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Vivian Storm

@vivianstormauthor.bsky.social

✍🏽 Dark Romance • Romantasy • Fantasy author Querying: SAVING HER, a MFM dark romance Avid reader 📚 💌Newsletter sign up & other socials 💌👇🏽 https://linktr.ee/authorvivianstorm

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Vivian Storm @vivianstormauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Yesterday was my first Questpit on Bluesky, and while I didn’t get any industry likes, a few people saved my agent’s guide and it makes me so happy knowing people found it interesting enough to save 😭🫶🏽

Vivian Storm @vivianstormauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An agent’s guide to SAVING HER, a dark why choose romance. When the setting & theme of protecting the community like THE RAVENHOOD SERIES falls in love with GRAVES for the added darkness, sharing morally gray, murderous brothers and has a baby, you get my debut novel w older MCs #questpit #Q #R #A

Abra Larrabure | is querying ✨@abralarrabure.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ATLANTIS x SIX OF CROWS 🏜️✨ A young tour guide must take wealthy tourists across the perilous desert to a mysterious haunted town, or her blackmailer will reveal her magical secret—making her an outlaw and dooming her family. #questpit #Q #YA #NA #F #MY #R

Author Aislin Spurgeon @aislinspurgeon.bsky.social · 3mo 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

J.J.W. Lovell (He/Him)@jjwlovell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEVERMOOR X IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES X TREASURE PLANET “I’m a bear?!” Meet Arthur Oak. A thirteen year old boy that discovers he’s a Druid and is whisked off through a portal to a magical realm. 63,000 words of magic, family and creatures of folklore. #Questpit #MG #F #Q

Cover page for Arthur Oak and the Druid Child visual carousel. Torn paper shows the wording, on top of a forest background. Text reads “an agent’s guide to” followed below by “Arthur Oak and the Druid Child”. “MG Fantasy - 63 thousand words”. “J.J.W. Lovell”

Torn paper shows the wording “Excerpt”, on top of a forest background.
The text for the excerpt is “Arthur moved his hand to the pendant, trying to catch the sparks from within and push them back against his chest, but
instead, his body lunged forwards and grew, sudden but
painless. His body lifted and dropped with a padded thud.
His arms had become furry again. He let out a shriek, but it
seemed loud, and only part human. He was larger, and hunched over, but it didn't feel out of place. The two Fairies flew back, suspended in the air, their wings beating fast, their
faces covered in excited smiles.
"You are the chosen one!" Ain assured Arthur.
Arthur turned to look in the mirror, and could barely believe
his eyes. He lifted his arm as the creature in the reflection
lifted a paw. He dropped his lower jaw, and the set of teeth with sharp canines opposite him copied his movements.
He tried backing away from the reflection, but he was so big,
his rear end triggered the automatic hand dryer.
It took him a moment to find the words.
He looked in the mirror. The creature in the mirror looked
back.
"I'm a bear!?"”

Torn paper shows the word “includes”, on top of a forest background. Below it are 7 small bullet points that appear as portals. They read “
• A SHAPESHIFTING DRUID BOY
• A PORTAL TO A MAGICAL PLACE
• TWO BRAVE FAIRIES
• FOUND FAMILY.. LITERALLY
• A MAGIC ABSORBING MONSTER
• AN OGRE WITH A BIG HEART
• LOTS MORE FANTASTIC CREATURES
Below that, on more torn paper, is the hook.
“TWO TINY PURPLE CREATURES TOLD HIM HE WAS A DRUID. HE DIDN'T BELIEVE THEM.
HE WAS WRONG.”

Torn paper shows the wording “other media”, on top of a forest background.
The other media shows two movie posters with arrows and text around them, explaining the similarities. Turning Red, because of discovering identity and inherited transformation magic, and Treasure Planet, because of the cast of unlikely characters and a boy discovering where he belongs.

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 3mo 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. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

A fake case file lays open. On the left side of the folder is a sketch of a girl with a sticky note beside it that reads: “Emma Bridge is believed to have cut her hair. Police sketch artists have taken a guess at what she may look like now.” Under it is a map of all US railroads with another sticky note that reads: “Last seen in California, current whereabouts unknown. An anonymous tip reports she has made it out of the state.” Under that, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out, replaced with the name Peyton Freys.

On the right side of the folder is a clipping of newspaper that reads: “Hollywood’s Beloved Missing” with the date 4/13/1996 below it. Text on the page reads: “What we know: YA Contemporary (with mystery and romance), 82k words” “Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media” “Runaway in hiding, fake identity (turned real identity), mental health rep, genderfluid and pan rep, found family, 90s small-town nostalgia.”  
A block of text reads: “Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.”

Finally, a stamp says “On sub soon”

A.E. Fairfax @aefairfax.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ATTACK ON TITAN X ALCHEMISED 90k: WHAT LURKS BEYOND THE WALLS Horror, Fantasy Aurellia, Duchess of Vaynesgard, struggles to rebuild her life after Escapists drag her beyond the towering ancient walls separating the final vestiges of humanity from creatures with an appetite for human flesh. #questpit

PJ (he/him) is querying...@pjwrites.bsky.social · 3mo 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

Megan A. Saraceno | Author @meganasaraceno.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎧SONG OF THE SICKLE's playlist... 🗡️Make a Man Out of You, Mulan ✨Golden, KPop Demon Hunters 🌪️Control, Halsey 🏹The Archer, Taylor Swift For the girl who stole a name. The magic she was never meant to wield. And the man who sees through every lie. shorturl.at/fvxrS #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

An agent's guide to 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.

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 of military training camp, earth magic, glowing amber ring, abandoned watchtower, and incense

The comps: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L Jensen for weaponized faith and dangerous attraction; Silver Elite by Dani Francis for undercover military training and forced proximity; The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig for divine deception and forbidden truths

L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A love-hating mischief sprite sets out to sabotage her infuriating rival's matchmaking scheme, but after accidentally orchestrating the perfect meet cute, she discovers (to her horror) that she's better at creating love stories than ruining them, including her own.🧚❤️🌃😈 #questpit #a #f #w #rf #pr #r

"A Manhattan Summer Night's Dream" written in white against a photo of Manhattan at night

Phillipa Crane, or Pip, as she prefers to be called, is a mischief sprite, content to spend her days playing tricks on the unsuspecting finance bros of Manhattan and her nights DMing for her girl squad, the Pixie Chicks. That is until Leo Lovehard (yes, that's his actual name), a love sprite, decides to match up Daisy, the only girl in New York Pip has deemed too-cool-to-fuck-with, with Chase, Pip's favorite corporate Zillennial to bother. Pip refuses to let Daisy trade her hip 1970s-inspired vintage clothing shop for a happily-ever-after with a man who considers a trip to Costco to be a "fun night out." She does everything in her power to thwart Leo's matchmaking, but with every attempted sabotage, she somehow brings Daisy and Chase closer. When she begins to catch feelings for her overly romantic and painfully optimistic nemesis, she must decide if admitting she was wrong about love is worth her own shot at the feeling she's spent a lifetime avoiding.

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses in A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK A Cozy Medieval Romantasy 🍰 Barbie for adults 🌸 Arranged marriage 👑 Princess x Prince 🕯️ Dual POV 🩷 Lovable family chaos #questpit #W #NA #A #RF bsky.app/profile/elis...

Elise Rustøen@eliserustoen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK

A Cozy Medieval Romantasy

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses x The Princess Knight

Zoe is ✨querying✨@zgauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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 rival captain to carve out the truth behind the death before the pirate lords carve her down. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #RF #H #MY

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

HAZELTHORN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- a Gothic, YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀botanical eco horror 🥀bickering ghost hunters 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater 🥀found family & dysfunctional families #Q #YA #H #S #Questpit

Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 3mo 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

Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 3mo 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

Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 3mo ago

MONK & ROBOT X EMILY WILDE When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down her hero's fabled garden with the help of an archaic engineer—but secret origins and disillusionment lurk between hard drives and petals. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby LI #QuestPit #W #A #SF #R

Floral background with the text Mending Glass. By Florrie Auclair. Solarpunk Romantic Sci-Fi

Character portrait of a blond woman making a heart with her hands. Juniper Penrose. An archivist specializing in botany. She idolizes the old world botanist, Miriam, who helped lead the resistance centuries ago. Optimistic and a little reckless, she seeks to uncover the past and find Miriam’s garden. Her drive to help people, sometimes comes at her own expense—like the reason for the mechanical leg she now cherishes.

Next to that is a character portrait of a nonbinary character with light blue eyes and duotone hair in black and blonde. Eli Winter. An aloof engineer who specializes in old world infrastructure programming trying to prove their skills are just as important as the nouveau programmers of the city. They leave their home and grandfather to help Juni break into archaic servers and hard drives—and often pull her out of trouble.

Comp slide with Horizon Zero Dawn, Emily Wildes, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Violet Evergarden, and Fruits Basket. The text pointing at the various media are Ruins of a fallen industrial world, Solarpunk, Flower Motifs, Traveling to help others and find self discovery, Joyful but melancholic character connections, and Sunshine MC x Sunshine Protector

Data is as fragile as flower petals. That’s why Juniper, an archivist in a recovering solarpunk world, wants to immortalize the past in the Glass Archives. Safe from time’s decay, unlike the archaic hard drives of the old world. Specifically, information on her hero, Miriam, a botanist who legend says grew a garden of resistant plants—ones that could survive the blight ravaging their crops. But to find it, Juniper will need the help of Eli, an engineer who specializes in old world technology. Together they traverse ruins and follow a trail of flower language from village to village to unearth what led to the dark age of information. But Juniper starts to question her identity when they uncover that the woman she modeled herself after was not the hero she believed.

Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For a peek at my current WIP, VILLAGE WIP is a witchy, sapphic gothic horror where the Salem Witch Trials and a certain Greek myth merge. #QuestPit #W #Gothic #H #Horroromance

Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m left in absolute awe over all the love MSU has gotten. Truly, no words could express the magnitude of my gratitude. & huge thanks to @questpit for once again bringing us all together, for the opportunity to lift each other’s stories up. Until the next one! 🫶🏽 #questpit

Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️@chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 3mo ago

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

My Sweet Unbecoming
A forbidden gothic romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 3mo 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

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An #agentsguide to COVENANT, my gothic gaslamp romantasy! Post is pinned to my profile 🥰 #questpit #A #RF #Q #agentguide ##amquerying 💜👻🌑✨️🕯🥀

Gabriel Morgan is querying@gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF

Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

Vivian Storm @vivianstormauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SAVING HER is a dark, why choose (MFM) romance set in a small mountain town, featuring a POC FMC, and morally gray brothers who will stop at nothing to keep her out of a kidnappers clutches. #questpit #Q #R #A #DR

Vivian Storm @vivianstormauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

GRAVES X THE RAVENHOOD SERIES What you can expect to find in this dark, why choose (MFM) romance. 🥀 Small Town 🖤 MFM 🥀 Multi POV 🖤 POC FMC 🥀 They Fall First 🖤 Healing Arcs 🥀 Found Family 🖤 Vigilante Justice #questpit #Q #A #R

Suzanne Gorthwald @suzannegorthwald.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My moodboard for💫Spheres in the Afterglow💫 🏰rural alpine manor with adorable staff 🌓evil magic portal FBI is lurking 💔nobleman's guilt, but he actually has a good reason 💻she is not a chosen one, but helps with taxes and copes with sarcasm #QuestPit #W #A #RF

L Herman @gohermanator.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Jake, a closeted NFL quarterback who doesn’t know how to be himself, falls for Victor, the NHL veteran who hides his heart too well. 🏈 MM Sports Romance 🏒 football/hockey 🏈 Meet Cute #QuestPit #Q #A #R

Collage of a book cover, black and white photographs and a google search.

Book covers featuring a blue watercolor painting. Various tropes including MM character driven romance.

L Herman @gohermanator.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Shhhh, don’t tell—my art school queer romance started life as a Reylo Star Wars fanfiction. 🌙artworld name-dropping 🌙sloooooow burn 🌙side characters w/main characte energy #MMRomance #lgbtq #questpit #amquerying #R #Q

Nowhere is a Place book cover based on watercolor painting

Collage of black and white picture, watercolor and text

College of Polaroids, Klein blue and text

Reagan Faerwyn 💗💜💙@reaganfaerwyn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello #QuestPit! I present the #agentsguide for my queer thought-he-was-dead second-chance romance steeped in necromancy & found family: Forged in the After 🗡📚☕🐾☕📚 #A #FR #F #R #Q

1. A dark textured stone background features a metallic gold peacock with intricate feathers on the left side. The title “Forged in the After” appears in large elegant white serif lettering. The author's name, Reagan Faerwyn, is below in white cursive script. A black banner at the bottom reads: “Adult Queer Romantic Fantasy - 99,000 Words”

2. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Pitch,” a black panel on the left contains white text: “When a psychic heir comes face to face with his presumed dead former boyfriend, they must together hunt down the source of dangerous mimic necromancy to protect their homes and the second chance they refuse to give up.”
On the right, an ornate gold picture frame contains a hand-drawn illustration of two young men gazing at each other fondly: one with messy red hair and round glasses, the other with silver hair, fangs, and pointed ears. The frame is decorated with gilded elements including a violin and a masquerade mask.”

3. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Flavor,” features a central collage of fantasy book covers including The Magicians by Lev Grossman, Kings Rising by C.S Pacat, Evocation by S.T. Gibson, A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland, and The Witcher: Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Golden decorative arrows point to the books from thematic labels: Necromancy & Monsters; You & Me Against the World; Building Found Family; Fallen Prince x Disillusioned Heir; Second Chance Romance; Occult Rituals, & Inherited Bloodline Magic.

4. On a dark textured stone background titled “The Snippet,” a black panel contains an excerpt from the story. A metallic gold phoenix emblem appears on the right side. The text reads:
Donovan stopped at the kitchen’s threshold. Jerrik faced away from him, shoulders bare to the morning and duskfire tattoo finally visible in daylight. Black-inked phoenix wings unfurled on broad shoulders.
For a moment he stared. At the man, the ink, the herbs. A ritually trained war mage and the last pact bearer of the Dark Hearth, shirtless in the kitchen, humming.
A fantasy. It was what Donovan had imagined. Somewhere, in the handful of moments he had let himself want a life of his own, it had looked something like this.
But the longer he watched, the more he knew this wasn’t really his life, and mornings like this didn’t repeat without consequences.
His father could never know that a prince of Averath survived.

@amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Jack Frost (1998) x Sweet Home Alabama YULE ALWAYS FIND ME is a holiday paranormal romance with: 🤍second chance romance 💀murd.er 🤍fake dating ❄️frosty magic 👯‍♀️sister bonds 🐶a cute pet sidekick 🎄Christmas festivities 🔼love triangle Would you read it? Art by @mknzgmbn #questpit #wip #P #R #A

Tristin Clark 🥀 #QuestPit Pinned!@tristinclark.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My #agentsguide to GODSPIRE ✨⚔️ Starside X The Hunger Games X Fourth Wing ⚔️Deadly Competition 🔥Vengeful FMC 💕Enemies to Lovers 😈Morally Grey Villain ✨Reincarnation #QuestPit #W #A #F #DF #R #DR