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@authorajs.bsky.social

Adult/YA Fantasy author 🏳️‍🌈 Currently querying an adult dark academia sapphic fantasy 🖤 NO AI 🚫

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kate duarte 🏹🗡️@authorkateduarte.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ONE DARK WINDOW x GODKILLER 🕸️horromantasy When Merit's lover chooses her best friend as his next sacrifice, Merit vows to murder him. But to slay a god, Merit must first find his weakness—and defeat his loyal bodyguard, who can kill with a touch. #OS #A #AG #H #RF #questpit

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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Debby ✨ A MOST DECADENT CURSE (Jan. ‘27)✨ 🌊👻🖤@aventurinedebby.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HAUNTED BRIDGERTON 👻 Rowena Trevayne believes herself to be haunted by the ghost of her husband’s first wife, except as bloodless bodies show up around the abbey she lives, she realizes Ligeia isn’t just haunting her—she wants her life. #questpit #na #df #ag

Una the Archivist 📜@preserver.archivistorder.com · 3mo ago

🌟 THE DIVINE RITUALS 🌟 ⚔️ A bronze age adventure to attack and dethrone god! ⚔️ ✨ Magic as science ✨ Heroes on a journey (but not a hero's journey) ✨ Ancient people doing even more ancient archaeology ✨ Melting pot city states ✨ Oh no, the god emperor is hot ✨ Horse #QuestPit #A #F #W

Marius, who was once the highest ranking executor of the Divine Emperor Akkan's will, finds evidence that Akkan is not what he claims. Akkan is a powerful man, but he is no god. When Akkan announces that Marius will ascend to live eternally in the Divine Realm, Marius fakes his own death and escapes with his apprentice, Lina Together, they travel to the northern wastes beyond the empire, searching for the Fount, a human wellspring of Divine energy and someone who Akkan is desperately trying to find. If Marius and Lina can find the Fount first, they can stop Akkan from accruing near-unlimited power.

The Fount is a teenage boy named Hanetu who has a hero complex and no love for Akkan's empire. He sees Lina conjuring fire with her sword mid-battle, and he's in love, convinced of their destiny to defeat an undefeatable god. They join forces and plan their next move while hiding out in Lina's homeland, but when Akkan's loyalists catch up with them and capture Hanetu and Marius, Lina is left to pick up the pieces.

But hope is not lost. Lina is stronger than she thinks and Hanetu is exceptionally resourceful. Can they make it to the imperial capital to defeat Akkan, all while being pursued by Akkan's enforcers and cultists? And even if they make it, what chance do they have to stop him?

Icons of charterers and their roles

Akkan (medium light skin with long blond hair in a high ponytail)

Emperor of the Divine Light
Chief antagonist

Marius (dark skin with hair in locs tied back)

Former Grand Executor of Akkan's Will
Fugitive and conspirator

Lina (medium brown skin and red hair tied back in small braids)

Apprentice to Marius
Fugitive and conspirator

Hanetu (pale skin and messy short brown hair)

The Fount
A barbarian from the Northern Wastes

A moodboard with the text THE DIVINE RITUALS superimposed on it.

The moodboard images feature horses in a field, a salt flat mirror lake, inside ancient ruins, an altar, a skull, hieroglyphics, a desert landscape, a black rock, ancient Egyptian art, and a mysterious spacey image.

Jane @jane-fenriz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE X SIX OF CROWS 🌜An unreasonably optimistic Ukrainian scholar 🌜An army of forest demons 🌜A few disgruntled pagan gods 🌜And one very angry Russian Empire Who are you betting your money on? #QuestPit #Q #F #HF

Sophia Escajeda @author15se.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Presenting Cassidy Dade and Vincent Hendrix from SINS OF LEVARIA. When Vincent promises to tell Cassidy what he knows about her sister's killer, Cassidy must decide if vengeance is worth what little family she has left. #questpit #Q #A #HF #F

Jane @jane-fenriz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The world needs more Slavic folklore. 1847 Ukraine. A young scholar on the run. His only allies against the Russian Empire? Forest demons and pagan gods. 🌳 Queer romance (M/M and F/F) 🌳 Pagan Slavic pantheon 🌳 Rooted in real history #QuestPit #Q #F

A moody collage of old vintage interiors, slavic gods, and burning books, with Kyiv churn in the center

Sophia Escajeda @author15se.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And as my last #questpit post for my adult historical fantasy SINS OF LEVARIA, the soundtrack and Cassidy's Playlist. This story is full of grief, secrets, and the desire to live up to the ones you've lost. I hope you like it whenever it's finally in the world. #Q #A #HF #F

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE x JANE AUSTEN x BREATH OF THE WILD For readers who want their villages cozy, their magic ancient, and their romance slow enough to hurt. LIGHT IN THE DEEP — 109k adult romantic fantasy (QuestPit #2) #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

A collage of four photos on a dark teal forest background, with the title “Light in the Deep” in white script across the center. Top left: a couple almost kissing among trees. Top right: a woman in a pink old-fashioned dress reading a book outdoors. Bottom left: a red-haired woman in a white dress facing a glowing ornate mirror. Bottom right: a small mirror on a tree trunk with a hand reaching toward it. The mirror shows a semi/transparent, mist-covered male face, barely visible.

rihdara klay 📖@rihdaraklay.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE MIDNIGHT SHOP OF SOULS 💀 tim burton x soul eater 💀a delivery boy for his dad's shady soul trading shop must help a half-human, half-demon girl find her mom's soul after it disappeared in mysterious circumstances that might've involved the business #questpit #MG #F #W

image of a man in a vintage, peaky blinders-esque outfit smoking (pretend this is demon smoke lolol and not tobacco because smoking kills!!) in the bottom left corner, a glowing star in a circle in the air drawn by a boy in the top left corner, several stacks of coins in the top right corner, and an image of london, england at night in the bottom right corner. the title, “THE MIDNIGHT SHOP OF SOULS” is written across the moodboard

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

THE TREES HAVE TEETH "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." APPALACHIAN FOLKHORROR 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄‍🟫 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting Currently drafting! #QuestPit #H #A #W

A moodboard featuring photos from Appalachia including a creepy house, fog, the woods, and a shadow rabbit

Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 3mo ago

They Hate Each Other X Love Simon Ares is a nice Cypriot boy. He’s the star of his basketball team & is dating his childhood best friend.That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life & heart. ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #QuestPit #YA #R #LGBT #Q

samantha IS QUERYING A FANTASY NOVEL!!@samanthaudrey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#questpit #Q #F #A #RF THE ONE-EYED ANGEL 90k crossover fantasy, FOR SHE IS WRATH x WILD REVERENCE She loved him. He betrayed her. Now, the angel Illeana searches human lands for the boy who took her eye. But soon, she learns his betrayal was only the beginning of a plot to free a demon queen…

S.L. Murray @authorslm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This New Adult Gothic Fantasy Romance includes: 🌱 Dual POV’s 🖤 Ruthless, ‘The Bachelor’-esque competition 💛Slow-Burn romance 🌱 Deadly bargains 🖤 Morally complex romance 💛elemental Fae magic 🌱 Fallen Angels and Nephilim “There will never be a day I do not belong to you” #Q #questpit #A #FR

Kelsea Wolf 📚 ✨@kelseawolf-writes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gravity Falls x King of Scars 👻 ☀️ 🤓 haunted x sunshine x nerdy girl trio 🤐 🪄 Secret society x Cursed 🔮 📖 Folklore x Southern magic ⛵️ ❓ Bermuda Triangle x Riddles 🦑 ⚔️ Cryptids x Knights Alice misses when she didn’t know magic existed… and it didn’t know she existed either… #questpit #q #f

A map of the south eastern region of the United States, aged. Red writing from top to bottom. Can we trust the riddles? Charleston, SC (The Manor) Savannah GA (Bonevevnture Cemetery) Saint Augustine, Fl (The Lighthouse ) Isle of Tempus (?) Elliot Key, FL (?) Key West, FL ( The Fort)

A vision board for agents and editors describing the book The Society of curse breakers clockwise there is a picture of a swamp that says betrayal a picture of a capybara that says diverse magic systems a picture of a forest that says folklore and strange villains a picture of a Florida map that says cryptids a picture of a lighthouse and a ship that says pirates and a picture of of a tunnel that says sports, a picture of a brick mansion thag says curses and urban fantasy and a picture of a diver that says found family

Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 Art Fight!@quietsnooze.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BLOOD ON OUR NAMES - A fey courtly murder plot with: 🧌 unlikely found family 💀 betraying secrets ❤️‍🔥 Terrible father figures 🐦‍⬛ The cost paid in being gifted magic 🍂 Finding courage 🧚 Second chances 🪓 an escape from fate only to end up in the arms of destiny #QuestPit #W #F #A #Dis #LGBT

A drawing of three people. One tinted in green is a man with curly hair and long fey ears and a laurel crown of rowanberry wearing a chunky knit sweater. In orange, a shorter elf holding an axe wearing an earasaid with her hair braided behind one ear. The third is purple, taller than the others and wearing many draping layers of clothes. Art by me.

A man with long curly hair pours tea into a cup with shadow blackened hands. His many eyed raven sits perched on his shoulder.

Portrait of a smiling woody elf with autumnal orange hair and a blue plaid earasaid

Portrait of a sallow skinned half orc with striking orange eyes and fancy clothes

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Shameless x Riverdale (s1) x AGGGTM ☕️ Drama-Mystery with Romance 📓 Runaway x Boy Next Door ☕️ 90s Small-Town Mystery 📓 Found Family ☕️ Genderfluid and Pan Rep 📓 Mental Health Rep ☕️ Fake Identity Turned Real Identity #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

A fake case file lays open. On the left side of the folder is a sketch of a girl with a sticky note beside it that reads: “Emma Bridge is believed to have cut her hair. Police sketch artists have taken a guess at what she may look like now.” Under it is a map of all US railroads with another sticky note that reads: “Last seen in California, current whereabouts unknown. An anonymous tip reports she has made it out of the state.” Under that, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out, replaced with the name Peyton Freys.

On the right side of the folder is a clipping of newspaper that reads: “Hollywood’s Beloved Missing” with the date 4/13/1996 below it. Text on the page reads: “What we know: YA Contemporary (with mystery and romance), 82k words” “Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media” “Runaway in hiding, fake identity (turned real identity), mental health rep, genderfluid and pan rep, found family, 90s small-town nostalgia.”  
A block of text reads: “Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.”

Finally, a stamp says “On sub soon”

Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE CURSE OF WAVERLY HILLS will be published by Roan & Weatherford! (Pub date TBA) For fans of Roux’s ASYLUM & tv show GHOST BROTHERS. #questpit #H #MY #YA #P

When Jade’s grieving family are invited to a ghost-hunting competition, they arrive at a haunted sanatorium prepared to find the most spectral evidence and win the grand prize; however, paranormal investigators start disappearing each day, leading Jade to fear there’s more to Waverly Hills than meets the eye.

Alexandra Alafair @sangrescribe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fuck. You kill 50 gang members in cold blood and they show you mercy? You’d think that at least would get a girl a first degree murder charge. #questpit #DF #RF #NA #Q

rwbrawner.bsky.social @rwbrawner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Lives We Might've Lived What if you slipped from the life you live now into one you didn't recognize, and what if you didn't want to leave? Unreliable narrator Motherhood Complicated women Stories about how trauma changes lives #questpit #q #weirdgirlfiction #speculative #magicalrealism

Madelyn Starr @madelynstarr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

All the wives that came before Rhian are dead. ✨ fairy tale retelling 💍 marriage of convenience 👻 haunted house 🏔️ remote mountainous setting 🧵 unique magic system 🕯️ gothic & horror elements #QuestPit #Q #A #F

An Agent’s Guide to Maiden & Serpent
102k Adult Gothic Fantasy
“Bluebeard” Retelling

THE PITCH
Lady Rhian barely knows her older husband, a notorious, thrice widowed merchant. She married him out of duty, neither having any illusions about the match. He gained her title, and she gained his wealth. When he takes to his remote village after the wedding, deep in the mountains, she finds a darker place than she expected.

The villagers view her with suspicion. She’s drawn to lingering belongings of her husband’s late wives. All the while, her husband seems uninterested in her. As she adapts to this new life, she uncovers the village’s greatest secret: magic still exists there, even after it was drained from the rest of the world, and it’s magic Rhian can use.

But the magic makes demands of her. It exhausts her, sapping her of energy as she’s forced to use her body and new powers to help the entrenched community. The ghosts of her husband’s late wives follow her through the home she replaced them in, claiming her attention and forcing her to uncover the secrets they left behind. All the while, she wedges her way into her husband’s life, discovering dark truths behind his wealth, her growing feelings for him, and the deaths that follow him like a curse.

For fans of:
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (Dark Retellings)
The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling (Haunted Houses)
A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross (Remote, Magical Settings)
Crimson Peak, dir. Guillermo Del Toro (Maidens with Candelabras)

Playlist

“Girls Against God” by Florence + the Machine
“Before I Ever Met You” by BANKS
“Killer” by Phoebe Bridgers
“The Tradition” by Halsey
“In the Woods Somewhere” by Hozier
“If My Heart Was A House” by JADE

Stella B James @stellabjames.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#questpit #Q #YA #F 99K YA Crossover blending the voice of Six of Crows with the dynamic romantic tension of The Mummy ✨grounded fantasy ⏱️time travel as a unique magic system ❤️‍🔥 slow burn romance 📚dark academia vibes 🗡️high stakes

Moodboard with pictures of a girl reading, a couple in front of a clock, an investigation board, hung Polaroids, a young man with dark hair and dark clothes, a confident looking young woman with blonde hair, a couple sneaking a kiss, a couple reading together

Kate Khavari @authorkkhavari.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DIVINE RIVALS X PEAKY BLINDERS Acadia wants to bring her brother back from the dead. In alternate ‘20's Boston, she searches for a relic to help him in libraries and night clubs, dodging the feds & witchy gangs who would use her powers before she could save her brother. #questpit #Q #A #F #HF #RF

Hi, I’m Caitie @findmeinfairytales.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sapphic Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac Sometimes trying to save someone you love results in their death sentence instead. SWAN SONG has: 🔥Slow-burn romance ☕️ Tea leaf reading magic 💌 Letters exploring grief 🕰️Time is the enemy 🦢A monstrous swan curse 🥀 Dark fairytale #questpit #Q #YA #F

Debby ✨ A MOST DECADENT CURSE (Jan. ‘27)✨ 🌊👻🖤@aventurinedebby.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BELLADONNA x THE RAVEN 🥀🐦‍⬛ When Raven Chambers is whisked away to her grandmother’s haunted castle for her sudden “madness”—or ghostly visions—she becomes embroiled in a mystery involving her family’s poisonous past & the necromantic god they worship #questpit #ag #df #ya

Amanda L. Doyle @aldoylewrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Questpit #Querying The Witch and the Thief has a cozy cottage setting with a gothic twist, a found family dynamic, and a deep emotional heart 🖤

Witchy, cozy gothic fantasy, found family, deadly blight, lovable creatures, studio Ghibli vibes