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Beth Michaela...querying writer.

@bmfwriter.bsky.social

Literature loving, fantasy obsessed, nerdy novelist from the Ocean State. #amquerying

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Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 2w ago

BLOODCLIFF MANOR When a young preservationist & lifelong admirer of Bloodcliff Manor is invited by its reclusive owner to spend a month alone in the Gilded Age estate, she discovers the more she confides in the house, the more it opens itself to her. #Questpit #PR #R #A #Q

Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝@danielleippaso.bsky.social · 2w ago

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying

Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 2w ago

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings

K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 4w ago

When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. Art by @kidovna.bsky.social #ProfilePit #Q #A #R #F

Art shows a tall and lanky White person. He has straight black hair and an unimpressed expression. He is wearing a black suit, black brocade waistcoat, and black a coat, and is holding a wine glass.

Rowan:
Sarcastic and self-destructive hedonist
Secret softie
Dark past
Fiercely loyal
A massive flirt
Not as cool as he pretends to be
Can walk through and alter people’s dreams

Art shows a short and portly South Asian man. He has chin-length wavy black hair, a short beard, and is smiling softly. He is wearing brown trousers, a white shirt, a green and orange waistcoat, and a brown Ulster coat, and is holding a book of poetry.

Darshil:
Hopeless romantic
Aspiring poet
Definitely Straight (don’t read all his poems about Rowan)
Complex relationship with his father
Maximum yearning
Chronic people pleaser
Repressed gentleman

Art shows a tall and slim Black woman. She has long curly black hair and black eyes, and is smiling warmly. She is wearing a white blouse, black trousers, and suspenders, and stands with her hands in her pockets.

Bernadette:
Optimistic
Terrible at keeping secrets
Encyclopedic knowledge of the occult
Can see ghosts
A great listener
Very lonely
Lives in a graveyard for the vibes

Art shows a plus-sized White woman. She has blonde hair tied up in a bun, and her face is half hidden by the pink feather fan she is holding. She is wearing a pink dress in a late 19th century style with large sleeves and a pattern of flowers.

Cordelia:
Snooty and mean
Regina George energy
Fashionista
Knows everyone’s secrets
The favourite child
Fiercely protective
Can rot things with her touch

bcastillo28.bsky.social @bcastillo28.bsky.social · 4w ago

Are You The One June moves to New York City to attend her dream college. Her side quest to prove that her soulmate exists gets complicated when she meets three love interests. She must decide if giving up her dream is worth proving her theory of love #ProfilePit #WIP #YA #C

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hildy's spent her life drawn to Bloodcliff Manor. She never expected the house was longing for her, too. 🖤 BLOODCLIFF MANOR Adult Paranormal Romance | 78k #ProfilePit #A #PR #Gothic #Romance #Q #weirdgirlfic

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · last mo.

#Unhingedpit, I present to you the unhinged thought process behind the creation of Bloodcliff Manor, my gothic paranormal romance. 🖤 #R paranormal #A #Q

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · last mo.

#Unhingedpit, I present to you the unhinged thought process behind the creation of Bloodcliff Manor, my gothic paranormal romance. 🖤 #R paranormal #A #Q

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Takes a deep breath :: Posts my most vulnerable Substack yet. Querying June 6. A gift to myself for my 40th. ✨️ I thought I'd be further ahead by now. But I'm not. And that's okay. #amquerying #litagents #writingcommunity #paranormalromance

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

With the start of growing season, I figured I'd reintroduce myself for the benefit of my new friends. 🩷 I'm Beth, a querying author and garden witch from RI. April's 📸 dump. Stick around. 🌱🌷🌻🪻🌺 What's your non-writing hobby? #chaosgardening #spring #amquerying

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thanks to #questpit I have so many new writing friends!! Your talent is 🤯✨️🫦🤤🥀. I'm more active on instagram and would love to connect there! Let's build our community across the void! instagram.com/bmfbookdragon?… #amquerying

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Bloodcliff Manor #Questpit post thread. 👇

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Welcome to Bloodcliff Manor. An adult paranormal romance exploring obsession, legacy & whether love can liberate what history has bound into place. 🥀 Family Curse ✨️ Sentient Mansion 🖤 Secrets ❤️‍🔥 Self-discovery 🩶 The manor IS the love interest #Questpit #A #PR #R #Q

Dani @dani-s-writes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #WF #S Agents, are you looking for a whimsy romance/WF blend with magical spring vibes? Cal takes a 6-month teaching job 400km away from her old life after almost killing a man with her telekinesis. 🥰 very special children 🥲 all the family feels 🤗 female friendship ❤️‍🔥 a cowboy

A pink toned background of a country field, with a woman photo facing away in a pink dress on the right hand side. On the left is white large text.

A movie style poster with a woman in a pink dress, and a pitch on paper on the right side.

Pink toned background with flowers and a butterfly. A photo of a blonde woman on the left facing away, with four photos of book covers, and text lists on the left.

A pink toned background of a country field, and chunks of white text explaining elements about the author. Pictures of book and movie posters in the middle, and a photo of a woman in the right bottom corner.

K.A. Hela ✨ Starting a new WIP✨@jundlife.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

'Hat' - 84K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature
moon stuff
Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. 13 Months Haunted

Marie Montague @mariemontague.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌱 When a disgraced food influencer lands a SE London allotment as a last shot at rebuilding her life, she has to share it with the grumpy French chef whose career she accidentally destroyed. 🥕 A PATCH OF TROUBLE is a dual POV #r with enemies to lovers and grumpy sunshine #questpit #q #a

wott 🌱@wottenmoss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen, perpetual troublemaker and incurable dreamer, is thrilled about it. Two clueless lesbians. A forest full of spirits and giant mushrooms. A journey of love and ascension. #agentguide #querying #QuestPit #Q #F #NA #LGBT #ND

Text: An agent’s guide to When the Magpie Flies by M H Wottenmoss. Background of mountains, trees, and giant mushrooms. A magpie flies in the sky.

Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, refuses to believe she hasn’t been chosen as a Conduit.

Wild spiritwoods cage the human cities of Iridis, and the Conduits are humanity’s only defense against the monstrous spirits that lurk within. Magpie has always dreamed of becoming one of these elite spirit-whisperers, who never want for anything, never wonder where their next meal is coming from, never have to shelter in a half-crumbled clocktower no one else wants. When Magpie is definitely, absolutely chosen by a spirit, she finally has her chance.

Calladonna, her best friend and partner-in-survival, doesn’t want Mag to be a Conduit. There are rumors about how it changes people, how they don’t come back quite right. More than human — or less. Determined to reassure her friend and keep them together, Mag convinces Calla to follow her in secret, hidden from the other Conduits as they undertake a sacred journey into the heart of the spiritwoods. But Mag’s secrets can’t stay hidden forever, and when the consequences turn deadly, she has to make a decision: abandon her dreams or risk losing Calla forever.

Comps: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: clueless lesbians, murder and betrayal, journey of ascension. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: found family, humor and darkness, perilous quest.

Also featuring undiscovered magic, monstrous spirits, chaotic academia, ill-advised rituals, haunted forest, queer & autistic ensemble cast, giant mushrooms, original music

Opening lines: The world went dark just after she jumped off the roof. In one moment she could see the clocktower before her, the ledge beneath its defunct face familiar and inviting, and in the next there was nothing. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence, necessarily, but damn if that wasn't inconvenient timing.

Rory | Author *₊˚☕୧ @rabauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy #QuestPit day! Here's my #agentsguide to THISTLE & BRIAR, a 93k adult romantasy 🦋 “Have you ever accidentally botched a spell that bound you to a fae man who hates your guts? Asking for a friend.” #Q #A #F #R #RF

An agent's guide to Thistle & Briar by R. A. Betzer. "Have you ever accidentally botched a spell that bound you to a fae man who hates your guts? Asking for a friend." 93k words. Editor interest and RevPit shortlist. Adult romantasy.

The Pitch. A dream for freedom, a spell gone wrong, one year to fix it, and the only one who can help her is a hot fae she was accidentally bound to. The problem is he can't stand her. Themes & Tropes. Slow burn. Cranky fae x wild swamp girl. He bites, she wants him to. Wild, cruel faeries. One bed and one elk. Spell gone wrong (they have to do it or she'll die in a year).

Comp Titles: The Knight & the Moth by Rachel Gillig. Aching devotion. The Princess Bride. Playful adventure romance. Swordheart by T. Kingfisher. Banter-driven slow burn. In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy. Lyircal angst.

The Blurb. Dusky Poddock would do anything to be kidnapped by faeries. Unfortunately, the faeries would do anything to send her back. Facing an arranged marriage to a widower twice her age, Dusky attempts (and botches) a spell fueled by the scraps of magic her late mother left behind. Instead of escape, she binds herself to Percy—a surly faery noble determined to expose a traitor, secure his claim as the heir, and protect his younger brother from the brutal politics of faery court. If Dusky cannot win Percy’s favor within a year, the spell will kill her. Eager to stay and eager to survive, Dusky employs herself as Percy’s faithful servant, determined to help his mission succeed. Little does she know, the spell requires her to fulfill Percy’s deepest desire at the time the magic was set in motion: creating an heir of his own. When Dusky learns the truth, she’s far less daunted than she should be at the prospect of sharing a bed with a gorgeous (if infuriatingly surly) faery. Percy, however, wants nothing less. As threats close in and Percy's carefully guarded heart begins to crack, Dusky uncovers corruption woven deep into the faery realm and learns that magic alone may not be enough to undo her mistake. With time running out and dangerous faeries offering false hope, it all comes down to Dusky, Percy, and the spell that binds their clashing hearts.

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One of my favorite parts of pitch events is realizing how many of your profile pics give off Agent vibes and I don't quite know how to put my finger on what it is about them... but y'all keep psyching me out. 😆 #quespit

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A young preservationist is invited by its eccentric owner to study a sealed Gilded Age mansion to discover an heir bound to it. As the manor begins to respond to her, she becomes the only one who can break his curse before it claims him forever. Starling House x Crimson Peak #Questpit #PR #R #A #Q

Andrea Homoya is revising as a ✨2026 #RevPit Winner!✨@andreahomoya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🍺 She makes cider 🍺 💰 He makes money 💰 💦 Things are about to get juicy💦 CIDER SEASON | An upmarket contemporary rom-com. Currently revising as a 2026 #revpit winner. Re-entering the query trenches with a sub-ready manuscript in 6 weeks. #questpit #q #a #r #u

Background: A close up of a glass of cider with foam and carbnation bubbles.

An agent's guide to CIDER SEASON
2026 RevPit Winner
A 75K word upmarket contemporary rom-com

Background: A lake in the mountains.
Pitch and Plot
Two years after a devastating breakup left her jobless, homeless, and heartbroken, Phoebe Skiles has made a name for herself crafting high-end, European-style cider at Appelle. When Elise, Phoebe's best friend and CEO, hires a consulting firm to keep Appelle from shuttering its doors for good, Phoebe finds herself living her worst-case scenario: putting her professional life in the hands of Miles Newport, a finance bro with a toddler's palate. Miles is convinced the only thing that can save Appelle is ‘pivoting’ to a ‘consumer product’ with ‘mass-market commercial appeal’.

Phoebe sets out to save Appelle and discovers that there’s a lot more to Miles than cashmere sweaters and Stylus pens. He's working overtime to bring on a high dollar client to repay his estranged father’s investment and support his best friend's working-class parents. With so much already on the line, what are Phoebe and Miles willing to risk for love?

Background: Apple blossoms
COMPS: Emily Henry's Funny Story, BK Borison's Lovelight Farms, Linda Holmes' Back After This, Sarah Chamberlain's The Slowest Burn
TROPES: Slow burn; found family; rivals-to-lovers; workplace romance; unique setting; small business; big stakes; disastrous meet-cute; witty banter; emtional depth.

Background: A bunch of people reaching forward to cheers with their glasses.
OPENING LINES: Phoebe Skiles sat back on her heels and blew a sweaty curl out of her eye. No matter what she used—elbow grease, power washers, EPA-regulated caustic—the concrete floors never gleamed like she wanted them to.
If she could ask her 17-year-old self to predict where she’d be in ten years, on her knees scrubbing yeast sludge off the floors wouldn’t have cracked the top hundred. Teenaged Phoebe would have chosen something more professional: a custom power suit, a corner office overlooking downtown Seattle, a Brazilian Blowout.
Like most teenagers, Teenage Phoebe was an idiot.
After years of striving to rise above her circumstances, she was much happier in a warehouse than she’d ever been in a cubicle. But every job has its downsides, and the weekly deep clean of the cidery floors was definitely a downside.
A drop of sweat fell from her forehead into the puddled suds between her hands.
Okay. Sometimes she missed the cubicle.

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Adult Paranormal Romance A preservationist studying a sealed manor discovers the house is alive because a man is bound within its walls. She must break his curse before the last heir dies or he becomes part of it forever. 🥀🖤✨️ #Questpit #PR #R #Q

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A writer called a group of newer agents "garbage" for sharing opinions they don't like. I was told "not to defend" these agents. I think I will, thanks. They grind & their clients love them. Name-dropping & shit-talking is wild behavior. Here's a novel idea, don't query them? #amquerying

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My #amquerying journey in a nutshell. 🐿 This is fine. Everything's fine. 🫠

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Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Agents are allowed to share their opinions, writers are allowed to have feelings. At no fucking point in time, should we be attacking each other for innocuous posts on the internet. There's enough turmoil in publishing. Let's not cannabilize eachother for fun. #amquerying

Beth Michaela...querying writer.@bmfwriter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A thread of my #Posterpit posts! #Litagents #amquerying #Q #A #NA #SPF #H #R #F (Blown away by the writing community today! 🔥)