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@chantaldanieli.bsky.social

unconventional aries, aspiring romance author, movie enthusiast, lover of all things nature, married to my best friend, mom, incepto ne desistam

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Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · last wk.

Some of my favorite lines from My Sweet Unbecoming, a forbidden gothic romance I’m querying this upcoming September. 🖤🕯️

Dannielle Raffin @dannielleraffin.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Knight’s Tale and When the Moon Hatched collide in TORCH THE STARS 💫 ⚔️A tale of hidden identity, love, and a woman chasing glory in a man’s world #QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentguide

Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜@celticxpanda.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE SWORD IN THE TREE project in development ‼️ Running away from a forced marriage, Branwen accidentally reveals herself to be the Hero King Reborn in a world that has long since moved on without one. 🏰 Arthuriana Fantasy of Manners 🔍 Court Intrigue 💋 Multiple Love Interests #QuestPit #A #WIP #RF

Project: The Sword in the Tree; romantasy/fantasy of manners in development

the heroine: branwen, hero king reborn; art by Scarchou

tropes and themes: regency/victorian inspired setting, commoner knight vs duke of the north love interests, scheming and political strife

inspiration: lord of the rings, the sword in the stone, villainess and female-led reincarnator manhwa

Taryn Christeen @tarynchristeen.bsky.social · 2w ago

FIRST LOOK at project Stupid Cupid 🪽a dark Psyche + Cupid retelling 🪽Perilous games (mafia🤝Among Us) 🪽She's hungry and he's the only available "food" source 🪽fantasy with dystopian vibes #A #F #RF #SFF #W #questpit

C.E. Kimbro- Querying @bookishcarly.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m excited to join questpit with Tower of Tangled Lies, with my dark fantasy ‘Rapunzel’ retelling with a slow burn romance and strong chronic illness representation. Blood& Ash x Gild x Tangled #questpit #q #a #f #df

🟣S.L. PrayersforPeace🙏🏼🌻@stpolishook.bsky.social · 2w ago

JEWISH BLUEBEARD + FEMINIST TWIST Promised to a witch before her birth, Talia must now spend a year with the woman to pay off her parent's debt. But with demons threatening to steal her away, The "witch" might just be Talia's best hope at keeping her head. #Questpit #W #YA #F

Mood board with dark atmospheric vibe. Demon eyes poke through behind an image of a woman & girl praying over Shabbat candles. Yiddish and hebrew run across the images.

Wattieza is Querying @onismick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dexter x MEXICAN GOTHIC x HAZELTHORN. A New England Gothic eco-horror with a riveting mystery. "They said if you were seen by the man with no eyes, there was no point in running." #questpit #W #A #S #MY #H #gothic

Beatrice Lebrun 👁️ Questpit Pinned!@beatricelebrun.bsky.social · 2w ago

ALICE IN WONDERLAND × BACKROOMS × HOUSE OF LEAVES The scariest part of Wonderland is forgetting you ever wanted to leave. 👁️ Queer psychological horror 👁️ Obsession 👁️ Distorted Reality 👁️ Liminal horror 👁️ Alice in Wonderland retelling GLOWROT IS AVAILABLE NOW! #QuestPit #P #A #H

Cover of the book Glowrot by Beatrice Lebrun. Featuring a creepy collage of a person with bunny ears, goo coming out of their eyes and mouth and hands trying to reach a falling figure

Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌@hlcauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Meet the Protagonist: Alyx Delaney. 🌊🔥 📍 St Ives, Cornwall 🔦 Urban explorer 🧗 Terrible at giving up 🫡 Even worse at following orders 🗡️ Curiosity drives her 🩸 Loyalty may destroy her TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.

The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text:

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw.
Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers
Trinity: a covert,
science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades.

A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.

Sierra Clark @sierraclark.bsky.social · 2w ago

LORD OF THE FLIES × THE DROUGHT × The Death of Vivek Oji A Lagos-set reimagining of J.G. Ballard's The Drought, combining the social collapse of Lord of the Flies with the haunting atmosphere of The Death of Vivek Oji. Title: BURN #W #LF #S #Questpit

Taryn Christeen @tarynchristeen.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS X ONE DARK WINDOW An #agentsguide for my completed 90,000 word NA/A, dark, gothic fantasy PARALYSIS #questpit #Q#A #F #DF

Taelyn Gray is querying 🦋@taelyngray.bsky.social · 2w ago

BRIDGERTON x AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER with a magical butterfly twist 🦋 magical butterfly rescue 🤭 hate to love ✨ fake courtship 🤍 #ownvoices scoliosis rep 📰 The Press make or break reputations 🫦 banter starts in CH 1 #questpit #Q#A #F

Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 2w ago

SERIAL DATING | Adult Horror Rom-Com Inverted Tropes: 🛏️Too Many Beds (it's a bunk bed situation) ❤️Co-workers to Friends to Lovers (No enemies here) ☠️Neither FMC or MMC are Serial K!llers (but everyone else is) ☀️Perfect, Sunny Weather (no dark & stormy nights) #QuestPit #W #A #H #R

Picture of a forest of trees. Text: agent guide, adult horror rom-com, projected 70K, current 40K, Serial Dating, by Ally Boyd

Picture of rock half in a lake, half on the sand. Text: The Pitch, While vacationing at a remote lakeside cabin, the daughter from a dynasty of eccentric k!llers struggles to shield her new boyfriend from her family’s gruesome legacy, but the sunny lakeside retreat turns deadly when a k!ller from her past turns the camp grounds into hunting grounds.

Picture of lake and trees reflecting in it. Text: the comps, Lights Out by Navessa Allen, Ready or Not (2019), Dating & Dismemberment by A L Brody, The Book of Knives by Lise Haines

Picture of trees. Text: The Opening. I’m pretty sure the guy I matched with is a serial k!ller.

I knew it the moment he picked me up. His hair is combed too straight, his blue button down shirt is overly starched, his khakis pressed with military precision, and his nails neatly trimmed to the quick.

I can almost hear my best friend, Kayla’s voice in my head, ‘It’s find Maddie. He’s a nice guy. Why are you always trying to find the faults?’

It’s not like I’m doing it on purpose, it’s just that I have a type. And I really, really want to get away from my normal type and find a nice guy.

“You look beautiful,” he says as he presents me with a bouquet of flowers.

White lillies. The flower of death.

Alice @alicel565.bsky.social · 2w ago

LOVELY RUNNER X KING OF GLUTTONY If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen— except the only way Ava can save her family name is to partner with her hot chef ex-boyfriend, and if she isn't able to guard her heart, she might be getting burned by him— again. Querying soon👩🏻‍🍳 #Questpit #A #Q #R

A 9x9 moodboard for Dinner Crush. The center is a quote from Last Kiss by Taylor Swift. The bottom left and top right corners are high-end food pictures. The top left and bottom right are chefs preparing high-end dishes. The top middle is a couple almost kissing, and the bottom middle is a fancy restaurant. The left middle is a woman with her head in her hands. The middle right is a man with his head bowed.

The first page of the agent guide for Dinner Crush, an adult billionaire romance by Alice Li

Pitch: If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen— except the only way Ava can save her family name is to partner with her hot chef ex-boyfriend, and if she isn’t able to guard her heart, she might be getting burned by him—again.

@alicelauthor

Tropes and comps:
Moodboard for Dinner Crush

The Spice and banter of King of Gluttony
The yearning and angst of Lovely Runner

Billionaire romance
Second Chance
hot chefs
Slowburn
yearning
“It’s always been you”

@alicelauthor

Snippet: “How do I look?” Ethan asked, curiosity overtaking him even as suspicion settled in his gut.

“Like she’s the moon, and you’re the sun,” the man said. “And you want every day to be a solar eclipse.”

@alicelauthor

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

I’m left in absolute awe over all the love MSU has gotten. Truly, no words could express the magnitude of my gratitude. & huge thanks to @questpit for once again bringing us all together, for the opportunity to lift each other’s stories up. Until the next one! 🫶🏽 #questpit

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

@amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jack Frost (1998) x Sweet Home Alabama YULE ALWAYS FIND ME is a holiday paranormal romance with: 🤍second chance romance 💀murd.er 🤍fake dating ❄️frosty magic 👯‍♀️sister bonds 🐶a cute pet sidekick 🎄Christmas festivities 🔼love triangle Would you read it? Art by @mknzgmbn #questpit #wip #P #R #A

Christian Oxford @christianoxford.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE LESSER SOUL After a heist gone wrong binds a thief to the soul of a long-dead hero, she must outrun the law and bargain with a goddess for her life, all while deciding whether the world would be better off with her survival or the hero's resurrection. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

Kelly Young @kyoungwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Howls Moving Castle x Beauty and the Beast Amnesiac healer makes a deal to help break a dying sorcerer’s curse in exchange for his help locating her missing best friend, only to discover her memories and life are tied to his survival. 👀💜🌙✨🌌💙🕰️ #questpit #AG #WIP #RF

Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌊🔥Mulan meets Avatar: The Last Airbender… but make it an adult romantasy. 🌪️ Forbidden elemental magic 🎭 Hidden identity ⚔️ Military training ❤️‍🔥 Slow-burn romance 👀 A dangerously perceptive commanding officer ✨ SONG OF THE SICKLE ✨ #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 115,000 words, first in a planned series by Megan A. Saraceno

The pitch: She’s hiding her name, her past, her power.
He sees through her every lie.

Rejected by the gods, Tessa Whitaker brands a false divine seal into her flesh and steals her brother’s identity to save him from a war he won’t survive. But when her emotions manifest unblessed elemental magic, she catches the attention of her dangerously perceptive commanding officer. If he uncovers her secrets, execution will be the least of her problems.

She can survive the war.
She’s not sure she can survive him.

Comps A Fate Inked in Blood, Silver Elite, The Knight and the Moth

Opening lines: Tomorrow, the gods would judge me.
Tonight, I pretended they didn’t exist.

I swung the scythe through another row of wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. More honest than twenty years of prayers that had earned me nothing but silence.
Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts off tomorrow and the bare stretch of skin on my forearm waiting to be claimed., pictures include: military training camp, earth magic, amber ring, abandoned watchtower, and incense

authorlanavolkov.bsky.social @authorlanavolkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

In post-WWIII Saint Petersburg, Polina sells illegal dreams to save her brothers. Leo, an American prisoner, hunts the dreamer in exchange for his wife’s freedom. But when dreams reveal their erased love story, they discover that love never comes without a sacrifice. #QuestPit #A #W #RF #dystopia

anna sarlet @sacrosanctious.bsky.social · 2w ago

- THE LAST KISS OF WINTER - ∗ gothic tragedy complete at 85k words ∗ star-crossed lovers ∗ vampire aristocracy ∗ set in the Year Without Summer 🌨️ check attached for the #agentguide !! ⋆⁺₊❅。 #questpit #W #A

anna sarlet@sacrosanctious.bsky.social · 2w ago

Beauty & the Beast × Dracula: A Love Tale introducing THE LAST KISS OF WINTER 🖤🥀🌨️ ∗ 85k word gothic tragedy ∗ regency era ∗ forbidden romance ∗ star-crossed lovers ∗ vampire aristocracy ∗ winter isolation ∗ found family querying this fall ₊°｡❆ #questpit #W #A

Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · 2w ago

LEGALLY BLONDE X B.K. BORISON'S GOOD SPIRITS A first-year public defender for sorcerers must help her newest client prove his innocence without accidentally falling in love with him. rep: WEAVER LITERARY #QuestPit #OS #A #F #R

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses in A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK A Cozy Medieval Romantasy 🍰 Barbie for adults 🌸 Arranged marriage 👑 Princess x Prince 🕯️ Dual POV 🩷 Lovable family chaos #questpit #W #NA #A #RF bsky.app/profile/elis...

Elise Rustøen@eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK

A Cozy Medieval Romantasy

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses x The Princess Knight

Alexis Emerson @lexeratz.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE SKY I USED TO KNOW literary fiction, 70k ☆ complex, codependent female friendship ☆ coming of age, childhood nostalgia vs normative transition to adulthood ☆ feminist themes #QuestPit #Q #LF #A

Author Annie Aksel @questiebestie.bsky.social · 2w ago

KNIGHT AND CIRCUS 99K A role-reversed chivalric tale of a wallflower knight and the boisterous acrobat who will stop at nothing to make him blush. Aragorn coded MMC Jester coded FMC 👩‍❤️‍👨 Cozy Romantasy 🟢 Green Flag MMC 🫂 Character Driven 💟 Slow Burn 🎪 Whimsical Circus Setting #Questpit #A #RF #Q #F

Beatrice Lebrun 👁️ Questpit Pinned!@beatricelebrun.bsky.social · 2w ago

OBSESSION X MIDSOMMAR X LIFE IS STRANGE Two girls who were never supposed to remember each other. A cult hidden deep in the woods. Something is watching from the trees. 🫀Cult in the woods 🫀LBTQIA+ 🫀Stalker 🫀Missing memories 🫀Supernatural obsession #questpit #W #A #H #DF

Mistwater Girls
NA Psychological Horror | Dark Fantasy | Sapphic Drama
Raised in a secluded commune of magical beings, Elara has spent her whole life being taught the same rules: observe humans, never touch them, and never fall in love with them.

She breaks that rule when she saves a girl from the edge of a cliff, only to realize she’s the best friend she was forced to forget.

Now magical beings are disappearing, someone is stalking them, and the closer they get to each other, the worse things become.

But after losing her once already, Elara refuses
to let her go again, even if it means becoming
the next one to disappear.

Comp titles: Life is Strange, Carrie, Midsommar, Obsession

Mistwater Girls, by Beatrice Lebrun.
A moodboard featuring images showing tragic sapphic scenes, missing person posters, creepy people in the woods with animal masks, a woman almost drowning and hands coming out of the water trying to trap a girl standing barefoot in a lake.

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 2w ago

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #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”

Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️@marysmorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

#querying DO NO HARM, a 75k urban fantasy about medical justice! When a healer with a secret turns up dead on their uni campus, two unlikely heroes make a discovery that could revolutionize magical medicine—but first they must unmask the killer trying to bury them with it. #Questpit #Q #A #F

avery✨@averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

DUNGEONS & DRAMA x THE EDGE OF 17 when the new kid takes 1st chair, 17y/o trumpeter Julissa fake dates him to impress her drifting friends and teams up with her childhood rival Logan to sabotage him for their chairs back—only to realize Logan might be the one she’s falling for #questpit #YA #R #AG

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.