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Yaira Pujols

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Writer | Ya romance WIP: Reverie London & Zurich

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · May 7

When sheltered Catalina Wesley falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear, and his greatest desire—death

#W #FR #PR #YA #Questpit

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · Jul 11

If I could summarise REVERIE just with music, these are the songs that shaped and inspired my angsty vampire romance

#PlaylistPitch #YA #ROM #FANTASY #Hozier

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · May 7

Me too😭

Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · May 7

REVERIE, an angsty vampire romance.

When sheltered Catalina Wesley falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear, and his greatest desire—death

#YA #FR #W #Questpit #R

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · May 7

I wrote an angsty vampire romance inspired on:

👑 THE LITTLE PRINCE.👑

When a sheltered girl falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear and his greatest desire-death

#YA #FR #W #Questpit

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Angie is ✨querying✨ @angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · May 7

An #agentsguide for AON
When Tayah sees the Obsidian Hart, her fate unravels. Now she must uncover Ravensford’s forgotten history—before she’s the next to disappear
🖤Gothic Fantasy + Feminism
🏠Sentient House
❤️‍🔥Slow-burn Romance
✨Art as Magic

#QuestPit #AF #R

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · May 7

Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R #RF
#agentsguide #amquerying

An agent’s guide to: “Mark of a Magpie”
YA Romantic Fantasy
119k Words

Behind the text is a piece of parchment paper surrounded by ocean water and gold flower outlines.

Blurb:

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy…
Ryn is a small-town thief with a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d definitely be a fool to take up, but desperation fuels ever decision she makes.
Five for Silver, Six for Gold…
Seven is set in his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. When the castle goes into lockdown, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The rich are dropped like flies, and all suspicions are on them.
Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told.

The text is on a piece of parchment paper, with ocean water and gold flower outlines behind it.

The Atmosphere:
There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand.

Behind the collage of pictures are ocean waters, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · May 7

OUABH X BELLADONA

When a sheltered girl falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear and his greatest desire-death

Completed at 100k

#YA #FR #W #Questpit

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · May 7

THE SPELLMAN FILES × DEADBEAT DRUID

Washed-up magician🃏Rick Firestick finds a thrift store snowglobe🔮that grants real magic🪄—until the snow settles. Now he's being hunted by a warlock✨ who wants it back.

#QuestPit #A #CF #W

The image shows a book cover for "THRIFT MAGIC" by B. Van Bodegom. The cover features rich red theater curtains as the background with a spotlight effect creating a beam of light in the center. In the foreground is a small round table covered with a red tablecloth. On the table sits a magician's top hat with a magic wand resting across it. The title "THRIFT MAGIC" appears in large, bright yellow lettering at the top of the cover, with a slightly distressed texture. At the bottom of the cover in white text are the words "A NOVEL BY B. VAN BODEGOM." The overall aesthetic evokes the atmosphere of stage magic and theatrical performance.

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · May 7

SHARP OBJECTS + A STUDY IN DROWNING + COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

🌨️ grief & sisterhood
✨ forgotten magic
🪻 "memory is a punishment"
🔪 an academy w/ rotten sins
🌊 toxic friendships

#questpit #W #YA #F #OWN

A mood board with an text snippet. The text reads: 'I’m glad I’m the sick one. The one that hears things and sees fading silhouettes. I hope my sister is always happy and never suffers at the hands of her own thoughts like I do.' The mood board features 9 images. A snowy path with a blood trail. A foggy landscape of araucarias. An embordered cloth with the words: 'God loves you. But not enough to save you.' A collection of dark paintings. The front of a castle. A painting of two people kissing. A white silhouette looking as a ghost in the threshold. A painting of someone holding a book. And a hand, drowning in a body of water.

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · May 7

I Saw the TV Glow x Galaxy Quest. A disgraced showrunner commissions a spell to force the cast of his cancelled vampire show VALLEY VAMP to do a reboot, but the spell goes awry and the cast becomes their characters… at Comic Con. Even the dead one. #questpit #w #a #h

Character board for VALLEY VAMP. Rebecca Price is giving GOOP vibes with sunshine and avocado, and is linked to Daniel Silver by a divorce decree. Daniel is still living his best Michelob Ultra Teen Choice Awards life. Sasha Shannon is making a living on Only Fans. Madison Silver now does music, being gay, and hailing Satan. She is connected with rainbow hearts to Casey Jackson, who was presenting as a boy at the time she was on the show and has recently written a tell-all.

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Willy is writing disaster jocks 🏈🌲 @mmwilliams24.bsky.social · Mar 17

When 15yo Ref's famous hero parents are attacked and captured on an important mission, leaving him & his friend-turned-rival Styra trapped in the Wildwood, the two must work together to escape their hunters before Ref's family line can end for good

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #YA #F

A grid of nine images

Upper left: An eye with a grey iris looks at the camera
Upper middle: There are bits of bone with runes carved into them scattered on the ground
Upper right: A moss covered branch with a few pink mushrooms growing on it.

Middle left: Several dusty, old, worn books sit on a shelf, leaning on each other
Middle: A wolf with brown fur is laying in a field and looking at the camera
Middle right: Black text on a cream-colored background that reads "I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done."

Lower left: There is a pond with a wooden dock sitting next to a simple village where the village has thatched roofs. In the water is a small, wide boat.
Lower middle: A white hand, palm facing to the sky, rests on top of water.
Lower right: Two hand axes with intricately carved wooden handles sit on top of some straw, laid over each other to look like an X

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · May 7

Grim Portents

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of

📖 #Q #A #DF #PR #Hu #H #QuestPit

Cover for Grim Portents featuring a skeleton hand gripping a feather, emerging from a flaming book over a maze

Poster Cover for Grim Portents featuring Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan. Behind them are a girl with glowing eyes and a glowing book, a woman with a shotgun, two shadow creatures, and the face of a demon. The words GRIM PORTENTS are big and in a classic Indiana Jones Style font

"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow.
But now the monster had been given a name, an identity.
It was real."
BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK.
NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS.
FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · May 7

You would love it then 🤣 some readers said it had twilight vibes.

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Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · May 7

THE SPELLSHOP x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company.

#QuestPit #A #RF #F #agentsguide #disabilityrep #chronicillnessrep #cozyromanticfantasy

A slide with green leaves and green watercolor stains says "The Pitch: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company." A black cat looks over it's shoulder at the text in the bottom right corner.

Tropes and Highlights include: found family, one bed at the inn, witches and familiars, cozy vibes, grumpy + sunshine, bi-for-bi romance, chronic illness rep, and foraging dates. Think, The Spellshop X Howl's Moving Castle. This text is on top of a green slide with green watercolor splotches and leaves. The book covers for The Spellshop and Howl's Moving Castle are in the center of the image.

Comps is written in the corner. Four book covers are shown in a row. Under the Whispering Door + Legends & Lattes + The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches = Potions Unincorporated. The words The Humor, The Cozy Fantasy Vibes, and The Romance make up the formula for the not yet published book on the far right. The slide is green with green water color splotches. A green vine is on the top right and the outline of a leaf and two mushrooms is on the bottom right.

First Lines is written at the top of the slide. The Text in the middle is on a tan, worn looking page background which says: Potions Unincorporated. Twelve vials sat on a shelf where one hundred should rest. Linatta Mosset picked up one of the tapered glasses---thumb-sized and filled to the brim with a warm, green liquid.

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danny is ✨querying✨ @dainathomps.bsky.social · May 7

For my last pitch, I thought I'd share the fun little cover I made for my book 🖤

🥀⚔️A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD⚔️🥀

A 106,600-word adult romantasy for fans of the dark, witty banter in SERPENT & DOVE and the bleak, mysterious tone of THE BONE SEASON.

#questpit #Q #A #F

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Chantrell @chan-trell.bsky.social · Apr 19

“Lady in Blue”

ALICE IN WONDERLAND X MORRISON’S JAZZ

When Icela runs away from the debutante ball she expects her mother to come looking for her, but instead she finds herself alone in a town where she has to depend on unusual strangers to help her home.

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #YA #NA #HF #R

A young woman looking unimpressed as someone brushes her hair. Blue television aesthetic. Old 1950s televisions stacked on top of one another all with varying images; yellow bees pollinating a sunflower; record player; purple and blue colorized tunnel like in Coraline; sketch of a man; boy with glasses; large body of water; flower in bloom. Text on image to provide information on title, genre, and themes. Quote from the late-great writer, Toni Morrison from her novel, Sula: “In the woods. Where wild women grow.” Alice in Wonderland-inspired love story.

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · May 7

NAUSICAÄ x EMILY WILDE

Can a natural historian save the one she loves at the cost of her heart, or worse, her research?

🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative world
🪲 Sentient beetles
🥃 Magical distilleries
😈 9ft tall demon marionettes
🌌 The night trapped as a mortal
🎩 Regency vibes
❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn

#questpit #Q #A #F #RF

A collage of images, going from top left clockwise: a bouquet of colorful berries, swooping white towers with spiral balconies, a shiny purple beetle, a colorful shop full of knick-knacks, a blooming crocus in a dark forest, a drawing of a woman reaching out to the night sky as if to pluck a star, a crumbling castle on a moor, and mushrooms growing on a tree. In the center is a quote by Virginia Woolf: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”

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Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · May 7

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP

A retired explorer, torn between the inevitability of losing his wife and a desire to return to the wild, fixates on a towering, imprisoned forest.
Driven by an esoteric rumour, he heads for the forest.

And he will regret every choice from then on...
#QuestPit #A #T #SF

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · May 7

MONSTER HIGH X CHEER UP: LOVE AND POMPOMS

Of Fangs and Fugues - YA Cozy Paranormal Romance
#QuestPit #W #YA #PR

A werewolf clarinetist with a fear of vampires enlists an agoraphobic pianist to help her win a band solo. Their easy relationship is tested when the pianist reveals she's a vampire!

Counter clockwise: marching band, clarinet, of fangs and fugues, piano, full moon, vampire, color swtach

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Raven Demory is Agented! @saintserene.bsky.social · May 7

SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER X SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

A graverobber is hired to find a missing corpse. The corpse has other plans.

#QuestPit #A #F #Q #H

A mood board with various rusty places covered in greenery, along with flowers and preraphaelite paintings.

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Rissa Allen (is querying) @honeyscribbles.bsky.social · May 7

CATCH YOU IN THE TREES is a YA thriller set in the Pacific NorthWest where, in order to clear her name, a high school senior must team up with her XC co-captain and nemesis, the boyfriend of a missing girl—and the last person to see her alive.

#questpit #Q #YA #T #agentguide

An agent’s guide to Catch You In the Trees
YA thriller romance
Approximately 92k words

Comp Titles:
Nothing More to Tell, Karen McManus
AGGGTM, Holly Jackson
They’ll Never Catch Us, Jessica Goodman

Unconventional Comps
The Marauders Era
PLL (2010)
Cruel Summer (2021)
Tropes/Vibes
Rivals to lovers
Running culture
Private school
Chaotic academia
Dual timeline
Dual pov
Ride or die friendships
A good old murder board

It’s always the boyfriend, right? Mowich Bay can take one vanishing teen, but not two. 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’s 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 somebody’s going to end up dead.

Snippet
Hayes takes my hand, wrapping his fingers firmly around mine. “Deal.” His eyes glint an odd silver in the chrome and linoleum hallway and I think of people making deals with devils at cross roads. 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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Lindsay is ✨ AGENTED✨ @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · May 7

THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON x FIVE BROKEN BLADES

A sticky-fingered tavern girl scoops up abandoned plans to steal jewels. With a couple of pals and a lil gumption, she could be free to travel the world.

How hard could a heist really be? Boys do it.

#QuestPit #OS

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Anna Deh @annadehwrites.bsky.social · May 7

MONSTERS INC X NOSFERATU

YA Horror Romance

When a horror fan’s exorcism fails, she finds that the monsters aren’t just on the page—they’re real, and she must blend in their world while finding a way back to the world of the living before the monsters discover she isn’t one of them
#questpit #YA

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you💗 was going for the angst