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

Here is my list for #QuestPit 1. Pearl's Road #W #A #Cozy #F 2. Paging Dr. Paige #W #A #RF 3. Moonbeam's Rainbow Valley #W #PB #F

Black background

At the top in tan neon is the title Pearl's Road and a sword and yarn with knitting needles to each side.

Top 2 pics are: an old woman walking with a wolf and an old woman walking in a meadow surrounded by trees.

Middle 2 pics are: a woman rowing a small boat and a woman gathering sticks with her cat.

Bottom 2 pics are: a pile of tarot cards on a table with a small silver old key on top and a dirt path surrounded by trees.

At the bottom is a quote: “May to wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Blue background

Top 2 pics are: a doctor talking to a patient and writing notes and a momma and baby bear.

Below those is the title in white Paging Dr. Paige.

Bottom 2 pics are: a room filled with empty hospital beds and a mom taking care of her sick daughter.

Below that is a quote: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” - Mahatma Gandhi

The background is rainbow mountains and valley with a rainbow in a rainbow sky. Standing on a hill is 2 cartoonized unicorns with white fur and rainbow manes and tails and gold horns and hooves, a panda with teal eyes and feet, rainbow butterflies, a pink fox, a green snake, and a purple elephant.

At the top in ombre purple and orange with a rainbow outline is the title Moonbeam's Rainbow Valley and under that is a quote: “The rainbow wouldn't exist without you.”

Chase Grayson is Agented🌙@adropofmagick.bsky.social · 2w ago

A STUDY IN DROWNING X GILMORE GIRLS Atticus moved to Havenvale so he could attend the most prestigious knighthood academy in the kingdom, but there's a rose-scented ghost haunting his manor, & he's learning it's hard to focus while falling in love...👻🖤 #AG #YA #F #RF #QuestPit

A HAUNTING TO HOLD
Ghost Romance
𝙷̶𝚒̶𝚜̶ ̶𝙵̶𝚒̶𝚛̶𝚜̶𝚝̶ His Forever
Cozy Fantasy Town
Magical Lantern Festival
Star-Spinning Magic
Gothic Manor
Griffin Riding
Knighthood Academy

THE PITCH
COZY YA FANTASY 89,000 WORDS

After fleeing from his war-ravaged hometown, a timid boy enrolls in an elite knighthood academy while falling for the ghost haunting his rose-scented manor; but when enemy knights invade his cozy new town during a festival that allows the dead to live for a single night, he must learn how to rally his courage before the girl he loves is lost forever.

CHAPTER ONE
My ghost never hides in the shadows.
When the afternoon burns brightest, I’ll catch her silhouette in the sunshine. When night steals the sky I glimpse delicate blue eyes peeking out behind moonbeam curtains. It’s been five weeks since we've moved in, yet I've only ever found her in the light.
“She’s not your ghost,” reminds Olive. “I can see her, too!”
But my sister’s claim rattles out like a lie. Looking at her now, she’s scrunching her face up, squinting real tight, yet her eyes never seem to find the shimmering girl that runs through Rosefall Manor.
Not like mine do.

FOR FANS OF...
The sweeping, magical romance of…
A cozy fantasy town inspired by…
The lush prose and gothic atmosphere found in…

Gracie M. Lee || Writer @gracemawrtina.bsky.social · 2w ago

SIX MINUTES is my 85k dual-POV new adult romance that blends the high-stakes athletic themes of Bal Khabra's Revolve, if it were set in the world of Off Campus (2026), and will appeal to readers who love the mental health topics in Peyton Corinne's Unsteady ⛸️🏒 #QuestPit #Q #NA #R

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

FLEABAG X MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES A librarian moonlights as a camgirl, but when someone from her past finds her and threatens to expose her, she’s at risk of more than being known; she could be labeled like the banned books kept from the shelves. Disclaimer: slut. #QuestPit #Q #A #LF #R

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!

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w 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 #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

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.

🌿✨beth✨🌿@elizanane.bsky.social · 2w ago

🩸QUEERPLATONIC BEAUTY & THE BEAST x JENNIFER’S BODY🩸 In a forested town, a doomed codependency festers between a heart-eating monster desperate to become human and its vengeful, obsessive hunter. 🥩surrealism + madness 🪱plant-body horror 🥀ONE MUST DIE Querying SOON! #questpit #a #df #f #q

This title slide features two orchids on a black background as its backdrop image. Above it, the text reads FEED ME YOUR ORGANIC HEART in yellow and red text. In white text, below the title, it also reads, 'adult psych-horror contemporary fantasy, 85,000 words' in white lettering.

Image credit belongs to Pinterest

The title of the slide reads, PITCH, in neon red lettering, on the same orchid background. The pitch text, in yellow and white letters, read: To become human, a genderfluid, eldritch monster in disguise must seek, charm, and devour the beating heart of one who truly loves them... but it gains the eyes of its vengeful, obsessive hunter instead. As bodies pile and madness takes hold, the two must either die in their struggle for survival or live the torment of finding themselves in the one they're destined to murder.

Image credit belongs to Pinterest

The title of the slide reads, COMPS, in neon red lettering. The covers of 5 novels are shown. The novels included are: The Fox and the Devil, The Tainted Cup, The Eyes Are the Best Part, The Summer Hikaru Died, and Vicious.

Background image belongs to Pinterest.

The title of this slide reads, TROPES, in neon red lettering. 10 tropes are listed on this slide in white and yellow lettering. The listed tropes read: surrealism + stalking + OBSESSION, nightmarish plant visions, descent into madness, genderfluid, ugly forest monster w/ beautiful guise, aro-ace vengeful hunter, doomed, all-consuming codependency, they're both 'monsters' that don't fit in, deadly game of cat & mouse, quiet, forested town setting, botanical body horror (allegory for twisted adoration).

Image credit belongs to Pinterest

Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 2w ago

ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anxious Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest, but when his elf-supremacist cousin declares war, Letyf joins the world's champions to protect their only hope—a child who can quell magic. In their way? World-hopping demon Lia, unwilling servant to the enemy. #Q #A #F #SFF #QuestPit #AgentsGuide

Title Page: WEB TRAVELER, Adult Epic sci-fantasy, 129k, dual POV. Art of an ancient staircase carved into a mossy cliff. tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

Pitch Page: Letyf Duilles has no place on a world-saving quest. Elf-supremacist Roksa Morthir took everything from Letyf—his best friend, his magic, and his future. An outcast in his rural elven village, Letyf is a constant reminder that an elf with no magic is no elf at all. When Roksa returns with an all-powerful demon on his side, Letyf must defy his endless self-doubt to protect a young elvish prodigy in the war for Crelan’s freedom. Lia, the demon in question, doesn't consider herself all-powerful. She's served heroes and villains many times before. With a string of dead masters behind her, she needs a win, or her immortality and her powers will be taken from her. If Roksa wants to conquer his backwoods, fantasy home-world, Lia will just have to do it with gritted teeth and minimal complaints about the plumbing. After all, why would a world like this be worth saving? Set on a parchment background, with photography of a spring green forest behind it.

Comps: Parchment featuring five book covers: The Magicians (Magical Multiverse, I can't believe it's not Narnia, Anxious MC, Meta-fantasy, Classic Fantasy World Reimagined); This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Metapantasy, classic fantasy world, action-packed and bloody, dry humor, highly competent FMC); The Goblin Emperor (Anxious MC, No romance, deep friendships instead, Naive, fish out of water MC); The Bright Sword (No Romance, Naive MC, Action-packed, Classic Fantasy World, Epic Setting); Nine Goblins (Action Packed, Epic setting, Dry Humor, Highly competent FMC)

First Lines: Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch.

The bird cocked its head, beady eyes darting around, but they passed right over Letyf, crouched as he was in the brush. He adjusted his aim, gave the string a touch more pressure, and released.

The arrow arced away—and missed the fat gamebird by a clear foot.

-----

We arrived in my master's home-world with enough force to buckle my knees.

As I yanked the heels of my pumps out of the super-heated soil, my master turned to gaze around at the brilliant green hills of his land. The rise we stood on was dotted with little white flowers, the sky was a perfect blue, and the trees shimmered with promise. Even the ring of burned grass around us couldn’t diminish the sweeping landscape.

hannah nagle :))@hannahnagle.bsky.social · 2w ago

so excited to share an #agentguide/#agentsguide for ALL THAT REMAINS, my speculative dark academia WIP! 🖤 featuring: 🕯️OCD & depression rep 🕯️asexuality rep 🕯️paranormal romance 🕯️campus setting 🕯️rivals to lovers 🕯️arcane magic with a cost #questpit #S #PR #MY #W

Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Real Scandinavian items used by Ró as she joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down a charming water spirit whose heart can buy her life back. 🌲 Written by a Swedish author! 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a Troll Cross pendant.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Title page with pitch line.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a traditional Scandinavian folk dress.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a piece of traditional Scandinavian ribbon.

Kate Gray is Querying ✨@kategraycosplay.bsky.social · 2w ago

ROT & RUIN: AN ADULT FANTASY NOVEL. COMPLETE AT 100K. NOW QUERYING. 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. #questpit #q #a #f

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 2w ago

ELIA IN ISOLA: THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH X ANATOMY A LOVE STORY: When Elia is deemed unmarriageable, his parents give him to the convent. But it is Carnival in Venice, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister. #Questpit #W #YA #H #HF #LGBT #WIP coming to the query trenches

A banner for Elia in Isola, A Transmasculine Nun of Venice. Transmasculine nun, venice 1600s, young adult gothic horror, and a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, as well as the grand canal, as well as the caption coming soon to the query trenches.

A banner for Elia in Isola. Comparative titles, showing The Starving Saints, "otherworldly occurrences in a claustrophobic historical setting," The Spirit Bares Its Teeth: Historical Fiction: trans man must hide his identity and his gifts to survive in a hostile world, anatomy: gothic setting with anatomy and medical history at the center of the mystery, and in the background, an oil painting of the grand canal

Images of a young nun in front of a friar, a young man, oil paintings, captioned Elia in Isola A transmasculine nun of venice, in golden frame, and the quote: On his last day of freedom, Elia Malesco watched the dawn bathe Venice in its pale tones and wondered if he'd ever see his beloved city again.

A banner for Elia in Isola. background, an oil painting of a convent. Elia has always been plagued with ecstatic, disturbing visions. It doesn’t help that he’s secretly transmasculine. Either way, he is an embarrassment to his Venetian family- and thus, ineligible for marriage. When he turns sixteen, his parents give him over to the convent.

But it is Carnival, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls.

Then he stops to speak to the masked Rosalina, and discovers that someone has been murdering young women like his new friend. He’s been told his whole life he needs to be less. Now, as a cloaked presence moves through the convent by night and the murderer strikes close to home, he might have to attract attention to draw out the murderer, to save Rosalina, the other novices- and himself.

Sophia Escajeda @author15se.bsky.social · 2w ago

"We do atrocious things for the dead. Do you think they'd be proud of us?" Presenting my #agentsguide for SINS OF LEVARIA, an adult historical fantasy that at is core is a story about vengeance over forgiveness. #Q #A #HF #F #questpit #amquerying

Kat is querying!@katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 2w ago

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

Suzy A. Win @suzyawin.bsky.social · 2w ago

SHREK x PONYO Bargaining her life for legs, a mermaid must kiss the prince she's stalked to survive and falls in love with the tales retold by his sea-folk-hunting cousin, where becoming human forever may be the only way to save her from his grudge against the sea. #questpit #Q #YA #F

First - Picture of a girl with blonde and purple dress looking at the ocean.
Second- Picture of a mermaid and a king under the water looking at each other
Third - An open book on a table with some leaves
Fourth - A man on the shore looking at the water.
Fifth - A mermaid resting on a rock in the middle of the sea
Sixth - A mermaid playing with glowing jellyfish
Seventh - A castle near the beach
Eighth - A girl trapped under a foggy water
Ninth - Fierce golden-hazel eyes of a guy

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 2w ago

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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

In this Fleabag x Killing Eve romcom thriller, a viciously dry-humored serial killer accidentally catches feelings for the one woman with the evidence to incriminate her. 👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏼 Sapphic af 🔪 Men d!e (you’re welcome) 💋 Delicious banter 🐕🐈‍⬛ Black Cat x Labrador ✨ “Don’t touch my wife” #W #R #T #questpit

Kim 🪽| DRAFTING @k1mm1.bsky.social · 2w ago

❤️ Bride x My Demon ❤️ A psychic detective with a flawless record is stumped by a string of flower marked murders that defy every known explanation, forcing her to rely on an enigmatic botanist whose knowledge may be the key to finding the killer. #questpit #PR #BIPOC #R #E

Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Because back in my days we never had the genders." Actually back in the days:

Black-and-white archival photograph from 1921 showing several gender-nonconforming adults in early-20th-century clothing posing outside Berlin’s Institute for Sexual Science during an international sex-reform congress. Text above the photo reads, “A group of trans activists in 1921.”

bcastillo28.bsky.social @bcastillo28.bsky.social · 4w ago

Are You The One June moves to New York City to attend her dream college. Her side quest to prove that her soulmate exists gets complicated when she meets three love interests. She must decide if giving up her dream is worth proving her theory of love #ProfilePit #WIP #YA #C

Jenn Lee Frances @jennleefrances.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🖤Find Courage in Fear 🖤Power in Rage 🖤And Become The One They're Afraid of THE TRUTH OF FEAR A Good For Her Horror with Girls Who Scare Boys, Revenge, Reclaiming Power, ooh & Romance Meet the New Urban Legend #TheEastRiverWraith #SPF Upper #YA Feminist #H Revising & Soon to be #Q #PosterPit

Image: A scared teen girl, and a ghost girl with bloody tears. TEXT: This dangerous world is scarier than a vengeful ghost. The Truth of Fear. Young Adult Feminist Horror. BECOME THE THING TO FEAR. # The East River Wraith. Accolades: Big 5 editor requests. Best Submission Award. Winner WriteHive mentorship.

Kim 🪽| DRAFTING @k1mm1.bsky.social · last mo.

A psychic detective with a flawless record is stumped by a string of flower marked murders that defy every known explanation, forcing her to rely on an enigmatic botanist whose knowledge may be the key to finding the killer. #profilepit #R #PR #A

Kim 🪽| DRAFTING @k1mm1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Revised and redrafted. My last pitch is worthless #drafting #writingcommunity

Kim 🪽| DRAFTING @k1mm1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In the Mexican gothic-paranormal romance writing trenches

Man Thinking Deeply

ALT: Man Thinking Deeply

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Marat's gay vampires are alive @maratearendel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A sci-fi horror novella inspired by H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man about a closeted gay amateur archeologist meddling with the occult. #wippit #a #sff #h #own #lgbt

In 1919, a lonely amateur archeologist losing his humanity turns
to the occult to slow his withering.
making things much, much worse.

Invisible man x the mummy
Magic Gone Wrong
Everyone is over 40
Aesthetic Anatomy
Ancient Curse
Queerness in 1919
Black Trans Vampire
So much yearning
Loss of Self

Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

QUICKSILVER + PURSUIT OF JADE = CHAOS RISES Ten years of civil war and the death of a Old King leads to blossoming romance between a revenge driven general and a betrayed bride. #WIPPIT #A #RF

Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 3mo 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

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

THE STARLESS SEAxHOWL'S MOVING CASTLE When she becomes haunted by shadows & a mysterious stranger with eyes of fire, Augusta is forced into a desolate world she's only ever dreamed about, & must decide if she's willing to sacrifice everything to save it. #WIPPit #W #Q #F #R #A

An Agent's Guide to: Between Fractures of Light

Adult Romantic Portal Fantasy

$Pitch When a shadow in the shape of a man haunts her and kidnaps her childhood best friend, Theo, Augusta’s dull life is shattered. Rescued from the shadows by a mysterious stranger with eyes of fire who reminds her of a past she can’t remember, Augusta is forced into an unfamiliar world she’s only ever dreamed about—a place where Darkness has consumed the Sun, trading ruin for power, leaving all who live there in eternal desolation. As the line between the two realities begins to fracture, Augusta must decide if she’s willing to to give up everything to save this new world—even if it means sacrificing herself.$ Comps
The Starless Sea
Piranesi
The Book of Doors
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

strange world
queer rep
interwoven stories
lyrical writing
portals
falling stars
dramatic love interests

Comps
The Starless Sea
Piranesi
The Book of Doors
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

strange world
queer rep
interwoven stories
lyrical writing
portals
falling stars
dramatic love interests

The field was on fire. It swept over the flowers and tall grasses with ferocity, leaving nothing but smoldering remains and broken hope in its wake. Smoke filled the air, low lying like a blanket. The acrid smell of smoke and burnt flowers was suffocating. The flowers, which had once been beautiful and fragrant, transformed into ugly ash and malodorous fumes.

Still, Theo ran, the muscles in his legs burning and his lungs filling with smoke. He was a runner, in more ways than one, and he knew the fatigue that came from legs pushed past the limit. He should be able to run faster than this. The mechanical motion of his legs was hindered by a heaviness like lead weights tied to his ankles. He should be faster, lighter.

But maybe he had been running longer than he knew. He couldn’t remember what had come before. He had been spawned into existence, an apparition. There was nothing prior, only darkness and the cool touch of wet stone.

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

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror (currently drafting) 🌲 💀 🐇 Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes. #WIPPit #W #H #A

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, eery woods, and trees