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Marie Rios | QUERYING SLASH & SIGN 🔪

@marierios.bsky.social

Horror comedy writer. Mama. Wifey. Querying: Slash & Sign Definitely not a final girl.

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

SERIAL DATING | Horror Rom-Com 💀 She's from a Family of Unalivers 📷 He's a Nature Photographer When a psycho k!ller hunts her lakeside family vacay, will these star-crossed lovers survive, or are they destined to d!e while they sleep in bunk beds? #QuestPit #W #A #H #R

Picture of trees reflecting off a lake. Text: The Comps. Lights Out by Navessa Allen, 2019 film Ready or Not, Dating & Dismemberment by A L Brody, Book of Knives by Lise Haines

Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Whispering Muse X GOTHIC Bridgerton A bookish beauty dons a new identity to flee an unwanted engagement and discovers an unexpected attraction to her new employer, but her sadistic fiancé and his potentially homicidal cousin threaten to snuff out their romance. #QuestPit #Q #A #Gothic #HR #R

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

NEVERMOOR X IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES X TREASURE PLANET “I’m a bear?!” Meet Arthur Oak. A thirteen year old boy that discovers he’s a Druid and is whisked off through a portal to a magical realm. 63,000 words of magic, family and creatures of folklore. #Questpit #MG #F #Q

Cover page for Arthur Oak and the Druid Child visual carousel. Torn paper shows the wording, on top of a forest background. Text reads “an agent’s guide to” followed below by “Arthur Oak and the Druid Child”. “MG Fantasy - 63 thousand words”. “J.J.W. Lovell”

Torn paper shows the wording “Excerpt”, on top of a forest background.
The text for the excerpt is “Arthur moved his hand to the pendant, trying to catch the sparks from within and push them back against his chest, but
instead, his body lunged forwards and grew, sudden but
painless. His body lifted and dropped with a padded thud.
His arms had become furry again. He let out a shriek, but it
seemed loud, and only part human. He was larger, and hunched over, but it didn't feel out of place. The two Fairies flew back, suspended in the air, their wings beating fast, their
faces covered in excited smiles.
"You are the chosen one!" Ain assured Arthur.
Arthur turned to look in the mirror, and could barely believe
his eyes. He lifted his arm as the creature in the reflection
lifted a paw. He dropped his lower jaw, and the set of teeth with sharp canines opposite him copied his movements.
He tried backing away from the reflection, but he was so big,
his rear end triggered the automatic hand dryer.
It took him a moment to find the words.
He looked in the mirror. The creature in the mirror looked
back.
"I'm a bear!?"”

Torn paper shows the word “includes”, on top of a forest background. Below it are 7 small bullet points that appear as portals. They read “
• A SHAPESHIFTING DRUID BOY
• A PORTAL TO A MAGICAL PLACE
• TWO BRAVE FAIRIES
• FOUND FAMILY.. LITERALLY
• A MAGIC ABSORBING MONSTER
• AN OGRE WITH A BIG HEART
• LOTS MORE FANTASTIC CREATURES
Below that, on more torn paper, is the hook.
“TWO TINY PURPLE CREATURES TOLD HIM HE WAS A DRUID. HE DIDN'T BELIEVE THEM.
HE WAS WRONG.”

Torn paper shows the wording “other media”, on top of a forest background.
The other media shows two movie posters with arrows and text around them, explaining the similarities. Turning Red, because of discovering identity and inherited transformation magic, and Treasure Planet, because of the cast of unlikely characters and a boy discovering where he belongs.

Melissa Rousu Author @melissarauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

A LOVE LIKE THE MOVIES When offered the dream job she's worked her whole life for and the one that would secure her mother's financial stability once and for all, Alex Bennett will have to choose between the future she planned and the love she's finally found. #QuestPit #Q #A #R

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

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.

Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝@danielleippaso.bsky.social · 2w ago

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying

Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 2w ago

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Tropes
Forbidden Romance
High Society Match Making
European Setting
Slow Burn
Love VS Duty
Black Swan-esque Awakening
Masquerade Ball
2000’s Setting
Obsessive yearning
Secret Lake Meetings

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!

Trinity🪞is querying🪞@trinitywrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

An #agentsguide to DON'T LOOK TOO HARD, a 76k YA speculative thriller. #questpit #Q #YA #S #T #MY

a guide to "Don't Look Too Hard," a YA speculative thriller | 76k words. Background image of a young woman staring into a mirror, covering her eyes with one hand.

Pitch: 16-year-old Jess, who sees people's future corpses in their reflections, must race to change fate when her visions reveal that her only friend is about to be murdered.
Comps:
"The Darkness Rises" by Stacy Stokes and "When the Bones Sing" by Ginny Myers Sain.

tropes & themes:
PNW setting
guilt
facing unpleasant truths
addiction
loss & trauma
everyone's got a secret

excerpt:
Mel's reflection, illuminated by the glow of a yellowed bulb, proved oh-so-easy to catch. The sight ripped the air out of my lungs. All of it: the whine of a distant ambulance, Mel's shouting, the frantic steps of other people running before the police arrived, everything except the pool faded. Ripples distorted Mel's image, but it didn't matter.

It was impossible to miss the giant knife sticking out of her back.

Marie Rios | QUERYING SLASH & SIGN 🔪@marierios.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP x BLACK SHEEP in SLASH AND SIGN, a darkly funny slasher about a burned-out horror author whose weekend at BloodCon turns deadly when a staged murder becomes real and she realizes someone is playing by the rules of the genre she made a career writing. #questpit #q #h #a