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@hennamarchives.bsky.social

she/her, 24, desi. med student occasionally, sff writer always (mostly)

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not me missing the #questpit tag on this post 😭

Darian Rudderham@darianrudderham.bsky.social · 2w ago

A group of university students find themselves entangled with an experiment that demands their blood and a creature that will give them power in exchange for pieces of their humanity. #q #a #sff

A stack of books, a postage stamp, and wax seal. "An Agent's Guide to A Consideration of Death"

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · 2w ago

Desperate to save a rotting city, the caretaker of an incorruptible corpse and the traitor god of an ancient pantheon must find what is causing the destruction. #questpit #W #A #F

A stained glass window. RIpped paper that reads "an agents guide to what lingers between"

The pitch. Rachel Gillig's The Knight and The Moth, Caitlin Starling's The Starving Saints, Rebecca Ross' WIld Reverance. Desperate to save a rotting city, the only god remaining of an ancient pantheon and the caretaker of a sacred, incorruptible corpse must find what is causing the destruction.

A woman with dark curly hair in a simple dress turned away. A woman with brown curly hair in blue and red robes holding a book. A man with dark curly hair in a simple white shirt holding a dagger. The tropes list reads, "yearning, annoyance to lovers, magic as corruption, three POVs, death incarnate, gothic fantasy, rotting city, pristine church, incorruptible corpse, necromantic religion."

Senna Beau Lark @sennabeaulark.bsky.social · 2w ago

Inspired by the life of Korea's only Empress, "QUEEN MIN" To dethrone her misogynistic king father, a duty bound princess must marry a foreign prince & ascend to Empress amidst the half-remembered ruins of a past life that ties her to her knight - and not who she will marry. #Questpit #Q #A #F #RF

Senna Beau Lark @sennabeaulark.bsky.social · 2w ago

THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME X BLOOD & STEEL X CW's 'REIGN' ✨ Arranged marriage 💫 Reincarnation (á la Inuyasha 🤭) 🤺 Princess x Knight (Forbidden) 👑 Non-Eurocentric Empire 🌈 LGBTQ+ & BIPOC Rep 🗣️ Emphasis on Self Agency/Identity #Questpit #Q #A #F #RF

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE EVERLASTING x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH a noble woman returns home after years in exile and finds herself thrust into an elite magic order on the eve of an unprecedented coronation, where she must guard the truth of her exile—lest her family fall into ruin. #questpit #W #A #F

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 2w ago

PALADIN'S GRACE x EMILY WILDE a reclusive archivist running from a shame ridden past and a mage-knight with failing magic reluctantly team up to solve an arcane murder in a small town where magic is slowly withering away #questpit #W #A #RF

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 3w ago

THE EVERLASTING x THE KNIGHT & THE MOTH featuring... 🪞 exiled heiress x lost prince 🪞 water goddess with a lil bit of a vendetta 🪞 exploration of agency in a collectivist society 🪞 are we more than our shame? #bluepit #📖 #W #A #F #OV #POC

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 3w ago

THE EVERLASTING x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH ever been exiled from the only home you've ever known and then return after years away to find a creepy religious cult is trying to kill you so they can resurrect a dead goddess who might not even exist? haha yeah me neither #bluepit #📖 #W #A #F #OV #POC

Marley @marleybwwrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

WHAT YOU WISH ♬ A gifted pianist battling psychometric abilities is thrust into a collaboration with an enigmatic cellist, forcing her to choose between vulnerability and security when her unstable power and their shared fear of loss threatens their future. #bluepit #📖 #A #R #SP #Q #OV #POC #ND

Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨@jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Lunaria Witch A RIVER ENCHANTED ❌ PRACTICAL MAGIC ✨ ND REP ❤️ Yearning over spice 🧙‍♀️ Character driven fantasy 👄 Lush prose & world building 👯‍♀️ Found family & sisterhood 💃🏻 Journey to self acceptance #bluepit #f #r #Q #na #a #ownvoices

Background- Night sky, full moon, ferns, herbs, feathers
The title of the book is “The Lunaria Witch”

The blurb
In a land where rumours of magic can have fatal consequences, hurricane minded Tallitha has always sought to hide her differences and deny whatever she cannot explain. But when the moon begins calling e from sleep and memories surface that do not belong to her, the time for denial is over and Tallitha’s life will change is ways she never could have predicted

Meta data
110k - NA/A - Fantasy romance - ND rep
When magic blooms in outcast Tallitha she must flee to a mysterious place of safety to escape the wrath of witchkind hunter Skara Draegar. Led by a charismatic yet secretive guide, Tallitha’s is thrust into a world of deadly secrets, ancient power and covert rebellion. But who take up her place within it and conquer those who seek to destroy her, she must first face her own demons to unlock her power and her potential

Themes
Internalised ableism, found family, yearning, he falls first, prejudice, elemental magic, self acceptance & slow burn romance

The comps

Lush prose and world building - A river enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Blend of fantasy and folklore - Now she is Witch by Kirsty Logan
ND rep and enchanting magic - Emily Wildes encyclopaedia of faeries - Heather Fawcett
Deep connection and yearning - A discovery of witches - Deborah Harkness

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

THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 107k New Adult Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Worldly, Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance Dynamic + Spice ✔️ Cosy Romance + Deadly Stakes #BLUEPIT #Q #NA #F #R

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

A Complete History of Limerence 📖🫀🐇🩸 When an archivist returns to his blighted hometown hunting stolen fairytales, he and his estranged tarot-reading first love are pulled into her magical deck to rewrite the fractured fables their town was built on. #BLUEPIT #W #A #F #R #H

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 3w 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. #BluePit #📖 #Q

Covenant
Adult standalone
Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
109,500 words

pitch and comps
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, Rowan, a hedonistic occultist, and Darshil, a repressed poet, vow to never see each other again. That is, until they begin sharing visions that herald the apocalypse. Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly to try and save the world from eternal darkness. But as the Veil 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.
The Magpie Lord
A Marvellous Light
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith
Penny Dreadful

Themes and tropes:
dual POV
Achillean romance
second chance romance
forced proximity
only one bed
opposites attract
gothic decadence
big spooky house
bisexual awakening
exploration of grief
horror as a metaphor
dreams-based magic
the occult
alternate London setting

Extracts
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.

A.J. McCrae @ajmccrae.com · 3w ago

In the town of Clearwater, no one enters the wood, no one notices the dead, and no one good goes out after dark. When two witches accidentally awaken the beast of the wood, it's the town that pays the price. For the beast is out for revenge and only their blood can stop it.. #BluePit #📖 #W #A #H #F

A grid of nine images including: a human skeleton half buried in the ground, a forest of bare trees, a man sharpening a wooden stake with a knife, a graveyard, a woman holding a glass of dark liquid, a woman in a white dress lying in the first, the white flowers of snow drops, a horned figure silhouette against a sky of birds, and a skull nestled in the crook of a tree branch.

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #BluePit #📖 #A #H #W #DIS #OWN #ND

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

moodboard featuring mountains, eerie woods, and trees

Kate Gray is Querying ✨@kategraycosplay.bsky.social · 3w ago

TANGLED X ANNIHILATION A failed revolutionary cons a party of heroes into hiring her as their guide through monster-infested woods where she’ll leave them for dead. Then she inconveniently grows a conscience. #bluepit #q #a #f

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

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

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.

Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 3w ago

Proudly presenting for #BluePit my trailer for ⚔️ THE DUEL IN 1660 ⚔️ A storybook romp through a colorful, heightened 17th century. It's the silliest historical you'll cry over this decade! #YA / #A #LGBT #TR #OV #HS #HU #Q #📖

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 3w ago

PALADIN'S GRACE x EMILY WILDE with the dynamic of maomao and jinshi from THE APOTHECARY DIARIES 💐 tortured pathetic yearner lover boy MMC 💐 meditations on the natural world 💐 exploration of the diaspora experience 💐 commentary on the medical industrial complex #bluepit #📖 #W #A #F #OV #POC

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 3w ago

PALADIN'S GRACE x EMILY WILDE a reclusive archivist running from a shame-ridden past and a mage knight with failing magic must team up to solve an arcane bog-body mystery in a small town #bluepit #📖 #W #A #F #OV #POC

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 4w ago

introducing ISOLDE PENDERGAST 🪷🦢📖 the reclusive archivist of weyhelm who seems to know a bit too much about magic when she has none of her own. she loves her greenhouses, hates socializing... can usually be found picking fights with the new mageguard in town... #profilepit #WIP #A #F

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 4w ago

introducing ALDER EVERLACE 🐈‍⬛⚔️💌 the mageguard who is trying to hide that his magic is failing him. he’s blonde, he’s bisexual, he's hopeless, he’s the president of the “mommy issues” support club… he's kind of obsessed with the archivist who can’t stand him…? #profilepit #WIP #A #F

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · 4w ago

THE ARCHIVIST AND THE MAGE from my dual POV adult romantic fantasy with mystery elements, pitched as PALADIN'S GRACE ⚔️ x EMILY WILDE 🪻 featuring... 🪶 contract-based magic 💐 complicated sibling dynamics 🧺 the diaspora experience 🌿 a bog-body murder mystery #profilepit #WIP #A #F

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · last mo.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED! Come witness the resurrection of the goddess who created these holy blessed lands, Our Lady of the Shale. Please bring your own offerings, and RSVP before the tides of the shale recede. We anxiously await your reply! #unhingedpit #W #A #F

henna is drafting 🌿💐🐈‍⬛@hennamarchives.bsky.social · last mo.

return home after years in exile at 8am, find yourself an unwilling sacrifice for a religious cult intent on resurrecting a dead goddess that might not even exist at 8pm… just another day in the medieval city of prauthe (if your name is calanthe highmore) #unhingedpit #W #A #F

Ally 🍀@allyuwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FRIEREN x THE BONE MAKER/Azula's mommy issues in an MC with real friends 🧠 OCD rep After saving the world & becoming a hero, Anlith lives anxious & alone with only her 💀 evil mother's voice in her head. Reaching out to her old party, can she lay her mother & mind to rest? #SEAsianPit #A #F #Novella

In a warm and busy kitchen scene, a blue-skinned nonbinary water spirit chips at a tea block as they sit at a round table. Next to them, a long black-haired woman reads from a book while a curly brown-haired woman with two braids sits beside her and prepares fresh vegetables. Standing behind the curly haired woman is a man with short mussed curly brown hair who is holding a roasted chicken. All around them are signs of magic: crystals hanging from the ceiling to light the space, pies and tea kettles levitating, and flowers, playing cards, and cute mice strewn around the cooking area.

drawn by @artimaking