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Tempest Teapot ❌ 👑 🐸@tempestteapot.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Kahyla faces a DEMON’S BARGAIN where all the options are bad: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life. Opening line: Blood and ash, which way through the rocks? Ending lines: “And if you find more demons?” “Then I fight,” she said. #BluePit 📖 #F #R #YA #A #Q

Graphic shows silhouette of couple filled with courtyard, leather armor, and a structure consumed by flames. Six of Crows X Witch King Demon's Bargain A bastard gentrywoman, Kahyla struggles to protect her siblings against assassins, demon-eaten mages, and political rivals intent on the throne. She faces a demon's bargain: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life. 120k Epic Fantasy Novel. Tropes list: Deliberate values dissonance Feminist within patriarchy Heel-face turn Slow burn Forbidden love Powers via Possession Coming of Age Quiet girl finds her voice Target markets: adult fantasy for darker themes, detailed world-building, and a blend of magic and political intrigue. YA for coming-of-age story and slow burn romance, while skewing older for the consequences of difficult life choices. #F #R #YA #A #Q Body count 11, proposals 4, weddings 2

Ella H. ✨is querying a hidden world romantic fantasy!✨@ellahadley.bsky.social · 7mo ago

LEGENDBORN x THIS WOVEN KINGDOM x OUTLANDER An ADHDer must overcome her greatest weakness to save the secret world she fled as a child, while trying to hold onto the relationship she’s yearned for her whole life. #bluepit 📖 #f #r #q #ov #dis #na #lgbt #nd #upmarket #bookclub #romantasy

book cover with a sword in a stone with a waterfall, lake, and foliage behind it surrounded by words describing tropes and themes in the book. social media and website below.

Crystal Lorons @crystallorons.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Agent's Guide to KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE AMARI x LOKI After a meteor crash Kori learns her grief transcends the multiverse when doppelgängers attack. Now Kori must save herself, from herself or risk imprisonment in a time loop #BluePit 📖 #Q #MG #SP #DIS #OV #POC #AmQuerying #AgentsGuide

RP @rybryd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

BETWEEN TWO FIRES X THE BLACK COMPANY X OLD MAN LOGAN Presenting an #agentsguide to 🩸OATHS OF THE DAMNED (100k)🩸 Cursed knight. Possessed girl. Dying god. 🦇Magic is a plague 🐶sanctimonious animal companion 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Multiple POV 🧑‍🧒Found family 🍻Addiction 👼Redemption #bluepit #bluepit 📖 #Q #A #F #D

Comparable titles. The coward. Daughters war. The film Logan.

An old veteran cursed to forget every heroic deed he’s done must face the truth he’s long denied: pain is worth remembering and even the damned deserve redemption.

A mood board. Dark. A knight, a rat, a plague mask, a candle, a sword.

trang ☆ writer @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago

JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence. #Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #A #F

moody, foggy mountain backdrop with a person in martial arts type clothing visible on a stone platform. text reads CONDUCT OF MAGES, adult fantasy, complete at 100K, now represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary

THE PITCH on a moody green mountain backdrop:

When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.

THE VIBES on a moody green mountain backdrop:

energy magic
heists & scheming
found family
research subplot
sloooow burn
female role models
SE Asian setting

THE COMPS on a moody green mountain backdrop:

Blood Over Bright Haven
Jade City
Heartless Hunter

Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️@marysmorrison.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NINTH HOUSE X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN Healing magic belongs to the rich. Until now. When a healer turns up dead on their uni campus, fellow outsiders David & Zarrin must risk their lives & their friendship to protect an idea that could change magical medicine forever. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #F #LGTB

Kelton Davis is ON SUB! 🦇⚰️🤠@keltondavis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky. Corado's about to break all three. 🤠 Vampire Cowboys 🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes 🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities Querying now! #A #F #Q #BluePit 📖 #amquerying

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text:
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood from Stone
112000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Soon

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Pitch
Text:
In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires.

Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune.

Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death.

It is a hell of a lot of money, though.

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Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image:
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
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Ann Chow ✨is drafting✨@writerannchow.bsky.social · 7mo ago

DARKER BY FOUR x CRUEL PRINCE She’s a fallen war general. He’s the enemy who killed her. When the king of Hell mistakes them for star-crossed lovers, they must convince him that they’re desperately besotted… or burn for all eternity. #BluePit #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #R #W #OV #POC

Girl with red robes and sword in background. In front of it, text reads “This all feels too familiar. The gravity of his stare. The intensity of his attention. I haven’t felt this full of adrenaline, this alive since he killed me.”

Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 7mo ago

JOHN WICK x THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE For readers who like: 🩸 dangerous criminal underworlds 🩸 secret occult organizations 🩸 married villain protagonists 🩸 terrifying body horror 🩸 the threat of an Elder God Preorder today: books2read.com/u/mvDRWX #BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #H #P

A page from an old book showing a skull drawing and the word MORTEM, a well-dressed couple in shadow staring at you with glowing eyes, two skyscrapers looming overhead in the fog, several pistols lying in a cushioned case, a black hole, two doctors performing surgery, a man with his back turned and a woman's hand cradling his head, a cork board of documents and string, six figures cloaked in black and gathered in a semi-circle.

PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 9mo ago

N.I.C.E.F. - sci-fi space opera with mechs! Oppressed minority rises up for their rights! Demon King Daughter Book 1 - contemporary fantasy blending slice-of-life and action-adventure. All buy options: linktr.ee/pjc_cahill #yafiction #scifi #fantasy #mecha #demons #sapphic 📢📚

Art by Luigiix - cover of "N.I.C.E.F.: Neural-Interface Controlled Exo-Frame" novel. Human eye top left, alien eye top right, title full-center, child facing a riot-police line with a mech bottom left, a Nicef (mech) with a beamsaber bottom center, young woman with half-body prosthetics in a medical cot bottom right.

Art by Luigiix - cover of "Demon King Daughter Book 1: Raising the Demon King" by P.J.C. Cahill. This text appears in black, red-outlined text at the bottom of the image.
- Top Left (Hideyoshi) is an aged human man with silver hair, a long beard and mustache, and stern features. Top Right is a demon man (Torlash) with long, black hair, tall, thin horns, red-in-black, slitted eyes, and pale gray skin.
- Middle of the image shows seven characters. From left to right:
1) Kiseki
2) Hasava
3) Issei
4) Seina
5) Nori: adult woman holding a young child
6) Himari: A little girl in a blue dress and shirt
7) Yuuto
- Bottom, foreground of the image features a mother (Masuyo) and daughter (Kyoka) pair. Masuyo is holding Kyoka on her hip, and they're both smiling happily at each other.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Kavi thinks this year is her last chance to meet a boy & fall in love—due to a Qasam—& is out to find a boyfriend Enter Aaron Mirza. He’s perfect, smitten. So she must be perfect too Her BFF Ryhan will show her the ropes right? But Ry has a secret, which could ruin everything #BluePit 📖 #YA #Q

Movie poster-style graphic for novel called ‘ALL YOUR QASAMS’ with author’s name Neha Yazmin underneath the bold title. Image is a close-up of a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery, smiling down at her maroon outfit.
Along the top of the poster are the names of two comparison book titles ‘NEVER HAVE I EVER’ and “THE BEST LAID PLANS”. In the left corner of the poster, are three 5-star movie review-style texts pertaining to different aspects of the book. 1: “South Asian Main Cast. 2: “Friends to lovers with a difference” 3: “Bengali teens in STEM”.

m 🌸@maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ten years ago, fallout from tragedy broke them apart. When reunited at the cottage for a wedding, she tries to resist the temptation of reigniting their flame, but he’s the one who can’t be trusted, and nostalgia might not be worth another heartbreak. #bluepit #bluepit📖 #a #r #q

an agent’s guide to
None of This Was Real
contemporary romance

Pitch

If you love someone, let them go and if they come back for your sister's wedding, then nothing can possibly go wrong.

Nostalgic for their teen romance, two exes reconnect at a wedding in the place they fell in love and fell apart after a tragic accident. When they finally build each other’s trust back, a secret reopens old wounds that fuel the fires of the insecurities that lay dormant for ten years.

happy place: What if your happy place stopped being happy?
every summer after:Two timelines, lake house setting
Adelaide: A story that will break your heart and sew it up again
how to hide in plain sight: Complex family
dynamics
atomic hearts: 2010s nostalgia

excerpt: His presence made me feel like I was seventeen again and happily suffocating in my family’s lake house. Back then, I was enamored by the smell of pine trees, lake water, and cigarettes in a dive bar parking lot. Summers were like a warm pitcher of beer, a crisp can of Pepsi, and tobacco-tainted kisses.

Now I was twenty-eight, killing time waiting for the delayed 1 train after telling the lawyer we shouldn’t see each other anymore and it was frigid outside.

L.M. du Plessis 🇳🇦 🇺🇦📚💙 ‪✨drafting Scales of the Progenitor!✨@smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

G'morning #Bluepit! For your consideration, I present to you an #Agentsguide to CAVERN CLIPPER (TREASURE PLANET x JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH x THE LAST EXILE) #Bluepit 📖 #A #SF #F #W

Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds.
presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper.
Status: first draft being edited
Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart.

Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light.
The Pitch:
A RECENTLY DECEASED HUMAN (SAM) AND A FORMERLY CAPTIVE CERUNAN (NYXEL) NEED TO DELIVER A MESSAGE CRITICAL TO HUMANITY’S SURVIVAL, ARE THROWN TOGETHER ON A PIRATE HUNTER SHIP AND ARE BEING PURSUED BY A RELENTLESS PIRATE FLEET - BUT THE LIVING MAZE OF CAVERNS THEY MUST TRAVERSE TO GET THERE MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE PIRATES.

Background, massive square cavern in background with small forest and deer in foreground.
Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH X THE LAST EXILE
Tropes and themes:
• TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI)
• AIRSHIPS
• PIRATES
• CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES
• A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED!

Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman.
Excerpt:
“CAPTAIN!” SAM SHOUTED AND POINTED TO THE SIGHT. HE SAW HER REACT, BUT DIDN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HER RESPONSE WOULD BE. INSTEAD HE SPUN AROUND TO TRY AND FIND NYXEL. HE SPOTTED HER ON THE MAINMAST, SCANNING THE DECK AND LOOKING FOR TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY.
“NYXEL! THE CABLE!” SAM SHOUTED. HE SAW HER HEAD SNAP TOWARDS HIM AND HE POINTED TOWARDS WHERE THE LAST CABLE WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE DECK, THEN SWUNG HIS HAND AROUND TO THE SLOOP. SHE FOLLOWED HIS HAND, THEN NODDED AT HIM AND LAUNCHED BACK INTO THE AIR, GRACEFULLY CURVING TOWARDS THE SLOOP ONE FINAL TIME.

Emma Brand YA Author ✍️ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚@emmalbwrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Erin & Liv Are Not (Not) Together 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️queer ensemble cast 🏡LGBTQ+care home 💖fake dating/friendship love 🍩doughnuts 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒found family 🩷queer joy and chaos 🚩healing from toxic relationships 😶‍🌫️ complex family dynamics 🐱 cheddar the therapy cat #BluePit 📖 #YA #Q #R #OV #LGBT #DIS #ND @bluepit.bsky.social

Collection of images around book title Erin and liv are not (not) together including rainbow flag, bench, doughnuts, therapy season, beach huts, hand holding

Kathy Ravyn // Drafting @kathyravyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A cozy, slice-of-life fantasy following two kids as they navigate their internal struggles. Set in a war-torn country where two orphaned brothers find a new home in a rustic village. Mitali meets Sam, a mysterious, closed-off girl with pointy ears. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #F #W #BluePitHype #amwriting

Tamara ⛱️🎇🕶️🌊☀️@tamaratoday.bsky.social · 7mo ago

✨CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE X INDIANA JONES✨ This New Adult Fantasy features: 💀Multiple POVs 💀African Mythology 💀Dark Magic 💀A Deadly Quest 💀Complicated Relationships #BluePit #BluePit📖 #NA #F #OV #POC #W

Left to right. Top row: Two statues nearly kissing. Golden gates opening. Face with golden Africa painted on it. Middle row: Gold chain links. "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED." Golden skull with sun rays behind it. Bottom row: Silhouette of a girl at sunrise. Hands dusted with gold. Silhouette of a man at sundown.

SonnyZappa @sonnyzappa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

SOTR X COLDWIRE Blessed be the Rich, for Heaven has been privatized. Sixteen-year-old Ollie has led an unlucky life. Now, dead and stuck in Hell with his little sister, he’ll do anything to protect her. Even be the catalyst for a bloody revolution against Heaven #Bluepit📖 #YA #SF #W

A retro suburbia poster reading: The Best of all possible worlds. Heaven. Wake up in the American dream. Rates starting from 2,999,999.99.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Some rituals really shouldn’t be practiced anymore especially if someone could die by the end of it… 🧜‍♀️sea folk 👑royals & archers🏹 💗an all-consuming love 💀a deadly curse A dual timeline novelette set in the world of the Heir to the Throne series #BluePit 📖 #F #P #POC

Moodboard titled Curse to the Kingdom with a subheading along the bottom: Heir to the Throne Series. Image 1 is of a young woman about to shoot an arrow from her bow. Image 2 is a close-up of a young woman in armour. Image 3 depicts the outside of a beautiful castle, a huge moon in the sky, and a young woman in a black gown staring at the stars in the sky. The final image sees a young woman floating on the surface of a lake.

K.A. Hela ✨ Starting a new WIP✨@jundlife.bsky.social · 7mo ago

DUNE X THE UNBROKEN Those born with psychic gifts are conscripted into a guild to defend their home mysterious strangers prophesied in visions. Even if it means submitting to a Guildmaster who would rather the city burn than admit defeat. "Monsters make Monsters" #Q #BluePit #F #AgentsGuide

The Stranger's War - 94K Crossover Fantasy. Those born with psychic gifts are conscripted in a brutal guild to defend their home from a mysterious enemy only known as strangers. Sylin wants to survive and find her place, Nahara wants to reject his assigned life, and Viktus the guildmaster would burn the city to the ground rather than face defeat.

Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 7mo ago

LIFE & ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUSE X HOGFATHER Belief fades. Magic wanes. Old gods die. Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must turn around Hell's recent failing acquisition: The North Pole With his own immortality fading can Virgil save Christmas? And can Lucifer save him? #BluePit 📖 #W #A #F #LGBT

A 3x3 grid surmounted by the words "Hail Santa" in yellow on a holiday red background. Images are: 1 - A snow coverage cottage at night. 2 - A box with a gold ring in a red box sitting in the boughs of a pine branch while snow falls. 3 - A small stack of rocks underneath the light of the Aurora Borealis. 4 - A beared old man with a hood and carrying a wooden staff. 5 - A wolf howling atop a mountain in front of a full moon. 6 - A skull on a pile of branches and christmas lights wearing a Santa hat. 7 - Balls of yarn in a basket that has fallen over and a pair of red baby boots. 8 - A tomte (Christmas Gnome) bearded and with a red hat sitting next to a lit candle against a wooden wall. 9 - A woman wearing a white crown and veil in shadow under a cold light.

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 7mo ago

An agent's guide to Time's Signature. #agentguide #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #bluepit

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 7mo ago

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS

Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.

James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#Bluepit Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space 6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy? #Q #SF #SFF

K.A. Hela ✨ Starting a new WIP✨@jundlife.bsky.social · 7mo ago

THE EXORCIST X THE BABADOOK Plagued by Shadow People since almost dying as a child, Chris seeks to rid himself of his curse. Now, the Shadows are increasing, the Red Eyed God in the woods speaks of change, and a new Shadow wearing a hat awakens something inside him. #W #BluePit #H #AgentsGuide

"Hat" or "Children of the Void" 84K Cosmic Horror, Betas Welcome, Querying Soon. Pitch: Chris is cursed to see Shadow people since almost dying as a child. Now, as the new MILLENNIUM dawns they are INCREASING in FREQUENCY and GAINING power. His peers think he is psychotic, The Red Eyed God in the woods speak of a great change, and a HATEFUL shadow wearing a hat seeks to use him for his own ends.

RP @rybryd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

⚔️OATHS OF THE DAMNED 100k⚔️ An old veteran cursed to forget every heroic deed he’s done must face the truth he’s long denied: pain is worth remembering, and even the damned deserve redemption. 🩸Cursed knight 🧒Possessed child 🐺Animal companion 🔀Multiple POV ☠️Magic is a plague #bluepit 📖 #A #F #Q

A dark moody image of a knight on his knees, a dog, a candle, a rat, and a man wearing a plague mask. The text says “oaths of the damned”.

RP @rybryd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Definitely an “I’ll fix this later” writing night. Long week. Words still count. Cookies don’t. #amwriting #WIP

RP @rybryd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A few more queries sent out. Unrelated: my dogs chased a rabbit into the house. So, whatever. We’re all doing our best. Even the dogs. #amquerying #WritingCommunity #writersofbluesky

Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Surround yourself with people who fight for you in rooms you're not in. Says Skeletor surrounded by those people.