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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

SixofCrowsxPoppyWar
When the Dusters vanished and left Nara behind, she resorted to a life of crime to survive.
In one last heist to save her best friend, Nara teams up with the two people who imprisoned her to steal a Healing relic while evading ghosts from a life she can't remember
#questpit #Q #F

A Guide To
DUST WE SHALL RETURN
An 88k Fantasy Heist
By Marceline Greyfield

Pitch
A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact from a Dynaster to save her best friend's life. But when they find Nara's kidnapper commisserating with the Dynaster, Nara must choose between unraveling the secrets oof her past to find where her people vanished to, or protecting her friends and her future from a religious ritual that threatens to split the barrier between man and god.

Themes & Tropes
Tri POV (F/M/NB)
Physically disabled FMC (#OWN)
MMC talks like a Jeff Buckley or Hozier song
Nonbinary MC fighting to save their sister
Ensemble cast
Found family
Unique magic system
Sibling bonds
E2L second-chance romance
Religious machinations
Twisty, slowly revealed backstories

Comps
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang: Fragmented memories, last of her kind protag, morally complex characters.
Memento by Christopher Nolan: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge. Distrustful allies.
The Priority of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: Strong FMC with unique magic, ancient rituals, and political intrigue.

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE ATLAS SIX X FMA:B
After breaking Alchemic Law to save her brother, the alchemic gods smite Vasia with rotting bones as punishment. To reverse her fungal decay, she must graduate into the Oasis and find a Healer.

-Becoming inhuman
-Defying god
-"I'll do it myself"
-Body horror

#QuestPit #SFF #W

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

in LOVE with this guide

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

this sounds SO good!!

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

this is SUCH an amazing guide omg

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

obsessed with this omg

mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

I’m obsessed with this omg

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

this sounds amazing omg

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

this sounds SO good!!

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

I can’t get over how beautiful this sounds

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

QUEEN OF FACES x FMA:B
An alchemist covered in illegal runes to stave off her rotting bones
An artist possessed by an arcane parasite from their father
An academic uncovering the conspiracy behind her dying world
An aristocrat cursed with a forbidden power forced to reveal it
#Questpit #W #A #SFF

A Guide To
RUNES OF NECROSIS
A 95k Dark Academia Adult Science Fantasy
By Marceline Greyfield

Eight students in various studies compete to graduate from Araphel Academy and be rewarded with a life inside the Oasis's Upper Chamber. The four lowest-scoring students are expelled to the infinite desert.
But when a student on the verge of expulsion murders the top student, an alchemist performs forbidden humanoid alchemy to save their life, and she awakens an arcane parasite that threatens to slaughter the remaining six students and unravel every secret hiding within Araphel Academy.

Themes & Tropes:
Quad POV (F/M/NB/F)
Alchemist FMC becoming something inhuman
Snarky aristocrat MMC with a forbidden power
Nonbinary artist whose lies unravel their past
Cheery FMC scholar who uncovers a conspiracy
LGBTQIA rep
Rivals to lovers
Fake dating
Rotting body (horror)
Arcane possession
Exorcism gone wrong
Descent into madness

Comps
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake: Students of various studies working together to uncover secrets about their dying world, knowing not all will survive.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood by Hiromu Arakawa: Protag who breaks alchemic law to save her brother's life, now trying to graduate to Heal her curse and spite the gods
Queen of Faces by Petra Lord: Decaying bodies, a cutthroat academy, betrayal through manipulation, and blurred morality lines.
Arcane by Christian Linke and Alex Yee: Similar class system and discussions of privilege. (JayVik if rivals to lovers, and CaitVi if Vi grew up in the desert).

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

omg hi!! thank you 🖤🖤

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

SIX OF CROWS x THE POPPY WAR
Three convicts have breached the Manor. Do not approach; they are armed, dangerous, and after an ancient artifact that they don’t know the power of, in hopes of Healing their sick ally. The last Duster is in this found family of thieves. Do not harm her.

#Questpit #F #Q

WANTED
ALIVE
NARA FERRIN - DUSTER
For pickpocketing Dynaster Kinvaara, escaping the Tarkan prison, kidnapping, theft, and attacking Diantha Caelus at her wedding.

WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE
DELRON PERDICIAN - CHRONICLER
For masterminding the Tarkan prison break, kidnapping, theft, breaking and entering, and destroying the Kantilian Manor

WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE
EGAN HENRIK - SHIFTER
For impersonating Doville Caelus and several Kantilian Manor Guards, kidnapping, theft, and the attempted murder of Dynaster Caelus.

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austin (🛤️ is querying 🛤️) @austinsgrace.bsky.social · Aug 6

🛤️ HOW TO COME HOME🛤️

An ex-Prohibition fixer and a small-town general store owner must overcome holding their pasts too present in order to build a future together in 1930s America.

PEAKY BLINDERS x 4 WINDS x CAT SEBASTIAN

#questpit #Q #amquerying #agentsguide

Slide 1: Cover slide for HOW TO COME HOME. A picture of a cornfield at dusk overlaid by the title and two portraits, one of a man with curly dark hair and wearing a dark green sweater and one of a man with pale blond hair, glasses, and wearing a jacket, vest, and tie. A brown frame with gilded accents encloses the slide.

Slide 2: PITCH & COMPS
After a decade behind bars, former Prohibition crime boss Nathan Gilliard takes a job working for a kindhearted single father at his small-town general store—but Nathan’s old life and older secrets aren’t easily left behind bars, and both men must confront the consequences of holding their pasts too present if they have any hope of building a future together.
Comps presented are WE COULD BE SO GOOD by Cat Sebastian, INLAND by Téa Obreht, PEAKY BLINDERS, THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah, THE COMPANION by EE Ottoman, and the albums Hozier by Hozier, Laurel Hell by Mitski, and Babel by Mumford & Sons

Slide 3:TROPES & THEMES
A digital painting of two men, one with dark curly hair and wearing a maroon sweater, one with blond hair and wearing a shirt with suspenders and glasses around his neck, both seated at a piano. The tropes & themes read:
- Queerness without a “coming out” narrative
- Unconventional family structure
- Grief doesn’t end, but it changes
- Romance’s sweeping love story + histfic’s sweeping plot
- Disability =/= disabling
- Chekhov’s $100,000
- Who you are is not what you’ve been
- 30+-year-old-protagonists
- Complicated siblings, positive and negative

Slide 4: EXCERPT
A hotel. Anonymous people. People whose faces he’ll never see, whose names he’ll never know. Whose lives could be anything and everything, passing through Aurora on their way to California or New York or Canada.
On the train, that had been the most beautiful thing in the world to Nathan, the anonymity. Now the horror of it grounds him to the sidewalk.
Ten years he spent unknowable and resilient and caged, because the pain of knowing a different life and losing it cut so deep he didn’t know if he’d survive another bout of loss. And even in Blankenship he’d risked knowing, risked caring, and lost again. No lessons learned. More pieces of him to gather up, and Nathan’s hands too small to carry all of them. He can look in this ordinary little hotel all he likes. He’s burned too much, built too little to aspire to an ordinary life. No, all that awaits Nathan Gilliard is blood money and cold vengeance.

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank you so much!!

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 6

Broken homes. Boarding school. Betrayal.

DON'T FORGET ME follows a young Mexican-American girl that escapes home to seek freedom & education. She meets a boy, causing another piece of her heart to break.🖤

5 years later, & their story begins again.

#questpit #R #Romance #NA #Q

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Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Questpit #Q #A #RF #AgentsGuide #amquerying
The Sun Diamond Princess & the Blind Assassin
👸 #BIPOC bi-racial princess
👨‍🦯#disability #blind romantic interest
🛌🛖 One bed at the shepherd's hut
💞Against the odds romance
🔺Relationship triangle between love and duty
🌲Pining
🔥Slow burn
🌶️Spice

Image split into four quarters of agent's guide. This panel features upper half body featuring Myra, a biracial tall woman with acne spots in a Turkish style jacket and pants. Arzhang is wearing only red dhoti pants, shirtless with well developed muscles and golden fringe across his eyes to indicate he is visually impaired. They are standing in a dark alley.

AGENT'S GUIDE
The Sun Diamond Princess
& the Blind Assassin
by Elise Betz

103K adult stand alone romantacy, light fantasy, dual POV, bi-racial princess, disabled blind romantic interest, plenty of pining, angst, sexual tension, and spice.

First sentence, first page: “If beauty was a currency for
women to procure a husband, Princess Myra was a pauper.”

A "sun diamond" (a roughly tumbled yellow crystal rock in a pendant faded in the background )- part of a panel with the upper half of the pendant.

The Pitch

Due to a mix-up at a brothel, a blind former assassin saves a facially scarred princess from an assassin sent by her mother, the queen regent. On the run together, the princess brokers peace with a warring country, offering herself up for marriage with hopes of returning home and deposing her tyrannical mother. The princess is torn between her love for her country and her love for the blind assassin.

Lower half of character bodies. Both wearing sandals.

Tropes & Comps

Relationship triangle between love & duty
Bachelor auction at a brothel
One bed at the shepherd’s hut
He falls first
Against the odds romance
On the run together
Slow burn, angst and pining

Zinna After Dark by Paul Lucas
The Ugly Princess by Henderson Smith
Facially scarred, “not pretty” FMC

Breinne of Tarth from Game of Thrones
Tall, strong, principled FMC

Daredevil: Blind romantic lead

Tristan & Isolde with HEA
Lovers kept apart due to political wedding engagement

Lower half of "sun diamond pendant" faded in background of quartering of image.

What if we have a princess that isn’t beautiful, short,
delicate, weak and helpless?

What if the princess saves the romantic lead from a life of prostitution?

What if we have a princess who is short tempered, can
kick ass and swears?

What if Tristan & Isolde had a happy ending instead?

What if we have a story that criticizes sexually repressive
patriarchal societies?

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Bree Buonomo @breebwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Vampires prey on the vulnerable and forgotten, and Casey is their best meal yet. But if Casey can overcome her trauma to earn a 2nd chance at life, she might be able to escape the clutches of the obsessive vampires.
#questpit #Q #A #H
#agentsguide

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · Aug 6

❤️‍🔥 THE HEALER WITCH ❤️‍🔥

If you thought coming back to the place you hate the most was bad, imagine getting tangled in a Healer’s dodgy business AND constantly putting your life in danger in the process.

The odds are not in their favour, but the Gods are.

#agentsguide #questpit #Q #A #F

Purple and orange flames over a dark background. White text reads: The Guardians of Melya present, The Healer Witch. A Bewitched 97K Adult Fantasy by K J Silver

Purple and orange flames over a dark background. The white text reads: The pitch - Captain Onwyn Storm's life changes the moment he agrees to work for General Redwood, though he will soon learn just how much. While trying to prove himself and fulfill the bargain he's made to be rid of his father's corrupting influence once and for all he is forces to work with Lunary. A Healer Witch who has more secrets than he can keep track of and could very well cost him everything he has worked so hard for. Or his life, if he's not careful.

Purple and orange flames over a dark background. White text reads: The Prologue - And so Ylluriel had endured centuries of watching how they destroyed each other. Over land, resources, family feuds. The reason didn’t seem to matter, for they always found another excuse to turn against one another. The greed, the hopelessness. The anger and blood lust. The jealousy and despair. They had all infected the lands of Melya like a plague that no one could stop. Ylluriel had easily grown tired of staying aside. Of having the power to change things and not do anything to help the children that she loved so fiercely. Her love was so great that she was willing to go against Melya herself, the Mother of all. Her grandmother.
It wasn’t the first time she had defied her, after all, and she was sure it would not be the last. Especially not when a child, so desperate to live, had found her way to her realm.

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · Aug 6

When Nora Foscara unearths her sister’s scavenger hunt, she’s plunged into a world of a secret society, colonized magic, and whispers from the grave—but the truth could devour her before graduation.

#questpit #Q #YA #F

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · Aug 6

#agentguide to CARELESS WHISPERS my romantic suspense set in Greece.
It's du Maurier's REBECCA x Sky's RIVIERA x Netflix's THE PERFECT COUPLE

The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive...

💥Secrets
💥Loss
💥Slowburn ❤️‍🔥
💥Obsession
💥Unrequited💘
💥Betrayal
💥Murder
#Questpit #Q #A #R #MY

PAGE 1 is a blue background with a hand reaching out of water.
Words along the top say SOME SECRETS ARE JUST TOO DANGEROUS TO KNOW...
An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, a 98k word romantic suspense.

PAGE 2 has a picture of a woman looking over her shoulder at the camera. On the other side says Pitch & Plot and has the following text:

With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her.

Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Beautiful, manipulative Rianna had not been well-liked. Her speciality was ferreting out people's secrets. And everyone, Listy discovers, has something to hide.

As she unravels what happened to Rianna, the truth threatens Listy’s future happiness and the lives of those dear to her, and she must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price she's willing to pay.

PAGE 3 has a photo on one side of a villa at night. On the other side it says Opening Lines and has the following text:
As the song fades, she hears the footsteps behind her. She doesn't rise from the lounger or turn her head. Just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon.
'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.'
'I have plenty to say.'
Her head whips round then. She smiles, and the villa's floodlit swimming pool pulses as if it, too, is energised, its rippling glow tipping the brooding hedges with gold. She'd been wondering if one of them would turn up. She'd refused to go to the stupid party. They're all stuck-up and boring, and they hate her so she knows she won't be missed. But sitting here alone by the pool, drinking, waiting for her phone to ping a reply – any kind of response! – she'd grown bored and been thinking maybe she ought to go after all. Just to spoil their fun.

PAGE 4 has a collage of pictures and the title Tropes & Themes & The Vibes.
Tropes and Themes are: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder

Lower half of page has The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera.

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rach ⊹ ࣪ ˖ is QUERYING! @omgrachwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

A hopeless single gets stuck on a couples camping trip with the guy from high school who sabotaged her love life, and she's determined to finally find out why, even if it means making her favorite week of the year miserable for them both.

✨ 19 requests ✨

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #OwnVoices #AANHPI

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · Aug 6

ATLA X BRIDGERTON

A hero's side quest is a life-shattering experience for someone else. When a legendary hero crashes into a young lady's life, she finds herself questioning everything she ever knew as the two try to save her town from a mystical murderer.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

A snowy forest. Steampunk gears. A shadowy hand. Steampunk tech. A woman in a gown. A full moon.

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Letty Sharpe - Pitch Account @lettysharpepitches.bsky.social · Aug 6

VEILED ENCHANTMENTS - 80K YA FANTASY
✨current agent interest

All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic she has been denied.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

n a school full of witches, Blake is the only one with no magic at all. She can assist but not participate. Observe but not engage. That is, until the Grandwitch arrives at the academy with a powerful necklace in tow. If Blake wants to escape her nameless fate and make her mark on the world, stealing it may be her only option.

Tropes and Comps:

Dark academia
magical academy
sapphic enemies to lobers
grumpy x grumpy
hidden family secrets
witches
lost gods

As she pushes swathes of long black hair behind her ears
and rolls up the sleeves of her turtleneck to the elbows,
I wait for her charcoal eyes to finally latch onto me, like a crocodile spying its next meal across the surface of the water.

But they never do.

She ignores me entirely, fixing her gaze instead on the skull between my hands. I can’t extinguish the flame of indignation inside me. In a more forgiving world, we would be equals. Rivals. But as things stand, I’m no more to her than the pile of dust on Eram’s desk.

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

SINNERS x INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and a two hundred years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past— a lover, a family, and something chasing her— she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway. #QuestPit #W #S #T #A

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