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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · 8d
Serpent & Dove X In the veins of the drowning 🐍 🌊

🌶️ Bloodbound to a ruthless hunter, surviving each other might be hardest task 🩸

🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits
#Questpit #NA #F #R
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arappleby.bsky.social
The Poison Chalice

Charmed x Shadow hunters x A Touch Of Darkness

Condemned to purgatory she must make a deal with the Maith for her kind, the son of the devil has other ideas.

❤️ He falls first/harder
🤫 Family secrets
😓 Betrayals

#questpit #A #F #RF #DF #W
Collage with A Touch of Darkness, Filthy Rich Vampires, Shadow Hunters, and charmed vibes. Road showing a quote from the MMC reads “All I know is she will destroy me. I will let her.” Vibe board inclusive of elemental magic, Charmed and Shadow hunters.
January 31, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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lawilding.bsky.social
EMILY WILDE X DIVINE RIVALS

To win her independence, the granddaughter of a famed botanist must team up with a brilliant, brooding scholarship student to unlock the secrets of a dying magical garden, even as their rivalry blossoms into something more. 🌿✨

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R
January 31, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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lawilding.bsky.social
EMILY WILDE X DIVINE RIVALS

To win her independence, the granddaughter of a famed botanist must team up with a brilliant, brooding scholarship student to unlock the secrets of a dying magical garden, even as their rivalry blossoms into something more. 🌿✨

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R
January 31, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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brookbwrites.bsky.social
MY FRIENDS x EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD

A boy with secrets to hide collides with a girl who is used to running away, leaving both with broken walls and fractured, but healing, hearts.

✨ past trauma and grief
🧠 mental health rep
🖋️ college campus setting

#QuestPit #Q #A #NA
“THE STARS & THE GHOST THEY CREATED” UPMARKET CONTEMPORARY ADULT/NEW ADULT PREMISE * When a college student with secrets to hide collides with a girl who is used to running away, neither knows just how deep the cracks in their foundations might go-but sometimes the walls must fall for the beauty beneath to be revealed. COMPS • Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead • My Friends • The Wedding People • Eleanor Oliphan is Completely Fine SNIPPET CHAPTER 1 The monster never gets forgiven in fairy tales. I've read enough to know. The grating rasp of my fingernails scraping against the already-torn skin of my fingers echoes through my bones. Rattling. Never settling. The air hums with overlapping sounds—a symphony of incessant buzzing that crescendos into an eerie ringing. I don't know whether it's coming from the electric lights that cast a ghostly halo onto the sidewalk beneath me or from somewhere deep inside my body where I can't see. It's suffocating. I imagine it's what being buried alive feels like. Having your lungs fractured into pieces too small to put back together. Or like drowning. But I know what that feels like.
January 31, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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brookbwrites.bsky.social
THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

When she becomes haunted by shadows and a mysterious stranger with eyes like fire, Augusta is forced into a desolate world she’s only ever dreamed about, and must decide if she’s willing to sacrifice everything to save it.

#QuestPit #W #F #R #A
A collage featuring themes of Sun, a tower, a girl, and stars
January 31, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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lottevansande.bsky.social
JUST ADD WATER // adult contemporary romance // open door // 80K

🪼 small town
🪼 one camper / one bed
🪼 golden retriever x black cat
🪼 workplace romance
🪼 forced proximity
🪼 women in STEM

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS X GIVE ME BUTTERFLIES X NOT SAFE FOR WORK

#questpit #A #R #Q
January 31, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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I KNW WHT U DID LST SMMER x HILL HOUSE x SCOOBY-DOO (2002)

🎢 reunited friends
🎢 abandoned theme park
🎢 haunted by ghosts of guilt
🎢 dark secrets of the past
🎢 friends to strangers to lovers
🎢 for those who wished Daphne and Shaggy had a chance

#questpit #W #H #S #R
Movie poster with hand over scared woman’s mouth at top, abandoned theme park ride beneath Five can keep a secret… if all of theme are dead MYSTIC MOUNTAIN The secret unleashes late 2026 SEVEN YEARS AFTER CUTTING TIES WITH HER COLLEGE FRIENDS, WHITNEY'S TRICKED INTO REUNITING WITH THE GANG AT THE ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK WHERE HER BROTHER VANISHED, BUT WHEN THEY'RE LOCKED IN OVERNIGHT, THE PAST ISN'T THE ONLY THING THEY'RE RUNNING FROM.
January 31, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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demri18.bsky.social
BELLADONNA x MEXICAN GOTHIC

Edgar Allan Poe never wrote fiction and now his victims want revenge. When a soul-devouring spirit is released, Edgar’s daughter, Annalise, and her childhood friend, Henry, must defeat the spirit or lose their souls.

#questpit #H #YA #P Fall ‘26
January 31, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
SINNERS x THE DEVILS

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.

BIG 5 EDITOR REQUEST!

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying now!
#A #F #Q #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 from Stone 112000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Now Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark Title: Pitch Text: In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires. Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune. Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death. It is a hell of a lot of money, though. Background image: same as first slide. 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). Background image: same as first slide.
January 31, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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gabriela-stluke.bsky.social
Welcome to LAST CHANCE MATCH! A gov’t-funded dating show where the deadly game play of SQUID GAME + tech horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND.

𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧?

#questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D
Villa with camera lens overlay showing “recording” Lights, CamBot, Bloodbath Adult Speculative Sci Fi Psychological Horromance LAST CHANCE MATCH Now revising with WriteHive
January 31, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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sh-even.bsky.social
There is no honor among thieves, but what happens when there is love?

To earn a royal pardon, a rivaling spy and a noble bastard go tomb raiding with five criminals to end a war between two gods, but resurrect a third god instead.

#questpit #NA #Fantasy #R #Q #lgbt
January 31, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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mariekesmbooks.bsky.social
WREN MARTIN X NOBODY IN PARTICULAR

One rumor wrecks his reputation.
One boy makes him feel seen.
One viral song could give him his voice back… or expose the closeted footballer he’s falling for.

Setting: Amsterdam
Meet cute: a cat café

#AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit
6 Photos, in between the text: rumors. A blond boy with a guitar, an Amsterdam canal with bikes, a Black soccer (football) player, a sleeping cat, an image of a cat café, the demisexual flag.
January 31, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!

✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest

#A #F #H #R
An Agent Guide to GUMIHO 86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance By Jennifer Luce The pitch: Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous. For fans of... SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore MY DEMON - Redemption through connection THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero First Lines Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 AM
ncrystalauthor.bsky.social
Serpent & Dove X In the veins of the drowning 🐍 🌊

🌶️ Bloodbound to a ruthless hunter, surviving each other might be hardest task 🩸

🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits
#Questpit #NA #F #R
January 31, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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morgan-writes.bsky.social
Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're extremely attracted to each other.

It's only natural that they become friends with benefits.

All too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything.

#QuestPit #R #Q #A
January 31, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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sunsetsorcerer.bsky.social
TENDER IS THE FLESH X ARCANE X CYBERPUNK 2077

Life is a struggle underground, but no one resorts to cannibalism.

No one except Jette, and she hates how much she wanted it.

🌃 Subterranean Civilization
💔 Fractured Family
🤢 Weird Body Horror

Querying now!
#A #F #Q #POC #BluePit 📖
#amquerying
Image: An dilapidated underground alley dimly lit, covered in graffiti and populated by shadowed figures. Text: A Novel by Caleb Sierra Blessed are the Hungry 80000 Words Adult Body Horror Sci-Fi Querying Now Art: Underground LAB by Marcin Rubinkowski Title: Pitch Text: Jette is conflicted to learn her adopted father might be dead. He saved her from a childhood disease, but he also controlled her with paranoid ranting about cannibals in high places wanting to steal her away. Now, government agents claim Jette's father has been eaten, undoing years of hope that he was simply delusional. In fact, they say the entirety of humanity's underground sanctuary is in danger of eating itself alive, and her family might the first on the chopping block. Jette resolves to reunite her estranged siblings, none of whom believe the cannibalistic threat to be genuine, because she knows something even the government doesn't: She was the first one to take a bite. Background image: same as first slide.
January 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
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 now!
#A #F #Q #BluePit 📖
#amquerying
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 from Stone 112000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark Title: Pitch Text: In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires. Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune. Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death. It is a hell of a lot of money, though. Background image: same as first slide. 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). Background image: same as first slide.
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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morgan-writes.bsky.social
Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're very attracted to each other.

Naturally, they become friends with benefits.

All too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything.

#bluepit 📖 #q #a #r
The image shows a woman hugging a man. To the side, the title How to Heal A Broken Heart is to the side, with the genre contemporary romance underneath. Kira Larson is newly single and hating it. For the past 2 years, her identity has been wrapped up in being one half of a pair. Lost, confused, and still in love with her ex, she's willing to do whatever it takes to get over him. Xavier Herrera has no time for relationships. He's determined to make fire captain in the next five years, and he can't afford any distractions. Let alone one that will force him to reevaluate what he's willing to sacrifice to save others. But neither of them can deny the insane chemistry between them. Desperate to forget about her ex, Kira suggests a solution for their problems: free reign to explore their physical connection with no expectations. After all, the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else... Right? The image shows a blonde woman, smiling softly at the viewer. Comp titles: Business Casual by BK Borison Funny Story by Emily Henry Next to You by Hannah Bonam-Young Tropes: Dual POV Idiots in love Initial attraction Friends with benefits to lovers A bead of sweat trails down my forehead as I walk towards the door. What in the world could be so urgent at four pm on a Monday? I have half a mind to chew out whoever’s on the other side of that door. Probably more missionaries trying to convince me to join their church or some salesman peddling insurance I have no need for. I throw the door open with a bag, my protest already on my lips. “No, I have no interest in accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and– Kira?” The sight of her makes me freeze. She looks so put together that I’m suddenly embarrassed to be greeting her in sweats and a tank top. Her blonde waves are pulled up in a well-styled bun, held together by a carefully positioned clip. I have the irrational urge to get rid of that stupid clip and wrap her hair around my fist instead. God, what the hell is it about this girl? Okay, it definitely doesn’t hurt that her short pumps and navy pencil skirt are making her legs look fantastic, but I completely forget how to function around her. She offers me a hesitant smile. “I was considering converting to Satanism myself.” “And you need me to do what? Be a willing sacrifice?” Kira’s blue eyes roam my body as I invite her into the apartment. “That wouldn’t work, they usually want virgins.” The image shows a man with long dark hair, casually seated against the corner of the frame.
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 AM
ncrystalauthor.bsky.social
Serpent & Dove X In the veins of the drowning 🐍 🌊

🌶️ Bloodbound to a ruthless hunter, surviving each other might be hardest task 🩸

🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits
#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #A #NA #F #R
January 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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lawilding.bsky.social
EMILY WILDE X DIVINE RIVALS

To win her independence, the granddaughter of a famed botanist must team up with a brilliant, brooding scholarship student to unlock the secrets of a dying magical garden, even as their rivalry blossoms into something more.

#BluePit📖 #Q #YA #NA
January 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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mynameisjoyous.bsky.social
When a Black atheist discovers she’s half of two warring magical bloodlines, she must stop a secret society from finding the Garden of Eden—and turning the mind-controlling men into gods.
THE NEAR BIBLICAL ADVENTURES OF DIAMOND DAHLIA
#QuestPit #NA #F #Q
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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alibarwrites.bsky.social
My Sister The Serial Killer X Such A Fun Age X Yellowface

💷Sterile wealth
💭Inner cynical monologues
🇬🇧UK vibes
🤰🏾Post maternity
🪞Identity and race

Murdering your ex-boss is hard. Murdering him in his Chelsea mansion? 75% harder🔪

#questpit #W #A #T
A black woman on poster with text Text on black background Text on black background Book covers on black background
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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hannahbashir.bsky.social
OF WEAVING 🪡
The Gods Were Greek II 🏛️

CIRCE x EARTHSEA

‘You will have temples dedicated to you. Great statues and hills many will climb to pray to your name. For aeons to come, you will wield power, Athena…’

#questpit #HF #WIP #F #A
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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marescreve.bsky.social
IF WE WERE VILLAINS x THE DREAMERS (2003)

Three messy bisexuals who make each other worse navigate the challenges of adulthood in 90s Europe.

💌 men who yearn
💕 bisexual love triangle
📚 antique bookshops
🗡️ support women’s wrongs
🌾 working class immigrant MC
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ rep

#questpit #Q #A #LF
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK

A biracial woman returns to her birthplace in S. Korea where she must choose between unearthing her family's history of disappearances—and the truth buried in her grandmother's garden—or become the next woman claimed by the its dark history.

#questpit #A #F #H #W
When Seo-Yun returns to her estranged and ailing grandmother’s island estate to investigate her family’s history of disappearances, she finds the once-illustrious house steeped in rot and the prized garden now withered and dying. As Seo-Yun's physical and mental health deteriorate, her grandmother’s inexplicably improves. The decay in the house mysteriously begins to heal, while creeping vines from the garden hungrily spread throughout the halls, whispering warnings of a faceless ghost that draws closer each passing night. On the verge of her mind and body unraveling, she must unearth generations of her family’s secrets—and the truth buried in her grandmother’s garden—before she becomes the next woman claimed by its dark history. Photo grid: statue covered in ivy, a woman staring into the forest, a woman covered in a sheet, a person wrapped in ivy, a picture of a woman's face scratched out, a woman standing in fog, a moth on a hand, a person sitting in the dark, a hand wrapped in ivy
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM