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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 12d

Love a fairytale retelling 😍

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just found on this was happening over there and posted @carolinekwriting on Insta too!

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thank you!

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Mike Davis Writes @mikedaviswrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Questpit #Q #A #DF

BENEVOLENCE – Book One in the Children of Loki Series

Immortals x Death by Miss Adventure - or American Gods x American Psycho

How do you choose between divine chaos and the self-inflicted horrors of humanity?

“BENEVOLENCE” is a fast-paced urban fantasy exploring immortality, morality, and the complexity of friendship. Every choice has consequences, and no one, no matter how powerful, can outrun their past.

The immortal Children of Loki have for centuries orchestrated the rise and fall of human empires, but when a morally repulsed Valentine chooses to abandon them and live among mortals, he is forced to employ his mind-reading and shape-shifting talents to weigh the horrors mankind inflicts upon itself against the impassive destruction wrought by his own kind and decide if his love for humanity is strong enough to bring him out of hiding and fight back.

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Jason @jason-antares.bsky.social · Aug 6

"My whole life changed when Mom walked out the door, leaving me and my little sister forever. Well, it wasn’t her. Not anymore. It was whatever rich Insured prick now wore her body."

✨ Cyberpunk
✨Aroace MC
✨Twisted Rags-to-Riches
✨Stolen Immortality
✨Angel with a Shotgun

#Questpit #A #SF #Q #LGBT

Top Right: Insurance Tower, dark and dominating over the rest of Nexus, red light from the streets below illuminating it like fire.
Middle Top: A skyline shot of Nexus where you can see the towering Cyberpunk style mega structures and The Needle, left over from old Seattle. HUVs are flying through the sky with Mount Rainer in the background.
Top Right: Richard in Brian Lord's office in New Life Towers staring out at Nexus, The Needle in the background
Middle Image: A wide image of The Board meeting in Insurance Tower while out the window the city of Nexus can be seen, mega towers dominating the sky
Middle Box: "Insured: Death is conquered--for a price." The text is surrounded by a computer chip, blood dripping down.
Bottom left: Sil with her eyes closed in a dive terminal ice bath
Middle Bottom: Celeste (left) and Goliath (Right) in the Undercity, standing in the circular tunnel of the Spillway
Bottom Right: The Needle in the forefront of the city of Nexus.
Made with Canva. Image Credit: Dream.Imaginations

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you!

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Aug 6

DEADNAME

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind

#QuestPit #AG #YA

A red and black moodboard of images including a woman looking menacingly over a glass, a double-exposure image of masked faces, a group of friends sitting and singing on the floor, a person with painted nails holding their head in their hands, a person with short hair looking down, a woman applying lipstick in a mirror, two people kissing, a menacing backlit woman

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 6

#litagents, I’m currently querying two novels:

🫀 95k gothic horror (left pitch)
🌊 112k upmarket historical (right pitch)

If you love dark, twisty, genre-blending novels in the vein of Emilia Hart and Bridget Collins, let’s talk. 👀

#questpit #A #HF #Q

$Pitch: When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to a crumbling country estate to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love.$ Pitch: When a storm wrecks his island's passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die.

Pitch: When a storm wrecks his island's passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die.

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Kanirthi is querying 🦋 @kanirthi.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE HENNA WARS X NEVER HAVE I EVER

My #agentsguide for DARED TO IGNORE YOU, a YA Contemporary featuring:

💖Sapphic enemies to lovers
🥻South Asian FMC
🦋Coming-of-age in the UK
🔪Revenge from outcast
🎤 Grammar school drama

#ownvoices #amquerying #questpit #Q #YA

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Notebook X 10 Things I Hate About You + Dark Academia = DON’T FORGET ME 📜🖤☕️

A story filled with betrayal, poetry, and rain-soaked confessions.

#Q #questpit #R #NA #amquerying

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Suzy A. Win is Querying! @suzyawin.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE STRAY SCALES

A thieving and stalking mermaid must kiss a prince to avoid the fate of sea foam, but when his overprotective cousin returns from a sea folk hunt, her simple quest for a pair of lips turns into evasion of a man's harpoon and adapting to the unfamiliar.
#questpit #W #YA #F

$THE STRAY SCALES YA FANTASY | SUZY A. WIN A fractured retelling of the little mermaid$

Blurb

Bored with her sea journeys and wandering into strangers' homes, sea folk Pearl swims at the chance to embark on land when a witch offers her legs in exchange for her voice. With a catch.

She must kiss Prince Malthe within three months or turn into sea foam.

Despite her reluctance, she discovers Malthe shares her hunger for the world and believes a first kiss with him may not be so dreadful. But when his overprotective cousin, King Alexander, returns from a sea folk hunt, she soon realises she's trapped in a predator's den.

Faced with no choice, Pearl must evade the hunter's suspicions as she
attempts to woo the prince, refrain from stealing their possessions, and uncover a long-lost connection between her world and their own.

Book and movie covers of:
A forgery of fate
the princess bride
little thieves
shrek
six crimson cranes
howl's moving castle

Fish out of water
Odd friendship
Magically binding deal
Sacred first kiss
Perceptions
Love and Loss
Acceptance of self

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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 6

STARLING HOUSE meets AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, set in a sensory perilous world like A QUIET PLACE.
🦴 Whispered secrets are currency
📚 The archive is listening
🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound
🖤 Slow Burn- never, ever fall for the heretical hunter
🥀Beware the silence—it festers
#QuestPit #F #agentsguide

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Nic Webb @bynicwebb.bsky.social · Aug 6

WITCHES DON'T BURN
🔥Adult fantasy
🔥Multi-POV
🔥Subplot of a slow burn romance
🔥Complex family + female friendship dynamics
🔥Chosen family
🔥Dismantling corrupt organized systems
🔥Female rage

Completed at 82k words
#questpit #q #f #a

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Love this!

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Q’Zion T. Gipson is ✨ON SUB! ✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Editors, if you're looking for near-future YA sci-fantasy featuring:
🩵 nature as a character
🌸Black girl magic
🍃plant magic system
🩵 found family
🌸 Botany boarding school
🍃 shadow monsters
🩵 secret society

-- you'll love THE ROOTS OF DESTINY!

#QuestPit #YA #AG #F #SF

A photograph of purple flowers on a blue background.
An editor's guide to The Roots of Destiny, a near future sci-fantasy novel by Q'Zion T. Gipson.

Pitch: After a failed experiment to make plants live forever, humans burned all toxic vegetation for the sake of humanity, leaving Earth as an artificial shell of its former light. In 2091, sixteen-year-old Vee Arrowood is sheltered from the dark world Earth has become, with only the shadows in a forgotten forest keeping her grounded.

But when the shadows come alive, her escape leads her to Evergreen: a land of elves with plants as their lifeline. Vee discovers the plant magic blooming in her veins before she’s enlisted by the Everlife–the group of outlandish individuals who protect the enchanted gardens–to help them solve the mystery of a deadly virus spreading within.
While Vee aids the Everlife, she opens the petals of her own budding magic, her mother’s legacy, and feelings for a fellow member. And as the shadows follow her trail, Vee must learn how to bloom in the darkness before it consumes herself, The Human World and Evergreen forever.

COMPS & TROPES
-Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek: enchanted forest, nature as a character
-House of Marionne by J. Elle: magic boarding school
-Legendborn by Tracy Deonn: Black girl magic, monster hunting
-Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat: found family, human vs. fae
-A Curse So Dark And Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer: secret society, romantic subplot, rival worlds

First Lines
' ‘It took me sixteen years to find a bloom.
Wrapped in darkness, breathing in the manufactured oxygen that rafts through the world. I cradle it close, its white limbs glowing beneath the moon that parts the leaves above me.
This bloom is the Moonflower: what Gran described as the rarest plant of the century. And, just like every other flower, one that seemingly doesn’t exist. Yet, in my palm, it reaches for the white sun, glowing with a similar light. No friends to bloom beside it.
It reminds me of myself.
Bright.
Alone.
All the words Gran would use to describe something beautiful. And it grew just past the trees I’ve never dared to cross since she was buried between them. Until I found this bloom—the very one we searched for—right beside her grave.’

Represented by Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · Aug 6

ATLA x WICKED

Calypso must steal 12 divine amulets in order to regain her powers and seek revenge against her enemies.

Villain FMC
Hero MMC
Hate at first sight
Destroy the world, dont save it

#questpit #Q #YA #F

Collage of images, zodiac wheel, solar system planets in a straight line, scorpio constellation, virgo constellation, text saying the villain and text saying the hero

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

This design eats! Also sounds amazing

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Millie Sun @milliesun.bsky.social · Aug 6

A Song to Drown Rivers meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in LADY HAN'S MANUAL FOR MATRIMONIAL MAYHEM, in which the mischievous bride fights for divorce with chaos:
😈 unlikeable heroine
⚔️ enemies-to-lovers
💑 marriage of convenience
👑 political intrigue
#questpit #A #RF #W (line editing for #Q soon!)

Agent's guide to Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem: 89K Adult Fantasy Romcom with low spice

Pitch: What can a girl do to escape an arranged marriage, but to prank her husband to hell and back in the hopes that he will divorce her?

In the Dazhen Empire, twenty-year-old Wen Anling’s comfortable life is turned upside down when her father forces her to marry Han Shiyan, the wealthy Lord of Qinglan. In a desperate bid for freedom, Anling fights chaos with chaos, by transforming herself into the nastiest wife possible.

Shiyan only married Anling to honour his mother’s dying wish. Had he known his new wife would send his simple life straight to mayhem, he would have thrown honour out the nearest window. But when his wife continues to get under his skin, he cannot help but grow intrigued by her eccentric nature—once he sees her irritating antics as what they truly are: harmless.

In the face of deadly threats, Anling must embrace her role as Lady Han and turn her cunning mind to their common enemies, or grab the freedom offered to her and watch the empire fall.

Comps: The Darkness Within Us, A Song to Drown Rivers, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Extract: Shiyan’s eyes widened for a heartbeat before he forced composure back onto his features. Her face was powdered with a thick layer of white, as if she had simply dunked it into a bowl of flour. Her bright red lip-paint smudged at the edges and… Heavens forbid women dab their cheeks with uneven blobs of pink.

Even the most senile and stern of his guests held their hands to their stomachs, straining to hold back fits of laughter. He would have gladly joined them, too, if he wasn’t the one with the honour of marrying this… this… buffoon.

He swallowed and recited the wise sayings of his forefathers: one should not judge a book by its cover; a woman’s beauty runs deeper than appearances; virtues are lasting while beauty is fleeting.

Oh, to hell with wise sayings.

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Diamond Fore is ✨querying✨ @diamondf.bsky.social · Aug 6

Charmed x Halloweentown

Three sisters must go on a perilous journey to stop an ancient curse.

🔮Three sisters
🔮 Forbidden Magic
🔮 The chosen ones

#questpit #W #YA #F

Collage of images featuring charmed house, witchy books and herbs

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wott is querying! @wottenmoss.bsky.social · Aug 6

#agentguide for WHEN THE MAGPIE FLIES (81k queer fantasy)

When troublemaker and hobbyist scholar Magpie is chosen by the spirits, she breaks an ancient tradition rather than leave her best friend behind—and brings the wrath of spirits and humans alike down upon the realm.

#questpit #Q #F

Text: An agent’s guide to When the Magpie Flies by M H Wottenmoss. Background of mountains, trees, and a giant mushroom. A magpie flies in the sky.

Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, dreams of becoming a Conduit. As the realm’s only defense against monstrous spirits, Conduits are beloved and privileged—and it’s Magpie’s best chance to escape the undertow of poverty. When a spirit chooses her for the honor, marking her with a cold, entrancing touch, her dream is suddenly within reach. To fully ascend as a Conduit, Magpie, alongside the other newly-chosen, must embark on a journey into the heart of the spiritwoods.
The only thing holding her back is her best friend, Calladonna.
There are rumors about how Conduits are changed by the mysterious journey, and Calla can’t shake the feeling that if Magpie leaves, she won’t come back. Determined to reassure her, Magpie convinces Calla to come along in secret, hidden from the other Conduits. For the first time, Magpie’s future is bright and shining—until one of the other Conduits turns up dead, and it seems like Calla may be to blame.

Comps: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: clueless lesbians, murder and betrayal, journey of ascension. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: found family, humor and darkness, perilous quest.

Also featuring undiscovered magic, monstrous spirits, chaotic academia, ill-advised rituals, haunted forest, queer & autistic ensemble cast, giant mushrooms, original music

Opening lines: The world went dark just after she jumped off the roof. In one moment she could see the clocktower before her, the ledge beneath its defunct face familiar and inviting, and in the next there was nothing. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence, necessarily, but damn if that wasn't inconvenient timing.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · Aug 6

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#QuestPit #A #S #SF #W

This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections:

1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads:
"How much would you pay to die with a smile?"
The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background.

2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word.

3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says:
"A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Omg this sounds amazing! Halloweentown is my favorite Halloween movie.

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

SINNERS x INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and a two hundred years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past— a lover, a family, and something chasing her— she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway. #QuestPit #W #S #T #A

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Me 🙋🏾‍♀️!

Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Aug 2

Burn… she’s a vampire 😂