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Nadine 📝
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📝📚 Bluesky newbie starting the querying journey 📖🥀 Fantasy, classics, comedies, and anything Gothic
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Prophecies don’t have age limits.

Now the fate of the Kingdom rests on the bad hip of a retired librarian.

Will curmudgeonly Dorris answer her calling, or ignore impending doom for a good cup of tea?

#questpit #F #A #Q #LGBTQIAbooks #amquerying #writingcommunity #fantasywriters #booksky #writesky
A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the slide reads: THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL - Pitch - Prophecies don’t have age limits. It’s a fact 82-year-old Dorris learns when an uppity gnome arrives on her doorstep and declares she’s the Chosen One… sixty years late. Now Dorris must exchange her books, cottage, and weekly visits with her best friend Beryl for a noble quest. If she refuses, the kingdom of Grit (and Dorris’ beloved home library) will burn to ashes. Will the octogenarians break the sixty-year curse as prophesied? Or will Beryl’s shady past with dark magic reappear and doom them all? A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the top of the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - Fantasy Comps. Below the text are three book covers with text beneath them. Left to right they are: The House in the Cerulean Sea (queernormative found family), Nettle and Bone (flipped fairytale quest with bite) and Howl’s Moving Castle (elderly MC, self-aware humour). The two lines of text at the bottom of the slide read: quirky, comedic, cosy. LGBTQIA+ and chronic illness rep. A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - character comps. Below the text are four film stills. Left to right, top to bottom, the film stills are: Sophie Hatter, a frowning old woman in a blue dress and straw hat; Pascal, a green chameleon blowing a raspberry; Mercutio, a drag queen in a diamanté top and white wig; Valerie and Max, an old couple in drab brown clothing waving at someone off-camera A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the top of the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - Opening Lines. Beneath the title is a white text box. The text inside reads: Dorris’ destiny came rapping at her door on a Tuesday afternoon. Rat-a-tap-a-rap, went the door. Dorris froze. She wasn’t expecting company. Company always called ahead. She let her eyes swivel from her book to the window. The front door wasn’t visible from this angle. Her shoulders relaxed a little – whoever was causing the ruckus probably couldn’t see her, either. She continued reading. Rat-a-tap-RAP, the door insisted. Dorris’ armchair was warm and deep. Her favourite stripy mug was steaming at her side. There was a major plot twist coming. She wasn’t getting up for anybody. “I can SEE you!” a voice hollered from outside. Confound it.
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
Look at those sprayed edges! Waterstones editions are always so pretty 😍
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Kirsten E Bell @kbellwrites.bsky.social · May 7
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
#Q #MR

A cozy tale of folklore with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells".

✔️Cottage Core
✔️Twist Ending
✔️Sisterhood
✔️Morally Gray FMC
✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
✔️Atmospheric
✔️Feminism
✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻

#QuestPit
A album cover mock up that have three women's silhouettes dancing in a field. It says The West End - Anthology of the Woods and has album stickers on it. The back of an album cover with the title "Anthology of the Woods" followed by 5 songs - White Anemone, Burn Hole, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, I Only Asked for Help, and The Pearl. Then it has the book's hook: A Nashville rock band believes their luck has turned around when they meet a sisterhood of magical women who seem to turn their voices to honey and their fame to lightning, but unfortunately for them, one of those sisters, Brigid, is on a mission of revenge against man-made magic such as fame and they have just become her last straw.
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
You had me at “Gothic” and “Orpheus and Eurydice” 😍
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
If you combined the:

🍄 Sharp whimsy of EMILY WILDE

🌈 Queer found family of THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA

🧙🏻 Dry humour of WITCHES ABROAD

🫶 Intergenerational friendships of Pixar's UP

You'd get THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL

#QuestPit #F #A #Q  #AgentGuide #AgentGuides #WritingFantasy
noodlesandnovels.bsky.social Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Prophecies don’t have age limits.

Now the fate of the Kingdom rests on the bad hip of a retired librarian.

Will curmudgeonly Dorris answer her calling, or ignore impending doom for a good cup of tea?

#questpit #F #A #Q #LGBTQIAbooks #amquerying #writingcommunity #fantasywriters #booksky #writesky
A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the slide reads: THE UNLIKELY MALARKEY OF DORRIS AND BERYL - Pitch - Prophecies don’t have age limits. It’s a fact 82-year-old Dorris learns when an uppity gnome arrives on her doorstep and declares she’s the Chosen One… sixty years late. Now Dorris must exchange her books, cottage, and weekly visits with her best friend Beryl for a noble quest. If she refuses, the kingdom of Grit (and Dorris’ beloved home library) will burn to ashes. Will the octogenarians break the sixty-year curse as prophesied? Or will Beryl’s shady past with dark magic reappear and doom them all? A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the top of the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - Fantasy Comps. Below the text are three book covers with text beneath them. Left to right they are: The House in the Cerulean Sea (queernormative found family), Nettle and Bone (flipped fairytale quest with bite) and Howl’s Moving Castle (elderly MC, self-aware humour). The two lines of text at the bottom of the slide read: quirky, comedic, cosy. LGBTQIA+ and chronic illness rep. A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - character comps. Below the text are four film stills. Left to right, top to bottom, the film stills are: Sophie Hatter, a frowning old woman in a blue dress and straw hat; Pascal, a green chameleon blowing a raspberry; Mercutio, a drag queen in a diamanté top and white wig; Valerie and Max, an old couple in drab brown clothing waving at someone off-camera A cream-coloured slide with green ink splatters in the upper left and lower right corners. The lower right splatter has a cottage illustration within it. The text on the top of the slide reads: The Unlikely Malarkey of Dorris and Beryl - Opening Lines. Beneath the title is a white text box. The text inside reads: Dorris’ destiny came rapping at her door on a Tuesday afternoon. Rat-a-tap-a-rap, went the door. Dorris froze. She wasn’t expecting company. Company always called ahead. She let her eyes swivel from her book to the window. The front door wasn’t visible from this angle. Her shoulders relaxed a little – whoever was causing the ruckus probably couldn’t see her, either. She continued reading. Rat-a-tap-RAP, the door insisted. Dorris’ armchair was warm and deep. Her favourite stripy mug was steaming at her side. There was a major plot twist coming. She wasn’t getting up for anybody. “I can SEE you!” a voice hollered from outside. Confound it.
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
As someone who’s just started querying, this kind of support has made my day 🥹
raenpayne.bsky.social Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 français 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · May 7
Someone please publish this ASAP, I will buy all the books and watch all the adaptations and probably buy a nice blu ray edition with extra features and commentary.
noodlesandnovels.bsky.social Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Prophecies don’t have age limits.

Now the fate of the Kingdom rests on the bad hip of a retired librarian.

Will curmudgeonly Dorris answer her calling, or ignore impending doom for a good cup of tea?

#questpit #F #A #Q #LGBTQIAbooks #amquerying #writingcommunity #fantasywriters #booksky #writesky
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
Came to the comments to say exactly what Anna did - it’s giving Dorian Gray vibes!
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Kayla ✨📚 @kaylawhittle.bsky.social · May 7
Elodie, born with rare memory magic, shows historian Vivian around a botanical garden in hopes of solving a century-old disappearance—only to uncover a twisted, monstrous memory instead.

It’s hungry. It’s angry. It wants Elodie.

feat. sapphic & ace rep
#QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT
aesthetic for the memory garden featuring images of florals, statues, and women
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Isabelle Ranney @isabelleranney.bsky.social · May 7
After Paige is thrown back in time to 1915, she meets Jonathan, whose portrait hangs in her office and who will die in 1916. Each trip back brings her closer to Jonathan’s heart and also to his death. Will Paige risk changing the past for a chance at love in the future?
#Questpit #W #R #sweetromance
1915 imprinted in metal, old-fashioned cursive writing, modern woman sitting, historical house, garden roses, man in three-piece suit, old stone archway, old watch with roman numerals.
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
Your comps sound like such a fun mash-up!
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
The concrete feedback is a silver lining – my inbox has only seen form rejections so far 🫠 Keep going, you’ve got this!
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
I need the book and the film adaptation right now please!
rachelnorthauthor.bsky.social Rachel North - querying @rachelnorthauthor.bsky.social · May 7
PRIDE & PREJUDICE x TENET

England, 1807. A socialite-turned-cryptographer must time travel to reverse her ruined reputation and win back her fiancé—but when she meets a handsome spy, she wonders if finding love in the past is worth the risk.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #HR #amquerying
a woman in a white dress is standing next to a man in a black jacket ..
Alt: A GIF of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet dancing in Pride and Prejudice (2005).
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Q’Zion T. Gipson is ✨ON SUB! ✨ @qziontgipson.bsky.social · May 7
When Vee finds Evergreen, an enchanted forest with roots to her ancestry, she must harness the forbidden magic blooming in her veins before Evergreen and the Human World fall to an eternal darkness.

#LitAgents, 🩵 this post or DM for a query/submission.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #SF
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Tahlia is querying 🐦‍⬛ @tahliajneely.bsky.social · Feb 13
WUTHERING HEIGHTS x SHARP OBJECTS

🐦‍⬛ lovelorn protagonist
🌧️ haunted PNW town
🕰️ speculative elements
🌊 complex female relationships
⚓️ local history & legend
🚬 social commentary
🖤 all things dark, dreary, & chilling

#questpit #Q #F #A
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 8
Say Tangled and Labyrinth comp and I am there 🙌
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
When student loan repayments are scarier than the lurking garden monsters 🫣
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Kayla ✨📚 @kaylawhittle.bsky.social · May 7
STARLING HOUSE x WAYWARD CHILDREN

🌸 memory magic
🌹monsters lurking under a botanical garden
🌷mutual pining
🌻set in autumn 🍂
🌼committing small crimes to investigate an old disappearance
🪻looming threat of student loan payments
🌺 sapphic & ace rep

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT
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Kathryn Reynolds 📚🎨 @cozykathryn.bsky.social · May 7
Cupcakes and Graveyards

Kiki’s Delivery Service x Casper

🧁 A cursed bakery with a looming royal feast
🧁 An outcast witch living in a graveyard
🧁 A world where helpful ghosts linger
🧁 Steam technology and magic coincide
🧁 Cozy goth sapphic fantasy tale

Coming Autumn 2025 💙📚🌈

#questpit #w #f #lgbt
A photo of a pair of light brown hands kneading dough. To the side is a pink rectangle framed with spider webs. Text reads Cupcakes and Graveyards. “It has to be a curse,” Surae decided as she stared at the rotted strawberries on the counter. “It isn't natural,” her grandmother’s ghost agreed. “When I went up to wake you, they were still fresh and unblemished.” Coming Autumn 2025
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Kayla ✨📚 @kaylawhittle.bsky.social · May 7
STARLING HOUSE x WAYWARD CHILDREN

Historian Vivian meets Elodie, a memory keeper who can free the past from plants, to investigate a century-old disappearance. They find more than expected: a monstrous memory, and an inescapable connection.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #LGBT
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Musical comps? Witches? Yes please!
victoriajayneoh.bsky.social Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · May 7
#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #agentguide
Three gay witches. One talking plant. Three months.

WICKED X ROMEO AND JULIET X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

- grumpy x sunshine
- coming-of-age
- emotional regulation/autism rep
- #ownvoices trans, lesbian, and autistic
- talking plant
- actually sapphic
YA Sapphic Cozy Fantasy - 72k A Harmony of Witches Agent Guide Pitch - Tired of killing every plant she touches, a grumpy, transfemme garden witch works with an abused music witch from a rival coven to learn a different magic casting style; but when an autistic meltdown about her identity turns the ancient flower she’s been entrusted sentient, the garden witch must learn to regulate her emotions before her evolving magic exposes the scandal and sparks a long-repressed war between the two covens, tearing the girls apart. Comp titles- inspiration = wicked, little shop of horrors, romeo and juliet; vibes - flowerheart, the undertaking of hart and mercy, the mudpuddle manual of natural magic, practical magic; tropes - this poison heart, the witch and the vampire, cemetery boys Of all the obvious ways I’m different from my peers, my garden magic ability is the most notable. Magic is, of course, matrilineal, so I have my mother to thank for that, much as the thanks would upset her. As I just turned eighteen, my dear mother has given me two options, repeated daily in her shrill, discomforting voice: “Get into Witch University or find a job in the human world.” Today is my last gambit. If I mess this up, it’s straight to the workforce for me. Leaning against my yellow-painted picnic table, I take a deep, steadying breath, glancing around the garden in front of my house. Unseasonable cherry blossoms rustle in the frozen winter wind, carrying the prickling scent of my mother’s harsh magic into my nose. It’s no freshly-mown grass, like my brother Fern’s, but it’s certainly activating: citrus with a splash of pepper. It’s the smell that tells me to ‘get a fucking move on already.’ So I will.
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Katherine V Morrison @mrrrscorpio.bsky.social · May 7
Starless Sea🔮Addie LaRue✨Piranesi 

1800s London. Alchemists can extract a person’s soul by solidifying and removing their pain and suffering. Consuming the resultant ‘seed’ confers malign immortality. In an age of unchecked technological development, is this an advance too far?

#questpit #Q #F #HF
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Honestly sold from the comps alone. This sounds amazing!
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suzanne albanis (agented!) @suzannealbanis.bsky.social · May 7
In this CARMILLA retelling, Marsha Braun—a necromantic witch—must sell her family estate to free their trapped souls and escape a vicious immortality-seeking cult. There, she falls for the night gardener—with deadly family secrets intertwined with her own

#A #H #DF #QuestPit #OS
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Thank you so much Anna! I love this little band of sassy misfits 🥹
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Can I frame this comment on my wall already 😭 Thank you so much!
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Nadine 📝 @noodlesandnovels.bsky.social · May 7
Ahh that’s wonderful to hear Raen, thank you! It’s written and edited already – I’m just looking for an agent to feel about it the same way you do ☺️
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