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Oli 🌼

@oliviariesling.bsky.social

🌼 Bonnie and the Summer of Love, Swords, and Other Long Hard Things 🌼 Summer 2027 🌹 Midnight Rose (Dover Publications) 🦢 Rep: Bonnie Swanson (FinePrint Literary Management)

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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

BEND OVER BACKWARDS (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. 🎪 Rivals to Lovers 🤸 Found Family 🍿 Only One Bed #questpit #q #r #a #amquerying #agentsguide

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS After Noah, a hard of hearing thief, moves in with siren Jasper, their accidental, corrupted mating bond must be severed before it kills them. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x The Surfer Immune to His Song 🌊 Fantasy Set in San Diego 🏄‍♂️ Standalone w/ Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #A #PR

A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”

The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper,

The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh god @queerpit.bsky.social is in two days. Who's ready?

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · last mo.

ONE MORE WEEK SCREAMING CAN'T WAIT TO SEE EVERYONE'S PITCHES I won't be pitching, but QueerPit is near and dear to my heart (it's how I got my agent)

QueerPit@queerpit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📣 Mark your calendars!!!📣 #QueerPit returns for its 4th pitch event on JULY 1ST, 2026 We are extending Pride Month 🌈 by one more day 🙌 to platform 2SLGBTQIA+ authors Check out our website to learn more ⬇️ Follow us for additional updates soon ✨️ share.google/XLm7u0jgjeyy...

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I own the complete series of Supernatural on DVD. All five seasons.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What about this: Name your fav TV show that was cancelled too *late*

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I highly recommend this one! #QuestPit

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BEND OVER BACKWARDS (Heated Rivalry x Star Shipped) 🎪 MM Contemp Sports Romance After Vincent’s acro partner is fired, he has to create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. ♥️ Rivals to Lovers 🤸 Found Family 🍿 Slow Burn #questpit #q #r #a #amquerying #agentsguide

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After a job gone wrong, Sheriff Morn forms a soft spot for her mild-mannered savior only to come face-to-face with the violent cult he’s running from. #QuestPit #AG #A #HF #W

trope map featuring the silhouette of a cowgirl and her horse against the sunset. There's also imagery of the church of the latter day saints, rifles, condors, covered wagons, and a salamander. The tropes include isolated town, redemption, monster cult, bisexual FMC, and soft MMC. The title is Morning Rises

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My MM Contemporary Romance WIPs ✨ 🧜‍♂️ A DEAF MAN’S GUIDE - editing 📷 COMMITMENT-PHOBIA - drafting Since they’re not nearly ready to query yet, I don’t talk about them often, but #QuestPit is all about the journey! #W #R #A #AgentsGuide

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When a notorious outlaw teams up with her immortal ex-lover to rob a train and avenge her mother, the last thing she expects is for a lost kingdom to call on her to slay a dragon. #QuestPit #AG #A #RF #OS (exclusive)

A trope map featuring art of a man and woman in simple late 19th century clothes. The woman has a gun held behind her back. The man is smitten with her. Tropes include train heist, second chance, he can't bluff, late sheriff's eldest daughter, and lost prince. The title is A Bird in Hand

kate duarte 🏹🗡️@authorkateduarte.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Frances tries to become a vampire's feeder to protect her father from debt collectors—but she comes back as a succubus, instead. MIDNIGHT MASS' religious trauma meets the gothic atmosphere of HOUSE OF HUNGER & the bisexual, polyam yearning of A DOWRY OF BLOOD. #OS #A #AG #RF #questpit

kate duarte 🏹🗡️@authorkateduarte.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE STARVING SAINTS x C.G. Drew🕸️slowburn horromantasy A divine healer and a death-touched executioner navigate their godly lover’s insatiable appetite for human flesh, the dangers of a religious cult, and their growing attraction for each other. #OS #A #AG #H #RF #questpit

adult horromantasy, all gods must die. a woman with white hand stands between a brunette man with a crown of thorns and bloody lips, and a man with horns and half of his mouth torn out.

Leyl Black | Author @leylmaster.bsky.social · 3mo ago

FUNNY STORY, ACTUALLY ❤️Romcom ✔️80K words 😉2nd chance w/a twist 📚The Bodyguard x Good Material A woman who’s reinvented herself on the outside—but not on the inside—reunites with her high school crush 20 yrs later in a stand-up class and lies about who she is to win his heart. #QuestPit #Q #R #A

An Agent's Guide to Funny Story, Actually by Leyl Master Black.

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Joss 🥀🖤👻@authorjgracey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🥀You're Killing the Vibe🥀 #questpit She finally met the perfect man: 7 ft tall, masked, and chasing her through the woods 😍🔪 🫀 darkly comedic horroromance 👩‍❤️‍👨 dual POV 🎃 slasher x final girl 🤫 forbidden love 🎭 masked killer 😈 family of murderers #Q #A #H #DR

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Rose and her late best friend hatch a plan to scare would-be developers away from their beloved ghost town, but as Jesse's poltergeist skills become more complex, so does the friendship. #QuestPit #AG #A #PR #W

A trope map featuring a woman in modern western attire surrounded by horses. Other imagery includes ghosts, old hollywood motifs, and a man in similar clothes. The tropes include friends to lovers, save the ranch, ghost MMC, maneater, and the chicken lives. The title is Otherside Springs

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two acrobats on the mock cover of 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.

Two acrobats kiss in front of a list of tropes including “rivals to lovers” “slow burn” and “only one bed”

Comps including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Questpit Mass effect x Treasure Planet "People of Humanity, we have been observing your Earth..." These are the word that came down from the stars when Humanity stood on the Brink. The words that offered them a Second Chance at life. 6 years later, our story begins. #Q #SF #SFF

In The Service of Gods & Admirals.

A Novel by

James Keller

People of Humanity,

We have been observing your Earth and know you can not survive. The damage done to your world is too great for any species to recover from. You lack the technology to escape but there is no reason why the Galaxy should have to go on without you.

In the name of our Goddess, the Lady of Crystal, I have declared the Uplift of Humanity from your ruined world. And have bestowed onto you a new planet to call your own. Where you can rebuild yourselves and live on under the light of the stars.

We offer you passage to this new world. To welcome you into the Galactic Community as Citizens of the Jada Empire. Under the protection of my court, the Assembly, and the Admiralty of the Royal Navy.

You will be granted all the rights and privileges as any other Citizen in our domain. We will offer all the assistance you require as you heal and grow on your new Colony. To help you find your place in the Galaxy.

The wars that have ravaged your Earth are not our concern. We seek not to pass judgement, but to offer a chance at peace. To survive as a people and as a culture.

To all who accept this offer, our ships will be arriving to evacuate you. Instructions will be broadcast to lead you to the evacuation zones. To all who refuse, you will be left alone without further interference. We mean no harm but we will protect our new citizens from anyone who seeks to prevent them from traveling to their new home.

I know that you do not know of us, of anyone beyond your Earth. but we do come in peace. We come in peace. All we ask is the opportunity for our people to get to know each other.

(Proclamation of Empress Celestia of House Praven, 2nd Born of Emperor Cerian)

Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨@saraduran.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a new guide 🤍 • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AG

Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝@danielleippaso.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC MEXICAN GOTHIC x STARLING HOUSE Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements. 🕯️An orphan seeking security ⌛An immortal man bound by a curse 📰A marriage notice that is a trap Nellie must choose: her heart or her survival #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #H #DR

A dark teal and black patterned card for THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC. The background has vintage deep shades of pink and purple roses on the top of the frame. Centered is a small hourglass made with bones and a skull symbolizing the immortal + horror elements of the story. There is a note on there that the story is 70,000 words and a Dark Southern Gothic with Horror Elements.

A pitch slide with a deep teal background and black magnolia patterns. A skull with purple and pink roses and more deep pink and purple roses act as decorations. The pitch reads: "The Unyielding Monsieur de Blanc follows Nellie Moore in 1872, lured to a New Orleans estate by a marriage notice promising security. There, she encounters a man as captivating as he is complex, a man bound by a curse that has kept him alive for over a century.
As an impossible attraction sparks, Nellie’s search for the truth reveals that some secrets are meant to stay buried, and some doors, once opened, can never be closed again."

Two book covers adorn the card with deep teal and black magnolia patterns, pink and purple roses framing the bottom.
MEXICAN GOTHIC - The atmostpheric dread and family legacy.
STARLING HOUSE - A cursed, burdened hero

Teal and black magnolia patterns in the background along with a pink and purple rose decoration in the top right corner. Other images include, a candlestick with a burning flame, a pocket watch, a burned newspaper with a woman dressed in 19th century attire. The card includes a snippet of the book as below:

Nellie cleared her throat, and he turned slowly. His broad shoulders squared as he measured her with gray, unflinching eyes.

“I do not care for shadows in my doorway. Step forward.”

Nellie could not speak for a moment. Such a man naturally commanded her. He seemed powerful, severe, and entirely too confident. “I—I beg your pardon, sir,” she stuttered, her voice small in the vast room. “I am Nellie Moore.”

A brief unreadable softness touched his features before he stiffened, his expression once again a mask of stone. “I am Monsieur de Blanc, or Mr. De Blanc, as you Americans prefer.”

His thick French accent was like bourbon; it was smooth, but with a burn that unsettled her. Nellie stared, stunned. This was him, the man she was to marry. She had expected someone older, not this gentleman in his late twenties with a face so...strikingly symmetrical.

“Do find your breath, Mademoiselle. I have enough to manage today without adding a fainting spell to the afternoon’s agenda. I’ve never had much patience for delicate women.”

The insult was a splash of frigid water, bringing her back to herself. The orphan inside of her who spent her days scrubbing floors and managing unruly children suddenly bubbled to the surface. She adjusted the lace on her shoulders and met his gaze with a leveled stare that mirrored his own coldness.

“You needn’t worry, sir,” she said, her voice surprisingly crisp. “I am merely trying to reconcile the man in front of me with the one I was promised in the letters.”

A flicker of mild interest passed over his face. “Is that so?” he murmured, arms folded tightly. “Fortune favors you, then. I am not the man from your letters.”

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I had the privilege of beta reading this last month, and it is FABULOUS ✨🤸‍♂️✨ #QuestPit

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 3mo 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”

Joss 🥀🖤👻@authorjgracey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE X ROMEO AND JULIET A would-be final girl turns her horror story into a love story when she falls for a masked serial killer from a religiously murderous family #questpit #H #R #Q #amquerying

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 3mo 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

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

List of comp titles including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

QuestPit pitches saved in drafts! All of my books are currently in limbo, so I'm looking forward to a chill, low-stakes hype event

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Shaking out the dust on this account hahaha Hi fam, what's up, how're you doing.

Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This #FriendPromotionFriday, boost friends in the #TTRPG or #WritingCommunity spaces, who are promoting something, or who are just cool. I'll also try to boost Quick reminder my college friends have a custom modular #sci-fi card deck on Kickstarter (AKA HekDek): www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...

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Marnie is reading!@amcrollwriter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

YA Romantasy SoC x Crimson Moth A teenage pickpocket is recruited as a spy to thwart a plot to steal the King’s dragons—except the leader of the thieving crew is her former best friend, and she’s falling for him 🐉 friends to enemies to lovers 🐉 betrayal angst 🐉 found family #dvpit #YA #F #DIS

kate duarte 🏹🗡️@authorkateduarte.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm back on 5er! I'll be offering beta reading services with three available packages 📚🖋️ www.fiverr.com/s/0bgZ3Py #WritingCommunity #betareader #amquerying #amwriting

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kate duarte 🏹🗡️@authorkateduarte.bsky.social · 12mo ago

To pay off her father's debt, Frances must become a vampire's feeder. But when she's attacked and left for dead, her supernatural rescuer turns her into a succubus instead. Now, she must rely on her sire to defeat the pious hunters targeting both. #A #QueerPit #FR #Agented

Oli 🌼@oliviariesling.bsky.social · 12mo ago

OUTLAWED x VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE Notorious outlaw Birdie teams up with her immortal ex-partner to rob a train and avenge her mother. #QueerPit #A #FR #W #AGENTED Rep: Bonnie Swanson