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Rhiannon Purchon

@rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social

Currently querying an adult romantasy: The Cinnamon Covenant 🌊⚓️🏴‍☠️🩶 WIP: Where All Vile Creatures Go 🧚🏻‍♀️🌿🩸

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Jenni - Fantasy Romance Author ✨️@authorjbecker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Romcom 💞☀️⏳🐈 Turning 30 means: ✅Adopting an adorable kitten 😻 ✅ Getting a stable job 😰 ✅ Moving out of your shitty apartment and meeting the (hot 🥵) new tenant ✅No dating anymore only to end up in a fake relationship that might be more? 😏 #QuestPit #R #A #WIP

Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 2mo 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).

C.R.Chadwick @crchadwick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A chaotic young thief stumbles into a violent child cu1t where time magic rules but a cost: the wielder’s lifespan. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

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

M.B.Taylor - Fantasy Author @mbolt89.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BRIDGERTON X PRACTICAL MAGIC with the mystery and amateur sleuth vibes of ENOLA HOLMES When witches start disappearing from the Ton, Seraphina must unravel the mystery before she looses her reputation, her magical tea parlour and her missing best friend Primrose, forever. #SFF #W #MY #A #questpit

Suzy A. Win @suzyawin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A martial artist must weave scarves for her brothers, and questions her existence when she discovers she's a creature she loathes and one a sorcerer seeks to experiment on—a destroyer of her homelands. 🦢 The Six Swans loose retelling 🇲🇲 Lethwei MC ⚔️ Ares-inspired ML 🧚and faes! #QuestPit #W #F #SFF

first- some star flowers
second - an extreme close up of a asian girl's face
third - bandaged wrapped around an arm
forth - geese flying from the water
fifth - a guy and a girl sitting together on a hill
sixth - a torso shot of a woman looking around
seventh - a girl with a flower crown
eighth - dirty bare feet
ninth - a head of a marble stature stuck in some vines

Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An #AgentsGuide They Hate Each Other x Imogen, Obviously 💘Bi MC & Bi LI 🛏️Forced proximity (have to share a room) 🏀Basketball jocks ❤️‍🔥Rivals to lovers 😘He calls him pretty boy 💖Secretly yearning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Set in Cardiff, Wales ✨Big 5 imprint editor interest #QuestPit #YA #R #Q

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When pulled into a weapons program, Vic expects routine - not a neural link wiring her mind with an alien officer's. No thought unshared. No feeling hidden... not even the ones growing between them. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program. #QuestPit #W #R #SF

Moodboard for TANDEM, a sapphic sci-fi romance, in blue and violet shades.
Top row: A person in a dim blue lighting wears a headset with glowing red lenses; a surgical room with lights shining down overhead; a close-up of dark snake scales; a moon against the sky with clouds.
Middle row: a purple sky with two galaxies; a glowing title card that reads "tandem: a sapphic sci-fi romance".
Bottom row: a photo of a blue circuit board; two silhouettes of women facing each other, close, against the sky; a round spaceship observation window.

When Vic Kohler is pulled into a high-visibility new weapons program, she expects it to be a fairly standard assignment - not a neural link wiring her mind with Naev, a Vamath officer.

The pair learns quickly that this new connection offers no privacy: no thoughts are left unshared, no feelings are left unhidden... not even the feelings that are growing between them. The institution must never find out, because the program’s exit procedure is safe for a human and lethal for a Vamath. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program.

TANDEM is an ~87,000-word sapphic sci-fi romance - military SF tension meets speculative fiction interiority, for readers who want yearning with total transparency.

Tropes: Space travel, Human/alien romance, Forbidden love, Mind link, Interstellar politics, Slow burn, Forced proximity, Sapphic yearning.

Comp Titles. For readers who loved: This is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone; Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell; The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin.

kss @ksskss.bsky.social · 2mo 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.

Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LEGALLY BLONDE X WITCH'S GUIDE TO MAGICAL INNKEEPING A first-year public defender for sorcerers must help her newest client prove his innocence without accidentally falling in love with him. rep: WEAVER LITERARY #QuestPit #OS #A #F #R

sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. 📖 Pride & Prejudice x 🐦‍⬛ Howl's Moving Castle x 🪷 Graceling #Questpit #Q #YA #HFR #F #RF #HF #R #HR

A woman with large black wings attached to her shoulder blades.
Text: Pluck by Sierra Moeykens. Pride & Prejudice x Howl's Moving Castle x Graceling

An illustrated lady in a Regency era dress with large black wings over a ballroom background.

Text: The Pitch
Nineteen-year-old Lucy Korvas has worse problems than complying with high society’s tedious etiquette — she must steal a diamond necklace from the Duchess of Thistal, or her cursed father will perish.
In an alternate, magical Regency era where ladies and gentlemen with improper magic are shunned from high society, Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow wings beneath her dresses for years, but tonight she risks exposing them to save her cursed father. She needs that diamond necklace to afford his cure. How dastardly it is, then, when she discovers soft-spoken Lord Simon pilfering his own mother’s jewelry first.
But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, Lucy slowly transforms into a crow and Simon starts dissolving into flower petals. Lucy must find a cure while posturing as the presentable, composed lady that she isn't before she loses her cursed father, the shy gentleman she's becoming smitten with, and her humanity.

Three transparent symbols, a heart, a scroll, and a banner, with lists in each symbol. The background is a photo of white feathers.

Text: Romance. Slow-burn & Yearning. Cinnamon Roll x Chaotic Flirt. Touch-Starved. He Falls First. Historical. Witty Regency banter. Literal Ladybird (she's transforming into a crow). Dukes, Duchesses, and Pirates. Fantasy. Repressed Magic. Curses. Magical flowers with restorative properties.

Three book covers with an arrow under each of them describing their properties. The background is a photo of a lotus.

Text: Comps. A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Dry humor and witty voice. Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Accessible, creative world-building & magic. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. Regency romance with an abundance of yearning.

Sera Hale @serahale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT x DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS: A traumatized light mage and a protective warrior enter an uneasy alliance to save her daughter from a divine order—and find a love worth tearing down gods for. #QuestPit #A #R #F #W #Editing

Kat is querying!@katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 103k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Read it, loved it. Can't wait for book two! 😍

W.S. Vock@authorwsvock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ALMOST & NEVERMORE / 107k Adult Romantasy ⚔️👑✨ 💥 SHIELD OF SPARROWS x METAL SLINGER 🖤Princess + Guard Forbidden Romance 👁️Secrets & Lies 💪Sassy & Capable FMC 🩹PTSD & Anxiety Rep 🌎Unique World & Magic 🌶️Plot + Spice #QuestPit #Q #A #RF #R #F

An Agent's Guide to Almost & Nevermore
107k Words - Adult Romantasy
Image shows the Almost & Nevermore title surrounded by falling feathers, burnt pages, and fire embers.

W.S. Vock @authorwsvock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Pitch
Princess Fwen Volis has survived this long by keeping the dark secrets of her past buried. But when she’s exiled to a distant, loveless marriage, the forbidden attraction brewing between her and her charismatic new guard threatens to unearth everything she’s kept hidden.
Image shows the FMC and MMC in a moment of romantic tension. The flame embers rise from the bottom.

Mood Board
Top row images: a crown leaning on a dagger, a woman with large white wings, a man and woman embracing in the sunset, a female figure sharpening blades, a bull skull backlit by red light
Bottom row images: a yellow moon surrounded by dark clouds, female hands clutching a sword in front of a fire, a statue of a male and female angel kissing, trees silhouetted by the night sky.

Comps & Tropes
Images of the book covers of Gild, Shield of Sparrows, and Metal Slinger surrounding by the following tropes: Physical Magic, Dangerous Secrets, Banter & Tension, Plot + Spice, Unique World, Twists & Turns, Competent & Capable FMC.

Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. But if it isn’t her destiny, then no one can save the world from poisonous dark magic, endless wars, and powerful demons. #Questpit #A #F #Q

Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!”
The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death.
“Magic should never return.”
After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended.
Sent him back to his body.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. 1930s vibes. Love triangle. LGBTQIA+ rep. Cynical mentor. Dying world. Found family.

Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 2mo 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

Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WHERE ALL VILE CREATURES GO 🌿⚔️🧚 An insufferably lawful knight agrees to deliver a wayward changeling maiden back to her home in the Netherrealm if she fights her wicked nature and attempts goodness, however, if she strikes him three times, he will kill her himself. #W #NA #R #SFF #QUESTPIT

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

Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Real Scandinavian items used by Ró as she joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down a charming water spirit whose heart can buy her life back. 🌲 Written by a Swedish author! 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH #YA #F #R #H #DF #Q #QuestPit

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a Troll Cross pendant.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Title page with pitch line.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a traditional Scandinavian folk dress.

Image showing an item the FMC uses in Feed Me Your Heart. Image shows a piece of traditional Scandinavian ribbon.

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

brittney is agented!🔮✨@brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE LOVE OF MY AFTERLIFE x CHARMED 🔮 A selfish psychic is challenged by her spirit guides to finally see the otherworldly connection with her (very platonic) best friend or risk losing her gifts — forever 🪄 #QuestPit #Q #A #R #PN #S

Purple/pink ombre zodiac background with gold at the top. Small golden page break, with the book title in ombre yellow/orange DEATH TO THE LOVERS AND THE FOOL over top of clouds in the middle. Text under the title: 84k Speculative Romcom by Brittney Joan, Agent's Guide. Two deep plum tarot cards in the bottom left, one with a sun and one with an eye.

Purple/pink ombre zodiac background with gold along the sides. THE PITCH . Pitch in a sans-serif font: Jade Lockwood is the Midwest’s most in-demand tarot reader, with a months-long waitlist and a reputation for channeling both the cards and the dead. She’s built a thriving metaphysical shop, but she’s also emotionally checked out, allergic to commitment, and hiding her feelings for her (very platonic) best friend, Elliot. When she blows off an unscheduled, desperate client for margaritas, a woman shows up the next day and refuses to leave until Jade reads for her—only to reveal herself as Jade’s spirit guide. Her ultimatum: complete a series of increasingly personal tarot-based tasks or suffer dire consequences. As the lessons force Jade to confront the feelings she’s avoided for years, she’s faced with an impossible choice—her connection to the spirit realm or the person she loves. And her inability to decide might just magically drive Elliot into another woman's arms...

Purple/pink ombre zodiac background with gold along the sides. THE VIBES at the top of the page in ombre yellow/orange text. Two polaroid images of the TV shows “Charmed” and “Sabrina the Teenaged Witch” as comparative media at the top. Golden page break. Four crystal balls in the middle with star circles pointing to a specific comparative book title with the image. The first, Friends to Lovers, pointing to “This Spells Love” by Kate Robb. The second, Meddling Spirit Guides, pointing to “The Love of My Afterlife” by Kirsty Greenwood. The third, Raw Look at Grief, pointing to “The Seven Year Slip” by Ashley Poston. The fourth, Plus-Size FMC, pointing to “Zom Rom Com” by Olivia Dade.

Same background as others. OPENING PAGE at the top. Writing sample: the page in ombre yellow/orange text. Two deep plum tarot cards in the top corners, one with a sun and one with an eye. Golden page break. Then, the following text in Times New Roman inside of a white-colored, rounded-corner box: Death is staring at me.
Rather, the Death card is staring at me for the third time this reading. I can’t possibly hide it from my regular client, Frannie, again. She’s been on a journey of rebirth for a while and is at the precipice. The precipice of a mental breakdown or a breakthrough is yet to be determined.
I arrange the cards, taking in Death, The Tower, and Eight of Pentacles in reverse. When I shift the spread, the navy celestial tablecloth snags on my nail, toppling over a labradorite curvy goddess carving. Biting my cheek, I flip another. Five of Swords. Shit.
“What? What’s wrong? Why are you making that face? That’s never a good face.” Frannie’s round, hazel eyes are filled with what I’ve come to know as anticipatory terror.
Poor thing is an anxious wreck. I’m trying to guide her, not send her into a doom spiral about her life. “You know these cards aren’t omens or premonitions. They’re pillars of guidance, leading you along your path. This one…” I sigh, cracking my knuckles, rings scraping against my dry skin. I have got to restock my lotion. Eleven minutes left on the timer and twenty to my last client. Maybe I’ll stop by Sephora before dinner.
“Jade?”
Oh, right. The reading. I shake my head. “The Death ca—”
“Death? Please, no. Anything but Death.”
“The Death card,” I repeat, “means your cycle is ready to renew. Paired with The Tower? Well, it’s time. Your spirit guides aren’t waiting for you to feel ready—they’re pushing you over the edge. This is rock bottom. Know what’s on the other side is a brighter version of you.”
We’ve hit rock bottom over our last three readings, but maybe this time will stick. [cont]

Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE SUN DIAMOND PRINCESS & THE BLIND ASSASSIN #questpit #Q #A #RF 👸Bi-racial #BIPOC FMC 👨‍🦯Blind #Disabled MMC 🛌One bed at the shepherd's hut 💔Triangle between love and duty 🌲Pining, slow burn 🌶️Spice 💍HEA with a wedding

Moodboard.
Text in central square:
The Sun Diamond Princess & the Blind Assassin
106K Adult Dual POV Stand Alone Romantasy by Elise Betz

Images: Windswept tree by a grray rocky coast, character art of Myra and Arzhang standing face to face, Rocky coast of warm, eastern Mediterranean city by blue waters, Castle across a long bridge, a carriage followed by armed men on horseback, character art of Arzhang pinning the emperor down with a knife to his throat, character art of Princess Myra in a shredded white gown with a sword/cane, holding hands with Arzhang in court dress and the emperor standing behind them in formal military blue dress, character art of Princess Myra in her leather breastplate sword practice gear.

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

NEVERMOOR x TURNING RED x TREASURE PLANET Two tiny purple creatures told him he was a Druid. He didn’t believe them. He was wrong. 🐻 Shapeshifting 🐉 World Mythologies ⚔️ Found Family ✨ Portal Fantasy 🗝️ Hidden Heritage #Questpit #MG #F #Q

Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First year university. Add in: 🥰 A not-so-secret crush 🙉 Housing that's never quiet, empty or drama-free 🫢 A drunken confession she can’t take back ❤️‍🩹 Her first sapphic date/dating disaster. All on an anxiety overloaded brain. Lucy’s fine. Stop asking. #Questpit #Q #YA #LGBT #agentsguide

Background image of young woman with hands covering face. Text reads: Fine Means Stop Asking, Upper YA contemporary, Michelle Ogilvy, 76,000 words.

Title: Pitch
Last year, eighteen-year-old Lucy’s anxiety reached new levels and her life fell apart. She’s now desperate to fit back into her old friend group and convince everyone she’s coping just fine on her own. Actually being fine might be impossible with the stress of first-year university, the stream of housemate dramas, and the increasingly obvious crush on her unobtainable female BFF.

Underneath is a subtitle of ‘the housemates’ with four images. The first is two young women with their arms around each other, labelled ‘Jaime - messy BFF/crush’. Second is an excited young man making a lot of noise, labelled ‘Robin - chaotic good BFF’. Third is of a young man with his back turned, looking away, labelled ‘Will – man with a secret’. Last image is of an indistinct figure labelled ‘?? – the secret’.

Title: comps
Three covers of books underneath.

Book 1: Kind of Sort of Fine by Spencer Hall. Text reads: THEME: Finding your place after mental health struggles

Book 2: Unnecessary Drama by Nina Kenwood. Text reads: Setting: First year university in Australia.

Book 3: Then Everything happens at once by M-E Girard. Text reads: Messy emotions: Attraction to your unattainable BFF.

Title: Opening
Text:
Lucy was the last of them to arrive at the house. She had warned the others that she wouldn’t be able to make it until after the movers had been and gone. Not that she was busy. But just the thought of having to deal with all of the coming and going and the mess and the directing of strangers, and… well, she hadn’t had to explain her reasons to Jaime or Robin. And once Will had secured possession of the room with exterior access, he hadn’t particularly cared what anyone else was going to be doing on the day.

At the foot of the driveway, Lucy stopped, staring up at her new residence. It was two-storey, large for a uni student share house, but she knew it would feel smaller once Robin started to fill it with all his friends. Their friends. Another thing for Lucy to get used to.

The exterior was plain, bare brick. Robin had threatened to have it painted in murals, but knowing him, he’d forgotten about that already. There was a small garden that would probably be dead soon as none of them had wanted to take responsibility for it when they’d tried to assign chores. And the letterbox, a slight thing that had been cemented in on a lean because, for some reason, Robin and Will had insisted on putting it in themselves.

It was familiar in the way that it was a place Lucy had been to a number of times, but it didn’t feel like home. She didn’t feel like she was coming home. At what point did a house feel like a home and not some place you were visiting and could leave?

Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WHERE ALL VILE CREATURES GO NA ROMANTASY PALADINS GRACE X ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN 🌿chaotic, morally black changeling anti-heroine 🌿insufferably lawful white knight hero 🌿 welsh folklore inspired magic 🌿 one horse, one blanket, one campsite? 🤪 Querying late 2026 🤫 #W #NA #R #SFF #QUESTPIT

em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 2mo ago

A guide to SUNFALL, an M/M fantasy. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT "A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth." -Robert Frost, A Question

A purple to red gradient with fluffy clouds and an art deco border. Text: A guide to SUNFALL, an M/M Romantic Fantasy complete at 102k words

A red to orange gradient with the text: "The Pitch...The mage-hero Helio is the only thing stopping the Deep from destroying his world. So when he dies at the hands of the deep mage Riptide and wakes inexplicably miles away in the body of a boy named Hadley, he hurries back to the fight he'd left behind. But through Hadley's own past with the Deep, Helio gets to know Riptide and, eventually, grows to love him. It leaves him with a choice: the world he loves, or the deep mage trying to destroy it.

An orange to yellow gradient with more clouds in the background. The text: "The snippet..."

“What did you think of Helio?” Helio asked, trying to look more interested in the orange he was peeling than the question. They sat on the porch, settled in its creakiest chairs, and Helio made a game of rocking to a rhythm in his head.
“He seemed lonely,” James said. “On friendly terms with everyone, but always on his own.”
“Oh,” Helio said.
“By the way, I bought you something,” the man went on, digging in his bag and passing Helio a silver cylinder with a sunstone embedded in the lid. It was a powder box for a girl’s vanity, and Helio frowned at it until James said, “You wind the bottom.”
“Oh!” Helio said again. He wound it, and when he lifted the lid, the box chimed a sweet melody in a minor key. Helio smiled at the start, but as the song went on, he found was something terribly sad about it. Familiar, too, like a press on a fading bruise. He immediately rewound it to press again.
“It’s an old Theian hymn,” James said, watching him closely. “Do you like it?”
“Very much,” Helio said. “I don’t know why, but it makes me feel…Well, I don’t rightly know.” He stared at it a moment longer, then looked up and brightened. “Oh look, here comes Louie! Hello, Louie!”

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Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨@qziontgipson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An #agentguide for my dual-POV YA royal romantasy with a POC x POC romance between a seamstress and a knight who join a courting competition amongst prestigious teens to save their severed kingdoms from destruction. Interested agents, please 🩷or DM me! #QuestPit #WIP #YA #F #RF

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An Agent's Guide to THE ESSENCE THEY STOLE, a YA Royal Romantasy by Q'Zion T. Gipson

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THE PITCH - A seamstress and a knight join a royal courting competition to earn their freedom. Amongst prestigious teens with ties to the Palace, hidden agendas, and countless secrets--they must master the dance of deception (and maybe love) before both their kingdoms are destroyed.

K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!