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VickyBallAuthor

@vickyballauthor.bsky.social

Author of Powerless and Abandoned. MA Creative Writing student. Love books especially thrillers

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Christian Oxford @christianoxford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

CYBERPUNK 2077 x THE LESSER SOUL 🧠 Shared Body Trope 🗡️ Rogue/Paladin Duo 📿 Dark Goddesses ⚔️ A Mix of Dark, Gunpowder, and Epic Fantasy #PosterPit #Q #F #A

A movie-style poster for THE LESSER SOUL, starring Elina, Gideon Starborne, Rey, Ranna, Damon the Devourer, Orthala, and Vael. It is written by Christian Oxford. This book features the Shared Body trope, a Rogue/Paladin duo, and it is an Adult Fantasy novel. The image depicts a close-up shot of a gloved, leather hand reaching for the Soulshard, which reflects images in its facets.

🦋💙🦋Dog mom🦋💙🦋@bikediva.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#PosterPit #W #C #A The predatory coach had escaped every town, every victim, and every consequence. Until this one. STAND UP AND HOLLER is a thriller about the reckoning that comes when he finally meets someone who makes sure he can't do it again.

Poster for Stand Up and Holler, a novel by Leslie Barber, presented by Elsie Press. A young female basketball player with long hair flying behind her looks upward with intensity, holding a basketball in a gym setting. The title appears in large gold and red retro lettering. Two laurel badge icons flank the author's name, labeled Contemporary Thriller and Predator Reckoning. The tagline at the bottom reads: Some men mistake a small town for a safe one.

Deanna J. Valdez 📚 ✍️@deannajvaldez.com · 6mo ago

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTH x PRINCESS BRIDE💕 A sky maiden lost her wings  A tyrant king stole them An exiled kingsguard knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy 🦇 mythical monsters 🍃sentient woods ⚔️ pirate cities 🎭 masquerades 🔪 deadly trials ...what could go wrong? #PosterPit #R #F #A #Q 🇵🇭

PosterPit #PosterPit entry for adult fantasy romance novel FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN by Deanna J. Valdez. Inspired by the Philippine Sky Maiden Fairy Tale and 16th century early colonial period. Image of paintings of a crown, a sky maiden/angel with a golden halo. Currently querying. A fairy tale romance. Mahalina was a sky maiden destined for immortality in the heavens until one brutal night COST HER EVERYTHING. Her people slaughtered. Her home destroyed. Her wings cleaved from her back and lost forever....OR SO SHE THOUGHT.

Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com · 6mo ago

PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT X SORRY TO BOTHER YOU When a down-on-his-luck archivist takes a job from a shady tech company to save his robot friend, he uncovers a darker plot involving stolen memories while falling for a handsome anarchist with a grudge against his employer. #PosterPit #Q #SF #SPF #A

Movie poster style image featuring an illustration of the main character (a skinny Asian nerd with glasses) and his fox spirit-shaped robot friend on a red background; Title: Snaggleteeth, A Novel; Tagline: Clear Eyes. Sharp teeth. Can't lose.; Other text: 96k words/adult SFF; queer/bipoc characters; Asian/ND rep; Restricted Rating symbol box: disaster bisexuals, questionable life choices, robots gone rogue; NOW QUERYING; small text: nerdy agender archivist embarks on a quest to save his fox spirit-shaped robot friend, unravels a mystery involving stolen memories and falls in love with a grumpy bookseller in the process.

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 6mo ago

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #PosterPit #AG #YA #C

Poster 2 shows a fake missing flyer nailed to a redbrick wall. The poster has the word MISSING written out in large letters behind the image of a girl wearing a backpack. The image has been scratched out. Text on the poster reads: BREAKING NEWS, Hollywood, CA, Emma Bridge, 4/13/1996. The Things We Run For, YA Contemporary, by Emilia Young.

Samantha Lebans @samanthalebans.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#PosterPit #Q #A #R DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST Adult Contemporary Romance / 85K 🚙Tension-filled road trip 💉Illness rep 🌄Coastal Canadian landscape ⛴️Boat ride in costume ✍️(Not) a bucket list

bettebergeron.bsky.social @bettebergeron.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hooray! It's #PosterPit Day! 🎥 Sharing my poster for THE SEA CURSER, a contemporary speculative novel set on a remote island off the coast of my home state of Maine. 🌲🌊 Can't wait to see everyone's creative works today! 😀 #A #Q #C #SPF #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity

Movie poster for The Sea Curser, a work of speculative fiction by Bette Bergeron. Photo of sand with footprints fading into the sea.

Text: An ancient evil awaits off Maine's iconic coast. The Sea Curser, a work of speculative fiction (84,000 words) from the Maine-ic [sic] mind of Bette Bergeron. Remote Island. Mythology and Sea Lore. Ancient Curses. Closed Setting.

Sketch of a cat reading with the text: Editorial Assistant's Disclaimer. No portions of this manuscript or poster were generated by malevolent AI robots (cursed or otherwise).

Alexia Barrail | Author @ambarrail.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THE INVISIBLE STRING THEORY 🧇 for readers looking for a chuckle and a feel good ending. 🏖️ your beach bag is begging for this book 🐝 upmarket women’s fiction, now querying #PosterPit #upmarketfiction #UF #womensfiction #WF #bookclub #A A little bit of rom. A lot of com.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 6mo ago

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI 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. #PosterPit #A #H #Q

This vertical poster for "DAD BODIES" features a high-contrast design on a black background with a white border.
Top: "WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY B. VAN BODEGOM" is centered at the top in white text. Two laurel wreaths contain the quotes: "Co(s)mic horror at its finest!" and "Friendship! Ball-busting! Tragedy!"
Center: The large d20 die showing a "1" remains above a red blood splatter. The distressed white "DAD" and red "BODIES" titles are unchanged. A new red underline has been added beneath the word "BODIES."
Added Hype Text: New white text blocks have been added to the sides. Left side: "BIG 5 INTEREST!". Right side: "OVER 20 REQUESTS!".
Tagline: The tagline remains: "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN."
Background and Characters: The stylized castle silhouette is still present. The six named characters with their expressions (Vincent, Sam, Troy, Hank, Marv, Dave) have been transformed into realistic photo-cutout heads with their original expressions, replacing the previous cartoon illustrations.
Footer: The "R RATED" box is centered at the very bottom.

Cass @casshabs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On Runyan, magic lives in color, & Darkness is draining it away. At Wychlith, an academy where losing in The Cage costs pieces of your soul, Rihalyn must uncover her power while being claimed by the tyrant's son, Kieran, whose Darkness may consume the Light she carries. #PosterPit #Q #A #F #DF

A dark fantasy book poster showing a luminous yellow rose partially consumed by shadow, representing the battle between light and darkness.

The title Born of Light, Cursed by Darkness spans the image, with the tagline “Magic lives in your color, when it fades, so do you.”

Additional text highlights themes like found family, mental resilience, and a romance where he falls first.

Behind the image: I took a picture of a single yellow rose, using my Iphone on the studio setting. I used my black snack container, lol, to prop the rose up. Snapped the picture and uplaoded it to add the text and elements :)

Maria Poppy @mariapoppy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Vengeful Kresimir Zaheriev has to team up with the king who killed his parents to stop a mysterious cult targeting his fellow courtesans. 🐈‍⬛Black CatxGolden Retriever 👿evil cults ☺️🔪kind but ruthless ML 🙄bratty MC 😤“it’s for my mission, dammit” #posterpit #Q #A #F #R

The photo is a book cover. Two men stand with their backs to each other. One is dark skinned with black wavy hair and purple eyes and is wearing a red fur coat with a blue shirt under it and lots of gold jewelry. The other is pale with dark hair and brown eyes and is wearing a teal outfit. Both have earrings. The one in the teal outfit is holding a rose. The background is a stained glass window with a snake and iris flowers along the border. In the center the title is written "Iris and the Aconite". Followed by "a novel by Maria poppy", "you were my undoing and I am to be yours". The blurb at the bottom reads, "108k, THE IRIS AND THE ACONITE follows Kresimir Zaheriev, a cynical, disagreeable, downright unpleasant courtesan seeking vengeance, and the charming King he’s been sent to kill, as they work together to solve a serial kidnapping case plaguing the capital city." At the top are tags "mysteries and evil cults", "Slavic inspired mm Romantasy", and "slow burn enemies to lovers"

Sam Zoeller | Writer @samzoellerwrites.bsky.social · 6mo ago

To escape her cruel father, Fallon Mercer manipulates a prophecy to marry a witch prince. When a spree of murders results from her con, Fallon must find a killer, hide her hoax from her husband, and cheat Fate once more — or watch everything she’s worked for unravel. #PosterPit #W #F #R #NA #A

A poster of a girl in a pink dress running into a lush forest for Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, a fantasy novel with a yearning romance and murder mystery. Princess Fallon Ambrose cheated fate to earn her crown. What will she do to keep it?

Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com · 6mo ago

SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN x KILL BILL An immortal revenge-seeking unicorn disguised as a woman falls for the daughter of the man she intends to murder. #PosterPit #W #A #H #R #HF

Movie poster style graphic featuring yellow text over the painting Judith and Her Maidservant by Artemisia Gentileschi ("Judith and her Maidservant is a c. 1615 painting[1] by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting depicts Judith and her maidservant leaving the scene where they have just beheaded general Holofernes, whose head is in the basket carried by the maidservant. It hangs in the Pitti Palace, Florence."); the text: a win for girls who love monsters or long to be the monster; horse girls top pick 2026; COMING SOON: RELICT; Never forget. Never forgive; Gothic Horror, Sapphic Revenge, Female Rage; RATED R for Sex, Gore, Monster Romance

VickyBallAuthor @vickyballauthor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Psychological thriller (89k words) They share a tragic past. Natalie wants nothing more than to forget it. But Heather can't forget. She will make sure Natalie knows the truth. But who knows what the truth is? #PosterPit #A #T #Q

VickyBallAuthor @vickyballauthor.bsky.social · 8mo ago

40 year old Natalie has it all - the house, the husband, the kids. Compared to Heather, she's got it easy. Natalie has managed to leave the past behind her. But Heather can't forget. What if Natalie didn't bury the past but rewrote it? Heather will make sure Natalie knows the truth!

Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Presenting my #agentsguide for 'Beauty is a Brittle Glass' BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. 🪞 Adult 82k 🪞 Dual POV 🪞 Speculative Elements 🪞 Beauty & Fashion 🪞 LGBTQ 🪞 Friends to Lovers 🪞 Disability Rep #questpit #A #Q

Green background. Images of a woman's face in a gold picture frame. Splashes of gold.

A woman with long dark hair turning sideways, hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint. A gold handprint.

Background is the close up of a woman's face, splashed with gold paint. Three bookcovers. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, a young woman's sad face, The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Picture of Dorian Gray and a young handsome man with a partially diseased face.

Green background splashed with gold paint. Images of a model on a Catwalk, a woman having injections in her face, a group of spooky trees, a photographer and an evil hand reaching out for a pale woman's hand.

I.P.Kollias | Querying @isagoblin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Over the Garden Wall but make it Adult High Fantasy, a lil collage of inspirations and comp tittles for BLACKWELL'S MASK! 🎭Hidden Identities ☠️Monsterous Forest 🕯️Cursed Candlemaker FMC #questpit #Q #A #F

A collage of movie posters and book covers: The Cruel Prince, Over the Garden Wall, Flowerheart, The Teller of Small Fortunes, Howl's Moving Castle, Labyrinth, The Secret of Nimh, Pan's Labyrinth

Layne Johnson | Children’s Author - Is Querying @laynejohnsonkidlit.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Aspiring artist LUCY JEAN THE COLORING QUEEN creates magical masterpieces with her big box of crayons until she gets ONLY 3 at a restaurant! Can she still create a masterpiece with only yellow, blue, and red? A lyrical #pb about emotional regulation and creative problem-solving. #questpit #q

Turnaround of a young girl in a blue tutu, stripped yellow socks, blue ballet shoes, a brown bun of hair and a homemade yellow crown.

🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊@elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization? 🕸️ a post collapse adventure of psychic powers and nurturing community 🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US, with unexpected twists 🌱 Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built #A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi

a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art)

quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao
"Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!" - Jim Butcher

a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, a map of the US with shrunken coastline over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Kavi gets BFF Ryhan to be her Practice Boyfriend so she can become the perfect girlfriend to her bf Aaron Mirza. It’s her last shot at love & relationships—due to a certain Qasam—and has to be perfect if her parents find out, she’ll lose everything—inc her dream of studying in Scotland #QuestPit #q

Moodboard for ALL YOUR QASAMS with a quote from the novel reading ‘You are madness incarnate’ and five images: picture of a hot chocolate drink and heart-shaped cookies, a couple embracing during a boat ride, a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery smiling down at her maroon outfit, a close-up of a young man kissing the forehead of a young woman, a close-up the joined hands of a south Asian bride and groom, a young man in an aesthetic library reading a hardcover text book.
>> The Moodboard is surrounded by arrows pointing to text that allude to the themes and tropes in the novel: “Meddling grandpa”, “perfect firsts”, “friends-to-lovers with a difference”, “only one bed”, “a decades’ old Qasam and some new ones”, “Bengali teens in STEM”.

VickyBallAuthor @vickyballauthor.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Familiar smells of aftershave bring back memories and a past she doesn't want to face. - Psychological thriller - Dark secrets - Complicated family relationships #QuestPit #questpit #T #A

Nina Castle @castlemantra.bsky.social · 11mo ago

To win her best friend's love and heal her uncle, May will risk everything to steal HealthCorp's miracle pill. But when the CEO's disinherited son offers to help - and teach her the art of seduction - she'll learn just how deep a stain power and control can leave on a soul. #QuestPit #A #SFF #R #Q

@karimecc.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The bridge of lost souls is based on a Mayan myth #questpit #Q #YA #POC #H It has: 👻Restless spirits. 🥰 Found family and friends to lovers. 👹 Mayan underworld monsters. 🫂Siblings love, but don't bother me, but I'll go to hell to save you. 💀A Death goddess haunting a town.

Woman dressed like Death with jade armor and penacho

VickyBallAuthor @vickyballauthor.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Tragedy struck Natalie's family 34 years ago; now the past is threatening to tear her life apart again. #QuestPit #A #T #questpit

Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A 🧵 — My #Questpit Pitches!

Kelton Davis is ON SUB! 🦇⚰️🤠@keltondavis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky. Corado's about to break all three. 🤠 Vampire Cowboys 🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes 🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities Querying soon! #A #F #W #QuestPit

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text:
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood Red Sand
109000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Soon

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image:
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
Background image: same as first slide.

Title: Pitch
Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck.

Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him.

But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all.

Background image: same as other slides

jaimewrites @jcolawrites.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#Questpit #Agentsguide to WHAT LIES IN THE SEA. In the early stages of querying. Clara Christian has spent years escaping her family until her grandmother’s death sends her down a path to discovering what really happened eight years ago. Oh, and there’s lots of family secrets ✨🌊

Victoria L. Bilstein is ✨ ON SUB @victoriabilstein.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#editors, A STRANGER KIND OF MORTUARY SCIENCE is a 97K cozy, adult fantasy novel mixing whimsy with the macabre, soft fairytale elements, and found family. Perfect for lovers of the strange, magical, enchanting, & gothic! #questpit #F #A #OS #LGBT #agented