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22 | queer + ND ˚⟡˖ ࣪ MA english lit student, aspiring author everything gothic 🖤🥀

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anna sarlet @sacrosanctious.bsky.social · last mo.

- THE LAST KISS OF WINTER - ∗ gothic tragedy complete at 85k words ∗ star-crossed lovers ∗ vampire aristocracy ∗ set in the Year Without Summer 🌨️ check attached for the #agentguide !! ⋆⁺₊❅。 #questpit #W #A

anna sarlet@sacrosanctious.bsky.social · last mo.

Beauty & the Beast × Dracula: A Love Tale introducing THE LAST KISS OF WINTER 🖤🥀🌨️ ∗ 85k word gothic tragedy ∗ regency era ∗ forbidden romance ∗ star-crossed lovers ∗ vampire aristocracy ∗ winter isolation ∗ found family querying this fall ₊°｡❆ #questpit #W #A

anna sarlet @sacrosanctious.bsky.social · last mo.

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · last mo.

Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A romantic dystopian heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #QuestPit #W #NA #A #D Querying this fall <3

List of tropes:
Dystopian, romance, heist
Teenage lovers to unaccounted for for many years, to rival gang members actually trying to kill each other to reluctant allies to lovers again???
Idk, it’s complicated..
Cyberpunk
Forced proximity
is it a gang or is it a cult?
Anything can be a murder weapon if you try hard enough
tending to wounds

All that stands between Aranea and her initiation into the Coven—the gang of women notorious for killing corrupt men and their own ex-boyfriends—is a bullet in her own ex's brain. Only, when her first boyfriend suddenly turns up alive after seven years with no trace, killing him doesn't prove entirely as easy as the rest. But when it's revealed that he's part of a rival gang and leading a heist to steal vital information from a famously impenetrable city–with the potential to save or obliterate their corrupt world–she must first infiltrate the heist and take the information for her own gang. Without letting old resurfacing feelings threaten the mission.

Opening lines:
Eyes on the target. Awaiting orders to shoot." I tighten my grip on the rifle.
The breeze sweeps some brown stray hairs over my eyes as I follow the target through my scope—Raymond, 25, male, with dark shaggy hair and a bag slung over his shoulder. Also known as my second ex-boyfriend.
"Awaiting orders to shoot," I repeat. My trigger finger burns to move.
The traffic drums in the background—car horns ring through the dirty air between dilapidated skyscrapers. Raymond dabs up one of the bouncers across the street. I track his every move; when he steps back to let a group pass by, when he scratches the five o'clock shadow on his chin, when he nods towards the entrance door two steps ahead of them. All that stands between me and my official initiation into the Coven, is one bullet in his brain.

"I fear the withdraw of us will be worse than any drug."

Books similar to Project Glitch:
Butcher and Blackbrid by Brynne Weaver
Coldwire & These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Scion by James Islington
To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Divergent by Veronica Roth

anna sarlet @sacrosanctious.bsky.social · 4mo ago

finished editing the first act of my gothic tragedy yesterday!! exciting progress ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ★ #writingcommunity

Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ok hear me out: AMERICA’s GOT TALENT x PEAKY BLINDERS but with magic (and OCD) Star-crossed lovers—an anxious illusionist and a claustrophobic escape artist—enter a stage magicians competition to win their freedom from their rival crime families. #Q #A #F #RF #QuestPit #revpit ‘25 winner

A 1920s inspired moodboard, with images inside a theatre as well as black and white portraits. The text reads: Myth, Muse, Magician

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A dystopian romantic heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #questpit #W #NA #D Querying late summer/fall <3

Pitch:
Project Glitch is about a gang member trying to earn her initiation by killing all her exes, when she's redirected to infiltrate a rival gang's heist—led by her last remaining ex-boyfriend—to steal information from an impenetrable city with the potential to save or obliterate their corrupt world.

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

House of the Dragon x The Bachelorette in THE SUITOR'S TRIAL A NA political fantasy with ✨ Enemies to lovers ⚔️ Deadly challenge 👁️ A lethal FMC (& MMC) 🌷Formal balls 👑 Low historical fantasy 🗡️ 1880's inspired, but daggers and swords #questpit #W #NA #F (currently editing)

The Suitor's Trial, tropes, by Elise Rustøen

Enemies to lovers
Court politics
Reluctant allies
Morally grey characters
Lethal main characters
Dual POV
Deadly trial
Knife to throat

Ether way; this ends with a marriage or an execution.
You are hereby invited to THE SUITOR'S TRIAL
A princess who doesn't want to get married and share her throne, arranges trials to kill off her suitors, when suitor number 8 proposes with intentions of revenge whilst new dark forces loom in the background—threatening to destroy them both and take the throne for much darker purposes
By Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen

Snippets of THE SUITOR'S TRIAL
Two years, three weeks and five days since I swore I'd take revenge, and finally, my time has come. My pocket watch, amid the clutter on my desk, ticks as slowly as ever. Just five more minutes. Then a servant will lead me into the king's office to sign away the rest of my life—along with it, taking the first step towards retribution.

"Don't you look lovely this evening?"
I twist around with my dagger ready to stab. Hayes stops it right beneath the hollow of his jaw.
"Why that's not a very nice way to greet your future husband." He's paler than usual under the poor streetlight, a new cut across his temple.
"If I really thought you were to be my future husband I wouldn't have missed."
"For all you know, I might be into that."
"Clearly." I look him up and down.
"Now, let's get to what we came here for, shall we?" He pries the dagger from my grip and shoves it back into my holster, gracing my thigh in the effort. "Did you bring the letter?"

My gaze stays stuck on her as she laughs—at the new cut on her cheek from my ring—as she stands up, spitting blood on the ground and smearing the residue across her face.
"Look, we match." There's blood on her teeth as she grins.
She adjusts the grip on her daggers in a millisecond, tossing another my way. A knee pounds into my gut as I duck. I catch it—pulling her out of balance. And suddenly we're both back on the ground.
Securing her feet on both sides of me, she aims her daggers straight for my head.
I shift over, but not enough to avoid the burn at the tip of my ear. Another punch reaches my lip before I grip her wrist, lock my foot around hers and shove her off to switch positions. Before she can get away, I strike her jaw—hoping he'll take the hint and pretend to lose already.
With her free hand she snatches another dagger from my hip. I knock it out of her hand, catching it and bringing the tip to her throat. "I think that's enough."

Books similar to THE SUITOR'S TRIAL

Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Selection by Kiera Cass
The Will of the Many by James Islington
The Savior's Champion by Jenna Moreci
The Princess Knight by Cait Jacobs
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Powerless by Lauren Roberts

Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 4mo ago

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000’s setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings #questpit #W #A #NA #R

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

Forbidden Romance.
High Society Match Making.
European Setting.
Slow Burn.
Love VS Duty.
Black Swan-esque Awakening.
Masquerade Ball.
2000’s Setting.
Obsessive Yearning.
Secret Lake Meetings.

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
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And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

aleighwolterwrites.bsky.social @aleighwolterwrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#QuestPit #A #RF #F #W Querying Soon!

Laurel camafeo @laurelcamafeo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

LIGHT OF SHADOWS #questpit #ya #f #literaryagents

Priscilla Maytree @prismaytreewrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨🌸🪞The Realm of Mirage requires your presence at a special union 🪞🌸✨ Read about it in your next favourite romantasy Crowns & Mirrorlight 🪞Bi-Rep 🏳️‍🌈 🪞Fake Dating 🪞Finding yourself outside of a toxic relationship 🪞interesting power dynamics #questpit #W #A #RF

Christian Oxford @christianoxford.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Elina has never been anything but a thief, certain that redemption is a fairy tale. But as death closes in, she can’t ignore the truth: if she’s going to die anyway, her soul replaced with a legendary hero's, wouldn’t it be better to let him take her place? Click for full image #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Suzanne Gorthwald @suzannegorthwald.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My agent's guide to #questpit ✨Spheres in the Afterglow✨ a dual pov slowburn portal romantasy priorities of my main characters: advanced physics, mathematics or translating ancient languages📚 >>> rodent jokes🐁 >>> expressing feelings like a normal human 👀 #W #A #RF#questpit

Priscilla Maytree @prismaytreewrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X THE BACHELORETTE Introducing CROWNS & MIRRORLIGHT 🌸⚜️🌷 🪞A tragic romantasy 🪞Bi representation 🪞Finding yourself outside of Toxic Relationship 🪞Love Triangle 🪞Marriage Pact 🪞Queendom #questpit #W #A #RF

EvelynHail, PhD @evelynhail.bsky.social · 4mo ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."

A graphic titled "The Comps" in golden lettering. It displays four book covers arranged in a grid: "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli, "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros, "Shadow and Bone" by Leigh Bardugo, and "The Witcher: The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.

A self-made fantasy illustration showing a halfway transformed, dark-haired man, Prince Konstantin Veliki, with a silver crown and dragon wings. He is carrying a woman, a humble servant Iva, masquerading as a Duchess Zora, in a long, flowing cream-colored gown as they fly through the air. She is his guest but unbeknownst to him, she is plotting to poison him. In the background, a sprawling forest surrounds a magic academy, Kolegium with colorful, traditional Slavic-style onion domes—gold, silver, bronze and green. Each of the domes represents air, water, fire and earth magic respectively. Snippet text at the bottom reads: "Do you always sequester your guests and take flight with them?"

A self-made illustration set in the catacombs under the magic academy, Kolegium, featuring classical-style statues on the walls. Iva, in dark armor, rides a bright, light blue-scaled dragon; it is Prince Konstantin Veliki in his dragon form.
They face off against a monstrous, ethereal shadow dragon composed of wispy, black smoke and glowing eyes — this is Konstantin’s fallen father Tibor Veliki. A brilliant golden sphere of light, relic of the Slavic god of light, Belobog, called Spark of Creation, floats on a pedestal between them. Text at the bottom of the snippet reads: "Let us dance, little one," the Shadow Dragon hisses in a dry whisper of the fallen. "A worthy foe," Konstantin responds. We take to the air to meet the darkness. Two gargantuan winged silhouettes hover in the abyss, suspended in a precarious balance. They mirror one another; two sides of the same coin, champions of Belobog and Chernobog.

AJS ✨ Querying @authorajs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨ THE CRAFT x ONE DARK WINDOW ✨ When Lola’s deadly shadows escape, killing her best friend, she must seek control at an elite magical academy before they kill again—or lose her humanity. Perfect for agents who like: 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic BIPOC witches 🖤 Body horror 💫 Fantasy/Horror/Mystery #QuestPit #Q #A #F

An image of a school with multiple towers, in black on a grey sky, with multiple crescent moons hanging above. The text reads ‘an agents guide to The Bells of Le Fay, adult dark academia fantasy, 102k words.

A silhouette of a woman reaching up to the sky with a bright light between her hands. There is a shadowed tree next to her. The text reads: pitch, The price of magic is monstrous. Lola Knight expects to live a normal life, but when the deadly shadows beneath her skin escape, killing her best friend, she must attend Le Fay Academy for Higher Magics to seek control before they kill again. When she finds out the shadows are slowly turning her into a monster, she chases a cure through the ancient archives—but instead unearths a dangerous conspiracy, and must decide: keep digging to unmask the true monsters, or accept her fate and risk her humanity.

An open spell book surrounded by candles and a mirror. There are three book covers; for One Dark Window, Book of Night, and The Incandescent. The text reads: tropes and comps, witchy dark academia, monstrous magic, sapphic romance, ancient archives, body horror, unhelpful ghosts.

The silhouette of a woman with a huge dark shadow looming over her. The text reads: first lines. The shadows had teeth, and they hungered for blood. They shouldn’t exist here, amongst the weathered sandstone of Durham University. They shouldn’t exist at all, outside the confines of Lola’s mind. But the terrible scratching of claws against flagstone wasn’t a figment of her imagination, as she had first thought, strolling arm-in-arm with Sam on their way home from an end-of-exams party. She didn’t notice them straight away, her gaze sliding over the shadows cast by the faculty buildings. She didn’t notice them until they peeled away from the walls, their darkness thicker and more absolute than the others. Even then she pulled her gaze away, dismissing it. Inebriation hung over her like a thin veil, turning the glow of street lamps into a kaleidoscopic sky.

Rebeccah Sheridan @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 4mo ago

LOVELIGHT FARMS x THE LOVE HATERS When an event planner must plan a holiday gala with the firefighter who works for her father, she vows to keep things strictly professional...until their chemistry threatens her career, her family relationships, and the gala itself #questpit #q #a #r #amquerying

Georgia Patterson is querying!@georgiapatterson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE MAD WIFE x DON’T WORRY DARLING with a southern gothic twist What if your sleep paralysis demon is more grounded in reality than you ever thought before? (P.S. this is my first ever Bluesky post!) #questpit #A #T #amquerying #PsychologicalThriller @questpit.bsky.social

Mel | Querying Author @msad3.bsky.social · 4mo ago

RUNNING MANxSTRANGERS THINGS Mae never meant to take a life, only a name. Now, trapped in a space-bound program, she must survive deadly trials, fight alternate versions of herself, and keep her secret hidden. But Nexxus is watching. And reality itself unravels. #QuestPit #T #SF #A #Q #POC #⚔️to♥️

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A trafficking survivor turned vigilante stalks Manhattan’s ruins with a sentient flaming machete to rescue girls from a grief-harvesting regime. When she joins a subterranean rebel, her trauma-made-visible glyphs mutate, threatening to remake her into the predator she hunts.🔥 #QuestPit #Q #A #DF

Dark fantasy poster featuring a scarred armored vigilante standing in a flooded tunnel, gripping a flaming machete. A glowing sigil appears on her chest and along her arm. Title reads SCARELLA: THE MACHETE MARAUDERESS with the tagline: “Some things don’t just break you. They remake you.”

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Heists, spice and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal dark hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #R #SF #SFF

The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel

A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer

Representation Christi Cardenas

Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

omantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.”
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of the three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

#AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

HEATED RIVALRY X STAR SHIPPED 🎪 After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🤸 #amquerying #questpit #Q #R

Cover with acrobats titled “Bend Over Backwards”

Pitch - after vincent’s acro partner is banned from their vegas-themed circus show, he’s forced to create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. cole’s flashy hand-to-hand stunts and throws are fine for television, but his aggressive style clashes with vincent’s controlled contortion and fear of falling. vincent plans to escape by auditioning for his dream circus company, but the closer he gets to cole, the more reason he has to stay.

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

List of comp titles including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨@saraduran.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

Rory | Author *₊˚☕୧ @rabauthor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy #QuestPit day! Here's my #agentsguide to THISTLE & BRIAR, a 93k adult romantasy 🦋 “Have you ever accidentally botched a spell that bound you to a fae man who hates your guts? Asking for a friend.” #Q #A #F #R #RF

An agent's guide to Thistle & Briar by R. A. Betzer. "Have you ever accidentally botched a spell that bound you to a fae man who hates your guts? Asking for a friend." 93k words. Editor interest and RevPit shortlist. Adult romantasy.

The Pitch. A dream for freedom, a spell gone wrong, one year to fix it, and the only one who can help her is a hot fae she was accidentally bound to. The problem is he can't stand her. Themes & Tropes. Slow burn. Cranky fae x wild swamp girl. He bites, she wants him to. Wild, cruel faeries. One bed and one elk. Spell gone wrong (they have to do it or she'll die in a year).

Comp Titles: The Knight & the Moth by Rachel Gillig. Aching devotion. The Princess Bride. Playful adventure romance. Swordheart by T. Kingfisher. Banter-driven slow burn. In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy. Lyircal angst.

The Blurb. Dusky Poddock would do anything to be kidnapped by faeries. Unfortunately, the faeries would do anything to send her back. Facing an arranged marriage to a widower twice her age, Dusky attempts (and botches) a spell fueled by the scraps of magic her late mother left behind. Instead of escape, she binds herself to Percy—a surly faery noble determined to expose a traitor, secure his claim as the heir, and protect his younger brother from the brutal politics of faery court. If Dusky cannot win Percy’s favor within a year, the spell will kill her. Eager to stay and eager to survive, Dusky employs herself as Percy’s faithful servant, determined to help his mission succeed. Little does she know, the spell requires her to fulfill Percy’s deepest desire at the time the magic was set in motion: creating an heir of his own. When Dusky learns the truth, she’s far less daunted than she should be at the prospect of sharing a bed with a gorgeous (if infuriatingly surly) faery. Percy, however, wants nothing less. As threats close in and Percy's carefully guarded heart begins to crack, Dusky uncovers corruption woven deep into the faery realm and learns that magic alone may not be enough to undo her mistake. With time running out and dangerous faeries offering false hope, it all comes down to Dusky, Percy, and the spell that binds their clashing hearts.

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 4mo ago

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

anna sarlet @sacrosanctious.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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