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Yaira Pujols

@yairap.bsky.social

Writer | Ya romance WIP: Reverie London & Zurich

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Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · last yr.

If I could summarise REVERIE just with music, these are the songs that shaped and inspired my angsty vampire romance #PlaylistPitch #YA #ROM #FANTASY #Hozier

Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · last yr.

REVERIE, an angsty vampire romance. When sheltered Catalina Wesley falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear, and his greatest desire—death #YA #FR #W #Questpit #R

Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote an angsty vampire romance inspired on: 👑 THE LITTLE PRINCE.👑 When a sheltered girl falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear and his greatest desire-death #YA #FR #W #Questpit

Angie is ✨querying✨@angie3tomatoes.bsky.social · last yr.

An #agentsguide for AON When Tayah sees the Obsidian Hart, her fate unravels. Now she must uncover Ravensford’s forgotten history—before she’s the next to disappear 🖤Gothic Fantasy + Feminism 🏠Sentient House ❤️‍🔥Slow-burn Romance ✨Art as Magic #QuestPit #AF #R

Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · last yr.

Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R #RF #agentsguide #amquerying

An agent’s guide to: “Mark of a Magpie”
YA Romantic Fantasy
119k Words

Behind the text is a piece of parchment paper surrounded by ocean water and gold flower outlines.

Blurb:

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy…
Ryn is a small-town thief with a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d definitely be a fool to take up, but desperation fuels ever decision she makes.
Five for Silver, Six for Gold…
Seven is set in his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. When the castle goes into lockdown, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The rich are dropped like flies, and all suspicions are on them.
Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told.

The text is on a piece of parchment paper, with ocean water and gold flower outlines behind it.

The Atmosphere:
There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand.

Behind the collage of pictures are ocean waters, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.

Yaira Pujols @yairap.bsky.social · last yr.

OUABH X BELLADONA When a sheltered girl falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear and his greatest desire-death Completed at 100k #YA #FR #W #Questpit

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · last yr.

THE SPELLMAN FILES × DEADBEAT DRUID Washed-up magician🃏Rick Firestick finds a thrift store snowglobe🔮that grants real magic🪄—until the snow settles. Now he's being hunted by a warlock✨ who wants it back. #QuestPit #A #CF #W

The image shows a book cover for "THRIFT MAGIC" by B. Van Bodegom. The cover features rich red theater curtains as the background with a spotlight effect creating a beam of light in the center. In the foreground is a small round table covered with a red tablecloth. On the table sits a magician's top hat with a magic wand resting across it. The title "THRIFT MAGIC" appears in large, bright yellow lettering at the top of the cover, with a slightly distressed texture. At the bottom of the cover in white text are the words "A NOVEL BY B. VAN BODEGOM." The overall aesthetic evokes the atmosphere of stage magic and theatrical performance.

Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · last yr.

I Saw the TV Glow x Galaxy Quest. A disgraced showrunner commissions a spell to force the cast of his cancelled vampire show VALLEY VAMP to do a reboot, but the spell goes awry and the cast becomes their characters… at Comic Con. Even the dead one. #questpit #w #a #h

Character board for VALLEY VAMP. Rebecca Price is giving GOOP vibes with sunshine and avocado, and is linked to Daniel Silver by a divorce decree. Daniel is still living his best Michelob Ultra Teen Choice Awards life. Sasha Shannon is making a living on Only Fans. Madison Silver now does music, being gay, and hailing Satan. She is connected with rainbow hearts to Casey Jackson, who was presenting as a boy at the time she was on the show and has recently written a tell-all.

Willy is writing disaster jocks 🏈🌲@mmwilliams24.bsky.social · last yr.

When 15yo Ref's famous hero parents are attacked and captured on an important mission, leaving him & his friend-turned-rival Styra trapped in the Wildwood, the two must work together to escape their hunters before Ref's family line can end for good #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #YA #F

A grid of nine images

Upper left: An eye with a grey iris looks at the camera
Upper middle: There are bits of bone with runes carved into them scattered on the ground
Upper right: A moss covered branch with a few pink mushrooms growing on it.

Middle left: Several dusty, old, worn books sit on a shelf, leaning on each other
Middle: A wolf with brown fur is laying in a field and looking at the camera
Middle right: Black text on a cream-colored background that reads "I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done."

Lower left: There is a pond with a wooden dock sitting next to a simple village where the village has thatched roofs. In the water is a small, wide boat.
Lower middle: A white hand, palm facing to the sky, rests on top of water.
Lower right: Two hand axes with intricately carved wooden handles sit on top of some straw, laid over each other to look like an X

MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · last yr.

Grim Portents HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of 📖 #Q #A #DF #PR #Hu #H #QuestPit

Cover for Grim Portents featuring a skeleton hand gripping a feather, emerging from a flaming book over a maze

Poster Cover for Grim Portents featuring Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan. Behind them are a girl with glowing eyes and a glowing book, a woman with a shotgun, two shadow creatures, and the face of a demon. The words GRIM PORTENTS are big and in a classic Indiana Jones Style font

"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow.
But now the monster had been given a name, an identity.
It was real."
BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK.
NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS.
FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.

danny is ✨querying✨@dainathomps.bsky.social · last yr.

For my last pitch, I thought I'd share the fun little cover I made for my book 🖤 🥀⚔️A BALLAD OF ICE & BLOOD⚔️🥀 A 106,600-word adult romantasy for fans of the dark, witty banter in SERPENT & DOVE and the bleak, mysterious tone of THE BONE SEASON. #questpit #Q #A #F

Chantrell @chan-trell.bsky.social · last yr.

“Lady in Blue” ALICE IN WONDERLAND X MORRISON’S JAZZ When Icela runs away from the debutante ball she expects her mother to come looking for her, but instead she finds herself alone in a town where she has to depend on unusual strangers to help her home. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #YA #NA #HF #R

A young woman looking unimpressed as someone brushes her hair. Blue television aesthetic. Old 1950s televisions stacked on top of one another all with varying images; yellow bees pollinating a sunflower; record player; purple and blue colorized tunnel like in Coraline; sketch of a man; boy with glasses; large body of water; flower in bloom. Text on image to provide information on title, genre, and themes. Quote from the late-great writer, Toni Morrison from her novel, Sula: “In the woods. Where wild women grow.” Alice in Wonderland-inspired love story.

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

NAUSICAÄ x EMILY WILDE Can a natural historian save the one she loves at the cost of her heart, or worse, her research? 🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative world 🪲 Sentient beetles 🥃 Magical distilleries 😈 9ft tall demon marionettes 🌌 The night trapped as a mortal 🎩 Regency vibes ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn #questpit #Q #A #F #RF

A collage of images, going from top left clockwise: a bouquet of colorful berries, swooping white towers with spiral balconies, a shiny purple beetle, a colorful shop full of knick-knacks, a blooming crocus in a dark forest, a drawing of a woman reaching out to the night sky as if to pluck a star, a crumbling castle on a moor, and mushrooms growing on a tree. In the center is a quote by Virginia Woolf: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”

Jacob Foster (Querying)@fosterja8.bsky.social · last yr.

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP A retired explorer, torn between the inevitability of losing his wife and a desire to return to the wild, fixates on a towering, imprisoned forest. Driven by an esoteric rumour, he heads for the forest. And he will regret every choice from then on... #QuestPit #A #T #SF

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

MONSTER HIGH X CHEER UP: LOVE AND POMPOMS Of Fangs and Fugues - YA Cozy Paranormal Romance #QuestPit #W #YA #PR A werewolf clarinetist with a fear of vampires enlists an agoraphobic pianist to help her win a band solo. Their easy relationship is tested when the pianist reveals she's a vampire!

Counter clockwise: marching band, clarinet, of fangs and fugues, piano, full moon, vampire, color swtach

Raven Demory, Authoress 🌿💀🌿@saintserene.bsky.social · last yr.

SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER X SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A graverobber is hired to find a missing corpse. The corpse has other plans. #QuestPit #A #F #Q #H

A mood board with various rusty places covered in greenery, along with flowers and preraphaelite paintings.

Rissa Allen (is querying)@honeyscribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

CATCH YOU IN THE TREES is a YA thriller set in the Pacific NorthWest where, in order to clear her name, a high school senior must team up with her XC co-captain and nemesis, the boyfriend of a missing girl—and the last person to see her alive. #questpit #Q #YA #T #agentguide

An agent’s guide to Catch You In the Trees
YA thriller romance
Approximately 92k words

Comp Titles:
Nothing More to Tell, Karen McManus
AGGGTM, Holly Jackson
They’ll Never Catch Us, Jessica Goodman

Unconventional Comps
The Marauders Era
PLL (2010)
Cruel Summer (2021)
Tropes/Vibes
Rivals to lovers
Running culture
Private school
Chaotic academia
Dual timeline
Dual pov
Ride or die friendships
A good old murder board

It’s always the boyfriend, right? Mowich Bay can take one vanishing teen, but not two. Lennie Torres’s senior year captaining the XC team turns deadly when her ex-bff goes missing and she ends up a suspect. Her only way out? Team up with nemesis golden boy Lysander Hayes, the boyfriend of the missing girl—and the last person to see her alive. But Lysander’s not the only one keeping secrets, and if both Lennie and Lysander want to make it through XC season? They’re going to have to figure out how to trust each other or somebody’s going to end up dead.

Snippet
Hayes takes my hand, wrapping his fingers firmly around mine. “Deal.” His eyes glint an odd silver in the chrome and linoleum hallway and I think of people making deals with devils at cross roads. I wonder if they get the same storm of nerves I have swirling in my blood right now.
I don’t trust Hayes.
But I need him.
“Deal.”

Lindsay Bowen - A SWINDLER'S SONG April 6 '27 @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON x FIVE BROKEN BLADES A sticky-fingered tavern girl scoops up abandoned plans to steal jewels. With a couple of pals and a lil gumption, she could be free to travel the world. How hard could a heist really be? Boys do it. #QuestPit #OS

Anna Deh-is editing✍️@annadehwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

MONSTERS INC X NOSFERATU YA Horror Romance When a horror fan’s exorcism fails, she finds that the monsters aren’t just on the page—they’re real, and she must blend in their world while finding a way back to the world of the living before the monsters discover she isn’t one of them #questpit #YA

Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨@saraduran.bsky.social · last yr.

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

A moodboard showing the pirate (Amir), the princess (Mira), and John.

Amir silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a sword slung over her shoulder and a group of joyful sailors on a pirate ship. She has this quote:

Continue to love
Continue to forgive
Continue to grow

Mira is shown in the reflection of an ornate mirror. She is wearing long white gloves and a pink ballgown with her hair in a natural updo and the lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted over her photo. There is another photo of two girls kissing in the surf at sunset. Mira has this quote:

We looked at each other a little too long to be “just friends”

John is shown with his bare back to the viewer, facing the sea with the trans pride flag subtly depicted over his photo. He also has a close up of iridescent mermaid scales and this quote:

Go bravely, go deeply, or do not go

mar is querying ☁️🏜️@margreyfield.bsky.social · last yr.

SixofCrowsxANASTASIA 6 years after her kidnapping & mind-erasing, a convict works w a scholar & a shapeshifter to steal an item to heal their sister But when her memories return, she finds her kidnappers during the heist & must choose between ruthless revenge & the sister #QuestPit #W #F #AgentGuide

A Guide to
Dust We Shall Return
An Anastasia Retelling
Fantasy Heist
By Marceline Greyfield

A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact to save her best friend’s life.
But when the scholar uncovers Nara’s memories of her kidnappers, the duo finds them in the city with the artifact’s powerful owner, and Nara must decide if vengeance is more important than the lives of everyone around her.
Including hers.

Themes and tropes
Tri POV (F/M/NB)
Physically disabled FMC (#OWN)
Soft and sassy MMC
Nonbinary vampiric shapeshifter MC
Ensemble cast
Found family
A wedding and a ritual
Unique magic system
Sibling bonds
E2L Second chance romance
Religious machinations
Twisty, slowly revealed backstories

Comps:
Six of Crows: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot
Anastasia: Anastasia retelling (if she hunted down the people who ruined her life)
Memento: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge
Piranesi: Mazes and memory magic featuring distrustful allies

Kanani O’Kelly @kananiokelly.bsky.social · last yr.

JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late. 🌊 Pacific Islander Rep 🌊 Elemental Magic 🌊 Endless Banter #QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide

This image is the first of four to showcase elements for my upcoming book, Whispers of the Sea.

The picture reads: “An Agents Guide to Whispers of the Sea.”

This book will be a young adult fantasy.

This is the second image in my guide, and it includes the pitch for my novel.

Such pitch reads to say:

“Whispers of the Sea follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom.

Maia must voyage across the seas to this mysterious isle where she’ll team up with a local boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.”

This is the third image in my guide, and it portrays my comp titles.

My book will be perfect for the fans of the Jasad Heir, A River Enchanted, Curious Tides, and the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

This is the last image in my guide, and it showcases the aesthetic and a few elements that can be found in the book.

A few of these elements are: found family, secret ploys, outlawed magic, and self discovery.

Nell @nelsnote.bsky.social · last yr.

THE BASS ROCK x THE UNCONSOLED X ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT Burned-out jazz pianist Clementine falls for a brilliant artist at a seaside inn—then those he paints begin to vanish. 🎹Art‑as‑magic 🌫️ Gothic melancholy 🩶 Envy‑to‑attraction slow burn ❔Psych suspense #agentguide #questpit #A #LF #Q

An agent's guide to the inn at the edge of the sea - 64k upmarket with magical realism

The pitch: Burned‑out jazz pianist Clementine retreats to a seaside inn where a gifted painter rekindles her inspiration. But when the subjects of his portraits begin disappearing, she must learn whether the artist is to blame—or she could be next.
For fans of:
The quiet loneliness and romance of Mieko Kawakami’s ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT
The brooding, gothic atmosphere of Evie Wyld’s THE BASS ROCK
The dreamy surrealism of Kazuo Ishiguro’s THE UNCONSOLED

Tropes/Themes: Psychological Suspense
Speculative elements
Romance Subplot with Yearning
Magical paintings
Manipulation
Artistic creation and self-destruction
The Indomitable Human Spirit
Music
Moody and melancholic

Opening lines: The winter tide exhaled a slow melody against the sand. Clementine let its crested waves spill over her feet, foam gathering in deep snow drifts around her ankles.

There was a ghostly feel to the long stretch of water that lay before her, the distant horizon blending into a misty gray sky. As the tide pulled back, she was overtaken by the fleeting sensation of falling, as if the water might pull her with it. It had a good rhythm to it. A steady rhythm.

Time dripped slowly. With a distant sort of detachment, she noted that her toes were blue.

Water breathed, and Clementine drew a breath, shallow and cold. The taste of wood and salt lay in a heavy coat atop her tongue. She’d come here for quiet, yet the ocean thrashed and quaked in the cavity of her chest, filling its emptiness with a transparent and insurmountable longing.

It was a Thursday, and Thursdays were the worst night of the week. The night you got if you played well enough to fill the slot, but not popular enough for the weekend rush. Clementine had only ever been scheduled for Thursdays.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · last yr.

CABIN IN THE WOODS×JOHN DIES AT THE END×KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign. 🎲🥓 #QuestPit #A #H #MY #W

The image shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

Keygan S. S. McClellan @keyganssmcclellan.bsky.social · last yr.

A fugitive blood mage, trying to lay low, finds a new home (an organic, malevolent palace where the world's corrupt rulers dwell) and a new family (the four young revolutionaries infiltrating it). His power could be the revolution's salvation. His secrets could be its downfall. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

list of tropes/themes (including found family, revolution, bio-magic, and eldritch horror among others) for a work-in-progress book along with comparison titles (including Gideon the Ninth, The Bone Shard Daughter, The Jasmine Throne, and The Surviving Sky)

moodboard for an unpublished novel; images include dripping blood, old pipes, a decrepit staircase, a conifer forest lit by magenta fog, grand halls, antique items, lights glimpsed through tree trunks, and a dimly lit passage

Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱)@delandjessica.bsky.social · last yr.

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X BEAUTY AND THE BEAST A kidnapped ballerina has to choose: family or freedom & her ballet dream 24 full requests 4 previous offers of publication Mental health rep Contemporary fantasy Slow burn Found family Forced proximity Unearthing secrets #Questpit #Q #YA #F #M #R #MH