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Laura Wardle is querying

@laurawardlewrites.bsky.social

YA fantasy writer | 🇬🇧 ✎ #amquerying BEYOND THE AURORA 🏹🌍✨ neurodivergent (OCD) / SEN parent / eco-minimalist 🌿

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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 2w ago

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism

melodyburst @melodyburst.bsky.social · 2w ago

Went out and got a library card today!

Anna Rogalski @alrogalski.bsky.social · 2w ago

STAR TREK x MISTBORN HIDDEN STARS: 🌟 A human with a manipulative streak and a load of guilt 🌟 An alien captain with a chip on his shoulder 🌟 A doomed peace mission 🌟 A secret coup 🌟 A connection neither of them expected. #questpit #scifi #q #agentsguide

Cover art for The Shattering Peace, The Blighted Stars, and The Fourth Consort

Eloise Carver @eloisecarver.bsky.social · 2w ago

#QuestPit #Q #PR #A

Nicole Cutter - THE ORANGE PEEL GAME @nicolecutter.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE WESTING GAME X NATIONAL TREASURE 🍊 Confined competitors 🍊 Nancy Drew-esque puzzles 🍊 Deliciously evocative prose If you're a fan of any of these comps, my debut 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 will fit perfectly on your shelf! Querying soon, follow its journey 🧡 #QuestPit #W #MY #NA #HF #WF #bookish 💙📚

The Orange Peel Game. The Westing Game meets National Treasure. Blurb: Caroline shouldn't have heard what was on that call.

It's 1949 in Cincinnati, a time where everyone is unwrapping their wounds of war. Caroline, a
switchboard operator, overhears a murder in a nearby phonebooth with no one to believe her. But the encryption games of WW2, it seems, are not quite over: Her search for the killer propels her into a game of puzzles and cyphers laid out across the city. Those who've already been playing watch her from the shadows, and one of them might just be the murderer. And there's one more thing curious about Caroline:

She can taste the world. Comp titles: The Westing Game, for forced compition. Blue Prince, for vibes and puzzles. The 7 and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, for high concept and twisty mystery.

L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 2w ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 🏰YA sleeping beauty reimagining 🤟deaf MMC + ASL 👑quest to kill an evil queen 💀everyone she knows is dead 🐀ride-or-die rat companion 🎶he's immune to her song magic 🪢captor falls for his captive 🌳deadly enchanted forest now querying #questpit #rf #q #ya #f #df #r

Joseph Langley @jlangleyauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

#QuestPit #A #F #Q #LGBTQ In order to save her Mama and her creche from the wildfire, Luka has to uncover the fire's secrets... After learning to eat the flames, Luka can move like the fire's fastest tendrils, glow with all its light, and even breathe temporary life into the lifeless.

Joseph Langley@jlangleyauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME: THE POET EMPRESS x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, but 2 million years ago at the dawn of community. 😤 Audacious and based FMC 🔥 Gain magic by eating fire 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ✨️ Pre-gender world 💥 Anti-capitalist Neanderthals #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QuestPit #A #F #R #FR #W #Q

Drawing of a man with long red hair and a scar running down his face and a woman with dark way hair. they have their foreheads pressed together and the girl's hand is on his cheek. He is gently holding her arm. There is an aura of sadness despite the tender image. A golden sun is behind them.

Text: Between Fractures of Light

Tini Wider @tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Carnival Row × Arcane. A secretly educated inventor must rescue her sister and expose the lie at the heart of a kingdom before a prince silences her forever. ⚙️ Inventor heroine ❤️ Friends-to-lovers ✨ Women aren't supposed to wield magic... until one does. #Q #YA #F #QuestPit

Jenny Bright @jennybrightbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

POV: you're the worst witch in your family and you inherit your grandma's house, but it's haunted by her ghost AND she's dead-set on matchmaking you with the guy that broke your heart in high school. Ooops. SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH x Taylor Swift's MARJORIE #QuestPit #A #R #S #AG #W

Laura Wardle is querying @laurawardlewrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

A teen huntress must team up with the boy she shot from the sky to stop the Aurora dying and prevent his fracturing world from crushing hers. 🛷 One sleigh (and one lavvo) ❄️ Forced proximity ❤️ Strangers to reluctant allies to lovers ❤️‍🩹 Dealing with grief 🌿 Environmental issues #questpit #YA #F #Q

Laura Wardle is querying @laurawardlewrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨When teen huntress Ingrid accidentally shoots a boy out of the sky, she learns his floating world is fracturing because her people poach the Aurora for power. Now they must work together to stop the hunt and stabilise the Aurora before his world collapses and crushes hers. ✨ #questpit #YA #F #Q

C.E. Kimbro- Querying @bookishcarly.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m excited to join questpit with Tower of Tangled Lies, with my dark fantasy ‘Rapunzel’ retelling with a slow burn romance and strong chronic illness representation. Blood& Ash x Gild x Tangled #questpit #q #a #f #df

Laura Wardle is querying @laurawardlewrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anna Deh-is editing✍️@annadehwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

NOSFERATU X MONSTERS INC After a ritual gone wrong lands a horror fan in a terrifying house of monsters, she must partner with her own sleep paralysis monster to find a way back home. He’s a nightmare in more ways than one… But so is she. #RevPit 2026 winner #questpit #YA #A #horrormance #H #R

Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 2w ago

DEATHBRINGER x SILVER ELITE x Netflix's WEDNESDAY (if it was produced by the early 2000s CW) 🏰academy setting 🗡️murder mystery 🪄unique magic 😡his father un-alived her family 💀she knows his secret ✏️forbidden student-professor relationship 🙊unreliable narrators/ dual POV #QuestPit #Q #NA #A #F #R #MY

Picture of rotunda. Text: AGENT GUIDE, DARK ACADEMIA, ROMANTASY, 99K, NA/ADULT, UNSTITCHED, BY ALLY BOYD

Picture of castle. Text: The Pitch. A spy-for-hire who can unstitch her soul from her body infiltrates a magical college and attempts to solve a string of gruesome murders while battling romantic feelings for the main suspect, her attractive, off-limits professor.

Picture of a library. Text: the comps. Nightshade by Autumn Woods, Netflix's Wednesday, Deathbringer by Sonia Tagliareni, and Silver Elite by Dani Francis

Picture of a snake. Text: An excerpt. “What’s your name, ghost girl?” Carsten asks, his lips quirking up in a half-smile that feels like a challenge.

I try to seem unbothered as he takes his time, walking back to the leather loveseat across from mine. He sits down slowly, soaking in my attention, but I can’t take my eyes off him. His arms stretch out lazily on the back of the chair, a prince of darkness surveying his domain.

The room warms. So warm that sweat prickles the back of my neck. I glance at the clock over the fireplace again. Terror wraps around me like the snake dancing on his forearm. I need to get out of here.

He cocks his head to the side, waiting, and I debate lying. There are no benefits to a demon knowing your name. Except my mind is blank. I can’t remember any goddess-blessed name except my own.

Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨ What if Mulan had magic… and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods? 🌪️ Forbidden elemental magic 🎭 A stolen identity ❤️‍🔥 A dangerously perceptive commanding officer ⚔️SONG OF THE SICKLE⚔️ #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 115,000 words, first in a planned series by Megan A. Saraceno

The pitch: She’s hiding her name, her past, her power.
He sees through her every lie.

Rejected by the gods, Tessa Whitaker brands a false divine seal into her flesh and steals her brother’s identity to save him from a war he won’t survive. But when her emotions manifest unblessed elemental magic, she catches the attention of her dangerously perceptive commanding officer. If he uncovers her secrets, execution will be the least of her problems.

She can survive the war.
She’s not sure she can survive him.

Comps A Fate Inked in Blood, Silver Elite, The Knight and the Moth

Opening lines: Tomorrow, the gods would judge me.
Tonight, I pretended they didn’t exist.

I swung the scythe through another row of wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. More honest than twenty years of prayers that had earned me nothing but silence.
Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts off tomorrow and the bare stretch of skin on my forearm waiting to be claimed., pictures include: military training camp, earth magic, amber ring, abandoned watchtower, and incense

J.J.W. Lovell (He/Him)@jjwlovell.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEVERMOOR x TURNING RED x TREASURE PLANET Two tiny purple creatures told him he was a Druid. He didn’t believe them. He was wrong. 🐻 Shapeshifting 🐉 World Mythologies ⚔️ Found Family ✨ Portal Fantasy 🗝️ Hidden Heritage #Questpit #MG #F #Q

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS After Noah, a hard of hearing thief, moves in with siren Jasper, their accidental, corrupted mating bond must be severed before it kills them. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x The Surfer Immune to His Song 🌊 Fantasy Set in San Diego 🏄‍♂️ Standalone w/ Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #A #PR

A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”

The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper,

The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater

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

Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨@qziontgipson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Presenting a gorgeous reader's guide for my debut YA climate romantasy novel, THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, which will be releasing in summer of 2027! 🌸 Stay tuned for more exciting updates! #QuestPit #YA #F #P #TBP

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

A Reader's Guide to THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, a YA Climate Fantasy Coming Summer 2027 by Q'Zion T. Gipson

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

PITCH - After a failed experiment to make plants live forever, all toxic vegetation was burned for the sake of humanity. In 2091, when 16-year-old Vee discovers Evergreen, an enchanted garden with roots to her ancestry, she must embrace the forbidden magic blooming in her veins before Evergreen and The Human Realm fall to an eternal darkness.

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:
COMP TITLES
Divining the Leaves by Shveta Thakrar: Enchanted Garden
House of Marionne by J. Elle: Botany Boarding School
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn: Found Family

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

THE VIBES
A mood board consisting of 9 square photographs with a green, blue, and, pink, yellow and white color scheme. In the center, there is a teenage Black girl in an enchanted garden, with the photos surrounding her illustrating the beauty within it: a feeding hummingbird, a calm lake, baby ducklings, a resting butterfly, and magical white and pink blooms.

In white text, there is a list of tropes in THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, including:
Black girl MC
Plant magic system
Near future
Magical blooms
Botany boarding school
Found family
Human x fae romance
He falls first and harder
Female friendships

Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagine The Handmaid’s Tale in a fantasy setting. Except the main character was brought up as a future leader… And knows exactly how to bring the empire down. ⚔️WHAT TO EXPECT:⚔️ 🥀 Norse mythology 🌲 Swedish folklore 🥀 FMC turns villain 🌲 Female rage #Q #A #RF #DF #questpit

Debby ✨ A MOST DECADENT CURSE (Jan. ‘27)✨ 🌊👻🖤@aventurinedebby.bsky.social · 2w ago

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON 🌊👻 When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb #questpit #ya #p #f

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

Fighting mental and chronic illnesses and trauma while being heirs to thrones is burdensome enough. But for powerful witches Kazmera and Edan, learning to trust each other despite their arranged marriage, peoples’ enmity, and an impending war is the true test. #A #RF #Q #LGBT #MH #OWN #QuestPit

A trope map graphic for BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON by Sasha Kielman, featuring art by @winterofherdiscontent. A black background with art positioned as the book cover. White and golden yellow text and arrows pointing to: enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, elemental magic, slide to pitch, adult romantasy (95,000 words), mental and chronic illness and queer representation.

BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON Forced into an arranged marriage as a fragile peace treaty, two powerful witches must learn to trust each other in order to prevent war across their Realms. But will their love be enough to stop a war? Perfect for fans of The Hurricane Wars and The Bridge Kingdom, BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON is a critique of authoritarianism and a demonstration of the power of love in all its forms, recognizing that while not all illnesses can be healed, they can be managed with care. @SashaKielman

A Canva graphic with gray smoke on a black background and white text.
If you like...
Fairyloot cover of the Hurricane Wars, original cover of the Bridge Kingdom
then try...
Art for Between the Sun and Moon by Sasha Kielman by winterofherdiscontent
@SashaKielman

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨An Agent's Guide to THE DAWNBREAKER✨ ☀️ portal fantasy 🧙‍♂️ a realm of Mages 🏳️‍🌈 queernorm world 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 reincarnated lovers with no memory of each other ❤️‍🔥 slowburn annoyance-to-lovers dynamic 🫀 chronic pain rep 🍄 a mushroom sidekick 🫣 soul-devouring monsters 🫂 reluctant found family #QuestPit #Q #A #F

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

Britain’s folklore is only the cover story. TRINITY: Adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. Ninth House X The Ritual X Bone Season. 🛡️ Secret Organisation 🗡️ Folkloric Creatures 🧬 Nature Remembers 🛡️ Found Family 🗡️ Identity 🧬 Grief #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.

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

SWORDHEART x BOTW “It’s the dawn of the end of the world, and Emrys is having the worst day imaginable.” 🏰 ruins & tales 📜 forgotten prophecy 🤲 gentle protagonist 💚 romance subplot 🍃 nature setting ⚔️ BOTW vibes 🏹 nostalgic atmosphere #QuestPit #A #F #W

a moodboard featuring a fantasy with lots of nature, green, and statues