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SFF writer. He/Him. RVA. 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🚫 AI 📷 by makowwka Blog: pjheck.com ☀️ THE EVERWINTER KING | fantasy, adult, querying now!

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PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

If I don’t get an almond croissant in the next two hours I’ll die

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · last wk.

Do you like horror! Do you like monsters? What about a bug-horror story with cicadas which I wrote? You can now pre-order Southern Monsters for release on the 13th of August. I can't wait for you to meet Eli! #horrorwriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #horror www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBXW8QP...

First page of short storyTENERAL STAGE
BY GALEN DAVID BUNTING
WHEN ELI FOUND the black snake dead behind the chicken
coop, he knew what he needed to do. The black snake was a sign of
bad luck until it was dealt with, and he was just the one to deal
with it. His hands were long and clever, and he held the snake
between them, with his fingers working over its scales as though to
soothe it, even though it was dead. The black snake had lived in the
soil underneath the chicken coop and kept the pests away, the rats
that might have eaten their chickens up. He hadn’t given it a name,
but it had been a neighbor and it deserved a good place to lay with
the last rays of the sun still in the sky.

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · last wk.

The board convinced me I should put tomatoes on every cheeseboard. 🍅 Any guesses what the theme was?

A charcuterie board with pimento cheese dip, tomatoes, watermelon spheres, cherries, floral crackers, and lemon cupcakes in addition to the usual meats and cheeses. It’s arranged on a circular serving board.

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thanks for all the love during yesterday's #QuestPit! Here's a round up of my posts. THE EVERWINTER KING is my current project in the trenches.

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

ryan bresingham @ryanbresingham.bsky.social · 2w ago

Introducing my #agentsguide to NOCTURNAL STAR! Darkness is death—and the sun is their sole salvation. ⭐️ elemental magic ⭐️ slow burn romance ⭐️ political tension ⭐️ empowered FMC ⭐️ grief representation #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

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

From writing award winning content, to hosting epistemological material to thousands every month, to creating a fun middle-grade fantasy world. (Inspired by moving across the pond) Thank you for checking out ARTHUR OAK today. (See pinned post for all details) #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 “the pitch”, on top of a forest background.
The wording for the pitch is “WHEN ARTHUR OAK DISCOVERS HE'S A DRUID, HE ENTERS A PORTAL TO A MAGICAL WORLD: THE MAYS.
TO SAVE THE DYING WORLD FROM THE MAGIC-ABSORBING DONN, HE HAS TO FORGE AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE HOSTILE HALF DARK ELF QUEEN, KATE.
HOWEVER, THE DONN IS JUST A PAWN. KATE'S FATHER, THE BANISHED KING, IS THE TRUE THREAT.
ARTHUR MUST MASTER HIS GIFTS, BEFORE HE LOSES HIS HERITAGE, HIS NEW FRIENDS, AND THE ONLY PLACE THAT FELT LIKE HOME.”

Comparable titles upon torn paper showing wording and pictures, on top of a forest background. The pictures are book covers with an arrow and text per picture, describing why it’s a comp title.
The Comps are:
1 - Impossible creatures by Katherine Rundell — due to the magic animal world building.
2 - Sona and the Golden beasts by Rajani LaRocca — because of the mystery behind heritage.
3 - Nevermoor. The trials of Morrigan Crow — which is also a fast paced portal fantasy.

Torn paper shows the wording “the Author”, on top of a forest background.
The text for the slide is “
J.J.W. IS A BRITISH WRITER THAT MOVED TO KENTUCKY, USA, IN 202I. MOVING ACROSS THE POND GAVE HIM A PRETTY DECENT UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE BETWEEN WORLDS (YES, HE IS CALLING KENTUCKY 'ANOTHER WORLD). HIS SHORT STORY, NYSSA, RECENTLY RECEIVED AN HONORABLE MENTION IN THE 2026 ECHOES OF APPALACHIA CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST.
IN THE UK, HE WORKED AS A PROFESSIONAL COMMERCIAL COPYWRITER, LIVE-READ SCRIPT WRITER, AND NEWS WRITER FOR A NATIONAL IN-STORE MEDIA PRODUCTION HOUSE, WHERE ONE OF HIS COMMERCIALS WON BEST USE OF HUMOUR AT THE 2008 VOX AWARDS. HE ALSO HOSTS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL SCRIPTED DEBUNKING SHOW WITH OVER
47,000 SUBSCRIBERS.”

L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 2w ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 😴👑YA sleeping beauty reimagining w/ deaf rep 🗡️Zella's on a mission to kill the queen who cursed her 🏃Callum's hot on her heels 🎶Zella compels her enemies with her entrancing singing voice 🤟Callum can't hear her song now querying #questpit #rf #q #ya #f #df

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

BONE KING'S BLUFF After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. 🦴 Death magic 🏰 Locked-castle mystery 🕯️ Medieval fantasy 🏹 Robin Hood trope 🏳️‍🌈 MM romance #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

ROBIN HOOD, but with DEATH MAGIC After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. BONE KING'S BLUFF, coming to betas soon, and querying early 2027! #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 2w ago

NETTLE & BONE x STAR DAUGHTER 💰 Cheating a suitor out of his money to help her family was easy. 🌌 Falling in love with the night sky trapped in a mortal body is harder. 💔 And helping them return to the sky at the expense of her heart might just be impossible. #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #LGBT

A collage of images, going from top left clockwise: a bouquet of colorful berries, swooping white towers with spiral balconies, a shiny purple beetle, a colorful shop full of knick-knacks, a blooming crocus in a dark forest, a drawing of a woman reaching out to the night sky as if to pluck a star, a crumbling castle on a moor, and mushrooms growing on a tree. In the center is a quote by Virginia Woolf: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. THE EVERWINTER KING is an adult fantasy standalone. #QuestPit #A #F #Q #LGBT #agentsguide

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

Kate Gray is Querying ✨@kategraycosplay.bsky.social · 2w ago

ROT & RUIN: AN ADULT FANTASY NOVEL. COMPLETE AT 100K. NOW QUERYING. TANGLED X ANNIHILATION A failed revolutionary cons a party of heroes into hiring her as their guide through monster-infested woods where she’ll leave them for dead. Then she inconveniently grows a conscience. #questpit #q #a #f

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

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QuestPit #A #F #R #FR #W #Q

Drawing of a man with long red hair and a scar running down his face and a woman with dark way hair. they have their foreheads pressed together and the girl's hand is on his cheek. He is gently holding her arm. There is an aura of sadness despite the tender image. A golden sun is behind them.

Text: Between Fractures of Light

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do you like ⛰️ quests, ⚔️ battles,💜 found family, & 🌌 multiverses? Features #F tropes turned on their heads, including: 🚶excessive amounts of walking 🏛️a fraught council meeting 🧝token elves and dwarves (hobbits not included) How about a #SFF POV? WEB TRAVELER: A Meme Compilation #Q #A #QuestPit

Lucy Mason @lucymason217.bsky.social · 2w ago

WOUND UP LGBTQIA+ Romance Ownvoices neurodivergent, ace, and genderqueer rep 50k words When a high strung asexual yarn shop owner gets a zoning violation, he must team up with his frustrating, flirty trans rival to pull off the annual yarn crawl and prove his shop’s value. #Q #A #R #questpit

A.B. Lane @ab-lane.bsky.social · 2w ago

Joining the staff at Sam's old summer camp seems like a great way to get space from his overbearing parents. There are only 2 problems: ☀️ Sam hated camp as a kid 🏳️‍⚧️ His childhood rival is on staff too & they haven't seen each other since they both came out as trans #QuestPit #Q #NA #R

Collage with 7 photos. Top left: a picture of redwood trees with sunlight filtering down. Top middle: a cabin in the middle of the woods with red walls and a green roof and the insides lit up. Top right: someone playing a guitar with just their hands visible. Bottom right: a person wearing a harness with climbing rope slung over their shoulder, only the person's torso is visible. Center: a group of people sitting around a campfire at night. Bottom middle: The silhouette of five people walking on the beach toward the camera at sunset. Bottom right: someone going on a zipline through a forest.

Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜@celticxpanda.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE SWORD IN THE TREE project in development ‼️ Running away from a forced marriage, Branwen accidentally reveals herself to be the Hero King Reborn in a world that has long since moved on without one. 🏰 Arthuriana Fantasy of Manners 🔍 Court Intrigue 💋 Multiple Love Interests #QuestPit #A #WIP #RF

Project: The Sword in the Tree; romantasy/fantasy of manners in development

the heroine: branwen, hero king reborn; art by Scarchou

tropes and themes: regency/victorian inspired setting, commoner knight vs duke of the north love interests, scheming and political strife

inspiration: lord of the rings, the sword in the stone, villainess and female-led reincarnator manhwa

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 2w ago

WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X OLD WOUNDS X INTO THE LIGHT: 💥trans coming-of-rage 👽cults, aliens, the paranormal, and pain as weapon 🔮a chosen one who refuses to be chosen 🛸different just like me 🏳️‍⚧️trans men in love #Q #Questpit #SF #YA #lgbt #amquerying #agentguide

Grace Rea @airilaya.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am so thrilled to rollout a full revision of THE DEPARTMENT OF BLACKMAIL & PAPER TRAILS. Coming to the trenches August 2026. 📋✨ Mask of Mirrors X (Mostly) Human Resources #questpit #q #f #r #a #agentguide

@kp-newbury.bsky.social · 2w ago

#questpit ! #w #u #wf #wlw THE SWINGING SKIRT ⛳️ After a flashing scandal, a disgraced LPGA champ and the disapproving coach she falls for ditch their staged media stunts to show fans what she stands for before her bad girl reputation eclipses her image as an elite athlete.

Title: The Swinging Skirt
Genre: Upmarket Women’s Fiction
Subplot: WLW Romance

Opening Lines: “Holy guacamole, Larry. That’s the best swing in golf.”
I didn’t bother to look up at the TV. The manufactured drawl of Golf Network’s famed announcer Dan Hooper was all too familiar. And I knew he was talking about me.

Teaser: LPGA champion Loralie Genovese crashes into the glass ceiling of professional sports after flashing a crowd of spectators in celebration turns her into the bad girl of golf. Apparently, no one in the sport has ever seen boobs before.

Comp titles:
Love story: The Long Shot and The Favorites
Hero arc: Carrie Soto is Back and Spectacular Things

Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sometimes the only way to truly find safety is to risk it all. The Archwitch Rises an exceedingly queer romantasy novel where two men (and several gods) used to running and hiding fight back against an empire that doesn't want them to exist. #questpit #Q #A #RF #HF #LGBT #OwnVoices

White text on a dark forest background:

The Archwitch Rises
Historic Romantasy
Desperate to find safety in a tyrannical theocracy, a magically-gifted trans nobleman, his bounty-hunting alchemist boyfriend, and the spirit of the moon fight back against the sun's "order." Will they be able to topple the empire for good, or will it all go down in flames?
A MARVELLOUS LIGHT+FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
Dual POV
Trans Wrongs
Safety vs liberation
Forbidden Love
Sassy Gods
Fake(?) Chosen One
Neurotic Mess x Autism Creature

Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 2w ago

You know what? Let's do a silly one. Wanna read a fairly neurodivergent and even queer fantasy book about a trans nobleman, his autstic alchemist boyfriend, and the moon taking down the government in a way that boils down to this meme? Watch this space. #questpit #Q #A #RF #HF #LGBT #OwnVoices

Meme of a gundam shooting over a person's head. The person looking at the gundam says "wow!! We must build solidarity because none of us are free until all of us are free." The text flying over the person's head reads "the sun is evil and i miss trees."

Janna Horton @jannahorton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

{RED RISING x ROMEO & JULIET} An ambitious, lowborn scholar pretends to be of noble birth to enter an academy for spymasters, but as she rises, her rival vies for her heart, her family ostracizes her, and both rebels & imperials want her dead. #questpit #SFF #A #Q

Aesthetic: grey/brown, academic, romanesque

Top row, left to right: hands extended through sun rays, eclipsed sun, stacks of books

Middle row, left to right: white horse, ruins of a coliseum, stone stature wearing cape

Bottom row, left to right: stone statue (romanesque), hooded white robe, atrium of a building

Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social · 2w ago

BROKEN DOLL’S + SPIRITED AWAY After spiteful younger sister Samara unplugs 13yo Eve’s nightlight, she unknowingly lets the monsters that’ve been hunting Eve for years finally get her. Now Eve has to survive in the world of her nightmares while Samara figures out how to save her. #QuestPit #Q #MG #F

Zoe is ✨querying✨@zgauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

🗝️ sapphic princess x thief 🗡️ impossible heist ⚔️ only one horse 🌙 found family ☀️ sunshine x gremlin 🐦‍⬛ morally gray heroine ✨ disability rep 🤫 everyone has secrets 🏹 touch her and die 🧭 ragtag crew 💀 sprinkles of horror #QuestPit #W #YA #F #R #MY #H

Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜@celticxpanda.bsky.social · 2w ago

SHE IS KING sequel in development ‼️ Called on to track down and kill whoever is stirring up conflict between pantheons, Kolby Scott will suffer insult and betrayal until she is forged into something wholly new. 🏙️ urban fantasy ⚔️ monster hunting 🧨 Holy Sexual Tension, Batman #QuestPit #WIP #F #NA

introductory guide to Project: SHE IS WAR, an urban fantasy sequel in development

our heroine: kolby scott, war goddess' vessel

tropes and themes: aimless heroine called to adventure; meddling deities and their egos; slow burn romance between lover boy and hater girl

inspiration/comps: secrets of the immortal nicholas flamel series and silver in the bone

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elia doesn't want to take holy orders. But after he enters the convent, his visions are confirmed when a murderer begins to move through Venice. THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH X ANATOMY A LOVE STORY: #Questpit #W #YA #H #HF #LGBT #WIP coming to the query trenches