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Rachel Blaine @rachelblaine.bsky.social · Apr 5

“My hands squeeze my temples as I focus all my energy on my bowl of dried crickets. If I could resurrect them, could they write this pointless essay for me? They'd likely mock me with their nonexistent knowledge of what it's like to be a pure red girl. Useless writing partners.”
#1stlinepit #YA #SF

AN AGENTS GUIDE
TO
PURE RED
YA ECO SCIENCE FICTION
82000 Words
By Rachel Blaine

THE PITCH
Sixteen-year-old Candy has been hiding her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now scientists want her for the one thing she can't hide, her skin color.
After a new discovery is made public that only those with pure red skin can survive another onset of catastrophie climate change, Candy, a pure red, embarks on a journey to find her birth parents hoping they can help her understand how to better control her ability so she can stay a girl and avoid spending her adolescence as a science experiment.

Comparable Titles
THE
LAST
BOOKSTORE
ON
EARTH
LILY BRAUN-ARNOLD
DUSTBORN
ERIN BOWMAN
SWEET TOOTH

THE EXCERPT
• My hands squeeze my temples as I focus all my energy on my bowl of dried crickets. If I could resurrect them, could they write this pointless essay for me? They'd likely mock me with their nonexistent knowledge of what it's like to be a pure red girl. Useless writing partners. I guess I'll have to write this essay myself for the sixth year in a row.
• My pencil lingers over my notes as I contemplate how to answer the same ridiculous prompt we get each year to pay tribute to The Great Coloring. Why Is Your Skin Color Special? I had a teacher once who swore he came up with the essay topic himself. I may have blurted out that it so obviously came from the Dome's unmistakable ducation agenda which caused him to punish me with one week of lunchtime alone in his classroom. Little did he know, I've spent ninety-five percent of my school lunches sitting alone. Joke's on him.

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Rachel Blaine @rachelblaine.bsky.social · Apr 5

The sidewalks of the Hollywood Walk of Fame are quite slick after a taste of rain and the stench released from the cement is like a melange of urine, dirt, and body odor with a sprinkle of debauchery and despair. You couldn’t manufacture a worse stench if you tried.
#1stLinePit #YA #WIP #H

Image: flowers on a casket
Image: Grieving girl
Words:
Ava holds her breath as she shuffles down the sidewalk, regretting the choice to wear her worn out old sneakers as she loses her footing on a slippery star. She looks down. Of course, Marylin.
Why not a sad tragic reminder of her sad tragic reality?
Image: candles
Image: the dybbuk
Image: grieving girl
Image funeral

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John W Treviño @johnwtrevino.bsky.social · Mar 24

Yellowjackets and Community crossover confirmed.

John W Treviño @johnwtrevino.bsky.social · Mar 17

🔥 FIX YOU 🔥

🔥Latina Representation
🔥Catholic High School
🔥Enemies to Lovers
🔥Sapphic Love Triangle
🔥Slow Burn
🔥Mental Health Rep
🔥Passionate Sports Girl
🔥Serial Killers
🔥Love Conquers All
🔥Cooper the Corgi

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #YA #agentsguide #litagents

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Rachel Blaine @rachelblaine.bsky.social · Mar 17

Candy has been hiding her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now she’s hunted for the one thing she can't hide, her skin color.

🥵 climate fiction
🏳️‍🌈 queer friends to lovers
🫂 found family
🧬 her DNA will save us all

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #YA #SF #writingcommunity

Red sky; hot sun; flames; red clouds; hot sun over Los Angeles; woman with red background

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · Mar 17

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising

In a beach town of people lost at
sea & legends of sea creatures told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside–
it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #F #A #R

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John W Treviño @johnwtrevino.bsky.social · Feb 18

I'm editing to focus this manuscript and I found this little moment, just hanging out on its own. I don't remember why I wrote it or what I was getting at, but here we are. I quite like it.

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gabby is now ✨elle reed✨ @gabbywrites.bsky.social · Feb 12

THE SUMMER OF BROKEN RULES X HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS AND UNFAIRLY CUTE

☀️close-knit coastal town and weekly beach bonfires
☀️slow burn between ex-best friends
☀️secret beach hideaway
☀️end of the summer festival
☀️she may (or may not be) his muse 🤭

#questpit #Q #YA #R

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Ceci Li @writerceci.bsky.social · Feb 12

📖It’s Only Me
❤️YA contemporary romance
⌨️ 70k words
Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules.
#questpit #Q #YA #R #poc #writingcommunity #amquerying

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Jan 27

#2025pit

Daimons Legacy: Revelations

🐉 Mystical Beings

✨ Otherworldly Realm

💜 Sapphic Love (#LGBT+)

💞 Found Family

🙅‍♀️ Defying Tradition

#A #F #SF #R #OV

Reny must choose between the duties of her realm and her love for a human before a vicious leader chooses for her.

Six photos:
Weapon being forged from the fire against iron, a Black royalty woman, crushed black marble put back together, a gold plated lotus flower, sunset against a flat desert, picture of a heart with gold outline of the arteries (Reny's or Eope's heart right before breaking)

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Vee Haacke 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is querying! @goddessvicky.bsky.social · Jan 27

💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES

🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory
❤️‍🔥Slow Burn
👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖

#2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV

A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles

A photo that reads:
Crowned In Light
A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series
As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy
First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query!
This one has it all!
- Magical Realism
- Slow Burn
- Found Family
- Gods and Goddesses
- Music Heavy
- Soul Mates / Past Lives
- Strong Female Friendships
- Disability/BIPOC representation
- DAVID BOWIE?!?!

A photo that reads:
The Pitch!
It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions.
When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world?

A photo that reads:
For Fans of:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Maggie Stiefvater
Richelle Mead
Laurell K Hamilton

Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality.
Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way.
Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory.

Playlist:
Have I Found My Home by Paden
What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams
Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin
Breathe Me by Sia
Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes
Silence by Marshmello & Khalid
The World We Made by Ruelle
Like That by JP Saxe
Safe Place by RuthAnne
Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt
Somebody Loved by The Weepies
For You by Angus & Julia Stone
Past Life by Morgan St Jean
Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last

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Joy is ✨querying✨ 🥀🪦 @joyiswriting.bsky.social · Feb 12

Southern monsters are threatening to destroy everything Elle stands for, her mom’s clinic, and her bakery. When she falls in love with one she must choose between love, and having everyone around her destroyed.
But what if they’re one and the same? #BayouWIP
#questpit #W #YA #R #H

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Vincent L. Anthony @vincent-l-anthony.bsky.social · Feb 12

Operation 49: Tales of the Psychedelic Rescue Unit is a laugh out loud, high-wire travel adventure piece with coming of age subplots drenched in 90’s nostalgia. Bikers, bears, brawls, Alaskan kooks and a magical encounter that unlocks the psychedelic wave of the nineties. #questpit #Q #A #YA #NF #M

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Jessie Chang 𓆩♡𓆪 @jessxinc.bsky.social · Feb 12

LA LA LAND x ASAP

A rising pop star is on to her next move in Hollywood after a glistening year filled with record-breaking songs and a sold out world tour: starring in a romantic movie. The catch: the main lead is her ex-boyfriend.

#QuestPit #YA #Q #R

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Author Adlin K.T. @adlinktauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

Miguel's 1st Year at LoMA:
🔪Find who killed Mami
👻Awaken her sleeping opía
🌬️Attune with the stubborn elements
🤝Make friends with other mages
🌌Deal with the bully
🧛🏻Don't get bit by a vampire
💘Don't fall in love! Seriously, that's not important
#Questpit #YA #UF #W #LGBT

Aesthetic board. Story comps are Cemetery Boys and Legendborn.

An illustration I made of the protagonist Miguel creating his cibas stone and summoning his own opía.

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Kree Sullivan @kreesullivan.bsky.social · Feb 12

MAD MAX meets FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

A Grieving Smuggler🚚
A Fugitive Mage🔮
A Turncoat Huntsman🗡
The Heist of their Lives

My debut novel, BLACKBLOOD, is releasing April 1. It's up for preorder on Amazon and B&N and is available to add on Goodreads now 🖤🖤🖤🖤

#Questpit #ya #f #p

The cover of the novel BLACKBLOOD by Kree Sullivan, surrounded by arrows pointing to its tropes: found family; enemies-to-???; blood magic; blood drinking; blood!; unapologetically feral lesbians; unapologetically feral enbies; one apologetically feral cis man

Teenage smuggler, Armina, never intended to inherit the Blackblood, a truck loaded with illegal magical artifacts. But when tragedy strikes, leaving her in charge with only her irritable ex-girlfriend for company and with the magic-hating Huntsmen on her tail, she's determined to follow in the footsteps of her murdered Captain.

When Armina discovers a fugitive mage hiding aboard her truck, dripping their black blood, she can't ignore their pleas for help. The mage desperately wants to rescue their mother from the Huntsmen's headquarters in the Western mountains, a mission Armina knows is doomed to fail, but one she can't ignore.

As they tear across a dust bowl wasteland toward the dark spires in the west, secrets from Armina’s past come into view, lit by the blinding headlights of the roaring truck.

Secrets that could endanger the mission, the truck, and her splintering found-family in the process.

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A. Swift @aswiftauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

#QuestPit

ACOMAF x ODW

Tamlin vs Rhysand🥵, except one is the playful scientist helping Ocelia hunt the magic poison spreading a deadly disease🏜️ and the other is an enigmatic immortal who bends magic to his will & knows more than he should💫

Who is truly helping her heal her brother?⏳
#Q #F #RF #YA

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · Feb 12

In a world where dreams weave reality and nightmares are a crime, con artist Kali gets her best friend arrested & pretends to be a mage so she can heist the object needed to find her

🧿A ragtag group
🧿A brooding mentor
🧿Secret agendas unravelled
🧿Six of Crows x Jade City

#q #ya #f #rf #questpit

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Neira @neirawrites.bsky.social · Feb 12

SAPPHIC CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
🧶🪄 Magical textile
😤😡➡️👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏿 Enemies to lovers
🧙🏿‍♀️ A NB Willy Wonka of magical textile looking for an heir
🥼Autistic, STEM-obsessed love interest
🏳️‍🌈😾Diabetic, bitter lesbian protagonist
🐏 Great ruminant heist
#questpit #YA #R #F #UF #LGBTQ

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Megan Macmanus @meganmacmanus.bsky.social · Feb 12

Taken captive after a botched raid, Revni needs to get north before she’s declared dead. Eavus needs to get her south to prove he’s not a deserter.To survive, they’ll have to decide who to trust–because they are both slaves & conquerors in enemy land & everyone else wants them dead. #questpit #F #YA

A collage of images, including Roman soldiers and coins a Viking ax and ship, hands tied with rope, and a cobbles road.

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Sara Fujimura @authorsarafujimura.bsky.social · Feb 12

A hyper-independent teen girl tentatively opens her ❤️‍🔥 to the inhabitants of a small AZ town but may lose it all and more due to the recklessness of the boy she loves the most.

❤️‍🔥Found family
❤️‍🔥Cosplayers & fanfic writers
❤️‍🔥The power of fandom
❤️‍🔥Grumpy/Sunshine
❤️‍🔥Sweet div YA romance

#QuestPit #YA #R

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Phoenix Eliott @phoenixeliott.bsky.social · Feb 12

To solve her aunt’s disappearance, 15yo Zuma must:
1. Track down suspects (ALL the stakeouts)
2. Not get caught by the bad guy
3. Oh yeah, travel back in time

#QuestPit #YA #My #AgentsGuide

Created on Canva. A 9-grid image with the title An Agent's Guide for Missing Adelaide Walker, YA Mystery, 71K words. Images include an empty railroad track, the interior of a barn, a water tower silhouetted against the sky, the freckled face of a teenage girl, the hood of a red pickup truck, a black clock face, a person printing photos in the red light of a darkroom, a camera slung over the shoulder of a young woman.

The Pitch: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets The Unmaking of June Farrow when 15yo Zuma uses old photographs to trace back in time and solve her aunt's disappearance.

Themes and Tropes: southern small town vibes, ticking clock, new kid in town, complex family dynamics, strong female friendships, teenage shenanigans, cinnamon roll love interest, speculative twist, whodunnit?, diverse teens working together, time travel, the butterfly effect, girl saves girl x2

Comps: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (teen sleuth), The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (travel in time and might get stuck), Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus (plot twists)

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H.G. Kim @hgkim.bsky.social · Feb 12

Eurovision x Hunger Games

Welcome to the New Republic's hottest music competition.
The Muse!
42 musical talents compete to see who is the best of the best and this year, there's a little surprise.

It's to die for.

Remember citizens. Watching is mandatory.

💔 abuse
☠️ death

#questpit #w #ya

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Leila @leilaammartin.bsky.social · Feb 12

3 months. 2 opposing friend groups. 1 missing soul. Every day for 13 weeks, Emmeline faces the question that plagues teens everywhere: homework first, or enter Death on a time-sensitive supernatural goose chase with her life hanging in the balance?

#Q #YA #PR #QuestPit #EmmelineHarperPsychopomp

Movi-style book poster in moody tones, featuring a redheaded girl lying on a forest floor, looking at the camera with gray eyes. White text overlay. Text reads: Three months to fulfill a bargain with a death goddess. Two conflicting friend groups. One missing soul. Emmeline Harper, Psychopomp. YA supernatural fantasy; 70;000 words. From author Leila A. M. Martin.

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