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🖊️Author of ghost stories & folklore retellings ✊ Reclaiming stories colonialism tried to erase 📚 Represented by Hannah Todd @ Janklow & Nesbit UK

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X WHEN THE MOON HATCHED

There are three rules for provoking a Galah: never look into its hollow eyes, never speak your true name, and never, under any circumstances, let go.

Fantasy retelling of SEA folklore
⚔️ So. Much. Yearning
⚔️Forbidden Love
#Q #NA #YA #F #RF #1stLinePit

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · 12d

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · 12d

LOVE

Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · 12d

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · 12d

Give it to me NOW!

Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · 12d

Delicious?

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Maheen Majid @maheen-majid.bsky.social · 12d

THE CITY WE BECAME x MADOKA MAGICA

A vengeful hunter becomes the hunted when he fuses w/ one of the psychic monsters plaguing his city—and the beast has a death wish. If he can't expel it before its urges overpower him, his brother will lose the only family he's got.

#DVpit #A #F #CF #MH #LGBT

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · 12d

LOVE this so much!

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Morgan is Editing @morgan-writes.bsky.social · May 7

Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're extremely attracted to each other.

It's only natural that they become friends with benefits.

But all too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything.

#QuestPit #R #W

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · May 7

A booksmart mixed race FMC, caught between:

👑 a prince who would do anything for his kingdom
✨ celestial being who lingers in her mind through an unexpected bond.

Who can Ariella trust, before the power she never asked for tears her world apart 🌍

#questpit #A #F #R

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Lotte is querying @lottevansande.bsky.social · May 7

Hop in loser, we’re going to South Africa

An agent’s guide to WILD HEARTS

🐆 lots of wildlife
🐆 set at a wildlife conservation in South Africa
🐆 influencer x grumpy worker
🐆 two cheeky meerkats
🐆 rewilding and releasing of cheetahs
🐆 fun banter

#questpit #q #A #R

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Gabriela is querying a dystomance @gabriela-stluke.bsky.social · May 7

When a government mandated serum grants Amel a lethal superhuman ability, she’s forced to join a special ops team to prepare for war, but choosing who she can trust may threaten innocent lives and her own.

#questpit #YA #SFF #R #W

Soldier boots marching in the rain with tagline: “Fall in line or die fighting.” for “The Society” a YA Sci-Fi Fantasy Romance

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · May 7

The comps are EVERYTHING!

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · May 7

Love this so much!

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Morgan is Editing @morgan-writes.bsky.social · May 7

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Kelton Davis is querying! 🏹⚔️🌠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · May 7

BONE SHARD DAUGHTER x GODKILLER

When an assassin nearly kills her mother, ruler of her people and living goddess, Niozene must chase redemption into a forbidden land to win back the throne...and her mother's love.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Disgraced Heir
🏹 Cyclical Trauma

#F #W #A #questpit

Background: Amethyst Geode
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Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | WIP | Estimated at 109K words

Background: Amethyst Geode | Six images surrounding a quote: A red forest, a sunset, hammer striking hot metal, red arrow fletching, an old, grizzle man, and a red-haired woman archer.
Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least.
"Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"

Background: Amethyst Geode
Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text:
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)

Background: Amethyst Geode
Title: Pitch
Text: For Niozene, eldest daughter and crown heir to the Mother, the living goddess that rules her country, perfection is not a goal to strive toward; it is the base expectation. And despite her every effort to the contrary, Niozene is not perfect. Her flawless scholar’s education and polished career as a ranger have failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest mistake: she was born without the holy power that marks her family as divinity and grants them their divine right to rule.

When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she officially runs out of time to impress. She is stripped of her titles and given a choice: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication—banishment from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as her last chance to show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter.

Allowed only the help of another excommunicated criminal, a surly, aged tracker named Sonsan, and facing an assassin who could be anyone, she dreads her chance is over before it starts. But when Sonsan reveals the same shape-changing power as the assassin, she realizes there is more to her quest than she has been told. As they chase the assassin deep into a forbidden land, they must confront the buried history they discover they share, as well as the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, if they are to return alive.

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Dianna Duddy @ddwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

The house is still empty. I can’t decide if that’s better or worse. There’s a strange comfort in the not-knowing, like a pause before something inevitable.
🪻ALL THE IMAGINARY THINGS🪻

#1stLinePit #Q #A #S

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J.P. Flynn is querying 📝 @jpflynn.bsky.social · Apr 5

THE IMMORTAL’S ASSISTANT

Supernatural X Ninth House

“Ten minutes. It took ten minutes to get to her dad’s office—seven if she ran.”

#1stLinePit #Q #A #F #P #agentguide #litagents #querying

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Bre Knight @breknightwriter.bsky.social · Apr 5

"The world had finally noticed it had lost its chosen one, and now it had come looking for her."

#1stLinePit #F #YA #WiP #CMe

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Taylor Renee @taylorrenee.bsky.social · Apr 5

"If you could live for centuries—through famine and plague, through wars that razed cities and left ash in their wake, that not even a bomb crashing through your home could destroy you—would you choose immortality?"
#1stLinePit #Q #F #G #P Agents Guide ⬇️

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leahbauerwrites.bsky.social @leahbauerwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

Picking locks is a bit like discovering what makes a lover come undone; it requires patience, focus, and a dash of magic. Luckily for Ness, she happens to have all three.

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #R #LGBT #CMe

a background of frost and ice with the words An Agent’s Guide to Be Gay Do Crimes WIP.

a background image of frost and ice. The pitch for Be Gay Do Crimes WIP: To keep her queer crew from being kicked out of their gang, 24 year-old thief Ness must steal a prince, get him to his rich aunt, and keep her pretty nemesis from interfering. Falling for both of them wasn’t in the plan. A collage of memes for Be Gay Do Crimes WIP:
-steal everything your gay little hands can carry
-middle spoon
-the nonsense has escalated
-* instant regret *
-the sexual tension when someone says "make me"
-Be Gay do Crimes
-A knife? Are you flirting with me?
-A cat walking on two legs carrying an umbrella and carpet bag. Sheet music with the caption I don't know where I'm going but I'm gay
-A tweet from @ MaineMillennial: the goal of polyamory is to acquire enough partners to pull off a successful heist.

a background of frost and ice. For fans of Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland (fun romp, horny MC), A Power Unbound by Freya Marske (queer fantasy romance, cool magic system), Little Thieves by Margaret Owen (female con MC, cat-and-mouse romance), 1997 Anastasia movie (banter, travel) Ocean’s Eight movie and The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (heists, found family).

a background of frost and ice. An excerpt from Be Gay Do Crimes WIP:
“Stop, thief.”
Ness stills. She knows that voice.
Smooth blades of midnight wrapped in silk.
A frisson of excitement shoots down Ness’ spine, and she has to force herself to turn slowly. It’s bad form for a mouse to appear too eager to entice the cat into a heart-pounding chase. Though she’s shrouded in shadow, she meets Melirin’s flinty gaze unerringly. Her obsidian eyes glint with a spark of challenge.

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Chantel is ON SUBMISSION ✨ @cpearsonwrites.bsky.social · Apr 5

I’m so obsessed with your first line!!!

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Apr 5

"They say being offered to the Gods was the highest honour. However, if the whispers from the scribes were true, no mortal that crossed over to the immortal realm survived." #1stLinePit #NA #RF #C

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