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Author, spoonie, foodie, knitter… I have entered my granny era.
Was once a Londoner now an Orkney dweller.
Should be writing… here instead.

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April @arappleby.bsky.social · 13d
The Poison Chalice

Charmed x Shadow hunters x A Touch Of Darkness

Condemned to purgatory she must make a deal with the Maith for her kind, the son of the devil has other ideas.

❤️ He falls first/harder
🤫 Family secrets
😓 Betrayals

#questpit #A #F #RF #DF #W
Collage with A Touch of Darkness, Filthy Rich Vampires, Shadow Hunters, and charmed vibes. Road showing a quote from the MMC reads “All I know is she will destroy me. I will let her.” Vibe board inclusive of elemental magic, Charmed and Shadow hunters.
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authorrjwebb.bsky.social
HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
Journals of a Familiar
Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape.
#questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT
January 31, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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crbarenza.bsky.social
An Agent's guide to: THE SHAPES WE TAKE IN THE FIRE!

✌️dual pov/dual timeline
🌶️ open door slow burn
🎶 moody and lyrical
❤️ he falls first
🫂 touch starved
LGBTQ friendly
BIPOC & minority voices

#questpit #Q #A #R #U
January 31, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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authorbblorik.bsky.social
#QuestPit #Cozy #FR #A #Q

🔮Dark times are upon Narissa’s home town, with the Snow Queen sending it into an economic freeze, but when a handsome yet clumsy debut Overlord arrives, she risks her “good witch” status by joining forces to strategize a coup🔮
January 31, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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zprospero.bsky.social
THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS

A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for.

#QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT
January 31, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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aryazare.bsky.social
A DEVOTION SO RUINOUS is a 90K adult fantasy following Soraya, a young woman tormented by a jinn, a dictator, and her first love, as she fights for freedom

🏳️‍🌈 LGBT characters
🧠 Mental Health Rep
🌍 Middle Eastern Setting
✨ Gods Based Magic System
❤️ Lovers To Enemies
#️⃣ Own Voices

#QuestPit #Q #F #A
January 31, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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gabriela-stluke.bsky.social
Thread of my #questpit posts 🤍
gabriela-stluke.bsky.social Gabriela St Luke 📚🤍 @gabriela-stluke.bsky.social · 13d
Dear Citizen of Calasca,

We're happy to inform you that you've been selected to join us on Last Chance Match. Congratulations! A CivilBot will pick you up shortly. We look forward to seeing you soon.

𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧?

#questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D
Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: LIGHTS, CAMBOT, BLOODBATH LAST CHANCE MATCH ADULT SPECULATIVE SCI FI PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROMANCE NOW REVISING WITH WRITEHIVE Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Pitch Welcome to the inaugural season of Last Chance Match, a government-funded dating show for the soulmateless to find their other half. Set in a tropical location, eighteen hopeful singles will compete for the chance to have a soulmate and all the benefits that come with it such as: free healthcare and education, better job opportunities and exemption from soulmateless extermination at thirty. Due to limited resources and population control, only three couples can win. Are you ready to find the one who’s to die for? 28-year-old soulmateless Cera thinks the opportunity could represent a second chance until the show takes a dark turn and a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host. The infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde swears he’ll get Cera home safely so long as they remain coupled to protect one another from elimination. But the fatal games they play for the nation’s entertainment pick the contestants off one by one, leaving Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: Themes & Tropes - Touch her and die MMC - Soulhates to Soulmates - What if divorce was eliminated and the government told you who your soulmate was? - head rolling twists - forced proximity - found family (then break it apart) - slow burn romance - genre blend sci fi dystopian horromance - survival of the fittest government mentality Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Comps: Media: SQUID GAME, BLACK MIRROR, LOVE ISLAND: The deadly gameplay of SQUID GAME and the futuristic horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND Books: Hide - Kiersten White, The Compound - Aisling Rawle, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells The eerie prose and romance arcs of Kiersten White, the dystopian dating show of THE COMPOUND and the frightening use of bots in THE MURDERBOT DIARIES
January 31, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q
The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
January 31, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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morgan-writes.bsky.social
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.

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

#QuestPit #R #Q #A
January 31, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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lawilding.bsky.social
EMILY WILDE X DIVINE RIVALS

To win her independence, the granddaughter of a famed botanist must team up with a brilliant, brooding scholarship student to unlock the secrets of a dying magical garden, even as their rivalry blossoms into something more. 🌿✨

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R
January 31, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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lawilding.bsky.social
EMILY WILDE X DIVINE RIVALS

To win her independence, the granddaughter of a famed botanist must team up with a brilliant, brooding scholarship student to unlock the secrets of a dying magical garden, even as their rivalry blossoms into something more. 🌿✨

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R
January 31, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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brookbwrites.bsky.social
MY FRIENDS x EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD

A boy with secrets to hide collides with a girl who is used to running away, leaving both with broken walls and fractured, but healing, hearts.

✨ past trauma and grief
🧠 mental health rep
🖋️ college campus setting

#QuestPit #Q #A #NA
“THE STARS & THE GHOST THEY CREATED” UPMARKET CONTEMPORARY ADULT/NEW ADULT PREMISE * When a college student with secrets to hide collides with a girl who is used to running away, neither knows just how deep the cracks in their foundations might go-but sometimes the walls must fall for the beauty beneath to be revealed. COMPS • Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead • My Friends • The Wedding People • Eleanor Oliphan is Completely Fine SNIPPET CHAPTER 1 The monster never gets forgiven in fairy tales. I've read enough to know. The grating rasp of my fingernails scraping against the already-torn skin of my fingers echoes through my bones. Rattling. Never settling. The air hums with overlapping sounds—a symphony of incessant buzzing that crescendos into an eerie ringing. I don't know whether it's coming from the electric lights that cast a ghostly halo onto the sidewalk beneath me or from somewhere deep inside my body where I can't see. It's suffocating. I imagine it's what being buried alive feels like. Having your lungs fractured into pieces too small to put back together. Or like drowning. But I know what that feels like.
January 31, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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brookbwrites.bsky.social
THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

When she becomes haunted by shadows and a mysterious stranger with eyes like fire, Augusta is forced into a desolate world she’s only ever dreamed about, and must decide if she’s willing to sacrifice everything to save it.

#QuestPit #W #F #R #A
A collage featuring themes of Sun, a tower, a girl, and stars
January 31, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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lottevansande.bsky.social
JUST ADD WATER // adult contemporary romance // open door // 80K

🪼 small town
🪼 one camper / one bed
🪼 golden retriever x black cat
🪼 workplace romance
🪼 forced proximity
🪼 women in STEM

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS X GIVE ME BUTTERFLIES X NOT SAFE FOR WORK

#questpit #A #R #Q
January 31, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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ncrystalauthor.bsky.social
Serpent & Dove X In the veins of the drowning 🐍 🌊

🌶️ Bloodbound to a ruthless hunter, surviving each other might be hardest task 🩸

🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits
#Questpit #NA #F #R
January 31, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
SINNERS x THE DEVILS

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.

BIG 5 EDITOR REQUEST!

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying now!
#A #F #Q #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 from Stone 112000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Now Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark Title: Pitch Text: In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires. Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune. Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death. It is a hell of a lot of money, though. Background image: same as first slide. 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.
January 31, 2026 at 5:45 AM
arappleby.bsky.social
The Poison Chalice

Charmed x Shadow hunters x A Touch Of Darkness

Condemned to purgatory she must make a deal with the Maith for her kind, the son of the devil has other ideas.

❤️ He falls first/harder
🤫 Family secrets
😓 Betrayals

#questpit #A #F #RF #DF #W
Collage with A Touch of Darkness, Filthy Rich Vampires, Shadow Hunters, and charmed vibes. Road showing a quote from the MMC reads “All I know is she will destroy me. I will let her.” Vibe board inclusive of elemental magic, Charmed and Shadow hunters.
January 31, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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morgan-writes.bsky.social
A new RomCom for fans of FUNNY STORY and NEXT TO YOU.

Featuring:
💙 Kira Larson as the newly single emotional wreck
💙 Xavier Herrera as the broody neighbor
💙 Lots of shenanigans as the lines between casual hookups, friends, or maybe a bit more start to blur

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #A #R #W
A couple embraces in the background, the girl crying into the shoulders of the boy. The title of the project is centered on the page, reading: How to Heal a Broken Heart. Underneath is the tagline: 'The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else... Right?' At the tops of the image is a list of tropes: idiots in love, friends with benefits, and instant attraction. The words coming soon are on the bottom of the image.
August 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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lottevansande.bsky.social
JUST ADD WATER // adult romcom with open door spice

🪼 small town
🪼 one camper / one bed
🪼 golden retriever x black cat
🪼 workplace romance
🪼 one-sided rivalry
🪼 forced proximity

Querying in October ❤️

#posterpitw #posterpitq (soon) #posterpitA #posterpitR #posterpit
Movie poster with an ocean theme - clownfish and the words JUST ADD WATER, swimming into inboxes late 2025 Cynical Sedna is far from amused when cave diver Kai joins her in the tank during mermaid shows but when the two embark across Australia to help another aquarium, she finds the animals she helps aren’t the only ones swimming their way into her heart
August 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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lottevansande.bsky.social
Sedna is far from amused when Kai joins her in the tank during mermaid shows. But when the two embark across Australia to help another aquarium, she finds the animals she helps aren’t the only ones swimming their way into her heart

#posterpitw #posterpitq (soon) #posterpitA #posterpitR #posterpit
Mermaid with the title JUST ADD WATER / dual pov, open door, workplace romance, forced proximity
August 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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lettysharpepitches.bsky.social
✨VEILED ENCHANTMENTS✨

All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic and status she has been denied. Sapphic subplot!

#QueerPit #YA #F
August 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

Currently Querying!

#Q #A #F #QuestPit
Background: A red forest Title Card Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now! Background: A red forest Foreground: Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-red arrow fletching, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, a red forest. Text: As she walked away, freshly divested of every life she'd ever known—Crown Daughter, ranger, loyal servant to the demesne—she realized that, where she expected to find fear and despair, she found only a rapidly strengthening resolve. She'd already lost everything. All she could do was win it back. Background: A red forest 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: A red forest Title: Pitch Text: Niozene has never been good enough. As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule. When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter. Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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morgan-writes.bsky.social
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.

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

#QuestPit #R #W #A
August 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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gabriela-stluke.bsky.social
Dear Citizen of Calasca,

Pack your bags! I am happy to extend an invitation for you to join us on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new reality holovision program where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. We promise you’ll find the one who’s to die for.

#W #R #SF #S #QuestPit
Dark ferns background An Agent's Guide To: LAST CHANCE MATCH New Adult Dystopian Romance "Find the one who's to die for." The Pitch: Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Downtrodden waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. The comps: THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver Both with a killer reality show setting to win freedom SILVER ELITE by Dani Francis Both with opposing factions and biased government HEART OF THE SUN Both with second chances and dislike to lovers arc The Tropes: Arrows pointing from a mock cover of LAST CHANCE MATCH book with ferns with the following tropes: Dystomance Touch her and die Dislike to locers Forced proximity Second chances Soulmates
August 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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lettysharpepitches.bsky.social
VEILED ENCHANTMENTS - 80K YA FANTASY
✨current agent interest

All Blake wants is to have the same power as the other teens at Holtsworth Academy. But as a mere hedge witch, she only has two options: stay in the shadows or steal the magic she has been denied.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
n a school full of witches, Blake is the only one with no magic at all. She can assist but not participate. Observe but not engage. That is, until the Grandwitch arrives at the academy with a powerful necklace in tow. If Blake wants to escape her nameless fate and make her mark on the world, stealing it may be her only option. Tropes and Comps: Dark academia magical academy sapphic enemies to lobers grumpy x grumpy hidden family secrets witches lost gods As she pushes swathes of long black hair behind her ears and rolls up the sleeves of her turtleneck to the elbows, I wait for her charcoal eyes to finally latch onto me, like a crocodile spying its next meal across the surface of the water. But they never do. She ignores me entirely, fixing her gaze instead on the skull between my hands. I can’t extinguish the flame of indignation inside me. In a more forgiving world, we would be equals. Rivals. But as things stand, I’m no more to her than the pile of dust on Eram’s desk.
August 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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ncrystalauthor.bsky.social
My #agentsguide for BLOOD BOUND! an adult Romance Fantasy ft:

🩸 A Blood Bond
🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits

#questpit #W #A #F #RF
My #agentsguide for BLOOD BOUND! an adult Romance Fantasy ft: Pitch: Ayanna is a spirit walker - a person who can see and communicate with those who have passed on - just like her ancestors before her. And if she's not careful, she'll be killed like they were, too. When a creature from the dark tales of her ancestors mortally wounds her sister, Ayanna would do anything to save her. Even if that means entering in a desperate bargain with the spirits to bring them what they seek. Snippet: The foul stench always gave a jumbie away. It towered behind the man that sat in front of me, its bloated, yellowing body reminiscent of a corpse left in the sun for too long. Thick brown liquid oozed from its teeth, arranged in circular rows. The fat droplets lazily dripped onto the wooden floor. Tropes: Enemies x Lovers Ancient Creatures & Monsters Rich Caribbean Folklore Blood Bond Forced Proximity Slow Burn
August 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM