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Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying

@kimbridges.bsky.social

PNW Querying Author 🌿 LIGHT IN THE DEEP | Adult Romantic Fantasy (109k words) Vibes: Ancient ruins, cozy village, mystical forest, folkloric, mythic, intimate Sentient Mirror-Man + Misfit Mage Woman = slow-burn love Charming dimpled scholar = complication

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Heists, spice, and space! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You must get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #BluePit #SF #R #A #📖 (Manuscript is #OS looking for an editor)

The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to -- Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel -- A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer. Representation Christi Cardenas.

Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for stationary objects. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.”
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. #AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV. Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.

Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻@applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 3w ago

#BluePit 🏹THE BIRD AND THE BLADE🍃 🪶 MM Fantasy Romance 🪶 Bandit x Noble 🪶 Kidnapping! 🪶 Questioning Power Structures 🪶 Singing Bandits 🪶 Robin Hood Vibes 🪶 Certified Bird Guy #📖 #A #F #R #W #LGBT

Over a green background: THE BIRD AND THE BLADE: MM Fantasy Romance
Comps: Not For the Faint of Heart, The Scottish Boy, Greenwode
Tropes: 🪶 MM Fantasy Romance
🪶 Bandit x Noble
🪶 Kidnapping!
🪶 Questioning Power Structures
🪶 Singing Bandits
🪶 Robin Hood Vibes
🪶 Certified Bird Guy
A picture of an arrow, a feather, and a sword
Blurb: Callum Amberline is about to get married, but there is one small problem. He’s been kidnapped by bandits. Callum should be furious and indignant, but he’s not these bandits seem to understand him better than his family or betrothed ever have. Especially Wilder, the son of the bandit queen. But one shouldn’t be friendly with one’s kidnappers.
Wilder may have made an impulsive decision kidnapping the betrothed of his arch nemesis, but he’s having a hard time regretting it. He likes Callum, noble though he may be.
As the unfortunate circumstances of their meeting catch of with them, Callum and Wilder must ignore the simmering attraction between them. You can’t fall in love with your kidnapper.
Right?

Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 3w ago

When she picks the wrong pocket, 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. #BluePit #YA #F #LGBT #W #BluePit📖

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 pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment.
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.

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Started a brand new project in Scrivener that I’m really excited about and the corkboard view is making me squeal and kick my feet because now I can SEE IT! 🥰

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sharing mundane news so other querying authors have things in their feed that aren’t all rainbows and unicorns: I just got a query rejection 106 days after sending it. And the response said, “the publishing industry changes swiftly” — SWIFTLY. 😂 Hang in there! Keep writing, keep querying!

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Me: I’m going to write today! I’m going to finish chapter 18! Also me: spends an hour researching Welsh Cakes for a cozy romantasy idea and then another hour looking at Welsh travel sites. Anyway, who wants to go to Wales? Have you heard of Hay-on-Wye?? It’s a BOOK TOWN. 😍

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This book made me cry Read it at once

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The latest to hit my bookshelf from Powell’s Books. I’m already completely sucked into This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me. It. Is. Riveting! (Also how cute is that little free bookmark??)

A photo of two books and a bookmark with a fox wearing glasses and reading a read book on it. Left: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews. Right: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

Suki @querytoapp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The clocks have struck twelve, and the #QuestPit gates have finally swung shut. It has been a day of incredible imagination. I must say that the querying society really does know how to have fun at a ball. Here is the grand finale wrap-up

Tiffany ✨@tiffmuseshere.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨ my first #questpit and post on blue sky! 🤭 Introducing my debut novel, TO HATCH A STORM, a sweeping new adult romantasy brimming with elemental magic and dragons, political intrigue, rival Houses, and a steamy arranged marriage! When the Moon Hatched x House of the Dragon ✨ #Questpit #Q #RF #A

Poni the dragon author @chiscara.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#QuestPit #SFF #Q #A (I know I’m an hour before it ends but I couldn’t get this done earlier) 🐉 Humans have been living with dragons for years, unbeknownst to them that dragons have been here since the Hadean Eon. Now their prince wages war to help his people. 💡 And a bunch of connected stories!

A graphic promoting Empire of Dragons:

A multifaceted, interplanetary empire of horny dragons wage war with humanity after years of mistreatment.

They show humans their true might and turn earth into a green utopia

and a human BLACK girl romances their prince! Yes, the black girl gets to mingle with royal dragons and a lot of them are developing feelings towards her. + political intrigue I guess.

And this is only in the first 20 stories!

Graphic design is my passion…

Comps/vibes

If you like any of these, you’ll love Empire of Dragons (I hope)

How to train your dragon
Fourth Wing
Halo 2
Genshin Impact
Return of the Jedi
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

A promo page full of all the books’ qualities!

600,000+ words of linked stories!

Dragon shifters!

Insect aliens!

Victorian dragons

Angels and demons and-

Femboy dragons!

Italian dragons!

Male dragon pregnancy (no baby bump)

BIPED DRAGONS!

Angry exes!

Black people dragons

A femboy dragon god! Exiting into the end of time!

Advanced society of technologically advanced dragons

Dead Dove

Are humans... dragons????

Politics kinda

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#QuestPit was so much fun! I got to see SO MANY amazing books-to-be and I wish I could add all of them to my TBR right now! Also loved interacting with other writers and finding so many new people to follow. BookSky has such a great writing community, I’m happy to be part of it!

@emilywrites92.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨Hello #questpit 🌙 Weaver of the Nameless, an epic romantasy focusing on deep lore, unique world building, and lyrical prose. A veiled oracle and defecting cultist must trust each other to escape planed for them by an evil with in her temple. The Dark Crystal x The Knight & Moth #W #F #A #RF

Pale hands marked with a star and moon stand against a cosmic pastel aurora borealis.

Sickle blades, a man kissing a womans hand, a temple corridor with gothic windows lit with pale light. Women dancing beneath a pale moon and a pale woman wreathed in green leaves

Tankards of ale clashing in toast, homes within the tree tops, the maw of a dark wolf. A woman bemused in a lush green forest floor, a man being taken by guards

A man touching a woman’s shoulder gently, swords and banners scattered after a battle, pale hands tangled in threads. A tree with with moon shining between naked branches, a young woman reading a small book, a hand holding a floating dark crystal.

Kelsea Wolf 📚 ✨@kelseawolf-writes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gravity Falls x King of Scars 👻 ☀️ 🤓 haunted x sunshine x nerdy girl trio 🤐 🪄 Secret society x Cursed 🔮 📖 Folklore x Southern magic ⛵️ ❓ Bermuda Triangle x Riddles 🦑 ⚔️ Cryptids x Knights Alice misses when she didn’t know magic existed… and it didn’t know she existed either… #questpit #q #f

A map of the south eastern region of the United States, aged. Red writing from top to bottom. Can we trust the riddles? Charleston, SC (The Manor) Savannah GA (Bonevevnture Cemetery) Saint Augustine, Fl (The Lighthouse ) Isle of Tempus (?) Elliot Key, FL (?) Key West, FL ( The Fort)

A vision board for agents and editors describing the book The Society of curse breakers clockwise there is a picture of a swamp that says betrayal a picture of a capybara that says diverse magic systems a picture of a forest that says folklore and strange villains a picture of a Florida map that says cryptids a picture of a lighthouse and a ship that says pirates and a picture of of a tunnel that says sports, a picture of a brick mansion thag says curses and urban fantasy and a picture of a diver that says found family

Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️@deannajvaldez.com · 3mo ago

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕 ❤️‍🔥reluctant lovers on an epic quest 🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight 🦇 Philippine folklore 🍃 sentient forests 🏴‍☠️ shenanigans in a pirate city 🎭 masquerade balls 🌶️ a dash of spice ⚔️deadly trials to false gods 👑overthrowing tyrants #QuestPit #Q #F #R #A 🇵🇭

Hanna Patrick is Querying @hannapatrick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you like: 🔮Elemental magic 🔥Slow burn romance ❤️‍🔥Strangers➡️lovers➡️enemies ⚔️Fierce female protagonists 💖LGBTQIA rep on the page 🤪All the banter Then this one’s for you! COVENANT OF THE DAMNED is a 119k rom. fantasy querying now #Q #RF #A #F #QuestPit

The title “covenant of the damned” is laid over a painting of a man being knighted by a queen. The text indicates that it is a dual point of view 119k word holy grail romantic fantasy book

Painting of a hand holding a sword in the background. The text indicates that this book is perfect for fans of [Lady] Knights of the Round Table retellings and every Gilmore Girls stan who was rooting for Rory to end up with Jess Mariano. The image also includes the following text pitch: When the Lord she’s sworn to protect is poisoned, a headstrong guard reluctantly allies with a loathsome king to find the Holy Grail before the Lord dies or the relic falls into the hands of evil sorcerers.

Photos of different comps are on this slide. This book comps Bridgerton season 2 and the Princess Bride movie for slow burn romance. It compares the elemental magic system to the one in Stacey McEwan’s “A forbidden alchemy” and draws a comparison to Rachel Gillig’s “The Knight and the Moth” for Lady Knight elements. It also compares National Treasure and “The Will of the Many” as comps for epic quests

moodboard depicting the vibes of the book including: a coastal landscape, medieval architecture, swords, a couple dancing in a ballroom, a blonde woman, green silk, stained glass windows, a coronation, and knight armor

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BEND OVER BACKWARDS (Heated Rivalry x Star Shipped) 🎪 MM Contemp Sports Romance After Vincent’s acro partner is fired, he has to create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. ♥️ Rivals to Lovers 🤸 Found Family 🍿 Slow Burn #questpit #q #r #a #amquerying #agentsguide

Sierra Janae (Farrare) | Fantasy Author @bysierrajanae.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SAINTBORN | 93k | FANTASY ROMANCE AVATAR x SHADOWHUNTERS In a world where the Saints are the source of all magic and power, a powerless thief discovers she is the heir to a Saint that shouldn't exist—and becomes the truth an empire will destroy to protect. #Q #RF #QuestPit

Dark fantasy graphic featuring a stone angel statue with wings and a halo holding a spear, layered over a textured black background with a cream paint stroke. Large gold serif text reads “SAINTBORN.”

Fantasy novel synopsis graphic with gold serif title text reading “THE PITCH” over a dark floral and marble statue background. White text reads: When magicless thief Aurenna Taerwyn steals a relic from the capital’s most secure vault, she triggers a forbidden power, and sparks a vision of a massacre. The Saints the empire worships didn’t ascend; they were murdered in an empire-sanctioned genocide. Now, as an ambitious Magistrate moves to bury the secret, Aurenna discovers she’s not just holding a truth—she’s found the genocide’s only survivor. To liberate him, Aurenna must master the chaotic magic she was never meant to have and decide if she’s willing to burn down an empire to do what's right, even if she burns with it. Highlighted phrases include “forbidden power” and “sanctioned genocide.” "Burns with it" is circled. Atmospheric dark fantasy vibe.

Fantasy book comparison graphic titled “THE COMPS” in large gold serif lettering. Two fantasy novels are displayed against a glowing cathedral-like background: The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino and Godkiller by Hannah Kaner.

Alexis Collins @lexiscee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What happens when Rye, a long lost prince, doesn't want to return to his war-devastated kingdom? 🌬️ His friend, Sorrel, goes with him 🏰 They face strange ruins and vibrations in the earth 🐍& the rising return of a villain 👑Rye must face himself and his past to save his future #Q #YA #F #questpit

Moodboard with Greek statue, mosaic eye, prince, girl wearing red, moth, and fruit

mary @mbcottrell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#questpit #Q #YA #H #F Querying: The Marble Garden On the verge of running away from home, an angry young man enters a fantastical garden, but when his life is threatened and his mind slowly corrupted, he must learn to reach out for help before the weight of bearing everything alone destroys him.

V.V. Angelova @libraryorv.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE X KATABASIS 🧹🗡️ Murdered 19th-century witch Olena awakens in the Slavic underworld and strikes a deadly bargain for revenge with Baba Yaga, uncovering buried truths. #questpit #A #Q #F #agentsguide

Nefer Doane @neferdoane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SPELLSHOP x KEEPER OF MAGICAL THINGS Nori can't wait for the Wishing Well to open so she can summon her familiar—but he instantly dislikes her and the Wishing Well stays open. Now they must close it, or a horde of familiars will break through and destroy their seaside town. #QuestPit #W #A #F

A moodboard for adult cozy fantasy, THE WISHING WELL.

From left to right, starting at the top:

- a wishing well
- some lace with tape over it that says THE WISHING WELL
- a teapot
- a tropical island cove
- a black cat
- a forest with flowers
- a stack of books
- cottage window
- holding hands at sunset
- bowl of ramen
- snow drop flowers

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.

Sophia Escajeda @author15se.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

Sophia Escajeda @author15se.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And as my last #questpit post for my adult historical fantasy SINS OF LEVARIA, the soundtrack and Cassidy's Playlist. This story is full of grief, secrets, and the desire to live up to the ones you've lost. I hope you like it whenever it's finally in the world. #Q #A #HF #F

Jacklyn is DRAFTING @salutjacklyn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🕯️ AETHERBORN 🕯️ To save her people, a refugee princess and the soldier ordered to contain her magic have sixty days to transform her power into the perfect weapon—navigating a corrupt empire while denying the desire that could cost them more than their lives. #Questpit #F #Q #A #R

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is FOR REAL. I got the opportunity to beta read this one and I am OBSESSED! 😍

Sedona 🖤 Querying 🌟@wrotebysedona.bsky.social · 3mo ago

TETHERED BY SHADOW (97k words Adult Dark Romantasy) For fans of ONE DARK WINDOW's parasitic magic. A thief infected with living magic.🕸 A man sworn to contain her.⚔️ A bond neither of them asked for.🖤 Welcome to the Citadel. 🏰 #QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #Romantasy #WriteSky

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying @kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE x JANE AUSTEN x BREATH OF THE WILD For readers who want their villages cozy, their magic ancient, and their romance slow enough to hurt. LIGHT IN THE DEEP — 109k adult romantic fantasy (QuestPit #2) #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

A collage of four photos on a dark teal forest background, with the title “Light in the Deep” in white script across the center. Top left: a couple almost kissing among trees. Top right: a woman in a pink old-fashioned dress reading a book outdoors. Bottom left: a red-haired woman in a white dress facing a glowing ornate mirror. Bottom right: a small mirror on a tree trunk with a hand reaching toward it. The mirror shows a semi/transparent, mist-covered male face, barely visible.

Katie Hudson @katiebhudson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

LUST-BORN | YA Romantasy The Goddess of Love’s daughter must win the prize of immortality in her mother’s divine matchmaking game or else succumb to a death curse. Currently revising as a 2026 #revpit winner. #questpit #YA #RF #F #Q

Graphic of skull and flowers with the manuscript title LUST-BORN written on top and Revpit 2026 Winner in the bottom right corner.

Picture of man and woman dancing from above with the quote "though my mother is the goddess of love, it was lust that created me," written on top.

Graphic of a sunset sky with the description of the story on top.

Graphic of two fingers touching, the black paint from one hand moving onto the other. On top is the words "For fans of" and five books listed with reasons for the comparison.