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MelonieWithAnO

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She/Her MG and YA Fantasy writer deep in revision land. Member of #SCBWI. Wife. Mom to one human and 3 beasts. Average Musician. Newb archer. #WritingCommunity Same name on IG #RoundTableMentor mentee 2025 meloniependleton.com

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 2d

PJO XTrumanShow
Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out.
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

Moodboard with alternating images between black and white and vivid color. A greek statue, a raven, a girl crying, a girl with hand lifted, an oracle, a light magic, a face statue, Nashville neon lights at night. Text: Music will be the death of me.

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you!

MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 12h

5th query gone out today!
#amquerying

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ALT: kermit the frog is looking at a green object

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Katie Krohn @katiekrohnauthor.bsky.social · 2d

A teen outcast from a secret line of Irish plant magicians must harness newfound powers, with the help of an oak tree portal, to protect herself from a poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time. #questpit #amquerying #ya #f

🌿 Plant magic
🍄 Elixirs + poisons
🎂 Magical baking

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Mary S Morrison ✏️🧬🧫🇨🇦🏛️ @marysmorrison.bsky.social · 2d

DO NO HARM

The agent’s guide is here!

🎓Dark academia
🔮Magical oligarchy
🗡️Murder
🩼Disabled fmc
🏳️‍🌈Queer chars
🧬Real science
🧑‍🔬Save the enby, save the world

#questpit #querying #Q #A #MY #UF

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Natasha DeHere @cyborgmermaid7.bsky.social · 2d

FAEBOUND X LEGENDBORN

🌙Multi POV
🌙Swords, sorcery, and subways
🌙Hidden identities
🌙Diverse folklore
🌙Secret societies

#agentsguide #questpit #A #F

An agent’s guide to Stargazer by Natasha DeHere. An Adult Urban Fantasy Stand Alone with Series Potential

In the midst of a centuries-long war, elven Princess Ellery is stripped of her crown and sent on a rite of passage to earn it back within one year and one day. This is the perfect opportunity for her to see the human world. With her former crownguard and a book on human behavior as her guide, Ellery sets off. The only thing she didn't account for was the chaos that is the New York City subway system. Ellery’s situation goes from bad to worse when she discovers someone has sealed the portals. All of them.

Sick of living hidden on Earth under constant threat from human discovery, The Cult of the Sevenstar seek to collapse the barrier that separates the two worlds permanently.

Lost in an unfamiliar world, Ellery must put her trust in an alluring vampire and the ghost of a unicorn to help
find her way back home.

Themes: The Corrupting Influence of Power, Ancestral Grief, Fate vs. Free Will, Self-Discovery, Identity and Trauma, The Futility of War, Human Hubris vs. Nature’s Power, Sacrifice and Breaking Cycles

Snippet: I raise this rally cry for all fellow non-humans around the world. It is time those of Gaean blood stopped passively allowing our human oppressors to defile our heritage. For too long we have lived in fear. We must not allow our magic to atrophy further. We shall bring back true magic to Terra. We will use force if necessary. Look for the signs. Await further instructions.

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 2d

😮

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Lara Henneman @lhenpen.bsky.social · 2d

🌟 THE LAST SESSION X HOLLYWOOD PARK 🌟

A cult survivor turned social worker inherits a surprise parcel of land. Only problem? It's still occupied by the abusive fundamentalist group that raised her...and they're not giving up without a fight.

🌲🔪🩸♀️CULT DAUGHTER

#questpit #a #t #q

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Bithi Paul @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social · 2d

PRESENT PERFECT x I'LL BE SEEING YOU

After losing her voice a month before the start of her senior year in high school, she must rebuild her self-confidence & adapt to the changes in her life, determined not to let her illness derail her future plans.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #RF #R #DIS

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Brayden is querying @braydenrwrites.bsky.social · 2d

A coastal paradise. A hallucinogenic drug. A girl who disappears and returns rewritten.
The truth isn’t lost—it’s erased.
They Called it Saltwater explores how far people will go to reclaim their identity—and what it means to trust in a world engineered to deceive. #Q #questpit #A #T #LF #S

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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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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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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 2d

Ooooh! 🫶

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Linda Maleh @lindamaleh.bsky.social · 2d

PERCY JACKSON but with witches!

16-y/o Haley Thorne lives in a secret community of witches in NYC, but when she receives dream messages from dead witches warning of a coming threat, she must go on a deadly quest through a monster-infested realm to save the world by Halloween.

#QuestPit #Q #F #YA

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much!

MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 2d

Ah sorry! Just the sudden twist hit me as comical but I can see it's not a comedy.

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

ARTHURIAN x 🇮🇩 MYTHOLOGY

A non-verbal chosen one finds the world she’s destined to protect falling to soul-eating monsters. They outmatch her, especially *their* chosen one. She & her vigilante knights must defeat them. That’s if she could resist the soul of her evil counterpart #questpit #YA #F #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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claudiathewriter.bsky.social @claudiathewriter.bsky.social · 2d

#questpit #Q #MG #F THE APPRENTICE
Iram is a lowly teaboy whose greatest wish is to be an alchemist, but magic is out of his reach. When his city is threatened and his master is imprisoned for stealing a forbidden book, Iram must learn magic to save his master and his city from imminent doom.

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mkdbail @mkdbail.bsky.social · 2d

HEART AND SOULS x PRACTICAL MAGIC - Seeking #editor for my agented cozy witchy murder mystery Summer in Paris. For a family of #witches, solving the murder of one of their own, and helping her cross over, is the trickiest #magic of all. #questpit #cozymystery #mystery #paranormal #onsubmission

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

🌿💀✨

A flower-seller inherits a countryside manor — overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer.

To keep her new home, she must restore the house & work with the necromancer to expel the ghosts… before she becomes a haunting, too.

#questpit #A #F #Q

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 2d

Oh this looks so fun!

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Sydney Applegate is 🎸ON SUB🎷 @booksbysydney.bsky.social · 2d

The perfect romcom escape for fans of Lynn Painter and DCOMs like Camp Rock and Lemonade Mouth!

💚Summer band camp for adults
🩵Second chance romance
💚Found family
🩵Mental health rep
💚Secret summer fling
🩵Coming of age in your 20’s

🎸 EDITORS interact if you're interested ✨

#QuestPit #AG #A #R #OS

collage muted green of a friend group spending their summer together in the mountains, playing cards, etc

scrapbook collage of book vibes including comparison titles, music artists with similar vibes, musical instruments, and movies

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MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh Only Murders comp!

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Sarah Vance-Tompkins @sarahvantom.bsky.social · 2d

NANCY MEYERS AESTHETICS x ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING

Hollywood rivals for the title of Queen of Rom Coms find themselves serendipitously drawn into solving murders while fighting the patriarchy and enjoying gin martinis and witty banter.

#questpit #A #M #WF

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