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Elodie Turquois

@elodiewrites.bsky.social

Recovering academic. ADHD. Apprentice novelist (histfic & fantasy), seasoned philologist with a penchant for Late Antique Greek, birds, and ekphrasis. French living in Midlothian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. SL Ascent Novel Prize. Winner of Revpit Bracket for Best Title 🏆

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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

STRANGE FAMILIARS/HAZELTHORN When sentient plants take over the world & an eminent botanist ends up 💀 a reporter enlists a rival plant hunter to seek the truth. But as they become entangled, the victims pile up, so they’ll need sharp secateurs to avoid being next. #QuestPit #W #NA #F

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

More than a decade after faking his death, former holy king Malachi returns to the capital he fled seeking the missing sun god. But coming home means facing the people he left behind, including a fiancé, Atreus, who spent the last twelve years seeing Malachi's ghost. #QueerPit #A #F #amquerying

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · last mo.

Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest. Lia has doomed more worlds than she’s saved. When an elf supremacist puts them on opposite sides of a war to enslave humans, the fate of thousands comes down to a rag-tag team of heroes from all cultures, racing against time. #QueerPit #A #EF #AC

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · last mo.

SHANNARA x MAGICIANS An elf with anxiety goes on a quest to stop his elf-supremacist cousin—in his way? A chaotic, multiversal woman bound to the enemy. 🌌 Magical Multiverses ⚔️ Quests and Combat 🚪 Portal Fantasy Elements 🧠 Anxiety in a world of magic 💜 Ace rep #Queerpit #A #EF #AmQuerying

rihdara klay 📖@rihdaraklay.bsky.social · last mo.

a dystopian epic fantasy about an uprising against a fascist queen whose touch turns bodies into sugar, led by a grieving royal translator who finds solace in outlawed books 🍰 french revolution x THG x babel 🍰 politics, found family, love triangle 🍰 POC cast #queerpit #F #D #A

a four-picture moodboard with a red and pink theme. in the top left corner sits a two-tiered cake with cherries placed along its edges. in the top right corner is the bodice of a noble woman; her dress is made from red and white lace. in the bottom left corner is a woman holding a sword, standing on a beach with her back towards the audience. in the right bottom corner is the interior of a chapel in Versailles with white columns, arched windows, and frescos of various paintings.

Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · last mo.

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QueerPit #A #SF #R #HA

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words

"Did you hear? There's a human on board."
A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling.
alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH:
Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist.
Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway?
That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no.

PRIORITIES:
make dinner
remain cozy
haul cargo
go for drinks
pull off one last score
try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE:

“Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.”
I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity.
“Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.”
“Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table.
It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best.
The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.”
The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS:
Murderbot by Martha Wells
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

TROPES:
Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm
lying to themselves
non-human perspective (afraid of humans)
neurodivergent main characters
metaphorically disabled protagonist
slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship
disabilitynorm and queernorm setting
found family
loveable pet/terrifying monster

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · last mo.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x STAR TREK Roan, part of the last team of archaeologists sent to Earth, stumbles into an ancient bunker haunted by the synthetic mind of a trillionaire. She’s the only one who can fix his tech, but can she save him before Earth is swallowed by the Sun? #QueerPit #A #SF #FTA

A collage of photos with text in the middle saying “Archaeologists will date any old thing.” The other pictures include a circuit board, archaeology tools, a record player, a museum interior, an astronaut looking at San Francisco buried in sand, a man holding a dark rose, a person reaching out to a ghostly figure, and an espresso machine.

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerPit #A #F #R Cursed to die if he speaks against the throne, a trans prince must escape the palace before his wedding in three weeks time, with or without the beautiful elven guard cursed to watch him day and night.

A prince(ss) and his royal guard, violet eyes, green eyes with glasses, wedding dress, bath, gold fabric, palace, hills, flowers, window, purple dress

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerPit #A #R #F Facing eviction from her apothecary in two months, a disabled witch seeks help in a grocer to run her shop until she clears the blight killing the town’s crops. As they fall in love, the blight kills a regular, and she must push through her pain to fight it.

Coworkers to lovers, cottagegore, witch x werewolf, instalike but slow butn, femme x butch, pining and yearning, winter vibes, You Bloom In Winter (or The Witch and The Grocer)
Collage of apothecary stuff blight cat forest aesthetic

yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social · last mo.

Devera wants to destroy the Sacrifice—a deadly ritual that sends unmarried women into the dangerous, Appalachian-inspired wilderness to die—but the only being capable of helping her survive is a demon bound to the ritual itself. #QueerPit #FR #A

A moodboard collage featuring various Appalachian-inspired and hiking photographs, as well as the title Blood of the Broadlands

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE “When the Sun disappeared, the Stars wept.” ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QueerPit #A #F #R #RF

Between Fractures of Light
A Romantic Portal Fantasy
Coming Soon tọ the Query Trenches
Intertwined Stories
Mental Health Representation
Alternate World

Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋@sashakielman.bsky.social · last mo.

Kazmera's grandfather murders her parents & orders her, a shadow witch, to marry light witch Prince Edan for a false peace. To save her kingdom from her grandfather’s totalitarian regime and impending war, Kazmera & Edan form a fragile alliance while facing their inner demons. #A #FR #QueerPit

A trope map graphic for BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON by Sasha Kielman, featuring art by @winterofherdiscontent. A black background with art positioned as the book cover. White and golden yellow text and arrows pointing to: enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, elemental magic, slide to pitch, adult romantasy (93,000 words), mental and chronic illness and queer representation.

BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON Forced into an arranged marriage as a fragile peace treaty, two powerful witches must learn to trust each other in order to prevent war across their Realms. But will their love be enough to stop a war? Perfect for fans of The Hurricane Wars and The Bridge Kingdom, BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON is a critique of authoritarianism and a demonstration of the power of love in all its forms, recognizing that while not all illnesses can be healed, they can be managed with care. @SashaKielman

A Canva graphic with gray smoke on a black background and white text.
If you like...
Fairyloot cover of the Hurricane Wars, original cover of the Bridge Kingdom
then try...
Art for Between the Sun and Moon by Sasha Kielman by winterofherdiscontent
@SashaKielman

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerPit #SPF #SF #COA #NA #YA When a faith healer flees his mother's cult, he joins forces with a UFO-forum moderator who just caught his own meteorite as they head to a UFO festival- until the cult closes in to capture their unwilling Chosen One.

Slide featuring an image of two boys in blue against a red backdrop, one has a shaved head, wears a black hoodie, and is shorter with dark eyes. the other has long blond hair, wears an olive jacket, and pale eyes. There are space-themed images of a galaxy and a comet. Text reads:Witnessers of the unknown, When Christophe Montague, a trans faith healer, flees his mother's
cult after a miracle goes wrong, he joins forces with February Purdue,
a UFO-forum moderating hitchhiker whose hand is undergoing an
unearthly change after catching a meteorite.
They embark on a supernatural road trip to a UFO festival –
before the cult can drag Christophe home and use him as their
Chosen One. YA/NA, 96k Words, SFF t4t Romance Subplot

Comparative titles Witnessers of the unknown: Featuring Hell Followed With Us, Into the Light, Old Wounds, trans coming-of-rage
religious trauma
speculative road-trip
T4T trauma-bonding

Witnessers of the unknown first sentences, picture features two boys, one has blond hair and points up at a meteor shower, the other follows his hand with his eyes, they lay in the bed of a pickup truck, surrounded by a desert landscape. quote reads “Christophe hides in the closet at the back of the church. The echoing voices tell him that the sanctuary is full. The dusty, out-of-tune piano pounds out a hymn, and his heart leaps inside him. He should be out there, helping pass out the cups of grape juice, the cups of wine, the wafers of Our Lord.
He should be preparing for the healing, the laying-on of hands, when his mother will call him to the front.” YA/NA, 96k Words, SFF
t4t Romance Subplot

Comparative FILMS and Playlist on a moon: Nowhere by Gregg Araki and Leviticus, psychedelic, queer, aliens
faith healing and recovery
Screenshot of spotify playlist

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

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring the god back, and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QueerPit #F #A #amquerying

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋@sashakielman.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy @barnesandnoble.com PREORDER25 sale to all those who celebrate! For your consideration, the next two anthologies in which I'll have stories published this year are eligible (and the hardcover versions are gorgeous with sprayed edges!) 😍 #WriteSky #BookSky

A Canva graphic featuring two Flame Tree Press Romantic Fantasy anthologies: The Tarot of Love and Of Swords and Roses. An image of a golden hand with a black and gold tarot card above it is in the top left corner, and there is a red rose in the top right corner. Photos of the books featuring their covers and sprayed edges are in the middle. Text reads: Preorder Sale, 25% off, Barnes and Noble, 23-26 June | PREORDER25

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Agents, meet my three completed and revised projects! #writingcommunity #literaryagent #agents #cozyfantasy #romantasy #ya (Click on ALT for descriptions)

THE WITCH AND THE GROCER

A 78k Sapphic Cozy Fantasy Romance about a disabled witch and a butch werewolf grocer working to save the witch’s failing apothecary during a terrible fruit blight.

Collage of wintery flowery apothecary images

A PRINCE(SS) AND HIS ROYAL GUARD
An 85k romantasy
A cursed trans prince fights to escape from the palace where he’s forced to live as a princess, but he’s assigned an elven guard cursed to watch him constantly. They must work together to have any hope of making it out alive.

Collage with bath, crown, eye, palace stairs

THE UNFORTUNATE GARDEN WITCH’S GUIDE TO KISSING GIRLS
90k ya sapphic cozy romantasy
When Zenora, a trans autistic garden witch with a brown thumb, accidentally becomes responsible for the Allflower, she must work with a rival music witch to care for it without getting caught—or falling madly in love.

Collage with flowers, picnic, harp, two girls, magiclesson, Melody and Zenora, cottage

Kelly Brockington @kellybrockington.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DEXTER X YELLOWJACKETS A desperate mother joins an all-female cannibal cult that only feasts on 'bad men', but when she discovers the darkness within the community, she resolves to save her son from their clutches and forge an escape, or die trying. #QuestPit #W #H #lgbtq #Sapphic

N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

TELL ME AN ENDING x THE ONE x STATION 11 #QuestPit #W #a #lf #t #s Hungry for money, 4 artists join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their heads & the scientists behind it vanish, the 4 must untangle the case—or face permanent brain damage LLL Cheshire & Ascent Novel Prize

An evocative moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following:
- first column: two drawings of human brains and an MRI machine
- second column: a starling among blossoms, a dramatic frog statuette, a hand grasping forget-me-nots
- third column: photos and a camera, art and brushes, a person holding a memory card

Elodie Turquois @elodiewrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hi campers! I’m team #CRPDirewolves and revising my second novel, Macarons and Monsters to prep for querying. It’s a darkly whimsical contemporary/urban adult fantasy with ND/queer rep, a bunch of magical creatures, and a generous pinch of academic satire. Here’s a little infographic for it.

Revise & Resub@reviseresub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good morning, Campers! 🏕️ Let's kick off #CampRevPit with some introductions! Use #CampKickoff to tell us a bit about yourself and what you're working on. Pitch it in any way, shape, or form.

A well-fed green caterpillar sits on a little hill to the right of the screen, eating a pile of pages labeled with the words “story notes.” On the left, a Camp RevPit flag waves at the end of a flagpole. There is a blue sky with fluffy white clouds in the background. The following text is on the picture: Day 1: #CampKickOff

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

AI-assisted writing in 1716. #skystorians

A man is sitting at a desk, writing a book with a quill. He is not looking at the page. A godly book, illuminated, is also present in the copperplate print of 1716. The godly message of the flying book is in German and from the Bible: Im Anfang war das Wort Joh:1 v:1". A light beam from the holy book to the yet blank page can also be seen with the words inscribed: „Dein Wort ist ein Licht auf meinem Wege Ps. 119 v. 105“. So, basically, god is the textual inspiration of the author's work. It looks like he is waiting an artificial hallucination in 1716. The source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/17512/mirador

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚@velf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE ARGONAUT'S SON #PosterPit #HF #LGBTQ #Myth #Q #A #AmQuerying The Song of Achilles x The Women In Ancient Greece, when one man's dream of family and brotherhood collides with another's quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

A line image of Rodin's The Thinker (A naked man, seated on a rock, with his chin on his hand and deep in thought). Above it the title: The Argonaut's Son, a novel inspired by Sophocles' Ajax.
Beneath is the log line: "In Ancient Greece, when one man's dream of family and brotherhood collides with another's quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?"
It is rather cheekily given 5 stars and has recent competition successes listed in laurel wreathes. At the very bottom are the tags: "Father Compex", "Brothers in Arms", "Friends to Lovers", "Big Shields", "Bigger Egos".

andrea 💘@starringandrea.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CAN’T GET ENOUGH X INSECURE (88k) Love wasn't part of their best-laid plans, but securing the bag means playing to win, and neither can afford to lose. ❤️Second chance 🧶Craft stores ☕️ cafes & 🪩 clubs 🔥She wants casual, he falls first 🤪Funny friendships 🖤Black MCs 🌇NYC #Posterpit #Q #A #R #C #Co

Movie style poster for #PosterPit featuring two coffee cups with white text overlayed. First line of text says Adult Romcom, second chance, found family, he falls first. Title is Get it Together. Sub head is A Black Romcom by Andrea Lynch. Taglinge is Overcaffeinated, overworked, underappreciated. On the sides it says All Star BIPOC cast and Made in Brooklyn 2026. Features quotes with 5 star ratings including "An immersive world that transports me right to brooklyn" and "They're absolutely feral for each other". Last line of text reads NOW QUERYING.

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

Obsessed with Gilded Age mansions, a young preservationist accepts an invitation to live alone in a sealed seaside manor & discovers the house is not haunted but inhabited by an heir bound within its walls. Breaking his curse is the only way to free him. #Posterpit #W #spf #R #A

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#PosterPit #A #FR #W THE HONEY WITCH X LEGENDS AND LATTES -butch x femme -werewolf x witch -fated mates -disability rep -trans rep -haunted apothecary -sweet healing romance

The witch and the grocer vines grapes pink paint orange paint

Elizabeth Sanders @e-sanders.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Imagine the 90’s Pretty Woman with a gender flip… Up against her ex for senior partner and invited to his destination, Lex hires an intriguing escort to trip him up—then why is she the one who’s falling? #posterpit #q #a #r 🌊Fake dating ☀️Loss + discovery 🌊banter ☀️Maldive beaches

Two pairs of sandy feet on a beach as the sun sets

Marie Montague @mariemontague.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's The Flatshare meets The Hating Game in wellies 🌱 Enemies-to-lovers 🥕 Forced proximity (One plot!) 🔪 Grumpy Chef x Chaotic Influencer 🪴 Petty sabotage & turf wars 🍳 Accidental food stall partners 🗣️ Dual POV & biting British banter Querying soon #posterpit #W #A #R #C #CO

Romantic comedy poster with a soft pink background. A pink-haired woman looks up with a playful smile at a dark-haired man, who looks down at her with a fond, slightly amused expression, arms crossed. Behind them are hand-drawn seed packets labelled “tomato.” Text at the top reads “Love is the ultimate plot twist,” with tropes listed: “grumpy x sunshine,” “enemies to lovers,” and “chef and influencer.” The bold title “A Patch of Trouble” appears across the centre. Smaller text describes a cancelled influencer and a furious Michelin chef forced to share a double-booked allotment plot. Bottom text reads “Coming to query trenches soon.”

Cass @casshabs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On Runyan, magic lives in color, & Darkness is draining it away. At Wychlith, an academy where losing in The Cage costs pieces of your soul, Rihalyn must uncover her power while being claimed by the tyrant's son, Kieran, whose Darkness may consume the Light she carries. #PosterPit #Q #A #F #DF

A dark fantasy book poster showing a luminous yellow rose partially consumed by shadow, representing the battle between light and darkness.

The title Born of Light, Cursed by Darkness spans the image, with the tagline “Magic lives in your color, when it fades, so do you.”

Additional text highlights themes like found family, mental resilience, and a romance where he falls first.

Behind the image: I took a picture of a single yellow rose, using my Iphone on the studio setting. I used my black snack container, lol, to prop the rose up. Snapped the picture and uplaoded it to add the text and elements :)

Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

TRULY DEVIOUS/STRANGE BEASTS When a string of eminent botanists end up dead, it falls upon a plant hunter & reporter/amateur sleuth to worth out whether it’s just murder or sentient plants are taking over the world. #PosterPit #W #NA #CF #H

Image description
A movie style poster titled "The Hunting Season". A collage with young woman's face peeps through some foliage; a moss covered tree trunk grows next to classical architectual columns; an axe in a tree trunk; library shelves with a ladder; a carnivorous plant.
Caption reads: YA/NA Cosy Horromance
- Rivals to lovers
- Murder Mystery
- There's only one shed
- A mixed heritage FMC
- Green Academia
- A working class MMC
- What if plants took over the world?
- Alternate London
- Slow burn with heat