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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤
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Author of bleak Southern noir with dark twists & complex, messy characters. Former obits clerk/journalist. 📍Carolinas. 🐈☕ Rep: Alicia Brooks

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hi hello I vanished for a bit because:
— I got an agent 🎉
— my YA horror about a maternity home is on submission 😈
back to refreshing my email forever

#writingcommunity
February 5, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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February 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
jacysellers.bsky.social
Today’s stats:
3 form rejections.
2 maybes.
Several waiting.
0 intentions of giving up.

#AmQuerying #WritersLife #WritingCommunity
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
jacysellers.bsky.social
The agent is getting closer and closer to my query… my turn is almost here. Deep breaths.
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
jacysellers.bsky.social
… got a pass and a full request on the same day 😭💫 honestly don’t know whether to scream or nap
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November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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annglimmer.bsky.social
TRUE HATE'S KISS
She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family

🐉Viking Vibes & Scandinavian Folklore
⚔️Age-Old Clan Feud
❤️‍🔥Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers
🔥Delicious Banter & Yearning
🌶️Hot & Spicy

#Questpit #NA #Romantasy #Agented #Editorsguide
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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milosometimes.bsky.social
OLD WOUNDS + DREDGE

⚓Queer Transmasc MC
🐟Small town horror
⚓Ocean madness
🐟Psychological/body/cosmic horror
⚓Paranoia
🐟Grieving past life
⚓Transmasc rage

"FROM THE SEA FRET"
#QuestPit #Q #A #H
A moodboard consisting of 7 images, all outlined in black. A pile of grey fish. A foggy seaside shack, with an abandoned boat leaning against it. The inside of a tackle shop. Nets, buoys, and fishing paraphernalia hand from the wall and ceiling. A hand reaching out of grey water, the sky above is overcast. A lone rowboat out on foggy, grey water. Grey waves spraying foam against an overcast sky as seagulls fly around. Two fishing boats sail on a grey ocean, with seagulls in the overcast sky. Underwater, over a coral reef, rays of light shine through the water. A few fish swim through the reef. Text reading "From the Sea Fret, Comps" is bordered in the centre. 5 arrows point towards posters. The poster are: Dredge by Black Salt Games, Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner, The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers, The Fisherman by John Langan, Blood in the Bayou by Just Roll With It Underwater, over a coral reef, rays of light shine through the water. A few fish swim through the reef. A sheet of paper with text on it is centered. The text reads: From the Sea Fret. Excerpt. My thoughts were snowballing, adding up all the bullshit I’ve dealt with since moving to Perne, and my heart was beating faster at each uneasy memory that passed behind my eyes. I was gripping the wheel with white knuckles, forcing myself to breathe through clenched teeth. The rope on the net creaking from strain pulled my body into automation. The thoughts momentarily shut off as I set about pulling the fish in. With each haul on the rope, I took a little bit extra time, as I knew what would be in the net. It seemed like no matter where I turned, things were waiting to fuck with my mind. The word 'forcing' is underlined.
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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PJO XTrumanShow
Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out.
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
Moodboard with alternating images between black and white and vivid color. A greek statue, a raven, a girl crying, a girl with hand lifted, an oracle, a light magic, a face statue, Nashville neon lights at night. Text: Music will be the death of me.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Betrayed on the eve of her wedding, Annora enlists charming criminal Madoc to enact her revenge, but when her quest unravels the truth of a trade in wyvern scale and a long awaited prophecy, Annora must choose between vengeance and justice.

#QuestPit #W #RF soon to be #AG + hopefully #OS in 2026!
Scale Annora Rainecourt would do anything for the boy she loves — the kingdom’s saviour — including defying her low-born status and the nobles who scorn her false arm to prove herself worthy. But on the eve of their wedding Lucan betrays her, and she can’t fathom why. So she escapes into the night, her life of sweet smiles and unfaltering loyalty shattered. Madoc Emery is running out of time. If he can’t repay the loan on his tavern, his crew — the only family he has — loses everything. So when a beautiful, intriguing maiden appears begging for help in exchange for payment, he jumps at the chance. Problem is, she wants revenge against the untouchable. The Prince’s favoured, and the man prophesied to restore magic to the realm thanks to his discovery of Scale, a weapon forged from wyvern hide. Still, Madoc’s desperate, and Annora impossible to deny, so they strike a deal. His crew will infiltrate Lucan’s empire, and tear him down. But when they uncover a horrifying truth at the heart of Scale, Annora is faced with a choice. Vengeance, or justice. And changing paths may just unravel her fragile bond with the misunderstood Madoc, and the prophecy her entire kingdom relies on. Comp titles: House of the Dragon, A Fate Forged in Fire, The Knight and the Moth, Throne of Glass, Six of Crows, A Tempest of Tea Most brides would think a storm on the eve of their wedding an omen, but for Annora Rainecourt it was the greatest blessing she could receive. Because a storm meant chance of a sighting. And what could be more thrilling than that? She scoured the skies as lightning flashed, illuminating the distant castle and the manor dwellings around it in a shock of monochrome clarity, and there — beyond the turrets — she saw her first of the night. Thin membrane, spindly tendon and bone, that unfathomable combination of sharp claws and curved edges, swiftly flying through slick rain and thick cloud until the darkness crowded in again and she lost it. Annora smiled to herself. They always liked storms. The wyverns. “They’re quiet tonight,” she said, staring out of the lancet window as rain lashed against the panes. Lucan rolled on the bed to face her, the sheets draped between his legs as if she hadn’t been privy to what was beneath them moments ago. “Or perhaps they’re beyond sight,” he said, and ran a hand through long, light hair, pushing it back from his slim face. “The view from here is perfect,” she murmured, frowning. Lucan’s manor was on the outskirts of Gaet, the small city of Vlintlann that was home to the nobility and merchant class. The east window of his bedchamber had one of the best views of the Kingdom. To the north, Annora could see the long carriageway curving round from the front entrance of the manor to the cobbled road that led to the royal castle — its sharp turrets spearing through mist like the teeth of beasts. To the south, past the gardens and small stretch of woodland were the mountains. The looming black rock surrounded the entirety of Vlintlann, bar the stretch of land where the castle sat. Beyond that was the border with Coperlann and The Disputed. And to the east, in the distance, the shimmering lights from the cramped streets of The Bowl, where those without riches in Vlintlann lived. Her old home, once upon a time.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social
A SPARK THAT SHATTERS STEEL – 87k
What if UGLIES crashed a Regency ballroom?

🌟 Alternate history world of power and pretense
❤️ Slow burn
🔥 Girl genius vs gilded patriarchy
💅 Feminist rebellion that outsmarts ...
👑 A royal villain pulling every string
#Q #YA #F #RF #questpit
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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ncrystalauthor.bsky.social
Serpent & Dove X In the veins of the drowning 🐍 🌊

🌶️ Bloodbound to a ruthless hunter, surviving each other might be hardest task 🩸

🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits

#questpit #W #A #F #RF #H
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #M
The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY

Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife

🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

GRIEF-RAGE-POWER
Romance & Revenge
A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith
#YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A haunted forest turns two men on the verge of death into fairies: A forgotten professor from 1945 and a detective from 2025. They must uncover the secrets of the wilderness or be trapped for eternity.

#A #Q #questpit

THE MYSTERY OF NATOSI FOREST🧚‍♂️
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying soon!
#A #F #W #QuestPit
Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood Red Sand 109000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide. Title: Pitch Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck. Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him. But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all. Background image: same as other slides
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
jacysellers.bsky.social
Norah only meant to write an obituary ✍️, not awaken her cursed gift.

Now ghostly visions 👻 reveal a garden socialite’s death 🌸 is tangled with her mother’s unsolved murder 🩸.

In the South, even the graves keep their secrets buried deep 🪦.

#QuestPit #Q #A #S #MY #T
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
jacysellers.bsky.social
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES × THE ONLY ONE LEFT

💀 Body parts are vanishing from Alice Stone’s funeral home... only to reappear in a local oddities shop built from animal skulls 🦴. In a town that feeds on scandal 🐍, nothing stays buried for long ⚰️.

#QuestPit #Q #A #T #MY
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
jacysellers.bsky.social
Simone St. James x Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

🤰 A safe haven becomes a nightmare.
🏚️ The housemother hides secrets.
💀 The house wants her baby.

Jorie must run before Idlestone delivers death.

#PitDark #YA #Horror #Historical #amquerying #H #GH #PH
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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SMALL FAVORS X A GIRL WALKS INTO THE FOREST
Amidst a rotten candy village, Hildy must overcome immoral challenges to rescue her ungrateful sister from becoming a living doll before she herself embraces her violent instincts that will transform her into a monster.
#Ghostpit #YA #DF #H #PitDark
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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When two sisters discover they are descended from a family legacy of love magic, their own love lives become complicated as they develop the ability to sense love. Especially when it’s for everyone else except themselves.

#GhostPit #R #F #A #YA #NA #Q
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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jenknowsprose.bsky.social
ALCHEMY OF A BLOOD MOON
81k Contemporary Paranormal Romance

🌙 PTSD Rep
🌙 Occult Rep
🌙 Hard earned HEA
🌙 Voicy & character-driven
🌙 All the yearn and spice

#ghostpit #A #Q #C #Amquerying #litagents #WriteSky
Alchemy of a Blood Moon against a night sky with a bright moon. A basic description of the story against the night sky. Book and movie comps for Alchemy of a Blood Moon. Images of the moon, tarot, and crystal ball against the night sky.
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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LOVE SIMON x CARRY ON
Closeted 🏳️‍⚧️ boy Cas is all set to graduate his rural Georgia magic school and transition, when a new student shows up with a dark secret from Cas’s past. If Cas can’t keep the boy quiet, he could destroy Cas’s life—if they don’t fall for each other first. #ghostpit #YA #F #W
A nine image moodboard of a library, a stack of books, a rural farm, a photo of young Kristen Stewart, a person holding light, a photo of Tom Holland, a postcard style map of Georgia, a paper graded A+, and a person holding light on their chest
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
jacysellers.bsky.social
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES x THE ONLY ONE LEFT

Body parts are vanishing from Alice Stone’s funeral home, then reappearing in a local oddities shop built from animal skulls. In a town that feeds on scandal, nothing stays buried for long.

#PitDark #A #PH #T #amquerying
October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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QUEER NANCY DREW
Welcome to the Halloween party you'll never forget. It will make you question everything you've ever known. Did your sapphic crush, your boss, or your ex kill your arch nemesis? And who poisoned the chili? Oh, and don't forget your costume...
👻 #Ghostpit #YA #Q #MY #LGBT #OWN
Murder Mystery Party, Everyone's a suspect, is it your sapphic crush, your boss, or your ex? October 31, 2025, The Final Chapter Bookstore, Green Barrow, PA, RSVP to Diane Billas by requesting her manuscript. Don't forget your costume.
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM