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Ayishah Hasni is querying a Sinbad the Sailor retelling 🌊
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🇵🇰🇨🇦🍉 English Lit. & Creative Writing grad • querying ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES • creator of @MuslimPit.bsky.social • collector of vintage copies of the Thousand and One Nights 📚
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Ayishah Hasni is querying a Sinbad the Sailor retelling 🌊 @ayishahhasni.bsky.social · 6d
What if the Arabian Nights-inspired world of THE STARDUST THIEF met the seafaring adventure of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN but with the Islamic mythological monsters of SPICE ROAD?

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES is a YA retelling of Sinbad the Sailor 🌊 #questpit #Q #YA #HF
Character aesthetic with horse in water, compass, Islamic architecture, whale tail, coins, pirate ship, and quote: "he'd become her spyglass to see through, her compass to follow, and her atlas to be guided by."
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BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#QuestPit #A #S #SF #W
Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom: A novel by B. van Bodegom
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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livalcott.bsky.social
An #Agentsguide to EVERY CRUEL CORPSE, a YA/NA fantasy about two reapers who kill instead of guide for a government in the afterlife, who perform magical rituals in order to destroy the ghosts that haunt them.

HOUSE OF SALT & SORROWS x DIVINE RIVALS

#Questpit #Q #YA #A #PR #F
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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emmaalmunshi.bsky.social
A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME

6 Keys 🔑
5 Centuries of magical politics ✨
4 Djinn on a mission ⚔️
3 Threats Mona Al’Maii must navigate 💀
2 Hot-headed, kindred souls 🖤
1 Secret that could ruin it all 🧭

The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies

#Questpit #Q #RF #agentsguide #NA #agentguide
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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suzyawin.bsky.social
A FORGERY OF FATE X LITTLE THIEVES

Pearl's got three months to kiss a prince or become sea foam—if she isn't killed by his cousin's harpoon first, of course.

🧜‍♀️Mermaid with a side of thievery and stalking
🪄Magic (and phones, I guess)
👫First Friend (like ever)
🍽️Predator x Prey?
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

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.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying soon!
#A #F #W #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 Red Sand 109000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark 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. Title: Pitch Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck. Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him. But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all. Background image: same as other slides
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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duaceren.bsky.social
On an island quietly haunted by ghosts of grieving women, a depressed chocolatier teams up with five strangers—with scars of their own—to find their killer. Of the six, only five are really alive.

Spirited Away x Shutter Island

#QuestPit #W #A #F #T #PR
“She makes death taste like chocolate.” Picture of a girl in a white dress in a dark lake with her arm over her chest and white roses over her torso. “Grave of flowers by Dua Ceren Ay” Grave of Flowers by Dua Ceren Ay Opening Lines: Every sane person knows better than to paint their walls eggshell white, but electric blue? That had to be a crime. Like whoever decided on the color scheme of this place was avoiding the topic altogether; yes, we were all crazy in here, and yes, we all knew they wanted to avoid the clichés. So, no straitjackets, no padded rooms, no dull hospital gowns, just rooms and rooms and rooms of color until we bored ourselves to sleep or knocked ourselves out from the overstimulation. We had Kelsie the high schooler folks who had become regulars around here liked to call Iron Fist—to thank for that demonstration. It was just that the windows didn't open from the bottom, everything had a soft edge or lock, and the nurses had a way of always smiling at us as if we birthed their children. It was the little things that poked me. So it was even more ridiculous that the early morning hour made the place seem... peaceful. Comps. A Flicker in The Dark by Stacy Willingham: past repeats itself, small town, investigation. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: Depressed MC, Magical Realism, Healing and new beginnings. Anxious people by Fredrik Backman: dysfunctional group of friends, social isolation, hope Tropes: found family, unreliable narrator, treasure hunt/investigation, lost memories, small town. Themes: second coming-of-age, feminism, identity, overcoming trauma, friendship
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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elizabethtitus.bsky.social
🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization?

🕸️ a post collapse adventure of psychic powers and nurturing community

🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US, with unexpected twists

🌱 Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi
a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art) quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao "Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!" - Jim Butcher a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, a map of the US with shrunken coastline over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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kananiokelly.bsky.social
MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE

An #agentsguide to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, my #amquerying young adult fantasy.

Feat:
🌊 Hawaiian-inspired mythology
🌋 setting as a character
🌊 angry female mc

#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #OwnVoices #AgentGuide
The introduction to my young adult novel, Whispers of the Sea. The pitch: A teen girl embarks on a journey to a mysterious island where she’ll team up with a boy to uncover the whereabouts of her missing uncle. But to save him, Keahi must interfere with the King’s plans to restore power to his kingdom—except the throne was never his to claim, and the island only answers to one: the girl with a heart of fire. For fans of: Disney’s Moana, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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thekellerverse.bsky.social
#Questpit

Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space

6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy?

#Q #SF #SFF
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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saraduran.bsky.social
Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a shiny new agent guide ✨🌙

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, feat:

💫 two exiled men (+ their secrets)
💫 one lunar prison (+ its horrors)
💫 a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT
Dark starfield background. Text reads: ‘a guide to BABEL ON CALLISTO a queer cosmic horrormance [wip].’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE PITCH.’ Under two movie posters, text on left reads: ‘encountering the unknowable’ and under Annihilation poster: ‘contact that warps and bends.’ On the right above Brokeback Mountain poster: ‘unlikely intimacy in isolation’ and below: ‘love that cannot last.’ Main body text reads: ‘On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE COMPS.’ Three book covers below. Above the first cover (The Mountain in the Sea): ‘isolated research station.’ Below it: ‘philosophical alien threat.’ Above the second cover (The Deep Sky): ‘psychological unraveling.’ Below it: ‘fracture under mission pressure.’ Above the third cover (The Salt Grows Heavy): ‘queer, visceral horror.’ Below it: ‘love as a consuming force.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘SNIPPET.’ Large opening quotation mark. Text reads: ‘Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—a time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction—how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.’ Large closing quotation mark. Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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longwaydownbook.bsky.social
Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do.

The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?

#QuestPit #W #A #S #F #PR
There is a grid of nine square photos. Top row, L to R: 1) A dark mosaic floor is covered in tall lit candles. 2) A woman kneels in front of a colorful ofrenda, arranging flower pedals and beans into a skull on the floor in front of it. 3) Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, stands in front of a wall covered in foliage, dressed in black. A colorful rose and marigold crown sits on her head, holding a black lace hair covering in place. Her face has white lace patterns painted on it that mimic both mehndi and a skull and she is wearing bright gold earrings, a lace choker, and wine and white bangles. She is looking to the side warily. Middle row, L to R: 1) A small doll is positioned in front of a mural. The doll is dressed in a black suit, has a skull face, and has a pair of antlers. 2) A skeleton with a top hat sits on a table covered in brown fabric. He is bent over as if tipping his hat. Behind him is a bright green wall with a toothy, colorful skull painted on it, surrounded by king snakes. On the table are other items like a pineapple, candy, and a cross. 2) The top of a spired tomb spikes out into the pale sky, surrounded by empty tree branches. 3) A woman is holding a boy's hand as they look outside at a tall skeletal papier-mâché woman on stilts smiling back at them. Bottom row, L to R: 1) Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is standing in front of the dark blue door of a mausoleum. Half of his face is a skull, and his brow is furrowed. 3) There is a little chair with a fuzzy white blanket on it sitting on a concrete floor. On the blanket is a red candle, a cross, a white statue of a veiled woman, and a framed sepia photo of a group of people. Other framed photos sit beside it.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
ayishahhasni.bsky.social
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES, a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor, gives all the vibes of Dreamworks' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

swashbuckling ⚔️
seafaring⚓️
swoonworthy🔥

But with Muslim protagonists and creatures from Islamic folklore! #questpit #Q #YA #HF
a cartoon character with sin-bad written on the bottom
Alt: Gif of Sinbad from Dreamworks' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas saying "Who's bad? Sin-bad."
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November 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
ayishahhasni.bsky.social
SPICE ROAD x FABLE

In a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of SINBAD THE SAILOR with Muslim protagonists, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a journey across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiancé from a mysteriously moving island. #questpit #Q #YA #HF
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
ayishahhasni.bsky.social
What if the Arabian Nights-inspired world of THE STARDUST THIEF met the seafaring adventure of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN but with the Islamic mythological monsters of SPICE ROAD?

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES is a YA retelling of Sinbad the Sailor 🌊 #questpit #Q #YA #HF
Character aesthetic with horse in water, compass, Islamic architecture, whale tail, coins, pirate ship, and quote: "he'd become her spyglass to see through, her compass to follow, and her atlas to be guided by."
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
ayishahhasni.bsky.social
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES is a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor #questpit #Q #YA #HF

🏴‍☠️pirate x princess
☀️sunshine x darkness
🕌muslim protagonists
🌙creatures from islamic folklore
🌊seafaring adventure
🌏17th-century indian ocean
✨interest from 2 big 5 editors
Agents' Guide for One Thousand and One Voyages by Ayishah Hasni. Pitch: In a YA retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor, a snarky pirate must accompany a happy-go-lucky princess on a journey across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiance from a mysteriously moving island. Comps: The Stardust Thief, Spice Road, Pirates of the Caribbean and Fable. Snippet from manuscript. First line: Though Prince Zakar was not particularly knowledgeable about nautical affairs, he did not think that being chased by an island was a common part of sailing.
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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muslimpit.bsky.social
I would love to hear from the #WritingCommunity about when the first #MuslimPit event should be! ✨

Mid-November, late November, or early December? 👀
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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muslimpit.bsky.social
As the host of #MuslimPit, here is a little bit about me: my name is Ayishah, and I recently completed my degree in English Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing. Though I love British classics, fairy tales, and folklore, my favourite stories ever are the Thousand and One Nights.
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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muslimpit.bsky.social
In Western literature, Muslims have a history of being represented inaccurately or pushed to secondary roles. #MuslimPit is all about promoting ethical literary representation where Muslims can become the heroes of their own stories.
a black and white drawing of a woman holding a cell phone
Alt: a black and white drawing of a hijabi woman holding a cell phone
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October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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authorrjwebb.bsky.social
THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN

Time and Time Again.

Vampire Ishmael longs for peace but after being exiled by a corrupt magical council he vows to end their cruel reign. To his delighted horror—his newest ally is the reincarnation of a past love.

#GhostPit #A #F #PN #LGBT
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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torribelle.bsky.social
Law student Riley is desperate to uncover her town’s blood-soaked history. Rocker Liam needs his past to remain buried. When a dead body forces them to unravel a sinister puzzle while a sadistic killer closes in, will Riley & Liam risk it all to save their town, or die trying?
👻 #GhostPit #UF #NA #Q
A gothic university, candle, cider, book, ghost, pumpkins, handle holding a skull, black cat, man searching in the dark woods, and mansion in the woods.
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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longwaydownbook.bsky.social
Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do.

The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?

#GhostPit #A #W 👻 #Spec #RF
There is a photo of a small red grave with a skull and crossbones on it in the center of the poster. It sits in front of a red-grey stone fence edge covered in vines; towering above it are iron railings. A pile of dead, red leaves sit to the side. The grass is a dark, grey-green; the trees are spindly and bare, reaching towards the sky like fingers. The text across the top reads: Reincarnated Death Gods. Urban Fantasy. Love Across Lifetimes. The tagline beside the grave reads: Death Becomes Them. The text at the bottom reads: Long Way Down. A Book Series WIP by Phi and Moma. Patreon.com/longwaydownbook
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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beemorris.bsky.social
Alice can see ghosts – and frankly, she’s had enough of them 👻 #PitDark #PN #UF #NA

But when stubborn cleaner Rani ropes her into scrubbing haunted houses & solving her twin brother’s murder, Alice finds herself knee-deep in spirits, secrets, and a serial killer who is closer than she thinks.
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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natalielouise83.bsky.social
A 🧵 of #GhostPit pitches… 👻🖤
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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guendalina.bsky.social
ALADDIN X THE CO-OP

Determined to win the woman of his dreams, a single father must find a compromise between her desire to preserve the 1920s villa of her childhood and the plans to gut it into a hotel to save his business from bankruptcy
#ghostpit #R #Con #A #Q
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM