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Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Alright I'm going to say it, @questpit has to be my favorite event so far this year! The amount of #writingcommunity engagement is off the charts. Everyone is whimsical and the passionate authenticity of stellar talent makes me proud! Amazing work beautiful people!!! #amquerying #questpit

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Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH@isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Writingcommunity snippet from GD: The heat in his fingers scalded as he painted her face with his blood. “Now, I see you for the malady that you are. For the pain you have bestowed is worse than any sickness. I have lost both my brother and my soul, to you, Goddess Death.” #questpit #A #DF #H #Q

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

A #questpit exclusive, tender moment snippet: Sere laughed as he twirled her on the beach while the others drank and sang. “You’re off beat, mi amor.” “But my song is slower.” He pulled her into an embrace as his hands wrapped around her, swaying to his own rhythm. “A love song to guide you home.”

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH@isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Writingcommunity snippet from GD: The heat in his fingers scalded as he painted her face with his blood. “Now, I see you for the malady that you are. For the pain you have bestowed is worse than any sickness. I have lost both my brother and my soul, to you, Goddess Death.” #questpit #A #DF #H #Q

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

#questpit “To receive life, you must sacrifice a life. Whose life would you steal?” That question made Sere a goddess. It also damned her lover. The gods remember. #A #DF + #H #R #amquerying #litagents #writingcommunity

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH@isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

A #questpit exclusive, tender moment snippet: Sere laughed as he twirled her on the beach while the others drank and sang. “You’re off beat, mi amor.” “But my song is slower.” He pulled her into an embrace as his hands wrapped around her, swaying to his own rhythm. “A love song to guide you home.”

PilotingSRN @pilotingsrn.bsky.social · 2w ago

When Esme uses her magic to transform nature into art & her love for writing poems to tell her story, the knight Colmon, will either choose to believe in her words or deny them & kill her A high stakes chase becomes magical across lush scenery Dual POV Hunted to loved #questpit #A #Cozy #RF #W

PilotingSRN @pilotingsrn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two souls, one fate. Haley & Diarmuid partner together in a multi-pantheon hosted agon among the dead to remove her bounty & return his soul to its proper afterlife The arena viels a grander scheme Curse lifting mental healing There's tragedy in her promise #questpit #A #DF #Q

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

#questpit “To receive life, you must sacrifice a life. Whose life would you steal?” That question made Sere a goddess. It also damned her lover. The gods remember. #A #DF + #H #R #amquerying #litagents #writingcommunity

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH@isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

A #questpit exclusive, tender moment snippet: Sere laughed as he twirled her on the beach while the others drank and sang. “You’re off beat, mi amor.” “But my song is slower.” He pulled her into an embrace as his hands wrapped around her, swaying to his own rhythm. “A love song to guide you home.”

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

A #questpit exclusive, tender moment snippet: Sere laughed as he twirled her on the beach while the others drank and sang. “You’re off beat, mi amor.” “But my song is slower.” He pulled her into an embrace as his hands wrapped around her, swaying to his own rhythm. “A love song to guide you home.”

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH@isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Writingcommunity snippet from GD: The heat in his fingers scalded as he painted her face with his blood. “Now, I see you for the malady that you are. For the pain you have bestowed is worse than any sickness. I have lost both my brother and my soul, to you, Goddess Death.” #questpit #A #DF #H #Q

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Writingcommunity snippet from GD: The heat in his fingers scalded as he painted her face with his blood. “Now, I see you for the malady that you are. For the pain you have bestowed is worse than any sickness. I have lost both my brother and my soul, to you, Goddess Death.” #questpit #A #DF #H #Q

Goddess Death, Adult Dark Fantasy set in a Caribbean Taíno inspired world. Sere Anehita stole from the gods and murdered her best friend to save the man she loved. Instead, she cursed them both and became Goddess Death. For a chance at redemption, Sere must escort a warrior, and his sacred relic, through a divine jungle trial and cursed waters—before the deathless pirate king, she created, claims them both.

Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 2w ago

WHERE ALL VILE CREATURES GO NA ROMANTASY PALADINS GRACE X ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN 🌿chaotic, morally black changeling anti-heroine 🌿insufferably lawful white knight hero 🌿 welsh folklore inspired magic 🌿 one horse, one blanket, one campsite? 🤪 Querying late 2026 🤫 #W #NA #R #SFF #QUESTPIT

AMaskley @amaskley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Natural Neon / speculative / ALTERED CARBON X STATION 11: 🌺 Tropical cyberpunk vibes - hot, hot, hot ;) 🔪 F*cked up characters 🦾 Androids & Swamp Cults ⌛️ Nonlinear timelines that all tie together 📚 Literary leaning 90k words. Agent Guide📌 #QuestPit #A #Q #S #D #U

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

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

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Writingcommunity snippet from GD: The heat in his fingers scalded as he painted her face with his blood. “Now, I see you for the malady that you are. For the pain you have bestowed is worse than any sickness. I have lost both my brother and my soul, to you, Goddess Death.” #questpit #A #DF #H #Q

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Writingcommunity milestone achieved, I'm officially in the trenches! To celebrate, and ahead of #questpit, here is Goddess Death's pitch and metadata with art by the brilliant @LUsideme 👏 😀 🥳 #amquerying #writing #fantasy

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Super psyched for #questpit!!! #writingcommunity #amquerying #darkfantasy

We Wil Rock You Rock And Roll

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questpit || next event: NOV 4th@questpit.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Seasons greetings! Our gift to you is #questpit dates for 2026! We can’t wait to reconvene next year. Happy Holidays!

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨@qziontgipson.bsky.social · 4w ago

THE ESSENCE THEY STOLE, which will appeal to fans of THE ROSE BARGAIN and CoBaB, features a POC x POC romance between a seamstress and a knight who join a royal courting competition to earn their freedom--and save their kingdoms from destruction. 🌹⚔️💖 #ProfilePit #YA #F #WIP

On a deep red square background with the shadow of roses and white rose embroideries in three corners. On the bottom left, there's a black silhouette of a young Black woman with curly hair and a flowing gown outlined in white.

Character Name: Zoralynn ̶L̶a̶r̶k̶l̶o̶w̶ Richardson

Character Description: A seamstress’ assistant disguised as a young lady of fortune in a courting competition to regain her people’s stolen magic and learn the identity of her mother’s murderer-while accidentally falling in love with Callum, in the process.

Character Quote from 'THE ESSENCE THEY STOLE' by Q'Zion T. Gipson: 'I held his gaze for a second longer, one eye now hidden by a lock of his dark, tousled hair–expecting the familiar flame of revenge to light within it. I would know. That was what I felt as the princess treated me like a spec of dirt on the Palace’s polished floors. Something she could walk over. But instead, his look is different. Softer. One that reminded me of home.'

On a deep red square background with the shadow of two crossed swords and white arrows embroideries in three corners. On the bottom left, there's a black silhouette of a young knight in his armor leaning on a sword outlined in white.

Character Name: Callum Lazarus

Character Description: The son of the Commander who was forced to become the eldest Princess’ suitor and the heir to Richshire’s throne. When he’s given a chance of freedom, the mysteriously beautiful Zoralynn teaches him the price of real love--and how much he’s willing to fight for it.

Character Quote from THE ESSENCE THEY STOLE by Q'Zion T. Gipson: 'But I didn’t regret allowing my easel to cover half of the single suitcase we were allowed to bring to the Palace, the second home I’d already known. Or at least, I thought I did. There are some things, some people, too beautiful to not honor with art.
Zoralynn Richardson is one of them.'

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sere Anehita became Goddess Death the night she saved the man she loves by murdering her best friend. 🦜🌴🐉In a Caribbean Taíno inspired world🌊⛵️🏴‍☠️ #profilepit #Q #A #F #H #writingcommunity #amquerying #fantasy #horror

PilotingSRN @pilotingsrn.bsky.social · 4w ago

In a tournament among the living & the dead, Haley & a cursed soul must heal from their past trauma & defy the legendary hosts, or condemn their souls to Hades forever CRIES OF THE AGON features: Mythical gods & Heroes Plot Driven Trials Tragedy Mental Health Rep #profilepit #Q #A #Df #myart

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sere Anehita became Goddess Death the night she saved the man she loves by murdering her best friend. 🦜🌴🐉In a Caribbean Taíno inspired world🌊⛵️🏴‍☠️ #profilepit #Q #A #F #H #writingcommunity #amquerying #fantasy #horror

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 4w ago

OMG 😲 @iaminprint.bsky.social I cannot believe it, TWO of my MS got shortlisted!!! 🎉❤️ And a I can now check off in my bucket list "become a fun fact" 🥂🥳 THANK YOU SO MUCH! Goddess Death ETA 7/20! #writingcommunity #litagents #amquerying instagram.com/reel/DZ5dHqmNl kh/?igsh=ank3bG9uOHQ3OTEy …

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A taste of what is coming to the trenches this summer: “To receive life, you must sacrifice a life. Whose life would you steal?” That question made Sere a goddess. It also damned her lover. The gods remember. #WIPPIT #A #F #H #WritingCommunity #amquerying

Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻@crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here is my list for #WIPPIT 1. In the Sun, Rising from the Mist #A #CF #LF 2. Rutello: Arealia and the Last Flame #A #F 3. Rutello: New World #A #RF 4. Book Nook #A #MM #Hr #F 5. 90 Seconds to Midnight #A #Dys #T 6. Pull #YA #CF #LF 7. The Bird & The Stone #A #C #FBW

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At the top in white fancy cursive font is the title In the Sun, Rising From the Mist with a running white horse silhouette to each side.

Top 2 pics in black & white: 2 girls running on a beach with a quote “Now I will have to remember you for longer than I've known you.” & a quote with a grey background “My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.”

Middle 2 pics in black & white: a mom holding her crying daughter in the living room & a coffin with flowers on it.

Bottom 2 pics in black & white: a little brother & sister standing side by side in front of distant empty trees with a quote “Siblings are often the forgotten grievers - but it's so important to remember that losing a sibling is one of the most painful & heartbreaking losses to endure.” & a pond in the forest with a quote “There's no word to describe the loss of a sibling. If you lose a spouse you're a widow or widower. If you lose your parents you're an orphan. But if you lose a sibling, you just become the girl who lost her brother.”

Between the bottom pics is a purple Lupus ribbon with a sparkly purple butterfly in the center with sunflowers at the bottom & daisies at the top with purple butterflies.

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At the top is the title Rutello: Arealia and the Last Flame in a 2 toned orange cursive font with flames to each side.

Top 2 pics are: a girl shadowed in front of Fire and a witch hunt in an old village with torches and pitchforks.

Bottom 2 pics are: a coven of pagan women in white celebrating Beltane and a woman shadowed by the fire of a funeral pyre.

At the bottom in a 2 toned orange cursive font is a quote: “Too many people abuse the power of choice. Too many people take the power of choice away from others.” - Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls (Hells Belles, #1)

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At the top in grey fading to blue cursive font is the title The Bird & The Stone.

Top 2 pics: a great bird with a blue head sitting on a rock with leaves and snow around it. A girl curled in a ball with her arms around her knees with a frustrated mother in the background.

Bottom 2 pics: a blue light (moon?) With bats flying in front of it with a quote “We'll never know who we could have been without our trauma.” And a grey background with a darker grey woman silhouette with a quote “growing up in a toxic family means learning one rule: do what they want or suffer the consequences. Your feelings don't matter, your voice doesn't matter. The narcissist’s comfort always comes first. If you say no, you're labeled ungrateful. If you stand up for yourself, you're attacked or ignored. And when you finally stop trying to please them, you see the truth their “love” was never real.”

At the bottom in the same font and color is a quote “Home and family may not always look the way we imagined they would.” - Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CORPSE BRIDE × 50 FIRST DATES × THE DEAD ROMANTICS A bored immortal mortician resurrects the woman of his dreams—again and again. But love becomes obsession, and she's decaying faster than he can let go. #WIPPIT #A #H #R

$A gothic-style book cover featuring a striking black silhouette of a woman in a long gown against a stark white background. Her form, particularly around her head and shoulders, appears to be fracturing or dissolving into dark particles, with her long hair blowing to the right. The entire scene is framed by an ornate, black Art Nouveau-style archway. At the bottom, a textured, smoky black mist rises. The title at the top reads "The Immortician" in a metallic gold font, with "The" written in an elegant cursive script. Near the bottom, the words "Love. Obsession. Decay." are spaced across the width in a classic serif font, and below them, the text "A NOVEL BY B. VAN BODEGOM" appears in a clean, all-caps sans-serif font.$

InkandEmbers @inkandembers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In a kingdom where magic steals body parts, emotions, and even memories, Elowen creates a soulless girl wearing her face to bargain with the Prince of the Underworld before the curse takes what remains of her family. Frankenstein X The Hunger Games #WIPPIT #NA #DF #F #G

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

Slow Horses x The X Files When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #WipPit #A #Q #SF #T

Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting @prahajess.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧹The Vltava Pact✒️ The night her mentor died, Gabina lost control. She reached something the world had buried...and it reached back. ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn 👹 Daemons 🧹 Covens 🇨🇿 Prague ☁️ Dark #WIPPIT #A #R #F #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writers

The Vltava Pact; statue on Charles Bridge, inkwell and fountain pen, side of a man's face

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#agentguide quick scan of Goddess Death: GODKILLER x BLACK SUN x THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER #amquerying 80k Adult Dark Fantasy/Horror with romance, Caribbean Taino-inspired world, a goddess trial, and a deathless pirate king. #writingcommunity #writersofbsky #litagents #questpit #Q #A #DF #H

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH@isanasantiz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hola #writingcommunity! Just for #questpit, an updated #agentguide for Goddess Death. Sere stole life once for love; now she may do it again, and this time the debt will poison everyone she has left. #Q #A #DF #H #amquerying #litagents

Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · 3mo ago

He killed a prince to save the kingdom. Now a fallen inquisitor, he’s been hired to find a missing ambassador, and the deeper he digs, the more it looks like saving the kingdom was a mistake. INQUISITOR FOR HIRE - multi-POV, 89k words #QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

Inquisitor for Hire Comps. For fans of The Tainted Cup’s genre-bending fantasy mystery, and the political darkness of Grave Empire, with the strange, decaying world of Mordew.

Tropes for Inquisitor for Hire: He saved the kingdom. He might have been wrong.

Fallen hero / disgraced legend
Chasing a vanishing truth
A secret the city was built to hide
Justice isn’t clean
Reluctant family forged under pressure
A power that takes more than it gives
Corruption at the highest level

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#agentguide quick scan of Goddess Death: GODKILLER x BLACK SUN x THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER #amquerying 80k Adult Dark Fantasy/Horror with romance, Caribbean Taino-inspired world, a goddess trial, and a deathless pirate king. #writingcommunity #writersofbsky #litagents #questpit #Q #A #DF #H

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH@isanasantiz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hola #writingcommunity! Just for #questpit, an updated #agentguide for Goddess Death. Sere stole life once for love; now she may do it again, and this time the debt will poison everyone she has left. #Q #A #DF #H #amquerying #litagents

Isana Santiz | #amquerying GODDESS DEATH @isanasantiz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hola #writingcommunity! Just for #questpit, an updated #agentguide for Goddess Death. Sere stole life once for love; now she may do it again, and this time the debt will poison everyone she has left. #Q #A #DF #H #amquerying #litagents

Andrea Homoya is revising as a ✨2026 #RevPit Winner!✨@andreahomoya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🍺 She makes cider 🍺 💰 He makes money 💰 💦 Things are about to get juicy💦 CIDER SEASON | An upmarket contemporary rom-com. Currently revising as a 2026 #revpit winner. Re-entering the query trenches with a sub-ready manuscript in 6 weeks. #questpit #q #a #r #u

Background: A close up of a glass of cider with foam and carbnation bubbles.

An agent's guide to CIDER SEASON
2026 RevPit Winner
A 75K word upmarket contemporary rom-com

Background: A lake in the mountains.
Pitch and Plot
Two years after a devastating breakup left her jobless, homeless, and heartbroken, Phoebe Skiles has made a name for herself crafting high-end, European-style cider at Appelle. When Elise, Phoebe's best friend and CEO, hires a consulting firm to keep Appelle from shuttering its doors for good, Phoebe finds herself living her worst-case scenario: putting her professional life in the hands of Miles Newport, a finance bro with a toddler's palate. Miles is convinced the only thing that can save Appelle is ‘pivoting’ to a ‘consumer product’ with ‘mass-market commercial appeal’.

Phoebe sets out to save Appelle and discovers that there’s a lot more to Miles than cashmere sweaters and Stylus pens. He's working overtime to bring on a high dollar client to repay his estranged father’s investment and support his best friend's working-class parents. With so much already on the line, what are Phoebe and Miles willing to risk for love?

Background: Apple blossoms
COMPS: Emily Henry's Funny Story, BK Borison's Lovelight Farms, Linda Holmes' Back After This, Sarah Chamberlain's The Slowest Burn
TROPES: Slow burn; found family; rivals-to-lovers; workplace romance; unique setting; small business; big stakes; disastrous meet-cute; witty banter; emtional depth.

Background: A bunch of people reaching forward to cheers with their glasses.
OPENING LINES: Phoebe Skiles sat back on her heels and blew a sweaty curl out of her eye. No matter what she used—elbow grease, power washers, EPA-regulated caustic—the concrete floors never gleamed like she wanted them to.
If she could ask her 17-year-old self to predict where she’d be in ten years, on her knees scrubbing yeast sludge off the floors wouldn’t have cracked the top hundred. Teenaged Phoebe would have chosen something more professional: a custom power suit, a corner office overlooking downtown Seattle, a Brazilian Blowout.
Like most teenagers, Teenage Phoebe was an idiot.
After years of striving to rise above her circumstances, she was much happier in a warehouse than she’d ever been in a cubicle. But every job has its downsides, and the weekly deep clean of the cidery floors was definitely a downside.
A drop of sweat fell from her forehead into the puddled suds between her hands.
Okay. Sometimes she missed the cubicle.