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Pria Moore

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ONCE CHAOS CLAIMED THE REALMS

Magic was supposed to be banished from earth…but its violent return has torn open her world and the mortal life she knew.

🔥Dragon shifters
🖤Tension filled slow-burn
🌱Found family
🐍Celtic inspired lore

#questpit #Q #A #F #RF #AmQuerying

AN AGENT’S GUIDE TO ONCE CHAOS CLAIMED THE REALMS BY PRIA MOORE @priuhh

98,000 words| Dual POV| Adult Fantasy

A grieving young mortal woman has her life torn apart by the kind of magic that should only be found in her dusty history textbooks. Now she must traverse the realms to uncover her own magic, protect her new community, and stop those hell bent on throwing the realms into chaos…
again.

COMPS & THEMES

THE WITCH KING BY MARTHA WELLS
GODKILLER BY HANNAH KANER

• Dragon shifters
•Tense, steamy slow burn
• Found family
• Fae courts and creatures
• Celtic inspired lore
• Character driven
• Human and immortal
realms

“Fear lost its grip on me when I met desperation. I feel it, but never again will it stay my hand, block my path, or halt my blade.”

A grieving young woman, Aislin, has her life torn apart by the kind of magic that should only be found in her dusty history textbooks. Strange magic and gory murders are spilling over into the mortal realm, promising bloodshed and gruesome warfare with the immortals that once walked freely between realms.

But her new ally, dragon shifter Lir, has a duty to protect the realms that soon grows into a desire to safeguard her as well. Facing tremendous loss, ravenous demons, and the lingering force of old gods, the two must circumvent the powers that be to stop the killings.

Ash must learn to embrace her own burgeoning magic to protect her new community, and stop those hell bent on throwing the realms into chaos…again.

January 31, 2026 at 6:00 AM

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Julianne

@juliannejh.bsky.social

An #agentsguide to The Sea That Binds Us

🌊Adult Fantasy Romance
👥Dual POV
⚔️Prison Break
🏴‍☠️Sentient Ship
👫 Reluctant-Allies-to-Lovers
🩸Blood Bond = Forced Proximity
🤍Slow burn

#questpit #Q #A #F #R #litagents #literaryagents #writingcommunity #amquerying #fantasyromance #romantasy #mswl

January 31, 2026 at 5:49 AM

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Kelton Davis is querying! 🦇⚰️🤠

@keltondavis.bsky.social

SINNERS x THE DEVILS

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.

BIG 5 EDITOR REQUEST!

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying now!
#A #F #Q #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 from Stone
112000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Now

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Pitch
Text:
In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires.

Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune.

Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death.

It is a hell of a lot of money, though.

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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).
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January 31, 2026 at 5:45 AM

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨

@saraduran.bsky.social

Coming soon to agent inboxes!

• • •

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

$BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”$

January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM

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Tilly is querying ✨️🏰

@tillyzz.bsky.social

What? You wrote a Nordic adult romantasy without vikings? ✨gasp️✨

UNFATED is instead set in a John Bauer inspired medieval Sweden, steeped in folklore, mythology and authentic Swedish culture...not a horned helmet in sight 🫢

A 92,000k standalone novel

#questpit #Q #A #RF

January 31, 2026 at 5:56 AM

Pria Moore

@priuhhh.bsky.social

ONCE CHAOS CLAIMED THE REALMS

Magic was supposed to be banished from earth…but its violent return has torn open her world and the mortal life she knew.

🔥Dragon shifters
🖤Tension filled slow-burn
🌱Found family
🐍Celtic inspired lore

#questpit #Q #A #F #RF #AmQuerying

January 31, 2026 at 6:00 AM

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Krystal Lang

@krystallotuslang.bsky.social

Happy BLACK History Month. I read Black books every month but I got two stacks for y'all.

First stack is books by Black authors I loved and the second are the ones I’m getting to.

#booksky

February 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM

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Pearlmania500

@pearlmania500.bsky.social

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

February 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over!

Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

January 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM