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writer of unhinged women — feminist theory, grief, and the exploration of academia through both | @questpit.bsky.social host
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minaareis.bsky.social
P– wants the entire world for herself but she understands that's unattainable. Still, buy her a gift... or two, or three...

NOT PICTURED:
🥃Henry's touch,
🍝home cooked meals,
🖊️her name in history's records.

Trust me, she 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 it.

#questpit #Q #A #S #LF
May 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social
BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US

When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever.

GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror.

#QuestPit #W #YA #T #H
A composite graphic featuring a grid of nine oversaturated images (three rows of three) that evoke the mood of YA thriller novel GENERATION ZOMBIE. From top left: a pile of newspapers with the word “classified” visible on one; a disembodied hand on a pane of glass; a young woman holding a phone; a young man staring at a phone with one hand on his cheek; an aerial shot of the Empire State Building with a red sky; a crowd of people; a phone screen showing a grid of social media app icons; a dark silhouette with an arm raised; and a large stack of newspapers.
May 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
minaareis.bsky.social
lost to the world and herself because of academia, P– must decide if she wants to go to the Underworld as Sisyphus' replacement or stay on Earth with past protégées that promise her the world's riches

💍this is a love story
💀or maybe not,
🫵you decide.

#questpit #Q #A #S #LF
First row, left corner: an photograph of a large painting with sandy hues, with two couples staring at it; First row, middle: a photo of a boy and a girl, staring at each other through a keyhole, sandy hues First row, right corner: a photograph of three people descending marble stairs, sandy hues Second row, left corner: a woman lying her head down on a table, blue hues Second row, middle: a woman starting at a table, contemplative, blue hues Second row, right corner: stack of magazines, blue hues with a hint of bright pink Third row, left corner: a drawing of souls funnelling towards an abyss, black and white hues Third row, middle: a photo of a woman's eyes looking on a dark figure embraced by hands, black and white hues Third row, right corner: broken greek statue, black and white hues
May 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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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
minaareis.bsky.social
THE SECRET HISTORY x FLEABAG

Oh, P— will you please find yourself and fix this mess?

🪨 modern reimagining of Sisyphus
🎓 isolated & ambitious PhD student
👓 hot people doing bad things
🐇 a very grumpy Underworld dweller
⚰️ grave robbing for fame

#questpit #Q #A #S #LF
May 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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questpit.bsky.social
We would like to remind everyone of our NO AI policy. As a larger pitch event, it’s impossible for us to review every pitch and prove if it is AI or not, but we would like to make sure our position on AI is clear.
April 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
minaareis.bsky.social
i keep forgetting this app exists 😭
April 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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authort-lee.bsky.social
For Max, who lived & loved vicariously through Asian classics, being reborn into an AU East Asia should’ve been a dream come true. But the original fairytales are grim. Living idyllically & loving freely will cost others their life according to his curse
#Questpit #W #Up #A
There is a graphic of red Asian lanterns hanging from a cherry blossom tree. There’s also text that says “you’re invited to support Red WIP anywhere, anytime forever and always in all universes. Querying later 2025.” In the center is a moodboard with two sides. On the left are modern things: Tampa at night with a glowing bridge, a young man in a plaid shirt leaning over a desk with a pencil in hand, and a thorny rose. On the right are ancient sights: a Japanese temple against a red sky, a woman in traditional Vietnamese clothing, and an Asian painting of a plant with red flowers.
February 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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jackieyap.bsky.social
CRAZY RICH ASIANS x GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER

Forced to move from Australia and attend an uber-wealthy international school, Izzy finds herself in a life-or-death game of wits with Manila’s rich and famous.

🌈 #own diverse rep
🕵🏾‍♂️ #cosymystery
🫶 found family
🇵🇭 set in Manila

#QuestPit #YA #MY #W
A dark blue background with white streaked lines around the borders. Image of a school overlayed with red crossed out lines. The header in white font reads: New school. New city. And a murder mystery. Welcome to Manila. The title in red font reads: ISABELLE GOMEZ IS INNOCENT, SHE SWEARS
February 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social
A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#QuestPit #YA #H #T
This is a moodboard of orange and green images with a spooky, woodsy vibe including a hand with a vine, and deer at night, an eye reflecting fire, a set of pill bottles, top surgery scars with a barbed wire tattoo, and a black woman covered in ivy
February 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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gwenvines.writes.fyi
ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/
⚛️engineering magic
🤌obsessive yearning
🚨unreliable narrator
📻corrupted magic tech
🩺ethical dilemmas
🩻body horror
🏆dangerous magic duels
🛠️blacksmith biceps
🌿strange plants
👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them
#questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H
A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy. Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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charyoung.bsky.social
🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette
February 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
minaareis.bsky.social
FLEABAG x PENELOPIAD

Knowledge is infinite, but you are finite.

🥈morally ambiguous narrator
🥈burnout gifted kid w/ no friends
🥈eat or be eaten
🥈stuck in the past daydreaming about the future
🥈found family vs infamy

#questpit #A #W
Top left corner: photo of scattered papers and a notebook filled with messy calligraphy Top center: photo of a group of women sitting around a round table lit by an overhead chandelier Top right corner: two hands exchanging a cigarette Center: it is written “I am out with lanterns looking for myself” Down left corner: painting of a suited man sitting in agony with his hands covering his face Down center: burning book Down right corner: photo of a group of people’s feet, symbolizing a friend group
February 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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megorra.bsky.social
Rediscover history’s young, forgotten female heroes in this educational and empowering standalone with series potential.
📜 Diverse histories
📜 Forgotten figures
📜 Inspiring women
#NF #Q #YA #QuestPit
Illustrated cover with designs of various women in historic cultural dress A gold cover reads: An Agents Guide to: Remarkable Young Women Illustrated full figures of young women from various cultures accompanied by text briefly describing their significance
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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kancollan.bsky.social
LEGENDBORN x AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

Either she fulfills her family's legacy, or she dies with it.

🤸‍♀️ Badass female protagonist
💧🪨🔥🌪️ Elemental magic system
🌆 Urban fantasy in NYC
🫂 Found Family
🗡️ Magic competition
🌈 Diverse ensemble cast

#Q #YA #F #Jewish #QuestPit
A title card with the text "An Agent's Guide to THE WINDWALKER - Katie Collan - young adult urban fantasy 105,000 words" over a person with a red cloak standing in the middle of a grassy field. Comparative titles with arrows pointing to relevant descriptions. Titles include: LEGENDBORN by Tracy Deonn, A DEADLY EDUCATION by Naomi Novik, Nickelodeon's animated series AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER. Captions: Legendborn: "mysterious death of a parent", "strong themes of prejudice" ATLA: "elemental hard magic system" ATLA, A Deadly Education: "diverse ensemble (would rather die than get along)" All three: "magic rooted in culture" Pitch: "When fighters start disappearing from an underground tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament's secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate." A mood board featuring eight panels with a corresponding color palette in the center, as well as the caption, "Believe in the wind and you'll prevail." From left to right, top to bottom: fire burning down a building; ocean water; the sky above the clouds; a cracked, rocky ground; a red-haired girl in a red cloak with glowing white eyes, holding a dagger hilt with a transparent blade made of air; a skyline view of nighttime Manhattan; a NYC subway track; a boxing ring that depicts two people practicing punches beyond the ropes.
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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karamoonauthor.com
inspired by OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH + THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE + MASTER AND COMMANDER

#QuestPit #W #A #LGBT #RF

(Art = my own)
Text is surrounded by border of small squares with art done in dark brown and white. Figures depicted include: a mythical parrot, a white flower, a nereid, a sphinx, a harpy, a cherub, a sparm whale, a cat on a ship's deck, a mermaid, a dragon flying over islands, a hippocampus, a seagull, a satyr, a dryad Text in the centre: Kallista Audax is a proud naval captain until witnessing colonial injustice causes her to become the notorious Pirate Queen. Then Doctor Geni Philistos comes into her life, providing Kallista's crew with much needed medical care. But there's a problem: despite all her talent, Geni stands up for her medical ethics to a near-mutinous degree... and maybe worse than that, Kallista is falling hard for her newest crew member, which will just not do! When the colonial powers tighten the snare around them, Kallista and Geni must decide whether love or duty wins the day.
February 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
minaareis.bsky.social
i have GOT to finish tragedies, i keep running away from it and it needs to stop ❌
questpit.bsky.social questpit || next event: Nov 5th @questpit.bsky.social · Feb 5
our last question of the day!
Question 3:
It’s 2025! Welcome to the new year! What are your writing goals for 2025?
a light blue background with white silhouettes of pine trees and snow. in the top right corner there are christmas lights and in the middle is a puppy in a mug and below that is black writing that reads: “Question 3: It’s 2025! Welcome to the new year! What are your writing goals for 2025?”
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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questpit.bsky.social
our last question of the day!
Question 3:
It’s 2025! Welcome to the new year! What are your writing goals for 2025?
a light blue background with white silhouettes of pine trees and snow. in the top right corner there are christmas lights and in the middle is a puppy in a mug and below that is black writing that reads: “Question 3: It’s 2025! Welcome to the new year! What are your writing goals for 2025?”
February 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
minaareis.bsky.social
bunny lovessss to sit still and spiral, so a snow day? perfect
questpit.bsky.social questpit || next event: Nov 5th @questpit.bsky.social · Feb 5
Question 2!
What does your character do on a snowy day?
a light blue background with white silhouettes of pine trees and snow. in the top right corner there are christmas lights and in the middle is a puppy in a mug and below that is black writing that reads: “Question 2: What does your character do on a snowy day?”
February 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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questpit.bsky.social
Question 2!
What does your character do on a snowy day?
a light blue background with white silhouettes of pine trees and snow. in the top right corner there are christmas lights and in the middle is a puppy in a mug and below that is black writing that reads: “Question 2: What does your character do on a snowy day?”
February 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
minaareis.bsky.social
hi everyone!! i’m Maria and i’m so excited for #questpit first event of the season!!

i’ll be pitching a tragedy between childhood best friends & personal ambition gone wild ✨
questpit.bsky.social questpit || next event: Nov 5th @questpit.bsky.social · Feb 5
Welcome to our #questpit Q&A!

Question 1: Introduce yourself and the works you’ll be pitching Feb. 12th! Surprise us with a sneak peek👀
a light blue background with white silhouettes of pine trees and snow. in the top right corner there are christmas lights and in the middle is a puppy in a mug and below that is black writing that reads: “Question 1: Introduce yourself and the works you’ll be pitching Feb. 12th! Surprise us with a sneak peek👀”
February 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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questpit.bsky.social
Welcome to our #questpit Q&A!

Question 1: Introduce yourself and the works you’ll be pitching Feb. 12th! Surprise us with a sneak peek👀
a light blue background with white silhouettes of pine trees and snow. in the top right corner there are christmas lights and in the middle is a puppy in a mug and below that is black writing that reads: “Question 1: Introduce yourself and the works you’ll be pitching Feb. 12th! Surprise us with a sneak peek👀”
February 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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questpit.bsky.social
Seasons greetings! We’re so happy to announce our 2025 #questpit event list! We hope you all are having a lovely start to your December and we hope to see you here starting in February next year.
a pink background banner litter with candy canes and simple wreaths with red bows. A green box is in the center and white lettering reads “Our 2025 Event List: February 12th, May 7th, August 6th, and November 5th”
December 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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leonahwrites.bsky.social
So I declined an offer. Here’s what I did, am doing, and where I’m going: a 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 4:11 PM