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Amanda Dodge

@amandadodge.bsky.social

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Ghostwriter, aspiring literary-speculative fiction author, word nerd, and all around bookworm located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, US

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Amanda Dodge @amandadodge.bsky.social · Aug 16

1952: Wild Child unwillingly drifts between two realities, but is it magic, madness, or something more sinister? Now she must uncover the truth before she ends up in an institution for disturbed girls. #YA #MagicalRealism #AG #PosterPit #Editors

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Amanda Dodge @amandadodge.bsky.social · 15d

hahaha I love it! I've always enjoyed @zprospero.bsky.social 's pitches! So great!

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 16d

THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS

A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for.

#UnhingedPit #F #A #LGBT #W #WriteSky

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Rachel Blaine @rachelblaine.bsky.social · Aug 16

While sitting shiva for her mom, Ava discovers her mother isn’t entirely gone yet…

#PosterPit #YA #H #W

BASED ON THE DYBBUK
AVA
BERNSTEIN
RIVKAH
BERNSTEIN
"A MASTERPIECE"
• Book reviewer
"BEST HORROR
COMEDY OF THE YEAR"
"BEST RETELLING"
THAT TIME MY MOM POSSESSED ME
FINAL DESTINATION MEETS
FREAKY FRIDAY
COMING TO QUER Y TRENCHES NEAR YOU
THIS FALL

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Amanda Dodge @amandadodge.bsky.social · Aug 16

When two strangers accidentally swap their trauma ghosts during sensory deprivation therapy, they must use the other's distorted memories to find each other before the manifestations of their unresolved pain destroys them both. #PosterPit #WIP #AG #A #SPEC

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Amanda Dodge @amandadodge.bsky.social · Aug 16

Clones are empty vessels, or so claims Mason, a grief-stricken neurobiologist desperate to resurrect his wife. But when his estranged son discovers clones can reject their memory grafts and threatens to blow the whistle, everything Mason has worked for is at risk. #PosterPit #AG

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Sam Peil 🧟 @sampeil.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE Z WORD x WALKING DEAD

Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a love triangle take on the end of the world in the Black Hills.

Bites, bisexuals, and a busted bunker!

#posterpit #q #h #lgbt #nd

Dentist with folded arms standing at an angle. Two ripped images of zombie eyes and zombie mouth over his face. Red background and dark red blood spatter across the whole thing.

Text from top to bottom:
HORROR
HEADSHOTS
HOOKUPS
THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW
by Sami Peil
Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a bi love triangle toke on the end of the world in the Black Hills. They all want each other but not in the some way.

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · Aug 16

If you're searching for hot girl summer with a side of hot girl vengeance then keep an eye out for my #amquerying project-
where first heartbreak turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible

#PosterPit #Q #spec #f #a #r

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Laeti is ✨ querying ✨ @lnmbeck.bsky.social · Aug 16

BABEL X THE WILL OF THE MANY

The God of Knowledge is dying, and all knowledge is withering alongside him.

📚 Dark Academia
📚 Found Family
📚 Twisty Plot
📚 Eerie
📚 Sacred Artefacts
📚 Gods & Curses

#PosterPit #Q #A #F

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · Aug 16

Re-introducing your fave Urban Fantasy, To Ruin the Sky ⚡️

Challenges Lyla will face:

🌒New scar & visions, thanks to the eclipse
😈Maniacal boss triggering a ritual
🪞A familiar face
🥷Kidnappers
🖤Undeniable chemistry with her enemy, Axel
⚡️The apocalypse?
#PosterPit #NA #RF #F #UF #Q

A mock up poster with a grey sky background, overlaid over the London tube map.

Silhouette of a curly haired woman.

Text in laurel leaves that read:
* "tightly-plotted and exciting narrative"
* REQUESTS IN THE DOUBLE FIGURES
* "Axel is gonna fill a xaden-shaped hole in your life"
Tagline reads: Will Lyla give into the undeniable chemistry with Axel or risk finding out just how closely her fate is tied to the end of the world?
Title reads: TO RUIN THE SKY
A NOVEL BY EMMA AL-MUNSHI
Then a mock up of a film rating that reads NA, Contains Mild 'Spice" mild violence and some scenes that readers might find exciting/terrifying

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · Aug 16

Introducing the #PosterPit premiere of…

A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME

The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies

Will the waves of a broken Kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al’Maii?

☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine
🌊 Sunken kingdom, hidden beneath the ocean
🌟 Magical politics
⚔️ Quest

#W #F #R #NA #RF

A mock movie poster for a book. The background is an overlay of a close-up of a beach and the tree line of a misty forest.
The Images show:
- Outline of a woman with a sword
- Outline of a man with a bow and arrow
- Outline of an eagle
Text across the top reads:
GRUMPY x SUNSHINE
INSPIRED BY ATLANTIS
SLOW BURN WITH a chilli
LOST MAGIC, all of these with 5. Stars

Title reads: A kingdom to drown me, a romantasy novel by Emma Al-munshi

QUERYING SOON
Tagline is: Will the waves of a broken kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al’Maii

Then a mock up of a film rating that reads NA, Contains Mild 'Spice" mild violence and some scenes that readers might find exciting/terrifying

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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · Aug 16

Dean is not out as bisexual, so when he and his girlfriend begin a polyamorous relationship with a man who lives with Dean’s classmate (the one with a crush on Dean), things are bound to get messy as they try to keep it all a secret.

#PosterPit #Q #R #NA #A

Image of a man and woman sleeping, cuddled together, with another man lying with them, gazing at them.

Text reads: Bi 4 bi, polyam, one night, big secret. The Great Throuple. If their secret comes out, so does he. New Adult Romance by Michelle Ogilvy.

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Aug 15

PERCY JACKSON meets SPIDER-VERSE

12 y.o. queer wrestler Félix Finch gets body slammed to a new dimension where magic’s real and his deceased mom is alive. But when a dark force threatens his new life, Félix must fight to stop it before it destroys both dimensions

#QueerPit #OS

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

#PosterPit #Vague

A movie poster of Aaron's YA Fantasy, SoulCast, with the lead characters in the center. One is a Black warrior, the other is a Black Prince.

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Aug 16

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE x PERCY JACKSON

12 y.o. Félix gets body slammed to a parallel dimension where magic is real and his recently deceased mom is alive. But when a dark force threatens his new life, Félix must fight to stop it before it destroys both dimensions

#PosterPit #MG #OS

A movie poster of Aaron’s MG Contemporary Fantasy, Félix Finch Gets Body Slammed to Another Dimension. In the picture, there are two versions of Felix from two different dimensions

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Abigail is ✨Agented✨ @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · Aug 16

TANGLED X ANASTASIA

In a Swiss realm where people forget their worst memory, an orphan with Tourette's recruits a flirtatious thief to help restore her forgotten past.

🪻Found Family
🪻Disability & LGBTQ Rep
🪻Cozy Setting
🪻Swoony Romance

#PosterPitAG #PosterPit #F #YA

Titled “WHERE MEMORIES BLOSSOM”. Poster has a blue background featuring flowers. Art includes four young adults: one girl with braided black hair and blue eyes wearing an old-fashioned blue dress, one girl with black hair in a bun and a pink shirt, one boy with orange hair and a brown vest, and one boy with long brown hair and a red cape. YA COZY FANTASY. FOUND FAMILY. Directed by Abigail Wadlington and repped by Rebecca Williamson.

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L. D. Rex is Querying @ldrexauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

After Elizabeth inherits two oil paintings from her wild grandmother, a phantom begins haunting her, guiding her closer to the truth about her family--one that lies behind the sanatorium of your worst nightmare in the Canadian woods. #PosterPit #Q #A #PH #S #R

A poster by L. D. Rex. Title is A Portrait of Madness in cursive; to the left is an image of an easel with a blank canvas and two pots of paintbrushes on either side; to the right is an image of a creepy girl in a portrait; there is a highway at the bottom with trees in the fog; words say: Coming soon to an inbox near you.. and WARNING: Don't read this after midnight. Paranormal Horror below these words in black lettering.

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · Aug 16

❤️ BEFORE SUNRISE x 🌶️ HEARTLESS

'97 Berlin. Shaking off its Cold War slumber to the beat of techno. Clocks on street corners and lakeside beaches.
And her larger-than-life yet adrift host… whose touch makes her wish this summer would last. But it can't.
#PosterPit #Q #R #A

Pic: Man and woman embracing (design by Freepik, freepik.com) + overlay: Berlin cityscape (photo by Stephan Widua on Unsplash)
Text:
Friends to lovers/Impossible love/Heartfelt & High Heat/‘90s retro/Destination romance
“I found myself rooting for them from the beginning”/“Propulsive & compelling without ever feeling rushed”/“Perfect mix of sensuality and humor”/“Definitely felt like I was there”
“A really heart-tugging story… great plot and great writing!”/“Can’t wait for this to be published”
One summer can change your life./But what do you do when the fall comes?
Only One Summer in Berlin
LL Murmures Littéraires 2025
’97. An ambitious French student reluctantly heads to Berlin to improve her German. When a housing mix-up lands her on the doorstep of a single dad grappling with his future, tense beginnings melt into friendship… and a growing attraction. As the mellow Berlin summer unfolds, they embark on a sizzling fling.
Love they can’t afford: to win custody of his son, he must stay in Berlin; her career path lies in Paris.

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char 𖤓 @charyoung.bsky.social · Aug 16

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#posterpit #q #a #lf #m

a movie poster for my novel ALL THE DEVILS. the main image on the poster is of a man with his face obscured showing only his eyes. this image is in black and white.

over the image is some text. in the left hand corner is a snippet stating the following “there would be no them from the tomorrow that had already begun. the devils were done. the dream destroyed.” on the right of the image is some information about the novel as follows: daisy jones meets knives out, a literary mystery, crossover potential.

underneath the image is more text. first we have the tagline “the song of death never sounded so sweet”. next is the novel’s tile “all the devils”. “a novel by char young” follows this and then underneath is the novel’s pitch as stated above in the post. finally at the bottom are the words “coming soon to the query trenches” and “strand studios”

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Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · Aug 6

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP:

MY HUSBAND X ANNIHILATION

💔 Obsession
🌃 Subtle Dystopia
👀 Psychological Thriller
⚖️ Dual Perspectives
☠️ Thanatophobia
👫 One Volatile Marriage
#QuestPit #Q #A #T #agentsguide

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Jacob Foster (Querying) @fosterja8.bsky.social · Aug 16

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP
How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive? For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases to exist. When he overhears a rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion.
#PosterPit #Q #T #A

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · Aug 16

📖🐦‍⬛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?

#PosterPit #PosterPitOS #PosterPitA #AG #OS
#A #F #R #DIS
#onsub #editors

*Art by Shibushio on fiverr*

The image shows a fake movie poster for the book "Mark of a Magpie"

Text in the image reads: Mark of a Magpie, An adult fantasy by Emilia Young, On submission next week, Thief x Assassin, Forced Proximity, Morally Gray, Women's Wrongs

Behind the text are two characters leaning over the side of a ship with beautiful skies in the background. The first character is a women, Ryn, who has brown hair in two braids, wearing leather armguards and a tunic, watching the land pass. The second character is a man, Seven, who has black hair and is wearing a tunic with a black turtleneck beneath it. He's watching Ryn with a small smile on his face.

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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · Aug 16

TRUE HATE'S KISS
✨Only her enemy's kiss will break the curse✨

🐉Scandinavian folklore & Viking vibes
⚔️Age-old clan feud
❤️‍🔥Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers
🛡️"Who did this to you?" / "You did!"
💀"Touch him and die"

#PosterPit #PosterPitOS #Agented #Romantasy

A movie poster made of an image of Lagertha from the TV show Vikings to the right and one of Robin Hood from the Robin Hood movie (2010) to the left, divided in the middle by an image of “Freydis sword”, adorned with intricate patterns, from the game Skyrim.

Title: True Hate’s Kiss.
Text: “To break her curse, she needs a kiss… from the man she swore to kill. TRUE HATE'S KISS. Based on the bestselling novel by Ann Glimmer. Spring 2027."

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · Aug 16

GUMIHO

A 76k Adult Upmarket Horror Romance

🇰🇷 Inspired by Korean folklore
🖤Told from the eyes of an anti-hero gumiho
🌧Set in modern-day PNW
🥀Dark, intimate atmosphere
🌀Psychological unraveling & physical transformation
❤️Slow-burn romance

#PosterPit #Q #A #H #R

Themes: creatures and deities from korean folklore & mythology, feasting on souls for vengeful goals, claim his soul or become something monstrous

Selected as a finalist in the 2025 PNWA Writers Contest for horror/paranormal

GUMIHO
"It'll consume you from the inside out."

A dark, Upmarket Korean folklore and myth reimagining set in modern-day Pacific Northwest that explores the gradual descent into grief, madness, and monstrous transformation through the eyes of an anti-hero gumiho. Laced with a slow-burn romance, it blends the dread of transformation and emotional vulnerability found in Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison with the dark, intimate atmosphere and psychological unraveling of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield.

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Kim Cayley @kimcayley.bsky.social · Aug 16

Coming Soon to the Query Trenches!
✨✨FATED FAKES✨✨
Remi is a terrible psychic, Asher's a grieving skeptic.
It was supposed to be fake—but what if it's fate?

#PosterPit #W #A #R
Agent's Guide 📌

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Noreen @noreenmughees.bsky.social · Aug 16

Cyrano x Vibrant Years

When penniless Jibran starts an epistolary affair with a spoilt heiress, little does he know he's falling for his best friend, the younger sister.
💍 Arrgd marriage
🥰 Best friends-lovers
💌 letters
🧘‍♀️anxiety rep

#posterpit #romance #editors #bipoc

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