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Tian is QUEER-YING ✨⚔️

@tsfigg.bsky.social

Game developer taking their love of storytelling to new media ✨ Querying my debut, sapphic, dark romantic fantasy, A Sword Through Stone! 🏳️‍🌈 (She/They)

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Tian is QUEER-YING ✨⚔️@tsfigg.bsky.social · last mo.

THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE x BBC’S MERLIN (but make it sapphic…) 🗡️High-stakes Romantic-Fantasy 🥀Lady Knight x (rather pathetic) sorceress 🗡️Arthurian gender-swap 🥀Female fury revenge story 🗡️Everyone’s morally grey (and queer) Is vengeance worth losing what you have? #QueerPit #A #F #MYTH

Forever Writing 🌟@thefoxandrose.bsky.social · last mo.

CAMELOT X SONG OF ACHILLES A general tasked with leading a young queen and her nation into war. An enemy looking for safety beneath her banner. An empire threatening them all. 💫 a warlord's son disgraced 💫 a lost prince seeking asylum 💫 a queen suddenly crowned #QueerPit #A #F #FR

What You Will Find Within: Forbidden relationships

Courtly politics and intrigue

Empire and war

Magic and mysticism

Animal companions

LGBTQ cast

M/M main romance

Slow burn

Found family

$The world is at war. Arastrina, once a devastated nation, now sits at the vanguard of a movement against the Ornalynan Empire. Its newly crowned queen hopes that her human commander can do what he did for her flagging army and rally the rest of the world around them. But she never counted on a potential alliance with Ornalyna’s rogue state, Tayavezd, or its purported prince entering her plans. Their nation teeters on the brink of disaster. Tayavezd’s last hope rests on its young prince, whose lineage could make or break their chances at legitimacy on the world stage, but whose abilities could not only change Ornalyna itself but bring a soul back to a fractured empire. But with Ornalyna bearing down on their fledgling nation, Tayavezd’s beleagured court needs help, and their prince is in dire need of training. They find both in Arastrina’s High Commander, a military champion who had survived the horrors of Ornalyna only to find himself estranged from his own country upon his return. Taken in by Arastrina’s former king, he helped rebuild their army, and in turn, the nation after Ornalyna’s invasion nearly razed it to the ground. Now he finds himself balancing the needs of Arastrina and the hopes of Tayavezd, all in a bid to bring Ornalyna’s ambition to heel.$

Chelsea Pitcher @chelseapitcher.bsky.social · last mo.

JENNIFER’S BODY x PRETTY LITTLE LIARS 💀 Three best friends with deadly secrets 🌈 A sapphic summoning ⚔️ Enemies to lovers banter 🥀 “Should I banish the monster or date her?” 🔪 Bad men who get what’s coming to them WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU A MONSTER. #QueerPit #YA #Horror #LGBT #Sapphic

Krithika and Maheshwari Rajesh (are querying 🥰)@rajeshtwins.bsky.social · last mo.

@queerpit.bsky.social AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER but make it South Asian and 🏳️‍🌈 Twin warrior princesses. One best friend with kidnapping tendencies. Now they all have to master their elemental powers before their kingdom kills them for it and starts a war. #QueerPit #F #YA (Collage Credit: Pinterest)

Author Adlin K.T.@adlinktauthor.bsky.social · last mo.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN x ONE PIECE —Epic Fantasy Duology —Pirate sailing adventure —3 povs with their own paths to take —Caribbean/Puerto Rican coded —Queer casted —Magic based on the 4 elements —2 colonizing empires to fight against #QueerPit #YA #F #W

Aesthetic board for protagonist 1, Lorena Anacaona Kay.

Aesthetic board for protagonist 2, Gideon Mercer.

Aesthetic board for protagonist 3, Salvador Calavera Salinas.

Zoe is ✨querying✨@zgauthor.bsky.social · last mo.

💘 Pirate sapphics trapped on the same ship (unfortunate for everyone) 🏴‍☠️ Found family that would mutiny for each other 🔎 A murder mystery with too many motives and not enough trust ✨ Examining who gets labeled a monster and who gets forgiven #QueerPit #YA #F #DF #FR #H #M #AC

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

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

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.

Krystal is ✨QUERYING✨@krystalelkhoury.bsky.social · last mo.

THE NECROMANCER’S WIFE ✨agent & big five editor interest✨ 🏳️‍🌈wlw+queer chars (#sapphic MCs) 💀retired necromancer🩷💜💙 ⚗️missing alchemist🧡🤍🩷 🪄magical intrigue 🚂dieselpunk #A #F #FR #querying #queerpit

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerPit #A #F #R Cursed to die if he speaks against the throne, a trans prince must escape the palace before his wedding in three weeks time, with or without the beautiful elven guard cursed to watch him day and night.

A prince(ss) and his royal guard, violet eyes, green eyes with glasses, wedding dress, bath, gold fabric, palace, hills, flowers, window, purple dress

Zoe is ✨querying✨@zgauthor.bsky.social · last mo.

Framed for the murder of the father who once ordered her to the plank, a cursed, cold-hearted pirate is forced into an uneasy alliance with a sly, beautiful captain to carve out the truth behind the death before the pirate lords carve her down. #QueerPit #YA #F #DF #FR #H #M #AC

Samantha is AGENTED 🖤🕯️@samcrouchbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

THIS RAGING SEA x SHADOW & BONE A dark fantasy tale featuring string theory-inspired magic, a bisexual love triangle, soul-sacrificing blood pacts, anxiety/compulsion rep, and haunted dimensions 🖤✨ #QueerPit #YA #NA #DF EDITORS, drop a 🖤!

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · last mo.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x INDIANA JONES x VOLATILE MEMORY 🏺Grumpy archaeologist 💸 Repentant trillionaire 🤖 Sassy robots 🥀 Race against time 🧠 Synthetic consciousness ❤️‍🩹 Doomed (or is it?) Romance 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Found Family ❤️‍🔥 Yearning 🚀 Stealing spaceships 👀 And they were (bunker)mates #QueerPit #A #SF #FTA

A NASA image of the Sun in high detail with black boxes of white text over it. The text reads: The sun is dying way ahead of schedule. Good news is this pushed the government to not only approve the OEM’s funding request, but triple it to send a team to Earth. Bad news is all the potential piles of data and artifacts could be wiped out by one rogue wave of stellar guts.

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

THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT x HOLLOW Invasive plants took over the United States. Queer teen Cora and their aunt guard the scientists charged with stopping the botanical pandemic, but Cora’s crush, a scientist’s assistant, jeopardizes the cure by speaking to blackberry brambles. #queerpit #ya #d #h

White text over blackberry brambles, reads Vine & Bramble by Molly Haniszewski, an agent’s guide

A mood board featuring blackberries, kudzu, overalls, overgrown weeds, and two queer people kissing.

They Bloom at Night, Hollow, What Feeds Below, Eat the Ones You Love, Don’t Let the Forest In, Root Rot

Molly Haniszewski sitting at a table with a glass of sake

Eri Webb | they/she @weaverwebb.bsky.social · last mo.

🎧 00s Counterculture 💥 Action Anime Vibes ⚗️ A Trans Combat Alchemist 🎸 His Punk Ex-BFF 😳 Friends to Enemies to...❓ ⚡ OP MCs with PTSD 🃏 Meme-Loving Terrorists 🖤 Dysfunctional Polycule ☄️ Abusive Ex's Political Rise 💔 Threat of Magic Civil War THOSE WHO CREATE AND DESTROY #A #F #DF #UF #EF #QueerPit

WIP unofficial book cover for Those Who Create and Destroy by Mabel Harper and Eri Webb, featuring protagonists Jules Nimri and Rory Navarrete. Art by Eri Webb.

Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜@celticxpanda.bsky.social · last mo.

KING ARTHUR X SAILOR MOON Once and Future King’ were words Morgan McArthur often heard in her childhood and academic career, but she never thought they might apply to her. Reincarnation pulls no punches, and neither so the armies of the Aesir when Mordred’s at the helm. #QueerPit #NA #UF #F

A quick guide to SHE IS KING featuring art by tacticiankate

comps for she is king, including silver in the bone by alexandra bracken

Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · last mo.

ROSE OF VERSAILLES ⚔️ LEGO BATMAN Old-fashioned swashbuckling. Contemporary sensibility. Men who trip and fall down. 15-year-old trans boy takes on Manhood Quest with 1,000 yards of ribbon and 2 brain cells. It's the dumbest historical you'll cry over all year! #QueerPit #HF #HA #AC #COA #YA / #A

Atop the painting "Claude Duval", by William Powell Frith in 1860 (depicting the 1660s), text reads:

“I object to this treatment,” said the highwayman. “I’m not some ruffian to be tossed about like a sack of turnips!”
“You wish you had the honour of a turnip,” joined in Alexander.

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

THE DEAF MAN’S GUIDE TO SEDUCING A SIREN 🐚 [MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS] After a lifetime of chasing people away with his siren song, Jasper never expected to meet a human he wanted to keep. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x HoH Surfer 🌊 Dual 3rd POV 🏄‍♂️ Tangled Vibes #QueerPit #CR #R #PNR #A #Q #agentsguide #amquerying

A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”

The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper, but when Jasper's dangerous and scorned would-be mate

The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · last mo.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x STAR TREK Roan, part of the last team of archaeologists sent to Earth, stumbles into an ancient bunker haunted by the synthetic mind of a trillionaire. She’s the only one who can fix his tech, but can she save him before Earth is swallowed by the Sun? #QueerPit #A #SF #FTA

A collage of photos with text in the middle saying “Archaeologists will date any old thing.” The other pictures include a circuit board, archaeology tools, a record player, a museum interior, an astronaut looking at San Francisco buried in sand, a man holding a dark rose, a person reaching out to a ghostly figure, and an espresso machine.

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Editors: Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QueerPit #SF #R #A

The first page of a pitch deck. A neon pink art deco border pulls words out of a romantic starry space background. This border and background repeat over the following images. The title page reads in art deco gold and neon pink: An editor's guide to -- Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel -- A Sci-fi Romance by Ellie Rhymer. Representation Christi Cardenas.

Romantic pink and sci-fi neon and stars: Pitch. Good heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.

Anora is the quick-thinking manager of an illegal casino, fleeing the assassination of her gang's boss with the hyperspace treasure maps thrust into her hands as he died.

Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler from the wrong side of the hyperspace lane with the only ship that can get Anora off Hecate IV before the emperor's relic-hunting space witches close a net around the planet.

The two bad-at-feelings bisexuals try to tamp down simmering, inconvenient attraction as they are forced to work together with the scrappy, tight-knit crew of the Helle Wanderer to survive in the criminal underworld and discover the secret at the end of the dangerous maps.

Their love story is a heist and they're stealing more than each other's hearts.

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What on-boards are your pre-sets accounting for?” she asked into the communicator without a glance at him.
“The hyrdobeacon,” crackled Fish’s reply, “the fore and aft isotrope routers…and the gravitic drive buffer, I think.”
Jayro was frozen as Anora swiped at the nav one-handed. He could feel her warm breath on his palm as she spoke with Fish through his communicator, her hand gripping his forearm almost burning him through his flight jacket. She was close enough to smell the blaster emissions wafting off her, the sharp, citrus scent of the steam bath clinging to her skin. His fingertips were millimeters from her cheek and he wanted to cup her face in his hand and drag her around to look at him with those bright eyes. He wanted to play with the flyaway bit of hair that had missed her ponytail and brush his thumb over her lips until they parted.
What was wrong with him?
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer

Romantic neon pink and a starry background. For fans of: Uncharted Hearts book series by Constance Fay (image of a three book series). Scum and Villainy (TTRPG) (An image of a book cover with a spaceship flying towards a jumpgate). Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. #AnnoyanceToLovers #FoundFamily #QueerStories #DisasterBisexuals #ForcedProximity #Scoundrel4Scoundrel #NeverTellMeTheOdds #DualPOV. Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel by Ellie Rhymer.

Tian is QUEER-YING ✨⚔️@tsfigg.bsky.social · last mo.

A SWORD THROUGH STONE Camelot has fallen. Now, in vengeance for what she lost, the servant Rowyn desperately searches for enough power to kill the queen: Morgen Pendragon. But to survive the broken kingdom, she must ally with a suspicious, albeit beautiful, stranger… #QueerPit #A #F #DF #MYTH