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Adult writer; fantasy, romantic fantasy, space fantasy, and all the queers. 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇺 🇮🇪

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Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️@cvarras.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The problem with not being terminally online is that you forget you’re supposed to use social media

Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️@cvarras.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Book two for a book I’m editing, and I’m tinkering with ideas for completely different books in the background. Across all of them, poly romance stories 😌

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What's the next thing you're looking forward to writing? A particular scene? The next book idea? A fic? #WritingPrompt

Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️@cvarras.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Watching Frieren and getting so many idea for how to improve my character writing. Sometimes I fall so deep down the adventure rabbit hole that I play too fast and loose with my characters. They live rent free in my head and I take that for granted lol

Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️@cvarras.bsky.social · 3mo ago

No agents interacted with my #questpit posts, but the outpouring of love from fellow authors really, really made my day 💖✨

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Heists, spice and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal dark hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF #SFF

The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel

A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer

Representation Christi Cardenas

Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

omantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.”
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of the three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

#AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.

Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️@cvarras.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ONE PIECE IN SPACE A runaway must subject herself to working with her human-weapon best-enemy, a space pirate hell bent on recruiting her, and the charismatic partner of her unfortunate crush, to save him and his breakthrough magical discovery from becoming a weapon #questpit #Q #A #F #RF#SFF

A card with a starry background with the title Pirates and Planets. The subtitle says Opening Lines. Below is a paragraph. It says:
“You fuckin’ snake—” were the last words out of the target’s mouth before Barbie relieved him of his windpipe.
She had gone through many names, all of which meant something like “evil.” Snake was a new one. Viper sounded better.
There’d been one target who laughed at her name. Something about it meaning “pretty” or “sweet.” Barbie wasn’t pretty or sweet: she was barbed wire.

A card that says Pirates and Planets - Comps across the top. Below, there are two columns with covers of books. The first says By Me. Listed left to right, the comps listed are The Murderbot Diaries, One Piece; Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die; The Dispossessed, The Adventure Zone Balance (a podcast, not a book), and Six of Crows.
The second column says By Readers. From left to right, they are Arcane (the Netflix animated show), These Burning Stars, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and Gideon the Ninth.

Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️@cvarras.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ONE PIECE IN SPACE There's a space pirate hell bent on recruiting Romea on his quest to become King of the Stars. But she's more focused on the infuriating partner of her unfortunate crush, and saving him and his breakthrough magical discovery from becoming a weapon. #questpit#Q#A#F#RF#SFF

A card with a starry background with the title Pirates and Planets. The subtitle says Opening Lines. Below is a paragraph. It says:
The floating flotilla was a fortress of magic and science. Thousands of bubbles illuminated the marine night with buttery soft magic. Windows in cathedrals of crystal and glass glowed warm with the individual lights of lives. The whipping wind was petrichor rich and ozone bright, singing dreams from the city to the sea. The astral sea along the horizon glowed faint yellow with a new star’s dawn.
A pirate leaping through the light speckled night was nothing new. But the wailing of Specs and Space Marines were an unwelcome annoyance for the late crowd.

Cari (they/them) is querying 🏴‍☠️@cvarras.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ONE PIECE IN SPACE A runaway with illegal powers must join a crew of space pirates to save the man whose magic might change the world, or destroy it. But she has three problems with that: she finds him intoxicating, his partner’s infuriating, and she hates pirates. #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #SFF

A card with a starry background with the title Pirates and Planets. The subtitle says Opening Lines. Below is a paragraph. It says:
The hatch was open.
In trembling hands, magic split the first delicate crack in Arnawan’s centuries-long isolation. The first true wormhole bloomed into existence.
Tuvat had dreamed of this beautiful rainbow bridge all their life. Now, staring down the barrel of change, it looked like the open jaws of a half-finished hope.

Talya Klein @talyaklein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now querying my upmarket suspense, BLOOD OF THE LAMB (93K words.) Check out the agent’s guide below! 🎬cinematic, propulsive plot 🪾atmospheric, gothic vibes ⛪️ religious trauma, mental health, family secrets 🌿Like THE GOD OF THE WOODS but set in a cult. #questpit #a #u #q #amquerying

A sepia image of the cross on top of an old church and hands reaching toward the sky. The text reads: “an agents guide to Blood of the Lamb by Talya Klein. Upmarket Suspense, 93K words. Coming of age, smash the patriarchy, cult escape.”

Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!”
The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death.
“Magic should never return.”
After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended.
Sent him back to his body.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/sunshine. 1930s vibes. Love triangle. LGBTQIA+ rep. Cynical mentor. Dying world. Found family.

Autumn Hooper Querying Author @authorautumnhooper.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth 🔮 emotion-driven powers 💖 characters with depth 🎀 softness is her greatest strength ✨ light found in dark places 💋 slow-burn #Q #A #F

Dawn of the Cicada book cover idea with a woman in shadow in a dark forest lit by fireflies with the shadow of a monster lurking behind her.

Casey P. StJohn @cpstjohn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fiona, a Fate tasked with scheduling the lives & deaths of mortals to maintain the balance of light & dark, must track down a killer when the unscheduled body of a Chosen One lands on her best friend's doorstep & the worlds begin to break. #questpit #F #Q #MY

Slide #1 A Wayward Balance, my adult Fantasy Mystery
What You’ll Find Inside:
• Only one...human (she dies).
• Fate and death are desk jobs (death is a family business complete with nepotism).
• Chosen one...by application and interview (it’s a lengthy process).
• Death is framed for murder.
• A romantic slow burn so slow you might not even catch it!(i.e., an utter lack of romance despite the sparks my friend is absolutely determined she felt)
• Karma is a cat...shifter.
• Coffee, Mahjong, and cozy violence.
• Someone who would sacrifice themselves for everyone, and their best friend who is determined to keep that from happening (it’s complicated).

Slide #2 - The dreaded, yet required, One Paragraph pitch Fiona and Dahlia work tirelessly each day to ensure the balance of eight worlds remains intact. Every rule must be followed, every life and every death scheduled and accounted for, every Chosen One meticulously hand selected to save any world on the verge of collapse from a wayward balance—a breaking—when the scales have tipped too far for too long. When the current Chosen One is found murdered on Dahlia’s doorstep, the two friends must work together to prove Dahlia’s innocence before her life is forfeit to offset the balance that has tipped beyond what anyone has seen before, leaving the futures of all eight worlds in jeopardy. To save the worlds, rules must be broken, time will be upended, secrets will demand to be revealed, and friendships must be sacrificed.

Slide #3 - An Entirely Inconvenient Number of comps The whimsical bureaucracy of The House in the Cerulean Sea Unique townsfolk like Halloween Town Cozy small town vibes like Murder She Wrote For fans of cozy fantasies & coffee shops like Legends and Lattes, but with the higher stakes of murder. Metaphysical Fun like: Good Omens and The Good Place Humor of: The Eyre Affair and Mort

Slide 4: A socially acceptable boost to my ego features quotes from people who have read A Wayward Balance such as "When I tell you this story has me HOOKED" and "So fricken fun"

Lola is 👻AGENTED!!👻@lolagracebooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND Windego is a 60K word supernatural horror novel based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all. #questpit #Q #A #H #S

Via Luino @viathewordwitch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Six of Crows x Romeo & Juliet An imposter princess. A pretender prince. A vengeful plot that might just get them both killed. Because when monarchs play their political games, it can only end in blood. 🗡 Reluctant assassins ⚔️ Dual POV ✨ Dangerous magic 🏳️‍🌈 All queer cast #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

A black background edged with a design of silver leaves. In the center are two sketches, one of a young woman with a dagger and a fierce expression, and the other of a young man with a freckled face and a conflicted expression. (These sketches are from Pinterest and do not belong to me. All rights and credit to the creators.)

Beneath the sketches is the title of the book: A SONG OF SILVER & SCARLET

The text around these sketches reads: “To free the woman she loves, Viola must become a murderer. To save his little sister, Vasek must take another’s life. But when their fates collide, they soon realize they aren’t the only assassins on the prowl—and the paths they walk can only end in bloodshed.”

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE EVERWINTER KING Adult Fantasy Standalone 💛 Grumpy/Sunshine, platonic 💕 Second Chance MM romance ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 🏅 Tournaments & Trials 💙 Mental health rep 👑 Hidden royalty 🏳️‍🌈 Queer normative world 🍋 Mediterranean inspired setting #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Aliaa is Querying @aliaaelnashar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Screaming Staircase X Psycho-Pass, but as a historical urban fantasy. 1952 Egypt reimagined in a world where personal demons inhabit objects that represent your greatest pain, survival might depend on your willingness to conquer your deepest fears. #Questpit #Q #HFic #F #MY #A #amquerying

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introducing 🍃A RAVEN SONG 🍃 For eldest daughters and platonic soulmates. ⛩️portal fantasy 💫star crossed friendships 🍂nostalgia will kill her ❤️‍🔥touch her and you die, but they're best friends 🗡️reckless bargains and a tattooed elven soldier Querying today!! #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Cold War X Time Travel 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. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

Clara Benson is ✨querying✨@clarabenson.org · 3mo ago

🌼FINDING ECHINACEA🌼 REBECCA x DR. QUINN x TITANIC Typhus strikes and brings a wealthy New Yorker intent on marrying the hardworking inn maid. To keep a promise to her sister, she accepts, despite warnings from a medical student who threatens her last hope for salvation. #QuestPit #Q #A #HF #R #LF

cover photo for Finding Echinacea's Agent's Guide, a couple kissing in a field and the words "a literary historical romance by Clara Benson

Get to know the book!
Enemies to lovers
Medical history of typhus
The tension between duty and desire
Historical Fiction set in 1847
Reconciliation in the wake of broken promises
Complex family dynamics
Money can’t buy happiness
Small village isolated setting
Class tension and social mobility

a mood board for Finding Echinacea; a maid, echinaceas, a pocket watch, church steeple, romantic couples and medical textbook pages

Comps
Titanic for the love triangle, class disparity and overbearing fiance
Rebecca for the hasty proposal from a wealthy man with a secretive past
Dr. Quinn for the small town setting and medical tension

Laney - Add The Song of the Void on Goodreads!@laneylauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BLACK SWAN + DISNEYLAND GONE WRONG Every other character actor at EverAfter Theme Park has disappeared after bizarre personality changes, and desperate princess performer Juliet discovers she’s next when the character she plays begins to take over her mind. #questpit #H #A #W

A hand reflected in a mirror.
Text reads: Between Joy & Shadow. Adult psychological horror. Laney Lopez. 85k words

Pitch: Character actors at EverAfter Theme Park disappear after having bizarre personality transformations, and desperate princess performer Juliet discovers she's next when the character she plays begins to take over her mind. The park is alive. Magic is real. And something sinister lurks at the heart of EverAfter.

Themes and comps: Sinister fairytale lore, Disneyland-inspired setting, sentient statues, romantic subplot, identity vs performance anxiety rep. Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay, Hide by Kiersten White, Black Swan

Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️@karasiert.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🗡️EVEN SENTS FALL When a final assignment leaves more questions than answers, two monster hunters must discover the truth behind the new horrors appearing across the land, even if it means unraveling their own identities and everything they believe in. #QuestPit #W #F #H #YA

Collage of photos including wilting roses and a glass window with text: I am not your perfect daughter, with an X over the word "not."

Collage of photos including a cathedral building and stained glass window with text reading: Who would you have me be?

Samantha is ✨editing✨@sloicano.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WHAT MAGIC REMAINS A witch turned vampire, only her magic survived. Now, every spell corrupts her skin. Every heartbeat breaks the rules. And Hell is closing in. But the demon responsible? He wants to keep her. 🩸Vampires 🔮 Witches 🔥 Infernal Corruption 🖤Forbidden Romance #QuestPit #W #A #FR

Top left image is a crow in a cemetery. Top middle image is a girl with back to the camera holding leaves. Top right image is a woman holding a book with a man’s hand hers. Middle left image is a woman’s mouth with fangs. Center image is the word heretic. Middle right image is a man kissing a woman’s neck. Bottom left image a hand painted black touching the finger of another hand the black ins transferring. Bottom middle image is a man’s neck with necklaces. Bottom right image is a witch alter set up. small notes are in the images. death touched witch. Guardian demon? Punished, cursed, damned.

Laney - Add The Song of the Void on Goodreads!@laneylauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DISNEYLAND GONE WRONG + PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR Every other character actor at EverAfter Theme Park has disappeared after bizarre personality changes, and desperate princess performer Juliet discovers she’s next when the character she plays begins to take over her mind. #questpit #H #A #W

Too three images: a dark haired woman in a dress in a forest, a castle, a woman's hand reaching for a statue's hand.
Middle three images: a carousel, a silhouette of a princess, a Ferris wheel.
Bottom three images: a woman leaning in to kiss a statue, a hand wrapped in rose vines, a woman lying with her head hanging off a bed

Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Mulan x Avatar: The Last Airbender x Fourth Wing A woman rejected by the gods steals her brother’s place in war and manifests forbidden divine power while falling for her lethal commanding officer. SONG OF THE SICKLE Adult romantasy, 118k words #Questpit #Q #A #RF

An Agent's Guide to Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 118k words, First in a planned series. Background picture of wheat field. Big picture of amber ring and smaller picture of incense burning.

The Pitch, with small pictures of a military training camp and an old watchtower covered in moss. What if Mulan had magic, and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods?

Comp titles include The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem for hidden identity and forbidden magic, Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer for training ground romance, and The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig for weaponized faith system.

the opening lines of the book, beside a picture of a sickle with wheat. Tomorrow the gods would judge me. Tonight, I pretended they didn't exist. I swung the scythe, blade slicing through wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts at bay.

AJS ✨ Querying @authorajs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨ THE CRAFT x ONE DARK WINDOW ✨ When Lola’s deadly shadows escape, killing her best friend, she must seek control at an elite magical academy before they kill again—or lose her humanity. Perfect for agents who like: 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic BIPOC witches 🖤 Body horror 💫 Fantasy/Horror/Mystery #QuestPit #Q #A #F

An image of a school with multiple towers, in black on a grey sky, with multiple crescent moons hanging above. The text reads ‘an agents guide to The Bells of Le Fay, adult dark academia fantasy, 102k words.

A silhouette of a woman reaching up to the sky with a bright light between her hands. There is a shadowed tree next to her. The text reads: pitch, The price of magic is monstrous. Lola Knight expects to live a normal life, but when the deadly shadows beneath her skin escape, killing her best friend, she must attend Le Fay Academy for Higher Magics to seek control before they kill again. When she finds out the shadows are slowly turning her into a monster, she chases a cure through the ancient archives—but instead unearths a dangerous conspiracy, and must decide: keep digging to unmask the true monsters, or accept her fate and risk her humanity.

An open spell book surrounded by candles and a mirror. There are three book covers; for One Dark Window, Book of Night, and The Incandescent. The text reads: tropes and comps, witchy dark academia, monstrous magic, sapphic romance, ancient archives, body horror, unhelpful ghosts.

The silhouette of a woman with a huge dark shadow looming over her. The text reads: first lines. The shadows had teeth, and they hungered for blood. They shouldn’t exist here, amongst the weathered sandstone of Durham University. They shouldn’t exist at all, outside the confines of Lola’s mind. But the terrible scratching of claws against flagstone wasn’t a figment of her imagination, as she had first thought, strolling arm-in-arm with Sam on their way home from an end-of-exams party. She didn’t notice them straight away, her gaze sliding over the shadows cast by the faculty buildings. She didn’t notice them until they peeled away from the walls, their darkness thicker and more absolute than the others. Even then she pulled her gaze away, dismissing it. Inebriation hung over her like a thin veil, turning the glow of street lamps into a kaleidoscopic sky.

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.”

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.

Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

FATE OF THE SPARK : dual-pov urban romantasy THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS X CRESCENT CITY 🦅Bird Racing ⚡️Lightning Wielders ♥️Enemies to Lovers 🏠Found Family 🌃Urban Fantasy 🌶️ Spice #questpit #Q #sff #rf #amquerying #amwriting #writesky

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HEATED RIVALRY X STAR SHIPPED 🎪 After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🤸 #amquerying #questpit #Q #R

Cover with acrobats titled “Bend Over Backwards”

Pitch - after vincent’s acro partner is banned from their vegas-themed circus show, he’s forced to create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. cole’s flashy hand-to-hand stunts and throws are fine for television, but his aggressive style clashes with vincent’s controlled contortion and fear of falling. vincent plans to escape by auditioning for his dream circus company, but the closer he gets to cole, the more reason he has to stay.

List of tropes including rivals to lovers, found family, and only one bed

List of comp titles including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks @annesmbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

KISS & TELL X SMASH OR PASS Take: a demi, canceled, mouthy, foodloving singer Mix: a hideout in Amsterdam + a meet cute in a cat café Add: a closeted football star + swirling gossip Bake off: a viral song that could tell his truth… or out the boy he’s falling for #AG #YA #LGBT #editors #QuestPit

EVERYTHING GETS CANCELED, agented queer contemporary YA romance, 80K words | going on sub soon.

Boy with a guitar, cover of Kiss & Tell (description: mess of fame & love), cat, canal of Amsterdam with bikes, cover of Smash or Pass (description: sports romance), black footballer.