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S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE LOST STORY X THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA ☀️ portal fantasy 🧙‍♂️ a realm of Mages 🏳️‍🌈 queernorm world 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 reincarnated lovers w/no memory of each other ❤️‍🔥 slowburn annoyance-to-lovers dynamic 🫀 chronic pain rep 🍄 a mushroom sidekick 🫣 soul-devouring monsters 🫂 reluctant found family #QuestPit #Q #A #F

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE LOST STORY X THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA A fantasy novel aficionado discovers he’s the reincarnation of a revered Mage from another realm, and must uncover his past life memories to save his newfound home before it’s decimated by a horde of soul-devouring beasts. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 2w ago

A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF

Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Black cat x golden retriever
Yearning
Bisexual awakening
Second chance romance
Forced proximity
Only one bed
Opposites attract
Gothic decadence
Big spooky house
Exploration of grief
Horror as a metaphor
Dreams-based magic
The occult
Alternate London setting
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

It was a poet’s job to seek out beauty, to be mesmerised by it. Darshil wanted to transform Rowan into swirls of ink, to fit his hands into the slight dips where Rowan’s waist met his hips and write him a thousand times over.

The only thing more fascinating than death was the tormented living it left behind.
It helped to hate him. It was less painful than loving him.
The dead thing woke to the acrid stench of its own rot.
Rowan matched him tenderness for tenderness, giving everything he could and knowing that for once, his everything was enough.
Perhaps closing his eyes stopped it meaning anything. Darshil knew he should do the same. This was shame beyond anything else, a secret to take to the unloving grave.
He kept his eyes open anyway. With Rowan beneath him, as beautiful as the dawn, he couldn’t bear to look away.

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."

THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.

An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

EXCERPT STARTS BELOW

“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.

A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.

Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 2w ago

A “Princess & the Pea” Retelling for adults who grew up on Shannon Hale & Gail Carson Levine and still comfort-binge THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 💚 Neurodivergent FMC 🌱 Plant-based magic 🇸🇪 Swedish folklore 📜 1790s Scandinavia 📖 Standalone Querying late 2026 #questpit #W #A #F #RF #HF

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨An Agent's Guide to THE DAWNBREAKER✨ ☀️ portal fantasy 🧙‍♂️ a realm of Mages 🏳️‍🌈 queernorm world 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 reincarnated lovers with no memory of each other ❤️‍🔥 slowburn annoyance-to-lovers dynamic 🫀 chronic pain rep 🍄 a mushroom sidekick 🫣 soul-devouring monsters 🫂 reluctant found family #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 2w ago

COVENANT A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL 💜 second chance romance 🛏 there's only one bed 🖤 opposites attract 🌑 gothic decadence 👻 big spooky house ✨️ dreamwalking magic 🏳️‍🌈 bisexual awakening 🥀 horror as a metaphor 🔮 alternate London setting 🕯Victorian occult #questpit #Q #RF #A #amquerying

After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Mood board shows a spooky mirror, a foggy Victorian street at night, two men embracing, a ballroom filled with dancing pairs, a misty graveyard, and a spooky house interior with covered furniture.

Rowan:
Sarcastic and self-destructive hedonist
Secret softie
Dark past
Fiercely loyal
A massive flirt
Not as cool as he pretends to be
Can walk through and alter people’s dreams
Darshil:
Hopeless romantic
Aspiring poet
Definitely Straight (don’t read all his poems about Rowan)
Complex relationship with his father
Maximum yearning
Chronic people pleaser
Repressed gentleman
Art shows a thin white person with short black hair, blue eyes, and an unimpressed expression, and a plus-sized South Asian man with chin-length curly black hair, brown eyes, short facial hair, and a soft smile.

Bernadette:
Optimistic
Terrible at keeping secrets
Encyclopedic knowledge of the occult
Can see ghosts
A great listener
Very lonely
Lives in a graveyard for the vibes
Cordelia:

Snooty and mean
Regina George energy
Fashionista
Knows everyone’s secrets
The favourite child
Fiercely protective
Can rot things with her touch
Art shows a thin Black woman with long curly black hair, black eyes, and a warm smile, and a plus-sized white woman with blond hair in an elaborate bun, green eyes, and a pink feather fan that hides the lower half of her face.

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · last mo.

lily is querying!📖🎭🎀@lilyshadbolt.bsky.social · last mo.

ABOVE THE SEA AND SKY; GODKILLER x THE GRISHAVERSE x PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 🏴‍☠️ lesbian pirates; ❤️ slow burn; 🔥 elemental magic; 🫂 found (and lost) family; 👩🏻 female focused and character driven; “No place for mortals. So, I said, ‘I will no longer be mortal.’” #QueerPit #EF #F #A #AmQuerying

Molly Haniszewski @mollyhaniszewski.bsky.social · last mo.

THE PRIORY OF THE 🍊TREE X THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA The eldest of the 12 Dancing Princesses (also a lady knight) and the princess from The Wild Swans must use each other to break the curses in their families. Let’s just hope the Fae don’t get involved 🤞🏻 #queerpit #a #f

White text on a background of misty mountains, reads A Curse Conjured by Molly Haniszewski, an agent’s guide

J. Alexander Cohen | Fantasy novelist @jalexandercohen.com · last mo.

LEGENDS & LATTES x PALADIN'S GRACE Garris is a hero planting enchanted flowers, bringing magic to the people. Stranded in the village of Eventide, his lover Eran finds a path to heroism: returning literacy to a fallen world. THE LIBRARY AT EVENTIDE #queerpit #FR #A Full req by Berkley (Open Subs)

Moodboard. Upper-left: close-up of two men kissing. Upper-middle: pot over a fire. Upper-right: a map, magnifying glass, compass and coins. Lower-left: purple flowers. Lower middle: Ancient scrolls. Right: Sunlit trees and grass. Lower right: cat on a tree branch against a full moon.

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QueerPit #A #F #R #RF

Between Fractures of Light - Adult Romantic Portal Fantasy

$PITCH The desolate world from Augusta’s dreams starts to blur into a chilling reality when a specter of swirling mist and shadows begins haunting her and kidnaps her childhood best friend, Theo. When the encroaching shadows come for her next, Augusta is rescued by an impossibly familiar stranger with eyes of fire, and together they journey into a world consumed by Darkness, an entity that feeds on despair and rot. There, the shadows hold Theo—and the world—captive. As she begins to fall for the man guiding her through the starless land, the line between the two realities starts to fracture. Augusta must face who she truly is and the choice carved into fate long ago: sacrifice the world she’s only just come to understand (along with her best friend) or the love she’s finally found. Before the Darkness consumes them both.$

SNIPPET

She blinked, and the figure was gone. Or maybe she was just seeing things again.

“Theo—” she started, but he wasn’t beside her anymore. “Theo?”

The movement returned. It grew into the shape of a person and then into something beyond. Long fingers, crooked spine, head warped. Panic rose in her throat.

Smell. Sound. Taste. Touch. Sight. Think, Augusta. Think. It’s not real.

What can you smell? Popcorn. What can you hear? The laughter of children, Christmas music. What can you taste? The cider in hand. What can you touch? The scarf around my neck. What can you see? The shadow in the shape of a person.

Augusta froze.

It hadn’t gone away. Instead, it only grew larger, more ominous. It rose in the night till it towered over the tents, the moon behind it blocked out by its mass.

A glimpse of tangled blond curls appeared in her periphery, light against the growing darkness. A hanging light exploded with a pop but no one reacted. Unease clawed at her insides.

“THEO!”

Theo turned, mouth agape. His green eyes met hers, and he pushed forward, towards her, his rainbow scarf flapping in the wind behind him.

Long black claws wrapped around his middle and yanked him back into the shadows.

COMPS

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Piranesi
The Starless Sea
Starling House
Howl's Moving Castle

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · last mo.

👻🌑COVENANT🔮🕯 ✨️gothic gaslamp romantasy✨️ 💜 second chance romance 🖤 opposites attract 🌑 gothic decadence 👻 big spooky house 🏳️‍🌈 bi awakening 💙 achillean main romance 🧡 sapphic side romance 🏳️‍⚧️ trans and plus-sized rep 🥀 horror as a metaphor for grief 🔮 Victorian setting 🕯 occult magic #QueerPit #FR #A

T.R. Steele 🍂@authortrsteele.bsky.social · last mo.

⚔️✨THE UNICORN'S BANE ✨⚔️ a cli-fi fantasy novella SPEAR x TLoZ: TWILIGHT PRINCESS A troubled young transgender knight looking to prove himself is sent to a small town to hunt and kill a unicorn laying waste to the ecologically important dragon population. #F #CLI #N #QueerPit

Image collage of a green, mossy forest, a hand with light streaming through the fingers, an illustration of a 15th century sword hilt and armoured hand, and a detailed illustration of a knight in a forest with a black horse and a unicorn in the distance. The illustration is bordered by green dragons and acorns.

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · last mo.

THE LOST STORY X DARK RISE A fantasy novel aficionado discovers he’s the reincarnation of a revered Mage from another realm, and must uncover his past life memories to save his newfound home before it’s decimated by a horde of soul-devouring beasts. #queerpit #a #f

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · last mo.

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · last mo.

🏳️‍🌈👻🌑COVENANT🔮✨️🕯 When a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter ex-lovers who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #QueerPit #FR #A

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · last mo.

#PrideBookFair M/M fantasy recs -The Spear Cuts Through Water: two warriors try to save a God -When the Tides Held the Moon: 1910s NYC, merman/human -Sorcery and Small Magics: mages & accidental magical bonding -Hazelthorn (YA): a gothic botanical horror story with an enemies-to-lovers dynamic

S.K. 📚 🐭@thebookmouse.bsky.social · last mo.

#PrideBookFair WLW fantasy recs -The Isle in the Silver Sea: knight/witch caught in a doomed reincarnation cycle (side m/m pair) -Bitterthorn: gothic Beauty and Beast vibes -As Many Souls As Stars: a witch is stuck in a Faustian bargain with a demon -A Treachery of Swans (YA): Swan Lake retelling