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Noa Isabelle • 25 yo • Dutch • writer, knitter, artist •DND • she/they Editing: Adult Horror -> Critical Positions

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Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️@creatingryunsei.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter A maid and a pirate hunting for a mythical stone spark a budding romance, but when his past threatens their mission & her bff's life, she must betray her heart to save her friend. #QuestPit #NA #RF #Editing

An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy.

Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind.

Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails.

Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto.

Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?”

Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought.

What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words.

How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to.

Would he have regretted her kiss?

“No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”

Tamara ⛱️🎇🕶️🌊☀️@tamaratoday.bsky.social · 9mo ago

SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted. #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist

Left to right.

Top row: A foggy city with a spire in the background. The hands of a clock approaching 12. Smoke from an explosive in a building.

Middle row: A man in a waistcoat pointing at something. “Tick… Tock…” A man in a waistcoat sitting down.

Bottom row: Silver coins covered in blood. A group of people standing inside a clock tower. Rain on a cobblestone street.

Isabelle 🫀 editing @qqueenlyart.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Currently reading this and here to convince all of you to read it as well if you get the chance!!! It’s so good!

Joy is ✨querying✨@joyiswriting.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excitedly presenting an #agentguide for HEART OF THE BAYOU, my sapphic horror-romance—now in an inbox near you!! 🫀Deep Southern cryptids 🫀sapphic pining 🫀coming of rage 🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability 🫀 ✨Big 5✨ editor interest x2 #questpit #YA #Q #H #R #LGBT

An agent’s guide to: HEART OF THE BAYOU
A YA Horror-Romance

M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

presenting the #agentsguide for my adult queer gothic horror romance wip featuring: 🥀 angel summoning cult 🥀 corruption arc(s) 🥀 extremely unreliable narrator 🥀 it’s all a metaphor for ocd the problem with angels is, sometimes, they talk back. ✨ready for betas in December 👀 #QuestPit #W #A #H

red wallpaper background, to the right is art by @nelsnote of a man looking up holding a bloody book, the light on him is coming from an angel wing and there are eyes in the dark behind him. he has an awestruck expression. to the left is, in gothic print, adult queer gothic horror romance, underneath that says ready for betas December 31, then under that the title forbidden fruits, with a honey drip underneath.

to the left a red and black-themed moodboard: around the top border and right border: someone falling through red-tinged clouds; someone in white embracing a dark shadow with a halo behind them; someone standing at the top of some stairs, surrounded by giant red bulging eyes; a faded black and white photo style picture of a dark smudge shadow and the shape of someone hooking their head over the shadow’s shoulder, crying dark tears; red-toned painting of an angel with three eyes. The left space is occupied by a text image, gothic white on red, that reads ‘the problem with angels is sometimes they talk back’ over and over again. on top of that picture, picture of a painting of an eye with a large gold star growing in it. to the right, pitch written in gothic print. the pitch: why do you need an angel?
according to the codex his teacher wrote, that’s the most important question to ask when summoning them. simon knows his answer: there’s someone he worships—the teacher he built a cult around—and he won’t stop until he has him.

dark red wallpaper background. top left says comps, underneath are pictures of the covers for THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE by Caitlin Starling and EVOCATION by S.T. Gibson. under that is a cream coloured drawing of a wolf. top right says elements in gothic print. elements: angel summoning as dark magic, corruption arc, epistolary dual timeline, violent longing has consequences, Victorian secret societies, he’s not dead until I say so. to the left is an angel statue.

dark red wallpaper background. top left says feedback so far in gothic print. feedback is snippets from discord, saying: 1. THE KIND OF LOVE THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT might be in the apocrypha BUT STILL. and arguably, arguably, God so loving the world he gave his one and only son IS HONESTLY THE KIND OF OBSESSION WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HERE I GET YOU. 2. I feel like I was completely ignorant of what horniness even is before I met Simon and his whole deal. like, Jesus Christ, that dude. 3. I need to eat the fruits they are too tempting and beautiful.
In the centre is a statue of lucifer.
on the right is snippet in gothic print. the snippet: “I miss you desperately. I toy with effigies and cannot make myself reshape you in wax or clay. it’s you I want”

leona has an agent✨🦋@leonahwrites.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Meet the partners in crime: Andrea & Dalia A vampire cult is stealing faces and souls. The two of them must work together to stop them. 🦇crime reporter x suspect 🍒insomniac x vampire ☕️grumpy x sunshine 🍒lonely in life x lonely in death 🦇green x red #questpit #A #PR #OS

green collage of Andrea Sancus with brie larson as the face claim

red collage of Dalia Westcott with Jenna Coleman as the face claim

Jules ⚔️🥀⏳🐉@jpgwrites.bsky.social · 9mo ago

WHEN TIME RUNS OUT OF DEATH 🥀 Stone Butch-Femme lesbians 🥀 Chronically-ill MC 🥀 Pain Magic 🥀 If you are intolerable then I shall tolerate you 🥀 Angsty love confession 🥀 The unseen complexities of chronic pain 🥀 Tenderness vs. Rot #A #RF #Q #questpit #LGBT #OwnVoices

A burgundy background with the texture of velvet and engravings of roses. A guide to WHEN TIME RUNS OUT OF DEATH, a queer gothic romantasy.

A burgundy background with the texture of velvet and engravings of roses. The pitch in the middle: In a world where power is in the mastery of pain, a disabled healer survives devouring agonized souls; every day, she reaps despair and revels in the shadows she casts from it-until one night, she is caught wielding forbidden magic by a prince and his knight, putting her life and anonymity at risk.
Faced with no option but death, she joins the dangerous quest to cure the eerie wraith-infected land from the Omen-Chaos.

A burgundy background with the texture of velvet and rose engravings. Atop paper cutouts, five snippets.

"She wasn't clean. She breathed wet, sloppy sounds instead of whispers. Her hunger was
never tended to before it began aching. The ground never caught her when she slipped. She bloomed in the dirt, with the world pressing her harder till her mouth was filled with worms and waste. There was no moving on only running away."

"No one realized how far she had drifted off humanity before it was impossible to return. By that point, Cora's inconvenience was louder than her suffering."

"They spoke of safety as if it was certain. As if this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's web could last. It would not. Safety has dirt on its face, blood on its knuckles. Skin hangs from its nails."

"Cora wanted to know if the blood on her teeth had coagulated enough to become a poem or how much longer she would have to wait."

"I do not come from the same soil people grow life in, Jamie. I will never exhale life on your tongue."

A burgundy background with the texture of velvet and flower engravings. Atop it, on various frames to mimic torn paper, pictures of a pomegranate, two hands reaching for each other underwater, a woman with eyes closed and tears running down her face, a knight offering their arm to a maiden.

Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 9mo ago

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA x THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an upmarket gothic romance with: 🕯️Forbidden romance 🕯️High Society matchmaking 🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening 🕯️Obsessive yearning 🕯️European setting 🕯️Secret lake meetings #W #A #R #questpit

Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

TRUE HATE'S KISS She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family 🐉Viking Vibes & Scandinavian Folklore ⚔️Age-Old Clan Feud ❤️‍🔥Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers 🔥Delicious Banter & Yearning 🌶️Hot & Spicy #Questpit #NA #Romantasy #Agented #Editorsguide

Isabelle 🫀 editing @qqueenlyart.bsky.social · 9mo ago

CRITICAL POSITIONS in inboxes as soon as I can get it properly edited 🫀Aggy has to try her hardest to win the chess residency in order to win a chance at meeting her father. And try not to die while doing so.🫀 #H #R #A #W #Questpit

M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

celebrating #questpit with a new #agentguide !! 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 #Q #MG #H

green tree grove in the background. At the top, Green on black, it says KNOWING THE TWINS with an agent’s guide right underneath. lower left black paint swipe with green writing says: Upper MG Horror, multiple POVs, 1920s setting. lower right black paint swipe with green writing says: #RevPit 2025 winner, big 5 editor interest.

dark green background, title says THE PITCH. on the left are two green moodboards. the top one has weeping willows reaching water, a hand reaching from a tree trunk, a lake surrounded by trees, hands reaching for each other, a house surrounded by trees and a lake, someone running out of sight in a maze, a lake surrounded by trees, candlesticks on tree branches, and a pier jutting out into water. 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. on the left, over a white drawing of a crocodile: Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive. How do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette?

light green background, title at the bottom centre says THE COMPS with tree drawings on either side. at the top centre are three pictures of three book covers. THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy has an arrow saying “internally-driven conflict & revelatory abuse”. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding has an arrow saying “adult-free environment & emergency hierarchy”. NOT QUITE A GHOST by Anne Ursu has an arrow saying “psychological stakes”.

dark green background. title in the top centre is THE THEMES. underneath is a list: abandonment, sibling opposites, parentification, reclaiming girlhood, dangers of a saviour complex, wanting to be closer to the monster, how to survive abuse, the ways fear transforms you, puberty a loss of freedom. behind the list is a drawing of a weeping willow. on the right is a drawing of a Manor House. on the left are drawings of an old 1920s phone, some berries and fire.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #QuestPit #A #S #SF #W

Made from non-AI free stock images.

This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections:

1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads:
"How much would you pay to die with a smile?"
The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background.

2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word.

3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom: A novel by B. van Bodegom

arlen ren ✨@arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 9mo ago

He's the only thing standing between college students and certain death. Unfortunately, teen monster hunter Daniel is responsible for more civilian deaths than monster kills, and unless he can find the key to a power he doesn't believe in, his new friends will pay the price... #QuestPit #YA #Q #UF

a picture of two teenage monster hunters - a white boy with white hair and an Asian girl with black and blonde hair - by artist iLiibra, next to the title "An Agent's Guide to The Tithe That Binds by Arlen Ren"

YA. Paranormal. 78k.

When an inept teen monster hunter is sent undercover to a prestigious college, he's horrified to discover that he's the only thing standing between its students and certain death. Failing to find his power, he instead finds a girl with powers she shouldn't have...who he shouldn't be falling for.

Longlisted in the 2024 Times Chicken House competition.

It was crouched on the edge of the building, instantly recognisable by its ashen skin and lipless mouth, eyeless sockets and gleaming fangs.

Vampire.

For fans of Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski, and First Kill by V.E. Schwab. Shared themes are monsters drawn to hunters, forbidden feelings, action-packed fight sequences and a secret monster-hunting society.

Isabelle 🫀 editing @qqueenlyart.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A Certain Hunger X Diavola Critical Position's first #Agentguide 🫀Why choose love triangle 🫀Misogyny in chess 🫀Eat the rich like that one Dutch minister 🫀Too many beds and using none of them #H #R #A #W #Questpit

Title "Critical positions" with subtitle "a horror novel (with romance)" over a background of a filled dinner table

On the left is a brown and red moodboard and on the right is a pitch for the novel critical positions

Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Two sisters discover their family legacy of love magic and develop the ability to sense love. But their own love lives become complicated when they discover that they can sense love for everyone- except themselves✨ #QuestPit #A #NA #YA #R #F #Q

Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A dying mage and his lover research a way to wield magic without killing mages, but tragedy leaves them separated, soulless and immortal. Centuries later, two magic scientists must retrace their mistakes and help them die before their pain consumes the world. #Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #W

Moodboard. Top left: wooden staff standing against pillar. Top right: misty greenhouse. Middle: crystal in a hand. Middle right: tropical plants. Bottom left: spiral staircase in library. Bottom middle: open book. Bottom right: typewriter on desk.

Isabelle 🫀 editing @qqueenlyart.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Agatha Farlane and the mortifying ordeal of knowing your dad

lydia🐯@lydia97.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEWS!!!

Dani & Ash are 🏴‍☠️ editing 🏴‍☠️@creatingryunsei.bsky.social · last yr.

While Ashlea and I are working on our major rewrite of our story, I'd like to present our updated #AgentGuide This is our adult/crossover romantic fantasy with a true slow burn romance, and series potential! #WritingCommunity 📖🦋

An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantic fantasy.

Pitch: Delphine’s always wished for a life as romantic and adventurous as her stories. With any brief escape punished by her employer, she’s desperate to flee, if not for Otto; her best friend, and the only family she’s known. So when he is sent with pirates after a mythical map, she refuses to be left behind.

At sea, a budding romance with the Captain reveals he’s tailed by a dark past, one he’d sabotage the mission to escape. But the pirates claimed Otto’s life if anything goes wrong, and Delphine will do anything—even use the Captain’s past against him—to get the map and save Otto.

Summers spent in a bordello ought to have prepared Delphine better.

Though Hunter and his girls had always ensured Delphine did not see anything vulgar or unsightly, it was difficult to be ignorant when sitting around a dinner table amongst chattering girls. They told tales of their clients, giggling or rolling their eyes at wild requests from sailors. Hunter would shush them and send a pointed look in her direction, only goading them to spin even more dramatic and rather gruesome tales.

Delphine would blush, but she took the joy in their teasing gratefully; summers spent in Hunter's Bordello were only full of fond memories. But they should have prepared her better for the view she had walked in on.

Isabelle 🫀 editing @qqueenlyart.bsky.social · last yr.

How do people with curtain bangs deal with the feeling of hair on their cheeks?

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉@hadiyahsama.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello all, setting down the #agentsguide of my YA Historical Novel (with a Speculative twist!) for consideration by #litagents and #editors! AFFINITY is my #amquerying project. The 61,000 word novel explores the topics of found family, generational trauma, and racism in 1970s Britain.

Isabelle 🫀 editing @qqueenlyart.bsky.social · last yr.

Editing the manuscript like those silly mice

Isabelle 🫀 editing @qqueenlyart.bsky.social · last yr.

If it’s meant to be it will be is specifically about me finding the 30th anniversary illustrated edition of the princess bride two days after watching and getting obsessed with the movie

Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · last yr.

#Agents I started querying my gothic Sapphic fantasy! Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it.

Sophie Jane is querying ✨@sophiejanebooks.bsky.social · last yr.

BABEL X DIVINE RIVALS X Scottish mythology A woman defies the odds to become a scholar in a kingdom determined to keep her in her place, only to find herself in a tense rivalry as she tries to unravel the secrets hidden in long-forgotten myths #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #F #R #NA

Mock movie poster for the New Adult novel The Whispers of the Rivers by Sophie Fitzpatrick. The image shows a woman in a flowing pink dress suspended underwater, her head tilted back toward the light above. The setting is dark and moody, evoking mystery and depth. At the top, bold text reads: "For fans of Divine Rivals and Babel." Above the title are thematic tags: "Dark Academia," "Feminine Rage," "Soft FMC x Cynical MMC," "Fallen Goddesses," and "Pansexual Representation." The title, The Whispers of the Rivers, is centered in elegant serif font. On the left and right sides of the image are laurel wreath graphics, each with five stars—one reads "Best Slow Burn 2025" and the other "Best Chemistry 2025." Below the title is a tagline: "She seeks the unknown. He seeks her." The synopsis underneath reads: "A woman defies the odds to become a scholar in a kingdom determined to keep her in her place, only to find herself in a tense rivalry as she tries to unravel the secrets hidden in long-forgotten myths." At the bottom: "a New Adult novel by Sophie Fitzpatrick" and the words "Querying Now" in bold.

Isabelle 🫀 editing @qqueenlyart.bsky.social · last yr.

In BLOODSPORT Áine is living out her dramatic dystopian fantasy to the end the world as they know it while Jothi just wants to live his sport romcom with his future wife #PosterPitW #D #F #A

A movie poster with an Indian man cages a white woman against the wall in a classic romcom pose. They both look in love. She is holding lock picks and wears chaps and a sports bra. He wears a croptop and a dipstick