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

BOOK OF AZRAEL x CROWN ME DEAD A Dark Fantasy Romance 🤝🏼 a ten-year soul bargain 💥immortal hierarchy w/ warring factions 🖤a dark & cunning MMC 🥊a fighter FMC with a rare ability 🖤dangerous attraction & loyalties tested 👁️hidden motives ⚜️New Orleans gothic vibes #QuestPit #W #A #F #H #R #AmWriting

M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Summer 1920. 8 children. 1 house. 1 games master. He’s a kid too, but this is his house, and it answers to him alone. Trapped in his games, they’ll have to get creative if they want to survive. 🐊 RevPit 25 winner 🐊 big 5 editor interest ✉️ in your inbox 👀 #QuestPit #Q #MG #H

The bottom one has a hand reaching through tree bark; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; painting of crows on a branch; hands reaching through lily pads.

Black quote on white background: “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you.” Lord of the Flies by William Golding

cassiopeia (cath) ☀️@lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 2w ago

Harrow the Ninth x A Dowry of Blood In the shadows of Gilded Age Manila, an artist’s muse wakes up from death and must solve her own murder feat. 🫀 anticolonial revenge narratives ✨monstrous men & divine abominations 🫀 tropical gothic ✨ doomed siblings #QuestPit #Q #HF #H

M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 2w ago

JANE LAWRENCExTHE EVERLASTING meet my queer horror romance disasters: worst nightmare to have ever lived x made him that way answered “to get to you” x asked “why do you need an angel” wrote x kept the letters prayed for you x dreamt of you died x not unless I say so #QuestPit #W #A #DR #H

background is a painting of two hands below reaching for a hand above on a dark background. foreground has two screenshots of social media posts. post over the two hands below reads: somebody matched my freak and we almost died by @jpbrammer. post over the hand above reads: “match my freak” match my tragedy. become doomed by the narrative with me by @nfjaay.

background is painting of hands holding an open box with an eyeball in it, with dark background. foreground has three screenshots of tumblr posts. post 1: kind of fucked up that I can’t be the blood running through ur veins by @bleedingspiral. post 2: baby, no…the sex is great, I’m just worried about why your leitmotif starts playing in a minor key whenever we get down to it by @ foone. post 3: when I’m six feet underground the bugs in my body will dream of u by @cutevirgin.

background is painting of a reaching hand in the dark. foreground has three screenshots of tumblr posts. post 1: other people’s emotions are deep and complex and beautiful but mine are proof that there is rot at the core of my being by @freakoutgirl. post 2: we can’t talk here contact me in my dream tonight by @vrtualdreamgirl. post 3: the consequences of my actions seem concerningly obsessed with me by @biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist.

Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

FLEABAG X MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES A librarian moonlights as a camgirl, but when someone from her past finds her and threatens to expose her, she’s at risk of more than being known; she could be labeled like the banned books kept from the shelves. Disclaimer: slut. #QuestPit #Q #A #LF #R

kss @ksskss.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE HUNGER GAMES x THE CRUEL PRINCE When 17-year-old Rawiya becomes the first mortal ever Casted into the deadly Light Bearer Trials in the Lands of Draoibeo, she must navigate treacherous court politics by weaponizing the one power no faerie possesses: the ability to lie. #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

A mood board of gold pillars of a beautiful palace, a dark, intimidating maze, magical lights in a willow tree, a hand dripping with blood, a view of the night sky, a forgotten statue of a Goddess, an ethereal night sky, two people fighting, a hand holding a stunning diamond necklace, and gold-plated armor.

Tamara ⛱️🎇🕶️🌊☀️@tamaratoday.bsky.social · 2w ago

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Multiple POVs 🎲 A Bisexual Love Triangle 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

Left to right.

Top Row: Playing cards that spell out LOVE. A martini glass with a clear drink, dice, and a floating candle inside. A Queen of Hearts card with its eyes scribbled out.

Middle Row: Stairs and an elevator with moody red lighting. “Life is a gamble.” An eerie red hallway with many doors and chandeliers.

Bottom Row: A joker card with a demon on it. A beverage being poured into a glass. Playing cards that are three 6s.

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

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #QuestPit #A #H #W

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

moodboard featuring mountains, eerie woods, and trees

Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 2w ago

A “Princess & the Pea” Retelling for adults who grew up on Shannon Hale & Gail Carson Levine and still comfort-binge THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 💚 Neurodivergent FMC 🌱 Plant-based magic 🇸🇪 Swedish folklore 📜 1790s Scandinavia 📖 Standalone Querying late 2026 #questpit #W #A #F #RF #HF

Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 2w ago

ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

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!

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

My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT

mina 🦋@minaareis.bsky.social · 2w ago

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND x WE DO NOT PART In post-Revolution Lisbon, Lídia and Isa spend the summer of violence trying to revive a dying friendship at the dawn of a new and uncertain age as their imaginary world begins to crumble. #questpit #A #LF #S #HFic

Picture split in two. On the left side there are two pictures, the background is a picture of the typical architecture of Lisbon, windows with small balconies, and there is a tram going past obscured by the picture on top of it, of a woman with dark hair reading a book. In black and white.
On the right side there is a picture of the gates of Lisbon altered to look neon orange and blue. On top of it is a picture of two young women, one with blonde hair, the other with black hair, joking around as the latter places a pan over the former's head.
In the middle of the overall picture is a cardboard note with a scribble that reads: "Why did she have to come back and ruin everything again?"

mina 🦋@minaareis.bsky.social · 2w ago

i keep forgetting this app exists but i’m here now, #questpit is friday!! interact so i can hype you up during the event 💗

mina 🦋@minaareis.bsky.social · last yr.

P– wants the entire world for herself but she understands that's unattainable. Still, buy her a gift... or two, or three... NOT PICTURED: 🥃Henry's touch, 🍝home cooked meals, 🖊️her name in history's records. Trust me, she 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 it. #questpit #Q #A #S #LF

Brian @brianbwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever. GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror. #QuestPit #W #YA #T #H

A composite graphic featuring a grid of nine oversaturated images (three rows of three) that evoke the mood of YA thriller novel GENERATION ZOMBIE. From top left: a pile of newspapers with the word “classified” visible on one; a disembodied hand on a pane of glass; a young woman holding a phone; a young man staring at a phone with one hand on his cheek; an aerial shot of the Empire State Building with a red sky; a crowd of people; a phone screen showing a grid of social media app icons; a dark silhouette with an arm raised; and a large stack of newspapers.

mina 🦋@minaareis.bsky.social · last yr.

lost to the world and herself because of academia, P– must decide if she wants to go to the Underworld as Sisyphus' replacement or stay on Earth with past protégées that promise her the world's riches 💍this is a love story 💀or maybe not, 🫵you decide. #questpit #Q #A #S #LF

First row, left corner: an photograph of a large painting with sandy hues, with two couples staring at it;
First row, middle: a photo of a boy and a girl, staring at each other through a keyhole, sandy hues
First row, right corner: a photograph of three people descending marble stairs, sandy hues
Second row, left corner: a woman lying her head down on a table, blue hues
Second row, middle: a woman starting at a table, contemplative, blue hues
Second row, right corner: stack of magazines, blue hues with a hint of bright pink
Third row, left corner: a drawing of souls funnelling towards an abyss, black and white hues
Third row, middle: a photo of a woman's eyes looking on a dark figure embraced by hands, black and white hues
Third row, right corner: broken greek statue, black and white hues

Damian is ✨️drafting✨️@damian-santos.bsky.social · last yr.

A new #agentsguide for my revised version of A FEAST FOR LAMBS(made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) coming back to agents inboxes real soon 👀 🏳️‍⚧️Transmasc MC ❤️‍🔥Poly monster romance 🥩Cannibalism 🩸Religious horror 🫀Body horror 🔥Trans rage #questpit #A #H #RF #querying

mina 🦋@minaareis.bsky.social · last yr.

THE SECRET HISTORY x FLEABAG Oh, P— will you please find yourself and fix this mess? 🪨 modern reimagining of Sisyphus 🎓 isolated & ambitious PhD student 👓 hot people doing bad things 🐇 a very grumpy Underworld dweller ⚰️ grave robbing for fame #questpit #Q #A #S #LF

questpit || next event: NOV 4th @questpit.bsky.social · last yr.

We would like to remind everyone of our NO AI policy. As a larger pitch event, it’s impossible for us to review every pitch and prove if it is AI or not, but we would like to make sure our position on AI is clear.

mina 🦋@minaareis.bsky.social · last yr.

i keep forgetting this app exists 😭

T.N. Lee (she/her)@authort-lee.bsky.social · last yr.

For Max, who lived & loved vicariously through Asian classics, being reborn into an AU East Asia should’ve been a dream come true. But the original fairytales are grim. Living idyllically & loving freely will cost others their life according to his curse #Questpit #W #Up #A

There is a graphic of red Asian lanterns hanging from a cherry blossom tree. There’s also text that says “you’re invited to support Red WIP anywhere, anytime forever and always in all universes. Querying later 2025.” In the center is a moodboard with two sides. On the left are modern things: Tampa at night with a glowing bridge, a young man in a plaid shirt leaning over a desk with a pencil in hand, and a thorny rose. On the right are ancient sights: a Japanese temple against a red sky, a woman in traditional Vietnamese clothing, and an Asian painting of a plant with red flowers.

Jackie 🇦🇺🇵🇭🇲🇾🌈@jackieyap.bsky.social · last yr.

CRAZY RICH ASIANS x GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER Forced to move from Australia and attend an uber-wealthy international school, Izzy finds herself in a life-or-death game of wits with Manila’s rich and famous. 🌈 #own diverse rep 🕵🏾‍♂️ #cosymystery 🫶 found family 🇵🇭 set in Manila #QuestPit #YA #MY #W

A dark blue background with white streaked lines around the borders. Image of a school overlayed with red crossed out lines.

The header in white font reads: New school. New city. And a murder mystery. Welcome to Manila.

The title in red font reads: ISABELLE GOMEZ IS INNOCENT, SHE SWEARS

Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · last yr.

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #QuestPit #YA #H #T

This is a moodboard of orange and green images with a spooky, woodsy vibe including a hand with a vine, and deer at night, an eye reflecting fire, a set of pill bottles, top surgery scars with a barbed wire tattoo, and a black woman covered in ivy

Gwend💫lyn Vines @gwenvines.academics.blue · last yr.

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineering magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺ethical dilemmas 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them #questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy.

Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃@charscrawls.bsky.social · last yr.

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

mina 🦋@minaareis.bsky.social · last yr.

FLEABAG x PENELOPIAD Knowledge is infinite, but you are finite. 🥈morally ambiguous narrator 🥈burnout gifted kid w/ no friends 🥈eat or be eaten 🥈stuck in the past daydreaming about the future 🥈found family vs infamy #questpit #A #W

Top left corner: photo of scattered papers and a notebook filled with messy calligraphy
Top center: photo of a group of women sitting around a round table lit by an overhead chandelier
Top right corner: two hands exchanging a cigarette
Center: it is written “I am out with lanterns looking for myself”
Down left corner: painting of a suited man sitting in agony with his hands covering his face
Down center: burning book
Down right corner: photo of a group of people’s feet, symbolizing a friend group

Remarkable Young Women Project @megorra.bsky.social · last yr.

Rediscover history’s young, forgotten female heroes in this educational and empowering standalone with series potential. 📜 Diverse histories 📜 Forgotten figures 📜 Inspiring women #NF #Q #YA #QuestPit

Illustrated cover with designs of various women in historic cultural dress
A gold cover reads: An Agents Guide to: Remarkable Young Women

Illustrated full figures of young women from various cultures accompanied by text briefly describing their significance