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paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introducing 🍃A RAVEN SONG 🍃 For eldest daughters and platonic soulmates. ⛩️portal fantasy 💫star crossed friendships 🍂nostalgia will kill her ❤️‍🔥touch her and you die, but they're best friends 🗡️reckless bargains and a tattooed elven soldier Querying today!! #QuestPit #Q #A #F

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For my last #QuestPit post of the day, a moment for the romance in A RAVEN SONG: 🗡️A disgraced queen and the tattooed elven soldier who strikes a bargain she can’t refuse. ❤️‍🔥A shipwright’s daughter and a rebel heiress she should keep her heart, and her veins, away from. #Q #A #F

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For my last #QuestPit post of the day, a moment for the romance in A RAVEN SONG: 🗡️A disgraced queen and the tattooed elven soldier who strikes a bargain she can’t refuse. ❤️‍🔥A shipwright’s daughter and a rebel heiress she should keep her heart, and her veins, away from. #Q #A #F

Autumn Hooper Querying Author @authorautumnhooper.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Enchanted x Pan's Labyrinth 🔮 emotion-driven powers 💖 characters with depth 🎀 softness is her greatest strength ✨ light found in dark places 💋 slow-burn #Q #A #F

Dawn of the Cicada book cover idea with a woman in shadow in a dark forest lit by fireflies with the shadow of a monster lurking behind her.

Jordan C. Shelton @jordancshelton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the vibes of my TANGLED X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER epic fantasy, featuring: ❤️‍🔥 a demigod princess without the magic of her ancestors ⚔️ a mortal captain with a score to settle ✨ the deal that’s the key to both her freedom and his revenge 🥀 the dark magic that’s hunting them both #questpit #A #F

Collage of images: A golden chandelier, a guard and a princess holding hands, couples dancing in a ballroom, a woman in a gown holding a goblet, a crown upon a throne, stained glass windows, and a sword peeking through the skirts of a gown.

Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DEADNAME With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind #QuestPit #AG #YA #H

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If The Great Divide by Noah Kahan recently left a massive hole in your chest the shape of your childhood best friend you haven’t spoken to in years, this one’s for you #QuestPit #Q #A #F

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If The Great Divide by Noah Kahan recently left a massive hole in your chest the shape of your childhood best friend you haven’t spoken to in years, this one’s for you #QuestPit #Q #A #F

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In a long lost elven kingdom, a disgraced queen must rescue a shipwright’s clever daughter she once betrayed if she hopes to solve the disappearance of a childhood friend and salvage the remnants of her legacy. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In a long lost elven kingdom, a disgraced queen must rescue a shipwright’s clever daughter she once betrayed if she hopes to solve the disappearance of a childhood friend and salvage the remnants of her legacy. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HEATED RIVALRY X STAR SHIPPED 🎪 After Vincent’s acro partner is banned from their theater, he must create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. 🤸 #amquerying #questpit #Q #R

Cover with acrobats titled “Bend Over Backwards”

Pitch - after vincent’s acro partner is banned from their vegas-themed circus show, he’s forced to create an entirely new act with his biggest rival or face unemployment. cole’s flashy hand-to-hand stunts and throws are fine for television, but his aggressive style clashes with vincent’s controlled contortion and fear of falling. vincent plans to escape by auditioning for his dream circus company, but the closer he gets to cole, the more reason he has to stay.

List of tropes including rivals to lovers, found family, and only one bed

List of comp titles including Heated Rivalry and Star Shipped

Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DEADNAME: a trans teen is stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they never wanted. #QuestPit #AG #YA #H

Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀folklore horror 🥀snarky ghost hunters 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater 🥀dysfunctional family dynamics #questpit #WIP #YA #S #H

A moodboard containing 12 images, including painted flowers, candles, old photographs, and a bird.

Danielle Ippaso is📝Querying📝@danielleippaso.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC MEXICAN GOTHIC x STARLING HOUSE Dark Southern Gothic w/ Horror elements. 🕯️An orphan seeking security ⌛An immortal man bound by a curse 📰A marriage notice that is a trap Nellie must choose: her heart or her survival #QuestPit #Q #A #HR #H #DR

A dark teal and black patterned card for THE UNYIELDING MONSIEUR DE BLANC. The background has vintage deep shades of pink and purple roses on the top of the frame. Centered is a small hourglass made with bones and a skull symbolizing the immortal + horror elements of the story. There is a note on there that the story is 70,000 words and a Dark Southern Gothic with Horror Elements.

A pitch slide with a deep teal background and black magnolia patterns. A skull with purple and pink roses and more deep pink and purple roses act as decorations. The pitch reads: "The Unyielding Monsieur de Blanc follows Nellie Moore in 1872, lured to a New Orleans estate by a marriage notice promising security. There, she encounters a man as captivating as he is complex, a man bound by a curse that has kept him alive for over a century.
As an impossible attraction sparks, Nellie’s search for the truth reveals that some secrets are meant to stay buried, and some doors, once opened, can never be closed again."

Two book covers adorn the card with deep teal and black magnolia patterns, pink and purple roses framing the bottom.
MEXICAN GOTHIC - The atmostpheric dread and family legacy.
STARLING HOUSE - A cursed, burdened hero

Teal and black magnolia patterns in the background along with a pink and purple rose decoration in the top right corner. Other images include, a candlestick with a burning flame, a pocket watch, a burned newspaper with a woman dressed in 19th century attire. The card includes a snippet of the book as below:

Nellie cleared her throat, and he turned slowly. His broad shoulders squared as he measured her with gray, unflinching eyes.

“I do not care for shadows in my doorway. Step forward.”

Nellie could not speak for a moment. Such a man naturally commanded her. He seemed powerful, severe, and entirely too confident. “I—I beg your pardon, sir,” she stuttered, her voice small in the vast room. “I am Nellie Moore.”

A brief unreadable softness touched his features before he stiffened, his expression once again a mask of stone. “I am Monsieur de Blanc, or Mr. De Blanc, as you Americans prefer.”

His thick French accent was like bourbon; it was smooth, but with a burn that unsettled her. Nellie stared, stunned. This was him, the man she was to marry. She had expected someone older, not this gentleman in his late twenties with a face so...strikingly symmetrical.

“Do find your breath, Mademoiselle. I have enough to manage today without adding a fainting spell to the afternoon’s agenda. I’ve never had much patience for delicate women.”

The insult was a splash of frigid water, bringing her back to herself. The orphan inside of her who spent her days scrubbing floors and managing unruly children suddenly bubbled to the surface. She adjusted the lace on her shoulders and met his gaze with a leveled stare that mirrored his own coldness.

“You needn’t worry, sir,” she said, her voice surprisingly crisp. “I am merely trying to reconcile the man in front of me with the one I was promised in the letters.”

A flicker of mild interest passed over his face. “Is that so?” he murmured, arms folded tightly. “Fortune favors you, then. I am not the man from your letters.”

Ayishah Hasni is ✨AGENTED✨@ayishahhasni.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✅Find a magical, moving island ✅Give a princess private lessons in piracy ✅Rescue her fiance ✅Avoid being eaten by monsters on the Indian Ocean ❌Fall in love ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES is a retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor if it were YA & enemies to lovers #questpit #Q

Kiraal character aesthetic with whales, pirate flags, pirate ships, treasure chests, telescopes, and maps.

Princess Jiya aesthetic with an island, mermaids, ships, an Indian palace, horses, and peacocks.

Rebecca I.O @rebeccaio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When extinction is imminent, Astrid wins the gods' favor by performing an immoral ritual to save their empire. But when magic fights back, she must decide whether to become their weapon, or defy the gods who soon reveal they will stop at nothing to survive. #Q #A #RF #QuestPit

Background with dark green vines. Text in white in the middle: “An agents guide to Wilted Fate, adult fantasy with romance, 108.000 words”

Background with dark green vines. Header: The Pitch, followed by two pictures. The first one of several women with white large bonnets and red capes, taken from the series The Handmaid’s Tale, and next to it is a picture of the myth The Wild Hunt from Norse mythology. On top of both pictures is text: The Handmaid’s Tale meets Norse mythology. Below is the pitch

Background with dark green vines. Header: First page. “There was no doubt in my mind that if the force of fate was real, it was female.A male could never have this sense of humor.I would’ve laughed, at least, at my hesitation to mount the tense mare before me. I’d lost count of how many times I had lifted my knee, only to straighten it out again. But only fate was to blame for putting me in this position, no matter how much I tried to avoid the inevitable. “Just put your foot in the stirrup,” Natha coaxed. Sure. Only, it wasn’t just ‘just’ putting my foot in the stirrup. I glared at the iron, then up at the seat of the saddle, and back to Natha, who impatiently shifted on her feet. My fingers tightened around the stirrup leather, my other hand flexing on the pommel. “Want to switch places?” “Gods, no.” She pulled on Bejla’s reins to keep her still. I followed the mare’s movements, keeping my position close to her side. “But you’re running out of time.” I cast a glance at the stable and Arkyn’s office window. Gods help me if he was watching. I inhaled deeply, trying but failing to keep my limbs relaxed and hopefully transferring it to Bejla. I grew some grass in my hand with my powers and held it out to her muzzle. As always, she saw right through my bullshit. She clamped her large lips around the blades, hastily chewed, and went back to raising her tense neck.

Background with dark green vines. Header: Comparative titles: Gild, Servant of Earth, A fate inked in blood, Jasad Heir

brittney is querying🔮✨@brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever 🐾🌿 #QuestPit #A #R #Q

Agent's Guide cover page for GOOD BOYS ONLY, an 89,000-word adult plus-size rom-com. Green background with Sydney & Owen (the main character's names) alternating. Stock images of a plus-sized girl and a tattooed man. Polaroids of tattooed hand holding, a Red Wings hockey game, and a Corgi + Golden Retriever.

GOOD BOYS ONLY pitch: After her boyfriend of six years moves out, retail manager Sydney Bennett is barely hanging on—juggling long shifts and a side hustle dog-sitting to tide her over. When she meets Owen Sutton in the personal care aisle after a rant about two “demonic Pomeranians,” he’s instantly charmed—and in need of a sitter for his own, much better-behaved dogs.

What starts as a business arrangement turns into something gentler and deeper: a slow-burning romance between two people still healing from betrayal. But as Sydney grapples with falling for the man keeping her financially afloat and the past comes back to haunt Owen, they’ll have to decide if the safety they’ve found in each other is worth risking their hearts for. On a split green background of sage green and light green. Two stock images of a tattooed man and a plus-sized woman. Paw print & sage leaf sprig emojis.

First page and comps from GOOD BOYS ONLY. Comp titles include Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings, You, With a View by Jessica Joyce, The Re-Do List by Denise Williams, Young & Hungry TV show. Sample text: Much like my life, my apartment is going up in smoke.
I choke on the black cloud billowing from the oven. My gourmet dino nuggets have turned to fossils. “Oh, fuck me,” I groan.
Lava-like heat bites through my oven mitt, and I drop the sheet pan on the stovetop. Shrill barks echo in tandem with the smoke alarm that’s now going off, piercing my ears like it’s in surround sound, live from Hell. Lovely.
“Piper, Phoebe, get back! I’m trying to save you.” I shoo the orange Pomeranians away from the radiating heat. Dog sitting was supposed to be an easy way to get out of this shithole apartment, not burn it down. Even if I dream about lighting it up most days.
But the aggressive “Past Due” rent letter taped to my door this morning is on the counter, taunting me, like some sick adult version of a haunted house. “Thanks, Devin,” I spit into the ether, as if he can hear me from Chicago. And a big thanks to me, too, for treating my credit cards like Monopoly money.
Flicking on the exhaust fan to clear my galley kitchen, I take a misguided deep breath, and the cremated dinosaurs send me into another coughing fit. In a fight for my life, I snag my Getting Figgy With It towel off of the oven door and wave it pathetically below the alarm.
After a couple of minutes and more pathetic towel waving, the fog clears and the chirping stops. But the dogs are still barking. Though, to be fair, I don’t think they’ve stopped barking all weekend.
While fishing out the scraps of remaining treats from the girls’ travel bag, they hit my calves like starving, vicious dust bunnies. I blew through their supply in an attempt to Pavlov them into loving me. All it did was condition them to misbehave and still demand treats. [sample continues]

Tropes & The Couple. Book tropes: black cat x golden retriever, strangers to lovers, she's his dog sitter, confident plus-sized FMC, facetimes & texts, found family, he falls first (his dogs fall harder), set in Michigan, starting over at 30, when the spice hits... Stock images of the main characters: Sydney Sage Bennett (plus-sized woman) and Owen James Sutton (tattooed man). Sydney's info: 30, Aquarius, Retail Ops Manager, Empathetic. Competitive. Amazing cook. Loves hockey. Sarcasm as a shield. Pilates girlie. Brunch is her love language. Poor spending habits. Younger sister. Sworn off relationships to focus on herself. Owen's info: 31, Cancer, National Events Manager. Patient and loyal. Flirty. Loves hockey. Bottles everything up. Former company co-founder. Amazing dog dad. Acts of service. Takes care of his elderly neighbor. Older brother. Prone to emotional spill-overs.

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

Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two sisters discover their family legacy of magic & develop the ability to sense love, which complicates their own love lives in return✨ With Big 5 Editor interest 💕 #QuestPit #Q #A #YA #F #R

Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

MATRIX x DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST Father Matthias meets a liminal spirit in his parish. And fails to find them evil. Instead, Ruin comes with plums, honey, a pulse, and a name he’s never known: Mattie. Does the God he serve have mercy for all he becomes? #QuestPit #W #A #HF #HR #R #LGBT #S

Image: background is parchment paper with shadow of leaves, borders are sketched maple leaves. A plum is in the corner but filled as stained glass. A golden cross replaces the “t” in the word “Fruit”.

Text: Agents Guide to Fruit of Ruin. He who opens wide his lips. Literary historical romance / speculative. 65k words / querying July 2026. Queer. Open-door. Shapeshifting LI. @frankiejoywrites

Image: background is parchment paper with shadow of leaves, borders are sketched maple leaves. In the top right corner is a sketch of a coiled snake.

Book covers: three book covers are at the bottom of the page.

Text: THE PITCH. Father Matthias, an 18th century Bavarian priest, has served six months at St. Florian’s parish. He speaks Mass, prays the Divine Office, and swings a scythe for the wheat harvest. Then a being called Ruin appears beside a stream. They come with plums, a pulse, and a name he’s never known: Mattie.

Over a summer, Matthias falls into a love his theology says should destroy him. It doesn’t. Each day he rises again, un-smote, with a faith expanded beyond the Church’s borders. He blesses with tenderness, teaches his acolyte to throw a punch, and finally grieves his mother with Ruin holding him up. Yet Ruin’s gifts come at a cost, a system of balance with debts known too late to change. When the bishop visits for the exaltation of the cross, Matthias must decide if the God he serves has mercy for all he’s become—carnal, sold under sin.

LAUREN GROFF
MATRIX
sensual reimagining of religious devotion

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
CLAIRE KEEGAN
moral crisis and
institutionalized silence

THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST
GEORGES BERNANO
deep interior of a rural priest

Image: background is parchment paper with shadow of leaves, borders are sketched maple leaves. Top right corner is a sketch of a bird on a branch. Eight photos are on the page below text and will be described after the text.

Text: THE CHARACTERS
Father Matthias. Forty years of age, born in the year of the Lord 1709. Priest came second, first he was a farmer's son.
Photos: missal on a stand, wheat, chicken, church doors with cross.

Ruin. Twilight and dawn-the in-betweens of life. Both, and. Neither, nor. Scented of honeysuckle and partial to plums and breezes.
Photos: plums on a branch, someone’s eye that is brown/gold, honeysuckle flower, purple twilight sky.

Text at the bottom: To Thee to you. To Ruin, I've longed. Flesh and heart and lips and mind, taste of honey, grace and sin. I commend my spirit- and fall to what lies beneath it.

Image: background is parchment paper with shadow of leaves, borders are sketched maple leaves.

Text dominates the image.

EXCERPT
God created a world of balance. To each their opposite. Yet, I do not know what opposes you." It was this that nagged him most. Not how Ruin came to be, nor what they fully were, but how they fit in the Lord's careful line of creation. For man, there was women. The night, its day. Fish below, and birds above.

Ruin bent at the waist to peek from the foliage, searching the sky. Elbowing his side, they encouraged him to do the same. He obeyed, but with a grumble. He had to duck far lower than they.

Ruin pointed. "Look, Mattie, do you see it there?"

Thin puffs of clouds, a bird —he squinted—sun. "I do not-"

"The moon —there, held beside the sun."

And it was. As it was on other days and at other times, like a white shadow against the blue sky. He straightened them both, sighing as he rested again. “Both can exist at once: sun and moon. They still oppose.”

Ruin huffed and pinched his arm. He grunted as they pushed off his chest, springing upward. A wide smile crinkled their eyes. "At what time do you speak Vespers?"

"Twilight. Always."

"Yes!" They tapped their collarbone. "That's me, Mattie."

He pulled them back against him. "Twilight has an opposite-dawn."

Another pinch. "I'm that, too, Mattie. Twilight and dawn. The thresholds. Neither day, nor night."

"Nor less than angels."

Ruin pressed their lips to his palm. "No, neither that."

Neither, nor. Both, and. The dayspring and the twilight. The in-betweens of his life. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
Surely that had considered it all. Chickens didn't fly-Patience rarely laid an egg—a bird it still was.

He spoke softly, "You are not what I thought you were."

Jenni - Fantasy Romance Author ✨️@authorjbecker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NA Dark Romantasy ✨️ 7 deadly sins x Fourth Wing 🕯 secret identity x deadly stakes 🌑 dark academia - It's kill or be killed to graduate 🔥 Female rage ❤️‍🔥 rivals-to-lovers ♥️ found family ⚔️ misfits with mental powers 🪦 morally grey characters #QuestPit #F #A #NA #RF #Q

Found family, female rage, secret identity, dark academia

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Introducing 🍃A RAVEN SONG 🍃 For eldest daughters and platonic soulmates. ⛩️portal fantasy 💫star crossed friendships 🍂nostalgia will kill her ❤️‍🔥touch her and you die, but they're best friends 🗡️reckless bargains and a tattooed elven soldier #questpit #q #a #f

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introducing 🍃A RAVEN SONG 🍃 For eldest daughters and platonic soulmates. ⛩️portal fantasy 💫star crossed friendships 🍂nostalgia will kill her ❤️‍🔥touch her and you die, but they're best friends 🗡️reckless bargains and a tattooed elven soldier Querying today!! #QuestPit #Q #A #F

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Four fulls?!?! 👀👀👀 I’m dying.

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 5mo ago

so why didn't anyone tell me about the hope and dread that comes with having three fulls out?? i constantly feel like i have to puke.

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I was shortlisted in #RevPit?!?!? That's already a massive win for me, and I'm grateful!! CONGRATS to everyone who submitted it was so fun lurking and cheering you on ❤️‍🔥🫶💗

paige is querying 🌿 a raven song 🌿@thewormwoods.bsky.social · 5mo ago

so why didn't anyone tell me about the hope and dread that comes with having three fulls out?? i constantly feel like i have to puke.

Carina Bombina @carinabombina.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A STUDY IN DROWNING x THIS POISON HEART First ever #questpit for 🌿Cultivated Magic🌱 A wrongfully-disgraced track star discovers a school for plant magic. She works to earn an official acceptance before her past catches up. It’s a work in progress #W but I’m going to query soon! 🤞 #YA #F #SFF

Isis Indira Barber @iceizcool.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🔥Afro Latino MMC’s (who would do anything for her)  🌙Latin Indigenous FMC 🧛🏼‍♂️ vampires 🐆 shape shifters 🧝‍♀️ Fae/Elves 🌴🌴🌳🌴🌳 uncolonized Latin indigenous magical communities. #questpit #contemporaryfantasy #fantasy

✒️ alexandra 🪐@alexandrarcher.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THE HANDMAID’S TALE x MIDSOMMAR Under a theocracy preaching human sacrifice as the path to salvation, seven young women determine how much they’re willing to sacrifice to save their own lives when they’re selected as the year’s “Offerings.” #questpit #h #d #a #q

3x3 mood board, from top left: image of two women braiding each other’s hair while silhouetted against a window; image of a lamb nuzzling another lamb’s ear; image of a white columned mansion; image of white dresses hanging on a dead tree; image of a woman leaning back against a marble altar; image of three figures in white dresses running through a dark forest; image of a bloody hand gripping a sink; image of two masculine figures wearing suits with their heads/faces covered by red silk opening a door to a red-lighted room; image of a young woman laying facedown on a forest floor while shadowy arms reach for her