Tessera

@lauralaulwrites.bsky.social

When former high school enemies keep colliding in the aftermath of each others’ breakups, their unresolved romantic tension becomes harder to ignore. Introducing BREAKING UP WITH YOU, a decade-spanning coming-of-age romance full of wit, warmth and wlw longing. #QueerPit #COA #CR #A

Jesterbells @jesterbellart.bsky.social · last mo.

YA Toby Daye Halloween traditions become a matter of life and death when a teenage lesbian medium must use them to protect an aroace Faerie warrior princess from assassins. Failure means death, or worse, moving back in with her mother. #QueerPit #YA #F

Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · last mo.

Dean likes men. So does his girlfriend. Finding a man they both like? Surprisingly easy. Keeping Dean in the closet when their new man lives with someone in his acting class? One night can’t hurt. But one night isn’t enough, and secrets have a way of getting out. #QueerPit #NA #R

Poster with image of three people dancing at the top.

Text in the middle reads NA romance by Michelle Ogilvy. The Great Throuple.

Image at bottom of a man being silenced with tagline: If their secret comes out, so does he.

Danard Holmes @dwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

Sudden Death The only thing Oli wants is for his boyfriend, struggling tennis pro, Nico, to acknowledge him. The problem is- Nico is in the closet. A surprise getaway, and potential coming out, turns disastrous when the enigmatic host drops dead, and a plan is made to profit from it. #T #QueerPit

Hugh Blackthorne @hughblackthorne.bsky.social · last mo.

Gay HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY meets SALTBURN Murder at a British Neolithic tomb instead of on the dance floor? First up, one dead lover. Come for the mystery. Stay for the murders. #QueerPit #GN #STEM #A #Con #LGBTQ #darkacademia

@lauralaulwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING UP WITH YOU // 95K LGBTQ+ romance Vibes: 🎬 When Harry Met Sally × Feel Good 🎵 MUNA × The Japanese House × Lucy Dacus 📚 Beth O'Leary × Casey McQuiston × Haley Cass Funny, nostalgic, messy and full of heart. #QueerPit #COA #CR #A

R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · last mo.

The Merge x Rules For Ghosting When Melody's sister is abducted from their shared body, she'll do anything to get her back. Including subjecting herself to an uncomfortable road trip with an angel inhabiting a corpse and her sister's very confused girlfriend. #QueerPit #F #A #CON #SN

A mood board that is a collection of 12 images: breakfast at a diner, women in the front seat of a car, a gas station at night, a cabin in a snowy forest at night, women holding hands, a road at sunset, an angel statue, a car in the dark with its headlights on, a car mirror with a sunset, a snowy forest at sunset, a paper map, a blonde woman holding a paper map, a purple orb, an eye with a purple iris, hands holding a rainbow flag, and a sheet of music. There is pink text in the center that reads My Sister's Stolen Soul.

Chelsea Pitcher @chelseapitcher.bsky.social · last mo.

JENNIFER’S BODY x PRETTY LITTLE LIARS 💀 Three best friends with deadly secrets 🌈 A sapphic summoning ⚔️ Enemies to lovers banter 🥀 “Should I banish the monster or date her?” 🔪 Bad men who get what’s coming to them WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU A MONSTER. #QueerPit #YA #Horror #Sapphic

Liz HL @lhl4.bsky.social · last mo.

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND for the age of GLP-1s 🐇🎩 A queer woman displaced by her wife’s pregnancy enrolls in a mysterious body optimization program in preparation for the baby. #upmarket #bookclub #psychological #speculative TELL YOUR BLOOD THAT I LOVE YOU #queerpit ♥️💉

Sophie Lamzik @sophielam.bsky.social · last mo.

🏝️👰🏽‍♀️ THE BEACH GIRL 💍👰‍♀️ (THE WEDDING PEOPLE X SEARCH PARTY) 🌴 Hawaiian wedding (weeklong, bougie) 🐐 Tight friend group (thinks this is a bad idea, here for the plot) 🌈 TWO BRIDES (both have doubts) 🌊 BEACH GIRL (privy to a damning confession) 77k word #CON #WF #A #QueerPit

Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈@dragonologe.bsky.social · last mo.

Reese isn’t sure if he’s in Hell—but he’s hooked on Luc. Lucifer’s baffled by this human who won’t quit. Latino, gay, ADHD MC. Bold critique of Catholicism. Angels aren’t all white. A queer story flipping the divine upside down. #QueerPit #NA #FR #LGBT #SN #querying

Falling angel, title Pride. Text saying can you imagine falling into Hell and not realizing it? The beginning of the queer demon series

Mazie @sillyartcollector.bsky.social · last mo.

For anyone unfamiliar with pitch events like queerpit, you do NOT like a post unless you are an editor or agent that is interested in acquiring the project You can repost it if you like it! Or leave a supportive comment!

Calenn Lithgow Writes 🌊🌲@calennlithgow.bsky.social · last mo.

Desperate for cash to repair her ship, Lyr accepts a lucrative job from a naive heiress who thinks she can save the last of humanity. The catch? The heiress is her ex's bubbly girlfriend. Oh, and if they can't make this delivery, it's the end of the world. Literally. #A #SF #QueerPit #OnSubmission

Picture of a sailboat sailing against a sea and a starry sky with the manuscript title, BRIGHTER THAN TWO MOONS. Author: Calenn Lithgow. Agent: Kim Carson at Susan Schulman Literary Agency. On submission: Adult Sapphic Sci Fi at 104,000 words.

Comparable books for Brighter than Two Moons: A Closed and Common Orbit, Some Desperate Glory, and The Blighted Stars. Common tropes include found family; AI sentience; aliens!!; mysterious interstellar threats; and headstrong female protagonists.

A slide that provides a short pitch accompanied by atmospheric images, including asteroids, characters, and crumbling cities.
The Pitch:
Lyr delivers goods to the last of humanity on an asteroid-wrecked planet. When her sentient sailboat glitches, Lyr sets sail in search of the last scientists to save her. With the aid of unwelcome allies, and obstruction from unexpected enemies, Lyr discovers yet another asteroid headed for her planet—and uncovers what doomed humanity in the first place.
Love, lies, and asteroids collide in this slow-burn sapphic sci-fi mystery.

Krystal is ✨QUERYING✨@krystalelkhoury.bsky.social · last mo.

THE NECROMANCER’S WIFE ✨agent & big five editor interest✨ 🏳️‍🌈wlw+queer chars (#sapphic MCs) 💀retired necromancer🩷💜💙 ⚗️missing alchemist🧡🤍🩷 🪄magical intrigue 🚂dieselpunk #A #F #FR #querying #queerpit

Tate-Madison Bell @tatewrites.bsky.social · last mo.

WILLOW HAWKINS’ LESSONS IN BEARDING 🌈 If Becky Albertalli wrote The Kissing Booth 🌈 When Willow agreed to beard for her best friend, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process 🌈 Perfect for fans of Heartstopper #CON #YA #QueerPit

Willow Hawkin's Lessons in Bearding
Clipart rainbow image
YA LGBTQ+ Contemporary 79k words
When Willow agreed to serve as her best friend's beard, she never imagined she'd fall in love with his sister in the process.

Comps
Book cover image of Thanks for Listening by Molly Horan, non-actor theater kid portrayal
Book cover image of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, theme of having a complicated relationship with the place you call home
Book cover image of Kings of B'More by R. Eric Thomas, celebration of platonic love

Tropes and other fun things
High school musical GIF of Troy putting necklace on Gabriella and she asks, "T as in Troy?"
Fake dating
Romance between theater kid and athlete (the sapphic remix of High School Musical you never knew you needed?)
Save the school theater program from budget cuts
MC wants to be an entomologist and has two pet ferrets
Small town in Washington state

Liz HL @lhl4.bsky.social · last mo.

#queerpit Desperate to experience motherhood in her own body, a non-carrying expectant mother undergoes an experimental transformation that promises to rewire her body and mind for motherhood, but at a cost. 💉♥️ #tellyourbloodthatiloveyou #upmarketadult

@lauralaulwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING UP WITH YOU. For readers who love queer slow burns, mutual pining, messy twenties, and romances where timing is the real antagonist. #QueerPit #COA #CR #A

A visual on a red background with a list of tropes for my novel, Breaking Up with You. A bullet list of tropes reads as follows: Slooooow burn
Red string of fate
Mutual pining
Queer awakening
ADHD rep
Chronic illness rep
Early 00s nostalgia
Happy ending

Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · last mo.

ROSE OF VERSAILLES ⚔️ LEGO BATMAN Old-fashioned swashbuckling. Contemporary sensibility. Men who trip and fall down. 15-year-old trans boy takes on Manhood Quest with 1,000 yards of ribbon and 2 brain cells. It's the dumbest historical you'll cry over all year! #QueerPit #HF #HA #AC #COA #YA / #A

Atop the painting "Claude Duval", by William Powell Frith in 1860 (depicting the 1660s), text reads:

“I object to this treatment,” said the highwayman. “I’m not some ruffian to be tossed about like a sack of turnips!”
“You wish you had the honour of a turnip,” joined in Alexander.

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · last mo.

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

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · last mo.

☕️ 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. #QueerPit #YA #CON #R #M #AG #OS #LGBTQ #Dis

A fake case file lays open. On the left side of the folder is a sketch of a girl with a sticky note beside it that reads: “Emma Bridge is believed to have cut her hair. Police sketch artists have taken a guess at what she may look like now.” Under it is a map of all US railroads with another sticky note that reads: “Last seen in California, current whereabouts unknown. An anonymous tip reports she has made it out of the state.” Under that, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out, replaced with the name Peyton Freys.

On the right side of the folder is a clipping of newspaper that reads: “Hollywood’s Beloved Missing” with the date 4/13/1996 below it. Text on the page reads: “What we know: YA Contemporary (with mystery and romance), 82k words” “Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media” “Runaway in hiding, fake identity (turned real identity), mental health rep, genderfluid and pan rep, found family, 90s small-town nostalgia.”  
A block of text reads: “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.”

Finally, a stamp says “On sub soon”

Neira @neirawrites.bsky.social · last mo.

SAPPHIC CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 🧶🪄 Magical textile 😡➡️👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏿 Enemies to lovers 🧙🏿‍♀️ A NB Willy Wonka of magical textile looking for an heir 🥼Autistic, STEM obsessed love interest 🏳️‍🌈😾Diabetic lesbian protagonist 🐏 Great ruminant heist #QueerPit #F #YA #R

Beth Train-Brown @bethtrainbrown.bsky.social · last mo.

FOR SHE IS WRATH x RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND Aboard a circus ship and on the run from the sea-god cult that imprisoned her, a sassy deaf witch must hunt for answers about her vanished predecessors before she can be made into the war-ending weapon she was conscripted to be #Queerpit #NA #YA #F #DF

An aesthetic board of 9 images. (1) A stormy sea with the quotation "Bring it all down." (2) A woman summoning water with her hands. (3) The view of the sea through barred windows. (4) A lion's mouth. (5) Four people running happily into the sea. (6) A fire breather shooting a plume of flame above himself. (7) An old-timey galleon setting sail. (8) A gloved hand sheathing a sword over a chainmailed shoulder. (9) Stormy cliffs with the quotation "No risk. No story." Overlayed across the whole image is the work's title, Anchoress.

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · last mo.

Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest. Lia has doomed more worlds than she’s saved. When an elf supremacist puts them on opposite sides of a war to enslave humans, the fate of thousands comes down to a rag-tag team of heroes from all cultures, racing against time. #QueerPit #A #EF #AC

R.E. is Querying @earthkids.bsky.social · last mo.

ANNA KARENINA x 13 GOING ON 30 Kitty wakes up 10 years in the future learning she's miserable despite now living in outer space. She decides to better her life w/ a scheme to win her ex back from the woman who stole him only to realize he wasn't the one she was interested in. #QueerPit #A #SF #R

A retrofuturistic space station serves as the background and it then says: An Agent's Guide to Ten Years Time an 84K Adult Queer Sci-Fi RomCom with Crossover Appeal

The top half of the background are colorful outer space like streaks and the bottom half is a retrofuturistic space station from NASA's Space art collection.

The top says "The Pitch"

And in the middle on paper it says: Thanks to a magical wish-granting meteorite, Kitty Shcherbatskaya wakes up 10 years in the future on the International Apollo-Soyuz Space Station (a.k.a IASS). Rather than return to the present, Kitty attempts some reconnaissance and learns. . .Future Kitty is downright miserable.

First of all, she’s engaged to Kosta, the most boring person in the solar system. Then, second but worse, she never studied astronomy and instead volunteers on the board consisting of society’s meanest girls at a failing modern art gallery.

Her one positive is that the man she always wanted to marry, Alexei, is in a failing relationship. This is her second chance to win him back and secure a happy future. So Kitty ignores that her last memory before the meteorite encounter was Alexei abandoning her on the dance floor for Anna Karenina.

Kitty decides on a fake dating scheme to make Alexei so jealous that he breaks up with Anna. For this to work, she’ll need the perfect man to fake date. While exploring her options, she crosses paths with Varenka, who knows her from a past she’s now never lived. When Varenka offers to help, Kitty finds herself wanting to spend more time with her rather than committing to the Get-Alexei-Vronsky-back Scheme.

But it’s not like she can abandon her second chance for Varenka. Kitty’s seen how the universe has exiled Anna for putting her happiness first. If she focuses on securing a happy future with Alexei she can easily go back to the present where she can erase ever knowing Varenka or she can risk it all and stick around for this person who apparently knows her.

There are three rows and at the top it says For Fans of and then goes from left to right:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Good Luck, Babe; 13 Going on 30

the Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefluer, New Adult by Timothy Janovsky; Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield; The Miseducation of Caroline Bingsley

Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls; the characters of Clueless; Amanda Bynes in She's the Man; Luna Park from Futurama; the crew of Artemis II; Josh Groban in The Great Comet

There are a series of images of me around space suits and other astronomy related things and the top says: Some Old Space Me Pcitures because I have a lot of experience writing about the space race for museums and I still work an astronomy adjacent job

Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜@celticxpanda.bsky.social · last mo.

KING ARTHUR X SAILOR MOON Once and Future King’ were words Morgan McArthur often heard in her childhood and academic career, but she never thought they might apply to her. Reincarnation pulls no punches, and neither so the armies of the Aesir when Mordred’s at the helm. #QueerPit #NA #UF #F

A quick guide to SHE IS KING featuring art by tacticiankate

comps for she is king, including silver in the bone by alexandra bracken

Knack🦇 @ seeking rep!@whittledraws.bsky.social · last mo.

🔥⛪HELL IS EMPTY (And All The Devils Are Here) is a graphic novel set shortly after a demonic-possession-based apocalypse. ⛪🔥 How can you live freely when the world sees you as a ticking time bomb? And how can you live with what you've done outside of your own control? #QueerPit #GN #SN #YA

Foxy Joy @foxyjoy.bsky.social · last mo.

IN THE ABSENCE OF SNOWDROPS A prince who spent his life locked away breaks out with the help of his cousin and teams up with a curious traveler to solve the mystery of why the world has plunged into a never ending winter. The Adventure Zone x Lullaby of the Dawn x Tangled #QueerPit #A #GN #AC #F #R

From left to right: the characters Pinn (28), Leif (24), and Bri (30) from my comic "In the Absence of Snowdrops"

Page sample: "Leif. Leif! Did you hear me?" "Huh? What?" "You holdin' up? We can stop for the night." "No no, just a little farther. It's the 3rd day in, we can't do another early camp. What did you say?"

Bri, Leif, and Pinn enjoying Samhain treats together.

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Editors: Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QueerPit #SF #R #A

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.