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storyteller 📖//trentu alumni 👩‍🎓// currently querying an adult romantasy 🗡️🖤

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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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Tyler is querying 👑🪲🌿 @tylerstasi.bsky.social · May 7

#QuestPit #W #F #agentguide #agentsguide

THE FAMILIAR x CRIMSON ROAD

introducing my whimsical steampunk gothic fantasy
🥀🕯️🫀🕷️🕰️ in which:

An impoverished enchantress subjects herself to the prince's service to keep her forbidden magic a secret.

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Grace Belnap @gracebelnap.bsky.social · May 7

JACK THE RIPPER x AGATHA CHRISTIE

London, 1891. A viscountess and an inspector team up to catch the playing card-obsessed killer who (probably) murdered her husband...and try not to fall in love in the process 😉

♥️♠️🃏♣️♦️

#questpit #Q #A #MY #HR

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K.D. Lohr @kdlohr.bsky.social · May 7

A new #agentsguide to FEAR OF THE WEAVER ✨

Enter cursed sands and holy dreams in my 90k YA high fantasy 🏹 returning to the #amquerying trenches after extensive revisions!

#questpit #Q #YA #F #agentguide

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Rhian Parry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social · May 7

Competing for magic that’ll save you from your immortal ex is fine until you fall for your academic rival* - worse yet when he needs it to evade the deity drowning a nation in search of him

🥀Dark academia
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Folklore
💖Autistic rep

*who’s chronically unserious

#QuestPit #AG #A

The title ‘A Mortal Drowning’ with a tagline that reads ‘characters in another life, specifically the MMC’

The background is digital artwork of the book’s central couple, a grumpy dark-haired man and a woman with long, golden hair holding a book.

A painting of a happy clown holding an umbrella titled ‘naive clown’.

Beside the image are the following descriptions:
Confused but trying his best
In love, pathetically
Melodramatic king

Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: "I picked more flowers for her in the time I had to pack, and although she courteously thanked me as she always does, she hasn't brought them on the trip so I can only assume she wishes me dead."

Digital artwork of a buff, topless clown making a suggestive gesture titled ‘circus freak (capital FREAK)’.

Beside the image are the following descriptions:
Wait, he’s kinda… 🫦
Accidental agent of chaos
Is it the autism? Or is he just deranged?

Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV:

“You still haven't told me your grade.'
'Your insecurity is unbecoming, I breathe, my teeth clenched to stifle another moan. 'Please.' His breath is heavy in my ear. 'You're fortunate I can never say no to you.'

A painting of a sad court jester sitting down titled ‘solemn jester’.

Beside the image are the following descriptions:
Uh oh, shit’s getting serious
He’s being hunted? By a deity?
Rip, my guy

Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: "Given personal circumstances, perhaps I should embrace the opportunity to repent my soul. I would, truly, but I suspect soul repentance is quite the commitment and I'm a little preoccupied with trying not to die at the moment."

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Neѕѕα @nessamoulay.bsky.social · May 7

CITY OF BRASS x the Scorpion & the Night Blossom

A girl with dormant magic infiltrates a gilded empire to save her best friend—only to uncover a court built on ancient blood oaths, the boy she once mourned, and a lost heiress no one wants found.

#questpit #wip

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Amy | IS AGENTED @aekwordcrafter.bsky.social · May 7

Blood over Bright Haven x This Monster of Mine featuring:

🌟sapphics in STEM
🗻electricity-as-magic
🌟a multi-dimension prison break
🗻race against time
🌟villain gets the girl
🗻sentient pollution with a grudge

#questpit #F #LGBT #Q

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 7

LIGHTLARK x THE GILDED ONES

seventeen year old zamora has been trained her entire life to represent her country in a magical death competition.

upon her arrival, however, zamora learns that everything she’s ever know—about the competition and herself—has been a lie.

#questpit #ya #fantasy #w

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Sophie Cass (is agented) @scasswriting.bsky.social · May 7

Our Wives Under the Sea x The Witcher

When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she reluctantly accompanies a grumpy half-beast mercenary in a journey through the Wilds to find her.

✨ On sub soon ✨

#questpit #a #f #ag #amediting #wip #editors

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

For my last pitch, I thought I'd share the fun little cover I made for my book 🖤

🥀⚔️A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD⚔️🥀

A 106,600-word adult romantasy for fans of the dark, witty banter in SERPENT & DOVE and the bleak, mysterious tone of THE BONE SEASON.

#questpit #Q #A #F

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Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.writes.fyi · May 7

ARCANE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x RIPE
All Jim owns when he arrives at the Institute is a battered briefcase & pair of decaying boots. Little does he know that before classes end, he'll pack that blood-drenched briefcase to flee a nightmare of his own making.
#questpit #Q #A #F

Image description
Digital painting of a blond man wearing a tank top and a toolbelt from behind, his hand on his hip. In the bottom right is the text SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. In the upper left is the text "Adult STEM Postgrad Academic Fantasy, 107k words". In a green box in the upper right titled FIRST LINE is the text "To be Techniker was to be masochistic. Technikers worshiped at the altar of exhaustion, taking sick pride in toiling over a workbench or anvil until their bodies failed them. Glory lay in suffering for their craft, in creating small miracles powered as much by their own blood and sweat as the aether that underwove existence."

Image description
Pitch card for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. Background top image is an anatomical diagram of a torso with left arm outstretched, bottom image is of dark nested ferns. Atop the image is a digital painting of a man with curly dark hair and medium skin tone, wearing dark green clothing and a gold hoop earring in his right ear, looking away from the camera. His hand rests atop a text box reading "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?"

In the text box is the author's name and "Adult dark academic fantasy, 107k words." Below the textbox are cover images of the Netflix show Arcane (with Viktor's face), BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M.L. Wang, THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI by Isaac Fellman, DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, by C. G. Drews, and RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter.

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

🩸🖤A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD🖤🩸

THE BONE SEASON x SERPENT & DOVE

Lysiane is a young witch who seizes the opportunity to use her sworn enemy for protection in order to save her sister from the grasp of a tyrannical king with a dark secret.

#questpit #Q #A #F

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Alyssa 🌊 is QUERYING! @amcknightwrites.bsky.social · May 7

FOR THE WOLF x SORROWLAND

Might I present my #agentguide for THESE TIDES THAT BIND, standalone adult horror fantasy featuring a Siren POV, a love triangle, body horror, and themes of selfishness as self preservation?

#questpit #q #f

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

Thank you!!

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

Thank you!! 😊

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

Magic is outlawed. Witches are facing extinction. The only hope Lys has of saving her beloved sister rests in the hands of her sworn enemy, who doesn't quite fit the stories she was told.

Welcome to A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD 🖤🩸⚔️🥀

#questpit #Q #F #A

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Taylor Renee @taylorrenee.bsky.social · May 7

Sophia Lane has it all—except a boyfriend. So when she panics and lies about bringing one to a company retreat, she ropes in her annoyingly charming neighbor to play the part. It’s only a weekend of fake dating. What could go wrong? (Spoiler: everything.)
#W #questpit #A #R

PINK BACKGROUND, SILHOUETTES OF A MAN AND A WOMAN SURROUNDING THE WORDS BEST BAD IDEA. UNDER IT SAYS CONTEMPORARY ROMCOM, TAYLORRENEE AGENT AND EDITORS

PINK BACKGROUND SAYS

sophia lane has it all. perfect job. nice apartment. everything... except a stable love life. when her boss asks her if she’ll be bringing her boyfriend to the company retreat she panics and lies. Now, to save face and score the promotion she’s worked years for she ropes in her unruly, annoyingly charming neighbor to play the part. as long as they both follow the rules of fake dating, nothing can go wrong... RIGHT?

Sophia,
Looking forward to seeing you (and your boyfriend!) next weekend. I’m rooting for you to help woo the clients and bring home this acquisition!
—H
P.S. Madison already sent over Jacob’s “fun facts” for the team icebreaker.

I drop my forehead onto the desk.
Of course Madison sent fun facts. Of course Jacob plays the cello, rescues shelter dogs, and bakes his own sourdough.
Meanwhile, I’m just hoping my fake boyfriend doesn’t show up to the welcome dinner in a “Free Britney” tank top and checkered Vans out of spite.

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️ @d-and-a-authors.bsky.social · May 7

DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART

A fiery maid races to sea after her bff & a legendary map, but a passionate romance w/ the pirate captain opens her eyes to a world of danger & she must do anything to get the map before she loses her friend.

#questpit #Q #NA #RF

The first slide of an Agent's Guide for the novel A SIREN'S CALL. It has a sapphire blue background with bubbles, bordered once in black, then once in a very pale blue. In the centre there is a circle with around a quarter of sea at the bottom and the rest the sky. There are two blue seagrass, one on either side of the circle. Curved around the top of the circle it says the author's names, "Danielle Bradbury" and "Ashlea Screaton", and mirrored at the bottom it gives the name and genre as "New adult slowburn romantic fantasy". The title "THE SIREN'S CALL" is in the centre of the circle but sticks out either end, the letters on the blue are coloured pale blue and the ones over the circle are coloured black. Beneath the title in smaller letters is the word count, "90k words".

The second slide of an Agent's Guide for the novel A SIREN'S CALL. It has a sapphire blue background with bubbles, bordered once in black, then once in a very pale blue. At the top there is a black title, split off with a little blue shore bordered with white, reading "Pitch". The rest of the slide reads in white "Courting a Lord could've been Delphine's escape from her violent employer, but when her best friend is sent with pirates after a mythical map, she refuses to be left behind.

A budding romance with the Captain reveals he is tailed by a dark past which could sabotage the mission, but the pirates have claimed her friend as collateral. She must do anything to get the map-even using the Captain's secret against him-or lose her friend."

The fourth slide for the novel A SIREN'S CALL. It has a sapphire blue background with bubbles, bordered once in black, then once in a very pale blue. At the top there is a black title, split off with a little blue shore bordered with white, reading "Excerpt". The rest of the slide reads in white "Few things gave Delphine the same rush as finishing a book on stolen time.

The end of this faerytale had been evading her for days, interrupted repeatedly by chiming bells, banal instructions, or nipping in her ear to ‘get a move on!’. Each time accompanied by a lamenting sigh, the book’s scarred spine deforming further as she wedged it open with whatever she could find. Pots and pans weren’t preferable, but were the usual suspects.

It didn’t matter that she could recite the tale cover to cover with her eyes closed. She longed for the rhythm of the words to lull her into another land, another time, another life. An adventure, or a change in scenery from cold stone and colder steel.

Far away from chamber pots, snooty sneers and vile tempers."

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Ilana Kelley @ilanakelleyauthor.bsky.social · May 7

THE BARGAINER x SERPENT & DOVE

NIGHT BIRD, an adult romantic fantasy ft:
🕰️ dual timeline
✨ invisibility & intangibility
🔪 FMC vigilante for wronged women
☠️ poison & female rage
🌃 newly industrialized world
🫂 found family

#QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #AgentsGuide #AgentGuide

An Agent’s Guide for Night Bird
An adult romantic fantasy novel

The Pitch
Ava is destined for a life of seduction, espionage, and assassination. Born with the ability to become invisible, she is the secret weapon of one of the five great houses. But when a mysterious boy, Zev, crashes through her warded cage, she is freed.

With her freedom, Ava transforms into Night Bird, a vigilante for wronged women. But tipping the scales of justice draws the notice of New Oster’s power elite, including one of the most feared men in the city, who turns out to be the boy who set her free. And when the house she left behind catches up, he may be the only one able to help her from following in her dead mother’s footsteps.

For Fans of:
DUAL TIMELINE
SLOW BURN ROMANCE
FOUND FAMILY
FEMALE RAGE & POISON
KNIFE TO THE THROAT
ESCAPE FROM OPPRESSORS
PAST CATCHING UP
INDUSTRIALIZED URBAN SETTING

Images:
Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa
Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole

A Snippet:
The man in the ring seemed inhuman. Not like the Zev I’d known.

“I’ve seen a serratys fight. Rumbled with a few myself,” Stone said, eyes flicking wildly to take in every detail. “They didn’t move like that. This fight was over before it began. He’s just providing good entertainment by not ending it right away, that’s all.”

Despite his blood-slicked skin, Digger remained on his feet, weaving desperately to regain footing. His unfocused eyes were dazed. Zev finally stood still, letting the other man throw a punch, then sidestepped with a hard elbow to the head. That was the end of Digger, who crashed onto the ground like a collapsed building.

Earsplitting cheers and stomping beat at my ears, and I wanted to clap my hands over them. Then the screams transformed from exuberance to fear as Zev sprouted horns on stage, body growing, muscles bulging—his serratys form taking over.

His roar deafened the crowd, but my hands dropped as his chest tattoos came into focus. With his constant motion, I hadn’t gotten a good look during the fight. But now he was still, and I saw it. The tattoo entwined by so many others, almost hidden. It was a bird, wings raised as if viewed from the side and slightly underneath.
A night bird. The exact ones I used to play my cello for on those lonely nights. Where Zev’s nickname had started. And that bird was now inked across his chest, directly over his heart.

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AK @authoraak.bsky.social · May 7

Garden of Gods 🩸🌹

THE HURRICANE WARS x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

(I like to think of it as Attack on Titan set in the Ottoman Empire with more magic and more romance)

#questpit #q #a #f #r

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Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · May 7

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE

Professional hit man Jason seeks revenge for the murder of his brother, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play.

🩸 cosmic horror
🩸 criminal underworld
🩸 married MCs
🩸 villain protagonist

#QuestPit #W #A #H #T

A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.

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Elliot Rose @elliotrosea.bsky.social · May 7

Never mind the hero. Here's the villainous narrator's quest:
❤️ Get my ridiculously heroic ex back
🍷 Find an open gay bar during the apocalypse
🔮 Meditate
🔪 Kill that man-stealing prophet
😈 Avoid the Devil and her demons where possible
😂 Kidnap Jim
#questpit #Q #FA

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Damian is ✨️drafting✨️ @d-s-saavedra.bsky.social · May 7

A new #agentsguide for my revised version of A FEAST FOR LAMBS(made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) coming back to agents inboxes real soon 👀

🏳️‍⚧️Transmasc MC
❤️‍🔥Poly monster romance
🥩Cannibalism
🩸Religious horror
🫀Body horror
🔥Trans rage

#questpit #A #H #RF #querying

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Alice Crow ✍🏾 @acrowwrites.bsky.social · May 7

🥀 Gilded Age-inspired college romantasy
🩸vampire MMC needs a mate bond to avoid bloodlust
🥀 alchemist human FMC is secretly plotting to take his power
🩸solving mysterious murders
🥀bi4bi
🩸dual POV
🥀black and curvy rep
🩸touch her and ☠️
🥀divine chaos

#QuestPit #W #A #PR

Photo collage of black, white, and red imagery, including a hand dipping into an ornate cup of blood, a Victorian street with a gas lamp, a gothic window framing a stone building, a bookshelf and staircase, the word vampire on a black background, potion bottles, a vampire bat wing, an altar with candles, a red eye, glass bottles with blood, and a bloody hourglass

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