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Caitlin Dawe
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(she/her) Oboe player. Paranormal YA writer. #amediting Ravenous Shadows
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Caitlin Dawe @caitlindawe.bsky.social · Feb 1
THE DEEP DARK x BETTER LEFT BURRIED

Do constantly restrained shadows and wings justify being a melodramatic asshole?
Vespin thought so.

...until Iris moved to his small town. Can you have friends and keep your ravenous shadow caged?

#Q #YA #LGBT #CM #FM #MiseryPit
Collage with a figure standing underwater makes up the background. In the lower left foreground feathers of a dark gray wing rise. On the right hands pose as black inky shadows drift upward to the top of the image.
caitlindawe.bsky.social
Haven't been on Bluesky in a bit but here's where my writing projects are:

My edits on Ravenous Shadows have turned the manuscrip back into a work in progress - progress is beautifuly messy

Work in progress on Death of Asa Conway - almost have a draft skeletoned out.
#writingcommunity
June 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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saraduran.bsky.social
To pay her own bride price, Princess Mira hunts for lost treasure—but to break the curse binding her to a vengeful pirate’s ghost, she must fall in love with a fisherman’s son.

The problem?

Her heart already belongs to another princess.

🧡🤍🩷

#QuestPit #YA #F #W #LGBT
A mood board for Princess Mira, showing a Black princess with dresses and jewelry, a message in a bottle, a crown made of shells, a conch shell, and romantic scenes of the princess with her love interest, a white princess with red hair, including their faces pressed together, kissing in the reflection of a handheld mirror, and running across a grassy field arm-in-arm. The lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted across the grid, with the first row of picturetinted light orange, the second row tinted cream/white, and the third road tinted a rosy pink.
February 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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qziontgipson.bsky.social
Presenting my new and improved #agentsguide for my #amquerying YA science fantasy novel!

🌸 enchanted forest
🌿 found family
💜 environmental magic system
🦋 shadow monsters

#LitAgents, 🩵 this post or DM me if you’re interested!

#QuestPit #YA #Q #F #SF #SFF
February 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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faerywhimsy.bsky.social
When Zeus + Aphrodite compete in a game of, 'Who's your worst patron deity?', Helen must follow and marry a man far from her homeland of Sparta

Her single minded quest becomes to break free from their divine influence and return to her true husband, and beloved king, Menelaus.

#QuestPit #Q #A #HF
Art by stranded-ziggy.tumblr.com of Helen holding a rose up to her nose Comps for Helen: Circe, Clytemnestra and Morgan is My Name Art by stranded-ziggy.tumblr.com of the remainder of Helen's bust The first three paragraphs of Helen
February 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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rabauthor.bsky.social
A Cloud Merman's Guide to Becoming Human:
S̶t̶e̶p̶ ̶1̶:̶ ̶S̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶a̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶
Step 1.2: Grow a heart with human's help
Step 2: Achieve happiness

Steps unclear. Now I’m ripping out any heart I can find.

SIMON SNOW x THE LITTLE MERMAID 🪼 🩵
#QuestPit #Q #NA #UF #R
moodboard with dark blue-gray images of jellyfish, boys kissing, hands reachign in the water, storm clouds, and moody cities. overlaying text reads: You're shivering, and your lips are blue... So kiss them, and they won't be blue anymore. Jellyfish Boy by R. A. Betzer
February 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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aventurinedebby.bsky.social
GOTHIC BRIDGERTON

When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb

#questpit #ya #ag #f
February 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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kristenrenee.bsky.social
Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising

In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside–
it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #R
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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abookishchai.bsky.social
FIVE SURVIVE X ONE OF US IS LYING
The Show Must Go On:

🎪 Murder mystery-thriller set at a circus arts academy
🎪 Found family; girls support girls
🎪 New England setting
🎪 Friends suspected of murder
🎪 Crime-obsessed teen who wants to defend her friend

#Questpit #Q #M #T
February 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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adropofmagick.bsky.social
ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK

Nocturne's halls hold secrets darker than Alyss ever imagined. With sinister professors & corrupted moon magic, she'll need to work with her ex, his new girl, & an infuriately charming vampire to avenge her sister's murder.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #DF
A Memory of Moonkissed Malice Villain Era Protag Frenemies to Lovers Queendoms Found Family Fantasy Dark Academia Vampires Feminine Rage Corrupted Moon Magic The Pitch 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school’s guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic, and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. Chapter One The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night’s whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth. For Fans Of... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting like... A murder mystery similar to...
February 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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soraia-esteves.bsky.social
THRONE OF GLASS X HEARTLESS HUNTER

🗡️ Epic battles
🥀 Forbidden magic
🗡️ Evil Gods
🥀 Romantic subplot
🗡️ Found family vs birth family
🥀 Animal companion
🗡️ Friends with benefits

#YouDeservepIt #wip #A #F
January 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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blovewrites.bsky.social
17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #SF #LGBT
Dystopian, manipulation, hidden knowledge, The Alpha Project
February 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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goddessvicky.bsky.social
💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES

🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory
❤️‍🔥Slow Burn
👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖

#2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV
A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles A photo that reads: Crowned In Light A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query! This one has it all! - Magical Realism - Slow Burn - Found Family - Gods and Goddesses - Music Heavy - Soul Mates / Past Lives - Strong Female Friendships - Disability/BIPOC representation - DAVID BOWIE?!?! A photo that reads: The Pitch! It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions. When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world? A photo that reads: For Fans of: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Maggie Stiefvater Richelle Mead Laurell K Hamilton Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality. Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way. Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory. Playlist: Have I Found My Home by Paden What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin Breathe Me by Sia Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes Silence by Marshmello & Khalid The World We Made by Ruelle Like That by JP Saxe Safe Place by RuthAnne Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt Somebody Loved by The Weepies For You by Angus & Julia Stone Past Life by Morgan St Jean Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last
January 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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gwenvines.writes.fyi
ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/
⚛️engineering magic
🤌obsessive yearning
🚨unreliable narrator
📻corrupted magic tech
🩺ethical dilemmas
🩻body horror
🏆dangerous magic duels
🛠️blacksmith biceps
🌿strange plants
👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them
#questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H
A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy. Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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emiliayoung.bsky.social
Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #R #RF
#agentsguide #amquerying
An agent’s guide to: “Mark of a Magpie” YA Romantic Fantasy 119k Words Behind the text is a piece of parchment paper surrounded by ocean water and gold flower outlines. Blurb: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy… Ryn is a small-town thief with a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d definitely be a fool to take up, but desperation fuels ever decision she makes. Five for Silver, Six for Gold… Seven is set in his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. When the castle goes into lockdown, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The rich are dropped like flies, and all suspicions are on them. Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told. The text is on a piece of parchment paper, with ocean water and gold flower outlines behind it. Tropes: Thief x Assassin Mental Health Rep Identity vs Duty Class Difference Forced Proximity Secret Code Morally Gray Women’s Wrongs Unlikely Allies to Lovers Text is on a piece of parchment paper. Besides the text are two headshot drawings: one of a girl with brown hair pulled back by braids, and the other of a black-haired boy with a worried expression. Behind the parchment paper are ocean waters with gold flower outlines. The Atmosphere: There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand. Behind the collage of pictures are ocean waters, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.
February 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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sallybromley.bsky.social
BLUE SISTERS X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY
When the charred remains of model Gracie Green are recovered from a fire at her Brighton flat, a framed picture of Gracie, untouched by the flames at her side, the police suspect foul play & turn to Gracie's sister Faith for answers. #questpit #WIP #A #M
Woman shouting and surrounded by flames.
February 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
CABIN IN THE WOODS X JOHN DIES AT THE END X KNIVES OUT

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign.
#QuestPit #A #H #MY #W
moodboard layout with 9 squares 3 x 3, 6 have over the top terrified men (the dads), along the top and bottom 3 squares. Blood decal drips from top squares through the middle to the bottom ones. A Victorian mansion silhouette sits in the middle most left square, the title DAD BODIES in the middle, and right of that is the silhouette of a d20 with a skull icon showing.
February 12, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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simplyfabs.bsky.social
#youdeservepit #DRAFTING #EDITING #WIP #R #DR #SOUTHASIANFMC #LATINOMMC

VICIOUS PRINCE X RECKLESS X GOD OF FURY X KING OF SLOTH

Every villain needed his muse.
January 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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morkalmarrh.bsky.social
ANNIHILATION x PERDIDO STREET STATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#QuestPit #SF #A #Q
A man and a woman stand with a putple wyvern with a backsrop of a city, the plaentary rings anf a putple moon
February 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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hlcarterauthor.bsky.social
LAKESEDGE X HILL HOUSE
Trapped in a haunted house, Chloe has three weeks to break the marriage bond with the Underworld prince, or she'll be forced to live an eternity without sunlight.
#QuestPit #OS #A #RF #gothic #OWN #Dis
a 9-grid moodboard with images such as a dead tree, a black-veiled bride, a pale man with dark hair, an empty ballroom, a night sky, a beautiful woman in a red dress, a castle, dead flowers, and an eerie staircase. Text reads: A DEATH WITHOUT YOU" "You and I are far more than soulmates, Chloe. We are the same point of the blade that divides light from dark."
February 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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alexisveenendaal.bsky.social
DISCWORLD x ADVENTURE ZONE

An old wizard wants to retire but he has one last mission: Find a hero and slay a dragon. Unfortunately, the qualified hero turns him down and he has to recruit a band of misfits instead.

#Q #A #F #questpit
February 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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harrietgeorge99.bsky.social
BENVOLIO & TYBALT, this is the love story that kills Romeo and Juliet.

When they meet on the hot streets, they dance through their fight and the people of Verona believe they are enemies.

Their dance will not fool the people forever. Tybalt will have to kill Benvolio.

#Q #RF #HF #LGBT #questpit
Tears fill his Tybalt as he takes Benvolio's face and gently kisses him. His breath is missing, and his grip on him is strong.
February 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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rydeen1997.bsky.social
for your #QuestPit consideration: NYMPH'S POND

When Damla's mother disappears after an argument, Damla doesn't know that her strange mother may hide a supernatural heritage... nor that she possesses powers on her own...

a standalone #q #a #f #speculative #ownvoices
A sleepy town with a mansion at its center. A lavish garden surrounds it. At its center, a pond. Long ago, a mermaid appeared at NYMPH'S POND the very pond Damla’s mother disappears to. But the past may not be so long ago. Her mother may not be human. And if Damla wants to save her mother, she must tap into her supernatural heritage... A standalone, speculative low-fantasy #ownvoices novel about otherness, filial bonds, and coming of age as an artist and daughter. For fans of: THE SHAPE OF WATER THE BOOK OF LOVE BLACK WATER SISTER
February 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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kaliereid.bsky.social
Agents!! I had the absolute PLEASURE of helping with this wonderful book for smoochpit 💖 if you’re looking for the most deliciously angsty slow burn, a howl coded love interest, a rich historical setting and theeee most gorgeous prose, check out this pitch! ✨

#questpit
saraharte.bsky.social Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Feb 12
When Edwardian heiress Celia accidentally makes a deal with a charming demon, she must break the contract before his presence threatens her advantageous betrothal—and her heart.

EMILY WILDE x HALF A SOUL
Slow burn, reluctant allies-to-lovers, forbidden romance

#QuestPit #Q #A #HR #PR #RF
Eight images depicting a blonde haired man, a painting of a demon, an open book, a hand touching a woman's chin, a man and woman in period clothing sitting beside each other, a classical painting of a woman, a formal old fashion room, and the back of a brown haired woman's head wearing Edwardian attire
February 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM