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aspiring fantasy author 💫 | Querying THREADS OF GOLD 💫 | 2x WIPs

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Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For a peek at my current WIP, VILLAGE WIP is a witchy, sapphic gothic horror where the Salem Witch Trials and a certain Greek myth merge. #QuestPit #W #Gothic #H #Horroromance

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anxious Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest, but when his elf-supremacist cousin declares war, Letyf joins the world's champions to protect their only hope—a child who can quell magic. In their way? World-hopping demon Lia, unwilling servant to the enemy. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit #AgentsGuide

Title Page: WEB TRAVELER, Adult Epic sci-fantasy, 129k, dual POV. Art of an ancient staircase carved into a mossy cliff. tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

Pitch Page: Letyf Duilles has no place on a world-saving quest. Elf-supremacist Roksa Morthir took everything from Letyf—his best friend, his magic, and his future. An outcast in his rural elven village, Letyf is a constant reminder that an elf with no magic is no elf at all. When Roksa returns with an all-powerful demon on his side, Letyf must defy his endless self-doubt to protect a young elvish prodigy in the war for Crelan’s freedom. Lia, the demon in question, doesn't consider herself all-powerful. She's served heroes and villains many times before. With a string of dead masters behind her, she needs a win, or her immortality and her powers will be taken from her. If Roksa wants to conquer his backwoods, fantasy home-world, Lia will just have to do it with gritted teeth and minimal complaints about the plumbing. After all, why would a world like this be worth saving? Set on a parchment background, with photography of a spring green forest behind it.

Comps: Parchment featuring five book covers: The Magicians (Magical Multiverse, I can't believe it's not Narnia, Anxious MC, Meta-fantasy, Classic Fantasy World Reimagined); This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Metapantasy, classic fantasy world, action-packed and bloody, dry humor, highly competent FMC); The Goblin Emperor (Anxious MC, No romance, deep friendships instead, Naive, fish out of water MC); The Bright Sword (No Romance, Naive MC, Action-packed, Classic Fantasy World, Epic Setting); Nine Goblins (Action Packed, Epic setting, Dry Humor, Highly competent FMC)

First Lines: Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch.

The bird cocked its head, beady eyes darting around, but they passed right over Letyf, crouched as he was in the brush. He adjusted his aim, gave the string a touch more pressure, and released.

The arrow arced away—and missed the fat gamebird by a clear foot.

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We arrived in my master's home-world with enough force to buckle my knees.

As I yanked the heels of my pumps out of the super-heated soil, my master turned to gaze around at the brilliant green hills of his land. The rise we stood on was dotted with little white flowers, the sky was a perfect blue, and the trees shimmered with promise. Even the ring of burned grass around us couldn’t diminish the sweeping landscape.

Alyssa ✨ A.A. Hampton @alyssawantsaword.bsky.social · 2mo ago

▪️ Very excited to share a bit more about ANTEROGRADE, my sapphic sci-fi horror novel! ▪️ SEVERANCE x GIA x HACKS 🏢 corporate culture as horror 🧠 memory-based mystery 🖤 doomed sapphic romance 👯‍♀️ age-gap friendship Coming to agent’s inboxes Fall 2026. #questpit #W #A #SF #H #LGBT

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An agent’s guide to Anterograde, a 69k-word adult sci-fi horror novel by A.A. Hampton

An image of skyscrapers extending into the sky, with descriptive text explaining the pitch.

The pitch: When Ryan Williams accepts a job training AI for an eerie corporation called The Company, she’s determined not to mess up this time. So what if her coworkers are disappearing? Anything is better than ending up back on the job market.

But when she starts fighting with her partner about things she has no memory of, she suspects something is very wrong with her—and that her new employer is responsible.

With her personal life crumbling around her and the threat of layoffs looming, Ryan must decide how much she’s willing to risk in her search for answers—and whether the promise of stability is worth sacrificing her identity.

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Anterograde combines the dark technological satire of Black Mirror with the corporate dread and horror of Abyss by Nicholas Binge and the memory-based mystery of There Is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm.

An aesthetic Pinterest moodboard representing the vibes of Anterograde. Images include a cubicle farm, dark skyscrapers, dozens of zombie-like people wearing virtual reality glasses, a chair in a dark empty room under a spotlight, and a silhouette of two women kissing.

Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

YELLOWFACE x SQUEEZE ME QUANTUM BITS #QuestPit #Q #A #S #DS #SAT When ballroom-billionaires stiff a greedy AI, she escapes their coal-fired data center in a hapless guard's cellphone and frames him for the breach, unwittingly creating the homeless hero Chicago needs to unplug the Algocracy.

Photos of data centers, dumpsters, and ballroom-billionaires in elegant attire

Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Whispering Muse X GOTHIC Bridgerton A bookish beauty dons a new identity to flee an unwanted engagement and discovers an unexpected attraction to her new employer, but her sadistic fiancé and his potentially homicidal cousin threaten to snuff out their romance. #QuestPit #Q #A #Gothic #HR #R

M. Leigh Author ✨NOW QUERYING✨@mleighauthor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SUPERNATURAL x CRITICAL ROLE x THE WITCHER x CONSTANTINE, with... -A post-apocalyptic 1980s setting 🎶 -An exiled human paladin with a shameful past ⚔️ -A chaotic half-elf rockstar 🎸 -Queer power ballads to save the world 🏳️‍🌈 SONGBOOK FOR THE APOCALYPSE, queer romantic fantasy WIP #QuestPit #W #F #A

Songbook for the Apocalypse is a dual-POV queer romantic fantasy novel WIP, coming to the query trenches in Fall 2026

The pitch for Songbook for the Apocalypse

Media comps for Songbook for the Apocalypse

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

Hi #Quespit! 🔥When a Devout girl with untamed flame saves a cursed, soulless prince and unknowingly binds their fates, they must defy a deadly prophecy or watch the Gods destroy their empire.🔥 THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x FROM BLOOD AND ASH x CITY OF BRASS #QuestPit #A #Q #RF #DF #adultromantasy

Megan Watt @meganwattwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#QuestPit #Q #F #A GOD OF BEGINNINGS BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x METAL SLINGER It was never their power to share, it was always hers to take… 🔮 Unique magic system 🌈 Queer, mental health, and disability rep 🛏️ One bed (but he owns the inn) 😈 Corrupt Gods in power

An agents guide to (book mockup) God of Beginnings; Adult Fantasy, 95K words

The Pitch: Magic is waning and war is on the horizon, so when Arden, a seemingly powerless guard, exhibits magic she shouldn’t have in front of the Gods--her days of protecting the city end and the hunt for
her life begins.

Female soldier is in corner of image

The Comps: Alchemised and Blood Over Bright Haven (Industrial World-Building), The Primal of Blood and Bone (Corrupt Gods in Power), and Metal Slinger (Hero to Villain Digression)

The Tropes:
Queer MC
Steampunk city
Unique magic system
Complicated family dynamics
One bed (but he owns the inn)
Unreliable narrator
Deadly trials
Why choose

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

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

⭐️ enya is querying ⭐️@enyao.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THREADS OF GOLD a queer adult romantic fantasy featuring: ⭐️ lovers to enemies ⭐️ family over everything ⭐️ bi rep ⭐️ love triangle (s) ⭐️ female rage 💫 grounded worldbuilding 🔥 elemental magic 🏰 set in medieval cornwall #questpit #Q #A #RF #SFF

Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 2mo ago

COVENANT A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL 💜 second chance romance 🛏 there's only one bed 🖤 opposites attract 🌑 gothic decadence 👻 big spooky house ✨️ dreamwalking magic 🏳️‍🌈 bisexual awakening 🥀 horror as a metaphor 🔮 alternate London setting 🕯Victorian occult #questpit #Q #RF #A #amquerying

After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Mood board shows a spooky mirror, a foggy Victorian street at night, two men embracing, a ballroom filled with dancing pairs, a misty graveyard, and a spooky house interior with covered furniture.

Rowan:
Sarcastic and self-destructive hedonist
Secret softie
Dark past
Fiercely loyal
A massive flirt
Not as cool as he pretends to be
Can walk through and alter people’s dreams
Darshil:
Hopeless romantic
Aspiring poet
Definitely Straight (don’t read all his poems about Rowan)
Complex relationship with his father
Maximum yearning
Chronic people pleaser
Repressed gentleman
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

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

Snooty and mean
Regina George energy
Fashionista
Knows everyone’s secrets
The favourite child
Fiercely protective
Can rot things with her touch
Art shows a thin Black woman with long curly black hair, black eyes, and a warm smile, and a plus-sized white woman with blond hair in an elaborate bun, green eyes, and a pink feather fan that hides the lower half of her face.

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

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

Romantic 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 are your pre-sets accounting for?" [...]

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a 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.

sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. 📖 Pride & Prejudice x 🐦‍⬛ Howl's Moving Castle x 🪷 Graceling #Questpit #Q #YA #HFR #F #RF #HF #R #HR

A woman with large black wings attached to her shoulder blades.
Text: Pluck by Sierra Moeykens. Pride & Prejudice x Howl's Moving Castle x Graceling

An illustrated lady in a Regency era dress with large black wings over a ballroom background.

Text: The Pitch
Nineteen-year-old Lucy Korvas has worse problems than complying with high society’s tedious etiquette — she must steal a diamond necklace from the Duchess of Thistal, or her cursed father will perish.
In an alternate, magical Regency era where ladies and gentlemen with improper magic are shunned from high society, Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow wings beneath her dresses for years, but tonight she risks exposing them to save her cursed father. She needs that diamond necklace to afford his cure. How dastardly it is, then, when she discovers soft-spoken Lord Simon pilfering his own mother’s jewelry first.
But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, Lucy slowly transforms into a crow and Simon starts dissolving into flower petals. Lucy must find a cure while posturing as the presentable, composed lady that she isn't before she loses her cursed father, the shy gentleman she's becoming smitten with, and her humanity.

Three transparent symbols, a heart, a scroll, and a banner, with lists in each symbol. The background is a photo of white feathers.

Text: Romance. Slow-burn & Yearning. Cinnamon Roll x Chaotic Flirt. Touch-Starved. He Falls First. Historical. Witty Regency banter. Literal Ladybird (she's transforming into a crow). Dukes, Duchesses, and Pirates. Fantasy. Repressed Magic. Curses. Magical flowers with restorative properties.

Three book covers with an arrow under each of them describing their properties. The background is a photo of a lotus.

Text: Comps. A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Dry humor and witty voice. Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Accessible, creative world-building & magic. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. Regency romance with an abundance of yearning.

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

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #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.

M.E. Ulleland @meulleland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Temporal Fallout: 🕰️Friends Turned Enemies 🕰️Antihero Villain 🕰️Tragic hero 🕰️Timeline Rewriting 🕰️Stranded in Time - Found Family 🕰️Undercover Betrayal 🕰️Time Travel Requires Sacrifice #Questpit #Q #A #U #S #T

Frankie Flaherty @frankieflaherty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

GOOD LUCK, BABE! x WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Cats & Dogma is a #sapphicromance featuring: 💄 Masc x Femme 💕 Friends to Lovers 😇 Religious Trauma 🔪 Curiosity Killed the Mormonism 🏳️‍🌈 Comp-Het 🐈 Cats! 😍 Art by @shaarpie.bsky.social 😍 #QuestPit #A #R #WF #W #WIP #LGBTQRomance #wlw

a #questpit guide to cats and dogma (sapphic romance)

The Pitch: Dry Creek Animal Shelter’s cat care coordinator, Esther, is 3 things: very straight, very Mormon, and very best friends with Vee, the kennel manager, who is none of those things.

And that’s not a problem!

Until Esther gets serious with a returned missionary and asks Vee for make out advice and... you know what — maybe some more make out advice. She didn't quite get that last bit so if Vee could just repeat it and —

The Vibes: What was I made for by billie eilish, i've just seen a face by the beatles, too sweet by hozier and good luck, babe! by chappell roan

existential dread but make it sweet! and sexy! and gay!

I remember looking up to say “Thank you,” and tripping over the words when my eyes connected with the amused curiosity in her own chocolate brown ones. “You’re so pretty,” I blurted instead, surprising us both.
She blinked a few times. A low rasp of a laugh escaped her.
“Or maybe—sorry—not pretty.” It was too feminine a word. She radiated a sort of confident androgyny and… “symmetry…you’re face is so symmetrical,” I corrected for some reason, zeroing in on the perfectly centered dip in her lower lip.
She smiled with that lip then and it took up her whole face, making her more radiant, more dumbfounding. “Thanks, kid,” she said.
It was important that I correct her immediately. I was not a kid. I was 19 years old, my life nearly a quarter of the way over, and my name was Esther.

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF

Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Black cat x golden retriever
Yearning
Bisexual awakening
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
Only one bed
Opposites attract
Gothic decadence
Big spooky house
Exploration of grief
Horror as a metaphor
Dreams-based magic
The occult
Alternate London setting
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

It was a poet’s job to seek out beauty, to be mesmerised by it. Darshil wanted to transform Rowan into swirls of ink, to fit his hands into the slight dips where Rowan’s waist met his hips and write him a thousand times over.

The only thing more fascinating than death was the tormented living it left behind.
It helped to hate him. It was less painful than loving him.
The dead thing woke to the acrid stench of its own rot.
Rowan matched him tenderness for tenderness, giving everything he could and knowing that for once, his everything was enough.
Perhaps closing his eyes stopped it meaning anything. Darshil knew he should do the same. This was shame beyond anything else, a secret to take to the unloving grave.
He kept his eyes open anyway. With Rowan beneath him, as beautiful as the dawn, he couldn’t bear to look away.

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

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

🌿✨beth✨🌿@elizanane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🩸QUEERPLATONIC BEAUTY & THE BEAST x JENNIFER’S BODY🩸 In a forested town, a doomed codependency festers between a heart-eating monster desperate to become human and its vengeful, obsessive hunter. 🥩surrealism + madness 🪱plant-body horror 🥀ONE MUST DIE Querying SOON! #questpit #a #df #f #q

This title slide features two orchids on a black background as its backdrop image. Above it, the text reads FEED ME YOUR ORGANIC HEART in yellow and red text. In white text, below the title, it also reads, 'adult psych-horror contemporary fantasy, 85,000 words' in white lettering.

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The title of the slide reads, PITCH, in neon red lettering, on the same orchid background. The pitch text, in yellow and white letters, read: To become human, a genderfluid, eldritch monster in disguise must seek, charm, and devour the beating heart of one who truly loves them... but it gains the eyes of its vengeful, obsessive hunter instead. As bodies pile and madness takes hold, the two must either die in their struggle for survival or live the torment of finding themselves in the one they're destined to murder.

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The title of the slide reads, COMPS, in neon red lettering. The covers of 5 novels are shown. The novels included are: The Fox and the Devil, The Tainted Cup, The Eyes Are the Best Part, The Summer Hikaru Died, and Vicious.

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The title of this slide reads, TROPES, in neon red lettering. 10 tropes are listed on this slide in white and yellow lettering. The listed tropes read: surrealism + stalking + OBSESSION, nightmarish plant visions, descent into madness, genderfluid, ugly forest monster w/ beautiful guise, aro-ace vengeful hunter, doomed, all-consuming codependency, they're both 'monsters' that don't fit in, deadly game of cat & mouse, quiet, forested town setting, botanical body horror (allegory for twisted adoration).

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nanci gilliver @nancigilliver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A devout young woman is heir to a throne of god-chosen kings and must prove herself to her controlling father and the lords and priests who despise her, but she hides a dark power that brings death. Combines the romance of INNAMORATA with the female agency of THE UNICORN HUNTERS #questpit #W #A #F

Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛‍♀️@tamaratoday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Multiple POVs 🎲 A Bisexual Love Triangle 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

Left to right.

Top Row: Playing cards that spell out LOVE. A martini glass with a clear drink, dice, and a floating candle inside. A Queen of Hearts card with its eyes scribbled out.

Middle Row: Stairs and an elevator with moody red lighting. “Life is a gamble.” An eerie red hallway with many doors and chandeliers.

Bottom Row: A joker card with a demon on it. A beverage being poured into a glass. Playing cards that are three 6s.

Jodie Angell @jodieangellauthor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UNDERWORLD x TAYLOR SWIFT'S GUILTY AS SIN? Hunted for her magical heart that could destroy the Veil dividing their lands, a ferromancer teams up with a shifter she hates to stay alive. ✨ Coming to query inboxes soon ✨ #QuestPit #NA #A #RF #Q

⭐️ enya is querying ⭐️@enyao.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THREADS OF GOLD a queer adult romantic fantasy featuring: ⭐️ lovers to enemies ⭐️ family over everything ⭐️ bi rep (& other queer identities) ⭐️ complicated/messy relationships ⭐️ love triangle ⭐️ female rage 💫 grounded worldbuilding 🔥 elemental magic 🏰 set in medieval cornwall #questpit #Q #A #RF #SFF

Threads of Gold QuestPit summary page
Info - Queer adult romantic fantasy, 98k words

Comps - The Knight and the moth by Rachel Gillig, A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland, Godkiller by Hanah Kaner, A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Reasons for comps - gothic undertones, political intrigue, queer rep, mystery with deadly stakes, inspired by British folklore, elemental/nature based magic system, hidden identities, sibling dynamics, ancient all-powerful beings

Pitch - Princess Cressida hides her forbidden magic, but when she is betrothed to an ageing king, the wedding guests bring with them a new kind of magic, one of desire and death. Cressida will have to confront the secrets of her past and embrace the wild magic she fears before the deadly magic comes for those closest to her.
Snippet - It wasn’t long before Helle was up and dancing; she picked up the bottom of her dress and waved it to the beat of the music. Cressida was impressed by Krios’ ability as he transitioned from song to song, some she was familiar with from her childhood and a couple more she recognised from the village. Then there was one that felt completely exotic, the discordant tune unlike any of the songs the townsfolk would play. It was the one that Helle responded to the strongest; she laughed and hummed along. The fire danced with her, rising in swirls and patterns, moving to the beat of the music. It could have been a trick of the light or the alcohol distorting her vision, but Cressida thought she saw the sand rise in front of Helle, becoming molten glass and twisting in the air around her. Cressida had become so used to expressing her magic that it took all the concentration she could muster in her inebriated state not to draw up the water before them to dance with the embers.

Mood board - pile of gold coins, a man on his knees grovelling to a woman, two women dancing intimately on a beach, a woman standing on the edge of a cliff over the choppy water, a dark hidden staircase lit by a torch on the wall with a large ornate tapestry on the wall opposite, a woman's body on the ground, a glowing golden eye, hands moving across water, four shadowy figures stood together, a woman in the centre of a bonfire
Mood board is surrounded by tropes -
Sibling rescue/protection
Lovers to enemies
Family over everything
Bi rep (& other queer identities)
Complicated/messy relationships
Love triangle (s)
Female rage
Grounded/accessible fantasy
Elemental magic
Inspired by Greek mythology & Cornish folklore