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Luna is querying 💫 @lunacwriting.bsky.social · 8d

A morally grey Snow White reimagining where the "fairest of them all" is cursed with ice powers and snow blooming across her skin—vitiligo the world calls monstrous.
A prophecy says only the Andes realm heir can stop her.
Too bad their souls are bound.
#PicantePit #Drafting #F #R

A moodboard including pictures of: a hand reaching for an apple,
a quote from my book: “They never said anything about missing your skin. Could that happen? Could someone miss their skin?”,
two hands clasping over a sword, an anatomical heart frozen held in someone’s hand, an illustration made by me of the two MC's, their faces are pressed close, snow-covered, twisted tree branches, an andean condor with a red eye, a pale hand lying in the snow, a few ponchos in red, black, and cream hues.

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Phi at the Long Way Down book series @longwaydownbook.bsky.social · 8d

Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do.

The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?

#PicantePit #A #SP #Drafting

There is a grid of nine square photos with a dark blue background around them. All the photos are darkened and desaturated. In the top left photo Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is squatting close to the ground beside a tree trunk with his hands clasped one over the other. The top middle photo is a series of silhouettes of gravestones, the faint outline of a mountain in the background. The top right is a paved bridge that extends into fog, with metal railings on either side and branches along the top edge of the image. The centre left photo is a blurred, dark image of lines on a road and a streak of a headlamp above. The centre middle is a starry night sky surrounded by black silhouettes of tree tops. Centre right is a lighter photo of a roadway and field beyond, with a white Mini driving on it. The bottom left photo is of several leafless young trees beside a lake. The bottom middle photo is a low-angle shot of a cobblestone wall and memorial obelisk atop it. In the bottom right image, Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, moves along a hedge in a black leather jacket with a wary expression on her face

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Luna is querying 💫 @lunacwriting.bsky.social · 8d

Broke & drowning in maladaptive daydreams, Isabel wishes one could come true.
It does.
Now she's ghostwriting a play, the weather reacts to her emotions, and she must live with the man she's envied for years.
Falling in love? That wasn't part of the wish.
#PicantePit #PitQ #R #CR #MR

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Luna is querying 💫 @lunacwriting.bsky.social · 8d

A woman with vitiligo and ice powers is hunted by the Andes realm's heir—but her touch doesn't kill him; it soothes his hidden demon blood.
They bargain to save each other.
Now their souls are bound, and losing him will kill her too.
#PicantePit #A #F #R #Drafting

An illustration by me (@/LunaCWriting) of the main characters of my romantic fantasy MS. Their faces are pressed close, and as Nieves touches Sol’s cheek with one finger, ice blooms from her touch.

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Spoukee PD 🏳️‍⚧️ #CommissionsOpen @pdloupee.blog · 8d

THE DISPOSSESSEDxFINAL FANTASY VII

Elren enlists in the military in hopes of finding a cure for his ailing mother, but the train taking him and his mates to boot camp is hijacked by rebels, landing him on the lap of a magic ploy he's not entirely willing to take part on.

#PicantePit #YA #GN #PitQ

comic book cover. People gathered around a bonfire in front of old temple ruins

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Spoukee PD 🏳️‍⚧️ #CommissionsOpen @pdloupee.blog · 8d

METRO 2033xNOTES FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD

Piotr defects from a totalitarian regime only to face jail time. Decades later, Skaz, a UN investigator, visits the same place he came from, and how their stories connect will unfurl the whole meaning of the word "family."

#PicantePit #A #GN #Drafting

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 8d

There’s something in the water 🌊

When an island whispers different versions of unwritten local legends & turning into a creature of the deep as a result of heartbreak makes you want to drown your ex- no one is safe

Especially not the exes

#PicantePit #A #NA #R #Spec #F #PitQ

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 8d

The love lives of two sisters become complicated after they develop the ability to sense love. As Ella and Ivy navigate a world where direct use of magic has been banned they become all the more curious about the unknown of forbidden magic ✨

#Picantepit #A #NA #F #R #PitQ

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Gizelle @gizellemoney.bsky.social · 8d

She doesn’t know the masked prince is the one her scars were destined to find. One kiss brings him ruin and awakens a love spanning lifetimes. But prophecy binds them as each other’s fate, and only through destruction can their truth endure. ⚔️ #PicantePit #F #A #PitQ

Digital illustration of a masquerade ball. A masked man in a white and silver suit leans in to kiss a woman wearing a jeweled, peacock-inspired gown. His hand holds her waist as her head tilts back. The scene captures forbidden passion and ruin through a single kiss.

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 8d

🇸🇻 Precolonial Central America 🇸🇻

Itotia’s a healer’s apprentice struggling to meet her mentor’s expectations. Metztli is a deity who hates worship. When Itotia binds them together, Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she'd thought...

#PicantePit #PitQ

A movie poster featuring two people kissing overlayed over the side of Teotihuacán's pyramid of the sun and foliage from a jungle in El Salvador.

Text says:

Enemies to Lovers
Non-Western Mythology
LGBTQIA+ romantasy
Tethered enemies

"A dual-POV adult romantasy steeped in Nahua (Pipil) belief, set against the lush tapestry of precolonial Central America." — Fans of Maiga Doocy's Sorcery and Small Magics

Title: TO BECOME THE MOON

Now Querying

Adult, romantasy, 90,000 words

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Kelly Esparza Is Pitching in DVPit! @kellyesparza.bsky.social · 8d

NOT QUITE DEAD YET x GLASS ONION
At her sis’s party, Abby Martinez doesn’t expect to:
😡 find out her sis is still angry over a fight 1 yr ago
💔 face her cheating ex
🔪 get murdered
As a ghost, Abby must solve her own murder b4 more guests die & pass on to the afterlife.
#PicantePit #A #M #P #F #R

mood board for my adult speculative/paranormal murder mystery--what's pictured: snowy woods, woods, snowy cabin, ghost, blood, tree branches, eerie moon/sky, footprints in snowy ground

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 8d

Baldur’s Gate✖️High Maintenance
MCs:
🧙country wizard 🌈💖 rogue mafioso🗡️
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🛡️ex-princess merc 👩👧 hunted sorceress🪄

👀 multi-POV side quest givers:
🪚 orc dad carpenter
🧚 fairy in peril
👻 duchess w/ a pesky dead aunt
🐲 brainwashed dragon
💀 death match fighter
+ more!
#F #PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 8d

As Ozy studies necromancy to find a way to resurrect his family, he must avoid the killer lurking in the shadows of the scholomance. However the killer just might be the undead Annabel, whose fractured memories make her wonder if she really is the murderer.
#PicantePit #PitQ

Some skulls without their lower jawbone piled on top of each other.

Open pages of different arcane textbooks. The top left one shows different bones, top right one show different plants, bottom right one show scales about the orbit of the moon and planets, and the bottom left one has many words written on it.

A shot of someone's chin and neck. Their teeth are sharp and pointed and blood covers their mouth and runs down their chin and neck.

Black and white photo of a medieval sarcophagus next to an arched window.

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Aliash Rodri @aliashrodri.bsky.social · 8d

TOO SOON FOR ADIOS X YOU WITH A VIEW

When an opportunity to ditch her old life presents itself, Camila takes the first flight to Mexico to claim an inheritance and rediscover her roots, but her dead grandpa and an ex-pro bull rider have other plans.

#PicantePit #A #R #PitQ

Picture of a woman standing in the desert with a blurb, "The only thing she wanted was to claim her inheritance and reconnect with her roots while avoiding her problems.
Her dead grandpa had other plans.
Stranded in Mexico, Camila is thrown back together with a childhood friend turned celebrity who happens to own the other half of her grandpa’s estate. A dark family secret threatens to send her spiraling, unless she can let her past go and learn to love and trust again."

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Aliash Rodri @aliashrodri.bsky.social · Jun 3

Updated #agentguide for my revised contemporary romance X women's fiction. 🤗

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Kerrie Faye, Author of Dead Girl @kerriefayebooks.bsky.social · Jan 17

GLADIATOR X POWERLESS

What would you do to protect those you love?

You’d BLEED.

Him for revenge.

Her to protect.

But in the arena, the false queen only cares that you bleed to…

DEATH.

#P2Ppit #UW #YA

Image shows blood dripping.

“It all comes down to blood, what’s hidden within it and who’s willing to bleed for it.”

Image shows blood dripping and the Blurb for the story.

Image shows a drama mask and the comps, tropes, and meta data for story

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Yalda is AGENTED💫 @yaldacollection.bsky.social · Jan 17

THE MAID X THE OFFICE X OMITB

A trio of coworkers must find their office manager's killer, amid their colleagues, before their scathing resignation emails are discovered making them the prime suspects. #P2Ppit

🏃‍♀️Escape room
🏭Manufacturing
👫Office romance
👷‍♀️Team building 🗡

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gabby is now ✨elle reed✨ @gabbywrites.bsky.social · Jan 17

Heartbreak anyone? ❤️‍🩹

Turns out having to spend the summer planning the town’s Centennial with your former best friend and first love that you haven’t seen in two years is a recipe for yearning. But don’t worry, the author told me it’s a happy ending 😊

#P2Ppit #Q #YA #R

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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 @cmsullivan.bsky.social · Jan 17

#P2Ppit 📖 DAWN OF MORROW

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER x THE JASMINE THRONE: When a resistance fighter fails to assassinate the princess of an enemy kingdom, they team up as unlikely allies to save their warring countries from power-hungry gods and a spreading wasteland.

#UW #A #F #Q

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Kyra is 👹querying👹 @kyrarain.bsky.social · Jan 17

ETHEL CAIN & RACHEL GILLIG’s HERETIC DAUGHTER 🪶

Eden lives trapped in her father’s manor. But when he disappears and she’s discovered by two brothers, she must confront the darkness that swims in her veins—lest she lose the only love she’s ever known.
#P2Ppit #Q #A #RF #F

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Amelia @ameliagthorn.bsky.social · Jan 17

Pitching my book by its villain.

🌙 the Gods killed all he loved.
🌙 he's out to kill the Gods.
🌙 a brainwashed Veteran.
🌙 raised as cannon fodder.
🌙 in love with the MC.
🌙 the feeling is mutual.

“your first mistake was thinking people like you and I were born to do anything but burn.”

#P2Ppit #F

Described from top left to bottom left

TL: a man crouched over as a cannon fires in the background
TM: a dragon setting a city ablaze
TM: a silhouette standing over a burning city
TR: an army parted down the middle.
BL: a silhouette fading away into smoke
BM: a pair of hands c,ucthing a gun, pointed at one of their chests
BM: a hand on fire
BR: molten lava being poured into a mould.

At the centre of the aesthetic is a quote “all this death, all this blood in the name of false prophets.”

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kate is here! @akatepockett.bsky.social · Jan 17

‘Til death do us part’ seems far fetched—until Odessa is haunted by the spirits of the murdered queens before her.

Warned she is next in the grave, Odessa must escape to survive. The queens agree to help, but their aid comes with a deadly price: vengeance.

#P2Ppit #UW #YA #F

collage of several images featuring torn paper, renaissance art of crowns, hands soaked in blood, a wrist with a vampire bite, flowers, and the quote “like moths to a flame, we are drawn to the darkness of our love”

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Danielle D Drummond 📚🖋️ is querying @danidrummondauthor.bsky.social · Jan 17

In Evermore, every new life is linked to the eternal flame and gifted an everlasting life. All but one. . . She has a never life. Never seen, never heard, never loved. She is the Never Girl.
🗡️Feminine rage
🗡️Unknown lineage
🗡️FMC on the run
🗡️Cursed life
🗡️Enemies to lovers
#P2Ppit #UA #W #A #F #RF

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Berna is querying 🧿 @bernawrites.bsky.social · Jan 17

Hell has a housing crisis. Time for the Lady of the Underworld to visit Earth, do some reverse PR and uncover the game one sneaky demon is playing. All with a smitten Grim Reaper in tow.
#satanwip2 #P2Ppit #amdrafting #rf #romcom

A collage of a hot woman and men in various poses, flames, and a very seductive apple

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