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Victoria Jayne (they/them)

@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social

30 • nonbinary lesbian, poet, former dancer, clinical weeb, and theater geek • hEDS/AuDHD • WriteHive mentee 2026 • LGBT Romance Fantasy is where my brain lives

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Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Step inside Aline’s apartment from You Bloomed in Winter, my #amquerying lesbian cozy fantasy romance #writesky #art

Moody apartment with reds and browns and yellows and blues

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m gonna start posting here more hi friends

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 4w ago

reading an ARC and it’s my second five star read of the year and i’m only 50 pages in

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Really could use a book deal right about now

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

i just received my first ever upgrade from a partial to a full 😭😭😭

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

THE GOOD PLACE X YOUR NAME A miserable woman and a burnt out man die in a freak accident and wake up in each other’s bodies, only they both feel better than they ever have. The problem is, they’re too afraid to tell each other. #litagents #WIP #writesky #queer #trans

Collage of pastel pretty things, very cutesy and bright with trans symbol

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

New WIP: THE GOOD PLACE x YOUR NAME with a trans twist

rihdara klay 📖@rihdaraklay.bsky.social · last mo.

WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE: AGENT GUIDE 🫀 Presenting my 90,000-word fantasy horror about a college freshman who joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic🩸 #agents - if you're looking for guts and gays, this is for you! #agentguide #querying

WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE - adult fantasy horror, 90,000 words - in which a college freshman joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic. dark academia x body x horror dual timeline - south asian rep x bi4bi x STEM - vengeance, moral ambiguity, and guts galore

blurb - please DM for text version due to character limit!

vibes - books: honey by imani thompson, ninth house by leigh bardugo, if we were villains by m.l. rio, and kill billionaire by anders lustgarten. songs - pictures of you by the cure, fireproof by mitski, them changes by thundercat, little dark age by mgmt

first 300 words - please DM for text version due to character limit!

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

sentence i just typed: “Wood was supes expensive”

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WICKED x LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS A sapphic cozy fantasy rom-com grumpy x sunshine? more like rage-baitee x rage-baiter. both apply, but one is more emotionally astute. #agentsguide #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #litagents #fantasy #romcom #amquerying #art

Blonde girl saying do the cha-cha slide
Black girl saying i am not doing the cha-cha-slide

The Unfortunate Garden Witch's
Guide to
Kissing Girls by victoria jayne

When Zenora, a trans autistic garden witch with a brown thumb, accidentally becomes responsible for the Allflower. the source of all garden witch magic. she must work with a rival music witch to care for it without getting caught--or falling madly in love.

EVERYTHING
SHE DOES IS
Magic
for readers
who loved the
BREWED
WITH *
LOVE
아
Smash!
Pass
-BRIDGET MORRISSEY glinda! elphaba vibes
+ SHELLY PAGE + sapphic
witch partnership
autistic lesbian MC

Ronove (aka S. Jean)@earlronove.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WHEN YESTERDAY ENDS, my cozy fantasy about moving on from your yesterdays, is out now in ebook & paperback! 🌿 a slow-burn mm romance 🌿 grumpy herbalist 🌿 flirty fey 🌿 curses to break 🌿 lost in yesterdays Buy today! Uni: books.earlronove.com/whenyesterda... itch: earlronove.itch.io/whenyesterda...

When Yesterday Ends by S. Jean Out Now graphic. To the left is a 3D version of the book, and in front of it is a phone with the cover on it. There is a short description to the right, and where to find it at the bottom. The text reads:
An herbalist, a fey lord, and a curse before summer ends...
Nettles Hollow is as good a place as any to restart your life.
At least, until Ambrose learns the town’s secret: Renwick, the hidden fey lord cursed to eat human hearts. Ambrose is his next victim, unless he can break a fifty-year curse before summer ends.
The problem? He’s never broken a curse in his life and trying to solve this one might just kill him anyway...
Ebook & Paperback available now!
books.earlronove.com/whenyesterdayends

Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻@applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In honor of Sweet & Wild's one year anniversary, both Sweet & Wild and A Taste of Wild Honey are 50% until August 3rd on Itch and Ko-Fi! Itch: itch.io/s/196800/swe... Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...

Sweet & Wild Anniversary Sale - 50% off Sweet & Wild and A Taste of Wild Honey on Itch and Ko-Fi
A picture that depicts Terran, a man with tan skin, dark brown and green hair, and antlers lifts Micah, a man with light skin, blonde hair, and a straw hat as they kiss. There are flowers and trees behind them
A pale yellow background and a wildflower border

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

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey #questpit writer friends! Do you struggle to make pitch graphics for events? I’m giving away eight free pitch posts! A collage, a comps page, a snippet, a tropes page, or anything else you have a vision for! First come first serve! 🥰 comment or DM to claim

For Readers Of:
Late
Bloomer
coworkers to lovers
magical mishaps
whimsical worldbuilding
the
sapphe
SPELLSHOP
yearning
SARAH BETH DURST
the VERY a
SECRET SOCIETY
• * IRREGULAR
Witches.
SANGU MANDANNA
HONEY WICH
SYDNEY ) SHIELDS

Coworkers to lovers
Cottagegore
You Bloom In Winter
Witch x werewolf
Instalike but slow burn
Femme x
Butch
Pining and yearning
winter vibes

يرر(وررار)).
A Prince/ss) And His Royal Guard

Cara Castro @caracastro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LEGALLY BLONDE X WITCH'S GUIDE TO MAGICAL INNKEEPING A first-year public defender for sorcerers must help her newest client prove his innocence without accidentally falling in love with him. rep: WEAVER LITERARY #QuestPit #OS #A #F #R

Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#questpit #A #R #F #Q Imagine a romance between a trans prince and the elven guard cursed to watch him day and night… now add in a soft magic system, hEDS rep, and autism rep.

A PRINCE(SS) AND HIS ROYAL GUARD
BY VICTORIA JAYNE

PUTTING A TRANSMASC
TWIST ON:
TASTEO GOLD IRON
OL ROWLAND
C.:
S.
PACAT
CAPTIVE PRINCE
BOOR ONE IN THE CAPTIVE PRINCE TRILCOY
bodyguard
romance
magical court intrigue
forced proximity
tense battles
OUN
HIS HESE SON SEASE RARE VEERA
SWORD CROSSED
FREYA MARSKE

Darrow pressed two hands down on the bed, missing my dress by a finger-length. Focus, Casper. "You must not fear me. I have been-I've sworn to protect you, Princess Cassandra."
Prince Casper, my mind corrected as my right eye twitched. My mouth stayed silent. There was an earnest expression on Darrow's face, one that seemed complementary to the rest of his flat, creaseless features. Even his eyelids were flat—no fold in sight. It was a feature I'd only seen on some dwarves, a few humans. His cold eyes, though open and welcoming, could cut a stone. Every glance sent lightning surging through my veins, and I wasn't even a lightning mage like my Father was. I mean, I could perform all types of elemental magic, but I was a fire mage with minor healing capabilities. Very minor. Not like Amber, with her magic hands.
The point was, Darrow was nice to look at. At least he had that going for him. But now I had a guard to contend with. This complicated things.

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#questpit #A #F #R #Q THE HONEY WITCH x THE SPELLSHOP A slow-paced 78k cozy fantasy romance with mystery elements and the character focus of women’s fiction.

Faced with eviction in two months, Aline, a disabled witch, charms a business-savvy grocer into saving her failing apothecary, at least until Aline cures the mysterious produce blight ravaging the town. The problem is, Robin is distractingly beautiful, and watching Robin carry heavy boxes is much easier on Aline's buzzing mind than focused research.
Still, the blight is harming the townspeople, so as the town's only witch Aline must push through her pain and brain fog to cure the blight, even if it means Robin's time at the apothecary will come to an end.

Robin
coworkers to lovers
love triangle (with a twist)
fat butch lead
witch x werewolf
hEDS & AuDHD rep
unreliable narrator
Aline

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#questpit #ya #r #f #q WICKED X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - childhood friends to lovers - MC who is bad at magic - first love - interstitial songs - autism - references to One Piece and Sailor Moon - everyone is gay actually

I sigh, rubbing my forehead. I can hardly believe this. Seeing Melody here, it makes things more real. My hands shake. We're going to defy all of witch society by breaking a cardinal rule of witchdom: working together for a witch event. A music witch and a garden witch. Sweat gathers on my brow. I wipe it away, clench my fists by my side, and nod. There's no going back. What would Luffy do? I can't ask what Buggy would do because Buggy would run away. Luffy, though... Luffy would fight. "We're doing this. You are going to teach me magic and help me take care of the Allflower in secret. And supposedly, you get something out of this, too."
"The chance to look after the Allflower! Are you kidding me? I'm so excited! Are you excited?" Melody asks, and it's an affront to my senses. She shimmers and shines as she speaks, and it's the very limit of what I can reasonably tolerate. I'm not miserable. Just quieter. Quainter. More autistic.

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#questpit #A #F #R #W I am proud to present YOU CHANGED IN SPRING, a F/NB best friends-to-lovers standalone cozy fantasy rom-com featuring a Siren with BPD and a half-devil who might be the most oblivious being alive. ON THE SAME PAGE meets THE EX HEX

they/ them
she/ her
Siren Kendra Starbrook is finally ready to declare her love for her lifelong best friend, half-devil Trixie. When
Trixie shows up to their outing with an annoyingly charming witch on their arm, Kendra must battle her over-the-top Sirenic jealousy and sudden, fleeing instincts to save her friendship with Trixie, even if it means breaking her own heart.

For
Readers of
BOOKSHOP
AND THE
BARBARIAN
MORGAN STANG
cozy fantasy
THE EX HEX
ERIN
"STERUNG
comedic melodrama
DELILAH GREEN
DOESN'T CARE
ASHLEY HERRING BLAKE
sapphic casts
TRON THE ALTHOR OF MOSE WHO WA HALEY CASS
On the
SAME PAGE
friends to lovers

best-friends to-lovers
love triangle (with a twist)
slow burn
femme falls first and falls down
AuDHD rep
BPD rep
Tropes

Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The UK government frames an intelligence agent for a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift, before a Russian spy from the future uses its secrets to start a war that will destroy everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WE NEED HELP! Donation 🔗 below. I’m fighting for SSDI, because of my many chronic conditions and recent spinal surgery that leave me unable to work consistently. I’m forced to come off the one medication that helps because we can’t afford it. I’m bedridden.

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

Emmaline Evans-Querying Author & Illustator @talesfromknotwood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🍼QuestPit Submission CURSE THESE SKINNY WITCHES 75k Cozy Fantasy x New Motherhood x Wellness Satire Think WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, but it’s about two postpartum witches counting curses instead of kicks. 🌿 Plant Magic ✨Fantasy Ozempic 📚Witch HOA from hell #questpit #A #F #S #CozyFantasy

Victoria Jayne (they/them)@victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#questpit #A #F #R #Q THE HONEY WITCH x THE SPELLSHOP A slow-paced 78k cozy fantasy romance with mystery elements and the character focus of women’s fiction.

sierramoeykens.bsky.social @sierramoeykens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In an alternate, magical Regency era, Lucy Korvas must hide her "improper" wings from high society while finding a cure for her curse, or she will be transformed into a crow forever. 📖 Pride & Prejudice x 🐦‍⬛ Howl's Moving Castle x 🪷 Graceling #Questpit #Q #YA #HFR #F #RF #HF #R #HR

A woman with large black wings attached to her shoulder blades.
Text: Pluck by Sierra Moeykens. Pride & Prejudice x Howl's Moving Castle x Graceling

An illustrated lady in a Regency era dress with large black wings over a ballroom background.

Text: The Pitch
Nineteen-year-old Lucy Korvas has worse problems than complying with high society’s tedious etiquette — she must steal a diamond necklace from the Duchess of Thistal, or her cursed father will perish.
In an alternate, magical Regency era where ladies and gentlemen with improper magic are shunned from high society, Lucy Korvas has hidden a pair of giant, unladylike crow wings beneath her dresses for years, but tonight she risks exposing them to save her cursed father. She needs that diamond necklace to afford his cure. How dastardly it is, then, when she discovers soft-spoken Lord Simon pilfering his own mother’s jewelry first.
But when Lucy and Simon are cursed while trying to steal the necklace, Lucy slowly transforms into a crow and Simon starts dissolving into flower petals. Lucy must find a cure while posturing as the presentable, composed lady that she isn't before she loses her cursed father, the shy gentleman she's becoming smitten with, and her humanity.

Three transparent symbols, a heart, a scroll, and a banner, with lists in each symbol. The background is a photo of white feathers.

Text: Romance. Slow-burn & Yearning. Cinnamon Roll x Chaotic Flirt. Touch-Starved. He Falls First. Historical. Witty Regency banter. Literal Ladybird (she's transforming into a crow). Dukes, Duchesses, and Pirates. Fantasy. Repressed Magic. Curses. Magical flowers with restorative properties.

Three book covers with an arrow under each of them describing their properties. The background is a photo of a lotus.

Text: Comps. A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Dry humor and witty voice. Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Accessible, creative world-building & magic. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. Regency romance with an abundance of yearning.

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

Q’Zion T. Gipson has a ✨ BOOK DEAL!✨@qziontgipson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Presenting a gorgeous reader's guide for my debut YA climate romantasy novel, THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, which will be releasing in summer of 2027! 🌸 Stay tuned for more exciting updates! #QuestPit #YA #F #P #TBP

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

A Reader's Guide to THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, a YA Climate Fantasy Coming Summer 2027 by Q'Zion T. Gipson

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

PITCH - After a failed experiment to make plants live forever, all toxic vegetation was burned for the sake of humanity. In 2091, when 16-year-old Vee discovers Evergreen, an enchanted garden with roots to her ancestry, she must embrace the forbidden magic blooming in her veins before Evergreen and The Human Realm fall to an eternal darkness.

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:
COMP TITLES
Divining the Leaves by Shveta Thakrar: Enchanted Garden
House of Marionne by J. Elle: Botany Boarding School
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn: Found Family

On an off-black background with gorgeous pink flowers and butterflies:

THE VIBES
A mood board consisting of 9 square photographs with a green, blue, and, pink, yellow and white color scheme. In the center, there is a teenage Black girl in an enchanted garden, with the photos surrounding her illustrating the beauty within it: a feeding hummingbird, a calm lake, baby ducklings, a resting butterfly, and magical white and pink blooms.

In white text, there is a list of tropes in THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, including:
Black girl MC
Plant magic system
Near future
Magical blooms
Botany boarding school
Found family
Human x fae romance
He falls first and harder
Female friendships

Millie Kensen @milliekensenauthor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

PALADIN’S GRACE x THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY 🦿 Disabled MMC 🎭 Scrappy FMC 🦄 Animal companion 🌊 War-torn river delta 🥰 Wit + warmth 🩷 Slow burn #QuestPit #F #R #A #W #WriteSky Querying Late 2026

A dark sage green graphic with a gold-beige border of ferns and leaves. Text reads: The Courier & The Chamberhand. Adult Fantasy, 90k Words. Millie Kensen.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE PITCH, bordered by a gold-beige fern in the top left corner, a tied scroll bottom left corner, and a shield crest with reeds in bottom right corner. Text reads: He's a courier who took an oath to never get involved. She's an imposter who is about to make that impossible.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE ELEMENTS, bordered by a gold-beige fern in the top left corner, river graphic with reeds on the right, and a pair of theater masks in the bottom left. List reads: dual POV, grounded fantasy, cinnamon roll MMC, forced-proximity travel adventure, hidden identity, slow burn, too many mosquitoes.

A dark sage green graphic headed THE COMPS, with a gold-beige fern in the top left corner and a beige feather in the bottom right corner. Left: the cover of Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher. Right: the cover of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen. Text lists shared elements: wit and warmth, vulnerability and emotional intimacy, character-driven fantasy, ordinary people, dry humor.

Sadie A Lindgren @sadiealindgren.bsky.social · 2mo 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