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Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌

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Holly | 32, U.K. | MA Prof. Writing (Querying) TRINITY | 🛡️🗡️🧬 (D1) PROJECT BLACKWELL | 🪙🩸🦅

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

Absolutely loved taking part in my first ever #QuestPit yesterday. 😄 Loved seeing the huge amounts of creativity in so many pitches. 🙌🏼 Thank you all for your support, I was not expecting so many lovely comments. 🥹

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

SCHITT'S CREEK X SOMETHING WILD & WONDERFUL x THE GUNCLE... in a rural Texas town... about a widower who falls for his mysterious roommate... #QuestPit #Q #R #A SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN (73K, adult LGBTQ+ fiction) is: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ queer joy 👀 they were roommates 💖 slow burn 🌙 chaotic chosen family ✨ so many y'alls

An agent's guide to Sounds Like A Plan, an adult LGBTQ+ novel complete at 73k set in rural small-town Texas and featuring a slow-burn queer romance

The vibes for and characters from Sounds Like A Plan

The comps and a peek at Sounds Like A Plan

Katie Carlson is seeking new rep!@katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

IF WE'RE STILL SINGLE 👫Two childhood best friends 💍One marriage pact 📝Seven things all couples should do before they say I do ♾️A million things that could go wrong 💘One chance to end their story the right way #QuestPit #A #R #Querying 8/1

A couple lit from the back, kissing in the snow
Text: An agent's guide to If We're Still Single

The Pitch
When Fiona unexpectedly ends up celebrating her thirtieth birthday by moving back to the tiny Wisconsin hometown she always dreamed of escaping, the one bright spot is the chance to reconnect with her childhood best friend, Henry. After a drunken night of remember whens, they agree to fulfill the marriage pact they made at seventeen.

The pair sets out to rebuild the magical friendship of their youth, armed with a list of things the internet tells them all couples must do before they walk down the aisle: try each other’s hobbies, cook together, travel, even... (gulp) have sex. Soon, the feelings Fiona’s always had for Henry can no longer be ignored. But Fiona never intended her stay to be permanent, and it’s time to figure out if she’s ready to redefine what--or who--home is to her.

Comps
People we meet on vacation by Emily Henry - Best friends to lovers, burying feelings for years
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn - Small town, checking things off a list
You, with a view by Jessica Joyce - Grief and Healing, Self-discovery

Molli Jackson Ehlert @mollimakes.bsky.social · 2w ago

You are cordially invited to REALM OF HEARTS for high tea. Your presence is not optional. #literaryagents you are invited to enjoy my revamped Wonderland reimagining. Fat, queer, anxious af and badass Alice is bringing the 🔥 to your inbox #QuestPit #Q #R #F #RF #A #NA #queer

Theo @theozukowski.com · 2w ago

GHOSTED — Moving back to his childhood home after his abusive father's sudden death, Sebastian West expects the nightmares. What he doesn't expect are the dark, bloody visions of his old 'imaginary friend' haunting his waking hours. Are they hallucinations? Or something worse? #QuestPit #W #A #DR

A grid of nine images. From the top left, clockwise, they are:
1. red-tinted man holds his own throat
2. man with a white cloth covering his head and face
3. red-tinted image of a man's hand over his bare back
4. burning church
5. red-tinted image of a shirtless man wearing a necklace
6. bare back of a man with three hands reaching around him
7. red-tinted image of a man with a rosary in his mouth
8. broken reflection of a shirtless man
9. hands held up by strings

Miranda Hawthorne @hlhawthorne.bsky.social · 2w ago

One last post for #questpit! KILLING EVE X FLEABAG 👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏼 Sapphic af 🔪 Men d!e (you’re welcome) 💋 Delicious banter 👏 Unapologetically irreverent 🤔 She falls first 🐕🐈‍⬛ Black Cat x Labrador ✨ “Don’t touch my wife” #W #R #T

Tini Wider @tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Carnival Row × Arcane. A secretly educated inventor must rescue her sister and expose the lie at the heart of a kingdom before a prince silences her forever. ⚙️ Inventor heroine ❤️ Friends-to-lovers ✨ Women aren't supposed to wield magic... until one does. #Q #YA #F #QuestPit

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE LOST STORY X THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA A fantasy novel aficionado discovers he’s the reincarnation of a revered Mage from another realm, and must uncover his past life memories to save his newfound home before it’s decimated by a horde of soul-devouring beasts. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️@marysmorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x HIGHER MAGIC DO NO HARM has… 🎩Retro-Victorian dark academia 🩸Murder and intrigue 👨‍🎓Plus-size PhD student MMC 👩🏽‍🎓Disabled punk activist FMC 🩺Medicine & magic 🧬Fictional magic, real science 🧑‍🔬Save the enby, save the world #Questpit #Q #A #F #SFF

justinahhartsock @justinahhartsock.bsky.social · 2w ago

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x AMATKA The last city of the universe survives by keeping its people from feeling. When an engineer discovers emotion and forbidden love beyond the city’s walls, she must decide how much of her world she’s willing to destroy to become herself. #QuestPit #A #LF #S #U

Alissa is Querying ✨🔥🧪@alissalindemann.bsky.social · 2w ago

Local Heavens X Fahrenheit 451 🖥️ Chronic Illness Rep 🎙️ Mind Control ❤️‍🔥 Rivals to Lovers 💖 Sapphic Romance 🎚️ Art as Resistance #questpit #A #SF #D #W

Text in the center of an old analog television reads "An Agent's Guide to Hell or Hardwire." It is bordered on two sides by rainbow electronic glitch background art. Along the side is binary code which translates to "Free your mind." The top border has musical notes in treble cleft on a staff. To the right are grayscale bars of TV static, the words "Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi" with a white glowing wolf's head outline between it and a final text of "80k Words" at the bottom.

Top and bottom of the image are bordered with rainbow electronic interference graphics and black and white TV interference. The title text reads "Loading Additional Media" and it features books "Local Heavens" by K.M. Fajardo, "Seek the Traitor's Son" by Veronica Roth and "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. There is also an image of the electronic music artist Daft Punk and the album cover for My Chemical Romance's album "Danger Days." The same binary code from the cover borders the image on the right.

Title text reads "Mission Status (Pitch)." It then has a white paper like box with the text, "When a digital music artist interrupts a heist, she becomes entangled in an underground Robin Hood style crime syndicate bent on destroying the corporite elite. Their leader, an infuriatingly likable rogue, and their plan to free the city from technocratic mind control clash with her own elaborate plot. As her body modifications slowly make her sick, she'll need to trust the rebels she once wrote off or risk time running out on both their plans." Below this is a box of black and white tv static with the faint outline of "Nero Relies on You," but the R and E in "Relies" is in black while the other words are in pink so it can be read as "Nero Lies on You." A text box to the right lists tropes: Chronic Illness Rep, Rivals to Lovers, Music and Fandom as Resistance, Sapphic Romance, and Feminine Rage." The right of the image is bordered by a black and gold circuit board.

Right border has glitched rainbow and black bars from a TV screen error. The title reads "Sample Code (Snippet)." On the right are antique images of Charles Babbage's brain with a diagram of a brain chip over the left lobe. Text reads: "Chapter 1: Stage lights crackle to life with a wave of electricity before rotating to illuminate my metallic form. I feel the crowd's frenzy, the way it lifts me, the way they yearn to rip this armor off and find the soft core of me inside. No one knows who I am, but they all love THE MACHINE GIRL. I star at the blank mass of shadow bodies, whose vocal cords swell with a name I chose for myself but isn't mine. Their response isn't biologically impressive. As the bassline of the track floods into the theatre, people twist and gyrate, but so too does a corpse dance post-mortem after succumbing to a knife wound. I would know.

Colleen Writes @colleenmoodyauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

In THE WISHES WE MADE, Aurora and Jameson ignore the most basic law of nature. A storm is unpredictable and you have no control over the destruction it leaves in its wake. #Questpit #Q #A #PR #R 🔥enemies-to-lovers-and-back-again ✨magic ☘️Irish folklore ❤️Strong female friendships 🤫Secrets & lies

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

Meet the Protagonist: Alyx Delaney. 🌊🔥 📍 St Ives, Cornwall 🔦 Urban explorer 🧗 Terrible at giving up 🫡 Even worse at following orders 🗡️ Curiosity drives her 🩸 Loyalty may destroy her TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. #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.

Juliane —- is querying! 🌟@julianesreads.bsky.social · 2w ago

A GUIDE FOR GHOST IN THE CLIFFS!! * ˒˒ ⸝⸝　 for lovers of: 🫆 small town disappearances 🫆 psychological unraveling 🫆 BIPOC main characters 🫆 Sadie, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, & Yellowjackets #questpit #q #ya #h #t #my

szczesniakchristin.bsky.social @szczesniakchristin.bsky.social · 2w ago

WE WERE ALL DEFECTS - YA Dystopian Thriller - 77k words The bubblegum-pink tiles of Ruinview will swallow anyone who loses control, but emotions are Alex's only weapon when she has seventy-two hours to stop her mother's execution and save the boy she loves. #QuestPit #Q #YA

The background features a dark silhouette of a person standing in front of a chain-link fence with a hazy, warm sunset shining through trees in the distance. There is a textured, pink hexagonal tile floor. White text over the image reads: "An Agent's Guide To: WE WERE ALL DEFECTS. YA Dystopian Thriller, 77k words."

A dark pink hexagonal tile background. At the top, glowing pink neon text reads "Welcome To Ruinview." Below it, text reads "DAYS SINCE LAST DROP:" above a mechanical flip-clock counter showing the number "O0" with small blood splatters on the white tiles. The main body text reads: "The pretty pink tiles of Ruinview are as fake as its plastic smiles, but happiness is a mandatory survival mechanism. None of those things stop Alex from feeling everything-even when she knows a slip in control will lead to the ground splitting open to swallow her whole. But hiding from herself won't prevent her mother's execution. Rescuing her mother will only kill the boy who saved her. Protecting either of them could cost her the one person she can't live without. And Alex only has seventy-two hours to get them all out alive."

A pink hexagonal tile background. At the top,
glowing pink neon text reads "The Tropes". Below it, text lists: "Friends-to-Lovers Slow-Burn", "Touch Her And You Die", and "Forced Toxic Positivity". Below that, neon pink text reads "The Comps". The text reads "Blends the weaponized psychological control of Stephanie Oakes' THE MEADOWS" above an image of the book's cover, "With the survival-forged slow-burn romance of Jill Tew's AN OCEAN APART" below an image of that book's

cover.

A four-panel aesthetic mood board set over a pink hexagonal tile background. At the top, glowing pink neon text reads "The Vibes" next to a black-and-white Spotify scan code. The collage consists of four images: the top left is a bright, retro diner with a pink-and-white checkered floor and teal vinyl seats. The top right is a soft, pink-hazed silhouette of a couple leaning in to kiss. The bottom left is a vintage, faded photograph of smiling women standing in rows wearing matching blue swimsuits and sashes. The bottom right is a steep, upward-facing view of a long escalator with dark purple steps flanked by glowing pink lights.

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

In post-WWIII Saint Petersburg, Polina sells illegal dreams to save her brothers. Leo, an American prisoner, hunts the dreamer in exchange for his wife’s freedom. But when dreams reveal their erased love story, they discover that love never comes without a sacrifice. #QuestPit #A #W #RF #dystopia

Mandy Raquel is revising ✨@mandiee.bsky.social · 2w ago

What happens when the life you escaped becomes the only thing that can make you feel whole again? 🎤 Pop-punk nostalgia 🖤 Found family 🔥 Slow-burn second chance 🥐 Former frontman turned bakery owner 🎸 Band secrets and old wounds #QuestPit #W #A #U #R

Erica Noel @ericanoelz.bsky.social · 2w ago

ECHOES OF YOU | 62K YA Speculative Romance A boy dies. His spirit wakes up in someone else’s body. And the girl who loved him has no idea she’s falling for him twice. #Q #YA #S #RF #R @questpit.bsky.social #questpit

Meta data giving the genre in Word count. Speculative Y romance. 62K. Comps are freaky Friday, before I fall, and see you yesterday.

Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 2w ago

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Just like heroes in the old tales, Hana knows the gods have given her magic to restore the dying world, and she can handle the quest! Even if her power is hurting her, demons are chasing her, and the previous chosen one thinks she was a mystical mistake. #Questpit #A #F #Q

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

Aria Mora @ariamora.bsky.social · 2w ago

LEGENDS AND LATTES X MIDNIGHT DINER X BLADE RUNNER ☕️ Karmic coffee. Illegal tomatoes. And an ex who still looks way too good in leather. Welcome to the underground café where redemption comes with oat milk foam. #Questpit #AG #OS #A #SF #D (cozy cyberpunk—you read that right!)

Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️@marysmorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x NINTH HOUSE Dark academia, magical medicine and a murder most foul. DO NO HARM is querying now. #Questpit #Q #A #F #SFF

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

alexis @k-alexisadams.bsky.social · 2w ago

My MC got a teeeeext! SCREAM QUEENS X TELL ME LIES The vibes: 🤎A Black MC navigating a PWI 👀Messy girlhood, juicy secrets 💖Campus thriller set in an elite sorority 🔪A murder tied to a dark hazing scandal 💋A dash of romance...but can her love interest be trusted? #Questpit #Q #A #MY #T

Hi. So, do I finally get to learn your name now?

hmm…I dunno. wouldn’t it be more fun if you had to guess it first? then say it three times in a row and summon a poltergeist?

Ah, like in Goodwill Hunting, right? One of my favorites.

lol okay, fine. you win. my name’s mara.

Mara. Got it. Just said it three times in a row. Now I guess I’ll wait and see how long it takes for that poltergeist to show up?

well, don’t hold your breath. so, jack bartlett, what does a sophisticated ghost hunter like yourself normally get up to on a night like this?

You mean besides the exorcisms? I just got home from my night class. I’ll probably throw on some Hulu and spend a few hours aimlessly scrolling the internet. If I’m feeling really wild, I might even make some microwave popcorn. I’m kind of a daredevil, if you hadn’t noticed.

ha. I had a feeling.

What about you? Up to anything interesting? Maybe plotting how you’re going to get out of this date with me on Friday? I wouldn’t blame you for cutting your losses early.

nope, no plotting. trust me, you’re doing ME a favor. though I should probably warn you in advance, these things are kind of a drag. just think of everything you hated about your high school dances and multiply it by ten.

Actually, I was pretty lame in high school. I never even went to a dance. I think I spent my prom night alphabetizing my record collection…which didn’t take very long, considering I only had twelve.

lol. that’s kind of adorable.

So, what should I wear to this formal thing? I’m assuming my finest tuxedo t-shirt will do, but you can never be too sure…

as much as I would LOVE to see that, I don’t think a tux tee falls within the constraints of the dress code. you don’t need to wear anything too fancy, though. most guys do a suit or separates, if that’s cool with you.

Easy enough. Any specific color I should match? Is that still a thing people do? What color’s your dress?

It’s blue. navy blue. but don’t worry about it, you don’t have to match me if you don’t want to.

By all means, let’s match. Plus, blue’s my favorite color. I bet it looks great on you.

Dr. Sam Chung is querying @drsamchung.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey #questpit! Officially #querying my #a #fantasy #darkacademia

Camille Singer @camillesinger.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨AMITY COVE 🎠 🎡Haunted Carnival 🌊Abandoned Wharf 📿Missing Sister 🎭Suspicious Friends 🎩Family Secrets 🎇Enemy Love Interest 🖤Romance and Horror💀 Elements (original artwork by me) #QuestPit #Q #YA #MY #T #R #H

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

TRINITY Institutional darkness of Ninth House X folk horror of The Ritual X secretive worldbuilding of Bone Season. 🛡️ Truth vs secrecy 🗡️ Duty vs loyalty 🧬 Science vs folklore ❤️‍🩹 Grief vs acceptance Adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

S.E. Bunnell @sebunnell.bsky.social · 2w ago

After some manuscript edits (and an extra 4,000 words), I have a fresh agent’s guide for As Above in honor of #QuestPit DIAVOLA X RED RABBIT GHOST X IT FOLLOWS 🌲 Isolated Midwestern Gothic 👹 Doppelgängers ⛏️ Bleeding mines 🌀 Folklore ❣️ Romance #Q #A #H

A deer looks back at the viewer over its shoulders. Yellow text reads “an agent’s guide to AS ABOVE"

Clare Donnelly @claredonnelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌊 ALL THE SEAS AND SHADOWS 🌊 A privileged girl uncovers the secrets behind a magical smuggling ring in exchange for help escaping an enforced engagement. 🤍 Young Adult Fantasy 🤍 Folklore-faithful Irish Lore 🤍 Sapphic Longing 🤍 Found Family #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #amquerying

Mabel Haller Author @mabelhaller.bsky.social · 2w ago

BENEATH THE WAYWARD TIDES 80k Paranormal Thrillermance Fool's Gold (2008) meets Tidelands (2018) A mermaid and an archeologist team up to find a treasure, but she's harboring a terrible secret: she will die if she doesn't kill him first. #Questpit #W #A #F #PR #T