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A hype and pitch event for self-identifying Latinx/Latine authors writing Adult and NA fiction.

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PicantePit 🌶 @picantepit.bsky.social · 15d

🔥Rules🔥

- You must be self-identifying Latinx/Latine to participate
- Only pitch between 8am to 8pm EST
- No kidlit/YA works. Adult and NA only
- Moodboards are permitted. Please provide alt text. No AI!
- Only 4 pitches per manuscript
- Liking posts are allowed

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 8d

❗ An epic adventure told from the perspectives of side quest givers. ❗
Legends & Lattes ✖️ When the Moon Hits Your Eye
👀 multi-POV
🌈 #LGBT MCs+PoV
🎲 TTRPG inspired
✉️ epistolary chapters
🗣️ chapters in conversation
👑 royal generational trauma
💸 money squabbles
🗡️ mafia
💀 death cult

#F #PicantePit #PitQ

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 8d

THE HUNGER GAMES BUT MAKE IT SAPPHIC! 🏳️‍🌈

-Dystopia based on TERF movement.
-POC, queer (lesbian, trans, non-binary) and disabled (prosthesis, deaf) protagonists.
-Woman - nonbinary - woman polyamory.

#PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

Illustration of a Black trans woman with Afro hair under a harsh pink light. She is surrounded by white women wearing white dresses and holding pink knives to her neck. Below it says "City of Women" and above it says: sapphic polyamory, found family of QPOC protagonists, and dystopia based on the TERF movement.

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 8d

Reese isn't sure if this is Hell or not, but he knows he likes that Luc.
(And Lucifer doesn't know what to do with this human following him around)

-Latino, gay and ADHD MC
-Criticism of Catholicism
-ANGELS WHO AREN'T WHITE!

#PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

Illustration of an angel with three pairs of wings falling from the sky. In the center, it says "Pride." Above, it says the beginning of a series of queer demons, and below, it says "Can you imagine falling into hell and not realizing it?"

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Phi at the Long Way Down book series @longwaydownbook.bsky.social · 8d

COCO x GOBLIN x TRESE x CONSTANTINE(2005)

👻Catch that killer!
🐈‍⬛International cast
❤️‍🔥Slow burn poly rep
✨Grumpy x Sunshine
🖤 Love across lifetimes
💀 Reincarnated Death Gods
💜 Healing grief & trauma through found family
🕯️Samhain, Día de Muertos, Fèt Gede, Undas

#PicantePit #Drafting #A #PR #RF #UF

This is a grid with a large variety of photographs arranged in a variety of squares and rectangles.

Top row, L to R: 1) Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is kneeling in a graveyard. His hand is on a marble tombstone that appears broken in half. Half of his face is a skull, and his brow is furrowed. 2) There is a little chair with a fuzzy white blanket on it sitting on a concrete floor. On the blanket is a red candle, a cross, a white statue of a veiled woman, and a framed sepia photo of a group of people. Other framed photos sit beside it. 3) A tall grey obelisk looms over other graves in a wooded cemetery. 4) A white church with blue-topped spires.

Bottom, L to R: 5) A woman is holding a boy's hand as they look outside at a tall skeletal papier-mâché woman on stilts smiling back at them. 6) A woman kneels in front of a colorful ofrenda, arranging flower pedals and beans into a skull on the floor in front of it. 7) The top of a spired tomb spikes out into the pale sky, surrounded by empty tree branches. 8) A dark mosaic floor is covered in tall lit candles. 9) Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, stands in front of a wall covered in foliage, dressed in black. A colorful rose and marigold crown sits on her head, holding a black lace hair covering in place. Her face has white lace patterns painted on it that mimic both mehndi and a skull. She is pushing her hair back, looking down pensively. 10) A white cross covered in lights installed into a yellow and red concrete wall. 11) A small doll is positioned in front of a mural. The doll is dressed in a black suit, has a skull face, and has a pair of antlers.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 8d

A killer stalks the shadow of the necromantic scholomance. Ozy just wants to learn how to resurrect his family and Annabel just needs to restore her memories and find her lost teacher.
But Annabel hungers for Ozy's soul, making her wonder if she is the killer.
#PicantePit #PitQ

Many different broken bones piled on each other.

Black and white picture of a hand covered in blood dripping off of it.

Blood pouring out of something's mouth. Their teeth are pointed like a vampire.

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Phi at the Long Way Down book series @longwaydownbook.bsky.social · 8d

Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do.

The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?

#PicantePit #A #SP #Drafting

There is a grid of nine square photos with a dark blue background around them. All the photos are darkened and desaturated. In the top left photo Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is squatting close to the ground beside a tree trunk with his hands clasped one over the other. The top middle photo is a series of silhouettes of gravestones, the faint outline of a mountain in the background. The top right is a paved bridge that extends into fog, with metal railings on either side and branches along the top edge of the image. The centre left photo is a blurred, dark image of lines on a road and a streak of a headlamp above. The centre middle is a starry night sky surrounded by black silhouettes of tree tops. Centre right is a lighter photo of a roadway and field beyond, with a white Mini driving on it. The bottom left photo is of several leafless young trees beside a lake. The bottom middle photo is a low-angle shot of a cobblestone wall and memorial obelisk atop it. In the bottom right image, Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, moves along a hedge in a black leather jacket with a wary expression on her face

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Luna is querying 💫 @lunacwriting.bsky.social · 8d

Broke & drowning in maladaptive daydreams, Isabel wishes one could come true.
It does.
Now she's ghostwriting a play, the weather reacts to her emotions, and she must live with the man she's envied for years.
Falling in love? That wasn't part of the wish.
#PicantePit #PitQ #R #CR #MR

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 8d

Ozy comes to the scholomance to learn how to resurrect his family. Annabel comes to find her teacher and to fix her broken mind.
Then the murders start and Ozy fears for his life. When Annabel begins to hunger for Ozy's soul she fears she might be the killer.
#PicantePit #PitQ

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J. Colvin 🐉 is querying 🐉 @j-colvin.bsky.social · 8d

An illegitimate Princess trapped in a court of ice is willing to set her life on fire to feel warm. But liquor’s burn & a lover’s mouth are fleeting as smoke in her lungs. Only magic sets her blood ablaze. Magic, and the enemy Prince who wants to use her to spark a rebellion.
#PicantePit #PitQ

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Luna is querying 💫 @lunacwriting.bsky.social · 8d

A morally grey Snow White reimagining where the "fairest of them all" is cursed with ice powers and snow blooming across her skin—vitiligo the world calls monstrous.
A prophecy says only the Andes realm heir can stop her.
Too bad their souls are bound.
#PicantePit #Drafting #F #R

A moodboard including pictures of: a hand reaching for an apple,
a quote from my book: “They never said anything about missing your skin. Could that happen? Could someone miss their skin?”,
two hands clasping over a sword, an anatomical heart frozen held in someone’s hand, an illustration made by me of the two MC's, their faces are pressed close, snow-covered, twisted tree branches, an andean condor with a red eye, a pale hand lying in the snow, a few ponchos in red, black, and cream hues.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 8d

Legends & Lattes✖️When the Moon Hits Your Eye
A sorceress & her ex-royal merc mom are hunted by a death cult.
A country wizard returns home with something to prove & becomes entranced by a mafioso.
Together they’re stars, but they’ll take a cameo in your story
for a price.
#F #PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 8d

Illiana longs to craft poisons all day in wild, poisonous woods filled w/ beautiful monsters until she's betrothed to her ex-bestfriend, the prince she can't stand
Pretending to find her replacement is the perfect escape plan- until he comes along
#Picantepit #A #F #R #Drafting

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Luna is querying 💫 @lunacwriting.bsky.social · 8d

A woman with vitiligo and ice powers is hunted by the Andes realm's heir—but her touch doesn't kill him; it soothes his hidden demon blood.
They bargain to save each other.
Now their souls are bound, and losing him will kill her too.
#PicantePit #A #F #R #Drafting

An illustration by me (@/LunaCWriting) of the main characters of my romantic fantasy MS. Their faces are pressed close, and as Nieves touches Sol’s cheek with one finger, ice blooms from her touch.

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 8d

The love lives of two sisters become complicated after they develop the ability to sense love. As Ella and Ivy navigate a world where direct use of magic has been banned they become all the more curious about the unknown of forbidden magic ✨

#Picantepit #A #NA #F #R #PitQ

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Spoukee PD 🏳️‍⚧️ #CommissionsOpen @pdloupee.blog · 8d

THE DISPOSSESSEDxFINAL FANTASY VII

Elren enlists in the military in hopes of finding a cure for his ailing mother, but the train taking him and his mates to boot camp is hijacked by rebels, landing him on the lap of a magic ploy he's not entirely willing to take part on.

#PicantePit #YA #GN #PitQ

comic book cover. People gathered around a bonfire in front of old temple ruins

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Spoukee PD 🏳️‍⚧️ #CommissionsOpen @pdloupee.blog · 8d

STEVE ORLANDO'S MIDNIGHTERxFERRIS BUELLER'S DAY-OFF

Musashi gets his boyfriend cheating on him with an assassin! After the boyfriend is kidnapped, he needs to enlist a team of misfits and run across town to save him before a relic as old as time is unleashed.

#PicantePit #A #GN #PitQ

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 8d

THE LOCKED TOMB X NINTH HOUSE
Ozy must avoid the murderer lurking in the shadows of the necromantic scholomance, however that murderer just might be the mysterious undead Annabel, whose fractured memories make her wonder if she really is the murderer.
#PicantePit #PitQ

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J. Colvin 🐉 is querying 🐉 @j-colvin.bsky.social · 8d

An illegitimate fire princess is born into a royal house ruled by ice. When her mother threatens to snuff out her magic, she runs straight into the arms of a foreign prince who would like nothing more than to see her country burn.
#PicantePit #PitQ #A #F

Mood board for the book Ezeritha.
Hands touching. Looming castle. Old scrolls. Mountain top. Couple at sunset. Fire sparks. Crystals. Sandstone deserts.

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 8d

There’s something in the water 🌊

When an island whispers different versions of unwritten local legends & turning into a creature of the deep as a result of heartbreak makes you want to drown your ex- no one is safe

Especially not the exes

#PicantePit #A #NA #R #Spec #F #PitQ

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 8d

🇸🇻 Precolonial Central America 🇸🇻

Itotia’s a healer’s apprentice struggling to meet her mentor’s expectations. Metztli is a deity who hates worship. When Itotia binds them together, Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she'd thought...

#PicantePit #PitQ

A movie poster featuring two people kissing overlayed over the side of Teotihuacán's pyramid of the sun and foliage from a jungle in El Salvador.

Text says:

Enemies to Lovers
Non-Western Mythology
LGBTQIA+ romantasy
Tethered enemies

"A dual-POV adult romantasy steeped in Nahua (Pipil) belief, set against the lush tapestry of precolonial Central America." — Fans of Maiga Doocy's Sorcery and Small Magics

Title: TO BECOME THE MOON

Now Querying

Adult, romantasy, 90,000 words

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Kelly Esparza Is Pitching in DVPit! @kellyesparza.bsky.social · 8d

NOT QUITE DEAD YET x GLASS ONION
At her sis’s party, Abby Martinez doesn’t expect to:
😡 find out her sis is still angry over a fight 1 yr ago
💔 face her cheating ex
🔪 get murdered
As a ghost, Abby must solve her own murder b4 more guests die & pass on to the afterlife.
#PicantePit #A #M #P #F #R

mood board for my adult speculative/paranormal murder mystery--what's pictured: snowy woods, woods, snowy cabin, ghost, blood, tree branches, eerie moon/sky, footprints in snowy ground

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 8d

Baldur’s Gate✖️High Maintenance
MCs:
🧙country wizard 🌈💖 rogue mafioso🗡️
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🛡️ex-princess merc 👩👧 hunted sorceress🪄

👀 multi-POV side quest givers:
🪚 orc dad carpenter
🧚 fairy in peril
👻 duchess w/ a pesky dead aunt
🐲 brainwashed dragon
💀 death match fighter
+ more!
#F #PicantePit #PitQ #LGBT

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 8d

As Ozy studies necromancy to find a way to resurrect his family, he must avoid the killer lurking in the shadows of the scholomance. However the killer just might be the undead Annabel, whose fractured memories make her wonder if she really is the murderer.
#PicantePit #PitQ

Some skulls without their lower jawbone piled on top of each other.

Open pages of different arcane textbooks. The top left one shows different bones, top right one show different plants, bottom right one show scales about the orbit of the moon and planets, and the bottom left one has many words written on it.

A shot of someone's chin and neck. Their teeth are sharp and pointed and blood covers their mouth and runs down their chin and neck.

Black and white photo of a medieval sarcophagus next to an arched window.

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Aliash Rodri @aliashrodri.bsky.social · 8d

TOO SOON FOR ADIOS X YOU WITH A VIEW

When an opportunity to ditch her old life presents itself, Camila takes the first flight to Mexico to claim an inheritance and rediscover her roots, but her dead grandpa and an ex-pro bull rider have other plans.

#PicantePit #A #R #PitQ

Picture of a woman standing in the desert with a blurb, "The only thing she wanted was to claim her inheritance and reconnect with her roots while avoiding her problems.
Her dead grandpa had other plans.
Stranded in Mexico, Camila is thrown back together with a childhood friend turned celebrity who happens to own the other half of her grandpa’s estate. A dark family secret threatens to send her spiraling, unless she can let her past go and learn to love and trust again."

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