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Chantal Danieli

@chantaldanieli.bsky.social

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unconventional aries, querying author, movie enthusiast, lover of all things nature, married to my best friend, mom, incepto ne desistam 🏹🤍🌻

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Chantal Danieli @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE GREAT ALONE x LOVE & OTHER WORDS

UNDER MY OWN MAKING, an upmarket women’s fiction with:

🌊 a scarred heiress
🌊 estranged childhood friends turned lovers
🌊 hard-earned slow-burn romance
🌊 toxic family
🌊 coastal small town
🌊 found family

#questpit #Q #A #R #WF

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Chantal Danieli @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · Aug 20

Anyone participating in the #1stLinePit event? Let’s be mutuals! #Writingcommunity

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annelise is vague! @anneliserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Sabine Women, kidnapped by the Romans, have been mostly forgotten. So has the woman who sparked Rome's foundation. In "She-Wolf", both their stories are finally told. 🐺🔥
#PosterPit #Q #F @posterpit.bsky.social

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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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Tyler is querying 👑🪲🌿 @tylerstasi.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #SPF #W

Severance x PIRANESI

How far would you go to hide the person you used to be?

⚜️botanical horror elements
⚜️told through unsent letters
⚜️moral decay
⚜️unidentified FMC
⚜️psycho-magical realism

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

🍓👒🪴🕰🪑

poster pit pitch for the fruitist, wip by tyler stasi; art by giuseppe arcimboldo, speculative novel, horror, fruit woman, mock movie poster

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Jen @jenhwriter.bsky.social · Aug 16

Fear the women with the black blood. Fear the witch.

SEE HOW THEY BURN

❤️‍🔥 low romance
👹 the devil isn’t the bad guy
🦝 a raccoon ex
💀 necromancy
🪻 cities named after toxic plants
👯‍♀️ friends to lovers

#posterpit #q #f #a

Text: Fear the women with the black blood. Fear the witch.
See How They Burn
A novel by Jen Hallett

Two women engulfed in flames.

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E.M. Kerkman | 🏴‍☠️☠️🔥 @emkerkman.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #W #NA #F #R #PiratesWIP

During her world tour, Captain Holloway is captured by pirates. After encountering an assassination plot, a magical curse, an unlikely romance, and an imminent war, she finally takes a side. The wrong side.

It's all Captain Falcon's fault.

The text in the image reads: "Magic, mutiny, romance, and a six-month deadline. What could possibly go wrong?" "Dual POVs, sentient oceans, vengeful ghosts, magical curses, enemies to lovers, and lovers to enemies." "He has a curse to break. She has everything to prove." "Sail By Dawn, a new-adult fantasy novel by award winning author E. M. Kerkman." The background image is of a sailing ship on a stormy sea with dawn light shining from behind it. It is a paining titled "Bird of Dawn" by Montague Dawson.

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Aug 16

BELLADONNA x Outlander

An old Irish curse transforms 20-yr-old Estella into a monstrous plant at night. She must find a cure in this hidden, enchanted glen before her sinister doctor uses her as a science experiment.

#posterpit #Q #F #A

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Robb // R.M. Sayan @rmsayan.bsky.social · Aug 16

FER SOROLL
Once, she lost her home. Now, she runs from the idea of it. When she finds community in an inhospitable place, how long will it take her to realize that they need her as much as she needs them?
#PosterPit #W #F #HF #A

Movie poster style composition with the base of a symmetrical photo of the front of an old church with wild grass growing in front of it, its large wooden door barred closed in the middle. The plaster on the walls is cracked from wear and also with giant scratches. A cutout of a baroque oil painting of a man joyously playing the lute is sitting in front of the door. The text overlaid on top reads: "The easy choice would be leaving. Unfortunately, nothing in Abadosos is easy. FER SOROLL, a novel by R.M. Sayan, coming soon." The author's socials and blog are listed at the bottom. The book's tropes are listed on the posters in the style of accolades: "medieval ghost town, slow-burn romance, werewolf drama, bi F/M, queer cast".

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Rachel is Editing @rpiswriting.bsky.social · Aug 16

Rosemary and Flame: a fantasy romance

A woman dying from a generational curse must team up with a handsome, but grumpy, fae with dubious intent to survive the mysterious land of Faerie and save her mother from an ancient and powerful enemy.

#posterpit #writingcommunity

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Samantha Sloan @samanthahsloan.bsky.social · Aug 16

What Haunts Us

Mayfair Witches X Ninth House

A grad student who sees ghosts must return home to solve a murder—only to uncover a hidden sister, a family legacy tied to Death itself, and a killer determined to sever the balance between life and death.

#posterpit #Q #A #SPF #M

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Carla G Garcia @carlaggarcia.bsky.social · Aug 16

Out on sub now: a YA fantasy of ocean guardianship and messy first loves 🌊
🌍 Eco-fantasy with high stakes
🧜 Fierce mermaid MC
⚔️ Reluctant human allies
🏭 Energy company destroying the sea
⏳ Magic that fades with time
🔥 A fight to save the ocean before it’s too late
#PosterPit #YA #AG #F

movie poster of a ship shrouded in mist. text reads THE BURNING SEA by Carla G Garcia, out on submission now

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Susie Lindau @susielindau.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE WRITING RETREAT x MISERY x Alternating POV Chapters
🔹Haunted novelist with imposter syndrome
🔹Gothic estate that fuels novels
🔹Stalker with a grudge
🔹Radio silence
🔹Park ranger sister with grave concerns
🔹Five-mile trek in a snowstorm
🔹WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

#PosterPit #A #Q #T Light #H

Movie poster for The Deadline: Haunting on several levels, LGBTQ themes, Coming of age, Family trauma, Colorado Gold Finalist, Modern Gothic, dual POV, The Deadline, Inspired by Mexican Gothic and David Lynch and a backpacking trip gone wrong - It's easy to romanticize writing a book in a remote location, but when a sentient house attacks and a pyschopath threatens, he must find the key to this madness or his sister will arrive in time to write his eulogy - The full manuscript is available now!

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Arien Skye is querying @arienskyewrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE NATURE OF WITCHES X SMALL FAVORS
A slow-seeping poison is infecting Appalachia, & Briar must stop it before shadow creatures are unleashed into her world. But on her journey to find help, buried secrets of her past are revealed, changing her life forever. #A #F #Q #Posterpit

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Tyler is querying 👑🪲🌿 @tylerstasi.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #F #Q

HURRICANE WARS x SWORD CATCHER

a dark, whimsical, jeweled-insect fantasy

featuring...

👑morally gray FMC
🪲lush worldbuilding
🌿rebellion + political intrigue
🌋volcano magic
💫estranged sibling dynamics

poster pit pitch for the mothblood queen by tyler stasi; green background with shadowed woman with a crown and holding a moth on her finger

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annelise is vague! @anneliserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 16

CIRCE x LADY MACBETH

🏔️Roman mythology
🙏 Cult vibes
💀 Betrayals & vengeance, guilt & grief
🔥 Headstrong female MCs
❤️‍🩹 What are the limits of a mother's love?

Ancient Rome's founding myth, & the myth of the Sabine women. Unabashedly feminist. 🐺
#PosterPit #Q #F #HF

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

People We Meet on Vacation x Taylor Swift's Right Where You Left Me 💔

#PosterPit #W #R #C #A

A couple kisses in the snow in a movie poster for If We're Still Single, an adult contemporary romance novel, querying soon

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Maya Rose @ohreallytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 16

She’s a heiress sent to a ghost town to start a cheerleading team. And learn some people skills.

He’s a football player. And an actual ghost. Whose corporeal form is tied to his Siamese cat.

DEAD ROMANTICS x ALI HAZLEWOOD except with a meet-cute involving scrambled eggs.

#PosterPit #Q #A #ROMCOM

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Vaughn Roe | adult romantasy @authorvaughnroe.bsky.social · Aug 16

DEMON CHEVALIER
adult gothic romantasy

editor ❤️(X)

Demon Zarazîn has long buried his passion for playing piano, but when he finds his muse in exorcist Azaléa, nothing can stop him from keeping inspiration alive…neither her plan to kill him nor his loyalty to Hell.

#PosterPit #Q #A #RF #amquerying

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Liz 👻🍂🪦 @thewriteratlas.bsky.social · Aug 16

In the course of researching his thesis, Aris accidentally resurrects the ghost of the man he’s studying, and together they uncover a conspiracy on campus that threatens to destroy magic in their world.

#PosterPit #A #F #W

An image of herb bunches, gemstones, and an animal skull. Overtop is text reading: fantasy dark academic, bone magic university, environmental horror, the MAW is hungry. A novel of academic obsession. Adult fantasy, thesis woes, gray morality. Coming soon to inboxes November 2025.

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pounceswithwolves @cayseshultz.bsky.social · Aug 16

Last one 🤞🥹🤞

One dead Dad.
One wrongfully Asylum-ed Mom.
A life forced into servitude & solitude by social-ladder-climbing extended family.
And one inherited power, suppressed for years, that is about to hit a tipping point.

#posterpit #posterpitq #F #HF #YA #NA
#comingofrage

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Lily Wzy is querying an ancient Asia epic fantasy @lilywzy.bsky.social · Aug 16

WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN, an adult epic fantasy, is now in theatres near you.

For those we once loved, we will become villains.

#PosterPit #Q #A #F

the priory of the orange tree x she who became the sun. impossible to predict twists and literary-leaning prose. they must choose their loyalties in a crumbling empire. when ink swallows the sun. a novel by Lily Wzy. an illegitimate daughter, a worn-out hero, a false princess, and a court-savvy heir. Now querying. adult imperial asia epic fantasy.

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Jade Mason @jademasonwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Nellie’s hiding more than a layoff. Struggling to pay rent and crushed by grief and expectations, she reconnects with her ex-work rival who helps her find what she truly wants beyond the role she’s been playing.

#posterpit #q #wf w/ #r #amquerying #filipinorep

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Jax Wolff Writes @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

When luckless Mick agrees to be his mage best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, it's to keep her safe. But after a mishap turns him into a dragon and plants the ghost of a god in his head, Mick must go from sidekick to champion before his existence triggers a divine war.
#PosterPit #W #NA #F #R

Old-timey poster featuring a bronze dragon perched on a rock with a fireball exploding behind him.

Text to the upper left reads:
Ace Rep, Hopepunk, and Friends to Lovers in a new fantasy adventure!

Across the bottom:
The Nameless Song
A Jax Wolff Presentation
Coming soon to the trenches!

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Katie Krohn @katiekrohnauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

A teen outcast from a secret line of Irish plant magicians must harness newfound powers to protect herself from a poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time.

🍄 Plant magic + elixirs + poisons
💌 Romance subplot
🎂 Magical baking
🚪 Portal to another realm

#posterpit #PosterPitQ #ya

Door in the Fernwood by Katie Krohn. Tagline: In this magical Irish bloodline, poison runs deep. Complete at 99,000 words, I am querying this YA Contemporary Fantasy with Big Five editor interest. Keywords: elixirs and poisons, magical baking, plant magic, portal to another realm, romance subplot, time travel, magical artifacts. www.KatieKrohn.com

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