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Bruce Buchanan @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social · 2d

THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD
Witchy 1980s high school adventure: A goth music-obsessed teen unearths a secret coven’s plot to summon a demon king, Charlotte risks her life to save the people she loves, even as confronts uncomfortable truths about them.
#questpit #Q #YA #F

The Goth Girl Who Saved the World - a music-fueled YA contemporary fantasy set in the 1980s

Charlotte Sumner loves 1980s post-punk music - high school, not so much. But while working her after-school job, new classmate Ian Morris alt-rocks her world. Not only is Ian a good witch, but an evil coven operates at their school and plans to summon a demon king! The only thing standing between earth & apocalypse is a teenage girl in black lipstick and Doc Martens.

Meet the Characters: Charlotte - The lonely goth girl finds herself in an ancient rivalry between two covens of witches: one good and one evil. Ian - The mysterious new kid in the Depeche Mode t-shirt. Ms. Moore - Charlotte's mentor and after-school boss. Mrs. Allison - Charlotte's mean trigonometry teacher and Charlotte's anxiety fuel. The Grindylow Coven - the evil witches! Charlotte must discover what they are up to.

Tropes: Unlikely hero. Coming-of-age. High stakes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Pretty in Pink. Supernatural Young Adult high school adventure with a 1980s post-punk soundtrack.

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

An agent’s guide to THE SLOW BURN 🚒🎄

She’s an event planner with her promotion on the line. He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they have to pull off the fire department’s holiday gala 👀

#questpit #r #q #amquerying

An agents guide to THE SLOW BURN
an 82,000 word romcom by Rebeccah Sheridan

The Pitch
She’s an event planner with a promotion on the line.
He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief.
Together, they’re planning the fire department’s holiday gala.
When the spark between them fans into a no-strings flung, they’ll find out how complicated “casual” can be.

Comps
Just My Type by Falon Ballard: Workplace politics, toxic boss
Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan: From fling to feelings, “no one gets hurt”
Lovelight Farms by BK Borison: small-town, holiday romance, found family

Tropes
Small-town
Slow burn
Holiday romance
“Keep it casual and no one gets hurt”
Found family
MMC in uniform (firefighter)

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brittney is querying🐾🌿 @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 2d

KNOW YOU BETTER is a dual-POV slow burn romcom with sharp, witty banter, found family, FaceTimes & texts, and positive plus-size rep💚

MUSIC VIBES
🎶Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
🎶Am I Okay? by Megan Moroney
🎶Overwhelming by Jon Bellion
🎶just friends by Virginia to Vegas

#QuestPit #A #R #Q

Agent's guide to Know You Better, dual-pov adult plus-size romcom, by Brittney Farrell, on a split green background, with stock images of two characters, two dogs, a kitchen, and laser tag

Pitch & comp page on a split green background. Stock image of a corgi and golden retriever. Know You Better one sentence pitch: A plus-size retail manager dog sits to survive after her ex moves out, leaving her with rent she can’t afford—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient, and in desperate need of a dog sitter… which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever. Comp titles: 4 images of books. Savor It by Tarah DeWitt for the sizzling banter & tension. You With a View by Jessica Joyce for the emotional exploration of starting over. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez for acts of service as a love language. And Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen for the plus-size confidence.

Opening page sample on a split green background:

Much like my life, my apartment is going up in smoke.

I choke as a black cloud billows out of the oven. My gourmet dino nuggets have turned to fossils.

“Oh fuck me,” I groan, reaching in to grab the sheet pan. I drop it on the stovetop as the lava-like heat bites through my oven mitt. Shrill barks echo beside me in tandem with the smoke alarm that’s now going off. It sounds like the inventory scanners from work in surround sound, live from Hell. Lovely.

“Piper, Phoebe, no!” I shoo the Pomeranians back from the still-open oven. Dog sitting was supposed to be an easy way to make money to get out of this shithole apartment, not burn it down. Even if I dream of it most days.

Gray smoke swirls around my galley kitchen, blending into the dull cabinets and walls. The scene’s taking me back to a night I’d love to bleach from my brain, but the soot clinging for dear life to the yellowed ceiling makes that impossible. “Thanks, Devin,” I spit into the ether, as if he can hear me from Chicago. And a big thanks to me, too, for treating my credit cards like Monopoly money.

Piper takes a piranha chomp toward my fingers—luckily still covered by oven mitts—while I wave at the haze circling their fluffy little heads. They charge forward again. “Get back, I’m trying to save you! This is your fault!”

My mistake for thinking they would be the easy, well-behaved angels I was assured they were. A ‘quick’ potty break turned into chasing a rogue Phoebe around my complex, begging her to slow down, while her sister snapped at my ankle. It took over thirty minutes to wrangle them, and the nuggets paid the price. I guess store-bought is not fine.

Pinterest style mood board on a green background, including images of: a tattooed hand holding another, laser tag, a plus-size woman, airplane, two dogs, a Red Wings game, a green kitchen, a tattooed man, pottery

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

You had me at Noah and Allie!

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds adorable!

Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

Such a strong premise!

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Mina Kim @minackim.bsky.social · 2d

A hidden princess. A forbidden love. Unbreakable Fate.

When Aria Han’s lost memories resurface, so do the secrets that could destroy her—and the man willing to die to save her.

K-DRAMA x THE CROWN x MISS NEWBURY'S LIST

#Questpit #A #R #Q #amquerying

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

Love the New England vibe!

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

THE SLOW BURN is an 82k word contemporary romcom featuring:

🔥 Slow burn
🤷 "Keep it casual, and no one gets hurt"
🏘️ Small town
🚒 MMC in uniform
💜 Found family
🎄 Holiday vibes

#questpit #q #a #r #amquerying

She's an event planner up for a promotion.
He's a firefighter, and her dad is his chief.
Together, they're planning the fire department's holiday gala.
They're about to find out how complicated "casual" can be.

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

You had me at Encanto! This sounds great!

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds so cute! And love the the title!

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Maggie Eve @ariskari.bsky.social · 2d

A Half-Baked Harmony - a sweet, cosy romcom set against the backdrop of the Brighton seafront.

Rock star Johan and baker Dominic, caught between their private hardships and the promise of a brighter future together, must confront their demons and choose each other over fear.

#QuestPit #A #R #LGBT

Mood board
Top left: couple hugging
Top middle: baking set up
Top right: scruffy handsome man
Mid left: perform on stage
Centre square: eurovision stage
Mid right: in focus microphone against blurry background
Bottom left: second handsome man
Bottom middle: hands working with flour
Bottom right: silhouette of couple kissing

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

Omg thank you for asking, I'm glad I wasn't the only one wondering! haha!

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J.W. Gant @johnwgant.bsky.social · 2d

satire/crime/upmarket at 82K

#QuestPit

A man unemployed so long that the foster home he and his wife own will be foreclosed, must apprentice with his retired master thief father, who has Alzheimer’s, and turn to crime. The score? A portrait of the Prez and $1M in cash.

#Q #A #T NoKings Found Fam

agent guide for
how i stole from the president while saving a foster home
images of mar-a-lago, a victorian home, and actor Jon Hamm as a burglar

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

Love this!!

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh this is right up my ally!

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 2d

To hit Number 1, Victoria's willing to play dirty

💔 a romance writer who needs inspiration
☕ the gruff owner of her favorite coffee shop
6️⃣ six dates
📖 a book secretly based on their relationship
❌ but he'll never find out
💥 ... unless he happens to be her anonymous beta reader

#QuestPit #A #R #Q

closeup of a woman's closed eye surrounded by freckled skin and red hair, a latte with a heart on it sitting next to an open laptop, the words Dirty Drafting, the torso of a male barista frothing milk

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Ria Gualano @riagualanowrites.bsky.social · 2d

LAWS OF (UN)ATTRACTION
STEM Rom-Com

Two psychology PhD candidates test their rival theories of (un)attraction on each other to settle the academic feud that could cost them their careers...only to discover their hearts might be variables they can't control.

#questpit #Q #A #R

A mood board of a man wearing a leather jacket, a candle, multiple books, fall leaves and trees, libraries full of books, apples with baking ingredients, the silhouettes of a man and a woman sitting close, three girls having a picnic, mooncakes, lanterns floating in the night sky, and a lecture hall. The backdrop is tan and there are various leaves, hearts and lines decorating the overall grid of photos.

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

Love this premise, so fun!!

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds so exciting!

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

Epic love story!

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Mina Kim @minackim.bsky.social · 2d

A hidden princess. A forbidden love. Unbreakable Fate.

When Aria Han’s lost memories resurface, so do the secrets that could destroy her—and the man willing to die to save her.

K-DRAMA x THE CROWN x MISS NEWBURY'S LIST

#Questpit #A #R #amquerying

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💫Meagan Thompson-Mann is zhushing up her manuscript 🌿 @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 2d

ALL FOURS x THE WEDDING PEOPLE

THIS ENDS NOW: 2 husbands, 3 hometowns, 1 wedding planner ready to stop staging messy exits from her own marriages. But there's no breaking the cycle until Lainey confronts her clever, cunning first love, who's still dying to put her in her place. #A #UP #Q #QuestPit

A collage of photos: row 1 (l-r): the interior of Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, showing a Gothic cathedral-like entrance; a classic red Vermont farmhouse in winter, covered in snow, nestled among bare trees; a woman silhouetted against a frosted window, while sunlight spills through the window; row 2 (l-r): two hands reaching for each other in low lighting against a black background; a dark-haired woman floating face upwards in water, surrounded by white flowers, her eyes open; Spilled glass candle with wax still aflame, flickering against a black backdrop; row 3 (l-r): Sunlight streaming through a quiet pine forest, illuminating a narrow dirt path; black and white photo of a person gripping the back of another person’s head from behind ; a man’s hand clasping a woman’s hand showing her wedding ring, with a snow-covered fir tree in the background; row 4 (l-r): three antique keys on twine; dark green leaves, covered in dew; the title of the novel, “This Ends Now” written on a scrap of spiral bound, lined notepaper.

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Dannye Chase is querying queer romance @dannyechase.bsky.social · 15d

Vampire Haven update: Book 1 with its 1st beta!
M/M erotic romance
❤️ Vampire/Human meet-cute
🧡 Charming playboy/Shy nerd
💛 Soft dom/New sub
💚 Accidentally landing everybody's crush
💙 Psychic connection
💜 Happy eternally after
Sneak peaks:
dannyechase.com/newsletter/
🌈💜📚🌎 🪐📚#rombk🌶️📚#specfic🔱✍️🌈🚀💫

A card with a fancy border reading: "Book One. Finn and August. A gorgeous, charming vampire looking for his happily-eternally-after falls ridiculously hard for a shy, nerdy human who's never had a date in his life. Tropes: charming/shy (my fave), gentle dom/sub, virginity kink, strangers to lovers"

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Rebeccah Sheridan (is querying) @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 2d

Love this premise!

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