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Tracey

@tajosephwrites.bsky.social

Writer of young adult fantasy https://www.instagram.com/ta_josephwrites?igsh=OTVkZ2J1d216c2Mz

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Writing Day Workshops @writingdaywksp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Human nature means never reaching perfection. Imperfect beings create biased perfections, which is never something we can control as writers. So give up perfection. Go for something good…and then it can be great. ❤️ #writing #writingcommunity #author #writersofinstagram #writer

Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · 5mo 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

J.J. Phillips | #SCBWI #KidLit @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEVERMOOR X CITY SPIES ➥Magic+Spycraft Hunted for his meteorite wand, 12yo Catcher Kline must master spell-hacked spycraft to find his missing parents and stop the Acolytes from weaponizing the star metal minerals that power all magic.  #QuestPit #MG #F #Querying Art @giaphoc.bsky.social

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CORPSE BRIDE × 50 FIRST DATES × WARM BODIES A bored immortal mortician resurrects the woman of his dreams—again and again. But love becomes obsession, and she's decaying faster than he can let go. #QuestPit #A #H #R #W

This vertical poster for "The Immortician" features a black-and-white high-contrast composition with gold-toned typography.
Top: The title "The Immortician" is written in a serif font with gold gradients, framed by a black ornamental archway.
Center: A black silhouette of a long-haired figure in a gown stands against a white background. Parts of the silhouette, specifically the head and arms, appear to be disintegrating into small particles.
Middle: Three words—"Love.", "Obsession.", and "Decay."—are spaced horizontally across the center in a black serif font.
bottom: A Novel by B. Van Bodegom

Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · 5mo ago

~EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAIRIES meets SPIRITED AWAY~ 🌿 Sarcastic botanist 🥀 Broody yokai When Clove gives her name to a Japanese deity, she’s pulled into his deadly, mythic world. #Q #YA #Mythology #questpit

Rhiannon Purchon @rhiannonpurchon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 108k NA Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ OUABH X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance ✔️ Cosy Romance + Deadly Stakes #Q #NA #A #RF #F #R #QuestPit

Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ARCANE x THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA A dying mage and his partner create a magic system that doesn't kill its wielder. But their love becomes tragedy, spreading a Blight centuries later. Their souls reborn, they must unravel what doomed them, or see the world consumed. #Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #Q

Digital art. Greenhouse scenery with a table with magestones on top. A man with long brown hair and light brown skin sits against the table. He wears floor length purple robes draped across one shoulder, revealing his magestone. He is reading a notebook. Ash stands beside him with an arm wrapped around him. He is a broader man, carrying several books within his free arm. He wears a green tunic and brown pants and boots, and has a lighter skin with black hair and a beard.

James Gettys II @jgettys7.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BLOOD AT THE ROOT x RAYBEARER 🔮Magical Black Boy MC 🥶Antarctica setting 💔Complex Parent-Child Relationship 🧊Icicles as wands 🐧Penguins! #Q #YA #F #Questpit #BVM

BLOOD IN THE SNOW
YA FANTASY

Sixteen -year-old daredevil Winton is positive nothing will surprise him more than his overprotective and cold-phobic mom bringing him to Antarctica — until he discovers she’s the sole escapee from its
hidden magical world and only had him to liberate all who desire to explore the other continents.

Unfortunately, they can only be free if Winton dies.

And that ain’t happening, especially because he’ll never get to tell his crush how he feels, but if he isn’t sacrificed his mom will be. And since he can’t throw away all those years of love, he must traverse an icy world full of wonder and danger to find an impossible alternate solution without being captured and before time runs out, or one of them will freeze to death.

*Includes:
-Occasionally Unserious Protagonist
-Sweeping Action Packed Adventure
-Unique Worldbuilding
-Found Family
-Complex Parent Child Relationship
-All Black Cast
-Difficult Choices

Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 5mo 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.

Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My book is coming out in three days

Writing Day Workshops @writingdaywksp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Are you writing YA Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or Horror? Agent Keir Alekseii is judging a new FREE contest for writers. Ends on April 20, 2026. Winner gets an agent critique! Enter here: tinyurl.com/wdwcontest10 #literaryagent #writer #youngadult #author #writingcommunity

Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

tinyurl.com/wdwcon10 @writingdaywksp.bsky.social

First Page Contest #10: Young Adult Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror -- Judged by Agent Keir Alekseii of Azantian Literary

FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to a First Page Contest . Contest #10 is for writers of Young Adult Fiction in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative . If you write in...

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#DVpit is returning in 2026 on Bluesky! A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities to pitch their unagented projects to agents and editors! #DVpit will be on Bluesky on Wednesday, September 30, 2026! go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info and stay tuned for more announcements!

#DVPit 2026 a bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities
Wednesday, September 30th 2026 on bluesky
follow us for more: @dvpit.bsky.social
or go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

WHEN DEVILS SING X FEAR STREET "Four pieces reunited by sinner's hand may finally break the Curse." Looks like Chava Rose is sinning. 💞 Women's autonomy ✡️ Jewish mythology ❤️‍🩹 Star-crossed lovers who never give up 🌈 Diverse ensemble ⚖️ Strong themes of equality #YA #H #Q #OWN #Jewish #questpit

A title card with the text "An Agent's Guide to FROM ONE MIFLETZET TO ANOTHER - Katie Collan - young adult horror 95,000 words" over the outside of a synagogue.

Comparative titles with arrows pointing to relevant descriptions. Titles include: HOW TO SURVIVE A SLASHER by Justine Pucella Winans, WHEN DEVILS SING by Xan Kaur, Netflix's FEAR STREET 1994.

Captions:

HOW TO SURVIVE A SLASHER: "Ride-or-die female friendship", "Scream-esque meta humor"

WHEN DEVILS SING: "Deal with the devil"

WHEN DEVILS SING, FEAR STREET: "Small town curse"

FEAR STREET: "Star-crossed lovers", "Women's autonomy"

All three: "Diverse ensemble cast", "Themes of equality", "Exploration of identity"

Pitch: "When a Jewish girl accidentally reawakens an ancient curse over her town, she must fight through mythological nightmares and break the curse before she's torn apart like the demon who started it all."

A mood board featuring a collage of seventeen pictures, with the title "FROM ONE MIFLETZET TO ANOTHER" in the center and the sentence "FOUR PIECES REUNITED BY SINNER'S HAND MAY FINALLY BREAK THE CURSE" overlaying the collage in fragments. From left to right, top to bottom: the Jewish star hanging from a tree branch; a hatchet lying beside a digital camera; a red snake; a hand holding a lighter; a menorah perched beside Hebrew scripture; a Torah scroll; a depiction of Lilith, the mother of demons; a depiction of a powerful demon's silhouette; the entrance to a synagogue; an oak tree in the middle of a grassy field; a Torah scroll; a shadow-covered skull; the wall of a synagogue; a fire-breathing serpent rising above the sea; a luscious, green forest; thick roots of an old tree; a forest that leads into darkness.

Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Trapped in the woodlands, Ivy's only hope of going home is to escape the faerie who enchants her into loving him, blinding her to what he is--monstrous. #Questpit #YA #SFF

A cabin on a cliff. A dead butterfly or moth. A wooden sign. A collection of insects/bugs. A girl with curly hair. A bedroom. A girl holding a baby deer. A collection of letters. Two girls sitting on a bed.

@attackoftherach.bsky.social · 8mo ago

💯 fumbling through this as a newb: THROUGH THE PINES 🎨 foster kid whose drawings open portals 🏫 island boarding school hiding secrets 💫 quantum physics equals magic 🏰 visions of a boy in another world 🌉 one girl connecting two universes 🍰 layered mystery #Q #YA #F #writingcommunity #questpit

Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm obsessed with the show Animal Control. I highly recommend it if you like shows like Parks and Recreation. It's nice to have found another show to rewatch over and over again. 😄🩷

Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Practical Magic x The Honey Witch Two sisters develop the ability to sense love and are able to determine a person’s true love… for everyone except themselves ✨ With Big 5 Editor interest #QuestPit #Q #A #YA #F #R

Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 8mo ago

THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an adult gothic romance with: 🕯️Forbidden Romance 🕯️High Society matchmaking 🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening 🕯️Obsessive yearning 🕯️European setting 🕯️Secret lake meetings #W #A #R #questpit

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 8mo ago

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

T. L. Coughlin is ✨AGENTED✨@tlcoughlin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

TANGLED X PRINCESS BRIDE X STARDUST 💘 He fell first (literally), she fell harder ☀️Golden Retriever MMC meets 🌑Black Cat FMC 🐦‍🔥🐉 Mythological creatures ft. Chinese/Italian beasts 🗡️ Impossible quests ✨Intertwined curses & a trickster slug #questpit #NA #YA #F #AG

Quote from T. L. Coughlin agented work: I have 2,925 days left of my curse and I’m not going to let one fool of a knight ruin my chances. A black and white image of a girl with long hair looking down at a sliced off marble head of a man with a bloodred “tear”. Behind them is a collage. A girl sunken in water with a white dress flowing. A pearl with fire swirling around it. A boy, up in a tree, laying on a branch. A hilt of a jeweled sword, a stone bridge across a small river in a forest. A curled, pink, rosebud. A stone carving of a qilin. An open book laying upon leaves. A vial of liquid in an enchanted forest.

Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Updated #agentsguide following #questpit 'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪 #litagents #amquerying

Turquoise background. Open book image in bottom left with Bookclub 82k. A beautiful young woman in a gold picture frame, spelled with age

A beautiful young woman tossing long dark hair over her shoulder. Eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint on the blue grey background

Four book covers. Blue Sisters, drawing of a young woman's sad face, The Push, two women facing away from each other, silhouette, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a young man's face, half of it aged, Hello Beautiful, a young woman's smiling face. A series of images: spooky trees, a dilapidated pier, a woman on a cat walk, a woman having her face injected,a pale hand reaching for a devil's hand.

Turquoise background, splashes if gold, three boxes of text.

Tomi Oyedeji Olaniyan @tominzay.bsky.social · 8mo ago

BENEATH THE WHISPERING COVE is a gothic coastal fantasy about a young woman’s quest to uncover a missing book of folktales and secure her research funding. The misty water-logged mystery of A STUDY IN DROWNING with the folkloric richness of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE #questpit #YA #F

A collage of ocean, coastal academic images with droplets of fantasy and mystery.

Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

An underprivileged girl must overcome long-held biases to prove herself as a Lily Maid, perfume magic ambassadors, but her predecessor’s death threatens all that she desires, and she fails to outdo the former Lily’s loveliness. #Questpit #Q #YA #SFF 🧴Perfume magic 🏠 Sentient house 💃Masquerade ball

Crystal Lorons @crystallorons.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Evan doubts Blackbeard’s history of pirating Georgetown, SC, but he becomes a believer when he's chosen for battle & sinks in sand Evan learns pirates never left SC in EVAN & THE PIRATES OF SHELL ISLAND Now Evan must defeat Blackbeard’s ghost or risk becoming a ghost himself #QuestPit #MG #S #W

Rowan @rowankozlow.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A cursed prince must find and kill the fallen star that foretold his doom before night falls on his twentieth birthday. #QuestPit #W #DF #DR 💫 cis human x nonbinary fallen star ⚔️ enemies to lovers ☄️ prophecies, curses, quests ⚙️ clockpunk-inspired ✨ devoted bodyguard / unrequited love

A grid of nine images on a dark grey/black background.
1. young man in a high collared shirt holding flowers
2. pair of hands with luminescent paint on them
3. sword and crown in front of a stone wall
4. close up of a cloudy eye
5. hand with rings on the fingers
6. brass celestial sphere in front of a blue wall with stars
7. two fingers pressing against a map
8. pale legs and a white dress
9. white text on a black background; if I cannot bend heaven I will raise hell

Kelly Young @kyoungwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A young pianist travels through purgatory-in-the-clouds to save her sick sister’s life 🧡 YA fantasy standalone 💌 grumpy x sunshine 🌌 dual-POV ⏳ gods based on human psyche 🌠 sister-story 💫 whimsy island in the sky 📖 identity & self-acceptance #questpit #YA #RF #F #AG #OS

Kayla Herrera @kaylaherrera.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF In a kingdom obsessed with vanity magic, 16yo Princess Zella longs to escape her woodgrain scars and iron joints. With only weeks before the curse turns her to petrified wood, a wish on a rare Starlune moth may be her last hope—but it could also cost her the boy she loves.

Tracey @tajosephwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hello friends! Is anyone looking for a beta reader, preferably for a young adult manuscript? I'm willing to do a swap. I write YA fantasy, and could really use some fresh eyes on my manuscript. Please, let me know. #writingcommunity #amwriting #yawritingcommunity #yawriter