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Alexis ☕ is querying

@abookishchai.bsky.social

🥀Portrait of a Fawn (YA Spec Horror)- Querying 🥀Insta: abookishchai 🥀Library Assistant- Teen Services 🥀#Revpit 2026 Winner

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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 2w ago

HAZELTHORN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- a Gothic, YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀botanical eco horror 🥀bickering ghost hunters 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater 🥀found family & dysfunctional families #Q #YA #H #S #Questpit

Juliane —- is querying! 🌟@julianesreads.bsky.social · 2w ago

A GUIDE FOR GHOST IN THE CLIFFS!! * ˒˒ ⸝⸝　 for lovers of: 🫆 small town disappearances 🫆 psychological unraveling 🫆 BIPOC main characters 🫆 Sadie, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, & Yellowjackets #questpit #q #ya #h #t #my

Sara Skott @skottsara.bsky.social · 2w ago

If We Were Villains x In My Dreams I Hold A Knife - SKIN AS WHITE AS SNOW, 105 k, a feminist retelling of Snow White as dark academia mystery #Questpit #Q #A #MY #R #T #agents 🪞Snow White retelling 🎓Dark Academia ❤️‍🔥Reluctant allies to lovers 🏰Institutional critique 🗡️Feminine rage Querying now!

S.E. Bunnell @sebunnell.bsky.social · 2w ago

After some manuscript edits (and an extra 4,000 words), I have a fresh agent’s guide for As Above in honor of #QuestPit DIAVOLA X RED RABBIT GHOST X IT FOLLOWS 🌲 Isolated Midwestern Gothic 👹 Doppelgängers ⛏️ Bleeding mines 🌀 Folklore ❣️ Romance #Q #A #H

A deer looks back at the viewer over its shoulders. Yellow text reads “an agent’s guide to AS ABOVE"

Annabeth is querying!@annabethwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE HATING GAME X STRANGE FAMILIARS When a phoenix egg mysteriously hatches, a chaotic cryptozoologist must team up with the polished rival standing between her and her dream job to uncover who‘s hunting its fire before her career — and the museum she loves — go up in flames. #QuestPit #WIP #RF #A

Anna Deh-is editing✍️@annadehwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

NOSFERATU X MONSTERS INC After a ritual gone wrong lands a horror fan in a terrifying house of monsters, she must partner with her own sleep paralysis monster to find a way back home. He’s a nightmare in more ways than one… But so is she. #RevPit 2026 winner #questpit #YA #A #horrormance #H #R

Nick Harkins 🌟 Querying @dreadwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE UNMOTHERS x THE WOODS ALL BLACK x PREACHER'S DAUGHTER An agent’s guide to THE GODBRINGER, an 83k adult southern gothic horror featuring— 🦌 southern gothic atmosphere 👯 dual pov 🫀 forbidden love 📿religious fanaticism 🕯️cults ♀️ female rage #questpit #A #H #Q

Victoria Lurie is querying @vic-and-twisted.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE FRONTMAN (She’s the Man x Almost Famous) Lolly's lying to the nation, and it may kill her twin brother. She's finishing his 1983 tour. He's secretly in rehab. When rehab fails, Lolly must choose: save her twin or save his legacy, even if the truth ruins both their lives. #questpit #Q #A #U

A mood board of 1983, featuring Walkmans, jeans tucked into socks, cassette tapes, Jon Bongiovi, Peter Wabbit via The Guardian, and photos by Bruno Guerrero and Sebastian Ervi. The board promotes THE FRONTMAN, a work of upmarket fiction by Victoria Lurie, 100k words, where a rock band replaces their lead singer with his twin sister so they can finish their tour while he’s in rehab.

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

Agent Guide for Blood of the Broadlands, 99k, Adult Romantasy #Q #A #R #F #questpit

Title card with background a foggy Appalachian landscape, "Blood of the Broadlands" title, under it reads "An Appalachian-inspired revenge quest meets a demon road-trip romance in a kingdom built on sacrificing women"

"When the sacrifice--a deadly trial for unmarried women in the Appalachian-inspired wilderness--claims Devera's best friend, she swears to make it to the northern mountains and demand the Wretched King end it once and for all. But the deeper she travels through deadly landscapes, the more entangled she becomes with Ciaran, a demon whose connection to the ritual threatens Devera's revenge, her humanity, and eventually, her heart."

Comps are Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten, Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village.

“My children!" the elder yelled above the crowd. "We are gathered tonight to honor the girls who will be given to the wilds of the Broadlands as an offering to appease The Great Curse and the Wretched King.” I fought against rolling my eyes. “As it has been done for centuries, our unwed girls will enter the woods at the outset of dawn tomorrow, and only the bravest and most worthy among them shall survive.”

No one. No one survived.

Katie Hudson @katiebhudson.bsky.social · 2w ago

🥀THE ROSE BARGAIN X HADESTOWN 💀 The goddess of love’s daughter must win the prize of immortality in her mother’s divine matchmaking contest or else succumb to a death curse. 2026 RevPit Winner! #QuestPit #YA #Romantasy #YARomantasy #F

A.B. Lane @ab-lane.bsky.social · 2w ago

SWAN LAKE X CEMETERY BOYS All Jamie wants is to prove they belong in ballet. But when they grow close to a boy cursed to turn into a swan unless someone declares love for him, they must set ballet aside and dismantle the walls around their heart or watch him fly away forever #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

9 pictures in a square mood board. Upper left is a person in white shirt in a ballet position with their arms reaching toward a blue sky. Upper center is a white swan floating on a lake with its wings halfway folded in. Upper right is a show of ballet dancers in white tutus in the tendu position. Left middle is a masc ballet dancer in a dimly lit room in a lunge with one arm reaching behind. Middle center is a silhouette of a dancer jumping above a lake at sunset. Middle right is two ballet dancers on a dimly lit stage with a light behind them, one is lifting the other. Middle bottom is a picture of a dancer's feet in pointe shoes. Bottom center is two swans on a lake creating a heart shape with their necks. Bottom right is a close up shot of a pair of pink pointe shoes.

B. Hart 🔪 (Writing a 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Frankenstein Retelling)@bhartwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

TRANS/GAY FRANKENSTEIN RETELLING 🖤 Do you like dramatic queer people? Bloody gothics? Morally bankrupt POVs? 🖤 Do you wish Frankenstein had toxic boy kissing? 🖤 Do you think "The Monster" should choke Viktor out? Then do I have a story for you. #questpit #LGBT #A #H #Q #DF #HF (Querying in Sept.)

Dark brown background with write text that says OUGHT TO BE THY ADAM
Trans/Gay Frankenstein Retelling
It has two portraits beneath the text in the late victorian style of a femininely dressed Frankenstein's Monster, and to the right is Viktor Frankenstein's portrait.

Dark brown background with white text that says:
In 1897, after studying corpses and toying with electricity, medical student Viktor has created a man from his desire for his friend, Henry. Except shame forces him to make one final adjustment: female parts.

As his new creation gains sentience while vivisected during Viktor's university tour and begins to chafe under Viktor's thumb, a violent death and disobedience leads the monster to make himself into the man he was always meant to be.

Beneath says - 1890s gothic prose - Queer shame/RAGE - erotic body horror -

It has a late victorian style portrait of a man with long black hair and a blood splatter across it.

Two hands reach out in the style of the creation of Adam/ One is clearly stitched together.
Beneath is text that says:
“Then make me whole. Take away my anger, and I’ll weather the shame with you. I am not your bride, not your monster.
I ought to be thy Adam.

Large white text says "FEELS LIKE"
Beneath are four book covers with the text:
Toxic Gays
Queer, Gothic Retelling
Dark Academia Vibes
Late Victorian repressing & liberation

Hi, I’m Caitie @findmeinfairytales.bsky.social · 2w ago

An agent’s guide to SWAN SONG, a Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac reimagining. A grieving sister uses letters to manipulate the only girl who can break her brother’s curse using true love’s kiss, but the girls accidentally fall in love instead, jeopardizing the brother’s life. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 2w ago

A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF

Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Black cat x golden retriever
Yearning
Bisexual awakening
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
Only one bed
Opposites attract
Gothic decadence
Big spooky house
Exploration of grief
Horror as a metaphor
Dreams-based magic
The occult
Alternate London setting
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

It was a poet’s job to seek out beauty, to be mesmerised by it. Darshil wanted to transform Rowan into swirls of ink, to fit his hands into the slight dips where Rowan’s waist met his hips and write him a thousand times over.

The only thing more fascinating than death was the tormented living it left behind.
It helped to hate him. It was less painful than loving him.
The dead thing woke to the acrid stench of its own rot.
Rowan matched him tenderness for tenderness, giving everything he could and knowing that for once, his everything was enough.
Perhaps closing his eyes stopped it meaning anything. Darshil knew he should do the same. This was shame beyond anything else, a secret to take to the unloving grave.
He kept his eyes open anyway. With Rowan beneath him, as beautiful as the dawn, he couldn’t bear to look away.

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

Olinda Brown @olindabrown.bsky.social · 2w ago

Stardew Valley x Howl’s Moving Castle. Just add more small dragons 🐉 #revpit 2026 winner #questpit #A #F #cozyfantasy

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

Devera wants to destroy the Sacrifice—a deadly ritual that sends unmarried women into the dangerous, Appalachian-inspired wilderness to die—but the only being capable of helping her survive is a demon bound to the ritual itself. #questpit #A #Q #R #F

A moodboard collage featuring various Appalachian-inspired and hiking photographs, as well as the title Blood of the Broadlands

Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit

Feed Me Your Heart intro page colored red with a black and white image of a young woman

Themes for Feed Me Your Heart i.e. norse mythology and deadly personality tests

Comps for Feed Me Your Heart ranging from folklore fantasy to cultish horror

Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

A DEADLY EDUCATION x NANCY DREW What if the chosen one failed, and the only one who could save him was a magic school reject? NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy with dark academia and dystopian elements #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #MY #D

Tamara ⛱️🎇🕶️🌊☀️@tamaratoday.bsky.social · 2w ago

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Multiple POVs 🎲 A Bisexual Love Triangle 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

Left to right.

Top Row: Playing cards that spell out LOVE. A martini glass with a clear drink, dice, and a floating candle inside. A Queen of Hearts card with its eyes scribbled out.

Middle Row: Stairs and an elevator with moody red lighting. “Life is a gamble.” An eerie red hallway with many doors and chandeliers.

Bottom Row: A joker card with a demon on it. A beverage being poured into a glass. Playing cards that are three 6s.

Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 2w ago

BENEATH THE WAYWARD TIDES 80k Paranormal Thrillermance Fool's Gold (2008) meets Tidelands (2018) A mermaid and an archeologist team up to find a treasure, but she's harboring a terrible secret: she will die if she doesn't kill him first. #Questpit #W #A #F #PR #T

M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Summer 1920. 8 children. 1 house. 1 games master. He’s a kid too, but this is his house, and it answers to him alone. Trapped in his games, they’ll have to get creative if they want to survive. 🐊 RevPit 25 winner 🐊 big 5 editor interest ✉️ in your inbox 👀 #QuestPit #Q #MG #H

The bottom one has a hand reaching through tree bark; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; painting of crows on a branch; hands reaching through lily pads.

Black quote on white background: “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you.” Lord of the Flies by William Golding

lily is querying!📖🎭🎀@lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · 2w ago

MALEDICTION “By the time he was seven, Vance knew he was smarter than everyone else.” As the ward of the king, Vance has been afforded privileges. But when the king’s son—and Vance’s lover—is found dead, Vance must survive high society and the betrayal of his own mind. #QuestPit #W #HFic #A #LGBT

A mood board of dark academia images including a gothic building and library, a blackboard with equations on it, and two men in opposite corners

Book comps including If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio, Vicious by V.E. Schwab, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and the film Dead Poets Society

Dialogue reading:
“Vance’s hand trailed lower, fingertips smoothing over Silas’s lips. They parted for his touch.
“Does this feel like a lie?”
“What?” Vance felt the vibrations against his skin.
“I said, does this feel like a lie?”
Silas’s eyes fluttered. “It feels like a proposition.”
“More like a promise.”
“A promise of what?”
“Of more to come.”

Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 2w ago

Molly Haniszewski @mollyhaniszewski.bsky.social · 3w ago

THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT x HOLLOW Invasive plants took over the United States. Queer teen Cora and their aunt guard the scientists charged with stopping the botanical pandemic, but Cora’s crush, a scientist’s assistant, jeopardizes the cure by speaking to blackberry brambles. #bluepit #ya #d #h #q

White text over blackberry brambles, reads Vine & Bramble by Molly Haniszewski, an agent’s guide

A mood board featuring blackberries, kudzu, overalls, overgrown weeds, and two queer people kissing.

They Bloom at Night, Hollow, What Feeds Below, Eat the Ones You Love, Don’t Let the Forest In, Root Rot

Molly sits at a table holding a glass of sake, reads "The Author."

@amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 3w ago

❄️Project Winter-a holiday, paranormal romance With Jack Frost magic and a Christmas deadline, a murder.ed social worker must leverage her ex, the only man she’s ever loved, to solve her unfinished business. Second chance romance Sisters Fake dating ❄️❄️ magic #bluepit #A #R #PN #W art by mknzgmbn

L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 3w ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 😴👑YA sleeping beauty reimagining w/ deaf rep 🗡️Zella's on a mission to kill the queen who cursed her 🏃Callum's hot on her heels 🎶Zella compels her enemies with her entrancing singing voice 🤟Callum can't hear her song #bluepit #Q #F #YA #📖 #R

"The Blood of Zellandine Agent's Guide" Background is a skull in wildflowers, a beach campfire, a set of medieval helmets and weapons, a cottage roof, hands bound with rope, dark leaves, a stag, and a castle window. This is the background of every picture in this post.

The Pitch: After waking from a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic.

The Details: a YA sleeping beauty reimagining 89,000 words: grumpy / sunshine, goblins, monsters, & fae, deaf MMC + ASL, Tangled-coded, themes of self-forgiveness & autonomy, light horror elements, animal companion, forced proximity, only one blanket, hope-filled

Comps: Heartless Hunter, Never Ever After, For the Wolf: forced proximity, dual-pov, enchanted forest, fairytale reimagining

Allen Kline ✖️IS QUERYING✖️@allenkline.bsky.social · 3w ago

A grieving teen finds solace from his mother’s vengeful ghost in the form of an enigmatic stranger, only to realize their toxic codependency is drawing him further from his remaining family and his grip on reality. When Haru Was Here x Don’t Let The Forest In #BluePit #📖 #YA #H #Q #ND #LGBT

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #BluePit #📖 #A #H #W #DIS #OWN #ND

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

moodboard featuring mountains, eerie woods, and trees