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Grace Hertenstein is querying ⚡️❤️‍🔥🤘🏻

@gracehertenstein.bsky.social

Published writer, feminist mom, goth florist, music snob • Currently querying gritty coming-of-age novel about LA punk

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Jessica DeLand - Author (WAKE Coming Feb 2027)@delandjessica.bsky.social · 11mo ago

WAKE was inspired by HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE w/: ~A self-sacrificing girl cursed w/ unwanted magic ~Who ends up living w/ a defective group ~Where she's teased w/ a feathery secret ~They develop a found family ~& she falls for 1 of them Coming Spring 27 #QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R

a cartoon of a man and a woman looking into each others eyes

Alt: Sophie and Howl from the Howl's Moving Castle movie embracing while Howl is in his feathered form and fiery ash falls from the sky.

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alyssa@alyssaarcher.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🥀VIOLET MADE OF THORNS X DEFY THE NIGHT🔮 ⭐Chronic illness & mental illness rep 🔥Forced proximity ❤️BFFs to enemies to lovers 🌿 Lessons in poison 👁️Involuntary visions of the future 👑Paranoid king with an affinity for poison 🗡️MC & rebellion are just using each other #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #DIS #OWN

Collage of eight photos. First photo is of a blond woman wearing a blue gown in front of a wall of red flowers. Second photo is of a cliff with the sea at its bottom. Third photo is of the black pommel of a rusty sword. Fourth photo is of a golden crown. Fifth photo is of purple foxglove in a blurred field. Sixth photo is of a wine glass filled with a crimson liquid and dried flowers. Seventh photo is of a blond man lying on the floor with a necklace dangling over his head. Eighth photo is a close-up of a light blue eye beside white flowers on the grass. All photos have been edited with a warm and golden hue to them.
Grace Hertenstein is querying ⚡️❤️‍🔥🤘🏻@gracehertenstein.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Undesirables • #YA #NA #Q 🧍🏼a teenage loner 🌃 gritty 70s Hollywood 🎸a band of misfits led by a punk artful dodger ⭕️ circle pits & poetry 🖤 relationships that transcend romance 🪨 a rock bottom moment ⛅️ redemption & self-discovery 🤘🏻a really good playlist #questpit

a man is playing a guitar in front of a microphone with the letter s on it

ALT: a man is playing a guitar in front of a microphone with the letter s on it

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Rosa Suzanne@rosasuzanne.bsky.social · 11mo ago

When Jude returns to her hometown after a decade away, she thinks the worst things she'll face are the people she left behind. But when she accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster, she must rally her former friends to stop their town from being erased from existence. #QuestPit #A #F #W

A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about. Some of the images depict stone walls with wooden fences, tables in the middle of grassy fields, the seaside and cats sleeping atop books. Hidden views and lots of cozy cottages. Text reads: For fans of • Starling House • Practical Magic • Spells for Forgetting Small seaside town • Cottagecore • Small magics • Nightmare monster • Childhood friends to reluctant allies to found family • Crumbling realityA second collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about. Some of the images depict seaside towns, gods swimming, a couple dancing on the sea shore, a misty hill too and lots of cozy looking cottages.
🕸️ mar 🕸️@marescreve.bsky.social · 11mo ago

IF WE WERE VILLAINS x THE DREAMERS (2003) Three messy bisexuals who make each other worse navigate the challenges of adulthood in 90s Europe. 💌 men who yearn 💕 bisexual love triangle 📚 antique bookshops 🗡️ support women’s wrongs 🌾 working class immigrant MC 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ rep #questpit #Q #A #LF

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻@scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thread of my 🎉 #QuestPit 🥳 pitches!!!

Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻@scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The only place depressed goth-girl, Helena, feels at home on the cheery campus is the dark, haunted chapel. When the stones come alive to warn her of a demon invasion, she becomes entangled in a cosmic war. And falls for a gargoyle.❤️ Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, sapphic gargoyle urban fantasy. Tagline”Somewhere away from this world, indistinct, infinite, and unknowable… What was beyond that veil?” 10 very dark, moody, grayish images around the edge include the hazy spires of Notre Dame with birds lying across, the Milky Way, a crow coming in the land, a gargoyle peeking over a ledge, a shadow crouching in a corner with piercing eyes, a young woman with black hair over her eye, a crow in front of a grave, a graveyard statue of an angel, and the interior of a church with a stained glass window. In the center of all this, is a bright painting of a natual landscape done in vivid sunset colors.
R. E.@earthkids.bsky.social · 11mo ago

DANNY PHANTOM x WEDNESDAY Well, Denny Dragan sure messed up this time. Rather than find his missing sister, he accidetnally released a serial killer ghost. To make things messier, he needs help from Guitar, a medium who would rather practice his cello than save lives. #QuestPit #Q #YA #H #MY

An Agent's Guide to Reach Out a 85,000 word YA Horror/Fantasy with mystery elements. It's a collage of tarot cards, a girl climbing into an empty pool and a cassette tape that says "In case I disappear"Lined paper that says The Pitch at the top circled in red and a polaroid of a mauseleum. Then the following words: THE UNDERWOOD TAPES x WEDNESDAY Denny Dragan sure messed up this time. While trying to find his missing sister, he accidentally released a serial killer ghost. Talk about a distraction! And to make things messier, he needs help from a medium who would rather let people die than help out strangers.lined paper that says to the left "Tropes/rep" that's circled in red then there is a paper taped to it with the following words: "Found Family Epistolary Interludes Rewind, Replay, Repeat Witchcraft Meddling Kids Missing Person Unsolved Mysteries & Urban Legends Ghostly Goals 90s Vibes" underneath is another paper taped with the following pride pins: Trans, Ace, Lesbian, progress pride" On the left it says "Comps" and is circled in red then has two film strips that go from top to bottom: Wednesday and her friend in a cemetery, the Mystery Gang in a small town, the Losers Club in a cemetery, the Dead Boy Detectives in a bunker then The Underwood Tapes by Amanda Dewitt with two people on the book cover with film around them; the Name of the STar by Maureen Johnson with the book cover featuring a faded park image; Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake with a book cover of a ghost girl walking through fog to a house; Dead Flip by Sara Fraizan with a book cover of an arcade and heads above it.Lined paper with an unspooled cassette tape at the top where it says "A snippet" circled in red and says the following: " Dear listener who is probably just Denny. I bet you’re chuckling now ‘cause I’m right, aren’t I? Anyway, this is my ‘in case I disappear’ tape but the rest is a real treat for you. It’s some impressive project I’ve been working on. Though if I am missing, tell mom it wasn’t the monsters, but I’m, like, studying archeology at some college where I’m on some research trip with the professor to find the amulet. Then really buckle down and be all like ‘You know, the amulet? How do you not know about the amulet? What kind of mom are you?’ until she cries or something then you can tell the truth. I want her to feel bad for always being ‘too busy.’"
arlen ren ✨@arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Twins Kyra and Kaden don't talk about what happened over the summer. But as their classmates disappear into the Pines, they have to start facing up to their problems before they're next. The issue is, they don't know who to trust—not even each other. Not even themselves. #QuestPit #YA #W #H

a photo of pine trees surrounding a river, with the writing "a guide to The Killer of Canderley Creek by Arlen Ren" over itKyra and Kaden Hawkins have had the summer from Hell. Kicked out by their mum, they've rejoined their dad in the town they grew up in, Canderley Creek, where two neighbourhoods straddle the estuary: the prosperous Pines and downtrodden Tides. Nothing has changed. Except for the twins. Now, as their classmates disappear into the woods, they have no-one to turn to, no-one to trust. Not even each other. Not even themselves. YA Horror WIPtwo chibi portraits of the main characters: a white gay trans boy with white hair with black bangs, and a white bi cis girl with black hair in bunches with white bangs. over a background of pine needles are the following themes: dual POV, horror whodunit, unreliable narrators, finding literal monsters instead of facing your problems, small town setting, there's something lurking beneath the earthComp titles and themes: Fear Street by RL Stone, Good Girls Die First by Kathryn Foxfield, Bad Creek by Peyton June. Ancient malignant entities! Horror where you don't know who you can trust! Creepy forest/creek settings!
Daria Piskozub🇺🇦@nakistark.bsky.social · 11mo ago

LORE meets NEVER HAVE I EVER in the Carpathian mountains! 🧟‍♀️Non-western mythology/folklore (Slavic) 🏃‍♀️Artifact hunt 👩‍🎤Messy teen coming-of-age 🤝Magical deal 🫂Diaspora and identity issues 🏞Set outside of the US 😺Humorous 🫦 Slow-burn romance #questpit #Q #YA #F

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Rob@robwritessome.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What if Joe Abercrombie wrote THE POPPY WAR? -A soldier fights for his humanity -Magic with brutal costs -Fire cults -Dung flies in every bowl of slop BEAST OF LUNEBROOK is dark fantasy with a beating heart—the kind where the monster inside you just might be what saves you. #QuestPit #W #DF #F