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Nichole Winters

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Nichole Winters @nicholewinters.bsky.social · 6mo ago

TW: SUICIDE SONS OF ANARCHY X THINGS WE LEFT BEHIND 🖤 Dark themes black 🥀 🖤 DV Survivor x Freshly Released Felon 🔥 🖤 Found Family 👫 🖤 They share a duplex wall 👀 🖤 Buried Secrets + Trauma 🪦 #R #Q #A #questpit

Nichole Winters @nicholewinters.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · 6mo ago

MAGICIANS x DND When her master commands her to conquer his homeworld, Lia knows she's up against a rag-tag team of heroes—her least favorite kind. Letyf has never spent this much time with non-elves. The quest is one thing—making friends is another problem entirely! #Questpit #A #F #SFF

Tier Ranking meme, reading: Why Are these Distant Realms Characters in the Royal Dungeon?

Violated Geneva Convention: Creepy looking elf named Roksa; strange human-like creature named Voice
Aggravated Menacing: a demonic woman named Lia; a dark-haired elf named Vana
Violated Restraining order: a creepy bald man named Mulligan; an angry blonde elf named Lerovan
Punched an Officer: An angry bald wizard named Vere; a curly haired elf named Ilyana; a sassy blonde dwarf named Named
Accidentally confessed to a crime they didn't even commit: A naive elf named Letyf; a cheerful elf-child named Misha, a young woman named Clariss
Public Defender, visiting Clients: A fierce woman in armor named Maven; a mischievous elderly elf named Edmund; a darkhaired Elf King named Mallon
Bailing everyone else out: a wise elderly elf named Paul; a serious-looking redhead named Dalibor

Samantha is ✨editing✨@sloicano.bsky.social · 6mo ago

WHAT MAGIC REMAINS A witch turned vampire, only her magic survived. Now, every spell corrupts her skin. Every heartbeat breaks the rules. And Hell is closing in. But the demon responsible? He wants to keep her. 🩸Vampires 🔮 Witches 🔥 Infernal Corruption 🖤Forbidden Romance #QuestPit #W #A #FR

Top left image is a crow in a cemetery. Top middle image is a girl with back to the camera holding leaves. Top right image is a woman holding a book with a man’s hand hers. Middle left image is a woman’s mouth with fangs. Center image is the word heretic. Middle right image is a man kissing a woman’s neck. Bottom left image a hand painted black touching the finger of another hand the black ins transferring. Bottom middle image is a man’s neck with necklaces. Bottom right image is a witch alter set up. small notes are in the images. death touched witch. Guardian demon? Punished, cursed, damned.

Andrea Homoya is revising as a ✨2026 #RevPit Winner!✨@andreahomoya.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🍺 She makes cider 🍺 💰 He makes money 💰 💦 Things are about to get juicy💦 CIDER SEASON | An upmarket contemporary rom-com. Currently revising as a 2026 #revpit winner. Re-entering the query trenches with a sub-ready manuscript in 6 weeks. #questpit #q #a #r #u

Background: A close up of a glass of cider with foam and carbnation bubbles.

An agent's guide to CIDER SEASON
2026 RevPit Winner
A 75K word upmarket contemporary rom-com

Background: A lake in the mountains.
Pitch and Plot
Two years after a devastating breakup left her jobless, homeless, and heartbroken, Phoebe Skiles has made a name for herself crafting high-end, European-style cider at Appelle. When Elise, Phoebe's best friend and CEO, hires a consulting firm to keep Appelle from shuttering its doors for good, Phoebe finds herself living her worst-case scenario: putting her professional life in the hands of Miles Newport, a finance bro with a toddler's palate. Miles is convinced the only thing that can save Appelle is ‘pivoting’ to a ‘consumer product’ with ‘mass-market commercial appeal’.

Phoebe sets out to save Appelle and discovers that there’s a lot more to Miles than cashmere sweaters and Stylus pens. He's working overtime to bring on a high dollar client to repay his estranged father’s investment and support his best friend's working-class parents. With so much already on the line, what are Phoebe and Miles willing to risk for love?

Background: Apple blossoms
COMPS: Emily Henry's Funny Story, BK Borison's Lovelight Farms, Linda Holmes' Back After This, Sarah Chamberlain's The Slowest Burn
TROPES: Slow burn; found family; rivals-to-lovers; workplace romance; unique setting; small business; big stakes; disastrous meet-cute; witty banter; emtional depth.

Background: A bunch of people reaching forward to cheers with their glasses.
OPENING LINES: Phoebe Skiles sat back on her heels and blew a sweaty curl out of her eye. No matter what she used—elbow grease, power washers, EPA-regulated caustic—the concrete floors never gleamed like she wanted them to.
If she could ask her 17-year-old self to predict where she’d be in ten years, on her knees scrubbing yeast sludge off the floors wouldn’t have cracked the top hundred. Teenaged Phoebe would have chosen something more professional: a custom power suit, a corner office overlooking downtown Seattle, a Brazilian Blowout.
Like most teenagers, Teenage Phoebe was an idiot.
After years of striving to rise above her circumstances, she was much happier in a warehouse than she’d ever been in a cubicle. But every job has its downsides, and the weekly deep clean of the cidery floors was definitely a downside.
A drop of sweat fell from her forehead into the puddled suds between her hands.
Okay. Sometimes she missed the cubicle.

K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨@jundlife.bsky.social · 6mo 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

Nichole Winters @nicholewinters.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#questpit Second Chances at Sunset | 80k words Sons of Anarchy meets small town romance 🖤 Dark themes 🖤 DV Survivor x Freshly Released Felon 🖤 Found Family 🖤 They share a duplex wall 🖤 Buried Secrets + Trauma #R #Q #A

Marie Montague @mariemontague.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's The Flatshare meets The Hating Game in wellies 🌱 Enemies-to-lovers 🥕 Forced proximity (One plot!) 🔪 Grumpy Chef x Chaotic Influencer 🪴 Petty sabotage & turf wars 🍳 Accidental food stall partners 🗣️ Dual POV & biting British banter Querying soon #posterpit #W #A #R #C #CO

Romantic comedy poster with a soft pink background. A pink-haired woman looks up with a playful smile at a dark-haired man, who looks down at her with a fond, slightly amused expression, arms crossed. Behind them are hand-drawn seed packets labelled “tomato.” Text at the top reads “Love is the ultimate plot twist,” with tropes listed: “grumpy x sunshine,” “enemies to lovers,” and “chef and influencer.” The bold title “A Patch of Trouble” appears across the centre. Smaller text describes a cancelled influencer and a furious Michelin chef forced to share a double-booked allotment plot. Bottom text reads “Coming to query trenches soon.”

Angie is ✨querying✨@angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Mexican Gothic x TheKnight &The Moth When a woman relocates to a secluded, mist-cloaked town where creation magic is forbidden & women vanish from history, she, her sentient house & a cursed carpenter must uncover Ravensford’s dark secrets before she becomes its next forgotten name #QuestPit #RF #Q

R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When humans and angels alike go missing, a mortician with the ability to see souls, a temporarily corporeal angel, and a devoted girlfriend, team up to rescue them. [ #questpit #Q #A #F #S #LGBT ]

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.”

lia ☁️ is querying @brantleywrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

GOD OF THE WOODS x THE PROJECT meets OUTER BANKS When 17yo Shiloh gets pregnant, her politician father kidnaps her to protect his campaign, and she must hold onto her right to choose before it’s taken from her for good. #questpit #YA #Q #C #T

Amara Colinco ✍🏽 is revising @amaracolinco.bsky.social · 6mo 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.

EvaA @evacharya.bsky.social · 6mo ago

He just wanted some peace and quiet to write and heal. She just needed a place to hide and plot revenge. Neither planned for what truly happened. #Questpit #Q #A #R

An agent’s guide to LOVE ON A DEADLINE, a romcom. (Title page)

Hook for romcom, with characters art.

One flatmate. One kiss. One gorge should have never entered but couldn’t resist.

The long pitch for the romcom. He’s a romance author who can no longer write romance. She’s his old crush seeking revenge from her ex for the heartbreak. Neither planned to fall in love in between.

Comp titles: The American Roommate Experiment, with a splash of Funny Story, and vibes that are full of yearning. Cover images of comp titles included with similarities to my romcom.

James Gettys II @jgettys7.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BLOOD AT THE ROOT x RAYBEARER 🔮Magical Black Boy MC 🥶Antarctica setting 💔Complex Parent-Child Relationship 🧊Icicles as wands 🐧Penguins! #Q #YA #F #Questpit #BVM

BLOOD IN THE SNOW
YA FANTASY

Sixteen -year-old daredevil Winton is positive nothing will surprise him more than his overprotective and cold-phobic mom bringing him to Antarctica — until he discovers she’s the sole escapee from its
hidden magical world and only had him to liberate all who desire to explore the other continents.

Unfortunately, they can only be free if Winton dies.

And that ain’t happening, especially because he’ll never get to tell his crush how he feels, but if he isn’t sacrificed his mom will be. And since he can’t throw away all those years of love, he must traverse an icy world full of wonder and danger to find an impossible alternate solution without being captured and before time runs out, or one of them will freeze to death.

*Includes:
-Occasionally Unserious Protagonist
-Sweeping Action Packed Adventure
-Unique Worldbuilding
-Found Family
-Complex Parent Child Relationship
-All Black Cast
-Difficult Choices

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 6mo 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.”

Paige Till @paigetillmixons.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Mixons: The Emerald Awakening YA Fantasy ❇️ Magic College ❇️ Family issues ❇️ Friend Drama ❇️ Unpredictable Villain ❇️ Disability Representation #questpit #YA #F #Q

Anne Thornley-Brown @annethornleybrown.bsky.social · 6mo ago

SEASONAL SISTERS 🇨🇦 🇯🇲 In 1973, 2 teen sisters react differently to racism & drift apart. Decades later, when their mother is diagnosed with dementia, they must reconcile & plan for her care. COMPS • The Sister Pact • Good Dirt • One Golden Summer • The Stranger in her House #questpit #A #WF #Q

Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 108k NA Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance ✔️ Cosy Romance + Deadly Stakes #Q #NA #A #RF #F #R #QuestPit

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Not Yet Corpses, a YA Horror Fantasy is querying now, featuring: 👿 angry trans sorcerer without a soul 🧟 the hot amnesiac corpse who won’t leave him alone 🐈‍⬛ the nonbinary kid wizard they rescue together 👹 angels and devils and monsters, oh my! #Questpit #YA #F #H #LGBT #agentguide

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. 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. 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.
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

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When a black market portal to Woodstock sends Bonnie to 1464, she must rely on a lovelorn knight, her trusty pet rock, and her wits to survive. #QuestPit #A #RF #P spring 2027

Trope map featuring a knight and a young woman in a 60s mini dress. The tropes are she falls first, he falls harder, virgin MMC, monster, monster hunter, time travel, and equity magic. The title is Bonnie's Summer of Love, Swords, and Other Long Hard Things

James Gettys II @jgettys7.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BLOOD AT THE ROOT x SQUID GAME 👦🏿 Magical Black Boy MC 🗡️ Deadly Magical Competition 💓 First Love 💰 Magic as Currency 🤝🏾 Importance of Community #Q #YA #F #Questpit #BVM

THE STATE OF MAGIC
YA FANTASY

Poor seventeen-year-old Luhk’ay from the secret 51st and only all-magical American state must win a secret deadly competition or his family won't escape the debt he put them in, the grandma who raised him and has his heart won't be able to afford life-saving care after he caused hers to stop, and he won't marry the girl of his dreams — who is competing too!

*Includes:
-Magical Complex Black Male Lead
-Importance of Community
-Deadly Magical Competition
-Propaganda and Lies
-Reclaiming Power

Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH X THE ADDAMS FAMILY Wicked sorceress Cora must ruin someone’s life before her eighteenth birthday or lose her magic forever, a task made tricky when she falls for her chosen victim. #questpit #YA #PR #Q

A book cover featuring a pretty, young Black woman with coily hair. Pink text for the title and white text for the tagline and my name.

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · 6mo ago

~EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAIRIES meets SPIRITED AWAY~ 🌿 Sarcastic botanist 🥀 Broody yokai When Clove gives her name to a Japanese deity, she’s pulled into his deadly, mythic world. #Q #YA #Mythology #questpit

Adelaide Cabernet @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

HEATED RIVALRY X STAR SHIPPED 🎪 After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🤸 #amquerying #questpit #Q #R

Cover with acrobats titled “Bend Over Backwards”

Pitch - after vincent’s acro partner is banned from their vegas-themed circus show, he’s forced to create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. cole’s flashy hand-to-hand stunts and throws are fine for television, but his aggressive style clashes with vincent’s controlled contortion and fear of falling. vincent plans to escape by auditioning for his dream circus company, but the closer he gets to cole, the more reason he has to stay.

List of tropes including rivals to lovers, found family, and only one bed

List of comp titles including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

Christian Oxford @christianoxford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THE LESSER SOUL 💰A Heist Gone Awry 🗣️Witty Banter 🧠Two Souls Sharing One Body ⏰A Protagonist Running Out of Time #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF

Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN KING Forbidden romance 😈 A cursed village😈 A revenge plot lifetimes in the making 😈 Novella length fantasy, mystery, and forbidden romance 😈 #QuestPit #Q #A #RF #H

Four pictures of a small town, a young woman covered in flowers, a tattooed handsome man, and a colourful temple. The middle says "Bride of the Mountain King"

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When his elf supremacist cousin threatens war, Letyf must confront his traumatic past on a world-saving quest—but he's far from a hero. To make matters worse, he's up against Lia, a world-hopping demon with a reputation to uphold and plenty of lives under her belt. #Q #A #F #Questpit #AgentsGuide

"An Agent's Guide to Distant Realm, Adult High Fantasy, Dual POV, 136,000 words." A collage of images set against a backdrop of a misty forest. The central images feature a worried blond man, looking away from the camera, a serious woman with dark hair looking into the camera, and a realistic engraved set of armor. The top image features armored soldiers attacking a large city. To the left, are two text clips, bookending a drawing of travelers in a sunny forest. The top text clip says: "Letyf realized all at once that he'd never seen anyone die before. A thousand thoughts raced in his mind, but they were like arguing in another room, muffled through walls." The bottom text clip says" "And what if your paths cross again?" "Well, if possible, and if my master commands, I'll kill him."" Below the images is a tagline: "...is one small world worth dying for?"

An idyllic forest in summer, with parchment over top, reading: "THE PITCH: Letyf Duilles has no place on a world-saving quest.

Roksa Morthir took everything from Letyf—his sight, his magic, and his future. Now, Letyf must defy his father, his people, and his endless self-doubt to stop Roksa’s war.

To Letyf, Crelan is home.
To Lia, it’s just one more, backwoods fantasy world.

A world-hopping demon, Lia has served heroes and villains hundreds of times before. If Roksa wants her to conquer his home-world, she’ll just have to do it with gritted teeth and minimal complaints about the plumbing. After all, she’s bound to obey—and why would a world like this be worth saving?"

THE COMPS:
Five Book Covers: The Magicians, Nine Goblins, The Goblin Emperor, The Bright Sword, and Brigands and Breadknives.
Text coming off of these books: "I can't Believe it's not Narnia"; "Magical Multiverse"; "Anxious MC"; "Naive, Fish out of water MC"; "No Romance, Deep Friendships instead"; "Classic Fantasy World Reimagined"; "MetaFantasy"; "Action Packed and Bloody"; "Knights and Warriors"; "Lots of Walking"; "ttRPG Player Approved"