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@aveadb.bsky.social

YA Author. Currently working on my pirate novel 🏴‍☠️

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Becky @aveadb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Treasure Planet X Daughter of the Pirate King Marin had always struggled to find a job due to his injury. Then he’s offered one as a cartographer on a exploration vessel so he can search for his friends that disappeared. However pirates attack and they’re after the special maps #NA #f #posterpit

Becky @aveadb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m looking for beta readers for my new adult pirate fantasy! Link is below if anyone is interested docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #writing #indieauthor #booktok #writertok #betareaders

Becky @aveadb.bsky.social · last yr.

GIRL AGANIST THE UNIVESRE X MORE THAN MAYBE Heartbeats on Air! Derek wants to go to Cambridge but he needs top grades. For him to get his music grade up, he has to do a radio show with the aloof Penny Jones #R #Q #YA #questpit 🧠mental health rep 💛 First Love 📻 A radio show

Lola is 👻AGENTED!!👻@lolagracebooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Meet Sibyl. At the tender age of 24, all her dreams have come true, but she finds herself doubting whether she’s really cut out for all of it. Just as she feels herself slipping, the strangest helper comes along. All it asks in return? A few hours where she is not herself. #questpit #w #a #s #h

a painting showing a woman in a room looking at a shadow on the wall, which appears to be a larger shadow of herself with a wolf head instead of a human head.

Kimberly Turner is ✨querying✨@knturner-author.bsky.social · last yr.

THE GAMES THE GODS PLAY x NETTLE AND BONE Sam would do anything to save her dad. Even sell her soul. 🧙 adult fantasy 🪽 Greek reimagining 🥾 hero's quest 😈 devil's bargain 🩷 demigod-mortal romance 💀 petulant gods 👨‍👧 heartbreak and healing #questpit #q #a #f

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · last yr.

BOOK OF NIGHT X THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR PI August Lloyd can timeshift back to an earlier version of himself, but only as far as the last time he used this ability. In LA with weres, selkies, and more, he feels ordinary. So why has he been targeted for murder? #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT #MY

A Canva moodboard featuring images of an hourglass with green sand inside, a warm acorn growing from green leaves, a blue ocean coming up against a rocky brown coast, a dark figure wearing a homburg hat and looking out to the ocean at night, a notebook with the words “learn from the past” in it, the headlights of a car at night, the outline of a wolf howling against the full moon, a city bench with the words “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” written above it, and a light up sign reading “Los Angeles” against a blue sky. All the images are set against a green sunlit forest background. The words “August OUT OF Time” are written over the front.

Serena Vu | Querying Author @serenavu.bsky.social · last yr.

Untitled Project WIP Anastacia X Mexican Gothic A gothic romantic fantasy inspired by the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam #questpit #w #A #Sff

Dark, lush green foliage background with the text: “Untitled Work in Progress Project: In Song and Blood by Serena Vu.”

A dark green background with the title Tropes and Themes. In the centre is an image of a woman wearing a bright orange traditional dress of Nguyễn dynasty Vietnam, holding a paper fan. In the blurred background is another woman wearing a yellow version of the dress. Surrounding the image are the words: girl pretending to be the princess, she does it all for vengeance, arranged marriage, ghosts that LITERALLY come back to haunt you, Viet shamanism, court intrigue, Asian fantasy gothic romance, FMC who lives with aphonia, lush dynastic Vietnamese culture.

A dark background with the title Moodboard, showing nine images: Top row: a lush archway in the rain, a man in dark blue robes with his face hidden by a screen, a hand on a table with a brush, ink stone, and bowl. Middle row: a man in traditional Vietnamese black robes standing on a bridge, a girl in traditional blue Vietnamese dress and headwear, a woman stepping out of dark wooden doors wearing green robes. Bottom row: a person in red robes holding a plate of traditional Vietnamese food beside more dishes and a tea set, a woman seated at a wood table and sofa in pale grey robes, and a stone staircase.

A dark green background with the title The Pitch, then the words: “A courtesan assumes the identity of a dead princess and, with a wayward prince at her side, seeks renounce on those who stole her voice, murdered her mother, and usurped a kingdom.” Below are the covers for Mexican Gothic, The Hurricane Wars, and the film Anastasia (1997).

Cat Purcell (she/her)@thatcatpurcell.bsky.social · last yr.

The MAGICIANS x THE RAVEN BOYS. #questpit #W #A #F The Lady of the Lake and Merlin bump into each other in the modern age. Not just meet cute but a meet-should-we-resurrect-King-Arthur? Tropes: Queer Love Found Family Destiny and Fate Small Magic, Big Impact Slow Burn Dark Academia

Picture collage includes three people nuzzling, three friends running and jumping through the air, a moss grown stone path in the forest, a woman with a lantern and white dress, and an English Manor House.

Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · last yr.

QUEER NANCY DREW 17-yr-old Emmie is suspect #1 of a murder during her mother’s book signing. She needs to get her life back & not get killed in the process. 💖Sapphic crush 🎃Halloween vibes 📚Cozy indie bookstore ✍️Author mom 🌈Pansexual FMC #questpit #Q #YA #MY #LGBT

Rissa Allen (is querying)@honeyscribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

CATCH YOU IN THE TREES is a YA thriller set in the Pacific NorthWest where, in order to clear her name, a high school senior must team up with her XC co-captain and nemesis, the boyfriend of a missing girl—and the last person to see her alive. #questpit #Q #YA #T #agentguide

An agent’s guide to Catch You In the Trees
YA thriller romance
Approximately 92k words

Comp Titles:
Nothing More to Tell, Karen McManus
AGGGTM, Holly Jackson
They’ll Never Catch Us, Jessica Goodman

Unconventional Comps
The Marauders Era
PLL (2010)
Cruel Summer (2021)
Tropes/Vibes
Rivals to lovers
Running culture
Private school
Chaotic academia
Dual timeline
Dual pov
Ride or die friendships
A good old murder board

It’s always the boyfriend, right? Mowich Bay can take one vanishing teen, but not two. Lennie Torres’s senior year captaining the XC team turns deadly when her ex-bff goes missing and she ends up a suspect. Her only way out? Team up with nemesis golden boy Lysander Hayes, the boyfriend of the missing girl—and the last person to see her alive. But Lysander’s not the only one keeping secrets, and if both Lennie and Lysander want to make it through XC season? They’re going to have to figure out how to trust each other or somebody’s going to end up dead.

Snippet
Hayes takes my hand, wrapping his fingers firmly around mine. “Deal.” His eyes glint an odd silver in the chrome and linoleum hallway and I think of people making deals with devils at cross roads. I wonder if they get the same storm of nerves I have swirling in my blood right now.
I don’t trust Hayes.
But I need him.
“Deal.”

Sarah | is on draft 2 @seasarbear.bsky.social · last yr.

I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN X ARCHER’S VOICE A story about grief and the different ways people survive their losses. Ivy has gone silent, a person barely there, and Bear has built himself into the brightest version of himself. #questpit #W #YA #LF

What Gets Left Behind

Ivy has spent the past four years in silence, swallowed in the grief of her mother’s death and the absence of her father. She’s accepted that she might just be doomed to this life until she meets Griff, the elderly man at the cemetery, who insists she go out in the world, firstly by meeting the guide at the local museum, Bear. He’s everything that Ivy isn’t: radiant, outgoing, and, of course, he talks.

Excepts

“The first few months it had been freeing to be invisible--to not have to be anyone at all, to exist in between. No one had expected anything of her which was a novelty to a girl who was smart and independent, to suddenly be weightless. Of course, it was freeing only until she was so weightless that there was nothing solid of her left for anyone to see.”

“The first time Bear could remember someone smiling because of him was something burned onto his heart, a scab that never properly healed over. He had realized that it was perhaps the most glorious feeling to see someone smiling because of him. It had felt like a power he didn’t want to waste or misuse.”

Sophie (is agented + on sub!) 💫@purely-sophia.bsky.social · last yr.

#questpit #ya #ag #editorsguide MIND OF FLYING BIRD Mylo is a gifted runner, but after his brother’s sudden death, he goes down a turbulent path. To salvage his future, he enrolls in a Vermont therapy program—only he lies to everyone about why he’s there, including his therapist.

Lola is 👻AGENTED!!👻@lolagracebooks.bsky.social · last yr.

An agent’s guide to Wraith, a dark academia speculative horror novel about fear, desperation, change, and hope. When Sibyl finds herself cracking under the pressure of the program she worked so hard to get into, she’s willing to take help regardless of what it may cost her. #questpit #w #a #s #h

cover slide with the title “Wraith: An Agent’s Guide” in the center and the words “Everything is fine” to the left of the title and “You love it here” to the right of the title. The top of the page reads “75K word paranormal horror”

On the left side is a pitch which reads “Sibyl got everything she ever wanted when she was accepted into an elite graduate program at one of the world’s top universities, but once there finds herself desperately struggling to keep up with both academic and social responsibilities.
An infuriatingly persistent shadow in the corner of her apartment threatens to send her spiraling, until it offers salvation.
If she lets it in for just a little while, it takes care of all of her work for her and asks for nothing but a few hours in control in return. What’s the worst that could happen?” On the right side is a Query blurb which reads “At the tender age of 24, all of Sibyl’s dreams have come true. After spending countless hours revising, volunteering, writing, and interviewing, she’s made it into her top choice graduate program. Her only choice graduate program.
She likes it there. She does, really. She’s not just saying that because she worked tirelessly to get there and that would all be pointless if she didn’t like it. It’s hard, but that’s fine. She knew there would be growing pains, but there just seem to be more and more and more of them.
Just as she starts to feel herself cracking, help comes from the most unexpected place of all; a mysterious shadow in the corner of her apartment that seemed to appear out of nowhere. It does all her work for her. All it takes in return? A few hours where she is not herself. Far fewer hours than she would have spent doing the work. She doesn’t know what happens while she’s gone, but it’s a small price to pay nonetheless. “

For fans of Bunny by Mona Awad, A House with Good Bones by T Kingfisher, The Lamb by Lucy Rose. Themes of Dealing with anxiety & depression
Processing grief
Paranoia
Toxic competition
Platonic soulmates
Family relationships
Dark academia
Key elements of Imposing gothic setting
Unique paranormal encounters
Unreliable narrator
Surrealist bending of reality
Strong imagery

Excerpt reading “You one of the grad students?" The driver's voice wraps around me and cloaks me in warmth.
"Yeah, how did you know?" I'm surprised she’s gotten it. I'm much younger than most of the other people in my program, most people mistake me for an undergrad. Sometimes I wonder if there’s a reason no one else is my age.
"A little early in the semester to already be spending all night at the library otherwise." She looks at me in the mirror and smiles softly, the corners of her eyes and bridge of her nose crinkling ever so slightly. It reminds me of my mother, and for a brief moment I am a child again, looking at the rear view mirror in the back seat, and she looks back at the road and it's gone and the air is sucked out of my lungs.
Immediately, I want it back so badly that a great yawning chasm of despair opens in my chest. I am simultaneously collapsing in on myself and bursting at the seams. The crack in my chest grows and grows, splitting first my ribcage and then my spine right down the center before they crash back together, the force fusing them into little mountains of bone.
"I procrastinated pretty bad. Learned my lesson." The words burn my throat. I pray with everything I am that she’ll look up again, let me be a child for one more fleeting moment. But the moment is gone.
"I hear that." She doesn't look up again. She keeps her eyes on the road. Did she ever look up in the first place, or did I imagine it? I spent too long in the basement in the library, too long working without a break today. My brain is fried. I haven't called my mom in three days, I'm just feeling guilty and it's manifesting in weird ways. This is normal. This is just a growing pain. Everything is fine.

Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨@handle.invalid · last yr.

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

A moodboard showing the pirate (Amir), the princess (Mira), and John.

Amir silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a sword slung over her shoulder and a group of joyful sailors on a pirate ship. She has this quote:

Continue to love
Continue to forgive
Continue to grow

Mira is shown in the reflection of an ornate mirror. She is wearing long white gloves and a pink ballgown with her hair in a natural updo and the lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted over her photo. There is another photo of two girls kissing in the surf at sunset. Mira has this quote:

We looked at each other a little too long to be “just friends”

John is shown with his bare back to the viewer, facing the sea with the trans pride flag subtly depicted over his photo. He also has a close up of iridescent mermaid scales and this quote:

Go bravely, go deeply, or do not go

Holly E. O’Neill @heoneill.bsky.social · last yr.

And here is my Formula 1 novel, Formation Lap’s Agent Guide 💛 #questpit #q #a

An agent’s guide to Formation Lap. By Holly E. O’Neill [race track with two formula 1 cars on it]

Stats: word count 99k, genre and age adult contemporary, comps, Carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid, cross the line by simone soltani and F1. [a race track]

Blurb:
Natasha James signs with successful Formula 1 team Valvedere Scope Fl for her rookie year. She is both young and inexperienced but eager to become the next world champion. Her teammate, two time world champion Mateo Ramos, is still fighting for wins despite being at the end of his career. He is the put together, mature racer she is trying to become, but her performance pales in comparison to his. Then there's the other rookie, Joel Alanko, an old rival who infuriates Natasha. The pressure on her becomes too much and her mistakes start to pile up. Her old life is rapidly fading and it threatens to take with it her dreams of being world champion. Joel seems to revel in her failures and provoke her further. If she can't push their turbulent relationship aside, and prove to the world that she deserves to be in Formula 1, she will lose her chance forever. [two f1 cars]

Quote
I thought Formula 1 drivers were supposed to be egomaniacs,' Martin
says, dripping with sarcasm.
My laugh punctures the silence. 'Only some of us.
'Present company included,’ Henry adds, nudging me with his elbow.

Holly E. O’Neill @heoneill.bsky.social · last yr.

Natasha James joins the F1 grid, along with an old rival - Joel Alanko. Her teammate, Mateo Ramos, is a multi-time world champion. Both are her enemy on the track, one is who she hopes to be, and the other…is a little more complicated #questpit #q #a #f1

Formation Lap: Joel Alanko. [a man wearing race overalls]

Formation Lap: Mateo Ramos. [A man wearing race overalls]

Becky @aveadb.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's my #agentsguide to my YA romance Heartbeats On Air! #q #YA #R #questpit

An Agent's guide to Heartbeats on Air with headphones and a playlist button

An image of two characters at a radio show with a pitch for heartbeats on air

Comp titles: Girl Against The Universe and More Than Maybe

Will Elm @willelm.bsky.social · last yr.

ARCANE X THE BLADE ITSELF Three people ripped apart by fate. Each step they take drives them further apart and plunges the world into chaos. Can they find each other before they perish or will evil forces use them to break the world forever? 🗡️🩸🌲 SHADOW OF THE ELDERS #QuestPit #P #A #F #DF

Community Troy pizza meme. Tory holding pizza reads "Savique trying to find his family" Bottom fires read "blood feud", "endless drought", "ancient puzzles", and "cultists"

Invincible that's the neat part you don't meme. Mark Grayson as Vaten asks When do I get to go home again. Nolan Grayson as Zejela says, that's the neat part, you don't.

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · last yr.

Slow Horses x Dark Matter When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #A #S #T #QuestPit #Q

Holly E. O’Neill @heoneill.bsky.social · last yr.

CARRIE SOTO IS BACK x F1 #questpit #Q #A

Formation Lap. Failure and rivals on track…champagne and tears off track. [two hands holding glasses of cocktails over a track with two formula one cars on it.]

Becky @aveadb.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm going to do #questpit tomorrow let me know if anyone wants to swap support!