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ELA teacher, deconstructed Christian

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨@writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 4mo ago

UNDER COMPLIANCE Red Rising X Murderbot 😵‍💫 unreliable narrator 🧠 zombifying mind control 🏦 megacorporation dystopia 👾 chosen few vs. alien threat A warrior raised to fight for a megacorp questions her loyalty when she sees the human cost of the company’s bottom line. #questpit #A #SF #Q

White text against a dark space background:
"This has to end.

No more lives expended because the death payouts are cheaper than the equipment that would save them. No more worlds forcibly affiliated to avoid annihilation by the alien predators. No more children stolen from their families and raised to fight.

I can end this. Can I live with the cost?"

Under Compliance by @writingwithgrace.bsky.social

White text against a dark space background:
"Tropes:
dystopian far-future science fiction
chosen few
mind control
no romance
action and adventure
megacorporate political entities
ethical dilemmas
military elements
alien monsters
conspiracies and cover-ups"
Under Compliance
@writingwithgrace.bsky.social

lia ☁️ is querying @brantleywrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE GOD OF THE WOODS x THE PROJECT - upper YA contemporary thriller - bodily autonomy - a missing girl & a ticking clock - twists & turns - blurred morals - u will probably cry (sorry) building my list for a may 6th query start date #questpit #Q #YA #C #T

Mary Elizabeth Carey @maryelizabethcarey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Who knew the mysterious things taking place on the bike trail... #questpit #Q #A #MY #writingcommunity

A pond at night with legs peeking out from the bottom right hand corner and the title MURDER ON THE BIKE TRAIL

A woman with an enigmatic look and the words 74,000-word amateur sleuth mystery set in a small New England college town with a kind of messy girl narrator

A sky with wispy salmon- and grey-colored clouds and the words -- Elizabeth needs to solve the murder in the beaver pond so she can get back to the trail and write her book

Three weirdly smiling ceramic trolls and the words - But someone may be out to get her

HK Smith | Writer @thehksmith.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the vibes of THE CELESTIAL RING, my #YA dystopian #SFF To defy the memory-devouring machine god who wants to claim her as sacrifice, Vega must: ⚔️Find her lost brother 💔Ally w/ her first heartbreak 🌑Uncover the truth her world was forced to forget #questpit #Q #F #D #amquerying

A dark space fantasy aesthetic mood board with a collage of photos. Vertically down, from the first column:
1. A violet, light-tinged hole framing a violet sky
2. A faint silhouette of a woman beneath colors like the northern lights
3. Two hands reaching towards one another
4. A sci-fi inspired, dark uniform with a high collar
5. A grand stairwell, perhaps a futuristic religious site, with a single silhouette looking up
6. Two romantic silhouettes against a starry night sky
7. A lone figure with a backpack, standing amongst a shroud of sand-colored fog
8. A hand covered in glitter
9. A silhouette standing in front of a blue-lit circular tunnel entrance
10. A black woman with glitter coating her shoulder, just the bottom half of her face is visible, lips tilted slightly up in a smile
11. A black woman screaming
12. A stream of light breaking through dark clouds
13. An eye turned to show only the whites
14. Figures in robes seemingly suspended in mid-air
15. A figure on a black, sleek futuristic looking motorcycle

None of the images are my own. They are all sourced from Pinterest

Amy Dehaas @amywrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A true-crime producer returns home to film a series on an unsolved serial killer case. When a new body turns up and threats hit her doorstep, she uncovers secrets linking the murders to her own past. What began as a docuseries is now a fight to survive her own story. #Questpit #Q #A #T #MY

Collage of six images. Image, one scattered police files and crime scene photos, image two, a White House with a red roof beside a lake with pine trees behind it, a Ouija board and tarot cards, and an overgrown cemetery with old headstones, crime scene tape. Text overlay reads: “She built a career unearthing other people’s secrets. Her own wouldn’t stay buried.”

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

Amara Colinco ✍🏽 is revising @amaracolinco.bsky.social · 4mo ago

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS x THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART Wendy wants to destroy her inner manananggal 🦇🩸 & live a "normal" life. Can she excise part of her soul & find belonging, or will fighting the manananggal consume her? SPLITTING IMAGE, coming soon to your inbox! #QuestPit #OwnVoices #W #A #U #F #S

A torn-paper collage: Casa blanca lilies; tan/brown hands playing a harp with carved designs; an Asian adult with light peach-toned skin and long, straight black hair wearing a black face mask over their nose and mouth, looking at dark gray-blue thistle flowers; a manananggal drawn on worn, vintage paper; a tan/brown arm with a partial-sleeve traditional Filipino tattoo from the elbow to the wrist.

nanci gilliver @nancigilliver.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x BABEL A translation assistant with a crippling fear of illness is thrust into the scheming royal court of the enemy when he is ordered to spy on the queen's translator. ⚔️ lethal all-female knights. ☠️ conniving courtiers. 🔥 a cat and mouse game of wits. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Image 1: old writing, Image 2: fire, Image 3: snowy mountain, Image 4: icy grave, Image 5: gold dust, Image 6: green and brown ornate door, Image 7: teapot and cup, Image 8: medieval sword, Image 9: vintage chest of draws and green wallpaper with birds and flowers.

K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨@jundlife.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

'Hat' - 84K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature
moon stuff
Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. 13 Months Haunted

Cass @casshabs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#questpit #A #DF #Q In my world, magic isn't invisible. It lives in your hair, eyes, and color. And when the darkness takes it... it erases you.

A dark, atmospheric title slide featuring a black book cover framed with pale floral designs. The title reads “Born of Light, Cursed by Darkness” by Cassandra Habig. A glowing streak of multicolored light cuts through the title. Background is warm gold and shadowed, with text indicating “Adult Dark Academia Romantic Fantasy” and “120k words.”

A dark fantasy blurb slide with teal text on a smoky gold and black background. The header reads “BLURB” followed by the tagline “Magic lives in color. When it fades… so do you.” The paragraph describes Rihalyn Embers, her hidden magic, her sister’s execution, and her arrival at a deadly academy. Decorative images include glowing flowers and a glass-encased rose, reinforcing a magical, fragile atmosphere.

Text reads:
Magic lives in color. When it fades… so do you.
Twenty-year-old Rihalyn Embers lives on Runyan, where magic reveals itself in color, and she has none. Until her sister Mahdilyn is exposed as a rare illusionist, revealing she has been masking Rihalyn’s iridescent colors and altering her memories to keep her safe from Abel, the self-crowned ruler who siphons color to secure his throne. When Mahdilyn is executed for refusing to join Abel’s army, Rihalyn is sent to Wychlith, an academy that trains mages to serve Abel, where combat trials force magic to the surface, victories raise rank, and defeat costs pieces of a mage’s soul.

At Wychlith, light awakens. Darkness waits.
Rihalyn clings to one goal: survive long enough to reclaim her suppressed power, uncover what Mahdilyn hid, and learn why she died for it. But when Kieran, Abel’s son, takes her under his mentorship, she cannot tell whether he is shielding her from Abel or shaping her into something useful for his own rise. Kieran wields dark magic, the same force draining Runyan of its color, and every lesson awakens Rihalyn’s light while binding her more tightly to him.

If Abel finds her, he’ll drain her.
If Kieran loves her, he may destroy her.
Now she must decide who to trust before Abel senses the light waking inside her, Kieran’s darkness corrupts it, and what little color remains in Runyan vanishes forever.

A split slide showing “Tropes & Themes” on the left and “Comps” on the right. The left lists elements like color vs. darkness, shadow magic, dark academia, morally gray characters, slow burn romance, and found family, alongside romantic and symbolic imagery. The right lists comparison titles The Serpent & the Wings of Night and The Foxglove King, with brief descriptions of tone and themes. A short “Unique Appeal” section highlights a color-based magic system drained by darkness.

A dark, cinematic slide divided into two sections: “Snippet” and “The Atmosphere.” The snippet features a close, emotional interaction between two characters with intense eye contact and tension. Below and beside it is a collage of fantasy imagery including glowing magic, castles, books, shadowy forests, and magical hands, visually conveying the tone of a dark, magical academy setting.

Charlotte Dante 💫querying author💫@charlottedante14.bsky.social · 4mo ago

WHAT THRIVES IN DARKNESS, a 88,000-word LGBTQ+ YA reimagining of Hades and Persephone about charting your own course—even when those who love you would rather own you. 🌿 queer Hades/Persephone 🌿 slow burn 🌿 grumpy/sunshine 🌿 found family 🌿 “touch him and die” 🌿 a ghost corgi #questpit #YA #LGBTQ

LMNan @lmnan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A hidden continent that protects the gate between our world and the demon world risks discovery if the people living on it can't get along. One of its generals has died, and his widow must train his successor as her grief destabilizes her magic. 129k multi-POV #Q #questpit #A #F #R #BIPOC #demons

a picture of a man kissing a woman on the cheek as she smiles
Childhood friends to lovers
Haunting the Narrative
He fell first and harder.
Deconstructing Racism
Chinese demonology
Choose between staying out of harm's way or standing up for what's right
For women going through loss, women who wonder if they're allowed to be happy and selfish at the same time

a woman transforming into a dragon fly. a man cast in a white light.

Anda, the Widow
She needed him. She needed him the way lovers needed secrets. The way moons needed night skies. The way leaves needed green, blood needed red, and disease needed children.

Longzi, the Traitor
Twenty-seven years. He’d lived twenty-seven years, and he’d been promised a thousand more. A millennium of Anda, and now, he’d never see her again. She might see him, yes. In his portraits, in her memories, in her dreams, but whatever awaited him after life, whether existence simply darkened or he turned his head skyward forevermore, he’d never see her again.

a woman in red chases after her husband as he goes off to war, presumably to die.

General Anda Uunangon leads a divided continent with magical artifacts in one hand and her charismatic husband in the other. The day he died derailed her destiny. Still, Anda continues her duties of protecting their hidden continent from the rest of the known world while struggling to contain her grief-stricken magic, which provides the perfect opportunity for her enemies. As political powers move against her, Anda slowly transforms into a weeping Omen, a corporeal and vengeful memento of whom she lost. Her fellow generals step in. Against her wishes, they release her husband's artifact, that it may choose a new wielder and give Anda a fresh purpose. The new wielder is all enthusiasm and no discernment. Not only must she train him in magic, but she must also inspire him to join her people's fight for self-actualization. Unfortunately, his personal interests of bringing his family to their continent might lead him to align with her enemies and use her husband's artifact against her.

Bookcovers for THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, and THE GOD AND THE GUMIHO.

Comp reasons. Forbidden love, enemies but not really, anti-colonialism, magic system as a tool of oppression, historical C-drama instead of K-drama

LMNan @lmnan.bsky.social · 4mo ago