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storyteller 📖//trentu alumni 👩‍🎓// currently querying an adult romantasy 🗡️🖤
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danny is ✨querying✨ @dainathomps.bsky.social · May 7
THE BONE SEASON x SERPENT AND DOVE

#agentguide for A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD, a dark romantasy novel with:

⚔️series potential
🗝️bards & ballads
🔗heavy foreshadowing
🥀blood & death magic
🕯️slow burn romance
🕷️gods & monsters

#questpit #Q #F #A
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tylerstasi.bsky.social
#QuestPit #W #F #agentguide #agentsguide

THE FAMILIAR x CRIMSON ROAD

introducing my whimsical steampunk gothic fantasy
🥀🕯️🫀🕷️🕰️ in which:

An impoverished enchantress subjects herself to the prince's service to keep her forbidden magic a secret.
alessandra wip sample of writing/chapter moodboard and tropes. alessandra wip comps
May 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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gracebelnap.bsky.social
JACK THE RIPPER x AGATHA CHRISTIE

London, 1891. A viscountess and an inspector team up to catch the playing card-obsessed killer who (probably) murdered her husband...and try not to fall in love in the process 😉

♥️♠️🃏♣️♦️

#questpit #Q #A #MY #HR
May 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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kdlohr.bsky.social
A new #agentsguide to FEAR OF THE WEAVER ✨

Enter cursed sands and holy dreams in my 90k YA high fantasy 🏹 returning to the #amquerying trenches after extensive revisions!

#questpit #Q #YA #F #agentguide
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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dearrhian.bsky.social
Competing for magic that’ll save you from your immortal ex is fine until you fall for your academic rival* - worse yet when he needs it to evade the deity drowning a nation in search of him

🥀Dark academia
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Folklore
💖Autistic rep

*who’s chronically unserious

#QuestPit #AG #A
The title ‘A Mortal Drowning’ with a tagline that reads ‘characters in another life, specifically the MMC’ The background is digital artwork of the book’s central couple, a grumpy dark-haired man and a woman with long, golden hair holding a book. A painting of a happy clown holding an umbrella titled ‘naive clown’. Beside the image are the following descriptions: Confused but trying his best In love, pathetically Melodramatic king Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: "I picked more flowers for her in the time I had to pack, and although she courteously thanked me as she always does, she hasn't brought them on the trip so I can only assume she wishes me dead." Digital artwork of a buff, topless clown making a suggestive gesture titled ‘circus freak (capital FREAK)’. Beside the image are the following descriptions: Wait, he’s kinda… 🫦 Accidental agent of chaos Is it the autism? Or is he just deranged? Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: “You still haven't told me your grade.' 'Your insecurity is unbecoming, I breathe, my teeth clenched to stifle another moan. 'Please.' His breath is heavy in my ear. 'You're fortunate I can never say no to you.' A painting of a sad court jester sitting down titled ‘solemn jester’. Beside the image are the following descriptions: Uh oh, shit’s getting serious He’s being hunted? By a deity? Rip, my guy Then, quote from the the MMC’s POV: "Given personal circumstances, perhaps I should embrace the opportunity to repent my soul. I would, truly, but I suspect soul repentance is quite the commitment and I'm a little preoccupied with trying not to die at the moment."
May 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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nessamoulay.bsky.social
CITY OF BRASS x the Scorpion & the Night Blossom

A girl with dormant magic infiltrates a gilded empire to save her best friend—only to uncover a court built on ancient blood oaths, the boy she once mourned, and a lost heiress no one wants found.

#questpit #wip
May 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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aekwordcrafter.bsky.social
Blood over Bright Haven x This Monster of Mine featuring:

🌟sapphics in STEM
🗻electricity-as-magic
🌟a multi-dimension prison break
🗻race against time
🌟villain gets the girl
🗻sentient pollution with a grudge

#questpit #F #LGBT #Q
May 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social
LIGHTLARK x THE GILDED ONES

seventeen year old zamora has been trained her entire life to represent her country in a magical death competition.

upon her arrival, however, zamora learns that everything she’s ever know—about the competition and herself—has been a lie.

#questpit #ya #fantasy #w
May 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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scasswriting.bsky.social
Our Wives Under the Sea x The Witcher

When Olive’s nature-loving daughter goes missing, she reluctantly accompanies a grumpy half-beast mercenary in a journey through the Wilds to find her.

✨ On sub soon ✨

#questpit #a #f #ag #amediting #wip #editors
May 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
dainathomps.bsky.social
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
May 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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gwenvines.writes.fyi
ARCANE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x RIPE
All Jim owns when he arrives at the Institute is a battered briefcase & pair of decaying boots. Little does he know that before classes end, he'll pack that blood-drenched briefcase to flee a nightmare of his own making.
#questpit #Q #A #F
Image description Digital painting of a blond man wearing a tank top and a toolbelt from behind, his hand on his hip. In the bottom right is the text SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. In the upper left is the text "Adult STEM Postgrad Academic Fantasy, 107k words". In a green box in the upper right titled FIRST LINE is the text "To be Techniker was to be masochistic. Technikers worshiped at the altar of exhaustion, taking sick pride in toiling over a workbench or anvil until their bodies failed them. Glory lay in suffering for their craft, in creating small miracles powered as much by their own blood and sweat as the aether that underwove existence." Image description Pitch card for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. Background top image is an anatomical diagram of a torso with left arm outstretched, bottom image is of dark nested ferns. Atop the image is a digital painting of a man with curly dark hair and medium skin tone, wearing dark green clothing and a gold hoop earring in his right ear, looking away from the camera. His hand rests atop a text box reading "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?" In the text box is the author's name and "Adult dark academic fantasy, 107k words." Below the textbox are cover images of the Netflix show Arcane (with Viktor's face), BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M.L. Wang, THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI by Isaac Fellman, DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, by C. G. Drews, and RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter.
May 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
dainathomps.bsky.social
🩸🖤A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD🖤🩸

THE BONE SEASON x SERPENT & DOVE

Lysiane is a young witch who seizes the opportunity to use her sworn enemy for protection in order to save her sister from the grasp of a tyrannical king with a dark secret.

#questpit #Q #A #F
May 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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amcknightwrites.bsky.social
FOR THE WOLF x SORROWLAND

Might I present my #agentguide for THESE TIDES THAT BIND, standalone adult horror fantasy featuring a Siren POV, a love triangle, body horror, and themes of selfishness as self preservation?

#questpit #q #f
May 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
dainathomps.bsky.social
Magic is outlawed. Witches are facing extinction. The only hope Lys has of saving her beloved sister rests in the hands of her sworn enemy, who doesn't quite fit the stories she was told.

Welcome to A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD 🖤🩸⚔️🥀

#questpit #Q #F #A
May 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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taylorrenee.bsky.social
Sophia Lane has it all—except a boyfriend. So when she panics and lies about bringing one to a company retreat, she ropes in her annoyingly charming neighbor to play the part. It’s only a weekend of fake dating. What could go wrong? (Spoiler: everything.)
#W #questpit #A #R
PINK BACKGROUND, SILHOUETTES OF A MAN AND A WOMAN SURROUNDING THE WORDS BEST BAD IDEA. UNDER IT SAYS CONTEMPORARY ROMCOM, TAYLORRENEE AGENT AND EDITORS PINK BACKGROUND SAYS sophia lane has it all. perfect job. nice apartment. everything... except a stable love life. when her boss asks her if she’ll be bringing her boyfriend to the company retreat she panics and lies. Now, to save face and score the promotion she’s worked years for she ropes in her unruly, annoyingly charming neighbor to play the part. as long as they both follow the rules of fake dating, nothing can go wrong... RIGHT? Sophia, Looking forward to seeing you (and your boyfriend!) next weekend. I’m rooting for you to help woo the clients and bring home this acquisition! —H P.S. Madison already sent over Jacob’s “fun facts” for the team icebreaker. I drop my forehead onto the desk. Of course Madison sent fun facts. Of course Jacob plays the cello, rescues shelter dogs, and bakes his own sourdough. Meanwhile, I’m just hoping my fake boyfriend doesn’t show up to the welcome dinner in a “Free Britney” tank top and checkered Vans out of spite.
May 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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d-and-a-authors.bsky.social
DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART

A fiery maid races to sea after her bff & a legendary map, but a passionate romance w/ the pirate captain opens her eyes to a world of danger & she must do anything to get the map before she loses her friend.

#questpit #Q #NA #RF
The first slide of an Agent's Guide for the novel A SIREN'S CALL. It has a sapphire blue background with bubbles, bordered once in black, then once in a very pale blue. In the centre there is a circle with around a quarter of sea at the bottom and the rest the sky. There are two blue seagrass, one on either side of the circle. Curved around the top of the circle it says the author's names, "Danielle Bradbury" and "Ashlea Screaton", and mirrored at the bottom it gives the name and genre as "New adult slowburn romantic fantasy". The title "THE SIREN'S CALL" is in the centre of the circle but sticks out either end, the letters on the blue are coloured pale blue and the ones over the circle are coloured black. Beneath the title in smaller letters is the word count, "90k words". The second slide of an Agent's Guide for the novel A SIREN'S CALL. It has a sapphire blue background with bubbles, bordered once in black, then once in a very pale blue. At the top there is a black title, split off with a little blue shore bordered with white, reading "Pitch". The rest of the slide reads in white "Courting a Lord could've been Delphine's escape from her violent employer, but when her best friend is sent with pirates after a mythical map, she refuses to be left behind. A budding romance with the Captain reveals he is tailed by a dark past which could sabotage the mission, but the pirates have claimed her friend as collateral. She must do anything to get the map-even using the Captain's secret against him-or lose her friend." The third slide of the Guide. It has a sapphire blue background with bubbles, bordered once in black, then once in a very pale blue. At the top there is a black title, split off with a little blue shore bordered with white, reading "Comps". Below, there are five images of book covers split evenly, alternating between being on the bottom of the page, or the top of the page. The space above/below the book has some pale blue text, and each book is split from the others with a little decorative line. From left to right: The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah - Journey for a mythical artefact Dark Water Daughter by H.M. Long - Loyalty & slowburn romance Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller - Power dynamics & trauma Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber - Cocky but hopelessly romantic LI The Ever King by L.J. Andrews - Complex romance & identity The fourth slide for the novel A SIREN'S CALL. It has a sapphire blue background with bubbles, bordered once in black, then once in a very pale blue. At the top there is a black title, split off with a little blue shore bordered with white, reading "Excerpt". The rest of the slide reads in white "Few things gave Delphine the same rush as finishing a book on stolen time. The end of this faerytale had been evading her for days, interrupted repeatedly by chiming bells, banal instructions, or nipping in her ear to ‘get a move on!’. Each time accompanied by a lamenting sigh, the book’s scarred spine deforming further as she wedged it open with whatever she could find. Pots and pans weren’t preferable, but were the usual suspects. It didn’t matter that she could recite the tale cover to cover with her eyes closed. She longed for the rhythm of the words to lull her into another land, another time, another life. An adventure, or a change in scenery from cold stone and colder steel. Far away from chamber pots, snooty sneers and vile tempers."
May 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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ilanakelleyauthor.bsky.social
THE BARGAINER x SERPENT & DOVE

NIGHT BIRD, an adult romantic fantasy ft:
🕰️ dual timeline
✨ invisibility & intangibility
🔪 FMC vigilante for wronged women
☠️ poison & female rage
🌃 newly industrialized world
🫂 found family

#QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #AgentsGuide #AgentGuide
An Agent’s Guide for Night Bird An adult romantic fantasy novel The Pitch Ava is destined for a life of seduction, espionage, and assassination. Born with the ability to become invisible, she is the secret weapon of one of the five great houses. But when a mysterious boy, Zev, crashes through her warded cage, she is freed. With her freedom, Ava transforms into Night Bird, a vigilante for wronged women. But tipping the scales of justice draws the notice of New Oster’s power elite, including one of the most feared men in the city, who turns out to be the boy who set her free. And when the house she left behind catches up, he may be the only one able to help her from following in her dead mother’s footsteps. For Fans of: DUAL TIMELINE SLOW BURN ROMANCE FOUND FAMILY FEMALE RAGE & POISON KNIFE TO THE THROAT ESCAPE FROM OPPRESSORS PAST CATCHING UP INDUSTRIALIZED URBAN SETTING Images: Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole A Snippet: The man in the ring seemed inhuman. Not like the Zev I’d known. “I’ve seen a serratys fight. Rumbled with a few myself,” Stone said, eyes flicking wildly to take in every detail. “They didn’t move like that. This fight was over before it began. He’s just providing good entertainment by not ending it right away, that’s all.” Despite his blood-slicked skin, Digger remained on his feet, weaving desperately to regain footing. His unfocused eyes were dazed. Zev finally stood still, letting the other man throw a punch, then sidestepped with a hard elbow to the head. That was the end of Digger, who crashed onto the ground like a collapsed building. Earsplitting cheers and stomping beat at my ears, and I wanted to clap my hands over them. Then the screams transformed from exuberance to fear as Zev sprouted horns on stage, body growing, muscles bulging—his serratys form taking over. His roar deafened the crowd, but my hands dropped as his chest tattoos came into focus. With his constant motion, I hadn’t gotten a good look during the fight. But now he was still, and I saw it. The tattoo entwined by so many others, almost hidden. It was a bird, wings raised as if viewed from the side and slightly underneath. A night bird. The exact ones I used to play my cello for on those lonely nights. Where Zev’s nickname had started. And that bird was now inked across his chest, directly over his heart.
May 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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authoraak.bsky.social
Garden of Gods 🩸🌹

THE HURRICANE WARS x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

(I like to think of it as Attack on Titan set in the Ottoman Empire with more magic and more romance)

#questpit #q #a #f #r
May 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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gunsmile.bsky.social
JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE

Professional hit man Jason seeks revenge for the murder of his brother, but his wife Ayana suspects a more sinister conspiracy at play.

🩸 cosmic horror
🩸 criminal underworld
🩸 married MCs
🩸 villain protagonist

#QuestPit #W #A #H #T
A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.
May 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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elliotrosea.bsky.social
Never mind the hero. Here's the villainous narrator's quest:
❤️ Get my ridiculously heroic ex back
🍷 Find an open gay bar during the apocalypse
🔮 Meditate
🔪 Kill that man-stealing prophet
😈 Avoid the Devil and her demons where possible
😂 Kidnap Jim
#questpit #Q #FA
May 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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d-s-saavedra.bsky.social
A new #agentsguide for my revised version of A FEAST FOR LAMBS(made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) coming back to agents inboxes real soon 👀

🏳️‍⚧️Transmasc MC
❤️‍🔥Poly monster romance
🥩Cannibalism
🩸Religious horror
🫀Body horror
🔥Trans rage

#questpit #A #H #RF #querying
May 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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acrowwrites.bsky.social
🥀 Gilded Age-inspired college romantasy
🩸vampire MMC needs a mate bond to avoid bloodlust
🥀 alchemist human FMC is secretly plotting to take his power
🩸solving mysterious murders
🥀bi4bi
🩸dual POV
🥀black and curvy rep
🩸touch her and ☠️
🥀divine chaos

#QuestPit #W #A #PR
Photo collage of black, white, and red imagery, including a hand dipping into an ornate cup of blood, a Victorian street with a gas lamp, a gothic window framing a stone building, a bookshelf and staircase, the word vampire on a black background, potion bottles, a vampire bat wing, an altar with candles, a red eye, glass bottles with blood, and a bloody hourglass
May 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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emhenn921.bsky.social
If you love:

🐉accessible magic
🐉friends to enemies to lovers
🐉palace intrigue
🐉feminine rage
🐉Viking vibes
🐉one dragon

this is for you!

#questpit #W #romantasy
Raegan, an aspiring mage, is forced to give up her dream of protecting the realm after the king betroths her to Prince Arlon, the boy who broke her heart the night her mother perished. As Arlon’s icy exterior thaws, Raegan learns the true nature of his cold shoulder, and with time the walls around her heart begin to crumble. But with war looming across the sea and secrets around every palace corner, Raegan must choose between trusting the boy she loved, and protecting her heart and fleeing for good.
May 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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gwenvines.writes.fyi
A low-magic, high-intrigue crossover #A #F w/
🎭genre-savvy actress FMC
🤬hate triangle
🤺fencing to first blood
🚢treaties, trades & treachery
✨drift compatibility
🗡️"touch her and die" about a friend
😤infuriating love interests
🏝️archipelago setting
👩‍👦 ride or die siblings
#questpit #W
Moodboard for an adult political intrigue fantasy taking place on an archipelago. The text reads "Were you in any way suited for this world, you would know that diplomacy is often most effective in the absence of flags." The images show a rocky island coast from above, the rigging of a tall ship from below (sails lowered), a girl with dark eyes and dark braided hair with gold beads, the inside of a grand theatre, a large unfurled scroll of writing, a chess board with a knocked over piece, two fencers preparing to fence, palm trees at sunset, a khaen, and more ship ropes and rigging at night from the deck. Photo at night of a tall ship's rigging and sail with a textbox over it reading "PITCH: Sabamere’s Crown is dead, & no one can know. Least of all the two other nations at the Amber Coast diplomatic summit—if one isn’t responsible for his death, that is. Luckily, the reclusive Crowns hide behind their selected Aftcastles, so the old Aftcastle can keep up the charade of stability until delicate negotiations are done & the new Crown can take the throne. Enter street actress Rev, stage left. She’s the new Crown’s choice for Aftcastle, which must remain a secret until the summit ends, but her duty to her country—& her brother, jailed in a dungeon right below the negotiating table—has already begun. All Rev needs to do is keep her head down, her ears open, & stay alive until her Crown’s coronation, then she can free her brother. Too bad the diplomats have other plans for her." REVERENCE SEVENTH AFTCASTLE by Gwendolyn Vines
May 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM