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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 ESCAPED FUGITIVES ALERT 🚨

3 high-risk fugitives vanished from Agency prison without a trace

When: unknown

All very powerful & dangerous

If you think you see something, DO NOT ENGAGE. Report to your local Agency representative immediately

#UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH

Fake wanted poster for #Unhingedpit. Top reads "Wanted" with an image of the head and shoulders of a malicious-eyed man with bat wings and a barbed tail holding a copper vial in a hand with a bound palm and forearm. Below reads, "Kinito-inato, psychotic and malicious, disposed to drastic shifts in mood, expert in ice and gravity magic." Bottom reads, "Approach with extreme caution, If you have any information regarding his whereabouts, please contact your nearest Agency outpost."

Fake wanted poster for #Unhingedpit. Top reads "Wanted" with an image of the head and shoulders of a sad-eyed man wearing a face mask and an eye patch over his right eye in a button-up shirt with a metal-studded chest and his long slate hair covering his right eye. Below reads, "Altis-iacus, mild-mannered but powerful, drawn to reading and sculpting, expert in earth and mental magics." Bottom reads, "Approach with caution, If you have any information regarding his whereabouts, please contact your nearest Agency outpost."

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Jenee is writing 😘 😈 & 🌊 ✨ @2thestrugglebus.bsky.social · 15d

They're a 10 but......
#UnhingedPit #R #NA #A

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 16d

Because an agent–author relationship is a partnership.
Because I’m nothing if not a team player.

#UnhingedPit #Q #A #R

Mockup of a rights catalog page, with handwritten comments (in []):
Upmarket Fiction [Good it’s generic, since mine’s romance+WF+semi-historical all rolled in one]
Mock book cover, featuring a couple embracing (freepik.com)
Only One Summer in Berlin [Are we keeping this title?]
Soph
On submission Fall 2025
Primary agent: You
TV/Film agent: TBD
Rights available: worldwide
Length: 311 pages
Material: Unedited MS

Pitched as [x] [Sthg book club, w/ depth & growth] meets [y] [Sthg spicy! But not gratuitous], a poignant [Too much?], emotionally rich, heartfelt, smart and sexy [Word salad? But it’s all there! Let’s also weave in it’s funny. And immersive.] love story about a disciplined student who falls for edgy, leafy, laid-back post-Cold War Berlin—and for her host, a single dad struggling with his future. But she can’t stay.

Largely obscuring the blurb, a Post-it reading: Dear future agent, Even if we sign today, the Frankfurt fair is still gonna be a stretch, so I thought I’d help. Maybe slip it in as a loose sheet? Needs finalizing, but it shouldn’t take you long…
Words from the blurb: ’97 Berlin isn’t [Am I selling “Berlin as a character” enough? What about the 90s angle?] / dream destination. But when poor / poli-sci degree / heads to Berlin / Larger-than / language / handball / his six-year / friendship / their att / One massa / It can only be a fling / path lies in Paris / for shared custody of / secrets that tie him to Berlin. When / them to make an impossible choice: abandon these /or each other. [Stakes high enough? Still clear it’s a HEA?]

Picture of a barn owl
Soph was born in a barn, but soon spread her wings to roam the forests at night. She now lives at the top of a tower and collects mice (well, their bones). When not hooting her next novel, she enjoys moon-gazing. She wishes she were as effortlessly cool as Hedwig but suspects she’s more of an Archimedes. [Finally a decent bio!]

Frankfurt 2025 - adult catalog

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CE @obsidianmichi.bsky.social · 16d

What if this novel had a card game? (It does. 👀)
What if you could play with your favs? (You can. 😍)
What if those favs were cruelly ripped from your deck because they died in real life? (They will! 😱)

Welcome to Clans & Castles.🐉 (#TheEmeraldQueen)

#unhingedpit, #a, #f, #r, #fr, #q

Clans & Castles Placard
Official Roster Change, Clan Solura
(ALL INDIVIDUALS LISTED ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR OFFICIAL PLAY)
Matriarch Helara (Dragon) Dead, Discard
Satralein Maewa (Dragon) Dead, Discard
Coheir Sycora (Dragon) Dead, Discard
Coheir Fanara (Dragon) Dead, Discard
Sir Wesley Vardir (Dragon) Restricted - play limited to Matriarch Nyraxa's exaltation
We know you want the Emerald Queen Stop Asking
All changes reflect real events as reported by TramLax Representatives in Trinov Province
Don't Miss Everlight's Favorite Real Time Strategy CCG
Based on the Lives & Adventures of Ynek's Dragon Clans

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Anna is querying gothic horror 💌 @annahirsch.bsky.social · 15d

THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH in memes

🖤 Gothic horror romantic tragedy
🖤 Plagues, sex, and family beef
🖤 Catholic trauma
🖤 Only one grave

#UnhingedPit #Q #H #R #A #Historical #Gothic

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · 16d

#ya #sf #q #unhingedpit
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Four panels. First panel has vertical line of text, says “mysterious android boy.” Second panel has two vertical lines of text that say “mysterious android boy” and “angry hacker girl.” Third panel has two vertical lines of text that say “android and hacker make friends” and “totally not evil corps chase.” Final panel has one vertical line of text that says “everyone looks for same thing” and a horizontal line of text that says “memory chips w secrets”

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Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

For fans of Divine Rivals: The Night Circus meets Peaky Blinders in MYTH, MUSE, MAGICIAN. #1stlinepit

This New Adult Fantasy Standalone Features:
✨1920s-tinted grit and glamor
✨Stage Magicians
✨Magical bootlegging
✨A dark-haired love interest with a devastatingly sharp jawline
✨Only one trunk 👀

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#SFPit @scifipit.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dear friends, writers, #agents, interstellar travelers, interdimensional aliens, and otherwise paradoxical time hoppers!

We would like to invite you to set your favorite time-traveling device to October 21st, 2025, for the pitch event dedicated to Science Fiction, #SFPit! 🧵

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congratulations!! That's incredible 🥳

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Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · Aug 25

Can we have a moment for Ruth McKell’s cover reveal for her debut HONEY IN HER VEINS? Cottagecore fantasy about about a man with a monster in his head who reunites with his first love to find mythical honey in the woods of Appalachia 🐝🐝🐝

A honey gold background with a silhouette of a man and woman. Bees fly around them. The title reads HONEY IN HER VEINS by Ruth McKell

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is unrelated to writing, but I just wanted to share I passed JLPT N2 today 🥳

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations!! 🥳

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to show the character art of Alecto and Renaya from my #amquerying YA sci-fi Metal Bones, Plastic Heart! Art is by the very talented @kaelidem.bsky.social ❤️

white-haired smiling boy in a black sweater and black jeans with his hands on his hips is standing next to a girl with black hair in a braid and dark brown eyes. The girl is wearing a long black coat, black pants, and a gray sweater, and her arms are crossed. Behind them is a cityscape with blue and purple lights.

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thank you!

a woman wearing glasses is dancing in a restaurant

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

BLADE RUNNER x THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Lonely hacker Renaya must help a kind android boy recover his memories so she can solve her father's murder - before those behind it get to her first.

#questpit #Q #YA #SF

Black and gray background of the inside of a circuit board. Metal Bones, Plastic Heart. YA sci-fi, 85,000 words.
White arrows point to the following:
Slow-burn romance
Dark cyberpunk vibes
Fast-paced plot
Grumpy x sunshine
Cast of messy, loveable teens
What does it mean to be human?

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · Aug 6

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING
A group of rivals get stuck inside a glitching VR competition and must overcome their longstanding grudges to break themselves out—or they'll lose their minds to the simulation before they figure out who’s trapped them inside.
#QuestPit #AG #YA #SF

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Neira @neirawrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

SAPPHICS GONE GIRL IN SPACE

When grieving widow Amani wakes up half way through a century long space mission, she must uncover the mystery of why she was awoken in the first place, haunted by an android with her dead wife's eyes.
#questpit #Q #SF #A

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

🌙 RISINGx4ALL MANKIND
In a contest for a job on the next coloniser, a dying engineer & his space pilot ex are sent back from Titan to the dead planet, Earth.
As the competition turns deadly, they must set aside past grievances (& unresolved feelings) to get back to Titan alive.
#QuestPit #Q #A #SF

Two man holding hands in a desert landscape, overlaid with the title “The Gravity of Hope” in a movie poster style.

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Ryan (is Querying ✉️) @ry-is-writing.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth.

#Questpit #Q #YA #SF #R #LGBT

Starboy

LGBTQ+ YA Sci-Fi

Complete at 83k words

Blurb

When Bennett Barker is forced to move to a small town for his senior year of high school, he thinks his biggest problems will be missing his friends, figuring out his back-home situationship, and coming clean to his mom that he isn’t following in her footsteps by majoring in astronomy. Then an alien named Caelum crash-lands into his life. Literally. Bennett rescues the alien when his pod slams down to Earth while Bennett is out delivering pizza. But this isn’t an E.T. situation. Caelum is tall, turquoise, and incredibly kind, which makes it hard for Bennett not to catch feelings. Now Bennett has to find a way to get Caelum back home. But as Bennett grows closer to the alien, he starts wondering if his extraterrestrial crush is hiding the truth about why he ended up on Earth.

Characters

Bennett
Bummed he moved to a new town his senior year
Likes learning (hah, nerd)
Works as a pizza delivery boy
Wants to become an engineer
Gets fixated easily on projects and people

Caelum
Home planet is thousands of light-years away
Likes plants and flowers
Doesn’t enjoy wearing clothes
Can photosynthesize, would rather drink coffee
Moon-shaped eye marks glow when he’s happy

Vibes

It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

IF YOU LIKE
First encounters
Nerdy boys flirting
Having to hide a hot alien in the bedroom
Traumatized intergalactic cinnamon rolls
Kids on bikes saving the world
Earth food taste testing
Super-powered pacifists

SIMILAR STUFF
Starfire from Teen Titans
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sounds interesting!

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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank youuu!

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · Aug 6

⛸️Former Olympic medalist Chloé LaFleur isn’t looking at “Seasons on Ice” as a comeback after her injury. She isn’t looking for love, either, after being dumped. But sometimes when you’re not looking, you find exactly what you need. ⛸️

#questpit #q #r #a #lgbtq

Cover to agent’s guide to THE ICE BETWEEN US

Pitch:

Chloé LaFleur is one of the best women’s figure skaters in the world. Or she was, until a devastating injury ended her competitive career. Adrift without skating (and after being dumped by her girlfriend), Chloé signs on to do the one thing she swore she’d never do: show skating.

Freja Lindholm is the show’s most experienced skater, but show life has grown tiring. She’s ready to hang up her skates when this newcomer arrives. Freja is forced to get the former Olympian up to speed in the show skating world, giving her new purpose.

When fate throws the two together as roommates, they clash. But before long, the ice between them begins to melt, and it might just be that they’re both exactly who the other one needs.

Comps & Tropes

Comps: Unsteady | Book Lovers | Wake Up Nat & Darcy

Tropes:

⛸️ Workplace romance
⛸️ Dislike-to-lovers
⛸️ Forced proximity
⛸️ She carries her
⛸️ Miscommunication
⛸️ Secret relationship
⛸️ Only One Bed
⛸️ Big gesture apology

Excerpt:

“And this must be the great Chloé LaFleur you're always raving about. I hear the Golden Girl is joining our cast next season."

"Bronze," Chloé says, tersely.

I shift my body in her direction and turn my gaze downward. She's shorter than I expected, but even I have to admit that she's quite beautiful, even in ill-fitting clothes with no makeup on. I can see why, even beyond her skating, they wanted her for our cast.

"What's that?"

"I won bronze in Beijing, not gold. And I'm proud of it."

The humility is surprising. I expected her to have an ego, but immediately she's deflecting. Still, I'm not buying it.

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Jason @jason-antares.bsky.social · Aug 6

ALTERED CARBON X SCYTHE
When you're rich Insurance ensures you immortality. When you're poor you ensure someone else’s. That didn’t happen to Jake. He should've died, his body claimed by an Insured. Instead he inherits the life and identity of the murdered Father of Immortality.
#Questpit #A #Q #SF

Top Right: Insurance Tower, dark and dominating over the rest of Nexus, red light from the streets below illuminating it like fire.
Middle Top: A skyline shot of Nexus where you can see the towering Cyberpunk style mega structures and The Needle, left over from old Seattle. HUVs are flying through the sky with Mount Rainer in the background.
Top Right: Richard in Brian Lord's office in New Life Towers staring out at Nexus, The Needle in the background
Middle Image: A wide image of The Board meeting in Insurance Tower while out the window the city of Nexus can be seen, mega towers dominating the sky
Middle Box: "Insured: Death is conquered--for a price." The text is surrounded by a computer chip, blood dripping down.
Bottom left: Sil with her eyes closed in a dive terminal ice bath
Middle Bottom: Celeste (left) and Goliath (Right) in the Undercity, standing in the circular tunnel of the Spillway
Bottom Right: The Needle in the forefront of the city of Nexus.
Made with Canva

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allison e. crisostomo @aecwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

When the fates of a genius artificer and a ghostly warrior collide, they must outmaneuver seductive half-truths trying to keep them apart. Otherwise a brewing rebellion, demonic beasts, and betrayal will lead them to destroy the land and the people they’ve both sworn to protect.

#W #A #F #questpit

10-photo collage featuring a bright light, an engine, a lighthouse, agates, birch wood, a dock, a bicycle, a tall ship, weapons including a blade and kali sticks, and a crystal.

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nandini #DVpit day💌 @naaanwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

Introducing my THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS + THE JASMINE THRONE #Q #YA #F for #questpit, featuring—
🫠traumatized exiled princess
👿fashionable demon with a deadline
🗡️hidden identities
♾ forbidden romance
💌reunion of sisters + revival of magic
🌙"the moon's beautiful" "yes"

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