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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · 2d

ill advised bargains are the best ones 🥹😛😈

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · 2d

thank you 🥹❤️

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · 2d

🐍 SERPENT & DOVExCARIBBEAN FOLKLORE 🌴 🇹🇹

A desperate bargain forged with vengeful spirits, bound in blood to a hunter sworn to kill her kind — surviving each other might just be the hardest task.

❤️ Dark NA Romantasy
😈 Ancient Creatures
⚔️ Enemies to Lovers
🩸 Blood Bond
#DVPIT #A #NA #R #F #DF #POC

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Lotte is querying @lottevansande.bsky.social · Aug 16

JUST ADD WATER // adult romcom with open door spice

🪼 small town
🪼 one camper / one bed
🪼 golden retriever x black cat
🪼 workplace romance
🪼 one-sided rivalry
🪼 forced proximity

Querying in October ❤️

#posterpitw #posterpitq (soon) #posterpitA #posterpitR #posterpit

Movie poster with an ocean theme - clownfish and the words JUST ADD WATER, swimming into inboxes late 2025
Cynical Sedna is far from amused when cave diver Kai joins her in the tank during mermaid shows but when the two embark across Australia to help another aquarium, she finds the animals she helps aren’t the only ones swimming their way into her heart

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

🐍 SERPENT & DOVE x CARIBBEAN FOLKLORE 🇹🇹 🌴

A desperate bargain forged with vengeful spirits, bound in blood to a hunter sworn to kill her kind — surviving each other might just be the hardest task.

#PosterPit #W #A #F #RF

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Morgan is Editing @morgan-writes.bsky.social · Aug 16

A new RomCom for fans of FUNNY STORY and NEXT TO YOU.

Featuring:
💙 Kira Larson as the newly single emotional wreck
💙 Xavier Herrera as the broody neighbor
💙 Lots of shenanigans as the lines between casual hookups, friends, or maybe a bit more start to blur

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #R #W

A couple embraces in the background, the girl crying into the shoulders of the boy. The title of the project is centered on the page, reading: How to Heal a Broken Heart. Underneath is the tagline: 'The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else... Right?' At the tops of the image is a list of tropes: idiots in love, friends with benefits, and instant attraction. The words coming soon are on the bottom of the image.

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Letty Sharpe - Pitch Account @lettysharpepitches.bsky.social · Aug 15

✨VEILED ENCHANTMENTS✨

All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic and status she has been denied. Sapphic subplot!

#QueerPit #YA #F

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Jason L. @jasonlangford.bsky.social · Aug 6

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN x Over the Garden Wall
🏳️‍⚧️ boy Owen has come home from an 11-month captivity in the woods by killing the monster that held him, but when he starts changing, he realizes whoever kills the monster must replace it. #questpit #Q #YA #H #feraltransboys

A nine image moodboard of a deer skull, a boy with the face blurred out, a wolf's maw, a note saying "this is gay", a boy being beckoned into trees, a raven, hands digging into green undergrowth, two hands making a pinkie promise, and feet hanging off a ledge.

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Pamela Cochran @pamelaelaela.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE BOOKMAKER OF PELLMELL
A cynical woman who can see the future grudgingly takes over a cage fighting ring to save her sick friend—and is horrified to find that she’s excellent at it.
🌘dystopian grounded fantasy
⚖️morally gray FMC
🔥romantic subplot
🫶found family
🌈diverse cast
#QuestPit #W #A #SFF

Background: an island superimposed with a woman pressing money to her face with a blackened hand

Title: An agent's guide to THE BOOKMAKER OF PELLMELL by P. A. Cochran

Subtitle: Dystopian urban fantasy / 75k words

Background: a male fighter's back pressed against a chain-link cage

For fans of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Peaky Blinders, and The Last of Us

The pitch: Trapped in a bleak world, a cynical young woman with the ability to glimpse future possibilities grudgingly takes over running a cage fighting ring to save her sick friend--and is horrified to find that she's excellent at it.

Images: (1) a hand holding burning money (2) a figure walking down a city street filled with litter (3) an albatross flying across an orange sky (4) a crumbling hotel (5) a woman sitting at a red-lit bar (6) a fighter's back against a cage

Text: gritty neo-noir vibes | grounded fantasy | lyrical prose | FMC w/ "Breaking Bad" arc | found family | romantic subplot | cost of talent & obsession | hope's ability to save & corrupt

Opening lines:

It was the beginning of storm season, and Tremmel City was glossy and slick as a bloodied fist.

Arin didn’t mind. The wet paths up the caldera wall were dicey, but at least the rain muted the stench of trash and mule excrement. She pulled her jacket closed, the same black leather jacket she always wore. A relic of the past she couldn’t part with that swallowed her whole. She crossed her arms over her chest and climbed up the stone steps.

PENTA OR BUST

BLESS THE BRICKERS

CURB THE COGS

The graffiti was so repetitive it had long ago taken a melody in Arin’s head. She used to argue internally with each one: Don’t put your faith in the Pentathlon—only a fool would trust those odds. Don’t glorify the brickers—they only saved us once. Don’t demonize the cogs—some of us exercise self-control. But eventually the arguments petered out until all that was left was a bleak refrain.

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Kanani O’Kelly @kananiokelly.bsky.social · Aug 6

MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE

A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey.

Featuring:
🌊 Native Hawaiian Rep
🌊 Cultural Identity
🌊 Setting as a Character

#QuestPit #YA #F #W #OwnVoices #AgentsGuide

A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey.

Featuring:
Native Hawaiian Rep
Cultural Identity
Setting as a Character

The second slide showcases the pitch:

WHISPERS OF THE SEA follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom.

Keahi must voyage across the seas to this distant isle where she’ll team up with a boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.

The third slide indicates that WHISPERS OF THE SEA might appeal to fans of: Disney’s Moana, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle.

The book includes the following tropes/themes: found family, self-discovery within cultural identity, Hawaiian-inspired mythology, and adventure.

The final slide includes a snippet from the book that reads:

“Keahi’s legs were immobilized as her body tried to make the decision her mind could not. The feeling was strange for she had dreamt countless of times about leaving the island, only to seize the opportunity and awaken to find that she had been sold a nightmare instead.”

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Aug 6

I’m excited to share this #pitchcard for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, and JOHN, the YA fantasy novel I #amquerying, feat:

🏴‍☠️ LGBTQIA+ rep
👑 non-western setting
🌸 anti-colonial lens
🏴‍☠️ girls w/ swords
👑 besties-to-lovers
🌸 friendship > everything

#QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

A pitch card for YA fantasy The Pirate, The Princess, and John by @saraduranauthor, marked “Now Querying” with a gold star noting “5 full requests and counting.” The book is a standalone, complete at 82,000 words.

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Morgan is Editing @morgan-writes.bsky.social · Aug 6

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 #W #A

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Gabriela is querying a dystomance @gabriela-stluke.bsky.social · Aug 6

Dear Citizen of Calasca,

Pack your bags! I am happy to extend an invitation for you to join us on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new reality holovision program where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. We promise you’ll find the one who’s to die for.

#W #R #SF #S #QuestPit

Dark ferns background

An Agent's Guide To:
LAST CHANCE MATCH
New Adult Dystopian Romance

"Find the one who's to die for."

The Pitch:
Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Downtrodden waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

The comps:

THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver
Both with a killer reality show setting to win freedom

SILVER ELITE by Dani Francis
Both with opposing factions and biased government

HEART OF THE SUN
Both with second chances and dislike to lovers arc

The Tropes:

Arrows pointing from a mock cover of LAST CHANCE MATCH book with ferns with the following tropes:
Dystomance
Touch her and die
Dislike to locers
Forced proximity
Second chances
Soulmates

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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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Letty Sharpe - Pitch Account @lettysharpepitches.bsky.social · Aug 6

VEILED ENCHANTMENTS - 80K YA FANTASY
✨current agent interest

All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic she has been denied.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

n a school full of witches, Blake is the only one with no magic at all. She can assist but not participate. Observe but not engage. That is, until the Grandwitch arrives at the academy with a powerful necklace in tow. If Blake wants to escape her nameless fate and make her mark on the world, stealing it may be her only option.

Tropes and Comps:

Dark academia
magical academy
sapphic enemies to lobers
grumpy x grumpy
hidden family secrets
witches
lost gods

As she pushes swathes of long black hair behind her ears
and rolls up the sleeves of her turtleneck to the elbows,
I wait for her charcoal eyes to finally latch onto me, like a crocodile spying its next meal across the surface of the water.

But they never do.

She ignores me entirely, fixing her gaze instead on the skull between my hands. I can’t extinguish the flame of indignation inside me. In a more forgiving world, we would be equals. Rivals. But as things stand, I’m no more to her than the pile of dust on Eram’s desk.

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

My #agentsguide for BLOOD BOUND! an adult Romance Fantasy ft:

🩸 A Blood Bond
🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits

#questpit #W #A #F #RF

Pitch: Ayanna is a spirit walker - a person who can see and communicate with those who have passed on - just like her ancestors before her. And if she's not careful, she'll be killed like they were, too.

When a creature from the dark tales of her ancestors mortally wounds her sister, Ayanna would do anything to save her.

Even if that means entering in a desperate bargain with the spirits to bring them what they seek.

Snippet: The foul stench always gave a jumbie away.

It towered behind the man that sat in front of me, its bloated, yellowing body reminiscent of a corpse left in the sun for too long.

Thick brown liquid oozed from its teeth, arranged in circular rows. The fat droplets lazily dripped onto the wooden floor.

Tropes: Enemies x Lovers
Ancient Creatures & Monsters
Rich Caribbean Folklore
Blood Bond
Forced Proximity
Slow Burn

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Lotte is querying @lottevansande.bsky.social · Jul 13

Sharing my newest wip with a scared heart for #BluePit #A #R #wip
Working on draft 2 while I #amquerying Wild Hearts

I will be sharing more once I hit draft 4 😍

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Lotte is querying @lottevansande.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hop in loser, we’re going to South Africa

An agent’s guide to WILD HEARTS

🐆 lots of wildlife
🐆 set at a wildlife conservation in South Africa
🐆 influencer x grumpy worker
🐆 two cheeky meerkats
🐆 rewilding and releasing of cheetahs

#BluePit #q #A #R #amquerying

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maggie @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

After tragedy and family drama broke them up, Jasper and Brett moved on with their lives. Ten years later, they reunite for a wedding in the place they fell in love and fell apart. Has their dormant love story reawakened or are they just yearning for nostalgia?

#bluepit📖 #a #q #r #bluepit

an agent’s guide to
None of This Was Real
upmarket romance
89,000 words

The Pitch
Jasper and her ex reunite at the lake 10 years after a painful breakup. When feelings become too hard to ignore, Jasper must decide if she'll heal her old wounds or reopen them and risk ruining not only their repaired friendship, but her sister's wedding too.

Comps
happy place: What if your happy place
stopped being happy?
every summer after: Two timelines,
lake house setting
adelaide: Upmarket story
about heartbreak

excerpt:
“You look good.” His legs brushed against mine as he sat on the ottoman across from me.

I clutched the stem of my wine glass. “What do you mean?”

“I mean you look good.” His eyes moved from my legs to my chest, back up to my eyes. He bit his lower lip, trying to suppress his bedroom eyes.

“You as well,” I said.

Jade interrupted us to talk about wedding cake flavors.

By dinner, we were out of cocktail ingredients. Wine bottles were starting to empty. We had a big Christmas ham, a turkey and vegetarian sides for Jade’s wedding diet, Auntie Jenny’s latkes included. Jade got drunk long before we sat down and ended up eating the meat.

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Jul 13

Love this pitch!! 😍

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Kelton Davis is querying! 🏹⚔️🌠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #AmQuerying

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title Card
Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now!

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees | Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, red arrow fletching, a red forest.
Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least.
"Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
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: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
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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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Jul 13

The vibes are immaculate 🌟

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Jul 13

I need this like now!

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Rissa Allen (is querying) @honeyscribbles.bsky.social · Jul 13

NOTHING MORE TO TELL X AGGGTM

Lennie doesn’t know what happened the night her ex-bff went missing but she does know one thing: it’s always the boyfriend.

#BluePit #Q #YA #M #agentguide

An agents guide to catch you in the trees yay thriller romance approximately 90k words

It’s always the boyfriend… right? Lennie Torres’s senior year captaining the XC team turns deadly when her ex bff goes missing and she ends up a suspect. Her only way out? Team up with nemesis golden boy Lysander Hayes, the boyfriend of the missing girl and the last person to see her alive. But Lysander not the only one keeping secrets and if both Lennie and Lysander want to make it through xc season, they’re going to have to figure out how to trust each other or someone’s going to end up dead.

Comp titles: nothing more to tell, no place left to hide, they’ll never catch us
Unconventional comps: the marauders era cruel summer 2022 pretty little liars 2010
Tropes/vibes: rivals to lovers, running culture, private school, chaotic academia, dual timeline, dual pov, ride or die friendships

Hayes takes my hand, wrapping his fingers firmly around mines “Deal.” His eyes glint an odd silver in the chrome and linoleum hallway and I think of people making deals with devils at crossroads. I wonder if they get the same storm of nerves I have swirling in my blood right now.
I don’t trust Hayes.
But I need him.
“Deal.”

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Jul 13

the hook on this is *chefs kiss*

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