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EvaA

@evacharya.bsky.social

Nepali-Australian writer of romcoms, fantasy, and occasionally sci-fi. Currently drowning in edits and black coffee.

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EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Been hunting for book comp titles for this as I begin the rewriting process and… I might have just found one comp. IF LOOKS COULD KILL by Julie Berry, however, mine isn’t historical but dystopian. But still, the cat-and-mouse vibe is a good fit for my structure! Anyone know other similar books?

EvaA@evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What if Medusa returned to find the world is still the same as it had once been. For one, freedom means everything. For another, her child. Yet, neither is ready for the truth. A daughter. A mother. And a woman caught in between. One unbelievable story. #Questpit #A #Dystopian #WIP

A mockup poster or book cover for a Medusa reimagining in a dystopian setting. An agent’s guide to—Title of the story: Stone 2 Stone.

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Holidays, writer’s version: Writers, what do you pack—your must haves—when going on a holiday? Me: I usually have take a book to read or notebook to write in, even if I know I may not have the time. 🤣

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m published yet, but I thought I better introduce myself again. I’m a Nepali from Australia. I write contemporary romcoms, sci-fi, fantasy/retellings. Atm querying my Nepali romcom, LOVE ON A DEADLINE, but thinking indie if things done work out. I plan to share my journey with you soon. 👋👋

Cover for the story should I go indie! The characters are standing in the foyer, and Shashi (MC) is handing his new flatmate, Junkiri (an old crush) a key.

Vibes of the story: he’s sworn of love, on paper or in life, until she walks into his house and his life—the muse he didn’t know he needed. So naturally, he didn’t stand a chance…

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Any Nepali readers out there? I know we’re a small South Asian community but would you read this if you had the chance? If querying doesn’t work out, I’m considering indie, and want to see if readers out there who would give this romcom a chance? (You don’t have to be Nepali either.)

Mock poster for the story, with character art and tropes, as well as a teaser line.

The pitch for the story: he’s a romance writer done with real life romance or on the page, until she walks in. His old crush—wanting to torment her ex by flaunting a new guy. Doesn’t have to be a real boyfriend. So naturally, he volunteers, as a good little roommate would. What could possibly go wrong?

Comparison titles that have similar tropes or plot devices or invoke the atmosphere of yearning.

Kim 🪽| DRAFTING @k1mm1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CRUEL PRINCE ⚔️ THE NINTH HOUSE ⚔️ FOURTH WING To save her dog from monsters ravaging her world, a cynical warrior is forced into a volatile alliance with an idealistic king—or risk losing the one thing she refuses to let go of. #Questpit #Q #F #R

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

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Nature is decaying, nobles are hoarding magic, and demons prey on everyone. A possible chosen one, a man who failed his destiny, and a woman rejected by fate must work together for one last chance to save the dying world. #questpit #F #A #Q

A foggy street. Legs on rocky ground. A woman. A vintage woman. A man. A gasmask. A bird. A fence. Nature in sunlight.

Nefer Doane @neferdoane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SPELLSHOP x KEEPER OF MAGICAL THINGS Nori can't wait for the Wishing Well to open so she can summon her familiar—but he instantly dislikes her and the Wishing Well stays open. Now they must close it, or a horde of familiars will break through and destroy their seaside town. #QuestPit #W #A #F

A moodboard for adult cozy fantasy, THE WISHING WELL.

From left to right, starting at the top:

- a wishing well
- some lace with tape over it that says THE WISHING WELL
- a teapot
- a tropical island cove
- a black cat
- a forest with flowers
- a stack of books
- cottage window
- holding hands at sunset
- bowl of ramen
- snow drop flowers

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

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is gifted magic that could bring life to her dying world, but the power might destroy her. Allied with a broken mentor, a ruthless noble, and a beguiling prince, she has to find out if she is meant to save the world or if it is even worth saving. #questpit #F #A #Q

A dark forest. A bird. A night sky. A fence. A person in a forest. A woman.

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For freedom. For love. For revenge. Three stories. Three lives. And one big question. Who is turning young men into statues and how? DI Reina will even break the law she’s sworn to protect to save a loved one but can she find her son in time? #Questpit #WIP #Dystopian #A

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

He’s jaded and in a bind, with a looming work deadline. She’s jilted and in need of a wingman, to torture ex. He volunteers as tribute, knowing where it may lead. He’s written those stories before, of falling in love. After all: once a crush, always a crush. Right? #Questpit #Q #A #R

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

He just wanted some peace and quiet to write and heal. She just needed a place to hide and plot revenge. Neither planned for what truly happened. #Questpit #Q #A #R

An agent’s guide to LOVE ON A DEADLINE, a romcom. (Title page)

Hook for romcom, with characters art.

One flatmate. One kiss. One gorge should have never entered but couldn’t resist.

The long pitch for the romcom. He’s a romance author who can no longer write romance. She’s his old crush seeking revenge from her ex for the heartbreak. Neither planned to fall in love in between.

Comp titles: The American Roommate Experiment, with a splash of Funny Story, and vibes that are full of yearning. Cover images of comp titles included with similarities to my romcom.

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An elevator pitch: three lines describing what each character wants and needs.

Description of the book. When young men go missing and turn up at statues in a future not too far from us, a detective and mother will do everything she can to find her missing son before he too turns up as a statue.

Comp titles for the story: Promising Young Woman, Law & Order: SVU, and Split.

Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝@danielleippaso.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC MEXICAN GOTHIC x STARLING HOUSE Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements. 🕯️An orphan seeking security ⌛An immortal man bound by a curse 📰A marriage notice that is a trap Nellie must choose: her heart or her survival #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #H #DR

A dark teal and black patterned card for THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC. The background has vintage deep shades of pink and purple roses on the top of the frame. Centered is a small hourglass made with bones and a skull symbolizing the immortal + horror elements of the story. There is a note on there that the story is 70,000 words and a Dark Southern Gothic with Horror Elements.

A pitch slide with a deep teal background and black magnolia patterns. A skull with purple and pink roses and more deep pink and purple roses act as decorations. The pitch reads: "The Unyielding Monsieur de Blanc follows Nellie Moore in 1872, lured to a New Orleans estate by a marriage notice promising security. There, she encounters a man as captivating as he is complex, a man bound by a curse that has kept him alive for over a century.
As an impossible attraction sparks, Nellie’s search for the truth reveals that some secrets are meant to stay buried, and some doors, once opened, can never be closed again."

Two book covers adorn the card with deep teal and black magnolia patterns, pink and purple roses framing the bottom.
MEXICAN GOTHIC - The atmostpheric dread and family legacy.
STARLING HOUSE - A cursed, burdened hero

Teal and black magnolia patterns in the background along with a pink and purple rose decoration in the top right corner. Other images include, a candlestick with a burning flame, a pocket watch, a burned newspaper with a woman dressed in 19th century attire. The card includes a snippet of the book as below:

Nellie cleared her throat, and he turned slowly. His broad shoulders squared as he measured her with gray, unflinching eyes.

“I do not care for shadows in my doorway. Step forward.”

Nellie could not speak for a moment. Such a man naturally commanded her. He seemed powerful, severe, and entirely too confident. “I—I beg your pardon, sir,” she stuttered, her voice small in the vast room. “I am Nellie Moore.”

A brief unreadable softness touched his features before he stiffened, his expression once again a mask of stone. “I am Monsieur de Blanc, or Mr. De Blanc, as you Americans prefer.”

His thick French accent was like bourbon; it was smooth, but with a burn that unsettled her. Nellie stared, stunned. This was him, the man she was to marry. She had expected someone older, not this gentleman in his late twenties with a face so...strikingly symmetrical.

“Do find your breath, Mademoiselle. I have enough to manage today without adding a fainting spell to the afternoon’s agenda. I’ve never had much patience for delicate women.”

The insult was a splash of frigid water, bringing her back to herself. The orphan inside of her who spent her days scrubbing floors and managing unruly children suddenly bubbled to the surface. She adjusted the lace on her shoulders and met his gaze with a leveled stare that mirrored his own coldness.

“You needn’t worry, sir,” she said, her voice surprisingly crisp. “I am merely trying to reconcile the man in front of me with the one I was promised in the letters.”

A flicker of mild interest passed over his face. “Is that so?” he murmured, arms folded tightly. “Fortune favors you, then. I am not the man from your letters.”

Ayishah Hasni is ✨AGENTED✨@ayishahhasni.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What if the swashbuckling, enemies-to-lovers vibes of Dreamworks' SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS was in a YA novel with: 🌙muslim mc's 🏴‍☠️pirate x princess 🌊17th-century indian ocean setting 🐲beasts from islamic folklore ✨interest from 2 big 5 editors #questpit #YA #HF #Q

a cartoon of a woman yelling at a man with the words ugh men

ALT: a cartoon of a woman yelling at a man with the words ugh men

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 3mo ago

When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #QuestPit #W #F #LGBT #YA

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with golems.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocket orrery engraved with runes.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️@creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OUABH X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS An orphaned maid races to sea after her bff & a legendary Stone, but a budding romance with the pirate Captain reveals he's tailed by a cruel enemy, and she may have to betray him & her heart before he sacrifices their mission & her bff. #QuestPit #Q #NA #RF

An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy.

Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind.

Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails.

Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto.

Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?”

Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought.

What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words.

How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to.

Would he have regretted her kiss?

“No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”

📚✨torera | Writer @txrera.bsky.social · 3mo ago

legendborn x red queen x barbie princess charm school A girl raised in poverty is chosen to train at the royal academy drawing dangerous attention when a forbidden pull to a relic and magic she can’t control threatens to expose a secret not even she knew she had #questpit #W #YA #DF #D #R

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.

Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 3mo ago

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000’s setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings #questpit #W #A #NA #R

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

Forbidden Romance.
High Society Match Making.
European Setting.
Slow Burn.
Love VS Duty.
Black Swan-esque Awakening.
Masquerade Ball.
2000’s Setting.
Obsessive Yearning.
Secret Lake Meetings.

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
-
And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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

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.”

Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 108k NA Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance ✔️ Cosy Romance + Deadly Stakes #Q #NA #A #RF #F #R #QuestPit

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k 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 ON SUB SOON

Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨@saraduran.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a new guide 🤍 • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AG

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This Slavic inspired romantasy sounds so cool.

EvelynHail, PhD@evelynhail.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A twist on the chosen one trope? Yes, please!

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.

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

He just wanted some peace and quiet to write and heal. She just needed a place to hide and plot revenge. Neither planned for what truly happened. #Questpit #Q #A #R

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 3mo ago