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Jesse Masters | Author

@jessemasters.bsky.social

Romantic suspense author Querying Get Ready With Me Drafting White Rabbit

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

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #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.

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"

liz difranco @lizdifranco.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok soo, what would you do if your arrogant glasses-wearing coworker started showing up in your romantasy manuscript?? ASKING FOR A FRIEND. (HE’S NOT THE LOVE INTEREST I PROMISE) (I mean, he’s BLONDE) (So he could never be the love interest) (Right? RIGHT?!) #questpit #w #r

kss @ksskss.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Cruel Prince X The Hunger Games Querying now~ ⚔️Portal fantasy 🩸Deadly trials ⚔️Malevolent racist faeries 🩸A selfish, lying & self-serving FMC ⚔️Court intrigue 🩸Blood magic ⚔️Unique & lush worldbuilding 🩸Political minefields ⚔️A very subtle slow-burn romance 🩸Monsters #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

The Ballad of Blood and Fire (A 100,00-word YA Fantasy)

A mood board of gold pillars of a beautiful palace, a dark, intimidating maze, magical lights in a willow tree, a hand dripping with blood, a view of the night sky, a forgotten statue of a Goddess, an ethereal night sky, two people fighting, a hand holding a stunning diamond necklace, and gold-plated armor.

When 17-year-old Rawiya becomes the first mortal ever Casted into the deadly Light Bearer Trials in the Lands of Draoibeo, she must navigate treacherous court politics by weaponizing the one power no faerie possesses: the ability to lie.

The Comps:

- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

lexi lilly | writer @lexililly.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE BONE SEASON x THE 100 but with MAGIC🪄 🏜️post-collapse earth (desert + bioluminescent cave city) 🌌 fish-out-of-water 🌱environmental themes ⚡️found family 🔮body magic 🖤forced proximity + slow burn ✨emotional awakening #questpit #q #a #f #sff #d #amquerying #agentsguide

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

Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋@sashakielman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kazmera's grandfather murders her parents & orders her, a shadow witch, to marry light witch Edan for a false peace. To save her kingdom from her grandfather’s totalitarian regime & impending war, Kazmera & Edan form a fragile alliance while facing their inner struggles. #A #Q #FR #OWN #QuestPit

A chibi commission for BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON by Sasha Kielman by Afterblossom art! Background: A palace in blue and purple marble with yellow twinkling lights and cherry blossom branches. A man with brown skin, black hair, and a beard dressed as a knight with a gray cape kneels before a woman. She has pale skin and rosy cheeks, brown hair curled into a braid, a golden crown, and a black dress with golden detailing.

Jesse Masters | Author @jessemasters.bsky.social · 2w ago

GET READY WITH ME — 70k-word romantic suspense. Influencer Liv Collins built the perfect life on a lie. When someone from her past resurfaces with proof of her true identity, she must choose between protecting the life she’s built or facing the woman she used to be. #QuestPit #A #R #S #Q

Dani Brooks ✨is Querying✨~ Author of Closed Door Sports Romance @danibrooksbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@wippit.bsky.social 👠DEVIL WEARS PRADA x NHL🏒 👻He ghosted her 7 years ago 💄She built an empire to forget him 🏒Now he's back & ready to reconnect ❤️‍🔥But can he stand up to the heat of the heart he left on fire? Or is a 2nd chance impossible in the world that stole their 1st? #wipPit #A #Romance

Jesse Masters | Author @jessemasters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Severance x The Night Agent White Rabbit asks the question, what would you be willing to risk to see all of your dreams come true? For Mildred Brooks, the answer might just be her life. ☠️ touch her & die ⚠️ forbidden love 👹 deal w/the devil 🔥 slow burn #wippit #A #R #S

Pitch: Desperate and alone following the sudden and tragic deaths of her parents, Mildred Brooks must decide if she is willing to take a deal that will make all of her dreams come true—even if it costs her her own life.
Tropes: touch her and die, forbidden love, deal with the devil, slow burn, protective hero

Comps: The Last Thing He Told Me for the emotional tension and hidden family secrets, Damascus Station for the espionage, and Lies for the secret operation hero & second chance romance.

Pop-culture Comps: Severance for the government experimentation & hidden agenda and Night Agent for the fast paced stakes & government agent/protective romance dynamic.

Character profiles
Mildred Brooks, age 22. Inciting incident: the death of her parents.
Ethan Callum, 26. Inciting incident: trying to make a name for himself.
Traits: she’s loud & reckless, he’s quiet and brooding. She’s grieving. He’s grieving too.

Kasy Long @kasylongauthor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ADVENTURELAND x FLIPPED Childhood friends work at an amusement park in southern Indiana. They're “just friends”...until one summer when everything changes. He falls first, she falls harder! ☀️ Summer love 🎢 Amusement park 🥰 Friends to lovers #WIPPIT #WIP #R #YA #Con

A collage of amusement park rides, including a rollercoaster and swings, and a couple kissing. Text: “Amusement park romance,” “Friends to Lovers,” “Coworkers Turned Lovers,” “Small Town Vibes,” and “SUMMER” appear in the graphic.

✨Eliza Mares✨@elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#WIPPIT #A #F #R WHAT RETURNS All her life, Selba's had smoky visions of the future, but they’re never useful. She can't predict weather, fate, & def not her BFF's tragic demise. But when her dead friend returns & asks her help to end a civil war, Selba's finicky Sight might just save the world.

A collage on a dark green background, featuring a lily-of-the-valley pendant and a ruby-and-skull mourning ring, a golden heart pierced by red arrows, a skull set in a golden sunburst plaque, a thorny rose vine, a flame-licked hand reaching for a ruby, an illustrated woman in a mourning veil, a rocky crag full of lava, a gravestone, an all-seeing eye, and a dried rose.

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

🇨🇿 The Best Kisser in Prague 🇨🇿 ❤️‍🔥 Slow burn 🇨🇿 Setting is a character 🍻 Everyone is hungover During the 1990s Prague, a party girl determined to be emotionally bulletproof and a disillusioned artist share a single night of connection that derails their “kiss and run” game plans. #WIPPIT #A #R #His

The Best Kisser in Prague; technicolor image of a couples' feet, both wearing Chuck Taylor tennis shoes, girl on her toes.

Deborah @deborahholmes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#WIPPIT #YA #SF Rowena has it all: the perfect body, riches, fame, hot boyfriend. Because she stole it. In a world where your proximity to beauty means proximity to human rights, stealing beauty constitutes a death sentence. If she is discovered. And Cole intends to do just that.

Collage with text from Sedated by Hozier

Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝@danielleippaso.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A soul collecting demon must unleash a mortal woman’s hidden, explosive rage for a demanding hierarchy, all while risking capital punishment for coveting a human. ⚜️19th century New Orleans + modern vibes. 🗡️Protector/Snarky MMC 🥊Female rage 🔥He falls first #wippit #romantasy

Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 2mo 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 magehunters, mathematicians, and the governor herself. #WIPPit #F #YA #LGBT

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.

Leigh Ann LeBoeuf @leighannleboeuf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The smile everyone trusts. The outsider nobody does. The survivor who came home to bury the past—and the swamp that remembers every secret buried in it. Meet Cypress Hollow. THE SWAMP KNOWS, a Southern Gothic thriller. #WIPPIT #A #T

Jesse Masters | Author @jessemasters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When Mildred Brooks gambles with her own life, she isn’t expecting to meet brooding agent, Ethan Callum. And she certainly isn’t expecting to fall in love with him. When Ethan uncovers the truth, will he be able to save her? Or was he always fated to be her White Rabbit? #wippit #A #S

Monotone images of the characters mentioned along with the title of the WIP: White Rabbit.

Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

YESTERYEAR x MEXICAN GOTHIC When a booktoker releases the men of her dark romances in a mansion turned private lab, she's caught between their seduction and violence. Her only help? The cinnamon roll of a coworker who, if fictional, she'd definitely DNF. #WipPit #A #Spec #SF #SFF #F #H #G #Up

Project bitter pages moodboard. Mansion, lab, books, villans

Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

They sail on opposing ships. One as first mate on a pirate vessel, the other a lieutenant in the navy. 💕Sapphic romance 🏴‍☠️Pirate x Navy Lieutenant 🏠Found family ☀️Grumpy x sunshine 🦑Sea monsters ❤️‍🩹Hurt/comfort 🤫Secret romance ⚔️Touch her and die (x2) #WIP: 5k words #WIPPit #A #F #R #LGBT

Image:
Light tan background. On the bottom is line art of a blue wave. The top right has a red frigate bird. On the right is a brown pirate ship.

Text:
On Spring Tides
Pirate fantasy with sapphic romance
By Frankie Joy

Image:
Light tan background. On the right is a transparent brown pirate ship.

Text:

Pitch

Bahji and Merisande sail on opposing ships—one as first mate on a pirate vessel and the other as lieutenant in the navy. Their love has endured fifteen years of secrecy and stolen time.

New tensions arise after the death of a legendary pirate captain—and the navy commodore claiming his flag. Bahji and Merisande find themselves pulled deeper into a conspiracy from opposite ends. It will demand sacrifices neither is prepared to make.

Image:
Light tan background. On the right is a transparent brown pirate ship.

Text:

Characters

Bahji
First mate on a pirate ship she stowed away on at the tender age of nine. She knows its length from bow to stern and each knot in its ratlines.Trousers under her skirt because though she is a lady—she's also a pirate.

Merisande
Lieutenant in the Navy, a woman of order and discipline. She only ever breaks for Bahji. She's stalled in the ranks and eyes a promotion, but they’ve never truly accepted a woman from the neutral Chaconia Isles.

Once, they were two girls with dirty knees and salt-stiff hair.Two girl stowaways in a barrel. Almost. It could have been.

Image:
Light tan background. On the right is a transparent brown pirate ship.

Text:

Excerpt
The iron blade of the dagger was sharp at Bahji's pulse. It scraped the delicate skin, and a shiver ran down her spine. The officer's wrist was slim, skin the same shade as the burnished copper coins in her pouch. White jacket cuffs neat and pressed. Unlikely to stain it with blood. Floorboards creaked in the hallway, but the blade kept her quiet, and the fingers kneading her hip.

That voice again, light but raspy, cinnamon in rum. Lips brushed her ear. "You've found yourself in a Navy Lieutenant's room. What were your intentions, pirate?"

Bahji tilted her neck and warm breath rolled down the length of it. Her voice was a hoarse whisper, "Wayward, I assure you."

Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

HOLLOW X HAZELTHORN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- a Gothic, YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀folklore horror 🥀bickering ghost hunters 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater 🥀found family & dysfunctional families #WIPPIT #YA #H #Spec #PN #G

Jenny Lane @authorjennylane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ROMAN HOLIDAY but GAY A jet setting photographer snaps his dream shot. Too bad it contains an Italian heartthrob in hiding. Now they have one week to get a better photo and not fall in love. #WIPPIT #A #R #MMRomance

Eight images of two men falling in love on the coast of Amalfi

Rebeccah Sheridan @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE BURNING SIDE X THE SUPPER CLUB SAINTS. If “Dashboard” by Noah Kahan was a book about sisters After her dad’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a prodigal daughter returns home. Her sister must confront her deep resentment over being left behind to keep their father’s business afloat. #WIPPit #a #wf

A photo collage of two women in a beachside town

Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀folklore horror 🥀snarky ghost hunters 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater 🥀dysfunctional family dynamics #questpit #WIP #YA #S #H

A moodboard containing 12 images, including painted flowers, candles, old photographs, and a bird.

Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

YESTERYEAR x MEXICAN GOTHIC She loved her dark romance book boyfriends, until they came to claim her. 📖 Dark Romance BookTok-er 🏰 Mansion Turned Lab Day-Job ⚗️ Accidental Portal ⚔️ Seven Unleashed Dark MMC’s 🩸 A bloody obsession 🥮 Cinnamon Roll Coworker #WipPit #A #Spec #SF #F #SFF #H #G #Up

PROJECT BITTER PAGES
Genre Blending Upmarket Speculative
By Cassie Wallin
She loved her dark book boyfriends...
until they came to claim her

PITCH
When a chronically alone booktoker accidentally releases the men of her dark romance books during her day-job in a mansion turned private lab, she's caught, between the seduction of what she thought she wanted and the violence that comes with. Her only hope? To close the portal in the mansion with the help of a cinnamon roll coworker who, if fictional, she'd definitely DNF.

NEW YEK TIMES BESTIELLER
HUSBANDS
HOLLY CRÁMAZIO
CARO CLAIRE BURKE
Yesteryear
COMPS
PO MN
ONY Y GHLIN
influencer
critique & ironic justice
Critique of the
partners we
desire
PLSAT
unie
Bot
HOVOL
SIERRA
OREER
602
SPLIT FICTION
duplicating love
interests, but make it evil
MEXICAN
G O
THIC
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
gothic dread & violence of
obsession
fiction enters
reality instead

@funkybaby.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NINTH HOUSE with a Southern Gothic flavor 🖤Twisty double pov 🖤Enemies-to-lovers 🖤Touch him and die 🖤Dark Academia with a dropout mc A bittersweet romance between a con man who raises the dead for a single day and the hell-bent dropout who won’t let hers stay buried SATURNINE #WIPPit #A #F #RF

James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#WIPPIT Mass effect x Treasure Planet "People of Humanity, we have been observing your Earth..." These are the word that came down from the stars when Humanity stood on the Brink. The words that offered them a Second Chance at life. 6 years later, our story begins. #Q #SF #SFF

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

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

Jesse Masters | Author @jessemasters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am so excited to finally share more about my WIP: White Rabbit Severance x Night Agent ☠️ touch her & die ⚠️ forbidden love 👹 deal w/the devil 🔥 slow burn #wippit #A #R #S

Title: White Rabbit
Elevator Pitch: Desperate and alone following the sudden and tragic deaths of her parents, Mildred Brooks must decide if she is willing to take a deal that will make all of her dreams come true—even if it costs her her own life.
Tropes: touch her and die, forbidden love, deal with the devil, slow burn, protective hero

Comps: The Last Thing He Told Me—for the emotional tension and hidden family secrets; Damascus Station—for the espionage; Lies—for the secret operative hero + second chance romance.

Pop-culture comps: Severance—for the government experimentation and hidden agenda; Night Agent—for the emotional stakes +government agent/protective romantic dynamic.

Vibes: moody, dark images of the main characters, caution tape, and secret documents/items that might be on a government agent’s desk.

Jesse Masters | Author @jessemasters.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An Agent’s Guide to Get Ready With Me— a 70,000 word romantic suspense, told in dual POV. Liv’s world is held together by lies and luxury, while Lilly’s is held together by fear and survival. Both must decide what they would be willing to sacrifice for a chance at true happiness.