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Dua Ceren @duaceren.bsky.social · 2d

Spirited Away x Shutter Island

Reality and fantasy blur when an anonymous invitation sends a burnt-out chocolatier spiraling to hunt down a serial killer she thought she made up as a child.

🥀Found family
🥀Feminist
🥀Ghosts

🪻Mental health rep
🪻Disability rep
🪻LGBTQIA+

#GhostPit #C #A #F #T #H #G

9x9 board of photos (top left to bottom right): dark rose bush, dark blue woods at night with fog, quote that reads, “I learned about death by being alive… or maybe I’ve tried it myself.” Starting second row: Closeup of a dragonfly wing, a girl floating in dark water with white flowers, hands reaching up from a dark lake with lily pads, a quote that reads, “we were strangers bound by a shared past, entangled in the present, with no promise of a future.” Forget-me-nots, a man and a woman dancing against a starry sky

The same image from before with arrows pointing out to show tropes from the story which are: found family, haunted woods, past repeats itself, dual timeline, ghosts, repressed memories, investigation, and strong female characters. Two new images to replace the quotes from the previous board: a dark field of flowers in a forest tinted blue, a woman’s hands and body submerged under water reaching out.

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Dua Ceren @duaceren.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much!! 😊

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Nick Wilford @nickpwilford.bsky.social · 1d

Ella thought she’d left her old life behind when she transitioned using a high-tech DNA-based procedure, but after seeing a man with her former face committing a murder, she uncovers a sinister cloning scheme and must use all her wits to stop further mayhem. #GhostPit #YA #SF #Q #agentguide

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Kayla ✨📚 @kaylawhittle.bsky.social · 1d

Elodie, born with rare memory magic, teams up with historian Vivian in a botanical garden to solve a century-old disappearance—only to uncover a twisted, monstrous memory instead.

It’s hungry. It’s angry. It wants Elodie.
feat. sapphic & ace rep

#A #Q #F #OWN #LGBT #GhostPit

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 2d

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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Travis Knight @blueknight2024.bsky.social · 1d

#GhostPit #A #C #Q #LF
#T #SF #H #M #SFF

What fate awaits humanity as Moonium, with souls and blood, gain sentience is brought back to Earth? Will countries fight each other over efforts to stop rising sea levels? Will allies turn against each other or will more sinister purposes arise?

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Niki Zenobia @nikizenobia.bsky.social · 1d

#Q Update Required #NA
Dani awakens from a natural disaster unscathed & no one remembers it. The world has changed, & her crush Sam is gone. Dani begins to question her existence in a world that no longer follows the rules of reality.
#ghostpit #Spec #R #SF
THE NIGHT SHIFT x WE USED TO LIVE HERE

A beach, a beach with meteors, a wave, and the San Francisco ferry building

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Gianna Girone | Writer @giannagirone.bsky.social · 1d

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE x FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Where an outcast woman hiding a condemning secret must team up with a treasonous noble and learn to control the chaos magic she’s been cursed with in order to stop the destruction of two warring kingdoms. #ghostpit #RF #A #E

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liv @livalcott.bsky.social · 1d

👻An Agent’s Guide 🪦🕯️

🕸️a sickness that only affects the dead
⏳the price of magic is a piece of humanity
🐈‍⬛original purposes twisted for power
🕰️if we lived in a world where the afterlife is not a resting place, but a government just like our own
#GhostPit #NA #YA #F #PN #Q

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Jen is Querying @jenknowsprose.bsky.social · 2d

ALCHEMY OF A BLOOD MOON
81k Contemporary Paranormal Romance

🌙 PTSD Rep
🌙 Occult Rep
🌙 Hard earned HEA
🌙 Voicy & character-driven
🌙 All the yearn and spice

#ghostpit #A #Q #C #Amquerying #litagents #WriteSky

Alchemy of a Blood Moon against a night sky with a bright moon.

A basic description of the story against the night sky.

Book and movie comps for Alchemy of a Blood Moon.

Images of the moon, tarot, and crystal ball against the night sky.

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Sean Holten @seanholten.bsky.social · 1d

AGATHA CHRISTIE x TOM HINDLE x LUCY FOLEY

After her critic ex-boyfriend is murdered, a writer attending a literary festival in Ireland decides to play sleuth.

Then the killer frames her.

Can she unmask them before she's arrested?

#PitDark #A #MM #T

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Dua Ceren @duaceren.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!! 💚

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keaton [comms open!!] @kreatured.bsky.social · 1d

Something's Wrong in Devil's Gate

- AN EPISTOLARY MYSTERY -
journals, letters, medical records, police reports

👻 #YA #A #W #T #H #PN #M #ghostpit

two figures, each with a bird, drifting away in the breeze with bare trees all around

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Miss Scarlet Tanager @missscarlettanager.bsky.social · 1d

BLOODBORNE X ANNIHILATION
🩸Blood Magic
🐙Eldritch gods
🧑‍🧒‍🧒Family Trauma
Anya abandoned her sister Sarah in Stjarn after a fight. Then gods' gaze fell on that very city. Now Anya must brave a Stjarn full of fiends to save her, even if she must become a murderous fiend herself.
#F #H #Q #A #GhostPit

a man stands in front of a full moon

Alt: a man stands in front of a full moon

media.tenor.com

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Landon McAlister @ejoelwatts.bsky.social · 1d

Starve Acre + Slewfoot

#TheRedThirst

On Ireland’s haunted coast, grief is a ritual—and blood is the offering. To save the spirit he’s bound to, he must face the monster who made her. #A #GhostPit #amquerying #IrishMyth #LiteraryHorror #GothicHorror

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Milo (he/xe) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @milosometimes.bsky.social · 2d

🐟FROM THE SEA FRET🐟

Callum Point moves to the dead-end town of Perne to scrape together a new life. He’s hoping to get what he always wanted; peace. Unfortunately, what greets him is a place rife with secrecy, conspiracy and creatures beyond comprehension.

#GhostPit #A #H #Q #LGBT #OWN

Outlined text over a dark blue ocean. The horizon is obscured by fog. Arrows point to words scattered across the image.
The text reads: From the Sea Fret. Revenge. Queer Transmac MC. Cosmic horror. Paranoia. Thalassophobia. Creepy small town.

Underwater, over a coral reef, rays of light shine through the water. A few fish swim through the reef.
Text reading "From the Sea Fret, Comps" is bordered in the centre. 5 arrows point towards posters.
The poster are: Dredge by Black Salt Games, Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner, The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers, The Fisherman by John Langan, Blood in the Bayou by Just Roll With It

A moodboard consisting of 5 pictures, each outlined in navy blue. The 5th picture is in the centre.
A foggy wooden dockyard at night.
The inside of a tackle shop. Nets, buoys, and fishing paraphernalia hand from the wall and ceiling.
A pile of grey fish.
A hand reaching out of grey water, the sky above is overcast.
A fishing boat on the ocean. Seagulls swarm it in the air.

Underwater, over a coral reef, rays of light shine through the water. A few fish swim through the reef.
A sheet of paper with text on it is centered.
The text reads: From the Sea Fret. Excerpt.
My thoughts were snowballing, adding up all the bullshit I’ve dealt with since moving to Perne, and my heart was beating faster at each uneasy memory that passed behind my eyes. I was gripping the wheel with white knuckles, forcing myself to breathe through clenched teeth.
The rope on the net creaking from strain pulled my body into automation. The thoughts momentarily shut off as I set about pulling the fish in. With each haul on the rope, I took a little bit extra time, as I knew what would be in the net. It seemed like no matter where I turned, things were waiting to fuck with my mind.
The word 'forcing' is underlined.

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Marie Sinadjan @quillandcrib.bsky.social · 1d

#TheSurrogate is a Filipino 🇵🇭 inspired steampunk fantasy w/

⚙️ a smol spitfire FMC
⚙️ childhood friends to doomed lovers
⚙️ steampunk aesthetics but make it 🇵🇭
⚙️ nods to 🇵🇭 historical events and figures
⚙️ a magic system based on pregnancy and childbirth

#GhostPit #W #A #SFF

An Instagram post by @fashionable_filipinas featuring a female model during TERNOCON 2020 in a black and gold gown with butterfly sleeves, the dress' design somewhat resembling the round grooves present in steampunk aesthetics. She's also wearing a top hat.

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Krystal Gregory (#amquerying) @kgregory13.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Diary, They say Dampton has no ghosts. Tell that to the courthouse clock, the river coughing up a tooth, and the mark, two curling lines, carved in my chair like a thank-you note. I came home to bury the past. Yet the past finds me.#agentsguide #GhostPit #A #T #MM

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Dua Ceren @duaceren.bsky.social · 1d

So exciting! Congratulations!!

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Dua Ceren @duaceren.bsky.social · 1d

GRAVE OF FLOWERS (95k words)

Would you trust your childhood memories enough to stalk the woods in search of a killer you’ve labeled the angel-devil man?

Would you do it to save 19 women?

#GhostPit #C #A #F #T #H #G 👻

Collage of green tinted images top left to bottom right: four young women sitting in the grass and talking, a girl in a white dress running away from something barefoot in the grass, an eerie man peering through the woods with a flashlight, a man and a woman dancing under the night sky, a graveyard in the middle of a forest, stacks of chocolate with melted chocolate poured on top, foggy woods at night, a woman submerged under water reaching out, a woman in a dark lake with white flowers over her body, the shadows of two female friends standing back-to-back and making finger guns.

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maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 2d

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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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Jul 13

an #agentsguide to #Thoroughfare ♡
.°˖⋆ ℧ 𓃗 .°˖⋆

A western gothic horror in which a sunshine Apostle must work with a grumpy outlaw to save the western towns from an eldritch horror spreading a virus of death.

♡ This is a novella! 26,500 words ♡
#BluePit 📖 #A #H #SP #Q #DIS #amquerying

"Western-themed image titled 'An Agent’s Guide to Thoroughfare' features a cowboy on horseback under a starry night sky, flanked by illustrated revolvers."

The pitch section with a background picture, aesthetic, and short pitch.
Text: An Apostle shunned away in a Creedance amongst mountains and snow is summoned to assist an outlaw hiding amongst the desert plains..."
A mysterious night scene with a glowing moon above a cowboy on horseback. A church is depicted alongside, with ominous red streaks. Text overlays describe a tale of an apostle aiding an outlaw against a monstrous threat. The mood is tense and atmospheric.

A dialogue scene/snippet shows two people. Theodora, a woman with an intense expression, questions life after death. The Apostle, a blonde man, suggests life’s meaning lies in present love, not afterlife, adding a tone of reflection and calm.

Alt text: A graphic with "COMPS, THEMES, TROPE" in bold.
Left shows covers of "Tombstone," "What Moves the Dead," "Red Dead Redemption II," and "The Brothers Karamazov."
Center features vintage and Western images as an aesthetic moodboard.
Right lists themes like "Female rage" and tropes "Grumpy x Sunshine."
Background shows a moody, dark setting with a church.

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

NINTH HOUSE x FLEABAG

Haunted by a magical parasite whispering in her head, a dropout returns to the university where her best friend died, while the remnants of fairy-tales rot in jars and the failing barrier between worlds demands the truth she’s buried.

#GhostPit #Q #A #F #H

Moodboard featuring nine images, including: top left an image of a London Underground train in motion, top middle is an artitst's interpretation of fairy taxidermy, pinned similarly to an insect within a shadow box, top right is a man sat in a wheelchair, middle left is a blonde woman who's face is in shadow, middle image is the shadow of a monstrous hand grabbing a person's head, middlie right is a group of five people standing in the shadows of an old archway, bottom left is a pale hand coming out of a dark wooden wardrobe, bottom middle is is foggy Big Ben on Westminster Bridge, bottom right is two blurry people running down a marble staircase

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Dylan Orosz🩵 @finalboyo.bsky.social · 2d

ANTHOLOGEE: Eclipse invades a battlefield and the minds of its warriors; wounded soldier wakes up buried under a pile of bodies and makes a wish; cryptid from the stars arrives before the campfire; traveling jester engages a secret living as a prolific highwayman.

#GhostPit #wip

Art: Guts and Casca share a mind of horror from eclipse.

~ anthology + apogee
HATATAATAN
= 10x stories. Vol. I + II
ANTHOLOGEE ~ a loosely interconnected horror story anthology filled with apotheosick un-Truths.

College of 4 images with purple hue - moon in the mist, through trees, above cemetery and spiked tower roofs of a cathedral

A spirit travels from one portal in the darkness to another.

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 2d

On a coast split by wealth and ruin, best friends Carmen and Brigitte spiral into sunlit parties and a strange new drug that turns idyll into terror when one disappears and returns changed—forcing their tight-knit group to confront a conspiracy that weaponizes memory itself.
#A #spec #lf #ghostpit

It says they called it saltwater and adult speculative literary fiction complete at 92k words over a beach photo

In callaston a coastal state split between luxury and neglect college aged best friends carmen and brigitte spiral into sunlit parties and a strange new drug that turns idyll into terror when one disappears and returns changed forcing their tight knit group to confront a conspiracy that weaponizes memory itself, comps bunny by mona awad, euphoria tv show, ghost eaters by clay mcleoud, obx tv show and wild dark shores

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