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Melanie is querying

@melanielocke.bsky.social

SFF Writer. Queer. #actuallyautistic . Vegan. '24 RTM mentee. PhD candidate genetic small vessel disease by day She/they

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 3w ago

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

Molly Haniszewski @mollyhaniszewski.bsky.social · last mo.

THE PRIORY OF THE 🍊TREE X THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA The eldest of the 12 Dancing Princesses (also a lady knight) and the princess from The Wild Swans must use each other to break the curses in their families. Let’s just hope the Fae don’t get involved 🤞🏻 #queerpit #a #f

White text on a background of misty mountains, reads A Curse Conjured by Molly Haniszewski, an agent’s guide

J. Alexander Cohen | Fantasy novelist @jalexandercohen.com · last mo.

LEGENDS & LATTES x PALADIN'S GRACE Garris is a hero planting enchanted flowers, bringing magic to the people. Stranded in the village of Eventide, his lover Eran finds a path to heroism: returning literacy to a fallen world. THE LIBRARY AT EVENTIDE #queerpit #FR #A Full req by Berkley (Open Subs)

Moodboard. Upper-left: close-up of two men kissing. Upper-middle: pot over a fire. Upper-right: a map, magnifying glass, compass and coins. Lower-left: purple flowers. Lower middle: Ancient scrolls. Right: Sunlit trees and grass. Lower right: cat on a tree branch against a full moon.

Sidney Quinn - Author @sidneyquinn.bsky.social · last mo.

THE AUGUSTINE AFFAIR Strap in for a globetrotting, high-octane spy thriller/gay romance. Fashion mogul (and undercover MI6 agent) Felix finds himself teamed up with assassin Kai to unravel a conspiracy at the heart of the fashion world. #A #rf #t #LGBTQ #queerpit #q

Reagan Faerwyn 💗💜💙@reaganfaerwyn.bsky.social · last mo.

Hello #QueerPit! Hope we are all doing well today! Please enjoy: FORGED IN THE AFTER #FR #F #R #A #MM #QUEERying I am so excited to share Donovan & Jerrik's story with you all!

Niki Bond @nikibond.bsky.social · last mo.

THE LUNAR CHRONICLES X FF7 Emily wakes from a 20 year stasis to find that the one who trapped her also unleashed the demon lord on the universe. Knowing she can’t face him alone, she joins a crew on a quest to defeat him—but first, they must learn to trust each other. #queerpit #ya #ef #f #sf

Five characters standing next to each other.
From left to right:
Rota (deep brown skin, curly purple hair with a metal circlet, wearing a pastel pink dress with teal armor over it),
Victor (light brown skin, auburn hair with matching scales on the right side of his face. He’s wearing a light blue shirt with an over-shirt that mixes a darker blue with red, with a light gray scarf over that and black pants),
Emily (pale skin, teal hair in long pigtails, wearing a purple dress with a pair of glasses on a necklace),
Seth (pale skin, blond hair; wearing an eyepatch over his left eye and a cerulean long sleeve shirt lined in silver, blue pants, and a black cape), and
Marty (rich brown skin, red hair tied behind her head with braids, wearing a purple jacket and dark pink dress).

ak-writes.bsky.social @ak-writes.bsky.social · last mo.

A court musician will do anything it takes to reclaim her inheritance, until a runaway princess and political instability force her to choose between love and revenge. 🦚 Semi-occupied India-inspired 🎻 String instruments 💔 Lover to enemies 👑 Court politics 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic #QueerPit #F #A

E.S. Thomas @violetsandvipers.bsky.social · last mo.

When the Prince she’s engaged to tries to “cure” her curse through barbaric medical experiments, slicing off every piece of her that he finds undesirable; Princess Sloane learns that claws aren’t what make a monster. To escape, Sloane will have to finally embrace the beast within #queerpit #f #a

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

SALTBURN X THE SECRET HISTORY X THE MAIDENS When a gay archaeologist becomes a person of interest in his lover’s death, he fakes a spectacular find to makeover his reputation before he’s charged with murder. #QueerPit #A #UP #T #S #M #HA #STEM #Con #LGBTQ #darkacademia

Man looking out the window from a room decorated with classical statues and paintings.

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerPit #COA #H #R #A His mother wants to prune him into a dress-up-doll daughter with perfect skin, which makes the whole "sprouting scales" thing very awkward. Which is harder, coming out as a monster or as trans? Who will handle it better, Cam's friends or these boys with secrets of their own?

Krithika and Maheshwari Rajesh (are querying 🥰)@rajeshtwins.bsky.social · last mo.

KAIKEYI + AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER + WE HUNT THE FLAME When twin rajkumaris are kidnapped by their best friend and discover that they wield the forbidden magic of their enemies, they must embark on a quest to prevent war and prophesied disaster. 🌊 🔥 ⚡️ 🌱 🏹 🗡️ #QueerPit #F #YA #Asian

Hi, I’m Caitie @findmeinfairytales.bsky.social · last mo.

Sapphic Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac SWAN SONG has: 🔥Slow-burn romance 💌 Letters exlporing grief 🕰️ Time as the enemy ☕️ Tea leaf reading 🔮Witches 🦢A monstrous swan curse 🥀Dark fairytale elements #QueerPit #YA #F #FR

Jesterbells @jesterbellart.bsky.social · last mo.

Nightmare Before Christmas X Holly Black ⚔️ Aroace Faerie warrior princess 🧹Wlw goth x pastel witches 🎃 Halloween magic 🏹 50 assassins Something tricksy this way comes... #QueerPit #YA #CozyFantasy #UF

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.

Nicole Sawin @nsawin.bsky.social · last mo.

Fonda Lee's GREEN BONE SAGA meets GUNDAM in IN THE BONES OF MONSTERS, a 100k queer urban fantasy about a moody bookseller with a bone mech who accidentally saves the life of the enemy general. #QueerPit #A #DF #UF

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

Matthew Brewmiller @matthewbrewmiller.bsky.social · last mo.

The Sun Dragons are gone, the empire is dead, and its successors have spent thirty years stripping its corpse. Peace staggers on under threat of total annihilation, but one young man’s dreams of riches threaten to reawaken an ancient evil and plunge the world into total war. #QueerPit #FA #DF

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last mo.

CEMETERY BOYS x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH A goth trans sorcerer tries to weasel out of his contract with Hell and accidentally resurrects a corpse, rescues a child, and reconnects with his humanity along the way. #QueerPit #YA #F #UF #SN #H

A black background with flames on the bottom. White text reads: YA Horror Fantasy, 85k words. A Not Yet Corpses Agent's Guide

A black background with flames on the bottom. A Tropes/Comps graphic for Not Yet Corpses. Various orange arrows point to the cover in the center, depicting a pale, white-haired teenager wielding a knife and a handful of flame. Tropes: Annoyances to Friends to ???, Devil Deals (with red devil graphic), Stabby Trans MC (with cover of Ander Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth), Goths Gays and Theys, Found Family, Accidental Resurrections (with cover of Aiden Thomas' Cemetery Boys), Combatting Oppression (with cover of H.E. Edgmon's The Witch King)

A black background with flames on the bottom. Excerpt from Not Yet Corpses:
“So what do I call you?” he asks.
“Roy.”
“Just Roy?”
Even under the sepia light of the streetlamps, he radiates life. It’s off-putting. Downright annoying, when I think about it too long.
“Unless you want to call me Riordan Payne.”
He laughs. “Weird—I like it. Monster Hunter, Riordan Payne.”
“Not a monster hunter.”
As much as I want to punch him every time he opens his mouth, I can’t shake the pride settling in my bones, watching him do something as simple as running a hand through his hair. You’d never know he was dead an hour ago. I did that, and I'm not even sure how.
Beneath that pride, a primal fear coils inside me. If my patron ever finds out what I’ve done, there’s no telling what he’ll do to the corpse. But I’ve got a pretty good idea what he might do to me. I have to dump this undead body the first chance I get.

A black background with flames on the bottom.
Pitch: After Riordan Payne accidentally resurrects an amnesiac corpse, he'd do anything to get rid of it. He didn’t think ‘anything’ meant making friends with it, rescuing a kid wizard together, taking a road trip across the desert, or reawakening his humanity.
Graphic Title of Not Yet Corpses in white at the bottom, with skulls for O's

Eva J. Krammer | she/her 🏳️‍🌈📚✒️@evviejo.bsky.social · last mo.

THE HAND YOU'RE DEALT is a New Adult speculative heist novel. If you like BABEL for its alternative history, FOUNDRYSIDE for its steampunk-y heists, METAL FROM HEAVEN for its vengeful heroine, or A RESTLESS TRUTH for its historically set sapphic romance, it might be for you! #QueerPit #SPF #NA

Over a black-and-white photo of a section of Sheffield railway station, are superimposed the title, The Hand You're Dealt, and a number of tropes and elements, each with an arrow pointing at the title. These are: alternative, steampunk history, con artists & crooks, a sapphic romance, revenge, misfits & outcasts, heists, a revolution brewing, found family

Maeve has lost everything, but she knows who is to blame and she will make sure he pays.

Eleri has always lived in a gilded cage, and she's done being a prisoner.

Aran has made a grave mistake, and only helping his sister in her plan for revenge can fix it.

Franklyn has never dared disobey his father, but he may just have had enough.

The Hand You're Dealt
- A speculative heist novel
- New Adult
- A queer cast of characters
- Anti-capitalist
- Set in alternative late 19th century Sheffield, England

A digital painting of two girls lying down. One, brown-haired with a long plait over her shoulder is shown upside down, and gazes at the other, a red-head, who has a hand almost touching the other's head.

Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽@sagecollins.bsky.social · last mo.

Sorta had a crush on this boy forever, but I'm worried. Red flags? ⛳️ He maybe likes girls? ⛳️ He only smiles when I'm ridiculous ⛳️ We're competing for the same job ⛳️ His touch leaves frost on my skin ⛳️ He only kissed me to cheat on a test ⛳️ His dad would happily murder me #QueerPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

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

WHAT IF TOPH FROM ATLA WAS DEAF, WRESTLED SHARKS, AND GOT TO KILL? 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 💜 Aspec gender-queer FMC haunted by sea ghosts 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM slowburn (recovery from abuse) 🦈 Positive shark rep 🏝️ Non-Western setting ⚔️ Ride or die F&M besties 💕 Found family of circus misfits #NA #YA #DF #F fantasy #QueerPit

J. Alexander Cohen | Fantasy novelist @jalexandercohen.com · last mo.

THE LIBRARY AT EVENTIDE ☁️Cozy fantasy 📜Rebuilding a library 🌸Enchanted flowers 🌈M/M queernorm romance/HEA 🎶Slow-dancing in the ruins 🫂Found family 🐈Cats 🧺Cottagecore 🍲Forever stew 🌊Glowing lagoon 🎉Festivals 🏴‍☠️Nonbinary pirate 🃏Card games 🩼Positive disability rep - no magical cures! #queerpit #FR #A

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · last mo.

KNIGHT & THE MOTH x GODKILLER x Renaissance "Italy" If they steal 7 angel hearts, a stubborn secret witch & angsty witchkiller can kill the gods who conquered the kingdom. Win: They free their countrymen. Lose: they die and never get the chance to nurture their newfound bond. #A #F #EF #QueerPit

Two colorful film strips, one with purple and one with orange. The purple one has a person with a sword and a crystal ball. The orange has two people kissing and a woman reading tarot. They are over a black and white background of an Italian street

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

ARTHURIAN LORE X SAILOR MOON 👑 Reincarnated King Arthur ⚔️ Knights of the Round Table as Magic Weapons 🌩️ An Utterly Devoted, Godly Love Interest 🌈 Trans Boy Merlin? Trans Boy Merlin 🪶 The Morrigan's favorite host ❌ And a Mordred that gives you the Biggest Ick #QueerPit #Q #UF #F #NA

Kris Jarden @krisjarden.bsky.social · last mo.

Sapphic HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA In a floating land of birds and bicycles, an ex-con bike mechanic collides with an amnesiac running from nobles who want her divine magic. Their kind kingdom may be a lie, but her freedom means the realm falling. #F #FR #A #QueerPit

A large drawing of colourful birds, surrounded by (top right corners) heart-shaped lockets, (bottom right corners) chains over forest, (top and bottom) a vintage yellow bicycle, (sides) a spinning wheel.

Nicole Sawin @nsawin.bsky.social · last mo.

The forbidden romance and dark, gritty tone of Marie Lu's RED CITY meets the giant mech-inspired entities similar to Xiran Jay Zhao's IRON WIDOW in IN THE BONES OF MONSTERS, where a moody bookseller who is secretly a revolutionary saves the life of the enemy general. #QueerPit #A #DF #UF

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

Rules For Ghosting x Alice Isn't Dead My Sister's Stolen Soul features: 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪽 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip #QueerPit #A #F #SN #CON

An Agent's Guide for My Sister's Stolen Soul Adult Contemporary Fantasy * 78k words aro/ace flag, pansexual flag, disability flag, Sapphic flag, agender flag

For fans of The River has Roots (sisterly love transcending death) When the Angels left the Old Country (it/its angel goes on an adventure) Rules for Ghosting (mortician who sees ghosts) Here We Go Again (drama filled road trip) What's Left of Me (sharing a body with a sister)

Playlist Unity - Alan Walker Take My Soul - ZHU Girlfriend - Icona Pop Anything for You - Ludo Memento Mori - Will Wood Even In Death - Evanescence Lonely Day - System of a Down Back From The Dead - Halestorm You’re Somebody Else - Flora Cash I Don’t Wanna Die - Hollywood Undead Let Me Be Your Armor - Assemblage 23 Anthem of the Angels - Breaking Benjamin

Excerpt “Who are you?” she asks. “My name is Melody, I’m Lyra’s younger sister,” I say. “You two are identical.” I wish I could ask Lyra if she’s okay with Annie knowing everything. Better yet, I wish I could make her explain it. Her girlfriend, her problem. But I’m here alone, Annie is the one who saw Lyra last, and I want any information she can give me. It’s not like I could pretend I’m Lyra and ask why she ran out last night. I kind of need to tell her. I’ve never had to explain us. I don’t know where to start. It’ll be easier since she can already sense Lyra and I are different people. Somehow. But it’s still going to sound insane to a normal person. “I’m six years younger than Lyra. She died when we were kids, and I… I don’t know what I did but I saved her soul. I kept it.” I press my hand against my chest, careful to avoid the burn. “We’ve shared this body—my body—for over twenty years.”