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Marina Lucas | Author
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Author of Sapphic Fantasy 🌈
Lover of books 📚 The vibes of the 80s & 90s 🎸 And all things spooky 🪦
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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · Aug 15
An agents guide to THE OTHER SIDE OF ETERNITY, my Gideon The Ninth meets Fable For The End of The World adult dark fantasy 🖤

Featuring:
🌗 Sapphic enemies to lovers
✨ Magic & monsters inspired by Appalachian folklore & Greek mythology
🌗 A ruthless patriarchy vs vengeful goddesses

#QueerPit #A
A title page on dark blue faded background The pitch page on the same dark blue faded background with some arrow designs framing it A comps page with photos of Gideon The Ninth and Fable For The End Of The World covers on the same dark blue faded background A tropes and themes page on a dark blue faded background
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Alexandra is a fire who won’t burn out until she and her friends literally go up in flames. They have one month in the past as ghosts to fix the mistakes that lit the match & catch their killer. But someone’s rewriting history and only one of them can return to life. #PosterPit
In exactly one month, three of us will burn again. Only one will survive, and no bets are on my train wreck ass. Unless I fix what my fire burnt.
August 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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ANGELS BEFORE MAN x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER
☀️ Biblical & Hellenic mythologies
🌙 prophetic & necromantic magic systems
☀️ women in armor & fallen angels & sirens
🌙 physically disabled & nonverbal protagonists
☀️ trans-femme & sapphic & aromantic rep
#QueerPit #A #EF #MYTH #CLI
August 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
authormarinalucas.bsky.social
When the prized daughter of a brutal patriarchy allies with a dangerous rebel to save her dying brother, she isn’t prepared to face the truths of her broken past and burn down the world that raised her to save humanity from a vengeful Goddess of Death - but the Fates had other plans.

#QueerPit #A
Two girls in hospital gowns, one with dark hair and tattoos, one with white hair, holding each other and soaking wet
August 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE x NETTLE & BONE

🌀monstrous spirits
💕slow-burn sapphic romance
☠️murder & betrayal
✨ill-advised rituals
🌈queer & autistic characters
📚chaotic academia
🌲an ancient mystery
🎶original music
🍄mushroom forest

#agentguide pinned to profile!

#queerpit #na #ya #f
wottenmoss.bsky.social wott 🍂 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · Aug 15
When troublemaker and hobbyist scholar Magpie is chosen by the spirits, she breaks an ancient tradition to keep her best friend by her side, risking her only chance at her greatest dream–and the deadly consequences that follow.

#queerpit #f #na #ya
#agentguide 📌
Moodboard featuring a mystical forest, a faint outline of a woman flying over a dark shadow, a magpie, two people holding hands, a library with stained glass windows, sheet music, outlines of leaves, mountains and a dagger, and watercolor-style flowers, clouds, mushrooms and sun
August 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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BUFFY X MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM

🔮90s horror
🔮18 yo MC Roxy is a closeted lesbian
🔮Found family
🔮Vengeful haunted mannequin
🔮So much witchcraft
🔮Steam powered carousel
🔮Small town America

#QueerPit #A #Q #H #F
August 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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There’s a third species of manta ray gracefully gliding through the seas, a recent study has confirmed.

Researchers have named the newly described species, found in the western Atlantic, Mobula yarae after Yara, a water spirit from Indigenous Brazilian mythology.
Third manta ray species confirmed in western Atlantic
There’s a third species of manta ray gracefully gliding through the seas, a recent study has confirmed. Researchers have named the newly described species, found in the western Atlantic, Mobula yarae…
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August 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF

Death should have been the end.
Yet Ginevra is remade into a monster-her soul still yearning for the one she made a promise to in life.
✨️A promise to come back safe
🌱A promise of moonflowers

#QueerPit #F #DF #LGBTQ #A
Moonflowers with a blue tint, a woman shrouded in a veil, an overgrown window with a ripped note over the image reading "promise you'll come back." "Will you recognize my soul?" Next to stained glass windows. A hand leaves flowers on a grave, and a hand reaches through webs.
August 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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#queerpit #df #a #f
Dr. William Savage struggles to recover from a physical resurrection and a social death.
🫀Toxic m/m/m
🫀priest/congregant relationship
🫀regicide
🫀resurrection as revenge
🫀God as nuclear deterrent
🫀enemies with benefits
🫀mommy issues
August 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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🚀 Now available!

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙
Do You Know What You’re Worth, Bombshell Jones? by RJ Martin
She released the safety on her pistol. “This is me flirting. Hands above your head.” Space pirate Bombshell Jones has a price on her head the size of Jupiter, and bounty hunter Knockout means to co…
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July 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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POTIONS UNINCORPORATED:

A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company🌱🐈‍⬛💚

💜 Bisexual Romance
💙 Chronic Illness Rep

Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X THE SPELLSHOP

#QueerPit #A #FR #Cozy #OwnVoices
August 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay).

When an attractive alien named Caelum crash-lands in Bennett’s small town, Bennett must help the alien find his way home while dealing with his own developing feelings and the truth behind why Caelum ended up on Earth.

#QueerPit #YA #SF #R
Starboy LGBTQ+ YA Sci-Fi Complete at 83k words Blurb When Bennett Barker is forced to move to a small town for his senior year of high school, he thinks his biggest problems will be missing his friends, figuring out his back-home situationship, and coming clean to his mom that he isn’t following in her footsteps by majoring in astronomy. Then an alien named Caelum crash-lands into his life. Literally. Bennett rescues the alien when his pod slams down to Earth while Bennett is out delivering pizza. But this isn’t an E.T. situation. Caelum is tall, turquoise, and incredibly kind, which makes it hard for Bennett not to catch feelings. Now Bennett has to find a way to get Caelum back home. But as Bennett grows closer to the alien, he starts wondering if his extraterrestrial crush is hiding the truth about why he ended up on Earth. Characters Bennett Bummed he moved to a new town his senior year Likes learning (hah, nerd) Works as a pizza delivery boy Wants to become an engineer Gets fixated easily on projects and people Caelum Home planet is thousands of light-years away Likes plants and flowers Doesn’t enjoy wearing clothes Can photosynthesize, would rather drink coffee Moon-shaped eye marks glow when he’s happy Vibes It's like E.T. (if E.T. was hot and gay). IF YOU LIKE First encounters Nerdy boys flirting Having to hide a hot alien in the bedroom Traumatized intergalactic cinnamon rolls Kids on bikes saving the world Earth food taste testing Super-powered pacifists SIMILAR STUFF Starfire from Teen Titans Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
August 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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to break the curse binding her to the ghost of a vengeful pirate, princess mira must fall in love with her best friend, john

there’s just one problem:

mira’s heart already belongs to princess dorothea

🩷🧡🤍

#queerpit #YA #F #LGBT #amquerying
Princess Mira (Black, braided hair, wearing a sky blue gown with pearl beads and silver tiara) and Princess Dorothea (white, wavy red hair, wearing a dark green gown with a gold tiara) gazing at each other on a ship’s deck at sunset, with a quote from THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN: “It didn’t matter that the very idea was treasonous. For Dorothea, Mira would break any rule.”
August 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🏴‍☠️OF GEMSTONES AND DIVINITY🏴‍☠️

An honorable thief and a noblewoman vigilante must work together to end a pirate’s reign of terror.

🌊~96k
🌊Dual POV
🌊Slow burn rivals to lovers
🌊Second world historical fantasy
🌊Pirates and sea adventures
🌊Rebellion and self discovery

#Queerpit #NA #F #FR #HF
A mood board for the aesthetics of my novel, Of Gemstones and Divinity. There are nine pictures in a grid, all cool toned. Upper left: the view of the sea from the deck of a ship, looking at another ship in the distance. Upper middle: two women chest-deep in the sea, embracing and kissing. Upper right: a map with a compass and rope lying on top of it. Center left: side profile a brown woman with her hair tied up in a messy way, strands of her hair obscure her face slightly, her hands are clasped together in front of her face. A nondescript background. Center middle: two swords crossing in a duel with a forest-like background. Center right: side profile of a white woman with her hair cascading down her back, her face is tilted upward and one hand is playing with a strand of her hair. A nondescript background. Bottom left: a pile of rolled-up maps. Bottom center: two women laying together in the grass. A white woman holds small flowers and faces upward, and a brown woman leans into her, whispering something in her ear. Bottom right: the view of the sails of a ship from below.
August 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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With weak cold fire magic, Octavia can't fight her uncle legally taking her fortune. Fleeing to the Temple of the Dead, Octavia's fire raises a girl executed for murder--she knows her power at last. With an army of the dead, she will destroy the empire that keeps women inferior. #QueerPit #A #F #DF
A moodboard containing ancient roman symbols, a woman with blue fire in her hands, blood, zombie hands, and dragon wings.
August 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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An agents guide to THE OTHER SIDE OF ETERNITY, my Gideon The Ninth meets Fable For The End of The World adult dark fantasy 🖤

Featuring:
🌗 Sapphic enemies to lovers
✨ Magic & monsters inspired by Appalachian folklore & Greek mythology
🌗 A ruthless patriarchy vs vengeful goddesses

#QueerPit #A
A title page on dark blue faded background The pitch page on the same dark blue faded background with some arrow designs framing it A comps page with photos of Gideon The Ninth and Fable For The End Of The World covers on the same dark blue faded background A tropes and themes page on a dark blue faded background
August 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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HOW TO BE EATEN x ADELAIDE

I can’t forget you. What you were to me. I can’t pretend everything didn’t happen.

🖋️ writers wish on a star comes true
💔 obsession, temptation, depression, oh my
🔥 toxic relationship
🌌 healing isn't pretty—but it is possible

#QuestPit #A #F #S #Q
August 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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LIGHTS OUT (stakes/humor) X 365 DAYS (mafia/spice) X Rip and Beth's love story

Paranormal dark romance reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood featuring a DA searching for her estranged grandmother and the crime boss who makes her an offer she can’t refuse. Dark secrets abound.

#questpit #w #pr #dr
August 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I: RAVEN QUEEN'S FLIGHT | II:RAVEN QUEEN'S RETURN

A tale of friendship, courage and self-belief in the face of betrayal.

A stolen throne

A perilous journey

Eagles and airships

Coming of age

Found family

#questpit #W #YA #SFF
A black raven on a grey background, with a crown and the book titles. A black raven on a grey background, with a blurb about the books. A black raven on a grey background, with an excerpt from the manuscript. A black raven on a grey background, with a list of tropes.
August 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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I want all the #questpit books to get published, entirely selfishly, so that I can read them
August 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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If you’re an agent who loved the twisting depths of the true crime Scamanda podcast and want that kind of suspense in fiction, Everything I Gave Her might be for you.
The deeper you go, the more it twists.
Currently has 2 full requests.

#QuestPit #T #Q #A
A 4-slide graphic titled “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her”. Each slide features a foggy forest background with layered white text. Slide 1: Text reads: “An Agent’s Guide to Everything I Gave Her” followed by: “89k words | Upmarket Psychological Suspense by Tiffany Darling.” Slide 2: Same foggy forest background. Text reads: Pitch “When eight-year-old Lacey Carson finds her mother dead on the kitchen floor, something inside her fractures. Uprooted to a new town with a grieving, distant father, she latches onto the first person who shows her warmth—Emily Harper, a precocious classmate with a big heart and an even bigger need to help. What begins as innocent friendship festers into decades of obsession, manipulation, and a love so warped it leaves one girl dead, and the other wondering if she even knows how to survive a life without her.” Slide 3: Same background. Title: Comps Left side shows the cover of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, with the words: “Complex female relationships Motherhood Buried secrets Slow burn Emotional depth” Right side shows the cover of The Push by Ashley Audrain, with the words: “Unsettling Emotionally charged Navigates maternal instinct Psychological unraveling Fear” Slide 4: Same back ground. Text that reads “Dual POV / Nonlinear timeline Character-driven psychological suspense A slow burn that simmers... then detonates.
August 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.

But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board.

Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…

#A #H #HF #QuestPit #W
A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship
August 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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A brutal god who consumes the life-force of living things catches up to the heroes who tried to stop her, and takes their daughter as a trophy. Now trapped on the god's ship, Calypso must get close enough to find out her ultimate plans without being consumed in the process.

#QuestPit #YA #A #SFF #W
An aesthetic collage for this story idea, featuring neons, sapphics, and space imagery.
August 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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deannaunwritten.bsky.social
LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF

Ginevra was remade to be a weapon. But inside, something thorned and grieving is breaking free.

#QuestPit #Df #Q #H
Veins of Calris title, hands with plants growing from stitches in the skin Stained glass windows behind a woman in a veil, an overgrown window arch, a rose bouquet in a dagger sheath with the dagger on top, and a spiderweb
August 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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When an accident turns Chess into a reaper, she hopes to reconnect with her late ex. But she finds his soul caught in a plot to tear down the veil between the living & the dead. If she can't master her magic, the veil will disappear forever, taking him with it #QuestPit #YA #P #F #DisabilityRep
Mood board for a YA paranormal book focused on reapers.
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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putteringpiper.bsky.social
ELLA ENCHANTED X HALF A SOUL

Lucy thought her biggest source of headache was getting the elves to follow a schedule. But when a prince proclaims his love for her & half the kingdom gets turned to stone, she realizes life can always get worse. Especially in a fairytale.

#QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q
An orange tabby cat lays on his back on a green background. He wears a blue hat with a daisy dangling from the tip of the hat. His name is Marius and he's a character in A Cobbler's Guide to Surviving a Fairytale Lucy only tried on the shoe because the cobbler’s elves told her to, not because she had any interest in being the true love of a prince she’d never met. But fairies don’t care what humans like Lucy want — fairies want to tell their stories, no matter the consequences. So when the shoe refused to budge from her foot, Lucy knew she was in trouble. Comp titles are Half a Soul, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Teller of Small Fortunes, and Dealing with Dragons
August 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM