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Lucky Ludor

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Comic artist, doll maker, aspiring writer (cozy sci-fi, historical fantasy, dark fantasy, fantasy sci-fi). There's a couple of people that believe in me, and maybe, that's enough.

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Lucky Ludor @luckyludor.bsky.social · 2d

The Summer Starlight festival was supposed to end with a dazzling magical display by sorcerer Amos Wandson, not his kidnapping!

Fall of Ebonwald - White Cliff, book 1
#QuestPit #W #F #WIP #Fantasy #WhiteCliff
(artwork by me as well)

Text - Fall of Ebonwald

Image - Amos, a robed sorcerer, hand glowing with magic, Dimamire, a young vampire lord holding a dagger, and Sir D'Amico, a knight in half armor wielding a sword.

Text - A mad vampire lord, a kidnapped sorcerer, an ancient feud, and a group of friends. . .

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amanda aug IS QUERYING!!! 🏴‍☠️ @amandaaugwrites.bsky.social · 2d

hunting vampires is all enid’s ever known. when her best friend is turned, she must swallow her fear to stand by nettie’s side.

benedict was going to marry nettie- now, he doesn’t know if he can stay away from the one that turned her.
#questpit #F #WIP

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Katie Van Amburg @kvanamburg.bsky.social · 2d

CRIMSON PEAK x HGTV

💐 A flower-seller turned debutante who wants a home
💀 A disgraced celebrity necromancer trying to resurrect his reputation
🏚️ A crumbling gothic manor crawling with ghosts
🐶 …and 73 dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q

A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind.

A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.

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Brock Poulsen @heybrock0.bsky.social · 2d

🤡 IT Chapter 2 x Weapons 🔪

Alex and Finn travel from their home in Illinois back to Alex's hometown in rural Tennessee.
together they uncover the connection between the missing children of Hewitt Falls and Alex's traumatic, buried history

#questpit #Q #H #A

a dilapidated treehouse, with claw-like branches surrounding it

a tall, shadowy creature with empty eyes and long, thin limbs

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Dannye Chase is querying queer romance @dannyechase.bsky.social · 2d

For #QuestPit Queer romance FOREWARNING
❤️ NB fashion icon prince
🧡 Hunky royal guard who crochets
💛 Forbidden romance but the internet ships it
💚 Psychic powers
💙 Royal murder mystery
💜 Best friends to lovers HEA
54k, on query, 5 agent RQ's
#Q #A #F #R #T

The pitch for Forewarning:

Queer Romance FOREWARNING

Prince Cole doesn't know why he psychically sees people's doppelgangers acting out the future, but it does come in handy. Cole's other secret not so much—he's desperately in love with his childhood best friend, royal guardsman Lucas, not least because Luc staunchly supports Cole being an openly nonbinary royal.

Unfortunately, Cole can't marry a guardsman, and sweet, introverted Luc would never want to be a royal spouse anyway. But when a head of state is murdered and Cole's life is threatened, Luc steps in as Cole's 24/7 bodyguard.

Together they must find a legendary weapon of mass destruction that threatens their own lives—and millions more. (And really, it would be easier for Cole to concentrate if his gorgeous bodyguard wasn't wandering around their room half-naked, but whatever. It's fine.)

Comps for Forewarning:

FOREWARNING is a bit like if Dean Koontz's ODD THOMAS was an upbeat queer romance. It will appeal to readers who enjoy K.J. Charles's DOOMSDAY series for its queer love story, strong B-plot, spice level, and titled/commoner dynamics; and the sassy tone of Alexis Hall's 10 THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

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Nick Wilford @nickpwilford.bsky.social · 2d

A superfan of a teen drama is gifted a ticket to a VR simulation of its world. But when the AI powering it goes wrong and traps her, she must take on an evil force that threatens not just her own life but those of its creators. FRANKENSTEIN x READY PLAYER ONE #QuestPit #YA #SF #W

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Dean Hamilton @tyburntree.bsky.social · 2d

Most fiction embedded in the Tudor era tends to be tales of Court intrigue, set amidst the silken splendor of palaces. Mine tends to hang about in ale-soaked taverns, muddy streets and fetid back-alleys where cold-steel by lantern light offers redemption or grim death by turn.

#Questpit #Q #HF

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J.C. Wood 📃is querying @j-c-wood.bsky.social · 2d

When a space shuttle mishap leaves a disgraced scientist stranded on treasonous moonbase Aldrin, he must repair both the ties with Earth and his reputation before suspicious residents make good on their threat to open the airlock.

The Martian × Red Mars

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #SF #SFF #S

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Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social · 2d

Geralt of Rivia meets THE PACIFIER
When Audlan’s boss is killed by a rival sorcerer, he is abruptly saddled with his boss’ “children”—five shadow demons summoned from another dimension. Audlan must hunt down his boss’ killer and stop Ig from getting blood on the carpet
#QuestPit #AG #W #A #F

In a black background, in red text: SHADOW DADDY, Geralt of Rivia meets The Pacifier

a cloaked figure in black pushes a black stroller on top of a red circle (with the bottom cut off)

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Rosa Suzanne @rosasuzanne.bsky.social · 2d

When Jude returns to her childhood home after a decade away and accidentally unleashes a monster, her visit turns into a living nightmare—literally. She must rally her old best friends to save the town and everyone in it.

🌿Seaside cottagecore
👻Reality-bending monster
✨Whimsical magic

#QuestPit #A

A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about.

Some of the images depict seaside towns, dogs swimming, a couple dancing on the sea shore, foggy cliffs and lots of cozy looking cottages.

A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about. Some of the images depict cozy looking gardens with cottage houses made of brick stones near the seaside. Others depict young women walking through grass fields. There are flowers and and stone paths among other beautiful scenery.
Text reads: When Jude returns to her small seaside hometown after a decade away, she thinks the worst things she'll face are the family and friends she left behind. But when she accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster that threatens the whole town through nightmares, she must rally her former best friends and work together to stop the monster - before their town, and everyone in it, gets erased from existence.

A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about.
Some of the images depict stone walls with wooden fences, tables in the middle of grassy fields, the seaside and cats sleeping atop books. Hidden views and lots of cozy cottages.
Text reads:
For fans of
Starling House
• Practical Magic
• Spells for Forgetting Small seaside town
• Cottagecore
• Small magics
• Nightmare monster
• Childhood friends to reluctant allies to found family
• Crumbling reality

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BB Lorik (writing SFF 💀📖) @authorbblorik.bsky.social · 2d

#QuestPit #A #S #W
If Grey’s Anatomy had magic, merged with Hunger Games, & was written by Mary Shelly:

A MALIGNANT GAME

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 2d

#QuestPit Pitch thread.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD OMENS X THE OFFICE

Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, has 3 months to turn the business around to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, getting a celestial pink slip.

But his old job, and mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally.

#QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

A 3x3 grid surmounted by the words "Hell Is Work" in yellow on an orange background. Images are: 1 - A black pawn topples a white king on a chessboard. 2 - A man in a white suit is back to back with a man in a black suit. They are holding hands. 3 - A puppet about to have it's strings cut. 4 - An angel with a glowing orange halo casting him in a red light. 5 - A lit lighter being held in a man's hand. 6 - A businessman with steepled fingers. 7 - A weeping man is crouched in a tunnel hiding from the light. 8 - A businessman stares at his shadow which has horns and a tail. 9 - Sand running through a person's fingers.

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Ann Glimmer @annglimmer.bsky.social · 2d

TRUE HATE'S KISS
She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family

🐉Viking Vibes & Scandinavian Folklore
⚔️Age-Old Clan Feud
❤️‍🔥Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers
🔥Delicious Banter & Yearning
🌶️Hot & Spicy

#Questpit #NA #Romantasy #Agented #Editorsguide

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2d

My Arthurian x Indonesian mythology WIP has:

🤟🏼🗡️ disabled chosen one whose language is that of hands
⚔️ chaotic squad of vigilante knights
👹 a multiverse under the feet of sexy monsters
😤🗡️🫦 enemies to lo–enemies who admire each other's talents. Foemates

#questpit #YA #W

moodboard consisting of 9 pics (a group of swords joined in a huddle (hands can be seen), a river, two hands reaching out for each other against a pinkish sky background, a good masquerade mask on a silky surface with fairy lights, a dagger held behind someone’s back - they’re in a medieval-like dress, the back of an Asian man in a decorated white suit, a skull cradled in the hands of someone in a white-yellowish 18th century dress - they’re also some plants, Indonesian shadow puppets and hands holding a pocket watch against a bluish dress background) in a grid

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Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social · 2d

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Nature is decaying, nobles are hoarding magic, and demons prey on everyone. A possible chosen one, a man who failed his destiny, and a woman rejected by fate must work together for one last chance to save the dying world.

#questpit #Q #F #A #agentguide

Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!”
The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death.
“Magic should never return.”
After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended.
Sent him back to his body.

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Nia is ✨is ready for the good part✨ 🌙🌻🍉 @nialu.bsky.social · 2d

PRACTICAL MAGIC x THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP

When a magicless and loveless nail artist performs an ancient spell helping her gain back her dreams, fate decides she needs two more gifts: magic she has no control over and a soulmate she can’t get rid of.

#Q #PR #A #QuestPit

nine picture photo collage of a girl in the window looking for someone, a man with his button down shirt open, a ballroom, an art piece with the quote “I feel my magic”, a woman with gold nails touching her knotless braids, an old Victorian list of flowers and herbs and their meanings, tattooed legs, Smokey quartz crystals, and tea in a mug sitting with dried herbs, a cauldron and a candle.

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Yalda is AGENTED💫 @yaldacollection.bsky.social · 2d

THE MAID X FINLAY DONOVAN

10 coworkers.
1 dead manager.

A trio of coworkers must find their office manager's killer, before their scathing resignation emails are discovered, making them the prime suspects. #questpit #editorsguide #AG

🏃‍♀️Escape room whodunit
💘 Office romance

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sherlyn is seeking rep 🖤 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · 2d

an agent's guide for DON'T FORGET ME🕰️☕️🖋️

if you like:
- dark academia
- second chance
- dual POV
- dual timeline
- hispanic rep
- themes of trauma (DV)
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying #agentsguide

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Natalia Wik is in her ✨querying✨ era @weavinguptales.bsky.social · 2d

Sailor Moon x The Untamed (but sapphic) x Indonesian mythology

A messy time-bending magical girl makes a pact with a queen of monsters to save her cursed family, but she must literally steal the heart of her true love to do so

🫀🗡️✨

#questpit #YA #F #Q

Moodboard of 7 images including an open pocket watch held in a hand, two faceless girls in an embrace and wearing old-fashioned dresses, an Indonesian mythological figure with fangs and large eyes, an Indonesian dagger, hands clasping potion bottles, a body of water flowing, a dagger being held by a faceless figure in an old-fashioned dress

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Suzy A. Win is Querying! @suzyawin.bsky.social · 2d

A FORGERY OF FATE X LITTLE THIEVES

Pearl's got three months to kiss a prince or become sea foam—if she isn't killed by his cousin's harpoon first, of course.

🧜‍♀️Mermaid with a side of thievery and stalking
🪄Magic (and phones, I guess)
👫First Friend (like ever)
🍽️Predator x Prey?
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

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James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 2d

#Questpit

Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space

6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy?

#Q #SF #SFF

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Jen is Querying @jenknowsprose.bsky.social · 2d

ALCHEMY OF A BLOOD MOON 🌙
The dreams that once consoled wall-flower Selene have mutated into blood drenched nightmares. Now she must seek the guidance of her coven and forgive the man that betrayed her—or be swallowed alive in the dark. #questpit #q #pr #litagents #amquerying #WriteSky #agentguide

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J. K. Lambo @jklambo.bsky.social · 2d

🧁 She's a jaded pastry chef
🍰 He's a charismatic baker
❤️‍🔥 When their rivalry reaches an all-time high & sweet lies turn to bitter truths, will they be able to achieve their desires unscathed or will all they've worked for go down in flames?

#questpit #R #NA #A #W

Project Sugar and Spice moodboard

Top row: black girl with curly hair holding up a peace sign in front of painted wall; palmiers sprinkled with granulated sugar; black guy with short curly hair standing behind workplace

Middle row: Freshly baked brookies (combination of brownies and cookies); "I really want to kiss you and be cute with you and fall asleep in your arms and go on stupid dates, but I also want to sort of light you on fire and throw myself into traffic so idk" quote; freshly made choux pastry (cream puffs)

Bottom row: pastry chef drizzling chocolate into a bowl; black couple holding each other in their arms; an assortment of bread in a dimly lit bakery

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Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · 2d

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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Kelton Davis is writing! 🦇⚰️🤠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · 2d

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).
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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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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 2d

Experience a vision of transformation through the ruins of the former US.

Using the power of meditation, archaic tech, and ancient survival skills, an empath-scholar's quest to save her people is a narrative guide on how to thrive in civilization’s aftermath. 🌱

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #clifi

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