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Allen Kline ✖️IS QUERYING✖️

@allenkline.bsky.social

Marketing Editor │ Writer │ Book Lover Send me all your queer botanical-horror book recs 🌿 Currently querying: YA psychological horror #BADTHINGS 🚬 Current WIP: YA folk horror #TheBoyWhoSwallowedtheForest 🍄‍🟫 #YA #SPECULATIVE #PSYCHOLOGICAL #HORROR

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 2w ago

Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT

A Pickpocket's Guide to High Society
(And Higher Mathematics)

YA Fantasy 80K words
Catherine Winters dot com

Against a subtly textured background of mathematical formulae and a hexagonal summoning grid feature a collection of intriguing objects:

The outstretched hand of some mechanical clockwork automaton made of white porcelain.
A purple and gold masquerade mask.
A set of brass architect's tools: a compass, a protractor, calipers.
A set of gears laid out, pulled from some kind of mechanism.

The Pitch
When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had and catches the attention of people she doesn't want to know. Blackmailed into stealing a mysterious box, Nia accidentally awakens a living clockwork doll—that promptly runs away.

Accused of betraying the blackmailers, Nia and her band of would-be thieves go on the run, pursued by magehunters, street gangs, and the secret police.

When the doll returns to make a deal, Nia turns to the man whose lucky coin unlocked her magic, only to find him missing. Caught in a lie, Nia’s soon posing as an heiress, in the clutches of the man’s elderly landlady—who's intent on introducing the girl she knows as “Baarsin” to high society.

As Nia finds herself disappearing into the role, she and her friends must race against time to track down the people behind it all: a secret society of mathematicians whose influence reaches all the way to the governor herself.

Excerpt
Caz tensed. “There’s someone following us,” she hissed.
“I know,” Nia said. The man had been tailing them through the crowd for almost six blocks now. “He won’t be the only one.” She tugged Caz into the empty foyer of a boarding house and pulled out her misdirection charm. “Take my hand and stay quiet!”
“That won’t work on me,” Caz protested.
“No,” Nia said, willing herself to believe. “I can do this.” With all her strength, she pushed more of herself into the charm, the equation unfolding in her mind’s eye. She reached out, and as the world darkened around them, turned the doorknob, Caz clutching her arm. Nia pulled the taller girl close as the man pushed past them, failing to notice the door was already opening.
On the busy sidewalk, Caz let out a breath. A small boy leaning against a nearby lamppost glanced in their direction, an uncertain expression on his young face.
Caz cringed. “Sorry!” she mouthed.

Comps & Tropes
Includes the covers of four books:

Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olsen
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo's
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

"Tropes" is loosely used here and includes:
Stealing is magical (literally)
Fish out of water (you probably guessed)
Working for the wrong people
Ancient magic (in over their heads)
The MacGuffin is blackmailing us
"Aren't you a little young to be a criminal?"
Metaphorically dyslexic LI (she's also dyslexic)
Creepy clockwork doll that complains all the time
Good at magic, as long as she has a compass & protractor
Grifter vs. con artist
Sword lesbian (in training)
Lying (a lot)
Found family of scoundrels
Ace protagonist (who hasn't had time to think about that)
One big job and then we can retire (oh no, somehow everything went wrong)
Let's break into a data centre!
No chosen ones, no choosing ceremonies, just hard work and practice.

Reagan Faerwyn 💗💜💙@reaganfaerwyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hello #QuestPit! I present the #agentsguide for my queer thought-he-was-dead second-chance romance steeped in necromancy & found family: Forged in the After 🗡📚☕🐾☕📚 #A #FR #F #R #Q

1. A dark textured stone background features a metallic gold peacock with intricate feathers on the left side. The title “Forged in the After” appears in large elegant white serif lettering. The author's name, Reagan Faerwyn, is below in white cursive script. A black banner at the bottom reads: “Adult Queer Romantic Fantasy - 99,000 Words”

2. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Pitch,” a black panel on the left contains white text: “When a psychic heir comes face to face with his presumed dead former boyfriend, they must together hunt down the source of dangerous mimic necromancy to protect their homes and the second chance they refuse to give up.”
On the right, an ornate gold picture frame contains a hand-drawn illustration of two young men gazing at each other fondly: one with messy red hair and round glasses, the other with silver hair, fangs, and pointed ears. The frame is decorated with gilded elements including a violin and a masquerade mask.”

3. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Flavor,” features a central collage of fantasy book covers including The Magicians by Lev Grossman, Kings Rising by C.S Pacat, Evocation by S.T. Gibson, A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland, and The Witcher: Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Golden decorative arrows point to the books from thematic labels: Necromancy & Monsters; You & Me Against the World; Building Found Family; Fallen Prince x Disillusioned Heir; Second Chance Romance; Occult Rituals, & Inherited Bloodline Magic.

4. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Snippet,” a black panel contains an excerpt from the story. A metallic gold phoenix emblem appears on the right side. The text reads:
Donovan stopped at the kitchen’s threshold. Jerrik faced away from him, shoulders bare to the morning and duskfire tattoo finally visible in daylight. Black-inked phoenix wings unfurled on broad shoulders.
For a moment he stared. At the man, the ink, the herbs. A ritually trained war mage and the last pact bearer of the Dark Hearth, shirtless in the kitchen, humming.
A fantasy. It was what Donovan had imagined. Somewhere, in the handful of moments he had let himself want a life of his own, it had looked something like this.
But the longer he watched, the more he knew this wasn’t really his life, and mornings like this didn’t repeat without consequences.
His father could never know that a prince of Averath survived.

J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 2w ago

AMARI X ANDOR ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, twelve-year-old Catcher Kline must master spell-hacked spycraft to find his missing parents and stop the Acolytes from weaponizing the star metal minerals that power all magic.  #QuestPit #MG #F #AmQuerying #KidLit

Jyo has a new WIP @jyodmello.bsky.social · 2w ago

Utterly Unprepared for QuestPit, but here's a quick moodboard of my #RoyalsWIP #A #F #questpit

Palace, Praying Fire, Jungle, Bride, Journey on horses, Sea Dragon

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do you like ⛰️ quests, ⚔️ battles,💜 found family, & 🌌 multiverses? Features #F tropes turned on their heads, including: 🚶excessive amounts of walking 🏛️a fraught council meeting 🧝token elves and dwarves (hobbits not included) How about a #SFF POV? WEB TRAVELER: A Meme Compilation #Q #A #QuestPit

Annabeth is querying!@annabethwrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

ANASTASIA X THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT ❤️‍🔥93k Adult Romantasy ✨Light X Shadow ✨Strong but messy FMC ✨He falls first (and so much harder!) ✨Elemental magic ✨Slow burn ✨Deadly Trials ✨Forced proximity ✨Found family ✨Meddling gods ✨SO MUCH YEARNING #Bluepit #Q #A #F #R #📖

The moon also rises - 93k adult romantasy

Pitch: after thief Rorie discovers she’s the lost princess of a fallen light magic dynasty, lethal succession trials pit her against a shadow wielding rival— but as the conspiracy behind her bloodline’s slaughter pushes them together, their bond threatens both her heart and her claim for the crown.

Comps: Anastasia, servant of Earth, when the moon hatched and the serpent and the wings of night

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Elise Rustøen@eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses in A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK A Cozy Medieval Romantasy 🍰 Barbie for adults 🌸 Arranged marriage 👑 Princess x Prince 🕯️ Dual POV 🩷 Lovable family chaos #questpit #W #NA #A #RF

A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK

A Cozy Medieval Romantasy

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses x The Princess Knight

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anxious Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest, but when his elf-supremacist cousin declares war, Letyf joins the world's champions to protect their only hope—a child who can quell magic. In their way? World-hopping demon Lia, unwilling servant to the enemy. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit #AgentsGuide

Title Page: WEB TRAVELER, Adult Epic sci-fantasy, 129k, dual POV. Art of an ancient staircase carved into a mossy cliff. tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

Pitch Page: Letyf Duilles has no place on a world-saving quest. Elf-supremacist Roksa Morthir took everything from Letyf—his best friend, his magic, and his future. An outcast in his rural elven village, Letyf is a constant reminder that an elf with no magic is no elf at all. When Roksa returns with an all-powerful demon on his side, Letyf must defy his endless self-doubt to protect a young elvish prodigy in the war for Crelan’s freedom. Lia, the demon in question, doesn't consider herself all-powerful. She's served heroes and villains many times before. With a string of dead masters behind her, she needs a win, or her immortality and her powers will be taken from her. If Roksa wants to conquer his backwoods, fantasy home-world, Lia will just have to do it with gritted teeth and minimal complaints about the plumbing. After all, why would a world like this be worth saving? Set on a parchment background, with photography of a spring green forest behind it.

Comps: Parchment featuring five book covers: The Magicians (Magical Multiverse, I can't believe it's not Narnia, Anxious MC, Meta-fantasy, Classic Fantasy World Reimagined); This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Metapantasy, classic fantasy world, action-packed and bloody, dry humor, highly competent FMC); The Goblin Emperor (Anxious MC, No romance, deep friendships instead, Naive, fish out of water MC); The Bright Sword (No Romance, Naive MC, Action-packed, Classic Fantasy World, Epic Setting); Nine Goblins (Action Packed, Epic setting, Dry Humor, Highly competent FMC)

First Lines: Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch.

The bird cocked its head, beady eyes darting around, but they passed right over Letyf, crouched as he was in the brush. He adjusted his aim, gave the string a touch more pressure, and released.

The arrow arced away—and missed the fat gamebird by a clear foot.

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We arrived in my master's home-world with enough force to buckle my knees.

As I yanked the heels of my pumps out of the super-heated soil, my master turned to gaze around at the brilliant green hills of his land. The rise we stood on was dotted with little white flowers, the sky was a perfect blue, and the trees shimmered with promise. Even the ring of burned grass around us couldn’t diminish the sweeping landscape.

Dahlia Zhen @dahliazhenwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

SCARLET BRIDE LIAR WOLF (WIP) 👰 A doomed bride escaping her cult's forced marriage 🐺 A werewolf who's spent 10 years searching for his childhood friend 🔥 Fiery magic, fearsome snakes, and lies gone terribly wrong #QuestPit #W #A #RF

Project Intro. A colorful illustration of my book protagonists, Wesley and Clara, drawn by myself (Dahlia Zhen). It is labeled with the title: SCARLET BRIDE LIAR WOLF.

Wesley and Clara face each other with slight smiles, clasping hands. Wesley has messy blond hair, and is wearing a formal black suit. Clara is dressed as a bride, with a silver wedding ring. She has red hair in a loose bun, a flowing wedding veil, and a fancy red dress with feathery sleeves. The dress stylistically melts into flames toward the bottom.

They are framed by a circular, moon and sun design. Behind Wesley, there is a crescent moon adorned with purple flowers and blue stars, and a grey pattern of rain. Behind Clara, the background is like the sun, with cloud patterns and sparkling gems over top.

The same illustration as the first image, but without the background so it focuses on the two main characters. It shows several tropes/themes with arrows pointing at the couple: Open Door, Dual POV, Shy Werewolf, They Save Each Other, Estranged Childhood Friends to Lovers, Clever Caster, Escaping a Cult, Slow Burn.

A story blurb, with a different illustration of the main characters Wesley and Clara.

The blurb reads: "Raised in a cult and forced to wed a monster, Clara has only one chance to escape her fate—thanks to the help of her long-lost werewolf friend.

But when all plans go up in smoke, can the remnants of a shattered puppy love survive what lies ahead?"

Below, a list says: For readers who enjoy:
Sweet and gentle romance,
Fantasy settings with some darkness,
Tense personal stakes,
Complex family dynamics,
Themes of growth, agency and self-acceptance.

For the main artwork, the couple stands beside each other, looking at the viewer. Wesley has a more serious expression, adjusting his tie, while Clara is still smiling. They are still in their formal suit and wedding gown outfits.

Author Adlin K.T.@adlinktauthor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The last of my redid agent guides, here's info on my Young Adult Urban/Contemporary Fantasy, Of Magic and Grief. Info on my other agent guides are down below.

Author Adlin K.T.@adlinktauthor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Redoing my The Sun and Moon Brooches agent guides, I made one version based off of Dorcha, and the other based off of Sol. My previous guides can be seen below. TSaMB is a Middle Grade High/Epic Fantasy that's Avatar The Last Airbender meets The Dragon Prince.

Suzanne Gorthwald @suzannegorthwald.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy #questpit!☺️ 💫Spheres in the Afterglow💫 a slow-burn portal romantasy 💜Outlander meets His Dark Materials 💜she doesn't want a hand kiss, she wants a handshake and a salary #W #A #RF

Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 2w ago

ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 2w ago

The disgraced necromancer Dr. William Savage is caught having a one night stand spy from an invading country. As punishment he's drafted to pilot a berserker. When he learns how berserkers are made his questions could lead to the death of their immortal queen. #questpit #f #a

O F Cieri@ossuary.bsky.social · 2w ago

Resurrected and disgraced priest Dr. William Savage cruises a sketchy foreigner who turns out to be a spy from an invading country. As punishment he's drafted to handle a beserker, who happens to be his boyfriend's father. The secrets of their family's curse lead him to regicide. #questpit #f #a #q

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ 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.

J.Q. Crawford @jqcrawford.bsky.social · 2w ago

#QuestPit Waltz of the Jaded is a dark urban fantasy set in a futuristic Tokyo focused on psychological tension and an all-consuming relationship, where power has a physical cost, and intimacy is both dangerous and inevitable. Would you read this? #DF #F #A #W

Emily Rae 📚@emilyrae.bsky.social · 2w ago

WWDITS x SIGN HERE Cenzo is thriving as a vampire, until a hunter injects him with a serum & turns him human. Now he has to EAT & BREATHE? Ridiculous. 😤 Cenzo must work with the hunter to reverse the effects—if his new human conscience doesn't get in the way. #QuestPit #A #FA #AG

J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · 2w ago

💥CULLING Agent's guide💥 They pretended her homeworld destruction was an accident, not knowing that the entire galaxy is next on the chopping block. 🌌Queernorm world 🌌Chaos Crew 🌌A secret older than the galaxy 🌌And an impossible enemy #QuestPit #A #SF #Q

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

Rara Hope @rarahope.bsky.social · 2w ago

CITY OF DUSK x WITCHY DnD A grieving shipwreck survivor teams up with an exiled monster hunter turned librarian to solve the mystery behind a blank but sentient book. If they fail, a sea witch hellbent on revenge will unravel reality to reclaim her stolen magic. #questpit #F #A #P

Book cover titling, The Moon Could Only Weep. Features a dripping moon, ocean waves, a blood ribbon threading a needle, spindles, wisteria, stars, and storm clouds.

Author Aislin Spurgeon @aislinspurgeon.bsky.social · 2w ago

GLAZED & CONFUSED, 78,000-word contemporary rom-com When Milo gets dumped minutes before a couples pottery class, he does the only logical thing: shows up alone. Unfortunately for Briar, the overworked studio owner who swore off dating, their chemistry burns hotter than a kiln. #questpit #q #a #r

Mood board for GLAZED & CONFUSED, a 78,000-word adult romantic comedy. A warm, earthy collage features hands shaping clay on a pottery wheel, shelves filled with handmade pottery, a woman smiling while throwing clay, downtown Fort Wayne at sunset, a couple ice skating together, a curly-haired young man, a hand glazing a ceramic mug, and a couple embracing with clay-covered hands. Center text reads, “A Mood Board for GLAZED & CONFUSED.” The overall aesthetic evokes cozy creativity, second chances, playful romance, and small-town Midwest charm.

Chezza @chezza.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bluebeard x Obsession x Chinese mythology A courtesan goes to an immortal's palace to reclaim her emotions, but discovers the palace has seven disfigured women hidden in the shadows...and they all look exactly like her. 🔥 #questpit #AG #DF #A

Moodboard for TO POSSESS THE FLAME, an adult dark fantasy novel. Featuring ancient Chinese buildings, a woman holding a mask, a plate of food, a fan, a locked door, medicinal jars, and a woman in red.

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

V.Borde @vbordewriting.bsky.social · 2w ago

BABEL X a forbidden South Asian Epic THE EIGHTH GATE follows a sheltered noblewoman who discovers her fate is not to serve the crown, but decide who wears it #questpit #F #Q #A 🪷anti-colonialism 🪷morally grey characters 🪷romantic subplot 🪷a villain you don't know to root for or against

Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨@jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Lunaria Witch (🎵Crystal - Stevie Nicks or Upside Down Tori Amos) 🍃 Elemental Magic ✨ The threads that bind us all together ❤️‍🔥 Yearning fated romance 🧙‍♀️ Folklore and Witchcraft 💫 ND Rep 💃🏻 Self acceptance #questpit #q #na #a #f #r #ownvoices

Sharon Wofford @sharonwoffordwrite.bsky.social · 2w ago

A guide to BLOODRUNE, the story of an ambitious runecrafter who must flee her university after inventing a magical weapon. She is hunted by the king’s forces, but she will go to any lengths necessary to defend her work…even as she loses her grip on reality #QuestPit #Q #A #F

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

Charity @color--my--words.bsky.social · 2w ago

#questpit #W #A #H PEARL + THE COLLECTOR When a young woman raised in isolation forms an obsession for a paranoid Vietnam veteran harboring secrets on his secluded property, she uses him to manipulate and abduct two men—a freshman college student and a local handyman.

Moodboard for VENUS, OR VENEREOUS

A psychological horror set in rural Ohio in 1985.

Featuring a man with a college sweater on, other men wearing work boots and jeans, some looking bloody, sweaty, and in distress. A woman holding a revolver. A bloodhound standing in the water. A slice of pecan pie on a tin dish. Playboy magazines. An old Victorian house slightly dilapidated. An old pickup truck from the 80s.

Charlotte Dante 💫querying author💫@charlottedante14.bsky.social · 2w ago

WHAT THRIVES IN DARKNESS, an 88,000-word LGBTQ+ YA myth-inspired fantasy about a god of spring who flees an arranged marriage and finds something far more dangerous in the Underworld: freedom. #questpit #q #yafantasy #amquerying

Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

MATRIX x DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST Father Matthias meets a spirit in his parish. And fails to find them evil. Instead, Ruin comes with plums and a name he’s never known: Mattie. Does the God he serve have mercy for all he becomes? 📖 1749 liturgical calendar 🏳️‍🌈 queer #QuestPit #W #A #HR #S #LF