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Beck Sroczynski @beck-is-here.bsky.social · 21h

❤️Found family
🧡Coming-of-age
💛Jewish diaspora
💚Queer history
🩵WLW romance
💜Butch MC w/ chutzpah
#questpit #Q #A #HF

mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 21h

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Chronic people pleaser Sadie believes her self-sacrificing mindset to be her best asset.

Right until she finds herself locked into a fake engagement to her college roommate and her unrequited childhood crush brought on to help plan the wedding.

#Questpit #W #LF #RF #LGBTQ

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 21h

This is so Florence and the machine dark academia core

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 22h

What if you’re forced to hunt hearts that give humans magical powers when eaten, but you also kinda throw up at the sight of blood? 😬

Sneak-peak of the first page in my WIP!

🫀 Cultish magic
🧌 Scandinavian folklore
💀 Deadly personality tests
🖤 Slow burn romance

First page of a WIP called Feed Me Your Heart

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 1d

enemies to lovers? 👀

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 1d

Ró always found eating hearts to be vile, even if it grants humans magical powers. But her town’s leader craves the heart of a seductive water spirit, and Ró yearns to impress.
Succeed and earn a much-needed boon from the town leader, fail, and it’ll be her heart on a plate🫀
#YA #F #DF #W #QuestPit

A girl (FMC in WIP) and a boy (MMC in WIP) embracing

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 1d

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In the wake of her estranged mother’s passing, Camille finds herself facing her greatest career challenge yet: running her ex-best friends staged wedding.

With her world upended, she must decide between outrunning her past or forging a home from splintered wood.

#questpit #w #lf #rf #lgbt

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Kelton Davis is writing! 🦇⚰️🤠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · 1d

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying soon!
#A #F #W #QuestPit

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text:
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood Red Sand
109000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Soon

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image:
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
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Title: Pitch
Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck.

Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him.

But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all.

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 1d

feeling overly confident as an ENFJ

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 1d

💀What if MBTI-tests were deadly?💀

In order to save her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to play deadly games that’ll uncover the deepest parts of her personality. Win the tests to prove her worth. Loose and sacrifice her soul to the seductive forest spirits.

#YA #F #DF #W #QuestPit

Designed book title that reads "FEED ME YOUR HEART". The text drips with blood.

Comp titles for "Feed Me Your Heart" including "Where the Dark Stands Still", "Your Blood, My Bones", "Children of Ragnarök" and "A Harvest of Hearts"

Themes of Feed Me Your Heart, including slow burn romance, deadly personality tests and that humans must eat hearts to wield magic

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 1d

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the canon sapphic event of having a crush on your best friend… and having to help plan her wedding a decade later.

find yourself & speak your mind before the church bells ring 💒

🏠 Queer found family
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rep
💖 Friends to lovers
💍 Fake Marriage (with a twist!)

#QuestPit #W #LF #RF #LGBTQ

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 1d

the literal devil falling in love with fast-fashion CEO? this is so genius

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 1d

I love this — needdd more queer paranormal books on my shelf!!📚

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Sarah LeFebvre @snlefebvre.bsky.social · 1d

Sadie expects to be an amateur ghost hunter for a night at a haunted theater, not the sole witness to her favorite paranormal author’s death. Now she’ll have to team up w/ the author’s living sister to stop a vengeful spirit and help a ghost finish her final manuscript.

#questpit #YA #PR #LGBT #Q

A collage of images that represent the vibe of the book, including a pastel blue and pink beach, a blue and pink sky behind palm trees, a pink ouija keychain, pain roller skates, pink heart sunglasses, pink hair, ripped jeans, a pink building behind palm trees, fingers typing on a laptop keyboard, a black and white photo of a woman in 1920s attire, white converse on a longboard, a glowing red theatre sign, and a red and gold theatre stage. Text in pink, cursive script reads: Ghost Writer.

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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 1d

Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back.

🫀Cultish magic
💀Deadly personality tests
🧌Scandinavian folklore
🖤Romance á la OUABH/Jacks x Eva

WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES
#YA #F #DF #W #QuestPit

Portrait of a moody FMC surrounded by Norse runes. Arrows point out from her, leading to information about the writer's WIP.

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 1d

you had me at cultish magic 😍

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mak @makaroniart.bsky.social · 1d

HONEY GIRL X ONE LAST STOP

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Curious happenstance reunites childhood ex-best friends Camille and Sadie. With a decade of unspoken feelings and a fake engagement between them, they’ll have to decide if love is a risk worth taking or vow to forever hold their peace.

#QuestPit #W #RF #LF

two people making a pinky promise to each other

AO3 tags reading ‘friends to lovers’ ‘mutual pining’ and ‘slow burn’

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