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Athena Kane
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🧡🤍🩷 She/They. Writer of adult SFF and horror about unhinged lesbians. Dog person.
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Athena Kane @athenakane.bsky.social · Apr 5
Here's my agent's guide to THIS FAITH YOU BLEED FOR, an adult gothic fan(g)tasy, complete at 104k. #amquerying
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Locke Lamora X ODW

To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good.

#questpit #Q #A #F
Black and white background of desert sand dunes with white script "The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh Agent Guide" Background of black and white desert sand dunes The Pitch Nefeli's gift of sensing magical relics has made her a world-class thief, but tapping into her power comes with a cost: her vision. With every use of her magic, her degenerative eye disorder worsens. A few more heists and Nefeli fears she'll be left with vague shadows in the dark—something she's avoiding at all costs. What use is a thief who can't see what she's trying to steal? But when her sister Sadiya's fragile health crumbles, Nefeli must choose: her sight or her sister. Against Sadiya's wishes, Nefeli agrees to a dangerous job posing as a noble at a political summit. If Nefeli can hunt down a long-hidden relic for a secretive influential family, she'll earn enough for her sister's treatment. The catch? The summit is crawling with dragons, scheming politicians, powerful magic users…and worst of all, Kadir, a former fling who knows Nefeli's not who she claims to be. Nefeli only has a fortnight to find the missing relic before access to the palace closes for another century. If she's going to succeed, she must rely on Kadir's help, despite the risk of him blowing her cover at any moment. And with her vision tunneling in, completing the job will force Nefeli to confront her biggest fear: without her sight, who is she? The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh Background of black and white desert sand dunes The Snippet "I'm scared," she whispered. "I'm scared of the day I open my eyes and there's nothing left to see. It doesn't matter that there are aids or that so many people thrive without sight. I know that one day, my memories of what things look like will fade—and they will. Even now, I forget constellations that I used to be able to see. Like those constellations, all other images will fade into the darkness until I don't remember the details of a sunset, or the flash of Sadiya's smile. I will be trapped inside my head, smothered by the knowledge of just how much I've forgotten." The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh Black and white background of desert sand dunes The Comps Two lines of photos, top includes the covers of A Dance of Lies, Godkiller, and One Dark Window Botton line includes The Stardust Thief and The Foxglove King The City of Dragon Glass by Taylor Leigh
January 31, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Now #amquerying: LEARNING FOR YOU, the teaching/karaoke romance of my heart 💜

YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER

When budget cuts threaten her district, new teacher Jules must compete with her annoying(ly handsome) rival to keep her dream job—and avoid falling for him.

#QuestPit #A #R
Agent pitch guide title slide: LEARNING FOR YOU, Adult Contemporary Romance Pitch blurb: Due to impending budget cuts, high school teacher Jules Clark's dream job is already in jeopardy before it's even started. With each department set to get rid of one new hire, Jules must compete with the annoying(ly handsome) former lawyer, Adrian Pierce, to keep her place. Where she finds herself in over her head, he seems to breeze through it all. He also pops up everywhere, from heated encounters in the copy room to a tension-filled work karaoke league, culminating in an assignment to collaborate on a joint teaching unit. As they spend more time together, Jules finds she and Adrian have a lot in common...including a simmering attraction that becomes impossible to ignore. With one job and two of them, Jules worries their growing chemistry can only lead to resentment. Though she lets Adrian in, old fears of not being good enough consume her as the deadline looms closer. If she lets selt-doubt take over, Jules could lose everything-not only her career, but also the love that's right in front of her. Tropes and Vibes: Golden retriever love interest Workplace rivals to lovers Karaoke league shenanigans Complicated family dynamics Forced proximity/collaboration Strong female friendship With the academic setting and workplace rivalry seen in YOU BETWEEN THE LINES, ONE ON ONE, and THE MAKEUP TEST Hazy yellow moodboard with images of teaching, karaoke, books, and rumpled bedsheets 😏
January 31, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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ANATHEMA x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH

A fledgling vampire, tension between vampires and monster hunters, a realm of eternal night, a mysterious elven priest, and a sinister plot that threatens everything held dear.

#questpit #W #DF #A #LGBT
3x3 moodboard of the main character from my WIP featuring red themed gothic and dark romantic imagery
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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TAMSYN MUIR x HUNGER GAMES x BACHELORETTE

Pretending to be a man, Dorian enters a deadly tournament to kill the priestess whose magic is draining the planet & pursue her interests: swords & women. But in the labyrinth, the cameras aren't the only thing she must evade.

#A #SF #F #LGBT #W #QuestPit
Top Left - Angel in mist with wings spreading over praying worshippers Top Middle - a skyline of a city in ruin Top Right - A woman with black hair whose neck is held by a shadowy mist Middle Left - a white drone against greenery, looking like a butterfly Middle - a woman with a painted face a black gothic veil and crown, holding a bouquet of yellow flowers Middle right - an abandoned ferris wheel Bottom left - woman pressing a knife to someone's chin Bottom middle - a broken sarcophagus Bottom right - bloodied fists
January 31, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #HF
January 31, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
Just stunning!!
January 31, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter

Running to sea to escape her violent employer, Delphine never expected to fall for a pirate Captain - or to betray him to retrieve a legendary Stone & save her bff's life.

#QuestPit #NA #RF #Q
A mood board for our querying novel, THE SIREN'S CALL. There are 9 quares in a 3x3 format. The images in the corners and centre are a brighr shade of blue, while the others are greyscale. From top left to bottom right the images include: A pirate flag. A man silhouetted in front of a sail, holding onto rigging on a ship. Sails and rigging. A blond boy reading a book. A black ship ominously heading towards camera. A brown haired girl with her back to camera. A wheel on a ship. A male figure in a suit with their back to camera. A map and sword.
January 31, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
It just sounds so beautiful and I want it nowwwww
emmaalmunshi.bsky.social Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 12d
A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME

Will the weight of an underwater kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al'Maii?

🦅 Forced Proximity
✨ Middle-Eastern folklore & unique magic system
⚔️ Quest
♥️ Yearning & spice
⚖️ Magical politics/Corruption & Greed
🪞 Exploration of ‘otherness’
💫 23 fulls

#Questpit #Q #RF
January 31, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. six suspects. one the killer of renowned rock star sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY
a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter

A maid and a pirate hunting for a mythical stone spark a budding romance, but when his past threatens their mission & her bff's life, she must betray her heart to save her friend.

#QuestPit #NA #RF #Editing
An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy. Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind. Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails. Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto. Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Daughter Of No Worlds (Carissa Broadbent) - Reluctant allies to lovers - Broken love interest with a scarring secret - Male yearning - Betrayal - Hidden rage & trauma Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - High stakes survival and adventure - Critical quest fuelled by legend - Changing loyalty - Pirate fantasy - Sea myths & magical creatures Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?” Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought. What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words. How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to. Would he have regretted her kiss? “No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”
January 31, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive.

🔪 Revenge plot
🏚️Liminal Spaces
🐈‍⬛Cat POV
🎭 Unreliable narrator
☠️ Body horror
#Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC
A moodboard for GODCAT, an adult dark fantasy, featuring six black cats and one magpie eye in the center.
January 31, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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All for the cats!!!
smossman.bsky.social Azi is drafting a cat POV revenge dark fantasy @smossman.bsky.social · 12d
PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive.

🔪 Revenge plot
🏚️Liminal Spaces
🐈‍⬛Cat POV
🎭 Unreliable narrator
☠️ Body horror
#Questpit #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC
A moodboard for GODCAT, an adult dark fantasy, featuring six black cats and one magpie eye in the center.
January 31, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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krystalelkhoury.bsky.social Krystal is ✨QUERYING✨ @krystalelkhoury.bsky.social · 12d
Check out the #agentsguide to THE NECROMANCER’S WIFE

✨agent & big five editor interest✨

🏳️‍🌈wlw+queer chars (#sapphic MCs)
💀retired necromancer🩷💜💙
⚗️missing alchemist🧡🤍🩷
🪄magical intrigue
🚂dieselpunk

#QuestPit #Q #A #F
January 31, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
COBAB x Animorphs

After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.

#questpit #Q #YA #F
January 31, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #H
January 31, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF
January 31, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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School Spirits x Cemetery Boys

When Skyler made a 🤝 with the reaper to catch 👻 in exchange for putting her cancer in remission, she did not have a half ghost boy begging her to reunite him with his body on her bingo card. The ⏰ is ticking and the reaper doesn’t like secrets.

#questpit #Q #YA #LGBT
Neon picture for an agent’s guide to Get Ghosted. Features a picture of a kid wearing a sheet with sunglasses over it and pointing to the titled Get Ghosted Text with arrows pointing to the different pictures reads: vengeful ghosts, reunited the boy with his body, talk to ghosts, and am I actually dead though? On a neon smoke background is a long snippet from the book
January 31, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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An elderly woman holds a grudge for forty years. On the outside, she goes to church, knits baby blankets and babysits, but her husband's betrayal has unleashed a psychotic anger that knows no bounds: a racy thrill ride with killer twists.
#Questpit #Q #A #S #T
a black and white photo of an older woman with the words ugh written on the bottom
ALT: a black and white photo of an older woman with the words ugh written on the bottom
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January 31, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE
a fantasy horror about a college freshman who joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic
🫀dark academia x body horror x STEM
🫀south asian rep x bi4bi
🫀vengeance, moral ambiguity, & guts galore
#questpit #W #A #F #H
medical illustrations of a skull and a spine in the top left corner; a bronze statue of Lady Justice in the top right corner; a picture of a red brick house and a tree mid-autumn with red and orange leaves hanging on its branches in the bottom left corner; and a close-up of michaelangelo’s david in the bottom right corner.
January 31, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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The Atlantic's Tom Nichols on last night's catastrophically embarrassing national address that reeked of desperation and failure:
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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rukira91.bsky.social
This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people
otherverseg.bsky.social Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.social · Dec 17
These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
Ariel photograph of the AIDS Memorial Quilt stretched out on park in front of the US Capitol. Late 1980s.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Thrilled to welcome Rowan to my roster! Fantastic way to close out 2025 as I buckle down to read more of the wonderful work in my inbox in preparation for 2026!
rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Dec 16
So excited to have signed with the lovely @keiralekseii.bsky.social and Azantian Literary Agency! We've got all sorts of weird queer books on the way ✨
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
A post by c.a.t.y.a.y that reads, "I wonder what my art could've been if I didn't quit". Iggy responds, "I wonder what it will be if you start again"
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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no one should feel like less of a person because they decided what they once wanted isn't something they want to pursue anymore.

it's okay to admit things aren't working.

it's okay to evolve, grow, and change your priorities regardless of the amount of time, effort, energy, etc, that you've put in
December 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Archive December 11, 2025
Connections Puzzle #914
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December 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM