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Sarai Hernandez @saraihernandez.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 worldshift2026.manyworldswriting.com

Worldshift 2026: The Speculative Fiction Writers' Conference

Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit

worldshift2026.manyworldswriting.com

Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · last mo.

👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ I'm currently querying my novel GAMA. #booksky#writingcommunity #scifi #sff #book

Sarai Hernandez @saraihernandez.bsky.social · last mo.

MEASURED BY TIME AND FRECKLES The hook: The ring’s wrong, the spark’s gone, and her fiance’s more interested in Slack than her, but when Yulissa discovers a deeply passionate poem by her best friend, she questions everything. #questpit #Q #A #R #OV

MEASURED BY TIME AND FRECKLES
Querying
Images of palm tree leaves and shells

Latine/Multicultural
Friends to lovers
Coastal setting
Yearning
Mental health

The hook:
The ring’s wrong, the spark’s gone, and her fiance’s more interested in Slack than her, but when Yulissa discovers a deeply passionate poem by her best friend, she questions everything.

Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · last mo.

LEGALLY BLONDE X B.K. BORISON'S GOOD SPIRITS 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

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · last mo.

A group of university students find themselves entangled with an experiment that demands their blood and a creature that will give them power in exchange for pieces of their humanity. #q #a #sff

A stack of books, a postage stamp, and wax seal. "An Agent's Guide to A Consideration of Death"

Book One: The Pitch
Hozier's First Light meets Leigh Bardugo's NINTH HOUSE
A group of university students find themselves entangled with an experiment that demands their blood and a creture that will give them power in exchange for pieces of their humanity.
Comp titles include VICIOUS by V.E. SChwab, NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo, and THE ATLAS SIX by Olivie Blake

An image of the university students: Dodie, a short brunette in a black dress and red cardigan; Alek, a tall man with dark hair in a brown sweater and ripped jeans; Beatrice, a tall blonde woman in a white dress and black jacket; Kyu, a short, mid-sized woman with a pink pixie cut in a yellow sweater and jeans; Damion, an Indigenous Hawaiian man in a rumpled white shirt and black pants; and Shahid, a Pakistani man with curly hair and a beard in a brightly patterned suit jacket, white shirt, red tie, and red pants.
THe tropes read: childhood friends to almost lovers, complicated family dynamics, ensemble cast, ancient monsters, neuroscience based magic system, aspec rep, dark academia, near death experiences.

Kath Rothschild Author @kathrothschild.bsky.social · last mo.

#questpit In DON'T GHOST ME (Spec Rom. 82K) rival haunted tour guides—a feminist historian and a Bayou storyteller—compete to guide the first New Orleans above ground cemetery and fall in love—until one realizes the other can actually hear ghosts.

ziqing @ziqingpan.bsky.social · last mo.

Hi #questpit! Introducing WORK IN PROGRESS 💌 childhood nemeses to lovers 🏮 set in taiwan! (night markets, coastal views, and yummy food) 🎨 pretty paintings and lies 🫂 complicated family dynamics and found family ❣️ 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU meets CRAZY RICH ASIANS #Q #R #A #WF

First slide of deck with the following text: An agent’s guide to WORK IN PROGRESS by Ziqing Pan. Adult contemporary romance with women’s fiction crossover completed at 83K words.

Sunset background with a couple sitting by the water

One-line pitch: A struggling ex-artist must plan an exhibition with her infuriating childhood nemesis in Taiwan, all while hiding the truth about her failed career.

Comp titles: Lauren Kung Jessen’s Yin Yang Love Song (for the cultural richness and complicated family dynamics), Jessica Joyce’s You, with a View (for the nemeses to lovers tension), Lily Chu’s The Comeback (for the witty banter), and the movie Crazy Rich Asians (for the Asian-setting, specifically Taiwan)

Tropes: nemeses-to-lovers, forced proximity, opposites attract, he falls first

Themes: quarter-life crisis and self-discovery, self-doubt and fear, change vs. tradition, unconditional love

Pictures in mood board: woman painting by the window, a couple kissing, painting set-up, a man writing notes, and a picture of a couple with flowers

Nisha Shirali @nishashirali.bsky.social · last mo.

Sharing my novel LOVE IN THE HIMALAYAS (83,000 words) for #Questpit!!! 🏔️ A woman treks through the Himalayas to impress her crush, but is forced to team up with her rugged, mysterious tour guide instead. 🏔️ Slow-burn romance and yearning 🏔️ BOLLYWOOD vibes #Q #A #Questpit #R

Sarai Hernandez @saraihernandez.bsky.social · last mo.

MEASURED BY TIME AND FRECKLES The hook: The ring’s wrong, the spark’s gone, and her fiance’s more interested in Slack than her, but when Yulissa discovers a deeply passionate poem by her best friend, she questions everything. #questpit #Q #A #R

Suzanne || Fantasy Author @author-suzanne.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey #QuestPit I thought it would be fun to introduce my characters in a more "non-conventional" manner so I present: The Meme Guide to characters from A GIRL OF TWO SHADOWS. This adult epic romantic fantasy will be querying soon so I hope this piqued your interest! #Q #RF #A

Dark purple background with text:
Top left: "117k words | Adult Romantic Epic Fantasy | Multi-POV"
Top middle: "The Characters of A Girl of Two Shadows As Memes"
Top right: "Series potential | Cross-over Potential | 1st Person POV"

The graphic is split in three. "2nd FMC" on left", "FMC" in the middle and "MMC" on the right.

Each column has three images of memes that describe the respective character.
On the left the text on the memes say: "Me thinking I need something sweet after I just finished eating", "Teaching my friend magic. Making my other friend (who doesn't like her) do it. Me", and "Stealth mode Level: Master"
In the middle the text on the memes say: "That moment when you disarm your opponent", "Me: I love backing for others. Also me:", and "When they are trying to teach you magic but you have no idea what you're doing"
On the right the text on the memes say: "When she acts like she is 'human'", "When she can't even cast basic magic", and "Your trust can't be broken if you trust no one"

Suzanne || Fantasy Author @author-suzanne.bsky.social · last mo.

For my first post for #QuestPit I present you with my adult epic romantic fantasy A GIRL OF TWO SHADOWS, complete at 117k words. Think the romance and quest of Melissa Blair’s A Broken Blade combined with the character-driven epic fantasy of Andrea Stewart’s The Bone Shard Daughter. #Q #RF #A

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

THE DEVOURING An adult cosmic horror thriller novel about the monsters we choose. For fans of Lovecraftian mythos, John Wick-style action, and married villain protagonists. Read a free sample at amshilling.com/books/the-de... and get your copy today! #QuestPit #P #A #H #T

[The background is a city at night. Red blood splatters decorate the upper right and lower left corners. In the center is the book's cover: a black inkblot in the shape of a skull against a red background.]

A Reader's Guide to THE DEVOURING

PITCH
Jason and Ayana are happily married in an arrangement that keeps their lives parallel but separate. In the wake of his brother's murder and her discovery of an impossible illness, however, they must work together to learn the truth behind these mysterious events. Along the way, they uncover an occult conspiracy at the heart of their city—and the malevolent god lurking beyond its veil.

Told from the perspectives of the story's villains, The Devouring is an adult cosmic horror and thriller novel about the monsters we choose.

TROPES
- married main characters
- villain protagonists
- dangerous criminal underworld
- mysterious cults
- terrifying body horror
- an incomprehensible eldritch god

COMPS
- THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE by H. P. Lovecraft
- JOHN WICK

J.Q. Crawford @jqcrawford.bsky.social · last mo.

#QuestPit Waltz of the Jaded is a dark urban fantasy set in a futuristic Tokyo focused on psychological tension and an all-consuming relationship, where power has a physical cost, and intimacy is both dangerous and inevitable. Would you read this? #DF #F #A #W

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

THE HEART IS A WEAPON Ten years after her death and disappearance, a vampire must choose between the tender past she left behind and the seductive promises of the future. Both have her heart. Which one will she betray? #QuestPit #W #A #H #DR

[The background is an image of three pomegranates, one of which is cut in half, showing seeds. The image is tinted a dark pink fading into black.]

A Reader's Guide to THE HEART IS A WEAPON

TROPES
- toxic vampire lovers
- age gap romance
- found family (sort of)
- siblings on opposing sides
- unreliable narrator
- predator/prey imagery
- humanity vs. monstrosity
- conflicting identity
- love as a choice

PITCH
Ten years after her death and disappearance, a vampire must choose between the tender past she left behind and the seductive promises of the future. Both have her heart. Which one will she betray?

COMPS
- MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- HANNIBAL
- INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
- THE LESSER DEAD by Christopher Buehlman

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

WHAT THE IRON GAVE US After a fateful accident puts her father into a coma, a young noblewoman and her lowborn bodyguard must navigate a dangerous game of corporate espionage and city politics, or else lose everything they hold dear ... including each other. #QuestPit #W #A #SFF #R

[The background is an aerial image of a city at twilight with multiple skyscrapers in the center.]

A Reader's Guide to WHAT THE IRON GAVE US

TROPES
- dual POV
- bodyguard romance
- sweet FMC x bad boy MMC
- near-future, alternative Earth setting
- fantasy house politics
- magic inspired by Dune and Star Wars
- found family and the importance of male friendships

PITCH
After a fateful accident puts her father into a coma, a young noblewoman and her lowborn bodyguard must navigate a dangerous game of corporate espionage and city politics, or else lose everything they hold dear ... including each other.

COMPS
- DUNE by Frank Herbert
- JADE CITY by Fonda Lee
- the Shadowrun TTRPG

Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · last mo.

📁 CASE FILE: GAMA // QUERYING 📌 Location: Post-apocalyptic Switzerland 👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ #QuestPit #Q #A #RS #SFF

Frankie Flaherty @frankieflaherty.bsky.social · last mo.

GOOD LUCK, BABE! x WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Cats & Dogma is a #sapphicromance featuring: 💄 Masc x Femme 💕 Friends to Lovers 😇 Religious Trauma 🔪 Curiosity Killed the Mormonism 🏳️‍🌈 Comp-Het 🐈 Cats! 😍 Art by @shaarpie.bsky.social 😍 #QuestPit #A #R #WF #W #WIP #LGBTQRomance #wlw

a #questpit guide to cats and dogma (sapphic romance)

The Pitch: Dry Creek Animal Shelter’s cat care coordinator, Esther, is 3 things: very straight, very Mormon, and very best friends with Vee, the kennel manager, who is none of those things.

And that’s not a problem!

Until Esther gets serious with a returned missionary and asks Vee for make out advice and... you know what — maybe some more make out advice. She didn't quite get that last bit so if Vee could just repeat it and —

The Vibes: What was I made for by billie eilish, i've just seen a face by the beatles, too sweet by hozier and good luck, babe! by chappell roan

existential dread but make it sweet! and sexy! and gay!

I remember looking up to say “Thank you,” and tripping over the words when my eyes connected with the amused curiosity in her own chocolate brown ones. “You’re so pretty,” I blurted instead, surprising us both.
She blinked a few times. A low rasp of a laugh escaped her.
“Or maybe—sorry—not pretty.” It was too feminine a word. She radiated a sort of confident androgyny and… “symmetry…you’re face is so symmetrical,” I corrected for some reason, zeroing in on the perfectly centered dip in her lower lip.
She smiled with that lip then and it took up her whole face, making her more radiant, more dumbfounding. “Thanks, kid,” she said.
It was important that I correct her immediately. I was not a kid. I was 19 years old, my life nearly a quarter of the way over, and my name was Esther.

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

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

Sarai Hernandez @saraihernandez.bsky.social · last mo.

Project: LA ISLA After a gargoyle attack, a modern weapons engineer is summoned to the Southern Front military base to deliver designs for a device that can win the war against a colonizing power, but she has to work with her ex who she hasn’t seen in over a century. #questpit #W #FR 🌶️🌶️

Drafting

Contemporary Romantasy

Project: LA ISLA

Latine inspired
Second chance
Marriage of convenience
Animal companion
Shifters

After a gargoyle attack, a modern weapons engineer is summoned to the Southern Front military base to deliver designs for a device that can win the war against a colonizing power, but she has to work with her ex—a bird shifter—who she hasn’t seen in over a century.

Images:
Waterfall
Hellhound

Sarai Hernandez @saraihernandez.bsky.social · last mo.

MEASURED BY TIME AND FRECKLES The hook: The ring’s wrong, the spark’s gone, and her fiance’s more interested in Slack than her, but when Yulissa discovers a deeply passionate poem by her best friend, she questions everything. #questpit #Q #A #R #OV

Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · last mo.

THE HURRICANE WARS X QUICKSILVER A long-dead demon slayer must work with the Goddess of Death's bodyguard to save a merit-based afterlife. spice level:🌶️🌶️🌶️.5/5 rep: WEAVER LITERARY #QuestPit #OS #A #F #R

Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · last mo.

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

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

Linh Nguyen, is writing @dreahun.bsky.social · 11mo ago

THE SHADOW DIVIDE - Querying Soon ❤️‍🔥POVs of the hero, the girl & the villain 📷Stylish action 📷Technology fear 👀Commercial fiction with upmarket voice

Sarai Hernandez @saraihernandez.bsky.social · 2mo ago

MEASURED BY TIME AND FRECKLES The hook: The ring’s wrong, the spark’s gone, and her fiance’s more interested in Slack than her, but when Yulissa discovers a deeply passionate poem by her best friend, she questions everything. #BluePit #📖 #A #Romance #Q #OV

Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE DEVOURING An adult cosmic horror thriller novel about the monsters we choose. For fans of Lovecraftian mythos, John Wick-style action, and married villain protagonists. Read a free sample at amshilling.com/books/the-de... and get your copy today! #Bluepit #📖 #P #A #H

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 #Bluepit #📖 #MG #F #Q

@amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

❄️Project Winter-a holiday, paranormal romance With Jack Frost magic and a Christmas deadline, a murder.ed social worker must leverage her ex, the only man she’s ever loved, to solve her unfinished business. Second chance romance Sisters Fake dating ❄️❄️ magic #bluepit #A #R #PN #W art by mknzgmbn

Tereza Maze @terezamazura.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity 👀 Daggermouth X Red Rising X The Last Of US #BluePit #📖 #A #SF #Romance #Q #ND

GAMA / SFF + Romance / Post-apocalyptic Switzerland / Feminine rage, political intrigue, Forced proximity

I'm a spy. He’s a myth.
I trust facts. He shouldn't exist.

All I ever wanted was control over my life. To stop obeying stupid orders.
So I vanished.
Two years ago, I left Gama behind.
Now my brain chip’s failing. Fatally.
On my way back, I face a choice: team up with a stranger or die alone. I choose the stranger.
I’m returning to the family that made me something I never chose to be.
And I'm bringing them someone they were never meant to meet.