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

Thank you for the like on my pitch! 🙂 I can't message you here, but I wanted to let you know that the full MS for that project is currently with Daniel Niv for consideration. If anything changes, please know that it would be a pleasure to query you in the future!

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you!!! It was so fun to write!

Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 9h

Fingers crossed it goes somewhere!!

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you! I am honoured to have your consideration. It is in your QM inbox now! :)

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 10h

🇸🇻An #ownVoices Nahua romantasy set in precolonial Latam🇸🇻

When Itotia’s ritual binds their lives together, deity Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she thought

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+
❤️‍🔥 Enemies→Lovers
🤝🏼 Bargains

#DVpit #A #F #Latine #LGBTQ #Myth

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 10h

Ahhh it was so fun to write! I hope it gets to be in the world one day!

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

🇸🇻Historical romantasy🇸🇻

Pious Itotia’s failed banishment ritual binds her to Metztli, a sardonic moon deity who loathes the bond nearly as much as worship, especially now that it’s robbed them of their immortality

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+
❤️‍🔥 Enemies→Lovers
🤝🏼 Bargains

#DVpit #A #F #Latine #LGBTQ #Myth

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 13h

🇸🇻Precolonial Latam🇸🇻

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

#DVpit #A #F #Latine #LGBTQ #Myth

Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 14h

🇸🇻An #ownVoices Nahua romantasy set in precolonial Latam🇸🇻

When Itotia’s ritual binds their lives together, deity Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she thought

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+
❤️‍🔥 Enemies→Lovers
🤝🏼 Bargains

#DVpit #A #F #Latine #LGBTQ #Myth

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

Thank you!!!

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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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · 24d

🇸🇻New #agentguide / #agentsguide for my #ownVoices LGBTQ+ Nahua romantasy set in precolonial Central America🇸🇻

When Itotia’s ritual binds their lives together, deity Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she thought

🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+
❤️‍🔥Enemies→Lovers
🫱🏽‍🫲🏾Bargains

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · Aug 16

Pious Itotia’s supposed possession is a risk to her life until her failed banishment ritual truly binds her to Metztli, a sardonic moon deity who loathes the bond nearly as much as human prayer, especially now that it’s robbed them of their immortality❤️‍🔥

Enemies, lovers... 😏

#PosterPit #Q #F #R #A

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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀 @aaronolatunjie.bsky.social · Aug 15

THE SONG OF ACHILLES x HUNGER GAMES

Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with blood magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom's soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#QueerPit #Vague #YA

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · Aug 15

TOUCHED: a swoon-worthy romantasy that is as soft and gentle as it is steamy!

🌼 cozy vibes
👨‍👨‍👦 family dynamics
🤫 secret relationships
💐 flowers
🏳️‍🌈 lgbtqia+ rep
🫶 a cast you can root for

💕💕💕 three couples:
🕯️ slow-burn
🔥 fast-burn
💓 already-burning

#QueerPit #Q #A #LGBT #FR #E #N #R

Two versions of a book cover for Touched, a novella/short novel by Sage T. Greene. Peonies and roses. One background is black, one background is pink. Black Edition: Spicy, open-door. Pink edition: clean, closed-door. Comes with a spicy and clean version. Three couples: slow-burn, fast-burn, already-burning. LGBT+ rep. Cozy and soft. Family dynamics. A cast you can root for.

An excerpt from Chapter 3: Gathering Storm, from Touched by Sage T. Greene.
“What on earth brings you here at this hour?” he asked. “And in this weather?”
“I…” Erryn’s voice was rather small.
Rolfe took a long look at him. Erryn looked like the forlorn hero of some great tragedy, beleaguered, caught under a heavy weight. The rain had slicked his dark hair and drenched his clothes; they clung to him as if he and they were sculpted from the same piece of marble. The lingering embers in Rolfe began to crackle. “Come in, then,” he instructed, gesturing for Erryn to close the door behind himself and join him. “Sit by the stove. I’ve avoided your death once today already—I’ll not have you cross me by contracting some grievous cold.”
Erryn closed the stable door and followed Rolfe into the little kitchenette. There was a two-person table, cabinetry, and a charcoal stove for heating meals. Coals still burned from Rolfe’s earlier dinner. Rolfe pulled the chairs to sit in front of the stove, and together they took their places. Rolfe himself had been thoroughly doused by the rain, and he held his hands out to regain some warmth.
Despite the cramped space, Erryn felt that he had regained the ability to breathe. “Thank you,” he said coarsely.

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · Aug 15

#LitAgents, #agentguide/#agentsguide for TO BECOME THE MOON

❤️‍🔥 90k adult romantasy
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+
⚔️ Enemies→Lovers
🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Bargains
😈 Feisty gods
🔗 Tethered enemies
🇸🇻 Precolonial Central America
🌋 Nahua mythology
🧿 OwnVoices

#amquerying! ❤️/DM if interested! #queerpit #f #fr #myth #a #q

TO BECOME THE MOON

A dual-POV adult romantasy steeped in Nahua (Pipil) belief*, set against the lush tapestry of precolonial Central America.

Adult | Romantasy | 90,000

* — (Pulling from my family's heritage)

QUERY

Itotia, a healer’s apprentice struggling to meet her mentor’s expectations, sees visions when she touches others. She believes it’s a sign of possession—an omen warranting exile or death—until her attempted banishment ritual truly binds her to the god she calls on. But the moon deity, Metztli, is self-serving and nothing like who Itotia thought she worshipped.

Metztli, the exiled moon deity, has been confined to the human realm for showing emotion. They bargain with the wicked gods: Metztli will deliver unknowing Itotia to the divine realm in exchange for a broken bond and their returned seat in the sky.

The two can hardly get through a conversation, let alone a tethered line of thought. They begin to relish how Itotia challenges them, just as Itotia starts to admire the way Metztli defines a being’s worth. Itotia’s determination to excel is engulfing, and soon, Metztli’s certainty in the irreversible bargain morphs into dread for the day Itotia discovers it.

Comp titles with arrows pointing the specific tropes of each book: The Legend of Meneka by Kritika H. Rao (non-western mythology, lush prose) The Deer and the Dragon by Piper CJ (fickle gods, bargains) North is the Night by Emily Rath (fairytale feel, bargains) Her Soul for a Crown by Alysha Rameera (Bargains, Fairytale Feel, Tethered Love interests) Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy (tethered love interests, enemies to lovers)

EXCERPT

Where humans regarded earth-given gifts as currency, gods traded in favours.

Perhaps that was the reason they mistook us for desiring hand-carved trinkets and the cacao beans that splattered on the jungle floor with as much allure as the droppings of a bird. They hurled them to the ground, made some demands, then slapped their hands together a few times and called it divinity.

Through all the glares and angered roars, I held my attention on only one form: a narrow-framed shaman with a bloodied cheek the perfect echo of mine. Beautiful as she was, she would be my death.

Of that, I was already sure.

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Sophie Pinkoski @sophiemlpink.bsky.social · Aug 6

DAISY JONES x MCR x GIDEON 9TH

4 bands arrive in New Orleans for an artistic retreat:

💅A girl punk band
❤️‍🔥An undead goth rock duo
💀a necromancer & their ghosts
🎪an ex-circus troupe

They don’t know they’ve been lured as ritual sacrifice & the house might just eat them alive… #QuestPit #A #H #Q

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you!!! This book and its characters have absolutely stolen my heart

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · Aug 6

🇸🇻Precolonial Latam🇸🇻

Itotia's failed ritual binds her to a god & steals their immortality. Metztli, a now-bound exiled deity, trades Itotia's fate for redemption.

❤️‍🔥 90k 🏳️‍🌈romantasy
⚔️ Enemies→Lovers
🌋 Nahua mythology
🧿 Own Voices

Querying this week!
#q #rf #f #a #questpit

A moodboard with: huts in a jungle, bones, the steps of Templo Mayor, incense, a hand being wrapped, two individuals kissing, a jade-and-bone figure, a bone in the forest, a parchment drawing of Tlaloc, a close-up image of the sun pyramid at Teotihuacán, and a jungle

A snippet that says:

"Where humans regarded earth-given gifts as currency, gods traded in favours.

Perhaps that was the reason they mistook us for desiring hand-carved trinkets and the cacao beans that splattered on the jungle floor with as much allure as the droppings of a bird. They hurled them to the ground, made some demands, then slapped their hands together a few times and called it divinity.

Through all the glares and angered roars, I held my attention on only one form: a narrow-framed shaman with a bloodied cheek the perfect mirror of mine. Beautiful as she was, she would be my death.

Of that, I was already sure."

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Jade Mason @jademasonwrites.bsky.social · May 7

GEORGIE, ALL ALONG x EASY A

Lacey wants to forget high school—until Ethan calls in a favor. Now she’s planning their reunion, fake dating & facing truths she’d rather leave behind 🎬 Teen movie vibes for adults
*set in the same universe as 📌 post that I #amquerying
#questpit #w #WF w/ #R #litagents

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · May 7

Itotia thinks she's possessed—until her botched banishment ritual binds her to a deity for real.

Metztli is the exiled moon, and now bound to Itotia, they're pissed. Until the offer comes: trade her for redemption.

Enemies, lovers... 😏 (WIP done Aug 2025)

#questpit #w #f #rf

A moodboard featuring:

- Precolonial Central American huts in the jungle
- Skulls on forestry
- A Nahua temple
- Herbs
- A hand wound being wrapped with cloth
- A light-haired person kissing the neck of a dark-haired girl
- A figurine of a god made of bone
- A skull in forestry
- Nahua art on parchment
- The side of the Teotihuacan pyramid
- A jungle overrun with trees

TO BECOME THE MOON

WIP PTCH

Itotia's possessed—or so she thinks, until her botched attempt at banishing the Tzitzimitl being binds her to one for real. To Become the Moon is a dual-POV lyrical adult romantasy steeped in Nahua (Pipil) belief* and set against the lush tapestry of precolonial Central America.

* (Pulling from my family's heritage)

Anticipated Completion:

AUGUST 2025 (includes revision)

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · May 7

This one is fully of them! Every single character is hiding SOMETHING, I swear 🥹

Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · May 7

I'm still lowkey in love with the love interest from this one 😩 I don't know why, but I like my men broody and sad 🤣

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Hailey ☀️ [is Querying] @revolita.bsky.social · May 7

The vibes are absolutely immaculate!

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