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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 4d

When a card game has telepath Mona fleeing town, a handsome spy drags her to an underwater kingdom where she awakens a long-forgotten djinn magic. But with the oceanic sky failing, will inner demons drown her before she can save her people or will warring factions claim her?
#Questpit #RF #Q #NA

A moodboard. The first image is a couple kissing, two hands reaching through water, a forest and an eagle, a dagger and a female hand, a golden eye, a woman in an ocean, a whirlpool, cloaked figure fighting with swords, silver sands

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 4d

#QuestPit #W #R #A

I’m almost finished with the first draft of a paranormal romance.

A Cape Cod beach read meets True Blood.

🏄🏻‍♂️ social class differences
🌙 witch sisters
🌶️ high heat
🧛🏻 vampire curse
🤫 local gossip
😈 a deal with the devil

Pic of a surfer at the beach with the text:
Prologue
A Crossroads - Cape Cod, Summer 1963
Elizabeth, Sylvie and Clair grasped their hands tighter as the rain streamed down their faces. It seeped into their leather shoes and dragged down their cotton summer dresses.
The Devil's skin sizzled.

Summer book over pictures of the beach, hydrangeas, women in bathing suits and a surfer. Cape Cod summer vibes.

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Elvin Jones is Querying @therealelvinjones.bsky.social · 4d

Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, The Bride, The Mummy, and Gill-man. A group of tweens stumble upon an ancient gem that grants them the power to turn into these monsters to protect it from an ancient sorcerer determined to reclaim it and take over the world. 👻 #QuestPit #MG #Q #BIPOC

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John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 4d

ITxTHE RIVERMAN: Max finds identical photos, taken years apart, & embarks on a summer long quest to ID the girl in the photo & figure out her connection to the serial killer cult leader and the seven girls he's accused of killing. #YA #H #questpit

Clockwise from top left: a girl dancing in the woods, a creepy house, a fire monster, creepy woods, a black bird and an abandoned factory.

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aymaneckford.bsky.social @aymaneckford.bsky.social · 4d

Turned on the night he fled home, a feral fledgling must master his hunger and survive an ancient vampire feud.
This is a book about:

🧛 Vamp politics
🔪 Ancient feuds
🏠Found family
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rage
💊 Us vs. Normies, anti-cure vibes
🩸 Bloodlust as addiction
🍷New Orleans gothic

#questpit #W #DF #H #own

Books and TV shows that inspired this story: The Originals, The Spirit Barth its teeth, Market, Supernatura, Hollow, Vampire Diaries

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Maya Rose @ohreallytheatre.bsky.social · 4d

SCYTHE x ROMEO & JULIET

feudalism is law. Renaissance nobles have been cryogenically revived. an overly stabby heiress falls for her cleaner: the 365th teenage orphan cyborg cinnamon roll hired by a rival noble fam to murder her.

They’re the only ones happy.

#questpit #YA #SF #F #R

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Kelton Davis is writing! 🦇⚰️🤠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · 4d

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying soon!
#A #F #W #QuestPit

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text:
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood Red Sand
109000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Soon

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image:
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
Background image: same as first slide.

Title: Pitch
Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck.

Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him.

But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all.

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Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · 4d

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED

Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP

💜 Chronic Illness Rep
🌱 Plant Magic
💚 Bisexual Witches
🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar
😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company
☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance
☕ Cozy Vibes

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #chronicillnessrep #ownvoices #LGBTQ #cozyfantasy

Potions Unincorporated is written on a black journal with ivy stems and a mushroom on the cover. The tropes are listed with arrows on the right side: Grumpy x Sunshine, Found Family, Evil Pharma Potion Company, Plant Magic, Chronic Illness Rep, Cozy Vibes

The Pitch is written on a lavender field background: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company

A garden of comps is written on a leaf. The background is brown soil with plants next to comp titles: Legends and Lattes, The Spellshop, Howl's Moving Castle, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and Under The Whispering Door.

A snippet highlights the main character's relationship with her familiar, Toad. In the snippet they discuss Linatta's ex girlfriend and Toad's hatred of hats. A book is open below the image and has wildflowers growing out of the inside spine.

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 4d

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a shiny new agent guide ✨🌙

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, feat:

💫 two exiled men (+ their secrets)
💫 one lunar prison (+ its horrors)
💫 a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT

Dark starfield background. Text reads: ‘a guide to BABEL ON CALLISTO a queer cosmic horrormance [wip].’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE PITCH.’ Under two movie posters, text on left reads: ‘encountering the unknowable’ and under Annihilation poster: ‘contact that warps and bends.’ On the right above Brokeback Mountain poster: ‘unlikely intimacy in isolation’ and below: ‘love that cannot last.’ Main body text reads: ‘On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

$Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE COMPS.’ Three book covers below. Above the first cover (The Mountain in the Sea): ‘isolated research station.’ Below it: ‘philosophical alien threat.’ Above the second cover (The Deep Sky): ‘psychological unraveling.’ Below it: ‘fracture under mission pressure.’ Above the third cover (The Salt Grows Heavy): ‘queer, visceral horror.’ Below it: ‘love as a consuming force.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x$

Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘SNIPPET.’ Large opening quotation mark. Text reads: ‘Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—a time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction—how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.’ Large closing quotation mark. Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a moodboard for GUMIHO:

🇰🇷 Inspired by Korean folklore & mythology
🖤Told from the eyes of an anti-hero gumiho
🌧Set in modern-day PNW
🥀Dark, intimate atmosphere
🌀Psychological unraveling & physical transformation
❤️Slow-burn romance

✨️Currently revising w/ SmoochPit✨️

#QuestPit #A #F #H #R

Grid of pictures:
Hands coming out of the dark, a woman with a cloth over her face, a silhouette of a couple, a korean woman, a woman walking down a hallway, a woman with stained red hands and face

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E.M. Daniels ✒ is querying! @emdaniels.bsky.social · 5d

Oofta, I feel for you. Migraines suck!

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Natalie Brown @nattykbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Ready for something different this spooky season…

What if The Hills Have Eyes were a romance?

🎃 Enemies-to-lovers
🎃 Creepy subterranean tunnels
🎃 Human hybrids
🎃 Near-future dystopia

#Ghostpit #A #H #R #horrormance

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Maria @msibook.bsky.social · 10d

HOW TO SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER x GHOSTS

When an Agatha Christie fangirl inherits an abandoned detective agency in a New England beach town, she teams up with a noir-loving ghost to find her neighbor’s killer in a case that mirrors her PI aunt’s only unsolved case.

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #MM #M

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camila is querying 🗡️ @carosas.bsky.social · 10d

When Nora Foscara unearths her sister’s scavenger hunt, she’s plunged into a world of a secret society, colonized magic, and whispers from the grave—but the truth could devour her before graduation.

#GhostPit #YA #F #G #Q

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E.M. Daniels ✒ is querying! @emdaniels.bsky.social · 10d

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) x BEAUTY & THE BEAST

When ex-slave vampire Dante kidnaps rare psychic Maren for his murder plot, his hunger for more than vengeance jeopardizes his freedom and Maren's life.

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #R

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Soraia Esteves @soraia-esteves.bsky.social · 10d

WHEN THE MOON HATCHED X HEARTLESS HUNTER

🗡️ Mercenary Princess
🥀 Forbidden magic
🗡️ Saving the World
🥀 Romantic subplot
🗡️ Found family vs birth family
🥀 Animal companion
🗡️ Friends with benefits
🥀 Epic Battles

#ghostpit #A #F #Q

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Maisie Bannion 🩷 querying @maisiebannion.bsky.social · 10d

After her parents separate, a teen spends the summer with her mom at a supposedly haunted cottage, but her devious schemes to stop the imminent divorce frustrates her new crush and makes her the target of a dark, chaos-hungry entity.
#GhostPit #YA #PN #R #Spec #WIP

Moodboard collage. Images from top to bottom, left to right: trash scattered on the forest floor, frightened girl staring into her reflection, washed up fish bones, hand holding, a charming cottage, orange full moon against a navy sky, a lake at night, back of a girl with wavy hair, red shirt, and blue cap, a person underwater with their hand pressed up against glass

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Ashton J. Thomas @ashtonjthomas.bsky.social · 10d

NINTH HOUSE x FLEABAG

Haunted by a magical parasite whispering in her head, a dropout returns to the university where her best friend died, while the remnants of fairy-tales rot in jars and the failing barrier between worlds demands the truth she’s buried.

#GhostPit #Q #A #F #H

Moodboard featuring nine images, including: top left an image of a London Underground train in motion, top middle is an artitst's interpretation of fairy taxidermy, pinned similarly to an insect within a shadow box, top right is a man sat in a wheelchair, middle left is a blonde woman who's face is in shadow, middle image is the shadow of a monstrous hand grabbing a person's head, middlie right is a group of five people standing in the shadows of an old archway, bottom left is a pale hand coming out of a dark wooden wardrobe, bottom middle is is foggy Big Ben on Westminster Bridge, bottom right is two blurry people running down a marble staircase

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Phi at the Long Way Down book series @longwaydownbook.bsky.social · 10d

Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do.

The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?

#GhostPit #A #W 👻 #Spec #RF

There is a photo of a small red grave with a skull and crossbones on it in the center of the poster. It sits in front of a red-grey stone fence edge covered in vines; towering above it are iron railings. A pile of dead, red leaves sit to the side. The grass is a dark, grey-green; the trees are spindly and bare, reaching towards the sky like fingers.

The text across the top reads: Reincarnated Death Gods. Urban Fantasy. Love Across Lifetimes.

The tagline beside the grave reads: Death Becomes Them.

The text at the bottom reads: Long Way Down. A Book Series WIP by Phi and Moma. Patreon.com/longwaydownbook

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 10d

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.

#GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W

Made from non-AI free stock images.

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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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 10d

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

⭐ two exiled men (+ their secrets)
🌙 one lunar prison (+ its horrors)
⭐ a government that wants their data
🌙 a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t make it out alive

#ghostpit #SF #H #R #LGBT #WIP

A moodboard for my sci-fi horrormance WIP, BABEL ON CALLISTO. On the top left is a glowing humanoid figure with a planet and rings orbiting its head. In the center, white glitchy text reads: "NOT ALL ENDINGS ARE THE END. SOMETIMES THEY ARE THE BEGINNING," repeated multiple times. Beneath that, a figure walks into a starry void shaped like another person, reaching toward each other. Other elements include a flatworm floating in a grid-like space, a silhouetted couple reaching toward each other in a virtual tunnel, and hands weaving a glowing galaxy-like thread.

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E.M. Daniels ✒ is querying! @emdaniels.bsky.social · 10d

A DOWRY OF BLOOD x BEAUTY & THE BEAST

Plagued by other people's emotions, psychic Maren's life is complicated enough. When she's kidnapped by the brooding vampire Dante, she must survive human traffickers, hunters, & a worldwide hunt between 2 predators.

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #R

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · Oct 5

I’m so sorry I have to miss Tuesday but I’m teaching that day at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social

The amazing Mathila Zeller will be there at Women & Children First with this great line up!

Story Studio Genre Series — Horror edition

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Krys⸆⸉ (she/her) @becomingkrys.bsky.social · Dec 13

I made a list of all the pitch events we know about in the BlueSky #WritingCommunity so far.

I've included links to all the hashtags, whether they're an agent pitch or a hype event, what kinds of manuscripts are included, and the accounts associated with the events!

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Pitch Events on BlueSky

Pitch Events on BlueSky Rules of Thumb All pitch events have their own rules, but here are a few rules of thumb for best results on BlueSky. No AI – all work should be your own (commissioned art shoul...

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