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MelonieWithAnO
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She/Her MG and YA Fantasy writer now #amquerying Member of #SCBWI. Wife. Mom to one human and 3 beasts. Average Musician. Newb archer. #WritingCommunity
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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 7d
When Mia's sent on a quest to Nashville, she's just happy to bring her bff and warm up her restricted music powers. But when a breakout novel exposes her secret life & magical community, Mia must chose between following Olympus' orders, or salvaging her secrets.
#QuestPit #YA #F
The Apparently Famous Mia Miller. Purple background with a tuning fork, magical wisps, and wisteria Cast of characters. A smiling blonde girl: the BFF. An amused looking brunette: the hero. A dark haired boy: the boy. A fierce looking woman: the mom. A befuddled looking woman: the author. Snippet: Why? That's always the question, isn't it? This one act of rebellion feels like pulling at a thread and watching everyhing unravel. Like maybe the wrold wouldn't come to an end if I didn't follow every single rule laid out in front of me. Like maybe these rules don't really make any sense. Comps: "The Lost Hero"- Aged up Riordan. Quest with BFF. "Fire with Fire" by Destiny Soria- Southern Fantasy. Anxiety Rep. "The Truman Show"- Crumbling Worldview. Is my life real?
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danaripleywrites.bsky.social
In LOVE HITS BIG, a free-spirited roller derby skater crashes unexpectedly into love with a man who is on a collision course to demolish the animal shelter she runs.

This novel is for people who love steamy sports romance and romantic comedies with sharp banter.

#questpit #W #A #R
Agent's Guide to: Love Hits Big by Dana Ripley Adult/Contemporary/Rom-Com @danaripleywrites Background: Pink to yellow gradient background color Image: Cartoon roller skates w/ legs in fishnet stockings Janey Pfeiffer, better known as Daisy Chainsaw, cares about two things in life—roller derby and running the Little Paws animal rescue. After meeting the straight-laced Alan Monroe at a Fireball-fueled roller derby after party, she invites him for a one-night stand. Their encounter turns into a full-blown situationship, and Janey falls harder for Alan than from a brutal hip check on the derby track. When Alan’s determination to save his family construction business puts him on a collision course with the struggling Little Paws, Janey must decide whether to sacrifice her heart as she races to save the animals she loves. @danaripleywrites Background: pink to yellow gradient Images: legs in fishnet stockings w/ roller skates COMPS Odd Couple Vibes: People we Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry Humor and Emotion: Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez Fur friends helping humans fall in love: Pardon my Frenchie by Farrah Rochon Roller derby vibes and empowerment: Leave it on the Track by Margot Fisher and Whip It @danaripleywrites Background: Pink to yellow gradient Images: Legs with fishnet stockings, wearing roller skates Tropes/Vibes Banging into love Bisexual FMC MMC falls first (and fast) Opposites attract (dive bar vibes vs country club vibes) Friends-with-benefits with a splash of fake dating Fighting to save what they love Chosen family @danaripleywrites background: pink to yellow gradient images: Roller skate image instead of bullet points for trope list
January 31, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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dsbcreativewriting.bsky.social
Hopeful rebel and charismatic sailor race to save the cosmos from climate disaster. Optimistic politics, ancient swords, easy romances, and unlikely friendships form a thoughtful romp through the “Veins of the Ether”. What’s more important: a revolution, or what comes after?

#questpit #sff #f #sf
January 31, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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kathyravyn.bsky.social
Hello, #QuestPit!

🌲🌱 Meet Project.Greenfield, a cozy slice-of-life fantasy!

~ My passion project
~ Multiple POVs
~ Status? Drafting! (130k words so far)
~ Part of a CHUNKY series
~ Cottagecore vibes
~ Covers heavy themes, but it’s full of hope

#W #F #Writing #Writesky #WritingCommunity
A moodboard featuring nine photos in a 3x3 grid shape. From left to right, top to bottom: 1. A shot from the back of a person wrapping their arm around another person. They’re both leaning on each other, while sitting down. They appear to be next to a river or pond and sitting on grass. 2. Hands holding up a flower crown. 3. A close-up of an elf-like, long pointy ear. Colorized to be almost black and white. 4. A hand holding up dirt with what appears to be parts of a plant. Below it a patch of dirt with more green plant parts can be seen. 5. A wooden sign, pointing to the right, with big letters that say, “HOPE.” 6. A hand being stuck in water. The water seems to have dirt and some debris in it. I interpret it as a river. 7. A rustic village with a winding road, lots of trees and greenery, and a cluster of houses visible on the left. 8. Two hands hovering above a green plant. 9. An assortment of five chickens sitting on a wooden fence. Greenery can be seen in the background. (Images from Pinterest) Blurred image of daisy flowers with text on top of it: Project.Greenfield Playlist: 1. Favorite Place (Humbear) 2. Somewhere Only We Know (Keane) 3. Sunflower (Amber Run) 4. Always Home (Leucadia) 5. Woodland (The Paper Kites) 6. Wolves of Worry (Chance Pena) 7. Waking Up (Sam Burchfield) 8. To Build A Home (The Cinematic Orchestra) Short Pitch: Set in a war-torn country. An orphaned boy and his older brother feel like everyday is a struggle and a reminder of what they lost. Until one day, when they get the opportunity to move to Greenfield — a small, rustic village on the outskirts of the country and a chance at a real home. There, the boy meets Sam — a mysterious, closed-off girl with pointy ears. Together the two kids realize that facing their internal fears might not be so scary if they don’t have to do it alone.
January 31, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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meloniewithano.bsky.social
PJO XTrumanShow
Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out.
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
Moodboard with alternating images between black and white and vivid color. A greek statue, a raven, a girl crying, a girl with hand lifted, an oracle, a light magic, a face statue, Nashville neon lights at night. Text: Music will be the death of me.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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jane-fenriz.bsky.social
Her fellow scholars rot in Siberia for treason. She’s next. To save Ukraine from the Tzar’s wrath, Sofia strikes a deal with the old pagan gods—for a power that will topple an empire or eat her alive.

🌙 Slavic folklore
🌙 1847 Ukraine
🌙 Queer romance, M/M and F/F

#Q #HF #R #LGBTQ #QuestPit
January 31, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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bysaraaxelbaum.bsky.social
Mythical creatures are going extinct, & the only one who can save them is known as the biggest wimp in 5th grade. 10yo Jack must outsmart poachers, unite segregated worlds, & stop a collapsing ecosystem. He learns courage is not fearlessness, it’s being scared & still doing it. #Q #MG #F #questpit
"Jack's Journal": locked leather journal with stickers and items taped to it, including: Stickers ("dream big" in a smiling cloud, "you got this", a dragon, and a guitar), a kneeling boy in a red shirt, sunglasses, and a red streak in his long wavy brown hair, a piece of tape with the words "KEEP OUT", and a hand drawn dragon.
January 31, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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sofiatrepp.bsky.social
💀What if personality tests were deadly?💀

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 and prove her worth. Lose and sacrifice her soul to the seductive forest spirits.

#YA #F #DF #Q #QuestPit
Sample page for Feed Me Your Heart - a YA fantasy book with elements of horror and romance
January 31, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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lliuwrite.bsky.social
THE HUNGER GAMES x DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

🏳️‍🌈Asexual MC
🌦️Devious sunshine x softhearted grump

#questpit #A #F #OWN #Asian #LGBT
Book cover with title "The Heart Devourer's Song" over illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.
January 31, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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kcoopersmith.bsky.social
REDWALL x OVER THE GARDEN WALL

The Gloom creeps closer, turning forests to ruins. The Big Wild needs a hero, but what it has is Dav, a lazy, snack-loving qat whose wandering mind may be the only thing that can save it.

THE LITTLES OF BIG WILD cozy MG fantasy (50k)

#questpit #mg #f #q #agentsguide
January 31, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
COBAB x Animorphs

After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.

#questpit #Q #YA #F
January 31, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #HF
January 31, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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smossman.bsky.social
SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN x PIRANESI

A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—until she meets a godling who knows things about her only her owner could've known.
#Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC
A moodboard for the dark fantasy, GODCAT, featuring liminal spaces, black cats, and a magpie's eye.
January 31, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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janycampana.bsky.social
DINOSAUR x FANCY NANCY

T-Rex silently loves jewelry. The rest of the jungle, not so much. But to shine, T-Rex must get loud or forever hide his bling.

#QuestPit #PB #Q #Humor
Little cartoon T-Rex
January 31, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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sarahdorko.bsky.social
When Gio’s BFF Sky falls down a sinkhole into another world, Gio follows to save her, but after becoming stuck herself, Gio must rely on her wit and D&D knowledge to survive, rescue Sky, and get them both back home. #QuestPit #YA #Q portal #F #agentsguide
January 31, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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csmallswright.bsky.social
AMARI x LOKI

Kori, 12, finds herself stuck in a cryfest & painful menty b's after her mom dies

When a meteor opens a portal, doppelgängers chase her. Kori learns their fates are bound & her grief transcends the multiverse

Now, Kori must save herself — from herself!

#QuestPit #MG #S #SF #Q #POC
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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kcoopersmith.bsky.social
Here's my #agentsguide to my cozy Middle Grade animal fantasy, THE LITTLES OF BIG WILD, featuring:

🐾 Very small heroes on a very big journey
🌲 A sprawling wilderness in danger
🍎 Snacks, coziness, and small acts of courage
🧠 Neurodiversity as a superpower

#questpit #Q #MG #F
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #H
January 31, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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saraduran.bsky.social
Coming soon to agent inboxes!

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ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit
BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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lujudin.bsky.social
THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x SAPPHIC

Rhea Ripley-esque grumpy and the sunshine priestess who kidnaps her.

💥magic & consequences
🏳️‍🌈queer found family
🌸powerful women
🏰slavic elements
💔forced proximity quest
🌌gods and cults
⚔️battling propaganda

#Q #A #F #questpit #agentsguide
A dark, blue themed collage. Is says: An Agent's Guide to The Earth-Shattering God. A 87,000 word adult fantasy novel by Lucia Judinova. In the middle is a veiled, mysterious woman, the sea angry behind her. Then a cropped picture of angry eyes, a clipart of a dagger and a vial. A quote that says: The feminine is not dead. Nor is she sleeping. Angry, yes. Seething, yes. A pitch. The background is brown and white themed, dark, a group of women from the back, all wearing white robes. It says: On the 100th anniversary of the gods' banishment, a common thief, anny Jame, accidentally uses her divine, elemental power and garners the attention of a ruthless cult wanting to bring the gods back. The priestess they send is everything she is not. Bianca is infuriating and beautiful, but mostly brainwashed by her Order. When Bianca learns Danny is her ticket to restoring the gods to their rightful place, she magically binds them together, forcing anny onto a reluctant quest to gather objects infused with godly essence. The background is dark and blue, a hallway, some pillars. There are comps: The Knight and the Moth, The Priory of the Orange Tree, Sweet & Bitter Magic, Godkiller, Six of Crows, A Dark and Drowning Tide. There is also a snippet fron the novel: Her vision tunneled. Moments before Danny passed out, the woman finally hurried closer. "So sorry!" she called, getting nearer. The pain receded and Danny collapsed to the ground, scraping her elbow. "I wanted to see if it worked. Terribly sorry about that. I'm Bianca." "Don't... care," Danny pushed through gritted teeth. Aftershocks of pain rocked her body, muscles tensing and unclenching "I had no other choice, Im afraid." Bianca knelt at her side. The rage channeled in Danny's gaze did not scare her off.She had the nerve to smile down at her. "You are a Link. A true, living and breathing Link. How wonderful to meet you." A blinding grin spread, showing incisors bent slightly to the sides. "We'll do great things together. Divine things, Daniela, absolutely divine." A dark collage: a woman raising rocks in the air, around a picture of a satin white robe, next to it a sweet, happy woman smiling, with long, blond curls. On the other side a picture of a medieval mercenary-looking outfit. Leather, boots, a dagger. Beneath a picture of a serious woman with short dark hair, face a little scratched up and bloody. Over the pictures, are the tropes and themes is bold blue lettering: girls supporting girls (rights and wrongs), powerful women, queer found family, sapphic love, forced proximity quest, battling propaganda and secret societies, magic stolen from gods with consequences, 'enemies to would kill for you' ragtag crew.
January 31, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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johnwgant.bsky.social
A peasant girl becomes the mastermind behind an evil power seeking to enslave humanity. ISABELLA must choose between strength and death on her twenty-fifth birthday.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #HF - 97K

Will her need for strength consume her, and how many must die for her to find out?
The Hollow - title slide. Isabella is shown, a young woman with a leather coat walking in snow. Horror 97K themes / tropes - won't die, wealth porn, competence porn, monsters all over, dual timelines, strong female mc, one last scare, no communication, abandoned place, and a view of the vampire king's crypt is a red brick church long abandoned. writing snippet - text not included here the pitch is a visual path of the story structure. Dracula is the classic story updated in 'Salem's Lot, no no, 2023, then flip the story and tell the villain's pov, add The Godfather, twists & turns, dual themes, and you get ... The Hollow
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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kyoungwrites.bsky.social
Introducing an Editors Guide to: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CALLIOPE LECLAIRE

🧡 YA romantic fantasy standalone
🌌 dual-POV
⏳ grumpy x sunshine
🌠 sister-story
💌 gods based on human psyche
💫 whimsical island in the sky
🕰️ identity & self-acceptance

#questpit #F #YA #RF #AG #OS
January 31, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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wintersleep85.bsky.social
NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Hana believes she is meant to save the world, Matthias wants it to end, Kalyn will cross lines to save everyone, and Prince Evan is just along for the ride. An oppressive anti-magic order and demons aren't as difficult as working together.

#questpit #A #F #Q
A foggy street. Legs on rocky ground. A woman. A vintage woman. A man. A gas mask. A bird. A fence. Nature in sunlight.
January 31, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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juliatrudell.bsky.social
DAISY JONES & THE SIX x THE BIG CHILL x TALKING AT NIGHT by CLAIRE DAVERLEY

🌼The Kids Are Alright🌼
Upmarket/vintage fiction | 74,000 words

#questpit #Q #A #HF #U #R
Movie poster for The Kids Are Alright
January 31, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF
January 31, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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karasiert.bsky.social
A reluctant soldier and his steadfast partner embark on a final mission to investigate the horrors appearing across the land. The truth may unravel them both.

💀Seven deadly sins as monsters
🩸Chronic illness
🥀Religious themes
🖤Found family
#W #YA #F #H #questpit
Image shows a dark floral background with four photos: a stone angel statue, a stone cathedral, hands reaching for the sky, and a skull. Text reads: “Who will I be if I return?” with name Kara Siert in the bottom corner.
January 31, 2026 at 1:11 PM