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T. Diaz

@t-diaz.bsky.social

She/her currently #amquerying THE UNRAVELING 86,000 word YA Fantasy. A former asset manager with a background in quantum mechanics, I wrote this book out of a personal love of physics and a family love of escape rooms sparked by my daughter.

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Pat Jacobson @patjacobson101.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I LOVE everything about this!! 😍😍😍

T. Diaz @t-diaz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#YA #F #MY #H #AmQuerying

A rain slicked amber lit street at night with warm glowing lamp posts. Text reads: The Unraveling. Text reads: When a hidden pattern turns their town into a lethal puzzle, overlooked Ethan and pattern-driven Verity have seven days to solve six ancestral trials or watch reality unravel. Each failure resets time and leaves new damage carved into Ethan's skin. YA Fantasy combining the puzzle-driven urgency of THE INHERITANCE GAMES with the time-bending stakes of ONLY A MONSTER.

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️@eliseswords.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

At Sythe School, Rarkin gets Monster Containment training, new friends, healing from side effects of family violence and a front line position in Sythe's struggles against organised crime. FINAL FANTASY 8 X THE OUTSIDERS +QUEER ♠️🌈📚🧠🪐💙 elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/ #PosterPit #PosterPitP #SF #F

Text: SCIFI-FANTASY
MONSTER
CONTAINMENT
CPTSD
AUTISM

FRIENDS OR FAIL
MAKE OR BREAK
QUESTIONING QUEER

Walking the Knife’s Edge
TO UNFUCK THE WORLD,
FIRST YOU GOTTA UNFUCK YOURSELF.
One sale for 1.99 in a digital store near you

Central cover image: Rarkin stands in foreground, wearing leather jacket and jeans, holding a stun gun raised to shoot to the left.

Miona stands on the right, smiling and with boxing gloved fists raised, ready to fight.

They both stand on a grassy slope, a patchwork of Farm Zone paddocks, fields and tree lined streams behind them, to a cloud covered horizon through which the yellow glow of the sun shines.

Aaliyah🌸@alpaolucci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Where the Dark Stands Still x A Far Wilder Magic To save her godfather from shadow beasts immune to her blade, a knight must convince a stardust-wielding sorcerer to leave his manor — something his demonic curse has prevented him from doing for years #QuestPit #YA #F #FR

Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH X THE ADDAMS FAMILY Wicked sorceress Cora must ruin someone’s life before her eighteenth birthday or lose her magic forever, a task made tricky when she falls for her chosen victim. #questpit #YA #PR #Q

A book cover featuring a pretty, young Black woman with coily hair. Pink text for the title and white text for the tagline and my name.

Stacee @staceemagee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Missing Socks, Damp Cats, Rainstorms, and Other Ways to End Up Naked in Space Stacee Magee | YA SFF | WIP An ordinary woman, a morally grey space cat pirate, are in a race to save the universe from alien sock puppets. YA SciFi Fantasy WIP #W #YA #SFF #questpit #author

Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽@sagecollins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. W/ Jack's frozen 🩵 melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT #CliFi

A layer of snow tries to bury crocuses, but they peek their purple buds out anyway

Margot Miller @margotmiller15.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When board-game-obsessed Skye Hollis is sent to a behavior-modification boarding school for “problematic” teens, she discovers the academy secretly drains students’ blood to extend the lives of the wealthy, and must outplay the system before becoming their next victim. #questpit #Q #YA

Boarding school with the title LET THE PLAYERS BLEED

Comp titles including the cover of The Girls I’ve Been and Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Themes and Tropes with two dices on the bottom right.

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When a trans faith healer flees his mother's cult and picks up a UFO-hunting hitchhiker, he embarks on a supernatural roadtrip across the country, with the cult in hot pursuit, eager to reclaim their runaway Chosen One. #questpit #Q #U #YA

Agent Guide For Spring 2026: Galen David Bunting
A Southwestern Gothic Coming of Rage
New Adult Young Adult Speculative Fiction 95k words now querying Banner with cacti, arch

Agent Guide For Spring 2026: Banner with bloody hand, candle, arch, green background: comparative titles for MMC1 Christophe: Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, Mark Oshiro Into the Light, listing tropes Rage As Survival, Trans MC with Powers, Raised in A Cult, Runaway, Religious Trauma, Morally Complex MC.

Agent Guide For Spring 2026: Banner with bloody hand, candle, arch, green background: comparative titles for MMC2 February: Beautyland, Feeling like an Alien, Internet Communication as Tenderness, Dolki Min Walking Practice, Alien From as Otherness

Agent Guide For Spring 2026: Banner with sparkling stars at the top, red background: image of two men helping each other up a cliff, green candles, sign saying Red Rock Canyon, Promisedland, pitch reads: When a trans healer steals his mother's car and flees her cult, he picks up a hitchhiker who caught a meteorite. Together, they roadtrip to a UFO festival. But they'll have to get there before his mother catches up, the cult reclaims its healer, and his freedom is lost.

Linda Maleh @lindamaleh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

To save NYC’s witches from being hunted down and possessed by malicious spirits, 16-year-old Haley Thorne must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop the dead witch behind it all. LEGENDBORN x LITTLE THIEVES #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

In the Shadow of a Witch comps: Percy Jackson, Legendborn, Little Thieves

Charlotte Dante 💫querying author💫@charlottedante14.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WHAT THRIVES IN DARKNESS, a 88,000-word LGBTQ+ YA reimagining of Hades and Persephone about charting your own course—even when those who love you would rather own you. 🌿 queer Hades/Persephone 🌿 slow burn 🌿 grumpy/sunshine 🌿 found family 🌿 “touch him and die” 🌿 a ghost corgi #questpit #YA #LGBTQ

Kat is querying!@katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pumped to pitch ETERNALLY DEAD - my 107k paranormal romantic fantasy that explores what happens when an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm 🧛‍♂️ 🩸🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q #amquerying

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 107k 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.

Red and black background with red text at the top that reads "the blurb." The text below reads: Celia Sharpe's life-long dream of being a rockstar guitarist ended the day an accident wrecked her hand. Now a New York City concert photographer, she strictly focuses on making deadlines. But when Celia spots a mysterious stranger at a concert she can’t capture on camera, she abandons her job to follow him down an alley—only to be accidentally transported to the Vampire Realm.

Stranded and vulnerable in a world of dangerous monsters, Celia has one goal: return home ASAP. But the stranger she followed reveals that he's the bassist of all-vampire rock band Mortuus Aeternum (Eternally Dead), and he offers her a seductive opportunity: if Celia stays, the band's flirty guitarist Caliban will temporarily heal her hand so she can join Mortuus Aeternum. However, she must perform for audiences of blood-thirsty vampires, of course.

Trapped in the Vampire Realm with no way out, Celia is conflicted: she might be willing to sacrifice her freedom for Caliban's healing magic and a second chance at living her rockstar dreams, but she risks death if she doesn't find a way home. Especially when blood shortages are announced across the Vampire Realm. How will she survive?

Red and black background with a bright red title that reads THE COMPS. Below are four book covers and one movie poster that include brief descriptions beside them. The first is Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London and it's described as an urban fantasy in a vampire setting. Next is Bride by Ali Hazelwood, described as having a steamy romance and political intrigue. Next is The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, described as having a human fighting to survive in a vampire world. Next is a movie poster for Almost Famous, described as music journalist + rock band = forced proximity. Last is the cover of Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, described as having a rock band with secrets and love triangles. The tropes and vibes section includes the following text: grounded fantasy, found family, diverse characters, plot twists, chronic illness rep, slow burn yearning, and twist on fated mates.

Red and black background with white text snd large red title that reds THE OPENING. Below the title is the opening of the book, which reads: Celia Sharpe slammed her palm against the closed subway doors, trying to pry open the cool metal with sweaty fingertips. The train had finally – finally – made it to the station, and she needed to get off. Now. When the doors opened at long last, she burst through them like a bat out of hell, charging towards the exit.
She couldn't miss the opening of this show, or it might be her last.

Below the opening is the word EXCERPT in large red letters, and below is text in white font. The following excerpt reads:
Caliban knelt beside her and took her hand, her breath hitching at his touch. A warm sensation transferred between his fingertips and her scar, a tingling feeling moving up her whole arm. She pulled back on instinct.
“What did you do?” she trembled, awestruck. The scar had vanished.
“It’s only temporary. Please play,” he said, his green eyes wanting.
The pain was gone. Gone. As if it had never been there at all. Her left hand curved around the guitar neck, hugging the strings. Overcome by the magic of it, Celia grinned.

Kasy Long @kasylongauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Would you read your mom’s diary? Faye’s mom tragically died 25 years ago when Faye was a baby. Now, she meets her mom again—in diary form. Her mom's story comes alive—in her own words. 🤩 Fun '90s vibes 🥰 High school love 📔 Diary entries! 🥺 Coming-of-age drama #QuestPit #OS #A #R #LF #WF

An image that shows an open notebook with photos of teenage girls and graphics from the ‘90s. Various writing is on the page.

Laney - Add The Song of the Void on Goodreads!@laneylauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DISNEYLAND GONE WRONG + PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR Every other character actor at EverAfter Theme Park has disappeared after bizarre personality changes, and desperate princess performer Juliet discovers she’s next when the character she plays begins to take over her mind. #questpit #H #A #W

Too three images: a dark haired woman in a dress in a forest, a castle, a woman's hand reaching for a statue's hand.
Middle three images: a carousel, a silhouette of a princess, a Ferris wheel.
Bottom three images: a woman leaning in to kiss a statue, a hand wrapped in rose vines, a woman lying with her head hanging off a bed

Kelsea Wolf 📚 ✨@kelseawolf-writes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Alice wants normal adventures, the kind she can have with her marine archeologist aunt. She doesn’t want anything to do with magic or curses or secrets societies. The sooner she can sail through the Bermuda Triangle and follow the riddles to break her aunt’s curse the better. #questpit #q #ya #f #mg

A map of the south eastern region of the United States, aged. Red writing from top to bottom. Can we trust the riddles? Charleston, SC (The Manor) Savannah GA (Bonevevnture Cemetery) Saint Augustine, Fl (The Lighthouse ) Isle of Tempus (?) Elliot Key, FL (?) Key West, FL ( The Fort)

A vision board for agents and editors describing the book The Society of curse breakers clockwise there is a picture of a swamp that says betrayal a picture of a capybara that says diverse magic systems a picture of a forest that says folklore and strange villains a picture of a Florida map that says cryptids a picture of a lighthouse and a ship that says pirates and a picture of of a tunnel that says sports, a picture of a brick mansion thag says curses and urban fantasy and a picture of a diver that says found family

A scroll that says The Society
Gravity Falls x The Sea of Monsters
The Perfect Recipe for a Bad Summer:
A pinch of Cryptids
A Dose of Magic
A Spoonful of Riddles
A Secret Society
One Life draining curse
Mix it all together and you get a crew of untrained magic wielders sailing south on a quest to break a deadly curse before their families are lost forever. At the the bottoms there is a picture of a sailing ship.

erin is querying @hunne-writes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After the people he loved as parents were brutally murdered and his best friend skipped town, Oryn lost the only family he's ever cared for. Now she’s back after years apart & he must forgive the ills of their past to save her from a fate worse than death. #questpit #Q #A #SFF #SF

Graphic for Oryn Darlington. Below his name says: “A few facts about the cinnamon roll of Omene. A navy background with lighter polka dots. Character art is at the bottom, surrounded by white fine-lined graphics linked to fun facts by arrows. From left to right: a watch with “always has the latest tech” - a martini glass with “only bartender in Omene” - a pair of slippers with “homebody” - a controller with “bad at video games” - a dog with “disliker of pets”

MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue instead. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but will the help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? #questpit #W #YA #SF

A group of second generation aliens sleeper cells have spent their entire lives assimilating to human culture and gathering intelligence for the home world. To them, the eventual overthrow of farth has always been a distant goal meant for future generations.
Mow, when ordered to abduct and replace a human girl they have befriended, one of the alien operatives realizes that they have grown to care more for their found home and family than they do for their own people. She sabotages the abduction and goes on the run with the human girl.
Her friends are ordered to track her down, but now questioning their own mission, they find themselves wondering if the entire invasion is a mistake and if they have more in common with these Earthlings than they ever thought...

Taurus @tauruswrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

MAGIC MEETS CODING A Silicon Valley-inspired New Orleans where a teen writes spells down in code to stop the army of undead. 🧟 dead brought back to life with magic 💻 girls in stem 👯‍♀️ twin sisters magically bonded ❤️ friends to lovers #questpit #SF #F #YA #Q #SFF #agentsguide

Your Story Match @dreamverseland.com · 4mo ago

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crystal @snailpails.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE X WE USED TO LIVE HERE A young woman can't trust herself as she watches her reality crumble before her eyes. 🫣 Psychological/Cosmic Horror Romance 🗽 NYC Setting 🖤 He falls first 🇭🇰 #OwnVoices #QuestPit #H #R #PR #A #W

Woman sitting
stars
wilted flower
Subway
Black feather

T. Diaz @t-diaz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE UNRAVELING Thank you again, @leonahwrites.bsky.social and @minaareis.bsky.social, for this opportunity! 🔁 YA SPECULATIVE FICTION 🧩 PUZZLE DRIVEN DARK FANTASY ⚡ TIME LOOPS 🌊 DUAL PROTAGONIST Image sources: Pexels / Personal photograph / Canva #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #S #DF #MY #amquerying

Two silhouettes of a young man and woman facing away from each other against a vivid orange sunset. Text reads: The Unraveling. Time resets. The damage does not. Seven days. Six puzzles. Every failure leaves Ethan damaged and closer to a reset he cannot survive. Verity has always trusted patterns. Now they are breaking

A dark clock tower at night with two illuminated clock faces glowing amber against a stormy sky. Text reads: The Unraveling. Briarwick was not built. It was designed. Every street. Every landmark. Every symbol. A pattern hidden in plain sight for two hundred years. And now it is counting down.

A stormy dark sky with Fibonacci spiral lamp posts visible in silhouette. Text reads: The Unraveling. Full pitch text describing Ethan and Verity facing an ancient pattern threatening their town. Ends with: Not everyone they love gets to follow.

A rain slicked amber lit street at night with warm glowing lamp posts. Text reads: The Unraveling. Early Reader Responses. Five reader quotes about the book.

Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

liz difranco @lizdifranco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An agent's guide to INSPIRED BY YOU. Perfect for agents looking for: ❤️A NEW TWIST ON A ROMCOM 🧬A VERY LITERAL GENRE BLEND ❤️‍🩹THE HEALING ART OF STORYTELLING ⚔️ACCESSIBLE FANTASY 💌EPISTOLARY ELEMENTS #questpit #w #a #r #f

bettebergeron.bsky.social @bettebergeron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hooray! It's #QuestPit Day! 😀🎉 Excited to share this #agentsguide for my contemporary #speculative novel ✨THE SEA CURSER✨ 🌲Remote Maine Island ⚓Folklore & Myths 🧜‍♀️Mythical Sea Creatures 👹Ancient Curses 🙏Loss & Reconciliation 👭Women’s Retreat #Q #A #F #S #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity

Agent’s Guide for The Sea Curser by Bette Bergeron (Speculative/Adult, 84,000 words).

Themes and Tropes: Closed-Setting, Folklore, Contemporary, Mythical Creatures, Loss & Reconciliation, Remote Island, Maine, Women’s Retreat, Ancient Curses

Pitch: Compelled by a mysterious invitation from Celofaye, who claims to be her half-sister, Nan agrees to meet during a retreat held at an idyllic Maine inn. As she struggles to navigate her relationship with Celofaye—and the back-stabbing antics of the retreat’s other women—a series of sinister events turns her focus to one of survival. When guests vanish, and a beast brutally attacks Celofaye, Nan learns of a cursed Creature of the sea intent on destroying them all. But the Creature is not the only one on the island who is cursed…

Author Tess Foster @tessfoster.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just for the Summer x Things You Save in a Fire An overburdened, chronically ill daughter fights to keep her party girl mother in assisted living without losing her health and sanity in the process. 75k contemporary women’s fiction with romantic subplot Dual POV #Q #A #WF #QuestPit

Book title: side effects may include love
Meta data: contemporary women’s fiction, 76k words, dual POV, comps Just for the Summer x Things You Save in a Fire

The pitch and mood board. Winter in north shore Minnesota. A disco ball. Pills. Vinyl records.

An overburdened eldest daughter fights to keep her party girl mother in assisted living.

Comps. Just go the Summer, Evie Drake Starts Over a Things you Save in a Fire.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw.bsky.social · 3mo 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.”

T. Diaz @t-diaz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Aaryana’s winning the contest that decides who will be the next Queen/King but her enemies—which may include her sisters—are determined to change that. 👸ambitious FMC w/ a soft❤️ 🫅brooding LI who’s protective of his siblings 🧜‍♀️ 💘fake courting 🖤slow-burn hate-to-love 💔forbidden love #QuestPit #F #P

Moodboard with seven images and title along the bottom: Heir to the Throne Series. Image 1 is of a young man who appears to have huge angel-wings and a fire burning in the background. Image 2 is a scene of a ship that seems to have crashed against the rocks edging the sea. Image 3 is of a young woman with her arms around a young man. Image 4 depicts a young woman wearing an elaborate gold headpiece studded with blue crystals. Image 5 is of a young woman holding a sword and plummeting in the ocean. Image 6 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 is of two ships caught in a storm at sea.