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Tini Wider

@tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social

🌟🌟 #amquerying a #YA #Fantasy ❤️❤️ Writer of magical things 🌟🌟 #romantasy #writer

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Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

A DEADLY EDUCATION x NANCY DREW What if the chosen one failed, and the only one who could save him was a magic school reject? NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy with dark academia and dystopian elements #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #MY #D

Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️@marysmorrison.bsky.social · 2w ago

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x HIGHER MAGIC DO NO HARM has… 🎩Retro-Victorian dark academia 🩸Murder and intrigue 👨‍🎓Plus-size PhD student MMC 👩🏽‍🎓Disabled punk activist FMC 🩺Medicine & magic 🧬Fictional magic, real science 🧑‍🔬Save the enby, save the world #Questpit #Q #A #F #SFF

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

Holly C | #QuestPit Pinned 📌@hlcauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words.

The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text:

BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY.

When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw.
Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers
Trinity: a covert,
science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore.
Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades.

A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.

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

✨ What if Mulan had magic… and instead of being rejected as a bride, she was rejected by the gods? 🌪️ Forbidden elemental magic 🎭 A stolen identity ❤️‍🔥 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

Author Aislin Spurgeon @aislinspurgeon.bsky.social · 2w ago

GLAZED & CONFUSED, 78,000-word contemporary rom-com When Milo gets dumped minutes before a couples pottery class, he does the only logical thing: shows up alone. Unfortunately for Briar, the overworked studio owner who swore off dating, their chemistry burns hotter than a kiln. #questpit #q #a #r

Mood board for GLAZED & CONFUSED, a 78,000-word adult romantic comedy. A warm, earthy collage features hands shaping clay on a pottery wheel, shelves filled with handmade pottery, a woman smiling while throwing clay, downtown Fort Wayne at sunset, a couple ice skating together, a curly-haired young man, a hand glazing a ceramic mug, and a couple embracing with clay-covered hands. Center text reads, “A Mood Board for GLAZED & CONFUSED.” The overall aesthetic evokes cozy creativity, second chances, playful romance, and small-town Midwest charm.

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

“Out of all the men I have faced over the years, you might be the only one who poses a challenge.” “But I am not a man.” He grins. “Exactly.” ✨TORCH THE STARS #QuestPit #Q #A #F Born into a brutal, male dominated world, Lyra risks everything to compete in the skywolf jousting tournaments ⚔️

Author Aislin Spurgeon @aislinspurgeon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kaye MC @mermaidkaye.bsky.social · 2w ago

One Siren • One Curse • A Sea of Secrets The Curse of the Violent Moon 🧜🏾‍♀️ Folklore retelling 🏫 Upper Middle Grade 🐉 Fantasy 🏆 SCBWI WIP winner 📖 54,000 word count #questpit #MG #F #Q

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

BONE KING'S BLUFF After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. 🦴 Death magic 🏰 Locked-castle mystery 🕯️ Medieval fantasy 🏹 Robin Hood trope 🏳️‍🌈 MM romance #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

Kamela H is trying, okay @pamela-with-a-k.bsky.social · 2w ago

A smartass cyborg, a deeply tired gangster, and a literal manufactured pop star walk into a wall of sand, called by a revolutionary musician who’s cheated death. But in the ruined city beyond is a power far greater. #questpit #W #SF #LGBT #hopepunk

On a background of a cracked desert with a solitary, gnarled tree float four pictures suggestive of the ensemble cast. Far left is Eden, a wide-eyed pouting beauty who recently found out that she was designed and created in a lab. Her picture is labeled "A literal manufactured pop star." Below her is Terrah, a butch-looking Black woman sitting at a computer in sunglasses. She is labeled, "A jaded security wrangler," as she has spent much of her career doing street-tough work in spite of her considerable tech skills. Up and to the right is a robot-looking fellow, representing Cid, an ex-military guy who chose to replace his body with a mech, and lost quite a few memories along the way. His caption says "A smart-ass full-conversion cyborg." Below is a skinny figure crouching in front of a laptop, wearing some kind of headset with glowing red "eyes." The prodigy hacker of the group, like all of them, is not what she seems. Her caption says, "And a cat-girl hacker." Two text boxes provide more context. The first says: "In this hollowed-out world, they thought that this was as alive as they would get." The second says, “But when they cross through the sand wall into the digital jungle, they'll learn more than they bargained for about the nature of life.” Finally, in the bottom right is a text box with the words: Working title: The Thorn. Under this, a bulleted list. First: “Cyberpunk but make it about people.” Second: “What if an Al was traumatized though.” Third: “What makes a person ‘real’?” Fourth: “What does it take to change the nature of humanity?” Last: “No irredeemable characters allowed.”

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

ROBIN HOOD, but with DEATH MAGIC After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. BONE KING'S BLUFF, coming to betas soon, and querying early 2027! #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

ziqing @ziqingpan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi #questpit! Introducing WORK IN PROGRESS 💌 childhood nemeses to lovers 🏮 set in taiwan! (night markets, coastal views, and yummy food) 🎨 pretty paintings and lies 🫂 complicated family dynamics and found family ❣️ 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU meets CRAZY RICH ASIANS #Q #R #A #WF

First slide of deck with the following text: An agent’s guide to WORK IN PROGRESS by Ziqing Pan. Adult contemporary romance with women’s fiction crossover completed at 83K words.

Sunset background with a couple sitting by the water

One-line pitch: A struggling ex-artist must plan an exhibition with her infuriating childhood nemesis in Taiwan, all while hiding the truth about her failed career.

Comp titles: Lauren Kung Jessen’s Yin Yang Love Song (for the cultural richness and complicated family dynamics), Jessica Joyce’s You, with a View (for the nemeses to lovers tension), Lily Chu’s The Comeback (for the witty banter), and the movie Crazy Rich Asians (for the Asian-setting, specifically Taiwan)

Tropes: nemeses-to-lovers, forced proximity, opposites attract, he falls first

Themes: quarter-life crisis and self-discovery, self-doubt and fear, change vs. tradition, unconditional love

Pictures in mood board: woman painting by the window, a couple kissing, painting set-up, a man writing notes, and a picture of a couple with flowers

Katie Hudson @katiebhudson.bsky.social · 2w ago

🥀THE ROSE BARGAIN X HADESTOWN 💀 The goddess of love’s daughter must win the prize of immortality in her mother’s divine matchmaking contest or else succumb to a death curse. 2026 RevPit Winner! #QuestPit #YA #Romantasy #YARomantasy #F

Zoe is ✨querying✨@zgauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

🗝️ sapphic princess x thief 🗡️ impossible heist ⚔️ only one horse 🌙 found family ☀️ sunshine x gremlin 🐦‍⬛ morally gray heroine ✨ disability rep 🤫 everyone has secrets 🏹 touch her and die 🧭 ragtag crew 💀 sprinkles of horror #QuestPit #W #YA #F #R #MY #H

Tini Wider @tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Carnival Row × Arcane. A secretly educated inventor must rescue her sister and expose the lie at the heart of a kingdom before a prince silences her forever. ⚙️ Inventor heroine ❤️ Friends-to-lovers ✨ Women aren't supposed to wield magic... until one does. #Q #YA #F #QuestPit

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

DEATHBRINGER x SILVER ELITE x Netflix's WEDNESDAY (if it was produced by the early 2000s CW) 🏰academy setting 🗡️murder mystery 🪄unique magic 😡his father un-alived her family 💀she knows his secret ✏️forbidden student-professor relationship 🙊unreliable narrators/ dual POV #QuestPit #Q #NA #A #F #R #MY

Picture of rotunda. Text: AGENT GUIDE, DARK ACADEMIA, ROMANTASY, 99K, NA/ADULT, UNSTITCHED, BY ALLY BOYD

Picture of castle. Text: The Pitch. A spy-for-hire who can unstitch her soul from her body infiltrates a magical college and attempts to solve a string of gruesome murders while battling romantic feelings for the main suspect, her attractive, off-limits professor.

Picture of a library. Text: the comps. Nightshade by Autumn Woods, Netflix's Wednesday, Deathbringer by Sonia Tagliareni, and Silver Elite by Dani Francis

Picture of a snake. Text: An excerpt. “What’s your name, ghost girl?” Carsten asks, his lips quirking up in a half-smile that feels like a challenge.

I try to seem unbothered as he takes his time, walking back to the leather loveseat across from mine. He sits down slowly, soaking in my attention, but I can’t take my eyes off him. His arms stretch out lazily on the back of the chair, a prince of darkness surveying his domain.

The room warms. So warm that sweat prickles the back of my neck. I glance at the clock over the fireplace again. Terror wraps around me like the snake dancing on his forearm. I need to get out of here.

He cocks his head to the side, waiting, and I debate lying. There are no benefits to a demon knowing your name. Except my mind is blank. I can’t remember any goddess-blessed name except my own.

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.

Clare Donnelly @claredonnelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌊 ALL THE SEAS AND SHADOWS 🌊 A privileged girl uncovers the secrets behind a magical smuggling ring in exchange for help escaping an enforced engagement. 🤍 Young Adult Fantasy 🤍 Folklore-faithful Irish Lore 🤍 Sapphic Longing 🤍 Found Family #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #amquerying

Mary Elizabeth Carey @maryelizabethcarey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Who killed the nature photographer on the bike trail and ruined the setting of Elizabeth's WIP? #QuestPit #📖 #A #Q #M #amquerying

A photo of a bike trail by a pond with the legs of an apparent dead person, a woman saying "Who's going to want to read about Forest Bathing there now?" and the title MURDER on THE BIKE TRAIL.

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

DUNGEONS & DRAMA x THE EDGE OF 17 when the new kid takes 1st chair, 17y/o trumpeter Julissa fake dates him to impress her drifting friends and teams up with her childhood rival Logan to sabotage him for their chairs back—only to realize Logan might be the one she’s falling for #questpit #YA #R #AG

Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X FRANKENSTEIN Odessa Righteous is faithful to the Nine, rooted in the only community she's ever known. But when they choose her as the annual sacrifice to The Beast of the Beyond, her world shifts on its axis. #QuestPit #AG #A #W #RF

nine pictures in a grid. A dark cloaked figure in a forest, a candle, a church, a golden mask, an image with the text: A SACRIFICE, A BEAST, A FORBIDDEN LOVE. Golden bokeh lights, a stone stairway, a gold-toned rose, and a red-cloaked woman sitting in a sanctuary.

Shayna Grissom 🪳@shaynagrissom.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Lamb X My Darling Dreadful Things #QuestPit #H #A #Agented

"When her imaginary friend develops a taste for children... People start to notice" Hands placing eggs within a nest in their black hat. "The Cuckoo's Nest"

R V Ellis | Querying writer @rvelliswriter.bsky.social · 2w ago

She curates history. He’s inside it. RESONANCE — an upmarket speculative novel exploring emotional avoidance, curated lives, and a connection that exists only across time. 🔥 Slow burn 💭 Introspective 🕰️ Time travel 🎭 Tragedy This is not a story about love #QuestPit #A #S #Q

samira is querying her MG fantasy🍉🍉🍉@goodsamiratan.bsky.social · 2w ago

AMARI x RICK & MORTY When 12yo Celi’s older sister Joy is kidnapped by a corrupt alien empire, Celi must team up with a sentient spaceship, and the undercover alien princess from school to get her back—-or risk her sister being dissected and used as the empire's weapon. #W #SF #Questpit #MG

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 2w ago

I used "cacophony" in Miraculous Horrors but it's such a not-good snip that I'm going with"racket" instead. Here's Joric predicting Fion's future ('cause he's been there) #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FantasySky #GasLamp #TimeTravel

He drew a long breath and laid both hands on the table. “On the nineteenth of Midwinter, it will snow on the Long Walk.”
She’d feared he was about to say something unpleasant, like he’d escaped from an asylum. Or he was a wanted criminal. Or worse, married. But that …“It doesn’t snow on the Long Walk, or anywhere in Fabel,” she said.
“On the nineteenth of Midwinter, it will. You will wake at first light to a racket, and when you look from the window in your bedchamber, you will see a coachman trying to dig his front wheel out of a snowdrift with the butt end of his rifle.”
Fion had only recently considered the possibility that Joric might really be able to see the future. Now that he was sitting across from her, describing some imagined tomorrow like a fortune teller at a traveling fair, it felt more ridiculous than it had in contemplation.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #WIPSnips word for July 24th is "cacophony" My partner was watching an e-sports thing, and the announcer kept saying "cacophony of chaos" so I just had to put this word on this week. My partner was not amused because it was driving him crazy. 😂 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
July 24 - cacophony
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
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The image behind the text is a border that is dark blue with gold stars with a black background with neon blue border. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner. A different version of the same illustrated caticorn is curled up writing in the lower left corner

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 2w ago

MIRACULOUS HORRORS When a genetically engineered queen is hunted by a man who has her dead lover’s face, she must awaken the part of him that once loved her before he returns her to the king she was designed for. #QuestPit #W #A #SFF

Mood board for the sci-fi novel Miraculous Horrors: Helen of Troy; an abandoned railroad tunnel, a crossbow, cell division, soldiers marching in a muddy field, a hyena, a snowy palace, a man walking away in a field. Tropes: pursued protagonist; lovers to enemies; genetic engineering; cloning; resurrection; obsessive love; mind manipulation

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 2w ago

DEATH & THE DREAMER NOSFERATU X ONE DARK WINDOW An enchantress with the forbidden power to hijack daydreams must save her hired guard from a parasitic necromancer who uses the life magic of murdered men to animate his dead lover’s body. #QuestPit #A #F #Q

Mood board for the fantasy novel Death & the Dreamer: the sky in a forest, a mossy angel statue, a distant castle, a vase of wilted flowers, a doorway to a castle, skulls in a necropolis, gravestones, a fireplace. Tropes: dark fantasy, morally gray protagonist, necromancy, forbidden magic, toxic love. Content warning: implied and off page non-graphic sexual abuse (male victims) and violence

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 2w ago

LOSING YOU BACKWARD PRIDE & PREJUDICE X TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE When a woman falls for a man who’s been condemned to travel backward in time through their romance, she must defy the Time God to break the curse before the man she loves is erased from her life and time itself. #QuestPit #W #A #F

Mood board for the fantasy novel Losing You Backward: The interior of a Victorian era rail car; Victorians at a ball; an English street, gas lamps; a woman in a ball gown; clocks; an apothecary wall; a Victorian era seaside resort

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 2w ago

LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS In a dark realm where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword must ally with a monster king to stop a vengeful demigod. #QuestPit #NA #F #ND #Q

Mood board for the fantasy novel "Light Wielding and Other Mortal Magics."The moon behind the clouds; bats in a cave; a death's head moth, fog in the redwood forest; a lighthouse, cracked earth; a sword. Moth and mushroom details.