide the fate of their dying world... again.

#PosterPitW #FR #A

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Ria 🌸 @riamartinez.bsky.social · Apr 19

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME x WHAT IF IT'S US?

Cosmic Flowers
Featuring florist x astronomer, mlm romance, push/pull meet cute, and second chances.

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #C #R

A starry backdrop with yellow cosmos flowers in the foreground. The text reads: Cosmic Flowers, a novel by Ria vi Britannia, coming soon to the query trenches. Featuring florist x astronomer, mlm romance, push/pull meet cute, and second chances. Pitch: After a traumatic experience, 26-year-old florist Sasha vows to never love again. Then he meets Ivan, a 24-year-old astronomy major with a lot of love to give. But when Ivan lands the internship of his dreams, he’ll have to move halfway across the country. Out of fear, Sasha pushes Ivan away. It's only until it's too late that he realizes his mistake.

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Eliwood S. Gheist @eliwoodsgheist.com · Apr 19

#PosterPitQ #F #H #A

Why not spend your summer at BLUDEYE BEACH?

👻Monster Menagerie
🫂Found Family
💕Slow Burn Romance

A movie-style poster. The background is a tall light on a sandy beach at dusk. In a circle on the upper left is a head of a young man, and on the right is a circle with the head of a curly-haired young girl. There are several lines of text. The first line reads “There’s a dark undercurrent in this seaside town.” The second line reads “Bludeye Beach. No one walks home alone at night.” The final block of text at the bottom reads “Available now in query trenches near you. Debut novel from local cryptid enthusiast Eliwood S. Gheist. Prolonged reading may lead to slow burn romances, found families, and an urge to check under your bed. Recommended for fans of Nettle & Bone and Camp Damascus.”

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Raven Traylor ✨ @rstraylor.bsky.social · Apr 19

🔥 WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS 🔥

COMPS: Into the Spider-Verse, Blood at the Root, Legendborn

#PosterPit #PosterPitOs #YA #F #editors

FROM WRITER RAVEN TRAYLOR AND AGENT
RAMONA PINA OF
BOOKENDS LITERARY AGENCY
"A FIERY,
POWER-FULL COMING OF AGE "
"A TWIST ON:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOLKLORE"
IN NEAR FUTURE ATLANTA, NAS AND HIS FRIENDS DISCOVER THEIR GENERATIONAL POWERS AND ACCEPT THEIR CALLING TO TAKE DOWN THE BILLIONAIRE WHO SEEKS TO USE HIS STOLEN POWERS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, WHICH NAS' FATHER IS IMPRISONED BY, TO CAUSE CHAOS AND CIVIL WAR.
WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS:
ON SUB
Now
ART BY @JOLEANART

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Daelyn Morgana 🥀 @daelynmorgana.bsky.social · Apr 19

THE GAMES GODS PLAY x NETTLE & BONE

Death might be a god, but he’s not like all the others. When a soul hangs inbetween, Death must reclaim his mortality to save her life & his home. The only problem? The rest of the gods have other plans for them.
#PosterPitW #A #F

Movie Poster: Shadowy, dark forest background in hues of blue with a silhouette of the Grim Reaper at the forefront. Titled, THE FORGOTTEN GOD. Tagline, One god. One witch. One journey of mortality. An adult mythological fantasy by Daelyn Morgana. Featuring, Greek deities, wilted purposes, lost souls, Salem persecution. Award like stamp with three interested agents. Release, Coming to the query trenches early 2026!

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