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Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · Jul 19

#Agentsguide to my adult romantic fantasy.

⚔️Extreme Enemies-to-Lovers
🔥Slow-Burn or Bust
🐺Cursed Gods
🍆=Sacred, ❤️=💀
🧿Culture Clash

#agentguide #amquerying #romanticfantasy #writingcommunity

An agent's guide to
Ballad of the Priestess
Adult Romantic Fantasy
96,000 words

Pitch

In Devira, a hidden society of warrior women, sex is sacred and romance is punishable by death. Priestess Namielle has spent a decade training to seal away the wolf god who devoured her mother. When she’s summoned to the kingdom of Ignis to help cure a deadly plague, she believes the mission will bring her one step closer to vengeance. But inside the palace, she finds herself drawn to Tiras, the enigmatic servant of the royal family.

As forbidden feelings ignite, Namielle is torn between avenging her mother’s death or surrendering her heart to the one who caused it. Because Tiras is no servant.
He’s the god she came to destroy.

Illustration of a priestess dancing with fire.

Comps

The Jasmine Throne (Cultural richness, slow burn)
Meets
Elfen Lied (A love too horrifying to exist, yet, too profound to sever)

Tropes and Themes

Feminine Reckoning
High-Stakes Strategic Slow-Burn
God in Disguise
Enemies-to-Lovers-?
Sex-Positive Matriarchal Society
Anti-colonialism
Grief and Healing

From his loins, creation.
From his lips, corruption.
-Deviran Proverb

Illustration of a man in furs holding a wolf mask.

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Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t just leave it off at cannibal horses 😵

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Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

JASAD HEIR x ELFEN LIED

She watched a 50-ft wolf god eat her mom.

Now she’s falling for the kind servant…
who’s secretly the wolf god.
Oops.

🔥Romantasy but unhinged
🧿 Persian-inspired culture
⚔️ Extreme enemies-to-lovers
💀 Love is a crime
🩺 Complex PTSD Themes

#DVPit #A #F #MENA #POC #WOC #BVM

Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

JASAD HEIR X ELFEN LIED

She watched the wolf god devour her mother. Now she’s falling in love with the servant—the monster in disguise.

⚔️Extreme Enemies-to-Lovers
🔥Slow-Burn or Bust
🐺Cursed Gods
❤️‍🔥Sex=sacred, love=death
🧿 Persian-Inspired
🩺 Complex PTSD Themes

#DVPit #A #F #MENA #POC #WOC #BVM

Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh Sailor Moon. Sounds interesting.

Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

This is so cute! 🥰

Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

This is very interesting and highly relevant.

Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

JASAD HEIR X ELFEN LIED

She was trained to slay monsters.
To cripple lovesick men.

But when the wolf god who devoured her mother held her in his arms—then flinched at his own tenderness—she screamed for the monster to come back.

Because the man was worse.

#DVPit #A #F #MENA #POC #WOC #BVM

Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

JASAD HEIR X ELFEN LIED

❤️‍🔥 BALLAD OF THE PRIESTESS❤️‍🔥

“From his loins, creation.
From his lips, corruption.”

⚔️Extreme Enemies-to-Lovers
🔥Slow-Burn or Bust
🐺Cursed Gods
🍆=Sacred, ❤️=💀
🧿🇮🇷 Persian Inspired
🩺 Realistic Depictions of Trauma

#DVPit #A #F #MENA #POC #WOC #BVM

Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · 3d

This is really interesting! Love seeing Palestinian mythology.

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Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · Aug 19

Absolutely spot on. 🤣

Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · Aug 19

Comped a cult classic anime because I couldn’t find anything in western literature that had the same relationship dynamic and still got passed on for being too similar. 😭

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Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · Aug 19

Worried your story isn’t original enough?

✨Beast eats Beauty’s mom. Beauty faces execution for breaking her village’s “no catching feelings” law.✨

Agents: “Sorry, too similar to a client’s story.”

#amquerying #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AuthorProblems #WriterLife

a black and white cartoon of spongebob squarepants sitting at a table with a cup of coffee .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of spongebob squarepants sitting at a table with a cup of coffee .

media.tenor.com

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krys plummer @krysplummer.bsky.social · Apr 19

RAYBEARER X PRISON HEALER

When captured by the god-like beings colonizing her world, a Black teen navigates fate versus choice.

#PosterPitQ #YA #F

EPIC FANTASY WHERE EVERYONE FAFO

NEW MAGIC SYSTEM AND LORE

ACTION, ROMANCE, MANIPULATION AND TWISTS

WITH

A BLACK FMC AS THE RELUCTANT CHOSEN ONE

AND

COMPLEX ENSEMBLE CAST WHO DRIVE THE PLOT FORWARD

THE AREYNIAN STORM
A YA FANTASY BY KRYS PLUMMER

WHEN CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO GOD-LIKE BEINGS VYING TO BECOME THE NEW HBIC, AN EMOTIONAL SIDE CHICK, AND DEATH'S IMMINENT ARRIVAL, SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ART REALIZES A SAVAGE TRUTH:
POWER GRANTS CHOICES.
EVERYONE EXPECTS HER TO SAVE HER WORLD, BUT SAVIORS ARE MAIDS AND WE HAVE NO MAIDS HERE.

NOW QUERYING

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · Aug 14

Write what you want to read

Publishing: but not like that

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Animals R Us… 🐾 @animalsrus.bsky.social · Aug 14

Someone wants to say Hi… ☺️
🦜

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Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · Aug 6

JASMINE THRONE X ELFEN LIED
❤️‍🔥BALLAD OF THE PRIESTESS❤️‍🔥

Priestess Namielle has trained her whole life to destroy the wolf god who devoured her mother. She falls for a mysterious servant who harbors a monstrous secret: he’s her mother’s killer.

#questpit #Q #A #RF #EnemiestoLovers

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Aug 6

HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS

Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#Questpit #Vague

The main characters of Aaron’s Queer YA Fantasy that’s currently Vague 👀 and based on the Central African folklore of the Underworld of Kalunga

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There IS a Doctor in the House, MD🩺 @allgoodthingsmd.bsky.social · Aug 6

WAR STORIES

"life should come with a trigger warning"

The Pitt x Crash x Memento

While learning to readjust to life and recover from past trauma, an ER doc shares in the struggles of an army vet whose traumatic experiences mirror his own

blending memory x reality

#questpit #w #a #t

Poster for WAR STORIES. Military paraphernalia and a scrubs with a stethoscope

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Sahar سحر is querying ✨ @saharasgari.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ooh this looks really cool!

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christianodell.bsky.social @christianodell.bsky.social · Aug 6

Excited to present my #agentsguide for PUT IT IN REVERSE, LOTUS! an adult contemporary rom-com ft:

👥Dual POV
💰Love at First Heist
🥵Thirst Responder
🚘When fate says: No Brakes
🏡 Kin and Tonic Family
🫣 “When he tries to stand on business but ends up on his knees…”

#questpit #Q #A #R #amquerying

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Lily Wzy is querying an ancient Asia epic fantasy @lilywzy.bsky.social · Aug 6

Priory🍊Tree x She Who Bcame☀️

🪭Manchu+Mongol+Han inspired
🏹God blood as ink for tattoo magic
🪭An eldritch craving familial love
🏹A failing chosen one
🪭A saboteur of her own rebellion
🏹An heir w/ perfect life until the facade rips
🪭Queernorm ancient Asia

#questpit #Q #F #A #agentguide #agentsguide

An agent's guide to: when ink swallows the sun, a 108k-word adult imperial-asia epic fantasy by @lilywzy_

Illegitimate child Ning Liyue must navigate the palace to chase clues about her long-lost mother’s foreign origins. When her quest collides with a failing chosen one trying to revive his tribe’s tattoo magic, they must uncover ugly truths and survive a budding rebellion to achieve their goals—and choose their loyalties in a crumbling empire.

The released moonlight casts an ethereal glow on the Empress, darkening the surrounding night. Liyue can’t tell who started it, but hundreds of guests crumble to the ground, pressing their foreheads to the ground in uneven worship. Ten thousand years to my Empress! Their chants rise and fall and rise again until no other sound exists in the world.

Like a crane among chickens, Liyue alone remains standing, unable to remove her gaze from the Empress while others fix theirs to the floor. The star dims, liquid shadows seem to swish within it like ink as the Empress lowers the scepter. Her low-lidded gaze sweeps over her subjects and lingers on Liyue. It’s not out of curiosity toward Liyue’s unique appearance nor offense from her standing, but a disturbing satisfaction.

Who is the Jinyu Empress?

Should the heavens hear this thought and convey it to Her Majesty, Liyue’s head would roll on the ground. Bathed in the pallid moonlight that basks the feast in an inhuman coldness, she decid

themes and elements: inspired by manchu, mongol, and than. God blood as ink for tattoo magic. creation vs destruction with a twist. Duty vs desire. kindness vs ambition. 4-pov. riches to rags. failing chosen one

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cnno @cnno.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Questpit #MG #F #Q
CARIBBEAN FOLKLORE ×AMARI

Stuck with her mean aunt for the summer 12 yo Noelle accepts an invite to a secret camp where she's the only non-Magical kid

Evil magicians attack & she must find her gift & learn who the real monsters are to save her friends & learn where she belongs

Underwater caves, young Black girl. Mama D'leau old colonial house. Crown of shells

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Addy Lopez is revising @addythelopez.bsky.social · Aug 6

🐍 MEDUSA DOESN’T DIE IN THIS VERSION 🐍

May I present this short comic made by my amazing friend @thewaffledraws from a scene in my Speculative retelling of Ovid’s Medusa that I am currently querying. 👀

#questpit #Q #A #S

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wott is querying! @wottenmoss.bsky.social · Aug 6

“The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen is thrilled about it.”

🌀monstrous spirits
💕slow-burn sapphic romance
☠️murder & betrayal
✨ill-advised rituals
🌈queer & autistic cast
📚chaotic academia
🌲an ancient mystery
🎶original music
🍄mushroom forest

#questpit #q #f #ya #na #writingcommunity

wott is querying! @wottenmoss.bsky.social · Aug 6

#agentguide for WHEN THE MAGPIE FLIES (81k queer fantasy)

When troublemaker and hobbyist scholar Magpie is chosen by the spirits, she breaks an ancient tradition rather than leave her best friend behind—and brings the wrath of spirits and humans alike down upon the realm.

#questpit #Q #F

Text: An agent’s guide to When the Magpie Flies by M H Wottenmoss. Background of mountains, trees, and a giant mushroom. A magpie flies in the sky.

Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, dreams of becoming a Conduit. As the realm’s only defense against monstrous spirits, Conduits are beloved and privileged—and it’s Magpie’s best chance to escape the undertow of poverty. When a spirit chooses her for the honor, marking her with a cold, entrancing touch, her dream is suddenly within reach. To fully ascend as a Conduit, Magpie, alongside the other newly-chosen, must embark on a journey into the heart of the spiritwoods.
The only thing holding her back is her best friend, Calladonna.
There are rumors about how Conduits are changed by the mysterious journey, and Calla can’t shake the feeling that if Magpie leaves, she won’t come back. Determined to reassure her, Magpie convinces Calla to come along in secret, hidden from the other Conduits. For the first time, Magpie’s future is bright and shining—until one of the other Conduits turns up dead, and it seems like Calla may be to blame.

Comps: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: clueless lesbians, murder and betrayal, journey of ascension. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: found family, humor and darkness, perilous quest.

Also featuring undiscovered magic, monstrous spirits, chaotic academia, ill-advised rituals, haunted forest, queer & autistic ensemble cast, giant mushrooms, original music

Opening lines: The world went dark just after she jumped off the roof. In one moment she could see the clocktower before her, the ledge beneath its defunct face familiar and inviting, and in the next there was nothing. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence, necessarily, but damn if that wasn't inconvenient timing.

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