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B. Engstrand
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Mom, wife, dark fiction 4 life. ASCENSION (Oct‘24) @shadowsparkpub✨ INTJ. Enthusiast of everything in moderation. Mastered in the art of escapism.🚫AI
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#questpit is on bluesky too?!?😱

Her life for a dream—that's the forgotten bargain Isla made with the god of sleep.

🩸Dracula, but immoral gods
💀Find you in every lifetime
🫀Dealing w/ Trauma & Abuse via Body Horror
🩶You came, you called
🥀Contemp, Gothic Fantasy & Historical themes

#Q #A #LF #R #H
Title image: An Agent’s Guide to Where Heaven’s Teeth Grow; a horror-romantic literary fiction complete at 74,000 words. The pitch: Her life for a dream. That's the forgotten bargain Isla made with the god of sleep. Haunted by an enamoring, cruel god and the gruesome nightmares of her past, Isla must sacrifice her life to save her friends from a mysterious viral plague, all while ensnared into more bargains to sustain the god's vitality. Snippet of the opening chapter: PART ONE: BONE OF MY BONES CHAPTER ONE We spend our lives protecting our bodies from the rot we chase in death. But there is peace in decay. It marks the quiet end to a life that’d finally perfected the art of letting go. Death comes for us all. It’s life we should fear. “Get in your room, Isla.” My wrist burned where my uncle squeezed, nausea clawing up my throat. He grasped my fist and held it in front of his face, my bones aching from the pressure. He towered over me, his eyes glazed over. Comps & Vibes—cover photos of Ethel Caine album, Rhapsodic, Dracula, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Quote: “His voice was a candlelit dinner, a raw slab of still-bleeding meat awaiting to both kill and satisfy.”
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ftzahra.bsky.social
ADDIE LARUE x YOU'VE REACHED SAM

On the verge of death, Safa makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious jinn. Now she has 3 obscure clues, 0 memories and 1 month to win back her life.

🇵🇰-rep & folklore
💘allies to lovers
🔍amnesia with a twist
⏳ticking clock

#questpit #ya #f
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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crystalbauthor.bsky.social
Here is my list for #QuestPit

1. Healing Silver #W #A #R
2. The Children who Whispered to Water #W #MG #F
3. Wilderness Lockup #W #A #DR #Dys #T

Feedback/critiques are welcome.
Top pics: A WW2 nurse in a grey dress, medical arm band, white apron & headscarf looking away at a building with the title in curly grey font Healing Silver, & a woman & soldier in the middle of war hiding each other with a quote “Behind every strong soldier, there is an even stronger woman who stands behind him, supports him, & loves him with all her heart. Middle pics: A pic of the hospital tent from MASH & a quote: “Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.” H.L. Mencken, & A pic of Nurse Margaret & Radar when he was sick in MASH, & a quote “Love &war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil & good, beauty & ugliness.” Rick Riordan Bottom pics: A pic of Diagon Alley in HP when it was attacked with a quote “His kiss was a poison that my body craved. I was an addict, diving headfirst into the drug I knew would destroy me.” J.M. Leigh, & a pic from a TV show A Discovery of Witches & a quote "all is fair in love & war" Francis Edward Smedley Top 2 pics: The 2 Kelpie heads at Falkirk & a little girl in a white dress on a dock putting little paper boats in water. The kelpie pic has a quote “When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord, An' float the jinglin' icy boord, Then water-kelpies haunt the foord, By your direction, And 'nighted trav'llers are allur'd To their destruction.” Robert Burns Middle 2 pics: A Fjord with an old castle looking building & a yellow flowering meadow in the Scottish Highlands. The fjord pic has a quote: “In the depths they await to hear the children's whispered calls.” - The Children who Whispered to Water. Bottom Pic: An art pic of a kelpie with glowing white eyes coming out of the water to a shore of a forest. At the bottom of the pic is the title in green in a watery font The Children who Whispered to Water. There is a quote “No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless as feathers falling" The Kelpie's Pearls, Molly Hunter Top pics: a cabin in snowy mountains & a woman walking in a jungle forest. Over those 2 pics is the title in orange Wilderness Lockup. On the snowy pic is a quote: “the instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derive from it.” - Robert Heinlein 2nd row pics: A blonde girl in an orange coat with a tan backpack in a forest holding a map, & a man in an orange jacket sailing a boat on an ocean. 3rd row pics: a man walking in a sandy desert, & a girl walking in a red rock area. The desert pic has a quote: “Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.” - Carrie Ryan, The Dark & Hollow Places Bottom pics: A man kayaking in a Swamp, a man hiking a Hawaiian trail by the ocean, & a man crying on the sign at the Katahdin trailhead. The Hawaiian picture has a quote "I don't think I outfitted you. I don't think I outfitted you. The only thing I did was outcast you." Bob Crowley, Gabon
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 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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authorbblorik.bsky.social
#QuestPit #A #S #W
If Grey’s Anatomy had magic, merged with Hunger Games, & was written by Mary Shelly:

A MALIGNANT GAME
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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sallybromley.bsky.social
Presenting my #agentsguide for
'Beauty is a Brittle Glass'
BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
🪞 Adult 82k
🪞 Dual POV
🪞 Speculative Elements
🪞 Beauty & Fashion
🪞 LGBTQ
🪞 Friends to Lovers
🪞 Disability Rep
#questpit #A #Q
Green background. Images of a woman's face in a gold picture frame. Splashes of gold. A woman with long dark hair turning sideways, hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint. A gold handprint. Background is the close up of a woman's face, splashed with gold paint. Three bookcovers. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, a young woman's sad face, The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Picture of Dorian Gray and a young handsome man with a partially diseased face. Green background splashed with gold paint. Images of a model on a Catwalk, a woman having injections in her face, a group of spooky trees, a photographer and an evil hand reaching out for a pale woman's hand.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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jklambo.bsky.social
🧁 She's a jaded pastry chef
🍰 He's a charismatic baker
❤️‍🔥 When their rivalry reaches an all-time high & sweet lies turn to bitter truths, will they be able to achieve their desires unscathed or will all they've worked for go down in flames?

#questpit #R #NA #A #W
Project Sugar and Spice moodboard Top row: black girl with curly hair holding up a peace sign in front of painted wall; palmiers sprinkled with granulated sugar; black guy with short curly hair standing behind workplace Middle row: Freshly baked brookies (combination of brownies and cookies); "I really want to kiss you and be cute with you and fall asleep in your arms and go on stupid dates, but I also want to sort of light you on fire and throw myself into traffic so idk" quote; freshly made choux pastry (cream puffs) Bottom row: pastry chef drizzling chocolate into a bowl; black couple holding each other in their arms; an assortment of bread in a dimly lit bakery
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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authorrjwebb.bsky.social
When a benevolent vampire vows to end the cruel reign of a monstrous council, he must battle the past and present to stop the curse they have unleashed—and to have the second chance with the only soul he’s loved.
#questpit #Q #A #F #PR #LGBT
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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chantaldanieli.bsky.social
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA x THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME

MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an upmarket gothic romance with:

🕯️Forbidden romance
🕯️High Society matchmaking
🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening
🕯️Obsessive yearning
🕯️European setting
🕯️Secret lake meetings

#W #A #R #questpit
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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sherlynsvault.bsky.social
an agent's guide for DON'T FORGET ME🕰️☕️🖋️

if you like:
- dark academia
- second chance
- dual POV
- dual timeline
- hispanic rep
- themes of trauma (DV)
#questpit #R #Q #NA #amquerying #agentsguide
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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tamaratoday.bsky.social
SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS

After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted.

#QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist
Left to right. Top row: A foggy city with a spire in the background. The hands of a clock approaching 12. Smoke from an explosive in a building. Middle row: A man in a waistcoat pointing at something. “Tick… Tock…” A man in a waistcoat sitting down. Bottom row: Silver coins covered in blood. A group of people standing inside a clock tower. Rain on a cobblestone street.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered during 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 #M
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.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
beesmahclouds.bsky.social
#questpit is on bluesky too?!?😱

Her life for a dream—that's the forgotten bargain Isla made with the god of sleep.

🩸Dracula, but immoral gods
💀Find you in every lifetime
🫀Dealing w/ Trauma & Abuse via Body Horror
🩶You came, you called
🥀Contemp, Gothic Fantasy & Historical themes

#Q #A #LF #R #H
Title image: An Agent’s Guide to Where Heaven’s Teeth Grow; a horror-romantic literary fiction complete at 74,000 words. The pitch: Her life for a dream. That's the forgotten bargain Isla made with the god of sleep. Haunted by an enamoring, cruel god and the gruesome nightmares of her past, Isla must sacrifice her life to save her friends from a mysterious viral plague, all while ensnared into more bargains to sustain the god's vitality. Snippet of the opening chapter: PART ONE: BONE OF MY BONES CHAPTER ONE We spend our lives protecting our bodies from the rot we chase in death. But there is peace in decay. It marks the quiet end to a life that’d finally perfected the art of letting go. Death comes for us all. It’s life we should fear. “Get in your room, Isla.” My wrist burned where my uncle squeezed, nausea clawing up my throat. He grasped my fist and held it in front of his face, my bones aching from the pressure. He towered over me, his eyes glazed over. Comps & Vibes—cover photos of Ethel Caine album, Rhapsodic, Dracula, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Quote: “His voice was a candlelit dinner, a raw slab of still-bleeding meat awaiting to both kill and satisfy.”
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
beesmahclouds.bsky.social
*updated #agentsguide*

Officially seeking #literaryagents for this spicy horromantic lit fic 🦷

🩸Dracula, but immoral gods
💀Find you in every lifetime
🩶You came, you called
🥀Contemp, Fantasy & Historical themes
🫀Dealing with Trauma & Abuse

#amquerying #horromance #horror #romance #draculalovestory
October 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
beesmahclouds.bsky.social
Been secretly hanging on to this art for my #amquerying soon project! I can’t get over it!!

My FMC Isla, plus a few past lives, and reposting with my MMC Endri for good measure 😏

#bookart #originalcharacter #procreate #horromance #literaryfiction #fallinloveagainandagain
October 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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miraiamell.bsky.social
Cinderella x Rumpelstiltskin. When a magicless maid kidnaps the blood faery prince to escape her cruel mistress, she inadvertently saves him from hired assassins. Now entangled in a wish made before their time, they must uncover who hunts him. And why she's dying.
#DVpit #A #F #R #MH #POC
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
beesmahclouds.bsky.social
Officially announcing the completion of my spicy ✨horromantic lit fic✨ hitting the trenches soon!
(bc I love torture)

🩶mult timelines
🤍emotional labor
🩶transformation
🤍bodily autonomy
🩶post-religious identity

#agentsguide #amquerying #amwriting #editorsguide #litagents
September 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
beesmahclouds.bsky.social
Pspsps!

The Narratess Indie Book sale is THIS weekend, and you can get the ebook of Ascension for $0.99 on Amazon!!😁

The price may be updated a day early, too👀

There are SO many amazing books participating! (Full roster: indiebook.sale)
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
beesmahclouds.bsky.social
Omg I really need to remember bluesky exists.

Have all my writing friends moved here? 👀
April 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
beesmahclouds.bsky.social
📖 Booksta-shoot!

Writers and readers, this is your sign to do a #booktography shoot!

You can find Ascension wherever books are sold! I‘ll have more online stock this week too!🥰 Super thankful you guys have sold me out again!!
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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rosanthatindall.bsky.social
Best beware,
Best take care,
Better keep watch for the Whisper-Man!

The children of the lower streets are disappearing. As winter closes in, thief Silver and assassin Luca race for answers.

The Whisper-Man is scheduled for release on August 5th by ShadowSparkPublishing!

#WSPit #WSPitW #A #F #C
A moodboard showing snow, lanterns, black and white streets, and shadowed figures.
February 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
TREASURE PLANET🪐 X THE EXPANSE🌌

Bookworm Jak dreams of escape from a pirate-run space station. With his friend Eris, a tech genius, he finds an ancient wrist computer tied to his family and a legendary lost starship. As they seek answers, so does a notorious captain.

#WSPit #YA #SF #M #WSPitQ #Dis
ink drawing of Jak Sterzand, a teenage boy, crawling towards the viewer in a ventilation or maintenance shaft type tunnel. His name and title of the book JAK STERZAND above him, and underneath in smaller letters, the subtitle: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT
February 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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collinsauthors.bsky.social
⚔️IN THE NAME OF HONOR⚔️
@shadowsparkpub.bsky.social

A half-elven princess and her loyal guardsman must save her father, the king, from a fate worse than death: total corruption. But their rescue mission turns into a hunt, and only the princess or the king can be saved.

#WSPitP #A #F #R #LGBT
A trope board on a deep-blue background with the IN THE NAME OF HONOR cover in the center. At the top reads, In the Name of Honor, Vows & Valor Book 1, for those who would be heroes. The listed tropes are: princess/bodyguard slowburn, "don't you touch her," horror creatures, competing revenge arcs, dragon's fire with a twist, ecofantasy forest, queernorm world, and a cheese thief. At the bottom reads: Available Now, Shadow Spark Publishing
February 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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kancollan.bsky.social
LEGENDBORN x AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

Either she fulfills her family's legacy, or she dies with it.

🤸‍♀️ Badass female protagonist
💧🪨🔥🌪️ Elemental magic system
🌆 Urban fantasy in NYC
🫂 Found Family
🗡️ Magic competition
🌈 Diverse ensemble cast

#YA #F #Jewish #Own #WSPit #WSPitQ
A title card with the text "An Agent's Guide to THE WINDWALKER - Katie Collan - young adult urban fantasy 105,000 words" over a person with a red cloak standing in the middle of a grassy field. Comparative titles with arrows pointing to relevant descriptions. Titles include: LEGENDBORN by Tracy Deonn, A DEADLY EDUCATION by Naomi Novik, Nickelodeon's animated series AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER. Captions: Legendborn: "mysterious death of a parent", "strong themes of prejudice" ATLA: "elemental hard magic system" ATLA, A Deadly Education: "diverse ensemble (would rather die than get along)" All three: "magic rooted in culture" Pitch: "When fighters start disappearing from an underground tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament's secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate." A mood board featuring eight panels with a corresponding color palette in the center, as well as the caption, "Believe in the wind and you'll prevail." From left to right, top to bottom: fire burning down a building; ocean water; the sky above the clouds; a cracked, rocky ground; a red-haired girl in a red cloak with glowing white eyes, holding a dagger hilt with a transparent blade made of air; a skyline view of nighttime Manhattan; a NYC subway track; a boxing ring that depicts two people practicing punches beyond the ropes.
February 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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castlemantra.bsky.social
1984 X HOZIER X IN TIME

Health, wealth, & beauty in a single pill-if u can afford it. In future America, HealthCorp's lottery is May's best bet to escape poverty & win unrequited love. But w/ the CEO's son's offer to help steal meds, she not only risks his betrayal but her heart
#WSPitQ #A #SF 🌶️ #R
Looking back meme with May holding hands with her oblivious BFF and unrequited love but looking back at the CEO's disinherited son. Comps: future government corruption meets Hozier level pining. Book image of The Marriage Act by John Marrs and Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah with a Hozier album. Themes: Spicy friends with benefits, American anger, power and control, facial and body dysmorphia, chronic illness rep, class divide and inequality, billionaire romance gone broke, social justice themes, and Healthcare corporate corruption. Nina Castle’s Take As Prescribed, a spicy adult dystopian, first page teaser: CHAPTER 1 Thoughts and prayers aren’t worth much, at least south of the Divide. It’s a sentiment the plastics use when they hear of things like our mortality rate or ever-increasing birth defects, but don’t be fooled. This is America where thinking’s outdated, and we pray to pills. In the north, they manufacture god in pharmaceutical bottles labeled “GeNew.” Not that anyone I know could ever afford it. Health, wealth, and beauty belong to the financially devout. To be fair, we all love money…it just doesn’t love us all back. Uncle David tells me food’s the problem as he peels away two breakfast cubes from their thin plastic wrapping. “It’s this damn processed shit makin’ us sick,” he says, smacking the pot harder than necessary on the single electric burner. Guess it’s boiled cube, today. “They price gouge us with poison, then try to sell us the cure. It’s all about money, May, mark my words. Those bastards at HealthCorp don’t give a damn about us unless we’re paddin’ their pockets.” I nod along as I always do when the injustice inside him spills out in the form of a rant. David’s from a time they remembered whole foods, even if what they ate was a mere semblance of the real thing. Perhaps in Europe and the Asias it still exists along with their muffled cries for human rights. As for me, I can’t be angry. Anger takes energy, of which I’ve little to spare. Like everyone this side of the Divide, I’m ugly with deformities. Weak with sickness. My broad shoulders hunch, and my spine curves to a hump at the base of my neck. My fragile hair litters our single room apartment like the black polyester threads from our tattered clothes. Like everyone, I am dying. Book cover for Nina Castle's Take as Prescribed. Woman with open mouth and pill on her tongue while a man's hand grips her neck.
February 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM