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Claire MacLachlan

@clairecommemoi.bsky.social

Writer, lawyer, 🫡 emoji overuser #AmQuerying A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM

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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The BPJ decision is morally reprehensible and legally wrong. EPC clearly covers trans girls and women as much as everyone else, and it’s shameful that the justices allowed their personal feelings to override a clear reading of the constitution.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's such a *clear* equal protection violation to me, if for no other reason that trans *men* are not subjected to the same restrictions, only trans women. But, since the court already decided that the constitution doesn't apply to trans women, I can't be surprised.

Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 2mo ago

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫@kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

𝑮𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑶𝑵𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝒙 𝑴𝑰𝑺𝑺 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀 Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is perilous enough without her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Especially her. #WIPPIT #A #BOOKCLUB #MM #R

A WORKING TITLE by KALA PATEL
90K BOOKCLUB
Locations - London, Greece, France

THEY'RE ALL HIDING SOMETHING. SO IS SHE.
Tropes: Mistaken Identity, Deception, Fake-Dating, Murderous Ambition, Enemies-to- Lovers
Image of Mont St Michel. Woman in the foreground to the right of the image, looking over her shoulder.
Gold Starry shape with AGENT INTEREST written in the centre.

PITCH - Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is dangerous enough w/o her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Esp. her.
GLASS ONION x MISS CONGENIALITY

Jenni - Fantasy Romance Author ✨️@authorjbecker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wrong Move, Right Lie - A Romcom💞 When life gives you lemons…you enter a fake relationship 🤷‍♀️ 💘Meet-cute 💫Fake dating ❤️‍🔥Mutual pining 😻Adorable kitten ☀️Summer vibes ⏳Turning 30 and spiralling #WipPit #NA #F

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4mo ago

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

nytimes.com

Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

National Treasure, but Nic Cage and Sean Bean kiss. #ChaosPit #Q #A #R

two men in suits and ties are sitting next to each other on a stage talking about the declaration of independence .

Alt: GIF of Nicholas Cage on Saturday Night Live saying “We’re gonna have a three way with the Declaration of Independence.”

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Unbelievable any lawyer will stand up and tell the Supreme Court that the US constitution is not the Constitution. That the 14th amendment does not say what it says about birthright citizenship. A disgusting, infamous day.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5mo ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hegseth and Stephen Miller ridiculed "rules of engagement" and vowed this war won't be "politically correct." Now it looks like we may have bombed an elementary school. Hegseth/Miller's certainty that their version of "strength" would have support is imploding. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2074...

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6mo ago

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 6mo ago

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Dallas Rose 🌹@dallasrosebooks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now #amquerying: LEARNING FOR YOU, the teaching/karaoke romance of my heart 💜 YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER When budget cuts threaten her district, new teacher Jules must compete with her annoying(ly handsome) rival to keep her dream job—and avoid falling for him. #QuestPit #A #R

Agent pitch guide title slide: LEARNING FOR YOU, Adult Contemporary Romance

Pitch blurb: Due to impending budget cuts, high school teacher Jules Clark's dream job is already in jeopardy before it's even started. With each department set to get rid of one new hire, Jules must compete with the annoying(ly handsome) former lawyer, Adrian Pierce, to keep her place. Where she finds herself in over her head, he seems to breeze through it all. He also pops up everywhere, from heated encounters in the copy room to a tension-filled work karaoke league, culminating in an assignment to collaborate on a joint teaching unit.
As they spend more time together, Jules finds she and Adrian have a lot in common...including a simmering attraction that becomes impossible to ignore.
With one job and two of them, Jules worries their growing chemistry can only lead to resentment. Though she lets Adrian in, old fears of not being good enough consume her as the deadline looms closer.
If she lets selt-doubt take over, Jules could lose everything-not only her career, but also the love that's right in front of her.

Tropes and Vibes:

Golden retriever love interest
Workplace rivals to lovers
Karaoke league shenanigans
Complicated family dynamics
Forced proximity/collaboration
Strong female friendship

With the academic setting and workplace rivalry seen in YOU BETWEEN THE LINES, ONE ON ONE, and THE MAKEUP TEST

Hazy yellow moodboard with images of teaching, karaoke, books, and rumpled bedsheets 😏

Morgan is Querying @morgan-writes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A new RomCom for fans of FUNNY STORY and NEXT TO YOU. Featuring: 💙 Kira Larson as the newly single emotional wreck 💙 Xavier Herrera as her ex's broody neighbor 💙 Lots of shenanigans as the lines between casual hookups, friends, or maybe a bit more start to blur #Questpit #R #A #Q

Rebeccah Sheridan @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 7mo ago

THE SLOW BURN (80k words) She’s an event planner up for a promotion. He’s a firefighter and her dad is his chief. They’re planning the fire dept’s holiday gala and agree to a no-strings fling 👀🚒🎄 Small town Holiday romance Found family MMC in uniform Slow burn #amquerying #questpit #a #r #q

A moodboard for The Slow Burn, featuring side profiles of a man and woman individually and together, as well as atmospheric images including a Christmas tree farm, an event tablescape, a Christmas tree, and sparks from a fire.

Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here’s some free advice from a Washington insider: behave yourself at that office happy hour. You never know what a Capitol Spill reporter might overhear… #questpit #Q #A #R

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books
Text: Out-of-Context quotes from A Boyfriend, If You Can Keep Him: a contemporary romance

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books
Text: Grant scoffs. “She was born at LA General, in a hospital sandwiched between a freeway and a McDonald’s! How much more American can you get?”
“A megachurch across the street?” I suggest.

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books
Text: “I’d want to die from something peaceful. Like when you’re really happy, and you sometimes think that if you were to die right there, that wouldn’t be so bad?”
Stacy takes a contemplative sip of soup. “Yeah. When was the last time you felt like that?”
My thoughts immediately jump to Grant, and I’m grateful Stacy can’t see the flush creeping up my neck. “Um, I don’t remember.”
Stacy laughs. “Yeah, I’d want to die during sex, too. It’d be inconvenient for my partner, but what would I care? I’d be dead.”

I’m disappointed when he starts walking in the same direction as me. “Aren’t you going back to your castle? Where’s your palanquin?”
“Damned palanquin thieves cut through my lock again.” Grant’s voice is dry, but his eyes spark behind his glasses.
“Serves you right for buying a cheap palanquin lock.”

Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM is what you’d get if Ali Hazelwood turned National Treasure 2 into a romance novel. ⚔️Smithsonian x Library of Congress feud 📜Secret alliance 💃Rivals-to-lovers 📚Hunt for Jefferson’s lost library 🧠Mental health rep #questpit #Q #A #R

Alt-text: Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM: A Contemporary Romance

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: After losing out on her dream job as a research librarian at the Library of Congress, Kathleen Gallagher is done chasing things. Not jobs, not boyfriends, not Beyoncé tickets. So when her meddling mentor lands her a consulting job hunting the missing volumes from the Library of Congress’s original collection, Kathleen takes the gig only to avoid disappointing him yet again. Never mind his hints that this might be her ticket out of self-imposed exile at a boring industry job in Chicago; Kathleen plans to work just hard enough to prove that the books are lost for good.

Across the National Mall at the Library of Congress’s archival arch-rival, Smithsonian historian Dr. Grant Ordoñez vows to find the missing books first. As the eldest son of a mixed-status immigrant family, Grant is used to playing catch-up. He’s confident he can outpace an entitled librarian who doesn’t even have a PhD and seems immune to the concept of actual work.

But when Grant’s interference forces Kathleen to actually do her job, banter between the stacks and late nights together at the National Archives lead to a romance better than the revenge Grant was chasing. Meanwhile, Kathleen confronts the life she could have had if she hadn’t given up on her dream job—and her growing feelings for the wry, loyal historian who shows her. With each book found bringing Kathleen’s contract in D.C. closer to an end, Kathleen must decide if leaving her comfortable exile for a second shot at her dream is worth risking another humiliating failure and whether opening her heart to Grant is worth the risk he could break it.

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: I’m halfway across the room when Grant speaks again. “Hey Kathleen, how tall are you?”
“Five foot six,” I say automatically. Then I stop and turn around. “Wait, why? How tall are you?”
“Five-eleven,” he says.
“If you were actually five-eleven, you’d round up to six feet,” I challenge.
“That’s small-minded of you.” He lowers his laptop screen. There’s a smile playing around his mouth. “I prefer to play the long game and round down to five-ten. Make the other five-elevens sweat a little.”
I laugh. “That’s surprisingly diabolical. And you still haven’t answered my question.”
Grant looks pointedly at the books in my arms and thumbs something into his phone. “I just want to be sure I’m giving the U.S. Marshals an accurate description of the midnight book thief.”
“Oh my god, it’s not even six o’clock in the evening.”
He peers around the desk hutch at me. “‘But wearing high heels, so… five foot nine?”

✨Meagan Essary is back at the querying (and finishing her WIP)✨@thecrumpet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR x GREEN DOT SURFACE TENSION: The problem with studying intelligent women who make bad choices? You start to see yourself scribbled all over the syllabus. Jenny’s entanglement with her English professor isn’t fiction, but she’s starting to wish it was. #U #W #A #questpit

Hope Engel 📚@hopeengel.com · 7mo ago

Emerson's tired of being single. But as he enters junior year of college, is he finally ready to bend his disciplined ways and do the work to overcome what's been holding him back from finding love? AT YOUR PACE is an 87,000 word new adult contemporary romance. #Q #R #NA #QuestPit

images of a classroom, latina young woman with brown curly hair and closed eyes, a baseball on a field, a bookshelf, a close up of a young white male with green eyes, a study group, a couple holding hands, a university brick building, and a neutral toned bed on an orange background, tropes listed include classmates to lovers, puerto rican FMC, college baseball player MMC, he falls first, and cozy autumn vibes

Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here’s some free advice from a Washington insider: behave yourself at that office happy hour. You never know what a Capitol Spill reporter might overhear… #questpit #Q #A #R

✨Meagan Essary is back at the querying (and finishing her WIP)✨@thecrumpet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ALL FOURS x THE WEDDING PEOPLE THIS ENDS NOW: Lainey can orchestrate perfect days but can't stay put in a marriage, no matter how good the man. Only one way to quit bolting: face the cunning ex who taught her love is a disappearing trick—and who still has his hooks in her. #A #U #Q #WF #QuestPit

A collage of photos: row 1 (l-r): the interior of Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, showing a Gothic cathedral-like entrance; a classic red Vermont farmhouse in winter, covered in snow, nestled among bare trees; a woman silhouetted against a frosted window, while sunlight spills through the window; row 2 (l-r): two hands reaching for each other in low lighting against a black background; a dark-haired woman floating face upwards in water, surrounded by white flowers, her eyes open; Spilled glass candle with wax still aflame, flickering against a black backdrop; row 3 (l-r): Sunlight streaming through a quiet pine forest, illuminating a narrow dirt path; black and white photo of a person gripping the back of another person’s head from behind ; a man’s hand clasping a woman’s hand showing her wedding ring, with a snow-covered fir tree in the background; row 4 (l-r): three antique keys on twine; dark green leaves, covered in dew; the title of the novel, “This Ends Now” written on a scrap of spiral-bound lined notepaper.

Spencer Barnardo | Author @spencerbarnardo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

FLEABAG x ROMANTIC COMEDY Hennie's in freefall when she inherits a London flat from the father she never knew - and gains a downstairs neighbor, Everett, who’s about to be caught in her chaos. Too bad they make questionable choices. Sex tends to complicate things. #Questpit #A #R #Q

WRITING HENNIE mood board: snapshots of different London locations over the Union Jack and New Jersey state flag

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!) Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe? #QuestPit #YA #MY #R #AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Drama Mystery with Romance
94k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
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.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 7mo ago

MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦‍⬛📖 When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #YA #A #F #RF #OS #DIS #EditorsGuide #Editors

Editor's Guide To MARK OF A MAGPIE
Crossover Romantic Fantasy
118k Words

Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

Blurb

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy…

Ryn is a small-town thief who has a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d be a fool to take up, but with her family scattered across the sea after the draft, a fool is what she’ll need to be to find them.

Five for Silver, Six for Gold…

Seven is set on his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. Once whispers of the past begin to resurface and nobles begin dying around them, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The castle is under lockdown, and all bets for the crown are placed on their capture.

Seven for a Secret, Never to Be Told.

Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

The Atmosphere:
There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand. Picture seven shows a bottle of alcohol. Picture eight has a medieval alleyway. And picture eight shows a ship's crew enjoying a sunset.

There is text below the collage that says: ON SUBMISSION NOW!
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media, contact information available on my website!

Behind the parchment, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 7mo ago

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #QuestPit #A #F #DF #H #W

Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

Darya is querying @aryazare.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A DEVOTION SO RUINOUS is a 90K adult fantasy following Soraya, a young woman tormented by a jinn, a dictator, and her first love, as she fights for freedom 🏳️‍🌈 LGBT characters 🧠 Mental Health Rep 🌍 Middle Eastern Setting ✨ Gods Based Magic System ❤️ Lovers To Enemies #️⃣ Own Voices #QuestPit #Q #F #A

M S Dyliacco @msdyliacco.bsky.social · 7mo ago

She sees love as a balance sheet. He gets paid to read romance novels out loud. Dating isn’t working for either of them, so what are best friends to do? Start a podcast to figure out what they’re doing wrong, of course. #questpit #W #A #R

Samantha Lebans @samanthalebans.bsky.social · 7mo ago

An #agentsguide to my contemporary romance, DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST featuring: 🚗Tension-filled road trip 💉Illness rep 🌄Coastal Canadian landscape ⛴️Boat ride in costume 📝(Not) a bucket list #questpit #Q #A #R

Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 7mo ago