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Kelton Davis is querying! 🏹⚔️🌠

@keltondavis.bsky.social

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☀️ Austin, TX | he/him 🖋️ Artist, Musician, Writer 🗡️ I talk about games and fantasy! 📚 Currently querying The Daughter and the Nameless Son 🏹

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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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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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Neѕѕα @nessamoulay.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

#YA #F #wip #questpit

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · Aug 6

Mood Board for my

Charmed x Halloweentown WIP

🔮Three sisters filled w/tears + curses
🔮 Forbidden Magic
🔮 Journey to a magical realm
🔮 The chosen ones? Are you sure?

#questpit #W #YA #F

Collage of charmed house, witchy books, herbs, crystals

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Jessica Chandler (she/her) @jessicachandler.bsky.social · Aug 6

When Skyler made a deal with the reaper to catch ghosts in exchange for putting her cancer in remission, she did not have a half ghost boy begging her to reunite him with his body on her bingo card. The clock is ticking and the reaper doesn’t like secrets. #questpit #ya #Q #agentsguide

Neon picture for an agent’s guide to Get Ghosted. Features a picture of a kid wearing a sheet with sunglasses over it and pointing to the titled Get Ghosted

Text with arrows pointing to the different pictures reads: vengeful ghosts, reunited the boy with his body, talk to ghosts, and am I actually dead though?

On a neon smoke background is a long snippet from the book

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allison e. crisostomo @aecwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

When the fates of a genius artificer and a ghostly warrior collide, they must outmaneuver seductive half-truths trying to keep them apart. Otherwise a brewing rebellion, demonic beasts, and betrayal will lead them to destroy the land and the people they’ve both sworn to protect.

#W #A #F #questpit

10-photo collage featuring a bright light, an engine, a lighthouse, agates, birch wood, a dock, a bicycle, a tall ship, weapons including a blade and kali sticks, and a crystal.

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M.C. Taylor ~ querying ~ @mctaylor-author.bsky.social · Aug 6

✅An apprentice who fears her anger
✅A prince who can't save his party from danger
✅An elf who trusts no one
✅An enemy that exploits their flaws and fears

The Apprentice Speaker #YA, high #f, 96K words, 12 partial, 2 full requests &counting
#questpit #agentguide #litagents #Q

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Kas is...querying 🪤🎥 @callmekas.bsky.social · Aug 6

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW X WHEN I THINK OF YOU

All Brandi Butler has wanted was to live up to the artist her great grandfather was. Brothers Dean and Adrian Maldonado understand the weight that comes with their famous last name and the burden if expectations.

#QuestPit #W #R #A

A picture with the text "An Agents Guide to Bait. Adult-Upmarket-Romance". A photo of a couple in shadow, and the horizon of Los Angeles draped in a sunset color palette.

The Pitch "Three UCLA graduate students attempt to create a short film to prove that the term ‘Oscar Bait’ is more than what it seems. Instead, they find themselves confronting their own histories with the film industry, personal relationships and coming to terms with what it means to forge your own legacy." A collage of photos surround the pitch such as the Hollywood sign, a Cinema board that says "See you at the movies", an image of an Academy Award, and three photos of a couple.

A list of tropes and themes such as Friends to lobers, idenity, dreams etc. Comp titles are Tommorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin and When I Think of You by Myah Ariel.

collection of images from animated, and live action movies: Castle in the sky, aladdin, Coraline, Cinderella, Anastasia and Swan Princess

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · Aug 6

Murderbot + Fallout = THE AFTER WAR

Moody Android Felic wakes up after 260 years and discovers The War is over, the new woman he loves talks like a chat bot, and a evil AI is planning to destroy the world. Again.

#questpit #Q #A #R #SF

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sydandthepen.bsky.social @sydandthepen.bsky.social · Aug 6

HOW TO BE EATEN x ADELAIDE

I can’t forget you. What you were to me. I can’t pretend everything didn’t happen.

🖋️ writers wish on a star comes true
💔 obsession, temptation, depression, oh my
🔥 toxic relationship
🌌 healing isn't pretty—but it is possible

#QuestPit #A #F #S #Q

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Sophie Pinkoski @sophiemlpink.bsky.social · Aug 6

UMBRELLA ACADEMY x HILL HOUSE
For rockstar Aster Maddox, dying is as easy as breathing.Staying dead is the hard part.Eager to uncover the truth behind his divine intervention, he crashes an artists retreat.But the demon queen who has his answers is about to rock his every belief. #QuestPit #A #Q #H

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · Aug 6

What you’ll find in THE ICE BETWEEN US:

⛸️ High-level figure skating
⛸️ High-level banter
⛸️ Sapphic romance
⛸️ Clueless queens who don’t realize they love each other
⛸️ Spicy scene once they realize they do
⛸️ Petite princess who loves the word “fuck”
⛸️ Third-act breakup
⛸️ HEA

#questpit #q #r #a #lgbtq

Moodboard for THE ICE BETWEEN US, a sapphic figure skating romance novel

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Kim Cayley @kimcayley.bsky.social · Aug 6

✨FATED FAKES✨ has:

🔮a bad psychic from a family of renowned seers

🙅‍♂️a grieving skeptic agrees to be her fake date

⁉️her predictions suddenly start making sense, and they revolve around *him*

#W #R #PN #QuestPit #QueryingSoon

The comp titles and features of FATED FAKES by Kim Cayley, images of the books Happy Medium and Yours Truly on a blue background.

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

Introducing my THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS + THE JASMINE THRONE #Q #YA #F for #questpit, featuring—
🫠traumatized exiled princess
👿fashionable demon with a deadline
🗡️hidden identities
♾ forbidden romance
💌reunion of sisters + revival of magic
🌙"the moon's beautiful" "yes"

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Char ✨🇱🇹🐺🥀 @charwritesstories.bsky.social · Aug 6

COMPOUND FRACTURE x TOGETHER WE ROT

A ghost determined to solve her own murder, allies with the vengeful spirit of a cult leader’s daughter to unearth the rotting secrets of their small Appalachian town.

🧠 AuDHD + queer rep
🥀 sapphic romance

Coming soon 👀 to inboxes

#questpit #ya #W #PR #H

Don’t rot darlin, a sapphic YA horrormance complete at 70,000 words

Mood board featuring snakes, churches, sapphic romance, missing poster and ominous background

$Comp titles: Together we rot, compound fracture, they bloom at night, don’t let the forest in$ Opening lines

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Karen (they/them) is ✨querying✨ @karenaparker.com · Aug 6

N.K. JEMISIN x AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

A grieving witch, a righteous killer, and a conflicted prince must embrace their monstrosities in the coming war between their world’s old gods, or else they’ll never reach their destined collective enlightenment.

#questpit #Q #A #YA #F #POC #LGBTQ+ #ND

A moodboard for #FeatherWIP featuring (from left to right) the Taj Mahal, a dagger, desert sands, black feathers, ocean waves, a knot, and kingdom mountain carvings from Petra, Jordan.

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 6

🏡 Revolutionary Road x American Psycho 🔪

📺 PORTRAIT OF AMERICAN ROT

The violent self-destruction of an esteemed WWII veteran and family man.

Featuring:
📰 Suburban Psychological Horror
📰 Morally Black Protagonist
📰 Queer and Neurodivergent Rep
📰 Multiple POVs

#QuestPit #W #A #H #LF

A pitch that says: In 1950s America, a veteran struggling to escape the influences of his domineering mother and festering war trauma engages in increasingly violent extramarital affairs, with his mental deterioration and descent into abusive, predatory behavior threatening to destroy the constructed family life he fought so hard to create.
This is followed with a mood board containing a wanted poster, a bloody knife, a photo album, a dead deer, a family in front of a suburban house, a woman sitting on a man’s lap, and dog tags.

Conrad’s life came to a close the day the Japanese surrendered and he was forced to retreat to civilian life. The honeyed crawl of suburbia left him raw with yearning for more, and had long since dragged his interiority to bleed out all sticky on the hot pavement.

The fine dust of nebulous expectations and residue from endless social games tainted his neighbors, much like how his skin had been perpetually coated in a veneer of dirt and sweat on the sweltering death trap of Luzon. It was a fine sheen that was impossible to scrub from the fabric of the neighborhood. He needed a reprieve from it all, his own slice of normalcy with wide-eyed smiles that were genuine for once.

On his drive to the airport to pick up his freshly adopted son, he prayed for the first time in a long while; he prayed for this whole thing to work. He needed something to live for again.

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · Aug 6

#QuestPit #AgentsGuide
Introducing ✨ ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE ✨

Perfect if you’re looking for…
🌊 spooky vibes by the sea
👻 ghosts, ghosts & more ghosts
🧽 cleaning haunted houses
🔪 stabby serial killers
🧠 neurodivergent rep
🏳️‍🌈 queer & trans rep

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Jason @jason-antares.bsky.social · Aug 6

ALTERED CARBON X SCYTHE
When you're rich Insurance ensures you immortality. When you're poor you ensure someone else’s. That didn’t happen to Jake. He should've died, his body claimed by an Insured. Instead he inherits the life and identity of the murdered Father of Immortality.
#Questpit #A #Q #SF

Top Right: Insurance Tower, dark and dominating over the rest of Nexus, red light from the streets below illuminating it like fire.
Middle Top: A skyline shot of Nexus where you can see the towering Cyberpunk style mega structures and The Needle, left over from old Seattle. HUVs are flying through the sky with Mount Rainer in the background.
Top Right: Richard in Brian Lord's office in New Life Towers staring out at Nexus, The Needle in the background
Middle Image: A wide image of The Board meeting in Insurance Tower while out the window the city of Nexus can be seen, mega towers dominating the sky
Middle Box: "Insured: Death is conquered--for a price." The text is surrounded by a computer chip, blood dripping down.
Bottom left: Sil with her eyes closed in a dive terminal ice bath
Middle Bottom: Celeste (left) and Goliath (Right) in the Undercity, standing in the circular tunnel of the Spillway
Bottom Right: The Needle in the forefront of the city of Nexus.
Made with Canva

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

QUEEN OF FACES x FMA:B
An alchemist covered in illegal runes to stave off her rotting bones
An artist possessed by an arcane parasite from their father
An academic uncovering the conspiracy behind her dying world
An aristocrat cursed with a forbidden power forced to reveal it
#Questpit #W #A #SFF

A Guide To
RUNES OF NECROSIS
A 95k Dark Academia Adult Science Fantasy
By Marceline Greyfield

Eight students in various studies compete to graduate from Araphel Academy and be rewarded with a life inside the Oasis's Upper Chamber. The four lowest-scoring students are expelled to the infinite desert.
But when a student on the verge of expulsion murders the top student, an alchemist performs forbidden humanoid alchemy to save their life, and she awakens an arcane parasite that threatens to slaughter the remaining six students and unravel every secret hiding within Araphel Academy.

Themes & Tropes:
Quad POV (F/M/NB/F)
Alchemist FMC becoming something inhuman
Snarky aristocrat MMC with a forbidden power
Nonbinary artist whose lies unravel their past
Cheery FMC scholar who uncovers a conspiracy
LGBTQIA rep
Rivals to lovers
Fake dating
Rotting body (horror)
Arcane possession
Exorcism gone wrong
Descent into madness

Comps
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake: Students of various studies working together to uncover secrets about their dying world, knowing not all will survive.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood by Hiromu Arakawa: Protag who breaks alchemic law to save her brother's life, now trying to graduate to Heal her curse and spite the gods
Queen of Faces by Petra Lord: Decaying bodies, a cutthroat academy, betrayal through manipulation, and blurred morality lines.
Arcane by Christian Linke and Alex Yee: Similar class system and discussions of privilege. (JayVik if rivals to lovers, and CaitVi if Vi grew up in the desert).

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Carla Hennes ❌ 👑 aka Radiation Rosie @tempestteapot.bsky.social · Aug 6

Kahyla faces a DEMON’S BARGAIN where all the options are bad: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life.

Opening line:
Blood and ash, which way through the rocks?
Ending lines:
“And if you find more demons?”
“Then I fight,” she said.

#questpit #F #RF #YA #A #Q

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Ali Lambert @alibearns.bsky.social · Aug 6

Teenager A.J. just wants to help the dead.
Turns out, the living are way worse...
The Ghosts of Llyne is a gothic tinged Lower #YA #PR about the weight of small-town secrets, and the courage it takes to embrace what makes you different.
🌈friendly
👻 friendly
🇬🇧 chills & humour
#Q #Questpit

Teen in red jumper walking country path, graveyard, young vampire, spooky face ghost, adult chopping herbs, Victorian male and female

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Karen (they/them) is ✨querying✨ @karenaparker.com · Aug 6

#FeatherWIP as Emojis

🐍 ancient Egyptian snake god of chaos
⚔️ enemies to lovers to enemies
🐦 feral bird woman doing feral things
🗡️ epic prologue where two gods kiss
🌍 POC-coded world-building
🌹 queer-normative romance
☸️ wrathful Esoteric Buddhism

#questpit #Q #A #YA #F #POC #LGBTQ+ #ND

A mood board for #FeatherWIP featuring from left to right: The Taj Mahal, a dagger on an elaborately designed carpet, ripples of desert sand, black feathers, ocean waters, a rope with a knot, and Petra, Jordan mountain carvings. In the center box reads "Introducing #FeatherWIP, now querying @karenaparker.com".

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Tyler @tobaker.bsky.social · Aug 6

#questpit #horror

When her mother’s stroke leaves her in charge of the family ski resort, Ashley discovers the mountain is rotting from the inside out, clawing up to the surface to feed on her employees and wear their faces.

The Dead that Feed the Trees

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