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Annabeth is querying!@annabethwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE HATING GAME X STRANGE FAMILIARS When a phoenix egg mysteriously hatches, a chaotic cryptozoologist must team up with the polished rival standing between her and her dream job to uncover who‘s hunting its fire before her career — and the museum she loves — go up in flames. #QuestPit #WIP #RF #A

Dannielle Raffin @dannielleraffin.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Knight’s Tale and When the Moon Hatched collide in TORCH THE STARS 💫 ⚔️A tale of hidden identity, love, and a woman chasing glory in a man’s world #QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentguide

avery✨@averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

After Fae prince Exodus and assassin Azalea meet when she’s hired to kill him, they navigate a secret relationship Years after he ends it with no explanation, she's hired by his father and must live under the same roof as her ex-lover MAIMED is out NOW! #questpit #P #YA #F #RF

Alissa is Querying ✨🔥🧪@alissalindemann.bsky.social · 2w ago

Local Heavens X Fahrenheit 451 🖥️ Chronic Illness Rep 🎙️ Mind Control ❤️‍🔥 Rivals to Lovers 💖 Sapphic Romance 🎚️ Art as Resistance #questpit #A #SF #D #W

Text in the center of an old analog television reads "An Agent's Guide to Hell or Hardwire." It is bordered on two sides by rainbow electronic glitch background art. Along the side is binary code which translates to "Free your mind." The top border has musical notes in treble cleft on a staff. To the right are grayscale bars of TV static, the words "Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi" with a white glowing wolf's head outline between it and a final text of "80k Words" at the bottom.

Top and bottom of the image are bordered with rainbow electronic interference graphics and black and white TV interference. The title text reads "Loading Additional Media" and it features books "Local Heavens" by K.M. Fajardo, "Seek the Traitor's Son" by Veronica Roth and "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. There is also an image of the electronic music artist Daft Punk and the album cover for My Chemical Romance's album "Danger Days." The same binary code from the cover borders the image on the right.

Title text reads "Mission Status (Pitch)." It then has a white paper like box with the text, "When a digital music artist interrupts a heist, she becomes entangled in an underground Robin Hood style crime syndicate bent on destroying the corporite elite. Their leader, an infuriatingly likable rogue, and their plan to free the city from technocratic mind control clash with her own elaborate plot. As her body modifications slowly make her sick, she'll need to trust the rebels she once wrote off or risk time running out on both their plans." Below this is a box of black and white tv static with the faint outline of "Nero Relies on You," but the R and E in "Relies" is in black while the other words are in pink so it can be read as "Nero Lies on You." A text box to the right lists tropes: Chronic Illness Rep, Rivals to Lovers, Music and Fandom as Resistance, Sapphic Romance, and Feminine Rage." The right of the image is bordered by a black and gold circuit board.

Right border has glitched rainbow and black bars from a TV screen error. The title reads "Sample Code (Snippet)." On the right are antique images of Charles Babbage's brain with a diagram of a brain chip over the left lobe. Text reads: "Chapter 1: Stage lights crackle to life with a wave of electricity before rotating to illuminate my metallic form. I feel the crowd's frenzy, the way it lifts me, the way they yearn to rip this armor off and find the soft core of me inside. No one knows who I am, but they all love THE MACHINE GIRL. I star at the blank mass of shadow bodies, whose vocal cords swell with a name I chose for myself but isn't mine. Their response isn't biologically impressive. As the bassline of the track floods into the theatre, people twist and gyrate, but so too does a corpse dance post-mortem after succumbing to a knife wound. I would know.

Taelyn Gray is querying 🦋@taelyngray.bsky.social · 2w ago

BRIDGERTON x AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER with a magical butterfly twist 🦋 magical butterfly rescue 🤭 hate to love ✨ fake courtship 🤍 #ownvoices scoliosis rep 📰 The Press make or break reputations 🫦 banter starts in CH 1 #questpit #Q#A #F

Ally Boyd @alboyd.bsky.social · 2w ago

SERIAL DATING | Adult Horror Rom-Com Inverted Tropes: 🛏️Too Many Beds (it's a bunk bed situation) ❤️Co-workers to Friends to Lovers (No enemies here) ☠️Neither FMC or MMC are Serial K!llers (but everyone else is) ☀️Perfect, Sunny Weather (no dark & stormy nights) #QuestPit #W #A #H #R

Picture of a forest of trees. Text: agent guide, adult horror rom-com, projected 70K, current 40K, Serial Dating, by Ally Boyd

Picture of rock half in a lake, half on the sand. Text: The Pitch, While vacationing at a remote lakeside cabin, the daughter from a dynasty of eccentric k!llers struggles to shield her new boyfriend from her family’s gruesome legacy, but the sunny lakeside retreat turns deadly when a k!ller from her past turns the camp grounds into hunting grounds.

Picture of lake and trees reflecting in it. Text: the comps, Lights Out by Navessa Allen, Ready or Not (2019), Dating & Dismemberment by A L Brody, The Book of Knives by Lise Haines

Picture of trees. Text: The Opening. I’m pretty sure the guy I matched with is a serial k!ller.

I knew it the moment he picked me up. His hair is combed too straight, his blue button down shirt is overly starched, his khakis pressed with military precision, and his nails neatly trimmed to the quick.

I can almost hear my best friend, Kayla’s voice in my head, ‘It’s find Maddie. He’s a nice guy. Why are you always trying to find the faults?’

It’s not like I’m doing it on purpose, it’s just that I have a type. And I really, really want to get away from my normal type and find a nice guy.

“You look beautiful,” he says as he presents me with a bouquet of flowers.

White lillies. The flower of death.

Joanna @annaojibs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Adult THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY x BOOK LOVERS Years after a tragic loss, three old friends attempt reconciliation on a summer trip to Maine. 💙 childhood friends to lovers 🌊 second chance 💙 exploration of friendship 🌊 forced proximity #questpit #amquerying #Q #A #R #WF

Mandy Raquel is revising ✨@mandiee.bsky.social · 2w ago

What happens when the life you escaped becomes the only thing that can make you feel whole again? 🎤 Pop-punk nostalgia 🖤 Found family 🔥 Slow-burn second chance 🥐 Former frontman turned bakery owner 🎸 Band secrets and old wounds #QuestPit #W #A #U #R

Author Rebecca Warren ✨📚@rebecca-warren.bsky.social · 2w ago

#questpit #W #A #RF

Kath Rothschild Author @kathrothschild.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE DEAD ROMANTICS x PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION in haunted New Orleans 🫶🏼 feminist historian 🍃 bayou storyteller 🔥slow burn 🖤 rivals to lovers 🎠 set in the big easy DON'T GHOST ME (Spec Romance w/ upmarket 82K) #questpit

Eylorett @eylorett.bsky.social · 2w ago

OUABH 💔 x Heartless In this dark and whimsical Snow White prequel, an aspiring singer named Elba strikes a lethal deal with a dark immortal, twisting her musical dreams into the tragic origin of the most ruthless Evil Queen of all fairytales. #questpit #YA #Fantasy #Q

Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · 2w 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

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

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

Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌊🔥Mulan meets Avatar: The Last Airbender… but make it an adult romantasy. 🌪️ Forbidden elemental magic 🎭 Hidden identity ⚔️ Military training ❤️‍🔥 Slow-burn romance 👀 A dangerously perceptive commanding officer ✨ SONG OF THE SICKLE ✨ #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

Song of the Sickle, an adult romantic fantasy, 115,000 words, first in a planned series by Megan A. Saraceno

The pitch: She’s hiding her name, her past, her power.
He sees through her every lie.

Rejected by the gods, Tessa Whitaker brands a false divine seal into her flesh and steals her brother’s identity to save him from a war he won’t survive. But when her emotions manifest unblessed elemental magic, she catches the attention of her dangerously perceptive commanding officer. If he uncovers her secrets, execution will be the least of her problems.

She can survive the war.
She’s not sure she can survive him.

Comps A Fate Inked in Blood, Silver Elite, The Knight and the Moth

Opening lines: Tomorrow, the gods would judge me.
Tonight, I pretended they didn’t exist.

I swung the scythe through another row of wheat. My shoulders screamed, but at least the burn was honest. More honest than twenty years of prayers that had earned me nothing but silence.
Sweat carved tracks through the chaff dusting my skin, but I kept moving. One more row. One more bundle. Anything to keep my thoughts off tomorrow and the bare stretch of skin on my forearm waiting to be claimed., pictures include: military training camp, earth magic, amber ring, abandoned watchtower, and incense

Kelly Young @kyoungwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Howls Moving Castle x Beauty and the Beast Amnesiac healer makes a deal to help break a dying sorcerer’s curse in exchange for his help locating her missing best friend, only to discover her memories and life are tied to his survival. 👀💜🌙✨🌌💙🕰️ #questpit #AG #WIP #RF

gabriellanwrites.bsky.social @gabriellanwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

SKULLSCAPE 87k Dark Academia Ninth House X Blood Over Bright Haven 🏛️Elite Academy 🌱Botany ❓Missing Brother 🔎 Rookie Sleuth 🦴Forbidden Magic This project has received 4 full requests and 12 invitations to query. #questpit #q #a #my #f

Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social · 2w ago

💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 To join her dream esports team, Cam let everyone assume she's a guy. Now all she has to do is survive the captain, who's sure she's the weak link — without falling for him first. #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying

Last Pick by Ruchi Dave is an e-sports romance novel, complete at 75k words.

Cameron Day has always felt like a loser—except in the video game League of Champions, where she dominates. So when an esports team mistakes her for a guy and recruits her, she doesn’t correct them.

But to Jacob—their ruthless (and distractingly hot) captain who’s already seen one ex-teammate implode under pressure—she’s a risk they can’t afford. If she cracks, they all go down with her.

The only way forward is to prove she’s not a liability, but the key to pulling them out of freefall.

Contact the author at **@ruchi-writes on x or @ruchi-writes.bsky.social**

Moodboard for Last Pick. Professional esports gamer vibes.

Snippet for Last Pick

“The others got over it much sooner than you did.”

“I didn’t want to complicate things.”

“Why would I complicate things?”

“You know why.” He tucked a stray hair behind my ear, and my skin felt electric where his fingers brushed against me. I leaned into him as his hand slid to the nape of my neck, tilting my head toward his.

“What happened to keeping things professional?”

“This is professional,” he murmured. “Kevin and I do this all the time.”

Comps and Tropes

- **enemies-to-lovers**
- **woman in a male dominated field**
- **Chaos GOBLIN HEROINE**
- **forced proximity**
- **underdog story**
- **impostor syndrome**
- **good intentions, bad decisions**

She’s the Man - **WOMAN PRETENDING TO BE A MAN IN A MALE DOMINATED SPORT (E-Sports)**

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace - **team captain/mentor who is convinced she’s a liability**

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - **fake-it-till-you-make-it energy**

Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 2w 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 — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Comps & Pitch
The Phantom of the Opera
Jane Eyre
Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me

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 before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

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

@amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jack Frost (1998) x Sweet Home Alabama YULE ALWAYS FIND ME is a holiday paranormal romance with: 🤍second chance romance 💀murd.er 🤍fake dating ❄️frosty magic 👯‍♀️sister bonds 🐶a cute pet sidekick 🎄Christmas festivities 🔼love triangle Would you read it? Art by @mknzgmbn #questpit #wip #P #R #A

Taelyn Gray is querying 🦋@taelyngray.bsky.social · 2w ago

BRIDGERTON x AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER with a magical butterfly twist 🦋 magical butterfly rescue 🤭 hate to love ✨ fake courtship 🤍 #ownvoices scoliosis rep 📰 The Press make or break reputations 🫦 banter starts in CH 1 #questpit #Q#A #F

Pierre Sylvestre @psylvestre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here is a reader's guide to 🚫NO LOVE IN THIS CITY🏙️, a YA thriller featuring the shocking twists of NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE, the action of JOHN WICK, a slow burn romance, and the domestic suspense of THE HOUSEMAID. 😎Coming to the query trenches soon!😎 #Questpit #W #YA #T

Taelyn Gray is querying 🦋@taelyngray.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BRIDGERTON x AGNES ALBERT’S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER with a butterfly twist. 🦋 magical butterflies ✨ hate to like to love 🫅 Victorian era 🤍 scoliosis rep 📰 The Press spread rumors 👊🏻 he defends her honor #QuestPit #WIP #F #RF #A

Chantal Danieli — is editing! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 3mo 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.

Taelyn Gray is querying 🦋@taelyngray.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BRIDGERTON x AGNES ALBERT’S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER with a butterfly twist. 🦋 magical butterflies ✨ hate to like to love 🫅 Victorian era 🤍 scoliosis rep 📰 The Press spread rumors 👊🏻 he defends her honor #QuestPit #WIP #F #RF #A

Demri Redmon @demri18.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Reposting for the evening crowd with info I probably should have added originally. 😂 🔥 Inspired by my own ancestors, THE WITCH OF GATLINBURG is dual POV with German & Appalachian mythology. 🔥 #questpit #Q #S #H

Demri Redmon@demri18.bsky.social · 6mo ago

WEYWARD x THE BEWITCHING When two witches in different eras find themselves battling the same ancient forest spirit, they must use magic to communicate through time and find a way to save their covens from total destruction. #questpit #H #S #Q

6 image moodboard with a rust red background
Top left: monster in a forest
Top right: yt girl with wavy hair & white Tshirt (representing the main FMC)
Middle: a hand with flames, a girl doing a tarot pull
Bottom left: 3 women dancing around a fire pit, forest scenery
The Witch of Gatlinburg | Demri Redmon

Kate Cooper @authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thread of #questpit posts (all two of them😂) bsky.app/profile/auth...

Kate Cooper@authorkatecooper.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Querying now! Agent guide pinned 📌 👩‍💻 workplace romance 😠 enemies to lovers 👫 close proximity 💚 mental health representation #Q #A #R #questpit #writesky #authorsky

Top left: She's afraid to fly. He's afraid to fall. Together they'll face their fears and expose a shocking hitmen-for-hire scheme.

Bottom left: hands holding camera

Right top: woman typing on computer
Right middle: plane wing viewed from inside
Right bottom: hands holding camera

Taelyn Gray is querying 🦋@taelyngray.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NORTHANGER ABBEY x THE SPELLSHOP I lost 2 grandfathers to complications from diabetes, and I wrote a book with a different ending that captures the impossibility of living while losing someone you love. With romance & magical plants. 🪻 And a mystery. 👀 #questpit#Q#A #F

Taelyn Gray is querying 🦋@taelyngray.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NORTHANGER ABBEY x THE SPELLSHOP I lost 2 grandfathers to complications from diabetes, and I wrote a book with a different ending that captures the impossibility of living while losing someone you love. With romance & magical plants. 🪻 And a mystery. 👀 #questpit#Q#A #F

Taelyn Gray is querying 🦋@taelyngray.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BRIDGERTON × THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE 1813, Bath. When an herbalist's father is diagnosed with fatal diabetes, all hope seems to be lost—until she is asked to come to Dicentra Hall and heal the Viscount with plants from his oddly temperamental magical garden. #questpit #Q#A #F

A collage of primarily green pictures including a girl at a ball, hands touching, a glasshouse, and more.