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Amara Colinco ✍🏽 is revising

@amaracolinco.bsky.social

🇵🇭🇨🇳📍🗽 writing #OwnVoices upmarket/literary speculative fiction Gender: dgaf 🫖 AI: Never IG: @amaracolinco

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Amara Colinco ✍🏽 is revising @amaracolinco.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Philippine Independence Day! May all empires end; may all people be free. And, yes, I realize the painful irony of writing this in English.

Pear 🍐@purelypear.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you need to go somewhere and not spend any money, please visit your local library. Library crawls are awesome. Every library is its own little world.

Amara Colinco ✍🏽 is revising @amaracolinco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wow, thank you #QuestPit #writingcommunity ! This was my first pitch event & my first time being on 🦋 (and I never had a 🐤 acct before) so I was a lil nervous. But everyone was so lovely and talented 🤩 I couldn’t keep up w following ppl back so I’ll do it slowly over the next couple days TTFN 👋🏽

Eri Victoria | "The Fangirl Diaries" Author @scarlet-rhapsody.com · 3mo ago

#QuestPit #Q #YA #RF Heartbreak from her teen idol didn't stop Celine from starting a pop idol group, The Midnight Angelz. While writing the songs, Celine sings about first loves, heartache, and dancing the drama away. Are you ready to dance with the MIDNIGHT ANGELZ in this Y2K YA?

Image - anime style art of three girls in red catholic school uniforms -1) long black hair 2) dark brown hair with a butterfly clip and 3) dark brown hair with blonde highlights and glasses

Text: An agent’s guide to Midnight Angelz
by erica victoria espejo
Genre: Y2K YA coming-of-age
Word Count: 88,000

Image - 1) male character in school uniform, worn loose like a rebel. Dark brown hair and 2) main female character dark brown hair with butterfly clip.

Heartbreak from her teen idol didn’t stop Celine from starting a pop idol group where she writes and sings songs about first loves and following your dreams.

After being victimized by her former clique, Celine gets a fresh start in a new city and school.
A new start is awkward for Celine as she rebuilds her teen years.

When she finds out her true passion is music, she must choose between the secure future laid out by her strict mother or fly high into pop stardom singing with the Midnight Angelz.

Text: The Comps

XOXO by Axie Oh
She’s a musician
He’s a celebrity
A chance encounter
And they meet again......

SOMETHING MORE by Jackie Khalileh
Austistic rep
Theatre kids
Immigrant family
Catholic High School

KIMI NI TOKEDE: FROM ME TO YOU by Karuho Shiina.
Shoujo romcom
Mental health rep
Outcast figures out life
Self discovery

the opening

Chapter One
“Are you ready, Los Angeles?!” I yelled. My favorite Britney song was on the radio. There was only one solution - an impromptu VIP concert for my stuffed animals, especially Sterling Bear. I grabbed my hairbrush and started singing along. I made up moves and choreography in my room. I pointed out a stuffed animal if I heard “you” in the song, making it extra special. Maybe I was singing about them. I strutted around my room giving my best walk in high heels without tripping over my moving boxes. However, I could barely dance in an a-line skirt. Nor did I want to break a sweat.

“Celine!”

I thought I heard my mom, but we have a bridge and one more chorus left.

And the bridge was the best part of this song. I got on my knees and pretended to give my best vocal belt. The sunrise peaked through my curtains and became my spotlight.

“Celine, are you gallivanting?”
“Just give me a minute, mom!”

ziqing @ziqingpan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hi #questpit! Introducing WORK IN PROGRESS, a contemporary romance with women’s fiction crossover 💌 Nemeses-to-lovers 🧧 Asian-setting (Taiwan!) 🥴 Complicated family dynamics 🎨 Quarter-life crisis ❣️ 10 Things I Hate About You meets Crazy Rich Asians #W #R #A #ownvoices

ONE-LINE PITCH
A struggling ex-artist must plan an exhibition with her infuriating childhood nemesis, all while hiding the truth about her failed art career.

FULL PITCH
After calling it quits on her art career, Iris Tsai takes on a new job at an up-and-coming hotel gallery back in Taiwan...only to find out the hotel is owned by her infuriating childhood nemesis Luke Yang. With no Plan B to fall back on, Iris must work with Luke to plan an exhibition, even if it means putting up with his patronizing attitude and absurd standards.

Despite their rocky beginning, an undeniable spark forms between the two. But Luke is under the impression that Iris is living out her lifelong dream of being an artist, and Iris can't bear to tell him the truth. As they blur the line between nemeses and lovers, Iris has to make a choice: conceal her shameful past and never be truly known, or shatter the illusion she’s created and lose Luke’s trust before having a chance at love.

Comps: Yin Yang Love Song (cultural richness and complicated family dynamics) You, with a View (nemesis-to-lovers tension and theme of self-discovery), and The Comeback (witty banter)

Tropes: nemeses-to-lovers, forced proximity, opposites attract, he falls first

Themes: quarter-life crisis and self-discovery, self-doubt and fear, change vs. traditions, and unconditional love

Pictures in mood board: woman painting by the window, a couple kissing, painting set-up, a man writing notes, and a picture of a couple with flowers

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE MANOR AT ABINGDON COVE Downton Abbey x Howl's Moving Castle Adult MM Historical Fantasy Romance 🌊 Seaside setting 🏛️ Early 1900s-inspired era 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world 📚 Bookworm MC 🪞 Trapped on opposite sides of a mirror ✨ Let's bring magic back 🏡 Cozy nosy neighbors #QuestPit #W #A #RF #LGBTQ

Crystin is a Writer @headmedincharge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What if a biotech company experiments on the poor and the marginalized? What if a young woman, desperate for custody of her little sister, signs up with them? And what if instead of custody, she gains superhuman abilities? Chrysalis is my #wip, query ready by July. #a #questpit #d #u

K.M. 🛋️📚✍️@kdscribbles.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After a traumatic loss activates a dormant gene which manifests ancestral memories, a 22nd century, disabled archivist must decipher the scope of her history & grief—before the past she has discarded, and rising authoritarian threats in the present, decide the future for her. #QuestPit #W #A #U #S

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#agentguide quick scan of Goddess Death: GODKILLER x BLACK SUN x THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER #amquerying 80k Adult Dark Fantasy/Horror with romance, Caribbean Taino-inspired world, a goddess trial, and a deathless pirate king. #writingcommunity #writersofbsky #litagents #questpit #Q #A #DF #H

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH@isanasantiz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hola #writingcommunity! Just for #questpit, an updated #agentguide for Goddess Death. Sere stole life once for love; now she may do it again, and this time the debt will poison everyone she has left. #Q #A #DF #H #amquerying #litagents

Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My #questpit posts bsky.app/profile/caro...

Caroline is always writing@carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SINNERS X THIS RAVENOUS FATE X IWTV When a strange white man approaches her with the power to set herself free, Angeline accepts... but she didn't understand the price she would have to pay or how much it would bite. #Questpit #Q #F #A #H #LGBT

Madiha Shafqat @madihashafqat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ayesha dribbles through Texas dodging prejudice as a Muslim-American teen. Decades earlier, her teen grandmother fled the fields of 1947 India during the violent Partition. Bound by struggle across generations, both must reclaim who they are or be lost to a world coming undone. #Questpit #W #YA

Julie Calidonio @juliecalidonio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ONCE AND AGAIN x SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER An unhappy couple’s 20th anniversary wish rewinds their lives to just before their wedding, presenting a do-over to pursue the unfulfilled dreams of their youth, with or without each other. #questpit #CR #A #S

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Amara Colinco ✍🏽 is revising @amaracolinco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wendy’s Plan 💭 Goal: Normal 🤠 life How: Train magic to excise her manananggal 🦇🩸 spirit Problem: Insufficient skill 🫠 Opt 1: Attempt ritual, risk death ☠️ Opt 2: 🙇🏻‍♀️ Ask gods to help, risk eternal servitude ⛓️ Opt 3: 🤝🏽☄️🧬⛓️‍💥🪢🌬️ Req SPLITTING IMAGE to see how it ends! 😈 #QuestPit #OwnVoices #W #A #U #F #S

Background is a feminine Asian adult posing with a hand on their chin/cheek while smiling hard with closed lips.

Text: Wendy's "When I'm Normal" To-Do List:
- Atone for ruining my family's lives
- Stop avoiding my friends
- Make my S.O.'s parents stop hating me
- Get a job I don't hate

Splitting Image
Adult Upmarket Urban Fantasy

V.V. Angelova @libraryorv.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ECHOES OF THE INBETWEEN, Slavic folklore dark fantasy #QuestPit #Q #A #F 🧹Eerie, atmospheric imagery 🖤Stubborn witch & her (smug) reluctant guide 🔮Witchcraft & forest demons 🗡️Feminine rage & revenge 🐈‍⬛Unhinged FMC 🥀Morally grey everyone And last but not least ✨BABA YAGA🐓

Crystin is a Writer @headmedincharge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Raine’s score determines everything: housing, bus access, and getting custody of her little sister. Raine signs up for a gene editing trial to get enough points. She expects a few side effects. But claws and fur aren’t in the terms and conditions. Get Out x The Power #questpit #w #a #u #d

Alicia is editing 🙈😅@alibarwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER X SUCH A FUN AGE 🔪👄 Can Milly Washington, new mommy and all around good girl, kill her duplicitous ex-boss in his Chelsea mansion on a Sunday afternoon? With rage, determination and resilience fueling her, she’s certain she can do it. #questpit #A #T #Q

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Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A twisted, quirky retelling of “Princess and the Pea” where she’s not a princess at all, but a fugitive in disguise. ⚔️ Reluctant allies to lovers 🪴 Plant-based magic 💚 Neurodivergent FMC 🏹 Robin Hood-inspired MMC 🏴‍☠️ Pirates 🇸🇪 Swedish folklore Querying late 2026 #Questpit #W #A #RF #F

Brayden Russell @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ultra-wealthy guests must “atone” for their greed at a remote resort designed by the very people who prop them up, in a story with a Midsommar-style cult at a White Lotus–style luxury resort, blending dark social satire and rich people behaving badly. #q #a #h #r #lf #questpit

ultra-wealthy guests must “atone” for their greed at a remote resort designed by the very people who prop them up, in a story with a Midsommar-style cult at a White Lotus–style luxury resort, blending dark social satire and rich people behaving badly.

M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE WRONG WAY HOME 🏚️ a child’s psychological games 🍇 scared girls who fight back 🪞 sibling opposites 🐊 summer is an antagonist 🧨 surviving a puppetmaster when you’re his marionette 🌟 Big 5 editor interest 🌟 RevPit ‘25 winner #QuestPit #Q #MG #H

green-themed moodboard. From left to right and up to down: a hand reaching through tree bark and foliage; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp some berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a green-lit tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse below a chandelier; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; stylised painting of many crows on a colourful branch; hands reaching through lily pads in pond water.

green-themed moodboard featuring weeping willows reaching pond water, a hand reaching from a tree trunk, a lake surrounded by trees, hands reaching for each other, a house surrounded by trees and a lake, someone running out of sight in a maze, a lake surrounded by trees, candlesticks on tree branches, and a pier jutting out into lake water.

Alexis ✍🏾@authoredbyalexis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lucky only needs these things to survive her parents neglect and her growing hunger for love👀 -bread for the ducks -chapstick (lip biter) -tissues for therapy -empty lunchbox (her parents forgot to pack…again) -favorite photos -cookies from her crush! #questpit #A #DR #OS #AG #LF #U SWALLOWED SINS

Amara Colinco ✍🏽 is revising @amaracolinco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SPLITTING IMAGE: After 25 years of keeping her manananggal 🦇🩸 secret, Wendy jumps at the chance to be the hero instead of the monster. But as more family secrets unravel, so does Wendy's certainty of who she truly wants to be... and who the real monsters are. #QuestPit #OwnVoices #W #A #U #F #S #H

A 2-photo collage. 1) A light-skinned Asian adult with long, straight black hair wearing a long-sleeved black top and a neutral/focused expression uses both hands to hold a tambourine overhead. Behind them are a setting sun and bare branches. 2) An antique Filipino sword with Baybayin script carved into the scabbard. Text in all caps: "Splitting Image"; "upmarket urban fantasy with folk horror elements"

Chinasa Menakaya @chinasa-menakaya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AS THEY H(A)UNT US: ⚰️Chiamaka encounters a ghost that needs to solve her murder in order to transition into the afterlife. ⚖️Chiamaka has impossible cases of her own to solve after being framed for legal malpractice. 👻A little supernatural help might be just what she needs. #T #PR #QuestPit #Q

From top to bottom. Left panel: AS THEY H(A)UNT US by Chinasa Menakaya complete at 86,000 words. It is a dual-pov paranormal thriller. Right panel: The pitch of the novel AS THEY H(A)UNT US is paranormal thriller in which a lawyer who has been framed for legal malpractice and given an impossible case to fix her public image teams up with a ghost woman who has been dead for ten years and must solve the mystery of her own death in order to transition into the afterlife. Bottom left: comp books are Not Quite Dead Yet, My Sister the Serial killer and Where the dead brides gather. Bottom right: book quote “women become men in death—reasons to never stray from street lights.” What to expect from the book includes vengeful ghosts, unlikely found family, hauntings, who don it mystery, a mystery solving ghost and burnt out lawyer duo.

T.N. Lee (she/her)@authort-lee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

David Copperfield x C-dramas Max is over living when he's suddenly reborn as an alternate-history noble, but his newfound will to live is increasingly challenged by his family's restrictive expectations and a mysterious curse that claims the lives of those he loves most. #QuestPit #Q #Lit #Spec

This is a red graphic with a blue pond in the middle, surrounded by black trees. At the top is the title of the manuscript: Years of Red Tears. At the bottom, it reads: 98k-word speculative literary, now querying. In the middle of the pond are three pieces of floating character art of the MC, depicting him as both his past florist self and his present alternate-China noble self. Surrounding him are water ripples and lily pads.

krista is writing like a maniac ❦@kristaskrooked.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#W #A #H #WritingCommunity #blackbooksky #questpit BLACULA x THE INVITATION x NOSFERATU 🐞set in 1976 🐞runaway black girl 🐞vampire lord with hidden motives 🐞manor haunted with restless spirits 🐞supernatural found family protecting their token human 🐞 you would put your god before me, lover?

Lola is 👻AGENTED!!👻@lolagracebooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND Windego is a 60K word supernatural horror novel based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all. #questpit #Q #A #H #S

Ayishah Hasni is ✨AGENTED✨@ayishahhasni.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What if the swashbuckling, enemies-to-lovers vibes of Dreamworks' SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS was in a YA novel with: 🌙muslim mc's 🏴‍☠️pirate x princess 🌊17th-century indian ocean setting 🐲beasts from islamic folklore ✨interest from 2 big 5 editors #questpit #YA #HF #Q

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