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Querying Writing Learing Magic

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Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 4mo 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 · 4mo 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

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 4mo 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

Ron V 🏳️‍🌈@rvillanova312.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#QuestPit repost for the night owls

Ron V 🏳️‍🌈@rvillanova312.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Evening #QuestPit! Do you like Sapphic horror stories about a cave monster? My short story, The Deeper We Go, is for you! For fans of The Descent and Lovecraftian horror It features -Gnarly cave monster -Questionable protagonist -Sapphic romance -A dark ending #H #QuestPit #Writing

Haley Bernadette @booksbybernadette.bsky.social · 4mo ago

saying goodnight on my first questpit! thank you so much to all who showed support 🙏🏻 #questpit #Q #A #F #PR #agentguide

Haley Bernadette@booksbybernadette.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🥀 LURKING IN THE DARKNESS 🥀 Rain’s world shatters when a kidnapping reveals her hidden legacy as a witch/vampire hunter. Thrust into a supernatural war, Rain must choose between her love, her family, and her destiny to stop her life from plunging into darkness. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #PR

Lurking in the Darkness, a 118k-word Multi POV in third person. New adult fantasy romance.

jamieemurphywrites.bsky.social @jamieemurphywrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A Shadow Gifted A trauma forged woman binds herself by blood to a powerful Fae male, whose secret ambitions throw her into lethal succession trials where the greatest threat may be herself #Questpit #Q #A #F #R #DR

Text reads: An Agent's Guide to A Shadow Gifted by Jamiee R Murphy, 99K words, Adult fantasy/romantasy. Background is a forest with a scroll holding the book title.

Pitch of the book: a trauma forged woman binds herself by blood to a powerful fae male, whose ambitions throw her into lethal trials where the greatest threat may be her mind. To win a throne, Arryn needs a mortal champion. To survive her past, Meira must endure a cutthroat succession competition and a bond she can't break. If Meira wants to end this, she must choose: keep running from those haunting voices of her past or vanquish those fears to save the life of the first person who saw her potential. The title A Shadow Gifted is placed over the image of a sword, with the rest of the text in a scroll image. There is a golden border around and at the back is an image of a forest.

The image depicts the four comp titles for this book. Images of each book include the Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon with an arrow pointing to the words high stakes and deadly connection. The next is the serpent and the wings of night by carissa Broadbent with an arrow from it pointing to dark romance and political intrigue text. Below those, is the Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L Jesen with an arrow pointing to text that says female spy and internal war. The final book at the bottom is Court of Blood and Bindings by Lisette Marshall with the text being pointed from it that says forced bond and moody atmosphere. The background is a faded forest picture.

The image is a collage of images. The top row shows a crown and dagger laying on the ground, a blue darkened forest with trees, a black and white hazy picture of trees with a hooded figure standing in the middle. The next row shows a woman raising a sword in the air, the next is a woman in a forest with a green cloak with a hood that hides her face, the final image for that row is a forest with a stone wall in front of it and an arched doorway in the middle leading to the forest. The row on the bottom of the page displays a book laid open with a filled vial and a pressed flower on top, the next image is a a set of hands holding the hilt of a sword next to an orange flash of light, the next is a castle on a mountain with a sunset behind it, and the final image is a woman in a gown with her hands/arms around the neck/shoulders of a male with their faces about to kiss. There are texts placed throughout the document that say the following: deadly trials, shadow spy, trauma fored, emotional character arcs, dark romance, found family, bound by blood. The middle to left side of the page has a scroll with the title A Shadow Gifted on top of it. There are vines of greenery dispersed throughout the page and gold corner accents in the top left and bottom right corners

Ayishah Hasni is ✨AGENTED✨@ayishahhasni.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What if the rich Islamic folklore of Tahereh Mafi's THIS WOVEN KINGDOM met the comedic, swashbuckling adventure of OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH? #questpit #Q #YA #HF 🌙muslim pirates 🔥enemies to lovers 🐲mystical beasts ⚔️pirate x princess 🌊17th-century indian ocean ✨interest from 2 big 5 editors

An Agent's Guide to ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES by Ayishah Hasni.

Pitch: In a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of SINBAD THE SAILOR, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a journey across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiancé from a mysteriously moving island.

Comp titles: THIS WOVEN KINGDOM, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, and SPICE ROAD.

First line: Though Kiraal had grown used to the wonders and perils of the Indian Ocean, he couldn't say he'd ever been chased by an island before.

Rae Harding @raehardingbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#QuestPit WILD REVERENCE X THE VAMPIRE LESTAT After a horrific car accident derails Price’s music career, an encounter with the Goddess of Sleep makes all his dreams come true. Little does he know his ascension into rock god status will pit him against Death himself. #Q #A #H #F

Moon with horoscope overlay in a purple and blue space background. The title LOWLIGHT is in the center of the moon with the subtitle “When the woman of your dreams becomes your worst nightmare” underneath followed by the pitch in the post. Below the pitch is “Adult horror fantasy,” “93,000,” and “Inspired by Sleep Token lore and the Orpheus myth.” Pictures of comparable titles follow and include the mythic redemption arc of Carissa Broadbent’s THE SONGBIRD & THE HEART OF STONE, immortal rockstar vibes of Anne Rice’s THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, and the goddess/mortal romance of Rebecca Ross’s WILD REVERENCE. To the left of these is the title, “What You’ll Find” and lists gothic and surreal atmosphere, plots twists, and dense mythos. A second title, “Themes On” follows and lists Self-love vs. Self-Sacrifice, power dynamics in relationships, and religion and deconstruction. To the far right of the slide is a QR code titled “Let’s Get Social.”

sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 4mo ago

PRIDE & PREJUDICE x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x GRACELING In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her Curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. #QuestPit #Q #YA #HF #RF #F #historical #fantasy #romance

Image of the back of a woman's head beside the end of a large wing's black feathers. Text reads YA Regency Romantasy 100k.

A woman's back with large black wings attached. Text reads "The Pitch. In an alternate Regency era where magical abilities are called Gifts, ladies and gentlemen with improper Gifts are shunned from high society. Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow’s wings beneath her dresses for years, but must risk exposing them to save her ill father. Lord Simon is about to be disowned for his delicate, flowery Gift. The only solution for them both lies in stealing the Duchess’s diamond necklace. But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, they must survive high society, evade the villain who cursed them, and find a cure — or Simon will dissolve into petals and Lucy will transform into a crow."

A woman's back with a large black wing attached. Text reads "Pluck. Cursed to become a crow."

Susie Lindau @susielindau.bsky.social · 4mo ago

WE USED TO LIVE HERE x MISERY When a sentient house attacks a naive author and his stalker orchestrates an invasion, his badass sister and her disobedient dog race against an impending storm to save him, but they must face both monsters to survive the night. #QuestPit #H #LGBTQ #agentsguide #Q #A

An agent and editor's guide for The Deadline, an 82,000-word Psychological horror Images from Pexels

The Pitch
An adventure-adverse novelist with a deadline and a peculiar type of imposter syndrome hikes to his isolated mountain estate.
When he suffers the sentient house's attack and an invasion orchestrated by his pissed-off stalker, his underestimated sister doesn't hear from him. So, she and her disobedient dog race against time and an impending snowstorm to save him.
But they must face both monsters to survive the night.

COMPS Psychological Horror - We Used to Live Here, The Revenant - survival, Gothic LGBTQ - The Writing Retreat, None of this is True - Stalker obsession

BIG 5 Interest
Dual POV
LGBTQ
Family Secrets
Siblings
Coming-Of-Age
Book Club
Elevated Horror
Pro-Edited
David Lynch Vibes

Haley Bernadette @booksbybernadette.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🦌THE CHRONICLES OF RUK OF THE EASTERN WOOD🌳 Follow my journey as I complete my environmental fiction/magical realism novella focusing on a family of deer as they struggle to survive in a world being taken over by humans. 🥀 Dark fairytale vibes #QuestPit #W #S #LF

Digital art cover of a dear in various life cycles in a forest, with text describing it as a WIP environmental fiction/magical realism novella in third person

Picture of a buck standing in a field with comparable titles including Bambi, Watership Down, and One Hundred Years of Solitude

The pitch and opener describing the story as it follows multiple generations of deer as they battle suburbia, with a quote from the main character Ruk’s father when he was born.

Hanna Patrick is Querying @hannapatrick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you like: 🔮Elemental magic 🔥Slow burn romance ❤️‍🔥Strangers➡️lovers➡️enemies ⚔️Fierce female protagonists 💖LGBTQIA rep on the page 🤪All the banter Then this one’s for you! COVENANT OF THE DAMNED is a 119k rom. fantasy querying now #Q #RF #A #F #QuestPit

The title “covenant of the damned” is laid over a painting of a man being knighted by a queen. The text indicates that it is a dual point of view 119k word holy grail romantic fantasy book

Painting of a hand holding a sword in the background. The text indicates that this book is perfect for fans of [Lady] Knights of the Round Table retellings and every Gilmore Girls stan who was rooting for Rory to end up with Jess Mariano. The image also includes the following text pitch: When the Lord she’s sworn to protect is poisoned, a headstrong guard reluctantly allies with a loathsome king to find the Holy Grail before the Lord dies or the relic falls into the hands of evil sorcerers.

Photos of different comps are on this slide. This book comps Bridgerton season 2 and the Princess Bride movie for slow burn romance. It compares the elemental magic system to the one in Stacey McEwan’s “A forbidden alchemy” and draws a comparison to Rachel Gillig’s “The Knight and the Moth” for Lady Knight elements. It also compares National Treasure and “The Will of the Many” as comps for epic quests

moodboard depicting the vibes of the book including: a coastal landscape, medieval architecture, swords, a couple dancing in a ballroom, a blonde woman, green silk, stained glass windows, a coronation, and knight armor

Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️@deannajvaldez.com · 4mo ago

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕 ❤️‍🔥reluctant lovers on an epic quest 🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight 🦇 creatures from Philippine 🇵🇭 folklore 🍃enchanted sentient forests 🏴‍☠️ shenanigans in a pirate city 🎭sneaking into masquerades 🌶️ a dash of spice 👑overthrowing tyrants #QuestPit #Q #F #R #A

Shaw Westfall @shawwestfall.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A Discovery of Witches but make them mermaid🧜‍♂️ • 🌊TEARS OF THE TIDE🌊 95k | Adult Romantic Fantasy • A woman haunted by the ocean is pulled into a forbidden undersea world, where uncovering her true identity ignites a war between worlds. #Questpit #A #RF #F #Q

Brianna Renee @briannarenee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Welcome to Noctoris 🖤🗡️🩸 Callaia, a simple fae of her realm, Aerithos, finds she can cross into forbidden realms after escaping the kings dungeon. She has to race to save the collapse of all realms. The only one who can help... the Prince of Noctoris. #QuestPit #RF #F #A #Q

Jolene Corona @brandyj1121.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last #questpit of the day, then I’m going to go check out all the amazing posts!! ✨ BRAEMORRA 🌑 🌫️ Hidden Girl 👑 Loyal Prince 🔮 Fate-Bound Souls 🌌 Journey to the Underworld ⚔️ Magic & War ❤️‍🔥 He Would Follow Her Anywhere

John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Kids on bikes. 1988 Setting. A crashed UFO. Mysterious millionaire. Duplicate neighborhood. Creepy mansion with a hedge maze. Both dangerous & bumbling henchmen. First crushes. Drizzt allusions aplenty. Ever seen the Bob’s Burgers ep Stand by Gene? Same idea. #MG #SF #questpit #Q

Clockwise top left: the Goonies, the Loser Club from IT, the Hellfire Club and the kids from Bob’s Burgers.

nanci gilliver @nancigilliver.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x BABEL A translation assistant with a crippling fear of illness is thrust into the scheming royal court of the enemy when he is ordered to spy on the queen's translator. ⚔️ lethal all-female knights. ☠️ conniving courtiers. 🔥 a cat and mouse game of wits. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Image 1: old writing, Image 2: fire, Image 3: snowy mountain, Image 4: icy grave, Image 5: gold dust, Image 6: green and brown ornate door, Image 7: teapot and cup, Image 8: medieval sword, Image 9: vintage chest of draws and green wallpaper with birds and flowers.

Paige Till @paigetillmixons.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Magicians X The Boys: Gen V X A Deadly Education Mixons: The Emerald Awakening ❇️Complex Superheroes ❇️Sarcastic MMC ❇️Based off a D&D game ❇️Magic College ❇️Powers effected by Emotion ❇️Found Family ❇️Slow Burn Romance ❇️Unpredictable, Unhinged Villain #questpit #ya #f #q #w

Jes Malitoris @jeswrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ALL THE FOREST EATS: Allie is not sure if she believes that the forest is a vicious, carnivorous beast, but if she’s going to escape the grasp of her abusive father, she’ll have to learn how to survive it. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #Queer #Sapphic

Against a backdrop of dark, twisting trees is the book title "All the Forest Eats," along with the hashtag #QuestPit and qualifiers listed in the event rules for querying, adult, and dark fantasy.

Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN KING Forbidden romance 😈 A cursed village😈 A revenge plot lifetimes in the making 😈 Novella length fantasy, mystery, and forbidden romance 😈 #QuestPit #Q #A #RF #H

Four pictures of a small town, a young woman covered in flowers, a tattooed handsome man, and a colourful temple. The middle says "Bride of the Mountain King"

Sharon Wofford @sharonwoffordwrite.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Meet BLOODRUNE: BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x THE STARVING SAINTS Runecrafting graduate student Alayne has discovered how to harness elemental energy into a weapon. When her school condemns it, she must flee to protect her research— but it threatens to consume her body and mind. #QuestPit #W #A #F

A collage shows runestones, a bloody eye, a fallen knight, a book, and a steampunk pistol

A collage shows Prometheus, a black hole, flames, and the quote “Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring”

Libby💕@libertynichole.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Avatar the Last Airbender x The Bridge Kingdom × Legendborn ✨The Bloomchild✨ #W #A #RF #F #questpit

Jane @jane-fenriz.bsky.social · 4mo 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

Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 4mo ago

MERLIN x 🇮🇩myths Deaf-mute chosen one finds the world she’s destined to protect falling to soul-eating demons. They outmatch her, especially *their* chosen one. She & her vigilante knights must defeat them. That’s if she could resist the soul of her evil counterpart #questpit #YA

Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sorrow is supposed to die quietly in a tower, a sacrifice to a vengeful God. Instead, she escapes with dark magic in her veins, a wolf at her side and a king who'll destroy the world to fix the heart he broke. #Questpit #fantasy #Adult #Published

Movie poster style image of a woman in floaty grey dress stood on black cliffs. The Text reads heart of the wolf queen; Love could be her greatest weakness or her deadliest weapon.

Ayishah Hasni is ✨AGENTED✨@ayishahhasni.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✅Find a magical, moving island ✅Give a princess private lessons in piracy ✅Rescue her fiance ✅Avoid being eaten by monsters on the Indian Ocean ❌Fall in love ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES is a retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor if it were YA & enemies to lovers #questpit #Q

Kiraal character aesthetic with whales, pirate flags, pirate ships, treasure chests, telescopes, and maps.

Princess Jiya aesthetic with an island, mermaids, ships, an Indian palace, horses, and peacocks.

Sarah Halter is querying @schalter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The book 📖. The comps📚. The vibes✨. BLOOD LIKE ICHOR is an adult fantasy romance about a woman at the center of clashing courts who must embrace her dark power to save her lover #QuestPit #Q #A #F #SFF #AmQuerying

grid format that includes picture of woman holding dried flowers, people trying to hold hands, a creepy forest, an ancient sword, a person with angel wings, and a castle ruin above the ocean

@emilywrites92.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨Hello #questpit 🌙 Weaver of the Nameless, an epic romantasy focusing on deep lore, unique world building, and lyrical prose. A veiled oracle and defecting cultist must trust each other to escape planed for them by an evil with in her temple. The Dark Crystal x The Knight & Moth #W #F #A #RF

Pale hands marked with a star and moon stand against a cosmic pastel aurora borealis.

Sickle blades, a man kissing a womans hand, a temple corridor with gothic windows lit with pale light. Women dancing beneath a pale moon and a pale woman wreathed in green leaves

Tankards of ale clashing in toast, homes within the tree tops, the maw of a dark wolf. A woman bemused in a lush green forest floor, a man being taken by guards

A man touching a woman’s shoulder gently, swords and banners scattered after a battle, pale hands tangled in threads. A tree with with moon shining between naked branches, a young woman reading a small book, a hand holding a floating dark crystal.

V.V. Angelova @libraryorv.bsky.social · 4mo 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🐓

Charlotte Emery @lola-writes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨ Happy #questpit ✨ The Sails is an adult pirate romantasy. With themes of fortitude, romance, and revenge, immersed in a gothic atmosphere. Pirates of the Caribbean X One Dark Window #querying #fantasy #slowburn #pirates #witches #yearning #adultfantasy

Aragent guide to
THE SAILS
AN ADULT PIRATE ROMANTASY
112K

AFTER A RECKLESS ACT LEAVES
VELA A CAPTIVE ON A
SUPERNATURAL PIRATE SHIP
DISGUISED AS A MAN, SHE FINDS HERSELF TASKED WITH AN ELUSIVE JOB FOR ITS MERCILESS CAPTAIN. NOW SHE MUST NAVIGATE A NEW WORLD OF HIDDEN MAGIC PRACTICED AT SEA. BUT HER IDENTITY CAN ONLY STAY CONCEALED FOR SO LONG, AND ONCE THE TRUTH COMES OUT, OTHER SECRETS ARE BOUND TO FOLLOW.

Snippet
He turned to the witch-who, in some instances, had become like a friend to the captain, in only a way that a man without humanity and a centuries-old witch could be. An unspoken agreement hung between them. "Why did you agree to teach me? I have heard that no one leaves your cottage alive." The captain said.
"The blood shows all. Men want power, they want riches, they want to be adored and envied.
Their blood is sour, thin, and undeserving. Yours was thick and hearty but mostly full of sorrow.
It held the story of a man greatly wronged.
Revenge is a form of fate. Destiny and vengeance go hand in hand if the universe deems it a worthy enough cause. And destiny, it seems, is not finished with you quite yet."

Themes & Tropes
•HIDDEN IDENTIFY
•SISTERHOOD
•PIRATES X WITCHES
•SLOW BURN
•GODS X LORE
•THE SEA IS MAGIC
•ANXIETY REP
•LGBTO REP
•PORTALS
•QUIRKY CROW FAMILIAR
•ETERNAL CURSES
•YEARNING
•MORALLY GREY MMC
•FOUND FAMILY